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WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Education Committee, February 18, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • This one has the mandatory imposition. This one has the mandatory imposition.
  • Uh, so chances of you buying it this time are probably not great, but note that mandatory minimum floor
  • not great, but note that mandatory not great, but note that mandatory minimum<00:35:10.480> floor
  • minimum damages?
  • Uh but I don't think that we have mandatory minimum damages.
Bills: SF0035, SF0090, SF0072
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Jun 30th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've got to be a minimums and analysis. ...try to figure it out and the amendments and the analysis
  • Transparency and minimum support timelines could avert waste and encourage longer support.
  • We replaced the fixed five-year minimum for the support time frame and added flexibility for technical
  • They have not been convicted of a crime, and they are not serving a sentence.
  • They are minimum standards that should apply to all individuals civilly detained in California.
Keywords: 988, house, all
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Can you Use that in a sentence or tell us the origin of the word.
  • It sets that minimum floor.
  • Let me repeat that statistic: 158 countries have 18 as the minimum age for marriage.
  • Let me repeat that statistic: 158 countries have 18 as the minimum age for marriage.
  • It makes a procedural change regarding the mandatory minimum that Inmates must serve regarding their
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • AN IDEA OF THE RULES WE ARE LOOKING AT HERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS AN EXISTING RULE REGARDING MINIMUM
  • RESIDENT CARE STANDARDS, MEDICATION PRACTICES, LIMITED NURSING SERVICES AS WELL AS ALF MINIMUM TRAINING
  • HE POINTED OUT SOME RULEMAKING AUTHORITY IS MANDATORY AND SOME RELATING AUTHORITY IS PERMISSIVE.
  • I THINK THAT WE WOULD BE PROVIDING MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT.
  • INSTEAD OF THE MANDATORY SUNSET THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE DETERMINATION MADE IN THIS RULE REVIEW.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Employment Relations Nov 21st, 2025

Joint Committee on Employment Relations

Transcript Highlights:
  • The parties get to impasse on a mandatory subject of bargaining, which has to do with wages, hours, or
  • the state, and last year we instituted an $18 starting wage so that we could get people over the minimum
  • wage because we find ourselves to be chasing the minimum wage sometimes.
  • out can we, we're going to need to make an adjustment up because we have people who are below the minimum
  • We're establishing, as I said, a starting hourly wage that is at least above the minimum wage and remains
Summary: The Joint Committee on Employment Relations met for work sessions on supplemental bargaining for Washington Public Employees Association (WPEA) agreements in general government and higher education, followed by an overview of the collective bargaining process. OFM staff explained that bargaining for the 2025-27 biennium began in 2024, reached tentative agreements, was not ratified in time for the October 1 deadline, resumed, and ultimately produced ratified agreements in August 2025 that were submitted for financial feasibility review under RCW 41.80.010. Staff outlined the tentative agreements’ costs and covered employee counts, including roughly 2,500 FTEs in general government and 2,100 in higher education, with estimated 2025-27 total fund costs of about $22.25 million and $13.5 million respectively. Staff then gave a broader briefing on how state collective bargaining works, including the bargaining calendar, the role of class and compensation review, the June revenue forecast, interest arbitration, and the October 1 submission deadline. They described the groups OFM bargains for, including general government, higher education, health care coalitions, and certain non-state provider groups such as adult family home providers, child care providers, and language access providers. In response to a question from Senator King, staff said the legislature requires bargaining for those non-state provider groups and has also provided interest arbitration for them. Staff also discussed bargaining priorities such as general wage increases, targeted classification adjustments, recruitment and retention, low-wage worker increases, and maintaining the health care premium split. In executive session, the committee voted to keep the current co-chairs, Senator Robinson and Representative Couture, through 2026. Members also voted to recognize that the committee met twice in 2025 and to set the 2026 meeting schedule at two meetings. The motions passed without opposition, and the meeting adjourned.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

November 18, 2025 - 10:30 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • We put contract vehicles in place to buy from, including mandatory state term contracts and optional
  • The requirement for 25 minimum quotes. That seems like a lot of quotes. Is that 25 minimum quotes.
  • So state term contracts are considered mandatory for state agencies.
  • Contracts are mandatory in nature. And then optional alternate contracts.
  • So for some reason they're not purchasing off that mandatory state term contract.
