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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • it to the next committee. it to the next committee. Representative<00:21:27.360> Gander.
  • Welcome to the committee.
  • Welcome to the committee. Welcome to the committee.
  • Committee. A roll call being requested. Committee. A roll call being requested.
  • Civil Law Committee? Civil Law Committee?
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/26/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for being in committee. Thank you, Madam Chair and committee members.
  • Welcome to committee, Madam Chair and members of the committee.
  • nor the chairman of the Senate Health Committee were involved, aware, had been briefed, had been involved
  • Carpenter, did you engage the chair of this committee or the chair of the Senate committee on the rural
  • They didn't brief the chairman of this committee or of the Senate committee.
Summary: The committee began with a presentation from the Alzheimer’s Association Desert Southwest Chapter and Dr. Anna Burke of Barrow Neurological Institute on the scope of Alzheimer’s disease, the shortage of specialists, low rates of timely diagnosis, and the need for caregiver support and early intervention. Speakers emphasized that Arizona is a leader in Alzheimer’s research and that lifestyle changes, new therapies, and research funding offer hope, but only if patients are diagnosed earlier and providers are better trained. The committee then heard House Bill 2202, which would appropriate $300,000 over three years for a dementia care telemonitoring/telementoring grant program through the Department of Health Services to help providers statewide learn best practices in dementia care. Supporters, including the Alzheimer’s Association, Dr. Danny Cabral, and a patient advocate, said the bill would address major gaps in provider training and improve early diagnosis and treatment. There was no opposition, and the committee voted 11-0 to give HB 2202 a do pass recommendation. The committee next took up House Bill 2251, the “Jordan and MacTerry Act,” which would expand licensed midwives’ authority to administer certain medications, require liability insurance disclosure and reporting, and create an Arizona Midwifery Advisory Committee. Supporters said the bill would improve safety, oversight, and access to emergency medications in home births, while opponents from ACOG and the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association raised concerns about the adequacy of oversight, the medication list, and whether eight hours of pharmacology training is sufficient. After testimony from midwives, physicians, and stakeholders, the bill was held for further stakeholder work and anticipated floor amendments. House Bill 2252, which would allow certified nurse midwives, certified professional midwives, or licensed midwives to accompany a patient in a ground ambulance during transport if approved by medical direction, also drew support and opposition. Supporters argued it would preserve continuity of care in emergencies, while firefighters and EMS representatives objected to ambiguity and scene control concerns. That bill was likewise held for further stakeholder meetings. The committee then recessed and reconvened for later presentations on federal budget and health-related topics.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee.
  • The sunset committee, when the evaluation... ...committee.
  • Madam Chair, members of the committee, I'm Joseph KPS, an attorney.
  • Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the committee.
  • It has made a mockery of the sunset committee and all of their hard work.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Apr 28th, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative King, along with Senator Kolkhorst, both strong agricultural legislators, passed HB 2463
  • Yes, we did in front of this committee. My city manager, Mario Conis, was there.
  • Good morning, Chairman Meyer and members of the committee.
  • I look forward to working with you and your fellow committee members as we move forward.
  • I did not lay out a committee substitute. Do we have a committee substitute?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Jul 21st, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Senate of the first called session of the 89th Legislative Assembly will come to order.
  • As the Senate begins its work, we ask that you grant each member wisdom and encouragement.
  • Legislation similar to Senate Bill No. 1278 from the 89th Legislature.
  • Senator Schwertner. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr.
  • President and members, the Senate will meet as the. Of the whole immediately upon our recess.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Jul 21st, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Rule 8.02 requires that resolutions amending the Senate rules be referred to a committee.
  • Yes, and thank you for agreeing to serve on the committee as well. Senator Blanco, what purpose?
  • Because I was asked to chair the committee by the President of the Senate.
  • I’m going to support the decision of the committee and the decision of the Texas Senate.
  • Senator King, as chairman of this committee, are you just going to check the box?
