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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- areas: health awareness, educational services, humanitarian relief, environmental protection and preservation
- protection</c><07:28:56.798><c> and</c> environmental protection and environmental protection and preservation
- </c> preservation and community empowerment. preservation and community empowerment. and<07:28:58.958
Keywords:
7(a) loan program, Small Business Administration, SBA, small business lending, loan brokers, loan consultants, referral agents, loan intermediaries, fraud oversight, transparency, reporting requirements, loan fees, referral fees, interest rates, business financing, small business loans, lender oversight, application assistance, Congressional reporting, small business
IA
Committee:
Joint Ways and Means
Keywords:
Iowa Economic Development Authority, IEDA, Iowa Finance Authority, IFA, strategic infrastructure, brownfield redevelopment, grayfield, redevelopment tax credit, historic preservation tax credit, community attraction and tourism, Vision Iowa, sports tourism marketing, homelessness, McKinney-Vento, title guaranty, Iowa title guaranty, arts and culture, Iowa cultural trust, Iowa great places, film office
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So the substitute before you preserves the bill's original intent while cleaning up some language to
- If the defendant pleads guilty and decides to waive their rights to the preservation of evidence, the
- Finally, this bill allows crime laboratories to preserve any evidence it deems necessary to comply with
- We don't have an effective way of holding old evidence or preserving it.
- I support the castle doctrine and stand your ground because they're about preserving your life and your
Bills:
HB 1194 , HB 1221 , HB1738 , HB1913 , HB2177 , HB2178 , HB2180 , HB2229 , HB2282 , HB2448 , HB2492 , HB2777 , HB2984 , HB3357 , HB3553 , HB3602
Committee:
House Criminal Jurisprudence
Keywords:
emergency protection order, protective order, magistrate, criminal procedure, victim safety, family violence, domestic violence, stalking, assault, magistrate's order, temporary protection, court order duration, defendant restrictions, Article 17.292, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, emergency restraining order, victim protection, firearm restriction, pretrial intervention, reimbursement fee
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 2777 by Representative Rose, which would bar the death penalty for defendants who can prove by clear and convincing evidence that they had schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and active psychotic symptoms at the time of the offense. Rose said the bill would still hold defendants accountable through life without parole, would save money by avoiding lengthy capital litigation, and would address cases where severe mental illness was not adequately considered. Supporters from NAMI Texas, the Catholic bishops, and a forensic psychologist said the bill is narrowly tailored, consistent with neuroscience and moral principles, and would prevent executions of people whose psychosis substantially impaired reality testing. Committee members questioned how the bill interacts with existing competency and insanity law, whether the diagnosis is sufficiently defined, and whether the statute requires active psychosis at the time of the offense. An opponent argued the death penalty should remain available for juries to decide in all cases. The bill was left pending.
The committee then heard House Bill 1221 by Representative Lozano, which would raise the cap on pretrial intervention program fees from $500 to $1,200. Lozano and a district attorney witness said the increase is needed because program costs have risen and the fees help make diversion programs self-sustaining, allowing first-time or low-level offenders to complete rehabilitation and potentially obtain expunction. Opponents from the Texas Fair Defense Project argued the higher fee could make diversion unaffordable for indigent defendants and undermine an important alternative to incarceration, especially where related supervision and monitoring costs already add up. Members discussed whether the fee applies only to PTI participants, how payment plans and waivers work, and whether ability to pay should be addressed more explicitly. The bill was left pending.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 1738 by Representative Jones, which would repeal Penal Code Section 21.06 and related Health and Safety Code references concerning homosexual conduct. Jones said the law is unconstitutional under Lawrence v. Texas, remains harmful on the books, and has led to confusion and unnecessary costs even though it is unenforceable. Supporters said the bill simply removes outdated language and protects civil liberties, while opponents from Texas Values argued the statute still serves as a statement that homosexual conduct is unacceptable and should remain as a warning, even if unenforceable. Members debated whether the law’s remaining language is merely symbolic or still harmful, and whether other criminal statutes already cover conduct such as prostitution, incest, and offenses involving minors. The bill was left pending after testimony.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- healing, and so this philosophy is at the heart of their programs, which uplift Latino artists, preserve
- is healing, and this philosophy is at the heart of their programs, which uplift Latino artists, preserve
- cultural</c><01:26:04.639><c> heritage</c><01:26:05.120><c> and</c><01:26:05.360><c> foster</c> preserve
- cultural heritage and foster preserve cultural heritage and foster intergenerational<01:26:07.360><c
- and preserves our cultural heritage.<01:28:40.800><c> Our</c><01:28:41.120><c> director</c><01:28:41.520
Committee:
House Legacy Finance
Keywords:
cultural heritage, funding, White Earth Nation, tribal community, construction, Delano, sesquicentennial, community events, fall of Saigon, Saigon anniversary, Vietnam War commemoration, Vietnamese Minnesotans, Cambodian Minnesotans, Lao Minnesotans, Southeast Asian refugees, Asian American heritage, cultural heritage fund, Minnesota Humanities Center, Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, equity funding
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- As we know, pregnancy occurs when a sperm and an egg released from the ovary unite.
