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AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/22/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Transcript Highlights:
- As I was kind of alluding to, data centers and infrastructure, the data centers support the computing
- cost somebody money, a human had to review that, make sure it was legit, rather than just have a computer
- They have computers compile data all the time about credit checks, and if they ding your credit score
- , when cell phones started to be... ...the internet became the thing, you know, when computers became
- It's supposed to be a computer.
Summary:
The newly formed House Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Committee held its first meeting with member and staff introductions, followed by adoption of the committee rules. Staff explained that the rules mirror House rules, including the chair’s control of the agenda and testimony, and deadlines for amendments and agendas. The committee adopted the rules without objection.
The chair then delivered an extended presentation on artificial intelligence, describing AI as a rapidly evolving tool that is already affecting many sectors, including note-taking, media, healthcare, workforce, data centers, and semiconductor manufacturing. He emphasized both the opportunities and risks of AI, including misinformation, deepfakes, job displacement, privacy concerns, and potential misuse by governments, while also highlighting Arizona’s role in chip fabrication, infrastructure, and innovation. He said the committee would meet weekly, hear short presentations from industry and subject-matter experts, and focus on responsible governance that supports innovation without overregulation.
Members then shared their perspectives. Several expressed cautious optimism, noting AI’s potential in healthcare, education, public administration, and business, while stressing the need for guardrails, cybersecurity, and human oversight. Members also discussed personal uses of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Grok, and transcription apps, and raised concerns about older adults, children, and people with disabilities being affected by AI-generated content or automation. The chair closed by saying the committee would be bipartisan, Arizona-focused, and likely to consider bills as the session progresses, then adjourned the meeting.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And third, these counts transfer to a central computer that tabulates everything.
- The central computer is the aggregation computer.
- The central aggregation computer tabulates votes by precinct.
- And this audit would rely on results tapes printed by voting machines, just computer printouts of the
- They ran computer batch reports to identify how many votes.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Third, these counts are transferred to a central computer that tells you everything.
- The central computer is the aggregation computer.
- The central aggregation computer tabulates votes by precinct.
- But this audit would rely on results tapes printed by voting machines—just computer printouts of the
- They ran computer batch reports to identify how many votes each of the selected precincts had for the
Keywords:
Texas elections, Election Code, uniform election date, November election, local elections, political subdivisions, general election date, election administration, municipal utility district, county elections, local government, ballot scheduling, candidate filing, voter turnout, election calendar, HB 3097, early voting, electronic application, mail-in ballot, voting accessibility
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The Governor recommends eliminating the computer science education advancement program.
- The next item is eliminating Computer Science Education Advancement Program grants.
- I see that we've eliminated computer science education advancement.
- My second point is about computer science.
- These tasks are specifically overseen by that computer science supervisor position.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nominations of Michael Kratsios, of South Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Mark Meador, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner. Feb 25th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- the first Trump administration was marked by efforts to advance artificial intelligence, quantum computing
- I'd like to thank Senator Blackburn, who is advancing a reauthorization of quantum computing research
- Advancements in quantum computing, AI, and cybersecurity will drive innovation, protect the nation, and
- Just a little sidebar there, I remember asking a question about quantum computing.
- I'm the only former computer programmer in the United States Senate.
Keywords:
Senate Committee, Commerce, Science, Technology, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, FTC, Consumer Protection, Innovation, Emerging Technologies
Summary:
The meeting of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation featured significant discussions regarding technological advancements and their implications for the future. Notably, nominations were made for key positions in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Federal Trade Commission. Committee members expressed the importance of leading in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing, emphasizing that the pace of innovation is crucial for maintaining the United States' global position as a leader in technology. The discussions also highlighted the role of the FTC in protecting consumers from deceptive business practices and ensuring fair competition in the marketplace.
