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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Judiciary (02/12/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- it did not have the money court claimed it did not have the money to to to to<01:02:26.760><c> help<
- a negligent emotional damage uh claim a negligent emotional damage against<04:25:18.319><c> that</c>
- </c><04:43:00.120><c> of</c> hold however our law covers claims of hold however our law covers claims
- Children would be eligible to have claims made for them under our wrongful death laws, and I believe
- </c><04:53:03.920><c> and</c> maximum limit on what you can claim and maximum limit on what you can claim
Summary:
The committee first heard CACR 6, a proposed constitutional amendment by Representative Keith Ammon to recognize a fundamental right to use computation resources. Ammon argued that computing is now essential to daily life, speech, education, and economic opportunity, and said the amendment was intended to push back against government or corporate restrictions, citing a 2023 federal executive order on AI registration and reporting as an example of the kind of precedent he wanted to oppose. He said the proposal should be simple and clear because it would go to voters, and he compared the right to compute to other constitutional rights that do not require the government to provide the underlying tools.
Committee members raised concerns about the breadth of the language, including whether it could affect encryption, authentication, network security, energy use, and other regulatory issues. Representative McFarland questioned whether the amendment could interfere with security measures, while others asked whether it would prevent ordinary network management such as throttling or require the state to provide internet access or hardware. Ammon responded that the right would not entitle someone to other people’s resources and said encryption and similar issues would sort themselves out. Several members also raised concerns about child safety, public safety, and whether existing laws could still regulate misuse of computing; Ammon said reasonable limits would still apply, similar to other constitutional rights. Sarah Scott of Americans for Prosperity testified in support, saying the amendment would protect innovation, individual autonomy, and economic competitiveness by preventing overregulation. After questions concluded, the chair closed the hearing on CACR 6.
The committee then opened House Bill 615, sponsored by Representative Dan Maguire, which would substantially rewrite the state’s drug-forfeiture law. Maguire said the bill is intended to improve fairness and efficiency in cases where property such as cars or cash is seized in connection with drug offenses, noting that the criminal case and the civil forfeiture case are currently handled separately, with the property case prosecuted by the Attorney General’s office. He explained that the bill addresses courtroom procedure for these forfeiture actions and is meant to make the process more specific and orderly.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- to provide requested border crime reports to the Attorney General within 14 days to support timely claim
- Instead, a lessee can file the claim, but compensation goes to the landowner.
- Instead, a lessee can file the claim, but compensation goes to the landowner, who could live hundreds
- Instead, a lessee can file the claim, but compensation goes to the landowner.
- Instead, a lessee can file the claim, but compensation goes to the landowner who could live hundreds
Bills:
SB2601
Committee:
Senate Border Security
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Border Security met with a quorum and heard only one bill, Senate Bill 2601 by Senator Blanco, laid out by Senator Hinojosa of Hidalgo. The bill was presented as a committee substitute to revise the Landowner’s Compensation Program created last session under SB 1133. The changes would expand eligibility to include land lessees with the landowner’s permission, cover damage to the land itself as well as structures and real property, add continuous smuggling of persons as a qualifying border crime, prohibit insurers from using claims under the program in rate calculations, and require law enforcement to provide requested border crime reports to the Attorney General within 14 days.
Public testimony was unanimously supportive. Charles Maley of the South Texans Property Rights Association said the program has been beneficial and that the bill helps clean up implementation issues, including clarifying compensation for debris and pollutants left on land. Stephen Diebel of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association also supported the bill, saying it would help address fence damage, destroyed infrastructure, and other harms along the border, and that lessees who manage properties day to day should be eligible for direct compensation when they have the landowner’s permission.
Members discussed border-related property damage, including vehicles crashing through fences, broken sheds, livestock escaping, and resulting highway hazards. Senator Hinojosa asked about how conflicts between landowners and lessees would be handled, and testimony indicated documentation of lease authority would be required. After public testimony closed, the committee adopted the committee substitute without objection and voted to report SB 2601 favorably to the full Senate by a 5-0 vote, recommending it as local and uncontested.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/11/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> self-insured employers and claim self-insured employers and claim administrators<01:19:04.719><c
- </c><01:20:43.840><c> with</c> injury the employee filed a claim with injury the employee filed a claim
- </c><01:20:49.679><c> and</c> uh accepted liability for the claim and uh accepted liability for the claim
- and I believe that the takeaway was that we are seeing fewer claims.
