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• and previously we Feel it was a very successful session.
• In analyzing legislative proposals in the interim and during the legislative session, the New Mexico
• And then lastly, I know that in the 30-day session, this is probably not going to be a priority.
• You'll see me during session.
• I know that every 60-day session, we get monies flowing through the SB 9 capital funds.

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• and also the first special session.
• Do you think that'll hold over time or next session?
• I mean, it seems to me there's a... ...a whole round of abortion bills every session.
• Before we come back to the next session, correct? The water development...
• So if you wondered what we were going to do next session, it's water, and it's the...

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

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• Moving to announcements, session schedules are as follows: Tuesday, August 19, check-in session and session
• upon call of the Speaker; Wednesday, August 20, check-in session and session upon call of the Speaker
• Tuesday, August 19th, check-in session and session upon call of the speaker.
• Wednesday, August 20th, check-in session and session upon call of the speaker.
• Thursday, August 21st, floor session at 9 a.m. call of the Speaker Thursday August 21st floor session

Summary: The Assembly met on June 4, 2025, after a quorum call and opening prayer led by Assembly Member Ramos, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and routine procedural actions. Members handled several motions on bill referrals and file management, including disputes over SB 280 and ACA 8. The Speaker’s rulings were repeatedly appealed and sustained, and the body ultimately approved re-referral and notice waivers related to ACA 8 and SB 280, along with related committee hearing notices and shortened file notice requirements. Several bills were also removed from consent, moved to inactive file, or withdrawn from committee as nonfiscal measures. The chamber then held a Native American Day ceremony centered on ACR 102 by Assembly Member Ramos, recognizing California Native American Day and the California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference. Multiple caucus leaders and members spoke in support, emphasizing California’s Native history, past state harms, and recent legislative efforts affecting tribal communities. The resolution was adopted by voice vote after 71 coauthors were added. The ceremony also honored Native leaders and students, including Judge Abby Abinanti, Councilwoman Catalina Chacon, Rosemary Salgado, Chairman Frederick Massetti, and Clovis Unified students who defended their right to wear regalia at graduation. Later, the Assembly took up concurrence votes on several Senate-amended bills, all of which passed unanimously: AB 829 on Parkinson’s disease, AB 463 on emergency medical services, AB 493 on mortgage escrow interest, and AB 1387 on behavioral health coordination for justice-involved individuals. The body also adopted ACR 100 honoring India’s Independence Day and H.R. 44 recognizing homeless service providers, both by voice vote after substantial support from members and coauthors. Guest introductions highlighted the music industry, the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, and visiting officials from Pakistan. The session concluded with adjournments in memory of Joel Nilsen and Grace Akiko Kojima, followed by announcements of upcoming session dates and adjournment under the call of the Speaker.

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• So, Sarah, please, uh, you have a handout that says 2025 session WNRC relevant legislation.
• So, uh, please keep that in mind as we go through the session.
• So this you all saw a composite of what we all tried to work on this last session.
• Experts working on this in executive session.
• During the session, we did see some bipartisan support on the proposal.

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• Hopefully, everyone has recuperated from the long session that we had.
• You will, I'm sure, hear from them during the session.
• We attempted to do this last legislative session, but it just didn't make it through.
• Those changes ended up dying on the Senate floor at the end of the session.
• In this session, In this session, it passed the House and was last located in the Senate Conservation

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• You plan to work on that in this upcoming session to accommodate development in Florida.
• The course of this legislative session, one dealing with glass containers on public beaches.
• And I know he would join me in saying, Senator Leek, you did something incredible this session during
• Written to close out session.
• I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TREMENDOUS WORK THIS SESSION.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• The purpose is, as the Speaker said, we need to get the morning session done by 10:45 in order to go
• We need to get the morning session done by 10:45 in order to go to the floor to meet the quorum.
• In the 87th session, the legislature passed Senate Bill 1588 to bring more balance between the rights
• In the 87th session, the legislature passed Senate Bill 1588 to bring more balance between the rights
• The legislature has proposed several bills this session and in prior sessions related to the topics of

