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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Have a seat. Welcome back, introduce yourself, and give us your testimony. Harris County.
  • It also makes clear that HB 20 only constrains a platform's common carrier services.
  • law test for common carriage because...
  • Have a seat, make yourself comfortable, and introduce yourself.
  • Please take a seat, Ms. Adkins, and when you introduce yourself, tell us who you represent.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • All right, there's a seat right over there just for you, and we'll start over here on my left, your right
  • Ezra Morales, any of those seats are fine, just make yourself comfortable. I call Samuel Hoke.
  • creating a social climate where the discarding of a person's gender identity becomes increasingly more common
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Sections 25.6 and 25.7 deal with homeowners associations and common interest communities.
  • Sections 25.6 and 25.7 deal with homeowners associations and common interest communities.
  • There's a clause that requires the association to cover all of the aspects of the common building, and
  • areas, but also the units.
  • So to be eligible for this program, a family has to live in a rural area, has to be a foster family,
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 03-31-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, they are seated in the gallery.
  • [Applause] You may be seated.
  • <00:08:48.280> So,<00:08:48.440> when they are seated in the gallery.
  • So, when they are seated in the gallery.
  • >> You may be seated. >> You may be seated.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:01:31.520> events confined the bill to five common events confined the bill to five common
  • <00:37:42.720> ground will be able to find some common ground will be able to find some common
  • Uh we program integrity oversight area.
  • in other areas of our statute. in other areas of our statute.
  • And maybe that's through a other areas?
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Feb 10th, 2026

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • In the past, we passed HB 965 creating water quality enhancement areas, WQEAs, mirrored and included
  • SB 934, areas of critical state concern, by Senator Rodriguez.
  • Now we will move to tab 6, SB 934, areas of critical state concern by Senator Rodriguez.
  • At last committee stop, there were two particular areas that... ...of a fire.
  • And when the music ended, there was no seat available for their students.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced a wide range of bills focused on water safety, utilities, housing, transparency, and claims relief. CS/SB 848 on stormwater treatment was presented as a follow-up to prior water-quality legislation and reported favorably with one support waiver. SB 28, a claims bill for Reginald Jackson against the City of Lakeland, was also reported favorably. CS/SB 658, a bipartisan child-drowning prevention bill for rental properties, drew extensive testimony from child advocacy and drowning-prevention groups in strong support; amendments required rental license applicants to certify compliance and removed local-government add-on authority, and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 18, a claims bill involving the estate of a deceased minor and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, prompted questions about settlement and responsibility but was ultimately reported favorably despite opposition from a waiver form. Several utility and infrastructure measures were considered. CS/SB 1724 would regulate municipal utility service outside city limits, limit revenue transfers, require public meetings, and cap rate differences; an amendment added gas utilities, and the bill was reported favorably after testimony from municipal utility representatives and small-county advocates. CS/SB 1014 would require municipal utilities to extend water and wastewater service to certain nearby residential properties without conditioning service on annexation; an amendment narrowed the bill to residential uses and clarified capacity and grandfathering provisions, and it passed favorably. CS/SB 1102 would allow local infrastructure surtax revenue to fund body camera programs, with an amendment making the surtax authorization prospective and requiring a new referendum; it was reported favorably. CS/SB 260 on electric-vehicle storage in towing yards was amended to focus on storage only and to tie the higher fee to the period before fire-risk inspection, then reported favorably after testimony from insurers, fire officials, and EV industry representatives. The committee also advanced education, housing, and ethics-related bills. SB 1264 would ease zoning and code barriers for small private schools and micro-schools, with supporters arguing it would expand school choice and opponents raising implementation concerns; it was reported favorably. SB 934 on Florida Keys areas of critical state concern was amended to remove a tax-exemption section that conflicted with the Live Local Act, then reported favorably. SB 1622 would provide a one-time waiver of late financial-disclosure fines under specified conditions and was reported favorably. Finally, CS/SB 1566 on local government spending and transparency required online posting of budgets and related materials, and an amendment added utility revenue reinvestment and other changes while removing DEI spending restrictions; the bill drew support for transparency but concern from small cities and counties about cost and workload, and it was reported favorably. The meeting ended with adjournment after senators recorded votes on selected bills.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WLA Public Hearing 02-06-2026

Water, Land, Culture and the Arts

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cameron Hurt, Common Cause.
