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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Jan 28th, 2026 at 03:08 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It provides that mechanism.
  • They've got to go through the Gun Control Act, the National Firearms Act.
  • So I'm curious about potential cost associations.
  • And how much is that going to cost? Thank you, Madam Chair, Senator.
  • And how much is that going to cost DPS?
Bills: SB4 , SB7 , SB9 , SB17
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Summary: The House convened with a roll call, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance, then followed its regular order of business. The chamber also completed administrative items including correction/reassignment of measures and introductions of the Doctor of the Day, Dr. Lee Sheffler, and Nurse of the Day, Amanda Fisher. A special recognition was held for the 2025 Mustang Bronco 6A fast-pitch softball state champions, who were introduced in the chamber and gallery. Several members made announcements about committee and caucus meetings, including the Women’s Caucus, Native American Caucus, Rural Caucus, insurance committee, judicial criminal committee, public health, banking, business committee, and a devotional gathering. Members also welcomed nursing students and faculty, and a criminal justice program from Kiamichi Career Tech and McAlester. No legislation was debated or voted on in the transcript. At the end of the session, the floor leader moved to adjourn once the clerk’s desk was clear, and the House agreed without objection. The chamber adjourned until Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at 1:30 p.m.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AGR Public Hearing - Wed Feb 11, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST

Agriculture & Food Systems

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, ground, ocean, and air costs, because we don't have all those costs.
  • </c><00:28:31.760><c> of</c> federal level is to defay the cost of federal level is to defay the cost
  • cost cost &gt;&gt; within<00:28:40.960><c> the</c><00:28:41.039><c> state.
  • because</c> ocean, and air. and costs again because ocean, and air. and costs again because we<00:30:
  • </c><00:30:22.720><c> It's</c> we don't have all those costs. It's we don't have all those costs.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • its presence felt in the islands, how they deal with that: identification, surveying, eradication, control
  • , and at some point giving up on control and deciding what places they want to preserve versus other
  • </c><00:23:29.280><c> and</c> identification eradication control and identification eradication control
  • </c><00:23:30.080><c> giving</c><00:23:30.320><c> up</c><00:23:30.559><c> on</c><00:23:30.799><c> control
  • </c><00:23:31.120><c> and</c> at some point giving up on control and at some point giving up on control
Bills: HB2240 , HB2272 , HB2273 , HB2274 , HB2275
Committee: House Finance
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • There are many components of the cost of health care in Minnesota that are outside the direct control
  • When I look at rising health care costs, it's often due to rising pharmaceutical costs, the rising cost
  • not push up costs.
  • When we think about the cost of defrayal, costs about the cost of reinsurance for a small group of people
  • costs about the cost of reinsurance for costs about the cost of reinsurance for a<01:15:14.159><c> small
Bills: HF747 , HF1014 , HF320 , HF400
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Care & Wellness Jan 30th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Health Care & Wellness

Transcript Highlights:
  • The third part is cost.
  • Lastly, I'd like to talk about costs.
  • From a cost perspective for patients, performing appropriate PCI cases in ASCs lowers costs.
  • From a cost perspective for patients, performing appropriate PCI cases in ASCs lowers costs.
  • They must conduct quality control testing.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/13/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • The project is cost prohibitive.
  • </c> get more for phase one to bring cost get more for phase one to bring cost down<00:16:11.839><c>
  • </c><00:34:21.200><c> of</c> the cost of the cost of $80,000<00:34:23.520><c> and</c><00:34:23.879><c
  • </c><00:38:01.040><c> comp</c> station's internal mechanical comp station's internal mechanical comp
  • </c> without bonding support utility costs without bonding support utility costs Will<00:46:06.400><c
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN-HOU, AEN-EIG, AEN Public Hearings 03-18-2026

