Video & Transcript Research : 'appropriations act'
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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 8th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Morris community by being the best academic team in the state, and whereas the Oklahoma legislature, acting
- President, I ask the resolution be read and, at the appropriate time, move for adoption of the resolution
- And whereas it is with great pleasure that the Oklahoma State Senate, acting on behalf of the great state
Keywords:
rural hospitals, small hospitals, grant program, healthcare funding, Oklahoma health department, cosmetology, barbering, massage therapy, State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, Service Oklahoma, license renewal, license reinstatement, licensing fees, sunset extension, board membership, human trafficking, victim services, beauty school, barber school, esthetics
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services 2ND REVISED Apr 8th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 3644 establishes the Blake Burge Act that basically requires certain Hospitals that meant
- And this bill, basically, it's called the Uniform Healthcare Decisions Act.
- themselves, replacing two older inconsistent state laws, which were the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act
- and the Oklahoma Healthcare Agent Act, with a single unified framework modeled off the Uniform Law Commission's
Keywords:
rural hospitals, small hospitals, grant program, healthcare funding, Oklahoma health department, cosmetology, barbering, massage therapy, State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, Service Oklahoma, license renewal, license reinstatement, licensing fees, sunset extension, board membership, human trafficking, victim services, beauty school, barber school, esthetics
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- The appropriation for this would be $65.5 million.
- in the General Appropriation Act or House Bill 2, I think there's no reference. ...as far as any reference
- to it in the General Appropriation Act or House Bill 2, I think there's no reference to that.
- in the General Appropriation Act or Health Bill 2, I think there's no reference. as any reference to
- it in the General Appropriation Act or Health Bill 2, I think there's no reference to that.
Keywords:
educational retirement, annuity adjustments, cost of living, non-compounding payments, retirement benefits, STEM funding, education, innovation, public education, New Mexico, nominating committees, boards of regents, student representation, political party registration, New Mexico constitution, special education, office of special education, deputy secretary, public education department, IEP
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- and lawyers, and requiring them to then go to an appeal and elongate this process, whether they're acting
- We don't hire teachers to spy on their students or to act as de facto parents.
- And what I am telling you is that what you are doing instead is creating a system where people acting
- She is treated with respect and kindness, and she acts with respect and kindness to other people as well
Bills:
HB2015, HB2060, HB2129, HB2170, HB2210, HB2228, HB2352, HB2460, HB2533, SB1019, SB1045, SB1050, SB1078, SB1083, SB1167, SB1184, SCR1006
Keywords:
budget procedures, late filing penalty, accounting standards, financial reporting, state appropriations, abortion, educational institutions, health education, state aid, public schools, municipal libraries, annual reporting, state legislation, transparency, government accountability, procurement, foreign adversary, China, state contracts, information technology
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections May 29th, 2025 at 01:00 pm
Legislative Operations and Elections
Transcript Highlights:
- that in the vacancy of a chair for a joint interim standing committee, the vice chair shall become acting
- legislative committee members and staff regulated by the Nevada Lobbying and Disclosure and Regulation Act
- Certainly, I think the changes regarding legislative staff to the Financial Disclosure Act and lobbying
- This bill is deeply entangled with SB 74 and SB 562 appropriations bill we just saw yesterday.
- Once the registrant responds to the postcard, then the appropriate correction to the record could be
Keywords:
election reform, voter accessibility, conditional ballots, voter registration, mechanical voting systems, election audits, voter access grants, provisional ballot, voting technology, AB562, Nevada, Secretary of State, elections, elections management system, HAVA, Help America Vote Act, automatic voter registration, AVR, election technology, state appropriations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This session, we asked for 118 million within our overall appropriations.
- We don't always have a custody level bed that's appropriate for that inmate.
- If that number were higher, we've already provided the appropriation.
- It is, but we've also provided the appropriations committees with data.
- Act to allow TDCJ to use appropriate funds to enter into an agreement with the Windham School District
Keywords:
mental health, women's health, county jail, depression screening, criminal justice, HB 2854, Pokuaa-Flowers Act, parole, mandatory supervision, electronic monitoring, releasee, parole officer, hospital visit approval, general hospital, law enforcement notification, DSHS, Department of State Health Services, corrections, public safety, liability immunity
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine S.222, to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools that participate in the school lunch program to serve whole milk. Apr 1st, 2025 at 09:00 am
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- of their busy schedules to share your expertise and perspectives on the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act
- I have long supported the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act. Thank you, Senator Markey.
