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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • And Hillsborough was the entity that was able to do this and has agreed to do this as an alternate, as
  • Tab 22 is CS for SB 1678, entities that boycott Israel, by Senator Leake.
  • Boycotts of entities and individuals on the basis of national origin, particularly Israel, often amount
  • educational institutions, and foreign government funds. 2) Expanding application of the law to regulate
  • It requires DMS instead of the SBA to provide notification to each affected company or entity that it
Summary: The Appropriations Committee heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper and committee chairs highlighted major spending priorities including a 4% raise for state employees, continued health insurance contributions, investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and workforce development, along with reductions tied to long-vacant positions. Education funding was a major focus, with increases for K-12 public schools and scholarships, higher education workforce programs, nursing initiatives, tutoring, and university performance funding. Health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/economic development, and agriculture/environment budgets were also outlined, including Medicaid, mental health, corrections staffing, affordable housing, beach restoration, citrus recovery, and water projects. Members then questioned several budget choices, especially K-12 funding. Senators Polsky and Smith raised concerns that the Senate’s AP and dual enrollment funding changes could disadvantage public schools, while Burgess argued the budget preserves the money in the FEFP and gives districts more flexibility rather than reducing support. Questions also addressed voucher availability, school stabilization funding, and the My Safe Florida Home program. The committee adopted 171 consent amendments and three late-file amendments, then approved SPB 2500 as a committee bill. It also favorably reported implementing and conforming bills for state employees, retirement, natural resources, judgeships, K-12 education, higher education, and health and human services, along with SB 7022 on Florida Retirement System contribution rates and elected-officer DROP options, CS/SB 1320 on the Resilient Florida Trust Fund, SB 7014 ending the Mediation and Arbitration Trust Fund, SB 7028 on cancer research, CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality and oversight, CS/SB 168 on mental health diversion and behavioral health data, SB 114 creating an insurance and risk management research center at FSU, and SB 180 on emergency preparedness and post-storm recovery. Most bills were reported favorably with little or no opposition, though SB 180 drew discussion about local-government authority after storms and the need to balance recovery speed with local safety and planning concerns.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 6th, 2025

Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • they are immune cells, like the ones that kill viruses and bacteria, the next time they see... the foreign
  • Also, Madam Chair, we definitely don't want foreign students in this program.
  • When I say we, **Bernalillo County**, the Second Judicial District, as the regional planning entity for
  • And one of the things we did when I was in state government is we made governmental entities as qualifying
  • entities to be behavioral health providers.
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:
  • TPLF is a relatively recent phenomenon of external entities such as hedge funds financing civil legal
  • TPLF is a relatively recent phenomenon of external entities such as hedge funds, financing civil legal
  • litigation to exhaust the plaintiff's resources, or they might seek to put undue pressure on the entity
  • and Louisiana, which directs disclosure of agreements involving foreign financing to state attorneys
  • important part of each of our identities, affirmed by the government, banks, and countless other entities
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on the Judiciary held a lengthy public hearing on a wide range of civil actions, labor, consumer protection, and animal welfare bills. Chair Lydia Edwards and Representative Michael Day opened with strict testimony rules and time limits, then heard from legislators and advocates on measures including animal-abuser pet ownership bans (S. 1207/H. 1914), a name-change privacy bill (S. 1045/H. 1973), tort claims reform (H. 1724), law enforcement council coverage under the Tort Claims Act (S. 1199), civil rights and qualified immunity-related proposals (H. 1641), employee free speech/captive audience restrictions (S. 1078/H. 1653), consumer protection and civil rights jurisdiction expansion (S. 1041), private right of action for wage theft (H. 1916), gun-owner liability insurance (H. 1836), pseudoephedrine sales tracking (S. 1243/H. 1581), prepaid legal services plans (H. 1612), structured settlement protections (H. 1863), third-party litigation financing disclosure (H. 1861), antitrust reform for small businesses and workers (S. 1038/H. 1982), legal notices in online-only newspapers (S. 1279/H. 1632), and several animal cruelty and protection bills including H. 1938, H. 1949, S. 1277/H. 1934, and H. 1764. Testimony was largely supportive from bill sponsors and advocacy groups, with repeated themes of protecting vulnerable people and animals, improving access to justice, and updating outdated laws. Supporters of the animal bills argued for stronger possession bans, broader cruelty citations, and civil removal tools to prevent repeat abuse; opponents or conditional supporters raised due process and enforcement concerns, especially around warrantless seizures and requiring retail or shelter staff to check registries. On the labor and consumer side, supporters said the antitrust bill would curb monopoly power and help small businesses and workers, while opponents warned it could destabilize competition and burden successful firms. The employee free speech bill was backed as a response to captive audience meetings, and the wage-theft bill was presented as a way to let workers or organizations pursue claims when individual employees are afraid to come forward. Several public officials and association representatives testified on the law enforcement and civil rights bills. Chiefs of police supported adding law enforcement councils to the Tort Claims Act, saying it would close a liability gap for regional mutual-aid collaborations. But police representatives opposed changes to the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act and qualified immunity-related provisions, arguing the federal system already provides a workable forum and that expanding liability could increase costs, reduce morale, and worsen recruitment and retention. On the consumer/civil rights bill, Senator Collins and a veteran described an out-of-state assault case that they said showed the need for Massachusetts to let residents seek redress at home when rights are violated elsewhere. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the hearing itself; the committee mainly received testimony and questions. Several witnesses indicated they had submitted written testimony or proposed amendments, and some bills drew requests for favorable reports while others were explicitly opposed unless amended.
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • expressed in my testimony are entirely my own and not those of my law firm or any of its clients or any entity
  • Professor Bray noted in his testimony concern about extreme foreign shopping, especially in single-judge
  • that parties would seek and receive fewer nationwide injunctions if there were not able to judge or foreign
  • Sure I mean I think I think we would have seen Senator overnight tons of entities that depend upon those
Summary: During this meeting, the committee focused on the implications of universal injunctions, which have become a significant concern in recent years. The discussion centered around various legislative proposals aimed at addressing the perceived overreach of district judges who issue nationwide injunctions that affect policies across the entire country. Several members expressed the belief that such injunctions undermine judicial authority and disrupt the balance of power between the judiciary and executive branches. Expert witnesses testified about the historical context of universal injunctions and the necessity for reforms that would limit the power of courts to grant remedies benefitting non-parties.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Mar 3rd, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Community, that opens up the opportunity for a foreign trade zone.
  • For foreign trade zone development.
  • So this will help local governments, local entities, to have the funding necessary to perhaps expand
  • We just want as many people at the table as possible from every entity.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • It is a similar entity, but they are separate grants.
  • That means fiscal will be quite busy as well as governor and council, as those are the approving entities
  • Um, so I don't think that we have the same immigration from foreign countries that we once did.
  • Um, and I think that again it's a very challenging landscape for anybody who's going to take a foreign
  • countries that we migration from foreign countries that we once<01:20:29.679> did.
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee first handled routine business, approving the prior meeting minutes with one abstention from a member who had been absent. It then received an update from DHHS Commissioner Lori Weaver on the department’s rural health transformation grant submission. Weaver said the grant was submitted ahead of the deadline, reflected input from communities and providers statewide, and would now enter a CMS review and negotiation phase. She explained that the governor’s office will oversee the grant with DHHS, that some proposals may be limited by federal parameters, and that the department may need to hire some staff to administer the grant, within the grant’s administrative cap. Members also discussed DHHS budget pressures and staffing. The department’s CFO, Nathan White, reviewed the agency’s budget mix, noting that DHHS accounts for a large share of the state’s operating and general fund budgets, and explained projected general fund lapse estimates, which he said are currently just under $20 million for the department. He also described why lapse projections are difficult to predict in DHHS because many costs are driven by utilization and because some funds are statutorily non-lapsing. White reported that vacancy rates have risen, citing about 400 unfunded positions in the current biennium and the department’s hiring freeze, while emphasizing that direct-care positions are being prioritized. Committee members raised concerns that back-of-the-budget cuts and weak revenue collections could affect the department’s ability to manage lapse projections. The committee then heard from Division of Public Health Director Ian Watt on vaccine policy and federal changes. Watt said New Hampshire continues to support access to safe and effective vaccines, including through the universal purchase program and seasonal respiratory virus guidance. He explained a recent CDC change regarding the MMRV vaccine, which now discourages the combined shot for the first dose in children under four because of febrile seizure risk, while still allowing it for the second dose. Watt said New Hampshire’s school and child care vaccine mandates remain stable, with nine vaccines required for schoolchildren and 10 for child care, and that the state continues to review federal recommendations cautiously. He also said there have been no supply or funding disruptions affecting vaccine access, and that childhood vaccine funding through commercial insurers remains intact. Finally, the Permanent Subcommittee on Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Related Dementias presented its annual report. The subcommittee said it met about six times, heard presentations on state services, silver alerts, brain health awareness, and palliative/hospice care, and began work on updating the state’s Alzheimer’s plan, which had last been updated in 2015-2016. To gather more direct input, the subcommittee formed a needs-assessment work group to develop a survey for people living with dementia, caregivers, and service providers. It recommended integrating Alzheimer’s and dementia materials into chronic disease, aging, and public health outreach; embedding cognitive health into systems of care and the state health improvement plan; adding cognitive health measures to BRFSS; and continuing partnerships with aging and advocacy organizations. Members praised the report and suggested it should clearly identify the subcommittee and include page numbers in future versions.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

