Video & Transcript Research : 'Technology'
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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Wed Mar 12, 2025, 12:00PM HST - Day 30
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Intermediate School and Jessica dos Santos of Hawaiʻi Technology Academy.
- Intermediate School and Jessica dos Santos of Hawaiʻi Technology Academy.
- Intermediate School and Jessica dos Santos of Hawaiʻi Technology Academy.
- Intermediate School and Jessica dos Santos of Hawaiʻi Technology Academy.
- Intermediate School and Jessica dos Santos of Hawaiʻi Technology Academy.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Jan 12th, 2026
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- And at the point of intake, it can be done through technology.
- So that person doesn't have to fill out five different forms, and it just works based on the technology
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that if there were federal funds paid for a technology
- One-on-one coaching, but then also making the technology system to where it's not just a guess game,
- agency. one-on-one coaching, but then also making the technology system to where it's not just a guest
Summary:
The committee heard a presentation from Nick Moore, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Office of Career and Technical Education, focused on integrating workforce, education, training, and human services systems. Moore argued that WIOA, Perkins, and ESSA should be aligned more closely, with fewer federal and state bureaucratic layers, more state flexibility, and a stronger emphasis on labor force participation, postsecondary attainment, and training tied to in-demand jobs. He said the federal agencies are moving toward combined plan timelines for 2026, encouraged states to pursue combined plans and waivers, and described efforts to streamline reporting, reduce administrative overhead, and expand tools such as integrated intake, cross-training, virtual and mobile service delivery, apprenticeship, and talent marketplaces.
Moore also emphasized accountability and outcomes, saying states should measure training-related employment, retention, and the share of funds going to direct services rather than administration. He criticized the current workforce system as too costly and ineffective, and said states should use primary labor market information, better wage records, and employer input to align training with actual job demand. Members asked about balancing flexibility with accountability, the role of employers versus postsecondary institutions, serving rural “training deserts,” state waivers, and data-sharing systems such as Mississippi’s workforce technology efforts. Moore said states can use waivers and technology to create common intake and co-enrollment across programs, and that enhanced wage records are key to better workforce planning.
The committee then received a separate update from DHS Secretary Janet Mann and Director Jay Hill on reimbursement rates for aging and adult behavioral health services. They said DHS had compiled more than 100 public comments, submitted a recommendation to the governor to hold current rates, and was awaiting executive review, which they estimated could take 30 to 60 days. Members asked about the timeline and the scope of the legislation requiring monthly reports. The meeting ended with notice of a later audit presentation scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at the Big Mac building.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/27/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, good morning to you and to members of Science, Technology and Energy.
- open to any type of nuclear technology open to any type of nuclear technology that<00:06:05.039>
- , and does not limit future technologies.
- sighting um not so much the technology sighting um not so much the technology lots<00:30:22.760>
- Welcome, members, to Science, Technology and Energy.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 6, February 16, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- looking at an industrial technology looking at an industrial technology building<00:35:45.760>
- It strikes the financial technology and digital innovation technologies to the emerging technologies.
- And so, uh, the reason why we went about trying to technology and digital innovation technology.
- It strikes the financial technology and digital innovation technologies to the emerging technologies.
- technologies to the emerging technologies.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- wants to remain a leader in technology wants to remain a leader in technology such<00:05:17.840>
- You know, I think there are different technologies that use different amounts of energy.
- If you wanted to use less electricity off the bat, those technologies do that. >> Mr.
- data center technology has been changing<00:25:48.080>
and <00:25:48.400>growing. - the bat, those technologies do do that. the bat, those technologies do do that.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This is related to the use of grid enhancing technologies and high-performance conductors in the ERCOT
- This is related to the use of grid enhancing technologies and high-performance conductors in the ERCOT
- This is related to the use of grid enhancing technologies and high-performance conductors in the ERCOT
- This is related to the use of grid enhancing technologies and high-performance conductors in the ERCOT
- HB5352 by BC addresses the establishment of a state blockchain technology pilot program.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appr/Sub-Public Safety and Judiciary 2ND REVISED Jan 28th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Next is digit digitization: leveraging technology to reduce paper use and storage space requirements.
- Is the technology advantage going to help try to? Fill that gap. I know that we're going to.