Attendees underscored the urgency of advancing research and development in areas such as quantum computing, as evidenced by a demonstration of a new quantum chip anticipated to redefine computing capabilities across industries. Various members engaged in vibrant exchanges, showing support for initiatives aimed at bolstering innovation through public and private collaboration. Overall, the meeting set a strong agenda for pursuing future science and technology policies that ensure the U.S. remains at the forefront of global advancements.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- his principal to remove some computers his principal to remove some computers out of a room um and he
- fell down, fell on his computers fell down, fell on his computers fell down, fell on his foot, and he's
- And I know and also computer science. And I know and also computer science.
- science on um an update to our computer science on um an update to our computer science bill now.
- science bill like all these computer science bill like all these computer science bill like all these
Keywords:
parental leave, state employees, local education agencies, adoption, work-life balance, family support, portable benefits, portable benefit account, independent contractor, gig worker, 1099 worker, freelancer, app-based worker, rideshare, delivery driver, worker benefits, health insurance, retirement benefits, life insurance, income replacement insurance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The next item is eliminating computer The next item is eliminating computer science<00:59:53.440
- The cut that we have is in one of the new proposals: a computer science education grants cut, a computer
- Um, second point, uh, computer science.
- Um, second point, uh, computer<01:37:33.119>
science. - So, that was a an computer science.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/16/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- So, uh, human instead of a computer.
- Page two, line three, delete a computer, Page two, line three, delete a computer, insert<01:14:00.320
- , actual human instead of a computer, actual human instead of a computer, which<01:15:10.320>
- <01:26:29.280>
that is uh speaking with a computer that is uh speaking with a computer that - We appreciate the computers and AI.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- computer science?
- Yes. >> So, we have computer science and other requirements can make up for the computer science?
- Yes. >> Certified teacher, but not certified or not in computer science, because I think computer science
- <01:32:54.200>
And the computer science? Right. Okay. And the computer science? Right. - <01:33:53.280>
science computer science computer science >> computer<01:33:54.040>science
Summary:
The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a quorum present, then quickly handled routine business including excusing absent senators, adopting the prior journal, and recognizing several guests in the gallery. The chamber also paused to honor Dr. Mark Sullivan, superintendent of Birmingham City Schools, with a Senate resolution commending him as the Alabama Education Association’s 2025-26 outstanding superintendent of the year. Senator Smitherman and Dr. Sullivan both spoke, with Sullivan highlighting Birmingham’s academic gains, reduced failing schools, and lower chronic absenteeism.
The Senate then processed a series of House messages and confirmations. It concurred in SB 288 on agriculture authorities and SB 317 on the Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services, but non-concurred and sent SB 174 on natural resources and SB 32 on solid waste collection fees to conference. The chamber confirmed numerous appointments, including Rex Jones, William Donahue, Jim Massey, Jason Windham, Alexander Atwater, Charles Dean, Steve McKinnon, Bonnie Temple, Shaniqua Johnson-Enam, Dwayne Jenkins, Troy Skipworth, Gloria Watts, Tracy Doughty, Kevin Ball, Joe D. Briggs, Josh Bryant, Dylan Turk, David R. Pruitt III, and Carol Smitherman, with most confirmations passing on near-unanimous rolls.
Committee reports advanced several House bills, including favorable reports on HB 224, 591, 614, 609, 444, 248, 611, 622, 92, and 556, with HB 248 amended. The Senate also adopted a resolution honoring the University of Alabama women’s wheelchair basketball team for winning the 2026 national championship, and another resolution recognizing the seriousness of the national debt and urging Congress to establish regular budget order. A resolution honoring retired Brigadier General Vandiver H. Carter as the 2026 Marion Military Institute Alumnus of the Year and a resolution commending John R. Cooper were also adopted.
In local legislation, the Senate passed HB 635 for Choctaw County, HB 639 for Escambia County, SB 10 for Tuscaloosa County, HB 315 for class one municipalities after adopting a committee substitute and a friendly amendment, and HB 404 for class one municipalities. Finally, the Committee on Rules reported and the Senate adopted a special order calendar for the next legislative day, listing a wide range of bills for priority consideration, including measures on solar power facilities, homestead exemptions, education, guardianships, tax increment districts, legal tender, college tuition, crime victims compensation, motor vehicles, entertainment industry issues, campus chaplains, tax abatements, alcoholic beverage producers, data privacy, constables, insurance, municipal audits, income tax, public high schools, taxation, state health planning, and University of Alabama matters.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Regulating Artificial Intelligence / Legislation to Stop Dangerous Deepfakes Mar 16th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- But we've seen whether it be Elon Musk, or Google, or others are looking to create new human-computer
- familiar with the human computer familiar with the human computer interface<00:23:17.000>
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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a professor of ed tech and computer science education, and so one of the things I do is I support
- I see all these students very quiet on the computer.
