Video & Transcript Research : 'gift acceptance'

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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 10th, 2026

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a gift God's given us. And it's hard to leave.
  • And that was a gift to me. I tell people all the time, the gift of being in the Legislature...
  • And that was a gift to me.
  • And that was a big gift, a big gift.
  • But I’m just going to say I appreciate those gifts.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognized several guests, including a state champion Crossroads Academy girls basketball team and a Florida State University student intern. The chamber then turned to executive appointment confirmations reported by the Committee on Ethics and Elections and other reference committees under Rule 12.7, with Chair Don Gates explaining that the committee had reviewed the qualifications and suitability of the nominees and held public hearings where required. Members debated several confirmations at length. The report containing 186 appointments was adopted 31-0 after Senator Polsky explained her no votes on three nominees, citing concerns about past comments and ideological views. The Senate then confirmed Jeffrey Aaron to the Public Employee Relations Commission by a 26-10 vote after sharp debate over his role as counsel to the Hope Florida Foundation and allegations tied to the diversion of Medicaid settlement funds; supporters argued he was a competent lawyer and no formal action had been taken against him. Chavon Harris was confirmed as Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration by a 32-5 vote, with supporters praising her work on Medicaid funding and opponents criticizing her prior leadership at DCF and the Hope Florida-related issues. Taylor Hatch was confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Children and Families by a 33-4 vote, despite concerns raised about SNAP/EBT compliance, child welfare practices, audits, and DCF’s handling of Hope Florida; supporters emphasized her commitment to reform and the difficulty of the agency’s mission. After a brief recess, the Senate held a lengthy recognition of outgoing President Kathleen Passidomo. Senators from both parties offered personal tributes focused on her leadership, toughness, humor, mentorship, and support for colleagues, especially women in the chamber. Several speakers also referenced her handling of difficult bills, her post-presidency service as Rules Chair, and her resilience after personal loss. No further legislative action was taken during the recognition segment.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, February 5, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • For from wherever we have come, we draw near to you in reverence, trusting that you will accept our manner
  • of worship as holy and acceptable to you.
  • Even as you have loved us with all our strengths and shortfalls, gifts and gaffes, differences and divisions
  • Amen. strengths and shortfalls, gifts and strengths and shortfalls, gifts and gaffs,<00:06:46.240>
AK

Alaska 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Jul 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Alaska House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill asks us to accept too much. This bill asked us to accept too much.
  • We give a grant to this person and a grant to that person, and that is a gift.
  • But this is not a gift. This is a commercial negotiation.
  • This is in no way a gift to anyone.
  • It is not a gift. We shouldn't be thinking of it that way.
Keywords: 905, all
Summary: The House met with a quorum, approved the journal, and received messages from the governor and Senate, including notice that the governor vetoed CSHB 16 and allowed HB 14 to become law without signature. The chamber then took up the conference committee report on HB 381, a major Alaska LNG-related bill that revises the project’s tax and regulatory structure. The conference report was explained as a compromise package that, among other things, changes required local contribution language, expands disclosure and notice requirements, adjusts foreign ownership reporting, extends the Phase 1 construction deadline, adds a $10 million workforce development/community impact fund, modifies project labor agreement provisions, and exempts the Alaska LNG project from the new pass-through entity tax while still requiring an informational tax return in 2027. The Speaker also announced the governor had issued a proclamation calling the legislature back into session on July 27, 2026, and said sine die would be moved after debate. Debate on HB 381 was sharply divided. Supporters argued the bill is necessary enabling legislation to improve the project’s financial viability, protect Alaska’s interests, and move the North Slope gas line toward final investment decision, while also adding transparency, foreign ownership safeguards, and labor and workforce provisions. Several members said the conference committee process was collaborative and that the bill reflects hard-fought compromise with the developer, AGDC, labor, and the administration. Opponents focused on the addition of the pass-through entity/S-corp income tax and related reporting requirements, arguing it is a separate tax policy issue that should have been considered in its own bill, creates uncertainty and litigation risk, could harm existing oil and gas and Cook Inlet production, and may discourage investment. Multiple members also criticized the process as rushed and insufficiently transparent, especially the limited opportunity for the minority and the absence of Department of Revenue testimony during conference. No final vote on the conference committee report is shown in the transcript excerpt. The debate continued with members alternating between support for the gas line project itself and opposition to the tax provisions and process used to advance HB 381.
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 120 May 14th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Just by way of clarification regarding gifts, grants, and donations, that would... ...gifts, grants,
  • So we do in fact have a pathway for gifts, grants, and donations.
  • President, we do not allow yelling from the floor. >> Apology accepted.
  • So I ask that we accept this amendment.
  • Her legacy that she has gifted us all with is her courage.
Keywords: 981, all
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 13th, 2026 at 08:35 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I also am a parent of a child that receives gifted education.
  • With gifted education, this is an administrative move only. The gifted department...
  • Currently, New Mexico treats gifted education as a civil rights education issue, and— ...treats gifted
  • So gifted... is also part of these definitions.
  • We have a statute requiring gifted education.
Bills: HB30, HB120, HJR1, SB210, SB306
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • I move that we accept the budget as is that Daniel has proposed.
  • of the gifted.
  • Gifted education doesn't live in special education.
  • Chairman and John, actually, these kids that are gifted do have an IEP.
  • At PED, and there are folks responsible for overseeing gifted education.
Keywords: 996, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (04/23/2025)

Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • attorney's parameters for accepting attorney's parameters for accepting individual<00:46:44.160>
  • <01:49:48.560> what fortitude to uh you know, accept what fortitude to uh you know, accept
  • This will this just makes gift cards.
  • Um so then what happens is a gift card.
  • person, you know, receives this gift person, you know, receives this gift card,<02:04:32.000>
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 1/23/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:26:41.559> into essentially needs to get accepted into essentially needs to get accepted
  • Each district is given $13 per pupil in gifted and talented revenue.
  • Each district is given $13 per pupil in gifted and talented revenue.
  • <01:26:09.760> and for Mr stum uh Mr chair the gifted and for Mr stum uh Mr chair the gifted
  • <01:26:23.000> and education program for it gifted and education program for it gifted and
Keywords: 1183, house
Summary: The committee first approved the January 21st minutes by voice vote. Members then resumed a school finance overview focused on how Minnesota’s “base” budgeting system works and how future committee targets are set above or below that base by the Ways and Means chair, in consultation with fiscal staff. Staff emphasized that school funding decisions are tied to the state budget base and that changes made by the tax committee can affect school levies and school finance more broadly. The presentation then turned to property tax fundamentals. Staff explained that roughly 65% of school district revenue comes from state aid and about 20% from property taxes, with property tax revenue applying to school districts rather than charter schools. They reviewed the two main school tax bases—referendum market value and adjusted net tax capacity—along with class rates, sales ratios, and equalization. They also described tax credits, especially the school building bond agricultural credit, which helps reduce the property tax burden on agricultural land in Greater Minnesota. Members discussed student choice programs and how funding follows students. In response to questions from Representative Quam, staff explained postsecondary enrollment options (including direct enrollment and College in the Schools) and online learning, noting that funding generally follows the student to the serving institution or district. Staff also reviewed Minnesota’s pupil-counting system, including average daily membership and pupil weighting, and explained that students attending charter schools, other districts through open enrollment, or online programs are counted where they are served. The presentation concluded with broader school finance context: funding sources, equity and adequacy goals, constitutional and statutory authority, and the state’s school data systems (EUP/FARS, MARS, and STARS). Staff also began reviewing long-term enrollment trends, noting the impact of the baby boom, later growth from the mid-1980s through about 2000, and projected modest declines in public school enrollment through 2029.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy and Administration (02/02/2026)

Education Policy and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • gifted and talented. And why was that?
  • And if they gifted talented students.
  • base to qualify them for gifted base to qualify them for gifted education.<02:07:30.960> I
  • Um, thank you, Nate. gifted and talented programs in and of gifted and talented programs in and of themselves
  • > absolute Accepting Charlie's words as absolute Accepting Charlie's words as absolute truth<04
Keywords: 1189, house, all
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Apr 9th, 2025 at 01:00 pm

