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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Eric Rudine with MnDOT Government Affairs.
  • That's where the department is.
  • State government spending and in November 2024, Minnesota Management and Budget forecast a state government
  • </c><01:27:06.960><c> of</c> the Minnesota Department of the Minnesota Department of Transportation<01
Bills: HF192 , HF268 , HF1214 , HF494
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • You've ordered this world and ordained all things, even the governments of the United States and Washington
  • well, to restrain evil, You're giving these servants the task to rule well, to restrain evil, to govern
  • I pray you would give them your wisdom for this work, a heart to care for those they govern, your guidance
  • Speaker, my grandfather was a police detective in the Yakima Police Department.
  • This bill simply allows local governments to remit the same.
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer before caucusing. The chamber then received a Senate message that Substitute Senate Bill 5820 had passed the Senate. Members took up a long series of House bills on second and third reading, with most advancing by wide margins after brief debate and, in some cases, amendments. Among the measures considered, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2165 on impersonating law enforcement drew the most debate. Supporters said it would address public safety and accountability by prohibiting people from claiming police authority or creating that impression, while opponents argued it could create confusion, overlap with existing law, or interfere with federal-state law enforcement cooperation. Amendment 1521 was adopted to protect ceremonial transfers of badges and identification to families of fallen or retired officers. The bill ultimately passed 56-38. Other bills passed included House Bill 2624 on clarifying property-related definitions for conservancies, House Bill 2385 delaying implementation dates tied to Medicaid reimbursement changes, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1717 on affordable housing tax remittance, Second Substitute House Bill 1859 on housing development on faith-owned land, Substitute House Bill 2151 adopting national standards for factory-built housing inspections, House Bill 2155 protecting the nursing title, House Bill 2111 on Interstate Bridge toll interest revenue, House Bill 2543 on county clerk fees, House Bill 2606 updating the Office of Privacy and Data Protection’s performance measures and AI-related duties, and House Bill 2417 aligning victim rights for National Guard members. Later, the House considered additional bills on early learning, marine safety, energy devices, nitrous oxide sales, derelict vessels, and a Seahawks-related resolution. House Bill 2317 on early learning assistance was amended to clarify school and community/technical college premises and passed unanimously. House Bill 2436, a technical fix for pilotage-related vessel requirements, also passed unanimously. Substitute House Bill 2296, dealing with distributed energy resource devices and meter-mounted equipment, passed 56-38 after concerns about timing relative to UTC rulemaking. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2532, restricting nitrous oxide sales with exemptions for medical, dental, and automotive uses, passed unanimously after an amendment clarifying those exemptions. Substitute House Bill 2199, aimed at removing derelict and sinking vessels, passed unanimously. Finally, House Bill 1759 designating December 12 as the “Day of the 12s” in honor of the Seahawks and their fans passed 93-2 after enthusiastic floor remarks and a brief point of order. The House then recessed for caucus until 2 p.m.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 10th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the consent of the House, the bill will be substituted as recommended by the Committee on Local Government
  • I rise to urge your support to join me in voting on this very good government efficiency bill.
  • I rise to urge your support to join me in voting on this very good government efficiency bill.
  • This bill simply requires the kind of collaboration and coordination within our state department.
  • So we do exactly that. and coordination within our State Department, so we do exactly that.
