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US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, February 24, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c><04:39:18.959><c> and</c><04:39:19.199><c> air</c> uh for refrigerators and air uh for refrigerators
  • > washers,</c> refrigerators, freezers to washers, refrigerators, freezers to washers, dryers,<04:49:
  • </c> Harris appliance policies, refrigerators Harris appliance policies, refrigerators 28%<04:57:14.240
  • ><c> and</c> refrigerator takes six years and refrigerator takes six years and sometimes<04:57:31.760
Bills: HB4626 , HR1075 , SB2503 , HB6329
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Jan 28th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Housing

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  • or mixed-use development and requiring mixed-use or ground-floor commercial or retail as a condition
  • — ...commercial or mixed-use zones, with limited exceptions.
  • program are typically defined using the pedestrian core of a traditional commercial district.
  • program are typically defined using the pedestrian core of a traditional commercial district.
  • The department may not do this. traditional commercial district.
Committee: Senate Housing
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 4/3/25 - Part 1

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

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  • <00:58:30.119><c> property</c><00:58:30.559><c> tax</c> commercial property tax commercial property tax
  • real estate data of B and C commercial real estate data of B and C become<00:58:46.039><c> public</c
  • The protections afforded commercial real estate data have remained largely unchanged for 46 years, and
  • </c><01:04:39.359><c> real</c> the protections afforded commercial real the protections afforded commercial
  • properties it's unfair and commercial properties it's unfair and really<01:06:54.119><c> unfeasible<
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Judiciary Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • running a business operation out of your charity, you will be prosecuted because you're using it for commercial
  • Three, commercial, religious, or charitable for transport for a governmental purpose. Okay.
  • So, for example, my fridge that I grew up with as a kid, I had the same refrigerator my entire childhood
  • My mom still had it when I had the same refrigerator my entire childhood.
  • And then also the parts generally are smaller than, say, like your refrigerator, and the electronic piece
Bills: SB324 , HB395 , HB222 , HB310 , HB285 , HB144 , HB251 , HB380
Committee: House Judiciary
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • They were able to add refrigeration, which is crucial to all of our crops.
  • When I travel overseas, what they're all looking for is refrigeration and cold storage.
  • People will go, why the refrigeration program?
  • Frost said, because we're trying to grow more food and we do refrigeration.
  • You know, they're getting refrigerators that are paid for by PepsiCo.
Summary: The joint oversight hearing of the Assembly Human Services and Agriculture Committees focused on food insecurity in California, with members and witnesses discussing the state’s nutrition safety net, food access barriers, and the connection between agriculture and hunger. Opening remarks emphasized that California’s high agricultural output contrasts with widespread food insecurity, especially among families with children, communities of color, farmworkers, and other low-wage workers. Members also raised concern about federal policy changes, including possible cuts to nutrition programs, immigration enforcement impacts on farm labor, tariffs, and the need to protect state and federal food assistance resources. Testimony from the Department of Food and Agriculture highlighted several state programs aimed at improving access to fresh food and supporting local producers, including the California Nutrition Incentive Program, senior farmers’ market nutrition, healthy refrigeration grants, community food hubs, farm-to-school, urban agriculture, and a new tribal food sovereignty effort. Officials said these programs help stretch CalFresh and WIC dollars, expand healthy options in corner stores and farmers’ markets, and build infrastructure such as refrigeration, mobile markets, and aggregation hubs. The Department of Social Services described CalFresh, CFAP, Sun Bucks, CACFP, TEFAP, CalFood, emergency food boxes, and tribal nutrition grants, noting that CalFresh participation has risen to about 81% of eligible Californians and that the state has taken steps such as simplified applications for older adults and outreach in multiple languages. Witnesses and members discussed the need to reduce administrative barriers, improve call center service, and keep benefits aligned with inflation. Research testimony from PPIC said 13% of California households experienced food insecurity in 2023, with higher rates among households with children and Latino, Black, and other households of color. The researcher said CalFresh, school meals, and WIC reduce both food insecurity and poverty, but federal rules, immigration-related eligibility limits, and California’s high cost of living constrain their reach. In the second panel, farmers, food hub operators, and food system advocates described how local procurement, food banks, and institutional markets can support both hungry households and small farms. Speakers pointed to pandemic-era programs such as USDA’s food box and local food purchasing efforts as models, while warning that short-term funding and market consolidation threaten long-term resilience. No formal votes or legislative actions were taken during the hearing; members used the session for oversight, questions, and discussion of possible budget and policy follow-up.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session May 12th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Areas Act, which streamlined the permitting process for low impact camping areas, or LICAs, or commercially
  • HFC leaks from air conditioning and refrigerator units are a major source of harmful short-term climate
  • It is estimated that an average grocery store refrigerator system leaking 25% of its total refrigerated
  • With the production of new HFCs while also restoring older refrigerant units to higher levels of efficiency
  • rise today to present Assembly Bill AB 771 is a technical bill that will fix California's uniform commercial
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Ways and Means (03/18/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:48:55.280><c> and</c> you're a cni customer commercial and you're a cni customer commercial and
