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MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Finance - 05/08/25

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um I'll for the department of commerce.
  • First we have in the Department of Commerce.
  • On line 19, the Department of Commerce.
  • Commerce Energy Division. Commerce Energy Division.
  • the Department of Commerce in that time. the Department of Commerce in that time.
Bills: HF2438
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 4/11/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • investments in the corridors of commerce investments in the corridors of commerce program,<01:14
  • with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.
  • <01:15:41.760> around investments for moving commerce around investments for moving commerce
  • important to safe air commerce important to safe air commerce throughout<01:21:39.679> the
  • Create commerce that pays for not just the roads and bridges, but also commerce that helps pay for our
Bills: HF2438
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 4/10/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Then an increase to the quarters of commerce appropriation, that the base on line 106 is $25 million,
  • Then a increase to the quarters of commerce<00:08:08.520> appropriation<00:08:09.520> that<
  • /c><00:08:09.840> the<00:08:10.000> base<00:08:10.400> on commerce appropriation
  • that the base on commerce appropriation that the base on line<00:08:10.879> 106<00:08:11.440>
Bills: HF2438
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Public Safety Committee Meeting - 2025-03-28

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • revised budget recommendations include a combination of the BCA Financial Crimes Section and the Commerce
  • This unit, combined between the BCA and Commerce Fraud, results in a unit of approximately 43 FTEs, including
  • As you know from our conversation early on, I was a little anxious about consolidating Commerce fraud
  • to execute a warrant or perform tasks that traditional law enforcement does, both the BCA and the Commerce
Bills: HF2432
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/28/25

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • the items that we've been working on is a combination of the BCA financial crimes section and the Commerce
  • the items that we've been working on is a combination of the BCA financial crimes section and the Commerce
  • This unit, combined together between the BCA and Commerce fraud, results in a unit of approximately 43
  • This unit, combined together between the BCA and Commerce fraud, results in a unit of approximately 43
  • Commerce fraud with uh the BCA but it's Commerce fraud with uh the BCA but it's actually<01:10:51.960
Bills: HF2432
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Mar 19th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • But the Business and Commerce Code contradicts this definition by defining rental as just 30 days.
  • For our customers, it's unknown to us maybe why the tax bill and the business and commerce code definitions
  • impose any liability for commercial activities or actions. by operators in interstate or foreign commerce
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/22/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:57:24.559> finance will proceed to the commerce finance will proceed to the commerce finance
  • Um, for the Commerce and members.
  • this bill came uh directly to commerce this bill came uh directly to commerce and<01:01:25.920><
  • Commerce is the where it is.
  • We have agreed, Chairlson and I, to include that within the commerce target, and in fact the commerce
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee May 13th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Surplus Lands Act for lands that are legally dedicated as parkland and restricted to recreational, maritime
  • enforcement authority, modernizes outdated statutes, and brings conformity between state and federal maritime
  • enforcement authority, modernizes outdated statutes, and brings conformity between state and federal maritime
  • Chris McKaley, on behalf of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. Two bills.
  • On behalf of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, two bills: first, support AB 2205 by Quirk-Silva
Keywords: 988, house, all
Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on May 13, 2026, with a large agenda of 196 bills. After establishing quorum, the committee first approved two consent calendars covering numerous bills, then heard a series of author presentations and public testimony. Most measures discussed were housing, public safety, health care, and local government bills, with many authors and sponsors emphasizing that the proposals had minor, absorbable, or no state costs. Among the bills heard were AB 2641 on a sales tax exemption for pawnbroker redemptions; AB 2525 to create a narrow Surplus Lands Act exemption for Mission Bay Park in San Diego; AB 1732 and AB 2433 on student housing and the density bonus law; AB 2055 updating boating safety and enforcement laws; AB 1579 expanding children’s crisis residential options; AB 2139 for an Inland Empire sports-related Surplus Lands Act exemption; AB 2041 on EMS reporting compliance; AB 1973 expanding advanced practice clinicians’ authority for reproductive care; AB 1929 requiring health plan investment disclosures; AB 2700 on utility rates and wildfire victim compensation; AB 1809 removing the sunset on school job order contracting; SB 73 strengthening election security; AB 2418 streamlining commercial building permits; AB 1970 limiting step therapy for serious mental illness and substance use treatment; AB 2361 on peer-to-peer vehicle-sharing liability; AB 1976 streamlining bike and pedestrian project approvals; AB 2110 authorizing local tax increment financing for workforce housing; and AB 2146 easing documentation for supportive housing placements. Testimony was largely in support, often from sponsoring organizations, local governments, housing advocates, health groups, law enforcement, and wildfire survivors. AB 2700 drew especially extensive public support from Camp Fire and Tubbs Fire survivors and local officials, who urged stronger compensation for wildfire victims and relief from utility costs. AB 2034 and AB 1790 were mentioned during public comment as bills with opposition from industry groups, while AB 1903 and SB 417 also drew comment. Several bills were amended or noted as being subject to future amendments, including AB 1732, AB 2041, and AB 2418. The committee took action on the bills as they were heard, generally voting them out on due pass motions, many by roll call and several with members not voting on particular measures. The suspense calendar was then read and deemed approved, and the hearing concluded after public comment on bills not heard that day.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