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN-WLA, AEN Public Hearings 02-11-2026

Agriculture and Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator DeCoite, aye. Senator Rhoads, aye. Senator Awa, aye.
  • >> on Senate on [clears throat] Senate Bill >> on Senate on [clears throat] Senate Bill 2372
  • Senator DeCoite, reservations. Senator Rhoads, aye. Senator Awa, aye.
  • Senator DeCoite, reservations. Senator Rhoads, aye. Senator Awa, aye.
  • Senator DeCoite, no. Senator Rhoads, aye.
Summary: The committee heard several measures related to agriculture, invasive species control, trees, reef protection, and land use. SP 2489 would require Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity leases to include access, invasive-species control, and termination provisions; DAB and DLNR supported it, as did several outside groups, while the Hawaii Farm Bureau and Hawaii Cattlemen’s Council raised concerns about notice, cooperation with lessees, and placing penalties on leaseholders for preexisting infestations. The chair noted six testifiers in support, one opposed, and three with comments. SP 2310 would appropriate funds to remove overgrown vegetation from the Kohola stream. DAB supported the bill but explained that the work already completed by its contractor stopped at a DOT boundary, and that the affected parcel appears to be a DOT highway segment on ceded lands; the committee discussed whether the appropriation should instead go to DOT. SP 2372, on exceptional and significant trees, received support from DNR and Outdoor Circle, with testimony describing trees as critical infrastructure and suggesting technical amendments to committee membership and the process for recommending trees to county councils. SP 2426, which would authorize DNR to contract with private parties to maintain sunscreen dispensers at state beaches and promote mineral-based sunscreen as reef-protective, drew support from DNR and reef advocates, while another witness questioned the science behind claims about mineral versus chemical sunscreens and urged broader environmental solutions. SP 2334 would impose a land conversion fee on agricultural land converted to other uses, create a fee fund for programs including healthy soils, and require state agricultural lands to use a conservation metric. DAB offered comments, and testimony from climate and farm groups generally supported the conservation goals but questioned references to programs not yet in place and objected to language excluding solar and wind uses, with one witness urging that agri-voltaics remain allowed. SP 2925, concerning coconut trees, would recognize them as food, water, and cultural resources, require signage for landscape palms, set labeling standards, and create a tax credit for naturally managed consumable coconut trees. DAB shifted from opposition to comments, DNR supported, and testimony from cultural and subsistence advocates strongly backed the bill as a response to coconut rhinoceros beetle impacts; committee questions focused on enforcement of signage, inspection resources, and the proposed tax credit.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Paxton sends up the committee substitute for Senate bill 568 8th Central Betting Court, you're
  • Senator Hagenboe moves adoption of the committee substitute for Senate Bill. 568.
  • I'm here testifying for the committee substitute for Senate bill 5 16.
  • It's committee substitute right committee substitute Senate bill 568 here none public testimony is over
  • This committee should be in favor of Senate Bill 1447 for two reasons.
Bills: SB568, SCR5, SB57, SB1447, SB27, SB24
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you so much. >> Our workforce of the committee. >> Madam Chair, committee members.
  • [clears throat] Committee members.
  • [clears throat] rejected by the Senate [clears throat] rejected by the Senate and<00:09:27.519><
  • Uh, thank you committee.
  • This bill Uh thank you committee.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The Senate Committee on State Affairs will come to order. Will the clerk call the roll? Encore?
  • Senator Hughes sends up a committee substitute. The Chair recognizes him to explain it.
  • Chairman, I do have a committee substitute. Thank you, Senator.
  • Senator Hall sends up the committee substitute and the chair recognizes Senator Kolkhorst to explain
  • Senator Paxton sends up a committee substitute, and Senator Paxton is recognized to explain the substitute
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Good afternoon, the Senate Committee on State Affairs will come to order.
  • It actually—Senator Hall sends up the committee substitute.
  • Thank you, Senator Sparks. Committee members, any questions for the author?
  • Thank you, Senator Hughes, Chair Hughes, and members of the Senate State Affairs Committee. I'm Dr.
