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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/17/26
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- The deer farmers aren't allowed to move deer around. Elk are allowed to move deer around.
- The deer farmers aren't room right now.
- The deer farmers aren't allowed<00:04:39.600>
to <00:04:39.759>move <00:04:39.919>deer - Elk are allowed to move deer around.
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around deer farmers can't move deer around deer farmers can't move deer around
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (11/05/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- other bills, but I looked at the um we did an in-depth over a couple sessions of bison, elk, and red deer
- Um, one is that a number of the paragraphs that we had in the red deer, elk, and bison seem to be struck
- So, unless those conditions for the bison, elk, and red deer are put back into place, I can't support
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Summary:
The committee held a work session on House Bill 396, which would exempt meat and meat food products slaughtered and prepared in-state for in-state sale from certain inspections. Representative Comtois explained her amendment, saying she tried to address prior concerns by limiting the number processed monthly, adding a registration and disclaimer requirement, and folding beef, swine, sheep, and goats into the bill’s framework. Members discussed whether some sections from earlier language on bison, elk, and red deer had been inadvertently struck, and Comtois said she did not intend to remove those protections and would restore them if needed.
Several members raised drafting and policy concerns. Representative Miner suggested the waiver language should be a signed, notarized statement kept on file rather than filed with the Department of Agriculture, and Comtois agreed. Representative Gruber and Representative Scully discussed labeling and wording, including clarifying that the meat would not be “exempt” from federal inspection in the same way as non-amenable species, and adding language that any prosecution would be federal rather than state. There was also discussion about whether ground meat should be included for the amenable species, with Miner and Comtois indicating that excluding ground meat would reduce risk.
Commissioner Sean Jasper of the Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food testified strongly against the bill, saying it was a step in the wrong direction, lacked consumer protections, and could jeopardize food safety and the state’s meat processing system. He argued that the federal exemption for non-amenable species could not simply be extended to new species by state law, warned that USDA could respond by withdrawing federal inspections, and said the bill would not solve the real bottlenecks in slaughter capacity. He also said he did not believe there was a general shortage of inspectors, and that the practical issue was producers not scheduling animals year-round, which forces facilities to scale to the slow season. No vote was taken during the work session, and members continued discussing possible amendments and wording changes.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Agriculture Jan 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I am representing Everglades Equipment; we are a John Deere dealership that covers Central Florida all
- I am representing Everglades Equim, we are a John Deere dealership that covers Central all the way down
- So if farmers could buy the parts at stock cost from Deere, for us, for instance, from John Deere directly
- So if you, if farmers could buy the parts at stock cost from Deere, for us, for instance, from John Deere
Summary:
The Agriculture Committee took up SB 806, the consumer and agricultural equipment right-to-repair bill by Senator Trumbull. Trumbull said the measure would expand repair options for portable wireless devices and farm equipment while protecting trade secrets. The committee adopted two amendments: one clarifying the bill does not apply to motor vehicles, and a technical staff amendment. Testimony was mixed: an Everglades Equipment representative opposed the bill, warning it could weaken local dealer support, reduce parts inventory, and increase downtime for farmers; the Consumer Technology Association also opposed the bill in its current form, citing concerns about a patchwork of state repair laws, private lawsuits, and inconsistent standards. The bill was reported favorably as CS for SB 806 by a roll call vote of 4-0, with Senator Rouson not voting.
The committee then heard a presentation from Florida 4-H state officers Timmy Hawes, Summer Wayne, and Taylor Thigpin. They described 4-H as a youth development organization focused on citizenship and leadership, agriculture, STEM, and healthy living, serving more than 216,000 youth statewide. They highlighted personal stories about how 4-H built confidence, leadership, and entrepreneurship skills, and they outlined goals to grow participation to 300,000 youth and to invest in 4-H camps, especially Camp Cherry Lake and Camp Timpoochee, as year-round learning sites. Senators praised the program and asked questions about how youth get involved and what drives participation.
