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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Feb 25th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Bills:
HB2720 , HB2073 , HB2681 , HB2720 , HB2073 , HB2681 , SB5467 , SB5820 , SB5863 , SB5892 , SCR8406
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, cannabis, license fees, regulatory framework, revenue generation, legalization, SB 5467, water-sewer district, water sewer district, surplus property, public property sale, local government
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- previously. by Chairman Frank relating to the confinement or detention of certain individuals in a county
- jail or other facility operated by or for the county and to the compensation to the county for the cost
- Walker County.
- Under current statutes, county and district clerks do not have the authority to maintain confidential
- Ma'am, we show you as Patty Henry, Chambers County...
Bills:
HB153 , HB1828 , HB2306 , HB2498 , HB3464 , HB3488 , HB3636 , HB3673 , HB3834 , HB3860 , HB4120 , HB4937 , HB1515 , HB153
Committee:
House Corrections
Keywords:
education, funding, student resources, technology access, equal opportunity, veterans treatment court, mental health, criminal justice, rehabilitation, eligibility criteria, veterans, treatment court, military service, legislation, legislative leave, correctional officers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, accumulated leave, compensatory time, parole eligibility
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 3, February 11, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> is, hey, look, he I've been paying taxes is, hey, look, he I've been paying taxes at<00:44:41.119
- </c> representative from Nrona County. representative from Nrona County.
- by Management Audit, Removal of County Officers, Election Code Violations, an act relating to county
- tax as any other utility.
- </c> area and also collect the same excise area and also collect the same excise tax<02:31:23.120><c>
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- question that I had for you: Are we going to look at all or Require these any new requirements for all tax
- And I'm mostly curious about the parental choice tax credit.
- it's been a year working with the auditor to try to plug some of these holes to protect the people's tax
- Representative, would you agree that with the companies leaving That we need to save tax dollars.
Committee:
House General Government
Keywords:
2030 census, complete count committee, census outreach, decennial census, enumeration, population count, hard-to-count populations, hard-to-enumerate areas, State Data Center, Oklahoma Census, multilingual campaign, public outreach, school-based outreach, community organizations, minority groups, ethnic minorities, language minorities, self-response rate, census awareness, federal census
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Transportation Bill - 06/06/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- c> use</c><00:57:58.960><c> sales</c><00:57:59.200><c> tax</c> metropolitan counties to use sales tax
- This is what Ramsey County is using the metro sales tax revenue to do exactly that.
- Years ago, you gave all the counties both a wheelage tax and a half-cent sales tax.
- tax, but cities, counties, state pay the tax, but cities, counties, state facilities,<02:03:05.280><
- And so trying to work our way through how sales tax and excise taxes would work on that monthly bill
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment & Energy Jan 15th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Travis Dutton with the Association of Counties and our County Solid Waste Programs.
- Travis Dutton with the Association of Counties and our County Solid Waste Programs.
- Three years ago, our council approved a 6% excise tax to help directly fund litter cleanup around Tacoma
- I'm a former San Juan County Council member.
- I'm a former San Juan County Council member.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on several waste and recycling bills. House Bill 2212 would require microfiber filters on commercial and industrial washing machines, with Ecology authorized to consider residential machine rules later if cost thresholds are met. Supporters, including the sponsor, students, environmental advocates, and scientists, said washing machines are a major source of microplastics and that filtration is a practical way to reduce pollution before it reaches waterways and human bodies. Opponents, including appliance manufacturers, laundromat operators, business groups, and Ecology staff, raised concerns about technical feasibility, worker safety, cost, and the lack of third-party certification for commercial systems. Ecology said the science is emerging and the proposal would create new agency work and costs. No vote was taken.
House Bill 2233 would tighten the state’s carry-out bag laws by banning reusable film plastic bags, raising the paper bag pass-through charge to 20 cents, and extending certain requirements to manufacturers, distributors, and third-party sales platforms, while preserving protections for food assistance cardholders. Supporters argued the current thicker-bag approach has not reduced plastic waste, that plastic bags contribute to litter and microplastics, and that a stronger ban would better protect waterways and wildlife. Opponents from grocery, retail, hospitality, paper, and business groups argued the bill would raise consumer costs, create checkout and food-safety problems, and add operational complexity; some also said the state should wait to see the effects of the recent fee increase. Several local government and environmental witnesses supported the bill. No final action was taken.
