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CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on the Arts May 14th, 2026

Joint Committee on the Arts

Transcript Highlights:
  • High school students each year.
  • So that's the matching of the professionals with the students.
  • It's beneficial to the students and to their next career.
  • So that matching of the professionals with the students, it's beneficial to the students and to their
  • With them to support the launch of the climate assessment plan.
Summary: The Joint Committee on the Arts held an informational hearing on California’s first sector-specific creative economy strategic plan, developed under AB 127 by the California Arts Council with an interagency work group and outside research support. Committee members and panelists described the plan’s purpose as strengthening the state’s creative workforce, stabilizing creative businesses, expanding equity and access, and building infrastructure for long-term implementation. The opening presentation highlighted major forces shaping the sector over the next decade, including AI, climate disruption, affordability, access to capital, and social cohesion, and outlined six action areas: workforce preparation, business growth, cultural tourism and identity, cross-sector incentives, ROI/data tracking, and state capacity-building. Testimony from the California Department of Education and the Workforce Development Board focused on existing workforce pipelines, including updated arts/entertainment/design CTE standards, the Entertainment Equity Alliance, apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship pathways, and High Road Training Partnership investments. Speakers said these efforts are producing strong placement outcomes, including paid on-the-job training, union placements, and support for workers facing barriers, while also emphasizing the need for entrepreneurship training and wraparound supports. Committee discussion also centered on a major unresolved issue: how to define and measure the creative economy consistently across agencies, since current labor data often misses gig, contract, nonprofit, and business activity. A second panel of practitioners and advocates described local examples of the plan in action. The Handy Foundation, Arts for LA’s Creative Jobs Collective, the Arts Council of San Bernardino County, and the California Arts Council chair all argued that artists and creative workers should be treated as essential contributors to education, community health, local economies, and resilience, not as peripheral workers. They urged stronger school partnerships, more arts access, and better recognition of creative careers. Members also discussed AI’s impact on creative work, with panelists saying it should be treated as a tool that requires guardrails, training, and union and educator involvement rather than as a replacement for human creativity. No formal votes were taken; the hearing was informational, and members expressed support for continued implementation, better data systems, and additional funding in future budget and policy actions.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 6th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thirty students in a class, 150 daily.
  • Nine and ten of our students are Washingtonians, half are college grant or college-bound students.
  • One in four receive college-bound. 75% of those are students of color. students.
  • About 95% of Central students are Washington residents and 43% are first-generation college students,
  • Limiting student choice limits students, Washington's workforce and this bill recognizes the essential
Committee: Senate Ways & Means
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education. (3-25-26)

Primary and Secondary Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> and mainly the students. and mainly the students.
  • </c> um and they affect how our assessment um and they affect how our assessment accountability<00:35
  • <00:38:45.440><c> results,</c> assessment results, assessment results, the<00:38:47.680><c> financial
  • students, Kate Wood over here, former students, Kate Wood over here, uh,<00:46:31.320><c> convinced<
  • </c> help their students. help their students. Ms.<00:53:12.680><c> Blair.
Keywords: 958, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Students are eligible for CalFresh.
  • ago, the student caseload has grown by over 258%, from 158,000 students to over 200,000 students monthly
  • ago, the student caseload has grown by over 258%, from 158,000 students to over 200,000 students monthly
  • students from accessing the benefits promptly.
  • So we must maximize students' access to those benefits. Thank you guys.
Keywords: 988, house, all
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • We spend a half a billion dollars, by gum, on assessing people.
  • We spend a half a billion dollars, by gum, on assessing people.
  • </c> billion dollars bayum on assessing billion dollars bayum on assessing people<00:04:00.720><c> sometimes
  • </c> schools onethird of Minnesota students schools onethird of Minnesota students report<00:16:06.639
  • for addressing students' mental health needs.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Our office published an assessment of these kinds of previous rounds of funding.
  • We also have conducted quite thorough needs assessments from the department.
  • Just to give a little context for why we did the assessment and maybe the purpose of the assessment,
  • the well-being of the student population through Kelvin Pulse surveys, which assess the well-being of
  • They also utilize clinically validated assessment tools.
