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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 9th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • better negotiating position for benefits and for other elements of their total compensation, let's leave
  • better negotiating position for benefits and for other elements of their total compensation, let's leave
  • So I would argue that leaving in place the ability to have non-compete agreements is helpful to some
  • So many times these bills leave here without that, and they go disarray.
  • So many times these bills leave here without that, and they go disarray.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, the flag was escorted by the Muckleshoot Veterans Color Guard, and the day opened with a prayer from Dennis Anderson Sr. The House approved the previous day’s minutes, welcomed representatives from the Urban Native Education Alliance, and then moved through caucuses and Senate messages before taking up a long series of third-reading votes on bills that had returned from the Senate. Several measures drew debate over Senate amendments. House Bill 1069, concerning bargaining over supplemental retirement benefits for certain public employees, passed 78-17 after supporters said it would help correctional workers and critics said the Senate changes weakened the bill. Second Substitute House Bill 1128, creating a child care workforce standards board, passed 68-27 amid arguments over child care shortages, wages, and affordability. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1155, banning non-compete agreements, passed 62-33; supporters framed it as pro-worker and pro-entrepreneurship, while opponents said contracts should be voluntary and important in business sales. The House also passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1187 on ambulance billing and collections (93-2), Substitute House Bill 1390 phasing out the Community Protection Program (51-44), Engrossed House Bill 1501 on housing-related local requirements (58-37), House Bill 291 on bargaining communication rights (92-3), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2110 on ambulance staffing/training (95-0), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2165 on impersonating peace officers (66-29), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2219 on child care regulations and opioid-related safety language (67-28), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2266 on housing siting and local flexibility (56-39), Substitute House Bill 2350 on notice and accountability for developmental disability services (95-0), Substitute House Bill 2360 allowing schools to keep and administer albuterol with parental-notification changes (79-16), Second Substitute House Bill 2384 on financial transparency for continuing care retirement communities (78-17), Second Substitute House Bill 2429 on behavioral health planning and appropriations (95-0), Substitute House Bill 2496 protecting tribal sacred sites (71-24), and House Bill 2510, on which the House did not concur in Senate amendments. The chamber also granted conference requests on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bills 5998 and 605 and appointed conferees for each.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 31st, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 157 by Senator Jenkins is an act in Title 17 relative to parental leave for educators, to
  • provide for paid leave for eligible employees.
Summary: The Senate met with 29 members present, heard a prayer and national anthem presentation, and approved the journal without objection. The chamber then received multiple messages from the House on conference committee reports and concurrence actions, and took up a long calendar of Senate resolutions and House/Senate bills returned from the House with amendments. Several resolutions were adopted without objection, including commendations and requests for reports or studies, while others were left over or returned to the calendar. The Senate concurred in or adopted amendments on a series of bills covering registrar compensation (SB 25), broadband administration and reimbursement (SB 80), school safety master key boxes (SB 132), dental coverage for cancer treatment (SB 155), paid parental leave for educators (SB 157), election supervisor compensation days (SB 202), water utility service line replacement funding (SB 228), weight management services through the Office of Group Benefits (SB 250), medical debt protection (SB 414), Medicaid coverage of weight-loss medication (SB 443), and design-build authority for vertiport facilities (SB 513). It also adopted a House concurrent resolution urging backup motors for the St. Claude Avenue Bridge (HCR 32). One bill, SB 479 on removal of certain judges, had its amendments rejected and was sent to conference. The chamber then considered conference committee reports on several measures. Reports were adopted on SB 312 (labor organization dues and fees), SB 208 (veterans services and VA-related restrictions), SB 382 (workers’ compensation advisory council and reimbursement schedule timing), SB 389 (agent and athlete registration and fee review), and multiple House bills including HB 359 (party primary qualifying rules), HB 368 (New Orleans historic preservation lien procedures), HB 468 (wholesale residential real estate definitions), HB 552 (DWI-related responsive verdict language), HB 732 (motor vehicle fines/fees and hybrids), HB 870 and HB 1236 (pharmacy benefit manager and insurance provisions), and HB 1117 (prescription period issues). HB 210 on retroactivity was also adopted after debate. Several conference reports were temporarily passed over or returned to the calendar, including HB 953, and the Senate adjourned to reconvene the next morning for final work.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I wanted to know on the maternity leave. Did that stay the same? Was it higher?
