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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • First up on the agenda, we have HB 2344 HD1 SD2, with regards to public school realignment.
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  • Now, next item is Senate Bill 2613, relating to public school land transfer.
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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 229 Conference AM - 05-01-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Public Safety is reconvening.
  • We're convening our Public Safety Conference Committee meeting.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Next measure is Senate Bill 2487, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 1, relating to the Public Utilities
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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Next, we have HB 2271, making an emergency appropriation for public employment cost items.
  • Next, HB 2272, making an emergency appropriation for public employment cost items. Items.
  • This seeks to establish universal changing accommodations in public accommodations law, uh, and entities
  • Public accommodations law, uh, and entities, as well as exemptions for areas to which it may not be feasible
  • The item on the agenda, only item relating to public procurement.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-30-2026 12:00pm

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you, Auntie Momilani. practitioner, public servant, community practitioner, public servant, community
  • mentorship, and public service. mentorship, and public service.
  • and a strong sense of public service. and a strong sense of public service.
  • public funding of election campaigns. public funding of election campaigns.
  • help focus sustained public attention on help focus sustained public attention on political<00:32:50.000
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 31st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • , wanted some more clarification when it comes to preserving evidence of malfeasance in office or public
  • , wanted some more clarification when it comes to preserving evidence of malfeasance in office or public
  • Parish, but statewide, where increases in taxes are often met with resistance based on the way that public
  • What we did was take some of the input from the Surgeon General’s Office.
  • So I would imagine this would be public funding to make tuition either... Rep.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 28th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Education Funding and Formula Task Force to study and evaluate the funding structure of Louisiana's public
  • Members, this just cleans up some language about how they post public notices for meetings of public
  • It's allowing for, requiring the board to video broadcast all live proceedings for any public meeting
  • So I believe the public safety committee of the council and others have said, look, if we could hold
  • This isn't going to be let out to the public. They have to follow strict guidelines on this.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 28th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Education Funding and Formula Task Force to study and evaluate the funding structure of Louisiana's public
  • Members, this just cleans up some language about how they post public notice for meetings of public bodies
  • It's allowing for, requiring the board to video broadcast all live proceedings for any public meeting
  • So I believe the public safety committee of the council and others have said, look, if we could hold
  • This isn't going to be let out to the public. They have to follow strict guidelines on this.
Summary: The Senate convened with 26 members present, heard a prayer from Dr. Steve Horn, and recited the pledge. The chamber then handled messages from the House, including concurrence in SCR 83 and appointment of conference committee members on several disagreements. A number of Senate resolutions were introduced or adopted, mostly creating study task forces or commending individuals and organizations, including resolutions on energy infrastructure, breast pump access, insurance coverage for auto repairs, biomarker testing, higher education funding, public-private partnership contracting, and various commendations. Several resolutions were adopted without objection, while others were returned to the calendar or concurred in by recorded vote, including SCR 29 and SCR 33 with House amendments. The Senate also considered House and Senate bills and resolutions returned from the House, with many measures adopted or concurred in. Notable actions included concurrence in HCR 117 on homeowner insurance claims processes, adoption of HCR 5 on special red drum harvest permits, and passage of bills on TOPS Tech eligibility (HB 325), vapor product permitting (HB 623), ABLE/Tuition Trust administration (HB 749), design services contracting (HB 755), rare cancer advisory board composition (HB 761), non-emergency medical transportation reimbursement (HB 1028), public meeting notices (HB 1049), healthy food retail financing (HB 1194), genetic testing coverage for SCN2A disorders (HB 1199), grocery initiative grants (HB 1222, which failed), and a constitutional amendment on retirement debt repayment order (HB 27). The chamber also adopted HCR 95, creating a joint rule requiring a fiscal review of certain tax measures for sales and use tax uniformity. Several measures drew extended debate. HB 181, which would allow the legislative auditor access to Medicaid and SNAP-related tax information for eligibility verification and fraud review, prompted concerns about privacy and scope but ultimately passed 26-8. HB 1220 on the State Board of Medical Examiners generated amendment discussion about board composition and transparency, including live video broadcasting of meetings, but was returned to the calendar before final action. HB 1018, creating a temporary local moratorium on certain alcohol permits in one Shreveport district, passed after discussion about broader policy solutions. The Senate then recessed for lunch at 2 p.m. after completing the subject-to-call list for the morning session.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • At this time, this concludes all virtual public comment.
  • At this time, this concludes all virtual public comment.