- Do we have anywhere near the technology basis for our courts to live stream all court proceedings?
- Website, but that opens up a whole new Pandora's box of issues beyond just the technology.
- And then our technology upgrade, we are actually still working on that right now.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Small Business and Information Technology (3-12-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- welcome to the second meeting of the House Standing Committee on Small Business and Information Technology
- As we've talked about, it's going to be a challenge to keep up with the technology, but the end goal
- <00:04:02.480>
have to have the office of Technology have to have the office of Technology - The First Amendment doctrine does not reset itself after each technological advance.
- My only question has to do with cost or the burden on the Office of Technology.
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Meeting Start 00:00
Roll Call 00:36
SB 4 Discussion 01:16
SB 4 Vote 28:30
SB 130 Discussion 31:18
SB 130 Discussion 36:02, 958, all
Summary:
The committee first took up Senate Bill 4, as amended by a committee substitute, which would create a state artificial intelligence governance framework for Kentucky government agencies and address AI-generated misinformation in campaigns and elections. The bill’s sponsors said it is intended to regulate only state government use of AI, not the private sector, and would require oversight by the Office of Technology, agency reporting, and annual reporting to the General Assembly. They also said the elections provisions were narrowed to focus on AI-generated audio and video, remove image disclosures, eliminate prior restraint and monetary damages, and rely on disclosure requirements modeled on laws they said had survived constitutional review in Texas.
Testimony on SB 4 was mixed. Supporters emphasized transparency, human accountability, and the need to prepare state government for rapidly changing AI tools, citing possible uses such as fraud detection, inmate classification, and transportation planning. An opponent from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression argued the bill would burden core political speech, create First Amendment problems, and invite litigation and abuse, especially in the election context. Members asked about litigation, constitutional concerns, costs, and whether the bill should be expanded later to cover ordinary citizens harmed by AI-generated content. Several members expressed support but noted reservations about the election sections or the need for future amendments.
After discussion, the committee voted on SB 4 and reported it favorably. The roll call showed the measure passing with favorable expression, with some members explaining votes as supportive but cautious, and one member initially passing before later recording a yes vote. The chair then moved to Senate Bill 130, and Senator Scott Maiden and Kentucky Retail Federation representative Shannon Stiglets began presenting it as a response to gift card scams and theft of redemption information, describing recent large-scale supermarket fraud cases in Kentucky and saying the problem is tied to broader organized retail crime.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Article III Feb 27th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Article III
Transcript Highlights:
- So we're working on technologies to do that. How do we make sure our ports stay safe?
- advanced. in the country, but that technology then could also go to support all ports.
- . technology.
- Research, Workforce Development, and Technology Transfer.
- That is innovative growth and Next Gen Artificial Intelligence Technology Ecosystems.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
October 7, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- TAKES WIRELESS, 13% WITHIN THAT DISTRIBUTION, SATELLITE CAME IN AT 25% DISTRIBUTION AND HYBRID TECHNOLOGY
- BEAD PROGRAM ONCE WE EXECUTE OUR GRANT AGREEMENTS WE HAVE A FOUR-YEAR PERFORMANCE PERIOD FOR ALL TECHNOLOGY
- YOU'RE TALKING TO YOUNG KIDS WILL HAVE ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY, ACCESS TO HIGH-SPEED INTERNET AND HOMEWORK
- Franklin: MY NEXT QUESTION IS AROUND SOME OF THE LOCAL TECHNOLOGY PLANNING TEAMS AND MY CURIOSITY AROUND
- THAT ARE ALWAYS MOVING AHEAD TO WHAT TECHNOLOGY IS SO WE'RE PLAYING BACK UP TO SOME EXTENT AND OVER THE
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 31st, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- This is based on the evolution on the criminal organizations that we investigate and their technology
- Today we are 16 people, starting with 3 working incredibly complex and technologically sophisticated
- with every federal law enforcement agency, and we're at the forefront of developing cutting edge technology
- How would this address those or is that something that we're just gonna have to see how that technology
- Advances, I think that's probably a different technological question than than the actual physical gift
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 31st, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The criminal organizations that we investigate and their technology are constantly evolving.