  • I'm assuming it's the same from Last year, and did we use up all of the 6.5 million for maternity leave
  • One of the last ones to leave. And so my office is always available and open for questions.
  • They hardly ever leave my side. And what they do is they make me better at what I do.
  • And so don't be leaving, like the chair, Hall said, of trying to get out of here.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 7th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I wanted to know on the maternity leave, did that stay the same? Was it higher?
  • And did we use up all of the $6.5 million for maternity leave last year?
  • I am one of the very first ones here at the Capitol and one of the last ones to leave.
  • And... ...because they just couldn't leave their kid at home because schools were closed and daycares
  • We will still be meeting, so don't be leaving, like Chair Hall said, Meeting, and so don't be leaving
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, offered prayer, and recognized the Doctor and Nurse of the Day, along with several visiting groups in the galleries, including the Goldsby Volunteer Fire Department and families honoring fallen firefighters Todd Pendleton and Brian Jenkins, the Sapulpa Elks Antlers, the Grove Chamber of Commerce, and northeastern Oklahoma cattlemen. The chamber adopted Senate Resolution 39, celebrating the 100th anniversary of U.S. Route 70 and its economic importance to southern Oklahoma communities. The main item of business was the Joint Committee Report for Senate Bill 1177, the General Appropriation Bill for the State of Oklahoma. Senators questioned the budget’s overall size, the use of gross production tax revenues, the new sovereign/endowment trust fund, Medicaid and Health Care Authority funding, mental health appropriations, child care subsidy funding, school security, career tech, tourism, the Commissioners of the Land Office, textbook allocations, and several other agency lines. The chair explained that the budget included about $1.5 billion in cash and sweeps, a $250 million base appropriation for the Health Care Authority, $200 million for the endowment trust fund, $31 million for PREP projects, $25 million for the Governor’s Quick Action Closing Fund, and other agency-specific appropriations and supplements. Several members debated the report before adoption. Supporters argued the budget addressed agency needs and future savings, while opponents criticized it as a flat or spending-heavy budget that favored special projects and well-connected interests over core services such as child care, mental health, water infrastructure, and county needs. After debate, the Joint Committee Report for SB 1177 was adopted, and the Senate moved through the budget discussion with no recorded roll-call vote in the transcript provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 29th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • He's left leaving. There we go. I don't think that's good. 33. Thank you.
  • Class, quit teams, or even leave the school while the bully stays.
  • . leave be accumulated, potentially to help them as the retiree. are leaving.
  • He didn't believe... leave in secular institutions.
  • I'll just leave that.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 29th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • The rationale has shifted repeatedly, leaving confusion and conflict in its wake.
  • So the one-thirds want to break off and leave all the rest?
  • To leave it...
  • We have exceptional teachers leaving the district due to the unknown future.
  • Lastly, I want to leave you with this thought.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • An act relating to modifying the paid family and medical leave program.
  • Our state's paid family and medical leave program... Representative Barry. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  • Our state's paid family and medical leave program is wildly popular for a lot of great reasons.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026 at 12:45 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Absolutely, we do not want people, jobs, to leave this state.
  • Leakage means companies close, industries contract, and jobs are forced to leave the state.
  • Giving the self-insured employers, more authority could potentially leave to abuses and workers are not
  • sections of road require places, things like intersections, roundabouts, diamond intersections, clover leaves
  • ... ...diamond intersections, clover leaves, but we can't afford to put those all in at once.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Mar 31st, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • If we don't educate our young folks, they're going to leave the state.
  • If we don't educate our young folks, they're going to leave the state.
  • I had to leave early. It was just unbearable for me.
  • Just as important, this bill makes a meaningful change to the sick leave law.
  • Just as important, this bill makes a meaningful change to the sick leave law.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Feb 25th, 2026

State Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • >> Cheaper to leave it in the water.
  • [laughter] >> Why don't you just leave your wallet with us? >> All right. House Bill 213.
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  • </c><00:09:22.720><c> your</c><00:09:22.880><c> wallet</c> &gt;&gt; Why don't you just leave your wallet
  • &gt;&gt; Why don't you just leave your wallet with<00:09:23.519><c> us?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Education K-16 (Part II) May 8th, 2025

Education K-16

Transcript Highlights:
  • Despite this crisis of safety and disorder, uh, Texas public schools have been leaving valuable tools
  • Who said that She did have to leave. OK, thank you. Zenobia, she's in the hall somewhere.
