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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance and Education Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- implementation time, exercising that patience and persistence that we all seek, and yet also exercising humility
- And yet also exercising humility and recognizing the need to be nimble and responsive when experience
- Rather, leaders respect the humility there and say the best ideas come from others.
- Rather, leaders respect the humility there and say the best ideas come from others.
Summary:
The joint hearing focused on coherence in California’s education planning and reporting systems, especially the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) and related grant plans. Committee chairs and members described widespread frustration with duplicative, lengthy, and sometimes conflicting reporting requirements, while emphasizing that the goal was not to reduce accountability but to make planning more useful, stable, and student-centered. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond also previewed the Governor’s education budget priorities, including expanded learning, community schools, universal transitional kindergarten, literacy supports, and concerns about the proposed Prop. 98 deferral.
Panelists from the State Board of Education, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office said the LCAP was intended to balance local flexibility with statewide transparency, but has become overloaded by repeated revisions and additional requirements. They argued for fewer core reporting elements, more stability over time, better alignment of planning cycles, and integrated systems that reduce duplication. Fresno County staff described a multi-year calendar and support tools that help districts manage timelines, but said these tools only ease the burden rather than solve the underlying problem. The LAO noted that some newer plans, such as expanded learning and transportation plans, are narrative-heavy and often less informative than separate reporting requirements.
Local district leaders and county officials described the practical effects of the current system: staff time diverted from instruction, multiple portals and forms, audit risk aversion, and planning documents that can exceed 100 pages. Several superintendents said coherent systems work best when districts have clear priorities, stable governance, and aligned budgets, and when state requirements are predictable and tied to outcomes like literacy, attendance, and student achievement. The California Federation of Teachers added that coherence also depends on meaningful collaboration with educators, classified staff, parents, and communities. Committee members repeatedly asked whether the state should streamline reporting, create a uniform portal, or develop a more unified grant-reporting structure, and Thurmond said the department was piloting a simplified common form and was willing to work with the Legislature and districts on broader solutions.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The Senate came to order, a quorum was established, and the chamber proceeded through routine business on the February 19, 2026 agenda. Several newly introduced Senate files were given first reading and referred to committees, including SF 3658 to Health and Human Services, SF 3665 to Judiciary and Public Safety, and SF 3687 to Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development. Senate resolutions 54 through 57 were referred to Rules and Administration.
The body then adopted several resolutions. Senate Resolution 58, which updates the mileage resolution to add the chamber’s three newest members, passed 60-2. Senate Resolution 59, the annual postage resolution setting each member’s postal budget at $1,170 and additional amounts for the majority and minority leaders, was adopted 56-8. Senate Concurrent Resolution 6, setting session deadlines for March 27 and April 17, was also adopted after Senator Howe questioned why the first two deadlines were on the same date and Majority Leader Murphy said the schedule matched recent sessions to expedite work.
The Senate also adopted a resolution honoring Helen Marjorie Spade Levy on her 104th birthday and recognizing her World War II service as a Rosie the Riveter and her long community involvement. The chamber then moved into tributes for the late Senator Bruce Anderson, with multiple senators describing his military service, faith, veteran advocacy, committee work, and personal kindness. Senators Lucero, Grunhagen, Howe, Pappas, Lang, Putnam, and others shared memories of his leadership and character, and the presiding officer noted that members could later sing in his honor after the remarks concluded.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:00 PM HST - Day 3
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- These moments of prayer were not mere formality; they were acts of humility, acknowledging that our wisdom
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Summary:
The House convened, completed roll call with 48 members present and three excused, deferred reading of the journal, and received Senate communications noting adoption of House Concurrent Resolutions Nos. 1 and 2. The chamber also recognized several visiting groups and guests, including Congresswoman Jill Tuda, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii participants and students, Okinawan visitors, Farrington High School students, James Campbell High School students, and Waiau High School students, many of whom were introduced in connection with Chamber Week activities and educational presentations.
The main business was unfinished business on House Resolutions 6 and 7, which adopted the House rules for the 33rd Legislature, including rules for the Committee on Standards of Conduct. Members generally supported the rules package as a transparency and modernization update, citing earlier public access to testimony, a public list of Speaker appointees, changes to conference committee eligibility, telework for staff, social media guidance, and a public list of bills introduced by request. Several members raised reservations or opposition, focusing on concerns about staff involvement in approving written remarks, budget information timing, the Vice Speaker’s role, social media/free speech issues, and whether some changes reduced public access or conflicted with constitutional open-meeting requirements.
