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LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Leah Long with the NFIB, and Jim Patterson with Lobby.
Committee:
House Ways & Means
Keywords:
local sales tax, local use tax, sales and use tax, tax audit, local collector, tax collector, prescriptive period, prescription waiver, interest suspension, delinquency penalties, estimated assessment, arbitrary assessment, certified mail notice, audit notice, taxpayer rights, installment agreement, Louisiana tax law, Title 47, revenue collection, tax administration
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Select Committee on Biotechnology and Medical Technology Aug 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I know there's a lot of activity going on in the I don't know. Come to Room 447 at their leisure.
- I know there's a lot of activity going on in the building here today across a variety of subjects right
- So in 2023, there were 2,695 active clinical trials going on in the state of California.
- And so there's always going to be activity there.
- But if they can't find it in California or the U.S., There's always going to be activity there.
Summary:
The Assembly Select Committee on Biotechnology and Medical Technology met on August 19, 2025 to examine the effects of federal grant cuts, tariff uncertainty, and related policy changes on California’s biotech, medtech, and academic research ecosystem. The chair and panelists emphasized California’s outsized role in the industry, describing major clusters in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, and explaining how research, startup formation, manufacturing, and clinical trials are interconnected across the state. Speakers from Biocom California, California Life Sciences, Farma, UC, Stanford, CSU Biotech, and UCLA all argued that NIH and NSF funding are foundational to discovery, workforce training, and commercialization, and that disruptions are already chilling venture capital, startup formation, and hiring.
Witnesses described several concrete impacts: suspended or terminated grants, reduced doctoral admissions, fewer training opportunities, canceled retreats and internships, and anxiety among graduate students and early-career researchers. UC reported hundreds of millions of dollars in suspended or terminated NIH and NSF funding, while Stanford said more than a thousand training and career-development grants nationwide have been frozen or ended, affecting multiple trainees per grant. CSU Biotech said 133 federal grants had been terminated, scaled back, or canceled, totaling about $140 million, including nearly $30 million from NIH and NSF. Industry representatives also warned that proposed antitrust limits on mergers and acquisitions could undermine the standard biotech exit path and further deter investment.
Committee members asked about the duration of the disruption, the possibility of state action to offset federal losses, and whether California could better support workforce development, manufacturing, and R&D tax credits. Panelists urged the Legislature to preserve and expand state support for STEM education, internships, apprenticeship pathways, manufacturing incentives, and the R&D tax credit, and to consider infrastructure and housing as part of competitiveness. They also noted that tariffs are already raising costs for medtech components and building materials, and that China is increasingly competing for R&D, talent, and licensing deals. No formal votes or bill actions were taken at the hearing; the meeting was informational and focused on testimony and discussion.
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:
- The legislature, in response, no doubt due to lobbying, did get rid of it, but only up to the $20,000
- For their insurers, who no doubt lobby you, there are also questions.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee held its inaugural hearing of the session, led by Chair Michael Day and co-chair Senator Lydia Edwards, and reviewed a large slate of bills and constitutional amendments. The chair laid out hearing procedures, including three-minute testimony limits, priority for in-person witnesses, and deadlines for reporting constitutional amendments and House bills. The committee heard testimony on 29 proposals, with many witnesses and advocates speaking in support of measures they said would clarify the law, improve access to justice, or address public safety and fairness concerns.
Several bills drew extensive testimony. Supporters of H.1686/S.1254 urged creation of a commission to study intentional misrepresentation of service animals, citing disruptive and dangerous encounters with fake service dogs and the need to protect legitimate service-dog teams. H.1649/S.1168 on court transcriber fees received strong support from transcribers and CPCS, who said rates have been frozen at $3 per page since 1988 and should be raised to $4.50, with an automatic CPI adjustment; they also described the work as time-consuming and essential to the justice system. H.1768/S.1037 on indigency was backed by CPCS, which said the bill would update eligibility rules, reduce unnecessary six-month reassessments, and eliminate the $150 counsel fee for indigent adults. H.1723/S.1193 to remove the charitable immunity cap was supported by legislators and attorneys who argued the current $20,000/$100,000 caps leave seriously injured people undercompensated and make Massachusetts an outlier.
