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Transcript Highlights:
  • Why are we protecting a single industry and taking away the rights of citizens to sue for action, sue
  • loudly and clearly state to the rest of America that we're open for business and that we're going to protect
  • And this is something that is absolutely pertinent and important to us to protect us from what we're
  • hominem attacks on an industry that we all rely on and live on are just baseless and we're going to protect
  • So just trying to make sure that we're, we're being cognizant and, and aware of, um, protecting that
Committee: House Energy
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Mar 18th, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Children deserve the highest level of protection under the law.
  • We recognize the importance of protecting kids. So.
  • And we do want to make sure that we are protecting that right and protecting our citizens while they're
  • And I believe that that is a compromise that could protect everyone's interest.
  • We have a right to a jury trial, and that should be protected.
Bills: HB36 , HB52 , HB56 , HB68 , HB92 , HB119 , HB140 , HB147 , HB160 , HB171 , HB289 , HB351 , HB552 , HB784
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Mar 3rd, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill actually is a church and religious protection bill.
  • &gt;&gt; This<00:16:38.639><c> bill</c> This bill actually is a church and religious protection bill.
Bills: HB2 , HB163 , SB326 , HB17 , HB363 , HB2 , HB163 , SB326 , HB17 , HB363 , SB333
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions REVISED: HB1182 - Removed Feb 17th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

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  • Members, what this bill does, it helps people refinance their homes or businesses while protecting the
  • Members, what this bill does, it helps people refinance their homes or businesses while protecting the
  • applies prospectively to avoid federal compliance issues and supports recruitment and retention while protecting
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/12/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Transcript Highlights:
  • With proper safeguards, we can support renewable energy while protecting our communities and our land
  • Extending similar expectations over non-state trust land simply creates more consistency and protects
  • The way that I see this is about protecting the environment, and it's really about putting the law...
  • So I don't think we need this to protect people's homes and property values, and it's interesting.
  • And so this here is to protect a community.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Banking and Insurance Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Banking and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's just protecting your pre-tax HSA dollars.
  • protected sale captive insurance company protected sale captive insurance company is<00:07:53.759><c>
  • Uh if we look at the protect our people.
  • Dental workforce shortages are critical.
  • </c> Dental workforce shortages are critical. Dental workforce shortages are critical.
Bills: SB170 , SB177 , SB207 , SB208 , SB215 , HB27 , SB219 , SB247 , SB232 , SB81 , SB170 , SB177 , SB207 , SB208 , SB215 , HB27 , SB219 , SB247 , SB232 , SB81
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman Reynolds wanted to make sure the general fund was protected and the ports wanted to make sure
  • Chairman Reynolds wanted to make sure the general fund was protected and the ports wanted to make sure
  • Chairman Reynolds wanted to make sure the general fund was protected and the ports wanted to make sure
  • Chairman Reynolds wanted to make sure the general fund was protected and the ports wanted to make sure
  • Chairman Reynolds wanted to make sure the general fund was protected and the ports wanted to make sure
Bills: HB66 , HB79 , SB35 , HB255 , SB134 , HB159 , HB181 , HB66 , HB79 , SB35 , HB255 , SB134 , HB159 , HB181
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Apr 29th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • just want to urge everybody that's involved in this situation to try to come to an agreement and to protect
  • This bill is not meant to provide equal protection under the law, but is meant to go after certain people
  • Expressing yourself through clothing is protected speech and deciding what protected speech and deciding
  • The one subject rule, the equal protection, and First Amendment speech rights all come into play here
  • state or local elected officials serving on boards of directors of local water, sewer, and fire protection
Bills: SB320 , HB67 , HB247 , HB161 , HB165 , HB91 , HB90 , HB471 , HB363 , HB479
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 20th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Diabetes, heart disease, obesity is crippling our workforce, burdening our hospitals, bankrupting our
  • In terms of trying to protect it from, uh, conflicts of interest, because one of the things, and I totally
  • We appreciate the legislature's commitment for protecting public health and ensuring transparency for
  • protect consumers.
  • We urge members to consider this approach to protect career-oriented education and promote nutrition
Bills: HB25 , HB38 , HB997 , HB 1119 , HB25 , HB38
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Judiciary

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  • They wanted $300 or whatever to protect my child or get him transferred.
  • </c><00:50:43.200><c> them</c><00:50:43.359><c> from</c> several years to protect them from several years
  • to protect them from serious<00:50:43.920><c> bodily</c><00:50:44.319><c> injury.
  • </c><00:52:53.440><c> for</c> preserving the core protection for preserving the core protection for neutral
  • Uh, realize that it does add some protection for children in the state of Alabama, which I know we all
Committee: Senate Judiciary
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 22nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

