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FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

December 9, 2025 - 08:30 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • YEARS OUT AND REALISTICALLY THAT COULD ALIGN WITH THE TIMELINES ON SM ARE REGULATORY APPROVALS AND DEPLOYMENT
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • 6 years of continuous service in the in the in the guard reserves without a qualifying federal deployment
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce May 22nd, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, leading over a billion dollars in annual R&D and deployment
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met with a quorum and took up a long list of pending House bills, most of them on motions by Senator King or Senator Campbell. The committee adopted committee substitutes and favorably reported numerous bills, including HB 252, HB 700, HB 1500, HB 1545, HB 1562, HB 1732, HB 267, HB 2213, HB 2221, HB 2520, HB 2818, HB 3016, HB 3214, HB 3250, HB 3512, HB 3623, HB 3689, HB 3833, HB 4063, HB 4395, HB 4690, HB 4751, HB 5331, HB 3824, HB 4464, HB 4468, and HB 5247. Most of these were sent to the local and uncontested calendar, while some, including sunset and other significant measures, were reported to the full Senate. HB 146 was the only bill reported out on a divided vote, passing 6 ayes to 4 nays. Several bills received brief explanation of committee substitute changes. HB 3016, dealing with rental car collision damage waivers and stolen vehicles, was amended to change a cooperation standard from “fully cooperate” to simply “cooperate.” HB 3689, a major ESF/TWA financing bill, was described as making technical changes to align terminology with the Comptroller’s authority and to avoid creating state debt or new liability. HB 5247, a capital cost recovery bill for transmission in the Permian Basin, was revised to clarify how the new mechanism fits with existing Utilities Code provisions and to add a 2035 expiration date. HB 3824, the battery fire safety bill, also received technical changes to align terminology with industry usage. The committee heard public testimony on several pending measures. HB 3069, which would direct the PUC to develop supplemental multi-decade planning criteria for transmission certificates in ERCOT, drew support from industry, environmental, and manufacturing witnesses who said it would help address congestion costs while balancing consumer protections; the bill was left pending. HB 5196, requiring state agencies to adopt and post telework policies and use written telework agreements, received both support and concern: supporters said it would preserve productivity and retention, while a senator raised concerns about notice and family logistics; it was left pending after testimony. HB 3112, allowing closed deliberations on cybersecurity policy details, was laid out and left pending after brief discussion. HCR 102, supporting federal nuclear tax credits, drew testimony from nuclear industry and energy advocates, who argued the credits are essential for existing plants, new nuclear development, grid reliability, and U.S. competitiveness; the resolution was left pending, with discussion about whether the language should focus more exclusively on nuclear. HB 705, creating a cosmetology licensure compact, was supported by industry, employers, and compact experts as a mobility tool that preserves state authority; HB 3516, expanding a public information exemption for Railroad Commission administrative law judges and technical examiners, and HB 3388, authorizing group property and casualty coverage for personal lines, were also heard and left pending. At the end of the meeting, the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • From what I recall, McKinney had a policy—they had like a grid for the deployment of their SWAT team—and
Bills: HB115
Summary: The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence reconvened with a quorum present and announced it would likely not vote that night because of confusion over the bill list; members were told a definitive list would be circulated the next morning and a formal meeting would be scheduled later. The chair then heard a series of bills, generally taking testimony and leaving each pending without action. House Bill 1847 would set maximum caseload standards for private attorneys handling indigent criminal appointments through the Texas Indigent Defense Commission; House Bill 2417 would expand compensation eligibility for some wrongfully imprisoned people; House Bill 2813 would require earlier and more specific victim notice of scheduled court proceedings; and House Bill 2309 would expand state and local authority in certain civil asset forfeiture cases involving human trafficking, health care fraud, and organized crime. Each bill was laid out by its author or a member, with no opposition witnesses registered, and each was left pending. The committee also heard House Bill 4733, which would require sealing records for people acquitted of charges when they were not convicted on the related allegation; House Bill 2328, which would modernize expunction service by encouraging electronic notice, setting a standardized fee when electronic service is unavailable, extending clerk retention of expunction orders, and preserving certain mental health commitment orders; and House Bill 115, which would revise Texas’s “junk science” post-conviction writ law by providing counsel, changing the relief standard, requiring written decisions, and easing procedural barriers. Testimony on HB 2328 was mixed: county clerks supported the bill as a cost-saving modernization, while legal advocates warned that permanent retention of expunction orders could undermine true expunction and create privacy risks. HB 115 drew support from innocence and defense organizations, with some concern about a provision affecting subsequent writs. All were left pending after testimony. Later, the committee heard House Bill 2046, which would allow affirmative family-violence findings for any Penal Code offense rather than only Title V offenses; testimony from a Dallas County prosecutor and a committee member emphasized that family violence can involve arson, burglary, fraud, and other non-Title V conduct, and the bill was left pending. House Bill 1765 would tighten restrictions on no-knock warrants by requiring higher-level approval, judicial review, and identifiable officers; members discussed the dangers highlighted by the Harding Street raid and similar incidents, and the bill was also left pending. The meeting ended with the chair noting that some bills had been removed from the agenda at the author’s request and that members should be prepared to finalize the vote list the next day.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