North Dakota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you look at line 8, it says they can accept donations, grants, contributions, and gifts from any source
  • and gifts from any source to carry this out.
  • Representative Anderson: So we could end up allowing this study, accept gifts from places that are wanting
  • and gifts from any source to carry this out. where we can accept donations, contributions, and gifts
  • So we could end up allowing this study, accept gifts from places that are wanting to store their radioactive
Keywords: 908, all
Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present, then approved journal corrections and recognized visiting students from Underwood School. The chamber also handled several conference committee appointments after failing to concur with Senate amendments on House bills 1022, 1049, 1229, and 1029, and after the Senate failed to concur on House amendments to Senate bills 2010 and 2113. The House then concurred in or passed a series of amended measures, including House Bills 1481 (dental insurance loss ratio and reporting), 1511 (physician guidance on abortion law, with an emergency clause), 1562 (mandated reporter training), 1197 (correctional facilities study), 1095 (child protective services liaison work group), 1317 (barber licensing board changes), 1549 (corrections facility grants and reentry-related provisions), 1354 (appraiser evaluations), 1374 (open meeting exemption for township supervisors during on-site inspections), 1355 (abbreviated notice for administrative rulemaking), 1025 (advanced nuclear energy study), 1470 (Game and Fish fee changes), 1592 (Lignite Research Council updates), and 1375 (alcohol service/photo ID provisions). Final passage votes were recorded on each bill, with most passing comfortably and some drawing notable opposition, especially HB 1470 and HB 1549. The House spent substantial time on Senate Bill 2011, the Highway Patrol appropriation. Members discussed shifting one-time funding from the general fund to the Electronic Motor Carrier Permit Fund, including body armor, preliminary breath tests, an emergency vehicle course, resurfacing, fleet costs, and handgun/taser replacement, while also noting a federal grant and no new FTEs. Questions focused on salary-line increases and the new-and-vacant FTE pool, with Appropriations explaining that those dollars had been moved back into agency budgets from OMB. The bill passed 84-6. The House also passed Senate Bill 2013, the Commissioner of University and School Lands appropriation, after discussion of Trust Lands operations, unclaimed property staffing, and distributions from the Common Schools Trust Fund; one member was excused for a conflict, and the bill passed 67-22. Senate Bill 2023, the Racing Commission appropriation, passed 65-25 after a brief explanation of the agency’s responsibilities and funding. A major policy debate centered on Senate Bill 2385, which revises mobile home park regulation. Supporters said it creates receivership procedures if a license is revoked, requires clearer tenant notices, limits certain fees, and strengthens protections against eviction and utility overcharges. Two members were excused from voting due to conflicts tied to mobile home park ownership, and the bill passed 84-4. Another extended debate occurred on Senate Bill 2159, which allows the State Energy Research Center to study nuclear-related projects with approval from the Industrial Commission and consultation with the radioactive waste advisory council. Supporters said it is meant to help study advanced nuclear energy while preserving existing prohibitions on high-level radioactive waste storage; opponents raised concerns that the language could weaken prior protections and open the door to waste-related research or storage. The transcript ends during that debate, before a final vote on SB 2159 is shown.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Feb 19th, 2026 at 08:53 am

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • These were amendments that I gladly accepted. We changed.
  • It adds to the PARA Act restrictions on accepting gifts that conform with the Gift Act.
  • In other words, what kind Of storage would be acceptable, Mr. President?
  • Would that be acceptable, Mr. President? Hypothetically, yes. Good to know.
  • President, we absolutely do have some gifts from the Republicans here.
Bills: SB273, SB37, SB100
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Jan 22nd, 2026 at 11:13 am

