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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 1, 2025 - 12:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- I think it's a community that we used to have in our society.
- Plakon used to do a lot in this space. And I think we’ve done good as a state.
- It’s us educating our communities.
- I'm using that because that's my area.
- I think all of us have the best of intent when it comes to our students and making... ...all of us have
Summary:
The Human Services Subcommittee met with a full agenda and reported all measures favorably. The committee first heard HB 1327, which would codify the Hope Florida program in state law, and HB 1329, the related public-records exemption for Hope Florida participants; both bills drew questions about oversight, duplication of services, staffing, and data privacy, and both passed 17-0 after an amendment to HB 1329. The committee then approved HB 391, allowing certified batterers intervention programs to include optional faith-based content while remaining grounded in required therapeutic models; an amendment clarified that participation in faith-based components must be strictly voluntary. Supporters argued the bill restores choice and access, while opponents raised concerns about church-state separation and uneven availability of secular alternatives; the bill passed 17-0.
Members also advanced HB 1065, creating an Alzheimer’s disease awareness initiative through the Department of Elder Affairs, with broad support from members who shared personal experiences and emphasized early detection and public education. HB 1163, dealing with recovery residences, passed 12-5 after debate over local zoning authority, home rule, and whether the bill would help or hinder placement of level four recovery homes near urban cores. Several members said they supported recovery housing in principle but wanted more clarity on task force findings and local impacts before fully backing the measure.
The committee next approved HB 969, which shifts evaluation of school district mental health assistance programs to OPAGA and requires reports on outcomes and effectiveness; members stressed the need to know whether substantial mental health funding is improving student outcomes. HB 1191, which decriminalizes allowing children to travel to school, play outdoors, or stay home for reasonable periods and codifies current DCF policy, passed 16-0 with support framed around parental rights and child development. Finally, HB 1207, the Tristan Murphy Act, passed 15-0 and would expand mental health diversion and treatment options, including training for first responders, a forensic hospital diversion pilot, a behavioral health data repository, and additional evaluation requirements before inmate work assignments. The meeting adjourned after all agenda bills were reported favorably.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Vets Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- Vice Chair Henderson-Gager, can you lead us, please?
- Many of us are alive because of the lives that they saved.
- He left us, my mom, with four boys. I've come from that background.
- So that 28% is significant to us, and 10% are spouses.
- What we're trying to do is help us, help us. And when I'm helping, it's therapeutic for me as well.
Committee:
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Training using simulated eyes was very effective at refining these skills.
- These same models are used in optometry schools.
- So these are just sort of the common top ones that they're using.
- Everyone I have spoken to who has used that pathway, has used midwives in their practice, has been more
- Our students came to us asking for resources to save their lives.
Committee:
House Health Finance and Policy
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- But it does give us another tool.
- But it does give us another tool.
- None of us need that.
- I'm going to just use my district.
- Yes, they can be used for a snack, but.
Bills:
HB2510 , HB3589 , HB4611 , HB4655 , HB4665 , HB4666 , HB4670 , HB4700 , HB4730 , HB4798 , HB4838 , HB5136 , HB5243 , HB5302 , HB5539
Committee:
House Human Services
Keywords:
assisted living, healthcare, licensing, criminal offense, personal assistance, group home, regulation, health and safety, inspections, resident care, criminal background checks, adoption, parental rights, registry, vital statistics, disclosure, counseling, foster care, independent living, financial literacy
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 50 would allow judges in all judicial circuits the option of using veterans courts.
- SB 50 would allow judges in all judicial circuits the option of using veterans courts.
- Chair, for the work of your staff and helping us with this bill.
- It's not the criminal enterprise that it used to be.
- It still uses the criteria. Again, it's in there.
Committee:
Senate Criminal Justice
Keywords:
veterans, treatment court, nonviolent felony, probation, mental health, places of worship, house of worship, church, mosque, synagogue, religious security, armed security, volunteer security, private security, security guard licensing, licensure exemption, Florida Statutes chapter 493, Class G license, Class C license, security services
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and considered several criminal justice bills. SB 50 on Veterans Treatment Courts was amended to clarify that entry into the program requires approval of the state attorney and to make the bill prospective only. Supporters, including veterans advocates and crime survivors, argued the bill would expand access to treatment-focused diversion for veterans with nonviolent charges and service-related trauma. The committee adopted both amendments and reported the bill favorably. SB 52, which creates an exemption from security licensing requirements for unpaid armed volunteers providing security at places of worship, also drew support from law enforcement and faith leaders who said it would clarify a legal gray area for churches; the committee adopted a strike-all amendment and reported the bill favorably.
