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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Corrections Apr 30th, 2025

Corrections

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair lays out Senate Bill 1080.
  • Vice Chair, and I'm honored to sponsor the Senate Bill by Senator Huffman. Thank you, Mr.
  • Senate Bill 1610 is Senator Perry's bill, and I am the House sponsor.
  • We are against Senate Bill 1610.
  • I'm asking you to vote no on the Senate bill. Senate Bill 1610.
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  • Hi, Senator Sparks, Senator Hill, no.
  • Hall, Senator Miles, Senator Blanco, Senator Spadafore.
  • Senator Hancock, Senator Hall, Senator Miles, Senator Hughes, Senator Blanco, Senator Sparks, Senator
  • Senator Miles, Senator Blanco, Senator Sparks, and Senator Cook.
  • Senator Miles, Senator Hughes, Senator Blanco, and Senator Sparks.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Conference committee report to Senate Bill 893 by Caldwell, Chad of the House, and Howard of the Senate
  • Senate Bill 893 or the Senate amendments to Senate.
  • Fourth Reading of the bill, Senate Bill 893 by Caldwell Chad of the House and Howard of the Senate, an
  • Members who sttens, we're still waiting for Senate Bill 2 to Arrive from the honorable Senate.
  • As you know, this is a Senate bill and was controlled by the Senate until the very last minute.
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  • Well, we will pass it as soon as we receive the bill from the Senate.
  • I move that the attendance roll call of the senate be considered the roll call of the senate in joint
  • Well said, Senator.
  • The 2026 Outstanding Senator of the Year is Terri Hicks.
  • Senate amendments to House Bill 1370 by Boles of the House and Green of the Senate, and actct related
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Conference Committee report to Senate Bill 893 by a conference committee report to Senate Bill 893 by
  • a conference committee report to Senate Bill 893 by a Conference Committee report to Senate Bill 893
  • Members, Senate Bill 893, or the Senate amendments to Senate Bill 893, would prohibit a foreign principal
  • As you know, this is a Senate bill and was controlled by the Senate until the very last minute.
  • The first announcement: the Senate has adjourned sine die. The Senate has adjourned sine die.
Summary: The House first took up Senate Bill 893, a conference committee report on property and critical infrastructure. The bill would bar foreign principals from countries designated as foreign adversaries from owning agricultural land or other land, especially within 10 miles of military installations or critical infrastructure, and also restrict certain state software purchases tied to adversarial countries. Members asked about how later-designated adversary countries would be covered and about the delayed effective date, which was explained as giving current owners time to divest. The conference report was adopted without objection, and the bill then passed the House 89-0. The chamber then considered Senate Bill 2, another conference committee report on wind energy setbacks. The measure would establish statewide setback standards for industrial wind turbines, including 2.5 tip heights from occupied dwellings and 1.5 tip heights from nonparticipating property lines, with exceptions for projects that had already secured most site control or queue positions before the effective date and for small community-scale systems. Supporters said it was a compromise that at least put some protections into statute, while opponents argued it weakened earlier House language and eliminated county local-control options. After debate, the bill failed on a 20-67 vote. Later, the House voted 60-19 to override the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 1589, allowing it to become law notwithstanding the governor’s objections. The session also included prayers and announcements, including updates about Representative Cantrell’s hospitalization and a note that the Senate had adjourned sine die. The House then adjourned sine die for the second regular session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Honorable Members of the House, the Senate, Honorable members of the House, the Senate, welcome to the
  • I move that the attendance roll call of the Senate be considered the roll call of the Senate in joint
  • in the Senate.
  • Senate amendments to House Bill 13.
  • Senate amendments to House Bill 1370 by Bowles of the House and Green of the Senate, and act related
Summary: The House convened, completed roll call, and heard an invocation and pledge before moving through several ceremonial presentations. Members recognized Monty Smith for 43 years of service with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, honored the Marlow Lady Outlaws girls golf team for winning the Class 3A state and academic state championships, and acknowledged the final group of pages for the 60th Legislature. The House also adopted HCR 1030, which sets the legislative procedure schedule and deadlines for the 61st Oklahoma Legislature. The chamber then met in a joint session with the Senate to observe Veterans Awareness Day. Speakers from both chambers and the Oklahoma Veterans Council delivered remarks honoring veterans, Gold Star families, and military service, and highlighted recent policy achievements for veterans, including the full tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans, the exemption of military retirement pay from state income tax, improved funding for veterans’ homes, and restructuring of the Oklahoma Veterans Commission. The Veterans Council also presented its annual awards, naming Sen. Kerry Hicks as Outstanding Senator of the Year, Rep. Andy Menz as Outstanding Representative of the Year, Aaron Higgins as Veteran of the Year, and the Speed family as Veteran Family of the Year, and recognized Scott Howell for his service to the council. The joint session then adjourned. Back in the House, members took up Senate amendments to House Bill 1370, which concerns the Corporation Commission plugging fund and a repealer tied to a state fuel-tax offset provision. The bill’s author explained that the amendment would prevent the state from capturing savings if the federal fuel excise tax is reduced, so any reduction would benefit consumers rather than state revenue. After questions about fiscal impact and the well-plugging fund, the House adopted the Senate amendments without objection and passed HB 1370 on final passage by a vote of 89-1; the emergency clause also passed 89-1. The House then recessed, later returned for a staff appreciation and sine die-style recognition, including a tribute to long-serving bill drafter Mark Carter, and recessed again while awaiting any additional legislation from the Senate.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • The previous state journal, House and Senate bills and joint resolutions on second reading, reassignment
  • We pray for your strength as we wait upon the Senate and in your holy son's name, we pray.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2074 imposes these additional reporting requirements related to a procedure that is already
  • Medical professionals and their team have a duty to report this medical procedure, just as other health
  • Not only is that procedure not something that is being done, I think that the medical professionals who
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Corrections Apr 30th, 2025 at 08:04 am

