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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/27/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- If you care about the residents of Wenden Valley, I urge you not to pass HB 2758.
- My client wants to take care of that in the name of being good neighbors.
- My client wants to take care of that in the name of being good neighbors.
- We realize it can't pass. ...to take care of that in the name of being good neighbors.
- It was about this high, had not been taken care of by the homeowners association.
Committees:
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water , House House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee of Reference
Keywords:
solar radiation management, environment, prohibition, Arizona Revised Statutes, public health, complaint process, Attorney General, groundwater management, water conservation, irrigation, water supply, brackish groundwater, water supply development, desalination, water infrastructure, financial assistance, environmental reviews, brackish water, groundwater, water resources
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Local Government Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a slate of bills to exec today.
- to the denial of the application or the exhaustion of the time period for review.
- We would just exempt 25 cents of that 50, of one of those levies, put it outside the $5.90 taxing limit
- Each of our regions have built plans for the kinds of weather we see routinely.
- were a bunch of issues that kind of came up at the last minute.
Committee:
House Local Government
Keywords:
building code, safety regulations, construction, scissor stairs, state standards, embodied carbon, building materials, sustainability, environment, performance-based codes, building regulations, residential construction, energy efficiency, sustainable design, permit review, project permits, land use, zoning, development regulations, residential development
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- It's directly because of the State Bar of Arizona.
- And as a woman and someone who cares deeply about victims of sexual harassment, that’s deeply concerning
- disciplinary judge of proof of a lawyer's conviction of a felony.
- Of course. I feel somewhat understanding of the neutrality, revenue neutrality of it.
- Do you have numbers of members of each of those groups that you are speaking for?
Bills:
SB1003 , SB1006 , SB1029 , SB1037 , SB1038 , SB1039 , SB1040 , SB1053 , SB1057 , SB1060 , SB1061 , SB1068 , SB1069
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Elections
Keywords:
election, canvass, certification, ballot tabulation, write-in candidates, registration, voting procedures, campaign finance, contribution limits, reporting requirements, political action committees, elections, campaign contributions, candidate committees, posthumous provisions, termination process, Arizona Revised Statutes, voting systems, vote tabulation, election security
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee Apr 30th, 2025
Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Adoption of the amendment. Uh, any objection to the previous amendment?
- Chairman, members of the committee.
- A constituent of mine actually was part of the cleanup process on the atomic bombs.
- It's the people who actually were part of the program in the state.
- cleaned up some of the waste after the fact.
Keywords:
emergency vehicles, off-road vehicles, public safety, liability, regulations, foreign nationals, voter identification, driver licenses, immigration documentation, Alabama election law, law enforcement, retirement benefits, Alabama Peace Officers, agency-issued badge, agency-issued pistol, criminal enterprise, database, data privacy, criminal justice, background check
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 28th, 2025
S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships
Transcript Highlights:
- What that does is prolong the amount of time that the child remains in care.
- And one of the things they absolutely need when they come into care, because by the time they get to
- Regardless of the circumstances, running away is not a rejection of care; it is often a deeper cry for
- care to cover the cost of an apartment or a car to become stable on their own.
- Yes, sir, and then they would be able to technically age out of foster care.
Bills:
HCR10 , HB1814 , HB2160 , HB2353 , HB2643 , HB2971 , HB3282 , HB3382 , HB3996 , HB4507 , HB4509 , HB4805 , HB5551 , HB1863 , HCR10
Keywords:
family abduction, child safety, custodial rights, parental kidnapping, awareness day, marriage license, informal marriage, family code, identity verification, child support, family law, child custody, court interview, parent-child relationship, child welfare, attorney ad litem, compensation, legal representation, government entity, HB 2643
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The will, which left everything to his daughter, was not taken care of.
- Some people move in and purport to take care of her; next thing you know, all of her stuff is theirs.
- I'm sorry, respectfully, I don't care what they suspected of; there's a whole bunch of...
