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KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • As you are aware, the State Board of Elections is the independent agency of state government charged
  • and which has always been fully funded and governed by the states who elect to participate.
  • Assembly has authorized the state board to enter into agreements with other states to further voter
  • ><00:09:16.880><c> and</c> which has always been fully funded and which has always been fully funded
  • A lot of things that get funded through the state do not come from the state treasury.
Summary: The Interim Committee on State Government met on July 29, established a quorum, approved the June 24 minutes unanimously, and heard an update from the State Board of Elections on voter list maintenance. Taylor Brown, the board’s general counsel, explained the federal NVRA requirements and Kentucky’s statutory process for maintaining voter rolls, including use of USPS change-of-address data, ERIC reports, and agreements with non-ERIC states. He said Kentucky has entered or discussed agreements with several states, and that the board sends postcards to voters believed to have moved; if a voter does not respond to an 8D2 postcard and does not vote over two federal election cycles, the registration may be removed. He also described other removal categories such as death, felony conviction, incompetency, duplicate registrations, and self-requested cancellations. Brown reported that between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025, the board removed 284,381 registrations from the rolls, including 42,675 for death, 5,940 for felony conviction, 5,527 for registration in another state, 578 for incompetency, 223 based on jury questionnaires indicating non-citizenship, 746 self-removals, and 3,381 duplicates, along with 225,311 removals through the address-maintenance program. He said Kentucky’s total registrations decreased by roughly 169,000 over the year and are now below the Census Bureau’s estimate of the state’s voting-age population. Brown emphasized that receiving a postcard does not mean a voter has been purged and that failure to vote alone does not trigger removal. Members asked about the 223 non-citizen-related removals, the availability and effectiveness of alternatives to ERIC, the partisan criticism of ERIC, and how duplicate registrations are identified. Brown said the non-citizen jury questionnaire cases had been referred to the Attorney General for further review, that Kentucky currently has no organized alternative to ERIC but is pursuing reciprocal agreements with states such as Florida, and that ERIC recently changed bylaws to remove a postcard requirement that had been costly for member states. On duplicates, he said the board uses multiple data points, not just name and address, and noted that fuller Social Security data could improve accuracy. Committee leaders praised the board’s work and said they wanted to meet before session to discuss possible statutory changes to improve voter list maintenance.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 2nd, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • What strings are attached to federal funding that the state accepts?
  • . from state agencies and then actually approve or deny that funding based on... if they thought the
  • implement things that are ultimately implemented by the state agencies like road transportation funding
  • I know that our program is entirely state funded so we're not relying on federal funds for this program
  • So you're... this is where you have your two billion dollar fund balance in this state? The...
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, what this does is this bill addresses states' needs for enforcement...
  • This bill addresses states' needs for enforcement against online sweepstakes, casino, and gaming.
  • Members, House Bill 3497 clarifies when the state can appeal a pre-trial order.
  • Counties already have funding streams in place to support electronic monitoring in high-risk cases.
  • But current language and practice have created uncertainty about how these funds can be used.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Criminal Judiciary REVISED: HB3996 - Added Feb 17th, 2026