Florida FFA state officers Hope Storder and Isabel Jenkins then presented on agricultural education and FFA. They explained FFA’s three-part model of classroom instruction, supervised agricultural experience, and leadership development, and noted that Florida now has more than 65,000 FFA members and that state funding has allowed all agricultural education students to participate at no cost. They emphasized agriculture’s role in feeding a growing population and discussed how technology, innovation, and urban agriculture can help meet future production needs. Senators commended the organization’s work and its role in preparing future leaders and agricultural professionals. At the end of the meeting, Senator Burton requested a group photo with the students, and the committee agreed.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Administration Committee Meeting Jun 24th, 2026
Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- hunting as something that is near and dear to a lot of our constituents in this area, especially with deer
- So, uh... ...with deer hunting and crop damage.
- As Senator Wilson mentioned, as Representative Spiegelman mentioned, we have a terrible deer depredation
- every year after Thanksgiving because buck season had just started, and often I would come home to deer
- We had turkeys, eagles, foxes, herons, and white-tailed deer.
Bills:
SB231
Keywords:
school social workers, salary supplement, LCSW, mental health, education funding, Delaware Code, certification, professional standards
Summary:
The House Administration Committee met and first considered Senate Bill 231, which would extend the existing 6% salary supplement for school-based mental health professionals with advanced credentials to school social workers who hold licensed clinical social worker credentials and have passed the national exam. The bill sponsor and multiple witnesses described school social workers as essential to student mental health, crisis response, attendance, and family support, and argued the measure corrects an oversight and inequity in the current salary supplement structure. Public testimony was uniformly supportive, and the committee voted to release the bill.
The committee then heard Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 212, a constitutional amendment to protect the rights to hunt, fish, and trap. Supporters, including sportsmen’s groups and individual residents, said the amendment would preserve longstanding traditions, support wildlife management, and guard against future threats to hunting and trapping. An opposing witness argued there was no current threat in Delaware and said the Constitution should not be used to protect trapping or elevate hunting and trapping over other wildlife management approaches. Despite the opposition, the committee voted to release the substitute bill.
Finally, the committee took up Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 284, the First State Emergency Response Act, which would create a 25-foot buffer around first responders at emergency scenes after warning, with misdemeanor penalties for knowingly entering or remaining in the zone to interfere with duties. Supporters said the bill would protect police, firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics from interference, while opponents from the ACLU and the Office of Defense Services raised concerns about vague terms, potential First Amendment impacts, enforcement clarity, and jurisdictional issues. Committee members also questioned how the buffer would be marked and enforced. The sponsor and staff said they would continue working on the language, and the committee voted to release the bill.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 01/22/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- We also had a deer report.
- What about the deer farmers, the commercial deer farmers that are in the state?
- What about the deer farmers, the commercial deer farmers that are in the state?
- The question was about white-tailed deer.
- The question was about white-tailed deer.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 11th, 2026
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The white-tailed deer... We're talking.
- We're over 6 million white-tailed deer now. We have huge numbers of feral hogs.
- And it shows that only one deer had been infected.
- 500,000 to a million deer. Yeah, more or less.
- And as to your point, we're about 5.5 to 6 million deer today.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 04/08/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- browse, and they have even reduced deer-car collisions by as much as 24%.
- browse, and they have even reduced deer-car collisions by as much as 24%.
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reduced <00:40:29.600>deer-car Wolves have tremendous social and ecological value to - browse, and they have even reduced deer-car collisions by as much as 24%.
- hunters while they're out in the woods hunting deer as well.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Fish and Game and Marine Resources (02/14/2025)
Fish and Game and Marine Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- one everybody's just taking their one everybody's just taking their one regular<00:03:10.200>
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one <00:03: - particular season for night hunting coyote, which ends after December, or starts after December 15th, when deer
- particular season for night hunting coyote, which ends after December, or starts after December 15th, when deer
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Select Agencies Subcommittee Jan 5th, 2026 at 09:00 am
A&B Select Agencies Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- to them that we often get phone calls from constituents about some of their policies, seasons, or deer
- We are deer hunting receives accolades from across the nation, Realtree Field, and Stream, North American
- There are some mule deer that our research project with OSU is looking at.