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • we begin services at the church that I serve here in Santa Fe, by taking time to breathe in those gifts
  • So let us breathe in deeply the gift of God's peace. Let us breathe in the gift of God's hope.
  • With prayers of thanks, we thank you for breathing into us, each of us, your blessing of peace, your gift
  • What I'd like to do in closing is just everyone on your desk: You also have a little gift.
  • Also have a little gift. This is a miniature hero bag, a mini sensory kit.
Keywords: 996, all
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 26th, 2026 at 08:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • A donor should be insured that their gifts will be used in the written gift agreement as intended.
  • terms of the gift agreement.
  • Common law gift agreements are not covered by contract law.
  • You're saying this would only apply to future endowment gifts.
  • back, and he did get that gift back.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 1st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's acceptable to me. Mr. Bryant, for what purpose?
  • It's acceptable to me. Mr. Bryant, for what purpose?
  • The amendment is acceptable to the author. I move for adoption.
  • The amendment is acceptable to the author.
  • So I ask, is this amendment acceptable? That's my amendment.
Bills: HB1520, HB1545, HJR110, HJR203, HB245, HB1465, HB1482, HB294, HB793, HB809, HB3928, HB334, HB2037, HB1973, HB285, HB4341, HB4264, HB 1043, HB837, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 1194, HB1646, HB1729, HB2498, HB1314, HB2295, HB1353, HB1531, HB1988, HB5398, HB3960, HB3923, HB1407, HB1764, HB2221, HB2214, HB2517, HB2518, HB2213, HB5008, HB5092, HB3421, HB3663, HB3748, HB3800, HB3756, HB2613, HB3782, HB5246, HB4344, HB4044, HB4066, HB2702, HB2807, HB2869, HB2898, HB3181, HB3250, HB4153, HB2091, HB2115, HB2542, HB2768, HB3349, HB3352, HB4406, HB1593, HB1899, HB3133, HB4432, HB4960, HB3214, HB3915, HB3508, HB2145, SB304, SB608, SB2312, SB494, SB530, HB45, HB2520, HB35, HB47, HB318, HB349, HB554, HB1359, HB1373, HB2254, HB2259, HB2853, HB3073, HB3088, HB353, HB355, HB786, HB762, HB705, HB932, HB849, HB 1119, HB3041, HB713, HB3104, HB3970, HB4042, HB4490, HB1731, HB2607, HB3689, HB1788, HB1612, HB138, HB15, HB1971, HB1338, HB2989, HB267, HB 1201, HB2954, HB5265, HB1804, HB5061, HB1520, HB1545, HJR110, HJR203, HB1887, HB1914, HB2402, HB2306, HB1809, HB2350, HB3000, HB3237, HB3326, HB3211, HB 1056, HB2081, HB2187, HB3092, HB3308, HB3526, HB3750, HB3527, HB4219, HB4230, HB4290, HB5238, HB4804, HB4749, HB245, HB1465, HB1482, HB294, HB793, HB809, HB3928, HB334, HB2037, HB1973, HB285, HB4341, HB4264, HB 1043, HB837, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 1194, HB1646, HB1729, HB2498, HB1314, HB2295, HB1353, HB1531, HB1988, HB5398, HB3960, HB3923, HB1407, HB1764, HB2221, HB2214, HB2517, HB2518, HB2213, HB5008, HB5092, HB3421, HB3663, HB3748, HB3800, HB3756, HB2613, HB3782, HB5246, HB4344, HB4044, HB4066, HB2702, HB2807, HB2869, HB2898, HB3181, HB3250, HB4153, HB2091, HB2115, HB2542, HB2768, HB3349, HB3352, HB4406, HB1593, HB1899, HB3133, HB4432, HB4960, HB3214, HB3915, HB3508, HB2145, HCR6, HCR12, HCR34, HCR50, HCR55, HCR58, HCR70, HCR71, HCR72, HCR74, HCR75, HCR78, HCR80, HCR93, HCR100, HCR107, HCR116, HCR117, HCR90
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health May 12th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's truly a gift to be able to utilize human tissue to further medicine in the state of Texas.
  • You guys to help me to understand, but it's bothersome to me that the state of Texas is accepting the
  • What we don't do is accept any CME that you submit, especially if it's not specialty-specific.
  • Accepted by the Joint Commission, the National Committee of Quality Assurance, the Utilization Review
  • They lost the gift of pain. Pain is the gift that nobody wants.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, I move that we accept the budget as is that Daniel has proposed.
  • And one kid that may show gifted one day because they happen to hit the right button, they show that,
  • of the gifted, I'm myself I'm not gifted, but I'm going to get to that in a minute.
  • When we're talking about gifted education, they go through the same referral.
  • for overseeing gifted education.
Summary: The committee first heard a detailed staff presentation on the LESC FY27 public school support recommendation. Staff reviewed the budget structure and explained that, despite a downward revision in state revenue estimates, the recommendation still relied on recurring and non-recurring revenue to support educator compensation, insurance, transportation, literacy, math, special education, and other school programs. Major recurring items included a 3% compensation increase, funding for an 80-20 health insurance cost share, insurance premium growth, and transportation adequacy funding. Staff also flagged a possible supplemental need of up to $35 million for virtual education tied to rapid enrollment growth in Chama and Santa Rosa, and members raised concerns about the quality, accountability, and funding model for virtual programs. Members asked questions about transportation for rural districts, the Martinez-Yazzie lawsuit fees, the treatment of enrollment declines in the school funding formula, and whether the word “average” in salary language should remain in the budget. Staff explained that the SEG should remain whole, that the insurance and transportation recommendations applied to all public school employees but not contractors, and that the budget included multiple math-related investments spread across several lines rather than one single appropriation. There