WV

West Virginia 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 11:34 am

West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill includes all of Senate Bill 420 except a provision stating that failure to maintain the minimum
  • This bill includes all of Senate Bill 420 except a provision stating that failure to maintain the minimum
  • The bill adds these offenses to the existing list of qualifying offenses that require enhanced sentences
  • The bill adds these offenses to the existing list of qualifying offenses that require enhanced sentences
  • Alternative sentences, including work-release programs, may be imposed for third or subsequent offenses
Keywords: 994, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Education (02/18/2025)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • At the minimum, we make a requirement that the counties have a seat at the table.
  • At the minimum, we make a requirement that the counties have a seat at the table.
  • The number of school districts, so you know, it's a minimum requirement.
  • and add that to the original bill, but change onine I'm talking about this sentence on line 26.
  • We would just take just that sentence and add that to the original bill, but change on line 26.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • 2008 and a total of a six-year sentence. 2008 and a total of a six-year sentence.
  • He and he received a 10-year sentence.
  • So it was mandatory for all four.
  • mandatory for all four. mandatory for all four.
  • It's not mandatory like the other review hearings are.
Summary: The committee first approved the June 10, 2025 minutes, then took up House Bill 198, Angela’s Law, sponsored by Representative Samara Heavrin. The bill would add a new aggravating circumstance in death-penalty cases when an offender abuses the corpse of a kidnapping or murder victim by engaging in deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, or sexual contact. Representative Heavrin and the victim’s parents described the underlying case and argued the current law does not adequately account for postmortem sexual abuse, leaving the offender parole-eligible despite the family’s view that the conduct warranted harsher punishment. Several members expressed sympathy and support, and one member suggested the proposal should be drafted carefully so it would apply broadly enough to cover co-conspirators or multiple offenders. No vote on the bill was taken in the portion provided. The committee then heard an informational presentation on KRS Chapter 202C from Judge Lisa Payne Jones and Shauna Mitchell of the Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health. They explained that Chapter 202C, enacted in 2021 to close a gap in the civil-commitment statutes, applies to respondents found incompetent to stand trial who are charged with qualifying serious offenses such as capital offenses, certain Class A and Class B felonies causing death or serious injury, rape in the first degree, or sodomy in the first degree. The process begins with a Commonwealth’s petition, followed by a prompt evidentiary hearing, appointment of a guardian ad litem, and then a commitment hearing if the offense is proven. The presenters outlined the procedural standards and recent statutory changes. At the evidentiary hearing, the Commonwealth must prove the charged offense by a preponderance of the evidence before a judge, with the respondent able to present defenses; if the Commonwealth fails, the respondent must be released. If the case proceeds, the commitment hearing requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt of at least one involuntary-commitment criterion, and the hearing may be before a jury if requested. They noted that a 2024 amendment changed the commitment criteria from requiring all four factors to only one, and added language about recent criminal behavior and prior involuntary hospitalizations under Chapters 202A or 202B. If commitment is ordered, the respondent is placed in a designated forensic psychiatric facility, currently KCPC.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/24/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um fiscal non-mandatory appropriations.
  • A lot billion in non-mandatory funding.
  • which is completely funded by mandatory which is completely funded by mandatory spending.<00:08:
  • In terms of impacts to minimum.
  • I think the minimum is 50 right now.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh but it is now virtually uh mandatory in many communities, particularly in the metro area.
  • They don't say that a PUD is mandatory, but they they effectively force developers and land owners into
  • , relaxation of lot widths, lot minimums, relaxation of lot widths, lot minimums, setbacks.<00:03
  • Uh but it is now virtually<00:03:52.879> uh<00:03:53.120> mandatory<00:03:53.680> in
  • <00:03:54.000> many virtually uh mandatory in many virtually uh mandatory in many communities
Keywords: 1183, house
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Two, increasing penalties and expanding sentencing enhancements for drug sale offenses, particularly
  • When they're brought back to court, they face a six-year prison sentence.
  • a treatment-mandated felony, but sentencing outcomes will vary.
  • Individuals serve prison sentences they should not be.
  • not have, or the length of the prison sentence should have been much shorter.
