Transcript Highlights:

• While we are in our final stages of our IT infrastructure project, we do have several exceptions.
• It applied for a permit and it also received, it was the subject of an agreed order.
• It disables it. Non-infectious.
• It doesn't just knock it out in one season like a weed spray. It kills it.
• It highlights the different areas of infrastructure that we've identified as being serious issues in

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• It does not affect the FSP; it's a separate appropriation of a bill. It does not affect it?
• It says, and this is a non-FSP program, and it...
• As we continue to grow that technology, it takes more of a team to provide that support and infrastructure
• Hold it, hold it, hold it. Have we had any recent...?
• It wouldn't make us... It'd be fiscal; it would be stupid to do it.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This funding is particularly vital to maintain campus facilities and IT infrastructure.
• It started at a mythical school. Hey, it worked.
• I can't do it. I can't do it." And then I'd call you back and go, "Okay, I can do it.
• We need additional utilities and IT infrastructure.
• They grow it, they prepare it, and they send it out on trucks.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• it.
• In some cases, at UT Austin, it supports research infrastructure, which has helped it to become one of
• The university will leverage its current... ...infrastructure and faculty expertise to drive advancement
• How long has it been there? Is it a bachelor's program, or is it...
• So, increased HEEF investment is critical to us, and it will support infrastructure, modernizing our

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• and I are going to approve to put it in the base so we can discuss it.
• and I are going to approve to put it in the base so we can discuss it.
• and I are going to approve to put it in the base so we can discuss it.
• I don't have it with me today. Deputy Commissioner Keaton has it.
• or into it.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• it.
• It sounds governmental, doesn't it? You may have to dig into that.
• We can't do it.
• It sounds governmental, doesn't it? You may have to dig into that.
• Yes, it is. Yeah. Yes.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• it.
• It has found its way into those delivery systems.
• We believe it is a very... cost-effective way to improve the entire maternal health infrastructure for
• A well-functioning IT infrastructure is the crucial foundation for developing innovative policies to
• To do it, you have to acknowledge it.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It was it was it took some work to get this let me just say that much you know it took some yeah product
• it.
• . it, but it can't be an animal health initiative.
• Just hold it. Yeah, you'll get to ask it.
• it was a surprise to me, it was a surprise to them.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And if we don't preserve it, it will be lost.
• So what was it, what was it we deleted and why did we delete it?
• And it doesn't change anything in the operations or the dynamics of it. It helps them.
• enhance our technological infrastructure. $3.4 billion, the cooperative contracts are more of our do-it-yourself
• It is. It absolutely is.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It was $300 million for historical infrastructure. That's an endowment fund that they have.
• I'm all for it. Is that it? That's it. Okay. That's it. Thank you very much. Thank you.
• Let's then let's see it. Let's see it.
• Then let's see it. Let's see it. Okay.
• Then let's see it. Let's see it. Okay.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• But we do so much on IT. That one was not, and it caught us.
• Oh, I get it.
• It brings it up to 77%, which was the original number.
• But anyway, it is what it is. It's here where we're at.
• I think it was 2011, it was before I got there. It was before you got there. Okay.

Bills: SB 1, SB1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, 1185, senate, all

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• This bill proposes to establish an Oklahoma education infrastructure linked deposit program, making it
• The bank approves it.
• The treasurer reviews it and approves it, or the charter school board, in that case, approves it.
• So we're looking at this as a loan to a business for its infrastructure needs.
• But the enacting clause is stricken, so we will see it again before it goes to the floor.

Bills: HB1590, HB1242, HB3818, HB4305

Keywords: education funding, linked deposits, education infrastructure, charter schools, nonprofit organizations, Oklahoma Education Infrastructure Program, HB1242, cervidae, deer, elk, sales tax exemption, agricultural exemption, livestock, ranching, farm tax, agricultural sales tax, Oklahoma Tax Commission, agriculture, producer sales, private treaty

Transcript Highlights:

• As such, we ask that you do not read it if you've submitted it, but rather expand on it.
• Appreciate it. Uh, for your comments. Appreciate it.
• stays vacant. >> It does.
• Got it. Thank you, >> Yep. Got it.
• >> yep, go for it. >> yep, go for it.

