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FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

February 3, 2026 - 08:00 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am a genocide survivor. Aminah Spike: It has defined a lot of my childhood.
  • There are ten steps to a genocide Aminah Spike: and I went to study genocide in grad school, and I think
  • This is a widely accepted framework for genocide. And we are basically at step one with this bill.
  • In recognition of that partnership, the local business tax was created.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, March 25, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> recognition? Uh thank you, Mr. Speaker. recognition? Uh thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  • Gentleman seek recognition. I yield Mr. Gentleman seek recognition.
  • </c> Virginia seek recognition? Uh, Mr. Virginia seek recognition? Uh, Mr.
  • recognition? recognition?
  • </c> from Michigan seek recognition? Mr. from Michigan seek recognition? Mr.
Bills: HR1048 , HR242 , HB1534
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Jan 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Early Learning & K-12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the ban on using biometrics and facial recognition as surveillance technology is also very important
  • We appreciate the recognition of these heritages and cultures and the guidance and instruction as a part
  • On the drive here, Sophani shared how painful it has been to grow up seeing that the Cambodian genocide
  • On the drive here, Sophani shared how painful it has been to grow up seeing that Cambodian genocide treated
  • Sophani performs dances of a people who were nearly wiped out by genocide.
Bills: SB5901 , SB5860 , SB5956 , SB5574 , SB5922 , SB5858
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Apr 3rd, 2025

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a simple bill that ensures proper academic achievement and recognition. for bilingual and biliterate
  • A recognized Texas Seal of Bilingualism and Biliteracy will elevate this recognition, making it available
  • incidents resulting from the October 7th attack on Israel's southern border, the Texas Holocaust, Genocide
  • harassed by a substitute teacher who screamed at her, calling her a murderer and accusing her of genocide
  • I believe Israel is conducting genocide in Palestine. Is that perceived as anti-Semitic?
Bills: HB295 , HB824 , HB1579 , HB1581 , HB2189 , HB295
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, April 28, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

