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CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Jan 15th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair, for the opportunity. Thank you to the committee and staff for the opportunity to speak.
  • Chair, for the opportunity. Thank you to the committee and staff for the opportunity to speak.
  • They must read the digital course book their instructor selects and answer its digital prompts and questions
  • And I don't mean an individual, usually lawyers, who sees an opportunity. I see this.
  • These amendments would be added at the next available opportunity.
Summary: The Assembly Judiciary Committee heard several bills focused on public safety, privacy, animal welfare, and elder protection. AB 634 by Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez would ban the manufacture, distribution, and sale of tianeptine, described as “gas station heroin,” with supporters citing addiction and hospitalization risks and noting the bill had been narrowed to civil penalties and research exceptions. AB 1159 by Senator Addis would expand student data privacy protections to higher education and limit how ed tech companies use student information, including a narrow private right of action; supporters emphasized student privacy and opponents warned it could chill innovation and create litigation risk. AB 1382 by Assemblymember Castillo would prohibit the sale of genetically modified animals for cosmetic purposes, with supporters pointing to animal welfare and shelter overpopulation concerns and opponents seeking a narrower exemption for glowfish and other already regulated aquatic species. The committee also heard AB 871, which would strengthen reporting and training requirements for financial institutions responding to suspected elder financial abuse and scams, including reporting to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center and encouraging rapid client reporting. Supporters said the bill could help recover funds and improve pattern detection across jurisdictions, while one member raised concerns about duplication with existing suspicious activity reporting and bank procedures. In discussion, members generally supported the bill but noted the need to refine it; the author said it was intended as a practical step to improve existing processes. All four bills were moved out of committee with do pass recommendations, with AB 634, AB 1159, AB 1382, and AB 871 each passing on recorded votes after discussion and amendments. The committee also adopted consent calendar items and ended with a recognition of Republican caucus judiciary consultant Daryl Thomas, who is retiring after more than 20 years of service.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • But there's plenty of opportunity for us to do that here.
  • And there's an opportunity for statewide And there's an opportunity for statewide coordination<00:32:
  • </c><00:32:49.120><c> for</c> Um but there's plenty of opportunity for Um but there's plenty of opportunity
  • </c><00:34:18.679><c> for</c> typically engaged in opportunities for typically engaged in opportunities
  • Thank you for the opportunity to be with you.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The Artificial Intelligence Task Force met and adopted the prior minutes before turning to AI in education. Jeff Gagne of the Southern Regional Education Board described SREB’s Commission on AI in Education, which has organized its work into committees on policy, K-12 instruction, postsecondary instruction, and skills development. He highlighted eight commission recommendations covering statewide AI networks, targeted guidance for different user groups, professional development, standards and curricula, local capacity assessments, risk management, procurement, and AI-ready workforce skills. He also emphasized that states need more specific guidance for students, teachers, faculty, administrators, and parents, and that training is essential because many educators have not been prepared to use AI in instruction. Gagne also summarized two recent SREB reports: one on AI-ready workforce skills and one on AI use in K-12 classrooms. The workforce report recommends embedding AI across standards, strengthening computer science and digital learning standards, collaborating with industry and workforce agencies, building AI competencies into training and upskilling, providing educator professional development, and monitoring readiness. He said the report identifies three skill areas: success skills, industry baseline skills, and technical skills. The classroom guidance report promotes responsible AI adoption, with four pillars focused on increasing cognitive demand, streamlining teaching and administrative work, supporting personalized learning, and developing ethical AI users. He also noted that the report includes an AI procurement tool for school districts. Members thanked Gagne for providing outside examples and resources. One member noted JCPS has an introductory AI professional development offering for educators. Gagne said Kentucky’s David Couch serves on the SREB commission and that the commission’s member list and reports are available on SREB’s website. The committee then heard from Travis Powell of the Council on Postsecondary Education, who said CPE had surveyed campuses and found that Kentucky institutions have broadly embraced AI in teaching, research, student services, and administrative operations. He said all institutions have AI-focused degrees, minors, or courses, and many are integrating AI into general education and across disciplines. Powell also said CPE is considering an AI consortium and that campuses are using AI in research partnerships and applied work, while continuing to focus on ethical and effective use.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session-Day 6, February 16, 2026-AM

Wyoming House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • She's a lot of fun, and we appreciate her opportunity to be here with you. Yeah. See, we do.
  • And that is this legislature initiated global leadership on digital assets.
  • We've got to turn that around, and the work you did on digital assets will help turn that around.
  • It's going to be that way in Wyoming for digital assets. And again, it's because of what you did.
  • And again, it's because digital assets.
Keywords: 916, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • And those two some opportunity there.
