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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Mar 19, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 30

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • please stand to be recognized if you're in the gallery: Catholic Charities of Hawaii, Chamber of Sustainable
  • </c><00:20:13.880><c> Commerce,</c> Chamber of Sustainable Commerce, Chamber of Sustainable Commerce,
  • fully comports with it as we are asking large media corporations that we know engage in deceptive practices
  • engage media corporations that we know engage in<01:00:09.800><c> deceptive</c><01:00:10.360><c> practices
  • </c><01:00:11.400><c> to</c><01:00:11.520><c> take</c> in deceptive practices to take in deceptive practices
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Health Committee Apr 8th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • In practice, this means providers typically must purchase injectable PrEP at their own expense, store
  • Like other practice, advanced practice providers, including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists
  • , Like other advanced practice providers, including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists practice
  • Yeah, I mean, essentially this is not a scope of practice bill.
  • Today I'm asking you to consider a bill that is simple, practical, and urgently needed.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health heard several bills focused on Medi-Cal access, HIV prevention, death certificate amendments, caregiver certification, advance care planning, and sugar-sweetened beverage labeling. SB 1422 by Senator Durazo would restore Medi-Cal access for income-eligible undocumented adults beginning January 1, 2027. The author and many supporters argued the enrollment freeze shifts costs to counties and hospitals, worsens health outcomes, and undermines California’s prior coverage gains. County, labor, health, immigrant-rights, and provider groups testified in support; there was no opposition. Committee members generally expressed support but also raised concerns about funding and the need for new revenue sources. The bill was discussed while the committee lacked quorum, so no vote was taken at that time. The committee also heard SB 1023 on PrEP access, SB 1071 on death certificate amendments after homicide findings, SB 1057 on criminal-history review for CNA and home health aide certification, and SB 1088 on POLST and advance care planning updates. SB 1023 would require insurers that cover injectable PrEP under the medical benefit to also cover it through the pharmacy benefit; supporters said this would reduce administrative barriers and improve access, while health plans and insurers opposed it as an unnecessary mandate that could blur benefit design lines. SB 1071 would allow next of kin to amend a death certificate’s manner of death to homicide after a final court determination; families and law enforcement supported it as a matter of truth and closure, while coroners opposed it as blurring medical and legal findings and potentially distorting public health data. SB 1057 would replace automatic denial with individualized review for certain convictions in CNA and home health aide certification, and SB 1088 would modernize POLST/DNR rules, including electronic signatures, out-of-state recognition, and clarifying who may sign; both drew support, though clinical nurse specialists opposed SB 1088 because they were not included as authorized signers. Several of these bills were heard without quorum, so no votes were taken during the discussion. After quorum was established, the committee heard SB 869 by Senator Weber-Pierce, which would require large chain restaurants to display a clear added-sugar icon next to beverages exceeding 50% of the daily recommended limit. The author and supporters, including the American Diabetes Association and an emergency physician, said consumers need simple, visible information at the point of purchase to better understand health risks tied to sugary drinks. The bill was framed as a public health transparency measure aimed at diabetes, obesity, and other chronic disease prevention. The transcript ends during testimony on SB 869, before any final committee action or vote is shown.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/24/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • , in a sustainable plan, at a cost the taxpayer could afford.
  • I don't think that's a sustainable number, and it's very expensive.
  • By years 3 to 5, the employer partnerships will sustain the program.
  • That's not sustainable, and it's expensive.
  • So this bill takes a practical approach.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce Mar 11th, 2026

Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Under current construction of the law, it says that whoever violates, in this practice.
  • Section constitutes unfair or deceptive act or practice in trade or commerce for the purposes of the
  • This has become a standard practice in politics. Does this bill in any way curb the— I don’t know.
  • Charles Parish, a sustainable biofuels company, Southern Renews. In St.