  • </c> that program that include commercial that program that include commercial Sawmills<01:10:49.360>
  • </c><01:23:32.480><c> insured</c> vaccines for commercially insured vaccines for commercially insured
  • c> this was about 21 babies with commercial this was about 21 babies with commercial Ins<01:43:24.719
  • </c> vaccine for my um commercial vaccine for my um commercial patients<02:19:16.840><c> I</c><02:19:
Summary: The committee heard testimony on House Bill 224, which would redirect most money from New Hampshire’s renewable energy fund back to electric ratepayers. The bill sponsor argued the measure would lower energy costs, noting recent utility rate increases and estimating annual savings of roughly $2.5 million to $7.3 million for ratepayers. Supporters said the fund has accumulated money that should be returned to customers rather than used for subsidies, and they emphasized that the state has already rebated similar funds from RGGI for years. Opponents, including Rep. Kat McGee, argued the renewable energy fund is a successful, nonlapsing dedicated fund that supports local clean-energy projects, energy resilience, emissions reductions, and private investment. McGee said the fiscal note overstated the benefit of rebates and understated the loss of investment, claiming the average annual rebate would amount to less than $10 per customer while the program has helped leverage significant private dollars and nearly 10,000 projects. She urged the committee to reject the bill as a poor deal for the state and ratepayers. Committee members questioned the fiscal note, the size of the rebate, whether the bill would set a precedent for other dedicated funds, and whether the program’s incentives amount to picking winners and losers. The Department of Energy testified neutrally, explaining how the renewable energy fund works, including renewable energy credits, alternative compliance payments, and the fund’s use for renewable energy initiatives. No vote was taken in the portion of the hearing provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Mar 27th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a commercial agent.
  • Commercial zoning made sense in one location, but today, because of a lot of growth and change in an
  • If you had commercial, you could do residential and commercial.
  • If you had industrial zoning, you could do residential, commercial, and industrial.
  • They want to make it commercial space now.
Bills: HB24 , HB2015 , HB2149 , HB2559 , HB2701 , HB2797 , HB3172 , HB24
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Mar 27th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • If it's a religious affiliation with a 501(c)(3), are the commercial and the multifamily going to be
  • So, at Apply Uniformly Teach, I don't think it would allow for the commercial like...
  • So they're not changing our homes to commercial entities. They're saying, but you can have...
  • Commercial use. I can send you the resolution. Oh, okay.
  • But in our neighborhood, which has a lot of mix of commercial and residential... 20% is difficult.
Bills: HB24 , HB2015 , HB2149 , HB2559 , HB2701 , HB2797 , HB3172 , HB24
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I will say that there is probably some merit to having commercial kitchens when you do mass production
  • And basically the inside of a house was turned into a commercial kitchen that had trucks coming in. me
  • There's not easy access to renting a commercial kitchen, or their business doesn't... allow the profit
  • This isn't controversial. commercial.
  • As they do not have kitchens or refrigeration as Senator Perry mentioned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 23rd, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • You know, we we get a few dollars from the commercial trucking industry for those that check the box
  • If in the commercial trucking industry, which I am as well - I own trucks - on these permits, if I don't
  • Members, currently several criteria are used to determine whether a commercial driver is an employee
  • Brandon Woods, Refrigerated Transport. John Esparza, Texas Trucking Association.
  • Brandon Woods, executive vice president of Refrigerated Transport, a small trucking company based in
Summary: The Senate Committee on Transportation heard several bills, mostly local memorial highway designations and transportation-related regulatory measures. Senator Hinojosa presented SB 1351 to designate part of US 281 in Hidalgo County as the Jose Rodriguez Lua Memorial Highway in honor of a Border Patrol processing coordinator killed by a drunk driver; a family member testified emotionally in support, and the bill was left pending. The committee also heard and left pending SB 2245 on bonded titles for vehicles when a lienholder has gone out of business, SB 1568 on animal-friendly specialty license plates with a second “spay, neuter, adopt” plate, SB 2589 on handling closed county roads in Webb County, SB 1104 on allowing large retailers to use one fingerprinted employee of record across multiple Texas locations, SB 1423 naming the Bill Stout Parkway in Longview, and SB 1931 naming part of US 83 the Rodolfo Valdez Memorial Highway. Most of these bills drew supportive testimony or were presented as local measures with no opposition. The committee also took up broader policy bills. SB 215 would create a digital identification program for Texas driver’s licenses and certain other licenses, but the sponsor said he was mainly laying the bill out for discussion and study; testimony was limited and the bill was left pending. SB 2707 would clarify that government entities such as TxDOT and the military remain exempt from fees on oversized/overweight permit authority, though a county commissioner raised questions about road-use impacts and fee revenue. SB 2807 drew the most discussion: it would prevent a motor carrier’s use of safety technology, training, and related practices from being used as evidence that an independent contractor is actually an employee. Supporters said the bill would encourage adoption of safety tools like cameras and braking systems without increasing misclassification risk, while opponents from the trial lawyers’ side warned the wording could conflict with existing labor-code definitions and create litigation. The sponsor and committee members discussed possible clarifying floor amendments. After public testimony, the committee voted on the pending bills. All measures were reported favorably on 6-0 votes, with committee substitutes adopted where applicable. SB 1351, SB 1423, SB 1568, SB 1931, SB 2245, SB 2589, SB 2707, SB 2807, and SB 2841 were all sent to the full Senate, and several were recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee recessed subject to the call of the chair after completing the votes.