Video & Transcript Research : 'refuse collection'
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Agriculture Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- With many clients refusing to accept new clients and appointment wait times stretching for weeks and
- MDA has been made aware of several situations where dairy producers have not been paid for milk collected
- However, as costs have increased over the past 20 years, the MDA has reached a point where the revenue collected
- This is another example of data collected at our Olmstead County Soil Health Farm.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Commerce and Tourism Mar 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- PAPERWORK FROM A JUDGE TO SUPPORT THAT IT WAS FALSE BUT ONE OF THE NEW STATIONS THAT HAVE COVERED IT HAS REFUSED
- I FOUND OUT YESTERDAY I HAVE ANOTHER MEMBER THAT HAS TWO TO THREE FIRES A WEEK AT POST COLLECTION FACILITIES
- OUR MEMBERS ARE WORKING ON LEGISLATION IN 12 OTHER STATES TO EXPAND THE COLLECTION OF ALL PORTABLE BATTERIES
- LIKELY INSERTS CAN BE COLLECTED, RECYCLED, AND THEN REUSED.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting Aug 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Yet, you want to refuse to hear the public testimony of Texans who, like working-class Texans, wish they
- Now, by allowing Trump to take over Texas, by refusing to prioritize flood relief and disaster recovery
- What matters are the results of your actions collectively as a legislative body.
- They were... ...refused.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting Jul 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Please bear with us throughout these regional hearings as we collect public testimony.
- We cannot hold town hall meetings because of this, and my representative, Troy Nels, refuses to do a
- The legislature needs to refuse to condone redistricting mid-decade and concentrate on the issues that
- self-reflect in the same way that you've forced through the unpopular bills, such as defunding our schools, refusing
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Feb 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill expands information sharing to allow use of federal information centers and units to collect
- municipality or other local government have an ordinance or regulation or rule a rule or a policy that is refusing
- initiate a judicial proceedings of local government, adoption ordinance, regulation, rule or policy that refuses
- to comply with a detainer directs with local officials, employees or others to refuse to comply. >>
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, July 17, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In January 2022, she announced an auction of her nonfungible token, or NFT, collection.
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his - I reserve the balance of my time. my colleague refuse confuses retail and my colleague refuse confuses
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25 - Part 1
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- It's completely appropriate for our law enforcement to collect as much biographical data as they can
- in houses with inadequate heat, forcing them to work without clean water or bathroom breaks, and refusing
- Minnesota is an anomaly sometimes, good and bad, and we don't collect data on, you know, potentially
- Minnesota is an anomaly sometimes, good and bad, and we don't collect data on, you know, potentially
- Minnesota is an anomaly sometimes, good and bad, and we don't collect data on, you know, potentially
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It would also allow states to bring a civil action against Federal officials who refuse to enforce these
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laws <00:27:52.919>Joe <00:27:53.200 - to enforce our immigration laws refusal to enforce our immigration laws is<00:44:40.559>
because< - Speaker, who refuse to engage in meaningful legislative work to get the job done.
- to enforce our laws deliberate refusal to enforce our laws it<01:06:47.920>
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VT
Transcript Highlights:
- Help us refuse to look away. Let love disturb us.
- Help<00:01:48.399>
us <00:01:48.720>refuse <00:01:49.280>to <00:01:49.520>look - Help us refuse to look away. Help us refuse to look away.
- Let love disturb us until love refuses to settle for the world as it is. Amen.
- Let love disturb us until love refuses Let love disturb us until love refuses to<00:04:32.800>
settle
Summary:
The House opened with a devotional led by Rep. Anne Donahue and the Pledge of Allegiance, then moved into first readings of 10 House bills. The bills covered building energy standards and a residential building code (H.717), building energy efficiency (H.718), hospital collaboration and state action immunity (H.719), cloud computing/public utility issues (H.720), juvenile proceedings and forensic facilities (H.721), municipal regulation of surface water use for drinking water supplies (H.722), posting of land (H.723), involuntary psychiatric medication in emergency circumstances (H.724), the State Labor Relations Act (H.725), and flexible working arrangements (H.726). Each was read the first time and referred to the appropriate committee; H.648, affecting state revenue through banking, insurance, and securities, was referred to Ways and Means under House Rule 35A.
