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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • These are the hemp business regulations.
  • These are the hemp business regulations.
  • and I don't know why we're regulating CBD at all.
  • and I don't know why we're regulating CBD at all.
  • I don't think we need extra regulations, and I don't know why we're regulating CBD at all.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 1st, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill is solely aimed at protecting no-impact home-based businesses from unnecessary regulations
  • We do not want needless local regulations to prevent the next Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos from starting
  • This bill, in its current form, does not affect the city's ability to regulate short-term rentals.
  • This represents a major roadblock in further development.
  • A major roadblock to further development of manufactured homes and access to housing for Texans.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/20/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • These early years are essential for a child's development, but parents' incomes tend to be lower when
  • but parents incomes child's development but parents incomes tend<00:10:47.040> to<00:10:47.160
  • <00:10:51.440> happens Younger, 80% of brain development happens in the first three years
  • Babies who experience consistent loving care develop better social and emotional skills later in life
  • Babies who experience consistent loving care develop better social and emotional skills later in life
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight Mar 4th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Health and Human Services Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • The childcare regulators and licensors, they're in very close contact with our providers, and so they
  • would you believe that if this is going to be sold over the counter for human use that there are regulations
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce May 20th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • The substitute further clarifies that a person may not intentionally develop or distribute AI systems
  • Moreover, the scope of the regulations that can be waived within the sandbox program is further defined
  • It develops forensic tools.
  • I came to the university to build that and develop that further.
  • are regulated currently by TDLR, and also services that are cancelable at any time.
Summary: The committee took up several pending business items and reported a series of House bills out of committee, including HB 2467, HB 2468, HB 2518, HB 4310, HB 4386, HB 4490, HB 5323, and HB 149. Most of these were advanced on committee substitute motions and sent to the local and uncontested calendar or reported favorably to the full Senate. HB 2467 drew one nay vote, while the others were approved without opposition. HB 4310 and HB 4386 were described as committee-substitute versions with changes narrowing disclosure requirements and preserving attorney-client privilege in certain circumstances. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 149, an AI governance bill. The substitute was explained as addressing biometric identifier capture and storage, exempting certain AI uses for security and fraud prevention, clarifying definitions, restricting AI systems that simulate explicit child sexual content, adjusting Attorney General investigative authority, refining sandbox program waivers, reducing Texas AI Council powers and membership, and adding DIR coordination provisions. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill favorably. The committee then heard extensive testimony on HB 1500, the DIR sunset bill. The author said the bill would continue DIR for 12 years, restructure its board, update advisory committees, require regular cybersecurity assessments and penetration testing for state agencies, improve IT procurement training, and transfer the e-grants program to the Comptroller. A Texas 2036 witness supported the bill as a way to strengthen governance, procurement, and cybersecurity. Members asked detailed questions about the bill’s structure and then left HB 1500 pending. The committee also heard a lengthy presentation on HB 150, which would create the Texas Cyber Command as a component of the University of Texas System, administratively attached to UTSA and located in San Antonio. The author argued the command would centralize cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and digital forensics, and would be able to support state and local entities, with optional services for local governments. Members raised concerns about university mission drift, governance, security, chain of command, procurement authority, gifts and donations, and civil liberties implications of proactive cyber monitoring. Witnesses from UTSA/NSCC and SecurityScorecard testified in support, emphasizing the security of the downtown San Antonio facility, the existing cyber ecosystem there, and the need for a dedicated cyber capability. The bill remained under discussion with no final committee action announced in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce Apr 24th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • To us, the solution is to. regulate that industry.
  • Um, we call them 342E lenders since they're regulated under chapter 342, or subchapter E.
  • Members, this is another cleanup bill requested by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
  • Chairman and members, Senate Bill 748 relates to the regulation of laser hair removal.
  • And so this is in a development, your bill is exactly to, uh, does it?