- </c> in workers compensation claims in workers compensation claims okay<01:41:49.800><c> I'll</c><01:
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- state tort claims act.
- The claims in the bill were unanimously approved by the joint Senate and House claims subcommittee on
- claims.
- President, the claims bill claims. Mr.
- </c><00:18:08.000><c> Third</c> claims appropriating money. Third claims appropriating money.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House judiciary committee hears HF768 2/20/25
Transcript Highlights:
- I must confess I don’t know the particulars of what you’re talking about regarding your claim that law
- Just to clarify, my claim is not that the jurisdiction of Public Safety or the concept of public safety
- is not that the jurisdiction of claim is not that the jurisdiction of Public<00:20:05.559><c> Safety
- </c><00:20:13.080><c> is</c><00:20:13.280><c> that</c><00:20:13.559><c> the</c> conceptually my claim
- is that the conceptually my claim is that the Minnesota<00:20:14.240><c> Department</c><00:20:14.679
Summary:
House File 768, sponsored by Vice Chair Hudson, was heard with an author’s amendment (A4) adopted to remove a technical section and put the bill in the intended form. Hudson described the bill as a response to concerns about government monitoring of protected speech, saying it would bar the Minnesota Department of Human Rights from creating or maintaining a database of constitutionally protected speech while preserving the department’s ability to investigate actual discrimination, harassment, threats, or illegal conduct. He emphasized First Amendment protections and argued the state should not track speech simply because it is controversial or unpopular.
The main testimony in support came from Ran Lee of Americans for Prosperity, who echoed the free-speech concerns and said databases of bias incidents can capture lawful speech and create a chilling effect. Representative Rest said she generally supported the free-speech goal but wanted to preserve the Department of Human Rights’ ability to produce biennial reports and analyze de-identified trend data on civil rights incidents, including emerging threats or hateful rhetoric, so lawmakers can respond to patterns without recording individuals’ protected speech. Representative Curran raised concerns that speech trends can relate to public safety and argued that attacks on human rights often begin as speech.
Hudson responded that the Department of Human Rights is not a law enforcement agency and that the bill would not impede criminal investigations. He argued that trying to monitor “trends in thought” would be constitutionally problematic and produce unreliable data, and he distinguished protected speech from criminal conduct. Representative Feist said the department’s existing report already uses aggregate, non-investigative data and suggested there may be room to refine the bill’s language. The bill was laid over for further consideration, with Hudson indicating he was open to continued discussion and possible language changes.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS House Floor - 9 March, 2026; 4:00 PM
Mississippi House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- put the cap at 12.5, 12,500, is what could the max could be charged to a veteran for filing their claims
- "Is what could the max could be charged to a veteran for filing their claims.
- If they file a claim with the VA or they choose to go with an outside company, same outcome will come
- , but it's just another tool in the veterans' toolbox that they can file their claims and get approved
- and get approved can file their claims and get approved through<00:12:31.920><c> the</c><00:12:32.360
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WAM-LBT, WAM-TCA, WAM-HHS Informational Briefings 01-16-2025
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- But if you have 1,400 open claims—no, she's saying 800 now—1,400 open claims...
- open claims in restaurant of of claims open claims in the<00:39:04.560><c> year</c><00:39:04.839><c>
- There's active claims in a year.
- Active claims are claims that we have to touch, so we close just as many claims that come in that we
- we</c><00:39:50.599><c> have</c> so active claims are claims that we have so active claims are claims
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Jun 24th, 2026
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
- This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
- This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
- This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
- This is not just theory; consumers using insurance portals and glass claim solutions often see SafeFlight
Committee:
House Appropriations
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Transportation Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- name is Thomas Doyle, and I'm the Regional Liability Manager for Enterprise Mobility's Northeast Claims
- Auto claims involve a very small percentage of auto claims.
- They don't know who to pursue the claim for. It's a very cumbersome and sloppy process.
- Rental car-related claims make up less than 0.5% of all auto claims.
