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AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- So when I'm voting on things like that, don't think that I don't believe in free enterprise. Why?
- So when I'm voting on things like that, don't think that I don't believe in free enterprise, that I don't
Summary:
The House opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the prior journal, and several points of personal privilege introducing guests and honoring military personnel and other visitors. Members also recognized a resident doctor in the gallery and guests from Sahuarita and Buckeye. Later in the day, the chamber paused to honor the University of Arizona men’s basketball team for its Final Four run with a legislative proclamation, and members met the team during a recess. The session also noted Motorcycle Awareness Day at the Capitol before adjournment.
The House then moved through Committee of the Whole on a large consent calendar of Senate bills, adopting committee amendments and reporting numerous measures do pass as amended, including SB 1067, 1100, 1137, 1174, 1189, 1206, 1215, 1235, 1254, 1413, 1503, 1620, 1668, 1671, and 1754. SB 1428 was retained on the calendar. The chamber also sent SB 1160 and SB 1193 to an additional Committee of the Whole under House Rule 12P for further amendment, and both later returned with amendments and were reported do pass as amended.
On third reading, the House passed SB 1058, which concerned firearm transactions and merchant coding, after debate over whether it would burden businesses and financial institutions or protect privacy and Second Amendment rights. The House also passed SB 1237 on election conduct and SB 1294 unanimously. SB 1372, dealing with reimbursement for nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists, drew extensive debate over rural health care access, insurance company practices, and the proper role of government; it ultimately passed 33-20. HB 2050, relating to radiologic technology, also passed and was transmitted to the governor.
The House concurred in Senate amendments to several House bills and then adjourned until Monday, April 13, 2026.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- So when I'm voting on things like that, don't think that I don't believe in free enterprise. Why?
- So when I'm voting on things like that, don't think that I don't believe in free enterprise, that I don't
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- She is an 11th grader at Enterprise High School and the guest of Representative Marcus.
- She is an 11th grader at Enterprise High School and the guest of Representative Marcus.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Number five, DHS with Inspira Enterprise, is a new $5 million contract for security and privacy assessment
- services for the Medicaid Enterprise Module Systems.
Committee:
All ALC-REVIEW
Summary:
The subcommittee first considered a used tire program contract for Arkansas District 4, an $88,000 one-year contract with LTR Intermediate Holdings. Senators raised concerns that the tire district’s revised business plan had not yet been approved and that the contract could leave the district unable to pay. Questions also focused on solicitation language that excluded bidders under corrective action plans. On motion, the committee held the contract until next month and encouraged the tire board to appear.
Members then reviewed and, without objection, moved forward a series of methods of finance, alternative delivery projects, and discretionary grants. These included multiple university and college projects such as renovations, roof replacements, a new UCA multipurpose arena, and a revised financing package for UA Fayetteville’s Maple Hill residence hall. The committee also reviewed DHS and Department of Health grants for aging services, substance abuse prevention, mental health, nutrition outreach, hearing-loss follow-up, HIV services, maternal health, and rural hospital quality improvement.
The committee next handled contract items, including a UAMS ratification for FMLA Source after an amendment was not submitted for review and payments continued past expiration; UAMS said it had retrained staff and would review for other missed contracts. Members also reviewed numerous construction, intergovernmental, out-of-state, and in-state contracts across state agencies and universities. Questions were raised about an out-of-state aeronautics study, a U of A Fayetteville parking guidance system, and a Veterans Affairs nursing contract. Most items were reviewed without objection, and the meeting adjourned after informational reports on contract amendments and minor contracts.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/12/2026 - House Rural Economic Development
Rural Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- And that is Free Enterprise, I believe. Oh, is there only one? There's only one.
- And that is Free Enterprise, I believe. Oh, is there only one? There's only one.
Committees:
House Rural Economic Development , House House Rural Economic Development Committee of Reference
Keywords:
utility consumer, rate intervention, public service corporation, Arizona Revised Statutes, residential rates, consumer protection, appropriation, Apache Junction, tourism, recreation, Superstition trails, funding, infrastructure, C-PACE, capital expenditure, special assessment, property improvement, local government financing, energy efficiency, water conservation
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 2, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Stevenson Stevens, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Waives in opposition Leslie Enterprise
- My name is Lauren Jackson and I'm here on behalf of Gems Family Enterprises, which is the largest independent
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The country and the world need to see the Texan values of liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise
- the country in the world need to see the Texan values of liberty, personal responsibility-free enterprise
Bills:
HB12 , HB149 , HB 12 , HB149 , SB229 , SB1361 , SB1749 , SB1897 , SB2113 , SB2566 , SB2677 , SB1652 , SB2327 , SB2344 , SB2696
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
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.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Fiscal Responsibility Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Fiscal Responsibility
Transcript Highlights:
- Abbeville who could not be here today and feel the exact same way, as well as the constituents within Enterprise
- Enterprise and Ozark that is not within his district.