- She opens up her computer, and there she is on the computer in her AI image saying, 'I'm so-and-so, and
- gone through an exercise to create her own AI image where she could visually see herself on the computer
- And they were, like, so stuck to the computer.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Education Pre-K through 12 met to hear a panel discussion on artificial intelligence in K-12 education. Dr. Maya Israel of the University of Florida gave an overview of AI literacy, the benefits of AI for personalized learning and teacher support, and the risks involving data privacy, overreliance, hallucinations, and misuse. She described the Florida K-12 AI Task Force, which published statewide guidance in March and is now providing professional development, case studies, surveys, and resources for teachers and families. She also noted that teacher preparation programs and microcredentials are being developed, but there is not yet a statewide baseline standard for teacher AI training.
Superintendents Van Ayers of Hillsborough County and Kevin Hendrick of Pinellas County described district policies and implementation efforts. Hillsborough adopted an AI governance policy, created an implementation guide, and set rules barring generative AI use for students in pre-K through 7th grade while allowing limited, teacher-approved use for older students with district-vetted tools. Pinellas emphasized digital responsibility, parent transparency, data-use agreements, and a governance process for approving tools. Both districts said AI is being used for lesson planning, tutoring, reading-level adjustments, scheduling, and other administrative tasks, but they do not yet have reliable evidence that AI is improving academic performance. They also discussed teacher training, stipends, and certification efforts, including partnerships with universities and vendors such as Microsoft, Google, Magic School, and Gemini.
Drew Allen of FSU Inspire offered an industry-focused perspective, arguing that AI is not new but that education must adapt more quickly to industry needs. He described Inspire’s workforce and research mission, its AI and robotics training for teachers, and the need to build teacher comfort and confidence through incentives and applied training. Committee members raised concerns about student dependence on AI, academic integrity, mental health, moral decision-making, data privacy, and whether schools should return to more paper-based testing. The panel generally agreed that AI should be used with strong guardrails, human oversight, and a balance between technology use and traditional learning. No legislation was considered, and the meeting ended with a motion to adjourn, which was adopted without objection.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
October 14, 2025 - 11:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- That doesn't necessarily mean that someone has to be a computer programmer or computer scientist, but
- We're talking about AI, but we have outdated computers. That's a problem we need to fix.
- that we've noticed is, we can teach at schools about artificial intelligence and data and Cloud computing
- We can have all the books in the world, all the computers in the world at school.
- science major is not necessarily knowing about computer science.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Military and Veterans Affairs Aug 13th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- As a family of the military, I worked at White Sands as a computer programmer many years ago.
- The other thing that we do is we have a computer lab with six computers.
- When I first became the director, I was asked, "Do we really need the computers there?
- We have a lab across the hallway with 60 computers. Do we really need to have them?"
- It is not because those computers across the hall can't do the same thing; they can study.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 23rd, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We've had in schools computers and things that last 3 or 4 years go into 30 year bonds.
- into the bonds, they would have been Wang Computers and that company was since long out of business.
- They shouldn't be paying interest over 30 years for the computers.
- It brings the cost of a computer to 4.5 or 5 times what the computer actually costs when that computer
- is so long gone that even the teachers when they were students weren't using that computer.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House panel hears proposed expansion of state broadband office 3/19/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- broadband and we need to ensure that Minnesotans get connected to broadband and get connected on a real computer
- Minnesotans get connected to broadband and get connected on a real computer, not just complete tasks
- And but, you know, I see computer access and things 3.27, you know, well, before that, you know, we're
- And but, you know, I see computer access and things Representative Nelson: You know, computer access
- I think the goals of, you know, developing broadband, you know, when you start adding computer access
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Oct 8th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- You can see right before you, we are looking at artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, recording
- The computer-aided design shows a 191.4% increase, and again in our recording arts technology.
