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HI
Transcript Highlights:
- We have Hawaii Government Employees Association comments. Hello, Chair, Vice Chair, members.
- SHPD and the department to really look into filling these vacant positions so that they have enough employees
- establishment of a new revolving fund. support hey uh Hawaii government support hey uh Hawaii government employees
- HB 990 is the appropriations bill for claims against the state, its officers, and its employees.
- HB 990 is the appropriations bill for claims against the state, its officers, and its employees.
Committee:
House Finance
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-09 (1:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We will continue with our farewell speeches through Wednesday, and I will be making my remarks on Thursday
- committed an antitrust violation or failed to meet certain requirements before restricting a user's speech
- I know during my speech I named, I called out the folks in my family, but I'd like to recognize you all
- We have a farewell speech, so I will turn it over to the Speaker.
- How does this interact with existing district policies on outside compensation for employees, and does
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Lee County Judge John Carlin, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of Officer Cody Popple of the FSU Police Department for his actions during the April campus shooting. The Speaker also outlined the final week of session, noting the chamber had passed 253 House bills and 149 Senate bills to date, with budget negotiations still unresolved and the 2026-27 budget not expected to be completed that week. The special order report was adopted, setting the day’s calendar and debate times.
The chamber then took up several Senate bills, mostly technical or open-government sunset review measures, and passed them with little or no opposition: SB 100, SB 104, and SB 102 on Florida statutes; SB 7006, SB 7014, SB 7002, SB 7012, SB 7024, SB 7016, SB 7026, SB 7008, SB 7000, and SB 7004 on public-records or meeting exemptions; and SB 7022 on public records related to exams. Members asked questions on a few of these bills, especially the exam-records bill and the military and gaming-related exemptions, but the measures generally advanced without amendment. Votes ranged from unanimous to modest opposition, with SB 7026 passing 106-3 and SB 7022 passing 101-8.
The most substantial debate centered on SB 7040, which recreates the emergency preparedness and response trust fund in the Executive Office of the Governor. Rep. Eskamani offered an amendment to let the fund expire, arguing the money had been misused and that the Legislature should retain control over spending; several members supported her position, while others said the fund is needed for rapid disaster response. A strike-all amendment from Rep. Griffiths was adopted instead, adding accountability provisions and expanding the fund to cover man-made emergencies as well as natural disasters. The bill then passed 82-25. The House also passed CS/CS/SB 302 on coastal resiliency, CS/CS/SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits, CS/SB 474 on military affairs, and SB 488 on Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issues, with SB 488 still under amendment debate when the transcript ends.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (02/04/2025)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- who just offer to pay for employees who just offer to pay for their<00:39:11.880><c> employee</c><00
- if the employee re-employ the employee if the employee establishes<00:55:03.760><c> some</c><00:55:03.960
- to the employees that to the employees to the employees okay<00:56:42.880><c> okay</c><00:56:43.200>
- They pay from as low as $462 a year per employee to as much as $980 per year per employee.
- They pay from as low as $462 a year per employee to as much as $980 per year per employee.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 Apr 25th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- You can stand up and give a floor speech on your own.
- Representative Faulconer, I'll continue with my speech, as many do, that happens to be written down so
- I'm not sure that any agreements or settlements that they might reach with an employee who might have
- As I was explaining before the Attorney General's former employee interrupted...
- I have employees; they show up, they get paid, and then you all required your pay.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- relating to the authority of property owners association to regulate the assembly association and speech
- HB 635 by Flores relating to the authority of certain state employees to work flexible hours to work
- on Delivery of Government Efficiency, HB 636 by Wally relating to the authority of certain state employees
- Minneon County and regional government HB 717 by bleach relating to the right of a public school employee
- to gauge in religious speech or prayer while on duty refer to the Committee on State Affairs HB 718
VA
Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Technology and Science, Joint Commission on May 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Just to give a little bit of a scope as to what it is that we handle: we have about 100,000 employees
- Our chief financial officer has also been a seasoned VITA employee and has been around for a long time
- Our chief financial officer has also been as a seasoned Vita employee and has been around for a long
- Fourth is preventing censorship and protecting free speech.
- Does a chatbot, for example, have free speech? Does it fall under the corporate speech modicum?
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections Feb 16th, 2026 at 08:30 am
State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections
Transcript Highlights:
- They are not employees of the state.
- For an employee to receive benefits under the shared leave program on the basis of the employee or their
- or their family member. action against them or an employee or their family member for an employee to
- It's really out of the hearts of state employees wanting to help another state employee that's in need
- I'm the President of the Washington Federation of State Employees.
