Video & Transcript Research : 'policy setting'
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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (01/28/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
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- I run policy for Cure Sarge Energy.
- Protection that that we don't set Protection that that we don't set precedents<00:36:48.200>
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to predictable term is essential policy to predictable term is essential policy
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, June 27, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
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that the aisle to support policies that the aisle to support policies that - c> the for policies from policies from the for policies from policies from the federal<00:52:21.839
- protests and sets the facts straight. protests and sets the facts straight.
- They should get the policy together. They should get the policy together.
- That sets us up for danger.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- We've got several matters set Judiciary. We've got several matters set Judiciary.
- for a public HB3, that's been set for a public HB3, that's been set for a public hearing.
- Miss Ogden, if you'll set the M. Smith. Miss Ogden, if you'll set the M. Smith.
- But um in their policies, you blind. But um in their policies, you blind.
- If a if a judge sets a bond for sets a bond for sets a bond for $500, it doesn't matter that the bombman
Keywords:
resisting arrest, penalties, criminal justice, law enforcement, public safety, youthful offender, capital murder, victims' rights, SB254, Alabama, statute of limitations, civil procedure, civil action, sex offense, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, survivor rights, tolling, disability, minor plaintiff
TX
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- I know we have other panels today that will talk about the details of our policies, how those policies
- All of those things, though, are expressly set out in our policy.
- We have provisions expressly set out in our policy. policy that prohibit that.
- our harassment policy.
- Texas Public Policy Foundation.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on State Government (3-6-25)
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the there already this is just setting the there already this is just setting - Those are always your policy people.
- Those are always your policy people.
- Those are always your policy people.
- Those are always your policy people.
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Consideration of HB 491 02:14
Consideration of HB 738 07:58
Guest presentation by Taiwan Consul General Elliott Wang 25:20
Consideration of HCR 50 36:37
Consideration of SB 19 49:29, 958, all
Summary:
The House State Government Committee met with a quorum and first considered House Bill 491 by Representative Steve Riley. The committee adopted a proposed committee substitute, then heard that the bill would raise the threshold for certain capital project and equipment purchases from $200,000 to $500,000, remove a requirement for a special board meeting when replacing a board of regents member, allow certain employees or contractors to perform capital construction work up to $500,000, remove limits on retired police officers working at postsecondary institutions, and speed release of pension information to employers. Members asked about reporting and oversight of the higher threshold, and the witness said the records are maintained by institutions and available upon request. HB 491 passed on a 19-0 roll call vote.
The committee then heard House Bill 738 by Representative Griffey, relating to state personnel and the constitutional officers. The bill would give independently elected constitutional officers more flexibility to hire unclassified employees and set salaries for classified employees up to the midpoint without Personnel Cabinet approval, while leaving pay scales, appropriations, and funding limits unchanged. Representative Griffey and witnesses from the auditor’s office said the measure was intended to reduce red tape, address salary compression, improve pay equity, and help recruit and retain staff; they also said it would allow offices to fill policy roles needed for audits and other work. Members questioned the fiscal note, salary caps, and whether the bill would affect future budget requests. The bill passed 18-1, with one pass, and the chair noted it would move favorably to the House floor.
After those bills, the committee briefly welcomed Taiwan’s consul general, Elliot Wang, and Representative Adam Bowling spoke about Kentucky’s relationship with Taiwan, including trade, investment, and prior assistance during disasters. Wang described Taiwan’s economic ties with the United States, ongoing trade and investment developments, defense and education cooperation, and people-to-people exchange programs, noting Kentucky was the first state to sign an education cooperation MOU with Taiwan in 2021.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Legislative Task Force on Government Efficiency Mar 25th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Legislative Task Force on Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- If we were to set a value at it, that is a good... Mr.
- If we were to set a value at it, that, that is a good. Mr.
- Well, the data sets that my colleagues around the country are working with Well, the data sets that my
- So other data sets could be driver's license data. Okay.
- Hopefully some are on policy, some are on appropriations.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services Mar 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Set of budget and policy proposals for the legislature to consider.
- How do we know when it's doing what it sets out to do?
- One, the office had not yet been set up and staffed.
- We also used existing state and national data sets, policy research, and analysis of state and national
- The new sector set minimum wages in.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 04/15/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- up, you may or may not have your heating systems set up to electricity.
- UP, YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE YOUR HEATING SYSTEMS SET UP TO ELECTRICITY.
- New York would never, ever approach a policy like that.
- Because right now, these policies are not getting to the root cause.
- BECAUSE, RIGHT NOW, THESE POLICIES ARE NOT GETTING TO THE ROOT CAUSE.
Summary:
The Senate convened, approved the prior journal, and then took up a series of utility and public service bills and resolutions. A resolution sponsored by Senator Scarcella-Spanton designating April 9, 2026, as Yellow Ribbon Day was adopted after remarks honoring veterans, active-duty service members, and their families. The chamber then moved through several Public Service Law measures focused on utility affordability, consumer protections, and PSC procedures, with some bills laid aside and others advanced.