Summary: The House considered and passed a series of bills on topics including public employee bargaining communication, condominium and middle-housing development, building code changes for scissor stairs, substance use disorder monitoring for nursing assistants, pet insurance continuity, liquor licensing flexibility, voter registration challenges, concealed pistol license records exemptions, social housing public development authorities, services for people with developmental disabilities, rent increase notices, and unlawful detainer notices. Members repeatedly described the housing bills as efforts to increase supply, improve affordability, and fix prior statutory problems, while the health-related bills were framed as improving patient comfort, provider flexibility, or workforce consistency. Several measures were advanced without amendment, while others were substituted with committee recommendations before final passage. The most debated item was Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1916 on voter registration challenges. Supporters said it would curb mass or frivolous challenges, protect voters, and give election officials clearer standards and more accountability. Opponents argued it would make legitimate voter challenges harder, reduce citizen oversight of voter rolls, and weaken election integrity. Multiple amendments were offered to reduce penalties from felony to gross misdemeanor, allow electronic challenges, remove county-residency limits, and strike sections of the bill; most were rejected, though one amendment removing the same-county requirement was adopted. The bill ultimately passed after a divided vote. Other notable debate included House Bill 2152, which would allow terminally ill patients in hospitals and similar facilities to use medical cannabis; supporters emphasized dignity and comfort at end of life, while one opponent worried about added burdens on rural hospitals. House Bill 2235, concerning Public Records Act exemptions tied to concealed pistol license records and a permit-to-purchase framework, passed with strong support. House Bill 1687 on social housing public development authorities passed after an amendment restored city council involvement in housing cooperation decisions, while House Bill 2249, relating to Washington Technical employees and civil service treatment, passed with a larger number of nays. The House then placed additional bills on second reading and adjourned until the next legislative day.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 10th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This amendment adds some intent language to the bill to clarify existing relationships that tribal governments
  • That will cause a huge cost to our local governments if we do that and would be treating these claims
  • Some unintentional out-of-scope work got caught up in the effort in the Department in the Agriculture
  • Some unintentional out-of-scope work got caught up in the effort in the Department in the Ag and Natural
  • Speaker, tasked the Department of Agriculture to build out that state's security strategy, and it does
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, approved the previous day’s minutes, and heard a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Members also announced caucus breaks and a reminder that Seahawks apparel would be permitted on the floor the next day. The chamber then moved through second- and third-reading business on a series of bills, with several committee substitutes and amendments adopted by voice vote before final passage votes were taken by roll call. House Bill 1155, dealing with non-compete agreements, drew the most debate. Supporters said it would ban non-competes, improve worker mobility, and promote entrepreneurship; opponents raised concerns about contract freedom and, in one failed amendment, sought to exempt high earners and senior executives. Other adopted amendments clarified tribal worker relationships, defined patients in place of customers, and required notice that existing non-competes would be void. The bill ultimately passed 65-29. House Bill 1002, concerning PTSD eligibility for coroners and medical examiners, failed an amendment that would have limited costs to the relevant risk class, then passed 70-24 after supporters argued the measure would help a small group of workers exposed to traumatic scenes. House Bill 2264, on unemployment benefits for workers who voluntarily participate in layoffs, passed unanimously 94-0. The House also passed House Bill 2110, allowing nurses to accompany inter-facility ambulance transports without EMT licensure, after an amendment requiring training on ambulance equipment; House Bill 2272, a technical update to ski equipment terminology; House Bill 2238, creating a statewide food security strategy and narrowing agency scope through amendment; House Bill 2445, aimed at stopping profiteering in probate cases involving unclaimed estates; House Bill 2109, allowing covered transport of certain vehicle loads to reduce roadway debris; House Bill 2492, requiring behavioral and mental health training for construction and trades workers despite objections about added costs; House Bill 2472, strengthening licensing enforcement for fire sprinkler work; House Bill 288, joining the dietician licensure compact; and House Bill 2229, updating the Professional Engineers Registration Act and requiring board members to have practiced in Washington for at least five years. Final votes on these bills ranged from near-unanimous to more divided, with each receiving the constitutional majority needed to pass.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 10th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This amendment adds some intent language to the bill to clarify existing relationships that tribal governments
  • That will cause a huge cost to our local governments if we do that and would be treating these claims
  • Some unintentional out-of-scope work got caught up in the effort in the department in the Agriculture
  • Speaker, tasked the Department of Agriculture to build out that state's security strategy, and it does
  • around some of the language and a question about whether this should be the top priority for the Department
Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer. Members approved the prior day’s minutes, referred introduction-sheet bills, and later took up several second- and third-reading bills. Early in the day, the chamber also announced that members could wear Seahawks apparel during floor action the next day. The House passed House Bill 1155, which bans non-compete agreements, after adopting amendments clarifying tribal worker relationships, replacing references to “customer” with “patient” in certain contexts, and requiring notice to current and some former employees that non-competes are void. An amendment to exempt senior executives earning over $350,000 was rejected. The bill passed 65-29. The House also passed House Bill 1002, allowing certain coroners and medical examiners to seek workers’ compensation for PTSD; an amendment to isolate costs to their own risk class was rejected, and the bill passed 70-24. House Bill 2264, clarifying unemployment insurance eligibility for workers who voluntarily participate in layoffs, passed unanimously 94-0. Later measures included House Bill 2110, allowing nurses to accompany inter-facility ambulance transports without also holding EMT licenses, which passed 94-0 after an amendment clarifying training; House Bill 2272, a technical update to ski equipment terminology, which passed 94-0; House Bill 2238, creating a statewide food security strategy, which passed 83-12 after a technical amendment narrowing agency scope; and House Bill 2445, aimed at preventing profiteering in probate estates, which passed 67-28 after a technical amendment. The House also passed House Bill 2109 on securing vehicle loads (95-0), House Bill 2492 requiring behavioral and mental health training for construction workers and apprentices (79-16), House Bill 2472 on licensed contractors for fire sprinkler work (92-3), House Bill 288 joining the dietician licensure compact (93-1), and House Bill 2229 updating the Professional Engineers Registration Act and requiring five years of Washington practice for board members after an amendment (68-26).
