Video & Transcript Research : 'state ethics'
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- State and Local Level...
- The bill also directs the Ethics Commissioner to develop a training program so state employees can recognize
- They call it going deep into the United States.
- I'm the founder and CEO of State Armor.
- of both state and federal and to eliminate what I sort of describe as... ...the capacities of both state
Keywords:
election officials, confidentiality, personal information, government transparency, public safety, spirit beverages, alcoholic beverages, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, distribution, taxation, firearms, local regulation, archery equipment, weapons, voter registration, statewide list, county requirements, election integrity, computer services contracts, mental health
Summary:
The Senate Committee on State Affairs heard Senate Bill 3031, which would expand aggravated assault to cover certain road-rage shootings involving a person in or traveling to or from a motor vehicle, when a firearm is discharged and causes injury, property damage, or fear of serious bodily injury. Senator Schwertner laid out the bill for the author, described it as closing a gap in the law, and there was no public testimony; the bill was left pending.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 2514, a measure by Chairman Hughes aimed at creating a DPS unit to identify, investigate, and monitor hostile foreign influence operations and to require ethics training for state employees. Supportive invited testimony from Dr. Jacqueline Deal, Ambassador Kelly Curry, and Michael Lucci emphasized threats from the Chinese Communist Party, transnational repression, cyber intrusion, and state-level influence efforts, and argued Texas should take a leading role. Public testimony included opposition from speakers who raised concerns about free speech, privacy, and potential overbreadth. The bill was left pending after testimony closed.
Finally, the committee took up Senate Bill 30 as pending business and discussed a committee substitute. Senator Schwertner explained that the substitute would limit admissible medical expense evidence to amounts paid or up to 300% of Medicare, clarify treatment of provider testimony and attorney-referred providers, remove a requirement that plaintiffs use available health insurance to mitigate damages, strike a unanimous-verdict requirement for non-economic damages, and delete a remittitur provision. Senators questioned the impact on sexual assault and child abuse survivors, the use of Medicare as a benchmark, and whether the bill would still allow fair compensation. After discussion, SB 30 was left pending and the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House and Governmental Affairs Mar 18th, 2026
House and Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
Department of State, statutory entities, re-creation, termination, Louisiana laws, Department of State Civil Service, Louisiana legislation, government re-creation, authority termination, financial disclosure, public servants, ethics, immediate family, transparency, legislators, transportation, foreign travel, cultural exchange, public service, HB393
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Why does this apply only to members physically outside the state when an in-state absence would...?
- Because out of state, we don't have the jurisdiction.
- But out of state lines, we don't have jurisdiction.
- That's why those penalties are imposed for out-of-state absence. Thank you. Mr.
- And this may be her last state affairs hearing from this side.
Bills:
HB18
Keywords:
HB 18, Texas Legislature, quorum break, quorum-busting, legislative walkout, absent legislators, political contributions, campaign finance, political expenditures, legislative caucus, specific-purpose committee, Texas Ethics Commission, civil penalty, show cause order, district court, Fifteenth Court of Appeals, session fundraising, travel lodging food expenses, legislative session, compelled attendance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- What if they're breaking quorum in the state?
- It just states— I'm just trying to get...
- What do you, why do you say it's bypassing the Ethics Commission?
- it also affected the taxpayers of the state of Texas.
- to expand a woman's right to choose in the state.
Bills:
HB18
Keywords:
HB 18, Texas Legislature, quorum break, quorum-busting, legislative walkout, absent legislators, political contributions, campaign finance, political expenditures, legislative caucus, specific-purpose committee, Texas Ethics Commission, civil penalty, show cause order, district court, Fifteenth Court of Appeals, session fundraising, travel lodging food expenses, legislative session, compelled attendance
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 5 Feb 9th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And one of those times where our students Leave the state but then come back.
- He is a track academic state champion.
- She is the state vice president of [organization].
- Sophie is a senior from Sayre, a state champion for choir solo, and wants to attend Northeast State University
- These are four seniors from the state championship team.
Bills:
HB2975, HB3405, HB3406, HB3728, HB3902, HB3977, SB397, HB1161, HB2938, HB2939, HB3306, HB3722, HB4113, HB4123, HB2293, HB3176, HB3545, HB3546
Keywords:
poultry waste, nutrient management, environmental regulations, agriculture, water quality, pollution prevention, best management practices, noxious weeds, poison hemlock, kudzu, landowner responsibilities, environmental control, public nuisance, eradication, burn bans, fire danger, drought conditions, emergency declaration, scrap metal, regulation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm kind of following what Vice Chair Johnson stated.