The committee then considered SB 436 on felony battery and prison release reoffender enhancements. An amendment was adopted to align felony battery involving injury to law enforcement with the bill’s intent to address the disparity between battery on an officer and resisting with violence. Members discussed concerns about mandatory minimums and the scope of the enhancement, including how it might apply in cases involving older prior offenses or mental health crises, but the bill was ultimately reported favorably. SB 676, which creates graduated penalties for adults who involve minors in animal cruelty offenses and increases penalties for related conduct, was supported by animal welfare advocates and reported favorably and unanimously.
Later, the committee approved SB 536 on criminal gang members after adopting an amendment clarifying the definition of gang-related conduct and requiring multiple criteria for gang membership. Members raised concerns about social media, neighborhood association, juvenile application, and overbroad labeling, but the sponsor said the bill was aimed at gang-related criminal activity and recruitment, not innocent association. The committee also reported favorably SB 432 on controlled substances, which adds concentrated 7-OH to Schedule I and creates penalties for xylazine products that resemble candy or food and for trafficking in xylazine; SB 524, an FDLE bill updating duties related to medical examiners, training, and complaint service procedures; and SB 590, which tolls the statute of limitations for failure-to-report child abuse offenses until the crime is known to law enforcement. All of these bills were reported favorably, and the meeting adjourned after a final vote correction was entered for SB 524.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- Um we've used it to host the facility. Um we've used it to host grower<00:42:14.079><c> events.
- </c> infrastructure up there that allows us infrastructure up there that allows us to<00:42:44.560><c
- </c> multi-tenant use in quite a long time. multi-tenant use in quite a long time.
- </c> might be, it'd be good to let us know. might be, it'd be good to let us know.
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/20/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> with quotes from parents who use with quotes from parents who use scholarships<00:57:19.440><c>
- </c> future will have the opportunity to use future will have the opportunity to use scholarships<00:
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 03/06/25
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
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- We use power standing early in his recovery as a therapeutic tool to help reset these functions, if you
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Committee:
Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
AEN-TRS, EDT-AEN, AEN DEFER, AEN Public Hearings 02-13-2026
Agriculture and Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> we're using it only with the airlines. we're using it only with the airlines.
- </c> um get back the use of uh detector dogs. um get back the use of uh detector dogs.
- So depending on if you're using acres for pastoral use, it has one rate.
- So depending on if you're using acres for pastoral use, it has one rate.
- So you want us to agree to later.
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Environment
Keywords:
biosecurity, Department of Agriculture, quarantine, Akamai Arrival Program, importation regulations, pests control, plant health, animal health, compliance mechanisms, environmental review, transportation projects, NEPA, state sovereignty, federal compliance, streamlining, Hawaii Department of Transportation, 912, senate, all
Summary:
The hearing began with SB 2709, which would require the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to establish rules to enforce the Okami arrival program and strengthen quarantine enforcement for plants, non-domestic animals, and microorganisms. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaii Invasive Species Council supported the bill, as did DAB, saying it would improve biosecurity and make some provisions mandatory rather than optional. Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines supported the goal but raised concerns about language changing inspections from “may” to “shall” for aircraft, warning of possible federal preemption and operational conflicts unless the bill is clarified to align with federal aviation safety, security, and operational requirements. Committee members questioned DAB about inspection timing, scope, and compliance; DAB said the measure is intended to increase enforcement, improve form completion rates toward a 90% goal, and expand beyond airlines to other entry modes, while also noting plans to restore detector dog use and improve software/AI tools for processing forms. Decision-making on SB 2709 was deferred to February 17 at 3:02 p.m. in Room CR229.
The committees then took up SB 3154, an administration measure authorizing the Department of Transportation to assume certain National Environmental Policy Act responsibilities for highway, rail, public transportation, and multimodal projects, with the aim of streamlining environmental review. DOT supported the bill and explained that it would allow the department to work directly with federal resource agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife and SHPO rather than routing everything through federal highways. After brief discussion, the Committee on Transportation voted to pass SB 3154 with technical amendments, and the AEN committee followed with the same recommendation; the measure was adopted with five votes in favor.
A later portion of the transcript shifted to SB 2374 on the blue economy. DBED said it supported the concept but noted that it already sits on many working groups and would need resources if a new working group is created. DBED suggested the committee could instead request research through a letter or memo, and said agencies including ADC, HTDC, and Agriculture had already begun internal discussions. Testimony in support came from IMUA Alliance, Hawaii Food Policy, and others, emphasizing the potential for blue economy ventures to support survivors, align with climate and cultural goals, and create economic opportunity. No final vote on SB 2374 appears in the excerpt.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 04/11/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:04:37.919><c> Madam</c> walk us through it. Mr. Turner. Madam walk us through it. Mr.
