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TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Mar 19th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 1393 would authorize the observation of daylight savings time year-round.
  • Currently, states are only authorized to observe standard time year-round without federal approval.
  • Clearly, if, if the state gets that authority, uh, there's going to be some due, due process, um.
  • Oh, I was just going to trying to include the author of.
  • Questions for the author. Seeing none, we'll move on to public testimony. Gary Zimmerman.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs - Part 1 Mar 19th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • The author of this book laid out seven years of research and laying all this out as to how they socially
  • It gives legal justification to employ, authorize, or induce a child to engage. and sexual conduct knowing
  • companion bill to Representative Vandiver's bill, also a consumer protection bill that has been authored
  • Thompson does I just want to remind the author the bill that the session has started I couldn't hear
  • rule, the PUC has suggested that we codify this definition. and remove the need for rule-making authority
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Government Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Just a suggestion, I'm happy to relay that to the author, but since we didn't discuss it previously and
  • Would you agree that we need to have that discussion with the author?
  • Have that conversation with the author.
  • I would agree; I'd be very happy to have that discussion with the author.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair lays out Senate Bill 1244 and recognizes the author, Senator Schwertner, to explain the bill
  • Members, do you have any questions for the author? You can ask the invited testimony.
  • Last legislative session, I authored and passed it. Wait one second, let's let them...
  • I authored and passed Senate Bill...
  • Members, questions of the author? Hearing none... I know I want to ask one.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • And then anyone on the dais can ask questions of either the author or Mr. Ryan at that time.
  • We are absorbing that cost that we would otherwise be authorized to collect from customers.
  • I authored and passed it. Wait one second. Let's let them... Yeah, I'll clear the room, please.
  • I authored and passed Senate Bill 271 last session, which required local government entities, including
  • Members, questions of the author? Hearing none... I know I want to ask one.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part I) Apr 3rd, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ryan give us prepared remarks, and then anyone on the dais ask questions of either the author or Mr.
  • We are absorbing that cost that we would otherwise be authorized to collect from customers.
  • governments or employees who are found to abuse this new procedure would be subject to having their authorization
  • Members, have other questions of the author? The chair opens up public testimony.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met with a quorum and first took up several pending and uncontested bills. It favorably reported SB 1405, SB 1762, SB 1977, SB 2077, SB 2148, and SB 1968, and also moved SB 2321 to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then heard SB 819, which would change how the Public Utility Commission reviews proposed utility-scale solar and related interconnection projects. The committee substitute would shift the default so interconnection is allowed unless the PUC affirmatively prohibits it within 180 days, limit denial to cases where harm substantially outweighs benefits, remove public meeting requirements, retain setback and financial assurance provisions, add optional application materials such as national security and environmental information, and restore local control over county tax abatements. The substitute was adopted and SB 819 was favorably reported to the full Senate on a 7-3 vote. The committee then took up SB 231, focused on CenterPoint’s use of large emergency generators after Hurricane Beryl. Senator King explained that the original bill was intended to prevent customers from being charged for non-mobile generators that were leased at great cost and did not match the bill’s emergency-response purpose. CenterPoint’s Jason Ryan apologized for the company’s communication failures and said the company would make customers whole through a combination of rate reductions, foregone storm-cost recovery, and a donation of the 15 large generators to ERCOT for about two years to address a San Antonio-area reliability issue, with the company absorbing the associated costs. PUC Executive Director Connie Corona said the commission could enforce the agreement through its contested-case process. Public testimony included consumer and reliability advocates, one of whom argued utility-scale microgrids should be preserved as a policy option. SB 231 was left pending. The committee also heard SB 986, which would create an alternative process for routine Public Information Act requests so local governments can make initial redactions without sending every routine exception to the Attorney General, while preserving an appeal path and training requirements. Supporters said it would reduce backlog and speed access to records; opponents argued it would shift the burden to requesters and encourage delay. The AG’s office testified that the process could improve efficiency and still fit within current timelines if used promptly. SB 986 was left pending. Finally, SB 584 was briefly laid out to require consumer reporting agencies that buy data from others to ensure the information complies with Texas law on excluded items such as bankruptcies, judgments, and tax liens, and SB 600 was heard on heir property. SB 600’s substitute would strengthen notice, require an attorney ad litem, add an heir’s bill of rights, allow settlement conferences, and require fair-market-value sales protections; supporters said it would curb predatory partition practices, while opponents warned some provisions could burden or diminish minority heirs’ property rights. SB 584 and SB 600 were left pending after testimony.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Apr 1st, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 181 by Representative Underwood, the Alabama Building Renovation Finance Authority Bill.
  • This is an authority that's been in place since 1990, if I remember right.
  • It amends to provide a $50... ...It amends to provide a $50 million Bond Authority.
NV
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  • , and Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.
  • , and the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.
  • , and the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.
  • all of this into the health authority because I asked if I should change it to health authority, but
  • I'm the Executive Director of the State Public Charter School Authority.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 5th, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I guess I would ask the author, as far as being consistent, would you entertain a subject-to-appropriation
  • You're going to allow the author to speak? Do you want to speak?