Criminal Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, House Bill 3497 clarifies when the state can appeal a pretrial order.
  • But current language and practice have created uncertainty about how these funds can be used.
  • sources such as grants or local partnerships without creating a statewide... ...funding sources such
  • In short, it removes barriers for counties that are ready to act and empowers others to seek funding,
  • Bureau investigation to create and maintain a Registration Act, directing the Oklahoma State Bureau
Summary: The committee heard and advanced a long agenda of criminal justice bills, with most measures receiving due pass recommendations after brief explanations and little or no debate. Early bills included HB 3586 on modifications to the charging process for abuse and neglect, HB 3584 on sentencing changes for human trafficking involving minors and people with mental disabilities, HB 3587 on outpatient treatment procedures for individuals in the criminal justice center, HB 3743 on community-based outpatient restoration treatment under a PCS and amendment, and HB 3742 on criminal discovery process changes. All of these were reported out favorably, generally by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. Members also advanced HB 4227, Trey’s Law, which would protect child sexual abuse survivors by allowing claims and limiting nondisclosure agreements; HB 3764, which increases penalties for people charged while on the DOJ terrorist list, after an amendment changing the proof language; HB 3767, an Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics request adding controlled substances and updating terminology; HB 3606, allowing court review for removal from the sex offender registry in cases of medical infirmity or cognitive decline; HB 3299, creating a new offense for unauthorized digitized or synthetic media intended to cause harm; HB 3835, a human trafficking prevention bill; HB 3244, expanding fraud and identity theft laws; and HB 4130, addressing online sweepstakes/casino gaming enforcement with an amendment clarifying tribal gaming under federal law. HB 318 and HB 3302 were laid over. Later, the committee approved HB 3053, creating a narrow parole pathway for incarcerated people age 65 and older, with amendments excluding violent offenses, sex offenses, and certain other crimes; HB 3269, allowing electronic arrest warrants; HB 3301, aligning state law with federal law on short-barreled firearms after an amendment restoring the 16-inch language; HB 3430, revising court fines and fees collection and distinguishing permanent from temporary inability to pay; HB 3497, clarifying when the state may appeal a pretrial order; HB 3755, requiring OJA to provide prescribed medication and medical information to detention facilities within 48 hours for juveniles in custody; HB 3848, easing transitional housing restrictions for released sex offenders; HB 3903, requiring domestic violence incident reports and filing of VPO petitions and adding judicial training; HB 3905, allowing counties to use available funds for GPS monitoring in domestic violence cases; HB 3996, requiring OIDS to pay for expert witnesses in capital post-conviction cases; HB 4142, expanding explosives laws to cover attempts and intent; HB 1322, creating a public registry for persistent domestic violence offenders; and HB 4108, expanding critical infrastructure trespass laws to include airports. Most bills were reported due pass, with votes commonly ranging from unanimous to a few dissenting votes, and the chair recessed/adjourned after the agenda was completed.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means May 12th, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Texas currently ranks 33rd in R&D investment as a percentage of gross state product, behind states like
  • funding.
  • They are using it to fund lobbyists.
  • This bill is intended to move state-imposed tax dollars to the control of the state and to an unelected
  • I'm the Director of State Advocacy at the North Texas Commission.
Committee: House Ways & Means
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

State Committee Meeting - 2025-04-10

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is the State Government Committee for March 10th, 2025. All those in favor, please say aye.
  • If you'd like to state your name for the record, you're fully invited.
  • For the state, our agency adds value by serving this body and the state government with accurate, reliable
  • For those who may not know, the state government finance budget bill funds the offices of And the state
  • There is a separate state government policy bill, which is also...
Bills: HF2783
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

