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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • debate on Senate Bill 7, but I remember at the time something similar to this provision was deemed a tax
  • The committee substitute also removes erroneous code cleanup following the removal of a repealer in the
  • Senate Bill 2221, which enhances protections against fraudulent filings in the Uniform Commercial Code
  • After they were filed, it lists a section of the code.
  • Property Code subsection 209.2004 requires POAs to...
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce Apr 15th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • debate on Senate Bill 7, but I remember at the time something similar to this provision was deemed a tax
  • debate on Senate Bill 7, but I remember at the time something similar to this provision was deemed a tax
  • So Section 143 of the Local Government Code...
  • Sixty-one of those requests were attributable to tax...
  • Then it lists a section of the code.
Summary: The committee took up a long list of pending bills before moving to several bills on the day’s posting. It reported favorably SB 438, SB 512, SB 647, SB 648, SB 715, SB 758, SB 1964, SB 2121, SB 2145, SB 2167, SB 2330, SB 2349, SB 2443, SB 2629, SB 2702, SB 1495, and SB 2268, with several of those adopted from committee substitutes. Some measures were sent to the local and uncontested calendar, while others were reported to the full Senate. Votes on the pending-business bills were generally strong, though SB 715 and SB 2330 drew recorded opposition; SB 647 and SB 648 had one member present not voting because of confusion over the deed-related bills. A major discussion centered on SB 715, which would establish a reliability standard and penalties/incentives for generation resources. Senator Sparks said the committee substitute would avoid unfairly penalizing existing dispatchable generation, allow wind and solar to qualify through storage or backup power, give the PUC flexibility to set standards and phase in the program, and exempt switchable units. Critics raised concerns that it could raise consumer costs and destabilize the market, while supporters argued it would improve reliability. The committee substitute was adopted and the bill was reported out 6-4. The committee also heard testimony on SB 2330, dealing with payroll deduction for association dues, where the author said the bill would end state involvement in dues collection except for first responders covered by meet-and-confer agreements. Members questioned why teachers and other employees were treated differently, and the bill was reported out 6-5. Other notable bills included SB 2864 on building-integrated photovoltaics, SB 1012 on sale of surplus state property, SB 2221 on fraudulent UCC filings, SB 1705 regulating cryptocurrency kiosks with licensing, transaction limits, fee caps, and a 72-hour hold, SB 1181 on combative sports licensing, SB 2586 on HOA transparency, SB 2075 as a TDLR cleanup bill, and SB 383 restricting offshore wind interconnection based on impacts to shipping, wildlife, and coastal interests. Several of these were left pending after testimony, with SB 1705 drawing both law enforcement support and industry concerns over the fee caps and limits.
TX
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  • certain that, as we look at these bills, which frankly kind of reshapes Chapter 37 in our education code
  • I think it’s violent offenses is what we focus on, and we can look to that code and make sure that it
  • I fully support the ability of teachers under current Texas Education Code 37.002 to formally remove
  • I fully support the ability of teachers under current Texas Education Code 3702 to formally remove a
  • We have student codes of conduct.
Summary: The committee heard a series of school safety and discipline bills, beginning with SB 870, which would codify an attorney general opinion allowing local school boards to decide whether school marshals may openly carry, conceal carry, or store a firearm in a secure safe on campus. The bill was laid out with no public testimony and left pending. The chair then moved to a combined discussion of SB 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1924, all focused on school discipline, teacher authority, and student safety. Senators Perry and Creighton described the package as a response to rising classroom disruptions, assaults on teachers, and concerns that districts lack effective tools to maintain order. SB 1871 would expand teacher removal authority, require return-to-class plans before a student removed for certain conduct can return, make some serious offenses mandatory for placement in juvenile justice settings, and provide telehealth mental health services through a consortium. SB 1872 would require expulsion to a JJAEP for assaults on teachers or school volunteers and extend certain expulsion-eligible conduct to off-campus offenses. SB 1873 would restore the prior understanding that in-school suspension is not subject to a three-day limit. SB 1874 would grant teachers immunity from disciplinary action for reporting discipline violations or acting in compliance with Chapter 37. SB 1924 would restore authority for local police and school district police to issue Class C citations for school offenses and require criminal referrals for students posing an imminent threat or assaulting a teacher, with a substitute clarifying referral rules when a citation has already been issued. The committee adopted the substitutes for the bills and moved them forward. Invited witnesses from teacher and administrator groups largely supported the overall goal of stronger discipline and safer classrooms, while asking for refinements. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association testified that teachers need more autonomy to remove disruptive or violent students and that classroom removals should not mean removal from learning. Superintendents from San Angelo, Grandview, and Wiley ISDs supported the bills’ emphasis on safety, expanded ISS flexibility, mandatory placement for serious offenses, and telehealth mental health services, but asked for more local control, flexibility for Districts of Innovation, more than one campus behavior coordinator in large districts, clearer timelines for return-to-class plans, and more precise definitions for disruptive conduct. Several witnesses stressed that teacher retention and student learning are being harmed by current discipline problems, while some members raised concerns about vague standards and the risk of overuse or public humiliation through citations and removals.
TX
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  • that as we look at these bills, which frankly kind of, kind of. reshapes Chapter 37 in our education code
  • Offenses are what we focus on, and we can look to that code and make sure that it's violent offenses.
  • I fully support the ability of teachers under current Texas Education Code 37.002 to formally remove
  • So, in the code, there's no length of time for the committee.
  • We had protocols, we had student codes. ...conduct all of the things that exist already for what we're
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs (Part I) Mar 20th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • Senate Bill 311 will amend Section 22.002A of the Texas Government Code, and it will allow the Texas
  • Hughes laid it out, SB 311 is a simple bill that conforms the text of Section 22.002A of the Government Code
  • Section 22.002A of the Government Code to the text of Article 5, Section 3A of the Constitution.
Summary: The Senate Committee on State Affairs met and heard several bills related to legislative process and court jurisdiction. Senate Bill 1386, by Senator Huffman, would change compelled legislative testimony from blanket transactional immunity to testimonial immunity, allowing compelled statements or documents to be used against a witness in criminal prosecution only if not derived from the compelled testimony, while preserving protection against perjury and false statements and retaining the right to counsel. No public witnesses testified, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1470, by Chairman Hughes, which would require DPS to share existing data on cross-state driver’s license cancellations with the Secretary of State for voter-roll maintenance. Hughes said the bill does not create new data collection and is intended to improve list maintenance. A DPS resource witness was present, there was no substantive opposition, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1210, also by Hughes, would address conflicts between the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals on constitutional questions by making the Supreme Court the final arbiter in limited circumstances. Chris Hilton supported the bill, but Allen Place, Jack Rohde, and Philip Furlow opposed it, arguing it was unconstitutional, unnecessary, and could create practical problems in criminal post-conviction litigation. The bill was left pending after testimony. The committee also heard Senate Bill 311, which would conform the Government Code to the Texas Constitution by clarifying the Supreme Court’s original writ authority against lower courts and officials other than the governor. Justice Evan Young and Chris Hilton supported the bill as a clarification of existing authority, while no one testified against it; the bill was left pending. The committee then recessed to allow the chamber to rearrange for the Senate session.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Mar 23rd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Revised Apr 22nd, 2026 at 03:30 pm