- That takes us to the end of article two.
- To us, these aren't just numbers on a spreadsheet.
- </c><00:50:46.559><c> and</c> on the uh, therapeutic and on the uh, therapeutic and rehabilitative<00
- Whenever we get a request to take money and use money from the fire safety account, many of us get very
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 119 Part 2 May 13th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- Appreciate the information that each of us sent to us about possible agenda items.
- </c> message for us. message for us.
- </c> important to us. important to us.
- and and hold us to is are we review us and and hold us to is are we building<01:01:48.880><c> things
- </c> use for children and youth. use for children and youth.
Committee:
Joint Health Services
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Coach, you're recognized to use the floor leader's mic.
- Coach, you can use the floor leader's mic.
- Enter, nice, you're recognized to use the floor leader's mic.
- Twyler Earl, and she and her committee put this together for us today.
- That's why I use the word federal, although that is not in the bill.
Bills:
SCR17 , SB2104 , SB2155 , SB1428 , SB1250 , SB1651 , SB1794 , SB444 , SB1061 , SB1327 , SB1425 , SB1455 , SB1458 , SB1460 , SB1480 , SB1530 , SB1543 , SB1555 , SB1593 , SB1209 , SB1730 , SB1733 , SB1769 , SB1805 , SB2069 , SB2095 , SB1503
Keywords:
Oklahoma Ireland relations, Ireland, Irish heritage, St. Patrick's Day, Choctaw Nation, Choctaw famine relief, Irish-American, cultural resolution, concurrent resolution, ceremonial resolution, economic development, trade commission, international relations, Tulsa IrishFest, ShamROCK the Gardens, Oklahoma City St. Patrick's Parade, Irish ancestry, Senate of Ireland, Aubrey McCarthy, Phil Thompson
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- With us today to offer his invocation is Senator Todd Alahar.
- Today we have with us Senator Aubrey McCarthy and Philip Thompson.
- Thank you so much for having us here today.
- Today we also have with us in the north and west galleries.
- It affects us a little bit more than it would affect the board.
Bills:
SCR17 , SB2104 , SB2155 , SB1428 , SB1250 , SB1651 , SB1794 , SB444 , SB1061 , SB1327 , SB1425 , SB1455 , SB1458 , SB1460 , SB1480 , SB1530 , SB1543 , SB1555 , SB1593 , SB1209 , SB1730 , SB1733 , SB1769 , SB1805 , SB2069 , SB2095 , SB1503
Keywords:
Oklahoma Ireland relations, Ireland, Irish heritage, St. Patrick's Day, Choctaw Nation, Choctaw famine relief, Irish-American, cultural resolution, concurrent resolution, ceremonial resolution, economic development, trade commission, international relations, Tulsa IrishFest, ShamROCK the Gardens, Oklahoma City St. Patrick's Parade, Irish ancestry, Senate of Ireland, Aubrey McCarthy, Phil Thompson
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Coach, you're recognized to use the floor leader's microphone.
- Coach, you can use the floor leader's mic.
- You're recognized to use the floor leader's mic. Thank you. Good afternoon.
- So that's why I used the word federal, although that is not in the bill.
- So that's why I used the word federal, although that is not in the bill.
Bills:
SCR17 , SB2104 , SB2155 , SB1428 , SB1250 , SB1651 , SB1794 , SB444 , SB1061 , SB1327 , SB1425 , SB1455 , SB1458 , SB1460 , SB1480 , SB1530 , SB1543 , SB1555 , SB1593 , SB1209 , SB1730 , SB1733 , SB1769 , SB1805 , SB2069 , SB2095 , SB1503
Keywords:
Oklahoma Ireland relations, Ireland, Irish heritage, St. Patrick's Day, Choctaw Nation, Choctaw famine relief, Irish-American, cultural resolution, concurrent resolution, ceremonial resolution, economic development, trade commission, international relations, Tulsa IrishFest, ShamROCK the Gardens, Oklahoma City St. Patrick's Parade, Irish ancestry, Senate of Ireland, Aubrey McCarthy, Phil Thompson
Summary:
The Senate began with several ceremonial recognitions, including citations for the Destiny Christian School girls volleyball team and football team for state championships, and for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, in connection with Delta Day at the Capitol and Women’s History Month. Members and guests were welcomed to speak briefly before the chamber returned to its agenda.