On the action calendar, the House took up and passed H.84, allowing telehealth appointments to be recorded with patient and provider consent, and H.534, relating to community action agencies. Both bills were read a third time and approved by voice vote, with the chair announcing that the ayes appeared to have it. The chamber then completed its orders of the day.
Several announcements followed, including guest introductions, caucus meetings, an ice cream social, and notice of a press conference on immigration protections. The chair also reminded members to return later in the day for the joint assembly to hear the governor’s budget address. The House then adjourned until Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 3 p.m.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- But Nancy Roman refused to be stopped.
- But<00:59:12.120>
Nancy <00:59:12.440>Roman <00:59:12.800>refused <00:59:13.359>< - But Nancy Roman refused to be stopped. But Nancy Roman refused to be stopped.
- trans people in my life and in Maryland, doing the work to build the community and advocate for collective
- ignoring your realities. ...in Maryland, doing the work to build the community and advocate for collective
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, quorum call, and approval of the previous day’s journal, then received Senate Bill 890 and several House committee reports. The first major measure taken up was House Bill 627, which establishes a Commission on Histories, Culture, and Civics in Education. Committee amendments clarified the commission’s purpose, membership, and charge to review curriculum materials and school calendars and make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission. Additional amendments added a disability community expert and preamble language. The bill prompted extended debate about whether the commission would promote diversity in curriculum, how it would address religious and ethnic representation, and whether it would include Christian or Catholic perspectives; supporters said it was meant to reflect communities that had requested inclusion and to improve the completeness of Maryland history, while critics questioned the need for a new commission and raised concerns about identity politics and curriculum control. The bill was ordered printed for third reading after second-reader consideration.
The House also considered House Bill 1582, the Education Program Accountability, Comprehensive Outcomes and Measures of Progress for Supporting Schools (COMPASS) Act. An amendment removed references to advanced professional certificates and national board certification from school quality indicators and required annual reporting on the relationship between composite scores and concentrations of low-income students. During discussion, members asked whether the bill was changing the scoring system and how much weight academics would carry; the response was that academic indicators would remain a majority of the score, but no single indicator could exceed 20% of the composite. The amendment and favorable report were adopted, and the bill was ordered printed for third reading.
The House then took up House Bill 1514 concerning Calvert County county officials and Board of Education salaries and benefits. Committee amendments were technical and removed a benefit provision related to a former commissioner; both the amendment and favorable report were adopted without opposition, and the bill was ordered printed for third reading. Finally, the chamber moved to special order calendar item Senate Bill 283, the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2026. The House Appropriations Committee presented 198 amendments to the capital budget, describing them as balanced across regions and within debt affordability limits, and began moving the amendments in groups, starting with a technical amendment.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, and the HOA refused.
- So are you collecting total ADUs or are you collecting ADUs that are at workforce pricing?
- So are you collecting total ADUs or are you collecting ADUs that are at workforce pricing?
- So are you collecting total ADUs or are you collecting ADUs that are at workforce pricing?
- So are you collecting total ADUs or are you collecting ADUs that are at workforce pricing?
Summary:
The Housing Committee opened with a public hearing on HB 196, which would repeal the Housing Champion program. Representative Matt Drew, the prime sponsor, argued the program is an unnecessary and poorly targeted subsidy, saying it rewards municipalities after projects are completed and may not be limited to new housing production. He questioned the transparency of the program, cited difficulty finding required annual reports, and noted a fiscal note suggesting the state could recover up to $3 million if obligations are terminated. Committee members and witnesses debated whether the program’s criteria amount to political favoritism or a standard grant process; supporters said the rubric is specific and that municipalities are evaluated against objective requirements. Representative Priest, Nick Taylor of Housing Action New Hampshire, and Karen Benfield of Stay Work Play New Hampshire all opposed repeal, saying the program encourages local zoning and regulatory changes, helps smaller communities participate, and supports housing supply and young people’s ability to stay in the state. The hearing on HB 196 was then closed.
The committee then opened a hearing on HB 1405, a bill establishing an affordable housing guarantee program within the Housing Finance Authority. Prime sponsor Representative Chris Muns said the bill would reduce lender risk by guaranteeing up to 80% of principal on qualifying loans for affordable housing, with a cap of $30 million per lender per year and $300 million outstanding at any time. He described the measure as a low-cost public-private partnership backed by the full faith and credit of the state, and said it was identical to a prior Senate bill that had received unanimous bipartisan committee support before dying later in the process. He framed the bill as one part of a broader housing package aimed at financing, infrastructure, workforce, zoning reform, and other housing-related issues.
No votes were taken during the portion of the meeting provided. The only formal actions were opening and closing the public hearing on HB 196 and opening the public hearing on HB 1405, with testimony continuing on HB 1405 at the end of the transcript.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- So, it is the hope after what does this committee collectively need to do in order to address what you
- So, it is the hope after what does this committee collectively need to do in order to address what you
- but we are, you know, we are collecting but we are, you know, we are collecting data<01:47:46.639
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/26/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- My bill builds on the steps we've collectively taken over the past few years and implements recommendations
- acute crisis: their child is in the hospital because they have attempted suicide, their child is refusing
- acute crisis: their child is in the hospital because they have attempted suicide, their child is refusing
- to go to suicide their child is refusing to go to school<00:15:05.839>
and <00:15:05.959>are - <01:26:58.320>
working stakeholders collectively working stakeholders collectively working
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nominations of Dean Sauer, of Missouri, to be Solicitor General of the United States, and Harmeet Dhillon, of California, and Aaron Reitz, of Texas, both to be an Assistant Attorney General, all of the Department of Justice. Feb 26th, 2025 at 09:15 am
Senate Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- faithfully execute and defend the Constitution and laws and it would therefore be appropriate to refuse
- Is it ever proper to simply refuse to obey that order? Thank you, Senator Coons.
- They can appeal it, they can speak out against it, they can question it, but can they refuse?
- that the President of the United States refused, as a litigant before a federal court, refused to follow
- to enforce the law including refusing to protect Supreme Court justices when a clear federal statute
Keywords:
Department of Justice, nominations, Assistant Attorney General, civil rights, enforcement, committee discussion
Summary:
The meeting covered important discussions surrounding key nominations in the Department of Justice, specifically for the roles of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and the Office of Legal Policy. Various committee members took turns to express their views on the nominees, emphasizing the implications of their potential confirmation on civil rights enforcement in the country. Alongside the committee discussion, the nominees provided insights into their professional backgrounds and how their experiences align with the responsibilities of the positions for which they have been nominated.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (01/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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we're pursue the parents to collect we're pursue the parents to collect we're - It also prohibits the school district from using a collections agency to collect unpaid school meal debt
- child labor or we shouldn't to collect child labor or we shouldn't to collect the<03:56:15.359><
- collections agency to collect unpaid collections agency to collect unpaid School<03:56:42.520>
- The school can still attempt to collect from parents.
Summary:
The committee took up HB 651, a school-funding bill that would raise the base cost of an adequate education and increase differentiated aid for students in poverty, English language learners, and special education. The chair opened with housekeeping notices about parking and eating in committee spaces, and noted a revised fiscal note would be distributed. Representative David Luneau presented the bill as part of a broader package of public school funding measures, explaining that HB 651 builds on HB 550 and is intended to respond to court rulings and the ongoing school-funding litigation by adjusting both the base adequacy amount and equity-based funding factors.