- I am one of the district attorneys on that letter, and frankly, I wouldn't care if I was the only one
- And one of those is, I don't care how many documents you have.
Bills:
HB867 , HB1347 , HB1801 , HB1820 , HB2197 , HB2617 , HB3110 , HB3166 , HB3330 , HB4237 , HB4342 , HB4629 , HB4933 , HJR148
Committee:
House Criminal Jurisprudence
Keywords:
criminal case dismissal, attorney discretion, law enforcement misconduct, judicial approval, evidence, judicial consent, transparency, healthcare, Medicare, insurance, elderly, retired, benefits, access, cost, criminal justice, case dismissal, prosecutorial discretion, law enforcement oversight, criminal procedure
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- First of all, we've got a number of bills to vote on, members.
- It would be the intent of the chair to just leave the bill pending for now instead of voting on it.
- Last week, that dealt with the waiver of the preservation of evidence and a return of a seized weapon
- a deposition taken of the testimony of certain elderly or disabled persons in a criminal case.
- of the offense.
Bills:
HB867 , HB1347 , HB1801 , HB1820 , HB2197 , HB2617 , HB3110 , HB3166 , HB3330 , HB4237 , HB4342 , HB4629 , HB4933 , HJR148
Committee:
House Criminal Jurisprudence
Keywords:
criminal case dismissal, attorney discretion, law enforcement misconduct, judicial approval, evidence, judicial consent, transparency, healthcare, Medicare, insurance, elderly, retired, benefits, access, cost, criminal justice, case dismissal, prosecutorial discretion, law enforcement oversight, criminal procedure
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
- Okay, so this bill has a lot of features to it, so let me explain. in all of the different pieces of
- I raise a point of order against further consideration of SB14 in as much as it's in violation of Rule
- I raise a point of order against further consideration of SB 14. in as much as it's out of compliance
- I move adoption of the amendment. The author is of objection to the adoption of the amendment.
Keywords:
regulatory reform, government efficiency, administrative law, rulemaking, agency deference, judicial review, de novo review, Texas Government Code, Administrative Procedure Act, state agencies, plain language, regulatory burden, regulatory reduction, cost-benefit analysis, fiscal note, public benefits and costs, contested case, rule challenge, Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, advisory panel
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- Seeing none, Senator Thompson, would you care to close debate? Senator Thompson waves.
- Chairwoman Thompson, you're recognized to explain the Provisions of House Bill 3622.
- There is an initial appropriation of around $500,000.
- That concludes the explanation of the bill. Will there be questions of the author?
- My understanding is that there is an allotment of dollars that's set aside to fund policy that is Seeing
Bills:
HB3622
Keywords:
HB3622, 2030 Census, Decennial Census, U.S. Decennial Census Revolving Fund, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, census preparation, federal census, state treasury fund, revolving fund, continuing fund, deemed appropriated, technology upgrades, census outreach, redistricting, population count, Title 74, OMES, State Treasurer, budgeting
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The quality of products and improving purchasing options for consumers. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- of this bill.
- I think that COVID-19 made a lot of changes for a lot of people too.
- You also typically, in a free-range operation, look at about a loss of your flock of 20% because of predators
- I do, because of the scale of what we were hearing that the smaller...
Bills:
SB1864
Committee:
House Agriculture & Livestock
Keywords:
eggs, ungraded eggs, egg grading, poultry, farm products, local food, small farmers, direct-to-consumer sales, wholesale food sales, food safety, refrigeration requirements, sanitation standards, occupational license, dealer-wholesaler license, Texas Department of Agriculture, restaurants, small grocery stores, cooperatives, farmers cooperative, agricultural regulation
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Apr 16th, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- of an existing road to the list of exemptions?
- Pocahontas Telephone Cooperative is one of the members of TRBA.
- It's going to cost tens of thousands of dollars for them.
- the use of that public land, our public right-of-way.