Corrections

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair lays out Senate Bill 1080, a Senate companion to Chairman Cook's HB 3673 that we passed out
  • Vice Chair, and I'm honored to sponsor the Senate bill by Senator Huffman. Thank you, Mr.
  • Senate Bill 1610 is Senator Perry's bill, and I am the House sponsor.
  • Senate Bill 1610 is Senator Perry's bill, and I am the House sponsor.
  • We are against Senate Bill 1610.
Summary: The Corrections Committee first took up pending business and reported several previously heard bills favorably to the full House, including HB 1515 and SB 2405, the TDCJ Sunset bill and its Senate companion, HB 5639 on the veteran housing program, HB 2854 on hospital visits as a parole or mandatory supervision condition and related hospital liability, and SB 1080 on occupational licenses for people with criminal convictions. The committee also heard and advanced SB 1080 without amendment, then moved into new business. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 3618, which would limit invasive group strip searches of female inmates in TDCJ facilities. Formerly incarcerated women and advocates testified in support, describing humiliation, trauma, barriers to programming, and arguing that searches were often ineffective and that contraband more often comes from staff. TDCJ’s resource witness said the agency has looked at technology such as millimeter scanners and is in the process of placing them in facilities, while the bill sponsor said the measure would preserve searches in emergencies and require female officers when women are unclothed. HB 3618 was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4515 on expanding orders of nondisclosure, with the author saying the committee substitute would narrow the bill to marijuana possession only; supporters from Alliance for Safety and Justice and Right on Crime argued it would improve reentry and public safety, while members asked about eligibility and related offenses. HB 1826, requiring depression screenings for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated women, drew support from women’s health advocates and formerly incarcerated witnesses; the bill was left pending. HB 1969, to help people leaving prison renew or obtain driver’s licenses, and HB 2708, expanding nondisclosure eligibility for certain misdemeanor convictions, were also laid out and left pending. Later, the committee heard HB 2729, which would bar hearsay evidence in hearings on violations of release conditions, and SB 1021, which would make stalking convictions ineligible for community supervision and add related victim-protection provisions; both were left pending. SB 1610, addressing civil commitment facility safety, sex offender registration, and penalties for assaults on staff, drew strong opposition from civil commitment residents, family members, and civil rights advocates who argued it was punitive and raised due process concerns; the resource witness said assaults had increased and explained the civil commitment process and existing legal safeguards. Finally, HB 4764 would require TDCJ to report detailed annual data on restrictive housing; supporters said the bill would improve transparency around solitary confinement, and the committee left it pending before adjourning.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, I appreciate Representative Fauler, Senator Gavan, and Representative Invol for all of you working
  • But you find the procedure in there, so what ...
  • You find the procedure in there, so what we did is we just pulled the procedure from that and put it
  • Some of those rural hospitals want to keep their patients there for the procedures that patients there
  • So those are just some examples of things they're not going to try to upgrade to a procedure that no
Bills: SB1, HB176, HB86, SB1, HB176, HB86
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 1st, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Transcript Highlights:
  • .** Administrative procedures come to order. The clerk will call the roll. Chair Phelan? Here.
  • Forty-three out of fifty states do not require professional... ...procedures to renew the license annually
  • You've won 45 national championships in the Senate, apparently.
  • Chair Thompson and members of the Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee, thank you for allowing
  • Last legislative session, the bill passed the House and Senate overwhelmingly.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay, at this time, Senator Hughes, you're recognized. on Senate Bill 2878.
  • Senate Bill 2878 is that bill for this session. members of the Senate, and I'll yield.
  • Okay, with no further public testimony, public testimony. on Senate Bill 2878 will close, and Senate
  • Senator Parker to explain the measure. Welcome, Senator. Thank you, Chairman Hughes.
  • That's Senator Perry's bill and Senator Middleton sends up a committee substitute and Senator Middleton
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Ingrid: aye. Senator Coupie: aye. Senator Cere’s: aye. Senator Sam...”
  • Senator Hingott: aye. Senator Gilles: aye. Senator Cuey: aye. Senator Seer: aye.
  • Senator Scher: aye. Senator Scho: aye. Senator Warner: aye.” “Senator Schia. Senator Schult: aye.
  • Senator Angius? Senator Gabaldón? Aye. Senator Kuby? Aye. Senator Sears? Senator Shope? Aye.
  • Senator Angius? Aye. Senator Gabaldón? Aye. Senator Kuby? Aye. Senator Sears? Aye. Senator Shope?
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/11/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Sam. Senator Kavanaugh. Senator Finchow.
  • Senator Bolick. Yes. Senator Bolick.
  • Senator Mollett. All right. Senator Mottis. No. Senator Guby. May I explain my vote, Mr. Chair?
  • Senator Cavanagh. Aye. Senator Kavanaugh. Can I explain my vote? Please.
  • Senator Ortiz. Mr.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Mar 11th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you're If your bill passes and we modify the Code of Criminal Procedure, what is the remedy if that
  • Thank you, Reverend Senator Timmonee, because I did read the wrong D.
  • Money yeah, I would just say that throughout I'm not as with the criminal procedure but throughout civil
  • procedure code as well there's a lot of rules that courts follow and the parties follow and there's
  • Then we have to have an evidence. or procedural hearing. Within 14 days.
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Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Justice May 20th, 2025

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Hinojosa present. Senator Huffman. Senator Miles. Senator King here.
  • Senator Hinojosa: Aye. Senator Huffman. Senator Miles. Senator King. Senator Hagenbuch: Aye.
  • Senator Hinojosa: Aye. Senator Hoffman. Senator Miles. Senator King. Senator Hagenbuch: Aye.
  • Senator Hinojosa: Aye. Senator Huffman. Senator Miles: Aye. Senator King. Senator Huffman.
  • Senator Hinojosa. Senator Huffman. Senator Miles. Senator King. Senator Hagenbuch: Aye.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice met with a quorum and heard a long agenda of bills on criminal justice, public safety, mental health, victims’ rights, and related administrative issues. Early bills included HB 47, the omnibus sexual assault survivors bill, which would expand post-assault care, require courts to consider delays for adult survivors, bar sex offenders from rideshare driving, allow lease termination regardless of where an assault occurred, and require more reporting from sexual assault response teams. Testimony was generally supportive, though one witness raised concern that the bill’s reporting requirements could jeopardize county grant funding. HB 171, the Annel Borrego Act, would set a minimum period for court-ordered chemical dependency treatment; NAMI Texas supported it. HB 908 would require missing children reports to be sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children within two hours, and HB 1443 would criminalize possession and promotion of childlike sex dolls; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. HB 567, changing juvenile board chair selection in Parker County, and HB 4263, a TJJD workforce retention bill, were also heard and left pending after brief discussion and adoption of committee substitutes where applicable. The committee also heard several bills focused on jail and prison safety, court process, and victim protection. HB 2282 would raise the arrest warrant fee from $50 to $75; constables supported it as a cost-recovery measure, while the Texas Fair Defense Project opposed it as a regressive fee that burdens low-income defendants. HB 3464 would increase penalties for correctional employees who bring drugs or alcohol into prisons, with support from Harris County jail officials and a formerly incarcerated advocate who described the dangers of contraband and retaliation. HB 285, “Poncho’s Law,” would add criminal negligence to non-livestock animal cruelty offenses; animal welfare advocates said it would close a loophole that lets pet service businesses avoid accountability, and the bill was left pending. HB 2355 would keep certain Crime Victims Compensation records confidential when held by the Attorney General, and HB 2637 would standardize jury exemption ages and clean up jury disqualification reporting; both were left pending after limited testimony. Mental health and competency-related bills received significant attention. HB 305 would require a pretrial hearing within 14 days after a defendant is restored to competency, aimed at reducing repeated decompensation and the forensic waitlist; NAMI Texas supported it. HB 1741 would tighten procedures for not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity outpatient commitments by requiring a stronger nexus to the receiving county and clearer supervision authority; law enforcement and mental health witnesses said it would improve public safety and treatment success. HB 2492 would make the four-hour family-violence post-bond cooling-off period mandatory rather than discretionary, and HB 1445 would allow a managed assigned counsel director to designate someone to approve certain payments for indigent defense attorneys; both were left pending. HB 1024 would require prompt execution of warrants for parole violators on superintensive supervision, and HB 1306 would extend first-responder-style benefits to death investigation professionals; neither drew opposition in the hearing. The committee also heard a series of public integrity and technology bills. HB 449 would expand the deepfake sexual content statute to include sexually explicit images, with Public Citizen supporting the change as necessary to address a rapidly growing problem. HB 1902 would create a new offense for “jugging,” or following bank or ATM customers to rob them; the Texas Bankers Association supported it. HB 2697 would require sureties to notify prosecutors before surrendering a felony defendant’s bond, and HB 2001 would sharply increase penalties for misuse of public information for financial gain and related coercion, with prosecutors and Texas Rangers describing bid-rigging and public corruption investigations as difficult to prove under current law because of short limitations periods and limited penalties. HB 1866 would grant Texas peace officer authority to National Park Service rangers within Texas park boundaries, and HB 4996 would increase penalties for fraudulent liens filed against public servants. Throughout the hearing, most bills were left pending after testimony, and several committee substitutes were adopted without objection.