- The non-resident deer aspect where they're required to have an annual hunting license just like residents
- The cost of everything goes up, and nowadays, whenever you get a deer processed, it's about $130.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Ways and Means Committee approves Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund bill 4/22/26
Transcript Highlights:
- in here to fund um RT Quick, which is a rapid test for determining CWD, which is a brain disease in deer
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Summary:
The committee took up House File 3426, the annual LCCMR appropriation bill funding projects from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF), which is supported by state lottery proceeds and does not affect the general fund. The bill was described as containing 108 appropriations totaling $102.036 million, including 11 extensions of prior appropriations, and a new community grants program funded at $28.18 million under the constitutional limit. The author noted the bill is the second year of funding after the 2024 voter-approved amendment renewing the ENRTF and community grants program.
Members discussed the bill’s scope and purpose, including projects for scientific research, PFAS mitigation and testing, rapid testing for chronic wasting disease, parks and trails, outdoor recreation, and solid waste/recycling innovation. Co-Chair Heintzeman said the bill had involved many conversations, thanked the author for working with the caucus, and noted that a missing project issue had been addressed to improve the bill’s path forward. He also said statutory changes were being made to the community grants program to reduce fraud risk and incorporate suggestions from the Office of the Legislative Auditor.
Co-Chair Koznick asked about whether lottery-funded ENRTF dollars had ever been considered for proportional returns to districts, but the author said he was not aware of such discussions and emphasized that the fund benefits all Minnesotans through projects across the state. After no further questions, the chair renewed the motion to recommend House File 3426 for placement on the general register, and the committee approved it by voice vote with no opposition recorded.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- So they're not managed to increase the deer herd numbers or things like that.
- So they're not managed to increase the deer herd numbers or things like that.
- So they're not managed to increase the deer herd numbers or things like that.
- So they're not managed to increase the deer herd numbers or things like that.
- So they're not managed to increase the deer herd numbers or things like that.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaker, members, Deer Park Chamber of Commerce recognition, members today I rise to recognize the Deer
- supporting businesses, fostering economic growth and enhancing the quality of life. for the Citizens of Deer
- So, Deer Park Chamber of Commerce, please stand. Please stand up in the gallery to be recognized.
- Deer Park Chamber. Oh, up there. They're behind us.
- Members, please join me in welcoming the Deer Park Chamber of Commerce. Thank you.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 23rd, 2026 at 09:30 am
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Deers here. Senator Dossett here. Senator Fricks here. Senator Gillespie here.
- But I am so proud to have the Deer Creek Country team with me today.
- We are so proud of him and the program that he has built at Deer Creek. I'm so proud of you guys.
- Please give these Deer Creek antlers a warm Senate welcome. Mr. Leader, thank you, Mr. President.
- Senators Logan, Jett, Hamilton Winard, Stuart, Deers, Berkstrom, Guthrie, Pugughakieri, Howard, Murdock
Bills:
HB3327, HB3711, HB4104, HJR1077, HB3329, HB4322, HB4202, HB4203, HB4457, HB3983, HB3660, HB3802, HB2933, HB2955, HB2956, HB3781, HB3521, HB3794, HB3796, HB3800, HB3183, HB4316, HB4484, HB3469, HB3464, HB3173, HB3989, HB3016, HB2979, HB2988, HB2288, HB3062, HB3315, HB3372, HB3530, HB3622, HB3755, HB4266
Keywords:
State Board of Education, Oklahoma education board, board appointments, school governance, education reform, governor appointments, legislative appointments, speaker of the house, president pro tempore, senate confirmation, board vacancies, removal for cause, public education, state superintendent, school board training, board member qualifications, emergency clause, Oklahoma statutes 70 O.S. 3-101, school funding, transparency
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources, February 10, 2026
Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- The lower photo is encroaching conifers in sage grass and mule deer habitat.
- Um, but it also impacts mule deer, the foraging base that the mule deer use in the winter.
- Um, but it also impacts mule deer, the foraging base that the mule deer use in the winter.
- It's all essential mule deer habitat. It's also in a sage grass core area.
- And what you found, if you found any deer, they were really tough.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 1/21/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, I can name some of them: the deer bear management account, the emergency deer feeding account, the
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Summary:
The committee met for an organizational hearing of the Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee. Members and staff introduced themselves, with several legislators noting their backgrounds in farming, mining, water management, and outdoor recreation, and the chair reviewed draft committee rules emphasizing decorum, quorum, timely starts, and submitting bill hearing requests to the committee administrator. The committee also heard from nonpartisan staff and caucus staff who will support the committee this session.