February 5, 2025 - 03:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • We get our resources ready for debris removal, traffic signal restoration, generator deployment, and
Summary: The Natural Resources and Disaster Subcommittee met to continue its review of hurricane impacts and state response. The committee first heard from the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which described its four core functions—preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation—and highlighted its 24/7 State Watch Office, regional training efforts, and disaster assistance work. Deputy Executive Director Keith Pruitt detailed the state’s 2024 storm response, including Hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, citing large-scale mission support, flood-control deployments, meal and water distribution, power restoration, debris removal, and billions in disaster funding and mitigation dollars. He also discussed debris management challenges and recommended that local governments update and exercise debris plans and maintain contingency contracts.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • labor recruiters, and, most importantly, providing protections and remedies for the foreign workers
  • Human traffickers have exploited this loophole, leaving around 345,000 temporary foreign workers coming
  • AB 1362 rightfully corrects this lapse by making it clear all foreign labor recruiters are required to
  • What we are addressing with AB 1362 are foreign labor recruiters who largely operate outside the U.S.
  • Recruitment fraud by foreign labor contractors who subcontract with employers to bring workers to our
Summary: The committee heard several labor-related bills, with AB 1424, AB 1340, AB 288, and AB 746 all advancing on due-pass motions to Appropriations after testimony and roll calls. AB 1424 would require climate resiliency and extreme-heat protections in CDCR facilities; supporters described dangerous heat conditions for incarcerated workers and staff, while no opposition testified. AB 1340 would allow rideshare drivers to unionize and collectively bargain; drivers, labor groups, and researchers testified that app-based work is low-paid and unstable, while TechNet, Uber, Lyft, and other business groups argued the bill conflicts with Proposition 22 and could raise costs. AB 288 would let PERB step in when federal labor remedies are unavailable; supporters said it is needed because of NLRB dysfunction, while the Chamber of Commerce raised preemption and enforcement concerns. AB 746 would create an inmate cooperative program and a green reentry reserve; supporters framed it as a recidivism-reduction and reentry strategy, and there was no opposition testimony. The committee also heard AB 858, which would extend hotel and hospitality worker recall rights after declared emergencies and extend existing COVID-era protections. Hospitality workers and unions supported the bill as a way to protect jobs after pandemics, wildfires, and other disasters, while hotel, chamber, retail, restaurant, trucking, travel, and attractions groups opposed it, saying the current recall rules were meant to sunset and that the bill would create broad liabilities and hiring complications. The bill was moved to Appropriations but remained on call after the roll. AB 291, creating a credentialed educator apprenticeship program to address teacher shortages and improve diversity, drew support from education groups and stakeholders who said apprenticeships could lower preparation costs and provide better support; it was also moved to Appropriations and placed on call. Later, the committee took up AB 1104, a solar-energy bill intended to clarify that private solar customers are not “awarding bodies” and to ease certain business-to-business solar transactions while preserving prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements for contractors. Supporters said the current interpretation has chilled commercial solar adoption and harmed jobs, while opponents from electrical workers, PG&E, and others warned about expanded “over-the-fence” power sales and the need for clearer limits. Members questioned the lack of a definition of “small,” and the bill was held without a second. The committee also heard AB 338, which seeks $50 million for Los Angeles and Ventura wildfire workforce recovery; the author and county officials described major job loss and business destruction and said the funds would support displaced workers and rebuilding, with the testimony continuing beyond the excerpt provided.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, March 24, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • country for purposes of malign foreign talent recruitment restriction and for other purposes.
  • This landmark law also included a prohibition on federal researchers' participation in foreign talent
  • This landmark law also included a prohibition on federal researchers' participation in foreign talent
  • recruitment programs in which foreign countries incentivize or compensate researchers for activities
  • This ambiguity could also allow for loopholes, allowing malign foreign talent recruitment programs in
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