- The pregnancy prevention medications provided only make the egg not available for the sperm.
- If the egg and the sperm have already united, the prevention medication will not terminate a pregnancy
- contraceptives (EC) function in two ways: preventing fertilization when... ...preventing fertilization when sperm
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- So what this legislation aims to do is preserve a safety net for American citizens and strictly define
- That would be the sperm of the husband and the egg of the woman.
- There could be the commercial buying and selling of the gametes, which would be the egg and the sperm
- That is with anonymous sperm donation.
- We've heard, you know, a lot about this in the news lately, where men sell their sperm and then are used
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
Summary:
The committee first heard SB 145, which would require adult residential care providers, especially assisted living centers, to have generators or other backup power arrangements and to submit preparedness plans to LDH. After technical amendments and testimony from the sponsor, LDH, and the assisted living industry clarifying the bill’s scope and cost concerns, the committee adopted the amendments and reported the bill favorably. It then took up SB 433, which would require Medicaid coverage of medically necessary FDA-approved weight loss drugs, including GLP-1 medications, subject to appropriations and fiscally sustainable coverage criteria; the bill was reported favorably after discussion of current Medicaid coverage and costs.
The committee also approved SB 52, which requires better coordination between DCFS and LDH so SNAP and Medicaid benefits can follow children more quickly when they are removed from or returned to a home. Technical amendments changed reporting deadlines and required written notice, and the bill was reported favorably. SB 4 on public water fluoridation was amended to allow local governments or voters to opt out through a petition and election process, with support from the Louisiana Dental Association and others after compromise language was adopted; it was reported favorably with amendments. SB 152, which would prohibit the sale of cultured or lab-grown food products for human consumption, was also reported favorably with amendments after brief testimony in support and opposition.
The committee next approved SCR 37, which asks the Surgeon General to review Louisiana’s informed consent laws and report back on any gaps, after discussion that the existing medical disclosure panel had not met since 2018. It then considered SB 194, a public assistance bill aligning Louisiana Medicaid and SNAP rules with recent federal changes on non-citizen eligibility and tightening Medicaid’s reasonable opportunity period for citizenship verification. After extensive debate over immigration, emergency care, and whether the bill could harm eligible applicants or rural hospitals, the committee adopted an amendment allowing LDH discretion for emergency health care services and reported the bill favorably by an 8-3 vote. Finally, HCR 113 created a task force to study gestational carrier agreements and assisted reproductive regulation; after debate over surrogacy, ethics, and referral to Civil Law, the committee rejected the referral motion and then reported the resolution favorably, and the meeting moved on to SB 333 on child-in-need-of-care proceedings and legal representation funding.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, December 15, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:08:32.080><c> The</c> preserved 20,000 acres of farmland.
- The preserved 20,000 acres of farmland.
- preservation reflects a recent preservation reflects a commitment<00:08:34.640><c> to</c><00:08:34.959
- </c><00:09:01.360><c> 164</c> more than $40 million to preserve 164 more than $40 million to preserve
- </c><05:03:30.718><c> transparency,</c> while preserving transparency, while preserving transparency,
Bills:
HB3187 , SB284 , HB2400 , HR1098 , HB3872 , HB3176 , HB3620 , HB2815 , SB2878 , HR1045 , HR972 , HB2876 , HB3962 , HB4183 , SB216 , HR923 , HB5457 , HB5810 , SB222
Keywords:
Perry County Arkansas, Perryville, Forest Service land, federal land conveyance, quitclaim deed, public purpose, education, youth development, land transfer, property disposal, reversion clause, CERCLA, environmental liability, historic preservation, National Historic Preservation Act, USDA, federal property, county government, public use, surplus land
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:10:33.760><c> what</c> legislation simply pres preserves what legislation simply pres preserves what
- Um, so are preserving safe spaces.
- </c><01:53:57.040><c> their</c> something so that we can preserve their something so that we can preserve
- And a male is a human whose biology is organized around the production of sperm.
- These are in fact universally sperm.
