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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Committee Mar 4th, 2026

Constitution, Campaigns and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Father, thank you for this day.
  • office</c> right for our running for office right for our running for office &gt;&gt; it's<00:07:36.000
  • Once again, it gives us a methodology for doing it. >> We can't call ourselves into session. >> Now got
  • Right. >> That's only for Alabama. >> No, that's for any state that signs for this. >> There's no way
  • No, that's for any state that signs for &gt;&gt; No, that's for any state that signs for this. this.
Bills: HB433, HB443, HB433, HB443
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Mar 19th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • You save the state $3 billion for for a one-time investment.
  • E is asking again this session for additional funds to continue to advance these projects forward.
  • I want to thank you for this opportunity. similar to a bill I filed last session, and similar to what
  • , but, I mean, I'm having actually worked around some areas that call for restoration, have that in their
  • Thank you. for the bill, registered as for the bill. Yeah, thank you.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Mar 19th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • I want to applaud Chairman Harris and his team for all the work that they have done this session. on
  • opportunity for all Texans to accomplish. that we must act now and in a very bold way this session.
  • I totally understand the need for regionalization work and I'm really grateful that you're clarifying
  • It helps. preferred objective for regionalization. after changes in Florida law that have worked to encourage
  • So there is a great model out there of how this works. Thank you for your time. Thank you members.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I just want to thank you all for your work in keeping freedom bigger in Texas.
  • And for the hard-working people of our great state of Texas.
  • I worked for former Senator Jose Rodriguez and was here at the capital for the 83rd legislative session
  • the experience of working that session.
  • committee for working on this important issue.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • So, free enterprise is awesome when it works for the good, but boy... when it gets off the rails and
  • work, people who had someone to cast their ticket for them.
  • for the bill.
  • Thanks for your testimony. Senators, are there any questions for Mr. Withers?
  • Chairman, for bringing forth this bill and we have talked about this issue in the in our last session
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Feb 18th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I want to thank the sponsor for working with us on this.
  • Sometime maybe this summer for... sometime maybe this summer for some dirt work and such.
  • You know, for someone who worked in the...
  • work for 17 years.
  • Jones, thanks for working on this bill.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget Apr 13th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget 3rd Revised Apr 13th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's been something tried to work on this for a long time.
  • So, for that and for the many other ways that we truly could put this money to work and avoid future
  • paid for that work right now.
  • They will be in over at the agency but worked directly for us.
  • Senator Rossino is asking for consent to work from the committee substitute.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget Apr 13th, 2026

Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • I move for adoption. I yield for questions.
  • Move for adoption, yield for questions.
  • I yield for questions and move for adoption. I yield for questions and move for adoption.
  • Yield for questions. Move for passage.
  • for the Oklahoma School for the Deaf.
Summary: The Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget met to consider a long agenda of appropriations, retirement COLAs, revolving funds, and limits bills. Early actions included Senate Bill 1144 and Senate Bill 1145, which provided cost-of-living adjustments for retired teachers and OPRS retirees, respectively, and Senate Bill 1146, 1147, 1148, and 1149, which extended similar retirement benefit increases or a one-time stipend for law enforcement, firefighters, judges, and certain retired police and firefighters. The committee also advanced bills funding the Pardon and Parole Board, OSBI cybercrimes and fraud work, juvenile medication, and several agency limits bills for Health Care Authority, Health Department, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and DHS. Members also heard and passed a series of education, public safety, and economic development measures, including funding for school security at the School for Science and Math and the Schools for the Blind and Deaf, support for National Board certified teachers, and appropriations for the Rural Health Transformation Program, the Decennial Census Revolving Fund, Task Force One, and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation forensic center. Several bills created or expanded revolving funds and financing tools, including military readiness and aviation funds, a taxpayer endowment trust fund, water infrastructure loan and REAP-related measures, and a revised non-coal mining fee structure. The committee also approved a bill increasing court reporter pay and another reducing employer contributions to the retirement system after it reached over 100% funding. There was notable discussion on a $5 million film-related pilot program for sitcom production, with questions about the amount and certification requirements, and on a rural economic development package that included money for the state fairgrounds and a university energy plant, which drew objections over whether those projects fit the intended purpose of rural prep funds. Other debated items included a bill directing funds to the Oklahoma Dream Act/Trump accounts, a bill rejecting judicial pay increases recommended by the Board of Judicial Compensation, and a proposal to move $200 million from the stabilization fund into a new Taxpayer Endowment Trust Fund. Most measures were reported out with due pass votes, though several drew dissenting votes, including the film bill, the fairgrounds/economic development bill, the water projects bill, and the trust fund and judicial pay measures. The committee adjourned after completing the agenda.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/25/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for continuing to be an open and willing partner to work on this, to do what's best for your
  • They thanked Representative Ryer for working on the bill.
  • been working on this language for a couple of years.
  • </c><01:18:41.360><c> you</c><01:18:41.480><c> madam</c> work represent for Eric thank you madam work
  • > it's</c> about what works best for veterans it's about what works best for veterans it's kind<01:47
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'd like to thank Senator Werner for her work on this and willingness to work with the department and
  • This bill has been in the works for several years.
  • the bill for months, at least for the session purposes.