Summary: The hearing opened with remarks from the chair and members about recent federal cuts to public health, mental health, family planning, and Title X funding, with strong concern about the impact on California programs and providers. The committee then turned to the Department of State Hospitals, which presented its 2025-26 budget proposal of $3.4 billion, including new positions, capital improvements, and funding tied to increased patient costs and incompetent-to-stand-trial services. DSH reported major progress in reducing the IST waitlist and wait times, said it had met the court’s 28-day treatment benchmark for those without extenuating circumstances, and described workforce recruitment and retention efforts such as residency programs, fellowships, outreach, and hiring streamlining. Members asked about future IST referral trends, SB 1323’s effect on diversion and community treatment, and workforce lessons in high-cost regions; public comment urged reconsideration of county IST growth cap methodology in light of new criminal justice initiatives. The committee next received an informational overview of Proposition 1 and its changes to behavioral health funding and governance. The Legislative Analyst’s Office explained that Prop. 1 restructured county MHSA funding buckets, expanded the Commission for Behavioral Health, shifted prevention and early intervention responsibilities, and authorized a $6.4 billion bond, including $4.4 billion for behavioral health facilities through BHCIP. DHCS said it had released guidance for county integrated plans and was receiving extensive public comment. Members focused on BHCIP application requirements, especially letters of support and tribal projects, and raised concerns about whether DHCS’s implementation matched statutory intent. DHCS said it had authority to set application requirements and that tribal entities were treated differently because of sovereignty and funding structure. DHCS then updated the committee on BHCIP, the Behavioral Health Bridge Housing Program, and related bond implementation. The department said BHCIP had awarded about $1.7 billion across five rounds, with more than 130 projects and 223 distinct facilities funded, and that it was preparing to award the new bond funds after receiving nearly $8 billion in applications. The LAO’s assessment found that more than half of awards served at least 80% Medi-Cal enrollees, but also raised concerns that the regional allocation model could reinforce inequities, that the program had not sufficiently addressed the highest-need regions such as the southern San Joaquin Valley, and that smaller counties and less launch-ready applicants faced barriers. For bridge housing, DHCS said more than $1.1 billion had been awarded, serving over 5,000 people and supporting more than 2,000 operational beds, but the Governor’s budget proposes to eliminate Round 4 funding as the administration weighs other statewide investments and Proposition 1 implementation workload. Public commenters and members urged more accountability, better regional equity, stronger labor and community involvement, and caution about funding for for-profit psychiatric facilities. Finally, the committee heard on the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative. CalHHS and DHCS described CYBHI as a broad prevention- and equity-focused effort with more than 1,300 organizations funded, over $2.1 billion awarded, and multiple work streams spanning schools, community programs, workforce, and digital supports. DHCS highlighted school-based services, the fee schedule rollout, and digital platforms BrightLife Kids and Soluna, which it said are reaching users statewide and providing low-barrier access to coaching and support. Members and public commenters raised concerns about delays in school fee schedule implementation, the large share of funding going to digital tools, the need for more in-person services, and whether the initiative is sufficiently tracking outcomes and equity impacts. No formal votes were taken during the hearing.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-19 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, today we have students from the Cambridge program.
  • If you're a Cambridge student, please stand up so we can see you.
  • Students, student government association leaders, and Levin Scholars, Fred Levin Scholars, are with President
  • This bill authorizes public schools to assess an activities fee on homeschool students who wish to participate
  • This bill authorizes public schools to assess an activities fee on homeschool students who wish to participate
Keywords: 998, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Senate in Session Apr 3rd, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill lowers the stakes for students on the Algebra I and Grade 10 ELA assessment by making each
  • This bill lowers the stakes for students on the Algebra I and Grade 10 ELA assessment by making each
  • for a state assessment only applies to the end-of-year assessment.
  • And automated cost of the cost per student station.
  • I expect to go through being assessed.
Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and several recognitions, including visiting student groups, chambers of commerce, and apprenticeship participants. Senators also observed a moment of silence for a fallen Walton County deputy and later for the late John Pasadoma. The chamber then moved through a long third-reading calendar and special order calendar, with most bills passing overwhelmingly and several amendments adopted along the way. Among the major measures, SB 234 on criminal offenses against law enforcement officers passed 37-0 after debate and an amendment clarifying “good faith” in an officer’s duties; SB 7020 on open government and cybersecurity information passed 37-0; SM 1488 urging Congress to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund was adopted by voice vote; SB 944 reducing insurance overpayment claim deadlines for psychologists passed 37-0; SB 878 expanding misdemeanor probation treatment provisions to controlled substances passed 36-1; SB 538, the state court system package, passed 37-0; SB 480 on nonprofit agricultural organization medical benefit plans passed 32-4; SB 472 on correctional-facility education credit for licensure passed 37-0; and SB 56 on geoengineering and weather modification passed 28-9 after extensive debate about enforcement, federal preemption, and the bill’s purpose. Later, the Senate passed CS/HB 421 on peer support for first responders 37-0 after substituting the House companion, and SB 164 on vessel accountability advanced with a technical amendment. SB 166 on administrative efficiency in public schools drew the most extended debate and multiple amendments; it changes testing, promotion, teacher evaluation, certification, and facilities rules, and passed 37-0. The chamber also passed SB 282 on warranty association financial requirements 36-0, SB 316 creating series LLCs 35-1, and SB 384 on annexing state-owned lands 36-0. At the end of the day, the Senate waived rules to immediately certify all passed bills to the House, received budget schedule guidance from Appropriations Chair Hooper for SB 2500 and SB 2502, and adjourned until April 9.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:18:00.320><c> support</c> students to the systems student support students to the systems student
  • </c> student student 31% of students student student 31% of students receiving<00:32:30.519><c> an</c
  • </c><00:36:21.040><c> student</c> it is not necessarily student it is not necessarily student identifying
  • </c><00:58:01.599><c> the</c> 2500 uh per year for students the 2500 uh per year for students the students
  • </c><01:04:56.799><c> up</c> students are assessed which made up students are assessed which made up
Keywords: 1183, house
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 063 Mar 18th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • assessment policy.
  • assessment policy.
  • So I think this assess that fee.
  • </c> assessing a fee. assessing a fee.
  • You will be assessed absolutely not.
Keywords: 981, all
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Jan 22nd, 2026

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we have three amazing young students from my hometown, Barton County High School.
  • These students represent the very best in what youth and government stands for: curiosity, leadership
  • Senate Bill 320 removes unnecessary district requirements across assessments, personnel, facilities,
  • It improves assessments and accountability processes by simplifying...
  • The focus should be our students.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and introductions recognizing the YMCA’s 175th anniversary, the Senate’s doctor of the day, and visiting guests. The chamber then moved to the special order calendar after confirming there were no committee reports, executive messages, House messages, or other pending motions. The Senate passed several bills unanimously: SB 100, adopting the 2026 Florida Statutes and the 2025 session laws; SB 102, deleting statutory provisions that had already been repealed or expired; and SB 104, the general reviser’s bill, which removes obsolete language, updates cross-references, and corrects drafting errors. Senators briefly joked during debate on SB 104, but there was no substantive opposition. The Senate also passed SB 320 on administrative efficiency in public schools, which reduces district-level requirements, expands teacher apprenticeship and certification flexibility, streamlines assessment and budgeting rules, and adjusts VPK oversight and facility planning requirements. The chamber also approved SB 7010, allowing state and local deferred compensation plans to offer Roth post-tax contributions in addition to pre-tax options. In addition, SB 1720 on public school personnel compensation was withdrawn from further consideration. After passage of the day’s bills, the Senate adopted a motion to immediately certify the passed bills to the House, then adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-19 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, today we have students from the Cambridge program.
  • If you're a Cambridge student, please stand up so we can see you.
  • Students, Student Government Association leaders, and Levin Scholars, Fred Levin Scholars, are with President
  • airspace of the airport assessing the fee.