The committee also heard testimony on S.1046 regarding adoptions, with multiple adoptive parents, attorneys, and agency representatives describing recent probate court interpretations that have disrupted out-of-state surrender and finalization practices. Witnesses said the bill would restore predictability and allow birth parents outside Massachusetts to use either their home-state law or Massachusetts law, while preserving ICPC safeguards. Senator Feingold testified on H.1748/S.1109, “Conrad’s Law,” to criminalize coercing someone into suicide, arguing Massachusetts should join most other states in creating a specific offense rather than relying on involuntary manslaughter charges. Representative Donahue supported H.66 to remove “so help me God” from the constitutional oath of office. No votes were taken during the hearing; the committee simply heard testimony and thanked witnesses, with chairs indicating they would continue reviewing the bills and written submissions.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Counties can include program modules like guidance in technology assistance, physical activity, music
- The bill will strengthen social connections for our seniors and will help them remain active, informed
- Counties can include programs, program modules like guidance in technology assistance, physical activity
- The bill will strengthen social connections for our seniors and will help them remain active, informed
- That accounts for 12% of law enforcement activity in our county and is an impact far out of proportion
Committee:
Senate Human Services
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Independent pharmacies were also very active in the pandemic, providing vaccination services, especially
- Our independent pharmacists were very active.
- Now, 17 states have adopted these automated savings programs, and 11 of those programs are already active
- And together, these active programs are serving over 240,000 employers, over a million workers.
- And together, these active programs are serving over 240,000 employers, over a million workers.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services
Summary:
The committee held an informational opening hearing for the Financial Services Committee, with Chair Murphy and Senator Feeney introducing new and returning members and explaining that no bills were being heard that day beyond brief introductory testimony. Commissioner of Banks Mary Gallagher thanked the committee for last session’s money transmission modernization law, and several members echoed appreciation for her office’s work. The hearing then featured a long series of stakeholder introductions and overviews of their priorities for the session.
Testimony covered a wide range of financial, insurance, housing, health care, and consumer issues. Banking and mortgage groups discussed housing affordability, foreclosure delinquencies, flood insurance, regulatory changes, and the impact of federal policy shifts. Insurance representatives raised concerns about auto and homeowners market pressures, labor rates, tariffs, rebates, e-titling, third-party litigation funding, and public adjuster restrictions. Consumer and advocacy groups highlighted debt collection reform, earned wage access, retirement savings access, public banking, and consumer protections in financial services. Several speakers also emphasized the need for committee expertise and offered themselves as resources for future bills.
Health-related organizations focused on insurance mandates, prior authorization, behavioral health access, pharmacy benefit manager reform, community health center funding, maternal health and midwifery reimbursement, and anesthesia reimbursement parity. Other groups, including credit unions, retailers, auto dealers, dental and medical associations, and behavioral health providers, described their roles in the Commonwealth and previewed legislation or policy areas they expect to follow this session. No votes were taken; the meeting was informational and ended after testimony from the sign-up list and a few late additions.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- There is a lot of off-exchange crypto going on with a lot of drugs and illegal activity.
- What we're seeing in the stock market is not what's going on in the illegal activity world out there
- The idea that they've exempted themselves should be dangerous alone with all the illegal activity going
- But, you know, the experts I talked to, the security experts, said that with all the criminal activity
- He was up here with his family to try to lobby to get the Tim Tebow bill passed in Arkansas.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Family, school, and extracurricular activities are like three supportive legs of a chair.
- When we think about the three legs of that chair, home, school, and extracurricular activities, the hard
- Out of 17 children, school employees were actively deceiving parents of 10 of them.