Committee:
House Fiscal Responsibility
Keywords:
business regulation, nonprofit entities, electronic filing, merger agreements, limited liability companies, partnerships, property transfer, termination fees, HB140, private sewer systems, wastewater utilities, Public Service Commission, PSC jurisdiction, utility regulation, rate setting, rate consolidation, affiliated systems, common ownership, private utilities, sewer rates
NJ
New Jersey 2026-2027 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Appropriations Jun 28th, 2026
Senate Budget and Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- Tim Doherty, Doherty Enterprises, in favor. Mezcal Restaurant, in favor, in order to testify.
- Tim Dirty, Dirty Enterprise in favor. Mezcal Restaurant. Tim Doherty, Doherty, Enterprise in favor.
- confidential and privileged, and the Commissioner, the Director of the Division of Revenue and Enterprise
Committee:
Senate Senate Budget and Appropriations
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- through a process where they've brought in technical assistance providers, typically like Self-Help Enterprises
- I'm the public policy director for Self-Help Enterprises, the technical assistance provider that Didi
- I'm the public policy director for Self-Help Enterprises, the technical assistance provider that Didi
- We regularly reach out to people on the ag side — I'm talking about Self-Help Enterprises.
Committee:
Senate Rules
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- It's free enterprise.
- <00:19:33.159><c> know</c><00:19:33.440><c> it's</c><00:19:33.640><c> free</c><00:19:33.840><c> enterprise
- </c><00:19:34.919><c> It's</c> it you know it's free enterprise.
- It's it you know it's free enterprise.
Committee:
House Appropriations
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Health Committee and Privacy Committee and Consumer Protection Committee May 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- vice president of AI and emerging technology at Kaiser Permanente, where I'm fortunate to lead our enterprise
- Where I'm fortunate to lead our enterprise program on responsible AI, ensuring that our use of AI at
- of rigorous quality assurance testing as we were deploying ambient scribe technology across our enterprise
- looking exactly at those questions that you were... ...the ambient scribe technology across our enterprise
Summary:
The joint informational hearing of the Assembly Health and Privacy Committees focused on generative AI in health care, with opening remarks emphasizing both its potential to improve care and its risks around privacy, bias, liability, workforce impacts, and unequal access. Chair Bauer-Kahan and Chair Bonta framed the discussion around how California can encourage beneficial innovation while protecting patients, especially given the sensitivity of health data and the possibility that AI could worsen existing disparities if not carefully governed.
The first panel featured representatives from Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, Penguin AI, and Google, who described current uses of AI such as ambient clinical scribes, nursing documentation tools, imaging triage, maternal-fetal risk prediction, and administrative automation. Speakers said these tools can reduce clinician burden, improve patient experience, speed treatment, and in some cases improve outcomes, including a reported mortality benefit from a Kaiser predictive model and faster thrombectomy times at Cedars-Sinai. Members raised concerns about accuracy with accents and multilingual visits, whether predictive tools could reinforce bias or lead to more interventions such as C-sections, and how to ensure a human remains in the loop for important decisions.
