Video & Transcript Research : 'judge assignment'

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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The clerk is going to bring it up there for the judge or the judge's clerk, and they'll be there.
  • Then you'll have what's called an in-camera review, where the two lawyers and the judge look at these
  • records, and then we... ...judge look at these records, and then we make an argument both ways why we
  • Then the judge is going to make the limitation, kind of like HIPAA, you know, being in medical.
  • I worked for Judge Pete Johnson. Judge Pete Johnson established drug court. Yes, sir.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government May 19th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am the Hutchison County judge. Go ahead. Okay.
  • Absolutely, Judge, I think that that's already in the bill.
  • We said that these people had to go file with the county judge.
  • The chair calls Judge Shepard.
  • This is the county judge request from Galveston County.
Summary: The committee heard and left pending several local government, property tax, development, and public safety measures before later voting some of them out. Senator Birdwell explained SB 2784 for the Somerville County Hospital District, which would move the board to staggered four-year terms after a transition and was requested to be held pending until the House companion could be acted on; no public testimony was offered. HB 5084 would allow local approval for fireworks sales tied to Lunar New Year celebrations, with testimony from Hutchinson County Judge Cindy Irwin emphasizing local fire risk and the need for county discretion. HB 5534 would let county commissioners post agendas electronically instead of on a physical bulletin board. HB 4370 would expand permissible projects for certain special districts to include geothermal water conveyance systems, and HB 312 would require residential child detention facilities to enter local MOUs, report health and safety information, and conduct background checks for state-funded facilities; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. HB 5057 would give displaced solid waste providers time to wind down after a city grants an exclusive franchise, and HB 2421 would extend the life of the Save Historic Muni District to continue work on preserving Lions Municipal Golf Course; both were left pending after supportive testimony. HB 2011 would let former owners repurchase property taken by eminent domain if the acquiring entity fails to pay property taxes for two years, and the committee substitute to SB 3065 was also laid out and left pending after a technical correction to eminent-domain language. The committee then took up additional bills on development, appraisal, and local regulation, including HB 3575, HB 4809, HB 2273, HB 247/HJR 34, HB 2464, HB 3424, HB 2013, HB 5668, HB 3788, HB 1533, and HB 23, with testimony ranging from support to opposition on issues such as appraisal procedures, historic property valuation, Galveston emergency governance, border-security tax treatment, home-based businesses, chicken covenants in HOAs, municipal utility district authority, hospital authorities’ use of assets, and third-party building review. HB 23 drew the most extensive testimony, with builders, engineers, counties, and cities split over third-party plan review and inspection authority, liability, licensing, and local code enforcement; many witnesses said the House amendments created problems and the bill was left pending. In the end, the committee voted SB 2784, SB 3065, HB 5686, HB 247, HJR 34, and HB 2011 out of committee, with the first several receiving local and uncontested calendar recommendations where applicable.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • Judge, may I comment on that privately? Judge? May I comment on that privately later? Thank you.
  • Senator, I understand you've got an amendment that really unties it from the judges.
  • It doesn't tie the judges with the DAs. ...doesn't tie the judges with the DAs.
  • So exactly how much is it not coupled to any judges? How much is it not coupled to any judges?
  • Judge, is this tied to any kind of index or anything like that?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 11th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • in the North Gallery, and I'll ask him to stand and be recognized as I call their name, are County Judge
  • your constituents will be protected. from unwanted calls and texts under chapter 302. court case, a judge
  • . is designed to take current law, current case law, common law, we're familiar with common When a judge
  • Depending on who the judge is, depending on where we are... Those can change, be modified.
  • We're not- so we're not at the whim of any judge. to any core, depending on location.
