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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 14th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is there some sort of standardized training?
  • Standards of care are what we all adhere to.
  • There are anesthesia standards of practice.
  • I attend a program that meets those standards, is accredited to meet those standards.
  • I said that there are two standards of care.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 14th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • And let's be sure we keep these standards high.
  • But your standard is about five years. Yes. So the bill does not set a standard at all.
  • You're exactly right; there are two standards of care.
  • The standard of care in other states is one year.
  • Our standard here is writing a prescription for a year.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 7th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • A family law case to circumvent the legal standards for termination of parental rights.
  • This tool, parental reunification therapy, has no requirements, no standards, no certification, no test
  • Under the constitutional framework and guardrails, one alternate would be to raise the standard of findings
  • What standard would you use to make that determination? Clear and convincing.
  • Absent a pretty high standard for the courts or for anybody to do that, I agree.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> 2319 funds the minimum wage standard 2319 funds the minimum wage standard proposed<00:41:09.640>
  • The goal of the Standards Board is to raise the standards for those who work in our nursing homes and
  • The goal of the Standards Board is to raise the standards for those who work in our nursing homes and
  • The goal of the Standards Board is to raise the standards for those who work in our nursing homes and
  • </c><00:43:11.680><c> for</c> Board is to raise the standards for Board is to raise the standards for
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Transportation - 03/26/25

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • committee about how to fund a mitigation, and we understand that transportation funds have to meet a standard
  • ><00:03:59.680><c> a</c> transportation funds have to meet a transportation funds have to meet a standard
  • </c><00:04:02.000><c> Often</c> standard for highway purpose. Often standard for highway purpose.
  • deeper issues they are talking about are both systemic sustainability issues in terms of climate emissions
  • as well as the funding climate emissions as well as the funding gap<00:26:10.159><c> identified</c><
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Mar 2nd, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • the potential to enhance the passenger experience while maintaining strong security and privacy standards
  • It changes the name of the carbon emission reduction account, which is the transportation-related CCA
  • They must be zero-emissions vessels, and they must operate in compliance with the Quiet Sound program
Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee held a work session on two major corridor projects before moving to public hearing and executive session. In the Yakima area, WSDOT, Yakima County, and Ecology described the Interstate 82/east-west connector work as a coordinated effort to add capacity, improve interchanges, and address the Boise Cascade mill site contamination that sits in the project footprint. County and Ecology witnesses said the county is ready to remove wood waste and contaminated material, but the project is stalled pending a draft work plan and a de minimis consent decree; several senators pressed for faster action and clearer direction from Ecology. The committee then heard an update on the SR 3 Belfair freight corridor, where WSDOT said environmental review is complete and the next major step is an access hearing this summer, followed by right-of-way acquisition and construction likely in late 2027 or early 2028. Local and tribal partners emphasized the project’s importance for freight mobility, housing growth, emergency access, and regional economic development. The public hearing was on engrossed substitute House Bill 2711, a transportation resources bill that largely tracks provisions from prior legislation but also adds or changes several tax and account provisions. Staff explained that the bill clarifies fuel tax and peer-to-peer tax distributions, treats trade-in value differently for recreational vessel and luxury vehicle taxes, provides a six-month motor home exemption and penalty waiver for the luxury vehicle tax, allows lease payments to be made over time, exempts tribal members and nonresidents, creates a Preserve Washington account, changes some transfer timing, and repeals the luxury aircraft tax. Testimony was mixed: aviation groups supported repealing the luxury aircraft tax; trucking and some citizens opposed fuel tax and diesel tax increases; Sound Transit, transit advocates, labor, and ferry interests asked for amendments such as 75-year bonding authority, mobile driver’s licenses, ferry funding, and bike education funding. Alaska Airlines and Delta also supported adding mobile ID language. In executive session, the committee advanced several bills, including SHB 1823, SHB 2114, E2SHB 2251, SHB 2323, SHB 2410, EHB 2588, 2SHB 1923, and HB 2495, all with due pass recommendations after adopting amendments where applicable. The committee adopted a striking amendment to E2SHB 2251 adjusting Climate Commitment Act account distributions and a striking amendment to EHB 2588 limiting the ferry district changes to Whatcom County and removing the voter-approval tax provision. It also adopted an amendment to 2SHB 1923 that added further conditions for passenger-only ferry districts, including whale-protection and fare-related provisions. Senator King voted no on E2SHB 2251, objecting that the bill reduced the transportation share of Climate Commitment Act revenues. The chair announced one more executive action meeting would be held Wednesday morning, with amendment requests due the prior day.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Jun 27th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • provisions necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2025, including appropriating funding for zero-emission
  • Efficiencies of the off-road vehicles and off-road engines, aftermarked parts, and emissions related
  • modifies the federal match requirement for technical assistance for small businesses, creates a standard
Keywords: 988, house, all
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • We've seen the world's largest oil and gas companies leading the world in reducing emissions.
