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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AGR Public Hearing - Wed Mar 18, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST

Agriculture & Food Systems

Transcript Highlights:
  • The management of green waste is a natural process that we go through with natural composting process
  • It's just a process we go through.
  • So there is same process.
  • training um, on field care, processing training um, on field care, processing techniques,<01:01:
  • And in doing so, while that process is happening, there will be a process to provide extra points, so
Summary: The committee heard testimony on SB 2885 SD1, which would create mandatory handling and storage rules for commercial and residential coconut rhinoceros beetle host material beginning in 2027, with penalties and an effective date. Support came from the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, DLNR, Maui County Department of Agriculture, the Hawaii Farm Bureau, Hawaii Farmers Union, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Testifiers generally said the bill would help reduce CRB spread, though some urged additional science-backed methods, better coordination, and technical or cost-share support for smaller operations. Hawaiian Earth Recycling recommended amendments to align the bill with existing Department of Health/EPA composting rules, add other materials that can harbor CRB, allow future approved treatment methods, and replace the bill’s 60-day turning requirement with existing pathogen-reduction standards. One individual supported the goal but argued the state’s CRB strategy has lacked community and cultural consultation and should include a cultural advisement role. Department witnesses said enforcement would rely on inspection and an educate-before-regulate approach, and they noted the challenge of creating enough drop-off sites, especially in rural areas. The committee then took up SB 2174 SD2, which would authorize the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to declare an emergency quarantine, halt operations in affected areas for 96 hours with possible extension, quarantine suspected pest areas, issue notices and compensation to affected farmers, and adopt interim transportation rules for materials that may harbor high-impact invasive species. The department and DLNR supported the measure, emphasizing the need for fast action in the first hours of an invasion. Hawaii Farmers Union supported the compensation provisions but asked for stronger communication with producers and a post-action report to the Board of Agriculture after about 90 days to evaluate effectiveness and economic impacts. In response to questions, department staff said the bill would be a short-term, department-only quarantine authority distinct from the governor-declared biosecurity emergency authority enacted previously, and that it could serve as an intermediate step. They also said outreach would need to be done through farm organizations such as Farmers Union, Farm Bureau, and Cattlemen’s groups. The final measure discussed was SB 2925 SD1, relating to coconut trees. The bill would recognize coconut trees as a source of food and water and a cultural treasure, require rules for coconut tree seed banks, require signage identifying landscape palms where applicable, set labeling standards for non-consumable landscape palms, and create an income tax credit for consumable coconut trees maintained through natural management practices. The transcript ended before testimony or action on this bill was completed, and no vote was taken on any of the measures discussed in the portion provided.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAL Public Hearing - Thu Feb 12, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Water & Land

Transcript Highlights:
  • Sorry, I was muted. current uh slow fragmented process is current uh slow fragmented process is really
  • Um, in terms of Kahana Bay process.
  • a process basically. a process basically.
  • <00:51:40.640> Our Erosion is a natural process. Our Erosion is a natural process.
  • So we have a shoreline processes.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1846, relating to shoreline mitigation districts. DLNR and the Office of Planning opposed the bill, arguing it would improperly shift regulatory roles between the agencies and prioritize private land interests over public trust and natural and historic resources. Supporters, including the Shoreline Preservation Coalition, Kahana Bay residents, and Hawaii Realtors, said regional planning is needed to address severe erosion, especially in Kahana, and that better coordination between state and county agencies could help move stalled projects forward. Testifiers emphasized that shoreline conditions vary by area and that science-based, region-specific solutions are needed. Members asked questions about whether existing law already allows regional planning and emergency shoreline responses. DLNR said it already has authority to process regional projects and cited an existing draft EIS for Kahana Bay that would proceed through normal permitting and public hearing channels. Supporters responded that the bill would provide a clearer regional planning framework and help communities facing urgent erosion impacts. No vote was taken on HB 1846 in the portion provided. The committee then took up HB 2205, relating to emergency erosion mitigation. DLNR opposed the bill, saying it already has authority to issue emergency permits and had recently done so quickly for a collapsed sidewalk at Queen Surf Beach, and warning that the bill’s language could weaken Act 16 by changing a prohibition on shoreline hardening to a requirement to merely minimize it. Kahana Bay representatives and other supporters argued the bill would create a limited, regulated short-term pathway for emergency shoreline solutions while long-term plans are developed, and said current permits have expired or stalled, leaving dangerous sandbags and no practical relief. Additional testimony from a private homeowner stressed that erosion is threatening homes and that private owners are often bearing the cost of protecting public shoreline access. The discussion remained focused on balancing emergency protection, public access, and long-term shoreline management, and no final action was taken in the excerpt provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 14th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • During the interview process, I started asking them, was this school an in-person school?
  • To help address that concern in the process as well.