  • 26:42.400><c> speak</c> appreciate the opportunity to speak appreciate the opportunity to speak today
  • You can see those are three years in a row of double-digit or very nearly double-digit returns.
  • > digit</c><00:55:59.599><c> returns.
  • So I guess that was opportunity to work.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The meeting opened with a quorum call, the Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer, and approval of the prior meeting minutes. The first presentation was from Bo Craycraft of the Judicial Form Retirement System, who gave an update on investment performance, asset allocation, cash flow, and projected employer costs. He reported strong fiscal year 2025 investment results, with both the legislative and judicial retirement plans outperforming their actuarial assumed rates of return and benchmarks, driven largely by U.S. equity performance. He also noted the plans remained near their target asset allocation and continued to experience negative cash flow, though he said that was manageable in context of strong asset growth. Craycraft then discussed a recent experience study and actuarial assumption changes, especially a revised salary growth assumption and a higher cash balance interest credit rate. He said these changes increased projected employer costs, with contributions rising from about $700,000 to a projected $2 million in later years, though he expected the eventual 2025 valuation and investment gains to reduce that estimate. Members asked about mortality assumptions, the impact of the experience study on liabilities, and the sharp increase in the judicial plan’s projected employer cost. Craycraft explained that the increase was driven mainly by the updated assumptions and that no other major plan changes were involved. At the chair’s request, Craycraft also addressed the recent rise in Medicare Advantage premiums for the plan’s health coverage, saying the 2025 increase was largely tied to Part D changes and the Inflation Reduction Act and had been about 45%, but that future growth was expected to be under 5%. After his presentation, the committee moved to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority update, where the next speaker began by saying the funds had exceeded actuarial assumed returns for the fiscal year.
WV
Transcript Highlights:
  • contact include, but are not limited to, phone calls, video conferencing, home visits, and the use of digital
  • contact include but are not limited to phone calls, video conferencing, home visits, and the use of digital
  • platforms. ...but are not limited to phone calls, video conferencing, home visits, and the use of digital
  • Madam Chair, Senator, I do appreciate the opportunity to speak.
  • I would have been surprised if someone wanted to hear me speak more, but I welcome the opportunity.
Keywords: 994, senate, all
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from its prior meeting and then took up House Bill 5537, a bill to repeal several obsolete or outdated code sections. Counsel explained that the bill would remove provisions related to professional development, a behavioral interventionist pilot program, county lists of facilities for child daycare, and high school graduation rates, with a proposed amendment adding another outdated education code section from 1923. The committee adopted the amendment and reported HB 5537 to the full Senate with a recommendation that it do pass as amended. The committee then considered House Bill 4656, which would shift truancy policy toward chronic absenteeism and earlier intervention. Counsel said the committee substitute would replace punitive status-offense treatment with wraparound services, student support specialists, and a new child-in-need-of-supervision process, while also ending compulsory attendance at age 18 and removing criminal penalties for 18-year-olds. Members questioned how the new thresholds would work, including the role of attendance directors, prosecutors, judges, and the Department of Human Services, and whether the bill would change current diversion funding or court authority. Witnesses from Fayette County, Greenbrier County, and Taylor County largely opposed the bill or urged caution. The Fayette County attendance director said current truancy procedures, including school-based probation and court involvement, help secure family participation and services, and warned that removing the status offense would weaken enforcement. A Greenbrier County probation officer said diversion programs are effective and that court involvement often leads to needed services. A Taylor County juvenile prosecutor said status-offense jurisdiction gives courts meaningful leverage and flexibility, and asked that counties be allowed to keep existing approaches that work locally. After testimony, the committee voted to report HB 4656 to the full Senate without recommendation and with a recommendation that it be re-referred to the Committee on Education, then adjourned.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee Jul 15th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Finally, the last section discusses economic opportunities stemming from AI.
  • And then we also have laws related to digital likeness. So these are actually starting to increase.
  • It's called the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act.
  • And now I’m going to go into the challenges and opportunities, and I think it’s going to overlap.
  • Chairman, and thanks for the opportunity to be with you.
Keywords: 908, all
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee Jul 15th, 2026

Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Finally, the last section discusses economic opportunities stemming from AI.
  • Finally, the last section discusses economic opportunities stemming from AI.
  • And then we also have laws related to digital likeness. So these are actually starting to increase.
  • It's called the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act. It is a comprehensive legislative package.
  • Chairman, and thanks for the opportunity to be with you.