  • At this time, we do not have any virtual public comment.
  • At this time, this concludes all virtual public comment.
  • At this time, this concludes all virtual public comment.
Bills: SB219, SB9
Summary: The House Appropriations Committee met to hear several bills, with members repeatedly reminded to focus on fiscal impacts rather than policy merits. The committee first considered SB 9 on freshwater wetlands, which would combine tidal and non-tidal wetlands programs into one permitting framework; supporters said the bill resulted from a two-year consensus process and that the governor’s office and DENREC would absorb a significant share of the cost. Public testimony was largely supportive, emphasizing flood control and ecosystem services, though one speaker opposed the spending. The committee voted to release SB 9. The committee then heard SB 278 on child care assistance, which would preauthorize summer camp for eligible school-age children and create a separate lower co-payment for half-day care. The sponsor and the YMCA of Delaware said the change would better align family co-pays with provider reimbursement and make before- and after-school care more affordable for working families. The committee also released SB 278, SB 168 on alcohol delivery for package stores, SB 120 on health insurance coverage for certain testing and treatment, and HB 4, a pilot program for artificial intelligence and extended reality in schools; HB 4 was described as having a near-$3 million fiscal note and a one-year implementation delay because it was not funded in the budget. Later, the committee approved SB 219, which gradually increases the military pension income tax exclusion from $12,500 to $25,000 over three years and includes related joint-filing and residency changes. Supporters argued it would help attract and retain military retirees and bring federal dollars into the state. The committee also released SB 1, a major primary care reform bill that would increase primary care spending and implement hospital payment reforms, with projected long-term savings to the state employee health plan, and SB 325, which expands background checks and wrap-back monitoring for fire service personnel and adds an investigator position for the Fire Prevention Commission. In each case, public commenters and committee members generally supported the bills, and all were released from committee by recorded vote.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture Apr 27th, 2026

Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • The doctor explained that creating a food product this way takes a great deal of media, liquid, inputs
  • They also transfer responsibility for implementing and updating a public database with geospatial mapping
  • First, within 90 days, it would identify and map food deserts across the state and create a public-facing
  • It's about public health. It's about economic development. It's about neighborhood stability.
  • How do we educate the public?
Summary: The committee first heard Senate Concurrent Resolution 23, which would create an Agricultural-based National Security Priorities Task Force to study issues such as Chinese drones, farmland ownership, and other technology-related concerns that could affect farmers and national security. Senator Kathy Stewart said the goal was to avoid unintended consequences in legislation and to bring agriculture stakeholders together. The resolution was moved favorably with no objections. The committee then took up Senate Bill 502 on sugarcane bagasse storage. Supporters, including the sponsor, the Commissioner of Agriculture, and the American Sugar Cane League, said the bill would clarify that bagasse is an agricultural byproduct and would protect storage practices that comply with department best practices from local ordinances. Several residents from St. Martin Parish testified in opposition, saying a large bagasse pile near their homes was out of compliance, created dust and odors, and caused health and property-value concerns. Despite the opposition, the bill was reported favorably with no objections. House Bill 512, by Representative Schamerhorn, would prohibit the manufacturing and sale of cell-cultured food products in Louisiana while allowing university research to continue. An amendment was adopted to make the bill effective only if certain federal court rulings allow such a ban. The sponsor and Commissioner Strain argued the issue is still scientifically uncertain and that the state should avoid costly litigation; the bill was reported favorably with amendments after no objections. House Bill 1194, the Healthy Food Retail Act, was amended to shift food-desert research and mapping duties to the LSU AgCenter, while the financing authority would continue handling grants and related funding mechanisms. Supporters said the bill would improve data on food deserts and help target grocery access in underserved urban and rural areas; some members raised concerns about government subsidies and long-term dependence, but the sponsor and Commissioner Strain said the program is intended as infrastructure support to launch stores, not ongoing operating aid. After debate, the bill was reported favorably with amendments by a 10-3 roll call vote. The committee also reported favorably House Concurrent Resolution 65, which urges federal action to reclassify crawfish-industry job duties as agricultural labor for H-2A purposes; testimony emphasized labor shortages, the impact on crawfish and rice producers, and the need for more legal guest workers. The meeting ended with a brief informational handout on direct marketing and custom slaughter plants and adjournment.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Banking and Insurance Jan 13th, 2026

Banking and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • My name is Joel Noble, and I'm from Peoria, Illinois, and I'm here as the Director of Public Policy for
  • And our guidelines are public. They're publicly available. They're member-driven, member-voted.