Bills: HB112, HB199, HCR9

Keywords: school district, bond issuance, election dates, voter approval, Texas Education Code, HCR 9, Texas State Cemetery, Hill Country flood, July 4 2025 flood, Guadalupe River, Camp Mystic, memorial, monument, concurrent resolution, disaster remembrance, natural disaster, flood victims, survivors, State Preservation Board, Texas secretary of state

Summary: The Committee on Trade, Workforce and Economic Development met with a quorum and moved quickly through a long agenda, hearing testimony and taking recorded votes on several bills. Early in the meeting, HB 2214 was laid out to exempt certain short-term residential leases and leaseback arrangements from flood-disclosure requirements; Texas Realtors supported the change, and the bill was left pending. The committee then voted out a series of pending measures, including HB 46, HB 186 (with a committee substitute), HB 431, HB 1147, HB 1154, HB 2468, HB 2488, HB 2788 (with a substitute), HB 2791 (with a substitute), HB 3260, and HCR 90, all reported favorably to the full House, with HB 1147 receiving two nays and the others passing unanimously or nearly so. A major portion of the hearing focused on HB 112, which would create a Texas Science Park district and commission to support advanced manufacturing and innovation sites. The bill’s author and supporters, including Samsung Austin Semiconductor, the Texas Association of Business, and the Governor’s economic development office, argued it would strengthen supply chains, attract investment, and support national security and workforce development. Testimony described interest from semiconductor and advanced manufacturing companies and referenced the model of foreign science parks such as Sinshu in Taiwan. HB 112 was left pending after testimony. The committee also heard HB 3698 and HB 3699, both related to unemployment insurance administration. HB 3698 would expand eligibility for the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program using federal funds, while HB 3699 would tighten the definition of “last work” to help the Texas Workforce Commission investigate UI fraud. Both bills were discussed with TWC resource witnesses and left pending after the committee withdrew the substitutes. HB 1349, which would extend HOA transparency and property-rights provisions to condominiums and refine HOA rules, and HB 621, which would require HOA meeting spaces to be available for residents to reserve for qualified political candidates or elected officials, were also heard and left pending. Finally, the committee heard HCR 9 to designate the first Saturday of each month as Small Business Saturday, HB 199 to index unemployment benefit duration to the state unemployment rate, and HB 3466 to exempt certain cancelable service contracts from Texas’s in-home sales cooling-off law; each drew supportive and opposing testimony and was left pending before adjournment.

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• I think the ask is 100 million this session for that.
• I have a question for you if you Recall, I guess it was two sessions ago, maybe three.
• It may have been my first session. Maybe second.
• A couple of sessions ago there was, or last session, provide for re-stimulation of bills to have.
• SB 1061 is a refile from last session. HB 419.

Bills: SB1150, SB763, SB1061, SB1146, SB1198, HB279, HB310

Keywords: concrete plants, environmental regulation, permit process, air quality, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, SB 1061, uranium mining, production area authorization, TCEQ, Water Code, groundwater, groundwater conservation district, restoration table value, restoration values, contested case hearing, Chapter 2001, mineral rights, surface owners, notice requirements, environmental permitting

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• If before before we go into the next session, I would...
• So if it's significantly different, do we take a pause until next session?
• So if it's significantly different, do we take a pause until next session?
• As attendance and time allowed them during the session.
• So we bought that with some of the funding from this last special session.