The second panel, including representatives from the California Health Care Foundation, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, focused on policy and governance challenges. Testimony highlighted examples of AI supporting homelessness outreach and community health work, but also warned that biased algorithms can encode inequities, especially when trained on data that reflect under-treatment of Black, rural, or low-income patients. Witnesses urged clearer standards for trustworthy AI, stronger monitoring and governance structures, better data access for accountability, and attention to the safety net’s limited resources. Several speakers argued that states should require health systems to have AI governance processes, clarify liability between developers and deployers, and regulate downstream uses of AI while preserving access to data for lifesaving research and oversight.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House bill would halt spending funds on Rondo land bridge over I-94 3/3/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Humphrey School of Public Affairs on the research team who calculated the disadvantaged business enterprise
- the research team who calculated the disadvantaged<00:43:23.680><c> business</c><00:43:24.079><c> Enterprise
- </c><00:43:24.720><c> goals</c> disadvantaged business Enterprise goals disadvantaged business Enterprise
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Contract with Enterprise Services, I mean, it's, uh, we're still trying to get that and then get it online
- with the understand um you know contract with the uh<00:41:36.920><c> with</c><00:41:37.280><c> Enterprise
- Services</c><00:41:38.480><c> I</c><00:41:38.560><c> mean</c><00:41:38.839><c> it's</c> uh with Enterprise
- Services I mean it's uh with Enterprise Services I mean it's uh<00:41:40.000><c> we're</c><00:41:40.200
Committee:
House Public Safety
Summary:
The Committee on Public Safety heard testimony on several bills. HB 628 HD1, relating to education, would reinstate a prior law allowing veterans whose high school education was interrupted by wartime to receive a diploma. Testimony was generally supportive from the Office of Veterans Services, the Department of Education, the Hawaii Military Affairs Council, and an individual testifier, with one person in opposition. The committee later recommended passage of HB 628 HD1 as is, and the motion was adopted.
The committee also heard HB 1158 HD1 and HB 1159 HD1, both relating to commercial harbors. HB 1158 HD1 concerns firefighting at commercial harbors and drew support from the Department of Transportation; the committee recommended passage as is and adopted the recommendation. HB 1159 HD1 would require masters or persons in charge of vessels to comply with a Harbor Master’s order to evacuate a commercial harbor during emergencies. Testimony included support from Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Transportation, and comments from the Hawaii Harbor Users Group. Members raised concerns about small boat operators and safety, and the committee passed the bill with reservations.
The committee then discussed HB 1262, relating to the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund, and HB 1296, relating to the major disaster fund. Supporters of HB 1262 included the Climate Advisory Team and AARP Hawaii, while the Department of Budget and Finance cautioned about duplication of benefits with federal disaster aid and the need to preserve the fund’s primary purpose. Members questioned how the bill would interact with federal assistance and whether the fund could be used more broadly; no vote was taken, and the bill was deferred to decision-making. On HB 1296, HEMA and Budget and Finance opposed the measure, citing the need for flexibility in emergencies and concerns that added reporting requirements could hinder response efforts, while the Tax Foundation of Hawaii noted the major disaster fund is much smaller than the EBF. The committee likewise deferred HB 1296 to decision-making, and the meeting adjourned.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 463 would prohibit the carrying of firearms in, quote, safe school zones.
- Having considered the safe school zones.
- Individuals intent on school zones.
- Also, some interpret this bill when you look at what is a safe school zone.
- </c> you look at what is a safe school zone. you look at what is a safe school zone.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, June 9, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In my hometown<03:13:14.560><c> of</c><03:13:14.800><c> Enterprise,</c><03:13:15.920><c> Angel</c><03
- :13:16.319><c> and</c><03:13:16.479><c> Jeremy</c> hometown of Enterprise, Angel and Jeremy hometown
- of Enterprise, Angel and Jeremy C,<03:13:17.520><c> a</c><03:13:17.760><c> newlywed</c><03:13:18.399>
- Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities towards the president. enterprises.
- Special treatment that has enterprises.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (02/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- That this is a rebate as opposed to a credit against the business enterprise tax.
- </c> credit against the business Enterprise credit against the business Enterprise tax<00:06:56.800><
- Finally, she noted for those unfamiliar with the business enterprise tax credit against the business
- She concluded by noting that, for those unfamiliar with the business enterprise tax credit against the
- She also noted that, for those unfamiliar with the business enterprise tax credit against the business
Summary:
The committee first heard HB 659, which would establish the New Hampshire College Graduate Retention Incentive Program. A Department of Revenue Administration analyst explained technical issues in the bill, focusing on whether the incentive is intended to operate as a rebate or a tax credit, how it would be administered, and how it would interact with the business enterprise tax and business profits tax. She said the bill’s language was unclear on the administering agency, effective tax years, caps, and carry-forward treatment, and noted that reducing BET can also reduce the BET credit against BPT, though not on a one-for-one basis. Committee members asked follow-up questions about the BET/BPT interaction, administrative costs, and whether the Department of Business and Economic Affairs would need additional staffing. Andrew Horn then testified in support, saying the bill is meant to address the large number of New Hampshire college graduates who leave the state after graduation by encouraging them to stay and by incentivizing businesses to hire them. The chair closed the hearing on HB 659 after no further public testimony.