- The only form of state-provided training is a 50-minute video offered by the Secretary of State, which
- States like Florida, California, New Mexico, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and New York— all of these states
- In all 50 states and offer state-approved notary education in many states.
- So if you take the MBA multi-state bar exam... and you do the ethics portion for Texas, then you don't
Bills:
HB5621, HB4904, HB5067, HB5076, HB5081, HB5354, HB4862, HB3847, HB4088, HB4157, HB2966, HB2287, HB4203, HB4803, HB4737, HB5093, HB783, HB5411, HB4281
Keywords:
HB 5621, consumer protection, Deceptive Trade Practices Act, DTPA, Business & Commerce Code, attorney general, consumer protection division, district attorney, county attorney, local prosecutor, civil investigative demand, CID, voluntary compliance, financial institution records, bank records, privacy, protective order, in camera review, trade secrets, insurer
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission (1-4-23) Part 2
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4koUGHsNCw, 2026-06-21T07:17:02+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, This is the second part of the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission Live Stream. This part will only be used if the Commission enters into executive session and then reconvenes., 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas currently ranks 33rd in R&D investment as a percentage of gross state product, behind states like
- So it's a 12 to 1 ratio over state gross state product over 20 years. Is that your data?
- Instead of the state helping, the state is actually siphoning money away.
- Those dollars are literally flying away to other states.
- States that already have this.
Keywords:
HVAC, tax exemption, energy efficiency, residential heating, installation services, Energy Star, sales tax, residential, installation, sales tax exemption, Environmental Protection Agency, temporary exemption, motor fuel tax, county exemption, diesel fuel, gasoline tax, transportation funding, SB 1030, Texas Tax Code, use tax exemption
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Apr 2nd, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Existing state parity coverage laws apply to the T.D.
- We will have state plans for our state employees and our teachers. system employees that do not require
- of those in more rural areas of the state.
- As a result of that, but how many there are across the state, I would defer to the state on.
- The process for adding new conditions to federal and state... state screening panels can take years,
Keywords:
healthcare, training, abuse, neglect, penalties, chemical dependency, safety, regulation, inpatient competency restoration, competency restoration, forensic mental health, mental health law, criminal competency, incompetent to stand trial, Chapter 46B, HHSC, Health and Human Services Commission, state hospital, behavioral health, local mental health authority
AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Mar 17th, 2026
Ethics and Campaign Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- leaving our state because they cannot do business in our state. >> Got an amendment you talked about
- local or state vote for local or state local or state executive<00:02:23.160>
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- if our federal and state versus federal state<00:11:48.480>
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county >> So the state and county >> So the state and county pay. pay. pay.
Keywords:
hemp, hemp beverages, psychoactive cannabinoids, psychoactive hemp products, delta-8 THC, delta-9 THC, delta-10 THC, cannabidiol, CBD, intoxicating hemp, hemp-derived THC, cannabis regulation, marijuana alternatives, alcoholic beverage control, ABC Board, licensing, permit, excise tax, age verification, under 21
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- Department of State Health Services. Is it Department of State Health Services?
- of the state of Texas.
- So, again, as I stated on the prior bill and before, there is a state agency that is tasked with that
- They partner with Texas State. Texas State has a forensic anthropology unit.
- All types of situations, 9-1-1 situations here in our state, we have a state of interoperability that
Keywords:
emergency communication, interoperability, grant program, first responders, state council, disaster response, emergency management, mass fatality, justices of the peace, training programs, emergency manager license, volunteer management, justice of the peace training, criminal history checks, state health services, broadband, public safety, disaster preparedness, funding, flood disaster plan
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
House Chamber - Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 40
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They're wearing distinctive royal city purple, and they represent all counties of the state of Hawaii
- So, please join me in welcoming them to their state House of Representatives.
- So, I'll ask them to state of Hawaii. So, I'll ask them to please<00:17:35.600>
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Commission requesting the Hawaii State Commission requesting the Hawaii State
Bills:
HR39, HCR43, HR178, HCR188, SB3144, SB3102, SB2053, SB3248, SB2256, SB3118, SB2245, SB2519, SB3055, SB2090, SB2765, SB2169, SB3136, SB2521, SB2851, SB3154, SB3262, SB2387, SB3001, SB2818, SB2972, SB2372, SB2108, SB888, HR63, HCR69
Keywords:
pedestrian safety, crosswalks, traffic calming, school zone, Honolulu, community safety, raised crosswalks, traffic infrastructure, agritourism, agricultural tourism, Hawaii Tourism Authority, HTA, working group, farm tourism, regenerative tourism, working lands, agricultural land use, county ordinances, permitting, farm bureau
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- A few years back, we had State Road 2, No, ma'am, they don't.