  • on the Senate measure covers what areas? on the Senate measure covers what areas?
  • on the leasing part of the area as well. on the leasing part of the area as well.
  • <00:47:28.000> So area under the state water code. So area under the state water code.
  • projects in the special management area. projects in the special management area.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures, beginning with SB 2982 on campaign finance, which would prohibit foreign entities and foreign-influence businesses from making contributions and expenditures. The Attorney General’s office testified first, followed by the Campaign Spending Commission, which supported the bill but asked for clarification on constitutional review authority and additional implementation time for certifications, forms, and procedures. Common Cause also supported the measure, arguing it would help protect elections from dark money and foreign influence. No vote was taken. The committee then took up SB 2367 on a state boating facilities lease program for the Ala Wai small boat harbor. DLNR supported the bill, while UPW opposed it, warning about privatization of a public asset and possible job displacement. Several members of the public supported the concept but urged amendments to protect public access, affordability, youth ocean programs, and state employee jobs. Committee members questioned DLNR about the scope of the lease, the role of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, and whether public access and existing concessions would remain protected. DLNR said current leases would remain, the board would retain approval authority, and employees would not necessarily be displaced, but members indicated more discussion and possible amendments were needed. For SB 2818 on boating penalties, DLNR testified in support and there was no opposition testimony. The committee also heard SB 2944 on conservation, which would require wildlife viewing guidelines that substantially conform to NOAA guidance and reporting requirements; DLNR said it stood on its written testimony. SB 2022 on water code penalties drew support from DLNR’s Commission on Water Resource Management, which said the bill’s two-tiered penalty structure would preserve deterrence while keeping the current $5,000 penalty for first-time or non-harmful violations. The Board of Water Supply submitted comments, and Ulupono Initiative supported the measure as a needed enforcement tool. Committee members discussed whether the higher penalty ceiling should be phased in and asked for stakeholder input on the amount of the penalties. Finally, the committee began SB 2240 on land use, which would require water availability certification from the Commission on Water Resource Management before a district boundary amendment proceeds to the Land Use Commission. DLNR supported the bill and said it often reviews project documents that lack sufficient information on water needs and availability, so the measure would allow earlier review and comment. The committee also indicated it would seek amendments and further feedback on the water penalty bill before it moved to the next committee.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/17/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

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  • small parts in other areas and then fly them around to get them there.
  • He said he has flown into Duluth Airport for the last 20 years and called it a delightful area.
  • He said he has flown into Duluth Airport for the last 20 years and called it a delightful area.
  • He said he has flown into Duluth Airport for the last 20 years and called it a delightful area.
  • reason so if you have a a swampy area reason so if you have a a swampy area near<01:05:09.160>
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House State Government Committee Feb 4th, 2026

State Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Kiosks must display specific separate warnings about common scams.
  • Kiosks must display specific separate warnings about common scams.
  • King Omri named that area Samaria.
  • before Jesus, King Omry named that area before Jesus, King Omry named that area Samaria.<00:40:45.440
  • And in 1950, the Jordanian Parliament passed a resolution and they took control of that area.