  • Charles Parish, a sustainable biofuels company, Southern Renewables, that's going to make sustainable
Summary: The House Committee on Commerce met on March 11, 2026, opened with roll call and adoption of prior minutes, interim amendments, and the committee rules for the new session. Members then took up several bills, with technical amendments adopted on multiple measures before final committee action. The committee also deferred House Bill 267 because the author was absent. House Bill 853 by Representative McMakin, dealing with misleading solicitations by non-government entities, drew the most discussion. The committee adopted technical amendments and a concept amendment tying enforcement to the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, with members and Secretary of State Nancy Landry discussing the meaning of “may” versus “shall,” the scope of “foreign” entities, and whether the bill covered mail, email, and other digital solicitations. The Secretary of State’s office supported the bill as a consumer-protection measure against deceptive government-like mailings, and the committee reported the bill favorably with amendments. House Bill 618, also by Representative McMakin, would adjust Louisiana Economic Development fees and related cost provisions. Secretary of LED gave a detailed presentation on the department’s recent restructuring, investment totals, job creation, small-business support, and the Source Louisiana platform, while members questioned fee impacts, hardship waivers, competitive effects, and how LED tracks incentives and job data. After adopting technical amendments and an amendment removing biannual inflationary adjustments, the committee reported the bill favorably with amendments. House Bill 207 by Representative Henry, revising the Louisiana Auctioneer’s Licensing Board’s membership, domicile, and related provisions, was amended to keep consumer members and clarify venue in East Baton Rouge Parish before being reported favorably. House Bill 300 by Representative Riser, raising the appraisal threshold for certain state bank residential loans from $250,000 to $400,000, was reported favorably after discussion of federal alignment and appraisal safeguards. House Bill 464 by Representative Riser, requiring more centralized reporting of damaged utilities through 811 and related notifications, received support from utility and 811 representatives and was also reported favorably. The committee adjourned after adopting a motion to do so.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Impacts included the worker changing roles or remaining in practice but in a different licensure type
  • Impacts included the worker changing rules or remaining in practice but in a different licensure type
  • The core of practicing social work is the same in Washington as it is in Virginia, where I'm joining
  • I have very smart people behind me who can explain the value of the practice and why we should adopt
  • I understand the value of having mentors to bring you into the practice.
Summary: The committee held its first meeting and heard four bills. HB 2286 would create an alternative route to social worker licensure by removing the exam requirement for advanced social workers and allowing enhanced supervision with supervisor attestation in place of the exam for independent clinical social workers. The sponsor and several social workers testified that the exam is a poor measure of clinical competence and can be a barrier to licensure, while opponents warned that removing the exam could affect public protection and Washington’s participation in the social work compact. Members asked follow-up questions about the compact, the exam format, and accreditation requirements, but no action was taken. HB 2363 would allow music therapy license applicants to practice under supervision for up to six months while waiting for exam verification. The sponsor described it as a technical fix to the new licensure system, and testimony from music therapists, educators, and a patient supported the bill as a way to avoid delays in hiring newly trained therapists while maintaining supervision and patient safety. The bill drew strong support in written testimony and no opposition in the hearing. HB 2324 would change tuition waiver rules for children of eligible veterans and National Guard members by giving eligible children eight years from the date of a parent’s disability determination to use the waiver when that determination occurs after the child turns 18. The sponsor said the bill is meant to align state law with federal dependency education benefits and prevent families from losing access because disability determinations can take years. The committee asked for clarification on how the new timing would work, and the hearing closed without a vote. HB 2098 would eliminate the cap on the advanced computing surcharge, expand Washington College Grant eligibility up to 100% of state median family income, and reduce resident undergraduate tuition by 10% for three years starting in 2027-28. Supporters, including students, labor, and advocacy groups, said the bill would improve affordability and access to higher education by asking large tech companies to pay more. Opponents from business and university groups argued the surcharge would be economically harmful, that the state already has substantial WEA funding, and that the bill would reduce tuition revenue without adequately backfilling institutional budgets. The committee heard extensive testimony and members raised questions about the surcharge cap, WEA spending, and the compacted funding structure, but no final action was taken.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Cap Committee Meeting - 2025-04-29

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is aligned with what's nationally recommended for best practices for school safety, and it highlights
  • It's the best practice. And so what I'm going to do is pass it over to Representative Witte now.
  • The cumulative impact of sustained underinvestment has resulted in a 10-year renewal need of $6 billion
  • There are insufficient resources, both capital and operating, to properly maintain and sustain all of
  • You know, is this something that's sustainable for us?
Bills: HF3220
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/14/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • and accessible to process more practical and accessible to for<00:40:31.400><c> consumers.