The chamber then considered a series of bills. SB 444, dealing with hospice handling and disposal of controlled dangerous substances left after a patient’s death, passed 39-0. SB 1327, restoring the Tourism and Recreation Commission’s authority and adding general commission-member requirements, passed 27-12. SB 1061, a mortgage broker fee cleanup bill, passed 38-0. SB 1425, repealing an obsolete health care workforce board, passed 40-0. SB 1455, extending the sunset for the Board of Governors of the Architects, Landscape Architects, and Licensed Interior Designers, passed 28-11 and then also passed the emergency with 38-1. SB 1458, an Attorney General-request bill to align grand jury witness confidentiality statutes, failed 24-14.
The Senate also passed SB 1460, which increases penalties for repeat peeping Tom and clandestine recording offenses and makes second or subsequent offenses sex offenses, by a vote of 38-3. SB 1480, creating a youth apprenticeship pilot program, passed 42-0 and then passed the emergency. SB 1530, updating the Oklahoma Research Development Rebate Program and encouraging private partnerships with higher education, passed 36-4. SB 1543, allowing multiple DUI charges within one year to be prosecuted as a single felony case and making related cleanup changes, passed 37-6 after extended debate about diversion, due process, and testing issues. SB 1555, aligning the state definition of intellectual disability with federal standards, passed 42-0, with a later correction noting the final vote as 42-1. SB 1593, updating outdated OSU-Tulsa trustee language, passed 43-0 and then passed the emergency. SB 1730, requiring law enforcement to copy OSBI on sexual offense reports, passed 37-6. SB 1209, which would have excluded Sundays and federal holidays from the eviction filing-to-hearing timeline, failed on a 21-21 tie after debate over landlord rights, service timing, and court delays.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That's the only use that they claim that they use it? Representative Thompson: Well...
- It's adults being smarter and using different types of levers, using incentives, using local resources
- use that in any circumstance.
- We had two total confirmed inappropriate uses last fiscal year of all use of OC spray.
- A brief note about our use of OC spray and our use of force continuum.
Committee:
House S/C on Juvenile Justice
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety Apr 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- our use of force policy.
- And it’s not of us versus them.
- Like, there's nothing that's given to us to help us reacclimate or to successfully come into the community
- Like, there's nothing that's given to us to help us reacclimate or to successfully come into the community
- It's typically used as a last resort.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We want this to be a therapeutic model where they can live with dignity and the rest of us can live safely
- We want this to be a therapeutic model where they can live with dignity and the rest of us can live safely
- And so he's been giving us eggs.
- Referrals are perfectly fine when the use for good group homes are in use.
- Please join us here at the table. Thank you. Thank you. Please join us here at the table.
Committee:
Senate Health & Human Services
Keywords:
SB 500, Texas adoption law, Family Code, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, child-placing agency, prospective adoptive parents, adoption records, confidential information, nondisclosure agreement, child history report, health history, social history, educational history, genetic history, termination of parental rights, permanency plan, single source continuum contractor, privacy, redaction
Summary:
The committee first took up several pending bills and reported them favorably: SB 968, SB 636 as substituted, SB 1137, and SB 1138 as substituted. Each was advanced by roll call vote, and the committee also recommended the approved bills for the local and uncontested calendar. The chair then moved to the posted agenda and heard SB 719, a mental health bed-capacity study bill by Senator Eckhart, with a committee substitute that refined the data collection to distinguish state and non-state beds, child and adult beds, include two point-in-time counts, and capture jail diversion data.
Testimony on SB 719 was largely supportive from Integral Care, NAMI Texas, and the Children’s Hospital Association of Texas, all of whom said Texas needs better data on inpatient psychiatric capacity, workforce needs, and future demand. Several witnesses described long waits for beds, especially for forensic restoration, and argued the study would help target future investments. Senator Perry and others noted the state has already made major investments in new beds and urged the bill to account for beds already coming online; the committee ultimately withdrew the substitute and left SB 719 pending after public testimony closed.
The committee then heard SB 1864, which would allow small egg producers to sell ungraded eggs more broadly, including to restaurants and retailers, with the substitute increasing the weekly sales threshold and addressing sanitation and labeling. Supporters said grading is about size, not safety, and that the bill would help small farms reach new markets; opponents from the Texas Poultry Federation argued grading and candling help identify cracks and defects that can affect safety and quality. The committee adopted the substitute and left the bill pending. It also heard SB 1467, requiring DSHS to share death record information with hospitals for record accuracy and quality review, and SB 912, which would modernize continuing education tracking for health licensing agencies; both bills drew supportive testimony and were left pending. Finally, the committee heard SB 2023, which would create an HHSC grant program to help counties pay for indigent burial costs, with county representatives testifying in support.