Keywords: 988, house, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 1st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Villalobos, relating to changing the eligibility for release on parole of certain inmates serving. ...sentences
  • current law to help ensure that those in our society that are most... ...vulnerable serve their full sentence
  • It simply says that an optometrist must be paid a minimum of 95%. ...of the state-prescribed rate for
  • Staffing report processes, retaliation, and mandatory overtime protections for nurses providing administration
  • With your amendment, would we switch from that mandatory language to language that would allow the state
Bills: HB1520, HB1545, HJR110, HJR203, HB245, HB1465, HB1482, HB294, HB793, HB809, HB3928, HB334, HB2037, HB1973, HB285, HB4341, HB4264, HB 1043, HB837, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 1194, HB1646, HB1729, HB2498, HB1314, HB2295, HB1353, HB1531, HB1988, HB5398, HB3960, HB3923, HB1407, HB1764, HB2221, HB2214, HB2517, HB2518, HB2213, HB5008, HB5092, HB3421, HB3663, HB3748, HB3800, HB3756, HB2613, HB3782, HB5246, HB4344, HB4044, HB4066, HB2702, HB2807, HB2869, HB2898, HB3181, HB3250, HB4153, HB2091, HB2115, HB2542, HB2768, HB3349, HB3352, HB4406, HB1593, HB1899, HB3133, HB4432, HB4960, HB3214, HB3915, HB3508, HB2145, SB304, SB608, SB2312, SB494, SB530, HB45, HB2520, HB35, HB47, HB318, HB349, HB554, HB1359, HB1373, HB2254, HB2259, HB2853, HB3073, HB3088, HB353, HB355, HB786, HB762, HB705, HB932, HB849, HB 1119, HB3041, HB713, HB3104, HB3970, HB4042, HB4490, HB1731, HB2607, HB3689, HB1788, HB1612, HB138, HB15, HB1971, HB1338, HB2989, HB267, HB 1201, HB2954, HB5265, HB1804, HB5061, HB1520, HB1545, HJR110, HJR203, HB1887, HB1914, HB2402, HB2306, HB1809, HB2350, HB3000, HB3237, HB3326, HB3211, HB 1056, HB2081, HB2187, HB3092, HB3308, HB3526, HB3750, HB3527, HB4219, HB4230, HB4290, HB5238, HB4804, HB4749, HB245, HB1465, HB1482, HB294, HB793, HB809, HB3928, HB334, HB2037, HB1973, HB285, HB4341, HB4264, HB 1043, HB837, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 1194, HB1646, HB1729, HB2498, HB1314, HB2295, HB1353, HB1531, HB1988, HB5398, HB3960, HB3923, HB1407, HB1764, HB2221, HB2214, HB2517, HB2518, HB2213, HB5008, HB5092, HB3421, HB3663, HB3748, HB3800, HB3756, HB2613, HB3782, HB5246, HB4344, HB4044, HB4066, HB2702, HB2807, HB2869, HB2898, HB3181, HB3250, HB4153, HB2091, HB2115, HB2542, HB2768, HB3349, HB3352, HB4406, HB1593, HB1899, HB3133, HB4432, HB4960, HB3214, HB3915, HB3508, HB2145, HCR6, HCR12, HCR34, HCR50, HCR55, HCR58, HCR70, HCR71, HCR72, HCR74, HCR75, HCR78, HCR80, HCR93, HCR100, HCR107, HCR116, HCR117, HCR90
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Transcript Highlights:
  • I just was... the way the first sentence I said, “the reduction in economic activity in food industries
  • I’ll defer to... ...about what that means in the following sentence, but if you want to keep it, I don
  • We're writing a sentence, yes. Ms. Anderson, please. We're fans of Greenhorn. Yes. Mr.
  • We said, at minimum, cities anticipate reductions, because there's going to be other reductions also.
  • And so just pointing out that that's the minimum and it's not the only thing we're basing the losses
Keywords: 907, all
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Banking and Insurance. (3-10-26)

Banking & Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Stop mid-sentence, that's what I like. >> We have a motion and a second.
  • It allows us to do evaluations, and it changes us from a voluntary state to a mandatory state.
  • 20:32.240> a changes us from a voluntary state to a changes us from a voluntary state to a mandatory
  • 33.640> So,<00:20:33.800> I'll<00:20:33.880> go<00:20:34.040> through mandatory
  • So, I'll go through mandatory state. So, I'll go through these<00:20:34.480> things.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Education Policy - 02/24/25

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's rare that we hear ninth graders and eager learners in the same sentence, so that was music to my
  • The bill does not take students out of class, unlike other mandatory school drills.
  • <01:15:56.560> School mandatory School mandatory School drills<01:15:58.560> requiring<
  • There should be things that we do in our heart screenings, such as an EKG at a minimum, but also maybe
  • If we're going to do assistant coaches as well and mandatory training, that's going to have some extra
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • It doesn't require a mandatory minimum sentence.