  • </c><00:54:35.560><c> um</c> engaging in deceptive practices um engaging in deceptive practices um toward
  • </c><01:19:39.760><c> and</c> program and therefore sustain and program and therefore sustain and protect
  • </c><01:21:41.200><c> manage</c> retain, restore, and sustainably manage retain, restore, and sustainably
  • Through sustainable stewardship of the forests that sustain healthy ecological, economic, and cultural
Bills: HF4906 , HF3971 , HF4777 , HF2109 , HF2988
Committee: House Taxes
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 2nd, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB112 helps us respond to that challenge head-on by creating The conditions for secure, self-sustaining
  • Service jobs sustain our communities as well, as well as national security and supply chain security.
  • the approaches proposed, House Bill 621 is an approach we believe to be consistent with the best practice
  • Section 601.204 establishes the violation as a false or misleading practice under the Deceptive Trade
  • Practices Act, and 601.205 permits the AG to bring an action to stop a merchant violating the chapter
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Agriculture Feb 4th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • A tree crop takes years to recover from the kind of impacts that is sustained during a major hurricane
  • What's going to create the growth of the future of the production practices of the future that are gonna
  • Our mission is to maximize consumer demand for Florida citrus products to ensure the sustainability and
  • We try to do those test plots to help get education and and best management practices out there.
  • That puts our best management practices at risk.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 04/01/25

Housing and Homelessness Prevention

Transcript Highlights:
  • This again is from the task force for sustainability of affordable housing bill.
  • This is from the task force on the long-term sustainability of affordable housing.
  • </c> sustainability of affordable housing. sustainability of affordable housing.
  • </c><00:26:29.840><c> of</c> force on the long-term sustainability of force on the long-term sustainability
  • Three are particularly important to support households accessing and sustaining home ownership.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Conservation Feb 10th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Conservation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Geothermal is a nice, long-term, sustainable energy source.
  • Geothermal is a nice, long-term, sustainable energy source.
  • Hydropower is another long-term sustainable energy source. Thank you.
  • Are they going to have sustainable energy? No, they're not going to have sustainable energy.
  • No, they're not going to have sustainable energy.
Bills: SB78 , SB235 , SB22 , SB310
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment & Energy Jan 22nd, 2026 at 08:00 am

Environment & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I believe the product stewardship plans basically require them to recycle to the extent practical.
  • climate, ratepayer, and sustainability commitments.
  • our other commitments to climate ratepayers and sustainability.
  • Microsoft's CEO this week said that the AI boom cannot be sustained if more people don't use it.
  • ...this week said that the AI boom cannot be sustained if more people don't use it.
Bills: HB2515 , HB2343 , HB2301 , HB2272 , HB2367
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Mar 23rd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • The current cap of 20 hours per week is not enough to make this a sustainable job.
  • So he basically needs the G-tube to sustain his weight and nutrition.
  • Funding that was critical to sustaining residential treatment operations.
  • It's not expansion, but an investment in sustainability.
  • The 1.5 is to sustain what you have. 1.5.
Keywords: 965, house, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, that is not a practice that we engage in.
  • The one practice that we engage in.
  • You know, we have some be sustained.
  • Do you have anything sustainability.
  • I was in practice extremely seriously.
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee met with DHS Chief Financial Officer Nathan White to receive an update on the department’s budget lapse and vacancy rates. White explained the difference between the “back-of-the-budget” reduction and lapse assumptions, saying DHS is facing a current biennium reduction of about $23 million and estimating roughly a $60 million general fund lapse in state fiscal year 2025, compared with about $13.5 million the prior year. He said DHS’s lapse is driven largely by program utilization, labor market conditions, contract spending, and statutory carry-forwards in areas such as Medicaid and developmental disabilities, which tend to produce a smaller lapse in the first year of the biennium and a larger one in the second year. He also noted that the House and Senate budgets differ on some operating items, including Medicaid rates, with the Senate having struck a House proposal to reduce rates by 3%. Members questioned White about whether DHS ever spends down lapse money on last-minute purchases. He said the department does not engage in that practice, though it does retain some flexibility in its facilities budget for emergencies. He also described the process for transferring funds within and between class lines, including the need for fiscal committee approval above statutory thresholds, and gave examples such as moving funds to cover overtime in the SYSC budget and to ensure Medicaid payments for nursing facilities. White said such transfers are public and transparent and are reviewed by the governor and Executive Council. The committee then discussed DHS staffing. White said the department has a little over 3,200 authorized positions, with a vacancy rate around 14.5%, and that a hiring freeze had been imposed a few months earlier while exempting direct care positions. He said DHS is planning for about a $30 million general fund reduction to personnel, equivalent to just under 400 positions, and is managing postings centrally to stay within budget by July 1. In response to questions about the loss of about $80 million in federal funds, White and Associate Commissioner Patricia Tilly said DHS avoided layoffs by shifting staff into vacant positions, but that the cuts affected community contracts, public health workers, laboratory work, and some IT/data projects. Tilly said roughly 20 positions were affected, most were reassigned, a few staff left voluntarily, and the department has less flexibility going forward if more federal funding ends.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • and the future the Su the sustainability and the future of<00:02:29.440><c> jobs</c><00:02:29.879><c
  • These positions are family-sustaining.