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  • </c> gentleman from Florida seek recognition? gentleman from Florida seek recognition?
  • </c> from California seek recognition? from California seek recognition?
  • </c> North Carolina seek recognition? Mr. North Carolina seek recognition? Mr.
  • </c> California seek recognition? Mr. California seek recognition? Mr.
  • recognition? recognition?
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 091 Apr 15th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Whereas genocide begins not with violence, but with words.
  • </c><00:30:16.880><c> Far</c><00:30:17.120><c> too</c> genocides, it is not enough.
  • Far too genocides, it is not enough.
  • </c><00:30:32.080><c> studies</c> includes Holocaust and genocide studies includes Holocaust and genocide
  • Today is simply a recognition that our people, the Jewish people, remember.
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Judiciary Feb 10th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • I have a list of several of the recognitions, but I'll need to specifically get you So I will get you
  • I have a list of several of the recognitions, but I'll need to specifically get you an answer to that
  • So we, in response to a question that Senator Osgood asked earlier, Black History Month recognitions
  • In federal law and Chapter 683, not all minority recognition months and days are necessarily included
  • He said he appreciated the recognition and the civil debate they had in private conversations.
Summary: The committee first considered CS/SB 1434 on infill redevelopment. A late-filed strike-all amendment narrowed eligibility to certain contaminated or brownfield properties in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, added adjacency and density/intensity limits, and excluded agricultural land, park land, land outside the urban growth boundary, and land near military installations. The amendment was adopted without opposition, and the bill was reported favorably on an 8-0 vote, with limited support and opposition noted in waived appearance forms. Members then took up CS/CS/SB 212 on sexual offenders and sexual predators. The strike-all added public swimming pools and related child-centered locations to residency and presence restrictions. Testimony was sharply divided: proponents argued the bill would help protect children and law enforcement, while opponents, including treatment experts and homelessness advocates, said there was no empirical evidence the restrictions reduce abuse and warned of retroactive punishment and increased homelessness. The amendment was adopted, and the bill passed 8-1. The committee also approved CS/CS/SB 686 on agricultural enclaves after an amendment allowing certain enclaves adjacent to interstates to be developed for commercial, industrial, or single-family residential uses and clarifying exclusions for protected areas. Opponents argued it would weaken zoning and comprehensive plans, while supporters framed it as a property-rights measure; the bill was reported favorably 10-0. SB 554 on nonprofit corporations, a technical update to nonprofit law modeled on prior for-profit corporate revisions, also passed unanimously after supportive waived testimony. Later, the committee approved SB 1338 on charitable giving, which creates a donor remedy for endowment restrictions and limits state reporting burdens on certain regulated or exempt organizations; members discussed cy pres and the sponsor said further changes would be worked out later. CS/SB 532 on court fees was amended to let clerks retain all collections above revenue projections rather than half, with supporters saying clerks have been underfunded for years; it passed 10-0. The committee also favorably reported SB 218 on land use regulations, which restores normal land-use authority to counties not affected by recent hurricanes, and CS/SB 692 on cybersecurity standards and liability, which creates a presumption against liability for entities that comply with cybersecurity frameworks and reporting requirements; the cybersecurity bill drew concerns about retroactivity and the adequacy of compliance incentives but passed 9-2.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Sep 10th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • In recognition of his decades of service and his unwavering commitment, thank you.
  • In recognition of his decades of service and his unwavering commitment to the community, I respectfully
  • In 2021, Governor Newsom launched the Governor's Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education to address
  • the rise in hate and declining youth awareness about the Holocaust and other genocides.
  • in California, and although California has required Holocaust and genocide education in public schools
Summary: The Assembly convened, initially lacked a quorum, then returned to session with prayer, pledge, and a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk following news of his shooting. Members then handled a series of procedural motions, including suspending rules, moving several bills to the inactive file, re-referring bills to committees, and authorizing committee meetings. The chamber also observed adjournments in memory for several individuals, including Ermilo Don Rodas, John Burton, Nina Chomsky, and Barbara “Bobby” Samperey. On the floor file, members considered and passed a long list of Senate bills, largely on bipartisan or unanimous votes. Topics included consumer protection and transparency for self-storage contracts (SB 709), adoption jurisdiction (SB 450), privacy and name/image protections (SB 683), an audit of the February 2025 bar exam (SB 47), data broker transparency (SB 361), used-car buyer protections (SB 76), state parks land acquisition streamlining (SB 630), cemetery work group deadlines (SB 777), financial enforcement authority (SB 825), utility outage reporting and reliability planning (SB 292), vital records confidentiality (SB 313), health care coverage and hormone therapy access (SB 418), workplace outreach (SB 578), Holocaust and genocide education (SB 472), county jail treatment for misdemeanor incompetency cases (SB 820), and AI companion chatbot safeguards for minors and self-harm risks (SB 243). Most measures passed with little or no opposition, though SB 578 drew sharp debate over the workplace outreach program and its funding. The Assembly also took up concurrence items and approved numerous Assembly bills with Senate amendments. These included transparency in legislative nondisclosure agreements (AB 1370), affordable faculty/staff housing provisions at community colleges (AB 648), tribal youth foster care reforms (AB 1378), EV charger payment regulations (AB 1423), technical Political Reform Act changes (AB 1511), diacritical marks on vital records (AB 64), reproductive health protections with urgency (AB 260), union and collective bargaining protections (AB 288), bench trial statement-of-decision streamlining (AB 515), agricultural land stewardship (AB 524), geothermal exploratory project rules (AB 527), Medi-Cal field medicine changes (AB 543), tobacco-related provisions (AB 573), social media platform rules (AB 656), state parks transaction reporting (AB 679), professional licensing changes (AB 742), and child care staffing and assistant teacher pathways with urgency (AB 753). Votes were generally strong, with several measures passing unanimously or near-unanimously.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Aug 3rd, 2026