- with every federal law enforcement agency, and we're at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technology
- How would this address those, or is that something that we're just going to have to see how that technology
- I think that's probably a different technological question than the actual physical gift card. in the
- have limited experience with gift card fraud because, as you heard earlier, this is an emerging technology
Keywords:
gift card fraud, counterfeit gift card, gift card tampering, gift card theft, prepaid card, stored value card, retail fraud, financial crimes, consumer protection, organized retail crime, gift card skimming, magnetic stripe, chip card, redemption information, gift card packaging, Penal Code, felony theft, state jail felony, third-degree felony, second-degree felony
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Children and Youth Health Committee Feb 27th, 2025
Children and Youth Health
Transcript Highlights:
- We can't protect our children from the world they live in; they are part of this technology.
- I often said if you don't understand technology, if I don't understand my cell phone and quite... ...
- But not everybody is technologically savvy enough to understand all of those features and how to go in
- As I said, technology, cell phones, and things like that are their age.
- know about... ...this technology won't even know about this law.
Keywords:
internet filtering, child protection, obscene content, civil liability, manufacturers, app store, app store provider, app developer, mobile app, age verification, parental consent, minor safety, child online safety, parental controls, age gating, digital privacy, data protection, in-app purchases, online consumer protection, deceptive trade practice
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- majority committee on science technology majority committee on science technology and<03:38:18.600
- But it is an emitting technology; it’s a low-emitting technology.
- The windmill is mostly a renewable, non-emitting technology.
- Technologies but it's a low emitting Technologies but it's a low emitting technology<03:44:03.720>
- position and also to upgrade technology position and also to upgrade technology to<04:09:18.800>
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Appropriation of Transportation, Technology, and Natural Resources.
- HB 2210, aviation surveillance technology fees prohibition.
- Appropriations, transportation, technology.
- Appropriations, transportation, technology.
- Appropriations, transportation, technology.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the journal, received House messages and first-read a large number of bills, then moved through several Committee of the Whole calendars. On Calendar 2, SB 1419 on solar energy inspection contractors was amended with a Carroll floor amendment and passed; a Sundareshan amendment aimed at requiring utilities to shield residential ratepayers from costs tied to large loads such as data centers was debated at length, but failed on a 12-15 division. SB 1498 (Department of Public Safety appropriation) and SB 1502 (unlawful flight/reckless endangerment) also received do-pass recommendations. The Committee of the Whole report was adopted, and the Senate later rejected an attempt to add the failed data-center amendment to the report by a 13-14 vote.
On Calendar 3, the Senate advanced SB 1165 (insurance cost sharing for breast exams), SB 1206 (storm-related insurance claims), SB 1212 (health insurance reimbursement rates for vaccines), SB 1215 (firefighters’ occupational disease/workers’ compensation), SB 1290 and SB 1291 (agricultural property notices/classification), and SB 1347 (fertility preservation coverage), with committee amendments adopted on most of them. A Warner substitute floor amendment to SB 1347 was adopted to address insurer concerns by allowing prior authorization with a 72-hour processing requirement and clarifying storage-cost responsibility. The Senate also retained SB 1503 on the calendar.
