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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part II) May 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

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  • ultimately it provides what industry has asked for, which is clear rules of the road and protection
  • , balance with safety and transparency, and to be a bulwark against other states and countries that are
  • Thank you. ultimately provides what industry has asked for, which is clear rules of the road and protection
  • enterprise, balance with safety and transparency, and to be a bulwark against other states and countries
  • HB149, and installs a new sheriff in this digital town, who is both tough and fair, and I'd be happy
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard testimony on HB 149, the Artificial Intelligence Governance Act. Senator Schwertner described the bill as an outcomes-based AI framework that would require disclosure when people interact with AI, prohibit manipulative or social-scoring systems, address biometric capture, discrimination, and deepfake child exploitation, and give the Attorney General enforcement authority. It would also create an AI Sandbox and AI Council. Witnesses from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a Houston attorney, TechNet, and the Texas Association of Business strongly supported the bill, praising its stakeholder process and pro-innovation approach, while Texas Appleseed suggested regulators should have more examination authority over sandbox participants. The bill was left pending. The committee then heard SB 229, which would prohibit motor vehicle dealers from conditioning a sale on dealer-offered financing or charging more because a buyer uses outside financing or cash. Senator West said the bill is meant to stop forced financing and bait-and-switch pricing, and he noted the bill passed the committee and Senate in the prior session. The Texas Automobile Dealers Association opposed the bill, arguing it would force dealers to accept any third-party lender or cash transaction on terms they cannot control. The Texas Credit Union Association supported the bill, saying consumers should be able to choose outside financing without hidden fees or pressure. After questions about cash purchases and dealer practices, the bill was left pending. The committee also took up SB 2566, which would clarify legislators’ access to information from executive agencies, including confidential information, by setting response deadlines, limiting confidentiality agreements to statutory terms, requiring a standard AG form, and creating a complaint and penalty process for noncompliance. No witnesses testified, and the bill was left pending. Finally, SB 1749, as substituted, would let certain court-related employees and judicial conduct commission personnel keep personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers confidential, with work addresses used in place of home addresses for certain purposes. District clerk and judicial conduct commission witnesses described threats and harassment as the reason for the bill, and a court administration witness answered questions about how the address protections would work with voter registration and precinct records. That bill was also left pending, and the committee recessed without further business.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/10/25

Capital Investment

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  • </c> with State Highway 5 and State Highway with State Highway 5 and State Highway 19<00:09:56.000><c
  • </c> and wreak havoc on our roads. and wreak havoc on our roads.
  • long road and it's very road is a long road and it's very important<00:30:02.559><c> and</c><00:30:02.799
  • Crushed rock is meant for county roads and country roads, not state highways.
  • This intersection is at the heart of our downtown, State Highway 95 and County Road 30, and is the primary
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  • And so what we're trying to do, and this is a very isolated, doesn't happen very often situation, is
  • Chairman, and that is correct.
  • This is increasing the compensation for the pardon and parole board director and the membership.
  • Have a do pass and a second.
  • Have a do pass and a second.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget REVISED: SB1403 - ADDED TO AGENDA Apr 14th, 2026

Appropriations and Budget

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  • And so what we're trying to do, and this is a very isolated, doesn't happen very often situation.
  • Chairman, and that is correct.
  • Chairman, and that is correct.
  • This is increasing the compensation for the pardon and parole board director and the membership.
  • Representative 21A and 4-N-A, and 4-N-A, we'll report that out with a due pass. Okay, Chairman.
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 1319, which would create a Corporation Commission process to help residential homeowners whose homes are contaminated by brine, oil, or other substances tied to the Commission’s jurisdiction. Members discussed a subcommittee amendment that removed an appropriation because the bill had already been funded elsewhere, and several questions focused on whether the measure was a state-funded bridge for rare cases where no liable party is immediately identifiable. The bill was advanced on a 23-3 vote. The committee then approved several other measures with little or no debate: SB 1369 to create a protected revolving fund for the 988 mental health lifeline; SB 1378 to create an Olympic Fund for Oklahoma City’s 2028 Olympic preparations; SB 1379 to establish a two-year grant pilot for victims of labor and sex trafficking; SB 1309 to increase the Rhodes Fund reserve for debt service; SB 1330 to change compensation for the pardon and parole board director and members to an attendance-based structure; SB 1546 to allow private donations for the Inspired to Teach program and rename it Next Ed; and SB 1403 to update the Quality Jobs Program, including adding certain transportation-related industries and tightening eligibility if a credit is unused for three years. These bills all received due-pass recommendations, with votes ranging from unanimous to 23-2. The committee also considered SB 1481, which adds 20 minutes of daily recess, and members noted that similar bills were moving through the process and that the bill did not clearly address whether the added recess counts as instructional time. It passed 25-0. Finally, SB 1122, a broadband tax-policy cleanup bill, drew questions about its fiscal impact on local governments and counties; the presenter said municipalities would not be affected because they do not levy ad valorem taxes, though the measure could reduce revenue for other taxing entities by about $20 million statewide. That bill passed 23-1. The meeting ended with announcements about upcoming appropriations meetings and adjournment.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/25/25

