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WA
Transcript Highlights:
- It strikes the underlying bill in its entirety, and it requires WSDOT to convene a Washington State Amtrak
- It strikes the underlying bill in its entirety, and it requires WSDOT to convene a Washington State Amtrak
- This is a very small change in state law that helps clarify...
- Also, Washington State University has a program aligned in that way as well, but due to the title of
- the bill, we're not able to include Washington State University in this bill's iteration.
Bills:
HB2092 , HB2114 , HB2172 , HB2251 , HB2374 , HB2410 , HB2552 , HB2588 , HB2718 , HB2722 , HB2727
Committee:
House Transportation
Keywords:
passenger rail, transportation, committee, advisory, infrastructure, defective license plates, vehicle registration, Department of Licensing, state regulations, route jurisdiction, abandonment, local governance, climate change, commitment act, emission reductions, sustainability, environmental policy, electric bicycles, electric motorcycles, regulation
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- Our members, small, medium, and craft operators across the state, value stability and clarity in cannabis
- Our members, small, medium, and craft operators across the state, value stability and clarity in cannabis
- However, we do not think what is proposed in SB 6290 will clear up anything in the state, and the bill's
- In addition, I understand from the Office of State Actuary that they will be providing a fiscal note.
- In addition, I understand from the Office of State Actuary that they will be providing a fiscal note.
Bills:
SB6290 , SB6282 , SB5379 , SB6197 , SB6158 , SB6302 , SB5882 , SB6303 , SB6180 , SB6195 , SB6196 , SB6204 , SB6287
Committee:
Senate Labor & Commerce
Keywords:
liquor regulation, cannabis board, reorganization, state agency, governance, apprenticeship, behavioral health, construction trades, workforce training, wellness, interest arbitration, parks and recreation, public employees, labor relations, employee rights, SB 6197, plumbing contractor, plumber, contractor licensing, licensing enforcement
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Pro Forma Floor Session Jan 22nd, 2026 at 12:30 pm
Washington Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Message from the Secretary of State, excuse me, the Secretary will read.
- Pursuant to Article 2, Section 1 of the Washington State Constitution, I hereby declare the initial legislative
- Secretary of State message received. The Secretary of State message received. Senator Ritchey.
Keywords:
employment eligibility, firefighters, law enforcement, citizenship, legal authorization, public safety, mortgage lending, fraud, prosecution, financial regulations, consumer protection, broadband, infrastructure, loan assistance, economic development, technology access, criminal offense, fingerprinting, state regulations, SB 5280
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- There are 2,587 colleges with a... 100% smoke-free policies in the United States.
- For example, they might have Medicaid where they live in their state, but that won't cover them in Texas
- from any of the six accreditation agencies in the United States currently.
- in Texas have the free... freedom to fully utilize any of the accreditation agencies in the United States
- HB 1705 removes SACs as a statutorily mandated accrediting agency in the state.
Bills:
HB173 , HB184 , HB484 , HB678 , HB 1211 , HB1507 , HB1705 , HB1868 , HB2290 , HB2851 , HB2856 , HB3041 , HB3204 , HB173 , HB184
Committee:
House Higher Education
Keywords:
foreign donations, higher education, public institutions, national security, funding, prohibition, Texas law, healthcare, insurance, affordability, access, public health, foreign influence, education policy, student loan repayment, prosecuting attorneys, border prosecution unit, financial assistance, tobacco, cigarettes
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Obviously, it's fluid in the sense that things happen in the United States that may change, but either
- that was being received by universities here in the state of Texas.
- The fact of the matter is, in the state of Texas...
- We, as a state and as a legislature, in a bipartisan way, have proven our willingness to invest in these
- Texas was only the second state in the country to adopt.
Bills:
HB173 , HB184 , HB484 , HB678 , HB 1211 , HB1507 , HB1705 , HB1868 , HB2290 , HB2851 , HB2856 , HB3041 , HB3204 , HB173 , HB184
Committee:
House Higher Education
Keywords:
foreign donations, higher education, public institutions, national security, funding, prohibition, Texas law, healthcare, insurance, affordability, access, public health, foreign influence, education policy, student loan repayment, prosecuting attorneys, border prosecution unit, financial assistance, tobacco, cigarettes
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The information about the two systems that we're trying to figure out what to do in the state of Minnesota
- You have 11 federally mandated rights in the state of Minnesota, right?
- </c><00:27:17.040><c> in</c> there's this one for services in in there's this one for services in in
- ><c> with</c> cost goes hand in hand in many ways with cost goes hand in hand in many ways with that.
- </c> we did I think it's in Yeah, it's in the we did I think it's in Yeah, it's in the program<01:08:
Committee:
Senate Human Services
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation updates and modernizes our statutory language for our promotional fund in tourism.