Summary: The committee received several informational reports from NDIT and DPI. Justin Data reviewed the quarterly major IT project portfolio, noting the portfolio was slightly under budget and behind schedule overall, with three red schedule items: Bed Management System and Vital Records were essentially complete and being closed out, and the Roadway Capital Planning Project was delayed by vendor bug fixes after testing. He also summarized recent project startups and closeouts, including the Victim Notification System, Medicaid data exchange, Highway Patrol’s motor carrier permit system, and several completed HHS and RIMS projects. Members asked for follow-up on ADA compliance work, the public-facing RIO website, and the state’s mainframe retirement timeline, and staff agreed to provide updates later. Craig Falkley reported on coordination of services with political subdivisions and higher education, including StageNet, cybersecurity, radio/911 services, and PeopleSoft coordination. He also explained distributed ledger technology as a tool for transparency and fraud prevention, but said it is not widely used in state government and suggested the report be modernized to focus more broadly on emerging technologies such as AI and cybersecurity. The committee generally agreed that the topic should be updated. Chris Gurgan presented the mandatory cybersecurity incident reporting program created by HB 1314, explaining how agencies and political subdivisions report incidents through NDIT’s website or service desk. He said 77 incidents had been reported since 2021, 47 met the statutory definition, and most were phishing-related; most reported incidents were resolved, with one recent ransomware matter still open. He also reviewed notable incidents since the last report, including the PowerSchool compromise, a SimpleHelp intrusion at a school district, a court intrusion, a WSUS vulnerability, a business email compromise, and a recent ransomware incident involving a non-state critical infrastructure entity. Members asked about recovery of stolen funds, early warning signs, smishing, training, MFA, conditional access, and cybersecurity maturity assessments; Gurgan said the state uses MFA and conditional access, provides awareness training to state employees, and would return with more information on maturity assessments. Tony Ambrose then updated the committee on the K-12 student information system bridge project. He said district implementation of Infinite Campus had begun statewide, but the data migration vendor originally selected was terminated for poor performance and replaced by Aurora Educational Technology, which had experience with similar statewide migrations. He also said DPI is migrating special education data from Tynet into Infinite Campus, and that some SLDS-based tools such as e-transcripts and Choice Ready may not function exactly as they do now at July 1, requiring interim or alternative solutions. Members raised concerns about summer school disruptions, the timing of the cutover, and whether the new system would support existing reporting and transcript functions; DPI said it was working on identity, authentication, data-sharing agreements, and post-go-live integrations, and would continue to refine the plan beyond June 30.

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• And that we are all aware that bill didn't pass on the last day of session.
• Last session you all passed HB 2078 where we actually have to track DFC achievement.
• legislative session?
• That was a huge step forward last session, but it's just the first step.
• You know Hayes County did last session, but what's the crux of the issue?

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• <00:13:09.680> that 2011 which was the first session that 2011 which was the first session
• is that you know legislative sessions is that you know legislative sessions are<00:14:43.680>
• and they are doing them during session. and they are doing them during session.
• you know, when the legislative sessions you know, when the legislative sessions in<00:57:12.240>
• always going through the session always going through the session quickly,<00:57:22.480> but<

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Summary: The Legislative Budget Office Oversight Commission met on January 22, 2026, with a quorum present and approved the minutes from the December 17, 2025 meeting. The main presentation was by Erikica McKeler of the National Conference of State Legislatures on dynamic fiscal notes, dynamic scoring, and how they differ from static fiscal notes. She explained that dynamic analysis tries to capture broader economic and behavioral effects of policy changes, but that most states have experimented with it only briefly, often for tax bills, and many have later scaled back or abandoned the practice because it is staff-intensive, expensive, and difficult to validate. McKeler highlighted examples from Texas, Utah, and Arkansas. Texas requires dynamic fiscal impact statements for certain large tax or fee measures and for the biennial appropriations bill; Utah has done such analyses on request during the interim but only when staff time allows; and Arkansas recently began producing dynamic fiscal notes with thresholds and request limits. She noted that these states generally use REMI software, though Utah switched to IMPLAN for cost reasons. She also outlined common challenges, including the need for strong staff expertise, the sensitivity of results to assumptions, the expense of software licenses, and the difficulty of measuring accuracy over time. Members then discussed whether dynamic scoring could be useful for health and human services programs where a policy may shift costs between settings rather than create a simple new expense. Senator Marty raised a Medicaid example involving home-based blue light therapy for newborns, arguing that dynamic analysis might better capture potential savings from avoiding longer hospital stays. Legislative Budget Office and Minnesota Management and Budget staff responded that such effects may be better understood as direct program substitutions rather than true dynamic effects, and emphasized the need for reliable data and caution because savings estimates could reduce appropriations if they do not materialize. The discussion also touched on whether dynamic models would capture local government impacts, but no formal action was taken beyond the approval of minutes and receipt of the presentation.