Summary: The meeting of the Senate Business and Commerce Committee was marked by discussions on several significant bills, with a keen emphasis on legislative updates and committee substitutes. Notably, Senator Blanco presented a new committee substitute for SB2610, which modifies the employee cap from 100 to 250 and extends the update timeline for cyber security programs for small businesses. This substitute was adopted unanimously, reflecting a collaborative agreement among the committee members. Additionally, there were discussions surrounding SB1856 as Senator Crayton provided insights into how stakeholder feedback influenced the bill's committee substitute. The committee ultimately voted in favor, pushing it towards the local and contested calendar, indicating the bill's progression through legislative channels.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Currently, state law does not regulate senior living referral agencies, and they are simply required
  • Kickback laws still hold us to the requirements of state and federal regulations. Thank you.
  • I would say we have an existing system; it's federally regulated, sponsored, and maintained.
  • We anticipate adverse reactions, and we don't want to stymie development.
  • Babies that survive have a 1 in 600 chance of developing panencephalitis, a catastrophic condition.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part I) Apr 9th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • The change in statute does not impact any other laws regulating senior living communities, nor does it
  • It's federally regulated, sponsored, and maintained.
  • It's federally regulated, sponsored, and maintained.
  • We anticipate adverse reactions, and we don't want to stymie development.
  • We anticipate adverse reactions, and we don't want to stymie development.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services met with several members initially absent, then later established a quorum. The committee heard multiple bills, with most testimony focusing on access to care, insurance practices, senior safety, and health care worker protections. Several bills were laid out with committee substitutes, and public testimony was limited to two minutes per witness. Most bills were left pending after testimony, with no final votes taken in the portion provided. Senate Bill 2069 would create a work group to study the feasibility of a statewide acute psychiatric bed registry; the substitute shifts appointment authority to the Health and Human Services Commissioner and extends reporting and sunset dates. Senate Bill 463 would expand workplace violence protections to additional hospice, home and community support, intermediate care, and state-supported living center settings. Senate Bill 1283 would require background checks and transparency measures for senior retirement communities after testimony about the Dallas-area serial killings of elderly residents. Senate Bill 1784 would require 60 days’ written notice before medical debt is sent to collections. Senate Bill 527 would require medical insurance coverage for general anesthesia for medically necessary pediatric dental procedures for children under 13 with qualifying conditions; pediatric dentists testified that denials delay needed care. A major portion of the meeting centered on prior authorization. Senate Bill 1380 would eliminate prior authorization for a broad list of services, including emergency, primary, mental health, substance use, chemotherapy, preventive, pediatric hospice, and certain chronic-condition care. Physicians and hospice advocates supported the bill, describing delays, administrative burden, and patient harm, while health plans opposed blanket exemptions and argued prior authorization helps prevent unnecessary care and control costs. Relatedly, Senate Bill 547 would require insurers to report gold-card prior authorization exemptions to TDI and create a centralized database and annual report; TMA supported better tracking, while health plans warned of duplicative reporting and administrative cost. Senate Bill 407 would require health care facilities to honor conscience- and religion-based vaccine exemptions for employees, with testimony from a physician and vaccine-choice advocate supporting the bill. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1383, which would regulate senior living referral agencies, allow more flexible compensation structures, and add disclosure and consumer protections; an out-of-state referral company and A Place for Mom supported it. Senate Bill 1511 would allow freestanding emergency centers to provide outpatient services in addition to emergency care, with consumer protections such as estimates, limits on facility fees, and restrictions on balance billing. The chair repeatedly announced that bills were being left pending after testimony, and no final committee action or recorded votes were taken in the transcript provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part I) Feb 18th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman and members, Senate Bill 72 relates to the regulation of private passenger vehicle rental companies
  • I believe any SEC regulated.
  • As a prudent investor, we are always paying attention to these developments.
  • Autonomous platforms are strengthening security through development of new technologies, leading space
  • The SEC regulated ETFs don't invest in the companies that produce.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 411 Conference PM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri May 1, 2026, 6:30PM HST - Day 56

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 329 Conference AM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 325 Conference PM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 325 Conference AM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 329 Conference PM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 309 Conference AM/PM - Fri May 1, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting