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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Human Services Feb 4th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • And for some, that is at home, and for others, that’s outside of the home for a period of time while
  • So for that, I’m asking for a no. So for that, I’m asking for a no.
  • I ask for you. how we can make things better. I ask for a yes.
  • That requirement is essential for accountability, for safety, and for community trust when we are dealing
  • For context, I am class counsel for the high-acuity residents at the Special Commitment Center, and part
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Jan 19th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • for his leadership and for making it request legislation.
  • the Balmer Group for our state's high-quality pre-K program, ECAP.
  • Senate Bill 5923 is necessary for us to also qualify for cost-based reimbursement for our Medicaid...
  • Again, as the advocacy director for AARP, we rely on these centers for places for enrichment, for meals
  • retirement savers and damaging their hopes for long-term financial security.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services May 13th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's Addie's Hope Social Services, and you're for the bill, is that correct? That is correct.
  • for that six-month delay.
  • The state, the SSCC, to look for placement for that child more quickly.
  • And so, I ask for your favorable consideration. Members, any questions for Chair Shaheen?
  • Are there any questions for this panel? Any questions for this panel?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But, as Chair Moller said, geographic diversity is a very high priority for the Office of Justice Programs
  • office</c><00:27:24.760><c> of</c> very high priority for the office of very high priority for the office
  • This bill hopes to help foster that same training culture for security officers by increasing the initial
  • This bill hopes to help foster that same training culture for security officers by increasing the initial
  • This bill hopes to help foster that same training culture for security officers by increasing the initial
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House State Government Committee Feb 5th, 2025

State Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I hope you all had a good summer and are ready to work.
  • three times or look for a job in the state of Alabama.
  • Thank you very much for your comments. Okay, does anyone have a question for the bill?
  • question for the bill. Do we have a motion?
  • ... responsible for people's money, so that's a big burden too.
Bills: HB93, HB160, HB29, HB29, HB93, HB160
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS Senate Floor - 4 February, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They hope Social Security is going to still be around for them.
  • congratulate Gulport High School Admiral Football<00:47:10.640><c> Team</c><00:47:10.880><c> for</c>
  • </c><00:47:39.119><c> School</c><00:47:39.440><c> for</c> commend Warren Central High School for commend
  • "Okay, Senator Hickman, thank you very much for this. I hope this study goes forward.
  • I hope this study um goes much for this.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • There is an exemption for counties that have high unemployment rates, and so we expect that that will
  • What I would point out is that there is an exemption for counties that have relatively high unemployment
  • Ronald Coleman Beza, I'm hoping I'm pronouncing these names correctly, managing director of policy for
  • Habitat for Humanity so that we don't get an... ...at a home-build site for Habitat for Humanity so
  • for all ages.
Summary: The Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the impacts of H.R. 1 on California’s safety net, focusing on Medi-Cal and CalFresh. The chair and vice chair framed the issue as a major federal disruption that would reduce benefits and shift costs to the state, counties, hospitals, and other local systems. The first panel included the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the Department of Finance, the UC Berkeley Labor Center, and the Food Research and Action Center, each describing projected enrollment losses, higher state and county costs, and implementation challenges. The LAO outlined H.R. 1’s main changes: new and expanded work requirements, more frequent eligibility redeterminations, restrictions on certain non-citizen eligibility, and financing changes affecting provider taxes and federal matching rates. The LAO estimated that 1 to 2 million people could be disenrolled from Medi-Cal and more than 600,000 could lose CalFresh, with additional costs from reduced federal support and possible state and county administrative burdens. The Department of Finance said the Governor’s budget includes about $1.4 billion General Fund in 2026-27 to respond to H.R. 1, with larger out-year reductions in federal funds and projected Medi-Cal caseload losses of up to 2 million by 2029-30. The UC Berkeley Labor Center projected up to 3 million Californians could lose full-scope Medi-Cal by 2028 when H.R. 1 is combined with state budget changes, while noting the state could choose policies that would reduce some of those losses. The Food Research and Action Center warned that CalFresh cuts and time limits would increase hunger, worsen health outcomes, and strain local economies and emergency systems. Members questioned the witnesses about procedural disenrollments, regional variation, the overall growth in Medi-Cal spending, the future of the MCO tax, the CalFresh error rate, and the downstream effects on hospitals and county indigent care. Several senators argued that the federal law was driven by tax cuts for high-income earners and would disproportionately harm low-income Californians, immigrants, and communities of color. Administration witnesses said some impacts are still being analyzed, that counties and departments are working on implementation, and that the Legislature may need to use statute, reporting, and oversight tools as federal guidance develops. No votes or formal actions were taken during this portion of the hearing.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Budget and Fiscal Review

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is an exemption for counties that have high unemployment rates, and so we expect that that will
  • What I would point out is that there is an exemption for counties that have relatively high unemployment
  • Ronald Coleman Beza, I'm hoping I'm pronouncing these names correctly, managing director of policy for
  • are you here for?
  • Habitat for Humanity so that we don't get an... ...at a home-build site for Habitat for Humanity so
Keywords: 987, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Finance Division I (03/19/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Um, for police work for.
  • For significant hazard dams, we go from 750 to 1,500, and for high hazard dams, we go from 1,500 to 3,000
  • It raises our standards, raises our bars for every single New Hampshire high school that participates
  • Graduation standards for students in New Hampshire public high schools.
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee reviewed a handout comparing House Bill 2 to current retirement law and walked through the bill section by section with staff from the retirement system. The discussion focused on vesting, earnable compensation, average final compensation, compensation-over-base limits, special duty pay, normal retirement age, re-retirement, and maximum benefit rules for Group 2/Tier B members. Staff explained that some provisions would restore pre-2011 rules, including counting certain end-of-career payments such as unused sick and vacation time in earnable compensation and reducing the AFC averaging period from five years back to three. They also described how the bill would eliminate the current cap on compensation over base, which mainly affects overtime, and noted that the actuarial cost of the AFC-related changes is interrelated rather than easily broken out by feature. A separate discussion covered the special duty pay limitation, which currently applies to Tier A and would be removed under the governor’s bill for both Tier A and Tier B members after their vested buy date. Staff said the actuary estimated that removing the special duty limitation would increase costs by about $13.9 million. Members also asked about the practical difference between overtime and special duty, with staff explaining that special duty generally involves work for a private third party, often police detail work, while overtime depends more on staffing and scheduling. The committee also reviewed the normal retirement age changes for Tier B and the possibility that some members would need to work longer to reach the new vested buy date. Members raised concerns about an ambiguity in the bill that could allow already-retired Tier B members to return to work, then re-retire and claim the higher benefits, or allow vested deferred members to stop working and wait for the new vested buy date. Staff said the governor’s office did not intend to allow that result and requested clarifying language, noting that the bill as drafted does not expressly prohibit it. The committee also discussed part-time and seasonal work after retirement, with staff explaining that such work generally does not restore membership unless the person takes a full-time position requiring enrollment. Finally, the committee reviewed the maximum benefit provisions and noted that HB 2 in the current year does not change the maximum benefit date or include the 1.5% annual escalator that had been part of the 2023 proposal, making the current bill more costly than the earlier version.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I move for advancement at the appropriate time and yield for questions.
  • Thank you for that, Mr. President. I can't say for sure.
  • Thank you for that concern. I'm not changing the schedule for service.
  • Thank you for the question. This is only for law enforcement.
  • Thank you for the question. I would sure hope not.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • President, I yield for questions and move for advancement.
  • For questions and moved for passage at the appropriate time.
  • Thank you for the questioning. Thank you for the question.
  • Thank you for that, Mr. President. You know, I can't say for sure.
  • Thank you for the question. I would sure hope not.
Summary: The Senate began with several ceremonial recognitions, including citations for the Destiny Christian School girls volleyball team and football team for state championships, and for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, in connection with Delta Day at the Capitol and Women’s History Month. Members and guests were welcomed to speak briefly before the chamber returned to its agenda. The chamber then considered a series of bills. SB 444, dealing with hospice handling and disposal of controlled dangerous substances left after a patient’s death, passed 39-0. SB 1327, restoring the Tourism and Recreation Commission’s authority and adding general commission-member requirements, passed 27-12. SB 1061, a mortgage broker fee cleanup bill, passed 38-0. SB 1425, repealing an obsolete health care workforce board, passed 40-0. SB 1455, extending the sunset for the Board of Governors of the Architects, Landscape Architects, and Licensed Interior Designers, passed 28-11 and then also passed the emergency with 38-1. SB 1458, an Attorney General-request bill to align grand jury witness confidentiality statutes, failed 24-14. The Senate also passed SB 1460, which increases penalties for repeat peeping Tom and clandestine recording offenses and makes second or subsequent offenses sex offenses, by a vote of 38-3. SB 1480, creating a youth apprenticeship pilot program, passed 42-0 and then passed the emergency. SB 1530, updating the Oklahoma Research Development Rebate Program and encouraging private partnerships with higher education, passed 36-4. SB 1543, allowing multiple DUI charges within one year to be prosecuted as a single felony case and making related cleanup changes, passed 37-6 after extended debate about diversion, due process, and testing issues. SB 1555, aligning the state definition of intellectual disability with federal standards, passed 42-0, with a later correction noting the final vote as 42-1. SB 1593, updating outdated OSU-Tulsa trustee language, passed 43-0 and then passed the emergency. SB 1730, requiring law enforcement to copy OSBI on sexual offense reports, passed 37-6. SB 1209, which would have excluded Sundays and federal holidays from the eviction filing-to-hearing timeline, failed on a 21-21 tie after debate over landlord rights, service timing, and court delays.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • The speaker said they are currently out to bid for that contract right now, and they hope to do a fair
  • </c> Thank you for the for the opportunity. Thank you for the for the opportunity.
  • printers,</c><00:34:36.560><c> and</c> high We have high-volume printers, and high We have high-volume
  • And for these reasons, I really hope that you consider approving and passing these resolutions forward
  • And for these reasons, I really hope<00:44:02.600><c> that</c><00:44:02.760><c> you</c><00:44:02.880>
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/23/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Hope you will vote for the bill.
  • c> funding for that kind of um for that funding for that kind of um for that kind<00:21:15.039><c> of
  • mental health and continuum of care for mental health and uh,<00:42:05.440><c> hope</c><00:42:05.599
  • for intellectual capital, for engines for intellectual capital, for research,<01:18:09.520><c> for</
  • Representative Huitt said he would and was hoping it would be laid over for inclusion.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 18th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have a quorum. >> Uh, thank you for the members for being here.
  • for the sponsor?
  • for the sponsor?
  • for the sponsor?
  • for the sponsor?
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Wed Feb 18, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, mahalo for the opportunity to testify, and we hope we'll pass this measure.
  • So, mahalo for the opportunity to testify, and we hope we'll pass this measure.
  • So, mahalo for the opportunity to testify, and we hope we'll pass this measure. Thank you.
  • Um, we just note that the deductibles for bronze and catastrophic plans are very high.
  • We have a high concentration of small businesses, but one of the reasons for the actuarial study was
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 20, which would create a lava zone insurance subsidy/fund. The Insurance Division opposed the bill, arguing that lava zones 1 and 2 are the highest-risk areas, that a subsidy would not reduce the underlying risk or loss costs, that it could invite similar subsidy requests for other hazards, and that the bill may conflict with HICV by diverting funds from the CRF. Members discussed the lack of authorized homeowners insurance in those lava zones, the role of HPIA and the surplus market, and the difference between the proposed lava-zone subsidy and the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund. The chair noted 37 submitted testimonies in support and one in opposition, and the committee then moved on without taking a vote on HB 20 in the portion provided. The committee then took up HB 2612, relating to mortgages, which would clarify that a mortgage does not exist independently of the debt it secures and is not independently enforceable from that debt. The Hawaii Credit Union League and Hawaii Financial Services Association opposed the bill, while several individuals testified in support, arguing it would restore Hawaii’s long-standing lien-state rule and prevent so-called “zombie mortgages” after the Hawaii Supreme Court’s White decision. Supporters said the bill would protect borrowers from delayed foreclosures and predatory lending practices, while opponents and the Insurance Division emphasized that foreclosure actions still require proof of standing and possession of the note, and that lenders generally pursue foreclosure without seeking deficiency judgments. Committee members questioned the Insurance Division about how the current market works, whether lenders could wait out the statute of limitations and then foreclose only on the mortgage, and whether equitable tolling or later defaults could allow refiling. The division said it is still trying to attract authorized insurers back into the lava-zone market, but has seen little progress. No vote or final action on HB 2612 was taken in the excerpt provided.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Feb 10th, 2026

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • I certainly hope I can speak for the authors of the bill.
