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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Mar 19th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Last session, to protect. online.
  • We've got to protect them.
  • Protection Act passed unanimously.
  • Our national security is protected. protected.
  • Right, so how do you protect the seller and how do you protect the real? state agent.
Bills: SCR5, SCR13, SB3, SB6, SB10, SB12, SB13, SB15, SB17, SB18, SB19, SB24, SB35, SB57, SB65, SB112, SB284, SB290, SB388, SB400, SB402, SB412, SB495, SB499, SB502, SB509, SB621, SB706, SB740, SB815, SB842, SB854, SB875, SB893, SB917, SB974, SB1025, SB1061, SB1073, SB1106, SB1268, SB1281, SB1300, SB1362, SB1379, SB1447, SB1451, SB1555, SB1902, SJR36, SJR12, SCR13, SCR25, SCR5, SCR22, SCR12, SCR24, SB495, SB412, SB10, SB18, SB565, SB372, SB842, SB765, SB62, SB19, SB666, SB707, SB888, SB687, SB706, SB847, SB290, SB13, SB1248, SB740, SB14, SB1006, SB504, SB917, SB925, SB388, SB1902, SB1121, SB995, SB857, SB305, SB296, SB284, SB35, SB6, SB815, SB3, SB1281, SB1379, SB1300, SB1497, SB1499, SB1498, SB1451, SB1061, SB15, SB65, SB241, SB304, SB402, SB499, SB621, SB974, SB1023, SB1024, SB1025, SB1106, SB686, SB112, SB371, SB204, SB400, SB609, SB1447, SB670, SB502, SB427, SB850, SB854, SB413, SB1555, SB1362, SB1346, SB1033, SB1220, SB1073, SB810, SB987, SB1539, SB893, SB447, SB875, SB406, SB509, SB985, SB965, SB17, SB1119, SB1505, SB12, SB24, SB57, SB1194, SB1253, SB1215, SB1532, SB1268, SB1302, SB856, SB650, SB583, SB673, SB840, SJR57, SCR8, SB213, SB681, SB1172, SB1252, SB378, SB610, SB918, SB1343, SB608, SB487, SB955, SB957, SB988, SB990, SB1019, SB1021, SB1120, SB251, SB958, SB535, SB761, SB1, SB541, SB315, SB379, SB1018, SB1737, SB266, SB1415, SB3, SB6, SB15, SB35, SB290, SB706, SB842, SB917, SB1281, SB1451, SB1902, SB12, SB13, SB17, SB19, SB388, SR261, SR265, SR276, SR277, SR281, SR286, SR293, SCR5, SCR13, SB2425, SB2880, SB10, SB12, SB13, SB17, SB18, SB19, SB388, SB412, SB495, SB2425, SB2880
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Senate in Session Feb 19th, 2026

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They may not be a guardian if they are a respondent to an injunction for protection for which the protected
  • It doesn't weaken any consumer or patient protections.
  • protections.
  • This is a measured correction, protecting recovery, protecting infrastructure, and restoring balance.
  • Please, let's put this language in and protect it.
Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and a series of introductions recognizing guests, visiting groups, and special honorees in the galleries. The chamber then took up committee and executive appointment business, adopting a report confirming 42 gubernatorial appointments by a vote of 36-0. The Senate next considered a long special-order calendar of bills, most of them passing with little or no opposition. Measures included public-records sunset reviews and trade secret/cybersecurity exemptions; a child-abuse reporting statute of limitations bill; commercial driving school oversight; human trafficking training for nurses; a new injunction for protection against serious violence and its related public-records exemption; nature-based coastal resiliency and mangrove protection; a chiropractic trust-funds cap repeal; specialty license plates; a waiver of late financial disclosure fines; public school personnel compensation; the Florida Farm Bill with multiple agriculture, biosolids, and enforcement provisions; homestead exemption clarification for long-term leases; disability presumption clarifications for first responders; reinsurance intermediary manager conformity; patriotic displays in public schools; ADS-B aviation fee restrictions; autism-related law enforcement training and the Blue Envelope program; campus safety reporting procedures for public postsecondary institutions; and veterinary prescription disclosure. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary critical-need practice certificates, and domestic animals. The floor debate featured the most discussion on the farm bill, the HCSM/nonprofit religious organizations bill, the autism law-enforcement bill, and the school athletics bill. The HCSM bill drew extended debate over whether licensed insurance agents should be allowed to market faith-based health care sharing ministries, with supporters emphasizing consumer choice, free speech, and religious liberty, and opponents warning about unregulated products and commissions; it passed 32-5. The athletics bill, prompted by the Teddy Bridgewater/Miami Northwestern situation, would let coaches provide good-faith support to student-athletes while requiring reporting and FHSAA oversight; it passed 38-0. Most other measures passed overwhelmingly, including the autism bill 38-0, the campus safety bill 37-0, the public school patriotic displays bill 36-2, and the farm bill 38-0 after amendments addressing Everglades lands and biosolids timing were adopted.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Oct 1st, 2025