  • So there's a—Is the vetting process with the medical school?
  • There are processes as nurses, advanced practice nurses, and CRNAs.
  • We are vetted through similar processes.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 14th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • That process already just makes things worse. I did want to point out... Briefly.
  • It doesn't restrict access to care; it protects individuals in the recovery process.
  • Not everything worked, and we had to go through this process of trial and error.
  • So it's really a regulatory process to issue.
  • We support this process. We have been negotiating with other parties and...
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Human Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It establishes a review process upon notice of agency denial, reduction, suspension, or termination of
  • I just want to say it's been a joy to be part of this process. I think I can speak.
  • And we're here to try to streamline the process and reduce bureaucracy.
  • People utilizing waivers have already gone through an extensive assessment and approval process.
  • So I think we need a little bit of background information on how that process worked.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So they want be a part of the process.
  • And we're here to manage the process.
  • Individuals utilizing processing times.
  • They shouldn't be forced to process.
  • process worked. process worked.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Criminal Judiciary Apr 7th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Criminal Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • of us Members, when agencies suddenly find a cost once a bill has made it through 8 weeks of the process
  • We did not cut any of them in the process.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Oversight Mar 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Government Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3942 It just modifies certain aspects of our incentive evaluation process, trying to tighten
  • but sometimes when You'd have a certain doctor's legal situation that goes above that in and it's a process
  • The amendment is simply reinserting a paragraph that was inadvertently omitted during the PCS process
  • My questions are really around process.
  • What's the process to end doing business, and does that create harm for us, or what are those business
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • They also cited instances where AI helped process IT invoices, improving the processing time from some
  • The second step is the data processed by the credit card networks.
  • The banks have nothing to do with that process. Card networks have nothing to do with that process.
  • They have to investigate the process.
  • Swipe fee process. What if small businesses closed down?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 231 creates a process for CenterPointe to compensate its customers for overcharges related
  • Come up with a process to, in fact, already begun a process.
  • I filed a complaint to Senator Bettencourt under the complaint process you're discussing.
  • They don't expedite the procedure. In fact, they burden it with more delay.
  • Payment processing is... I don't have a place here. Yeah.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part I) Apr 3rd, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • participate in some of the discussions on the first agenda item, Senate Bill 231, which creates a process
  • They don't expedite the procedure. In fact, they burden it with more delay.
  • As it relates to the due process protections, this bill requires the petitioner to use due process to
  • process.
  • It does deal with better notice, better process.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met with a quorum and first took up several pending and uncontested bills. It favorably reported SB 1405, SB 1762, SB 1977, SB 2077, SB 2148, and SB 1968, and also moved SB 2321 to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then heard SB 819, which would change how the Public Utility Commission reviews proposed utility-scale solar and related interconnection projects. The committee substitute would shift the default so interconnection is allowed unless the PUC affirmatively prohibits it within 180 days, limit denial to cases where harm substantially outweighs benefits, remove public meeting requirements, retain setback and financial assurance provisions, add optional application materials such as national security and environmental information, and restore local control over county tax abatements. The substitute was adopted and SB 819 was favorably reported to the full Senate on a 7-3 vote. The committee then took up SB 231, focused on CenterPoint’s use of large emergency generators after Hurricane Beryl. Senator King explained that the original bill was intended to prevent customers from being charged for non-mobile generators that were leased at great cost and did not match the bill’s emergency-response purpose. CenterPoint’s Jason Ryan apologized for the company’s communication failures and said the company would make customers whole through a combination of rate reductions, foregone storm-cost recovery, and a donation of the 15 large generators to ERCOT for about two years to address a San Antonio-area reliability issue, with the company absorbing the associated costs. PUC Executive Director Connie Corona said the commission could enforce the agreement through its contested-case process. Public testimony included consumer and reliability advocates, one of whom argued utility-scale microgrids should be preserved as a policy option. SB 231 was left pending. The committee also heard SB 986, which would create an alternative process for routine Public Information Act requests so local governments can make initial redactions without sending every routine exception to the Attorney General, while preserving an appeal path and training requirements. Supporters said it would reduce backlog and speed access to records; opponents argued it would shift the burden to requesters and encourage delay. The AG’s office testified that the process could improve efficiency and still fit within current timelines if used promptly. SB 986 was left pending. Finally, SB 584 was briefly laid out to require consumer reporting agencies that buy data from others to ensure the information complies with Texas law on excluded items such as bankruptcies, judgments, and tax liens, and SB 600 was heard on heir property. SB 600’s substitute would strengthen notice, require an attorney ad litem, add an heir’s bill of rights, allow settlement conferences, and require fair-market-value sales protections; supporters said it would curb predatory partition practices, while opponents warned some provisions could burden or diminish minority heirs’ property rights. SB 584 and SB 600 were left pending after testimony.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Therefore, it's a simple process. They pasteurize it and give it on to the kids.
