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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Feb 5th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES, ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK BEFORE THE COMMITTEE SHOULD COMPLETE AN
- THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS EVEN FOR US AS AFFLUENT AS WE ARE WITH OUR FLIGHT CONTROL MEASURES AND
- MOVING ON TO SLIDE NINE WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT MEASURABLE DATA AND METRICS.
- PROVIDES SUPPLEMENTAL FEDERAL DISASTER GRANT ASSISTANCE IN DEBRIS REMOVAL AND EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE MEASURES
- AND UNDER THE EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE MEASURES IS WHERE WE HAVE TO DO OUR DILIGENCE TO MAKE SURE THE WORK
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- During testimony before safety measures.
- I urge the body to consider more meaningful costs, more meaningful measures to save costs for families
- This is a common-sense measure to ensure which of our foreign adversaries are paying to advocate for
- knives and other pepper spray devices knives and other self-defense<10:25:50.240>
tools <10:25 - such as stun guns, tasers, and devices such as stun guns, tasers, and pepper<10:27:27.200>
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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Please silence all electronic devices.
- And that's their measurement process.
- And that's their measurement process.
- And we do it through statistical measures.
- So there's some additional measures we look at to look for the uniformity.
Summary:
The Committee on Finance and Tax met with a quorum present and heard a presentation from the Property Appraisers Association of Florida on ad valorem valuation, exemptions, and the property tax process. Lauren Levy reviewed the legal and historical framework of Florida property taxation, including Save Our Homes, the 10% cap on non-homestead assessments, portability, tangible personal property exemptions, TRIM notices, and the distinction between taxable value and millage rates. He emphasized that property appraisers are independent constitutional officers who assess just value, administer exemptions, and are overseen by the Department of Revenue, with values and exemptions generally determined as of January 1 and subject to challenge through the Value Adjustment Board or circuit court.
Mike Twitty described the mass appraisal process in Pinellas County, explaining how property appraisers value large numbers of parcels using the same core approaches as fee appraisals but with statistical testing, field reviews, aerial imagery, and technology. He discussed the importance of budget, staffing, and the January 1 valuation date, and noted that recent hurricanes caused significant damage, increased petitions, and required new procedures to help property owners with value reductions and FEMA-related issues. Paul Polk focused on Department of Revenue oversight, explaining sales ratio studies, uniformity measures such as COD and PRD, time adjustments, sales qualification reviews, and in-depth studies that can lead to corrective action if assessment standards are not met. He also noted that the Department reviews property appraiser budgets to preserve independence from county pressure.
Senators asked about the supersized homestead concept, DOR review and rejection standards, value trends, and the impact of storms and new construction on taxable value. Twitty and Polk said value growth has been driven by a mix of new construction, market appreciation, cap resets, and storm-related adjustments, while noting that some counties saw market value decline even as taxable value rose. They also said some property tax relief proposals would be easier to implement than others depending on how local tax bills are structured, especially where law enforcement millage is separately identified. No votes were taken on legislation, and the committee adjourned after the presentation.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- and thinking about liquid fuel and the need for having PFAS equipment in the lines, in all of the devices
- and thinking about liquid fuel and the need for having PFAS equipment in the lines, in all of the devices
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NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Fish and Game and Marine Resources (02/03/2026)
Fish and Game and Marine Resources
Transcript Highlights:
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And <01:08:59.279>I mobility device while hunting. - And I mobility device while hunting.
- It’s considered an off-road device. Representative Durkin. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair.
- It’s considered an off-road device. Any other questions?
- Hunting and this important measure.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Counsel Oversight Dec 8th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Just a reminder to the committee and public to please silence your phones and all other electrical devices
- How do you measure it? I'm like, hey, you know, how do you measure fair? What's the metric on just?
- What's the measurement on reasonable?
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Counsel Oversight met to receive an overview from Public Counsel Walt Trierweiler on the work of his office. He described the office’s role in representing Florida utility customers in rate and service cases, including investor-owned electric, water, and wastewater matters, storm cost recovery, fuel clauses, storm protection plans, and specialized dockets. He emphasized the office’s use of depositions, expert witnesses, customer correspondence, and service-hearing testimony to challenge unsupported utility costs and seek “fair, just, reasonable, and affordable” outcomes for customers.
