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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/12/26

Taxes

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  • It's good for dishonest business and will come at a competitive cost to the majority of our businesses
  • It's good for dishonest business and will come at a competitive cost to the majority of our businesses
  • </c> good about working with uh, businesses good about working with uh, businesses in<01:02:48.079><c
  • </c> including our businesses? including our businesses?
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Commerce

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  • They face higher costs, limited market access, and real barriers to sustainable business growth.
  • I'm James Crandall with the Association of Washington Business. And James?
  • Agreements to higher wage earners, balancing worker mobility with legitimate business interests.
  • It hurts competing businesses.
  • when necessary to maintain the worker's level of functioning at the time of claim closure.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

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  • </c> schools healthc care small businesses schools healthc care small businesses hospitality<00:02:31.000
  • </c><00:02:35.840><c> selling</c> online course a small business selling online course a small business
  • </c> hundreds of Minnesota small businesses hundreds of Minnesota small businesses and<00:04:49.680><
  • </c> industry I started off at the business industry I started off at the business end<01:03:58.520><
  • </c> hookups for creating new business hookups for creating new business industrial<01:41:37.960><c>
Bills: HF47, HF335
NV
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  • be helping out small businesses.
  • have a very high percentage of businesses that are small businesses.
  • It's small businesses during their first year ever getting a state business license. Business.
  • It's small businesses during their first year ever getting a state business license.
  • are small businesses.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Taxation Apr 6th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Revenue and Taxation

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  • As a matter of business, members, item number 6, House Bill 3920 will be laid over.
  • A lot of them, a lot of businesses don't meet the number of jobs.
  • The well, maybe a better way to word my question would be I understand that if you have a business in
  • a municipality of 50,000, you're more likely to meet these constraints than if you have a business in
  • How this is an expense, and an expense is already deducted from the cost of doing business from a tax
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Taxation Apr 6th, 2026

Revenue and Taxation

Transcript Highlights:
  • As a matter of business, members, item number six, House Bill 3920 will be laid over.
  • A lot of businesses don't meet the number of jobs while the enacting clause is off.
  • So this, since it includes expansion, it might include current businesses, right?
  • However, this is an expense, and an expense is already deducted from the cost of doing business.
  • And an expense is already deducted from the cost of doing business from a tax standpoint.
Summary: The Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee considered several House bills dealing with tax credits, fee changes, school funding, and investment authority. House Bill 4426 extended the sunset on the SIDE tax credit to December 31, 2032, and passed 7-2. House Bill 3704 elected Oklahoma into the federal income tax credit for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations and passed 9-2. House Bill 4311 raised the unclaimed property division’s administrative fee from 4% to 6% to cover increased duties and costs; it passed 8-3 after debate over whether the increase was justified. House Bill 3044 reauthorized the veterans income tax checkoff and the associated capital improvement fund, and passed 10-0. House Bill 4191 revised the Smaller Employer Quality Jobs Act by lowering job thresholds, expanding qualifying locations and industries, and changing other eligibility rules; it passed 6-4. House Bill 3465 extended the emission tax credit sunset from July 1, 2027 to July 1, 2029 and passed 6-4, with opponents arguing it subsidized compliance with federal mandates. House Bill 3972, a title-off bill addressing ad valorem reimbursement issues tied to the state purchase of a prison, drew extensive debate over precedent and scope; an amendment to add a sunset failed 5-5, and the bill then passed 8-2 as amended.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN Public Hearing 01-29-2026