- Rental car related claims make up less than 0.5% of all auto claims.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Transportation
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Transportation held a hybrid hearing on a large slate of bills covering motor vehicle sales, registration, title processing, dealer regulation, and several local matters. Chair Cyrro noted that Senate Bill 2414 had been postponed at the sponsor’s request, though public testimony would still be accepted. The hearing then heard testimony on measures including S. 2367, which would make an insurer primary for losses caused by an insured driver in a rental car; H. 3698 and related bills on codifying registration of 25-year-old imported Japanese kei vehicles; H. 3701 on requiring lienholders to release titles within seven days; H. 3690 on capping dealer documentation fees; and H. 3641 on requiring education for class two motor vehicle dealers. Testimony also addressed e-titling and e-signatures, peer-to-peer car sharing, temporary license plates, duplicate plates, general registration plates for motor vehicle distributors, and a bill to ban tinted license plate covers.
Supporters of the rental-car insurance bill argued Massachusetts is an outlier compared with 47 other states and said the change would improve fairness, competition, and consumer understanding without raising premiums. Dealers and industry groups generally supported e-titling/e-signature modernization and the inspection-related bill, but urged safeguards to preserve title, registration, and insurance verification. The Massachusetts State Auto Dealers Association opposed the doc-fee cap, saying documentation fees are a disclosed cost-recovery tool that varies by dealership. Representatives and advocates for kei vehicles said the RMV’s 2024 reversal showed the need to codify the rules in law, while opponents of the RMV’s approach described it as arbitrary and harmful to owners and importers. Supporters of the dealer-education bill said it would curb unregulated “curbstoning” and help ensure proper title handling and consumer protection.
Several local and specialty bills also drew testimony. Hatfield officials supported a local bill allowing golf carts on certain town roads under strict safety rules, and Representative Ayers testified for a bill banning tinted license plate covers to aid toll collection, law enforcement, and vehicle identification. Senator Lovely and other advocates supported the “Easy ID” license plate proposal, saying it would improve vehicle recognition in crime and child-abduction investigations. The committee took no votes during the hearing and adjourned after public testimony concluded.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Our insurance company ended up settling the claim.
- Our company and our insurance company ended up settling the claim two years later for $365,000.
- I'll add that our insurance company dropped us as soon as we got the claim.
- The insurance companies pay the claim and then they drop you.
- The insurance companies pay the claim and then they drop you.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hybrid hearing on a large group of bills carried over from the previous session, with Chair Jake Oliveira and House Co-Chair Paul McMurtry outlining the process and limiting testimony to three minutes. The committee heard testimony on several labor and workplace proposals, including bills to harmonize employee definitions to address misclassification (SB 1338/HB 2141), expand bereavement leave (including H. 2189/S. 1354 and related bills), protect collective bargaining rights for certain administrative employees (HB 268/SB 1306), expand commuter transit benefits (HB 2153/SB 1345), regulate employer use of credit reports (S. 1286), and require apprenticeship participation or OSHA-related workplace safety measures on public projects. At the end of the hearing, the chairs read into the record additional bills that did not receive testimony that day.
Supporters of the misclassification bill, including Greater Boston Legal Services and the AFL-CIO, said aligning the employee-status tests across wage, unemployment, and PFML laws would reduce confusion, improve enforcement, and help workers wrongly treated as independent contractors or managers recover benefits and bargaining rights. NAGE and its representative argued that public-sector employees have been improperly reclassified into management titles to weaken unions, and that the bill would force the Division of Labor Relations to review those titles. On bereavement leave, advocates including the Louis E. Brown Peace Institute, a state representative, the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, and individual survivors described the impact of sudden loss and homicide on families, saying guaranteed leave would help workers grieve, make arrangements, and avoid losing jobs or custody-related stability. The committee also heard support for commuter benefits as a low-cost way to reduce emissions and increase transit use, and for restricting employer credit checks because of inaccuracies and discriminatory effects.
There was opposition to some construction-related bills. The Associated Builders and Contractors and the Building Trades Employers Association supported apprenticeship training in principle but said current apprentice-to-journeyworker ratios are outdated or misunderstood, and that the bills should be amended or clarified before advancing. The Massachusetts landscape and snow-removal industry strongly supported a snow-liability limitation bill, arguing that hold-harmless clauses and broad indemnification requirements force contractors to assume liability for conditions they cannot control, drive up insurance costs, and threaten business viability. The committee did not take any votes during the hearing, and the session ended with the chairs thanking members, staff, and the public before adjourning.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- And that's what we see a lot in these cases, that you have one parent making claims.