Committee:
House Judiciary
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- through wild rice beds or have excessive or damaging wake within 150 feet of a wild rice bed to help preserve
Keywords:
natural resources, environment, sustainability, conservation, outdoor recreation, wild rice, watercraft regulation, environmental protection, aquatic ecosystems, HF1426, product stewardship, extended producer responsibility, EPR, electronics recycling, e-waste, battery recycling, circuit boards, printed circuit boards, electrical products, covered products
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism REVISED Feb 17th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 3 it It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
Keywords:
Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Arts Council, J.M. Davis Memorial Commission, historical preservation, arts funding, museum, gun collection, state agency contracts, 501(c)(3), nonprofit corporation, public funds, sectarian, religious funding restriction, appropriations, fiscal oversight, cultural institutions, historical artifacts, SB1425, health care, healthcare workforce
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 17th, 2026
County and Municipal Government
Committee:
Senate County and Municipal Government
Keywords:
lottery winnings, lottery prize, state lottery, income tax exemption, tax exemption, gambling, games of chance, prize proceeds, Alabama Department of Revenue, state income tax, tax relief, winnings, jackpot, lotto, Alabama State House, Montgomery, Legislative Council, demolition, state capitol, state capitol building
IA
Committee:
Joint Local Government
Keywords:
county boards, meeting minutes, publication, approval process, transparency, public officer bond, surety bond, insurance policy in lieu of bond, state beneficiary, Iowa Code 64.3, Iowa Code 64.18, public officials, bond requirement, financial responsibility, government accountability, local government, public officer insurance, liability coverage, statutory amendment, bond substitute
HI
Committee:
Senate Housing
Keywords:
rental housing revolving fund, HHFDC, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, mixed-income housing, mixed-income rental project, affordable housing, low-income housing, housing finance, housing development, preservation, rehabilitation, pre-development, construction financing, equity investment, credit enhancement, collateral, gap financing, area median income, AMI, perpetual affordability
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 2nd, 2025
Trade, Workforce & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- save Texas about a billion dollars a year right now during a strong Economic period while also preserving
- Members, this legislation aims to modernize outdated consumer protection statutes in a manner that preserves
- Members, this legislation aims to moderateize outdated consumer protection statutes in a matter that preserved
- Preserving the right to cancel is... ...important.
- deceptive trade practices act, any applicable rights exercisable under TDLR regulations, as well as preserving
Bills:
HB 112 , HB199 , HB621 , HB1349 , HB2214 , HB3466 , HB3698 , HB3699 , HCR9 , HB112 , HB199 , HCR9
Keywords:
science park district, economic development, technology innovation, higher education collaboration, infrastructure development, Texas Economic Development Office, workforce development, unemployment benefits, state average unemployment rate, benefit year, economic support, Texas Workforce Commission, property owners' association, free speech, assembly rights, government officials, political candidates, floodplain, landlord, tenant
Summary:
The Committee on Trade, Workforce and Economic Development met with a quorum and moved quickly through a long agenda, hearing testimony and taking recorded votes on several bills. Early in the meeting, HB 2214 was laid out to exempt certain short-term residential leases and leaseback arrangements from flood-disclosure requirements; Texas Realtors supported the change, and the bill was left pending. The committee then voted out a series of pending measures, including HB 46, HB 186 (with a committee substitute), HB 431, HB 1147, HB 1154, HB 2468, HB 2488, HB 2788 (with a substitute), HB 2791 (with a substitute), HB 3260, and HCR 90, all reported favorably to the full House, with HB 1147 receiving two nays and the others passing unanimously or nearly so.
A major portion of the hearing focused on HB 112, which would create a Texas Science Park district and commission to support advanced manufacturing and innovation sites. The bill’s author and supporters, including Samsung Austin Semiconductor, the Texas Association of Business, and the Governor’s economic development office, argued it would strengthen supply chains, attract investment, and support national security and workforce development. Testimony described interest from semiconductor and advanced manufacturing companies and referenced the model of foreign science parks such as Sinshu in Taiwan. HB 112 was left pending after testimony.
