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KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 4 (1-9-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • to terms of members of the General Assembly.
  • c> the<00:13:08.959> General terms of members of the General terms of members of the General
  • We remain in the order of business of introduction of new bills and resolutions.
  • <00:23:30.159> United memory of the victims of the United memory of the victims of the United
  • :23:47.200> of<00:23:47.360> floor order of business, introduction of floor order of business
Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, established a quorum with 86 members present, and approved the journal from January 8, 2026. Members also agreed without objection to excuse absent members and to suspend rules allowing co-sponsorships and vote modifications to be filed with the clerk. Under announcements and introductions, a motion was granted to withdraw House Bill 177. The House then received a large slate of new bills and resolutions, including measures on foreign transactions, cultured meat products, disabled veterans’ homestead exemptions, veteran entrepreneurs, plastic waste, legislative term limits, students, county law libraries, elections, special purpose governmental entities, vehicle wheels, delinquent tax liens, tenant screening, psychotropic drugs, peace officers, KEES scholarships for students attending non-certified schools, machine gun conversion devices, contractors, teacher retirement service credit, diaper access programs, and appropriations for the Transportation Cabinet and state government generally. Resolutions were also introduced recognizing Kentucky Mentorship Month, Hindu holidays and the resilience of the Hindu people, and honoring victims of UPS Airlines Flight 2976 and first responders. No bills were debated or voted on beyond the procedural actions noted. The session concluded with no committee business or floor amendments needed, and the House adjourned without objection until 4:00 p.m. on Monday, January 12, 2026.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 3 (1-8-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • God of justice and mercy, thank you for the gift of life and the opportunity to serve the people of the
  • The House of Representatives citation of adjournment.
  • The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky does hereby adjourn this legislative day
  • 122 of the Constitution of 91, 100, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky<00:20:28.320> relating
  • c> introduction<00:23:48.720> of Next order of business, introduction of Next order of business
Summary: The Kentucky House convened, heard the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance, established a quorum with 95 members present, excused absent members, suspended rules to allow co-sponsorships and vote modifications, and approved the journal from January 7, 2026. No committee reports, second readings, or floor amendments were needed during the session. The House adopted House Citation No. 3, adjourning in loving memory and honor of Gary Bennett Shell, the father of Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell and a former member’s colleague. Members offered remarks about his illness, his impact on his community and family, and requested a moment of silence. The chamber also heard a brief announcement about the KPA Big Boy Breakfast scheduled for the next morning. A long list of new bills and resolutions was introduced, covering topics including medical debt reporting, protection of minors on digital platforms, property tax exemptions and constitutional amendments, veterans benefits, emergency management services, student loan repayment and apprenticeship tax credits, abandoned property, residency definitions for postsecondary education, animal services tax exemptions, high school graduation requirements, Ten Commandments displays in public schools, animal control officers, disabled veterans benefits, hospital police departments, involuntary commitment, school lunches, hazardous duty and line-of-duty disability benefits, reading and language arts instruction, criminal procedure, education accountability, milk transportation, citizenship requirements for elected officials, student support personnel, school psychologist licensure compact, aircraft sales tax exemptions, glucagon, theft by deception, insurance regulatory authorizations, healthcare workforce credentials, welcome centers and rest areas, flags of remembrance, wages, affordable housing, legislative ethics, barbering, veterans’ benefits protections, KEES scholarships for non-certified schools, chickens on residential property, school nutrition, hospital price transparency, mental health and substance use coverage, food donation, vehicle lights, and several memorial bridge designations and an aviation economic development task force. The House then adjourned until 9:00 a.m. Friday, January 9, 2026.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Aug 22nd, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know of no cases of a Bigfoot being found in the state of Texas.
  • By ensuring these places stay sex-separated, you will be safeguarding the women and girls of Texas from
  • A part of that included making sure that they had their sex-separated facilities.
  • It's related to the separation of powers in both the Texas and U.S. Constitutions.
  • Greatest priority has been a power grab at the behest of an adjudicated rapist known to consort with
Bills: HB7, SB 8, HB7, SB 8
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:22:29.200> separation Looking at is the degrees of separation between high and low risk
  • We have to have the degrees of separation operationally to make sure that they're safe.