The committee then took up HB 770, a bill to establish a program allowing New Hampshire high school students to earn tuition credits at state higher education institutions through community service. Representative Schultz described the bill as a “triple play” intended to increase volunteerism, expand service and internship opportunities for students, and make college more affordable. Ryan Casey, a junior at Bishop Brady High School, testified that the proposal would help students reduce future loan debt while benefiting communities and encouraging young people to attend college in New Hampshire. Committee members asked about eligibility, including why private and preparatory school students were excluded, whether public school students would qualify, whether mandatory service hours would count, and how the bill’s references to education and business eligibility should be read. Schultz said the exclusion of private and prep schools was intended because public school students are more clearly New Hampshire residents, and she noted that mandatory school service hours had been excluded in revisions. The Department of Education then testified that the program would require significant administration, estimating at least three full-time staff, software or tracking systems, and rulemaking to oversee volunteer sites, schools, student eligibility, and tuition credit distribution. No vote was taken in the excerpt, and the hearing remained in testimony phase.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Capital Planning Advisory Board (7-9-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- It may be a few years, but we would like to take this time to really invest in our research enterprise
- Our third priority I want to talk to you about is the enterprise data center.
- When you look at the amount of equipment that you’re putting into those things, so an enterprise data
- </c><01:36:47.440><c> data</c> into those things, so an enterprise data into those things, so an enterprise
- data uh systems are in need enterprise data uh systems are in need of<01:37:13.520><c> renovating,</
Summary:
The meeting opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a roll call establishing a quorum. The committee then approved the prior meeting’s minutes. Members were reminded to silence cell phones, and the chair noted an informational item on capital plan amendments made by state agencies during the latest revision period before moving to university capital plan presentations.
Eastern Kentucky University President David McFaden outlined EKU’s enrollment growth, strong Kentucky student retention, and signature programs in nursing, occupational therapy, criminal justice, education, manufacturing engineering, and aviation. EKU’s main capital priorities were a new health innovation project to support a proposed osteopathic medical program, including a $50 million escrow requirement until accreditation; a collaborative center for health innovation to address outdated health sciences facilities; a $5 million startup request for an air traffic control program; aircraft upgrades for the aviation fleet; and continued asset preservation funding. In response to questions, EKU said roughly 40% of the new health facility would be dedicated to the medical school, with shared simulation space for multiple health programs, and that aviation maintenance needs are currently being met through KCTCS partners but could be expanded if demand grows.
KCTCS representatives then described the system’s scale and capital needs, noting service to 107,000 students, extensive dual credit and workforce training, and a network of 342 buildings across 70 campuses. They said prior legislative support, including $277 million in asset preservation and $90 million released for approved projects, had helped with safety, roofs, energy efficiency, and campus security. Their current priorities include about $30 million for systemwide safety and security upgrades, renovations tied to consolidation and footprint reduction under Senate Joint Resolution 179, and broader asset preservation needs estimated at roughly $300 million to $325 million. Members discussed the need to preserve and expand skilled trades training, and KCTCS said its plan includes construction trades and flexible, multiuse facilities that can adapt to changing workforce needs. No votes were taken beyond approval of the minutes, and the presentations concluded with questions and discussion only.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, March 24, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- of us who are delving in these topics have really glommed on to the risk posed to our research enterprise
- of us who are delving in these topics have really glommed on to the risk posed to our research enterprise
- of us who are delving in these topics have really glommed on to the risk posed to our research enterprise
- Here to make this one right, and to strengthen the United States and to strengthen our research enterprise
- increased protections of<02:55:56.160><c> our</c><02:55:56.399><c> R&D</c><02:55:57.319><c> Enterprise
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/10/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Almost 40% of our revenue streams come from our social enterprises, about 30% of our budget comes from
- 38.680><c> social</c> revenue streams come from our social revenue streams come from our social Enterprises
- about 30% of our budget Enterprises about 30% of our budget comes<00:41:42.240><c> from</c><00:41:42.720
- c> dollars</c><00:42:01.400><c> as</c><00:42:01.520><c> well</c><00:42:01.760><c> as</c> social Enterprise
- dollars as well as social Enterprise dollars as well as private<00:42:02.440><c> Foundation</c><00:42
Committee:
Senate Jobs and Economic Development