  • You're going to allow the author to speak? Do you want to speak?
  • So I call for the question on the substitute motion, and then we could let the author speak after that
  • We don't have that ready, but the author agreed that it would leave committee subject The author agreed
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/17/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • for transportation to an initial AMA for use by an eligible entity or the Arizona Water Banking Authority
  • Department, La Paz County Planning and Zoning Commissioner, and La Paz County Industrial Development Authority
  • water department la paas county planning and zoning commissioner LaPaz County Industrial Development Authority
  • board member Zoning commissioner, La Paz County Industrial Development Authority board member, Water
  • I will say that I do appreciate the sponsor's recognition of the Legislature's authority to regulate
Summary: The committee began with an informational presentation from Gordon Shemp of Nemecu Analytics on Arizona transportation fuel supply and pricing. He explained that Arizona sits at the end of the pipeline system, relies on limited terminal inventories, and can experience only about a seven-day fuel supply if pipelines are disrupted. He attributed recent price spikes to constrained pipeline capacity, Kinder Morgan pressure reductions after PHMSA anomaly reviews, and recovering demand, and he also discussed California refinery closures, increased imports from overseas, and proposed new pipeline capacity into Phoenix from the east. Committee members asked about fuel formulations and pipeline logistics, and Shemp said the proposed project would not change fuel specifications, only transport capacity. The committee then took up House Bill 2758, which would allow eligible entities in La Paz County’s McMullen Valley groundwater basin to transport groundwater to AMAs under specified limits and conditions, with related provisions on fees, districts, and water improvement programs. Supporters, including Stan Barnes, Jim Downing, and Barry Arons, argued the bill follows the Harquahala model, provides needed augmentation for urban Arizona, and includes local benefits and guardrails. Opponents, including La Paz County Supervisor Holly Irwin, Devonna Sater, and Ed Curry, said the bill would worsen groundwater decline, subsidence, and well failures in Salome and Wenden and favored outside investors over rural residents. After debate, the committee approved HB 2758 on a 4-3 vote. The committee also heard and advanced several other water-related bills. HB 2031, extending the deadline to apply for grandfathered groundwater rights in the Wilcox AMA from 15 to 27 months, passed 5-2 after some members said the extension was unnecessary and would delay protections. HB 2102, allowing county improvement districts in subsequent AMAs or groundwater transportation basins to use eminent domain for a well and standpipe site and water hauling, passed 4-3 after Sierra Club testimony called it a limited “band-aid” rather than a real solution. HB 2103, which would let water improvement programs accept gifts and dedicate groundwater transportation fee revenue to local residential water hauling and delivery, also passed 4-3. HB 2117, a technical cleanup bill shifting Environmental Special Plate Fund administration to the Natural Resource Conservation Board and raising education-center distributions from $5,000 to $10,000, passed 5-2 despite concerns about the fund’s administration. The committee then considered HB 2261, which changes agricultural property tax terminology and valuation rules. County assessors and the Arizona Association of Counties opposed it, warning it would effectively exempt many agricultural improvements from taxation and shift costs to residential taxpayers; the Arizona Farm Bureau supported it as a clarification that would provide certainty for agriculture. The bill passed 4-3. Finally, HB 2262, transferring the Resource Analysis Division from the State Land Department to the Arizona Geological Survey and revising geospatial advisory responsibilities, was introduced, with State Land Department staff saying they were neutral but noting the bill would need clearer statutory duties if RAD is removed.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/24/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill allows HCBS to be delivered in any authorized residential setting for eligible individuals,
  • Spending tens of millions to expand access to more expensive drugs without prior authorization is not
  • And in fact, 98% of antipsychotics are approved without prior authorization today.
  • Of the total amount, 81% do not require prior authorization.