Appropriations

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  • AG sales tax exemption and working with Senator Howard, he thought this would be a fix for fraud.
  • , they Equivalent to our tax commission is making sure they're handing out a legitimate card to their
  • if the tax commission comes in and audits them and finds that something is amiss.
  • And I'm deeply troubled that it will not be eligible or Able to be enforced by our tax commission.
  • So many requests for good nonprofits seeking the tax incentives and most of the times the sales tax exemption
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules 2ND REVISED Mar 4th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Rules

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  • Is this going to lower taxes for the tax burden on property now, or is this going to slow the growth
  • of property taxes?
  • The question before us isn't whether taxes are popular.
  • So, there are no tax dollars that are used.
  • instead of ad valorem tax.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • You cannot take our tax dollars because of religious exemption and every other reason to give our tax
  • Nurses are governed by and adhere to the code of ethics for nurses.
  • And they could even do it with your own tax dollars. No! No!
  • And we think this violates Texas Election Code 127.066A.
  • The Government Code speaks to disasters and Chapter 433 of the same code deals specifically with emergencies
KY
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  • I'm historic tax tax credits that I'm historic tax tax credits that I'm eligible<01:23:49.280>
  • present in the tax credit legislation. present in the tax credit legislation.
  • program like the historic tax credits. program like the historic tax credits.
  • do it is the historic tax. do it is the historic tax.
Summary: The Kentucky Housing Task Force met and heard first from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, which presented findings from a housing study done with the Home Builders Association. The chamber said housing is now a major economic-development issue, citing survey results that 90% of community leaders said their region could not absorb a major job announcement and 66% said housing is holding back Kentucky’s economy. The chamber described Kentucky’s housing shortage, rising home prices, declining permits since 2008, and the need for more production to support growth. It urged policy changes including zoning and land-use reform, tax incentives, regional approaches, and especially a residential infrastructure fund modeled on Indiana’s low-interest loan program to help communities finance roads and other infrastructure needed for new housing. Members asked about the severity of the problem, workforce shortages in permitting and construction, the loan interest rate, repayment, and whether Kentucky could replicate Indiana’s results; the witness said the issue is a crisis and that the program would be a revolving public-private partnership, likely around 3% interest, with implementation details still to be worked out. The Kentucky Bankers Association then testified that the housing gap is especially acute for households at 80% of area median income and below, which it said represents about 70% of Kentucky’s housing need. It emphasized that the shortage affects both urban and rural counties and pointed to examples such as Rowan County, where workers at major employers must commute long distances because local housing is unavailable or unaffordable. The bankers said high interest rates remain a major barrier and proposed a $20 million bank commitment for a revolving fund tied to tax credits to finance new housing, not refinances. They cited Hope of the Midwest as an example of a successful tax-credit housing model with a long track record and no defaults, and said the proposal would leverage public-private partnerships to create new units. Committee members questioned how the proposed fund would compare with industrial revenue bonds and whether it could be structured like Kentucky’s tobacco settlement fund, with seed money, a review board, scoring criteria, and possible population thresholds to ensure smaller communities benefit. The bankers said the proposal would be another tool for cities and counties, specifically tied to residential infrastructure, and that larger cities should not be able to capture all of the resources. No formal votes or actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Urban and Rural Development Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Urban and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • My benefit from the SS taxes, whereas they would lose money. So that's what we don't have.
  • , ad valorem tax, or the like.
  • reason that they... of animosity for some reason that they could do that, and if we had it in the code
  • Thank you for these members and what they do for their district and state of Alabama.
  • You know, one of the things that's driving my issues is to simplify sales and use tax.
Bills: HB402, HB402
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Morning Session Apr 7th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Nobody likes to pay tax, me either.
  • But for this instance, we would be increasing tax. You know.
  • I see this is another line item on your property tax statement.
  • In fact, for what it's worth, I'll give some tax advice.
  • , Is 15.3% of self-employment tax.
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Afternoon Session Apr 7th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The first added language clarifies that tax amounts do not include homestead exemptions or property tax
  • as it provides or as it pertains to sales tax, option sales tax, things like that, there are a number
  • So that clawback of property tax...
  • on property tax. ...governments that levied them, putting more pressure on property tax.
  • under the Property Tax Credit Program, all of the additional tax loopholes which benefit them.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 9th, 2025