was also discussion of out-of-school learning grants, school meals, literacy center operations, special education training, and the Public Education Reform Fund, including the use of multi-year, evaluation-based appropriations for high-impact tutoring and community schools. After discussion, the committee adopted the LESC budget recommendation. The committee then moved to endorsed legislation proposals. It endorsed a bill allowing the secretary to suspend an individual school board member, with notice and appeal procedures clarified, and a bill creating an 80-20 health insurance cost-share requirement for public school employees, along with a study of the sustainability of public school insurance programs. It also endorsed a bill on attendance provisions for students with severe medical conditions, which would keep those students from being classified as excessively absent. Finally, the committee discussed a teacher residency bill that would raise stipend levels, allow residents to complete service anywhere in New Mexico, and remove the requirement that sponsoring schools must hire them, though the bill did not include an appropriation. Members also raised questions about bilingual, Hispanic, and Black education funding, cultural and linguistic supports in teacher preparation, and where various programs should be placed in the budget or PERF framework.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS Senate Floor - 4 February, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Names accepted. Voting no.
  • Names accepted. Voting no. call. Names accepted. Voting no. Senator<01:09:49.679> Bar.
  • uh gifted student funding and gifted uh gifted student funding and gifted student<01:27:07.920><
  • And this gifted funding is different. And this gifted funding is crucial.
  • gifted programs. gifted programs.
Summary: The Senate convened, confirmed a quorum, received an invocation from Dr. Lenon Duncan, and led the pledge of allegiance. Routine business followed, including unanimous consent to dispense with reading the journal, committee reports, and bill titles. Several guests were introduced, including a governmental affairs representative, a doctor of the day and medical student, a county leadership group, agricultural youth council participants, a former senator’s spouse, and MSMS students. The chamber then took up several appropriations and finance measures. Senate Bill 2189, the transfer bill for state funds and agency budget setup, passed by morning roll call. Senate Bill 2190 increased the Working Cash Stabilization Reserve Fund minimum balance from 10% to 15% of general fund revenue; supporters said it would strengthen the state’s fiscal position, and it passed by morning roll call after no questions. Senate Bill 2480, a capacity project bill providing $265 million from CAPEX to MDOT for highway projects in Madison and Rankin counties and initial work on Highway 90, was amended to make it effective upon passage and then passed by morning roll call. Senate Bill 2832 extended the railroad tax credit repealer to 2029, and Senate Bill 2847 required state and local tax calculations to round to the nearest nickel in response to the federal penny phaseout; both passed by morning roll call. The Senate also approved Senate Bill 2191, which expands the purposes for which municipal use tax funds may be spent to include sidewalk repair and building acquisition/rehabilitation, after questions about municipal and subdivision sidewalks. Senate Bill 2885 created the Mississippi Work and Save Program, a voluntary retirement savings option for small employers and employees, with the sponsor emphasizing that participation is optional and that the program is intended to help workers without access to retirement plans; it passed by morning roll call. Senate Bill 2834, the omnibus tag bill, and Senate Bill 2838, the omnibus qualified resort area bill, were each amended with committee substitutes and passed by morning roll call. Later, the Senate suspended the rules and took up a large block of resolutions and commemorative measures, including sympathy and congratulatory resolutions, arts awards, sports championships, and other recognitions, along with House concurrent resolutions and two House bills designating observances. The transcript ends while the clerk is reading the long list of titles in the block.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • what the women discovered on that first Easter morning was that to believe and receive the ultimate gift
  • And thank you for giving us the gift of new life in the power of your resurrection.
  • And thank you for giving us the gift of new life in the power of your resurrection.
  • Whereas April has been designated as Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month with World Autism Day and
  • Whereas greater awareness, understanding, and acceptance of Autism Spectrum Disorder is essential to
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 31st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Was accepted.
  • Today, that trans, intersex, and gay Texans are a gift from God too.
  • get that I was their favorite gift from God on Christmas Day, the day that I was born.
  • Well, their mother, they're a gift from God.
  • All three of these changes were accepted by the conference committee.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session-Day 21, March 6, 2026-PM

Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate, give you a gift if that's okay.
  • Dick, we have a gift for you as well.
  • Marty, uh, we have a gift for you as well. Marty, uh, we have a gift for you as well.
  • You have to come forward now and accept your gift.
  • It's in my I have a gift for you.
Keywords: 916, all