Agriculture and Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Pet Fix Hawaii, a high-volume, no-cost Pet Fix Hawaii, a high-volume, no-cost dog<00:29:35.919><c> and
  • </c> much-needed funds for free, low-cost much-needed funds for free, low-cost clinics<00:29:46.400><
  • </c> of the funding mechanism. of the funding mechanism.
  • cost? cost?
  • Our constituencies are not going to see an increase in electricity cost nor gas costs.
Bills: HB1736 , HB1620 , HB1695
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1737, which clarifies allowable uses in agricultural districts for farm dwellings and farm employee housing, and HB 1604 HD2, which creates an agricultural workforce housing working group within the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity. Testimony on HB 1737 was overwhelmingly supportive, with county agriculture officials, the Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Farmers Union backing the measure; one witness asked for a definition of “affordable” to guard against misuse of farm housing. For HB 1604, the Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Housing Hawaii’s Future, Hawaii Farmers Union, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the bill, with OHA requesting disaggregated data and a seat on the working group. Committee discussion focused on housing shortages, possible misuse, affordability, and whether innovative housing models such as modular, tiny, and container homes should be considered. The committee then took action on both measures. HB 1737 HD3 was recommended to pass with amendments that would limit farm employee housing to agricultural employees and their immediate family members actively engaged in the farm operation, add a grandfathering provision for existing permitted housing, preserve county zoning authority, clarify that ag tourism must be secondary and not occur in employee housing, delete a square-footage-per-acre ratio, and defer the effective date to July 1, 2050. HB 1604 HD2 was also recommended to pass with amendments adding OHA and a housing-shortage organization to the working group, expanding its scope to include modular, tiny, and container homes and permitting/zoning streamlining, and deferring the effective date to July 1, 2050. Both motions were adopted unanimously by the members present. The joint hearing then moved to HB 1736, which would establish a spay and neuter special fund and require sterilization and declaration provisions for cats, with some discussion of dogs. DLNR and the Hawaiian Humane Society supported the bill, while Pacific Pet Alliance objected to the broader requirements and the inclusion of dogs; the Hawaiian Humane Society and American Bird Conservancy supported cat-focused sterilization and the special fund, while some testifiers opposed mandatory sterilization as too costly or intrusive. Members raised questions about toxoplasmosis, trap-neuter-release, enforcement, neighbor-island access, and funding needs, and DLNR indicated additional funding and third-party contracting would likely be needed. The transcript then began HB 1620 HD2 on energy, which would increase the environmental response energy and food security tax and shift funds from the hydrogen fueling subaccount to EV charging infrastructure; state agencies generally stood on written testimony in support, while the Tax Foundation objected to special fund earmarks and noted the bill raises only one part of the barrel tax structure.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/16/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Military Affairs and Border Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • Congress controls the purse strings.
  • Congress controls the purse strings.
  • Chair and members, the National Guard is one of the most cost-effective and battle-proven forces our
  • and who flew and was operational, I can tell you that the Guard is essential, but it has to have control
  • and how 287(g) agreements have resulted in racial profiling, civil rights abuses, and high fiscal costs
Bills: SB1047 , SB1365 , SB1474 , SB1618 , SB1620
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 1st, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Misinformation can cost survivors their justice and safety.
  • One person is in control and the other person is not.
  • They're no longer really in control of their body and they don't really know what's going on.
  • of that monster that took away our control when they violated us.
  • Give me that control.
Bills: HB47
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/12/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • ><00:02:46.879><c> local</c> as legislators can't control local as legislators can't control local property
  • ,</c> care, gas, utilities, medical costs, care, gas, utilities, medical costs, medications,<00:06:07.120
  • Uh Chair uh rising costs. Thank you.
  • There's no cost to the state. We're not waving uh taxes.
  • There's no cost to the December of 2026.
Bills: HF4119 , HF3959 , HF3792 , HF3913 , HF3752
Committee: House Taxes
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Mar 5th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, 3430 aims to make the collection process more efficient for the court costs and fines and fees
  • Court costs, fines, and fees collection is actually down a few percent.
  • Sherman, one of the other concerns I have from a legal standpoint is that the bill uses the language 'cost
  • From a legal standpoint, we've never had a definition of 'cost judgment' or 'criminal judgment.'
  • Number one is a criminal or a cost judgment, and you know how that implements with the Title 28 Section
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Mar 5th, 2026

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, 3430 aims to make the collection process more efficient for the court costs and fines and fees
  • Court costs and fines and fees collection is actually down a few percent.
  • From a legal standpoint, we've never had a definition of cost judgment or criminal judgment, and when
  • Number one is a criminal or a cost judgment and, you know, how that implements with Title 28, Section
  • collection agency in order to collect... ...agency in order to collect this judgment on fines and costs
Summary: The committee considered a series of House bills dealing with criminal justice, courts, public safety, housing, and related administrative issues. Early measures included HB 3419, which would extend penalties for sharing bid information before public release and bar violators from contracting with the state or its subdivisions, and HB 4153, which reinstates a repealed driver-qualification statute and updates it to include service in Oklahoma. Members also advanced HB 3430 on court costs, fines, and fee collection, though it drew concerns about terminology, collection practices, and whether it conflicted with earlier reform efforts; the Oklahoma Sheriffs Association testified that the bill would not authorize incarceration absent willful nonpayment and that collection fees have long been set at 20%. The committee also approved HB 3791, a health-care-for-minors bill worked out with the DO and MD boards, and HB 4119, a cleanup measure on VIN inspections for salvage vehicles. HB 4408, a LOFT request bill tied to calculating savings from State Questions 780 and 781 and directing funds to the Community Safety Investment Fund, was presented as a zero-fiscal-impact technical fix after court and DOC data issues were resolved. HB 3905 would allow judges to order GPS monitoring for certain stalking and domestic-violence-related defendants, with the victim able to receive proximity alerts; members questioned the scope of victim notification and the fact that the bill applies in civil VPO proceedings as well as criminal cases, but it was advanced. Later, HB 3968 was presented as codifying a Supreme Court decision, though members raised a late-added fiscal note and possible ODOT/OTA issues; the bill was still passed out of committee, with discussion of striking title on the floor if needed. HB 3835 would create a path for trafficking survivors to seek relief from convictions tied to their victimization, and HB 3386 would require mediation in eviction cases involving minor children; that bill prompted extensive debate over whether it created an affirmative defense, potential Fair Housing Act concerns, and whether it shifted costs to landlords, with the author agreeing to strike title and revise the language. The committee also advanced HB 2650 on summary administrations in probate and HB 3742, a negotiated criminal discovery bill, after adopting a small amendment limiting certain recordings to those directly related to the case and changing “approximate” to “appropriate.”