  • The oil company, they basically go through the eminent domain process.
  • Whose oversight or what would be the process that would fall under?
  • We're actually changing the law in this process. We're actually changing the law in this process.
  • and 105 days off the Tier 3 permitting process.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/20/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Interestingly, we don't create them for the candidate process.
  • It's a total corruption of the process.
  • This bill simply says, give them access to the process.
  • I think it comes down to the process of law.
  • I regularly discussed this process with my probation officer.
Summary: The Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee heard and advanced several election, judiciary, child welfare, and criminal justice measures. SB 1489 would require paid petition circulators for initiatives and referenda to disclose their name, state of residence, and paid status verbally and on a badge, add registration requirements for certain local circulators, prohibit pay by signature for local measures, and apply strict compliance and funding-disclosure rules to local initiatives. The ACLU opposed it as compelled speech and a burden on political expression, while the Arizona Chamber supported it as transparency and parity with state-level rules. The committee recommended the bill do pass on a 4-3 vote. SB 1609, an emergency measure concerning political party names, would require proposed party names to be distinguishable from existing parties and bar use of terms like “independent” or similar variations. The Arizona Independent Party opposed it as a retroactive change and “cartel protection,” while county election officials and the Arizona Association of Counties supported it as reducing voter confusion. The committee adopted an amendment and recommended the bill do pass on a 7-0 vote. SCR 1040, a voter-approved constitutional referral, would raise the mandatory retirement age for judges and justices of courts of record from 70 to 75; supporters argued it reflects longer life expectancy and preserves experienced judges, while opponents said voters previously rejected a similar proposal and that an age limit is preferable. It passed 5-2. The committee also considered SB 1234, which changes juvenile court representation rules by requiring a guardian ad litem in dependency and termination cases and allowing appointment of an attorney for the child depending on age and ability to express an opinion. Sponsor Senator Werner said the bill was part of a broader child-safety reform effort informed by cases such as Rebecca Baptiste, arguing that a guardian ad litem with attorney authority would better protect children’s best interests. Child welfare attorneys and advocates opposed the bill, saying children need a dedicated attorney-client relationship, confidentiality, and a voice separate from the court or DCS; DCS remained neutral. The committee adopted an amendment and recommended the bill do pass on a 5-2 vote. SB 1661 would allow a presumed father to be relieved of child support obligations if genetic testing shows he is not the biological father; supporters described cases where men remained liable despite exclusionary DNA results, and the bill passed 6-0. Later, the committee heard election administration and transparency bills. SB 1392 would give governing bodies canvassing elections access to locations where election materials are created, handled, processed, tabulated, or stored, so they can observe procedures and review records while protecting secrecy and security; county officials raised concerns about the term “agent,” and the bill passed 4-3. SB 1634 would require ADOT to provide county recorders with a copy of an applicant’s handwritten signature when facilitating voter registration; county officials said it would improve signature comparison, and the bill passed 5-2 after a vote correction. SB 1743 would redact an individual donor’s employer street number, employer name, or residence address from public campaign finance reports, with penalties for improper disclosure; supporters cited privacy and safety, while opponents argued employer information is important for transparency and identifying influence. It passed 5-2. SB 1099, a strike-everything amendment, set statutory criteria for defamation claims involving public or private figures and public or private concerns, including falsity, reckless disregard, and context; it passed 4-3. After a recess, the committee heard SB 1535, which increases penalties for buyers of sexual conduct, including making the conduct a class 6 felony and adding a $200 assessment to support anti-human trafficking services. The sponsor and supporters, including survivors, law enforcement, neighborhood advocates, and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, said the bill targets demand that fuels trafficking and neighborhood disorder. Opponents from criminal justice and anti-violence groups said the bill should include a rebuttable presumption to better protect trafficking victims. The committee adopted an amendment and recommended the bill do pass.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Jan 21st, 2026

State Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Last year, we passed an extension through the tax tribunal for the appeals process to give 60 days, from
  • sales motor fuels in Alabama, what this does, it gives them an additional 60 days to appeal that process
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • The law unjustly enforces mistakes or state processing issues.
  • Each of those requests goes through the exact same process.
  • This bill seeks to expedite the process to accommodate the newlyweds by allowing the officiant to electronically
  • The return period takes about 10 to 15 minutes, the same as the issuance process.
  • Adoption process.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • even though they couldn't be on the ballot later, we're still having to go through that election process
  • We still have to put everybody on the ballot and go through the process. Is that right?
  • Adding in another provision will only delay the process and create more litigation, and there is no incentive
  • Slowing the process down from the landowner's perspective, from the property owner's perspective, is
  • They get—even after an award is put into the court... ...during the process, none of the money that's