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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Feb 18th, 2026
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- lead to an environment where very smart, sophisticated policy could unlock a significant amount of wasted
- And when I talk about wasted energy...
- When I talk about wasted energy, when I talk about wasted energy, I'm referring to the excess of wind
- And it is a chart that tracks how much wasted energy comes from wind and solar.
- And when we talk about wasted energy in the context of wind and solar, what I mean to say is, you have
Committee:
House Banking and Finance
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Sep 9th, 2025
New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The act allows for funding to be used for water, wastewater, solid waste, roads, housing, and flood control
- grant loan is primarily to develop colonias infrastructure and may include water, wastewater, solid waste
- The Rural Infrastructure Fund and their Solid Waste Facility Grant Fund would also not receive one.
- The Solid Waste Facility Grant Fund would also not receive one.
- I don't even know if they still operate the Solid Waste Facility Grant Fund.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Securing Human Services / Strengthening Election Integrity / Legislating Legacy Jun 8th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesotans can look forward to new measures that will strengthen election integrity and reduce government waste
- Minnesotans can look forward to new measures that will strengthen election integrity and reduce government waste
- Minnesotans can look forward to new measures that will strengthen election integrity and reduce government waste
- Minnesotans can look forward to new measures that will strengthen election integrity and reduce government waste
- Minnesotans can look forward to new measures that will strengthen election integrity and reduce government waste
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Child waste and abuse has driven up health insurance premiums.
- So why would we want to waste state resources, you know, having them act as a collector when this already
- I think it's a big deal that 10% of healthcare spending is lost to fraud, waste, and abuse.
- Of code and things that you can go that allow you to dig for fraud, waste, and abuse, didn't point those
- ensure that we're keeping, you know, allowing carriers to root out fraud, waste, and abuse that can happen
Committee:
House Insurance
Keywords:
prescription drugs, drug pricing, pharmacy benefits, health insurance, health benefit plan, insurer, HMO, self-insured employer, public employer, school district, county, municipality, university system, higher education, retirees, dependent coverage, stop-loss coverage, bulk purchasing, group purchasing, purchasing pool
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Mar 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We fully support efforts to reduce waste of taxpayer dollars and to create policies that would punish
- And other stakeholders in the effort to address wasteful spending.
- Hicks commented on, He said that he understood that we had to go after wasteful spending.
- There is nothing in this bill that suggests that any money is being wasted.
- We're trying very hard to address that, but I wouldn't call that wasteful spending.
Summary:
The committee first heard the Pre-K-12 education budget proposal for fiscal year 2025-26 and voted to adopt it as the committee’s recommendation to the full Senate Appropriations Committee. The proposed $34.7 billion budget includes increases for the FEFP, Family Empowerment Scholarships, VPK, school safety, the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, school hardening, Jewish day school security, and an education enrollment stabilization fund. Members asked no questions on the budget before it was advanced, and staff was authorized to make technical corrections.
The committee then passed CS/SB 1402, which expands eligibility for dropout retrieval services to any individual who has withdrawn from high school and clarifies how school grades are calculated for virtual instruction providers that offer only dropout retrieval services. An amendment to clarify the grading calculation was adopted without objection, and the bill was reported favorably after a roll call vote. The committee also took up SPB 7030, a comprehensive scholarship-program bill sponsored by Senator Gates, which would separate Family Empowerment Scholarship funding as its own categorical, expand the education stabilization fund, create fall and spring application windows, require a single scholarship application and more documentation, assign student IDs, change payments to a monthly schedule, require background checks for paid instructional providers, mandate annual FTE audits by the Auditor General, and standardize reimbursement and eligibility procedures. After extensive discussion and public testimony, the bill was adopted as a committee bill and reported favorably, with Senator Osgood voting no.