- Artificial intelligence and computer learning don't need humans to understand it, right?
- And when you have programs like your computer information systems, security, and cybersecurity, all of
- those things are going to be done by computers going forward.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota also has a long history of leadership in high-performance computing, from the nation's first
- The university is home to computing.
- leadership in high performance computing leadership in high performance computing from<00:10:56.399
- <00:26:46.480>
uh remember certainly when computing uh remember certainly when computing uh - industrial revolution, the computer industrial revolution, the computer revolution.<00:57:34.880
Keywords:
HF1316, child support, new hire reporting, centralized work reporting system, independent contractors, payors, employers, payor of funds, withholding orders, income withholding, child support enforcement, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, gig economy, rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, 1099, W-9, W-4, newly hired workers, rehired employees
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Feb 12th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- She said achieving R1 status is very significant and noted that quantum computing will be discussed more
- So I think that's a major step and certainly as we go into quantum computing, we will hear more and more
- We have quantum computing moving into the area, and FAU just announced a partnership with D-Wave.
- It's going to be one of the only universities in the country with its own quantum computing lab and its
- own quantum computer.
Summary:
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Higher Education opened by noting it would not present its budget that day, explaining the budget rollout would be delayed until the following week to align with House partners and Senate notice requirements. After a roll call confirmed a quorum, the chair explained that because of the large number of gubernatorial appointments, the committee would hear only a subset individually and consider reappointments in a block unless members requested otherwise.
The committee then heard testimony from appointees and reappointees to several university boards. Florida A&M University nominees Roderick Harris, Victor Young, and Rafael Vasquez emphasized service to their alma mater, support for leadership, student success, entrepreneurship, scholarships, and maintaining FAMU’s status as a leading HBCU. Florida Atlantic University appointees Linda Stock and Thomas Mersh highlighted FAU’s growth, R1 research designation, quantum computing, servant leadership, entrepreneurship, and expanded research opportunities. University of Central Florida reappointee Alex Martins focused on UCF’s preeminence, workforce needs, nursing and engineering, and keeping graduates in Florida.
Florida Gulf Coast University nominees James Gris-Mall, Douglas Van Orte, Robert Rommel, Sarah Partial Perry, and reappointee Joseph Fogg discussed workforce development, affordability, student success, water and environmental programs, business and entrepreneurship, nursing outcomes, and FGCU’s regional role. University of South Florida reappointee Rogan Donnelly cited USF’s AAU status, research growth, and focus on student success, health care, cybersecurity, and AI. Committee members generally praised each nominee’s background and the universities’ achievements. At the end of the hearing, the committee approved all nominees in a single block vote for confirmation and then adjourned.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Economic Development and Tourism Committee Apr 29th, 2025
Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- So, one of the bills that came up was dealing with computer science, and I was like in one of our other
- communities, I was like I hate computer science, but computers...
- I hate computer science, but computers are moving.
- But do I stop it because I hate computer science? I know it's moving.
Keywords:
electric transmission, public highways, permit processing, economic growth, infrastructure, rural development, condemnation actions, state regulations, community development district, CDD, annexation, municipal annexation, wet municipality, dry county, wet county, Sunday alcohol sales, ABC Board, alcohol licensing, on-premises consumption, golf course
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- classrooms, screens are now being used to deliver scripted instruction and to administer frequent computer-based
- We had a little computer adventure early this year and basically didn't have a lot of students have access
- they would use their powers for good and not for evil, but they will key in certain things on their computer
- They didn't get a lot of the computer stuff, my high school kids when they were younger.
- bring that up because at our last town hall... there were parents who were very concerned about computers
Keywords:
appropriation, higher education, sports facilities, community college, Luna Community College, KANW, educational radio, rural news, public education, funding, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, cultural heritage, research funding, federal funding, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University