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  • discretionary policy decisions to be covered under those definitions by school districts or similar entities
  • discretionary policy decisions to be covered under those definitions by school districts or similar entities
  • discretionary policy decisions to be covered under those definitions by school districts or similar entities
  • discretionary policy decisions to be covered under those definitions by school districts or similar entities
  • They're not enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and so my concern is here in Minnesota we should
Bills: HF23, HF1355
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Agriculture Committee Meeting - 2025-04-09

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I just want to highlight the additional investment in foreign business management, continued investment
  • Locates is a different entity, a different department, and I work in that industry where I need locates
  • This particular entity has nothing to do with agriculture and very little to do with broadband.
  • It's a side entity that broadband...
Bills: HF2446
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

JHA Public Hearing - Tue Jan 28, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST

Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This measure requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of
  • This measure requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of
  • This measure requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of
  • measure requires domestic and foreign measure requires domestic and foreign corporations<00:41:59.800
  • makes a campaign uh expenditure entity makes a campaign uh expenditure or<00:49:16.720> or or
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs held its first hearing of the 33rd Legislature and heard several measures, beginning with HB 131, which would allow agencies to disclose government records to researchers for certain purposes and direct the Office of Information Practices to adopt uniform rules. OIP supported the bill, saying it would help researchers access government records, while DLNR questioned whether the bill was necessary, raised concerns about costs and exemptions, and suggested a definition change regarding media. The Public First Law Center and other supporters said the bill would not remove existing exemptions or create new disclosure requirements, but would simply authorize rulemaking to create a clearer process for research access. Common Cause Hawaiʻi raised concern about including news media in the measure. The chair emphasized that the rulemaking process would allow agencies and the public to work through details, and the committee moved on without a recorded vote in the transcript. The committee then heard HB 411, which would create uniform administrative penalty procedures under the state ethics code and lobbyist law, and HB 412, which would expand lobbying definitions to cover certain communications with high-level executive officials about procurement and make some contracts voidable if awarded through unethical lobbying. The Ethics Commission supported HB 411 as an efficiency measure that would streamline the charge process without changing substantive rights, while HB 412 was described as a narrow transparency measure modeled on other states. The State Procurement Office warned that voiding contracts could cause delays, warranty issues, third-party complications, and higher reprocurement costs. The Ethics Commission responded that any contract revocation would be at the Attorney General’s discretion and likely reserved for egregious cases, and that the threat of voiding a contract would help deter noncompliance. The committee also heard HB 413, which clarifies that lobbyist campaign contribution prohibitions apply during periods when both houses of the Legislature are in session; the Ethics Commission and Campaign Spending Commission both supported the bill and the Ethics Commission requested amendments to clarify jurisdiction between state and county lobbyist enforcement. Finally, the committee took up HB 149, which would require domestic and foreign corporations to report independent expenditures and political contributions to shareholders. The only testimony noted in the transcript was written comments from Matson, which said the requirement would be expensive and cumbersome and that the information is already publicly available through existing campaign finance reporting websites. No votes or final committee actions on the bills were recorded in the provided transcript.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Agriculture & Livestock Aug 19th, 2025