HI
Summary: The House Housing Committee opened its Friday morning hearing by noting potentially catastrophic flooding on the island and acknowledging that some members were absent helping their communities, so quorum for voting was uncertain. The committee then heard testimony on several housing-related measures, with most bills drawing support from housing agencies and community organizations and little or no opposition in the room. On SB 2069 SD2, SB 2177 SD2, and SB 2342 SD2, witnesses largely supported the measures. HHFDC supported SB 2069 and SB 2177, and HPHA supported SB 2342. For SB 2342, HHFDC raised concerns that the bill would alter the Qualified Allocation Plan outside the normal open, public process required by federal law and could exclude stakeholders; Kathy Charities echoed those concerns and also objected to changing point allocations in ways that could raise rents and weaken long-term affordability. Members questioned HHFDC about how the QAP is normally updated, the meaning of the point system, and whether a legislative working group could mandate changes; HHFDC said recommendations would still need public hearing and board approval. The committee also heard SB 2060 SD2, which would create a mixed-income subaccount in the rental housing revolving fund. HHFDC said the subaccount would likely use tier-two funds, estimated at about $100 million total, to support mixed-income projects above 60% AMI, citing Front Street Apartments as a possible example. Members asked about project selection and funding needs. On SB 2544 SD2, OHA opposed the bill’s Chapter 6E-related exemptions and mandatory review timelines, arguing that burial review protections should not be weakened and that the SPEED Task Force process was a better venue for streamlining. The sponsor later clarified that the bill was not meant to eliminate the 60-day review process but to make the deadline clearer. For SB 3011 SD1, which concerns public housing and pet ownership, HPHA and several humane organizations supported the measure, saying it would help low-income residents and seniors keep pets and benefit from animal companionship. HPHA explained its existing pet policy, including deposits, monthly fees, and restrictions, and said the requested funding would support ADA-accessible pet areas and related administration. Finally, on SB 2061 SD2, HCDA supported the bill while OHA opposed it unless protections for Hawaiian Crown and Government lands were strengthened. Committee members questioned the project’s 60/40 split between income-restricted and market-rate units, the 10-year owner-occupancy restriction, and the procurement exemption; the sponsor said the exemption was tied to a real estate transaction and that the project would still use 103D-like solicitation procedures. No votes were taken during the hearing, and several items were left for later action because quorum was uncertain.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 03-17-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • >> [applause] >> And Complex Area Superintendent Richard Fajardo and Principal Matthew Mitsuyuki
  • Complex Area Teacher of the Year. Complex Area Teacher of the Year.
  • You may be seated. I now Mahalo, Elise. You may be seated.
  • You may be seated, and I now yield the floor to the Senator from District 11.
  • You may be seated.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce May 20th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • , which already have a dedicated seat.
  • You know, an area that has some civil liberties concerns.
  • So it's just an area that I bring out because it is an area that I think the members on the dais at least
  • So it's just an area that I bring out because it is an area that I think the members on the dais at least
  • The surrounding areas, it takes the federal model.
Summary: The committee took up several pending business items and reported a series of House bills out of committee, including HB 2467, HB 2468, HB 2518, HB 4310, HB 4386, HB 4490, HB 5323, and HB 149. Most of these were advanced on committee substitute motions and sent to the local and uncontested calendar or reported favorably to the full Senate. HB 2467 drew one nay vote, while the others were approved without opposition. HB 4310 and HB 4386 were described as committee-substitute versions with changes narrowing disclosure requirements and preserving attorney-client privilege in certain circumstances. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 149, an AI governance bill. The substitute was explained as addressing biometric identifier capture and storage, exempting certain AI uses for security and fraud prevention, clarifying definitions, restricting AI systems that simulate explicit child sexual content, adjusting Attorney General investigative authority, refining sandbox program waivers, reducing Texas AI Council powers and membership, and adding DIR coordination provisions. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill favorably. The committee then heard extensive testimony on HB 1500, the DIR sunset bill. The author said the bill would continue DIR for 12 years, restructure its board, update advisory committees, require regular cybersecurity assessments and penetration testing for state agencies, improve IT procurement training, and transfer the e-grants program to the Comptroller. A Texas 2036 witness supported the bill as a way to strengthen governance, procurement, and cybersecurity. Members asked detailed questions about the bill’s structure and then left HB 1500 pending. The committee also heard a lengthy presentation on HB 150, which would create the Texas Cyber Command as a component of the University of Texas System, administratively attached to UTSA and located in San Antonio. The author argued the command would centralize cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and digital forensics, and would be able to support state and local entities, with optional services for local governments. Members raised concerns about university mission drift, governance, security, chain of command, procurement authority, gifts and donations, and civil liberties implications of proactive cyber monitoring. Witnesses from UTSA/NSCC and SecurityScorecard testified in support, emphasizing the security of the downtown San Antonio facility, the existing cyber ecosystem there, and the need for a dedicated cyber capability. The bill remained under discussion with no final committee action announced in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • They had lost quite a bit of service area. They're up in the Denton County area.