- They accept that risk, and their use of the right-of-way, the public's land, is secondary to that of
Committee:
House S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Keywords:
telecommunications, local exchange companies, universal service fund, rate maintenance, business expansion, broadband access, internet service, multiunit residential properties, urban areas, affordability programs, fiber-optic cables, public land, construction permits, environmental impact, notification requirements, municipal projects, infrastructure, facility relocation, public right-of-way
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- of the constable of the Second City Court for the City of New Orleans for membership in the Municipal
- of Louisiana.
- This bill simply provides for the retirement eligibility of the constable of the Second City Court of
- the City of New Orleans.
- This bill simply provides for the retirement eligibility of the constable of the Second City Court of
Bills:
SB8 , SB10 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB14 , SB16 , SB17 , SB18 , SB20 , SB21 , SB22 , SB416 , SB455 , SB456 , SB477
Committee:
House Retirement
Keywords:
Municipal Employees' Retirement System, Louisiana, participation, employer, retirement, SB 10, Act 222, Louisiana State Police Retirement System, state police retirement, retirement system funding, employer contributions, actuarial gains, amortization, Permanent Benefit Increase, PBI account, benefit increase reserve, supplemental permanent benefit increase, public retirement systems, state pension, pension funding
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- And you know, the implementation of all of it.
- Senator, the paragraph above that sort of describes it says there will be the retailer purchased the
- I gotta be careful how I answer that one, but it's to the benefit and some of those garbage dumps are
- These things get more and more popular to take care of.
- in the trash if they're not taken care of correctly, it's going to cost the citizens more taxes.
Committee:
Senate Energy
Keywords:
climatology, emergency declaration, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, environment, weather data, public policy, state governance, natural resources, advisory councils, sunset law, water quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, radiation management, public health, biosolids, land application, environmental quality, agriculture, wastewater treatment
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- We're one of 28 clinics in the state of Washington supporting the primary care safety net, taking care
- foster care, the bill makes a handful of changes.
- quality child care study and a cost of quality child care study as defined by the Early Edge Care Design
- when it comes to transferring out of the acute care into the post-acute care.
- Saying that's the cost of child care.
Bills:
SB5420 , SB5877 , SB5868 , SB5109 , SB5832 , SB5922 , SB5944 , SB5988 , SB6065 , SB6103 , SB6151
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
veterans, military spouses, service members, uniformed services, National Guard, reservists, active duty, qualifying discharge, veterans preference, hiring preference, public employment, state benefits, license renewal, professional licensing, retirement service credit, pension, public retirement system, Washington RCW, military leave, reemployment rights
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- care of blight.
- know, there are a lot of grant opportunities that are provided for training or purchasing discounts of
- Be careful. And if you had 3,000 of them at six months, we'd be here until everybody was dead.
- Be careful. And if you had 3,000 of them at six months, we'd be here until everybody was dead.
- Whereas if this was a credit card or if this was any other sort of violation that was purchased by a
Bills:
HB9 , HB10 , HB16 , HB44 , HB46 , HB61 , HB101 , HB126 , HB153 , HB164 , HB233 , HB242 , HB436 , HB455 , HB571 , HB594
Committee:
House Judiciary
Keywords:
HB 9, HB9, Act 527, Shreveport, Stuffed Shrimp Capital, state symbol, Louisiana symbols, municipal designation, honorary title, cultural designation, tourism, local pride, seafood, shrimp, stuffed shrimp, cuisine, city branding, Louisiana Revised Statutes 49:170.26, legal holiday, Acadia Parish
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Senceman on behalf of the City of Sedona.
