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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/12/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are you seeing solar farms being abandoned right now? No, no, no.
  • project' with 'utility-scale wind farm or solar farm,' and modifies exceptions.
  • Residents clearly don't want big wind and solar farms going up in their backyards.
  • Wind and solar farms are not inherently harmful.
  • If the purpose of the right-of-way is to serve a proposed wind farm or wind turbine.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • ,</c><00:08:28.400><c> we</c> farm down payment assistance, we farm down payment assistance, we provided
  • Line 141 is an increase of $2 million each biennium to the farm-to-school or farm-to-early-care program
  • Line 141 is an increase of $2 million each biennium to the farm-to-school or farm-to-early-care program
  • </c> farm down payment assistance program. farm down payment assistance program.
  • </c> you made to the farm-to-school program. you made to the farm-to-school program.
Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/21/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Funding for farm to school, Chair Hansen can visit about that.
  • can for farm to school, Chair Hansen can visit<00:09:34.399><c> about</c><00:09:34.640><c> that.
  • </c><00:16:20.480><c> safety,</c> $100,000 on line 95 for farm safety, $100,000 on line 95 for farm safety
  • Line 141 is an increase of $2 million each biennium to the farm-to-school or farm-to-early-care program
  • Line 224 is the farm down payment assistance grants program.
Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 1st, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Transcript Highlights:
  • Additionally, it will contribute to the Farm Winery Marketing Assistance Fund.
  • This is really more of a farm bill, in my opinion, than a wine bill.
  • My name is Cliff Bingham, representing Bingham Family Vineyards and Farm.
  • Our family has farmed in Terry County for over... ...a hundred years.
  • This is a farm bill. It's good for those who grow grapes and make wine.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances REVISED: HB3851 - Added Feb 18th, 2026

Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances

Summary: The Tobacco, Alcohol, and Controlled Substances committee met with a quorum and considered several bills related to alcohol distribution and hemp/THC products. House Bill 3334, presented by Rep. Hays, would create a limited retail on-supply alcohol act allowing on-premise licensees to buy alcohol beverages from off-premise licensees. Supporters said it could help rural businesses facing strained supply chains and delayed deliveries after alcohol market changes; the committee voted to pass the bill. The committee then heard House Bill 4248, which would add protections to keep children from ingesting alcoholic drinks containing hemp with THC-like effects. Members discussed whether the bill might be amended further, but the author said the goal was to protect kids and preserve the bill’s current structure. The committee voted to pass HB 4248. House Bill 4450, presented by Rep. Newton, would regulate THC gummies and liquids by requiring serving-size labeling, limiting servings to 10 milligrams of THC each, and prohibiting child-attractive shapes such as animals, cartoons, or human forms. Members raised concerns about vague language like “reasonable resemblance” and about color restrictions, and the author said he was willing to work on those provisions. The committee voted to pass the bill. Finally, the committee considered House Bill 3851, which Rep. Marti said concerns the process for selling and distributing private label products and clarifies the ABLE Commission’s interpretation of current law. An amendment deleting Sections 1 and 3 was adopted without objection, and the committee then voted to pass the bill as amended. The meeting ended with the chair noting it was the last meeting of the year and adjourning.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/09/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Military Affairs and Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • as you're stating, and that's what this bill will do: put guardrails up so we just don't have the loan
  • It prohibits a loan from being made to an individual in Arizona if the loan application allows the use
  • of an individual taxpayer identification number as a method of identifying the loan recipient.
  • Open bank accounts and receive loans. This is not a policy. This is not a policy.
  • You know, we have to use a lot of documents when we go get a loan.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • become medium-sized farms, medium-sized farms become large farms, large farms become bigger farms and
  • :20.320><c> become</c> become large farms, large farms become become large farms, large farms become
  • </c> &gt;&gt; bigger farms and new farms. &gt;&gt; bigger farms and new farms.
  • , and allow the small farms to kind of focus on the farm side.
  • </c> into somebody else's farm. into somebody else's farm.