- Senate Bill 2139 is clarifying language to Senate Bill 1617, which passed in 2024.
- It is a result of a year of research and stakeholder discussion, passed unanimously in the Senate.
Committee:
House Government Oversight
Keywords:
SB1365, Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act, procurement exemption, competitive bidding, state purchasing, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, tourism department, merchandise for resale, gift shops, lodges, golf pro shops, state parks, restaurant contracting, retail outlets, public procurement, purchasing flexibility, Title 74, emergency clause, restrictive covenants, discriminatory covenants
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Apr 1st, 2026
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> protesting it if it's not and the state protesting it if it's not and the state um<00:06:03.280>
- </c> on their own idea. in their own boards. on their own idea. in their own boards.
- </c> >> Nothing mandates in this bill. >> Nothing mandates in this bill.
- </c> >> Throughout the state. >> Throughout the state.
- Used in previous role?
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
Keywords:
tobacco regulation, vaping, sales restrictions, youth protection, tobacco compliance, public health, education programs, electronic nicotine delivery systems, human cloning, criminal penalties, embryo, genetic modification, bioethics, campus chaplain, chaplain, school chaplain, volunteer, public K-12 schools, public schools, public charter schools
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Agriculture and Wildlife Mar 2nd, 2026 at 10:00 am
Agriculture and Wildlife
Transcript Highlights:
- the conflict that's happened between energy and land, you've seen it in Oklahoma, you've seen it in
- in that, because we are experts in energy, and we are the experts in ag.
- And there's less dairy statewide than there was in my home county in the 90s.
- My point is that when we sit here and we decide what kind of laws we want to make in this state, we always
- We have seen cattle put up in portable panels in August on asphalt with no water or feed.
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Wildlife
Keywords:
landowner, energy negotiation, agricultural preservation, orphaned wells, renewable energy, raw milk, unpasteurized milk, milk products, dairy, pasteurization, food safety, consumer warning label, health warning, farm sales, direct-to-consumer sales, ungraded milk, goat milk, raw milk cheese, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, agricultural regulation
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I've moonlit in ERs for several years in residency, and you know, I've run somewhere else in the hospital
- I've moonlit in ERs for several years in residency, and you know, I've run somewhere else in the hospital
- </c> in, lay down, whatever. in, lay down, whatever.
- Hospital in Sylacauga in my district struggles.
- Hospital in Sylacauga in my struggles.
Committee:
Senate Healthcare
Keywords:
HB128, Alabama Board of Nursing, Sunset Law, sunset review, nursing board, nurse licensure, registered nurse, RN, licensed practical nurse, LPN, advanced practice nursing, certified registered nurse anesthetist, CRNA, consumer member, board appointments, congressional districts, geographic representation, nursing regulation, nursing education programs, licensure compact
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Samaria promotes the use of those terms in all official state communications, documents, and references
- Not in a bad way, in an important way, that I think not only does the state of Arizona need to do this
- I think we need to realize in Arizona we're just one part of 50 states, but then we also need to realize
- Five full-time government states, and there's not many of them in our country, do the biennial budget
- your examination of other states and in our own case, does this biennial budgeting in some ways limit
Keywords:
air emissions, fuel blends, environmental quality, feasibility study, Arizona Department of Agriculture, livestock, compensation, funding, ranching, agriculture, appropriation, University of Arizona, education, state budget, biennial budget, state funding, appropriations, budget procedures, fiscal years, Judea
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I work regularly in rural emergency departments throughout the state.
- various hospitals throughout the state just to kind of learn about the state of medicine in Alabama.
- Um so state of medicine in Alabama.
- They happen every day, at every hour, in every corner of our state.
- in our state are required to departments in our state are required to have<00:34:44.480><c> a</c><00:
Committee:
Senate Healthcare
Keywords:
immigration, law enforcement, fingerprints, DNA collection, illegal aliens, Alabama state law, SB80, Buddy Sharpless Education Institute, Alabama Local Government Training Institute, county commissioner training, local government training, ethics training, State Ethics Commission, county commissioners, Association of County Commissions of Alabama, local emergency management director, public officials, municipal officials, Alabama Code Title 11, Alabama Code Title 31
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture & Natural Resources Jan 27th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- in Washington State.
- I'm the state policy affairs representative, as well as I serve in various other roles, Washington State
- I'm the state policy affairs representative, as well as I serve in various other roles, Washington State
- I have personally represented the state in United States v.