  • If that can be also authorized, it will help my community and also your community and constituents of
Summary: The committee first considered Senate Bill 1630, which would direct AHCCCS to seek federal approval for a home- and community-based services program for adults determined to be seriously mentally ill, with quarterly implementation updates, stakeholder input, and a cap on enrollment. The sponsor and advocates from Arizona Mad Moms argued the bill would create an assisted-living-style Medicaid option for the most disabled SMI individuals, improve continuity of care, and reduce state general fund costs by shifting some expenses to federal Medicaid funding. Access testified neutral, estimating a total fiscal impact of $27.7 million, including $5.83 million general fund, and explained the need for CMS approval. The committee adopted an amendment reducing the initial cap to 250 members, changing reporting frequency, and adjusting eligibility and expansion conditions, then passed SB 1630 as amended on a 10-0 vote. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1131, which originally required school districts and charter schools to adopt cardiac emergency response plans and appropriated $1 million for implementation. An amendment replaced the mandate with a reporting requirement on AED counts, CPR/AED-trained staff, and whether schools have a plan, while keeping a grant component for AEDs and prioritizing rural schools. The American Heart Association supported the amended approach as a way to gather baseline data and target resources, and members discussed AED training, school preparedness, and whether the funding should favor rural or high-population schools. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1131 as amended on a 9-1 vote, with Senator Kuby voting no and several members explaining concerns about funding and priorities. The committee then took up Senate Bill 1582, which concerned the school safety interoperability fund. An amendment shifted the appropriation from the Department of Education to the Department of Administration and allocated funds to specific county sheriff offices for continuing operation and maintenance of existing interoperability systems, while narrowing the program to public safety agencies and school districts and requiring twice-yearly testing. Sheriffs, a county school superintendent, and the Arizona Sheriffs Association described the systems as useful for drills and real emergencies, improving communication between schools and first responders; one speaker noted the program had been used in drills and at least one live deployment. Some members questioned the audit findings, the focus on rural counties, and whether the program was a good use of funds, while supporters emphasized its value for school safety. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1582 as amended on a 6-4 vote. Finally, the committee began hearing Senate Bill 1504, which would change retirement rules for Tier 2 and Tier 3 public safety personnel by allowing earlier normal retirement and shortening the COLA waiting period, with an amendment exempting the changes from the statutory pre-funding requirement. Supporters from firefighter and police groups said the bill would improve recruitment and retention and let employees receive earned benefits sooner, while city, county, and taxpayer representatives warned it would add substantial unfunded liabilities and undermine the 2016 pension reforms. Actuarial testimony estimated significant costs, including tens of millions in annual or upfront impacts depending on how the change is funded, and members debated whether the amendment would shift costs onto future taxpayers or simply spread them over time. The transcript ends during continued testimony and discussion on SB 1504, before a final vote is reached.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services 2ND REVISED Feb 16th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator McIntosh, thank you to the author. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • Thank you to the author for your changes.
  • Do we pass by the author, seconded by the chair? Will there be questions of the author?
  • There be questions of the author on Senate Bill 1484.
  • Further questions of the author? Seeing none. Will there be debate?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • All right members, any questions of the author? Thank you.
  • Senate Bill 1528 and recognizes its author, Senator West, to explain the bill.
  • I do not agree with the impostor doctor author when she stated in a hearing that...
  • The chair recognizes its author, Senator Sparks, to explain the bill.
  • Today, every local mental health authority...
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair lays out Senate Bill 2308 and recognizes its author Senator Parker to explain.
  • I think the house author has a slightly different approach.
  • Committee substitute adds licensing authorities along the side of the commission.
  • Senate Bill 2041 and recognizes author Senator Hancock to accept. the bill.
  • Thank you, Senator Blanco, for authoring this bill, happy birthday.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate bill 1645 establishes parameters for the Oklahoma healthcare Authority when they're performing
  • We're giving the authority under the main purpose to allow the Oklahoma Board of Podiatric Medicine to
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill removes prior authorization.
  • That's not prior authorization. Prior authorization is a long and lengthy process.
  • There is still a step therapy control in this, which is a form of prior authorization.
  • One of our biggest concerns is related to the prior authorization prohibition.
  • I think it's important to get the prior authorization piece.
Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 1121, which would prohibit hospitals from requiring lead aprons for cardiac catheterization staff when a radiation protection system is in place, while still allowing hospitals to require aprons outside the designated safety zone or when exposure levels warrant additional protection. An amendment added flexibility for radiation safety officers to require lead or other PPE if exposures approach occupational limits and removed expedited rulemaking language. Supporters, including the sponsor and interventional cardiologists, argued the devices reduce radiation and orthopedic injuries and improve recruitment and retention; hospital groups shifted to neutral after the amendment. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1121 on a 9-2 vote. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1120, which would require hospitals performing cardiac catheterization procedures to equip at least 50% of those rooms with radiation protection systems by 2027. Supporters said the systems protect clinicians from radiation and long-term injury, while opponents, including hospital and radiology groups, argued the bill was overly prescriptive, could create a captive market, and might not fit all rooms or procedures. After adopting a children’s hospital exemption amendment, the committee passed SB 1120 on a 6-6 vote, with the chair breaking the tie in favor of the bill. Senate Bill 1118, an appropriation measure tied to the radiation protection system proposal, was also advanced after brief discussion, passing 6-5. The committee then took up Senate Bill 1214, which would create guardrails for non-FDA-approved stem cell and regenerative therapies, including provider standards, informed consent, advertising limits, reporting requirements, and a private right of action for violations. Supporters described it as a patient-protection and access bill, while testimony emphasized concerns about unregulated “bad actors” and patients traveling out of state for treatment. The committee adopted an amendment removing a reference to the National Law and passed SB 1214 on a 9-3 vote. The transcript then began discussion of SB 1630, which would create a Medicaid-funded home and community-based service benefit for adults with serious mental illness, with AHCCCS taking a neutral position and estimating a significant fiscal impact.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Safety REVISED Feb 10th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Will there be questions of the author? Will there be questions of the author?
  • Any more questions of the author? More questions of the author.
  • Author yields for questions. Will there be questions on the bill?
  • Any questions of the author? Any questions of the author?
  • Any more questions of the author? More questions of the author?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 15th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm asking you as the author of the bill.
  • Members, my amendment is accepted by the author.
  • Speaker, this amendment is acceptable to the author. stands up an amendment, is acceptable to the author
  • It is not acceptable to the author.
  • I believe it's acceptable to the author.