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• Please find your seats as we call the last meeting of this legislative session to order.
• So would you be willing to defer until next session or any? I believe so.
• I requested this very, very early in this session and was able to get it done pretty late.
• And I think we were able to do some good work this session. Rep. Spell?
• And I think we were able to do some good work this session. Rep. Spell?

Bills: HR290, HR298, SB405, SCR61, HR318

Keywords: gender-affirming care, gender affirming therapy, gender-affirming hormone therapy, transgender health, trans youth, LGBTQ, mental health, psychosis, psychiatric conditions, puberty blockers, androgen blockers, cross-sex hormones, estrogen, testosterone, informed consent, screening, monitoring protocols, Louisiana Department of Health, LDH, House Health and Welfare

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• It may not be the number you've been calling earlier in session. That's area code 669-906-6833.
• And I think we've done so much great work this session. We'll see.
• But thank you all for all your hard work this session.
• And I think we've done so much great work this session. We'll see.
• But thank you all for all your hard work this session.

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• And as we see that data, I think it's really good to challenge ourselves as we come out of a session
• I would share also we Senator Conway and I had discussions throughout a session about funding levels,
• But we've made some major changes in our pension system as a result of the session here, and it'd be
• I know in a brainstorming session a lot of times it generates these ideas now, but maybe into the next
• And then session prep in November. Session prep in November.

Summary: The Select Committee on Pension Policy executive committee met to approve the November minutes, which were adopted by voice vote. The committee then received an update from the Attorney General’s Office on two ongoing cases, Fowler and Joel Lynn, with briefing and oral argument timelines still pending. Michael Harbour of the Office of the State Actuary provided an actuarial update focused on ESSB 5357, explaining that the bill raised the assumed investment return from 7% to 7.25%, suspended UAL contribution rates for four years, and changed amortization for past benefit improvements; members asked for clarification on how those changes would affect long-term funding and contribution rates, especially for Plan 1 systems. A substantial portion of the meeting was devoted to committee discussion of interim priorities and the need for more analysis of recent pension legislation. Members emphasized the importance of understanding the fiscal impacts of ESSB 5357 and related pension changes before the September economic experience study, and several asked staff to provide a more preliminary walkthrough of the bill’s effects. The committee also discussed the LEOFF 1 study and broader questions about overfunding, including when a plan should be considered overfunded and whether overfunding should be addressed through merger or closure proposals. One member suggested reviewing the operating budget’s excess compensation proviso during the interim as well. Staff reviewed the draft 2025 interim work plan, proposing June topics including election of officers, a presentation on SB 5357 and its actuarial implications, and an initial LEOFF 1 study kickoff based on SB 5085 and HB 2034. The committee also placed excess compensation and demographic experience study items in a parking lot for possible later scheduling. The June agenda was adopted by roll call vote, with three ayes and three members absent or excused, and the meeting adjourned after no further business.

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• Sessions. Mr. Shelnutt. Mr. Singleton. Mr. Smedman. Mr. Stewart. Mr. Stutts here. Mr. Wagner.
• All right, the Senate is back in session. Senator Waggoner, Mr. President, I have a resolution.
• Session of the legislature, Mr. President. Senator Waggoner moves to adopt the resolution.
• The Senate's to-do list is this: the session is long and our time to accomplish it is short.
• I look forward to working with you this session.