  • I strongly urge this committee to reject Senate Bill 1999.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Conference committee report to Senate Bill 893 by Caldwell, Chad of the House, and Howard of the Senate
  • Senate Bill 893 or the Senate amendments to Senate.
  • Members who sttens, we're still waiting for Senate Bill 2 to Arrive from the honorable Senate.
  • Cookery conference committee report to Senate Bill 2 by Caldwell, Rey of the House and Paxton of the
  • As you know, this is a Senate bill and was controlled by the Senate until the very last minute.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • I move that the attendance roll call of the senate be considered the roll call of the senate in joint
  • Well said, Senator.
  • I would now like to call on Senator Brenda Stanley to give remarks as the chair of the veteran's committee
  • It's an honor to stand before you today as chair of the Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee
  • Senate amendments to House Bill 1370 by Boles of the House and Green of the Senate, and actct related
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Conference Committee report to Senate Bill 893 by a conference committee report to Senate Bill 893 by
  • a conference committee report to Senate Bill 893 by a Conference Committee report to Senate Bill 893
  • Members, Senate Bill 893, or the Senate amendments to Senate Bill 893, would prohibit a foreign principal
  • Conference Committee report to Senate Bill 2. Thank you. Clerk will read.
  • Conference Committee report to Senate Bill 2 by Caldwell, Trey, of the House and Paxton of the Senate
Summary: The House first took up Senate Bill 893, a conference committee report on property and critical infrastructure. The bill would bar foreign principals from countries designated as foreign adversaries from owning agricultural land or other land, especially within 10 miles of military installations or critical infrastructure, and also restrict certain state software purchases tied to adversarial countries. Members asked about how later-designated adversary countries would be covered and about the delayed effective date, which was explained as giving current owners time to divest. The conference report was adopted without objection, and the bill then passed the House 89-0. The chamber then considered Senate Bill 2, another conference committee report on wind energy setbacks. The measure would establish statewide setback standards for industrial wind turbines, including 2.5 tip heights from occupied dwellings and 1.5 tip heights from nonparticipating property lines, with exceptions for projects that had already secured most site control or queue positions before the effective date and for small community-scale systems. Supporters said it was a compromise that at least put some protections into statute, while opponents argued it weakened earlier House language and eliminated county local-control options. After debate, the bill failed on a 20-67 vote. Later, the House voted 60-19 to override the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 1589, allowing it to become law notwithstanding the governor’s objections. The session also included prayers and announcements, including updates about Representative Cantrell’s hospitalization and a note that the Senate had adjourned sine die. The House then adjourned sine die for the second regular session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • , bills, resolutions, conference committee reports, and joint committee reports, motions placing new
  • I move that the attendance roll call of the Senate be considered the roll call of the Senate in joint
  • I would now like to call on Senator Brenda Stanley to give remarks as the chair of the Veterans Committee
  • in the Senate.