Among the bills passed were measures by Senators Mayer, Cleare, Hinchey, Comrie, and Parker. Debate on the Mayer bill centered on limiting utility expenses and fees recoverable in rate cases; supporters said it was part of a broader package to reform PSC practices, while opponents argued it would not lower current bills and had been softened from earlier versions. The Webb bill creating a residential utility usage monitoring program drew extended debate over whether it would meaningfully reduce costs, who would pay for the program, and whether it could lead to government monitoring of household usage; supporters said it would give consumers more control and transparency, while critics said it would not lower rates. The Gonzalez bill, which would add consumer protections during PSC investigations and delay shutoffs in certain circumstances, also passed after questions about whether it applied to rate cases, with the sponsor saying rate cases were explicitly excluded.
Several members explained their votes, with supporters emphasizing affordability, transparency, and consumer protection, and opponents arguing the package would not address immediate rate relief and could burden ratepayers or encourage nonpayment. Senator Tedisco and others criticized PSC appointments and state energy policy, while Democratic sponsors argued the bills were part of a longer-term effort to reform utility regulation and address climate and affordability concerns. The chamber restored multiple bills to the non-controversial calendar before final votes, and the recorded results showed passage of the major utility bills by substantial margins, along with one amendment appeal being ruled nongermane and rejected.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (01/22/2025)
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- a decent Trend in fact the goal we set a decent Trend in fact the goal we set for<00:38:32.040><
- Is that only covered under the mother's policy, and how does coordination of benefit work with a policy
- Is that only covered under the mother's policy, and how does coordination of benefit work with a policy
- Is that only covered under the mother's policy, and how does coordination of benefit work with a policy
- Is that only covered under the mother's policy, and how does coordination of benefit work with a policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/12/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Policies affecting immigrant families Policies affecting immigrant families directly<00:41:20.040>
- And so I appreciate that your bill requires hospitals to set a policy and to train their staff so that
- policy actually was. policy actually was.
- set a policy and requires hospitals to set a policy and to<01:53:33.600>
train <01:53:34.360>< - There will be an actual policy.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (01/22/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- due to policies like State policies<00:24:14.720>
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have currently have bullying policies have currently have bullying policies - that addresses bullying and if policy that addresses bullying and if the<02:07:40.880>
policy - that policy.
- . ...child in a school setting.
Summary:
The House Education Policy and Administration Committee heard testimony on House Bill 71, which would bar public elementary and secondary schools and higher education facilities from being used as shelters for certain non-citizens, with a stated exception for short-term emergency sheltering of up to 72 hours and for community-wide emergency use. Prime sponsor Rep. Juliet Harvey-Bolia said the bill was modeled on federal and out-of-state proposals and was prompted by examples in New York and Massachusetts where schools or other facilities were used as shelters, causing disruption. She argued the bill does not truly “ban” anything, but instead places a condition on receipt of state funds, and said the fiscal note’s projected loss of federal funding was unsupported and should have been described as undeterminable.
Committee members questioned the bill’s scope and practical effects, including whether it would apply to vacant school-owned buildings, schools used during summer, charter schools, and situations where other states send people without advance notice. Harvey-Bolia said vacant buildings not functioning as schools would not be covered, and that the bill would still allow short-term emergency sheltering and community-wide use during weather events. She also said the bill would not prevent remote learning, and that its purpose was to avoid displacing students. Several members pressed her on the fiscal note and whether any federal or state program would actually be at risk; she said she found no evidence that funding would be lost and that DHHS had not identified a real threat.
A witness from the New Hampshire Association of School Administrators, Jerry FW, raised practical concerns about who would determine eligibility at a shelter site, how the 72-hour limit would be enforced, and whether the bill would apply to charter schools. He also noted that remote learning is no longer an option in New Hampshire, making one of the bill’s stated concerns less relevant. The discussion also included clarification of the terms “refugee” and “asylum seeker,” with members and the sponsor debating the distinction and whether refugees are vetted. No vote or final committee action was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
WY
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- and then Johnson set us down to uh set and then Johnson set us down to uh set things<00:53:40.079
- Policies are best when they are locally driven, and these local policies work.
- Policies are best when they are locally driven, and these local policies work.
- Policies are best when they are locally driven, and these local policies work.
- . policies. policies.
Keywords:
administrative law, judicial review, agency deference, Chevron deference, de novo review, state agencies, regulatory interpretation, statutory interpretation, separation of powers, individual liberty, administrative procedure, agency action, Wyoming Supreme Court, district court review, oil and gas inspector, regulatory challenge, anti-deference, law enforcement, memorial, Patrolman Rosa
MN
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- a policy a policy >> Okay.
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bill, policy bill, policy bill, and<00:31:18.920>we <00:31:19.040>are - The policy bill is by itself. The policy bill is by itself.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Local Government Committee Jul 1st, 2026
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- And it's policies like that, those kinds of local policies that are taking into account those local needs
- Michael Lane, the state policy director for SPUR, a public policy think tank in the San Francisco Bay
- I'm a city planner and a policy manager at California YIMBY.
- The bill elevates specific data sets for planning documents.
- Spur and Circulate Planning and Policy. Thank you.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So, it's about higher education in that setting for our students.