  • Third, the commission itself noted that imposing a minimum threshold for the value of the eligible property
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The hearing covered a wide range of Judiciary Committee bills, with much of the testimony focused on criminal justice, public safety, and civil asset forfeiture reform. Several lawmakers and advocates supported bills to increase penalties or create new offenses related to assaults on sports officials, assaults on transit workers, reckless discharge of firearms, fires and explosives, pill press machines, and drug-induced homicide. Testifiers described rising harassment and violence against youth sports officials and transit workers, as well as the fentanyl overdose crisis and the need for stronger tools to prosecute dealers whose conduct leads to death. Supporters of the sports-official and transit-worker bills emphasized declining referee availability and repeated assaults on commuter rail and MBTA workers. District attorneys also backed bills on reckless firearm discharge and fires/explosives, saying current law does not adequately address dangerous conduct that endangers bystanders. The committee also heard testimony on several proposals related to youth diversion and prison mitigation. Supporters of the youth court justice fund bill said youth courts are peer-led diversion programs with strong compliance and low recidivism, and argued for a stable funding source rather than annual earmarks. A representative from Bridgewater supported a prison mitigation fund for municipalities that host state prisons, saying the costs of public safety and emergency services are not fully covered. On gun policy, testimony split between supporters of a bill to ban in-state manufacture of assault-style rifles for civilian sale and opponents or skeptics of other firearm-related measures, including a bill on collateralizing firearms and a bill to increase penalties for drug trafficking combined with illegal firearm offenses. A major portion of the hearing was devoted to civil asset forfeiture reform. Advocates from the ACLU, CPCS, the Boston Bar Association, the Institute for Justice, and others supported bills to increase the burden of proof, improve transparency and reporting, require counsel, and limit or eliminate the current practice of directing forfeiture proceeds to law enforcement. They argued the current system creates perverse incentives, lacks adequate due process, and is insufficiently transparent. District Attorney Paul Tucker defended current forfeiture practices, saying his office has reporting and oversight, uses the funds for investigations and community programs, and warned that reducing forfeiture revenue would hinder crime fighting. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing; the chairs repeatedly thanked witnesses and indicated the bills would remain under consideration.
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Banking and Insurance Feb 4th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • So what the amendment is now doing is changing the state mechanism to say that it's mandatory only for
  • So what the amendment is now doing is changing the state mechanism to say that it's mandatory only for
  • Regarding the second amendment, making the claim dispute resolution program, I guess, mandatory.
  • Claim dispute resolution program is mandatory if a provider or a health plan picks it.
  • is no financial impact on this bill for Medicaid insurers. [00:34:10.000] The bill amends certain minimum
Summary: The Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance met with a quorum present and heard a full agenda of bills, most of which were reported favorably. Early in the meeting, SB 1000 on trust fund interest for attorney trust accounts was explained as setting a floor and ceiling tied to the Wall Street Journal prime rate and passed without objection after supportive testimony from banking and credit union groups. The committee then took up CS/SB 1082 on a statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program; the sponsor described it as a way to move emergency out-of-network payment disputes away from costly litigation and into an independent dispute resolution process modeled on the federal No Surprises Act. A proposed amendment drew significant questions from senators and concerns from the Florida Insurance Council about confusion over state versus federal eligibility and possible effects on contracted rates, and the sponsor ultimately withdrew the amendment. The underlying bill was then supported by health care and insurance stakeholders and reported favorably. SB 684 on electronic signatures for total loss vehicles and vessels also passed, with Progressive Insurance waiving in support. The committee next approved CS/SB 158 on pet insurance, which requires continuing education for agents, clearer consumer disclosures, and annual reporting to OIR; the amendment was technical and adopted. SB 1494 on breast cancer screening coverage was presented as expanding required coverage for mammograms and supplemental screenings for certain insurance products, and it passed with support from cancer and radiology groups. CS/SB 314 on digital asset issuers was amended to create a Florida framework for payment stablecoin issuers consistent with the federal GENIUS Act, allowing state-level regulation as an alternative to federal supervision, and was reported favorably. SB 1500 on uncontested probate proceedings, including higher small-estate thresholds and clearer authority for personal representatives, also passed after a banking-related