Keywords:
state employment, classified service, civil service, job qualifications, degree requirements, postgraduate degree, master's degree, doctorate, higher education, Office of Financial Management, OFM, classification plan, salary survey, market rate pay, compensation, workforce diversity, hiring reform, employment eligibility, work authorization, DACA
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 15th, 2026
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In fact, I took notes on how well your speeches were.
- So part of her speech is, part of what she did when she won this, all the whereases are in your citation
- But it says one of the things that she did, one part of her speech is a thing called Balance Bites: screen
- And with Heather today is actually an employee in my insurance office, Ashley Campbell.
- I think he's actually giving his going-away speech right now.
Bills:
SR31 , SB2060 , SB2184 , HB1371 , HB1411 , HB1933 , HB2361 , HB2398 , HB2893 , HB3006 , HB3044 , HB3127 , HB3322 , HB3147 , HB1276 , HB3472 , HB3522 , HB3704 , HB4303 , HB4319
Keywords:
military, children, resilience, Purple Up!, military families, master development district, improvement district, public improvements, infrastructure financing, special assessments, statutory revision, consolidation, law amendment, emergency legislation, legal clarity, oil and gas, mineral rights, proceeds, royalties, escrow account
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer, and spent much of the day on recognitions and special presentations, including Capitol Cowboy Day honoring Oklahoma State University, the Doctor and Nurse of the Day, Miss Oklahoma Teen Taylor Meeks, military families for Purple Up for Military Kids Day, and several visiting groups in the galleries. During the OSU presentation, university leaders highlighted OSU’s agricultural research and asked for support for an upcoming agronomy research bill, and Coach Eric Morris was welcomed as the new head football coach.
The chamber then took up Senate Resolution 31, designating April 15 as Purple Up for Military Kids Day in Oklahoma, which was presented with remarks about the sacrifices of military children and families and the significance of wearing purple. The Senate also advanced and passed several measures, including bills dealing with duplicate statutory sections and statutory interpretation, a negotiated oil and gas bill, the True Grit Trail, nitric oxide sales to minors, foster care and juvenile transition documents, a paraprofessional certification change, an Indian education council sunset extension, veterans’ tax refund donations, a Route 66 specialty license plate, cell phone restrictions in K-12 classrooms, tire pyrolysis funding, ABLE Commission reporting, scholarship-granting organization tax credits, municipal ordinance publication deadlines, and agency rule authority and review.
Most bills were advanced without objection and passed by wide margins, with a few closer votes on House Bill 2398, House Bill 3127, House Bill 3704, and House Bill 1276. House Bill 1276, extending the classroom cell phone prohibition, drew the most debate, with supporters citing improved student focus and classroom interaction and one member raising local control concerns before voting yes. House Bill 3704, concerning participation in a federal tax credit for scholarship-granting organizations, prompted questions about double-dipping on tax benefits and state sovereignty, but it ultimately passed 38-8. The Senate then announced a Technology and Telecommunications meeting for the next morning and adjourned until 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 16.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Mar 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Jeff Seilich of Boise, Idaho, to the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho. Welcome, sir.
- here before you for your consideration of my gubernatorial appointment to the Board of the Public Employee
- The Sauter case is a commercial speech case related to an attorney who was advertising.
- that states can compel businesses to disclose factual, non-controversial information in commercial speech
- The Sauter case is a commercial speech case related to an attorney who was advertising.
Summary:
Senate Commerce approved the February 24, 2026 minutes and heard a gubernatorial reappointment of Jeff Seilich to the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho board. The committee took no action on the appointment during the meeting, with the chair indicating a vote would likely occur later in the week. PERSI’s director and the nominee described the system as stable and well funded.
The committee then advanced House Bill 543, a technical PERSI bill updating language to comply with federal Secure Act 2.0 requirements by changing post-tax catch-up contribution language to Roth contributions in the PERSI Choice Plan. Representative Ben Furman and PERSI Director Mike Hampton said the change was purely technical. The bill received a due pass recommendation to the Senate floor.
House Bill 563, which revises CPA licensure pathways to address workforce shortages, also received a due pass recommendation. Representative Jeff Ehlers and Idaho Society of CPAs representatives said the bill would create three pathways to licensure, lower education barriers, preserve the exam requirement, and ease reciprocity for out-of-state CPAs. Supporters said the profession is facing retirements and declining exam candidates, while committee members generally supported the effort to reduce barriers.