Trierweiler highlighted several current issues, including affordability, data centers, and the growing use of AI in reviewing large utility filings. He said the office has begun using affordability experts and data center witnesses, and that data center-related utility proposals raise concerns about energy demand, water use, and community impacts. He also expressed caution about AI and machine learning because of confidential utility information, while acknowledging that utilities, regulators, and his office are increasingly using such tools.
Members asked questions about how customer input is gathered, how profit is evaluated in rate cases, the role of settlement agreements, and whether the office is considering water consumption impacts from data centers. Trierweiler said customer feedback largely comes in through hearings, correspondence, and direct calls rather than office-led canvassing, and that his office seeks to limit imprudent costs while allowing utilities a fair return. He also explained that the office may file motions for reconsideration and appeals after PSC orders, and that it sometimes submits alternative settlement proposals even when approval is unlikely, to present a different option for the commission’s consideration. No votes were taken, and the committee adjourned after concluding its agenda.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/29/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Our important focus right now is public safety and being out there in a proactive enforcement measure
- Our important focus right now is public safety and being out there in a proactive enforcement measure
- as a state agency we enforcement measure as a state agency we cover<05:15:47.558>
multiple <05 - I would just add that this is a cost-saving measure for the cities who pay for these firemen to stand
- But it is just a cost-saving measure on the routine calls. Thank you.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, April 20, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- There are also real accountability measures here: annual reports on cybersecurity, independent evaluations
- There are also real accountability measures here: annual reports on cybersecurity, independent evaluations
- There are also real accountability measures here: annual reports on cybersecurity, independent evaluations
- Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15-minute vote. ELECTRONIC DEVICE.
- Members will record their votes by electronic devices as a five-minute vote. Five-minute vote.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We are also advocating for better mapping technologies and exploring preventative measures to safeguard
- These measures ensure the presence of no fewer than two safety-qualified underground telecommunications
- and better mapping Technologies and exploring<00:40:04.440>
preventative <00:40:04.960>measures - <00:40:05.359>
to exploring preventative measures to exploring preventative measures to safeguard - <01:03:05.920>
to including use of tracking devices to including use of tracking devices to
Keywords:
telecommunications, installation, certification, safety, underground utilities, HF335, Greater Minnesota, economic development, public infrastructure, grant program, DEED, Department of Employment and Economic Development, business development, infrastructure grants, local government aid, general fund appropriation, rural development, site development, utilities, roads
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25 - Part 1
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Are the recommendations and the things that you talk about here reflective of the measures that other
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the here are they reflective of um the here are they reflective of um the measures - that other states take to lower measures that other states take to lower those<00:30:11.919>
those - forward to working together as session continues to find a path forward where everyone can see measurable
- He said the agency appreciates that the report is a measure of accountability, but the tracker may be
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 556, which is the Senator Murphy syringe and medical device bill.
- <01:53:45.119>
Age targeted harm reduction measure. Age targeted harm reduction measure. - These measures program administration.
- Bill 557 offers a measured Bill 557 offers a measured evidence-based<02:03:52.400>
response. - <02:44:54.240>
We're it's a harm reduction measure. We're it's a harm reduction measure.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 1156 asks Arizona to accept these injustices as protective measures.
- Further, Senate Bill 1088 provides funding for security measures related to generative AI.
- Further, Senate Bill 1088 provides funding for security measures related to generative AI.
- Traditional security measures may not adequately address the unique risks posed by Gen AI, requiring
- Traditional security measures may not adequately address the unique risks posed by Gen AI, requiring
Bills:
SB1088, SB1156, SB1157, SB1169, SB1245, SB1273, SB1330, SB1332, SB1391, SB1498, SB1531, SB1550, SB1598, SB1677, SB1707, SB1811, SB1818
Keywords:
cybersecurity, homeland security, artificial intelligence, state appropriation, VPN security, zero trust, appropriation, public safety, detention, unauthorized aliens, local government funding, border security, fencing, appropriations, southern border, local government, medical education, physician shortage, healthcare funding, Arizona health care
Summary:
The committee heard and acted on several appropriation and policy bills, beginning with SB 1550, which would provide $1.255 million to Queen Creek for a three-year police pilot focused on runaway youth prevention, at-risk youth protection, and anti-trafficking investigations. Supporters said the program would dedicate trained officers to prevention and rapid response and could serve as a statewide model. Some members objected to funding a single locality without a local cost share, but the bill received a do pass recommendation, 7-2-1.