State Committee Meeting - 2025-04-08

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Secretary of State is on line 3.24. The State Board of Investment is on line 3.28.
  • As committee members know, the general fund base is our most agile and flexible funding source and directly
  • Minnesotans expect robust oversight of their state government and the expenditures of public funds.
  • storage upgrades at state-owned facilities, which reduces costs.
  • plans, as well as a large amount of state assets.
Bills: HF2783
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 29th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Every state does not do that.
  • guidance to the mayor of Baton Rouge, the Louisiana State Senate, members of the Louisiana State House
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
  • state?
  • state?
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, received a prayer and pledge, adopted the journal, and heard messages from the House reporting final passage of several Senate bills and concurrence in SCR 86 and 87. The chamber also observed personal privileges honoring the lives of Edith K. Kirkpatrick and Susan Ann Traylor Bidick, with family members present and a moment of silence held for Bidick. The House later refused concurrence on Senate amendments to HB 42 and HB 159. The Senate then took up a series of resolutions, most of which were adopted without objection. These included studies on energy infrastructure and modernization (SR 174, amended to add an alternative energy industry representative and a consumer advocate), breast pump Medicaid reimbursement (SR 175), digital student IDs (SR 176), lethality assessment protocols in domestic violence cases (SR 177), problem gambling prevention (SR 178), community water system grading (SR 179), condolences for Sharon Courtney (SR 180), and expansion of the Louisiana Tumor Registry (SR 181). The chamber also adopted SCR 85 honoring the Sam Houston High School Broncos baseball team after a recorded vote of 36 yeas and 8 nays. On bills returned from the House, HB 1222 on grocery initiative grants failed on final passage by a vote of 18 yeas and 19 nays. SB 312 had House amendments rejected, SB 348 and SB 485 had House amendments concurred in, and SB 121 on congressional redistricting was the subject of extensive debate over racial gerrymandering, district configuration, and expected litigation before the Senate concurred in the House amendments by 28 yeas and 10 nays. The Senate also concurred in several House concurrent resolutions, including studies or reports on flooded corn and migratory waterfowl, deer hunting with dogs in Kisatchie National Forest, support for a Senator Kennedy letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service, boating safety reporting, and subsurface data review. Finally, HB 944 creating a Women’s Health Consortium within the Department of Health was amended to address funding concerns and convert it into a more task-force-like structure, then passed 37-0 with nine coauthors. The Senate then recessed until 1:30 p.m. to continue work, including conference committee reports.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 29th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Every state does not do that.
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America...
  • of Louisiana. ...and expedited permitting in the state of Louisiana.
  • We're hoping to attract to this state like we just did yesterday.
  • state?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Feb 26th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our members of this organization are authorized to be in the United States.
  • Are members of these types of foreign terrorist organizations authorized to be in the United States?
  • This one does pertain to individuals who are not authorized to be in the United States.
  • We're allowing ninety-day temporary tags and sixty-day temporary tags for out of state.
  • I guess my number one question is just overall, what other states do something like this?
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Feb 26th, 2026

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Roads Grants: You're recognized? Representative West: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  • Roads Grants: When it comes to the definition of loitering, what exactly does that mean?
  • Roads Grants: I would do pass and second. Chair: Are there any further questions?
  • Are members of this organization authorized to be in the United States?
  • So I am asking that we take action to protect the kids of our state.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced a large number of bills, mostly by unanimous or near-unanimous due-pass votes. Early measures included HB 34, expanding “zones of safety” to include places like skating rinks, youth centers, pools, arcades, amusement parks, and water parks to bar sex offenders from loitering; HB 3407 on abandoned personal property and manufactured homes; HB 43 on rates for court-appointed property appraisers; and HB 2981 requiring school board meeting minutes to be posted online. Members also considered criminal justice and public safety bills such as enhanced penalties for people on the DOJ terrorist list (HB 3764), updating controlled dangerous substances schedules (HB 3767), and a bill to allow first responders to notify law enforcement after responding to suspected overdoses, with immunity for good-faith reporting and a fentanyl-related presumption in fatal overdoses (HB 2941). Several bills were laid over, including HB 2015, HB 2959, HB 3087, HB 3581, and HB 4227. The committee also advanced bills affecting courts, property, and administrative procedures. These included HB 3321 ending cost-arrest warrants for unpaid court fines, HB 3322 codifying rules for interpreting multiple versions of statutes, HB 3323 moving notarization requirements for electronic documents submitted to Service Oklahoma, HB 3497 clarifying appeals of pretrial orders in criminal cases, HB 3500 removing a nine-month deadline for successor affidavits after transfer-on-death property transfers, and HB 3505 creating a uniform wage garnishment law. Other measures addressed workers’ compensation and public employment, including HB 4260 creating a rebuttable presumption for first responders in workers’ comp, HB 4202 aligning radiology reimbursement with other specialties, and HB 3055 and HB 315 setting qualifications for the CLEET and DOC directors. Later in the meeting, members approved bills on consumer protection, technology, and public safety. HB 2933 tightened insurance claim timelines and penalties and made mediation mandatory for carriers; HB 3544 targeted AI chatbots that simulate emotional relationships with children; HB 3299 created a criminal offense for creating or disseminating digitized or synthetic media using another person’s name, image, voice, or likeness; HB 4107 criminalized misuse of outdoor tornado sirens; HB 4108 expanded critical infrastructure protections to airports; and HB 4139 revised home service contract rules to require truthful offerings and qualified service providers. The committee also passed HB 1322 creating a public domestic violence offenders registry, HB 4104 adding certain voyeurism-related crimes to the sex offender registry, HB 4106 lowering the grand larceny threshold to $900 and making a third petty larceny offense a felony, and HB 3974 addressing liability in shared inmate housing facilities. The meeting ended with HB 4144, which revises Open Records Act language for arrest and incident reports, and the committee adjourned with plans to meet again Tuesday.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Fiscal Responsibility Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Fiscal Responsibility