  • It's an honor to stand before you today as chair of the Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee
Summary: The House convened, completed roll call, and heard an invocation and pledge before moving through several ceremonial presentations. Members recognized Monty Smith for 43 years of service with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, honored the Marlow Lady Outlaws girls golf team for winning the Class 3A state and academic state championships, and acknowledged the final group of pages for the 60th Legislature. The House also adopted HCR 1030, which sets the legislative procedure schedule and deadlines for the 61st Oklahoma Legislature. The chamber then met in a joint session with the Senate to observe Veterans Awareness Day. Speakers from both chambers and the Oklahoma Veterans Council delivered remarks honoring veterans, Gold Star families, and military service, and highlighted recent policy achievements for veterans, including the full tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans, the exemption of military retirement pay from state income tax, improved funding for veterans’ homes, and restructuring of the Oklahoma Veterans Commission. The Veterans Council also presented its annual awards, naming Sen. Kerry Hicks as Outstanding Senator of the Year, Rep. Andy Menz as Outstanding Representative of the Year, Aaron Higgins as Veteran of the Year, and the Speed family as Veteran Family of the Year, and recognized Scott Howell for his service to the council. The joint session then adjourned. Back in the House, members took up Senate amendments to House Bill 1370, which concerns the Corporation Commission plugging fund and a repealer tied to a state fuel-tax offset provision. The bill’s author explained that the amendment would prevent the state from capturing savings if the federal fuel excise tax is reduced, so any reduction would benefit consumers rather than state revenue. After questions about fiscal impact and the well-plugging fund, the House adopted the Senate amendments without objection and passed HB 1370 on final passage by a vote of 89-1; the emergency clause also passed 89-1. The House then recessed, later returned for a staff appreciation and sine die-style recognition, including a tribute to long-serving bill drafter Mark Carter, and recessed again while awaiting any additional legislation from the Senate.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • The previous state journal, House and Senate bills and joint resolutions on second reading, reassignment
  • of bills and resolutions, reports and joint committee reports, ratings, and placing motions will be
  • We pray for your strength as we wait upon the Senate and in your holy son's name, we pray.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Corrections Apr 30th, 2025 at 08:04 am

Corrections

Transcript Highlights:
  • As a reminder to the committee and our visitors and witnesses today, the House committee is subject to
  • Members, this is a Senate companion to Chairman Cook's HB 3673 that we passed out of this committee unanimously
  • Senate Bill 1610 is Senator Perry's bill, and I am the House sponsor.
  • Senate Bill 1610 is Senator Perry's bill, and I am the House sponsor.
  • Members of the committee, my name is Amanda Brady, and I am in opposition to Senate Bill 1610.
Summary: The Corrections Committee first took up pending business and reported several previously heard bills favorably to the full House, including HB 1515 and SB 2405, the TDCJ Sunset bill and its Senate companion, HB 5639 on the veteran housing program, HB 2854 on hospital visits as a parole or mandatory supervision condition and related hospital liability, and SB 1080 on occupational licenses for people with criminal convictions. The committee also heard and advanced SB 1080 without amendment, then moved into new business. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 3618, which would limit invasive group strip searches of female inmates in TDCJ facilities. Formerly incarcerated women and advocates testified in support, describing humiliation, trauma, barriers to programming, and arguing that searches were often ineffective and that contraband more often comes from staff. TDCJ’s resource witness said the agency has looked at technology such as millimeter scanners and is in the process of placing them in facilities, while the bill sponsor said the measure would preserve searches in emergencies and require female officers when women are unclothed. HB 3618 was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4515 on expanding orders of nondisclosure, with the author saying the committee substitute would narrow the bill to marijuana possession only; supporters from Alliance for Safety and Justice and Right on Crime argued it would improve reentry and public safety, while members asked about eligibility and related offenses. HB 1826, requiring depression screenings for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated women, drew support from women’s health advocates and formerly incarcerated witnesses; the bill was left pending. HB 1969, to help people leaving prison renew or obtain driver’s licenses, and HB 2708, expanding nondisclosure eligibility for certain misdemeanor convictions, were also laid out and left pending. Later, the committee heard HB 2729, which would bar hearsay evidence in hearings on violations of release conditions, and SB 1021, which would make stalking convictions ineligible for community supervision and add related victim-protection provisions; both were left pending. SB 1610, addressing civil commitment facility safety, sex offender registration, and penalties for assaults on staff, drew strong opposition from civil commitment residents, family members, and civil rights advocates who argued it was punitive and raised due process concerns; the resource witness said assaults had increased and explained the civil commitment process and existing legal safeguards. Finally, HB 4764 would require TDCJ to report detailed annual data on restrictive housing; supporters said the bill would improve transparency around solitary confinement, and the committee left it pending before adjourning.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Culture, Recreation & Tourism Apr 23rd, 2025

Culture, Recreation & Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • The House Committee on Culture, Recreation and Tourism will come to order.
  • For assistance in registering or testifying, please contact the committee staff.
  • Thank you, and thank you for always working with us on the committee.
  • I've actually had the opportunity to testify twice in the Senate.
  • Explorers, and members of the committee.