Members then considered SB 1156 and SB 1157, both sponsored as reimbursements to local governments for border-related costs. SB 1156 would appropriate $20 million to reimburse cities, towns, and counties for short-term detention holds for unauthorized non-citizens, while SB 1157 would appropriate $20 million for supplemental fencing or bollard walls in high-crossing border areas. The sponsor described both as backfilling local expenses already incurred, while opponents argued the measures would subsidize detention and border enforcement rather than Arizona priorities. Both bills drew extensive public opposition and were advanced on party-line-leaning votes: SB 1156 passed 5-3-2 and SB 1157 passed 5-3-2.
The committee also approved SB 1245, which would provide $2.457 million for Rodeo Road pavement replacement in Williams, after the sponsor said the request had been reduced from the original amount. Members raised concerns about limited HIRF funding and the need for local participation, but the bill passed 6-3-1. SB 1707, a $5 million appropriation for DPS artificial intelligence tools related to border security, also passed 6-4-0 after testimony split between supporters who saw AI as a useful border tool and opponents who said the bill was too vague or unnecessary. SB 1811, which would change school cell-phone policy language from allowing use “during” an emergency to “in the case of” an emergency, passed 8-1-1 with supporters saying it would give schools more flexibility and avoid logistical problems during lockdowns.
Later, the committee approved SB 1088, a $2.5 million cybersecurity appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security, including funding for generative AI security and modernization of the statewide VPN, despite objections that the department had not requested the money and that other cybersecurity needs were already pending. It then advanced SB 1332, as amended, to require ADOT to study light rail expansion in Maricopa County and compare it with autonomous or semi-autonomous transit options; the hearing featured strong testimony from small business owners along the Indian School corridor who said light rail construction would hurt access and sales, and opposition from Phoenix/Valley Metro representatives who argued transit decisions are local and that ADOT is not the right entity to conduct the study. The bill was discussed at length as a neutral feasibility review rather than a prohibition after the amendment removed the state-participation ban.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Judiciary Jan 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And just a reminder for everybody, please silence your electronic devices.
- overall response, I think, began with our partners, the clerks, were required to take extraordinary measures
- Measuring from the date of service of the commencement of the action, court rules also provide that judges
- Regarding performance measurement, there are various ways of measuring performance based on the local
- In order to measure performance statewide, we realize that we need to have participant-level data that
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (10/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- And this bill would have required mandatory insurance coverage for glucose monitoring devices for all
- As a nurse, I do know firsthand how vital these devices are for patients.
- devices when clinically appropriate.<01:46:31.920>
Expanding <01:46:32.400>that <01:46: - It was just going to give these monitoring devices to anybody who wanted it.
- So they should know what it cost them for this device.
Summary:
The committee first took up a liquor-related amendment correcting an earlier drafting error that had accidentally removed enhanced penalties for death-related over-service from the statute. Members explained that the language had already been enacted briefly before being deleted by mistake, and the amendment simply restored the prior penalty provisions. The committee voted unanimously in favor. A second liquor amendment followed, concerning VFW and similar veterans’ clubs. The revised language would allow a veteran or member to sign in a limited number of under-21 guests, with testimony emphasizing that this was meant for small events and would mirror existing restaurant rules requiring a parent, legal guardian, or adult spouse. There was extended debate about whether private clubs were sufficiently public, whether towns could tighten liquor rules locally, and whether enforcement would be effective. Liquor enforcement testified that municipalities must approve licenses, only four minors could be signed in at once under a member’s signature, age-restriction signage remains required, and clubs often report violations themselves to protect their licenses. The amendment was ultimately approved unanimously, and the subcommittee then moved into executive session.