No vote on the rules package is recorded in the excerpt. The debate ended with multiple members yielding time and the discussion continuing on the merits of the proposed rule changes, especially the balance between transparency, internal House procedure, and public participation.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, May 22, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- service for the greater good of this country inspire in each of us a deeper gratitude, a sincere humility
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, May 29, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In humility, we offer ourselves to you, and in the strength of your name we dare to pray. Amen.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-29 (9:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We come before you today in humility, seeking your divine guidance, and bless. upon this legislative
- they walk in integrity, govern with wisdom, and legislate with justice and righteousness. hearts of humility
Bills:
SJR1, SB9, SB40, SJR36, SJR1, SJR5, SB9, SB40, SJR1, SB9, SB40, SR62, SR92, SR95, SR108, SR110, SR111, SR113, SR114, SR117, SR120, SB314, SB314
Keywords:
bail denial, illegal aliens, felony offenses, constitutional amendment, law enforcement, bail reform, defendants, pretrial detention, public safety, criminal justice, charitable bail organizations, bail bonds, public funds, political subdivision, injunctive relief, taxpayer rights, bail, criminal justice reform, El Paso, economic development
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-06-01 (1:30PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- please guide our deliberations, give us patience to truly listen, and courage to speak the truth, and humility
Summary:
The House convened in special session after opening with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the reading of Governor DeSantis’s proclamation calling the Legislature into special session from June 1 to June 3, 2026. A quorum was established with 96 members voting.
No bills, resolutions, messages, or committee reports were on the desk at the time of the floor session. The Speaker announced the schedule for the special session, saying the State Affairs Committee would meet later that afternoon to consider the property tax bill and related policy, followed by the Rules and Ethics Committee that evening.
The House then adopted a motion to receive reports, adjourn for committee and other House business, and reconvene Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 9 a.m. or upon call of the Chair.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- That takes somebody with humility and with wisdom, and those are two traits that Representative Jean,
Summary:
The meeting opened with remarks recognizing Representative Lane Jean for his 12 years as chair of the Joint Budget Committee and praising his leadership, mentorship, and role in helping build the state’s reserves. Vice Chair Representative Johnson and others thanked him for his service and noted the significance of the leadership transition.
The committee then took up its only item of business, House Bill 1002, the General Appropriation Act. There were no questions on the bill, and a motion to do pass was made, seconded, and approved by voice vote.
Members were informed that the committee would reconvene the next day at 9 a.m. to assign bills to committees only, with no other actions planned, and that the chamber would return to session at 10 a.m. The meeting was then adjourned.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-06-01 (1:30PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 56 May 12th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-30 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm grateful for you, Senator Rousan, because of your humility and because of what you've just done.
- , this body believes in your humility, the body believes in your recovery and who you are to...
- Rousan because of your humility that you have and because of what you've just done.
- , this body believes in your humility, the body believes in your recovery and who you are to ...humility
- This body believes in your humility. The body believes in your recovery and who you are today.
Summary:
The Florida Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness for sexual assault survivors, a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and a memorial proclamation for former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. The chamber then moved to special-order bills, with senators also briefly discussing the session’s pace and thanking staff and colleagues for their work.
The first major bill, on driving and boating offenses, was amended and passed 37-0. As amended, it increases penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide/vessel homicide offenses, and adds notice requirements and misdemeanor penalties for refusing lawful breath or urine tests. Senators also passed SB 306 on Medicaid providers 37-0, requiring Medicaid managed care plans to offer more after-hours and holiday access and ensuring more primary care appointment availability outside regular business hours.
The Senate then passed a major condominium and cooperative associations bill, also 37-0, after extensive debate and multiple amendments. The measure extends deadlines for structural integrity reserve studies, adds flexibility for reserve funding and budgeting, tightens rules for managers and inspectors, limits certain requirements to buildings of three or more habitable stories, and extends the rescission period for condo purchases. Senators from both parties praised the bill’s sponsors for years of work responding to post-Surfside safety and affordability concerns.
The longest and most contentious item was SB 7016/HB 1205 on constitutional amendment petition procedures. Sponsors said the bill responds to fraud and abuse in the citizen initiative process by tightening circulator rules, requiring faster submission of signed petitions, adding voter notification, increasing penalties, and shifting costs to sponsors. Opponents argued it would burden volunteers and make it harder for citizens to qualify initiatives. The chamber adopted a series of amendments, including changes to the petition-circulator threshold, volunteer protections, submission timing, invalid-signature investigation thresholds, and notice/cure provisions, while debate continued over whether the overall package would protect election integrity or suppress citizen-led amendments.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 1 May 19th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Grant us the wisdom and humility to come together and work together for the common good.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Let us be mindful that power is not a possession, but a practice, one that asks for humility, courage
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 56 May 12th, 2026
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I would request that you pray for me for humility, as this week of agendas has made me feel rather important
Summary:
The House convened with a quorum call, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance, then moved into announcements and introductions. Members noted upcoming Hispanic Heritage Day hosted by the Latino Caucus and discussed the legislative schedule, including that the Senate was not expected to meet and that the House clerk’s desk would still open in case business was needed.
Floor leaders clarified that there would be no quorum requirement for the next day because no Senate business was coming over, though the House would still be available if the Senate unexpectedly returned. There was also a light exchange about possibly introducing the Senate and a suggestion to play frisbee in the empty parking lot.
No bills were debated or voted on. The House adjourned until the next day at 1:30 p.m.
MN
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 26th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And in our communities across Minnesota and beyond, grant us the grace and humility to grow deeper relationships
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Feb 26th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- May they be blessed with discernment to weigh each and humility to recognize human limits.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Bless them with patience, humility, and wisdom as they consider what steps would create the best future
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, February 13, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In your humility, show us what honor is.