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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's, if not the largest, one of the largest in the state.
  • We are a very multi-diverse state here in Arizona.
  • It’s a state road.
  • We're currently on state contract and currently provide services to state agencies and local municipalities
  • Lastly, the bill prohibits the state from providing state participation for any light rail construction
Summary: The committee heard and acted on several appropriation and policy bills, beginning with SB 1550, which would provide $1.255 million to Queen Creek for a three-year police pilot focused on runaway youth prevention, at-risk youth protection, and anti-trafficking investigations. Supporters said the program would dedicate trained officers to prevention and rapid response and could serve as a statewide model. Some members objected to funding a single locality without a local cost share, but the bill received a do pass recommendation, 7-2-1. Members then considered SB 1156 and SB 1157, both sponsored as reimbursements to local governments for border-related costs. SB 1156 would appropriate $20 million to reimburse cities, towns, and counties for short-term detention holds for unauthorized non-citizens, while SB 1157 would appropriate $20 million for supplemental fencing or bollard walls in high-crossing border areas. The sponsor described both as backfilling local expenses already incurred, while opponents argued the measures would subsidize detention and border enforcement rather than Arizona priorities. Both bills drew extensive public opposition and were advanced on party-line-leaning votes: SB 1156 passed 5-3-2 and SB 1157 passed 5-3-2. The committee also approved SB 1245, which would provide $2.457 million for Rodeo Road pavement replacement in Williams, after the sponsor said the request had been reduced from the original amount. Members raised concerns about limited HIRF funding and the need for local participation, but the bill passed 6-3-1. SB 1707, a $5 million appropriation for DPS artificial intelligence tools related to border security, also passed 6-4-0 after testimony split between supporters who saw AI as a useful border tool and opponents who said the bill was too vague or unnecessary. SB 1811, which would change school cell-phone policy language from allowing use “during” an emergency to “in the case of” an emergency, passed 8-1-1 with supporters saying it would give schools more flexibility and avoid logistical problems during lockdowns. Later, the committee approved SB 1088, a $2.5 million cybersecurity appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security, including funding for generative AI security and modernization of the statewide VPN, despite objections that the department had not requested the money and that other cybersecurity needs were already pending. It then advanced SB 1332, as amended, to require ADOT to study light rail expansion in Maricopa County and compare it with autonomous or semi-autonomous transit options; the hearing featured strong testimony from small business owners along the Indian School corridor who said light rail construction would hurt access and sales, and opposition from Phoenix/Valley Metro representatives who argued transit decisions are local and that ADOT is not the right entity to conduct the study. The bill was discussed at length as a neutral feasibility review rather than a prohibition after the amendment removed the state-participation ban.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Contributes to all within our state.
  • , the poorest areas in the state, the poorest areas in the state, it's<00:26:44.640> important
  • <00:54:56.720> of needs to be sold by the state of needs to be sold by the state of Alabama
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • venue and out-of-state law provision.
  • I mean, across the board, not necessarily state-by-state, but just the total level of exposure for American
  • states broadly?
  • States, along with U.S.
  • That was my state of mind. Mine then, but that's not my state of mind today.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Good evening, Committee on State Affairs. We will come to order.
  • Something we can lead on and call for the state to give that funding.
  • That is the role of the state, and it will always be.
  • allegation if it has not been reported to the state first.
  • The question of criminality is a state question and we have reported them.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 30th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • losses to state-owned property.
  • Stephen Allbreath, testifying on behalf of the State Office of Risk Management.
  • Members, many other states are trying to help our shrimp industry.
  • People having their homes stolen across this state by fraudulent deeds.
  • We're a property rights state.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 30th, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because if the Shoals can do it, I think the rest of the state can do it. ...the state can do it.
  • , where they recruit out of state.
  • So it will only be out of state.
  • state.
  • Children live in another state.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Environmental Regulation Apr 24th, 2025