- And of course, the claims... ...parent making claims, and of course the claims have to be investigated
- You want the claims to be investigated if someone's making a claim that someone was sexually abused or
- So I make a claim that he's been sexually abusing. Maybe that takes six months.
- I make the abuse claim...
Committee:
House Judiciary, Rules and Administration
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This RS updates Idaho's small claims court limit from $5,000 to $15,000.
- But I'm hoping to see that claim... ...but it's good to see you're denying things when you need to.
- But I'm hoping to see that claim, that number go down because the department's improving and training
- The substantive part of this, when talking about the substantiated claims of sexual abuse and physical
- So it says when the department has substantiated claim of sexual abuse or physical abuse against the
Summary:
The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee heard three measures and advanced all of them. RS 33312C1, sponsored by Sen. Galloway, would raise Idaho’s small claims court limit from $5,000 to $15,000 to give people a faster, less expensive way to resolve smaller disputes; the committee voted to send it to print. RS 33423, sponsored by Sen. Ricks, would create voluntary guidance for merchants on penny rounding in cash transactions as pennies become scarce, including rounding rules and tax calculation on the final invoice total; it also was sent to print. House Bill 518, presented by Rep. Skaug, would allow the Attorney General to accept referrals from law enforcement and prosecute human trafficking cases when requested, with supporters describing the need for a centralized, specialized approach to complex multi-county and interstate cases; the committee voted to send it to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
The committee then took up Senate Bill 1257, sponsored by Sen. Wintrow, which would clarify that in-person visitation is not required in child welfare cases where sexual or serious physical abuse has been substantiated, while preserving court discretion and allowing other forms of contact. Wintrow and Department of Health and Welfare administrator Jean Fisher said the bill largely codifies existing rules, gives courts clearer statutory guidance, and also clarifies that courts may consider a parent’s incarceration when deciding termination of parental rights. Supporters, including foster parents, child welfare advocates, and survivors, testified that forced visitation can retraumatize children and that the bill would better protect abused children.
One online witness, Ives Samantha Moore, testified in opposition, arguing that courts already have authority to restrict visitation, that the bill could create momentum toward termination of parental rights, and that it could worsen disparities without broader reunification and prevention reforms. After extensive testimony, the committee voted to send SB 1257 to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation, and then adjourned.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This RS updates Idaho's small claims court limit from $5,000 to $15,000.
- This RS updates Idaho's small claims court limit from $5,000 to $15,000.
- But I'm hoping to see that claim... ...but it's good to see you're denying things when you need to.
- But I'm hoping to see that claim, that number, go down because the department's improving and training
- And those are the same substantiated claims that we have been working under for a number of years.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Rules
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You're familiar with the all-payer insurance claims database; the Ethics and Public Policy Center did
- There used to be a provision in the old bill that said any claimant, any person, could bring a claim
- Any version of this bill, they have every right to appeal and make every claim under the U.S.
- Is that any person can bring a claim.
- They don't have to be one who's been personally aggrieved, but any person can bring a claim.
Bills:
SB 2 , SB 5 , SB 10 , SB 9 , SB 7 , SB 17 , SB 4 , HB17 , HB7 , HB7 , HB15 , HB15 , HB27 , HB1 , HB7 , HB15 , HB18 , SB9 , SB7 , SB17 , SB4 , HB17 , HB27 , HB1 , SB8 , HCR13 , SB2 , SB5 , SB10
Keywords:
disaster relief, flood preparedness, emergency funding, local government support, meteorological forecasting, school assessment, public education, accountability, transparency, education standards, STAAR, Texas Education Agency, TEA, public school accountability, school ratings, A-F ratings, assessment reform, student testing, benchmark tests, interim assessments
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill has a chilling effect on reporters who use PIA claims to get information regarding personnel
- So these are unsubstantiated claims.
- What we're trying to do is protect unsubstantiated claims, because these could be claims that are basically
- defamation of character, false claims, lies against the officer, that the officer is going to carry
- So this is just unsubstantiated claims.