  • long-term relationships needed for U.S. companies, building upon our strong new culture with the highest standards
  • I believe in American innovation around reducing emissions and how effectively we can produce energy
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Recommendation adopted. acts or emissions arising out of the acts or emissions arising out of the repair
  • Like to align the Department of Health's current THC limit on tinctures with the federal standard: 3%
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committee took up a long decision-making agenda on numerous House bills, largely in the tax, appropriations, public safety, agriculture, and land-use areas. Early action included HB 476, which passed with amendments after discussion of tax impacts and a committee report change; HB 796 also passed with amendments to protect several individual income tax credits from the bill’s effect. Other measures were advanced with amendments or without changes, including HB 1059, HB 1145, HB 1173, HB 1439, HB 800, HB 934, HB 990, HB 101, HB 106, and a series of bills in the 1026–1055 range, many of which were passed unamended or with technical/effective-date changes. Several bills were deferred, including HB 1147, HB 807, and later items on the agenda. The committee also approved a number of policy and agency-structure changes. HB 430 was amended to create or expand an internship/workforce development program with reporting requirements; HB 505 and HB 506 were amended to adjust appropriations and FTEs; HB 774 added an appropriation section for two FTEs; HB 1052 limited use of universal service fund money; HB 1296 shifted a reporting requirement from BNF to the Department of Defense; and HB 1064 moved the State Fire Council and Fire Marshal Selection Commission to the Department of Law Enforcement and set the fire marshal salary. HB 427 made major biosecurity-related changes, including moving the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity in 2026 and adding new appropriations. HB 830 was amended to allow third-party historic preservation reviewers under ethics and conflict rules, with a two-year sunset and committee-report comments on vacancies. Public safety and regulatory bills also moved forward. HB 302 on cannabis drew opposition from Senator Awa, who said it would shut down a medical provider in his district; the bill nevertheless passed with amendments adding criminal penalties, enforcement authority, and a 2027 effective date for cultivator licenses. HB 306 on water code penalties passed unamended, HB 860 on liability for road resurfacing passed with amendments to limit liability to the work actually performed and eliminate joint and several liability, and HB 141 on public land leases passed with technical amendments. HB 1159 establishing a commercial harbor emergency evacuation working group passed as is, and HB 1482 on hemp passed with amendments exempting existing permit holders and certain retailers, aligning THC limits, and setting a far-future effective date. Most votes were adopted without recorded opposition, though several members noted reservations on specific measures.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 10th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of action which are asking damages based on climate change, alleged climate change, or greenhouse emissions
  • action against you basing damages on climate change, alleged effects of climate change, or greenhouse emissions
  • Greenhouse emissions. I yield for questions and move advancement at the appropriate time.