- The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 would change. The bill would reduce fat in whole milk.
- It's why yesterday I filed the Hot Foods Act again to cut red tape and snap and to help working families
- I kept a close eye on the milk consumption and waste that we started seeing in about 2012 when the Act
Bills:
SB222
Keywords:
whole milk, school lunch, school meals, National School Lunch Program, Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, Child Nutrition Act, USDA, nutrition standards, dairy, nonfat milk, low-fat milk, reduced-fat milk, lactose-free milk, nondairy beverages, plant-based milk, milk substitution, parental consent, legal guardian, food allergies, allergic reaction
Summary:
This meeting of the committee focused primarily on the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, S222, which aims to permit schools to offer a fuller range of milk options, including whole, reduced, and low-fat varieties, that have garnered bipartisan support. Chairman Bozeman opened the session by highlighting concerns over children's nutrition and the obesity epidemic, emphasizing the significance of nutritious school meals in addressing these issues. Experts from various organizations were invited to discuss the implications of this bill as well as the current challenges facing school meal programs, including budget constraints and food supply issues. The meeting included passionate testimonies about the direct impacts of current dietary guidelines and federal funding reductions affecting schools' abilities to provide healthy meal options.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- These acts are not mere vandalism.
- Acts against a child.
- Or the exact date when those acts were committed.
- Sexual acts.
- Sentence these cases as appropriate.
Bills:
HB316
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services May 5th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, it was removed as a retaliatory act.
- attorney's office, a a lender or, um, a title company and get a power of attorney, and then someone can act
- taxes will be levied to pay back those loans, but in the case of an emergency, if, if, if, uh, if an act
- While many collection entities act in good faith, there are still bad actors who do not make disclosures
- What are the, if you know, the current requirements under the Fair Debt Collection Act?
Bills:
HJR40
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Arizona Commerce Authority's responsibility of using the Arizona Competes funds to legislative appropriations
- Is there going to be an annual non-lapsing appropriation of $500,000 going in, or are we... ...are we
- When that draws down, are we, as a legislature that appropriates, then going to appropriate a certain
- supervising trade offices from the Arizona Commerce Authority’s Board of Directors to legislative appropriation
- Our role is just to appropriate and have no input.
Keywords:
trade offices, committee, Arizona commerce authority, stakeholder input, efficiency, Arizona competes fund, economic development, fund repeal, state finances, state appropriations, Arizona Commerce Authority, job creation, business incentives, commerce authority, public-private partnership, business regulation, Arizona governance, 1182, all
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 1st, 2026
Finance and Taxation Education
Transcript Highlights:
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Bills:
HB517, HB98, HB235, HB236, HB237, HB238, HB239, HB240, HB241, HB242, HB565, HB517, HB98, HB235, HB236, HB237, HB238, HB239, HB240, HB241, HB242, HB565, SB380
Keywords:
underground damage prevention, one-call notification system, utility locating, excavation safety, dig safe, call before you dig, 811, utility lines, underground utilities, pipeline safety, gas pipeline, electric utility, telecommunications, water utility, wastewater, cable television, locate request, premark, tolerance zone, positive response
AL
Transcript Highlights:
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- Members, as Senator Albert was talking about this rural health transformation act and the money that's
- It goes back to 1996 medical liability act, almost if you will, a good Samaritan.
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Keywords:
rural health, healthcare access, state funding, health transformation, appropriations, fiscal policy, healthcare funding, economic development, mental health, maternal health, antitrust, competition, market regulation, business practices, consumer protection, anaphylaxis, epinephrine, auto-injector, public health, school safety
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Veterans and Military Affairs REVISED Feb 12th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Veterans and Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- , new law, a new section of law not to be codified in the Oklahoma statutes, reads as follows, this Act
- shall be known and may be cited as the CW5RI Rowe Act submitted by Senator Hiinz.
- We need to make sure that we can hire them when we need them and that we pay them appropriately to take
- Go back and ask for a refund of that in our appropriations so that, just because it went back to the
- Members, SB1533 is cleanup language to define eligibility requirements for the Dignity and Burial Act
Keywords:
military discharge, veterans, DD Form 214, confidentiality, grandchildren access, Oklahoma National Guard, education assistance, military benefits, dependents, CareerTech Assistance Act, burial grant, memorial headstone, eligibility requirements, funding, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, fiscal management, state law, veteran burial, burial assistance, indigent veterans
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Apr 29th, 2026
Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
Bills:
HB1851
Keywords:
automatic renewal, consumer protection, cancellation policy, Oklahoma Fair Renewal Act, contract transparency
Summary:
In the Conference Committee for Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight, Reverend Shriver presented House Bill 1851. He described it as a consumer protection measure that would give consumers rights regarding auto-renewal on subscriptions.