PSM Public Hearing 03-12-2025

Public Safety and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Sher Manure, president and CEO for the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, is in support.
  • Sher Manure, president and CEO for the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, is in support.
  • Sher Manure, president and CEO for the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, is in support.
  • Sher Manure, president and CEO for the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, is in support.
  • Will Anson for the maritime group is in support.
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs heard testimony on several public safety and criminal justice measures. HB 433 HD1 would appropriate funds for Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation re-entry services; DCR Director Tommy Johnson said the department supports the bill’s intent but noted the same $4 million request is in the governor’s executive budget, and the Correctional System Oversight Commission, Public Defender, ACLU, OHA, Chamber of Commerce, and other groups testified in support. Members asked whether the funding was already in the governor’s budget, and Johnson confirmed it was requested there for the next two fiscal years. HB 1045 would make emergency appropriations for law enforcement personnel costs, and the Department of Law Enforcement, DAGS, Budget and Finance, and the Judiciary testified in support, with DLE saying the amounts match what Budget and Finance will present. HB 1296 would require timely notice and reporting to the Legislature when the governor transfers money to the major disaster fund; Budget and Finance and the Governor’s office offered comments, and no opposition was noted. HB 1002 would extend the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission coordinator’s term and clarify inspection authority; DCR and the commission supported it, with the commission saying a longer term would help the coordinator do the job effectively and allow inspections without notice. HB 596 would clarify what events qualify as disasters and emergencies for emergency management purposes. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency opposed the bill, while maritime and Grassroot Institute representatives supported it. Members asked whether the bill’s 21-day limit should be extended to 30 days, and HEMA said it opposed any change that would limit the governor’s flexibility in the response phase. The committee also heard HB 1128 HD1, which would set factors for warrantless arrests for petty misdemeanors and violations and require officers to record the justification. The Office of the Public Defender, ACLU, and some reform advocates supported it as a check on police discretion and a way to encourage citations, while the Attorney General, Honolulu Police Department, prosecutors, DLE, county police chiefs, SHOPO, and others opposed it as too restrictive and likely to create litigation and court delays. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • not come at the expense of safe navigation of vessel traffic. ...and continued economic growth and commerce
  • the Water Resources Development Act, the Bolivar Gate design ...would negatively impact two-way maritime
  • with our pilots' ability. ...to safely navigate the waterway or our state's economic growth and commerce
  • We funded a navigation study with San Jacinto Maritime College, setting up the model.
  • We tested a dual 650-foot gate design through 111 simulations at San Jacinto Maritime College.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
  • We can get you a list with the Department of Commerce, specifically from the Office of Skills Development
  • Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, and the Arkansas Department of Commerce,
  • Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, and the Arkansas Department of Commerce,
  • Chamber of Commerce, our own Department of Commerce, economic development, ways that we deliver messaging
  • Once we get our application approved, that will all start happening here at the Department of Commerce
Summary: The committee approved the November 3 minutes and then received an extensive presentation from Arkansas education and workforce officials on how the LEARNS and ACCESS Acts are affecting career and technical education, concurrent enrollment, and postsecondary readiness. Officials said the state’s goal is for students to leave high school employed, enrolled, or enlisted, and reported increases in K-12 CTE enrollment from about 161,000 to 171,000 students and concurrent CTE enrollment from about 12,000 to 16,000. They also described the new success-ready pathways, merit and distinction designations, and how those measures tie into school accountability and graduation outcomes. The discussion then turned to scholarships and grants. Officials explained that ACCESS expanded concurrent credit support, increased funding per credit hour, and broadened eligibility for the Arkansas Academic Challenge and Governor’s Scholar programs by adding diploma-of-merit and diploma-of-distinction pathways. They said the Governor’s Distinguished Scholarship itself did not change, but the non-distinguished Governor’s Scholar award now includes diploma of distinction as an additional eligibility route. Members raised concerns about how these requirements apply to private school and homeschool students, and officials said the intent is to ensure those students can qualify if they meet the same standards, though some implementation details are still being worked out. Questions also focused on whether students who explore multiple pathways could be penalized in school letter grades; officials said the system allows multiple ways to earn credit, including AP, IB, concurrent credit, technical certificates, and apprenticeships. Officials also reviewed workforce scholarships and short-term training funding. They said the state is developing policy for the Workforce Challenge and related professional skills training to set an 80-hour minimum and tiered funding, and they discussed the new federal Workforce Pell rules, which they said are very narrow and will likely apply to only a small number of Arkansas programs unless providers repackage training into stackable, credit-bearing pathways. Members asked for lists of eliminated programs, apprenticeships, and data on scholarship recipients, and staff said they could provide those. The committee also heard from Cody Waites on a $35.8 million U.S. Department of Labor cooperative agreement for the American Manufacturing Apprenticeship Incentive Fund, which Arkansas will administer nationally. He said the grant will support advanced manufacturing apprenticeships, use a pay-for-performance model, and be distributed to sponsors after apprentices are employed for 90 days, with applications opening January 28 and the state expecting to keep administrative costs under 8-9%.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

