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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Salt cedars take up a lot of water.
  • to get more water out of Buckeye and what we could do.
  • and repeals the program on January 1, 2029.
  • Yeah, this has AZPOST do it pilot program for a more expansive stress program for police that are involved
  • It is... ...just the best way, and this program recognizes that grant programs that just give money to
Summary: The committee heard and acted on several appropriation and policy bills, beginning with SB 1550, which would provide $1.255 million to Queen Creek for a three-year police pilot focused on runaway youth prevention, at-risk youth protection, and anti-trafficking investigations. Supporters said the program would dedicate trained officers to prevention and rapid response and could serve as a statewide model. Some members objected to funding a single locality without a local cost share, but the bill received a do pass recommendation, 7-2-1. Members then considered SB 1156 and SB 1157, both sponsored as reimbursements to local governments for border-related costs. SB 1156 would appropriate $20 million to reimburse cities, towns, and counties for short-term detention holds for unauthorized non-citizens, while SB 1157 would appropriate $20 million for supplemental fencing or bollard walls in high-crossing border areas. The sponsor described both as backfilling local expenses already incurred, while opponents argued the measures would subsidize detention and border enforcement rather than Arizona priorities. Both bills drew extensive public opposition and were advanced on party-line-leaning votes: SB 1156 passed 5-3-2 and SB 1157 passed 5-3-2. The committee also approved SB 1245, which would provide $2.457 million for Rodeo Road pavement replacement in Williams, after the sponsor said the request had been reduced from the original amount. Members raised concerns about limited HIRF funding and the need for local participation, but the bill passed 6-3-1. SB 1707, a $5 million appropriation for DPS artificial intelligence tools related to border security, also passed 6-4-0 after testimony split between supporters who saw AI as a useful border tool and opponents who said the bill was too vague or unnecessary. SB 1811, which would change school cell-phone policy language from allowing use “during” an emergency to “in the case of” an emergency, passed 8-1-1 with supporters saying it would give schools more flexibility and avoid logistical problems during lockdowns. Later, the committee approved SB 1088, a $2.5 million cybersecurity appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security, including funding for generative AI security and modernization of the statewide VPN, despite objections that the department had not requested the money and that other cybersecurity needs were already pending. It then advanced SB 1332, as amended, to require ADOT to study light rail expansion in Maricopa County and compare it with autonomous or semi-autonomous transit options; the hearing featured strong testimony from small business owners along the Indian School corridor who said light rail construction would hurt access and sales, and opposition from Phoenix/Valley Metro representatives who argued transit decisions are local and that ADOT is not the right entity to conduct the study. The bill was discussed at length as a neutral feasibility review rather than a prohibition after the amendment removed the state-participation ban.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • authorize the Commission on Higher Education to award ...Commission on Higher Education to award loan assistance
  • No, no, they can apply for loan assistance. ...they can apply for loan assistance, you know, but they
  • things I think that may happen, Senator Smith, and I don't know whether our state system has an actual program
  • in place where someone... an actual program in place where someone inputs the data and it doesn't have
  • Mackey or Connor, is there a system that we have with our schools, a program... we have a program that's
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/19/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And, you know, this is a program along with all of the youth justice programming and funding that is
  • That's what our programs do. And they're local level programs.
  • Intervention Programs Association. Intervention Programs Association.
  • yipper uh uh program or the yip grant. yipper uh uh program or the yip grant.
  • that you're doing with the uh program. that you're doing with the uh program.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/26/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • You have a application to increase funding for water infrastructure grants for the WIF program, correct
  • Water Board's project. Okay. Water Board's project. Okay.
  • Council programs. Council programs.
  • water wheel.
  • the water would flow unchecked. the water would flow unchecked.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAL Public Hearing - Thu Feb 19, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Water & Land

Transcript Highlights:
  • sell heat pumps and solar water heaters. sell heat pumps and solar water heaters.
  • Chair: "No, water heating." Member: "Water heating. Right.
  • >> No water heating. >> Water<02:31:13.840> heating. >> Water heating.
  • >> Water heating.