  • </c><00:05:12.800><c> I</c> these positions are family sustaining I these positions are family sustaining
  • We cannot sustain the mines to be closed. That's our economy.
  • the mines to be closed that's sustain the mines to be closed that's our<00:18:13.280><c> economy</c>
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: House File 3030 was taken up for discussion and amended with the A1 author’s amendment before moving forward. The bill was presented as an Iron Range package with three parts: a 26-week unemployment insurance extension for workers laid off by Cleveland-Cliffs, and two mining-related provisions dealing with safe storage of reactive mine waste and a site-specific sulfite standard. The authors said the bill was intended both to help laid-off workers immediately and to support the long-term future of mining jobs in the region. Testimony was overwhelmingly supportive of the unemployment extension and the broader goal of preserving Iron Range jobs and communities. Representatives of affected workers, union leaders, a county commissioner, a tribal elder, and RAMS all described the layoffs as potentially long-term and warned of broader economic harm to families, local businesses, schools, and the region if mining jobs continue to decline. Several testifiers emphasized that mining is central to the Iron Range economy and argued that the bill would give workers time and hope while also helping keep people in the region. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency testified that it generally supported the bill’s intent but raised concerns about the environmental rulemaking language in Article 2, Section 2. MPCA said the provision would amount to a new major rulemaking, would require significant time and resources, and should be reviewed by the Environment, Natural Resources, Finance and Policy Committee. During member questions, one legislator said there was strong support for the UI extension in Article 1 but expressed concern about the environmental issues in Article 2 and asked why those provisions were not being reviewed by the environment committee. The meeting ended with public testimony closed and member questions beginning; no final vote was taken in the portion provided.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Health and Human Services (01/08/2026)

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is there a practice within unfair insurance trade practice that we prohibit that might be seen within
  • Is there a insurance trade practice.
  • </c><00:52:09.040><c> trade</c> practice within unfair insurance trade practice within unfair insurance
  • </c><02:20:15.280><c> for</c> did not meet um the good practice for did not meet um the good practice
  • </c> as a matter of practice moving forward. as a matter of practice moving forward.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Public Safety Committee Apr 29th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is not ethical and it is not sustainable.
  • I'm concerned that the provision could unintentionally reinstate discriminatory policy practices, practices
  • We need to standardize these practices.
  • We've seen best practices in community, and the work is on us to make those best practices statewide.
  • It's the right thing to do, but it has to work in practice.
