Transcript Highlights:

• Patrol or any one of our local law enforcement officials who have been deputized under the various 287
• (g) agreements that they have entered into, that they are detaining individuals with no criminal record
• Are we doing this because we're somehow also acknowledging the reality, which is that with these 287(
• g) agreements that are out there, individuals with no criminal records are being detained, and we need

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• My own city has a 287(g) agreement, and I know this doesn't make my community feel safe.

Committee: House House Public Safety & Law Enforcement Committee of Reference

Summary: The Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement first heard SB 1032, which appropriates $1.5 million from the State General Fund to the Corrections Oversight Fund in FY27 to help operate the Independent Correctional Oversight Office. Supporters, including Justice Action Network, Representative Blackman, and a family member describing her son’s death in custody, argued the office is needed to address serious problems in the Department of Corrections, including mental health care failures, staff shortages, lawsuits, and the state’s federal receivership. Members largely agreed the office could improve transparency and accountability, and the bill received a due pass recommendation on a 14-0 vote with one absent. The committee then considered SB 1107, which creates an alternative certification pathway for honorably discharged U.S. veterans who served as military police to become Arizona peace officers through abbreviated training and recognition of prior military training. Members asked whether the bill would include equivalent roles from all branches, such as Air Force security forces, and staff said the bill is intended to track Department of Defense training standards. Supporters emphasized the value of recruiting experienced applicants to address public safety staffing shortages, while one member raised concerns about applicants with prior misconduct in other states. The bill passed with a due pass recommendation on an 11-1 vote, with two present and one absent. Finally, the committee heard SB 1055, which requires law enforcement to immediately notify ICE or CBP when arresting a person unlawfully present in the United States. The bill drew strong support from one proponent who framed it as a public safety and immigration enforcement measure, and strong opposition from the ACLU and several community members who argued it would chill crime reporting, burden local agencies, raise civil rights concerns, and risk wrongful detention of citizens and tribal members. Representative Cruz offered a strike-everything amendment that would instead restrict DOC inmate telephone contracts from generating revenue above operating costs; supporters said it would reduce costs for families and improve communication, but the amendment failed 6-8. The committee then returned to the underlying SB 1055 and gave it a due pass recommendation on an 8-6 vote with one absent.

Transcript Highlights:

• My own city has a 287(g) agreement, and I know this doesn't make my community feel safe.

Bills: SB1032 , SB1055 , SB1107

Committees: House Public Safety & Law Enforcement , House House Public Safety & Law Enforcement Committee of Reference

Keywords: corrections oversight, funding, state budget, criminal justice, reform, immigration enforcement, law enforcement, illegal aliens, state legislation, civil penalties, peace officer certification, police certification, law enforcement licensing, Arizona POST, peace officer standards and training, military police, veterans, honorably discharged, veteran hiring, abbreviated academy

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• The resolution is adopted. 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297
• U-T-R-G-V Executive Veronica Gonzalez.

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• Anderson uh thank you um G inan and and Anderson uh thank you um G inan and and Mr<00:49:49.599><c> chair
• I mean, I'm guessing there are more families across the state that could access that than 287.
• /c><01:18:20.199><c> than</c><01:18:21.000><c> than</c> access that than than access that than than 287
• :18:23.920><c> I</c><01:18:24.000><c> think</c><01:18:24.159><c> that</c><01:18:24.280><c> that</c> 287
• um so you know I think that that 287 um so you know I think that that shows<01:18:24.800><c> there's

Bills: HF1 , HF779 , HF1034

Committee: House Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• By the Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee, Representative G.
• Representative G. Lombardo, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
• The question now recurs on final passage for CS for HB 287.
• Move lines 287 through 1866 and insert an amendment.
• Representative G. Lombardo, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Transcript Highlights:

• SB 287 by Senator Hatcher. Welcome, Senator. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and hello committee members.
• This bill, Senate Bill 287, changes the license renewal date from January 1 to October 1.
• Bill 287, changes the license renewal Bill 287, changes the license renewal date<00:10:27.680><c> from

