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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a request bill from the OCCY, the Oklahoma Commission of Children and Youth.
  • Not a big fan of creating new commissions and things like that.
  • My concern to the bill or local control, we're having some conversations about the commission.
  • Just to clarify, there's one commission that oversees the governance of this, correct?
  • One commission that oversees the governance of this, correct? That is correct. Follow up.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Education Benefit Act provides educational benefits for children, spouses, and widows of deceased disabled
  • I can tell you, you cannot redo historic buildings with the current energy code, Americans with Disability
  • code, buildings with the current energy code, Americans<00:23:19.200> with<00:23:19.360> Disability
  • <00:23:19.919> Act,<00:23:20.400> and<00:23:20.640> the Americans with Disability
  • Act, and the Americans with Disability Act, and the new<00:23:21.039> building<00:23:21.360><
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/17/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Transcript Highlights:
  • “Transparency does not dictate outcomes or limit commission authority. It’s important.
  • We’re not trying to limit commission authority.
  • This is something that will require the commission to have the IRP process.
  • be busy dealing with all those informational requests from the commission.
  • What I can tell, ...dealing with all those informational requests from the commission.
Summary: The committee heard a series of water, energy, housing, and environmental bills, with several measures amended before passage. House Bill 2099, as amended, would limit long-term storage credits and related CAP water storage during declared Colorado River shortages; water utilities, CAP, Phoenix, and other water interests raised concerns about flexibility, contracts, and the law of the river, while the sponsor said the bill was intended to address shortage conditions. The committee adopted the Griffin amendment and passed the bill 6-3. House Bill 2263, also amended, would restrict where Colorado River water diverted for replenishment in an AMA may be stored; CAP, tribal counsel, and AMWA opposed it as too restrictive and potentially excluding existing facilities, but the bill passed 6-3 after amendment. House Bill 2264, requiring the University of Arizona to promote Arizona history and the five Cs through the mining museum, passed unanimously. House Bill 2330 and House Bill 2341, both concerning certificates of environmental compatibility for energy projects, passed 6-3 after amendments expanding siting factors to include character of an area and known off-takers, respectively. House Bill 2918, which would end certain tax benefits for renewable energy and storage equipment after 2026, also passed 6-3. House Bill 2889, appropriating $1 million for uranium contamination monitoring and a statewide registry with tribal epidemiology partnerships, passed unanimously after discussion about moving the program to ADEQ and adjusting the reporting date. House Bill 2492, which would bar state and local urban growth boundaries that prevent new development, passed narrowly 4-3 with one present and two absent. House Bill 2782, focused on utility rate transparency and regulatory assets, passed 5-3 after a late amendment and a motion to suspend committee rules for amendment distribution. House Bill 4025, creating a study committee on gasoline and petroleum refineries, passed 6-3, and HCR 2057 supporting a geothermal permitting roadmap passed unanimously. HCR 2020, supporting housing developments outside designated service areas under certain groundwater conditions, passed 6-2. House Bill 4100, requiring notice to customers about potential water-rate increases if CAP water is lost, drew concerns about public confusion and negotiation impacts; testimony from municipal water users opposed the bill as too speculative and difficult to implement, and the transcript ends while that bill is still under discussion.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAL Public Hearing - Thu Feb 12, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Water & Land

Transcript Highlights:
  • for Water Resource Management, and the Public Utilities Commission.
  • The Public Utilities Commission is responsible for the private water purveyors, and neither the county
  • for Water Resource Management, and the Public Utilities Commission.