  • the hearing has to do with climate change, legislative effects of climate change, or greenhouse emissions
  • damages against the company for climate change, alleged effects of climate change, or greenhouse emissions
Summary: The Senate took up a long series of bills, mostly on third reading, with several unanimous or near-unanimous votes and a few more contested measures. Early action included House Bill 1427, which was substituted to add the bank privilege tax section to an existing clean-burning motor vehicle fuel tax credit without changing the cap or creating a fiscal impact; it advanced 45-0. Senate Bill 1403, an IEC recommendation affecting Quality Jobs incentives by requiring rebate claims within one year and eliminating the statewide wage threshold, passed 32-15. Senate Bill 1448, narrowing exclusions under the Consumer Protection Act to improve enforcement, passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1489, codifying IDEA-related procedures in state law and adding principal training and parent participation provisions, was amended on the floor, debated at length about implementation and special education services, and then passed 47-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1546 renamed and expanded the teacher scholarship program to Next Ed, increasing scholarship amounts while keeping the service commitment, and passed 37-10 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1557 transferred behavior analyst licensure duties from DHS to the State Board of Psychologists and passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1614 closed a loophole allowing adjunct teachers to teach early elementary reading and math and passed 46-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1377, requiring DHS to provide foster children with duffel bags and essentials, passed 46-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1990 strengthened the incentive evaluation report by requiring analysis of whether incentives actually changed business behavior, and passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1439, with amendments, barred certain climate-change-related lawsuits against fossil fuel entities operating within the law, and passed 40-7. Senate Bill 1630 allowed limited virtual instruction days during statewide testing and passed 47-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1632 moved career readiness assessment authority to the State Department of Education and clarified college-credit translation, passing 46-0 as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1696, a local recruitment grant program to attract new residents to Oklahoma, failed 17-30, with notice of possible reconsideration. Senate Bill 1796 shortened the time for informal foster care arrangements from seven days to 72 hours and added guardrails, passing 46-0. Senate Bill 1824 updated the corporation and LLC statutes and passed 46-0. Senate Bill 1362 standardized in-person early voting hours across election types and passed 36-9. Senate Bill 1849 allowed the Podiatric Medical Examiners Board to approve certain medical marijuana continuing education for credit and passed 44-0. Senate Bill 2066 relaxed recording margin requirements for documents filed in multiple counties and passed 45-0 as an emergency measure. The final major item, Senate Bill 2071, a Department of Agriculture request bill updating milk regulation to cover all hooved mammals and align with federal authority, drew extensive debate over an amendment to remove the fee increase and over concerns that the bill would harm a small donkey dairy’s ability to advertise; the fee amendment was laid over, a motion to suspend the rules for an untimely amendment failed, and the bill itself was then advanced for further consideration after lengthy questioning.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 24th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • invest in things that will have lasting affordability benefits while also simultaneously cutting emissions
  • The overall goals for both accounts are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase resilience to the
  • Our position supports imposing a fee on emissions such as the CCA does, and we advocated for the CCA
  • Our position supports imposing a fee on emissions such as the CCA does, and we advocated for the CCA
  • reductions expected from those expenditures were equivalent to just one-third of 1% of current statewide emissions
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee Jan 22nd, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • ambitious goals to divert organic waste from landfills in order to significantly cut down on methane emissions
  • study to determine the cost of prohibiting investments in development projects not adhering to labor standard
  • AB 1070, Ward, residential building standards, do pass out on an A roll call.
Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on January 22, 2026, for its regular order hearing and suspense-file hearing. In regular order, the committee approved consent-calendar bills AB 683, AB 763, AB 1126, and AB 1278 on unanimous due-pass motions, and AB 34 and AB 442 on a second unanimous due-pass motion. The committee then heard and advanced several bills, including AB 35, which would create an APA exemption for Proposition 4-funded programs to speed implementation of water, wildfire, energy-storage, and grid-support projects; AB 748, establishing pre-approved housing programs for local agencies; AB 939, allowing immediate transfer of certain affordable homeownership units to qualified nonprofit housing organizations; AB 643, adding a narrow organic-waste-derived agricultural fertilizer product to SB 1383 procurement options; and AB 96, removing the high school diploma requirement for certified Medi-Cal peer support specialists. Testimony on these bills was largely supportive, with sponsors and coalition representatives emphasizing reduced delays, lower costs, and improved housing, environmental, or behavioral-health outcomes. The Department of Finance offered general budget comments but no bill-specific positions. The committee voted the bills out, with AB 643 and AB 96 receiving no recorded opposition in the transcript and AB 939 passing with some members noting support and interest in coauthoring. The committee also received a presentation-only discussion of AB 1091, a proposal to authorize eight-letter specialty license plates, which the author said could generate revenue for rural programs such as the Williamson Act; the bill was not acted on at that time. After public comment, the committee moved to the suspense-file hearing on 53 bills. Using a substituted motion for due-pass and due-pass-with-amendments items, the committee held some bills and advanced many others, often with amendments that narrowed scope, deleted provisions, or required reports or studies. Bills held in committee included AB 405, AB 298, AB 333, AB 296, AB 1091, AB 1241, and AB 577, among others. The committee reported moving 43 bills to the Assembly floor, with several on A roll calls and others on B roll calls or with amendments, and noted that amendment language would be posted later online.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee Jan 22nd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • ambitious goals to divert organic waste from landfills in order to significantly cut down on methane emissions
  • study to determine the cost of prohibiting investments in development projects not adhering to labor standard
  • AB 1070, Ward, residential building standards, do pass on an A roll call.