Bills: SB266 , SB287 , SB266 , SB287

Committee: Senate Tourism

Keywords: contract review, legislative oversight, state agencies, funding transparency, professional services, Sheriff, Barbour County, law enforcement, qualifications, training, executive education, Covington County, Alabama constitutional amendment, local amendment, carbon dioxide sequestration, carbon capture and storage, CCS, Class VI well, underground injection well, Underground Injection Control Program

Transcript Highlights:

• Holding polluters accountable so that taxpayers and ratepayers, I would mention PSE&G, we wonder why
• unless it's with the consent of all the parties, including the main utility here, which would be PSE&G.
• So that's our concern right now, is that the bill does work to provide... ...here which would be PSE&G,
• (g) program where our county jails could house these inmates.
• Thank you. ...into law and we allowed the 287(g) program where our county jails could house these inmates

Transcript Highlights:

• Senator G. Hogen, please go ahead. Oh, thank you, Madam Chair.
• I'm sorry want to cut anyone off oh I'm sorry Senator<01:04:17.279><c> Senator</c><01:04:17.760><c> G<
• </c><01:04:18.440><c> hogen</c><01:04:18.720><c> please</c><01:04:18.880><c> go</c> Senator Senator G
• GRE hogen please go Senator Senator G GRE hogen please go ahead<01:04:19.319><c> oh</c><01:04:19.480>
• Intermediate School District 288 287 Intermediate School District 288 Intermediate<01:21:05.560><c>

Committee: Senate Labor

Transcript Highlights:

• Hearing none, the clerk will call the roll on amendment 2025-2414H to Senate Bill 287.
• Seeing none, the clerk will call the roll on amendment 2025-2414H to Senate Bill 287.
• </c> 2025-2414H to Senate Bill 287. 2025-2414H to Senate Bill 287.
• Uh, going to close the executive session for 287. So, uh, here's where we're going to go.
• Uh, going to close the executive session for 287. So, uh, here's where we're going to go.

Committee: House Election Law

Transcript Highlights:

• House Bill 287, an act relating to plastic waste. Representative Marzian.
• House<00:12:56.959><c> Bill</c><00:12:57.200><c> 287,</c><00:12:58.079><c> an</c><00:12:58.240><c> act
• </c><00:12:58.480><c> relating</c><00:12:58.800><c> to</c> House Bill 287, an act relating to House Bill
• 287, an act relating to plastic<00:12:59.360><c> waste.

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• Eight years ago, I started working at District 287.
• </c><00:16:13.360><c> I</c> I started working at District 287 I I started working at District 287 I never
• </c> me to serve in intermediate District 287 me to serve in intermediate District 287 with<00:18:23.120
• I think we have Marcy Dow, who is a superintendent at Intermediate School District 287.
• </c> which got absorbed by District 287 which got absorbed by District 287 eventually<00:32:49.720><c

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• Looks like South Arkansas College, 55.56% on page 4 and 287 in the manual, if that's easier. Okay.
• We're on page 287, as you said. That's about $12.2 million, a 55.6% increase.
• Yeah, we're going to be on Section G, Department of Corrections.