Bills: SB2543, SB2435, SB2352

Keywords: state construction, construction manager, design review, public works, capital improvement, DAGS, Department of Accounting and General Services, DOE, Department of Education, comptroller, pilot program, design review special fund, county permit review, accessibility compliance, Disability and Communication Access Board, state infrastructure, government construction, project oversight, civil service exemption, county agencies

Summary: The Committee on Government Operations reconvened on February 10, 2026, to take up measures previously heard on February 5. It advanced SB 2983 on criminal destruction of trees with technical, non-substantive amendments and a committee report note asking Judiciary to clarify that removal of invasive species remains allowed; the measure passed with one no vote. SB 2930 on the state risk management revolving fund also passed with amendments, including blanking out the amount, setting a defective date, and directing Ways and Means to review a spreadsheet before further action. The committee likewise passed SB 2928 on making the small business procurement program permanent and SB 2970 on standards of conduct for state agency contracts, adopting the Ethics Commission’s recommended language assigning compliance responsibility to department directors and deputy directors. SB 2927 and SB 3068 on procurement were deferred to a time certain on February 12, and SB 3015 on personal information, SB 2929 on public notice, and SB 2938 on search and rescue were also deferred for further discussion or to avoid re-referral issues. SB 2662 on external consultants was amended to remove a cap and preemptive approval language, narrow the expertise standard, and note possible auditor staffing or appropriation needs; it then passed with amendments. The joint GVO-EIG hearing then took up SB 2543 on state construction projects and an Office of the State Construction Manager within DAGS. Testimony from the Hawaii Iron Workers Stabilization Fund strongly supported the bill, saying it could reduce wasteful spending on large design-build projects and free money for tax credits and other public needs. DAGS, the University of Hawaii, and DLNR offered written comments, while one witness from KIC opposed the measure and asked for an exemption for member-owned electric cooperatives. A Hawaii Solar Energy Association witness also supported the bill but asked that landscape architects be excluded from the bill’s definition of design professionals, and Rocky Mold said Kauai permitting was efficient enough that he had no objection to carving it out. The committee adopted amendments from DNR, DAGS, and UH and passed SB 2543. The hearing also considered SB 2435 on EV charging infrastructure at state facilities. DAGS and the Hawaii State Energy Office supported the concept and explained that the goal was to retrofit managed parking facilities with infrastructure that can meet current and future EV needs, while acknowledging that some stalls can sit unused and that the state must balance space and enforcement. Members raised concerns about whether dedicating 25% of stalls to EV charging would reduce usable parking, and about rural and Big Island conditions where EV range and battery capacity remain limiting. The discussion noted that DOT, DNR, DOE, and DOH may have their own parking facilities outside DAGS control. The committee then indicated it would broaden the bill to apply to all state agencies and lower the threshold in response to member concerns, with final action not fully shown in the transcript.

Transcript Highlights:

• If it was possible for me, it is possible for others too.
• Some of it is from alfalfa. Some of it is from apple orchards.
• It did burn, but it does now have structural damage from the water flow around it and the lack of vegetation
• And in essence, what this does, it increases the annual transfer to the SEC and Community Ditch Infrastructure
• But we still need to maintain the infrastructure so that when we do have water available, it flows, and

Bills: SB154, SB187, SB193, SM3

Keywords: insurance, wildfire, flood damage, natural disasters, property coverage, water projects, appropriation, New Mexico, finance authority, infrastructure, New Mexico Finance Authority, funding, SB193, acequia, community ditch, irrigation works construction fund, water infrastructure, ditch infrastructure, irrigation, New Mexico water law

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• When it was engaged in upgrading a number of its sponsored structures in cooperation with the National
• It is taken out of the, out of the circulatory system. It is not available to anyone downstream.
• It simply sits there and evaporates.
• It serves a purpose of maintaining the integrity of the structure so it doesn't dry, rot.
• Appreciate it. We do have a resource witness from TCEQ.

Bills: SB 612, SB 1855, SB 2568, SB 3058

Keywords: SB 612, Texas Water Code, Section 49.2127, conservation and reclamation district, water district, reclamation district, developer fees, pipeline construction, water pipeline, sewer pipeline, associated infrastructure, subdivision infrastructure, cost recovery, fee cap, actual reasonable documented costs, engineering fees, legal fees, inspection fees, infrastructure relocation, utility connections

Transcript Highlights:

• Let it be known by saying I. >> Any oppose? >> Mr.
• And<00:02:47.280> it<00:02:47.440> is Thank<00:02:50.239> you,<00:02:50.480>
• <00:03:38.879> Let<00:03:38.959> it give the bill a favorable report.
• Let it give the bill a favorable report.
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Bills: HB626, SB265

Keywords: tax increment district, economic development, manufacturing zone, local governance, ad valorem tax, data processing centers, tax abatements, construction related taxes, energy infrastructure, 1136, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• That's why it...
• Is it 265? Sorry. >> 265.
• wanted it to do last time.
• <00:11:32.240> we exactly what we talked about it we exactly what we talked about it we wanted
• It is going to include Beverage Act.

Bills: SB265, HB593

Keywords: data processing centers, tax abatements, economic development, construction related taxes, energy infrastructure, small craft distilleries, wineries, alcoholic beverages, licensing, craft beverage industry, 1136, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• , but it seems wholesome, it seems sweet, but the<00:49:26.480> the<00:49:26.720> messy
• It is a type of organized crime.
• It is a type of organized crime.
• It could be one person who steals and someone else who sells it later.
• Um, and um I need some time to work on it. So we will need some time to work on it.