  • Whether that would be part of the larger medical contract or something that is separate and specific
  • <00:46:20.640> of now is the final negotiation of of now is the final negotiation of of specific
  • 00:57:30.079> of any um discussion of of a plan B of any um discussion of of a plan B of maybe
Summary: The committee met to hear updates from the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Corrections on two related issues: a proposed high-acuity juvenile mental health treatment facility and medical services contracts, including the impact of Wellpath’s bankruptcy proceedings. At the start, the chair agreed to hear the Department of Corrections first so members could get context on the medical contract before turning to DJJ’s proposal. DOC officials said Wellpath, the department’s comprehensive medical and mental health provider since 2013, was awarded its current contract through a 2021 procurement process. They reported that Wellpath’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan had been confirmed and that the company had transitioned ownership to lenders, but had not yet fully completed the bankruptcy process. DOC said there had been no service lapses, no reduction in care, and no known impact on Kentucky vendors or hospitals, and that DOC staff meet with Wellpath almost weekly. Members asked whether the committee had been kept informed and whether the bankruptcy could affect future services or subcontractors. DJJ then presented its concept for a high-acuity facility, explaining that the project is still in the preliminary programming and conceptual stage and has not yet entered the formal design phase with DECA. Officials said the proposal in the capital plan would create a 24-bed facility, with 16 clinical beds and 8 assessment/stabilization beds, to serve justice-involved youth with serious mental health needs. They said the facility would need to separate males and females and high- and low-risk youth, and that current placements often require sending youth out of state to places such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arkansas, and Texas. Staff said the goal is to centralize treatment, improve safety, and reduce the need for fragmented or out-of-state placements. Committee members questioned the cost estimates, staffing needs, and whether the facility was justified given the small number of youth currently placed out of state. DJJ said the operational estimate includes an unknown medical-contract component and that the number of youth needing the facility can fluctuate because of surges in the juvenile population. Officials also said they had consulted with South Carolina, which is developing a similar facility, and noted that renovating existing facilities was considered but could be more expensive or impractical than building a separate site. No votes or formal actions were taken during the discussion.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • The decision on behalf of the members of... has changed the course of the future generations to come.
  • Generations to come, it was absolutely an overreach of power on the decision makers' part to take a recreational
  • For over two years, those were all powerful indicators of what is or what could be in the future.
  • That are hard on different sides of issues—scope of practice issues, various types of issues.
  • This is a major overreach of power by Moss, and I'm not picking on...
Bills: HB471, HB473
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/11/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • of Colorado, and the state of Utah.
  • I kind of heard anecdotally a couple of years ago.
  • Then separately we started hearing from different types of industry, whether it be small businesses,
  • They're responsible for providing power or service to a number of farming communities, and I believe
  • They're responsible for providing power or service to a number of farming communities, and I believe
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Agriculture and Wildlife

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, that is kind of the crux of the bill. But why do we need this?
  • of Oklahoma.
  • of the state.
  • This bill is a product of a lot of conversations with both parties.
  • One of the things that we talked about and that was one of...
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Jan 28th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Just a quick show of hands, those in support of this bill?
  • Just a quick show of hands, those in support of this bill?
  • The Office of Special Education is the result of years of work in collaboration with families, advocates
  • of New Mexico.
  • The graph on the right just kind of illustrates the scale of the need for this kind of observations.
Bills: SB64, SB19, SB44, SB83
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • In Texas, they smuggle hundreds and hundreds of rounds of different types of ammunition to Mexico.
  • of smuggling of ammunition.
  • of.
  • It's generally in possession of so many of an aggravated amount of fraudulent pieces of identifying information
  • , theft of a telephone device, theft of a phone device.
Bills: HCR40, HB214, HB214
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • many of the um uh the illicit much of many of the um uh the illicit much of the<00:32:18.919>
  • <00:33:59.880> prevention largest funer of um sub of um prevention largest funer of um sub of
  • One of the really powerful moments... right now it runs the gamut um I think right now it runs the gamut
  • moments The commissioner said, “One of the really powerful moments of this job is meeting with
  • trying to get away from these of trying to get away from these powerful<01:10:37.280> um powerful
Bills: HF696, HF1429, HF1379
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is the custom and tradition of the Senate that we begin each session with a word of prayer.
  • Of Senate Bill 1732, will be questions of the author?
  • That concludes the explanation of Senate Bill 1317. There'll be Questions of the author.
  • The measure requires the veteran to have been a resident of the state of Oklahoma.
  • There will be questions of the author and questions of Senator Stanley.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Mar 19th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Only God knows how many hundreds of churches and tens of thousands of disciples have grown out of Pastor
  • I rise to acknowledge a powerful force in District 23. a group of chambers that I can always depend on
  • And for the rest of her life, she worked hard to make sure that whatever party was in power, was representing
  • I believe everyone will be more aligned. on common ground instead of being encouraged to be separated
  • We're seeing more division, and we're seeing more separate types of... of not only organizations and
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) Mar 19th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And one of those rights in the Bill of Rights was the separation of church and in state, not because
  • First off, I looked up a study to see, and it says that in terms of the consistency of the of the major
  • that came out of, not out of Texas, but out of Kentucky, said that we can no longer do that. 2002, a
  • of my constituents.
  • the society, of the people, of the government to step in.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/24/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • section two of the A26 amendment of section two of the A26 amendment of expanding<00:34:15.280><
  • them out of the pipeline in terms of them out of the pipeline in terms of their<00:54:02.000>
  • section of it. section of it.
  • of bills over on the table because of of bills over on the table because of that.<01:04:59.119><
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you used a letter of protection, what was the amount of money involved in that letter of protection
  • And that's kind of grounding the expectation of payment. Is that a pretty accurate summary of our?
  • Damages in court systems are very much influenced by a lot of people in power who really care about making
  • of Oklahoma.
  • of land.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education Feb 17th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • was kind of the premise of the Kennedy case as well.
  • of thing.
  • As a dad of six children, I obviously understand the importance of fatherhood. and the involvement of
  • supportive of our secret of war and the current administration.
  • number of teachers.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • > of<00:07:40.080> the two-time graduate of the of the two-time graduate of the of the
  • dean, and as director of a school of social work which is within a larger college of five departments
  • School of Dentistry. School of Dentistry.
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  • Is that part of what I'm of social work.