  • And I know we're going to work on a... ...for the session purposes.
  • for them and go back to other medications that don't work for them.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Safety REVISED Feb 10th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • the committee for the.
  • So, Senator Hays, you recognize, and we're gonna ask for unanimous consent to work for a committee sub
  • So, for this language, we took existing statutes out there for larceny of merchandise for a retailer,
  • With that, I move for due pass and stand for questions.
  • And so, it'd be day for day for 100% their sentence. Is that correct for the question?
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 15th, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • I want to thank you for the work that you and your other friend circle did with my bill.
  • I think what we're looking at is for them working something out of what that number should look like
  • So, yes, they have lagged behind parish-wide for decades. So there's much work to be done.
  • For decades. So there's much work to be done. I'm going to close this.
  • I filed the bill for the fair share, and because we could not work it out, I just parked the bill.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • for our legislative work.
  • </c> as a key goal for our legislative work. as a key goal for our legislative work.
  • For other students, it may mean that they have to work a little more.
  • The reason for this amendment is section 16 removes several long-standing work-study provisions.
  • </c><01:16:33.520><c> who</c><01:16:33.760><c> take</c> work study jobs for students who take work study
Bills: HF4362, HF4252, HF4440
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Mar 2nd, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I work hard every day for the Marion School District, and I believe my legislators should work hard for
  • I work for Lake County Public Schools. I am a Republican voter. I worked for 20 years.
  • I've worked for the City of Deerfield for 26 years, and I've worked with clients with mental disabilities
  • people who work hard for their living.
  • I have worked for the Cape Coral Park Department for the past 31 years, living in Cape Coral for the
Summary: The committee first took up CS for SB 42 on specific medical diagnosis and child protective investigations. A late-file strike-all amendment was adopted that made only stylistic changes to align with the House version. Supporters said the bill would help DCF and child protective teams better identify rare medical conditions and give parents a chance to defend against mistaken abuse findings. The bill was then reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 1570, which restores a prior program to help locate missing persons with special needs through voluntary tracking devices and coordination with sheriff’s offices and CARD centers, with nonrecurring funding included. Members then advanced several education, disability, and public services measures. CS for CSSB 182 created a teacher training and mentoring program for high-performing current and retired teachers to mentor teachers in D- and F-rated schools, and CS for CSSB 794 required background screening for employees in residential and day training programs for people with developmental disabilities while directing APD to study support coordination quality, workforce issues, and service gaps. Testimony on SB 794 strongly supported better training, lower caseloads, and more consistent support coordination. The committee also favorably reported CS for CS SB 1168 on background screenings, CS for CS SB 214 to allow rural special districts to pay verified invoices directly, CS for SB 1376 to create grants for genetic counseling education, and SB 1574 (Maddie’s Law) to add newborn screening for biliary atresia; the latter drew emotional support and testimony that early screening could save lives and reduce transplant costs. The committee heard and passed a number of other policy bills, including CS for CS for SB 1510, the DEP agency package, after environmental groups warned that one provision could delay basin management protections and allow more septic systems in impaired watersheds; the bill still passed favorably. Members also approved CS for CS for SB 598 on funeral and cemetery regulation, SB 688 to license naturopathic doctors, SB 1318 on scholarship account reversion rules, CS for CS for SB 682 on domestic violence injunctions and penalties, SB 130 on workforce training for current and former inmates, and SB 1548, the latest Live Local affordable housing update. Several bills were briefly postponed or taken up later in the meeting. In the latter portion of the meeting, the committee approved CS for C.S. for SB 536 on criminal gang membership criteria, CS for C.S. SB 762 on assigning conflict capital cases across regional counsel offices, SB 1332 on career offender registration requirements, CS for CS for SB 1742 creating a new offense for indecent exposure of sexual organs to a child, and CS for SB 1750 increasing penalties for serious sex offenses and child sexual abuse material crimes. The committee also debated CS for SB 1226 on Public Employee Relations Commission procedures and union certification rules, including a late-file amendment setting a 60% threshold and 25% quorum for recertification; the discussion focused heavily on constitutional concerns, union rights, and differences between first responders and other public employees. The transcript ends while that bill’s debate is still underway, with the committee having already taken numerous favorable votes throughout the meeting.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Feb 24th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Last session, $10.6 million scheduled for 2025-27 was pushed to 2027-29.
  • Last session, $10.6 million scheduled for the 2527 was pushed to 2729.
  • I'm Kyle Tuig, Senior Director of Public Works for Spokane County.
  • And I want to echo what Thank you, staff, for your work on this budget, and we ask for your support.
  • our workers, as well as our customers who depend on us for reliable warranty work.
Bills: SB6225, SB6005, SB6354
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • , one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
  • a second called special session.
  • We will gavel in for the second session Friday and re-establish the call of the House.
  • during the session.
  • Today's session to leave the chamber and return at 10 a.m. Friday.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:16:07.839><c> working</c> we can balance the scales for working we can balance the scales for
  • conditions for working people.
  • conditions for working people.
  • </c><00:51:38.440><c> for</c> 8,702 of them work at the VA um work for 8,702 of them work at the VA um
  • I feel like this is something we could have been working on for the whole session and not something that