Committee: All JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE

Summary: The committee first adopted revised JBC rules, which staff said were updated to reflect legislation passed in the 2025 session. It then heard a presentation from DFA Secretary Jim Hudson on the governor’s proposed balanced budget for FY27, with no action taken. Hudson said the budget reflects three priorities: limiting state-government growth, continuing investments in education, and advancing income-tax cuts. He highlighted increases for education funding through EFAs, pay-plan costs for Corrections, DPS, and the Attorney General, higher education productivity funding, drug task forces, a Corrections medical contract, the governor’s 1033 initiative, SNAP error-rate reduction efforts, and an additional $100 million set aside for Medicaid sustainability. Committee members questioned the size of the tax cuts, the balance requirement, public education funding, Medicaid trust-fund levels, EFA funding, and the expected impact of new SNAP cost-sharing rules. The Division of Higher Education then presented its productivity-based funding recommendations. Officials said institutions were 2.61% more productive overall, with funding changes driven by a statutory formula that rewards degree production, underserved populations, and high-demand fields. Members asked about declines at UA Little Rock, the formula’s multipliers, the role of the Arkansas Access Act and a new return-on-investment metric, and how two-year colleges are adjusted for size. The committee also reviewed special items and approved two letters: one authorizing 17 net personnel changes across nine institutions, and another adding special language for North Arkansas College’s entry into the University of Arkansas system. The committee then adopted the Higher Education Coordinating Board’s recommendations for all institutions. A lengthy portion of the meeting focused on the University of Arkansas system, especially Fayetteville’s athletics funding and the broader impact of the House/NIL settlement. Chancellor Charles Robinson and system officials explained that the board had waived a longstanding campus transfer and directed the university to provide an additional $6 million to athletics, with some costs likely to be passed through to students but partially offset by existing budget growth. Members debated whether the university should prioritize academics or athletics, how the transfer originated, and whether the athletic changes would affect affordability. The committee also discussed the 1890 extension program at UAPB and the Division of Agriculture’s land-grant funding. UAPB officials said the state match is intended to be one-to-one, that the current recommendation aligns appropriation with actual spending, and that a $2 million set-aside remains available if needed. The Division of Agriculture later clarified that its Smith-Lever extension and Hatch research funds are part of the UA system’s separate budget and that the state matched about $6.2 million in federal extension funding last year. The committee then moved to the Department of Corrections. It approved G1, transferring 51 positions to the secretary’s office to activate a recidivism program, with an estimated cost of about $4 million. Staff then began walking through the department’s FY27 budget, noting an increase of about $8 million for administration and shared services, including a $170,000 sex-offender assessment appropriation moved under Act 723 of 2025 and roughly $6 million more for medical contracts. Questions on the Corrections budget had just begun when the transcript ended.

Transcript Highlights:

• So we're going to start with agenda item number one: Senate Bill 287 with Senate Amendment 2, an act
• Representative, there are no in-person comments for Senate Bill 287 with Senate Amendment 2.
• If you wish to comment on Senate Bill 287 with Senate Amendment 2, please use the raise-hand function
• Representative, there are no in-person comments for Senate Bill 287 with Senate Amendment 2.
• On Senate Bill 287 with Senate Amendment 2: Okay, I would like to get a motion from the committee.

Bills: SB287

Committee: House Natural Resources & Energy

Summary: The House Natural Resources and Energy Committee met and considered three Senate bills. SB 287 with Senate Amendment 2, a DNREC cleanup bill on recycling, would tighten recycling collection rules for haulers and commercial generators, require multifamily recycling education, repurpose the Delaware Recycling Fund, and add annual reporting; after brief questions and no public comment, the committee motion to release did not initially receive enough votes, so the bill was circulated for signatures. SB 346, which would speed Environmental Appeals Board hearing and decision timelines so DNREC secretary decisions become final if deadlines are missed, drew support from the Nature Conservancy and also failed to get enough votes at the meeting, so it too was circulated for signatures. The committee then took up SB 326, a major utility-regulation bill sponsored by Senator Hanson and Representative Heffernan that would cap certain non-mandatory utility spending, limit interim rates, increase oversight and transparency, and streamline rate-setting. SB 326 generated extensive testimony and debate. Supporters, including the Public Advocate, Sierra Club, PSC staff, and some legislators, argued that Delmarva Power’s spending on non-mandatory infrastructure has risen far faster than inflation, that the company is a regulated monopoly, and that the bill would help restrain future delivery-rate increases without harming reliability because mandatory reliability, storm response, and vegetation management spending would remain allowed. Opponents, including Delmarva Power, business groups, contractors, labor representatives, and the Delaware Contractors Association, argued the cap would delay needed reliability and capacity projects, hurt economic development, reduce jobs, and interfere with utility planning; they also said supply costs, not distribution spending, are the main driver of recent bill increases. After public comment and additional questioning, the committee voted to release SB 326 on a split roll call, but because several members were absent the bill was also walked for additional signatures. The committee then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm guessing there are more families across the state that could access that than 287.
• credits had been assigned that about 287 credits had been assigned so<00:14:15.519><c> that's</c><00
• I'm guessing there are more families across the state that could access that than 287.
• Or, you know, as chair of the K-12... access that than than access that than than 287<00:14:34.440><c
• um so you know I think that that 287 um so you know I think that that shows<00:14:36.320><c> that</c

Transcript Highlights:

• Only six counties and one city in Arizona have 287(g) agreements to collaborate with ICE with detentions