06/11/2026 - Senate Floor Session

Arizona Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Department of Agriculture. ...to a foreign animal disease or pest, a U.S.
  • A hundred. foreign developers.
  • Many of them foreign. Some of them clearing $30 billion a year in profit.
  • But on the spending side, they added $150 million for foreign corporate. Subsidies.
  • Democrats fought for foreign corporations and the wealthy. I vote yes. Senator Oppen, Boatai.
Keywords: 1182, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 5/7/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • state pharmacies through a directed dispensing payment program, modified licensing requirements for foreign
  • state pharmacies through a directed dispensing payment program, modified licensing requirements for foreign
  • state pharmacies through a directed dispensing payment program, modified licensing requirements for foreign
  • program modified licensing<00:10:35.519> requirements<00:10:36.079> for<00:10:36.399> foreign
  • licensing requirements for foreign licensing requirements for foreign medical<00:10:37.200> school
Bills: HF2436, HF2435
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Mar 5th, 2026

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Loopholes in the law have led to millions of foreign dollars being funneled to influence ballot issue
  • Loopholes in the law have led to millions of foreign dollars being funneled to influence ballot issue
  • > banned<00:59:32.319> from foreign nationals are banned from foreign nationals are banned
  • the law have led to millions of foreign the law have led to millions of foreign dollars<00:59:39.839
  • pursue instances of criminal foreign pursue instances of criminal foreign influence<00:59:59.520
Keywords: 920, all
Summary: The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a quorum present, then approved the prior journal and allowed bills and committee reports to be introduced throughout the day. The chamber received multiple committee reports, including favorable reports on several finance and taxation bills, confirmations, local bills, and a series of resolutions. The Senate also confirmed several appointments to higher education and university boards, including Nicholas J. Balden, Jennifer Wit, Ronnie Stalworth, and Rex Reynolds, using long or previous roll calls as applicable. The Senate adopted a special order calendar that set up floor consideration of several bills, including measures on physician assistants, seafood/aquaculture, motor vehicles, campaign practices, property insurance and energy reduction, child custody, and school bus drivers. During debate on the special order calendar, Senator Smitherman raised concern that no bills on the calendar were sponsored by minority members, noting a prior understanding that minority-sponsored bills should be represented; Senator Wagner responded that the calendar was prepared based on legislation rather than sponsor party, and the exchange ended with an agreement to continue moving forward. The Senate then adopted the special order calendar and began taking up the listed bills. On the special order calendar, the Senate advanced House Bill 156 on physician assistant compacts, House Bill 277 on seafood/aquaculture tastings, and House Bill 42 on motor vehicles, with supporters describing each as consumer-friendly or supportive of industry. The chamber also considered local legislation, including bills for Madison, Tallapoosa, and Shelby counties; House Bill 337 for Madison County was amended and carried over, while House Bills 490, 491, and 493 passed after roll-call votes. Throughout the meeting, the Senate also adopted several commendatory and memorial resolutions, including measures honoring individuals, recognizing organizations and events, and naming a highway, with most adopted by voice vote and no recorded opposition.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 23rd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • resolutions report by committee: H.R. 38 by Representative Owen to memorialize Congress to reform the Foreign
  • Domangue to request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the use and application of the term foreign
  • To request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study the use and application of the term foreign and
  • relative to child custody, public policy, arbitration of custody matters, child custody agreements from foreign
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session-Day 12, February 23, 2026-PM