  • This bill authorizes public schools to assess an activities fee on homeschool students who wish to participate
Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and a series of gallery introductions recognizing visitors, local officials, students, and public safety personnel. The chamber first took up a report from the Ethics and Elections Committee on 42 executive appointments; after Senator Gaetz explained that the committee had reviewed the appointees’ qualifications and suitability, the Senate adopted the report and confirmed the appointments by a 36-0 vote. The Senate then moved through a long special-order calendar focused largely on open-government sunset reviews and other policy bills. It passed measures to continue or consolidate public records and meeting exemptions for aquaculture records, agency-held trade secrets, and cybersecurity information, with one technical amendment adopted on the cybersecurity bill. The chamber also approved bills extending the statute of limitations for failure to report child abuse, strengthening regulation of commercial driving schools, requiring human trafficking education for nursing graduates, creating a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person, and making the related public-records exemption. Additional bills passed included a nature-based coastal resiliency measure with an amendment restricting dredge-and-fill in Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve, a chiropractic trust-funds bill, specialty license plates, a one-time waiver of late financial disclosure fines, public school personnel compensation changes, the annual Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services “Farm Bill,” homestead exemption clarification for long-term leaseholders, disability-presumption clarifications for first responders, reinsurance intermediary manager changes, patriotic displays in public schools, ADS-B fee restrictions, autism-related law enforcement training and a Blue Envelope program, campus safety policy transparency at public colleges and universities, and veterinary prescription disclosure. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary certificates for practice, and domestic animals. The Senate also debated and passed a bill allowing licensed insurance agents to market health care sharing ministries, despite concerns raised by Senator Polsky about consumer confusion, commissions, and the sale of non-insurance products; supporters argued it restored free speech, religious liberty, and consumer choice. The chamber approved the bill 32-5 after debate. Most other measures passed with strong bipartisan support, often by unanimous or near-unanimous votes, and several companion House bills were substituted in place of Senate bills before final passage.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • more students.
  • reduction of 4,510 students.
  • On another line of thought for the UC, do you have an assessment on how many of the non-resident students
  • assessments in high schools.
  • recovery and student needs.
Summary: The committee heard an overview of the May Revision’s Proposition 98 changes for K-12 and community colleges. The Department of Finance said the minimum guarantee rises by $6.4 billion over the Governor’s Budget across the three-year window, with higher guarantees in each year, full payment of the prior settle-up, and larger deposits into the school rainy-day fund. The LAO said the revenue and LCFF updates were reasonable, but urged caution about the settle-up approach and recommended using more of the available funding to protect ongoing programs and build budget resilience. Members focused heavily on the size of the proposed $3.9 billion settle-up, the $10.3 billion reserve deposit, declining K-12 enrollment, and how much of the new funding should be ongoing versus one-time. The committee then reviewed the community colleges portion of the budget. Finance described the May Revision’s higher SCFF COLA, additional funding for enrollment growth, a student support block grant, apprenticeship adjustments, and continued funding for deferred maintenance, Calbright, Common Cloud, and credit for prior learning. The Chancellor’s Office supported the core investments but asked for more funding for enrollment growth, changes to the growth formula, and a COLA for Student Equity and Achievement. The LAO recommended prioritizing the statutory COLA increase, noted that more than half of districts are already above current-year growth targets, and said the new adult learner demonstration project should be rejected because districts already have tools to support similar services. Members also discussed a $52 million current-year apportionment shortfall, which Finance said was discovered too late for the May Revision and would need to be addressed later. Finally, the committee took up the proposed implementation of the federal Workforce Pell program. Finance proposed one-time funding for the California Student Aid Commission and Cradle to Career to build eligibility and data systems, along with trailer bill changes to set up state approval processes. CSAC said the program is promising but highly complex, that California lacks the needed infrastructure, and that the state will need emergency regulations, data linkages, and ongoing funding beyond the one-time proposal. The LAO agreed that some initial funding is needed but warned that the amounts and ongoing costs remain uncertain and that the Legislature should carefully draft the trailer bill language. Members asked about timing, other states’ actions, and how the state would ensure the program is ready for students and institutions.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 6th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thirty students in a class, 150 daily.
  • Nine in ten of our students are Washingtonians, half are College Grant or College Bound students.