RM 411 Conference PM - Fri Apr 25, 2025

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Transportation, with the governor's approval, to enter into special facility leases with private entities and maritime-related
  • 51:29.119> private<01:51:29.360> entities<01:51:29.760> and<01:51:29.920> maritime
  • with private entities and maritime with private entities and maritime related<01:51:30.719> operations
  • This supports the modernization of harbor infrastructure needed to sustain maritime commerce, economic
  • This supports the modernization of harbor infrastructure needed to sustain maritime commerce, economic
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, May 13, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • H.R. 2215, a bill to redesignate the Salem Maritime National Historic Site as the Salem Maritime National
  • H.R. 2215, a bill to redesignate the Salem Maritime National Historic Site as the Salem Maritime National
  • H.R. 2215, a bill to redesignate the Salem Maritime National Historic Site as the Salem Maritime National
  • <05:45:48.878> National support of the Salem Maritime National support of the Salem Maritime
  • <05:48:53.600> National learn, and the Salem Maritime National learn, and the Salem Maritime
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 5th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Electric Utility Systems, or JUICE, Alicia Hooks, and President and CEO of Greenville Chamber of Commerce
  • City of Commerce, we have City Manager Howdy Lisenby and Executive Director of Commerce E.D. E.D.C.
  • Its deep ties to tourism and maritime industries, Port Aransas stands as an essential part of Texas'
  • Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1892, Deer Park and LaPorte's, believe it or not, the same year. are
  • The Impact Pasadena Leadership Program is by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. of Commerce and it has
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 20th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is, again, talked about at length in Senate Commerce.
  • Two members representing the banking and securities industry appointed by the Senate chairman on commerce
  • Referred to Commerce. Reports of committees: Report of the Committee on Commerce.
  • House Bill 905 simply changes the name of the University of Louisiana Maritime Academy to the Louisiana
  • Maritime Academy at Nicholls State University.
Bills: SR130, SR131, SR132, SR133, SCR74, SCR12, HB582, HB221, HCR74, HCR58, HB71, HB79, HB158, HB160, HB169, HB227, HB251, HB289, HB330, HB394, HB410, HB429, HB769, HB1017, HB1234, HB712, SCR3, SB54, SB72, SB129, SB164, SB232, SB287, SB322, SB374, SB375, SB386, SB409, SB447, SB458, SB78, SB112, SB124, SB125, SB174, SB190, SB201, SB208, SB236, SB273, SB307, SB347, SB357, SB385, SB387, SB393, SB401, SB415, SB426, SB435, SB487, SB488, SB523, SB222, SCR9, SCR58, SB480, SB514, SB35, SB65, SB215, SB246, SB249, SB269, SB282, SB296, SB323, SB363, SB369, SB474, SB490, SB492, SB500, HCR31, HCR47, HB362, HB363, HB368, HB377, HB380, HB382, HB386, HB392, HB406, HB431, HB441, HB466, HB503, HB533, HB559, HB575, HB590, HB593, HB618, HB655, HB664, HB685, HB692, HB707, HB715, HB732, HB738, HB741, HB748, HB776, HB807, HB822, HB856, HB860, HB868, HB887, HB888, HB905, HB908, HB961, HB980, HB990, HB992, HB999, HB1000, HB1010, HB1146, HB1157, HB1233, HB1243, HB54, HB137, HB180, HB192, HB310, HB321, HB396, HB512, HB552, HB578, HB638, HB663, HB708, HB717, HB718, HB1009, HB1082, HB1104, HB1107, HB1198, HB1246, HB27, HB143, HB205, HB259, HB267, HB288, HB308, HB403, HB405, HB414, HB417, HB478, HB546, HB548, HB555, HB557, HB609, HB670, HB672, HB740, HB779, HB786, HB796, HB812, HB848, HB915, HB917, HB921, HB930, HB933, HB1095, HB1096, HB1103, HB1129, HB1154, HB1166, HB1187, HB1195, HB1230, HB316, HB511, HB514, HB799, HB1039, HB17, HB36, HB41, HB47, HB73, HB126, HB133, HB140, HB159, HB166, HB211, HB226, HB271, HB324, HB337, HB351, HB399, HB571, HB723, HB726, HB750, HB759, HB844, HB966, HB1006, HB1018, HB1036, SB29, SB42, SB43, SB217, SB274, SB300, SB379, SB382, SB441, SB449, HB134, HB258, HB359, HB782, SB149
Summary: The Senate convened with 29 members present, opened with prayer by Oren Connor, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a musical performance by the Chuck Wagon Gang. The chamber also recognized several guests and observances, including birthdays for Senators Seabaugh, Fesi, and Price, White Coat Wednesday participants, Tourism Day, the Louisiana Oil Marketers Association, Chenault International Airport’s 40th anniversary, and visiting fair queens from Washington and Tangipahoa parishes. The Senate dispensed with reading the journal and received numerous House and Senate messages, committee reports, and resolutions. Several Senate resolutions were taken up and adopted, including commendations for Isaac Herzenberg, condolences