- are trying to learn, and it's about making sure that they don't have influence in that setting.
- It means this is a higher education setting.
- further than those policies.
- It's adopting the policy and then doing...
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 4 on State Administration and General Government May 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It includes items set for discussion and items not being heard.
- Our job is to establish the policy parameters in the first place.
- So if a county had a particular set of data, policies, websites, we can make sure that their instance
- But we do need to have a policy-level conversation. It's very exciting.
- Our view is that this proposal lacks strong policy justification.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- agencies also sent in their formal policy responses.
- I think they originally set the hearing for July.
- These are our. nurses that do surveillance utilization review in hospital settings, long-term care settings
- . and acute care settings.
- We will have a cost report basis for. setting those rates versus basing it on this formula that was set
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (03/24/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- If you're going to set this kind of monumental policy change, it would have been really fair, more fair
- If you're going to set this kind of monumental policy change, it would have been really fair, more fair
- If you're going to set this kind of monumental policy change, it would have been really fair, more fair
- If you're going to set this kind of monumental policy change, it would have been really fair, more fair
- this kind of um if you're going to set this kind of monumental<01:30:57.760>
policy change,<01
Summary:
The committee met with Lottery Director Charlie McIntyre and Charitable Gaming Chief Compliance Officer Kulie Aoyo to review proposed changes in HB 2 and related amendments affecting video lottery terminals, historic horse racing, charitable gaming, and scratch tickets. McIntyre said the late-arriving amendment made revenue estimates difficult, especially because the bill would allow operators to decide when to convert from HHR to VLTs and would change the floor-space rules. He explained that the existing 70/30 floor-space split between machines and table games was negotiated to protect charity revenue, and warned that moving to a 90/10 split could reduce charity revenue, potentially by as much as $17 million, while also changing the character of the facilities. Committee members discussed whether to keep the 70/30 split, and McIntyre said he could provide updated estimates later that day, including net impacts after any offsetting gains or losses under current law.
Members also asked about the governor’s proposed operator share versus the Sweeney amendment’s higher operator share. McIntyre said the governor’s 45% figure was based on his own estimate and on comparable rates in other states, and he supported it as a way to maximize revenue for the state and charities. He also described a change to high-stakes tournaments: after speaking with Rep. Sweeney, he said the amendment was clarified to apply only to those tournaments and would lower the house take from 10% to 5% to encourage participation in rare, high-buy-in events. The committee also discussed a separate proposal to raise the maximum scratch ticket price from $30 to $50; McIntyre said the change would take time to implement, would likely increase net state revenue by about $1 million in year two, and was consistent with pricing in neighboring states such as Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Additional questions covered sports betting and a separate Kino-related estimate. McIntyre said March Madness is the busiest period for sports betting and that the state’s sports betting revenue has exceeded initial expectations. He also said he had estimated that removing a municipal-vote restriction for Kino could cost about $12 million total, with $2 million in the first year and $10 million thereafter. No formal votes were taken during the discussion; the chair indicated the committee would revisit the VLT amendment and other sections later, and McIntyre agreed to send updated revenue estimates to committee members.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Housing Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Housing
Transcript Highlights:
- Possibly, not surprisingly, Massachusetts has an opportunity to establish and set standards which would
- As important as you face the many dimensions of housing policy issues, we could call them HBI, at the
- I believe that this proposal accomplishes this set of needs and provides a bridge for the needed, wider
- Let's set an example for this country on what a cooperative and empathetic government can do. ...was
- Let's set an example for this country on what a cooperative and empathetic government can do.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Housing held its first meeting of the session to hear testimony on House Bill 65, a proposed constitutional amendment establishing a right to housing in Massachusetts. Co-chairs Senator Julian Cyr and Representative Richard Haggerty opened the hearing, outlined the hybrid format and testimony time limits, and noted the presence of several House members. The discussion centered on the broader housing crisis and the idea that housing should be treated as a constitutional right, with the hearing framed as the start of a series of housing-related meetings this session.
Public testimony was brief but strongly supportive. Vincent Lawrence Dixon urged the committee to advance H.65, arguing that housing is a basic necessity and that the amendment could help strengthen and clarify housing policy in the Commonwealth. Erica Tetsuique, speaking from lived experience with homelessness, described time spent at Pine Street and Bridge Over Troubled Waters and said a Housing First approach and constitutional recognition of housing could help address homelessness, crime, mental health, and substance use challenges. She also criticized the Johnson v. Grant decision and called for Massachusetts to set an example nationally.
Committee members thanked the speakers and acknowledged the importance of personal testimony. No votes were taken and no formal action on the bill was reported during the hearing. The meeting ended after a brief opportunity for additional comments, with the committee adjourning by motion and second.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Mar 3rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- the California Health Facilities Financing Authority, or CHFFA, play a significant role in shaping policy
- This allows the board to set lower growth targets for high-cost hospitals.
- I highly recommend you go to all those hospitals before setting that number. Thank you.
- Health care claims data is regularly used in health services research and policy analysis.
- Good evening, Lauren Finkie, Senior Policy Director with the County Forum.