Keywords: 988, house, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/27/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference

Transcript Highlights:
  • do this memorial had to do with the fact that I ran a bill recently with respect to the transport emissions
  • And there's, without recounting the whole evidentiary trail, all of those emissions under one section
  • Under one section of the Clean Air Act, which talks about transport emissions, it basically left it to
Summary: The Senate Natural Resources Committee approved its January 13, 2026 minutes and held over Senate Bills 1041 and 11676 for further review. The main substantive hearing was on SB 1197, which would let owners of irrigation grandfather rights in subsequent active management areas sell, lease, or transfer the associated water duty within the same AMA, including for non-irrigated acreage. The sponsor said the bill was intended to help wineries and other farmers in the Willcox and Douglas areas adjust field layouts and expand within existing water limits. Testimony was mixed: the Sierra Club and Rural Arizona Action opposed the bill, warning it could increase groundwater pumping without requiring reductions or tying transfers to AMA management goals, while the City of Willcox and ADWR were neutral but asked for clearer safeguards and statutory guardrails. The committee passed SB 1197 on a 4-3 vote, with one member not voting. The committee then heard and passed SB 1198, which continues the Arizona Beef Council for eight years until July 1, 2034, and SB 1199, which continues the Arizona State Veterinary Examining Board for eight years until July 1, 2034. Both measures received unanimous or near-unanimous support, with members noting the importance of the beef industry and concerns about the shortage of rural and large-animal veterinarians. Finally, the committee considered SCM 1004, a memorial urging Congress to clarify and limit the EPA’s powers and address what the sponsor described as regulatory overreach. Supporters framed it as a call for Congress to fix unclear federal law, while opponents argued it would weaken science-based environmental protections and ignore climate and air-quality concerns. The memorial was approved on a 4-3 vote, and the committee then adjourned.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Yes, I would like to point out that this hearing room clearly is supportive of my bill to make standard
  • program that will prioritize California-based news organizations that meet our baseline program standards
  • Through CA Rise, they standardized operations, reduced inefficiencies, and positioned themselves for
  • It has strong accountability standards, strong metrics, so we would continue it as planned in large part
  • Cal competes is one of the most important. ...computing, zero-emissions vehicles, and semiconductors.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Apr 1, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is a risk of land and water contamination, greenhouse emissions associated with all geothermal
  • land substance water contamination land substance water contamination Greenhouse<00:20:02.320><c> emissions
  • c><00:20:03.320><c> associated</c><00:20:04.080><c> with</c><00:20:04.320><c> the</c> Greenhouse emissions
  • associated with the Greenhouse emissions associated with the with<00:20:04.799><c> all</c><00:20:05.000
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on April 1 at the State Capitol and heard four measures. HCR 45/HR 38 urged the Public Utilities Commission to support transferring regulatory authority over motor carriers, water carriers, and other transportation means to the Department of Transportation; both the PUC and DOT testified in support, and members discussed that the resolution was largely symbolic because statutory changes would still be needed. HCR 58/HR 54 requested a geothermal energy working group; the Consumer Advocate, PUC, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and Life of the Land supported it, while Students for Justice in Palestine at UH opposed it, citing an active injunction, environmental risks, and the need to prioritize Native and local community voices. Members asked about the injunction and community representation, and the PUC said it would support including Hawaiian community members in the working group. HCR 91/HR 87 sought insurance coverage for prosthetic and orthotic devices; a 14-year-old amputee testified in support, describing the need for sports prosthetics and arguing that coverage should allow people with limb loss to participate fully in school and athletics. HCR 102/HR 98 urged the Real Estate Commission to allow the salesperson exam to be administered in Japanese for timeshare sales; the Real Estate Commission opposed, while ARDA supported it, arguing there is a shortage of bilingual real estate professionals and that Japanese-language testing would help the timeshare industry and Japanese visitors. Members questioned the limited-license concept and public protection concerns, and the committee later amended the measure to a limited real estate salesperson’s license for timeshare sales, changing the target from Japanese-speaking visitors to Japanese nationals, before passing all four measures out of committee, with HCR 102 passing with amendments and the others passing as is.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Governor Landry and this department do not support the emission reduction goals in the 2022 Climate Action