- What it penalizes is actively encouraging children to deceive their parents, facilitating that deception
- in regards to when I went to the Protect Arizona Children Coalition, and also thank you, and Mommy Lobby
Keywords:
interference, disruption, educational institutions, public order, conduct rules, statewide assessment, student testing, academic standards, third grade reading, reading retention, promotion and retention, school accountability, assessment window, testing window, test scores, school report cards, nontest data, graduation rates, dropout rates, education data privacy
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 25th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Transcript Highlights:
- What kind of lobbying must a person do to get such a good deal?
- Since then, we've seen a crippling expansion of illegal, unregulated gambling activity across our state
- enter these establishments have no protection against fraud, financial exploitation, or the criminal activity
- machines, millions of dollars in untaxed proceeds, and we investigate cases with organized criminal activity
- also limits who has access to data by requiring claimant representatives to maintain at least 10 active
Summary:
The committee first took up appointments, recommending confirmation of James Patrick Grambling and Brian J. Aungst on a single favorable vote. It then heard and approved several committee bills, including CS/CS/SB 1260 on building code inspections, which directs the Department of Management Services to contract with private providers for plan review and inspections; CS/SB 1668 on NICA, which updates benefits, oversight, funding, and immunity language; SB 1300 on a workforce/CDL training program for selected nonviolent inmates; CS/CS/SB 598 on funeral and cemetery services; CS/SB 1580 on illegal gaming enforcement; CS/SB 934 on Florida Keys affordable housing tax exemptions; and CS/CS/SB 1452, an agency bill updating DFS programs and licensing rules. Each of those bills was reported favorably after committee debate and, in several cases, amendments were adopted.
The committee spent substantial time on CS/CS/SB 1510, the DEP package, which reorganizes environmental rulemaking and land acquisition authority, expands septic-to-sewer and nutrient-reduction requirements in sensitive areas, updates stormwater and resilience provisions, and revises related permitting and grant programs. Two amendments were adopted, including one adding solar-energy and stormwater-related provisions and another removing septic disclosure reporting language. Testimony included support from DEP and concerns from environmental advocates about septic timelines and implementation. The bill was ultimately reported favorably.
The committee also considered CS/CS/SB 1566 on local government budget transparency, requiring counties and municipalities to post budgets and related materials online for extended periods in a standardized format. The League of Cities opposed the bill as an unfunded mandate, while the sponsor argued it would improve taxpayer access and accountability; the bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee heard SB 7034, a rule ratification for minimum flows and levels for the lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee rivers and priority springs, with testimony focused on the proposed Water First restoration strategy, conservation measures, and concerns about water quality, funding, and local opposition. The transcript ends during closing remarks on that ratification bill, before a final vote is shown.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Urban Issues Feb 11th, 2026
Special Committee on Urban Issues
Transcript Highlights:
- What is the responsibility toward their payroll while they're actively participating?
- And, ma'am, we do support that action, not the illegal activity.
- We don't condone illegal activity, but we don't condone legal activity that is taken advantage of.
- Interestingly enough, the dog starvation lobby did not show up to testify against the bill last year,
- That is somebody who committed an illegal activity and a crime who committed a crime that shouldn't have
Committee:
House Special Committee on Urban Issues
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- The department maintains that the purpose of the exemptions is to protect the integrity of active administrative
- With that, air traffic, passenger boardings, and cargo activity has just grown exponentially.
- think what you have, if you look across the country, a lot of states have most of their aviation activity
- Aviation activity is consolidated into one big airport, or maybe just two big airports.
- and capacity projects like our centralized baggage-handling system, with our expansion of our ticket lobby
Committee:
Senate Transportation
Summary:
The Transportation Committee met to consider two bills and then held a lengthy discussion on Florida airport infrastructure. SB 246, presented by Senator Rodriguez on behalf of Senator Gruters, would authorize a UFC specialty license plate, with proceeds supporting the UFC Foundation’s charitable work. A UFC Foundation representative described community beneficiaries and said the plate would help raise funds for local charities. With no questions or debate, the committee voted SB 246 favorably. The committee also took up SPB 7012, a Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles public-records exemption bill that would remove the October 1, 2026 repeal date for certain active investigatory records. Senator Avila moved to submit it as a committee bill, there was no objection, and it was reported favorably as a committee bill.