- of legislation established that opens up the true transparency of a purchase within these communities
- As the criminal wasn't on the title when my dad purchased the house, just one of the terrible mistakes
- As the criminal wasn't on the title when my dad purchased the house, just one of the terrible mistakes
- I haven't seen legislation proposed yet that would take care of this, but I do see this bill, and this
Bills:
HB2128 , HB2255 , HB2397 , HB2429 , HB2591 , HB2680 , HB2834 , HB2868 , HB2911 , HB2951 , HB2979 , HB2991 , HB2996 , HB2999 , HB4001 , HB4011 , HB4017 , HB4020 , HB4026 , HB4086 , HB4088 , HB2244 , HB2342
Committees:
House Commerce , House House Commerce Committee of Reference
Keywords:
homeowners associations, condominiums, open meetings, governance, transparency, Arizona Teachers Academy, teacher preparation, education funding, public schools, scholarships, teacher certification, community colleges, HOA, homeowners association, planned community, condominium, CC&Rs, covenants, conditions and restrictions, resale disclosure, association disclosure
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- That's one of the Main. I mean, that's the main premise of the bill.
- If we do not pass this bill, it will invariably lead to the continued purchase of new land as well as
- I think they're trying their absolute best to take care of the tenants.
- It's really the ones who are not taking care of the tenants that we're trying to Remedy with this bill
- But this makes it a felony for Oklahomans to be a straw purchaser of land on behalf of a foreign national
Bills:
HB1016 , HB1453 , HB1992 , HB2015 , HB2940 , HB2959 , HB2997 , HB3037 , HB3045 , HB3053 , HB3087 , HB3267 , HB3301 , HB3453 , HB3495 , HB3521 , HB3581 , HB3584 , HB3586 , HB3587 , HB3662 , HB3691 , HB3695 , HB3697 , HB3742 , HB3743 , HB3845 , HB4058 , HB4125 , HB4198 , HB4227 , HB4425
Committee:
House Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
Keywords:
minors, content creation, trust account, compensation, civil action, digital content, Oklahoma statutes, foreign ownership, property rights, agricultural land, Attorney General, divestment, real estate, felony penalties, motor vehicles, towing services, combination vehicles, wrecker fees, possessory lien, landlord
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight May 20th, 2026
Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- order, as is the custom of the committee, to invite elected officials up out of order because of their
- I think of it.
- of the right of first refusal for municipalities in terms of leasing these facilities.
- to take a One of the unintended consequences of some of the legislation to take out some of this pre-qualification
- There is a lot of tradition here, a ton of tradition, a lot of proud farmers.
Keywords:
asparagus, official vegetable, state symbol, Massachusetts, Veterans Memorial Rink, Waltham, municipal lease, capital management, city right of first refusal, American lobster, cultural significance, marine life, property, Lowell, state administration, legislation, local government, official state vegetable, state designation, Commonwealth
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- First item is approval of the minutes of May 5, 2026. Moved by Vice Chairman Owen.
- Basically, I've had some members of the fire department who are part of the retirement system, with the
- the members of the ...on the board who represents approximately 30% of the members of the retirement
- And that further, the House of Representatives member will be replaced by a non-union active member of
- Look, we had no part of this bill of introducing it or anything.
Bills:
HB41
Committee:
Senate Retirement
Keywords:
Firefighters' Retirement System, FRS, retirement board, board of trustees, firefighter pension, public pension, retirement system governance, active members, service credit, Professional Fire Fighters Association, PFFA, Louisiana Fire Chiefs Association, fire chiefs, retirees, beneficiaries, DROP, Deferred Retirement Option Plan, board elections, vacancies, Louisiana retirement law
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Financial Services Committee Mar 10th, 2026
Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Committee members, House Bill 545, the genesis of this was in February of 2025, President Trump directed
- this was in February um, the genesis of this was in February of<00:06:22.560><c> 2025,</c><00:06:23.440
- </c> And by the end of last year, more than half of the Federal Reserve's vaults suspended penny orders
- with this, and there's a broad coalition of retail and business supporters of this bill.
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Committee:
House Financial Services
Keywords:
Escambia County, probate court, court fees, legal services, judicial legislation, HB545, legal tender, cash rounding, nearest five cents, nickel rounding, in-person cash transaction, cash transactions, change making, sales tax, Department of Revenue, merchant payments, consumer payments, currency rounding, cash payment, retail transactions