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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Military Affairs and Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • Please state your name for the record and who you're testifying on behalf of, please.
  • I served in the United States Army as an infantryman.
  • I served in the United States Army as an infantryman.
  • So I see this as a great program, a great opportunity for the state.
  • Please state your name for the record and who you're testifying on behalf of, please.
Bills: HB2620, HB2960
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/03/2026 - House Regulatory Oversight

Regulatory Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • , which states, no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
  • I want to tell you that we're working on this bill in 20 states.
  • The main thing that the state does is it doesn't create a state-run program or mandate the use of gold
  • Bullion Depository to store bullion, permits the Arizona State Treasurer to deposit up to 10% of state
  • Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, which states, no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin
Bills: HB2123, HB2140
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Please state your name for the record and present the updated budget. Thank you, Chair and members.
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  • 02:46.959><c> name</c><00:02:47.040><c> for</c><00:02:47.200><c> the</c> Bailey, please state your name
  • for the Bailey, please state your name for the record<00:02:47.599><c> and</c><00:02:48.160><c> present
  • </c><00:06:52.639><c> eligibility</c> between federal and state eligibility between federal and state
Bills: HF2995, HF2434
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • across the state enterprise.
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  • legislature and state government.
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Bills: HF1867, HF1240
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Feb 26th, 2025

Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you had an imminent domain issue or just an easement that was provided for a state road or other state
  • property has been converted or is planned to be converted to a state trail or used for other purposes
  • if it was a state highway.
  • Yeah, more... who would bear the cost of the decommissioning to put it back to its natural state?
  • Current law states that it's illegal to drive a tractor-trailer combination longer than 57 feet.
Bills: SB42, HB323
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules Apr 23rd, 2026 at 08:30 am

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's one of the only states in the nation that's been able to preserve this capital.
  • Of that program for improving health, reducing tobacco use in the state of Oklahoma.
  • Most important things that we have in our state.
  • Or different perspectives that could also increase health outcomes in our state.
  • Opportunity for the folks of the state of Oklahoma to say yes.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Mar 18th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think you've got the gas over on the west side of the state.
  • I think you've got the gas over on the west side of the state.
  • </c> disabled veterans of the United States disabled veterans of the United States Armed<00:37:09.040
  • Which toxins, but there's several states have moved this way.
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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 3/25/26

Veterans and Military Affairs Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • Considering these factors in 1997, the state passed and enacted a state active duty minimum base pay
  • </c> being ordered to state active service. being ordered to state active service.
  • </c> most veterans in the state. most veterans in the state.
  • Uh, on the state level again, uh, we increased the state grant for veteran service organizations.
  • It's it's uh, no cost to the<00:20:46.640><c> state.</c> the state. the state.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that at least with some of the 401(a)s that the state uses, the state just goes, hey, it's going
  • We are working with Arizona State University in their medical school.
  • So you stated an 80% effective rate? Mr.
  • We need to be careful about where we're using state funds.
  • We need to be careful about where we're using state funds.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce Mar 11th, 2026

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • If there are state abatements attached to that...
  • be considering as the best interest of the state?
  • who didn't file Louisiana state taxes last year.
  • It's some of our competitiveness in other states.
  • But in other states, I find it hard for me to integrate in that state and find employees.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Veteran and Military Affairs REVISED: Links added Feb 5th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Veteran and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chief Oklahoma state level benefits yield for questions and move for adoption. Thank you, Mr.
  • That mirrors compensation of the active duty paying benefits for state employees.
  • When it comes to the state guard, which the state guard's been around, we just don't use them that often
  • over the state guard.
  • So that was, well, we talked about State Guard's always been around.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Veteran and Military Affairs REVISED: Links added Feb 5th, 2026

Veteran and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • would be treated as if they are service-connected when that veteran is applying to receive Oklahoma state-level
  • One of the paths to citizenship in the United States is through service in the military.
  • When it comes to the State Guard, which has been around, we just don't use them that often.
  • of the State Guard.
  • The State Guard's always been around. We didn't want to confuse the two.
Summary: The committee heard several veterans-related bills. House Bill 3257 would treat 100% disabilities caused by medical malpractice at a VA facility as service-connected for purposes of Oklahoma state benefits, aligning state treatment with federal benefits; members asked about the bill’s scope and its relation to military service and citizenship, and it passed 6-0. House Bill 3432 would allow veterans to attend public school sporting events without paying gate admission; one member spoke against the idea of preferential treatment for veterans, but the bill passed 5-1. House Bill 3428 would require the Department of Labor, working with the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, to create a workplace poster for employers with more than 50 employees listing veteran benefits and contact information for assistance programs. The author emphasized it was not a recruitment effort and said the poster would mainly provide hotline numbers and claims assistance information; it passed 7-0. House Bill 3043 would let ODVA hire PRN, seasonal, or as-needed employees during peak periods instead of relying on full-time staff, and members discussed possible reporting additions; it passed 7-0. The committee also considered House Bill 3044, which continues the existing tax return donation option for the ODVA equipment capital improvement program, and it passed 7-0. House Bill 3078, as amended, changed the donation mechanism to a direct link to the ODVA website rather than a checkbox on state transaction forms, and the amendment was adopted before the bill passed 8-0. Finally, House Bill 3940, a broad cleanup/omnibus measure revising National Guard and State Guard provisions, retention and education assistance rules, museum-related authority, and other technical matters, was presented as a follow-up to prior legislation, amended by PCS, and passed 7-0 with one member absent/abstaining; the committee then adjourned.