Wyoming House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're going to allow people in Wyoming to sue a foreign government and have them have the foreign government
  • cause of action against foreign cause of action against foreign governments governments governments
  • <00:33:00.840> government to sue a foreign government to sue a foreign government um<00:33
  • um and have them have the foreign um and have them have the foreign government<00:33:05.160>
  • foreign governments. foreign governments.
Keywords: 916, all
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • chemistry, and although I'm not an expert in immunology, I had strong reservations about injecting foreign
  • genetic material into my body, especially reservations about injecting foreign genetic material into
  • Once these particles enter the cells, the foreign mRNA material tricks the cells to manufacture a foreign
  • I know enough about immunology to be concerned about the potential— reservations about injecting foreign
  • Once these particles enter the cells, the foreign MRNA material tricks the cells to manufacture a foreign
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management held a hearing on several emergency management bills, with most of the testimony focused on Senate Bill 539, which would prohibit COVID-19 mRNA vaccination or gene-altering procedures as a condition of entry, employment, school attendance, or access to public venues. Senator Durant and many public witnesses supported the bill, arguing that COVID-era mandates were coercive, ineffective, and harmful, and that the state should not require proof of vaccination in future emergencies. One witness, Joanne Tuller, testified in opposition, saying the government should retain authority to impose public health measures in emergencies and warning against permanently limiting that power based on the COVID experience. The committee also heard testimony on Senate Bill 540, concerning the prevention of radioactive material discharge, with a Sierra Club representative and local residents opposing Holtec’s disposal of wastewater from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant and citing health, environmental, and economic concerns in Plymouth and nearby communities. Senator Driscoll testified in support of Senate Bills 537 and 538, describing them as measures to strengthen the Commonwealth’s strategic preparedness stockpile and to create a framework for emergency response during surges in hospitalizations, including temporary waivers of prior authorization when hospitals are over capacity. In addition, Dr. Jennifer Carlson testified in support of H.885, a resolve creating a special commission on the field of emergency management, arguing that the profession should be more fully professionalized and staffed by dedicated experts rather than part-time “second hat” officials. Several other bills on the docket, including H.883 and H.84, had no sign-ups. The chair closed each bill’s testimony section as the list was exhausted, and the hearing was adjourned without any votes taken during the session.
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • When it comes to the President's executive order about suspending foreign assistance for 90 days, do
  • What is the size, do you know how much money the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee...
  • Spends on the State Department and foreign assistance?
  • Biofuels are a way for us to help clean up the environment, reduce our reliance on foreign sources of
  • You fly immigrants from foreign countries to the United States on private jets.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • with this, not saying that it might not be a good plan, but I like to monitor the involvement of the foreign
  • with this, not saying that it might not be a good plan, but I like to monitor the involvement of the foreign
  • with this, not saying that it might not be a good plan, but I like to monitor the involvement of the foreign
  • with this, not saying that it might not be a good plan, but I like to monitor the involvement of the foreign
  • of the uh foreign entity uh in<00:26:55.279> our<00:26:55.480> water<00:26:55.919>
Summary: The committee first reorganized by electing new co-chairs for the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee: Senator Fanny Fromom? as Senate co-chair and Representative McPherson as House co-chair, both by acclamation. The committee then approved the minutes from the prior meeting and received quarterly capital project status reports from the Administrative Office of the Courts, Finance and Administration Cabinet, and postsecondary institutions. Those reports noted University of Kentucky equipment purchases, several school districts planning general obligation and revenue bond issues, a notification of non-approval for PR 3567, and Kentucky Community and Technical College System asset preservation projects. Kevin Cardwell of the Finance and Administration Cabinet reported two action items: a $5,100 federal-funded Transportation Cabinet renovation of the Rowan County east and westbound rest areas, and a $1 million federal fund increase for the Capitol City Airport terminal building project, bringing the total federal support to $10 million and reducing the need for restricted funds. The committee also received a no-action report on a $1,363,000 Kentucky State University exterior repairs project funded through the 2024 asset preservation pool. Both action items were approved unanimously after roll call votes. The committee approved four lease renewals presented by Natalie Bronner for Cabinet for Health and Family Services locations in Bell, Lee, and Clay counties, plus a parking lease for the Department of Corrections in Jefferson County. Members asked about lease pricing and were told renewals must remain at existing terms and conditions. The committee then approved a $57,000 Kentucky WATS emergency grant for Wood Creek Water District to cover part of arrears tied to the City of Livingston; members discussed the city’s audit delinquency, possible regional water/sewer solutions, and concerns about rates and private involvement, but the grant was approved. Finally, the committee approved a $1 million line-item water grant to the City of Williamsburg with no action required, three Economic Development Fund grants for Bell, Franklin, and Shelby counties totaling $8 million in state support for site acquisition and infrastructure work, and five SFCC-supported school debt issues for Elizabethtown Independent, Erlanger Independent, Boyd County, Henderson County, and Union County. The school projects included middle school, high school, and vocational school renovations or new construction, and members requested a breakdown of the space funded by the debt. All action items were approved, and the meeting adjourned.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Session (05/14/2026)