  • The Public Utilities Commission is responsible for the private water purveyors, and neither the county
  • for Water Resource Management, and the Public Utilities Commission.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1846, relating to shoreline mitigation districts. DLNR and the Office of Planning opposed the bill, arguing it would improperly shift regulatory roles between the agencies and prioritize private land interests over public trust and natural and historic resources. Supporters, including the Shoreline Preservation Coalition, Kahana Bay residents, and Hawaii Realtors, said regional planning is needed to address severe erosion, especially in Kahana, and that better coordination between state and county agencies could help move stalled projects forward. Testifiers emphasized that shoreline conditions vary by area and that science-based, region-specific solutions are needed. Members asked questions about whether existing law already allows regional planning and emergency shoreline responses. DLNR said it already has authority to process regional projects and cited an existing draft EIS for Kahana Bay that would proceed through normal permitting and public hearing channels. Supporters responded that the bill would provide a clearer regional planning framework and help communities facing urgent erosion impacts. No vote was taken on HB 1846 in the portion provided. The committee then took up HB 2205, relating to emergency erosion mitigation. DLNR opposed the bill, saying it already has authority to issue emergency permits and had recently done so quickly for a collapsed sidewalk at Queen Surf Beach, and warning that the bill’s language could weaken Act 16 by changing a prohibition on shoreline hardening to a requirement to merely minimize it. Kahana Bay representatives and other supporters argued the bill would create a limited, regulated short-term pathway for emergency shoreline solutions while long-term plans are developed, and said current permits have expired or stalled, leaving dangerous sandbags and no practical relief. Additional testimony from a private homeowner stressed that erosion is threatening homes and that private owners are often bearing the cost of protecting public shoreline access. The discussion remained focused on balancing emergency protection, public access, and long-term shoreline management, and no final action was taken in the excerpt provided.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Health Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've been working with the county commission association on the bill and several others, and I think
  • I I've been working with the uh county<00:41:42.079> commission<00:41:42.640> association
  • c><00:41:43.280> on<00:41:43.520> the county commission association on the county commission
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • defender, state public defender, in line with what we already do in other counties, where the county commission
  • you mentioned, in Clark County and Washoe County, the public defender is appointed by the county commission
  • a rigorous application process and a vetting process... ...defender is appointed by the county commission
  • there are numerous checks and balances in that process because it's public facing, because a county commission
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We have no one that wants to testify publicly. 1 to our board members who have Commission. 4 against.
  • I hope a commission would get you home earlier to your families.
  • So what does the official Texas Republican Party platform say about the goals of this commission?
  • Each of these is huge enough that it could easily take its own commission to solve.
  • The commission focuses on two-parent households because of the fact that it's...
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Hi, I'm Jordan Dixon, Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer at the Health and Human Services Commission
  • , and the Texas Workforce Commission.
  • It'll just have its administrative support from the Health and Human Services Commission.
  • The commission will submit a report.
  • Before they can have access to benefits for a disabled child or something of that nature.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The Sunset Advisory Commission has identified several key areas in which our state's information technology
  • subject to the command to full sunset review in 2031, with an early review trigger if the Sunset Commission
  • For all intents and purposes, you would be sort of the landlord for the Texas Cybersecurity Commission
  • The substitute also adds a contingent limited scope review of the Texas Funeral Services Commission for
  • All such sales remain subject to the Federal Trade Commission cooling-off rule for product cancellation
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health May 19th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill aligns with joint commission standard MS 06010, ensuring hospitals base privileging decisions
  • And the mandate comes right out of the Joint Commission, which the lawyer...
  • The Joint Commission requires recredentialing every three years.
  • Survivors of abuse, disabled individuals, or simply those facing financial hardships.
  • The Citizens Commission on Human Rights strongly opposes this bill.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, this is a cleanup bill that was requested by the Texas Workforce Commission.
  • the Texas Workforce Commission.
  • It's a formal partnership between the Texas Workforce Commission, the Health and Human Services Commission
  • I'm with the Texas Workforce Commission.
  • I am with the Texas Workforce Commission.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 15th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • With this oversight provided by the Texas Commission on Fire Protection, however, over the past five
  • House Bill 3732 would give the Texas Commission on Fire Protection the ability to extend enforcement
  • Now calls Mike Wisco, testifying on behalf of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection regarding the bill
  • Mike Wisco, Executive Director of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection.
  • Texas Commission on Fire Protection and our fire departments across the state of Texas the ability to
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It includes the Commission on Evaluation Services to work with the department and the Commission of Higher
  • It's the Commission on Evaluation Services with the Commission on Higher Education and the Department
  • But this is something that I feel very strongly about, having served on the school safety commission
  • This also was a strong recommendation of the school safety commission in the House that was created to
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • That executive order is a ...mandate to the Election Assistance Commission to modify their voting system
  • So right now, we... ...are working with the Election Assistance Commission.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 7th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • I would note that a short-term Texas Commission on Marriage and Family was established to help Texans
  • The bill forms a commission that is to prepare...
  • Importantly, the commission will present their reports before the next session and then dissolve.
  • It's a short-term commission that hopefully will give us some ideas.
  • I'm excited about this commission because ...this will catch us up.