Finally, the committee considered CS/SB 508, which requires private schools participating in the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program to disclose in writing what accommodations, modifications, and services they will provide for students with existing plans such as IEPs, 504 plans, or ELL plans. An amendment was adopted to require public schools to consult with private schools about equitable services, and the bill was reported favorably. Public testimony included support from parent-choice advocates and concerns from private-school representatives about administrative burden and the scope of the required disclosures. The meeting concluded after the final roll call votes and adjournment motion.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Mar 26th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
Transcript Highlights:
- We fully support efforts to reduce waste of taxpayer dollars and to create policies that would punish
- And other stakeholders in the effort to address wasteful spending.
- He said that he understood that we had to go after wasteful spending.
- There is nothing in this bill that suggests that any money is being wasted.
- So we’re trying very hard to address that, but I wouldn’t call that wasteful spending.
Summary:
The committee first heard the proposed Pre-K-12 education budget for fiscal year 2025-26, totaling $34.7 billion. The chair highlighted major increases for the FEFP, including $29.6 billion for public schools and K-12 scholarships, a $984 million year-over-year increase, along with higher per-FTE funding, $4 billion for the Family Empowerment Scholarship, $431.4 million for VPK, funding for school safety, the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, school hardening, Jewish day school security, and an education enrollment stabilization fund. With no public comment, the committee adopted a motion for staff technical corrections and then approved the budget proposal as a recommendation to the full Senate Appropriations Committee.
The committee then considered SB 1402 on dropout retrieval programs. The bill expands eligibility so any individual who has withdrawn from high school may enroll in dropout retrieval services and clarifies how school grades are calculated for virtual instruction providers that offer those services. An amendment clarifying the grading calculation was adopted, and the committee reported the bill favorably.
Next, the committee took up SPB 7030 on educational scholarship programs, a broad measure addressing school choice funding and administration. The bill would fund the Family Empowerment Scholarship as a separate categorical, expand the education stabilization fund, create fall and spring application windows, require a single scholarship application and more documentation, assign student IDs, standardize payment timing to monthly installments, require continued eligibility verification, and add Level 2 background checks for providers receiving state funds. Members raised questions about background-check enforcement, payment timing, data sharing, and the impact on homeschool and private-school families. Public testimony included support from school-choice advocates and concerns from private-school representatives about added regulatory burdens and deadlines. The committee adopted the bill as a committee bill and reported it favorably, with Senator Osgood voting no.
Finally, the committee considered SB 508 on the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, which requires private schools to disclose in writing what accommodations, modifications, and services they will provide to students with existing plans such as IEPs, EEPs, 504 plans, or ELL plans before enrollment. An amendment was adopted to require public schools to consult with private schools about equitable services. Testimony was mixed: supporters said the bill would give parents needed information for informed choice, while private-school representatives said the language could be burdensome and vague. The committee reported the bill favorably.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Waste is dumped without protections for the environment or local communities.
- He continued that dangerous waste is dumped in large piles spread over vast acreage and left to seep
- SWANA is the world's largest association of solid waste professionals, with more than 10,000 members,
- management of municipal solid waste.
- This waste harms the soil because improperly handled solid waste can leach toxic chemicals straight into
Committee:
Senate Public Safety
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (04/13/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- I think that amount of waste we produce.
- recovery or waste management systems saying they need to prohibit this.
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- issues which has never for solid waste issues which has never come<02:57:02.160><c> before</c><02:57
Committee:
House Science, Technology and Energy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
It’s Bonding Tour Season at the Senate Oct 8th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Joint Contract Review Committee May 7th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It deals with hazardous, toxic, and radiological waste in addition to the unexploded ordinances.
- It deals with hazardous, toxic, and<00:23:40.440><c> radiological</c><00:23:41.040><c> waste</c><00:23
- On the hazardous waste side, it's been very viable as far as using a lot of those materials back in as
- So, on on the<00:25:55.520><c> hazardous</c><00:25:56.000><c> waste</c><00:25:56.280><c> side,</c><00
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AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- They pollute, they generate a lot of waste, they don't create many jobs.