  • One in four receive college bound. 75% of those are students of color, 76 are first-generation students
  • About 95% of Central students are Washington residents and 43% are first-generation college students,
  • Limiting student choice limits students, Washington's workforce, and this bill recognizes the essential
Summary: The Ways and Means Committee met on February 6, 2026, and first voted to suspend the five-day notice rule for all bills on the agenda. Senators Braun and Gildon objected, arguing the bill needed more public review and that the fiscal note had only just been released, but a roll call vote passed 15-9 and the committee proceeded to Senate Bill 6346. Staff briefed SB 6346 as a proposal to create a 9.9% income tax on Washington taxable income above a $1 million per-household standard deduction, with a $50,000 charitable deduction, apportionment rules for nonresidents and certain professions, quarterly estimated payments, and credits for capital gains tax and certain business taxes. Staff said the tax would begin in 2029 and eventually raise about $3.5 billion annually from roughly 30,000 taxpayers. The bill also would expand the Working Families Tax Credit, create a sales tax exemption for grooming and hygiene products, increase the small business B&O tax credit and filing threshold, and end the B&O surcharge on high-grossing businesses one year early. Members questioned the bill’s constitutionality, its exemption from referendum, treatment of student athletes, natural-resource industries, and whether real estate gains would be captured. Public testimony was sharply divided. Supporters, including labor groups, educators, health care advocates, counties, child care workers, and some business owners and high-income individuals, said the bill would make the tax code more progressive and provide stable funding for health care, education, child care, public defense, and other services, while expanding the Working Families Tax Credit. Opponents, including many small business, construction, housing, and taxpayer advocates, argued the measure would function as a tax on pass-through businesses and retained earnings, harm housing production and investment, encourage wealthy residents and businesses to leave the state, and violate the state constitution or the will of voters. No final action on SB 6346 was taken during the hearing.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • reduction of 4,510 students.
  • On another line of thought for the UC, do you have an assessment on how many of the nonresident students
  • assessments in high schools.
  • recovery and student needs.
  • recovery of student for student needs.
Keywords: 988, house, all
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-REVIEW Mar 17th, 2026

ALC-REVIEW

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is an original contract, and it is for the Student Loan Authority to provide student financial aid-related
  • to students in 9th and 10th grade and 11th grade for free. ...to students in 9th and 10th grade and
  • This is to continue management of the independent assessment and support program.
  • This is to conduct a statewide information technology applications assessment.
  • for IT assessment and support.
Committee: All ALC-REVIEW
Keywords: 1204, all
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
  • defendant, without the defendant's request, to perform mandatory restitution in lieu of a probation assessment
  • the defendant is experiencing homelessness, is indigent, and is unable to pay all or part of the assessment
  • The Senate amended the bill by making additional revisions relating to assessing development fees The
  • Senate amended the bill by making additional revisions relating to assessing development fees on the
  • in an available advanced math course if the student meets prescribed criteria.
Keywords: 1182, all
Summary: The Republican caucus reviewed a long list of House bills returned from the Senate with amendments, generally asking staff to describe the changes and then confirming whether the sponsor concurred. Many measures were accepted with little or no debate, including bills on tax filing penalties (HB 2016), court-ordered restitution for homeless or indigent defendants (HB 2028), vaccination and mask restrictions (HB 286), bullion investments by the state treasurer (HB 2140), nursing care complaint timelines (HB 2195), privacy protections for county records (HB 2327), cold plunge regulation (HB 2439), medical records access timelines (HB 2557), licensing board procedures (HB 2660), school and public records provisions, AI governance (HB 2592), fingerprint clearance temporary work authorization (HB 2916), development fees (HB 2946), affordability infrastructure districts (HB 2999), distracted driving penalties (HB 2109), health aide scope of practice (HB 2189), eviction record sealing (HB 2244), backyard structure rules in planned communities (HB 2342), inmate transition services (HB 2440), nuclear-ready community designation criteria (HB 2456), address confidentiality protections (HB 2594), groundwater/medical reimbursement changes (HB 2932), traffic citation signature authority (HB 2369), advanced math enrollment (HB 2423), school district training and intervention requirements (HB 2435), job order contracting limits (HB 2482), special education and placement rules (HB 2621), DCS parent rights notice changes (HB 2661), domestic violence expert testimony standards (HB 2662), inmate mental health study committee provisions (HB 2673), legislative subpoena enforcement (HB 2745), ACA trade office oversight (HB 2752), utility reporting changes (HB 2756), Native American language proficiency credit (HB 2895), mental health judicial review timelines (HB 2923), mobile food vendor licensing (HB 2118), medical intervention/school attendance rules (HB 2248), school board finance training (HB 2379), and school board meeting access/video requirements (HB 2380). Sponsors repeatedly stated they concurred with the Senate amendments, and no roll-call votes were taken in the transcript. A few items were set aside or sent back, including HB 2035 and HB 2249, and one bill (HB 2594) was left pending because the sponsor had not yet responded.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary C May 5th, 2026

Judiciary C

Transcript Highlights:
  • H.B. 133 provides for penalties for students who commit attacks on other teachers and students in the
  • This student had injured every student in her classroom.