On Calendar 1 and the additional calendars, the Senate advanced SB 1013 (public employees merit hiring), SB 1108 (cash transactions and rounding, with an emergency clause added), SB 1178 (naturopathic physicians), SB 1186 (document retention/proposals/donations), SB 1286 (veterinary visits and prescriptions), SB 1366 (commercial buildings and telecommunications), SB 1431 (municipal design prohibitions), SB 1671 (gaming/racing/boxing conflict-of-interest continuation), SB 1004 (ESA students’ interscholastic activities), SB 1116 (AHCCCS access/claims review/behavioral health), SB 1162 (health care institution licensing complaints), SB 1179 (group home monitoring), SB 1475 (school district governing boards/eligibility), SB 1821 (DCS training and child placement), and SCR 1012. Several floor amendments were debated and adopted or rejected, including a Kavanaugh emergency-clause amendment to SB 1108, a failed Sears amendment to SB 1178 on prescription drug price gouging, a failed Sundareshan transparency amendment to SB 1186, a failed Kavanaugh amendment to SB 1286 on veterinary prescriptions, a Gowan amendment to SB 1366, a Payne amendment to SB 1077, a Carroll amendment to SB 1479, a Petersen amendment to SB 1566, and an Angius amendment to SB 1018 expanding the definition of foreign law to include certain harmful practices. The Senate adopted the Committee of the Whole reports and properly assigned the bills after each calendar.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- The declining schedule was believed to provide sufficient time for advancement in battery technology
- The declining schedule was believed to provide sufficient time for advancement in battery technology
- mandated to comply with the ICT and have similar issues with complying with the regulation, as technology
- Witness: Hopefully optimistic that the market will catch up to it, since technology has come a long way
- this is one of those things where we're going back and revisiting and trying to make sure that technology
Summary:
The Senate Transportation Committee heard several measures, with eight bills and resolutions placed on the consent calendar and three items heard separately. AB 1944 by Assembly Member Alex Lee would delay the implementation timeline for axle weight limits on zero-emission buses, keeping the existing final cap in place while giving transit agencies and manufacturers more time to meet the limits. Supporters, including the California Transit Association and several transit districts, said the bill would help agencies procure longer-range zero-emission buses; the League of California Cities opposed it, warning that heavier buses would accelerate pavement damage and increase local maintenance costs. Senators raised questions about infrastructure impacts and environmental tradeoffs, and the bill ultimately advanced on a 10-3 vote.
AB 2453 by Assembly Member Michelle Rodriguez would clarify authority for first responders and peace officers to use off-highway vehicles in official duties, including limited travel on public roads to reach remote areas. The author and a Carlsbad Fire Department witness said the bill would reduce response times and remove operational barriers for fire, police, lifeguard, and search-and-rescue use of UTVs; the measure had support from local agencies and no opposition testimony. It passed the committee 13-0 and was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Water.
SJR 16 by Senator Caballero urged Congress to restore commercial driver credentials affected by federal enforcement actions tied to English-language proficiency and non-domiciled commercial licenses, arguing that the actions harmed experienced immigrant drivers and the supply chain. Teamsters California testified in support, and there was no opposition in the room. The resolution advanced on a 9-3 vote. The consent calendar, which included AB 431, AB 1614, AB 1625, ACR 126, ACR 137, ACR 142, ACR 169, and SCR 155, was approved unanimously.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Evaluation & Accountability Program Jun 18th, 2025
Legislative Evaluation & Accountability Program
Transcript Highlights:
- We are proposing to move it into our tax analysis, interpretation, and technology support program.
- It really truly does belong and fit better within our information technology area of our organization
- And so, with the addition of that camera technology, that results in that facility being better categorized
- Camera technology, that results in that facility being better categorized as an express toll lane rather
- months while at the same time completing his degree from UW Tacoma while majoring in information technology
Summary:
The LEAP committee met on June 18, 2025, with introductions from members and staff, then received a clean audit report from the State Auditor covering 2020–2024. The audit reviewed accounts payable, general disbursements, theft-sensitive assets, and data backup/recovery, and found no findings. Staff also outlined the interim work plan, including a full rewrite of the capital budget application (Build Sum), updates to the transportation bond model and operating budget tools, website improvements, and continued research into secure, responsible AI use. Members asked about AI safeguards, keyword search improvements, and making the website more user-friendly, especially on mobile devices.
The committee approved the July 8, 2024 minutes after a quorum was reached. It then considered and unanimously approved several budget format changes: the Department of Corrections moved chemical dependency and sex offender treatment into its health care program and renamed Program 700 from “Offender Change” to “Reentry Services”; the Department of Revenue moved the AMP program into its tax analysis and technology support program; and the Department of Transportation changed a toll program title and added new sub-programs for State Route 509 and State Route 167 toll operations to reflect new facilities and more accurate reporting.