Bills: HB1629, HB1630, HB1631

Keywords: economic development, business, state statutes, Hawaii Revised Statutes, legislation, development strategy, state funding, infrastructure, employment opportunities, legislative intent, state legislation, development initiatives, 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills, beginning with HB 1829 on marine affairs. Most testimony was in strong support, with speakers from state agencies, ocean-tech companies, startups, nonprofits, and community groups backing the creation of an Office of Marine Affairs and a marine affairs coordinator under HTDC. Supporters said the measure would better coordinate ocean policy, strengthen the blue economy, and help Hawaii capture jobs, investment, and innovation in marine-related industries. No vote or final action was taken in the portion provided. The committee then took up HTDC-related measures, including HB 1615 and HB 1613, which also drew broad support from business, technology, and economic development interests. Testifiers said the bills would strengthen Hawaii’s technology and innovation ecosystem, support advanced manufacturing and cybersecurity, and help build a more diversified economy with higher-wage jobs. The committee also heard HB 1607 on public procurement and HB 1772 on small business procurement; state procurement staff and several business groups supported efforts to expand opportunities for local firms, while one speaker from the city’s economic revitalization commission argued that a flat 5% preference could help keep more revenue and jobs in-state. On HB 1636 relating to shopping carts, the Hawaii Food Industry Association and Retail Merchants of Hawaii testified in opposition, saying the bill would penalize businesses for carts that are stolen rather than abandoned and would add costs that could especially burden small and local retailers. HB 1810 on charitable solicitation drew support from Goodwill Hawaii and other nonprofits, who said the bill would improve transparency around donation bins and protect donors from misleading for-profit collection practices; the Attorney General’s office asked for a delayed effective date to allow system changes and staffing. HB 1782 on AI and the protection of minors received broad support from state agencies, educators, and advocacy groups, but some business and retail representatives urged narrowing the definition of covered AI services so ordinary customer-service chatbots would not be swept in. Finally, HB 1759 on theft drew opposition from the Public Defender’s Office, which said the bill could create overly harsh penalties and should include defense representation on any task force; the office also noted existing laws already address conspiracy and related conduct.

Transcript Highlights:

• You want to make sure that it is actually tracking to the metrics that you want it to be.
• I want to make sure that it is actually tracking to the metrics that you want it to be.
• it comes here.
• We kind of rein it in, right?
• It is a... it is a... you didn't know? Yeah, I have sushi socks on.

Bills: HB2452, HB2592

Keywords: comprehensive plans, county governance, data centers, zoning, state regulations, land use, energy production, infrastructure, environmental impact, artificial intelligence, government regulation, innovation, procurement, administrative burdens, 1182, all

Summary: The House Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Committee heard a presentation from Steven Garrison of the Cicero Institute on how Arizona state government could use AI to improve service delivery, reduce costs, and streamline procurement. He argued that AI should be treated as software deployed across many use cases, not just chatbots, and urged the state to identify opportunities proactively, avoid unnecessary agency-level AI rules, use existing procurement structures, and measure outcomes. Members asked about workforce impacts, agency involvement, privacy, and the balance between innovation and regulation; Garrison said AI would likely augment workers first, create new jobs over time, and should be guided by the legislature rather than broad agency rulemaking. The committee then considered HB 2592, which directs the Department of Administration to have budget units identify AI opportunities and streamline implementation, and an amendment adding reporting requirements to state leaders and the Secretary of State. After limited public testimony, the amendment was adopted and the bill received a due pass recommendation on a 4-2 vote, with one member absent. The committee next took up HB 2452, which would add data centers and small modular reactors to county comprehensive planning and adjust county land-use planning requirements, including changes related to renewable energy planning in larger counties. Supporters said the bill would help counties plan ahead for data center growth and future energy needs, including SMRs and other emerging technologies. County representatives opposed the measure, arguing it improperly singled out specific uses, blurred the line between comprehensive planning and zoning, and reduced local control by altering established public planning processes; they also raised concerns about vague standards and the bill’s treatment of renewable energy. After debate, the committee approved HB 2452 on a 4-3 vote for a due pass recommendation and then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• Uh, if you mentioned it before, I'm sorry I missed it."
• > it.
• <00:24:51.720> uh restore it back to its natural uh restore it back to its natural uh conditions
• <01:09:47.240> It and then managing it. It and then managing it.
• I think it'll set the stage, if it hasn't already, for other projects like it to do it because it does

Bills: HF3599, HF3761, HF3523, HF3515, HF573

Keywords: water treatment, infrastructure, municipal funding, bond issuance, Becker, sewer improvements, sanitation, Hibbing, state bonds, infrastructure funding, capital investment, safety improvements, mobility, U.S. Highway 12, bonds, transportation funding, trails, Prior Lake, bond funding, recreational improvements