Luneau said the bill would raise the state’s adequacy grant from about $4,100 to $7,351 per student and increase differentiated aid, while also updating statutory language so future recalculations include the court-identified resource elements. He argued the measure is about fairness and shifting more of the burden from local property taxpayers to the state, not about increasing overall education spending. He reviewed fiscal-note figures indicating the bill would add roughly $576 million to the state share of school funding, bringing the total state share to about $1.65 billion, and said the note also mentions possible effects on charter schools and vouchers.
Committee members asked about the evidence supporting higher costs for low-income and English learner students, how long ESL funding should continue, why free-and-reduced-lunch aid remains higher than special education aid, whether the formula is based on enrollment or average daily membership, and whether the bill is truly equitable across districts of different sizes and needs. Luneau and later witness Zach Shen of the New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project said the bill is supported by research and court findings, that the current formula relies heavily on local property taxes, and that shifting more funding to the state would reduce property-tax pressure and help address disparities among districts. Shen also cited broad public support for the related HB 550 testimony and said HB 651 is intended as a step toward a more equitable funding system. No vote or final action was taken in the portion provided.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/15/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
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collective override the constitution. collective override the constitution. - The future is dark, but we can refuse to assist in this federal lawlessness.
- The future is dark, but we can refuse to assist in this federal lawlessness.
- The future is dark, but we can refuse to assist in this federal lawlessness.
- The future is dark, but we can refuse to assist in this federal lawlessness.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Nine - Tuesday, April 28
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- as it pertains to that, that the court can change their level of scrutiny as it pertains to the collection
- Out of personal analysis, evaluations, survey, or data collection by the school district.
- And the parents have refused to attend the LEA or obtain approval through a due process complaint and
- have this, this, this, this, this, this, this pandemic situation of parents who are out there just refusing
Summary:
The House opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal for the 58th day by roll call vote, 123-1. Members also introduced a number of special guests, including physicians, sheriffs, students, interns, and a police chief, before moving to third reading and perfection of bills.
House Bill 1758, dealing with permanent daylight saving time in Missouri, was debated at length. Supporters said it would end the twice-yearly clock changes and argued it could benefit children, productivity, and quality of life. Opponents warned it would create darker morning commutes, safety concerns, and health issues tied to circadian rhythms. The bill passed third reading by a vote of 107-31 with two present.
The chamber then perfected and printed House Bill 3329, which repeals expired or unused tax credits, and House Bill 3405, which clarifies that SALT/pass-through entity provisions are deductions rather than tax credits for Department of Revenue processing. Both bills were described as cleanup and efficiency measures, with supporters emphasizing accountability and reduced manual work at DOR; both moved forward without opposition in committee and were approved on the floor.
Finally, House Bill 2426, a parental rights bill, drew extensive debate and an amendment. The bill would elevate parents’ rights in education, medical, privacy, and related decisions to a fundamental-rights standard and add provisions on school records, recordings, evaluations, and certain health-care decisions. Critics argued it was overly broad, could interfere with school operations and existing protections, and might create problems in areas such as IEPs, truancy, and medical consent; supporters said it simply codified and strengthened parental authority. House Amendment 1, focused on IEP procedures and requiring parental consent for major changes, was adopted 98-25 with six present, and debate on the underlying bill continued.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Health Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- You're already collecting it because of Pompe disease and NPS1 on a voluntary basis.
- You're already collecting it because of Pompe disease and NPS1 on a voluntary basis.
- We ask that you refuse all efforts to weaken Massachusetts' landmark tobacco law.
- products still contain nicotine which is highly addictive and they are not without risk we ask that you refuse
- This proposed statewide nicotine-free generation law would make it clear that Massachusetts refuses to
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on a wide range of bills focused on children’s health, tobacco control, newborn screening, pediatric cancer, palliative care, and professional licensure. Early testimony highlighted Senate bills to expand newborn screening for pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency, lysosomal storage disorders, and congenital CMV, with families and clinicians describing severe diagnostic delays, missed treatment windows, and the benefits of early detection. Speakers also supported a bill to improve pediatric cancer research through a dedicated trust fund, and a bill to extend pediatric palliative care services to age 22, with parents and providers emphasizing continuity of care for seriously ill young people.
Several witnesses gave personal accounts in support of the newborn screening measures. Families described children who endured years of misdiagnosis before receiving diagnoses such as Gaucher disease, Fabry disease, Pompe disease, Niemann-Pick disease, and CMV, often after irreversible damage had already occurred. Medical and advocacy witnesses said Massachusetts already collects some of the relevant screening data and argued that results should be reported to families, while others urged the committee to add conditions to the state panel because effective treatments already exist. The committee also heard support for a bill to establish a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder program and training for providers.
On tobacco and youth health, testimony supported bills to ban internet tobacco sales, strengthen youth protections, and reduce lung cancer deaths through point-of-sale information and quit-line access. A student testified about easily purchasing flavored nicotine products online without meaningful age verification, and public health advocates backed measures to keep tobacco out of children’s environments. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to ensure parents have access to their children’s medical records through age 16, with exceptions for sensitive services already protected by law.
The committee additionally took testimony on an optometry licensure bill, where ophthalmologists opposed language they said could broaden scope of practice and allow optometrists to use the title “optometric physician,” while optometry educators and students supported the bill as a modernization measure with no scope expansion. No votes were taken during the hearing; the chair repeatedly reminded speakers of time limits and noted that written testimony could be submitted for additional comments.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The commission no longer receives appropriated funds and collects only minimal revenue from such fees
- I guess, Senator Hughes, we tried to collect through this legislation for the state of Texas to have
- Because they limited the fee that you could collect in the bill.
- A collectible Texas coin would be very high, as I think Senator Nichols mentioned.
- We've widely promoted and attempted to meet with all those who opposed, but they refused to meet with
Keywords:
SB 524, Texas franchise tax, veteran-owned business, new veteran-owned business, business tax exemption, filing fee exemption, Tax Code Chapter 171, Business Organizations Code, Comptroller, small business, veterans, entrepreneurship, tax repeal, privilege tax, beginning date, franchise tax exemption, severance tax, oil, gas, restimulation wells
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- The committee moves that the House refuse to concur with the Senate proposal and that a committee of
- You have refused to concur and requested a committee of conference.
- to concur in the Senate the house refuse to concur in the Senate proposal<00:13:38.160>
of <00 - And you have refused to concur have it.
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Summary:
The House opened with a devotional by Rep. Chris Keyser centered on Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” using the poem as a reflection on legislative choices, compromise, and service to the common good. After the devotional, the chamber took up a large slate of introductions, with 21 House bills read by number only after a successful motion to suspend the rules. The House also read HR12, a resolution supporting the principles behind Gov. Phil Scott’s statement regarding federal ICE and CBP activity in Minnesota, and placed it on the calendar for action the next legislative day.
The House then concurred in JRS38, a joint Senate resolution setting weekend adjournment for January 30, 2026, to reconvene no later than February 3, 2026. During announcements, members recognized guests from Third Act Vermont, wished the member from Burlington a happy birthday, invited members to a Universal Health Care Caucus meeting, and promoted an evening Farmers Night performance. The House also voted to rescind journalization and expunge remarks previously entered by the member from Swanton from Friday’s House Journal.
In orders of the day, the House rejected concurrence with the Senate’s further proposal of amendment to S.23, an act relating to the use of synthetic media in elections, and instead requested a committee of conference; the chair appointed Reps. Byron, Hango, and Waters Evans as conferees. The chamber then passed H532, relating to mandatory retirement of college professors. It also adopted the committee’s strike-all amendment to H270, relating to confidentiality for peer support counseling among emergency service providers, after favorable 11-0 committee action; the bill was then ordered to third reading. Finally, the House amended and ordered to third reading H516, approving amendments to the charter of the town of Essex, after discussion of charter changes including select board vacancies, moderator procedures, town appointments, accounting requirements, and related technical updates. The House then adjourned until January 29, 2026 at 3:30 p.m.