  • Governor Landry and this department do not support the emission reduction goals in the 2022 Climate Action
  • Interior actually reviewed and said that the shell dredging in Lake Maurepas violated water quality standards
  • It's more about, you know, science-based standards actually provide uncertainty and consistency when
  • It's more about, you know, science-based standards actually provide uncertainty and consistency when
Summary: The committee first considered several local property-transfer and wildlife/fisheries bills, including SB 229 (Bojeur Parish property transfer), SB 71 (Lafayette Parish property transfer), and a series of Department of Wildlife and Fisheries measures. SB 203 simplified possession rules for fish on multi-day trips and remote camps; SB 429 created an administrative path to register “orphan” boats with lapsed registrations; SB 204 removed a residency-based restriction on certain commercial fishing gear licenses; SB 205 reduced duplicate registration requirements for federally documented boats; SB 213 clarified titling rules for vessels and outboard motors; and SB 257 removed Social Security number requirements from certain commercial fishing tags. Each of these bills was reported favorable, generally without objection, after brief explanations from sponsors and department counsel about reducing red tape, improving enforcement, or modernizing records. The committee also heard SB 214, which would allow the Teche-Vermilion Fresh Water District to stop pumping during an imminent flood threat identified by the National Weather Service or GOSEP, addressing liability concerns and giving local officials more flexibility in emergencies. SB 274, as amended, required lead hazard risk assessments for certain child care, early learning, and pre-kindergarten facilities and required hazards found in assessments to be addressed before licensing. Both bills were reported favorable. SB 379, a technical reorganization bill for the Department of Conservation and Energy, received two amendment sets: one changing investment language and another standardizing judicial-review procedures and online notice requirements; it was reported favorable after those amendments. The committee then adopted HCR 62, urging FEMA to review flood maps every five years instead of every ten and to better account for local flood-protection projects, with members discussing the burden of flood insurance and the need for FEMA to recognize levees, pump stations, and elevated homes. HCR 78 was also reported favorable, memorializing Congress to pass the American Seafood Competitiveness Act of 2026 in support of Louisiana’s seafood industry. HB 662, as substituted, was reported favorable after being rewritten to codify the department’s internal protocol for seized sick, injured, or orphaned wildlife, prioritizing release, rehabilitation, placement, and euthanasia as a last resort. Finally, the committee considered two more contentious items. HR 216, which urged repudiation of the Louisiana Climate Action Plan of 2022, drew extended debate over whether the plan had been adopted without legislative input and whether it could affect permits or future policy; after discussion, the sponsor voluntarily deferred the resolution to return with a revised approach focused on a legislative hearing or review. SCR 24, dealing with chronic wasting disease rules, was introduced with amendments that would raise the prevalence threshold, cap samples, allow zone removal after three years without new detections, and lift baiting/feed prohibitions above a higher prevalence level; the transcript cuts off before final action on that measure.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Local Government Jan 13th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • and certification, brought it to national standards.
  • It was about creating standards nationally for not only housing, like how we build buildings, but also
  • and certification brought it to a national standards so that was the goal of a project breakthrough
  • in the 1970s project breakthrough had very ambitious plans it was about creating standards nationally
  • To establish these standards that either can be adopted nationally under a preemptive code like HUD,
Keywords: 904, all