  • We are waiting on some senator to leave.
Bills: HB6, HB120, HB210
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • His absence, born from a courageous life given in service as a Marine at the tender age of 20, leaves
  • Law entitles certain public employees who engage in military service to a paid leave of absence of up
  • This results in the accelerated use of the 15 days paid leave of absence, and firefighters often use
  • Once the 15 workdays are exhausted, shift members are forced to use their personal leave, vacation, holiday
  • This even further cuts into a shift member having to use more of their personal leave that should be
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • If more and more of our young workforce families leave Hawaii, it diminishes the ability for families
  • and more of our young workforce um more and more of our young workforce um families<00:36:33.119><c> leave
  • Hawaii,</c><00:36:34.720><c> it</c><00:36:34.960><c> diminishes</c><00:36:35.599><c> the</c> families leave
  • Hawaii, it diminishes the families leave Hawaii, it diminishes the ability<00:36:36.160><c> for</c><
  • The largest reason they are finding through their survey that folks are wanting to leave is the cost
Summary: The House Housing Committee met on February 4 and heard testimony on several housing measures, beginning with HB1721, which clarifies insurance, indemnification, and certificate-of-occupancy requirements for expedited permits. Testimony on HB1721 was uniformly supportive from the American Council of Engineering Companies, the Grassroot Institute, and individual testifiers, who said the bill would fix insurance issues for design professionals and encourage more participation in the expedited-permit program. No opposition was heard and no questions were raised. The committee then heard HB1714, which would raise salary caps for the executive director and deputy executive director positions at the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and allow more autonomy in personnel matters, including employment contracts. HHFDC supported the bill, saying greater flexibility is needed to recruit and retain staff and that current pay ceilings are not the main issue because the agency lacks operating funds to reach them. The Department of Human Resources Development offered comments and raised concerns about autonomous personnel authority and employment contracts, saying state personnel matters are governed by existing statutes and collective bargaining rules; the Hawaii Public Housing Authority also offered comments, and one board member and one individual opposed the measure. Members questioned whether performance-based pay or existing incentive policies could address retention instead of statutory salary changes. The committee also heard HB1718, which would make permanent county authority to facilitate mixed-use developments and issue county bonds for low- and moderate-income housing projects. Support came from OPSD, HHFDC, the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Housing and Land Management, and Housing Hawaii’s Future, all emphasizing that permanent authority is needed to finance long-term mixed-use and transit-oriented projects. A member asked whether the sunset provision would make bonding impractical, and the city representative agreed that temporary authority would make financing difficult because development takes time. Later, the committee took up HB1732, establishing the Kamina Homes program to fund counties’ purchase of voluntary deed restrictions from eligible buyers. The Department of Taxation and several groups, including HHFDC, AARP Hawaii, the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Realtors, Holomua Collaborative, and others testified, with most supporting the bill as a way to help local families remain in Hawaii and age in place. Holomua said a recent survey found 75% of 3,200 working families were considering moving, and argued the bill could preserve housing for local residents. Members asked about the bill’s 8% cap on deed-restriction cost and why the program focuses on residency rather than resale restrictions; the bill’s proponents said the cap allows flexibility for county negotiations and that the measure is aimed at workforce preservation rather than land-trust-style appreciation limits. Finally, the committee heard HB1740, which would modify a prior HHFDC housing pathway by reducing the qualified-resident requirement from 100% to 80% and allowing more flexibility for long-term rental instead of owner occupancy. HHFDC and Holomua Collaborative supported the change, saying the earlier 100% requirement had produced no developments or applicants and that the revised standard would make projects more feasible while still preserving housing for local residents. The committee did not take final votes on these measures during the portion of the hearing provided.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 60 (4-15-26) - Part 1

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • No doubt some may leave here frustrated while others encouraged, but let all of us leave here knowing
  • you probably followed that with uh one of the sheriffs' wives getting Botox and buying all these vacation
  • </c><00:26:47.680><c> homes</c><00:26:48.040><c> and</c><00:26:48.120><c> whatever</c> these uh vacation
  • homes and whatever these uh vacation homes and whatever with<00:26:49.120><c> taxpayer</c><00:26:49.720
  • But what he gave to all of us doesn't leave with him.