Bills: SJR36, SJR34, SJR18, SCR9, SB616, SB565, SB384, SB140, SB262, SB370, SB372, SB495, SB627, SB764, SB842, SB971, SB767, SB480, SB1066, SB929, SB765, SB523, SB62, SB19, SB18, SB666, SB688, SB707, SB888, SB687, SB706, SB847, SB869, SB890, SB992, SB1145, SB494, SB290, SB766, SB11, SB10, SB13, SB263, SB412, SB20, SB441, SB442, SB1621, SCR13, SB569, SB314, SB25, SB293, SB914, SB260, SB1248, SB740, SB14, SJR34, SCR9, SB10, SB11, SB19, SB20, SB25, SB62, SB140, SB260, SB262, SB290, SB293, SB314, SB370, SB384, SB412, SB441, SB442, SB480, SB494, SB495, SB616, SB627, SB706, SB707, SB764, SB767, SB869, SB890, SB929, SB992, SB1145, SB1621, SJR34, SB140, SB262, SB370, SB480, SB627, SB764, SB767, SR224, SB1626, SB1627, SB1628, SB1629, SB1630, SB1631, SB1632, SB1633, SB1634, SB1635, SB1636, SB1637, SB1638, SB1639, SB1640, SB1641, SB1642, SB1643, SB1644, SB1645, SB1646, SB1647, SB1648, SB1649, SB1650, SB1651, SB1652, SB1653, SB1654, SB1656, SB1657, SB1658, SB1659, SB1660, SB1661, SB1662, SB1663, SB1664, SB1665, SB1666, SB1667, SB1668, SB1669, SB1670, SB1671, SB1672, SB1673, SB1674, SB1675, SB1676, SB1677, SB1678, SB1679, SB1680, SB1681, SB1682, SB1683, SB1684, SB1685, SB1686, SB1687, SB1688, SB1689, SB1690, SB1691, SB1692, SB1693, SB1694, SB1695, SB1696, SB1697, SB1698, SB1699, SB1700, SB1626, SB1627, SB1628, SB1629, SB1630, SB1631, SB1632, SB1633, SB1634, SB1635, SB1636, SB1637, SB1638, SB1639, SB1640, SB1641, SB1642, SB1643, SB1644, SB1645, SB1646, SB1647, SB1648, SB1649, SB1650, SB1651, SB1652, SB1653, SB1654, SB1656, SB1657, SB1658, SB1659, SB1660, SB1661, SB1662, SB1663, SB1664, SB1665, SB1666, SB1667, SB1668, SB1669, SB1670, SB1671, SB1672, SB1673, SB1674, SB1675, SB1676, SB1677, SB1678, SB1679, SB1680, SB1681, SB1682, SB1683, SB1684, SB1685, SB1686, SB1687, SB1688, SB1689, SB1690, SB1691, SB1692, SB1693, SB1694, SB1695, SB1696, SB1697, SB1698, SB1699, SB1700
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • During a disaster, the county judge or the mayor... When a quick decision is crucial.
  • Under SB 2, if the county judge cannot perform their duties during a disaster, the sheriff automatically
Bills: HB1, HB 2, HB 3, HB 5, HB20, HB 22
Summary: The committee meeting primarily focused on the discussion and passage of several key bills, including SB5, which pertains to supplemental appropriations for disaster relief. This bill was passed unanimously, highlighting the committee's commitment to addressing disaster preparedness. HB20, aimed at reducing fraudulent charitable solicitations during disasters, also saw significant debate, with positive sentiments expressed by its sponsor, Mr. Darby. Additionally, HB22, which expands the authority of the comptroller to fund emergency communication systems, was passed with overwhelming support, indicating a consensus on improving emergency response capabilities within the state. The session concluded with discussions about future legislative measures aimed at strengthening infrastructure against disasters.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • During a disaster, the county judge or the mayor are the ones who must declare a local disaster, request
  • Under SB 2, if the county judge cannot perform their duties during a disaster, the sheriff automatically
Bills: HB1, HB2, HB3, HB5, HB20, HB22
Summary: The House convened in special session with a gubernatorial proclamation adding subjects related to penalties for legislators who absent themselves, ivermectin access, and groundwater study authority. The chamber also handled routine motions, committee scheduling, and first-reading referrals before moving to the main floor calendar focused largely on disaster response and public safety legislation. The central theme throughout the day was the July 4 flooding and related tragedies, with repeated references to families of victims and the need for stronger preparedness and prevention measures. House Bill 1, on youth camp emergency plans and preparedness, was the most emotional and heavily amended measure. Members adopted changes requiring annual emergency plans for resident youth camps, staff training, parent notification, evacuation maps, floodplain-related disclosures, restrictions on sleeping quarters in flood-prone areas, and funding for enforcement. One proposed amendment to require air conditioning or heat in sleeping quarters failed, while another amendment on floodplain restrictions passed after debate over floodplain versus floodway language. HB 1 ultimately passed the House 136-1 on second reading and later 135-1 on final passage. Senate Bill 2 / House Bill 2 on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery also advanced after extensive discussion. The bill creates training for justices of the peace in mass-fatality events, establishes an emergency manager licensing system, sets local succession procedures, creates a statewide volunteer management system, authorizes drone