for Kathleen Sessomson and former Senator Louis Lambert Jr., recognition of White Coat Wednesday and Tourism Day, and a study resolution on transfer-on-death and payable-on-death accounts. The Senate also adopted a conference committee report on House Bill 782, which concerned vapor and alternative nicotine products and was described as giving the state more tools to combat illegal vapes. A number of Senate bills returned from the House with amendments were either concurred in or rejected, including SB 54, SB 72, SB 129, SB 164, SB 232, SB 287, SB 374, SB 375, SB 386, SB 409, SB 112, SB 124, SB 125, SB 174, SB 190, SB 207, SB 236, SB 307, SB 357, SB 385, SB 387, SB 458, SB 477, SB 590, SB 593, SB 618, SB 655, SB 692, SB 707, SB 732, SB 738, SB 748, SB 776, SB 807, SB 860, SB 868, SB 887, SB 888, SB 905, and SB 961, with votes generally passing by wide margins. The chamber also considered several House bills on final passage. Among those approved were measures on local security districts, budget review authority, school activity access for virtual students, electronic bid forms, brake equipment and trailer safety, construction management at risk contracts, temporary registration plates, the Louisiana Maritime Academy name change, OMV fee and ID issues, ferry operations, group purchasing for local governments, the Green Envelope Program for drivers with disabilities, OMV field office fees, LED fee updates, port development priorities, workforce instructor capacity, and a campus disciplinary process bill tied to hazing prevention. Some House bills were passed after amendments, while others were passed over or rejected for later conference, including bills on virtual school participation, historic preservation, civil service, suicide prevention, local government training, and economic development districts. The Senate also rejected House amendments on SB 78 and SB 208, and rejected amendments on SB 387, sending those matters toward further negotiation.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Louisiana Ports and Waterways Investment Commission and bringing it over to the Office of Multimodal Commerce
  • Louisiana Ports and Waterways Investment Commission and bringing it over to the Office of Multimodal Commerce
  • directors and their board chairman, along with representatives of LED, the Board of International Commerce
  • team to develop a single comprehensive marketing strategy to promote the region's logistical reach, maritime
  • The Office of Multimodal Commerce has been in the forefront with a lot of activity and trying to cover
Keywords: 965, house, all
Summary: The Louisiana Ports and Waterways Investment Commission met on May 14, 2026, with a quorum present to reopen the commission’s work after a long gap. Members approved the July minutes and heard an update that a bill was moving in the Legislature to transfer the commission’s administrative home to the Office of Multimodal Commerce, with the strategic plan expected to be restarted and a consultant likely considered at a future meeting. The chair and vice chair emphasized that the commission now has stronger staffing and a clearer home for its work. The commission then repealed its July resolution that had requested a new ports and waterways infrastructure fund and identified priority projects. Members said the earlier resolution was well-intentioned but premature because the projects had not been fully vetted, LED had not been sufficiently involved, and there was no clear funding structure. They said the projects would still be considered in the broader strategic planning process, but in a more thorough and coordinated form. A major portion of the meeting focused on the collaborative marketing strategy for the five Lower Mississippi River ports, presented by Joe Toomey and Ken Erickson of Polaris, with LED’s Paige Carter confirming LED will serve as the administrative home for the plan. The presenters described a data-driven regional effort built around unity, not uniformity, to promote the ports’ combined strengths, increase trade, attract foreign direct investment, support economic growth, and strengthen funding requests. Members praised the effort as a pilot for statewide coordination, noted that the plan will live at LED, and said it should help the state present a more unified message to investors and policymakers. The commission also received an update from the navigation and safety task force. Members observed a moment of silence for the late Captain Toby Waddingney, and Steve Wall, the new NOBER president, said he would continue the work using Waddingney’s notes. Commissioners reported that several recommendations from the task force are already being implemented, including bridge air-gap sensors, GIS tools, and dredging project coordination. The meeting ended with no public comment, plans for another meeting in the next quarter, and adjournment by motion.