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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 16th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • hallways behind the hearing rooms. assistance in registering or testifying, please contact the committee staff
  • In the past I've been a legislator like yourselves in the House and Senate in Iowa and served as as the
  • I could go on a long time talking about all of the House members and Senate members with like names.
  • So he's doing everything from he does handle his own. to just overseeing staff and budget issues.
  • Luckily, my staff was able to intercept that and stop the disturbance relatively quick.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education Feb 17th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Devers, Senator Dossett, Senator Hicks, Senator Hiinz, Senator Mann, Senator Peterson, Senator
  • Senator Devers, Senator Dossett, Senator Hicks, Senator Hiinz, Senator Mann, Senator Peterson, Senator
  • Senator Devers, Senator Dossett, Senator Hicks, Senator Hiinz, Senator Mann, Senator Peterson Senator
  • Senator Devers, Senator Dossett, Senator Hicks, Senator Hiinz, Senator Mann, Senator Peterson, Senator
  • Senator Hicks, Senator Hiinz, Senator Mann, Senator Peterson, Senator Rader, Senator Reinhart, Senator
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • The Zoom chat function will allow you to chat with the technical staff only.
  • Appreciate it. ...there's a Senate companion as well.
  • And, um, sit down and bring my staff who's working on this.
  • </c> worked with them extensively or my staff worked with them extensively or my staff has<00:51:38.559
  • And, um, sit down and bring my staff who's working on this. I can... Thank you, sir.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1604, which would create an agricultural workforce housing group within the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to address shortages of farmworker housing. The department said it supported the bill’s intent but emphasized that the group’s early work should focus on gathering data and surveying farm operators to assess actual demand, to avoid “mission creep.” Testimony from the City and County of Honolulu Office of Economic Revitalization, Hawaii Farmers Union, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Housing Hawaii’s Future, and the Maui Chamber of Commerce was in support, with one witness suggesting a housing advocacy nonprofit be added to the working group for balance. The committee then discussed HB 1713 on school impact fees, which would clarify exemptions for certain affordable housing projects and exempt new residential developments of fewer than 100 units. The Attorney General’s office said the bill should define “low to moderate income households” because that term is not defined in chapter 302A. HHFDC, the School Facilities Authority, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, and others supported the measure, arguing it would reduce administrative burden and remove barriers to housing. Members questioned whether the bill should instead repeal the school impact fee entirely; supporters said they also favored full repeal but viewed this bill as a more feasible step. The School Facilities Authority also explained that about $28 million in school impact fees had been collected across four districts and none had yet been spent, and discussed how recent nexus requirements limit how the funds can be used. HB 1722, relating to residential condominiums, drew extensive testimony and questioning. HCDA supported the bill and explained that it amends the 99-year leasehold pilot program created by Act 97 of 2023 by reducing owner-occupancy restrictions from 100% of units to 60%, allowing some rental or subleasing flexibility for the owner-occupied units, and permitting up to 40% of units to be sold to qualified residents after being on the market for more than 60 days. HCDA said the original restrictions, combined with rising construction costs, higher interest rates, and competition from nearby projects, made the pilot project difficult to market and finance; it said the changes are needed to make the project feasible and competitive. Supporters including AP Hawaii, Kila LLC, and project representatives said the amendments would help make the demonstration project in Kakaʻako viable. Some members raised concerns that the changes could weaken long-term affordability and questioned why certain ownership language was being deleted if rentals would still be restricted. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the hearing provided.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 9

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Item number four, Senate communications. Mr. Clerk, are there any Senate communications?
  • In the gallery today is my awesome staff for the 2026 session.
  • c><00:11:28.399><c> for</c><00:11:28.560><c> the</c><00:11:28.640><c> 2026</c> today is my awesome staff
  • for the 2026 today is my awesome staff for the 2026 session.<00:11:30.160><c> If</c><00:11:30.320><c
  • They are my new staff for this year. Welcome to the House of Representatives.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/02/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Bolick? Aye. Senator Bravo? Aye. Senator Epstein? Yes. Senator Fernandez? Aye.
  • Senator Bolick? Aye. Senator Bravo? No. Senator Epstein? Explain my vote. Senator Epstein?
  • Senator Bolick? Senator Bolick? Aye. Senator Bravo? Aye. Senator Epstein? Yes. Senator Fernandez?
  • Senator Bravo? Aye. Senator Epstein? Yes. Senator Fernandez? Aye. Senator Hoffman?
  • Senator Fernandez. Senator Hoffman. Aye. Senator Leach. Senator Mesnard. Aye.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 23rd, 2026 at 08:00 am