interdiction in disaster zones, expands disaster loan eligibility, and adds review and planning provisions for certain infrastructure and weather-related issues. Members debated the scope of the training, drone impacts on press coverage, volunteer registration, and infrastructure-related amendments; some proposals were adopted and others tabled or withdrawn. SB 2 passed the House 130-4 on third reading and later 132-4 on final passage. The House also passed House Bill 3 creating the Texas Interoperability Council and a grant program for emergency communications equipment, House Bill 20 addressing disaster-related scams and fraudulent charitable solicitations, House Bill 22 expanding allowable uses of the broadband infrastructure fund for emergency communications, and Senate Bill 5 providing supplemental appropriations for disaster relief, including funds for local warning systems and weather monitoring. Each of these bills passed overwhelmingly, with only one or a few dissenting votes, and members repeatedly emphasized the need to improve coordination, communications, funding, and fraud prevention in the wake of recent disasters.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill came from a judge in Mobile County, Judge Walter Honeycut.
  • Judge Honeycut is a domestic... ...Judge Honeycut is a domestic relations judge.
  • All judges, we are very careful... ...and all judges, we are very careful about giving them discretion
  • I can't see that any judge would require that.
  • I can't see that any judge would require that payment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Some of those things, just as a quick summary, include making sure that there's proper assignment of
  • The current statute does not assign any accountability.
  • By expressly permitting the assignments of trust fund claims, but with important guardrails, the bill
  • And part of the Illinois judge did find that to be a convincing argument and would likely...
  • A couple of things: it's not an Illinois judge; it's a federal circuit court judge that issued a federal
TX

Texas 89th Regular

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

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • protection agency they should be excluded from your consumer report and like bankruptcies suits of judge
  • So certainly there is time to do that research and do that report, but that's up to the judge.
  • But discretion on the part of the judge? Yes. All right. Mr. Burke, timeline?
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.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Judge Guy Herman. It's okay. It's okay. Good morning, Madam Chair.
  • Hey, Judge, it's been a long time. It has been. It's good to see you again.
  • I am the presiding statutory probate court judge here in the state of Texas elected by the 24 statutory
  • Thank you, Judge. Any questions for the judge this morning?
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative, who would Determine or under whose oversight would it be determined that an assignment
  • this is because you feel like that's not sufficient that students are able to then look at the assignment
  • in advance and understand what that rubric or expectations are for the assignment?
  • What if the assignment itself Says that we're asking for a student's opinion. That's cool.
  • House Bill 3499 makes it possible for Special judges to hear cases and applications for issuance of new
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • correction of previous day's general rehouse and senate bills and joint resolutions on second reading, assignment
  • likely in Oklahoma County than it might be in some of the rural counties where there may only be one judge
  • I believe There is a mechanism in there where they can approach the judge or with a deferment or expungement
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 22nd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is not my place to judge. That is God's place to judge. It's staying the same.
  • I just said it's not my place to judge. That is God's to judge.
  • Assigned at birth.
  • SB2127 relating to the assignment of certain retired and former judges and justices. Mr. Raymond.
  • as visiting judges.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Apr 14th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • a measure that strengthens existing Oklahoma law by providing clear and uniform standards for how judges
  • House Bill 3269 allows a proposed arrest warrant to be communicated to the judge by telephone or by electronic
  • cases where someone can't or Doesn't recognize their need for treatment, it can be helpful for the judge
  • House Bill 4226 refines the process by which parties to litigation can seek disqualification of the judge
  • So, we're going to try to bring that in to help with the so the judge gets a full picture of who that