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • Also, I want to talk about something we mentioned this morning on the Senate floor regarding free speech
  • campuses, and Senator Lopez, I don't think I could have said it any better than she did regarding free speech
  • Free speech on campus is essential.
VA

Virginia 2026 Regular Session

June 22, 2026 - Special Session 1

Virginia House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'd like to also say that he has inspired me many times with his speeches and his selfless service to
  • that strength and fire in everything he did, including his fight against cancer, and his work to protect
  • Even while walking through his own storm, he chose to use his own story to help protect other families
  • cancer. strength and fire and everything he did, including his fight against cancer, and his work protect
  • Even while walking through his own storm, he chose to use his own story to help protect other families
WI

Wisconsin 2026 1st Special Session

Wisconsin State Senate Floor Session May 13th, 2026

Wisconsin Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • a moment of silence for all those officers who have given their sacrifice to their communities to protect
  • I figure since this might be the last time I'm here, maybe I should give a little speech.
  • And until my final day, I will vote in a way that financially protects those I represent.
  • And my no vote tonight is protecting those I represent.
Keywords: 970, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Ways and Means (02/11/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
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Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee met in a work session on revenue estimates and reviewed updated spreadsheet pages for several tax categories, using prior agreements and new testimony to refine FY 2025-2027 estimates. Early discussion covered insurance tax estimates, where members reviewed a letter from the insurance commissioner saying he was comfortable with the numbers provided; the committee accepted those estimates without opposition. Members also discussed utility property tax, with testimony about recent infrastructure buildout, tariffs, depreciation, and the difficulty of forecasting future growth. After debate over whether to use the average of high and low estimates or lean lower, the committee unanimously adopted the utility property tax numbers. The committee then turned to real estate transfer tax and communications tax. For real estate transfer tax, members cited county input, housing market conditions, interest rates, lumber costs, and uncertainty about future policy; they agreed to use the averages and adopted those estimates unanimously. For communications tax, members noted the decline in landline-based revenue and the shift to data services. After discussion of whether to use the low estimate or the average, the committee settled on the average with a small rounding-down adjustment when the figure ended in .5, and adopted the numbers unanimously. The chair also clarified that these estimates remain subject to change until the final resolution is adopted. The committee next accepted interest and dividends estimates as presented, with members noting the decline in that revenue source and the lack of additional information beyond the department’s analysis. Finally, the committee began discussing tobacco tax revenue, with members noting long-term declines in smoking, offsetting effects from out-of-state sales, and a suggestion to take a slightly conservative approach by reducing the average by 0.5. The transcript cuts off during that discussion, so no final vote on tobacco is shown in the excerpt.
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 050 Mar 5th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's protecting the privacy of those individuals. It's protecting the privacy of the family.
  • It's protecting the privacy of those individuals. It's protecting the privacy of the family.
  • It's protecting the privacy of those individuals. It's protecting the privacy of the family.
  • It's protecting the privacy of those individuals. It's protecting the privacy of the family.
  • <02:04:58.880> the protect we're trying to protect the protect we're trying to protect the
Keywords: 981, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 8th, 2025 at 10:05 am