amendment requiring letters of administration for safe deposit box access was adopted. Later, the committee approved CS/SB 618 on workers’ compensation insurance, which raises the consent-to-rate cap for workers’ comp policies from 10% to 20% and adjusts the Florida Workers’ Compensation Guarantee Association board membership; a carrier representative testified that the change would help keep more high-risk accounts in the voluntary market. CS/SB 1568 on a Florida Stable Coin Pilot Program was amended to remove authority for DFS to create a Florida coin, limit the pilot to existing stablecoins with at least $1 billion market capitalization, and require qualified public deposit handling; it then passed. CS/SB 838 on electronic payments for retail installment contracts clarified that convenience fees for electronic payments are permissible while preserving a fee-free option, and it was reported favorably after questions about consumer access to free payment methods. SB 1452, the Department of Financial Services agency bill, made a wide range of administrative changes affecting My Safe Florida Home, unclaimed property, licensing, bail bonds, and other DFS functions; a late-filed amendment on title insurer appointments was adopted, and the bill passed. The committee also approved SB 1706 on the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program, targeting condo hardening assistance to owner-occupied units meeting income and occupancy criteria, and SB 990 on protected cell captive insurance companies, which the sponsor and industry witnesses said would modernize Florida law and promote insurance competition and economic activity. The meeting ended with all bills on the agenda reported favorably and the committee adjourning without objection.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill is related to the imposition of consecutive sentences for more than one criminal offense that
  • Current law already allows consecutive sentences for certain offenses like continuous sexual abuse, sexual
  • However, consecutive sentencing is limited for cases involving repeated injury to children, elderly or
  • So House Bill 544 addresses this gap by expanding the court's ability to impose consecutive sentences
  • Currently, the minimum term of confinement for a Class A misdemeanor. In Texas is 0 days.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Natural Resources and Environment May 6th, 2026

Natural Resources & Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so this is kind of a prospective measure moving forward, making it a mandatory title state, no different
  • amendments that y'all just adopted, would authorize the State Mineral and Energy Board to charge minimum
  • This effectively cuts minimum oil and gas royalties in half.
  • that this committee should establish safeguards to ensure that royalties lower than the statutory minimum
  • subject to ratification or amended by the Commission, and then perhaps add that at the end of that sentence
Keywords: 965, house, all
Summary: The committee heard a series of natural resources and environmental measures, mostly local property transfers and Wildlife and Fisheries bills. It reported favorable on Senate Bills 229 and 71, which authorize property transfers in Bossier and Lafayette parishes, and on several department bills dealing with fishing and boating rules: SB 203 on possession of catch during multi-day trips, SB 429 on registration of lapsed or “orphan” boats, SB 204 on commercial fishing gear licenses for nonresidents, SB 205 reducing duplicate registration for federally documented boats, SB 213 on titling certain vessels and outboard motors, SB 257 removing Social Security number requirements from certain tags, and HB 662, a substitute bill setting a hierarchy for handling seized sick, injured, or orphan wildlife. The committee also adopted amendments and reported favorable SB 379, a technical cleanup bill tied to the Department of Conservation and Energy reorganization, though an opposition witness warned it could reduce minimum oil and gas royalties and asked for a fiscal note. Members also advanced several measures aimed at coastal and flood-related concerns. HCR 62, by Rep. Domangue, urges FEMA to review flood maps every five years instead of every ten and to better account for local flood-protection projects; members broadly supported it and discussed the burden of flood insurance in coastal parishes. SB 214 would give the Teche-Vermilion Fresh Water District authority to stop pumping during immediate flood risk events identified by the National Weather Service or GOSEP, and it was reported favorable. SB 274, as amended, requires lead hazard risk assessments and remediation for certain child care and pre-kindergarten facilities, with DEQ and LDH testimony supporting the update. HCR 78 memorializes Congress to pass the American Seafood Competitiveness Act of 2026, which supporters said would help Louisiana’s seafood industry and access federal loans and grants. The committee also debated broader policy resolutions. HCR 216, by Rep. Owen, sought to repudiate the Louisiana Climate Action Plan of 2022, but after extensive discussion about its purpose, possible effects on existing projects, and whether the legislature should instead hold a hearing, the resolution was voluntarily deferred. Finally, the committee took up SCR 24 on chronic wasting disease rules, adopted amendments raising the prevalence threshold from 1.5% to 2.5% and adjusting zone and baiting provisions, and continued discussion of the bill’s reset of management rules for deer disease control.