  • I am a victim of an assault by a student.
  • The student again didn't comply.
  • That statute has to be taken into consideration when the student who does the attack is a student with
Committee: Senate Judiciary C
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes and then heard House Bill 1033, which expands the definition of critical infrastructure to include airports, heliports, spaceports, aerospace facilities, certain government and military sites, and oil and gas platforms. Supporters said the bill is part of a broader effort to position Louisiana for aerospace and defense investment, while opponents from the Sierra Club warned that repeatedly broadening critical infrastructure could chill protest and free-speech activity. The bill was reported favorably. The committee then heard House Bill 1034, which authorizes local officials to declare temporary protection zones for public safety for up to 72 hours, with one extension. The sponsor and the Department of Economic Development said it would be a tool for aerospace and defense projects and other public-safety needs; ACLU testimony raised concerns about notice, property rights, and possible impacts on public waterways. The bill was also reported favorably. The committee next considered several criminal justice bills. House Bill 51, barring post-conviction bail for defendants convicted of aggravated offenses against children, and House Bill 55, limiting public disclosure of juror information to protect juror privacy, both received broad support and were reported favorably. House Bill 635, aimed at protecting Louisianians from transnational repression by foreign governments through penalty enhancements for underlying crimes, was supported by a national security advocate and reported favorably. House Bill 133, increasing penalties for students who commit attacks on teachers or other students, was amended to address juvenile procedure and exceptionalities; teachers testified about serious injuries they suffered, while the ACLU and criminal defense lawyers raised concerns about mandatory minimums and individualized sentencing. The bill was reported with amendments. The committee also heard House Bill 676, which creates the crime of fraudulent patient referrals, or “body brokering,” in the substance-use treatment industry. The sponsor and Blue Cross Blue Shield representatives described schemes that steer vulnerable patients into fraudulent treatment arrangements for profit; the bill was reported favorably. House Bill 159 created a Caddo Parish pilot program for pretrial home incarceration with electronic monitoring to reduce jail overcrowding. The sheriff said the jail is far over capacity and that the program would be limited to nonviolent, non-sex-offense defendants with risk assessments, court approval, and behavioral-health check-ins. Witnesses supported the concept but urged tighter liability language; the committee adopted an amendment and reported the bill with amendments. House Bill 106, dealing with unauthorized administration of melatonin to children in child care settings, was reported favorably. Later, the committee amended and reported House Bill 108, which changes juror qualifications to exclude people convicted of crimes of violence or sex offenses from criminal juries, after opponents argued it would unnecessarily bar citizens from jury service. House Bill 784, a cleanup bill on sex offender registration and notification, was amended and reported with technical changes. Senate Bill 388, which removes a trigger clause tied to a border compact and authorizes review of state contracts for foreign-adversary benefit, was amended and reported. Finally, House Bill 772, a bail-procedure reform requiring accurate mailing and electronic notice information and consolidating notice rules, was presented as a fairness and efficiency measure and had support from the bail industry and prosecutors; the transcript ends before final action on that bill.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Natural Resources Committee Apr 13th, 2026

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the same is true for community college students, where about 70% of community college students are
  • This bill is being led, and I'm proud to say, by students, with support from the Student Homes Coalition
  • Every semester that we delay housing a student, that student then has a difficult choice to make.
  • Today, here as part of the UC Student Association, which represents over 230,000 students across the
  • Cindy Lee, a UC Merced student with the University of California Student Association.
Keywords: 988, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Finance (01/20/2026)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • who's going through an of the student who's going through an assessment assessment assessment &gt;&gt
  • </c> a section for certain test assessments a section for certain test assessments both<01:19:14.159>
  • Be um part of the students.
  • Be um part of the students. classroom. Be um part of the students.
  • My concern as a a school students.
Committee: Senate Finance
Keywords: 1191, senate, all