- A senator told me just recently that he wants to get rid of fraud, waste, and abuse.
- We're ignoring the real waste in our state while we're cutting services that are essential to everyday
- Rio Nuevo is not a waste... Taking it away is irresponsible.
- Rio Nuevo is not a waste, and it is a return on investment. This model grows the tax base.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Proponents of this legislation highlight the waste of resources caused by swatting or false 911 calls
- Proponents of this legislation highlight the waste of resources caused by swatting or false 911 calls
- AB 1872 is Also costly, expensive, and a waste of resources. AB 1872 is unnecessary.
- That often results in trash, bodily waste, drug paraphernalia scattered across the property, and other
- That often results in trash, bodily waste, drug paraphernalia scattered across the property, and other
Committee:
House Public Safety
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 4th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Unified Program Agency Reimbursement Program accomplishes this by funding hazardous materials and waste
- Assembly Bill 998 by Assembly Member Hadwick, an act relating to hazardous waste.
- Assembly Bill 998 by Assembly Member Hadwick, an act relating to hazardous waste.
- AB 998 allows schools to manage confiscated vapes as household hazardous waste and allows hazardous waste
- AB 998 will improve safety in our schools and responsibly manage the vape waste stream in California.
Summary:
The Assembly convened with a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance, then moved through a long daily file of bills. Early procedural motions included a failed attempt to suspend the rules for AB 1219, followed by consideration of numerous measures on housing, veterans, education, elections, energy, wildfire prevention, public safety, and consumer affordability. Several bills drew bipartisan support and passed overwhelmingly, including AB 878 on safety accommodations for survivors of violence, AB 948 on school district facility maintenance, AB 81 and AB 88 on veterans’ mental health and student aid, AB 640 on school board fiscal training, AB 660 on housing permit timelines, AB 1048 on workers’ compensation billing disputes, AB 1119 on dual credentialing, AB 1172 on inhalable anti-seizure medication access, AB 1227 on wildfire prevention, AB 1285 and AB 696 on lithium-ion battery safety, AB 1417 on offshore wind transparency, AB 1530 on disaster recovery assistance, and AB 353 on affordable home internet. Some measures drew opposition or more divided votes, including AB 704 on sealing certain misdemeanor records, AB 1249 on early voting access, AB 1280 on thermal energy incentives, AB 1448 on offshore oil protections, AB 380 on price gouging, AB 402 on Cal Grant increases, AB 1074 on CalWORKs reunification, and AB 1084 on expedited gender-change and name-change court orders. The Assembly also granted reconsideration on AB 435, a child passenger safety bill, and passed it after debate on the five-step safety-seat standard.
The floor debate featured recurring themes of affordability, housing, wildfire preparedness, election access, veterans’ services, and public safety. Supporters of the election bill AB 1249 argued it would simply add a Saturday early-voting option in non-VCA counties, while opponents raised concerns about verification and county staffing. AB 30, authorizing E15 gasoline in California, was presented as an urgency measure to lower fuel costs and passed unanimously on the urgency and the bill. AB 1466 on groundwater disputes was also taken up, with the author arguing it would reduce frivolous litigation and better represent all water users; the vote was 42 ayes and 17 noes. After completing the file, the Assembly recessed for lunch, later returned, and continued with additional file items, with many measures passing on strong bipartisan votes.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (02/19/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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- such waste from landfills, to authorize food waste facilities, provided that said facilities are within
- When the waste is combined with our organic waste, our landfills produce a toxic and complex biological
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Summary:
The committee first heard testimony on House Bill 437, which would change New Hampshire law on undischarged mortgages by creating a shorter period after which certain old mortgages would be treated as unenforceable. Prime sponsor Representative Bill Boyd said the bill was developed with input from bankers, lawyers, realtors, the Attorney General’s office, and the Banking Department, and he noted a drafting correction needed on line 18. He explained that the proposal would replace current law with a new framework modeled partly on Massachusetts, including a five-year expiration after a stated maturity date and a 35-year period for mortgages without an expiration date. Supporters said the bill would help clear obsolete title defects, reduce costly quiet-title litigation, and make real estate transactions easier for consumers, attorneys, and conveyancers.