Early Learning & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Seeing none, staff please announce the tally. Mr.
  • So moving from a hard floor of four staff to a 1-to-4 ratio would indicate a massive reduction in labor
  • Seeing none, will the staff please call the roll? Chair Bergquist votes aye.
Summary: The House Early Learning and Human Services Committee took up possible executive session on nine bills, first briefing amendments and proposed substitutes before voting. House Bill 2099, expanding eCAP access and prioritization for children of military families, was amended to include NOAA and Public Health Service commissioned corps members and broader deployment criteria, then passed unanimously. House Bill 2185, which strengthens the advisory committee for homeless youth services, also passed unanimously without amendments. House Bill 2219, addressing mixed-ratio time in child care centers and waiving repeat pre-service orientation in limited cases, adopted an amendment adding conditions for the waiver and then passed unanimously. House Bill 2253, a broad licensure and regulatory bill affecting child care and residential programs, saw several amendments considered; one report amendment was rejected, and an amendment restoring state monitoring and health/safety reviews at the Washington School for the Deaf was adopted. The committee then passed the amended bill unanimously. House Bills 2317 and 2318, both expanding flexibility for ECEAP and Head Start providers, passed without amendments and with unanimous support. House Bill 2319, renaming residential habilitation centers in statute, adopted a technical correction amendment and passed unanimously. House Bill 2350, requiring notice when a residential habilitation center is out of compliance with CMS requirements, was amended to emphasize posted notices, email options, preferred-language notices, and plain-language summaries, then passed unanimously. The committee then returned to House Bill 1544, which directs DCYF to study and improve its risk, strengths, and needs assessment tool and certify its validation. Four amendments were considered: one requiring domestic violence to be included in the study was adopted; amendments on defining “safe,” auditing missing data on near-fatalities and safety-plan failures, and prohibiting use of an unvalidated tool to screen out referrals were rejected. The amended second substitute bill passed on a 9-0 vote, with Representatives Burnett and Penner voting “no without recommendation.” The committee adjourned after reporting all nine bills out of committee, most with do pass recommendations and several with adopted amendments.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

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

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator West closes by citing prior committee and Senate votes on Senate Bill 229, and the chair moves
  • That would be the member and/or his staff or her staff.
  • Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Senator. All right.
  • Senator King sent up the committee substitute for Senate Bill 1749, and Senator Nichols is recognized
  • I'm going to reach out to Senator Creighton's staff. I know there's some here.
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.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 3rd, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Message from the Senate, Mr.
  • Message from the Senate, Mr.
  • The Senate had three negotiators.
  • Speaker, I now move that Senate Bill 1 do pass. We are on final passage of Senate Bill 1.
  • Senate Bill 1. Senate Bill 1 do now pass. I move the Senate Bill 1 now pass.
Summary: The House convened with quorum, prayer, pledges, and a series of memorials, certificates, guest introductions, and legislative messages. House Memorial 8 honored the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commission and Dr. King’s legacy; members spoke about the commission’s work in promoting service, liberty, equality, and student leadership. The memorial passed unanimously, 70-0. Later, House Memorial 25 recognized victims of violent crime and their families, with emotional testimony from lawmakers and guests describing the lasting impact of homicide and the importance of survivor voices. That memorial also passed unanimously, 70-0. The chamber then recognized numerous guests, including Kid Frost, several student “shadows” from Belen High School and other schools, Santo Domingo Pueblo leaders, Habitat for Humanity volunteers, CNM board members and students, Southwest Cheese representatives, military installation leaders, and others. Members also highlighted community events and receptions, including Silver Spikes Day and a 100th bill celebration. The House received several executive messages from the governor authorizing bill submissions on virtual power plants, apprenticeship funding for public works, AEDs at school athletic activities, and an energy affordability and grid reliability commission, along with a Senate message transmitting Senate Bill 2. Committee reports were adopted on a number of measures, including House Bills 145, 200, 32, 33, 61, 201, 153, 154, 184, 110, and 109, plus House Memorials 23, 24, and 26, and House Joint Memorial 2. The Appropriations and Finance Committee also reported a substitute for House Bills 2 and 3, which was adopted. On third reading, Senate Bill 1, dealing with a doctor compact for New Mexico, passed the House 64-0 after discussion about its role in physician recruitment and the need for malpractice reform. House Bill 34, a cleanup bill related to nurse licensure and charter school nurses, was also taken up for debate, with questions focused on the three-tier nurse evaluation system and recruitment impacts.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Beasley, Senator Bell, Senator Carley, Senator Chesteen, Senator Givan, Senator Hatcher, Senator
  • &gt;&gt; Senator Hatcher, Senator Jones &gt;&gt; Senator Hatcher, Senator Jones &gt;&gt; here, &gt;&gt
  • </c> &gt;&gt; Senator Kelly. &gt;&gt; Senator Kelly.
  • [snorts] >> Senator Barfoot. >> I. >> Senator Beasley. >> Senator Bell. >> Senator Carley. >> Hi. >>
  • Senator Chesteen. >> Senator Gaban. >> Hi. >> Senator Hatcher. >> Senator Jones. >> Hi. >> Senator Kelley
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee Feb 9th, 2026 at 10:30 am