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And today's recognition is an important piece of that.
  • our colleague, but also many of our honorees here today, on California's Council on Holocaust and Genocide
  • Here today on California's Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education, to talk about our shared history
  • of genocide, of extermination, as our colleague from Los Angeles said, and to figure out how to educate
  • As he transitions from his role as CEO, we come together in recognition of Mr.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Day 14 (1-27-26)

Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are there any members seeking recognition for the purpose of answering the roll?
  • &gt;&gt; Hi, Any members seeking recognition to cast change or explain their vote?
  • Seeing no one seeking recognition, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed.
  • Any members seeking<00:16:10.320><c> recognition?
  • </c><00:16:12.160><c> All</c> seeking recognition? Seeing none. All seeking recognition?
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Session (02/05/2026)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • With the tools, genocide.
  • The industrial genocide emerged.
  • , paved the way for future genocide, paved the way for future genocides.<06:35:05.520><c> As</c><06:35
  • As written by Abram Sakar, genocides.
  • ,</c><06:36:08.400><c> but</c> most well doumented genocides, but most well doumented genocides, but
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><01:04:32.400><c> And</c> Schlommo defended um and genocide.
  • And Schlommo defended um and genocide.
  • </c> complicity in the genocide in Palestine. complicity in the genocide in Palestine.
  • </c><01:09:22.560><c> of</c> for this horrible genocide of for this horrible genocide of Palestinians
  • This joint resolution genocide.
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 77, which would allow comprehensive universities to pursue doctoral programs under a new approval process and, in the original bill, would also change who may serve on the EPSB board for small colleges and universities. The sponsor and Council on Postsecondary Education representative explained that the committee substitute removed the current statutory prohibition on comprehensive universities offering certain doctoral degrees, but added eligibility guardrails: a 77% first-to-second-year retention rate, a 56% six-year graduation rate, and three months of unrestricted cash reserves. They said the thresholds were based on national data placing institutions in roughly the top quartile, and that CPE would still review proposals for mission fit, workforce need, fiscal impact, and, where applicable, programmatic accreditation and legislative appropriations. EKU President David McFaden supported creating a pathway for comprehensive universities, said Kentucky is unusual in having an explicit statutory prohibition, and urged the committee to keep the standards attainable and durable. The committee approved the bill and adopted a title amendment, with the motion passing unanimously. The committee then heard Senate Joint Resolution 55, which addresses antisemitism on postsecondary campuses. Senator Tichenor said the resolution responds to a rise in antisemitic incidents after October 7, 2023, and would require campuses to notify students each semester of Title VI rights, complaint procedures, existing harassment policies, and available Jewish student resources. It would also direct campuses to disband student organizations found to provide material support to known terrorist organizations, report such matters to law enforcement, and collect and report antisemitism data to CPE for posting on its website. A guest speaker from the Kentucky Jewish Council described a sharp increase in reported incidents, including harassment, threats, vandalism, and hostile campus activity, and argued that schools have often done too little to respond. He said the resolution was amended to protect free speech while ensuring Jewish students receive the same protections as other protected groups. The transcript ends while testimony on the resolution was still underway, before any committee vote on SJR 55.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 3, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> New York seek recognition? New York seek recognition?
  • </c> Nebraska seek recognition? Nebraska seek recognition?
  • </c> from Indiana seek recognition? from Indiana seek recognition?
  • </c> from Illinois seek recognition? from Illinois seek recognition?
  • </c> from Maryland seek recognition? from Maryland seek recognition?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session 4/30/25 - Part 2

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But House File 2023 adds overdose recognition, prevention, and response to the Department of Education's
  • Whereas over 1,500,000 Cambodians lost their lives, including civilians, during the Cambodian genocide
  • the</c> including civilians, during the including civilians, during the Cambodian<00:28:08.159><c> genocide
  • </c><00:28:08.799><c> perpetrated</c><00:28:09.679><c> by</c><00:28:09.840><c> the</c> Cambodian genocide
  • perpetrated by the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Kmir<00:28:10.559><c> Rouge.