Bills: SB2706, SB2320
Summary: The committees first heard SB 2371, which would prioritize lease offers on agrivoltaics parcels for beginning farmers, require annual compliance reports to DAB, authorize penalties for noncompliance, and allow solar facilities on certain agricultural lands. DAB, the State Energy Office, PUC, and Hawaii Farm Bureau generally supported the intent, while OPPSD recommended amendments to preserve agricultural lease affordability and strengthen food-production language. Members questioned whether the bill would meaningfully encourage solar on ag lands, whether beginning farmers would have enough information to use such parcels, and how the bill would interact with Land Use Commission review. The Farm Bureau said agrivoltaics remains challenging and largely in pilot form, and noted the Mililani project as a promising example of dual use. The committees voted to pass SB 2371 with amendments, with one member expressing a preference that it be opened to all farmers rather than only beginning farmers. The next measure, SB 2800, appropriates funds to DAB, DLNR, and ADC for acquisition, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems. All testifying agencies and the Farm Bureau supported the bill, and members pressed them for estimates of needed funding and the condition of existing systems. DAB cited major repair needs, including Waimea, Molokai, Kahuku, and Kawailoa, and said its backlog could total roughly $65 million; ADC estimated about $35 million for several systems; and DLNR said its current needs for three systems were about $35 million, with the largest cost tied to piping in Kekaha. The committees amended the bill to defer its effective date to July 1, 2050 and to blank out the appropriation amounts in the bill text, with the agencies’ requested amounts to be included in the committee report for consideration. SB 2800 then passed in AEN, Water and Land, and EIG. The final measure discussed was SB 2718, a food hub pilot program beginning in 2028 that would require state departments and UH to source 30% of certain food purchases from local agricultural products, create a nutrition- and ʻāina-based school program, and have DAT partner with a regional aggregator for Native Hawaiian staple crops. DAT, DOH, the Farm Bureau, Food Plus Policy Group, HAPA, and others supported the bill’s intent, while the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation opposed it, saying it is already struggling to meet the current local procurement percentage and faces procurement and quantity barriers, especially for staple items used daily. The testimony focused on whether agencies could realistically meet the higher local purchasing target and whether smaller farms could supply the needed volumes.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Administration Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • Section 1 of this act is interest-free loans to provide financial assistance.
  • Now, Section 1 of this act is interest-free loans to provide financial assistance.
  • It establishes an interest-free loan.
  • During the shutdown, it establishes an interest-free loan program for financial assistance and provides
  • revenue, the transportation trust funds as part of the transportation, and the general fund for the loans
Bills: SB268, SB306, SB264, SB312
Summary: The House Administration Committee met to consider a series of resolutions and bills covering arts districts, child care background checks, federal worker relief, health care reform, court transparency, school tax reassessment, municipal charter changes, constitutional amendment procedures, data center nondisclosure agreements, state employee benefits governance, and lieutenant governor vacancies. Members also noted that House Concurrent Resolution 12 had been removed from the agenda and that public comment would be limited to one minute per speaker. The committee released SCR 167 to study arts, culture, and creative districts in Delaware; HB 438 to close a loophole in the child care service letter requirement; SB 268 to provide interest-free loans, free transit, and tax deferrals for federal workers during shutdowns; SS2 for SB 1 to expand and permanently strengthen primary care investment while also addressing hospital cost growth; HCR 147 to request a Court of Chancery report on audio recordings and automated case assignment; SB 322 to replace the current post-reassessment 10% school revenue increase authority with a 2% annual increase option under safeguards; SB 306 to amend the Rehoboth Beach charter; HB 440 to require voter approval for constitutional amendments after legislative approval; SB 312 to bar nondisclosure agreements for large data center projects; SS1 for SB 289 to change State Employee Benefits Committee governance; and SB 264 to require a special election to fill a lieutenant governor vacancy. Testimony was mixed on several measures. Arts, child care, federal worker relief, primary care, court transparency, data center transparency, and the lieutenant governor vacancy bill drew mostly supportive testimony, while SB 322 and SB 306 drew both support and opposition, especially over tax impacts and the proposed spouse/partner restriction in Rehoboth Beach. HB 440 prompted debate over whether 55% voter approval was the right threshold for constitutional amendments, and SB 312 was supported as a transparency measure by residents affected by prior data center NDAs. All of the listed measures were released from committee by roll call vote, with some members voting no on HB 440, SB 306, SB 312, SS1 for SB 289, and SB 264.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations Committee, February 13, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • also clarify number two on page three that agencies cannot work around SAPA by having their officers loaned
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  • /c><00:04:39.759><c> out</c><00:04:39.919><c> to</c><00:04:40.160><c> a</c> having their officers loaned
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