A&B Education Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, there is some degree of legislative oversight beyond the speaker and president and senate.
  • I would love to see the impact, which I've asked OsDE, and I think the physical staff has asked them
  • I believe if you like the more of the percentage member_20263 I think there is a bill in the Senate that
  • And if you'll give us a second, the staff will control the queue. OK, let's try this again.
  • Staff, please open the vote. Representative Waldron votes nay.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Staff are prepared for every conceivable scenario.
  • We also have Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 5, House Bills 22 and 20.
  • And that's what Senate Bill 2 aims to achieve. Senate Bill 2 seeks to do.
  • So, Senate Bill 2 is the same as House Bill 2, right?
  • The Senate companion is over and eligible. That lays out on second reading, Senate Bill 5.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • In registering or testifying, please contact the committee staff.
  • This situation puts our students, our staff, and our taxpayers at risk.
  • This is critical funding we would use to support our students, staff, and core programs.
  • At Command and Staff College, we're taught about national power, DIME, and diplomacy.
  • By chance, this morning I had breakfast with a state senator from Sweetwater.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 314 by Hughes is the companion to House Bill 1290 by Harris-Davila, which was previously
  • The chair moves that Senate Bill 314 be considered. without amendment be reported favorably to the full
  • Senate Bill 314. Okay, I'm sorry. And it was substituted for.
  • House Bill 295 aims at protecting students, with the bill having bipartisan support from Senators Zaffirini
  • and Fowler in the Senate companion bill.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Apr 8th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's a companion in the Senate. There's a whole other bill in the Senate unrelated to this one.
  • referrals to unlicensed communities where required, criminal background checks for referral agency staff
  • That's why Senator Paxton filed all three of these bills in the Senate, and Chairman Shaheen and I both
  • To remove the financial burden on DFPS staff, HB 3748 would allow the department to use existing resources
  • reason, and we also have, I think someone from the agency too that OK, and it may just be in my, my staff
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 8th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's a companion in the Senate. There's a...
  • There's a whole other bill in the Senate related to this one.
  • referrals to unlicensed communities where required, and criminal background checks for referrals. agency staff
  • That's why Senator Paxton filed all three of these bills in the Senate, and Chairman Shaheen and I both
  • Okay, and it may just be in my staff.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 8th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Last session, the legislature passed Senate Bill 240, which directed certain health care facilities to
  • I've had communication with the program's regional director, who has implemented changes, but with staff
  • Staff smoke in neighbors' driveways, park their vehicles in neighbors' driveways, or take personal phone
  • Angus Lupton, who many of you may know, in Senator Nichols' office, worked with us.
  • Other examples include Chair Hull and Senator Cook, who has filed a companion bill in the Senate.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Child Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you to the staff, and thanks so much for hearing the bill and to the testifiers.
  • Senator Mueller. We do have Cindy Cunningham on the line in the Zoom room with us.
  • The nonpartisan research staff did a survey of every single state.
  • And thank you, Chair Moeller and Chair West, and the nonpartisan staff.
  • We also provide a thankful bonus around the holidays so staff don't feel pinched.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Helping us to stabilize pay our staff a fair wage and continue serving our communities.
  • Thank you to the staff, and thanks so much for hearing the bill and the testifiers.
  • They also do a thankful bonus around the holidays so staff don't feel pinched.
  • </c> same benefits and compensation to staff same benefits and compensation to staff without<01:19:53.400
  • </c><01:20:13.440><c> we</c> additional compensation to our staff we additional compensation to our staff