Taxes

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  • We'll try and keep this quick and on time.
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  • Um, when the rubber hit the road and projects are being built, uh, the practicalities of these projects
  • </c><00:53:54.119><c> and</c> when the rubber hit the road and when the rubber hit the road and projects
  • And that's my point is just, you know, if we're going to go down this road of cancelling tax expenditures
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

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  • Any opposed, please say no. on their Highway any Highway where and on their Highway any Highway where
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  • rebate, and transfers it into the highway fund.
  • infrastructure, roads and bridges.
  • roads and bridges failing infrastructure roads and bridges so<00:19:28.840><c> with</c><00:19:29.039
TX
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  • Chairman and members.
  • And with that, thank you, Chairman and members.
  • I'm an assistant director with the Fort Worth Lab, and I work with budget and property taxes and revenues
  • And we'll take that. Members and everyone that testified.
  • and medicine.
TX
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  • It's roads, streets, highways, sidewalks, parks. It doesn't say public transportation.
  • And we heavily subsidize roads with property taxes.
  • The bill provides for the financing of water, sewer, drainage, and road infrastructure. Mr.
  • Water, sewer, drainage, park, and road infrastructure, but needs to redefine its boundaries officially
  • This bill requests division and road power for five sections of land.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

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  • </c> to my district and I can't say where and to my district and I can't say where and I<00:02:32.879
  • Memorial Highway. of the committee. Um and uh House File of the committee.
  • But if they're in the road right away and the shoulder, they don't.
  • 00:38:29.839><c> and</c><00:38:30.000><c> the</c><00:38:30.560><c> shoulder,</c> the road right away
  • </c> and fiscal and rider service reasons. and fiscal and rider service reasons.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Feb 25th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

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  • the maintenance and preservation on our roads and bridges throughout our state, every corner of this
  • get more people off the roads and provide the kind of service that Washingtonians are excited about
  • The allocation that we're giving to roads and bridges represents an important source of work.
  • For commuters, investments in maintenance and preservation will help keep roads and bridges open and
  • part of a broader expansion of the need and requirements to do this along our highways, and in a time
Bills: HB2306, HB2711
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Feb 23rd, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

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  • system and to our road system for preservation and maintenance, this was not the time, in our estimation
  • we do have a commitment to both the ferry system and to our road system for preservation and maintenance
  • and so. system and to our road system for preservation and maintenance this was not the time in our
  • This will reduce congestion on the highway, or at least not make it worse, and give people options, and
  • highways maintained, and protects the historic work split of in-house labor and private sector contracts
Bills: HB2306, HB2711
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Apr 29th, 2025

Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

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  • The second piece of that is the interstate highways, the commerce, and the straight federal projects
  • development road programs, economic development road programs.
  • and bridge initiatives.
  • C County, and Highway 72 in Representative Crawford's district.
  • Widening a road will create economic development and a lot of opportunities for that area, but it also
Bills: HB606, SB271
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part I) May 5th, 2025