  • the water heating the Right. the water heating the Right.
Summary: The committee on Water and Land met on February 19, 2026, and the chair opened by emphasizing strict time limits and that all bills would be deferred if the agenda was not completed before the noon session. The first major measure discussed was HB 1739 HD1, which would preempt county land-use authority in transit-oriented development areas. The Department of Planning supported the bill, saying it could promote state-funded TOD and infrastructure, while the city and county’s position was raised in questioning. Unite Here Local 5 opposed the bill, arguing it would strip counties of self-determination, disrupt state-county policy collaboration, and remove a check on unrestrained development. Committee members pressed the supporters on whether the bill was really about higher density and whether it would override local zoning and sustainability concerns. The committee then heard testimony on HB 1741 HD1, a housing bill described by supporters as reducing inclusionary housing mandates and increasing supply. Grassroots Institute of Hawaii argued affordability mandates reduce overall housing production and raise market-rate prices, while a Zoom testifier said the bill would improve housing stability, health, and community outcomes for working families, kupuna, and young residents. Members asked about the bill’s needs assessment and who would conduct it, with a witness saying the counties would likely contract it out but that the bill did not clearly specify the reviewer. HB 2668 HD1, dealing with water heating systems, drew testimony from the Hawaii State Energy Office and industry representatives. Supporters generally backed adding heat pumps to the law, but one solar-water-heater industry witness asked for amendments to remove or extend the current 15-year statutory life limit for solar water heaters and to update outdated standards and variance rules. A Kauaʻi Climate Action Coalition witness opposed the existing solar-only structure, arguing heat pump water heaters are cheaper, align with climate goals, and should be allowed without a variance. The Energy Office said the current law already allows variances in some cases, suggested adding high-efficiency heat pump water heaters to the exemption, and said the 15-year figure may be too short, with 18 years mentioned as a possible alternative. The committee also briefly moved through several other bills, including HB 2606 HD1 on off-site construction and HB 2362 HD1 on housing, with no notable testimony or action recorded in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 29th, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am in support of this bill and assisted in the drafting of it.
  • I assisted in working with the controller on the charge, transition language, and helped in assisting
  • I assisted in working with the controller on the charge, transition language, and helped in assisting
  • I'm representing Texas Turf, Texans for Toll-Free Highways, True Texas Project, Grassroots America, and
  • Bringing home delivery to Texas...
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • be starting off or will assistant be starting off or will assistant director<00:03:22.720> Campana
  • today with my colleague, Assistant today with my colleague, Assistant Director<00:03:43.040>
  • These are projects that would help ensure Minnesota's waters are better managed for both water quantity
  • c> Commissioner Thank you, assistant uh Commissioner Thank you, assistant uh Commissioner Byer.<00
Bills: HF3426, HF3428
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Agriculture and Forestry Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Agriculture and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • can experience that out in the water.
  • You can experience that out in the water with your net and that sort of thing.
  • Methods to ensure cut and uprooted plant matter is removed from these waters.
  • You drag it out of the water when you cut it, right?
  • What if it was a state water patrol? They would go to the state. Okay, whichever.
Bills: HB55, HB212
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Since 2011, he has served as an assistant.
  • Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and sets as an adjunct clinical assistant
  • Speaker, can you talk a little bit about the rollout of this program? How many years will it take?
  • But what we have to do is make sure that we don't water it down in three years or in four years or in
  • It was so watered down it didn't exist.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

HSH-HLT Joint Public Hearing - Thu Apr 16, 2026 @ 9:45 AM HST

Human Services & Homelessness

Transcript Highlights:
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  • create a housing ladder program create a housing ladder program to<00:13:24.720> help<00:
  • I know in the public housing program and I think in the Section 8 program, etc., there are programs to
  • I know in the public housing program and I think in the Section 8 program, etc., there are programs to
  • . programs. programs.
Bills: SCR63, SCR8, SCR160, SCR90, SCR93
Summary: The House Committee on Human Services and Homelessness heard several resolutions focused on disability access, housing, and support for Native Hawaiian beneficiaries. SCR 63 SD1 would have the Disability and Communication Access Board study communication needs in health care settings for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind and revise provider guidance; testimony was strongly supportive, including from the board, a physician, and a family member who described harmful delays in care, and the committee later recommended passage as is. SCR 8 would require counties to act within 45 days on completed permit applications for home modifications needed for an older adult or person with a disability; testimony noted delays in permitting and financing, and the committee recommended passage as is. The committee also heard SCR 160, which urges state housing agencies to create a “housing ladder” program to help individuals and families move from subsidized to unsubsidized housing. Hawaii Public Housing Authority and other agencies supported the concept, and DHS described its family self-sufficiency program and said prior federal resident-services funding had declined over the past 20 years. The committee acknowledged the program may already exist in some form but still recommended adoption of the resolution as is. SCR 90 would ask county planning departments to establish kupuna-friendly building permit requirements for parking accessibility in private businesses. The committee moved it forward with an HD1 for technical amendments; a member raised concern that the measure did not specify the age threshold for “kupuna,” and said they would vote with reservations. Finally, SCR 93 would direct DHHL and the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions to develop a coordinated support and stabilization pathway for Native Hawaiian beneficiaries experiencing homelessness or very low income. DHHL said it is already operating a transitional housing effort called Ka Leo Opu Mama for about 18 beneficiaries using more than $6 million in federal Nah Ho Sa funds, with no dedicated state funding, and the committee recommended passage as is. The meeting ended with the chair thanking testifiers and members and adjourning the hearing.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Feb 2nd, 2026

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senators, this bill establishes the Dula Support for Healthy Birth Pilot Program, program.
  • But these safety net programs are really a lifeline.
  • But these safety net programs are really a lifeline.
  • That's someone losing food assistance over a checkbox.
  • The SNAP program, we're looking at it federally.
Summary: The committee first considered SB 268, a public records exemption for emergency physicians. Senator Rodriguez’s strike-all amendment narrowed and clarified the exemption, and testimony from an emergency physician described threats, harassment, and safety concerns tied to mandatory reporting and patient encounters. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute. Members then heard SB 514, creating the Dula Support for Healthy Births Pilot Program in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties for pregnant and postpartum women affected by substance use disorder. Senator Osgood explained the pilot would provide non-medical doula support and data collection, and an amendment changed the funding source to specific appropriations in the General Appropriations Act. Supporters said doula care can improve maternal and infant outcomes and complement medical providers. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute. The committee also approved SB 36 on use of professional nursing titles after extensive debate over whether nurses with doctoral degrees should be allowed to use “doctor” in clinical settings, with concerns raised about patient confusion and the need for clearer identification. The bill was amended to align with the House version and then reported favorably as a committee substitute. The committee next approved SB 864, a public records exemption for uterine fibroid research data, after a technical amendment setting a July 1, 2026 effective date; Senator Sharif said the exemption is needed so the Department of Health can collect sensitive data for the related research bill. SB 844, requiring continuing education on sickle cell disease care management for certain licensed physicians and nurses, was also reported favorably after emotional testimony from patients and advocates describing delayed care and bias. Later, the committee approved SB 1404 on memory care, after a strike-all amendment creating a new memory care specialty license for assisted living facilities that advertise or provide specialized memory care services, while allowing optional supportive services without the new license. Supporters from the senior living industry backed the clarification. The committee then passed SB 914, which clarifies that licensed occupational therapists may perform dry needling, after an amendment adjusting supervision and continuing education language. Finally, the committee took up SB 1758, a broad Medicaid and SNAP reform bill that would strengthen fraud enforcement, impose Medicaid work requirements for certain able-bodied adults, expand behavioral health services, modernize drug purchasing and prior authorization, and require SNAP fraud-reduction measures. Several amendments were adopted, and members questioned the work requirement, implementation costs, EBT card photo identification, and due process concerns; debate continued as the transcript ended.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Mar 3rd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the driver, who has a Texas driver's license, but we aren't sure of his citizenship status, rear-ended
  • Senate Bill 514 provides clarification in regards to alternative education programming through charter
  • It was an incentive to incentivize our Oklahoma teacher prep programs to think outside the box, work
  • one of those programs?