After the bill was introduced, the chair asked for questions, but none were raised. There was no debate on the measure.
The committee then moved to open the bill for signature, with no further discussion or recorded vote in the transcript.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Apr 15th, 2026
Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
Bills:
HB1851
Keywords:
automatic renewal, consumer protection, cancellation policy, Oklahoma Fair Renewal Act, contract transparency
Summary:
The Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight met to take up Conference Committee Report No. 2 on House Bill 1851. Representative Shriver explained that the bill is a consumer protection measure aimed at giving consumers notice before annual subscriptions automatically renew, so they are reminded of upcoming charges and are aware they agreed to an annual subscription.
Shriver also said the bill includes additional consumer protections to ensure people understand what they are agreeing to when signing up for such subscriptions. No questions or debate were raised during the meeting.
After discussion, the chair opened the report for signatures, and the committee then adjourned.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 19, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Welcome, everybody, to Labor, Health, um, day two on Senate File 121, the Wyoming Pharmacy Act amendments
- This amends the provisions of the act and age of patients who, uh, whom pharmacists may provide immunization
- We'll go ahead and take roll call on Senate File 121, Wyoming Pharmacy Act amendments. >> This is a roll
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121, <00:10:37.519>Wyoming <00:10:37.920>Pharmacy <00:10:38.399>Act - on Senate File 121, Wyoming Pharmacy Act on Senate File 121, Wyoming Pharmacy Act amendments. amendments
Bills:
SF0121
Keywords:
pharmacy, collaborative care, healthcare, prescriptions, patient safety, Wyoming Pharmacy Act, 916, all
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine turning back time, focusing on locking the clock. Apr 10th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The invitation introduced by Bill, the Sunshine Protection Act. to finally lock the clock.
- All right, my bipartisan bicameral Sunshine Protection Act.
- I want to thank the committee for the consideration of the Sunshine Protection Act.
- If we called it the go to work an hour earlier act rather than the Sunshine Protection Act no one would
- So you have to have appropriate crossings. Pedestrians aren't gonna walk too far.
Keywords:
daylight saving time, Sunshine Protection Act, health impacts, clock change, legislative discussion
Summary:
The committee meeting was dedicated to discussing significant legislative topics, focusing particularly on the implications of daylight saving time (DST). Senator Scott advocated for the Sunshine Protection Act, which aims to eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes and keep daylight saving time year-round. He emphasized the negative health impacts associated with DST, including increased risks of heart attacks and accidents immediately following the time changes. Various witnesses provided personal testimonies and expert opinions, highlighting the confusion and health disruptions caused by the current time change practices.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine big fixes for big tech. Apr 1st, 2025 at 01:30 pm
Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- The America Act sensibly does not let the fear of breakups go.
- I can't think of a better testimonial for the America Act.
- I think some of you at least may be familiar with the Open App Markets Act.
- Act.
- I mean, so the Clayton Act allows private suits.
Keywords:
antitrust, competition policy, digital advertising, monopoly, America Act, big tech, consumer rights
Summary:
The meeting, titled 'Big Fixes, Big Tech', marked the first hearing of the Senate antitrust competition policy and consumer rights subcommittee in the 119th Congress. Chairman Lee opened the session focusing on the urgent need for effective solutions regarding anti-competitive behavior among major tech firms like Google and Facebook, highlighting several ongoing court cases regarding monopolistic practices in the digital advertising and search markets. Key discussions included the limitations imposed on small businesses and innovation due to the dominance of these tech giants, with many testimonies advocating for stronger legislative measures, including the America Act. The act aims to disrupt the monopolistic capabilities of these firms and restore competitive integrity in the marketplace, which has suffered under their oppressive market control.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/9/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This winter I've spent, then we started that shortly after it was appropriated.
- This winter I've spent, then we started that shortly after it was appropriated.
- So this appropriation gets transferred to the Ag Fund, and so that fund money will stay there.
- Let's say we appropriate for a grant money gets transferred $5 million to the university.
- First, there's a solid and use their market its fall seeded in acts as a cover crop and it has strong
Bills:
HF3692
Keywords:
Farmer-Lender Mediation Act, mediation, agriculture finance, debt relief, civil law, 1183, house
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Apr 29th, 2026 at 01:15 pm
Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
Bills:
HB1851