House Research and House Fiscal staff then provided an overview of the committee’s jurisdiction and the major agencies and programs it oversees. The presentation covered the Department of Natural Resources, Pollution Control Agency, Environmental Quality Board, Board of Water and Soil Resources, Metropolitan Council regional parks and water resources, Conservation Corps of Minnesota, Minnesota Zoological Board, Science Museum of Minnesota, and the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources. Staff summarized the main statutory chapters and subject areas under each, including wildlife, state lands, mining, water use, air and water permitting, environmental review, wetlands, drainage, and natural resources funding.
The finance portion explained the committee’s appropriation types and major funding sources, including direct, statutory, and open appropriations. Staff highlighted the general fund, bonding, the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, the Game and Fish Fund, and the Heritage Enhancement Account, along with how those dollars are typically used for parks and trails, habitat, land acquisition, flood and drainage projects, and agency operations. Members also discussed whether DNR and BWSR responsibilities in overlapping water statutes can conflict; staff said responsibilities are generally clear in statute, though conflicts can occur and are usually resolved.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Fishing with two or four lines 2/26/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, would you consider looking at it sort of like deer hunting zones?
- I mean, to me, as a deer hunter, you know, you get the book, you flip through it, you see what zones
- I mean, to me, as as a deer<00:13:02.560>
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WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on Tribal Relations, June 15, 2026 - PM
Select Committee on Tribal Relations
Transcript Highlights:
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go that identification. those mu deer um go that identification. those mu deer - Is that through the male or the deer populations?
- Is that through the male or the deer populations?
- Also by pushing healthier deer move in.
- Um deer tend to know CWD is 100% fatal.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- My name is Jennifer Stefan, and I am the elementary principal at King Elementary in Deer River.
- My name is Jennifer Stefan, and I am the elementary principal at King Elementary in Deer River.
- We have been able to create a system for our students in Deer River to access health care regularly.
- We have a system to provide mental health support for our students and families in Deer River.
- Currently, schools are... an entire day of Education in Deer River an entire day of Education in Deer
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (02/19/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- currently allowed uh not white tail deer currently allowed uh not white tail deer but<01:54:26.079
- It can be anything from baby deer to crows to owls.
- than uh raising you know a baby deer than uh raising you know a baby deer that<04:01:06.520>
- So, for example, that deer is now at Squam Lake Science Center.
- So, for example, that deer is now at Squam Lake Science Center.
Summary:
The committee first held a work session on HB 505, which would allow the sale of freeze-dried foods produced in homestead food operations. Members raised concerns about the bill’s broad language, especially the provision stating freeze-dried food would not be considered potentially hazardous. Several suggested narrowing the bill to specific products such as processed foods, berries, fruit, dairy products, ice cream, or vegetables, and requiring use of commercial freeze-drying equipment rather than dehydrators. There was also discussion of oxygen absorbers, moisture control, sanitation, and whether the issue should be handled in statute or rules. By the end of the discussion, members generally agreed the topic should be treated in a separate section of law rather than folded into the existing homestead food license, and the chair said the matter would be sent to the food safety subcommittee, with the possibility of a study committee if more time was needed.
The committee then moved to HB 277, a technical correction to the animal cruelty statutes. Representative Bixby explained that current law refers to a “colt,” which applies only to male baby horses, leaving fillies unaddressed; the bill would replace “colt” with “foal” and make related wording changes so the restriction applies to any horse under 90 days old not being nursed by its dam. The New Hampshire Farm Bureau testified in support, saying the change was requested to clarify and modernize the statute and that the issue had been identified during work on related animal cruelty legislation.
No votes were taken in the portion provided. The chair recessed the work session until 11:00 a.m. and announced that Representative Ktoa would take over the hearing on HB 277.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 02/26/26
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- One is from the Deer Hunters Association.
- It has fallen uh deer hunters now.
- And as we continue to lose deer hunters, the deer population is going to be just fine.
- And as we continue to lose deer hunters, the deer population is going to be just fine.
- , >> when you register the deer, >> when you register the deer, >> you<00:18:56.000