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CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Jun 29th, 2026

California Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill establishes a new light-duty zero-emission vehicle incentive program for first-time buyers with
  • passed the Assembly unanimously, amendments taken in the Assembly addressed environmental concerns on emissions
  • SB 1350 allows power plants to get renewable portfolio standard credits when they use green hydrogen
  • Congress to act swiftly to reinstate these drivers' credentials for those who meet California DMV standards
  • This proposal falls short of that standard. For these reasons, I urge you no vote.
Summary: The Senate session opened with a roll call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance, then moved through a long series of floor recognitions and votes. Members spent substantial time honoring the Los Angeles Dodgers, celebrating their back-to-back World Series championship and highlighting the team’s history, community role, and connections to Jackie Robinson, Fernando Valenzuela, Vin Scully, and Jaime Jarrín. Senators also recognized summer interns and welcomed members of Kappa Alpha Psi’s Kappa League and Guide Right program to the floor. The chamber then took up several measures, beginning with AB 182 on ballot order and proposition numbering for the 2026 statewide ballot, which passed 38-8 after debate over whether placing legislatively referred measures first was fair. SR 113, commemorating the International Day of Peace and honoring Dr. Yongshik Cho’s role in proposing it, passed unanimously after supportive remarks about peace, education, and California’s diversity. The Senate also adopted SJR 16 urging Congress to restore commercial driver’s licenses for affected California truck drivers, and SCR 185 designating Probation Services Week. A major portion of the meeting was devoted to budget trailer bills. The Senate concurred in Assembly amendments to AB 112, AB 150, AB 152, AB 181, and AB 179, covering Medi-Cal, child care, human services, education governance, and housing. It also passed or concurred in SB 168, SB 169, SB 170, SB 171, SB 172, SB 174, SB 177, and SB 180, addressing public resources and energy, transportation, executive branch reorganization, labor, state government, courts, Medi-Cal financing, and taxation. Several of these drew opposition centered on energy costs, transparency, business impacts, or the proposed “fair share” approach to Medi-Cal costs for large corporations, but most measures passed on party-line or near-party-line votes. The Senate also confirmed three California Horse Racing Board appointments and ended with adjournment motions, including a request to adjourn in memory of Francis Lydia Limos of American Canyon.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Economic and Rural Development Aug 11th, 2025

Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are assisting with lead generation and helping them convert marketing material to U.S. standard marketing
  • It is a clean, zero-emission source of heat and electricity. Geothermal energy is always present.
  • In terms of the protection of groundwater, most geothermal wells have to meet the standards of oil and
  • technology does require water during drilling, and we would expect to be held to a high permitting standard
  • But anyway, how are the emissions from geothermal plants, including non-condensable gases like hydrogen
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EEP Public Hearing - Thu Feb 5, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Energy & Environmental Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:15:13.839><c> for</c> septic systems u meet standards for septic systems u meet standards for
  • And that [clears throat] standards.
  • So I assume the intention was to empower the commission to set standards, and I'm not sure what standards
  • So I assume the intention was to empower the commission to set standards, and I'm not sure what standards
  • It's generally um and and I standards?
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills related to cesspools, wastewater, and clean water protections. On HB 2245, which would require additional denitrification capacity in wastewater systems near shorelines, the Department of Health offered comments, DLNR supported the bill, and multiple environmental and ocean groups testified in strong support, emphasizing nitrogen pollution from cesspools, reef damage, and the need to prioritize shoreline systems. Testifiers said the bill should move forward, with technical issues such as GIS mapping to be worked out later. No member questions or votes were taken on this measure. On HB 1985, concerning the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority and accessible conversion loans for cesspool homeowners, HGI supported the bill and suggested making the program a revolving loan fund; DLNR and the Public Utilities Commission also supported it, while the Department of Health supported the concept. Committee discussion focused on program design, possible forgivable loans for low-income homeowners, and whether the program should be administered through existing infrastructure rather than a new procurement process. The committee then moved to HB 1985’s companion discussion on cesspool conversion outreach and deadline extensions, where DLNR and DOH supported outreach but DLNR and ocean advocates expressed reservations about extending deadlines, especially for financial hardship, saying that issue would need careful work. The committee also heard testimony on HB 2079, which would reestablish the accessible upgrades inversion or connection income tax credit. The Department of Taxation raised administrative and fraud concerns about refundable credits, explaining that nonrefundable credits reduce tax debt while refundable credits can function like cash payments and require more oversight. DOH, DLNR, OPSD, counties, Hawaii Realtors, and environmental groups supported the bill, with one ocean coalition witness saying tax credits could help homeowners but grants would be preferable. Members asked about the difference between refundable credits and grants and about whether the credit would cover sewer connections versus individual wastewater systems. The committee then heard brief testimony on HB 1921, allowing certain priority-three cesspools to add a bedroom, with support from Hawaii Realtors and some other groups and no opposition discussion. HB 2232, preserving state water-quality protections at least as strong as the federal Clean Water Act, drew support from DOH and ocean advocates, with no questions. The committee also began hearing energy-related bills, including HB 1567 on energy equity and HB 1984 on self-certification for distributed energy resources, with a mix of support and some opposition or requested amendments, but no votes were taken in the portion provided.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • So we're taking in the Air Resources Board's statewide scoping plan for emissions and building out For
  • emissions and building out the grid that's going to support the energy resources we expect to deliver
  • Can they be inside objective standards? Or are there no objective standards at all, perhaps?
  • But I guess what I'm saying is if you're just in that standard without data, forget...
  • If you're just in that standard without data, forget Treasury or your analysis, you're just guessing
Summary: The Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications held an oversight hearing focused on electric rates, utility regulation, affordability, reliability, and wildfire-related costs. The chair framed the discussion around the challenge of transitioning to a cleaner grid while keeping bills affordable and the system reliable, and noted the hearing also served as the annual update from the CPUC and Public Advocates Office. Professor Severin Borenstein gave a primer on utility regulation, explaining the split between deregulated generation and regulated transmission/distribution, the basics of cost-of-service regulation, and the role of return on equity. He argued that high allowed returns can encourage capital-intensive spending and that many public policy costs now embedded in rates would be better funded through the state budget, while warning that price caps or performance-based regulation are not silver bullets. CPUC President-designate Alice Reynolds described the commission’s role as economic regulator of investor-owned utilities and said affordability is being addressed through rate case scrutiny, reasonableness reviews, and legislative direction. She said wildfire mitigation and insurance costs have been major drivers of rate increases, but some wildfire-related costs are time-limited and will roll off rates over time. She also highlighted progress on clean energy procurement, battery storage growth, and integrated resource planning to meet climate goals while maintaining reliability. Reynolds said the CPUC is reviewing utility spending, disallowing imprudent costs where appropriate, and litigating at FERC to challenge transmission costs. Members pressed both witnesses on several issues, including whether rates are being inflated by legislative mandates and balancing accounts, whether utility returns are too high, and whether the state should shift more public-policy costs off electric bills and into the General Fund. Senators also raised concerns about load growth from data centers and ports, gas-system stranded assets as electrification advances, and whether the CPUC is over-regulating or discouraging innovation. Reynolds said the CPUC is working with the Energy Commission, CAISO, and the Air Resources Board on a holistic planning process, and pointed to tools such as interconnection reforms and demand flexibility. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational, with several follow-up requests for reports and data.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee Mar 3rd, 2026

Energy, Utilities and Communications

Transcript Highlights:
  • emissions and building out the grid that’s going to support the energy resources we expect to deliver
  • Does the ROE process, and frankly the whole GRC, need outside objective standards?
  • Can they be inside objective standards? Or are there no objective standards at all, perhaps?
  • But I guess what I'm saying is if you're just in that standard without data, forget...
  • If you're just in that standard without data, forget Treasury or your analysis, you're just guessing
Keywords: 987, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 2/23/26

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • /c><00:03:45.120><c> not</c><00:03:45.360><c> meet</c><00:03:45.680><c> the</c><00:03:45.920><c> standards
  • </c> most often would not meet the standards most often would not meet the standards of<00:03:46.560>
  • MPPA supports strong ethical standards.
  • MPPA supports strong ethical standards.
  • </c><00:54:23.280><c> initial</c> emergencies to provide emission initial emergencies to provide emission
Bills: HF1667, HF2526, HF68
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs (02/07/2025)