The committee also heard HB 3698 and HB 3699, both related to unemployment insurance administration. HB 3698 would expand eligibility for the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program using federal funds, while HB 3699 would tighten the definition of “last work” to help the Texas Workforce Commission investigate UI fraud. Both bills were discussed with TWC resource witnesses and left pending after the committee withdrew the substitutes. HB 1349, which would extend HOA transparency and property-rights provisions to condominiums and refine HOA rules, and HB 621, which would require HOA meeting spaces to be available for residents to reserve for qualified political candidates or elected officials, were also heard and left pending. Finally, the committee heard HCR 9 to designate the first Saturday of each month as Small Business Saturday, HB 199 to index unemployment benefit duration to the state unemployment rate, and HB 3466 to exempt certain cancelable service contracts from Texas’s in-home sales cooling-off law; each drew supportive and opposing testimony and was left pending before adjournment.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 03/05/26
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- Even more importantly, the insurance plan will not cover costs for cancer patients to preserve their
- Young patients when diagnosed with cancer have a very short window for freezing eggs and sperm, and we
- Eggs and sperm are fertilized into multiple embryonic lives and often graded by quality, viability, and
- Um, additionally, uh, over on 3.7, any person who is using donated sperm or donated eggs are receiving
- Um, additionally, uh, over on 3.7, any person who is using donated sperm or donated eggs are receiving
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't think they had any idea what a sperm or ovum was because we didn't discover those until 1677
- I mean, he goes down to ovum and... ... mean he goes down to ova and sperm, and his is large.
Committee:
House Health
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 04/01/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- collecting, preserving, and interpreting Minnesota's<00:19:26.160><c> biodiversity,</c><00:19:27.120
- It was it was really preservation.
- This bill preserves the core of the original law.
- This bill preserves and for the state.
- ,</c> are in our brain matter, sperm, are in our brain matter, sperm, placenta,<01:45:18.400><c> and<
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House public safety panel hears HF435 - Pt. 1 2/25/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- every person, because not every person will produce, transport, or utilize eggs for fertilization, or sperm
- every person, because not every person will produce, transport, or utilize eggs for fertilization, or sperm
- or</c><00:06:53.199><c> uh</c><00:06:53.720><c> you</c><00:06:53.840><c> know</c><00:06:54.080><c> sperm
- </c><00:06:54.440><c> if</c><00:06:54.520><c> we</c> fertilization or uh you know sperm if we fertilization
- or uh you know sperm if we wanted<00:06:54.840><c> to</c><00:06:54.960><c> go</c><00:06:55.160><c> that
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
JDC, JDC, JDC Public Hearings 02-11-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- parentage laws here in the state of Hawaii, as well as on a personal note, as somebody who has donated sperm
- 00:04:26.040><c> as</c><00:04:26.759><c> on</c><00:04:26.919><c> a</c> As somebody who has donated sperm
- So when I found out at age 34 that I was conceived by anonymous sperm donation, I immediately took a
- at age 34 that I was conceived by out at age 34 that I was conceived by Anonymous<00:21:34.640><c> sperm
- donation I immediately Anonymous sperm donation I immediately took<00:21:36.600><c> a</c><00:21:36.720
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee heard SB 1231, which would repeal the Parentage Uniform Act of 1973 and update Hawaii’s parentage laws, including parts of the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017. Supporters said the current statutes are outdated and do not adequately address assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and modern family formation. The Attorney General’s office supported the bill with technical amendments, including conforming changes to the Probate Code and child support provisions, and several testifiers urged passage as a needed modernization of the law.
A major point of disagreement was Part 10, which concerns donor anonymity. Some supporters, including members of the task force, the Uniform Law Commission, fertility and family law practitioners, and LGBTQ+ advocates, backed the bill as written or said it should move forward even if Part 10 is removed. Others, including donor-conceived adults, parents, and advocacy groups, opposed Part 10 and urged the committee to adopt the 2024 version of Article 9 or delete Part 10 entirely, arguing that anonymous donation harms donor-conceived people’s access to genetic, medical, and identity information and that anonymity is not realistic in the DNA-testing era. One task force member and attorney said she supported the bill but preferred removing Part 10 if necessary to pass the rest.
The hearing included extensive public testimony both in support and opposition, with many individuals describing personal experiences with adoption, IVF, surrogacy, and donor conception. No committee vote or final action on the bill was taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- in a position, I think we all would, where we can be proud of our lakes, take care of them, and preserve
- care<00:46:24.960><c> of</c><00:46:25.119><c> them,</c><00:46:25.839><c> and</c><00:46:26.319><c> preserve
- </c><00:46:26.720><c> them</c><00:46:26.960><c> for</c> care of them, and preserve them for care of them
- , and preserve them for future<00:46:27.560><c> generations.
Committee:
Senate Taxes
Keywords:
property tax, exemption, leased land, public use, commercial property, HF632, Minnesota property tax, conservation easement, conservation restriction, assessed value, property valuation, tax assessment, real property, land conservation, farmland preservation, natural areas, riparian buffer, water quality, water quantity, county assessor