- All states have had to follow those rules since they were passed as states continue to draw their own
- They will be the rules of the road that all states will follow.
- I'm here to state our support for SM1.
- I would hope that our state would not track those.
Keywords:
alcohol consumption, Senate rules, legislative conduct, ethics, New Mexico Senate, redistricting, gerrymandering, election integrity, Congress, voter rights, political polarization, Nancy Lopez, Roswell bypass, US Highway 285, U.S. Highway 285, Highway 285 bypass, road naming, highway naming, memorial, transportation department
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission (11-15-22) Part 2
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2yz8Vwr-TY, 2026-06-21T07:17:02+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, This is the second part of the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission Live Stream. This part will only be used if the Commission enters into executive session and then reconvenes., 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission (11-15-22) Part 3
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh68D-kWeUQ, 2026-06-21T07:17:02+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, This is the third part of the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission Live Stream. This part will only be used if the Commission enters into executive session and then reconvenes., 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission (10-11-22) Part 2
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sobaR-Z0_dw, 2026-06-21T07:17:02+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, This is the second part of the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission Live Stream. This part will only be used if the Commission enters into executive session and then reconvenes., 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
LA
Bills:
HR38, HR96, HR160, HCR31, HCR61, HB578, HB668, HB1198, SCR19, SB66, SB68, SB76, SB139, SB336, SB475
Keywords:
privacy rights, surveillance, USA Patriot Act, FISA, Fourth Amendment, civil liberties, government oversight, civil bench warrants, judgment debtors, notification process, judgment debtor examination, Louisiana State Law Institute, property transfer, public records doctrine, bad faith, real estate law, HCR 31, House Concurrent Resolution 31, foreign entities, foreign corporation
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- We do a lot of across the state driving and working on These projects.
- House Bill 49193 members just simply seeks to prevent state contracts and state taxpayer funds from flowing
- There's latitude granted to the state purchasing director, which, by the way, OMES and the state purchasing
- This bill's been adopted by several states already.
- I'm not aware of any of our state banks that are having trouble.
Bills:
HB1245, HB2588, HB3024, HB3172, HB3279, HB3919, HB3306, HB3383, HB3431, HB3435, HB4352, HB3883, HB3942, HB4193, HB4203, HB4303, HB4311, HB4484
Keywords:
retirement, pension, public employees, Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, benefits, survivorship, contribution rates, disability retirement, owners associations, membership requirements, property ownership, board governance, residency requirements, salary increase, state employees, public finance, bonus limits, job performance, Fair Banking Act, financial institutions
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- actor or a state sponsored entity.
- do so will be a state jail felony.
- protect the United States democracy.
- and especially as a border state.
- at no cost to the state.
Bills:
HB 256, HB 1308, HB 1554, HB 1743, HB 2308, HB 2351, HB 2858, HB 3676, HB 3784, HB 4312, HB 4552, HB 4823, HB 4852, HB 5007, HB 5010, HB 5520, HB 5524, HCR 19
Keywords:
E-verify, employment verification, illegal employment, state contracts, government entities, license suspension, immigration compliance, state grant funding, E-Verify, compliance, penalties, immigration, government contracts, employee status, state contractors, E-verify program, legally present, employment practices, legal services, public money
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Football team secured the 2025 Class C football state runner-up and Class C football academic state champion
- at the State Capitol.
- state to serve our public.
- and ranchers of this state.
- About 2010, I got a $50 check from the state of Oklahoma because the state had excess funds.
Bills:
HB3257, HB3176, HB3544, HB3619, HB3546, HB1782, HB2293, HB4358, HB3081, HB3983, HB3790, HJR1023, HB4139, HB3297, HB3041, HB3673, HB4105, HB3338, HB3048, SR33, SCR21, SCR20, HB4030, HB4031, HB4032, HB4034, HB4036, HB4037, HB4038, HB4040, HB4041, HB4042, HB4043, HB4045, HB4046, HB4047, HB4048, HB4044, HB4050, HB4051, HB4052, HB4053, HB4054, HB4056, HB4057, HB4071, HB4065, HB4067, HB4072, HB2992, HB4338, HB4170
Keywords:
veterans, disability benefits, federal law, Oklahoma Statutes, military service, Oklahoma, Gas Hub, artificial intelligence, national laboratory, public-private partnerships, aerospace, high-performance computing, economic development, social AI companions, minors, emotional attachment, safety protocols, civil penalties, parental controls, geographic information