Local Government

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  • And with that, I thank you, Chairman and members, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
  • and the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker and the governor and all of the great senators here, Texas will
  • And, and Mr.
  • And so it’s important that we do that, I think. And so thank you very much and I appreciate you.
  • And it also considers and balances the benefit of simplicity, fairness and efficiency.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Local Government heard several bills, most of them left pending after brief public testimony. House Bill 331, by Rep. Patterson and sponsored by Sen. Hinojosa, would create a presumption that firefighters, police officers, and EMTs who suffer a heart attack or stroke within eight hours after a strenuous shift were injured in the line of duty for workers’ compensation purposes; testimony from a firefighters’ association supported the bill, and it was left pending. Senate Bill 2655, by Sen. Flores, would authorize Burnet County to establish a local provider participation fund to help support local hospital services; a hospital administrator testified in support, and the committee substitute was left pending. Senate Bill 1443, by Sen. Hughes, would extend the Northeast Healthcare Provider Participation District in three counties, and House Bill 3307, by Rep. Noble, would allow property tax arbitrators to complete required continuing education online; both were left pending without opposition. Senate Bill 3048, by Sen. Birdwell, would create the Bluebonnet Hills Municipal Management District in Midlothian and was also left pending. The committee then took up House Bill 9 and HJR 1, sponsored by Sen. Bettencourt, which would raise the business personal property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000 and place the constitutional amendment on the November 4, 2025 ballot. Business groups, realtors, and taxpayers’ advocates testified in strong support, saying the change would provide meaningful relief to small businesses and help balance earlier homeowner tax relief. The City of Fort Worth testified in opposition, warning of a revenue shift to homeowners and budget impacts, but the committee adopted the committee substitutes and reported both measures to the full Senate on 6-0 votes. The committee also heard House Bill 1399 and HJR 99, by Sen. Nichols, to exempt animal feed from property tax when it is already sales-tax exempt; no one testified against them, and both were left pending. Senate Bill 2553, by Sen. West, would let owners of historic archaeological sites protest land and structure appraisals separately, and it was left pending after supportive testimony. Senate Bill 2907 and SJR 78, also by Sen. West, would exempt certain perishable inventory, including food and some prescription drugs, from property tax if approved by voters; pharmacists, business groups, a researcher, and a coalition of retailers and food/medicine advocates supported the bill, and it was left pending. Finally, Senate Bill 1331, by Sen. Hancock and explained by Sen. Middleton, would lower the population threshold for certain municipal civil-service-related petition restrictions from 950,000 to 70,000; law enforcement representatives and a San Marcos police association supported it, and it was left pending. The committee then recessed until 15 to 30 minutes after adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 5th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • It says what that is: roads, streets, highways, sidewalks, parks.
  • And we heavily subsidize roads with property taxes.
  • And we heavily subsidized roads with property taxes.
  • The bill provides for financing of water, sewer, drainage, and road infrastructure.
  • Template language requests division and road power.
Summary: The Committee on Local Government heard a series of local bills and public testimony focused on hospital districts, municipal management districts, local provider participation funds, manufactured housing, transit financing, development moratoriums, and property tax procedures. Early items included House Bill 467, which would help dissolve the defunct Maybank Kemp Hospital District and establish an Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing Endowment, and Senate Bill 3063, creating the Bio Bell Municipal Management District in Liberty County; both drew no public opposition and were left pending subject to call. The committee also heard House Bill 1327, extending the Harris County local provider participation fund through 2027, and Senate Bill 1375, extending Collin County’s LPPF authority, both presented as mechanisms to draw federal Medicaid matching funds for hospitals. A major portion of the meeting centered on Senate Bill 2764, which would require earlier notice to buyers of manufactured homes about how to convert a home from personal property to real property. Senator Cook described the bill as a consumer-information measure tied to displacement concerns at a mobile home park in her district, and a resident testified in support, saying the notice would help families make informed decisions. The committee also discussed Senate Bill 2519, a bill by Senator Bettencourt aimed at preventing local governments from shifting maintenance-and-operations tax revenue into debt-like uses and from changing the purpose of tax rate elections after voters approve them. Supporters argued it would protect taxpayers and preserve the separation between M&O and debt service, while opponents tied the bill to Austin’s Project Connect transit financing and warned it would disrupt an approved project and invite litigation. The committee heard and left pending several other bills, including House Bill 1244 on agricultural land ownership changes without reapplying for an ag exemption, House Bill 2559 on development moratoriums, and Senate Bill 2063 on unequal appraisal protests. Testimony on House Bill 2559 came from developers and builders who said moratoriums in Conroe had delayed projects and harmed buyers, while supporters of the bill said it would impose clearer limits and notice requirements. On Senate Bill 2063, the sponsor explained a committee substitute narrowing how market value evidence may be used in unequal appraisal appeals. The committee also considered multiple local district bills, including new MUDs and management districts in Montgomery, Denton, Fannin, Travis, Hays, and Williamson counties. At the end of the meeting, the committee took up pending business and voted out several measures, including House Bill 1244, House Bill 2559, House Bill 467, House Bill 1327, House Bill 1399, House Bill 2723, House Bill 2730, House Bill 3307, House Joint Resolution 99, and multiple district bills such as Senate Bills 3037, 3043, 3047, 3048, 3050, 3052, 3053, 3056, 3057, 3063, and others. Most were reported favorably, often with committee substitutes, and many were recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Several bills, including the transit-related SB 2519 and the manufactured housing bill SB 2764, remained pending subject to call after testimony closed.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Mar 10th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