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 1119 protects water parks from frivolous lawsuits. Move passage.
  • This bill protects Texans' homeownership. I move passage.
  • Senate Bill 17 provides thoughtful and common-sense protections that will preserve and protect these
  • Senate Bill 17 provides thoughtful and common-sense protections that will preserve and protect these
  • in Texas, it will also protect against future litigation.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, received the invocation and pledges, and heard several announcements and recognitions before moving into floor action. Members honored the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley chess team for winning a share of the 2025 President’s Cup, recognized educator Jessica Lopez, and paid memorial tribute to Jennifer Maddenly, along with recognitions for Jeanette Valdez Duran’s food pantry work, TAMACC’s 50th anniversary, and Bernardine Steptoe’s retirement from WFAA. The House also granted permission for committees to meet while the House was in session, set a local consent calendar, and suspended posting rules for a Public Health Committee hearing on SB 2721. The chamber then considered a long series of Senate and House bills, with many passing on record votes. Measures addressed local law enforcement authority (SB 906), veterans highway designation (SB 1229), foster care medical billing (SB 855), massage therapy trafficking safeguards (SB 703), tax ballot language (SB 1025), occupational licensing for people with convictions (SB 1080), lien deadlines (SB 929), liquor sales complaints (SB 1355), higher education application fee waivers (SB 2231), utility data access (SB 1877), pediatric preceptorships (SB 1998), and several House bills on bond forfeiture notice, health workforce coordination, indigent civil commitment representation, consumer transaction cancellations, bird dispersal rules, theft venue for digital property, military grant applications, AI cancer-detection grants, cybersecurity contract language, in-state tuition for military-related programs, utility capital recovery, energy waste advisory oversight, gas utility rate recovery, psychedelic therapy study, teacher retirement funding transparency, pension changes, tax payment plans, and voter registration security. Some measures drew notable debate or amendments, including HB 5247, where a ratepayer-credit amendment failed, and HB 2298, HB 4014, HB 510, HB 561, HB 1128, HB 1904, HB 30, HB 200, HB 3045, and HB 5111, which all passed after recorded votes with varying margins. A major point of contention was SB 2420, the app store age-verification bill, which prompted extended debate over whether the bill should also require app developers to verify users’ ages. Representative Bryant offered an amendment to preserve developer verification obligations, arguing the bill would otherwise shift responsibility away from app makers; the author opposed it, saying the bill’s approach was more workable and raised concerns about First Amendment issues. Multiple points of order were raised and withdrawn during the debate, and the amendment discussion remained unresolved in the excerpt. The House also postponed further consideration of SB 17, SB 552, and SB 2420 at different points, and recessed for lunch after completing a large block of third-reading votes.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Committee on Housing (04/22/2025)

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative Alexander's heard this speech on a couple of other things.
  • 44:20.560> this Representative Alexander's heard this Representative Alexander's heard this speech
  • speech on a couple of other things. speech on a couple of other things.
  • protection as governmental employees. protection as governmental employees.
  • does not flow governmental protection does not flow through<01:01:12.079> to<01:01:12.319>
Keywords: 1189, house, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary C May 19th, 2026