The committee spent most of the meeting on Senate Bill 1310, the Human Fetal Tissue Transparency Act, which would require product labeling when human fetal tissue or related cell lines were used in testing or production. Supporters argued the bill would provide consumer transparency and informed consent for moral and conscience reasons, while opponents raised concerns about federal preemption, enforcement, costs, and practical implementation, especially for medical products and retailers. After extensive debate, the committee adopted a substitute motion to hold the bill in committee by a 5-4 roll call vote, with Senators Guthrie, Nichols, Burns, Ruchti, and Lenney in favor and Senators Zito, Ward-Engelking, and Foreman opposed, resulting in SB 1310 being held.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 4/30/25
Rules and Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, there's lots of employees that are seasonal that we give unemployment to.
- I appreciate that impassioned speech, Representative Koegel, but it sounds to me like that doesn't need
- I appreciate that impassion<00:15:16.959><c> speech,</c><00:15:17.279><c> Representative</c><00:15:17.760
- ><c> Kegel,</c> impassion speech, Representative Kegel, impassion speech, Representative Kegel, but<00
- Those summer employees, or those people that signed up for the job knowing that they would only be working
Committee:
House Rules and Legislative Administration
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/10/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Same story: this is a Delaware company founded just a few months ago, didn't have any employees, they
- Same story: this is a Delaware company founded just a few months ago, didn't have any employees, they
- Same story: this is a Delaware company founded just a few months ago, didn't have any employees, they
- Same story: this is a Delaware company founded just a few months ago, didn't have any employees, they
- </c> months ago didn't have any employees months ago didn't have any employees they<01:03:52.359><c>
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- It does compel speech.
- It does compel speech.
- It does compel speech.
- It regulates speech.
- </c> employees time under their employment. employees time under their employment.
Committee:
House Judiciary
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-12 (10:30AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill specifies that promote is not just speech alone.
- The bill specifies that promote is not just speech alone.
- You don't have to like someone's speech, but the way to combat it is with better speech, not to cancel
- that speech.
- You're repressing our speech today.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Session Day 41 (3-6-26)
Kentucky House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of the things that we have in place in this legislation condemn or employees or agents cannot Which
- </c><00:13:57.120><c> or</c><00:13:57.360><c> agents</c><00:13:57.840><c> cannot</c> Condemnor employees
- </c> Counselors, the Board of Speech-Language Counselors, the Board of Speech-Language Pathology<00:29
- to only communicate with a employees to only communicate with a traceable<00:40:24.040><c> system</c
- It includes exemptions for employees.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 4/25/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- You can stand up and give a floor speech on your own. Representative Falconer.
- </c> You can stand up and give a floor speech You can stand up and give a floor speech on<00:09:13.680
- </c> that's always the best part of a speech that's always the best part of a speech when<00:36:57.680
- I have employees, they show up, they get paid, and then you all required your pay.
- I have employees, they at my business.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- A lot of people don't know that I had a... ...speech impediment for 20 years. Okay?
- So I had a speech impediment for 20 years. I couldn't say my last name, if you could believe it.
- I was walking by their table, and I saw speech and hearing sign up.
- And I know we have some folks trying to go across the way and listen to speeches.
- President, SB 794 requires that every employee of a residential facility or day training program for
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Civil Rights & Judiciary Feb 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- you, Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5906 prohibits early learning providers and school district employees
- Second, these organizations may not allow an officer or an employee of an agency conducting immigration
- It very simply provides that employees at schools, daycares, hospitals, both public and private, nursing
- be indistinguishable from a genuine representation or recording that misrepresents the appearance, speech
- be indistinguishable from a genuine representation or recording that misrepresents the appearance speech
Summary:
The Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee heard testimony on several bills. On SB 5906, the SAFE Act, staff and Sen. Hansen described protections limiting immigration enforcement access to non-public areas in schools, early learning settings, higher education, health care facilities, adult family homes, and ballot-processing areas, and restricting collection of immigration-status information. Supporters said the bill would clarify and strengthen existing Keep Washington Working policies, while some witnesses requested amendments to better define health care facilities, clarify adult family home and election-related provisions, and keep Section 6 on ballot security. Some members questioned the factual basis for reported ICE activity near schools and daycares and the distinction between judicial and administrative warrants.
The committee also heard SB 5886 on personality rights and forged digital likenesses. Staff explained that the bill would add digitally created or modified likenesses to the Personality Rights Act, raise civil penalties, and allow recovery of actual and non-economic damages in forged-digital-likeness cases. The sponsor and supporters said the bill is intended to address AI deepfakes and identity misuse while preserving satire and fair use; student and advocacy witnesses supported the measure as a way to protect students and victims of digital impersonation. The committee then heard SB 5169, which expands child hearsay and closed-circuit testimony rules to older children and additional offenses. Prosecutors and forensic interviewers supported the bill as necessary in trafficking and child abuse cases, while defense advocates opposed it as an overbroad expansion that could raise confrontation-clause issues and create legal challenges.
