Video & Transcript Research : 'legislation influence'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 8th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • The caps that the legislators try to put on property taxes by? Perhaps so.
  • Representative Duane Burns started that comprehensive legislation.
  • “Well, I think much of our legislation is done in piecemeal...”
  • And as part of the legislation in 2021, they did bring up this very issue...”
  • All that was done as part of the 2021 legislation on this very survey issue.”
AL
Transcript Highlights:
  • Dog track parimutuel legislation is for dog tracks. This is no dog track. If they dog track.
  • I am not for piecemeal legislations together because once we do that, as you see, we've carried over
Bills: SB268, SB262
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Education Policy Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you all for hearing me out, and thank you for your support of this important piece of legislation
  • Since we passed the legislation that allowed the districts to may implement a policy, we've actually.
  • ... legislatively or constitutionally allowed by the US Supreme Court.
  • other state legislators, including ours.
  • This is ...any amount of external influence. This is from the heart. This is the way God made me.
Bills: SB211, HB96, SB215, SB257, SB13, SB13
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Mackey, would you like to make some comments on the need for this piece of legislation?
  • Maybe that amendment can come from the floor, but the Pre-K need to be added to the piece of legislation
  • Currently, it says K... ...piece of legislation currently, it says K through 12. So, Mr.
  • Senator Smitherman, I just want to say that he was one of our five legislators right there from Jefferson
Bills: SB211, HB96, SB215, SB257, SB13, SB13
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 13th, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So as a result of the recommendation, we do plan to bring some legislation next session to kind of address
  • It was the car, because the legislative auditor had come in and recommended that. That's true.
  • Just so we only have to go through the House, but it did not include any type of legislators.
  • But I have concerns with this legislation, and, you know, happy to see if we can work something out,
  • But I have concerns with this legislation, and, you know, happy to see if we can work something out,
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Apr 8th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • I just want to follow up on the notification, so this legislation takes out the requirement for certified
  • Just so you know, again, just because we are taking them out of this piece of legislation doesn't mean
  • And we're passing legislation that's just gonna drop that and say.
  • Be a simple step for a legislator to bring it back up and walk through the process.
  • or the people that brought this idea up see the need to have these potential routes removed from legislation
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/09/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Transcript Highlights:
  • I just want to kind of touch on this piece of legislation to the members.
  • I just want to kind of touch on this piece of legislation to the members.
  • Lastly, cites the legislation as the Military Police to Peace Officer Pathway Act.
  • So-called sanctuary jurisdictions have put up legislative roadblocks.
  • SB 1055 directly... ...jurisdictions have put up legislative roadblocks.
Bills: SB1032, SB1055, SB1107
Summary: The Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement first heard SB 1032, which appropriates $1.5 million from the State General Fund to the Corrections Oversight Fund in fiscal year 2027 to help administer the Independent Correctional Oversight Office. Supporters, including Justice Action Network and a family member who described the death of her son after severe mental health and jail-care failures, argued the office is needed to provide accountability, transparency, and a check on systemic problems in the Department of Corrections. Representative Blackman strongly backed the measure, saying the oversight office would help address lawsuits, staffing shortages, mental health issues, and the state’s federal receivership. The committee approved SB 1032 on a 14-0 vote with one absent, giving it a due pass recommendation. The committee then considered SB 1107, which creates an alternative certification pathway for honorably discharged U.S. veterans who served as military police to become Arizona peace officers through an abbreviated training process that credits military training and experience. There was no sponsor present and no opposition testimony. Members discussed whether the bill would include equivalent military law enforcement roles from all branches, and staff indicated the bill is intended to track Department of Defense training standards. The bill received broad support as a way to help fill public safety staffing shortages, though one member voted no over concerns about applicants with prior misconduct elsewhere. SB 1107 passed 11-1, with two present and one absent, and received a due pass recommendation. Finally, the committee heard SB 1055, which requires law enforcement to immediately notify ICE or CBP when an arrested person is unlawfully present in the United States. Supporters said the bill would strengthen cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and help ensure people are not released before federal authorities can act. Opponents, including the ACLU of Arizona and several community speakers, argued it would undermine trust in law enforcement, chill crime reporting, create due process and constitutional concerns, and impose unfunded compliance burdens on local agencies; one speaker also raised concerns about impacts on Indigenous people and families dealing with mental illness crises. A strike-everything amendment offered by Representative Cruz would have replaced the bill with a restriction on DOC inmate telephone contracts so the department could not profit beyond operating costs, but the committee rejected that amendment 6-8. The committee then approved the underlying SB 1055 on an 8-6 vote with one absent, giving it a do pass recommendation.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee, March 2, 2026 AM

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
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  • legislation on anti-money laundering. legislation on anti-money laundering.
  • Thank you, Miss L. legislation. So, I was hopeful that this legislation.
  • Um, legislation.
  • with the expert in drafting legislation? with the expert in drafting legislation?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Elections and Ethics Feb 9th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Elections and Ethics

Transcript Highlights:
  • , the Secretary of the State Election Board, and I appreciate the Chair working with us on this legislation
  • and having a broader dialogue if there are things that That people feel like we need to do on the legislation