Kevin Feltis also provided staffing updates, noting the retirements of longtime LEAP staff, the hiring of three new associate consultants in October 2024, and an upcoming December 2025 retirement for Sherry Randage after decades of state service. The new staff members briefly introduced themselves and expressed enthusiasm for their work. The meeting ended with thanks to members and staff and adjournment after the committee completed its business.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Natural Resources & Energy (3-12-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2023, it established a working group to study nuclear technology, and then in 2024, Senate Bill 198
- <00:05:35.520>
and <00:05:35.639>then <00:05:35.800>in study nuclear technology - and then in study nuclear technology and then in 2024<00:05:37.960>
Senate <00:05:38.319>Bill - other house, for adding this: the processing of spent nuclear fuel is a vital part of the new technologies
- other house, for adding this: the processing of spent nuclear fuel is a vital part of the new technologies
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Meeting Start 00:00
Attendance Roll Call 01:25
HCR 22 Discussion 01:57
HCR 22 Roll Call Vote 07:55, 958, all
Summary:
The Natural Resources Committee met with a quorum, approved the minutes, and then heard ACR 22, sponsored by Representatives Randy Bridges and Steven Rudy. The resolution declares nuclear generation to be a clean, dispatchable baseload energy source for Kentucky. The sponsors argued that Kentucky and the broader energy market are facing growing demand and reliability challenges, and said the resolution recognizes prior legislative steps on nuclear power, including lifting the nuclear moratorium, creating a nuclear study working group, and establishing the Kentucky Nuclear Development Authority.
The sponsors also emphasized nuclear power as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy and highlighted small modular reactors and spent fuel processing as important future technologies. They referenced Paducah’s former uranium enrichment site and potential laser enrichment work as part of a recycling approach that could reduce waste and support new fuel production. No outside testimony was presented in the excerpt.
Members expressed support for the resolution, with several noting its importance for economic development, reliable power, and keeping coal relevant through new energy partnerships. The committee voted favorably on the measure, with all members present voting aye, and the chair stated that the resolution would pass with favorable expression. The committee then adjourned.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 26th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII
Transcript Highlights:
- And our exceptional items address the ongoing growth in our workload, including both staffing and technology
- Finally, regarding technology, our request aimed to create or modernize systems that will improve. transparency
- Okay, on the technology side, some of your exceptional items. Let's see, number one was staffing.
- Dollars last session on some technology upgrades. Did we not do that? Did we have?
- Haley hi, I'm Haley Hall with the PC and we did receive some funding for technology last session, especially
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Judiciary Committee Jun 30th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And we want that technology. We want those features.
- And, you know, the more technology you have, the more an individual spends on that.
- The technology that we have seen is not perfect.
- I don't think anyone feels that we shouldn't be using this technology.
- While technology has emerged... ...and comments that are not person-based.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on several bills, beginning with SB 16, which would require county behavioral health directors to create clear pathways for clinicians to be authorized to initiate 5150 involuntary holds. The author and supporters argued the bill would reduce reliance on law enforcement and create more consistent crisis response standards statewide, while county behavioral health directors opposed it as an unfunded mandate that could increase law enforcement involvement and create implementation burdens. Members raised questions about county costs and funding, but the author emphasized the bill’s role in building a more clinical response system.
SB 561 would require public guardians to acknowledge conservatorship referrals, make determinations within a reasonable time, and provide status updates on request. Supporters said the bill would reduce delays that leave vulnerable adults in limbo, while the opposition from public guardian representatives was removed after amendments. SB 381 drew extensive public testimony in support; it would allow California-born adoptees, and descendants of deceased adoptees, access to original birth certificates, with a nonbinding contact preference form for birth parents. Supporters framed the bill as a matter of dignity, identity, and health, and there was no formal opposition on the record.
The committee also discussed SB 880, which would give tenants and prospective owner-occupants notice and a first opportunity to make an offer when institutional investors sell certain homes. Supporters said it would expand homeownership opportunities and preserve neighborhood stability, while opponents warned about conflicts with federal law, bundled-sale restrictions, and impacts on build-to-rent and affordable housing projects. Members and the author discussed possible amendments to address those concerns. SB 1238 would impose a duty of care and additional transparency requirements on HOA managers and boards; supporters said it would protect homeowners from mismanagement, while the main opposition argued the duty should remain contractual and could increase litigation. Finally, SB 423 would require disclosure of emergency-service records related to private detention facilities, and SB 28 would make changes to the CARE Court process, including a statewide ombudsperson and expanded oversight; both drew support and opposition, with concerns focused on transparency, privacy, implementation, and the balance between treatment and coercion. SB 574, discussed at the end, would require disclosure and human oversight for AI use in courts and legal practice and create a complaint process for ADR providers, with the State Bar noting requested amendments related to complaint handling and confidentiality.