Judiciary C

Transcript Highlights:
  • Many people speak about value in life and protecting the vulnerable, but consistency matters.
  • The purpose of the bill is to strengthen legal protections for critical infrastructure, particularly
  • I wonder if we have the same protections on water and wastewater facilities.
  • So this bill is to basically protect that. ...ultra-deep wells starting to be drilled.
  • If you need to make a speech, just let me know ahead of time. I'll make sure you get to close.
Keywords: 974, senate, all
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Where and here is the language that protects the center that as You keep describing.
  • As I see it, it's the bill as a whole that protects them from that.
  • Scripture is very clear about The principle of protecting a child's innocence.
  • Because it's not about protecting kids; it's about putting something on a mailer.
  • This bill is simply protecting our youth. That's what this bill's doing.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Warrant needed for federal immigration officers 3/10/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's writing constitutional protections into statute.
  • <00:09:25.640> individuals Rights is written to protect individuals Rights is written to protect
  • The Fourth Amendment is at the heart of our constitutional protections.
  • . protections. protections.
  • We need to protect ourselves from overreach, and I believe that's what this legislation does.
Keywords: 1183, house
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Joint Committee on Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • This makes it harder for kids to protect themselves from sunburn and long-term...
  • This both protects our youth today and helps foster lifelong healthy habits.
  • By passing this legislation, you will help protect students now and in the future.
  • rays. ...to be safe and effective and protect children from the UV-harmful rays.
  • It's about protecting life.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Education held a public hearing on a large slate of bills, with the chairs emphasizing time limits, written testimony, and grouping similar measures together. Early testimony focused on opioid use disorder education in schools (S.382), with Senator Keenan arguing that students should be taught about the risks of substance use disorder and naloxone use as part of health curricula. Representative DeCost also briefly introduced H.551, a narrow bill concerning parent rights for children in third grade and younger. Several bills were then closed without testimony, including measures on type 1 diabetes informational materials and other diabetes-related proposals. A major portion of the hearing centered on school health and emergency response bills. Supporters of H.652/S.342 on diabetes management in schools described inconsistent district practices and urged clearer standards so students can receive care in classrooms rather than being sent out of instruction. Bills on epinephrine access and seizure disorders drew extensive testimony: advocates for stock epinephrine in schools argued that unassigned epinephrine can save lives and should be funded in a cost-neutral way, while a pediatrician opposed one version as an unfunded mandate. For seizure-safe schools (S.422/H.635), students, parents, educators, and advocates described missed or delayed responses to seizures, stigma, and the need for staff training, seizure action plans, and emergency medication protocols. A separate bill, H.645, allowing anti-seizure medication on school buses, was supported by a parent and student who said current law forces costly and restrictive transportation arrangements. The committee also heard testimony on youth skin health bills (S.334/H.600/H.619), which would let students carry and apply sunscreen at school and camp without a physician’s note. Supporters from melanoma prevention, dermatology, and industry groups said the bills would remove unnecessary barriers and promote sun-safe habits, while one witness cautioned about drafting details and unintended consequences. The hearing then moved to CPR/AED education for graduation (S.456), where Senator Tarr, a student advocate, and the Red Cross all supported requiring hands-on CPR certification for high school students. Finally, the committee took testimony on healthy school lunches (H.539/S.401): supporters from the Healthy School Lunch Coalition and school food directors backed stronger nutrition standards and a standing advisory council, while Consumer Brands Association witnesses opposed the bill as too vague and potentially disruptive. A nutrition scientist also warned about unintended restrictions on medically necessary or innovative foods. The chairs closed the hearing on the healthy lunch bills and then opened testimony on universal school meals for virtual schools (H.700), with Superintendent Patrick Latuka supporting access for students in Commonwealth virtual schools who currently receive no meal support.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