Elections

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  • But they weren't against the code.
  • And in the code, they took this out of early voting.
  • , and some other bills that were also touching that code.
  • So, Election Code 72.003 cleared this up for us.
  • The election code states that a provision of this code may not be interpreted to prohibit or limit the
OK
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  • Bill 633 by Hilbert of the House and Weaver of the Senate, an act relating to the Oklahoma Juvenile Code
  • Bill 633 by Hilbert of the House and Weaver of the Senate, an act relating to the Oklahoma Juvenile Code
  • In tax of sexual abuse judgments that the school boards agreed to settle and pay out.
  • Senate Bill 2143 by Leak of the House and Albert of the Senate, relating to ad valorem tax.
  • Do you feel if this becomes law, this will generate an increase in personal private property taxes?
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • industry does have an organization called OERB, where they self-remit, volunteer a portion of their GP tax
  • So I would feel like the industry is doing more than their fair share of taxes in the state of Oklahoma
  • As you know that local municipalities do not have the ability to have Avalorum tax assessments, so it
  • is on entities that, Where it would theoretically, or could, have an effect is on entities that do tax
  • In the process of streamlining this high tax rate to something more moderate, in line with other states
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

TRS-LBT, TRS Public Hearings 03-19-2026

Transportation

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  • state proof of citizenship or lawful permanent residency as specified in Table 1 to Title 49 of the Code
  • to<00:28:13.760> title<00:28:14.240> 49<00:28:14.960> the<00:28:15.200> code
  • <00:28:15.600> of table one to title 49 the code of table one to title 49 the code of federal
  • commercial driver's license, non-domicile commercial driver's license, as provided in Title 49, the Code
Summary: The joint hearing of the Transportation and Labor and Technology committees considered HB 2097, which would allow administrative driver’s license revocation hearings to be held by interactive conference technology such as Zoom and permit electronic exchange of evidence. DOT and the Administrative Driver’s License Revocation Office supported the bill, saying Zoom hearings have worked well since 2021 and save time and money. Both committees passed HB 2097 with technical and nonsubstantive amendments. The Transportation Committee then heard HB 1163 on commercial driver licensing, HB 2113 on funding vegetation removal from the Kaola Stream drainage way, HB 2283 on port pilotage, HB 1588 on a noise detection camera program, and HB 2333 on airport special districts and aeronautics penalties. DOT asked for HB 1163 to use “non-domiciled” language to match federal rules, and the committee passed it with amendments. For HB 2113, the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity said the project would likely need about $1 million, and the committee passed the bill with amendments while noting the funding would be reflected in the committee report rather than the measure itself. HB 2283 drew broad support from maritime and labor interests, but the committee deferred it, saying the Senate version was already moving and would be used instead. HB 1588 received support from DOT and several community and health-related testifiers who said noise from traffic is a serious problem, but the committee expressed concern about enforcement language and re-referred the bill to Judiciary/Ways and Means while still passing it forward. HB 2333 was supported by DOT and airline interests; after questions about airport loitering and sleeping rules, the committee passed it as is. In the final decision-making, the committee adopted the chair’s recommendations on HB 1163, HB 2113, HB 1588, and HB 2333, and deferred HB 2283.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Housing Finance and Policy

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  • it is they're taxed between 48 and 52%. it is they're taxed between 48 and 52%.
  • I and I'm not saying that we should tax I and I'm not saying that we should tax ourselves<00:29:
  • property taxes, and utilities. property taxes, and utilities.
  • I mean, taxes, I mean, we can go down the list.
  • I mean, taxes, I mean, we we drivers.
Bills: HF3403, HF2687, HF2381