In executive session, HB 186, relating to cannabis legalization, regulation, and appropriations, was recommended ought to pass on a 10-7 vote, with a minority report noted. HB 241, relating to treatment alternatives to opioids, was then supported with amendment 2990 and recommended ought to pass as amended; the bill was described as expanding access to non-opioid, non-surgical, and non-medication pain treatments, while the amendment clarified Insurance Department procedures and educational materials. That bill was placed on the consent calendar unanimously. HB 297, concerning access by self-funded employer health plans to claims data, was also recommended ought to pass with amendment 2987 and then ought to pass as amended unanimously; supporters said it would let employers opt in to deidentified claims data, improve transparency, and preserve privacy. It too was placed on the consent calendar unanimously.
The committee then considered HB 312, dealing with student-athlete name, image, and likeness compensation, and voted to send it to interim study. Members said the issue remained too uncertain because of ongoing federal and NCAA developments, and that interim study would keep the committee’s options open without killing the bill. The motion was supported as a way to continue monitoring the issue for future action.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 6th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And then how do we measure... What are the ones who are still there, and how...
- Once again, this has been one of my rallying cries: performance measures.
- Then you have to fix and measure for effectiveness and durability.
- There are those measures in place.
- So what this device does is it actually will do all the counts for you automatically.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill has been a long time measured.
- The Department of Ed other devices.
- We passed legislation prohibiting all electronic devices during the school day.
- That could produce a big on the devices.
- limited use of an electronic device limited use of an electronic device under<02:23:03.520>
the
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
House Chamber - Tue Mar 10, 2026, 9:00AM HST - Day 25
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I urge all members to support this<03:15:54.120>
measure. this measure. this measure. - And that's what this measure does. And that's what this measure does.
- those measures. Thank you. those measures. Thank you. Representative<05:18:58.600>
Todd. - with other management measures. with other management measures.
- support of this measure. support of this measure. Representative<05:42:46.480>
Quinlan.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Judiciary Committee, where it was amended to put guardrails on law enforcement's use of public tracking devices
- These outdated devices hinder effective communication and pose safety risks to both responders and the
- <00:51:49.040>
hinder features these outdated devices hinder features these outdated devices - By implementing strict data protection measures, officers can mitigate these risks and work to better
- measures officers can mitigate<01:04:09.480>
these <01:04:09.760>risk <01:04:10.160>
VA
Transcript Highlights:
- May our words be measured, our motives be pure.
- O'Kelly has received numerous decorations, including the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal with 'B' device
- printed version, next category: commending resolutions laid on the Speaker’s table, with commending measures
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Let's please silence all electronic devices.
- We like to measure what we do because what we measure gets done.
Keywords:
student volunteers, polling locations, election administration, community service, Florida statutes, speech education, debate, high school, Florida Debate Initiative, civics, competitive teams, student participation, educational advancement, dyslexia, dyscalculia, education, screening, intervention, student support, educational facilities
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Education Pre-K through 12 met with a quorum present and heard several education-related bills. The committee first considered CS/SB 1062 on speech and debate, which would create a Speech and Debate Hall of Fame, designate Speech and Debate Week, authorize a teacher endorsement, require FLVS to establish an institute for speech and debate, direct development of related coursework and credentials, and require annual district reporting. Supporters, including a parent and representatives of the Florida Debate Initiative and school groups, emphasized the academic and civic benefits of debate and the need for funding for travel and training. The committee adopted a delete-all amendment and then reported the bill favorably. The committee also heard and reported favorably SB 1718 on educator preparation and certification, with testimony from an Orange County principal and others supporting a proposal to let educators bank professional learning hours, and SB 1646 on educational facilities, which revises how facility funding is calculated and prioritized, including safety and planning considerations.
The committee then took up CS/SB 564 on student volunteers at polling locations. An amendment clarified that high school students who are registered or pre-registered to vote may volunteer at polling places and count the service toward graduation or postsecondary financial aid requirements. Testimony from a county supervisor of elections and civic groups supported the bill as a way to engage students in elections and expand volunteer opportunities, while clarifying it would not conflict with existing election funding rules. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably.
Finally, the committee heard SB 1340 on coordinated screening and progress monitoring, which requires school districts to screen students for characteristics of dyslexia and dyscalculia, place identified students on support plans, and use evidence-based interventions, with State Board of Education rulemaking to implement the process. The sponsor and a supporting parent group stressed early identification and intervention. The committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also recommended confirmation of Laila Collins to the State Board of Education, and then adjourned.