Summary: The committee heard several public safety measures, beginning with housekeeping items and the adoption of a four-bill consent calendar. Bills on the consent calendar included AB 476 on metal theft, AB 619 on California Conservation Corps training for formerly incarcerated people, AB 1192 on child abuse or neglect reporting, and AB 1239 on human trafficking data. Several bills were pulled by the authors before hearing, and the committee also announced that AB 379 would be heard with a file notice waiver and AB 63 would be for testimony only. The most extensive discussion was on AB 366, which would require ignition interlock devices for anyone convicted of DUI. The author, Senator Archuleta, and a MADD representative gave emotional testimony about family members killed by drunk drivers and argued the bill would save lives. Support came from law enforcement, fire, medical, auto club, and safety groups. Opposition from public defenders and criminal justice advocates focused on loss of judicial discretion, costs for low-income drivers, and concerns about vendor oversight and effectiveness. The committee voted to pass AB 366 as amended to Appropriations. The committee also heard AB 1380, which would create a permanent pathway into firefighting careers for formerly incarcerated people who served on Cal Fire hand crews. The author and supporters said the bill would recognize service, improve reentry, and reduce recidivism; a fire labor group withdrew its opposition after amendments were discussed. The measure passed to Appropriations, though it remained on call pending one additional vote. AB 461, which would remove criminal penalties for parents of truant K-8 students and replace them with supportive responses, drew broad support from education and justice advocates but no opposition testimony; it was also passed to Appropriations and left on call pending one more vote. ACR 60, recognizing the Downey Police Department’s special-needs communication program for interactions with people with disabilities or sensory challenges, was adopted unanimously. The committee then heard AB 746 on creating an inmate cooperative program and a green reentry reserve for incarcerated workers. Supporters said it would build job skills, dignity, and reentry success; there was no opposition testimony. The bill passed to Appropriations and was left on call pending votes. Finally, AB 379 on human trafficking drew strong support from survivor advocates, law enforcement, and local officials for creating a survivor services fund and targeting buyers, but also strong opposition from survivors and civil liberties groups who warned it would criminalize vulnerable people and revive harmful loitering enforcement. The committee discussion continued with members weighing survivor support, public safety tools, and concerns about the bill’s amendments and scope.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> efficiencies and best practices. efficiencies and best practices.
  • for sustainable data center development<00:25:54.559><c> in</c><00:25:54.799><c> Minnesota.
  • :18.640><c> for</c> building a sustainable future for building a sustainable future for Minnesota<00:
  • Um agravalttaics is the practice effort.
  • </c> site management practices. site management practices.
Bills: HF2928 , HF2912 , HF2297
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/26/25

Jobs and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • opportunities to build wealth for people in communities negatively impacted by previous cannabis practices
  • opportunities to build wealth for people in communities negatively impacted by previous cannabis practices
  • opportunities to build wealth for people in communities negatively impacted by previous cannabis practices
  • We hope that this can help curb predatory lending practices and build trust with communities that have
  • been previously harmed by cannabis-related policies and practices.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Jan 29th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we offer this for current teachers, in-service teachers, to continue to improve their practice and
  • We offer this for current teachers, in-service teachers, to continue to improve their practice and meet
  • There's ever-evolving research, there's ever-evolving practice.
  • But here in Idaho, this collective commitment is what's going to help us sustain that, I believe.
  • But here in Idaho, this collective commitment is what's going to help us sustain that, I believe.
Committee: House Education
Summary: The House Education Committee heard testimony on House Bill 515, sponsored by Representative Chris Matthias, which would require school districts to adopt procedures for reporting suspensions related to bullying, harassment, intimidation, and related conduct to families, while removing a prior state-level reporting requirement. Matthias said the bill is intended to help families respond quickly and to keep the focus on local school-level accountability; he noted earlier versions had included language about limiting access to means of harm and notifying law enforcement, but those provisions were removed after prior defeats. Quinn Perry of the Idaho School Boards Association testified in support, saying the bill improves communication and trust with families and eliminates redundant reporting to the Department of Education. The committee then voted to send HB 515 to the floor with a due pass recommendation. The committee also received a presentation from Brooke Blevins of the Idaho Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the University of Idaho on educator preparation programs. She described collaboration among Idaho’s colleges and universities and said programs have expanded coursework and field experiences in classroom management, educator ethics, career and technical education, rural school preparation, literacy and the science of reading, and the ethical use of AI. Members asked about literacy instruction and the earlier state literacy funding, with several expressing concern that phonics and the science of reading had not been emphasized enough in the past. Blevins said higher education institutions are aligning with state literacy efforts and that the $50 million literacy initiative primarily funds Department of Education programs rather than universities. Committee members also asked about teacher preparation pathways and workforce readiness. Blevins said Idaho has multiple routes to certification, including traditional undergraduate programs, alternative authorizations, alternative programs, apprenticeships, graduate programs, and CTE pathways, and estimated that about 63% of current Idaho teachers were educated through institutions like those represented. She emphasized early field experiences to help candidates determine whether teaching is the right fit and said institutions are studying student success across different educational settings. No further action was taken on the presentation, and the chair adjourned the meeting after reminding members to review the rules in their folders for the following week.