  • Reinsurance intermediaries are not dealing with the general public.
  • Next, we'll take up Tab 1, Senate Bill 266 on public adjuster contracts by Senator Burton.
  • It does not create any new penalties or causes of action against a public adjuster.
Summary: The Committee on Banking and Insurance met with a quorum and took up several bills, beginning with SB 834 on insurance requirements for nonprofit religious organizations and health care sharing ministries. The bill repeals a recent restriction on licensed insurance agents marketing or selling faith-based health care sharing programs. Supporters argued the change restores free speech and consumer education while preserving existing fraud and disclosure protections; opponents said allowing agents and brokers could create consumer confusion and has been associated with bad actors. A title amendment was adopted, and after debate the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also heard and passed SB 642, which extends reporting and duty requirements to foreign and alien bail bond insurers, and SB 394, a technical bill updating reinsurance intermediary manager law to match current DFS practice. SB 266, which lets vulnerable adults rescind public adjuster contracts without penalty, was reported favorably after testimony from supporters in the insurance and elder law communities and a public adjuster who said the intent was good but the bill may need refinement. SB 832, a residential property insurance transparency bill requiring rate breakdown reports and a consumer resource center, also passed after discussion about consumer clarity and whether the required cost categories can be compiled as written. Later, the committee approved SB 540, which creates cybersecurity requirements for mortgage and money service businesses, closes a regulatory gap for certain investment advisers, adjusts OFR examination-payment deadlines, changes de novo charter requirements, allows virtual credit union meetings, and makes other financial regulation updates. Several amendments were adopted, including a substitute amendment removing fintech sandbox provisions. Finally, SB 1028 on Citizens Property Insurance Corporation was reported favorably after debate over a commercial lines clearinghouse intended to reduce Citizens’ exposure and shift more business to the private market; members discussed taxpayer risk, market competition, and consumer protections. The meeting ended with adjournment.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
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  • I thought it was worth mentioning for the public. Good point. Thank you.
  • I thought it was worth mentioning for the public. Good point. Thank you.
Summary: The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer, followed by a roll call confirming a quorum and approval of the prior minutes. A special guest, Dave Eager, was welcomed before the committee moved to presentations from retirement system officials. Bo Craycraft, executive director of the Judicial Form Retirement System, gave a quarterly update on investment performance, asset allocation, and cash flow. He said the plans had held up well amid market volatility, with fiscal year-to-date returns above benchmark and long-term returns remaining strong. He explained that the plans are targeted to a 70% equity/30% fixed-income allocation, that some cash is being held for cash-flow management, and that negative cash flow is expected because of funding and contribution levels. He also said Senate Bill 183, dealing with proxy voting and economic analysis for certain votes, was not expected to materially affect the plans because of their small number of holdings and Bear Trust’s long-term investment approach. Ryan Barrow and Erin Surrod then presented for the Kentucky Pension Authority. They reported positive quarterly performance across the retirement and insurance funds, though results varied by period and remained tied to broader market conditions. They said recent asset-allocation changes had been completed and the funds were now within target ranges. On cash flow, they noted some plans remained negative or near zero, with one plan benefiting from a large appropriation. In the legislative update, they described House Bill 30 as codifying an exclusion from pension-spiking calculations for across-the-board raises, and Senate Bill 10 as increasing retiree health insurance subsidies and changing employee health insurance contribution rules for certain CERS members beginning in 2026. They also said Senate Bill 183 would likely have limited impact, though the agency would review voting policies and incorporate any required economic-analysis procedures.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Directions on how to submit public comments on the portal. can be found in today's hearing notice.
  • The public comments portal has been opened. Opposed upon adjournment of this hearing.
  • Reduces input costs and improves farm profitability and right now with volatile input prices, rising
  • practices and what they input into the land.
  • Spending too much on inputs, no matter what I study, it all boils back down.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 2nd, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • purchase and sale of real property for failure to provide notice that the property is located in a public
  • Members, you remember this bill, relating to fraud detection information and public information.
  • We have witnesses here to provide you more input. I reserve the right to close.
  • As things stand, a semiconductor fab depends on distributed global supply chains for key inputs, including
  • States cannot afford to be dependent on foreign nations, particularly adversarial ones, for critical inputs
Bills: HB112, HB199, HCR9
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.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Imagine for public and private.
  • This is not public information.