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, she has now been in the emergency department as a nurse for two years. emergency department as a
  • I present to you the Golds We Volunteer Fire Department.
  • President, is is Is it your opinion that this department is a proper role of government?
  • Government will continue to grow unless we.
  • For funding that we had for local government that were also paired with state government.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 7th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Department of Mental Health.
  • President, is it your opinion that this department is a proper role of government?
  • President, is it your opinion that this department is a proper rule of government?
  • We were promising to cut the growth of state government.
  • . ...rolling, any distrust of our government.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, offered prayer, and recognized the Doctor and Nurse of the Day, along with several visiting groups in the galleries, including the Goldsby Volunteer Fire Department and families honoring fallen firefighters Todd Pendleton and Brian Jenkins, the Sapulpa Elks Antlers, the Grove Chamber of Commerce, and northeastern Oklahoma cattlemen. The chamber adopted Senate Resolution 39, celebrating the 100th anniversary of U.S. Route 70 and its economic importance to southern Oklahoma communities. The main item of business was the Joint Committee Report for Senate Bill 1177, the General Appropriation Bill for the State of Oklahoma. Senators questioned the budget’s overall size, the use of gross production tax revenues, the new sovereign/endowment trust fund, Medicaid and Health Care Authority funding, mental health appropriations, child care subsidy funding, school security, career tech, tourism, the Commissioners of the Land Office, textbook allocations, and several other agency lines. The chair explained that the budget included about $1.5 billion in cash and sweeps, a $250 million base appropriation for the Health Care Authority, $200 million for the endowment trust fund, $31 million for PREP projects, $25 million for the Governor’s Quick Action Closing Fund, and other agency-specific appropriations and supplements. Several members debated the report before adoption. Supporters argued the budget addressed agency needs and future savings, while opponents criticized it as a flat or spending-heavy budget that favored special projects and well-connected interests over core services such as child care, mental health, water infrastructure, and county needs. After debate, the Joint Committee Report for SB 1177 was adopted, and the Senate moved through the budget discussion with no recorded roll-call vote in the transcript provided.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Mar 3, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
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  • c> Labor</c><00:22:48.360><c> and</c> First up, Department of Labor and First up, Department of Labor
  • We also note that the bill does not define Department as Department of Health and that it amends the
  • </c><01:14:28.680><c> Department</c><01:14:29.120><c> of</c> Department of Health.
  • Department of Department of Health. Department of Health.<01:14:29.560><c> Sorry.