Bills: SB1152 , SB1156 , SB1157 , SB1213 , SB1232 , SB1268

Committee: Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Keywords: immigration, public benefits, asylum, verification, Arizona Revised Statutes, appropriation, public safety, detention, unauthorized aliens, local government funding, border security, fencing, appropriations, southern border, local government, immigration enforcement, probation, law enforcement, court notification, civil rights

Transcript Highlights:

• The vote was 287 to 59 against it. And if you're wondering, some of those schools...
• Barry Erwin with Leaders for Better Louisiana, Mary Beth Derrickson with Lobby, Jasmine Brown with G&
• Erwin with Leaders for Better Louisiana, Mary Beth Deccerson, Derrickson with Lobby, Jasmine Brown, G&

Committee: House Education

Summary: The committee heard several higher education and K-12 bills centered on TOPS, school accountability, and curriculum alignment. It first welcomed University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s new president, Ramesh Kuluru, who spoke about student success, workforce alignment, and the university’s financial recovery. The committee then adopted amendments and reported HR 17 favorably, directing a study of TOPS return on investment with the Board of Regents, Louisiana Works, LED, and the Blanco Public Policy Center. Testimony from business and policy groups supported the study as a way to assess whether state financial aid is producing workforce and retention outcomes. Members then considered HB 385 by Rep. Bamberg, which would require repayment of TOPS awards under certain circumstances when students lose eligibility, with exemptions for hardship and a pathway into LCTCS or career-technical programs. The bill drew strong debate over whether merit scholarships should ever be repaid; opponents argued TOPS is earned for the semester and should only be lost going forward, while supporters emphasized taxpayer accountability. After amendments, the committee narrowly approved the bill by roll call vote, with Chair Schlegel casting the deciding yes to report it favorably as amended. The committee also unanimously reported HB 1058 favorably, which requires the Board of Regents to maintain a uniform data system for state financial assistance; independent colleges and business groups supported the measure as a way to improve accountability and analysis. The committee next heard HB 406 by Speaker Pro Tem Johnson, which asks the Department of Education to study the feasibility of moving oversight of interscholastic athletics to a more accountable model after a legislative study found widespread complaints about the private LHSAA’s transparency and consistency. Supporters said the bill is a cautious step toward reform and a possible 2028–2029 transition, while an LHSAA representative defended current audits and governance and opposed the premise of the bill. Despite objections, the committee reported HB 406 favorably. It then heard HB 787 by Rep. McMakin, as substituted, which would exempt non-public high school students from the TOPS computer science requirement; BESE and the Department of Education opposed the bill, saying it would separate diploma and TOPS requirements and create scheduling confusion, while Catholic school representatives said the requirement conflicts with their theology curriculum. McMakin asked to defer the bill for two weeks. Finally, the committee unanimously reported HB 1059 favorably, which aligns TOPS math requirements with BESE’s integrated math pathways, and began hearing HB 1021 by Rep. Egan on repayment of certain TOPS awards, though the transcript cuts off before that bill was completed.

Transcript Highlights:

• 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287
• U-T-R-G-V, welcome to your Texas house. move adoption.
• located Economically disadvantaged counties were put the subcommittee on transportation funding at G

Bills: HB9 , HB22 , HB908 , HB1392

Transcript Highlights:

• And the final amendment is H-287 or H-292, which is sponsored by Representative Keaton.
• I move Wail 287. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move Amendment 287. Thank you.
• Amendment 287 has been moved and seconded. Discussion, please. Thank you, Madam Chair.
• Representative Keaton [member_20821], all those in favor of adopting Amendment 287, please say aye.

Bills: HB2523 , HB2606 , HB2684 , HJM4012

Committee: House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

Keywords: community reinvestment, housing, local funding, urban development, economic revitalization, data protection, privacy, performance measures, reporting requirements, office of privacy, social disadvantage, business certification, state guidelines, economic equity, minority-owned businesses, combat veterans, support, military service, injury compensation, veteran affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• Senate Bill 287, Representative Romer. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
• Chief Clerk, please read in Senate Bill 287 by title only.
• Senate Bill 287, Representative Romer. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
• Chief Clerk, please read in Senate Bill 287 by title only.
• Chief Clerk, please read in Senate Bill 287 by title only.