March 31, 2025 - 04:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • At the end of the day, HB 651 isn't about protecting consumers.
  • It's about protecting your buddies in big agriculture, using the power of the state to prop up their
  • while also protecting the wallets and pocketbooks of all Floridians.
  • It's about protecting vulnerable brains and honoring our rights. I urge you to pass this bill.
  • And these are the things that you swore to protect when you took an oath to the Constitution.
Summary: The Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Subcommittee heard House Bill 651, described by sponsors as the Florida Farm Bill and a comprehensive FDACS agency package. The bill combined technical agency updates with several policy provisions, including changes to water additive rules, labeling requirements for meat, milk, poultry, and eggs, criminal penalties related to drones over agricultural land, mail theft, and retail fuel theft, updates to disaster recovery loan programs, an FFA scholarship, school infrastructure provisions, land purchase authority for converted agricultural land, and a Florida Farmer Financial Protection Act addressing ESG-related banking practices. A major portion of the discussion focused on the bill’s fluoride language, with supporters arguing for local choice and consumer consent and opponents warning about public health impacts and loss of local control. Members also questioned the C-4 registry language and whether it was duplicative or could affect organizations’ status. Public testimony was split. Opponents included Florida for All and the Florida Dental Association, with testimony arguing the bill protected agribusiness interests and that removing fluoride would harm dental health, especially for low-income families. Proponents included Heritage Action, Heartland Impact, and several individuals who argued the bill protected farmers from ESG-driven banking restrictions and supported informed consent and the removal of fluoride from public water. Several agricultural and advocacy groups also waved in support. During debate, some members praised portions of the bill such as housing for agricultural workers, drone penalties, and school-related provisions, but said they could not support the fluoride preemption or the C-4 language. Others supported the fluoride provision as a matter of individual and local choice. On final passage, the committee reported HB 651 favorably. The vote was 11-4, with Chair Esposito, Vice Chair Botana, Representatives Barnaby, Benaroch, Black, Mayfield, Mooney, Plasencia, Salzman, and Weinberger voting yes, and Representatives Alvarez, Bartleman, Henson, and Rainer voting no.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • , along with protecting fundamental rights like reproductive health care.
  • I can't, because we have discrimination laws, price transparency, and consumer protection.
  • Also, those with temporary protected status?
  • That we're supposed to be protecting and supporting, but also to our budget.
  • From what we have worked so hard to protect.
Keywords: 988, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Senate in Special Session B Jan 28th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center, and U.S.
  • Thank you for the clarification, Senator Fine, that you're actually protecting them.
  • I remember the speech that came forth.
  • We should always strive to protect... ...of these young people.
  • In any way I can because this bill is going to protect American lives.
Summary: The Senate opened with a quorum, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance, then read an amended joint proclamation expanding the special session call to include financial penalties for government officials, criminal penalties for offenses committed by illegal aliens, and programs and appropriations to support law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. No committee reports, governor’s messages, or House messages were on the desk before the chamber moved to the special order calendar. The main item was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 2B, the immigration bill, along with a late-filed strike-all amendment by Senator Gruters. Gruters said the amendment aligned terminology with federal law, increased penalties for crimes by unauthorized aliens, added transnational crime organizations to gang definitions, required stronger participation in the federal 287(g) program, created financial penalties for noncompliance, offered a $1,000 bonus for officers assisting ICE in large operations, directed more information-sharing with federal agencies, and barred DHSMV from issuing licenses or IDs to unauthorized aliens. He framed the bill as supporting President Trump’s immigration agenda and focusing on criminal illegal aliens rather than street-level enforcement. A long question-and-answer period followed, with Senators Polsky, Pizzo, Smith, Jones, Roscoe, Berman, and others pressing the sponsor on scope, legality, costs, and implementation. Questions focused on whether the bill would require participation beyond jails and detention centers, whether schools or churches could be affected, liability and immunity for local agencies, the size and purpose of the proposed appropriations, and the impact on undocumented students receiving in-state tuition waivers. Gruters and Senator Fine said the 287(g) provisions were intended to apply to jails and detention facilities, that green-card holders and lawful residents would not be affected, and that the tuition waiver repeal would end discounted tuition for students in the country illegally while not affecting their ability to attend. Fine also defended the mandatory death penalty provision for certain capital offenses committed by illegal immigrants, acknowledging it would likely be challenged in court but arguing the bill was designed to test and advance the policy. No final vote or other action on the bill is reflected in the excerpt.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Investing in Disability Services – Senator Jim Abeler Feb 24th, 2025

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator, you know, just listening to you speak right now, and I listened to your speech at last year's
  • 03.479> your speak right now and I listened to your speak right now and I listened to your speech
  • > at<00:05:04.160> last<00:05:04.360> year's<00:05:04.720> Disability speech
  • at last year's Disability speech at last year's Disability Services<00:05:05.840> rally<00:05
Keywords: 1187, senate, all