Summary: The committee heard several administration bills related largely to workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance. On HB 2323 HD1, which would modernize workers’ compensation notice and filing procedures, DLIR and other agencies testified in support of the original bill language but said HD1 removed key components and weakened the bill’s clarity and continuity. HB 2324 HD1, which would repeal state hoisting-machine certification requirements and the separate crane operator certificate, drew support from DLIR; members asked about whether the change would affect safety or local operators, and DLIR said OSHA-compliant certifications already exist and the union supported the change. HB 1509 HD1, which would require faster employer responses to treatment plans and impose penalties for nonresponse, received support from DLIR and others, while DHRD said it wanted an amendment. The committee also took up HB 2164 HD1 on compounded prescription drugs in workers’ compensation. DLIR supported the bill as a way to define compounded drugs and curb inflated pricing, but DHRD and a medical provider opposed it and asked for amendments. Testimony focused heavily on whether the definition should include 503B compounding facilities and whether physician dispensing should be limited to the first 30 days after injury. HB 2165 HD1, dealing with unemployment insurance eligibility and removing the two-year limit on recouping overpayments, was supported by DLIR but opposed by Unite Here Local 5, which argued it would make it harder for striking workers and other claimants. Members questioned the impact of changing reporting deadlines from calendar days to business days and raised concerns about future benefit offsets; DLIR said the bill was needed for federal conformity and that the committee would revisit the offset percentage and effective date. Later, the committee heard HB 2367 on pay transparency, requiring salary ranges in job postings and removing the small-employer exemption. The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, AAUW, Hawaii Women Lawyers, and an individual testifier supported the bill, saying pay transparency promotes fairness, trust, and pay equity; one testifier described being underpaid compared with a predecessor and said posting ranges would save applicants’ time. HB 2619 HD1, concerning homemade food products and farm kitchens, received generally supportive comments from the Department of Health, which requested an amendment to preserve flexibility in future rulemaking. HB 1765 HD1, on spear-fishing safety warnings, drew support from a safety educator and comments from DLNR; supporters said warning labels would help prevent hypoxic blackout deaths and were low-cost and easy to implement. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c> behalf of the Department of Education. behalf of the Department of Education.
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  • Um, Hawaii Department of Taxation with comments. >> Good afternoon. Department of Taxation.
  • 49:47.280><c> envir</c><01:49:47.760><c> uh</c> Department of Health um envir uh Department of Health
Committee: House Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • want to solely focus my remarks on the active efforts part of the bill that would ensure that a department
  • Almost every adoption placement requires a search for a paternity registry through the Department of
  • The Surgeon General has [this information] at the Florida Department of Health website.
  • Do Americans have any legal or medical protections if the government rolls out new platforms?
  • If the government doesn't...
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I think that's a big leap forward for the department too.
  • Is it really governed locally, or is it channeled up to a system level in the big city?
  • This letter was from the Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Be stuck in the department. Nobody wants a child to age out of the department.
  • Stephanie Meath, Department of Family and Protective Services.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Feb 9th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • For the record, Desiree Amley, staff to the State Government and Tribal Relations Committee.
  • The nature of the Department of Ecology's role, ...management at the facility.
  • Elizabeth Wren, staff to the Local Government Committee, briefs the committee.
  • That provided indeterminate cost to the Department of Children, Youth, and Families and also the Department
  • This is just clarifying language related to the government-issued identifier.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 17

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Mar 19, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 30

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Department of Education National Blue Ribbon School.
  • Department of Education National Blue Ribbon School. >> [applause] And now to my colleague from Kaneohe
  • 2025</c><00:37:43.760><c> US</c> Elementary School as a 2025 US Elementary School as a 2025 US Department
  • > of</c><00:37:44.440><c> Education</c><00:37:45.040><c> National</c><00:37:45.400><c> Blue</c> Department
  • of Education National Blue Department of Education National Blue Ribbon<00:37:45.880><c> School.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 1st, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • Jorge Reyes, and I serve as the associate planner for El Paso County's Planning and Development Department
  • The government recently completed a comprehensive plan where the number one priority for residents surveyed
  • That kind of transparency builds trust in local government and reduces costly legal disputes down the
  • HB 3572 is a timely and thoughtful improvement to the local government code.
  • If passed, this bill would address that problem, increasing transparency and government accountability
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 1st, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • Local regulations governing short-term rentals in cities are expressly allowed to extend those regulations
  • understand the local realities we face reflects greatly on your leadership and commitment to thoughtful governance
  • The restrictions that local governments place on the construction of who can build, what can be built
  • poses a direct threat to small cities like ours and undermines a longstanding principle of local governance
  • The right to self-governance was the very foundation of Hedwig Village.