Representative Mary Hakken-Phillips, Susan Cole of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, and Michelle Coffin all testified in support, describing the bill as a consumer protection measure. They said undischarged or improperly discharged mortgages often surface during title searches, causing delays, legal expenses, and failed or delayed closings. Coffin and Hakken-Phillips emphasized that many of these cases involve old, effectively obsolete mortgages and that the current process often requires expensive court action even when no one contests the title. Cole described a recent transaction in which a title defect caused a buyer to walk away and later restart the financing process, creating costs for both buyer and seller. A committee member asked about notice to mortgage holders; the response was that the lender bears responsibility for recording and extending the mortgage, and that due process rights would remain if a lender later contested the discharge.
Ryan Hill of the New Hampshire Bankers Association said the banking industry had reviewed the bill and was generally comfortable with it, while requesting a delayed effective date so members would have time to adjust their recording practices. He said the bill’s January 1, 2028 effective date reflected that request. After closing the hearing on HB 437, the committee opened a hearing on House Bill 721, the Gold and Silver Legal Tender Act. Representative Juliet Harvey-Bolia introduced it as a bipartisan economic justice bill intended to recognize gold and silver as legal tender, protect against inflation, and address concerns about trust, taxes, and government taking. She argued that gold is a stable store of value and discussed tax treatment in neighboring states, federal history, and digital gold platforms. The hearing on HB 721 was still in progress when the transcript ended, with the chair limiting questions because of time.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Capital Improvement Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026
Capital Improvement
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 86 requires DNREC to work with the Delaware Solid Waste Authority to transition operations in
- the vicinity of the current yard waste site at Polly Drummond.
- Section 86 requires Denrack to work with the Delaware Solid Waste Authority to transition operations
- in the vicinity of the current yard waste site at Polly Drummond.
Committee:
Joint Capital Improvement
Summary:
The committee met for a fiscal year 2027 capital budget writing session with all 12 members present. It first reviewed and approved the DNREC Resource Conservation and Development drainage project list, which would add projects across New Castle, Kent, and Sussex counties and bring the total eligible projects to 1,561. Members offered personal remarks thanking retiring conservation district staff, especially Kevin Donnelly, for years of work on drainage and water issues. The committee then reviewed DelDOT Rule 12 changes, including annual date updates and a reduction in the inflation markup applied to older estimates, and approved the rule as amended.
The committee next adopted DelDOT Appendix A and the FY27 paving and rehabilitation list, including the subdivision street management fund and various road resurfacing projects. DelDOT explained that paving projects are for state-of-good-repair work and that major changes from corridor studies would be handled separately. The committee also approved DelDOT epilogue changes, including updates to authorization amounts, a $25 million increase for toll infrastructure work, changes to subdivision street paving language, and an increase in the subdivision street paving management fund to $30 million. Several sections were placed on hold for later updates.