State-federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Trucks create 1,000% more emissions than maritime freight to move the same amount of cargo.
  • Trains create about 30% more emissions than maritime freight.
  • </c><01:27:52.800><c> to</c><01:27:53.800><c> obtain</c> stringent standards to obtain stringent standards
  • Um, I don’t know if it’s low emissions or dirty emissions; I’m not an expert, but she did not want that
  • to reach the point where the emissions to reach the point where the world<04:34:34.439><c> will</c><
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Public Health Jun 21st, 2026 at 09:00 am

Joint Committee on Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • and guidelines, such as the IICRC S520 standard for professional mold remediation, the IICRC S590 standard
  • It's the standard for mold remediation. It is the standard of care for the industry.
  • The three standards I want to quickly review are ASHRAE Standard 62.1 from 2022, entitled "Ventilation
  • Lastly, we also recommend ASHRAE Standard 180 from 2018, entitled "Standard Practice for Inspection and
  • Lastly, we also recommend ANSEA, Ashtray standard 180 from 2018 entitled standard practice for inspection
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on a wide range of bills focused on environmental health, disease prevention, and access to care. Major topics included restricting polystyrene use, creating a pancreatic cancer awareness and early-detection initiative, improving indoor air quality through a task force and new regulations, expanding access to epinephrine in public places, improving access to health care for people with long COVID, creating an OBGYN loan repayment program for underserved areas, expanding access to hygiene products, modernizing licensure for dietitians and nutritionists, updating school postural screening requirements, and restricting harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements. Several legislators also testified in support of their own bills, including measures on menstrual product access and ingredient disclosure, and surgical smoke protections. Testimony on the polystyrene bill emphasized local municipal bans and the need to reduce plastic pollution. Pancreatic cancer advocates and patients described the disease’s low survival rate, the difficulty of early diagnosis, and the need for an awareness campaign and implementation of commission recommendations. Indoor air quality supporters from environmental justice groups, public health organizations, and residents described asthma, mold, pollution, and the need for a task force with technical expertise; some witnesses urged adding remediation professionals to the task force. On epinephrine access, family members of a man who died after a bee sting and an allergy organization stressed that anaphylaxis can be sudden and fatal and that stock epinephrine in public venues could save lives. Long COVID advocates said the condition affects hundreds of thousands of residents and called for better surveillance and access to care, with a request to include MECFS in the bills’ scope. Other testimony focused on workforce and equity issues. Supporters of the OBGYN loan repayment bill said it would help address maternal health disparities and provider shortages, especially in rural and underserved communities. Hope and Comfort described widespread hygiene insecurity and a long waiting list for basic products, urging a task force to study statewide solutions. Dietitians and nutritionists supported modernization of licensure to clarify standards for medical nutrition therapy while allowing broader wellness counseling. School nurses backed reducing mandatory postural screenings, arguing the current law is not evidence-based, is not reimbursed by MassHealth, and takes time from other student health needs. On the supplement bill, the industry trade group opposed restrictions as overbroad and burdensome, while a public health expert cited research linking weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to serious harms and urged passage. The committee also heard support for menstrual product access and surgical smoke protections, with legislators and advocates describing those bills as longstanding priorities.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Mar 18th, 2025

Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Any program that doesn't meet that standard will make all those provisions in the codes unusable.
  • , and they will be standards.
  • They will meet the PS20 standards. We have, we did talk with CID.
  • The standard, yeah. Yes, ma'am, Madam Chair and Senator, so if you look on page 4.
  • ES20 standards.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