Summary: The committee held its first meeting on artificial intelligence and data centers, establishing its purpose as a study and policy-development body rather than one aimed at producing many bills. Majority Leader Hogue urged members to move quickly, focus on federal and other states’ AI laws, consider possible federal preemption, child protections, and the siting and economic impacts of data centers. Committee leadership echoed that the goal is practical, balanced governance that protects North Dakota while allowing innovation to continue. Legislative Council staff provided a background memo and NCSL presented a detailed overview of AI concepts and the current state legislative landscape. The presentations distinguished narrow AI, generative AI, agentic AI, and theoretical AGI/ASI, and summarized major state policy themes: comprehensive AI laws in states such as Utah, Colorado, Texas, California, and Illinois; targeted laws on deepfakes, chatbots, health, education, notifications, and digital likeness; and growing use of appropriations and agency inventories. Members asked about Colorado’s repeal and reenactment, Texas’s sandbox and training provisions, oversight structures, and whether AI regulation is bipartisan; presenters said most issues cut across party lines, with broad agreement on child safety and deepfakes but more division on broader regulatory approaches. The federal update focused on executive orders, preemption, and congressional activity. NCSL described a White House framework favoring a single federal standard, a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department review of state laws, and possible funding conditions tied to state AI policy, though no formal state-law challenge had yet occurred. The presentation also covered a recent executive order creating a voluntary federal vetting process for advanced frontier models after safety concerns, and congressional proposals including a failed 10-year state moratorium, Senator Blackburn’s child-safety bills, the Kids Online Safety Act, a House-passed children’s digital safety package, a Senate data center moratorium proposal, and a House ratepayer/data-center bill. The committee took no formal action beyond receiving testimony and asking questions.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

February 11, 2025 - 01:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Dr. Justin Katzer.
  • And there's many ways to follow up on that digitally. I don't know. Thank you.
  • And there's many ways to follow up on that, digitally, with chart reviews, digital x-rays, and being
  • Thank you all for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today.
  • So I certainly appreciate the opportunity and hope that you will go ahead and approve this HB 21.
Summary: The Health Professions and Programs Subcommittee heard and advanced three bills. HB 21 would create a new licensed profession of dental therapy under the Department of Health and Board of Dentistry, allowing trained dental therapists to provide a limited scope of care under a supervising Florida-licensed dentist through a collaborative management agreement. Sponsor Rep. Cheney argued the bill would help address severe dental shortages and improve access in underserved areas; opponents from the Florida Dental Association and oral surgery groups warned that the bill would allow irreversible procedures by less-educated providers and could compromise patient safety. Supporters, including dentists, hygienists, and community health center leaders, said dental therapists would expand access and free dentists to handle more complex care. An amendment was adopted to require proof of local anesthesia training, adverse-incident reporting, and updated background screening language. The bill was reported favorably as amended by a 14-1 vote. The committee then considered HB 27, which creates the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact to allow licensed social workers to practice across member states, including through telehealth, and to help military families and address workforce shortages. Supporters from the National Association of Social Workers and other advocates said the compact would improve mobility, reduce administrative burdens, and expand access to mental health services, especially in underserved and rural areas. A technical amendment restoring model language and setting an effective date of July 1, 2025 was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably as amended on a 15-0 vote. Finally, the committee heard HB 29, the public-records companion to the social work compact, which creates exemptions needed for compact compliance and allows the compact commission or its committees to meet in closed session when discussing information exempt under law. After a technical amendment authorizing closed meetings for exempt matters was adopted, the bill was reported favorably as amended on a 15-0 vote. The meeting then adjourned.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAM-EDU Informational Briefing 01-16-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we've just implemented our digital navigator program, which has digital navigator four hours twice
  • </c> services around digital equity. services around digital equity.
  • </c> to learn how to use um all the digital to learn how to use um all the digital tools<00:41:29.520
  • :41:43.920><c> which</c><00:41:44.160><c> has</c> digital navigator program which has digital navigator
  • </c><00:48:39.200><c> Um,</c> opportunity to spend more money. Um, opportunity to spend more money.
Keywords: 912, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, grateful for the opportunity to work with you, Representative Luke Aslin, and would like to see if
  • the intent here is aligned to help reduce the cost of housing for local folks and provide new opportunities
  • the intent here is aligned to help reduce the cost of housing for local folks and provide new opportunities
  • The intent here is aligned to help reduce the cost of housing for local folks and provide new opportunities
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 04-28-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • we have worked out, and we're working off of SD2, is to prohibit certain harmful uses of realistic digital
  • We will also be removing any sort of disclosures of the use of synthetic performers and realistic digital
  • we have worked out, and we're working off of SD2, is to prohibit certain harmful uses of realistic digital
  • We will also be removing any sort of disclosures of the use of synthetic performers and realistic digital
  • We will also be removing any sort of disclosures of the use of synthetic performers and realistic digital