Environmental Regulation

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a closed-loop system that operates outside of state budgets.
  • Our 2024 State of Residential Recycling Report shows that the state has just a 17% residential recycling
  • As part of my role in... ...States and at a national level.
  • volume decline on average among those. ...states, and given that Texas is our highest volume state,
  • By the way, if you haven't noticed, it's going to our rivers and other parts of the state.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 14th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is my first time doing this as a state rep.
  • As a state rep, who's... adjacent to your state rep. I've competed there, so.
  • That's good, but in the state of Texas...
  • There is value to amateurism, not only in the state of Texas, but throughout the United States. that
  • statute to conform to these new state rules.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 7th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Texas wants to make this state a home... ...for these types of services and asset managers, providing
  • Furthermore, HB 4233 allows... lines with federal initiatives by instituting state-level transparency
  • Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S.
  • Is there a federal overlay concerning cyber currency, or is it solely under state jurisdiction?
  • There may be other oversight through other agencies at the state and federal level.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on state affairs come to order. Clerk call the roll.
  • Um, as stated in the hearing notice, there will be a time limit of 2 minutes per witness.
  • Are we risking, um, for the population of rattlesnakes in the state capital?
  • I'm senior manager of state and local government relations for Cisco.
  • Please proceed because, uh, like was stated by the previous speaker.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Football team secured the 2025 Class C football state runner-up and Class C football academic state champion
  • at the State Capitol.
  • state to serve our public.
  • and ranchers of this state.
  • About 2010, I got a $50 check from the state of Oklahoma because the state had excess funds.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 02-13-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And then just want to give him a welcome to our state capital.
  • Welcome to your state capital. Thank you, Senator Kanuha. Thank you, Mr. President.
  • give him a welcome to our state capital. give him a welcome to our state capital.
  • Welcome to your state capital. Okay. Welcome to your state capital.
  • This, I think, is a glaring example of why we have an invasive species problem in the State of Hawaii
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 6th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Doctorkip is also a sitting member of the Oklahoma State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and not
  • If the clerk would please read, clerk will read Mariane Nellie Castaneda began her state service as an
  • And whereas the Oklahoma State Senate, acting on behalf of the great state of Oklahoma, takes great pleasure
  • My plans are to go to law school and attend Northeastern State University for my undergrad.
  • Our speaker tomorrow is Doctor Brett Carver from Oklahoma State University.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Tourism Apr 9th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, SB2065 is a state pollinator act.
  • State your name and tell us where you're from. Please, we're happy to have you.
  • The reason I am here today is I want to give state designations to four pollinators that are very important
  • and the grant program, which has been widely successful, we're allowing them to enter into MOUs with state
  • So, do we currently have a state grain? Thank you, state.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • It does a couple of things: it strengthens our existing prohibition against out-of-state shipping of
  • spirits and enables the attorney general to enforce state and federal law.
  • neutral, if anything else slightly positive, to abbel once we actually start seeing those every other state
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Conservation Jan 29th, 2026 at 09:13 am

Senate Conservation

Transcript Highlights:
  • State Public Health Entomologist, right?
  • Rehabilitation out of state. And our family has been forever changed.
  • So I would please like to hear Entire state.
  • Based on our state, you know, we're kind of spread out, mostly a frontier state.
  • In New Mexico, we have abandoned sites all across our state, and in every city in our state we have abandoned
Bills: SB66, SB79, SB108
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • I would state, however... that in the case of states, just so that people know, what our bill does, Every
  • State Counts Act, it recognizes that a couple of states didn't receive funds from the program, and we
  • rural states.
  • I would just state that particularly again.
  • Finally, we support the Every State Counts Act to expand the Fox Grant access to underserved states.
Summary: The committee meeting focused primarily on the critical issues surrounding veterans' mental health and suicide prevention. Discussions centered on the reauthorization of essential programs aimed at providing non-clinical support services to veterans, particularly the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program. Senators emphasized the urgent need for adequate mental health resources as the suicide rate among veterans remains alarmingly high. Key testimonies were provided by various advocates and officials, illustrating both successful implementations of these programs and areas needing improvement.