The remainder of the meeting focused on the Comprehensive Airport Infrastructure Program. FDOT Secretary Jared Perdue outlined Florida’s aviation system, the department’s airport funding programs, and the state’s role as a financial partner in safety, capacity, preservation, and economic development projects. He said Florida has 128 public-use airports, 21 commercial-service airports, and four large-hub airports, and noted that airport funding is largely supported by gas-tax-related revenues, with additional support from documentary stamp revenue and other fees. He also discussed the new airport infrastructure planning requirements created last session and said all required airports had submitted plans. Committee members asked about the loss of aviation fuel tax revenue, workforce development, project timelines, and how FDOT prioritizes funding, with Perdue emphasizing safety, preservation, capacity, economic return, and matching funds.
A panel from Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Tampa international airports then described major capital programs, passenger growth, and funding needs. The airports highlighted terminal expansions, parking, baggage systems, airfield rehabilitation, people movers, and other modernization projects, along with the importance of maintaining aging facilities while accommodating growth. They said FDOT and FAA grants are helpful but increasingly insufficient for runway and taxiway costs, and several panelists said passenger facility charges and other revenue tools are important to future self-sufficiency. Members also asked about workforce shortages, small-business participation, landing-fee negotiations, and non-aeronautical revenue. The panel said workforce challenges are most acute in trades and maintenance, small-business programs are active at each airport, and landing fees are negotiated with airlines to keep airports competitive while funding needed improvements.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, just so you're all aware, right now today, any active county judge, district judge, or federal
- we're doing is giving them the same right we've already given to retired judges, as well as their active
- How can you tell me that you believe in securing Texas public safety while making it actively harder
- This could result in many people who are trying to be active civilians, attempting to prevent more gun
- Once you're inside the secure portion, you'd be able to go into the lobby area, the ticketing, and all
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Fish and Game and Marine Resources (01/28/2026)
Fish and Game and Marine Resources
Transcript Highlights:
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- I state but also just as as an activity.
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- So these are of fishing activity.
Committee:
House Fish and Game and Marine Resources
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a trigger that would become activated upon the constitutional changes being made.
- They're currently, I believe, going to try to lobby the city council there.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Thirty Two - Wednesday, March 4 - Morning Session
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- one thing, but if we're talking about things that actually destroy the minds of children and are actively
- children today, that brings up insurance, and today is the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents Lobbying
Summary:
The House opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the previous day’s journal by a 122-0 vote, and numerous introductions of special guests, including Special Olympics participants, occupational therapy and social work students and professionals, teachers, social workers, local officials, and community groups visiting for Hill Day and other advocacy events. Members also made announcements about committee meetings before the chamber recessed until 2 p.m.
On the floor, House Bill 2974 was perfected and printed with little debate. Supporters said it would codify telehealth access in Missouri’s licensure reciprocity framework, helping seniors and rural residents continue to receive care. House Bill 2934, a bipartisan St. Louis convention center governance measure, also advanced after adoption of an amendment changing governor-appointed board seats to two city, two county, and one at-large member. The bill would merge existing entities managing the convention center and Dome, create a new board structure, and authorize a convention district tax framework and related financing rules; members discussed local control, revenue use, and the length of agreements under the bill.
House Bill 2057, a technical fix for Osage Beach entertainment district authority, was adopted and perfected and printed. Supporters said it corrects an error from a prior bill and would allow Osage Beach to create an entertainment district similar to those in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Branson to support tourism and economic development. The chamber also took up House Bill 1839 and related bills on age verification for pornographic websites. Proponents argued the measure is needed to protect minors from online pornography and exploitation, citing the Supreme Court’s upholding of a similar Texas law and Missouri’s existing attorney general enforcement efforts; opponents raised privacy, enforcement, and unintended-consequences concerns, including whether less-scrupulous sites could become more accessible. After a motion for the previous question, the House adopted the committee substitute and perfected and printed House Bill 1839 by a 104-16 vote with 20 present.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget 2nd Revision: Oklahoma Department of Transportation will present at 10:30 a.m.