  • as those areas currently exist, provided any part of the... certificated area was located within the
  • In this particular area, we were in a desperate situation, as were all the area ranchers who also rely
  • , but the whole area is serviced by a two-inch pipe.
  • There'll be two areas. Just a question for Mr.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This policy is harmful and should not be expanded further into rural areas.
  • They're up in the Denton County area.
  • There's one area.
  • as those areas currently exist, provided any part of the certificated area was located within the jurisdiction
  • , but the whole area is serviced by 2-inch pipe.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs heard several water-related bills, with testimony focused on drinking water quality, groundwater contamination notice, flood infrastructure funding, water rights conservation, and utility service areas. SB 1662 would limit TCEQ’s advance notice to public water systems to no more than 24 hours before testing after a consumer complaint, to reduce the chance of temporary treatment affecting results. SB 1663 would allow TCEQ to notify private well owners, groundwater conservation districts, and nearby residents by direct means about known groundwater contamination, rather than relying mainly on first-class mail and annual reporting. SB 2124 would move the deadline for publishing the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee’s annual report from April 1 to June 1. Witnesses on the first two bills described long-running water quality problems and delayed notice in their communities and supported the measures. No opposition was recorded, and each bill was left pending for a later vote. The committee also heard SB 1967, which would expand eligibility for Flood Infrastructure Fund financing to multipurpose projects that both reduce flooding and create water supply. Senator Hinojosa and Hidalgo County representatives described the Delta Reclamation Project as a shovel-ready example that would capture flood and drainage water, treat it, and produce new potable supply while also providing detention and flood mitigation. A Sierra Club witness also supported the bill, saying such projects could help manage floodwaters and reduce polluted discharges to bays and estuaries. The bill was left pending. A lengthy and divided discussion followed on SB 1413, which would expand the streamlined expedited release process for landowners seeking removal from a water or sewer CCN in additional counties. Senator Nichols said the bill was a property-rights measure aimed at legacy monopolies and bad actors who use CCNs to hold landowners hostage, while supporters described cases where developers could not get timely service, including fire flow, or were asked to fund infrastructure without reasonable recoupment. Opponents from rural water corporations and utility associations argued the bill would undermine investment in water infrastructure, strand debt, and weaken the return on planned expansion. PUC and TCEQ resource witnesses explained that compensation is handled case by case through appraisal and can include stranded costs, planning, design, construction, and some legal fees, but members noted the statute is unclear and discussed possible committee substitute language. Public testimony was closed with the bill left pending. Later, SB 1624 would allow the Texas Water Trust within the Texas Water Bank to hold donated water rights for conservation purposes and protect them from use-it-or-lose-it cancellation, and SB 863 would address Edwards Aquifer utilities that straddle the aquifer boundary by allowing them to continue using Edwards water within their certificated areas under specified conditions. Both bills were laid out, received no public opposition in the hearing, and were left pending.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Finance Apr 2nd, 2025

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • You could have a seat over here. Carly French, have a seat over here.
  • areas.
  • areas.
  • areas.
  • South Texas areas.