Additional hearings included SB 5865, which would move garnishment form updates from statute to the Washington Pattern Forms Committee; judges supported it as a way to fix a wage-withholding calculation error and allow future updates without legislation. SB 5912 would reinstate the Indigent Defense Task Force to study statewide public defense delivery and recommend sustainable reforms; counties, the Office of Public Defense, and defense groups supported it. SB 6009 would make permanent the current process for direct review of administrative decisions by the Court of Appeals and retain land-use transfer provisions; a Court of Appeals judge supported the bill. SB 6087 would extend limited liability for donations of children’s items to religious organizations and add strollers and car seats, with support from Zero Waste Washington. The committee did not take final votes on these bills during the hearing.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 39th Legislative Day Jun 23rd, 2026
Delaware Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- to attend such meetings or punishing employees for refusing to attend them.
- I own my own company up north, 100 employees, and I call an employee meeting, I guess, is what we're
- That employer can still hold meetings; they just can’t force their employees to attend.
- So any violence, be that speech or action, toward any of the voters or the workers, would be covered
- And no, Rob, you don't get to make a speech.
Summary:
The Senate received House communications listing numerous House-passed bills, substitutes, amendments, and concurrent resolutions, and then took up committee reports and a consent calendar. Consent Calendar 65 passed unanimously with 20 yes votes and included Senate Resolution 26 recognizing Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, House Concurrent Resolution 131 on apprenticeship programs for school-based mental health professionals, House Concurrent Resolution 137 on mathematics instruction review, and House Concurrent Resolution 148 on a statewide menopause education strategy. Later, Consent Agenda N also passed with the required two-thirds vote and included a large group of bills on evidence and witnesses, Family Court jurisdiction, theft by impersonation, realty transfer tax, auto insurance practices, child services and educational services, STD prevention, agricultural and forestry matters, menstrual disorder materials, a Smyrna charter change, massage/body work, dry needling, and lead poisoning screening.
Several substantive bills were debated and passed. Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 314, modernizing Delaware’s rape shield law and clarifying how courts handle evidence of prior false sexual assault allegations, passed 21-0. Senate Bill 347, a cleanup bill to the Medical Debt Protection Act that expands prohibited collection actions and requires disclosure when a collector is a large health care facility, also passed 21-0. House Bill 300, creating a statewide Title IX coordinator in the Department of Education to support compliance and data collection for interscholastic athletics, passed after debate; Senate Amendment 1 to the bill, which would have required athletes to compete according to biological sex, was defeated 6-14 with one absent, and the underlying bill then passed 20-0 with one absent.
The Senate also passed House Substitute 1 for House Bill 84, which limits mandatory employee attendance at meetings where employers convey political or religious views, after questions about employer, union, and exemption coverage; House Substitute 1 for House Bill 301, which clarifies criminal penalties for violence, threats, and intimidation at polling places and election-related sites, passed after discussion of what conduct it would cover; House Bill 63, addressing fireworks disclosures and related regulation, passed 19-2 after senators discussed enforcement and impacts on veterans, children, and pets; and House Bill 348, updating the electric vehicle rebate program to give DENREC more flexibility and expand eligibility, passed 16-5. The chamber then recessed until the next day.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:12 pm
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Guard their speech so it reflects the truth revealed in your holy will. Touch their hearts.
- to the forefront as they have the abilities to... bring their employees to the forefront as they have
- good employees that are loyal to them.
- They will tell them, you've paying an employee below the floor of the pay, and— It.
- They will tell them you've paying an employee below the floor of the pay, and we're not going to pay
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine eliminating waste by the foreign aid bureaucracy. Feb 13th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Michael Schellenberger is a bestselling author. who writes on a wide range of topics, including free speech
- He is the community-based research chair of politics, censorship, and free speech at the University of
- International Development USAID has had as its mission the promotion of America's values of free speech
- Recommitment to an American First foreign policy should require an unwavering commitment to free speech
- President Trump has obviously signed an executive order supporting free speech, but I think it was a
Keywords:
fiscal responsibility, government waste, foreign aid, funding resolution, legislative oversight
Summary:
The committee meeting addressed government spending and foreign aid, with a particular emphasis on perceived wasteful expenditures. A significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to discussing a funding resolution for the committee, which received unanimous support from the members present. The chair noted a quorum at the beginning of the meeting, signaling that the committee was ready to conduct its business. Discussions highlighted ongoing debates concerning fiscal responsibility and the necessity of legislative oversight, notably regarding foreign aid allocations and their implications for domestic fiscal health.