Appropriations and Budget
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a new activity that you're taking on.
- had the honor of attending the Burlington Northern Santa Fe ribbon cutting the other day that Hobby Lobby
Committee:
House Appropriations and Budget
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Scope of practice refers to the activities and procedures that a provider or professional with a specific
- optometrists and ophthalmologists work shoulder-to-shoulder, every day in practice, the ophthalmologist lobby
Committee:
House Health Finance and Policy
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Team Award for that activity and the engineering in
- AB 4463 by Vendee. relating to authorized activities of the brewers or non-residents, brewers license
- Active waste for the committee on environmental regulation, HB 4693 by Lopeza, came in with assistance
- Regarding active shooter response training for peace officers for the Committee on Homeland Security,
- and certain other activities over the government HB 4861 by Goodwill in mental health care and mental
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security Feb 18th, 2025
Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator, you know, Major John Haynes, whom you all recognized last year and who isn't able to be lobbying
- It's the best place to be for veterans, for active duty military, for transitioning service members,
- It's the best place to be for veterans, for active duty military, for transitioning service members,
- within the board's local plans, Evidence of reflecting veteran-related activities within the board's
- Yeah, you're always active. Thank you for all you do. Thank you.
Summary:
The committee took up SB 116 by Senator Burgess, a veterans bill aimed at several FDVA-related changes. The bill would reduce annual nominations to the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame from 20 to 5, expand FDVA’s survey work to assess veterans’ awareness of available programs and their health literacy, add mental health training to the veterans suicide prevention pilot, strengthen coordination and reporting between Veterans Florida and FDVA, direct FDVA to develop a plan for adult day health care facilities statewide, and allow the Florida Veterans Foundation to use a portion of Gadsden flag plate proceeds for administrative costs. Senator Burgess said the measure builds on prior “Forward March” efforts and helps close service gaps for aging veterans and others who may not know about available benefits.
Testimony on SB 116 was uniformly supportive. FDVA leadership said adult day health care could be added at existing facilities such as Port St. Lucie and Lake City, and that the state would need authority and funding to move forward. A veterans legal collaborative, AARP Florida, and Endeavors all voiced support, with speakers emphasizing the importance of better outreach, mental health awareness, and care options that allow veterans to remain at home. The committee then voted favorably on SB 116.
The remainder of the meeting was devoted to agency and stakeholder presentations. Florida National Guard officials described a high operational tempo, deployments at home and abroad, hurricane response efforts, and the need to grow the force and infrastructure. FDVA’s adjutant general reported Florida now has the nation’s second-largest veteran population, rising in-migration of younger veterans, a large and aging Vietnam-era population, strong claims and outreach activity, declining veteran homelessness, and improved suicide prevention outcomes. The Florida Veterans Foundation outlined its emergency relief, dental, transportation, and license-plate-funded programs, while Veterans Florida and CareerSource Florida detailed workforce, apprenticeship, SkillBridge, entrepreneurship, and job-fair programs for veterans and spouses, along with efforts to expand recurring funding and better protect customer information.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
JHA Info Briefing - Wed Jan 29, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- We will be able to apply the accrued revenue to enforcement activities to address the growing number
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- We are not a political or lobbying group.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- I think so that we can get this as soon as possible, just to get activated so we can avoid some logistics
- I'm thinking of a library I used to work in that was kind of set up like a hotel lobby.
- That was kind of set up like a hotel lobby, you know, like you'd come in, uh, uh, the bathroom.
- by clearly defining the terms male and female to enshrine safe boundaries to private spaces and activities
- students do not share sleeping quarters with members of the opposite sex during school-authorized activities