The committee then moved through boilerplate epilogue sections in the bond bill, approving a wide range of provisions affecting conservation districts, housing, economic development, corrections, DNREC, public safety, transportation, agriculture, fire prevention, education, and other agencies. Many sections were adopted in groups, while some were held for later revisions or deleted as no longer needed. The session included updates to school capital rules, transportation restrictions and reporting requirements, DNREC conservation and land-use provisions, and funding and administrative authorities across multiple agencies. The committee broke for lunch after approving the education-related sections through 147, with additional sections still pending.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Improving Affordability through Tax Relief | Senator Karin Housley May 15th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- it, and especially hearing from constituents, what actually happened to that money when there was waste
- /c><00:02:42.480><c> when</c><00:02:42.600><c> there</c><00:02:42.720><c> was</c><00:02:42.920><c> waste
- ,</c><00:02:43.320><c> fraud,</c> that money when there was waste, fraud, that money when there was waste
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House agriculture panel lays over bill exempting elk from state's Cervidae importation ban Apr 8th, 2026
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- At this time, there is no validated live test for CWD or chronic wasting disease that would allow us
- c><00:05:02.680><c> CWD</c><00:05:03.360><c> or</c><00:05:03.480><c> chronic</c><00:05:03.800><c> wasting
- </c><00:05:04.120><c> disease</c> test for CWD or chronic wasting disease test for CWD or chronic wasting
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development - 03/31/2026
Housing, Construction, and Community Development
Transcript Highlights:
- The landfills in our state are at capacity, and this is a very large portion of the waste stream, so
- Right, as Senator May knows, about half of all waste produced in New York is construction and demolition
- expensive to many municipalities, so this could be saving especially local tax dollars or local fees for waste
- budget is trying to get a mass timber supply chain institute at SUNY ESF, and presumably some of the waste
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Housing, Construction, and Community Development met on March 31, 2026, with a quorum present and noted that the Legislature was in budget negotiations and approaching a scheduled break. The committee took up several housing-related bills, with most being reported to Finance after discussion. The first bill, S.3742A, would require information to be provided in new and renewal leases for certain housing accommodations, and it was reported without opposition. S.4659B, the Rental Emergency Stabilization for Tenants Act, generated the longest debate; supporters said it would give local governments outside New York City a more flexible way to determine a housing emergency and opt into rent stabilization, while opponents argued it lacked a clear vacancy-rate standard, could discourage development, and would benefit higher-income tenants. The bill was ultimately reported, with some negative votes and one or more votes without recommendation.
The committee then discussed S.8168, which would create a deconstruction and salvage framework for building materials, including local options, technical assistance, grants, and related code updates. Supporters said it could reduce landfill use, lower disposal costs, and encourage reuse markets, while opponents questioned costs, market demand, and whether the program would raise housing and demolition expenses. The bill was reported, again with some negative or without-recommendation votes. S.8595, dealing with how certain valuations and amounts due are calculated in foreclosure actions, was also reported. S.8672, the Employer-Assisted Housing Matching Grant Act, would provide a state match for employer housing assistance for certain nonprofit human services employers; members raised concerns about scope, possible double-dipping, and whether the program should be expanded to other workers, but the bill was reported with some negative and without-recommendation votes.
The final bill, S.94A, made a minor amendment to the Housing Access Voucher Pilot Program regarding priority applicants and unit inspections, and it was reported as well. Throughout the meeting, members repeatedly emphasized that several proposals were optional for local governments or employers rather than mandates, and many of the exchanges focused on affordability, housing supply, local control, and the fiscal effects of the bills. No floor votes were taken; the committee’s actions were limited to reporting the bills to Finance, with some reported favorably and others reported with negative or without-recommendation votes.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- was probably one of the most significant bills to kind of clean up our welfare system, to root out waste
- and frankly, in the White House, we hoped that that bill's financial incentives for states to fight waste
- who are enrolled in food stamps who are actually eligible and your taxpayers who want to see fraud, waste
- who are enrolled in food stamps who are actually eligible and your taxpayers who want to see fraud, waste
Committee:
Senate Health and Welfare
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Retirement and Government Resources Feb 10th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Retirement and Government Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- How is that balanced when this is an emphasis solely on financial savings and not potentially wasting
- time of business owners or wasting time of others who need help through our services or our programs
- I found this or that, and I felt like I was wasting my time, and no one was listening to me.
- Typically, when we look at government contracts, we're looking at governmental waste or efficiency, but
Committee:
Senate Retirement and Government Resources
Keywords:
nondisclosure agreements, state employment, employee rights, transparency, government accountability, employee suggestions, cost savings, state agencies, incentives, performance awards, efficiency, Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act, state procurement, state purchasing, State Purchasing Director, Office of Management and Enterprise Services, OMES, exempt entities, purchasing exemptions, state contracts