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ivy's executive order that allows Alabama to participate... ...in the federal tax credit program to fund
  • </c><00:04:12.720><c> This</c><00:04:13.040><c> program</c> change in state leadership.
  • This program change in state leadership.
  • The funds can be used for tuition, fees, special needs services, tutoring, books, and supplies.
  • has to go straight to the scholarship fund themselves.
Bills: HB342 , HB342 , HB168 , HB220 , SB187 , SB270 , SB265 , SB220 , SB242 , SB277
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/20/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Of this, $18.1 million has been state funds.
  • Of this 18.1 million has been state<00:36:33.280><c> funds.
  • Our partners have been state funds.
  • funds, the local watershed funds.
  • funds, the local watershed funds.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Mar 5th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • employees. ...others regarding state employees.
  • employees. ...and others regarding state employees.
  • This bill establishes parental leave for state employees.
  • Fund through Finance and Taxation.
  • Talk to a... it's more than him in the real estate state.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 5th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This day is set aside. to honor the contributions of the Texas State Aquarium for our state.
  • state of Texas in 2023.
  • And please help me welcome all of these members from this great state. of the Aquarium to the State Capitol
  • As you said a while ago, part of the type of research that we have funded. most of any other state in
  • from the state general revenue fund the DPRT fund.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Alarmingly... ...to protect seniors from scams and fraud in our state.
  • I am the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Nevada State AFL-CIO.
  • I'm the state senator for District 9.
  • Grants go toward funding for programs.
  • Grants go towards funding for programs.
Bills: SB60 , SB85 , SB323
Committee: Assembly Judiciary
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • When the state pursued this complete prohibition, we shared our opposition to that effort.
  • </c> the Chamber serves as the state the Chamber serves as the state affiliate<00:05:09.000><c> for</
  • 47, 48, 49 other states—those conversations are happening, those moves are happening.
  • </c><01:30:57.800><c> that</c> meaningful action from the state that meaningful action from the state
  • We have a stated goal to divert 15,000 tons of solid waste from Minnesota's landfills.
Bills: HF1355 , HF1469 , HF1768
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 18th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need to get him up here and show what real lawyers do in the State House rather than... and making
  • ><00:23:19.840><c> the</c> show what real lawyers do in at the show what real lawyers do in at the state
  • <00:23:20.159><c> house</c><00:23:20.320><c> rather</c><00:23:20.559><c> than</c> state house rather
  • than state house rather than &gt;&gt; agree.<00:23:21.440><c> And</c><00:23:21.600><c> making</c><00:
  • And so the concern is that when we pass a law like this and we don't try to look down the road at unintended
Committee: Senate Judiciary
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

State Government Finance and Policy

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  • their state funding.
  • their state funding.
  • their state funding.
  • is that in order to qualify for state funding funding funding currently<00:37:05.640><c> in</c><00:37
  • </c> their state funding. their state funding.
Bills: SF856 , HF4482 , HF3672 , HF1234 , HF4591 , HF3554 , HF936