Agriculture & Livestock

Transcript Highlights:
  • Research has been able to be done with this fly because it's considered a foreign animal disease in the
  • You have to think of any kind of wound: if you have a foreign body in that wound, you need to get it
  • But right now we're treating this as a foreign animal disease investigation.
  • Dinges said earlier, this is a foreign animal disease, which means that it triggers a response.
  • Leal just made, in terms of this being a partnership between federal and state entities, is absolutely
Keywords: 997, house, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/04/2026 - House Floor Session

Arizona House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • many nonprofit organizations, and for whatever reason, and I think it's discrimination, that this entity
  • drugs, self-harm, sexual material, online grooming, trafficking risks, added exploitation of minors, foreign
  • And what it does is it allows us to make use of the sophistication of entities with assets, with lawyers
  • governance procedures, and incentivize those internal control mechanisms to deploy to ensure that the entities
  • who has taken a Native American language course that credit will transfer over and substitute for a foreign
Keywords: 1182, all
Summary: The House convened, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, welcomed judicial branch guests for Judges Day, and recognized several visitors and proclamations, including 2026 Social Work Month. Members also received routine announcements and committee substitutions before moving into Committee of the Whole on multiple calendars. In Committee of the Whole, the House considered and advanced a large number of bills, often after committee and floor amendments. Notable measures included HB 2035 on kinship placement in child welfare; HB 2041 on keeping children from being removed from parents solely due to poverty; HB 2251 on licensed midwifery standards; HB 2429 on short-term rental regulation; HB 2444 on pharmacist-provided testing/treatment, which drew strong opposition from several members over safety, oversight, and cost concerns but still advanced; HB 2615 on court-appointed supervisors; HB 2726 on a sleep apnea device for AHCCCS/Access coverage, which drew concerns about vendor specificity and process; HB 2914 on protecting vulnerable adults in long-term care; HB 4018 on public safety; HB 2127 on an omnibus transportation/license plate measure; HB 2240 on tuition waivers for children of disabled veterans; HB 2344 and HB 2403 on appropriations-related matters; HB 2991 on social media and youth safety; HB 4070 on trafficking-related corporate penalties; and HB 4136 on unlawful entry involving vulnerable adults. Several sponsors described stakeholder negotiations and policy goals, while opponents raised concerns about safety, scope, costs, or process. The House then adopted Committee of the Whole reports and sent many bills to engrossing. In third reading, HB 2123 failed on a 24-28 vote after debate over gold and silver legal tender; HB 2270, HB 2324, HB 2404, HB 2557, HB 2574, HB 2594, HB 2611, HB 2681, HB 2697, and HB 2800 were among the bills voted on, with most passing. Members explained votes on several measures, including support for county authority changes, mental health services, patient records access, domestic violence address confidentiality, child welfare rights, and a bill tied to impaired-driving-related tragedy. The session ended with additional votes still underway on later third-reading bills.
WV

West Virginia 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 03:29 pm

West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • provisions to a new code section, specifies how the reciprocal agreements would operate, specifies that foreign
  • citizens could not register to vote in West Virginia by having a foreign driver's license recognized
  • This bill prohibits state and local government entities from publicly disclosing the home address and
Keywords: 994, senate, all
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight REVISION 2: Delayed until 11:30 AM

Health and Human Services Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • The drug manufacturers and the other entities involved have to match all that, probably more.
  • that the black market marijuana is not leaving, along with controlling the illegal licensers from foreign
  • So can you just clarify they—because is it there an entity wanting to make sure that the ABLE Commission
OK
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  • No taxpayer-funded subsidies for these entities.
  • No taxpayer-funded subsidies for these entities.
  • They shall not be constructed, sited, or operated by a foreign principal or on land classified as agriculture
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Revenue Committee, February 25, 2026

Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this bill would stop any of the law enforcement entities in the state of Wyoming from enforcing laws
  • 02:10.479> the<00:02:11.760> law<00:02:12.000> enforcement<00:02:12.480> entities
  • stop any of the law enforcement entities stop any of the law enforcement entities in<00:02:13.120
  • This does not apply to felons, foreign nationals, or even non-residents of Wyoming.
  • does not apply to felons, foreign does not apply to felons, foreign nationals,<00:59:42.400>
Bills: HB0130, HB0147
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, February 10, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • long been tasked with monitoring foreign long been tasked with monitoring foreign countries<04:33
  • <04:34:42.279> countries Institution overseeing foreign countries Institution overseeing foreign
  • often manipulative practices in foreign often manipulative practices in foreign exchange<04:40:43.718
  • <04:45:31.240> aid Constitution by ending our foreign aid Constitution by ending our foreign
  • He has declared that he will no longer prosecute most foreign corruption cases.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/24/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've not heard any other entities, but I am not opposed to any of those other entities in the future
  • The speaker added that none of those entities ever came before the county to address the commission,
  • The speaker said that none of those entities ever came before the county to address the commission, so
  • Or, speaking of foreign... ...well-directed state by forcing it down a road of stuff that doesn't work
  • Highly encourage continued collaboration with entities like WISPA and others... ...with entities like
Summary: The Natural Resources Committee approved the March 17 minutes and then took up a long calendar of bills, holding HCR 2038. HB 2787, which would bar the state and its political subdivisions from using personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer, or cooperate with the Mexican wolf reintroduction program, drew opposition from Sierra Club and Humane World for Animals/Animal Defense League of Arizona, who argued it would hinder wolf recovery and undercut science-based wildlife management. The committee nevertheless gave HB 2787 a do-pass recommendation by a 4-3 vote. The committee then considered HB 2055 on a Brackish Groundwater Recovery Program Fund and HB 2782 on disclosure requirements for regulatory assets in utility rates. Testimony on HB 2055 raised concerns that brackish groundwater is still groundwater and that pumping it could cause localized impacts, but the bill initially received a do-pass recommendation before a later vote failed on reconsideration. HB 2782 prompted discussion about Corporation Commission authority and utility regulation, but it ultimately received a do-pass recommendation. The committee also heard HB 2781, a solar energy decommissioning and financial assurance bill, with testimony from environmental groups, industry representatives, and a local official; an amendment by Senator Sundareshan to strengthen financial assurance and remove the remediation fund failed, and the underlying bill also failed on a tied 4-4 vote. Later, the committee approved HB 2975, which would suspend use of solar scoring maps on state trust lands and require new mining and housing scoring maps, despite opposition from environmental groups and neutral comments from the State Land Department that the solar map is only a guidance tool. HB 2696, as amended, passed after the committee adopted amendments shifting the Arizona Commerce Authority’s fuel-price mandate and creating a fuel resiliency task force; testimony focused on fuel supply, pipeline capacity, refinery access, and whether the ACA was the right agency to lead the effort. The committee also passed HCM 2009 urging Congress to require legislative approval for new national monuments and to streamline mining and land-swap processes, and HB 2889, which funds ADEQ monitoring of uranium contamination and creates a statewide registry and tribal partnership program. Finally, the committee approved HB 2763, which would require legislative approval before the Arizona Game and Fish Commission could close a shooting range. Supporters said it was meant to protect facilities like Ben Avery and preserve safe shooting locations, while opponents argued the bill was unnecessary because existing review steps already exist and there was no imminent closure threat. The committee also heard testimony on the bill from Game and Fish, which said the measure would add another layer to an already extensive closure process and that the department was neutral on the proposal.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Senate Floor Session - 05/14/25

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:23:38.559> trained creating pathways for foreign trained creating pathways for foreign
  • It has completed its process. 3.14 to 3.17 limits the entities subject to the premium subsidy program's
  • related assessment to only those entities offering health plans in Minnesota.
  • subject to the premium subsidy entities subject to the premium subsidy programs<00:29:22.080> uh<
  • offering health plans in those entities offering health plans in Minnesota.<00:29:27.200> This
Keywords: 1187, senate, all