Transcript Highlights:
  • It will lower household expenses, unlock housing production, and reduce climate emissions.
  • vision of regional rail with more frequent and reliable service, faster and quieter trains, reduced emissions
  • reliability and modernization program at the MBTA, which is focused on decarbonizing and reducing emissions
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets held a public hearing on H. 5279, a bill financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges. MassDOT and A&F testified in support, describing the bill as a more than $5 billion transportation bond package centered on a four-year, $1.2 billion Chapter 90 authorization, plus funding for MBTA rail reliability and modernization, housing-related transportation improvements, a new DCR/MassDOT PRISM program for parkways and other DCR assets, and reauthorizations of the Municipal Pavement Program, Shared Streets and Spaces, and highway programs. They said the bill would support safety, resilience, housing production, and multimodal transportation, and noted that some bonds could be issued as special obligation bonds backed by the Commonwealth Transportation Fund and Fair Share revenues. Committee members asked about the size and structure of the authorizations, the federal match for highway projects, the source of MBTA vehicle procurement, bridge repair needs, and whether the housing-related funds could be used flexibly for items like sidewalks, bike lanes, bus stops, and other local transportation improvements. Administration witnesses said the bill is intended as a temporary refill of existing programs until a larger transportation bond bill is filed next session, that the federal-aid line includes the full spending authority while the state only borrows the 20% match, and that the housing-related program is deliberately broad and not limited to MBTA communities. They also said Chapter 90 includes a road-mile component that especially helps rural communities and that preservation and safety are built into the programs. The Massachusetts Municipal Association also testified in strong support, emphasizing that Chapter 90 is the most important tool municipalities have to maintain the roughly 30,000 miles of local roads and bridges they are responsible for. MMA urged timely passage before construction season and praised the continued $300 million Chapter 90 level, especially the $100 million road-mile distribution that helps communities with large road networks and smaller populations. No votes were taken on the bill, and the hearing concluded with adjournment after testimony ended.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Apr 7th, 2026

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

Transcript Highlights:
  • It will lower household expenses, unlock housing production, and reduce climate emissions.
  • of regional rail includes more frequent and reliable service, faster and quieter trains, reduced emissions
  • reliability and modernization program at the MBTA, which is focused on decarbonizing and reducing emissions
Bills: H5279
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources & Energy.(6-4-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're going to set drinking water standards for that.
  • So drinking water standards filter down.
  • So we've got drinking water standards the feds put out. We implement them.
  • </c> so drinking water standards filter down. so drinking water standards filter down.
  • </c><01:06:19.839><c> We</c> water standards the feds put out. We water standards the feds put out.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • We can provide technical platforms to share data and to enable the standards in the technical platform
  • That is sort of standard practice as we go to the Ways and Means Committee.
  • practice as we That is sort of standard practice as we go<00:44:23.119><c> to</c><00:44:23.200><c> the
  • We're going to change data standard.
  • What what Hawaii is know, emissions.
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committees first took up SB 3322 relating to law enforcement. Chairs recommended adopting amendments from the Department of Law Enforcement that would exempt plainclothes officers from identification requirements, limit conspicuous agency markings to vehicles used in immigration enforcement operations, and allow a plainclothes officer to wear a mask when within eyesight of an unmasked officer from the same agency while performing official duties. Although there was an initial quorum issue, both committees ultimately voted to adopt the chair’s recommendation and advance the bill as amended. The next major item was SB 3333 relating to property tax treatment for certain housing. Testimony was strongly supportive, including from a Maui County real property tax board member and a representative of Nali Maui, who described homeowners in affordable housing being taxed at much higher rates when exemptions were missed or when resale restrictions kept values below market. The committees recommended passing the bill with amendments, including a deferred effective date of April 19, 2042, and the recommendation was adopted. The committees also heard SB 2422 on a pro housing score program for counties, SB 2981 on eliminating minimum off-street parking requirements in urban districts, SB 2007 on county land use boundary amendments, SB 3028 on restructuring the conveyance tax to a marginal rate system, SB 3033 on public petitions for review of beach structures, and SB 2434 on electric vehicle infrastructure. SB 2422 drew support with a request for flexibility and an appeals process for counties facing extraordinary circumstances; the chair’s recommendation was to pass it with amendments and note a $200,000 implementation study request, which was adopted. SB 2981 received strong support from housing and transportation advocates and was advanced unamended, while SB 2007 drew opposition from the Sierra Club and discussion about the Land Use Commission’s limited enforcement tools and the number of approved but unbuilt units. SB 3028 received mixed testimony, with support for the marginal-rate change but concerns about earmarking and blanks in the bill, and SB 3033 was supported as an early-warning mechanism for erosion-threatened coastal structures, though OPSD said it should not be the regulatory decision-maker. SB 2434 prompted concern about whether utility capacity can support EV infrastructure goals, with the chair citing a recent report suggesting transmission and distribution constraints.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 27th, 2025

Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII

Transcript Highlights:
  • So the standard permit itself.
  • This is for compliance with standard permits for concrete batch plan.
  • It was the standard was reduced from 12 micrograms to 9 micrograms. cubic meter.
  • The standard permit for concrete batch plants, the standard permit's a mechanism for minor sources such
  • to update those standards. permits consistent with how the new PM standard may be implemented and that's
Keywords: 1184, house, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce May 18th, 2026

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • So is there a standard now? Is there a standard now? Okay. It's unique.
  • This bill, 1168, is essentially about setting standards.
  • Sometimes you have different sets of standards, and you want to try to set up a fair playing field.
  • It's about setting a standard in accordance with DOTD for precast concrete pilings.
  • The standards are the standards. Do these people break the standards on cement piles?
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 7th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • urge and request BESE to incorporate the science of human growth and development into state content standards
  • and request Bessie to incorporate the science of human growth and development into state content standards
  • and this HCR requests BESE to incorporate the science of human growth and development into content standards
  • What this HCR does is request updated content standards and provision of educational resources.
  • And currently in the standards, the resolution notes that while current science and health standards
Summary: The committee met with a large docket and adopted the April 29 minutes. Several bills were heard and advanced, mostly on education, workforce, literacy, early childhood, charter schools, and student mental health. Testimony was generally supportive, with many witnesses waiving in favor; a few bills drew questions about implementation, student awareness, and whether proposals were sufficiently broad or specific. House Bill 406, requiring the Department of Education to study the direction and regulation of interscholastic high school athletics and report back by March 1, 2027, was reported favorably after testimony from a retired principal who urged an open-minded study and discussion from the bill author about compliance and the bill’s purpose. House Bill 380, creating a pilot program between community and technical colleges and local school systems to expand awareness of CDL, entry-level driver training, and related programs, was also reported favorably. House Bill 807, creating a workforce and structure capacity investment program and fund to help industry partner with colleges to train instructors, was reported favorably after support from higher education and industry witnesses; senators raised interest in adding a stronger health care component and in reaching students earlier, but the author said he would work on amendments. The committee also advanced House Bill 316 on adolescent literacy and high-dose tutoring, with amendments clarifying teacher training timing, existing statutory bans on outdated literacy practices, and charter school participation; House Bill 1146, consolidating early childhood governance into a commission; House Bill 28, creating an appeal path for denied teacher certification applicants through BESE; and House Bill 992, assigning early childhood education identification numbers to support data collection on outcomes. House Concurrent Resolution 26, urging BESE to add the science of human growth and development to science and health standards and provide approved instructional resources, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 386, allowing local districts to let locally authorized charter schools operate as their own LEA under district rules, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 392, expanding suicide prevention information requirements on school websites, ID cards, handbooks, and signage, was reported favorably as well.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/20/26

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • future education finance chairs can continue to set these priorities based on MDE, based on this as a standard
  • future education finance chairs can continue to set these priorities based on MDE, based on this as a standard
  • She also said she heard the LBO mentioned and that the national standard is to keep the subject matter
  • 52.800><c> national</c> mentioned and that that the national mentioned and that that the national standard
  • > keep</c><01:15:54.080><c> the</c><01:15:54.200><c> subject</c><01:15:54.680><c> matter</c> The standard
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/23/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It maintains strong standards and consumer protections.
  • MFDA believes this bill strikes the right balance between maintaining high standards and addressing the
  • Uh, this bill maintains strong<01:29:56.320><c> standards</c><01:29:56.719><c> and</c><01:29:57.040><
  • c> consumer</c> strong standards and consumer strong standards and consumer protections.<01:29:58.320