Commerce and Consumer Protection

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  • </c><00:18:40.400><c> corporations,</c> if you're talking business corporations, if you're talking business
  • They're out of the spending and politics business altogether.
  • They're out of the spending and politics business altogether.
  • And so if there's a business who has a yard sign and they get busted, and now that business owner can
  • And so if there's a business who has a yard sign and they get busted, and now that business owner can
Summary: The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee opened its first hearing of the year with remarks from Chair Jared Kohole outlining hearing procedures, a two-minute testimony limit, rules for remote testimony and decorum, and a revised testimony-publication pilot that keeps 96-hour notice but returns to a standard 24-hour testimony deadline. He then moved through the agenda, beginning with SB 2004 on outdoor advertising, which would increase penalties for violations of billboard and outdoor advertising laws. Testimony on that measure was limited; Henry Curtis of Life of the Land was first up, and written support was noted from Hawaiian Electric and the Outdoor Circle. The committee then heard SB 2039 on election campaign finance, which would prohibit certain business entities from engaging in campaign finance activities. The Attorney General’s office offered comments and did not take a formal position at the hearing. Several proponents testified in support, including Josh Frost, Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress, Hapa/Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action, and Common Cause Hawaiʻi, all arguing the bill would curb corporate and dark-money influence and return elections to the people. Moore distinguished between regulating corporate “rights” and limiting corporate “powers,” and said the state can redefine the powers it grants corporations. In questions, Senator McKelvey asked whether the bill could be expanded to include unions; the Attorney General said he would need to get back with legal analysis, while Moore said his preferred approach would include all entities and that leaving out nonprofits or unions would create problems. Members also discussed whether the bill would affect PACs, and Moore explained that the proposal would prohibit corporate and dark-money flows into PACs while leaving individual political giving and existing political committees in place. The committee then moved on to the next measure. SB 2042, relating to insurance, was heard next. The bill would reduce the unimpaired minimum capital and surplus required of class 4 sponsored captive insurance companies under certain circumstances. The DCCA Insurance Division said it stood on its written testimony, and the Hawaii Captive Insurance Council testified in support, describing the change as a narrow, risk-based adjustment that would not affect the commissioner’s authority where actual risk resides and would help keep Hawaii competitive. The committee noted additional written support and proceeded without a vote or final action in the portion of the hearing provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 9th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

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  • Furthermore, we understand that sometimes businesses need incentives, and this would give childcare businesses
  • It hits a very low-profit business.
  • As a pro-business Texan, I am proud of the laws that exist in our state protecting our business.
  • I recently sold my business. I had three very successful... Pet businesses for about 15 years.
  • We're going to put them out of business. You might have to shift your business, and that is okay.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 9th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

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  • The chair lays out HB 621 as. pending business.
  • The chair lays out HB 1006 as pending business.
  • HB 1926 as pending business.
  • HB 3698 as pending business.
  • SB 3699 as pending business.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

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  • business people.
  • business people.
  • </c><00:02:27.480><c> business</c><00:02:28.200><c> is</c> keys of successful business business is keys
  • </c> Capital business business owners that Capital business business owners that work<00:03:08.440><c
  • </c> grow my business business um to build grow my business business um to build wealth<00:10:31.480>
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Judiciary Feb 11th, 2026 at 05:25 pm

Senate Judiciary

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  • So they're kind of the reverse of normal business.
  • Hospitals and medical care in particular is an interesting business compared to others, right?
  • I think they are. particular is an interesting business compared to others, right?
  • I ran an asset management business, and some years we made money and some years we lost.
  • I ran an asset management business and some years we made money and some years we lost.
Bills: SB41, SB153, SB165, SB261, SB264
TX
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  • businesses and consumers alike.
  • I am honored to serve on the Governor's Small Business Advisory Task Force and the Small Business Advisory
  • I strongly support Senate Bill 2610 to support and protect our businesses. businesses and citizens from
  • That kills business. Everybody says Texas is open for business. It's not.
  • worker — who’s trying to start a business. ...business, or the mechanic in Pasadena who settled with
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development May 14th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Business to handle, okay. Okay, where are they? Oh, just... Only in white? No. Thank you.
  • Okay, the chair lays out SB140 as pending business.
  • SB1343 is pending business.
  • SB2121 is pending business. Members, you remember this bill by Senator.
  • Johnson relating to the regulation of certain business entities that act as data brokers.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 11th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Y'all know my background is as a small business guy, and I have listened to small business folks across
  • Businesses could take that as the assumption that they're good to go ahead and do business without having
  • And 45 days in a small business time frame is a long time, and so if...
  • I think these businesses have a lot of safeguards on them.
  • Are we referring to these businesses?
Bills: SB36, SB39, SB40, SB12, SB29, SB121, SB131, SB12
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 9th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

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  • everyday people to be able to... and everyday people to be able to not only continue to run their businesses
  • In any business, we have to tighten the house because without that we have no future.
  • This is no different than your home or your business.
  • The commercial rent tax, known as the business tax, will be reduced from 2% to 1.25%.
  • International Trade and Business Entity.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 9th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Rafael Anchia suggested reaching out to local businesses for support, expressing that collaboration is
  • Business is your objection? The Chair hears none. It's so ordered.
  • You're all aware of the attempt to conduct House business in violation of the ...Constitution by standing
  • Person of the Year Award from the San Antonio Business Journal, and the Texas Patriot Award from the
  • Our business-friendly environment attracts entrepreneurs and established companies from all over the