  • And we had some private dollars that helped pay for the technical assistance program.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee Feb 9th, 2026 at 10:30 am

A&B Education Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • And it does not water down OLAP.
  • at a kitchen table, or online, is a stronger, more defensible program.
  • Also, it assists SDE in school districts during investigations.
  • Are you referring to the credit enhancement program side of or the revolving loan fund program?
  • I mean, again, we're not talking about a 20 or 30-year program.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're here to talk about the program and the bill that you just presented.
  • Before I pass the microphone to the two managers of the program, I think we must talk about how we got
  • And, you know, I can attest that this problem has assisted or our help has assisted with members of.
  • Are providers that work a lot with the American Indian plan or program?
  • So the question we're asking is: does that program reflect that purpose?
Summary: The Health and Human Services Committee approved the January 21 minutes and then heard a series of bills focused on developmental disabilities oversight, behavioral health fraud, AHCCCS operations, child safety, and state hospital capacity. SB 1179 would make the Developmental Disabilities Group Home Monitoring Program permanent and remove the appropriations contingency; Disability Rights Arizona and program managers testified that Commit had identified systemic care problems, while the sponsor said the work should continue. The bill received a 6-1 do-pass recommendation. SB 1114 would appropriate $1 million to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for behavioral health patient brokering investigations; Native advocates described widespread recruitment and exploitation of vulnerable people, especially Native Americans, and the bill passed 8-0. SB 1115 would prohibit AHCCCS from allowing remote work for Access employees; the sponsor argued in-person oversight was needed, while AHCCCS warned of space and staffing problems. It passed 4-3. SB 1051 would require hospitals to collect and report patients’ citizenship or immigration status for cost accounting; supporters called it a data-collection measure, while nurses and physicians said it would create fear and deter care. It passed 4-3. SB 1122, as amended, would replace prior authorization with 100% prepayment review for certain behavioral health services under the American Indian Health Plan, and passed 7-0 after AHCCCS said it had worked on the amendment. SB 1132, to appropriate unspecified funds for a new Arizona State Hospital wing, drew testimony from families and advocates describing severe shortages of state hospital beds and the need for more long-term treatment capacity; it passed 7-0. SB 1169, to fund graduate medical education and a new residency program, passed 6-0. SB 1171, requiring AHCCCS to check for dual enrollment in exchange plans and AHCCCS, passed 4-2-1 after AHCCCS said implementation would require system changes and costs. SB 1172, requiring more experienced DCS investigators for repeated abuse/neglect reports and court notification of hotline calls in dependency cases, passed 7-0. SB 1173, requiring behavioral health facility applicants, owners, and licensees to be U.S. citizens or lawfully present permanent residents with fingerprint clearance cards, passed 4-3 after an amendment clarifying the lawful-presence requirement.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Feb 20th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But it wasn't, because we saw the beginnings of that in Houston, Texas.
  • We, you have the Texas spirit and you have the Texas spirit. Texas courage.
  • Members, today is Baytown Day at the Texas Capitol.
  • hub for our Texas Gulf Coast and really all of Texas and Exxon Baytown is here with us as well. well
  • I'm going to your Texas Senate and your state capitol.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 9th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Doctor Shana Wee is a graduate of OSU, but he has also worked in Mexico City for the giant panda program
  • President, on page 11, it talks about the batterer's intervention program.
  • who complete intensive tiered programming through programs like Recovery and Remerge.
  • and the Oklahoma Department of Veteran Affairs Equipment and Capital Improvement Program.
  • Senate Bill 1847 allows individuals who qualify for the Advantage Waiver Medicaid Program to in assisted
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a general dentist from Katy, Texas, and I'm in support of this bill.
  • The Texas Dental Association is also in support of this bill.
  • Ho, thank you for coming from Katy, Texas. Yes, ma'am.
  • Some programs now function solely as premium assistance. subsidizing commercial insurance costs instead
  • programs.
Bills: HB50