Summary: The Senate Finance Committee heard several bills focused on tax administration, transportation, emergency services, historic preservation, forensic training, pension funding, and the state’s rainy day fund. Senate Bill 1337, by Senator Creighton, would require the comptroller to assess penalty and interest only on the net tax due and allow sales and use tax overpayments to offset underpayments more automatically; it was left pending while the author, comptroller staff, and a private witness continued working on the language and fiscal note. Senate Bill 1371, by Senator Hinojosa, would address Corpus Christi transit authority operations, including emergency refueling coordination, fare-setting procedures, and board term limits; it received supportive testimony and was left pending. Senate Bill 1377, by Senator Perry, would create a grant program for rural counties to buy ambulances, with a committee substitute expanding eligible uses in some cases to equipment and setting a sunset date; numerous EMS officials, county representatives, and association witnesses testified in support, emphasizing rising ambulance costs, staffing shortages, and the need for rural emergency coverage, and the bill was left pending after testimony. Senate Bill 868, by Senator Sparks, would direct at least 10% of volunteer fire department assistance funding to high wildfire-risk areas; Texas A&M Forest Service explained the map and methodology, and the committee substitute was adopted. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1426, which would place the First Capitol State Historic Site in West Columbia under Texas Historical Commission stewardship, and Senate Bill 1620, which would create a Texas Forensic Analyst Apprenticeship Pilot Program through the Office of Court Administration to address forensic scientist shortages; both had no opposition in testimony and their committee substitutes were adopted. Senate Bill 2065 would change the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System funding structure to require an actuarially determined state contribution and address the system’s unfunded liability over 30 years; Pasadena fire department representatives testified that the pension is an important volunteer retention tool, and the bill was left pending after testimony. Senate Joint Resolution 4 would raise the Economic Stabilization Fund cap from 10% to 15% of biennial revenue deposits, with a committee substitute correcting the effective date to September 1, 2027; the committee discussed the fund’s current balance and purpose before adopting the substitute. After quorum was established, the committee voted out the measures. Senate Bill 1868, Senate Bill 1371, Senate Bill 264, Senate Joint Resolution 4, Senate Bill 1426, Senate Bill 1620, and Senate Bill 2065 were all reported favorably to the full Senate, with some bills also certified for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee substitute for Senate Bill 868 was adopted and the bill was reported favorably as well. The committee then recessed subject to the call of the chair.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part I) Apr 28th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think we have 4 seats and Mr.
  • But, in my old age, I'm honoring common sense. Please bring some of that to this issue.
  • Territorial jurisdiction if it is divided by a railroad in certain areas of Texas, an area of land up
  • This area is in the city limits.
  • This bill would allow us to consider this area contiguous for purposes of voluntary.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 4th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • [APPLAUSE] PLEASE BE SEATED. OUR DOCTOR OF THE DAY IS DOCTOR BISHOP. DR.
  • WE HAVE SEEN TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC GROWTH IN URBAN AREAS ACROSS FLORIDA, AND AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, IT
  • ANOTHER AREA THAT WE KNOW STATE GOVERNMENT CAN IMPROVE IS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT).
  • LIKE SO MANY OTHER AREAS OF PUBLIC POLICY, THIS IS ONE WHERE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MATTERS.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:02:03.760> language<00:02:04.200> that So, House File 4560 focuses on a few main areas
  • and one in greater one in the metro area and one in greater Minnesota, Minnesota, Minnesota, of<00:42
  • So, this is similar to other metro areas.
  • It also often applies primarily to the large metro areas in the state, not to the whole state, which
  • To date, the large-scale hyperscale centers have been relying on alternative urban area-wide review,
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 5th, 2026 at 04:18 pm

Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Common sense tells us let's get them going.
  • receipts— Senate Bill 212, the ski area equipment sale gross receipts.
  • that our ski areas are starting to really start seeing more traffic.
  • and they're so invested in the ski area that it might be fair for them to give up their grocery seats
  • The Klaugrovski area suffered for years for lack of snow.