Bills: SB 2, SJR 36, SB 2, SR 19, SR 27, SR 30, SR 32, SCR 11

Keywords: Houston East End, Chamber of Commerce, East End Day, economic development, community involvement, scholarships, business events, McAllen, celebration, community pride, cultural events, economic growth, McAllen Day, community recognition, South Texas, local pride, Wise County Day, Texas Senate, Wise County, state recognition

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• public and open voting session. So, Mr. public and open voting session. So, Mr.
• which again, I left the voting session. which again, I left the voting session.
• order uh to the next session. order uh to the next session.
• to later in the session. to later in the session.
• They weren't at the voting session,<02:17:19.559> but session, but session, but I<02:17:20.800

Keywords: Senate streaming session for Friday, April 10, 2026, 960, senate, all

Summary: The Senate opened with an invocation by Associate Pastor Justin Wills of Miracle Temple Church in Lothian, followed by remarks recognizing his family’s ministry and requesting that the prayer be journalized. The chamber then moved through several introductions, including Johnston Square Elementary students who were recognized for strong grades, education-related guests, and staff and family members of senators. After the roll confirmed a quorum, the Senate returned to business. On third reading, House Bill 563, concerning emergency response animals, was amended to align the House and Senate versions. The amendment added self-defense as an affirmative defense, included horses used in search and rescue within the definition of emergency response animal, added a definition of law enforcement unit, and adjusted penalties. The bill then passed with 44 affirmative votes. The Senate also took up Senate Bill 159 on EMS vehicle supplies and neonatal care; the chamber refused to concur in House amendments and sent a message asking the House to recede or appoint a conference committee. The Senate introduced House Bill 420 and referred it to Rules. In Judicial Proceedings, Senate Bill 791 on immigration enforcement prohibitions in correctional facilities was reported favorably with three amendments, including technical changes, limits tied to certain convictions, notice requirements for state facilities, and authorization for judges or commissioners to consider immigration detainers in bail decisions. The minority leader and others requested that the bill be special ordered for more time to review and prepare amendments, arguing the issue was controversial and had been fast-tracked; supporters of the committee report said the bill had already been heard and discussed. The debate over the special-order motion was ongoing at the end of the transcript.

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• Speaker, I don't know if you've ever been in a room and you walked in and you saw the opening session
• Mexico Constitution, I am authorizing for your consideration during the 57th Legislature's second session
• I am authorizing for your consideration during the 57th Legislature's second session submission of House
• Just a friendly reminder to the House Democrats: we will be caucusing today after the fourth session,
• The House Republicans will also be having a caucus immediately following the floor session in 318.

Bills: HM19

Keywords: New Mexico Aviation and Aerospace Day, aviation, aerospace, space industry, missile programs, Spaceport America, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Test Facility, Kirtland Air Force Base, drone, unmanned aircraft systems, commercial space transportation, NASA, aircraft, STEM education, research laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, flight testing, medical evacuation

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• Take our hands and lead us through this session in the year before us.
• The Legislature of the State of New Mexico, 57th Legislature, Second Session, 2026.
• The Legislature of the State of New Mexico, 57th Legislature, Second Session, 2026.
• The legislature of the state of New Mexico, 57th legislature, second session, 26.
• on... ...in this session.

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• We have several committees that had to cancel their last meeting because of our special sessions.
• meeting on September 29th, the meeting of the council, the council did vote to exclude temporary session
• I guess two sessions ago now that this was going to be a process of growth and evolution. and that we
• Lastly, the council traditionally meets the day before the session starts.
• You know, we have to meet after the session to set up the interim.

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• Prioritizing Western this past session and even in a special session to make sure that we finally get
• are present in this afternoon's session.
• President, you'll recall that in the last session we did a lot of competency reforms.
• The reader to read the amendment. 57th Legislature for a special session.
• So it's not just interests that meet before the session or meet during it. That's one party.