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
Keywords:
gender designation, civil penalties, private civil rights, multiple-occupancy spaces, Texas Women's Privacy Act, law enforcement, confidentiality, personnel files, employee records, misconduct
Summary:
The Committee on State Affairs took up Senate Bill 14, which would create a confidential department file for law enforcement officers and jailers and limit public access to records involving unsubstantiated misconduct, while preserving access for hiring agencies, TCOLE, and certain criminal justice uses. TCOLE’s Gretchen Grigsby explained the current rollout of law enforcement recordkeeping reforms, including the distinction between the public personnel file and the confidential G-file, and answered questions about when TCOLE would request files during investigations. Senator Perry and other members focused on how the bill would interact with existing personnel-file rules, public transparency, and criminal discovery obligations.
Public testimony was largely opposed. Critics argued the bill was drafted too broadly, could sweep in records beyond misconduct files, and would reduce transparency for the public, journalists, oversight bodies, and families seeking answers in cases such as Uvalde and jail deaths in Tarrant County. Several witnesses said the bill could allow small or single-officer agencies, including elected constables, to shield their own records, and some warned it could chill reporting and oversight. Supporters, including law enforcement representatives, said the bill would protect officers from false or unsubstantiated allegations, align agencies without civil-service protections with those that already have G-files, and preserve confidentiality for records that should not be public. Dallas County prosecutors and Harris County deputies supported the general policy but asked for clarifying amendments, especially to separate language they said could affect the Michael Morton Act and to preserve existing protections through in-camera review or protective orders.
Committee members spent significant time questioning witnesses about how substantiated versus unsubstantiated allegations would be handled, whether body camera footage and case files would remain public, and how the bill would affect discovery in criminal cases. After hearing all registered witnesses, the chair closed public testimony. Senate Bill 14 was left pending, and the committee recessed.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine insurance markets and the role of mitigation policies. May 1st, 2025 at 09:00 am
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- 2012 to 2022, for every dollar collected in premiums, some insurers in California spent $1.13 in claims
- insurance in 2023, according to the NEIC, their most recent profitability study, paid out $1.11 in claims
- The valley fire burned 76,000 acres, nearly 2,000 structures, and claimed four lives.
- Beyond administration of the program, private insurers also handle claims processing. risk assessment
- Even the insurance regulators are now coming out saying, if parties have a problem with their claim,
Keywords:
homeowners insurance, natural disasters, insurance costs, climate change, disaster preparedness, federal policies, bipartisan solutions
Summary:
The meeting reviewed critical issues surrounding the rising costs and accessibility of homeowners insurance across the United States, particularly in light of increasing natural disasters linked to climate change. Members engaged in extensive discussions regarding the implications for families and the economy, citing significant increases in premiums and decreasing availability of policies in high-risk areas. Supervisor Peysko highlighted the direct impact of federal policies on local communities, emphasizing the growing burden on homeowners as they face skyrocketing insurance costs amidst a backdrop of environmental challenges and regulatory constraints. The committee expressed a unified call to action for bipartisan solutions, focusing on improving building codes and enhancing disaster preparedness measures.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, December 18, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> don't need a mining claim at all. don't need a mining claim at all.
- </c><02:23:39.520><c> Effectively,</c> claim. This is sweeping. Effectively, claim.
- </c><02:26:12.560><c> an</c> multinational companies to claim an multinational companies to claim an
- That claim is very false.
- That claim is very false. reversible. That claim is very false.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Under this, the claim has to be filed with the commissioner of Revenue.
- Under this, the claim has to be filed with the commissioner of Revenue.
- So that multiple claims are allowed until that maximum is reached.
- It's called delegation. somebody claiming their refund but in in somebody claiming their refund but in
- So, Senator Westlin, with that, he could claim a refund.
Committee:
Senate Elections
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 11/19/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> aim to open bonding leave claim aim to open bonding leave claim submissions<00:06:07.759><c> to<
- Will it mirror the UI program where I have the ability to deny or rebut the claim?
- </c> rebut the claim? rebut the claim?
- and claims validation and verification, which is really important.
- </c> in place to validate claims. in place to validate claims. >> Thank<01:49:55.760><c> you.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- We look at claims, loss ratios, and utilization rates within those plans.
- The claims per person are phenomenal. There's no commission in this plan.
- The state employees' claims were actually higher than the teachers' claims.
- The state employees' claims were actually higher than the teacher's claims.
- We do a great job of having discounts in those claims.