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  • And whereas these measures save energy and money and protect birds migrating to nesting grounds in the
  • Members, SCR22 is a step, a small step with real impact, protecting migration, conserving energy, and
  • It strengthens communities, it prefers a skilled and engaged workforce, it fosters civic engagement and
  • Your investment helps ensure that leadership development, workforce readiness, and civic engagement remain
  • have said in our constitution, and that we say in both our federal and state constitutions, is to protect
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:03:37.200><c> shortage</c> The home care nursing workforce shortage The home care nursing workforce
  • ,</c> parents forced out of the workforce, parents forced out of the workforce, children<00:08:47.640
  • And this is a workforce issue.
  • </c> protects Minnesota consumers, and protects Minnesota consumers, and rightfully<01:10:23.160><c>
  • Lexi Morgan. protections or sweepstakes laws. While protections or sweepstakes laws.
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  • services here at the House of Representatives to make this effective and efficient as possible to protect
  • applies prospectively to avoid federal compliance issues and supports recruitment and retention while protecting
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:35 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this bill simply phases out the Community Protection Program.
  • Speaker, but this Community Protection Program exists for a reason.
  • This is about the Washington Community Protection Program.
  • I mean, we're talking about individuals that we actually want to protect.
  • “It protects my son from having to interact with the individual online.
Summary: The House took up several bills on second and third reading, beginning with House Bill 2360 on expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools. A motion to recommit the bill to the House Health Care and Wellness Committee failed on a roll call vote, 38 yeas to 56 nays. Supporters said the bill would help school nurses respond to students in respiratory distress and reflected input from nurses, OSPI, and the Department of Health. Opponents raised concerns about training, drug interactions, follow-up care, costs to districts, and schools making medical decisions without a diagnosis. The bill then passed 60-34. House Bill 2467, clarifying measurement rules for fifth-wheel travel trailers, passed 94-0 after sponsors said it would help Washington dealers and consumers. House Bill 1983, relating to timberland tax treatment when land is sold to DNR, passed 68-26 amid debate over whether it would help forest management or make it easier for DNR to acquire timberland. House Bill 2531, updating ambulance transport fund quality assurance rules to align with federal regulations and preserve matching funds, passed unanimously 94-0. The House also passed Substitute House Bill 1390, which phases out the Community Protection Program for certain developmentally disabled individuals with high-risk histories and transfers participants to other waiver programs. Supporters said the program was overly restrictive, out of compliance with federal law, and had trapped people in long-term confinement-like conditions; opponents argued it would weaken public safety and move dangerous individuals into community settings without adequate safeguards. The bill passed 52-44. House Bill 2367, eliminating a preferential treatment related to the former TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, passed 63-33 after supporters framed it as closing the book on coal and opponents warned about energy reliability, jobs, and an emergency clause. Substitute House Bill 2133, making a property tax exemption for certain senior centers permanent, passed 96-0. Substitute House Bill 2355, establishing labor protections for domestic workers, passed 57-39 after supporters emphasized dignity and long-standing worker abuse concerns, while opponents cited fiscal impacts. The House then passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2534, with a technical amendment, to improve educational stability for children in military families; it passed 96-0. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1974, creating a land banking framework to support affordable housing, passed 59-37 after an amendment reduced fiscal impact by striking some tax preference sections. House Bill 2223, allowing certain irrigation district board service by farmers with spouses employed by the district, passed 93-3. Substitute House Bill 2239, allowing family burial grounds on private property, passed 96-0 after supporters cited rural needs, cultural traditions, and personal family stories. The session also included a brief congratulatory recognition for Representative David Stuebe after his first bill passed the House.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House, the bill will be substituted as recommended by the Committee on Postsecondary Education and Workforce
  • consent of the House, the bill will be substituted as recommended by the Postsecondary Education and Workforce
  • with apples and the wide variety of apples that we have in our state to make sure that those are protected
  • consent of the House, the bill will be substituted as recommended by the Committee on Consumer Protection
Summary: The House convened with a quorum present, the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer were offered, and the chamber approved the previous day’s minutes. Members then caucused briefly before moving into second reading and third reading action on several bills, with the day also marking the start of the three-minute debate rule through House of Origin cutoff. The House passed House Bill 2338, which expands the low-income home weatherization program to support community-scale weatherization projects, especially for multifamily housing. It also passed House Bill 2353, raising the threshold for requiring predesign work on public projects from $10 million to $15 million, and Substitute House Bill 2363, a trailer bill allowing music therapy students to practice under supervision while exam scores are pending. Members described these as efficiency measures and consumer or workforce improvements. The chamber also approved Substitute House Bill 2525 to establish the Heritage Orchard Program and a registry at Washington State University to preserve rare and heritage apple varieties, with sponsors emphasizing the importance of Washington’s apple industry and agricultural history. Additional bills passed unanimously included Substitute House Bill 2420 on increasing small works roster thresholds, Substitute House Bill 2428 on preventing unintended lapses in life insurance by allowing third-party designees, House Bill 2604 allowing electronic signatures for transferring salvage vehicles to insurers, and Substitute House Bill 2107 making permanent a pilot requiring Labor and Industries to notify employers of identified job-site hazards within 10 days. Finally, the House adopted Amendment 1517 and passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2247, which updates veterinarian-client-patient relationship rules to allow telehealth between required physical visits and requires annual veterinarian oversight for certain animal production, commercial, and breeding operations. All of the listed bills received overwhelming support, with each final passage vote recorded at 94 yeas and 0 nays, except House Bill 2338, which passed 93-1.