  • I certainly hope I can speak for my friend Senator Trumbull.
  • We ask for your support for the Farm Bill. Thank you. Thank you for your testimony.
  • Cindy, please call the roll on CS for CS for CS for SB 290.
  • Cindy, please call the roll for CS for CS for SB 834. Senator Avila? Yes. Senator Berman?
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills, beginning with CS for CS for SB 54, which requires district medical examiners to perform toxicology screenings for psychotropic drugs and intoxicating substances in autopsies of violent offenders and report findings to state agencies. It was reported favorably after brief discussion about how the data would be used. CS for SB 176 also passed, requiring public postsecondary institutions to make campus safety reporting and response procedures clearer and more accessible for students, faculty, and staff who receive threats. Both bills were approved without opposition in the meeting. The committee then took up the large Florida Farm Bill, CS for CS for CS for SB 290, which drew extensive testimony and multiple amendments. The bill includes changes to fair associations, a preemption on local restrictions affecting gas- and diesel-powered farm equipment, surplus of certain state-owned lands for agricultural use, a food animal veterinary loan repayment program, permanent authorization for Farmers Feeding Florida, expanded Florida Forest Service training, a ban on signal jamming devices, tougher CDL English-proficiency penalties, protections for food safety inspectors, biosolids provisions, and contractor payment enforcement. Amendments expanded veterinary loan eligibility to equine veterinarians, merged citrus research entities, made technical corrections, and revised contractor payment language; a late-filed amendment removed the bill’s disparagement clause after significant First Amendment concerns and public testimony. A separate amendment delayed biosolids compliance deadlines. The bill was reported favorably as amended. Also approved were CS for CS for SB 834, which repeals a restriction on health care sharing ministries partnering with licensed insurance agents, while adding a disclaimer requirement; SB 936, allowing temporary door locking devices at any height above the floor and directing the Building Commission to add standards to the code; and CS for SB 50, expanding veterans’ courts statewide. Later, CS for CS for SB 1004 advanced with a strike-all regulating dog and cat sales, requiring disclosure of medical records and financing terms, a three-day waiting period for financed purchases, and consumer protections against deceptive pet sales; an amendment removed an appropriation section. The committee also approved CS for CS for SB 178, which directs the FHSAA to adopt rules allowing coaches to provide limited good-faith support to student-athletes, and CS for CS for SB 198, regulating virtual currency kiosks with registration, warnings, transaction limits, receipts, and refund protections. Each of these bills was reported favorably by recorded vote.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 9

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Um, same request. for 15-26. for 15-26. Representative<00:15:37.519><c> Garcia.
  • Clerk, are there any resolutions for action? Madam Speaker, there are no resolutions for action.
  • >> Seeing none for the adjournment.
  • </c><00:17:56.480><c> Representative</c> for the adjournment. Representative for the adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Transportation Apr 24th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • I hope that this can also serve as a reminder for people to stop and think and drive safely.
  • You're showing us for it. I am for it. You're for the bill. It's, it's, yes sir.
  • If you train for it, you trained for it.
  • Thank you very much and I hope I answered it all. Thank you all for your time for your help.
  • While current state camera systems are not designed for high-resolution evidence gathering, there is
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 24th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • I would really hope that there's a little bit more care for everyone.
  • You're hoping everyone's listening, right? I sure am. Thank you all for your time.
  • I hope so, thank you. All right, any other questions? Okay, thank you for coming, appreciate it.
  • I hope it's also something that you can consider for the riders of DART.
  • I hope you come back to the representative someday. It'd be great for the...
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 24th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, members, I'm grateful for the opportunity to be in front of this committee for a second time
  • Even though their time was cut way too short, I'm so grateful for the time we had together and for all
  • I hope that this can also serve as a reminder for people to stop and think.
  • Yes, thank you for bringing that out there.
  • for safety purposes?