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  • We've taken $2 million from the Bureau of Tourism and Travel, and we're using that for seed money.
  • And we're not in the governor's budget.
  • Most of you will be turning to the tourism department on page 18 and the various and sundry apportionments
  • There's winners and there's losers.
  • As soon as I get them in and review them and get my own questions answered, I'll have those ready to
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 26th, 2025

Local Government

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  • And is there any other business that needs to come before the committee?
Summary: The Senate Local Government Committee briefly convened and then immediately moved to recess. Senator Paxton made a motion to recess subject to the call of the chair, which was accepted. No bills, testimony, or substantive policy issues were discussed during the meeting. With no other business before the committee, it stood in recess subject to the call of the chair.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part I) May 26th, 2025

Local Government

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  • or road.
  • And we did what we could to feed the two road these Texas Navy warriors.
  • And we did what we could to feed the two road these Texas Navy warriors.
  • and restoring Lake Houston and its tributaries.
  • And, Mr.
Summary: The committee heard and discussed several local-government-related bills, mostly with committee substitutes. House Bill 2731 would let certain border counties regulate roadside vendors selling live animals in unincorporated areas and along public rights-of-way; the substitute narrowed the bill to live animal sales only and excluded livestock and other roadside commerce. House Bill 3483 would streamline TCEQ review of special utility district revenue bonds by removing tax-bond requirements that do not apply to SUDs. House Bill 4308 would create a county industrial development district framework, limited in the substitute to certain counties including Fort Bend County, to help finance industrial sites and related infrastructure. House Bill 5663 would create a Wood County Hospital District memory-care-focused district with no taxing power, intended to help pursue grants and other funding for a new facility. House Bill 4582 addressed attainable housing in Dallas and Tarrant counties, allowing local reimbursement tools for developers under a uniform, optional framework. House Bill 5509 would let municipalities suspend or revoke a hotel’s certificate of occupancy if law enforcement and a criminal court both find probable cause of human trafficking, with the substitute adding due-process protections. House Bill 1532 created a Lake Houston dredging and maintenance district funded by revenue from dredged material sales and revenue bonds, with no taxing authority or eminent domain. House Bill 23, heard as pending business, would revise the process for local governments to rescind development documents and adjust third-party reviewer liability and eligibility rules. House Bill 4580, concerning property tax exemptions for charitable organizations such as the Houston Rodeo, was amended to remove language about exempting revenue from property use and instead focus on land used for agricultural, youth, and educational support. Public testimony was generally supportive on the bills heard, with witnesses including county officials, utility and water association representatives, hotel industry representatives, and housing developers. Several speakers emphasized the need for faster financing or permitting tools, flood mitigation, housing affordability, anti-trafficking enforcement, or local economic development. Some members raised concerns about scope, precedent, consultation with affected senators, and due process, particularly on House Bill 4582 and House Bill 5509, but the committee largely accepted the committee substitutes as improvements. No public testimony was offered on several bills, and most measures were left pending before later being voted out. The committee took recorded votes on multiple pending bills and reported them favorably, often with committee substitutes adopted in lieu of the filed versions. House Bills 1532, 2731, 3483, 5509, 5663, and 4580 were reported out, with 1532 and 5663 passing unanimously and 3483, 2731, and 5509 also receiving favorable votes despite one present-not-voting on 3483. House Bill 23 and House Bill 4582 were left pending subject to call of the chair. The committee then recessed until adjournment or later.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 29th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

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  • But does not have sufficient water sewer roads or storm damage to support development and there are no
  • and 7 Coves Road.
  • The roads they must use are highly congested and lack essential infrastructure.
  • The roads in Texas and across the country are becoming more dangerous every year, especially for pedestrians
  • About 45% of people want to spend tax money on transit and and don't want to spend it on roads.
TX
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  • Chairman and members. I really do want to recognize Chairman Capriglione and the blockchain.
  • concerns of industry and stakeholders, individuals, and legislators, of course.
  • penalties and seek relief.
  • And ultimately, it provides what industry has asked for, which is clear rules of the road and protection
  • First and foremost, I want to thank Chairman Schwertner and Chairman Capriglione and the House for their
TX
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  • There being six ayes and zero nays, Senate Bill 748 is passed and is ordered to the local and contested
  • and be printed.
  • Good morning, and thank you, Mr. Chairman and members.
  • And that's what we requested; we will go ahead and set the precedent, and that's what we expect them
  • The woman called us—we have a clinic with SPCA—and she called and said that her dog was super sick and