New Hampshire Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • that any one of those including foreign that any one of those including foreign nationals<01:36:
  • House Bill 1384, as amended by the House, prohibits foreign adversary persons or foreign entities of
  • <09:50:30.320> adversary House, prohibits foreign adversary House, prohibits foreign adversary
  • who have a client that is a foreign who have a client that is a foreign adversary<09:52:28.080><
  • <09:52:36.480> adversary are lobbying for that foreign adversary are lobbying for that foreign
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

2026 Legislative Session - Day Seventy One - Friday, May 15 - Afternoon Session

Missouri House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It does include in it, and it creates a grant for independence from foreign influence.
  • That's the grant from foreign influence fund.
  • And it also, it's just, I mean, our dependency on foreign countries, adversarial foreign countries, for
  • I also want to That's the grant from foreign influence fund.
  • And it also, it's just, I mean, our dependency on foreign countries, adversarial foreign countries for
Keywords: 959, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 03/13/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • On line 13 is Senator Klein's subtraction for foreign service worker pay.
  • On line 13 is Senator Klein's subtraction for foreign service worker pay.
  • Section eight is the subtraction for Foreign Service pension retirement pay.
  • Section eight is the subtraction for Foreign Service pension retirement pay.
  • Section eight is the subtraction for Foreign Service pension retirement pay.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • meaningful regulation and as a foreign meaningful regulation and as a foreign and<00:21:08.120><
  • c> as<00:21:08.280> a<00:21:08.400> foreign<00:21:08.679> entity<00:21:09.000
  • > that's<00:21:09.120> a<00:21:09.280> key and as a foreign entity that's a key
  • and as a foreign entity that's a key point<00:21:10.039> that<00:21:10.159> we'll<00:21
  • Representative Nemes continued that proxy companies are foreign entities making suggestions about what
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from its January 27 meeting and then took up House Bill 694, which would create a default rule for the Teachers’ Retirement System health insurance trust fund once it reaches 100% funding, currently anticipated around 2027. The bill would redirect two funding streams now going to the health trust—state payments on behalf of local districts and other employer contributions—into TRS pension benefits if the health fund reaches and maintains full funding. The sponsor said this would add about $154 million annually to TRS pensions and would only serve as a default if no other plan is adopted later. Members asked whether the bill would shift the unfunded liability to teachers or affect employee contributions. The sponsor and staff said it would not shift liability to teachers and would not change the employee contribution; only the employer-side payments would be redirected. Several members asked about the meaning of actuarial 100% funding, whether the fund could fall back below 100%, and whether employee contributions might be reduced in the future. The sponsor said the bill is based on actuarial projections, would revert the money back to the health trust if funding fell below 100%, and does not prevent future legislative or board action. Senator Higdon and others spoke in support of discussing the issue, noting the 2010 shared-responsibility changes and the need for a default approach as full funding is reached. The committee then heard Senate Bill 183, which would amend Kentucky law governing proxy advisers used by retirement systems. The sponsor said the bill would require proxy advisers, when handling shareholder-sponsored proposals, to act solely in the interest of retirement system members and beneficiaries and to provide an economic analysis when voting against a company board’s recommendation. He argued the measure is aimed at proxy advisers such as ISS and Glass Lewis, which he said often advance ESG-related proposals not tied to shareholder value. A guest from APCIA said the bill is meant to distinguish proxy advisers from investment managers and to strengthen the 2023 law by requiring a clearer economic justification for votes that depart from board recommendations. Members asked how proxy advisers differ from other financial advisers, whether Kentucky uses them, and whether the bill would prevent pension funds from investing in companies with ESG factors if those investments are profitable. The sponsor and guest said the bill would not bar such investments; it is intended to regulate proxy voting recommendations, not investment decisions. They described the bill as a proactive measure to reinforce fiduciary responsibility and limit outside proxy influence on pension voting. No final vote on either bill was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, March 27, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • entities and countries certain foreign entities and countries of<01:52:53.440> concern<01:52:
  • <02:30:46.080> Their Red Sea or over foreign soil. Their Red Sea or over foreign soil.
  • products, foreign energy, etc.
  • products, foreign energy, etc.
  • actors to dominate allowed foreign actors to dominate mineral<03:53:57.359> markets.