House Bill 1420 would establish an extended producer responsibility program for textiles and apparel, requiring producers to form a producer responsibility organization to manage collection, reuse, repair, recycling, and related infrastructure. The sponsor described the bill as a response to textile waste, overconsumption, and landfill impacts, and said the proposal had been refined through extensive stakeholder work. Supporters from environmental groups, local governments, Ecology, counties, Goodwill, and circular-economy organizations said textiles are a growing waste stream and that producer responsibility could improve collection, reduce dumping, and support repair and reuse. Opponents from business, retail, hospitality, apparel, and medical-device groups raised concerns about complexity, consumer and compliance costs, governance, supply-chain reporting, and possible unintended coverage of uniforms or medical products. The hearing also included a State Board of Health health impact review noting likely increased awareness and collection but limited evidence on large-scale reuse and recycling outcomes. No vote was taken.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Education Policy Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Recently, uh, there was an event that took place that, uh, one of my daughters, working in Cusa County
- , and my youngest daughter, working in Philip County, and we had an event take place in our family, and
- Recently, uh, there was an event that took place that, uh, one of my daughters, working in Cusa County
- , and my youngest daughter, working in Philip County, and we had an event take place in our family, and
Committee:
House Education Policy
Keywords:
foster care, child welfare, enrollment priority, education programs, child care assistance, education, school board, elections, local governance, school district, site-governed schools, education reform, local control, autonomy, interchange, bond issuance, transportation, infrastructure funding, Sherburne County, student eligibility
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- It is my understanding we have similar instances in Yavapai County and several other counties throughout
- Gila County alone, they're estimated to be around 5,000 cesspools still in use in the county.
- I'm the Gila County deputy county manager.
- County.
- County.
Keywords:
water conservation, grants, infrastructure, environmental protection, sustainability, cesspool remediation, cesspool replacement, forgivable principal, forgivable loan, wifa, water infrastructure finance authority, clean water revolving fund, drinking water revolving fund, wastewater infrastructure, on-site wastewater system, septic system, groundwater protection, public health, nonpoint source pollution, county water projects
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- It modifies the use tax base for the use tax component of the luxury vehicle tax, the luxury aircraft
- tax, and the recreational vessel tax such that the value of any trade-in may not be deducted from the
- measure of tax.
- vessel tax and the luxury vehicle tax for trade-in property of like kind.
- The issue with the bill as enacted was that the tax base for the sales tax was not the same as the tax
Committee:
House Transportation
Keywords:
transportation budget, capital budget, operating budget, appropriations, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferry funding, state ferries, highway maintenance, road preservation, bridge replacement, tolling, express toll lanes, traffic safety, speed cameras, ignition interlock, transit grants, public transit
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Financial Services Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We pay about $70 million in state taxes through the insurance premium tax into the general fund every
- ><c> the</c><00:48:20.960><c> insurance</c> state taxes through the insurance state taxes through the
- fund every premium tax into the general fund every single<00:48:24.400><c> year.
- We are the largest payer of the premium tax in the state of Alabama.
- The insurance premium tax is the largest single source of funding for the general fund. >> Awesome.
Committee:
House Financial Services
Keywords:
fishing, licensing, jubilee, Marine life, Alabama, regulations, sex offenders, employment restrictions, first responders, public safety, juvenile offenders, local laws, registration requirements, picketing, protesting, residential protest, noise amplification, amplified sound, residential picketing, harassment
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- The use tax is separate, but it's a complement to the sales tax and comes into effect if the sales tax
- And at the time of registration, you do pay tax, but you're paying the use tax.
- So regarding the fuel tax, the proposal clarifies that the part of the tax attributable to inflation
- It repeals the luxury aircraft tax.
- It repeals the luxury aircraft tax.
Committee:
House Transportation
Keywords:
transportation budget, capital budget, operating budget, appropriations, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferry funding, state ferries, highway maintenance, road preservation, bridge replacement, tolling, express toll lanes, traffic safety, speed cameras, ignition interlock, transit grants, public transit
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 16th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Agriculture and Wildlife
Transcript Highlights:
- Try to protect those counties from some type of frivolous litigation that could follow that.
- control with their counties.
- more of an urbanized county where the county commissioners don't want to have a lot of rule ties would
- I'm from Choctaw County in a small town called Boswell and I am with Senator Bullard and my mom.
- Would you believe that Cimarron County has a lot of bears way up there in the Panhandle?
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Wildlife
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/04/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections
Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections
Transcript Highlights:
- The counties do those functions; the counties administer those things.
- It's passed through to the counties. The counties have their budgeting process.
