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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation May 23rd, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • keeps an amendment in the House that defines victim as someone who was not under the influence of alcohol
  • Uh, distribution, improving safety and preventing road damage.
Bills: HB227
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> And these class of devices I'm going to call distributed energy resources.
  • Because of where these distributed energy resources are located, this bill is really focused on the distribution
  • Distribution costs are growing substantially. Whoop, sorry. And this is more detail.
  • so that these distributed resources function like a grid-scale generation resource.
  • so that these distributed resources function like a grid-scale generation resource.
Bills: HF2986, HF3555
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Feb 3, 2026 @ 2:00PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • that communities can put in place to reduce the harms associated with alcohol and the cost of alcohol
  • that communities can put in place to reduce the harms associated with alcohol and the cost of alcohol
  • </c><00:27:45.760><c> percentage</c> know um kind of this alcohol percentage know um kind of this alcohol
  • </c> been addressed in the alcohol industry. been addressed in the alcohol industry.
  • </c><00:32:57.039><c> by</c> of gauge what maybe the alcohol by of gauge what maybe the alcohol by volume
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1991, which would change Hawaii’s liquor excise tax structure to an ABV-based system. The Department of Taxation and the Tax Foundation of Hawaii took no position and stood on written comments. Supporters, including the Hawaii Public Health Institute and an individual testifier who described surviving a drunk-driving crash, argued that higher alcohol taxes reduce alcohol-related harms, save lives, and generate additional state revenue. The public health witness cited alcohol-related harms as a major preventable cause of death and said the tax increase would have only a small annual cost for most consumers. Most industry testimony was in opposition. Representatives of Lanikai Brewing Company, Maui Brewing Company, the Wine Institute, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association said the bill would sharply raise taxes on beer and wine, squeeze already thin margins, and threaten local jobs and businesses. They argued Hawaii producers already face high costs for labor, energy, shipping, and compliance, and said an ABV-based tax would be difficult to administer, would require additional testing and labeling work, and could reduce consumer choice. Several industry witnesses urged lawmakers to instead adopt a small-producer or class 18 carveout, with one suggesting a cap tied to 60,000 barrels. Committee members questioned the brewers about alcohol content testing, labeling, and whether smaller producers already measure ABV. Witnesses said many local producers do not certify ABV for in-state sales, that yeast and fermentation can vary by batch, and that an ABV-based system could require more testing than current practice. No vote or final action on the bill was taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • keeps an amendment in the house that defines a victim as someone who was not under the influence of alcohol
  • Weight limits, but also have appropriate actual weight distribution, improving safety and preventing
Bills: HB227
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 4th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Of other faiths, and he goes to Mormon churches as people are leaving and distributes gospel tracts.
  • Then he can distribute tracts per that per the decision. Senator Devis, you are recognized.
  • bill establishes the same penalty for trapping people in a church building and for peacefully distributing
  • people in a church building, like what happened in Minneapolis at City's Church, and for peacefully distributing
  • So, with that being the case, why should our laws treat someone who peacefully distributes tracts 99
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 21st, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The distribution is calculated on the basis of population and the number of homesteads throughout the
  • The distributions for each parish for fiscal year 2027 can be found on pages 43 through 43.
  • House Bill 314 provides for the distribution of the constitutionally mandated $90 million allocated to
  • Article 7, Section 26 of the Constitution requires a minimum of $90 million annually to be distributed
  • Historically, the distribution has been calculated with an 80% weight on proportionate population and
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • describe changes to the workers' compensation reinsurance associations process for excess surplus distributions
  • describe changes to the workers' compensation reinsurance associations process for excess surplus distributions
Bills: HF4862, HF4598
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Feb 10th, 2026

Transportation

Bills: S0828, S1274, S1310, S1378, S1562
Summary: The Transportation Committee took up several measures and adopted amendments on multiple bills. SB 1274, as amended, removed a number of provisions from the original bill and added items including local authority to lower residential street speed limits, clarification on obscured license plates, FDOT funding for certain rural airport aviation projects, limits on yellow-light timing changes tied to red-light cameras, changes to private use of license plate readers, and other transportation-related revisions. After brief questions and supportive testimony, the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also approved SB 1310, which was converted into a study bill directing FDOT to study advanced detection and monitoring systems at public railroad crossings and report findings and policy options to the governor and legislature. Railroad industry testimony supported the study but raised concerns about interoperability with train safety systems and suggested the study consider additional safety tools such as red-light cameras and wayside horns. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 828, as amended, would extend sovereign immunity protections to private contractors providing public transit services on behalf of governments, with supporters saying it would reduce costs and provide certainty for transit providers, while opponents warned it was an overbroad expansion of sovereign immunity and could conflict with railroad employee protections under federal law. The committee reported that bill favorably as well. The committee then passed SB 1378, which strengthens traffic enforcement by clarifying when vehicles may be treated as abandoned, adding penalties for unlawfully attached plates or stickers, and allowing forfeiture of vehicles used to flee law enforcement even without an immediate arrest. It also approved SB 1562, which aims to prevent manufacturers from concentrating sales of certain vehicle brands through a single dealer group and instead promote competition among independent dealers. In addition, the committee unanimously confirmed a slate of appointees, and members later recorded additional affirmative votes on several bills before adjourning.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee, February 9, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HB0105, HB0107, SF0002