- In 1984, Initiative 456 established a state law with language that declared that only the state could
Committee:
House Agriculture & Natural Resources
Keywords:
tribal member, board of natural resources, indigenous representation, natural resource management, local governance, derelict vessels, marine environment, coastal management, environmental protection, maritime economy, audit, county, forest management, transparency, public lands, rodenticide, rodenticides, anticoagulant rodenticide, bromethalin, pesticide
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Jan 20th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Early Learning & K-12 Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Local school districts are able to waive physical education requirements in Washington state history
- So at that time, in 2017, '18, there were somewhere in the vicinity of 1,470 regulations that the state
- In my 23 years of experience as a school counselor in the state of Washington, I know that the transmission
- You may not be aware that provision exists in state law, but it does.
- State law also allows the enrollment of children in ECEAP who are not otherwise eligible, State law also
Committee:
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education
Keywords:
digital transcript, transcript sharing, student records, education data exchange, K-12, higher education, community colleges, universities, school districts, charter schools, state-tribal education compact schools, educational service districts, data interoperability, secure platform, student consent, FERPA, privacy, education technology, records management, transcript standard
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- in in their bodies.
- in 2015.
- This bill will further allow a state agency to terminate relationships between a person in treatment
- I also know that we're not supposed to have indeterminate sentencing here in the state of Texas.
- In his concurring opinion, Justice Kennedy gave a striking warning to all states, stating that if the
Committee:
House Corrections
Keywords:
mental health, women's health, county jail, depression screening, criminal justice, inmate release, identification certificate, Texas Department of Corrections, personal identification, driver's license, state law, reentry services, nondisclosure, criminal history, criminal defendants, community supervision, misdemeanors, felonies, rehabilitation, hearsay
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- shake out in the Supreme Court of their state or of the United States.
- Despite several other states passing similar laws, those states have ended up in federal court.
- Despite several other states passing similar laws, those states have ended up in federal court.
- I was serving in the United States Navy at 21 years old.
- our state and the hardworking people in our state.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
Working Connections Child Care, child care subsidy, subsidized child care, Washington DCYF, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, low-income families, child care providers, licensed child care centers, family child care, market rate survey, subsidy rates, income eligibility, state median income, SNAP, Basic Food, collective bargaining, provider reimbursement, daily payment, half-day care, partial-day care
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- So in the case of the state... Health plans are just administering.
- I've served 21 years in the United States military.
- I'm I've served 21 years in the United States military.
- rural veterans treatment courts in the United States.
- But I don't think that this bill fits what the state of Arizona, what people in the state of Arizona
Bills:
HB2211 , HB2229 , HB2389 , HB2403 , HB2445 , HB2502 , HB2620 , HB2813 , HB2872 , HB2889 , HB2960 , HB4028 , HCR2007
Keywords:
contractors, subcontractors, resident preference, public contracts, materials supply, Arizona Revised Statutes, local businesses, pregnancy resource center, pregnancy center, crisis pregnancy center, DHS, Arizona Department of Health Services, state appropriation, general fund, nonprofit grant, women's health, maternal health, reproductive health, abortion funding, pro-life
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> in the pledge? in the pledge? Attention.<00:04:47.840><c> Salute.</c><00:04:48.639><c> Pledge.
- But in the meantime, um, Mr. join us. But in the meantime, um, Mr.
- Uh, being able to help our state be a military-friendly state includes being a veteran-friendly state
- All in favor say I. Say none. All in favor say I.
- But uh Congress in 2020 they said we have a crisis in our country or as suicide rates.
Committee:
House Military and Veterans Affairs
Keywords:
education, patriotism, national anthem, Star-Spangled Banner, K-12 schools, constitutional amendment, public works, sealed bids, bidding requirements, procurement, public notice, newspaper advertisement, advertising failure, publisher liability, civil damages, criminal liability, awarding authority, county government, municipal government, construction contracts
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Homelessness, or ending homelessness, is really a top state priority also, and in order to do that we
- for-sale housing developments for qualified residents of the state using monies in the dwelling unit
- this room. ...qualified residents of the state using monies in the dwelling unit revolving fund to lower
- </c> in support. in support.
- </c> in these units. in these units.
Committee:
Senate Housing
Keywords:
rental housing revolving fund, HHFDC, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, mixed-income housing, mixed-income rental project, affordable housing, low-income housing, housing finance, housing development, preservation, rehabilitation, pre-development, construction financing, equity investment, credit enhancement, collateral, gap financing, area median income, AMI, perpetual affordability
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 22nd, 2025
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Transcript Highlights:
- As a reminder, anyone wishing to testify before the committee, please register at the kiosk located in
- If you require assistance in registering or testifying, please contact the committee staff.
Committee:
House Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Keywords:
education, funding, student support, financial aid, K-12, higher education, weather modification, prohibition, criminal offense, Texas, agriculture, environmental control, agriculture law, Texas legislation, chemical control, Texas law, massage therapy, regulation, licensing, criminal penalties