- Powell's question earlier and saying, well, counties do these things, counties provide IT, counties provide
- And even when counties get to appropriate their own tax revenue and spend it, they only get to do so
- I mean, the county taxing structure is all property-tax based, and they—so, you know, all those things
Committees:
House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections , House House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections Committee of Reference
Keywords:
veteran status, veterans court, treatment court, diversion program, initial appearance, arrestee processing, criminal procedure, DD-214, Department of Veterans' Services, prosecuting agency, court notification, military service, armed forces, veterans benefits, reentry, mental health court, drug court, specialty court, Arizona criminal law, pretrial hearing
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/02/2026 - House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill additionally prescribes duties to ADOA, DPS, the county recorders, and county assessors relative
- So what this will do, it'll allow the county supervisors of any county in the state to approve whether
- Is it your position that Fondamante should be able to pump groundwater in La Paz County without limit
- And I'm still looking at that, and I think that in La Paz County the county supervisors there would have
- Priselski, your organization has membership in Cochise County, right? Yes, we do. Thank you. Mr.
Committees:
House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs , House House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee of Reference
Keywords:
attorney general, nuisance action, consumer fraud, damages, civil penalty, public nuisance, nuisance abatement, abatement action, injunction, superior court, county attorney, city attorney, board of supervisors, obscenity, obscene materials, adult materials, pornography, schools, parks, residential district
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Health and Public Affairs Jan 30th, 2026 at 03:13 pm
Senate Health & Public Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- In Sanneville County, we built all these county buildings there, and we've grown so much.
- We have 35,000 people in Taos County, and with West Colfax County, Angel Fire, and Eagle Nest, they come
- Hidalgo County as well.
- But most of these dollars have been used in rural parts of Rio Arriba, Taos County, Hidalgo County, Grant
- County, Doña Ana.
Committee:
Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs
Keywords:
SB 21, Medicare supplement, Medigap, open enrollment, guaranteed issue, birthday month enrollment, health insurance, insurance regulation, senior health coverage, elderly, retiree, Medicare beneficiaries, preexisting conditions, underwriting restrictions, premium discrimination, New Mexico insurance law, superintendent of insurance, health care coverage, policy portability, healthcare
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- in the county performing the service.
- All right, we have students who don't pay taxes over here advocating for these tax bills and coming in
- Chair Ormsby, members of the committee, Travis Dutton with the Association of Counties and our County
- I'd like to go talk about the frontier counties and the obligations that the counties are going to have
- those frontier counties.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
recycling, waste reduction, environmental policy, sustainability, municipal regulations, preK, education funding, childcare, youth development, state budget, HB 2441, line of duty death, survivor benefits, medical insurance premium reimbursement, surviving spouse, domestic partner, dependent children, public employee death benefits, retirement system, Washington State
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Early Learning & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a Superior Court Judge for Shland County.
- Certain counties like King, Snohomish, and Pierce use suspended sentences.
- Kittitas County, Cowlitz County, Douglas, Franklin, Grays Harbor: zero suspended dispositions, zero options
- of 2%. right now in King County or black against a population of 2%.
- I served victims of crime, all crimes, in Seattle, King County for my career.
Committee:
House Early Learning & Human Services
Keywords:
juvenile justice, youth sentencing, juvenile rehabilitation, DCYF, Department of Children Youth and Families, community supervision, community transition services, suspended disposition, less restrictive alternative, sentencing grid, juvenile confinement, juvenile prison, rehabilitation, recidivism, mental health treatment, substance use disorder, chemical dependency, trauma-informed care, racial disparities, equity
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs Apr 22nd, 2025
S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Making sure that we uphold the promise that we've made to the veterans and their tax exemption, and also
Committee:
House S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Keywords:
specialty license plates, military honor, Texas Homeland Defense Service Medal, Texas Superior Service Medal, Texas Outstanding Service Medal, Texas Medal of Merit, military honors, Lone Star Distinguished Service Medal, veterans, Texas Homeland Defense Medal, military, commemorative recognition, transportation code, claims assistance, disability benefits, court representation, legal services, naming, commemoration, local honor
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025
S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, my Bexar County military... city USA family.
- Currently, Bexar County is an offline county, but they are transitioning over to an online county.
- With offline counties, um, not that I can think of.
- So the three questions: How will this affect online counties versus offline counties?
- Rates offline counties will need to incur.
Committee:
House S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Keywords:
commemoration, military, navy seal, honor, January 12, Nathan Gage Ingram, military funeral honors, JROTC, veterans, training, grant program, military honors, community engagement, funeral services, education grants, community service, HB 3359, veteran status, Texas Veterans Commission, veterans services
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- rates and they had to lower the amount of taxes.
- That was basically then-Governor Bush's tax relief. program.
- And by the way, that's tax relief.
- , you're providing real tax relief, and number two, you're helping your schools and your property. tax
- Cities, this is your tax base. declining educated workforce.
Committee:
House Public Education
Keywords:
public education, teacher compensation, certification, funding, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace