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CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 099 Apr 23rd, 2026

Colorado Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Message from the House: Teach us how to legislate. Mr.
  • >> Message<00:32:46.799> from<00:32:48.240> the<00:32:48.480> house.
  • Teach us how to >> Message from the house. Teach us how to legislate. legislate. legislate.
  • Schoffler, please add Senators Kirkmeyer and Amabile to the roll. >> Message from the Revisor.
  • I sent a text to the former good senator from Newcastle to see if his Rocky Mountain oysters were going
Keywords: 981, all
Summary: The Senate convened, established a quorum, approved the previous day’s journal, and received several committee reports and House messages. Committee reports advanced a number of bills and appointments, including Senate Bill 163, House Bill 1320, Senate Bill 160, House Bill 1210, and several board and commission appointments recommended for the consent calendar. The chamber also received House action on multiple bills, including concurrence in Senate amendments to House Bills 1239, 1262, and 1110, a request for a conference committee on House Bill 1084, and transmission of several other measures to the Revisor of Statutes. The Senate then took up Senate Joint Resolution 22, designating July 12-18, 2026, as Plastic Pollution Awareness Week. Senator Cutter spoke in support, arguing that plastic pollution harms environmental and human health, disproportionately affects vulnerable communities, and cannot be solved by recycling alone. The resolution was adopted on a 25-9 vote, with several senators recorded in opposition, and co-sponsors were noted. The chamber also recognized guests from the Colorado Society of Enrolled Agents and the National Association of Tax Professionals, as well as visitors from the Colorado School of Mines and former Senator John Evans. Later, the Senate considered special orders on the consent calendar, including House Bills 103, 1026, and 1051, and adopted the committee reports and the bills. House Bill 1026 was amended and House Bill 1051 was advanced to third reading and final passage. The Senate also took up Senate Bill 117, concerning permissible methods for the sale of lottery tickets. Senator Bridges explained that the bill was intended to respond to lottery rules allowing online sales and credit card purchases, but said the measure had been narrowed in committee and then raised constitutional concerns under Colorado’s prohibition on slot machines outside limited gaming areas. The transcript ends during that debate, before final action on Senate Bill 117 is shown.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 21st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, y'all please text Representative Marcelle, let her know what you'd like for supper tonight.
  • Messages from the Senate.
  • Other messages from the Senate Senate has passed will lie over. Other messages from the Senate.
  • Another message from the Senate: the President of the Senate has signed SCR 32, respectfully submitted
  • Another message from the Senate.
Summary: The House opened with a prayer, pledge, quorum call, and several personal privileges recognizing visiting groups and guests, including Junior League members, a Louisiana Renewable Energy Day proclamation, Wholesalers Day, the Louisiana Home Builders Association, and other visitors. Members also adopted or laid over a number of resolutions honoring local events, organizations, and individuals, including condolences resolutions and commemorations such as ALS Awareness Month and Junior League Day. The most extended debate centered on House Bill 385 by Rep. Bamberg, which would require certain TOPS scholarship recipients to repay one semester of aid if they lose eligibility, subject to several exemptions and a possible move into career and technical education. Members raised concerns about whether the bill would turn a merit scholarship into a loan, its effect on student decision-making and brain drain, constitutional notice issues, administrative costs, collection methods, and whether the Board of Regents had been consulted. After debate, a motion to recommit the bill to Appropriations failed by a 34-16 vote, and the bill was later returned to the calendar. The House then passed House Bill 55, prohibiting disclosure of juror information with exceptions for juror interviews, by a 94-2 vote; House Bill 394, extending the conditional parole period from nine to 24 months; House Bill 396, making autopsy photographs admissible in criminal proceedings; and House Bill 406, directing the Department of Education to study whether it should oversee interscholastic high school athletics, by a 97-1 vote. The chamber also passed House Bill 622 aligning criminal history record handling with federal requirements and House Bill 676 creating the crime of fraudulent patient referrals, or body brokering. Several other bills were introduced, referred, or returned to the calendar, including measures on criminal history confidentiality, parole, autopsy evidence, athletics oversight, and non-emergency medical transportation for mental health care.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Science, Technology and Energy (04/14/2025)

Science, Technology and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • There was a message that came in from the PUC that affected, or uh provided, impetus to a recommendation
  • there<01:17:57.760> was<01:17:57.920> a<01:17:58.320> uh<01:17:58.560> message
  • there but and there was a uh message there but and there was a uh message that<01:17:59.360>
  • We will have new amendment text in hand by that time.
  • He added, “Text the clerk rule.”
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee met on April 14 and began by welcoming a new member, Representative Samban Denier, who briefly described his background as a Clarkson University environmental engineering graduate and Air Force veteran. The committee then moved into a work session on five energy-related bills, starting with Senate Bill 65 on stormwater management for solar arrays. Representative McGee presented amendment 1594H, which would exclude projects in shoreland areas from the bill’s permit-by-notification process and require the standard alteration-of-terrain permit review instead. Members asked for clarification, and McGee explained the amendment was requested by the New Hampshire Lakes Association and others to preserve the fuller review process for shoreland projects. The committee appeared satisfied with the explanation and moved on. The committee next discussed Senate Bill 230 on electric utility restructuring and investment in distributed energy resources. Members concluded that section one was unnecessary because a better definition of advanced nuclear resources had already been added to House Bill 710, and that section two would allow investment in advanced nuclear resources in a way they had already rejected in another bill due to ratepayer risk. Several members agreed the bill was redundant and supported an ITL motion. They also discussed Senate Bill 232 on net metering terms and conditions, focusing first on whether hydroelectric generators could be listed in ISO New England while also taking net metering credits. Granite State Hydropower Association representative Heidi Kroll testified that generators are subject to checks and balances, that double-dipping is not occurring, and that rules and tariffs already require participation in one market arrangement or the other. Discussion on Senate Bill 232 then shifted to section two, which would bar retroactive changes to net metering tariffs in place as of January 1, 2025. Representative McGee proposed alternative language to protect existing customer generators, group hosts, and municipal hosts from retroactive changes, while others said the language was needed to provide stability for current participants operating on thin margins. Some members supported the clearer wording; others argued the committee should not tie the hands of the PUC and DOE, noting future circumstances could require regulatory flexibility and that conflicts could be resolved in court if necessary. The committee did not take a final vote in the portion of the meeting provided, and the discussion was still ongoing when the transcript ended.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/29/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • As you know, the department reads bill text here.
  • As you know, the department reads bill text here.
  • This legislation sends a simple, powerful message.
  • <01:29:03.240> If<01:29:03.360> companies simple, powerful message.
  • If companies simple, powerful message.
Keywords: 1183, house
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Committee, February 13, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Again, we don't have the authority to command that they do that, but we send a message that we think
  • do that, but we to command that they do that, but we send<00:46:31.760> a<00:46:32.000> message
  • 33.359> we<00:46:33.599> think<00:46:33.760> that<00:46:33.920> it send a message
  • that we think that it send a message that we think that it would<00:46:34.319> be<00:46:34.560
  • texts without fear of prosecution. texts without fear of prosecution.
Bills: HB0066, HJ0005, HB0010
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Education Funding (02/13/2026)

Education Funding

Transcript Highlights:
  • Dave still text here. >> Yeah. Yeah.
  • or it's the current message or it's the current understanding<03:21:36.160> that<03:21:36.479
  • Certainly, like a title is not part of the statutory text that sets up the, you know, the substantive
  • that that's looking at the plain text. that that's looking at the plain text.
  • text of 19 of both of them and 1931. text of 19 of both of them and 1931.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 18th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • provide us access to educational resources, they also. with the allure of social media, games, and messaging
  • School drama is decreasing as people can't text one another. saying mean things or cyberbullying other
  • their use, listen to notifications, or worry about cheating through the use of sending pictures or text
  • My daughter, for example, had to use her phone for text to speech in fall. 2022 when she sustained a
  • So it's important not to send a mixed message.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Education. (2-26-26)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think about teachers in school districts where we get the messages where they’re having to buy supplies
  • I got a late text and I apologize for that.
  • > I<00:55:52.240> got<00:55:52.480> a<00:55:52.640> late<00:55:52.960> text
  • I got a late text and I apologize for that.
Summary: The Senate Education Committee heard House Bill 1, which would have Kentucky opt into a federal education freedom tax credit program allowing donations to scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs) for K-12 educational expenses. The bill sponsors said it would not use Kentucky general funds, would be administered through the Secretary of State, and would let donors claim up to a $1,700 federal tax credit for contributions to SGOs. They argued the program could support public, private, religious, and homeschool-related educational needs, including tutoring, transportation, technology, special needs services, and other school expenses. Several senators raised concerns about whether the bill would favor larger districts with more school-choice options over rural counties with only one public school, creating a two-tier system. The sponsors responded that public school districts could also create SGOs and that the federal rules limit eligibility to families at or below 300% of area median gross income. They also said the program would not reduce existing state or federal school funding, but would instead redirect federal tax credit dollars that Kentucky donors might otherwise send to other states or back to the federal government. Members asked about the structure and oversight of SGOs, including whether they must be nonprofits, how broad their missions could be, and whether funds could be earmarked for specific purposes. The sponsors said SGOs must be certified, serve at least two schools and 10 students, spend at least 90% of receipts on scholarships, and cannot be directed to a specific student, though they can be targeted to categories such as elementary students or special needs services. They also said homeschool families would need to organize through a co-op or existing approved SGO. No vote was taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is it an answer to text?
  • Each state agency that posts must also include the full text or electronic copy of the guidance, the
  • system must allow an owner to choose to participate, and notice must be provided promptly by email, text
  • message, or other similar means.
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • Communications of Americans, text messages, emails, recorded phone calls, and so forth.
  • You remember when, uh... his girlfriend texted Mr.
  • In fact, the plain text of the legislation.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Finance (Part II) Jan 28th, 2025

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Kolkhorst: ...was texting. And you know, we're kind of one of those rural offices.
  • It was funny; I was texting my staff to have the information on the number of inmates that were in the
  • I just texted him, I said, watch this clip.
  • I just texted them, I said, watch this clip.
  • Thank you for your message.
Bills: SB1
Summary: The committee heard a Legislative Budget Board presentation and then testimony from the Department of Public Safety on the Article 5 public safety budget. LBB said DPS’s 2026-27 recommendation totals $3.7 billion, down from the prior base, while FTEs rise by 856.7. Major items included increased funding for driver license services and customer support, new trooper funding and recruit schools, crime lab operations, border security, and reductions tied to one-time facility, vehicle, and aircraft spending. The committee also discussed new riders, including one to lapse unused trooper funds and require reporting after recruit schools. Members focused heavily on driver license operations, questioning why prior staffing increases and a prior efficiency study had not solved long wait times, high call abandonment, and appointment delays. DPS and LBB said the agency receives about 22,000 calls per day, answers only about 9 percent, and is seeking more staff plus technology upgrades such as automation, kiosks, and better online processing. Senators also raised concerns about rural access, REAL ID document requirements, and whether the department should rethink its processes rather than simply add employees. DPS leadership then described needs for the Williamson County training academy, additional troopers, Capitol and Alamo security, border operations, aircraft and vehicle replacement, and regional headquarters in El Paso and San Antonio. Members asked about Operation Lone Star costs, overtime, pursuit safety, border crime, oilfield theft, and sexual assault kit and toxicology backlogs. DPS said border deployments remain focused on criminal threats, that overtime is partly driven by deployments and staffing shortages, and that the sexual assault kit backlog is down to 118 cases with a goal of zero by April. The committee later recessed and began the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission budget presentation, where LBB outlined a $115.1 million recommendation and noted ongoing costs for the AIMS technology project.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Science, Technology and Energy (01/14/2025)

Science, Technology and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've worked with the Department of Public Health Services to develop messaging for the public if we
  • for the public if develop uh messaging for the public if we<01:15:42.440> get<01:15:42.600>
  • Non-prime sponsors have to put suggested amendment text in their written testimony.
  • <02:42:19.920> to quantities of that Amendment text to quantities of that Amendment text to
  • <02:42:48.399> in Amendment suggested Amendment text in Amendment suggested Amendment text
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (02/05/2025)

Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 392 is not just about eliminating offices or positions; it is about the message it sends.
  • HB 392 is not just about eliminating offices or positions; it is about the message it sends.
  • HB 392 is not just about eliminating offices or positions; it is about the message it sends.
  • HB 392 is not just about eliminating offices or positions; it is about the message it sends.
  • It is about the message it sends. It says that equity and inclusion are optional.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Agriculture & Livestock Jun 18th, 2026

Agriculture & Livestock

Transcript Highlights:
  • that, I'd also like you guys to reach out to your counterparts, Charles Perry, and echo that same message
  • Based on your phone calls and text messages, I know we've got your business card.
  • opposed to other animal health issues where there would be perhaps different guidance, different messaging
  • In fact, just here a few minutes ago, I got a text on a squirrel in San Antonio that we're investigating
  • Yeah, and we did get a text that Dr. Lansford is out of the hospital and home and doing well.
Keywords: 1184, house, all
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS Senate Floor - 12 February, 2026; 9:30 AM

Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, people text know who they are. I mean, people text from Can you imagine that?
  • I also have received messages from mayors today.
  • Maybe MML should probably text the chairman. How about that? messages from mayors today.
  • I've messages from mayors today.
  • :16.480> MML<04:31:17.240> which received messages from from MML which received messages
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, dispensed with the reading of the journal, committee reports, and bill titles, and heard an invocation and pledge. The early portion of the meeting focused on recognizing recipients of the 2026 Governor’s Arts Awards. The Senate adopted resolutions honoring Greg Harkins for excellence in traditional craft, Jesse Robinson for lifetime achievement in blues music, Heather Christian for excellence in music composition, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra for excellence in performing arts, and Dorothy “Dottie” Armstrong for excellence in art education. The executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission briefly thanked the senators and invited them to the evening awards ceremony. The chamber also received several announcements and introductions, including recognition of the Mississippi Society of Radiologic Technologists’ Capitol Day and visiting students from several radiologic science programs. There was also mention of an out-of-order resolution commemorating the 155th anniversary of Alcorn State University, though no action on it was detailed in the excerpt. On the calendar, the Senate took up Senate Bill 2915, which concerns alcoholic beverages, native wine retail permits, and festival permits. The bill was explained as a measure to support Mississippi’s native wineries by allowing free-standing tasting rooms in different parts of the state while maintaining tax collection; a committee substitute and a friendly amendment were adopted, and the bill passed by use of the morning roll call. The Senate then began consideration of Senate Bill 2828, the Money Transmission Modernization Act, which would impose transaction fees, create a Law Enforcement 287G Program Fund, provide an income tax credit for fees paid, and revise licensing and control definitions. After objections to the usual motion, the bill was read at length, but the excerpt ends before final action on that measure.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Jun 30th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's additional work that's happening on the text side as well.
  • There's additional work that's happening on the text side as well.
  • You can use AI to help you prompt and to give us a concise message. This doesn't take that away.
  • The message of the commercial does not have to be misleading or deceptive if the messenger itself is
  • At Otay Mesa, detainees have resorted to writing messages on small hygiene bottles, weighing them down
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills, beginning with SB 16, which would require county behavioral health directors to create clear pathways for clinicians to be authorized to initiate 5150 involuntary holds. The author and supporters argued the bill would reduce reliance on law enforcement and create more consistent crisis response standards statewide, while county behavioral health directors opposed it as an unfunded mandate that could increase law enforcement involvement and create implementation burdens. Members raised questions about county costs and funding, but the author emphasized the bill’s role in building a more clinical response system. SB 561 would require public guardians to acknowledge conservatorship referrals, make determinations within a reasonable time, and provide status updates on request. Supporters said the bill would reduce delays that leave vulnerable adults in limbo, while the opposition from public guardian representatives was removed after amendments. SB 381 drew extensive public testimony in support; it would allow California-born adoptees, and descendants of deceased adoptees, access to original birth certificates, with a nonbinding contact preference form for birth parents. Supporters framed the bill as a matter of dignity, identity, and health, and there was no formal opposition on the record. The committee also discussed SB 880, which would give tenants and prospective owner-occupants notice and a first opportunity to make an offer when institutional investors sell certain homes. Supporters said it would expand homeownership opportunities and preserve neighborhood stability, while opponents warned about conflicts with federal law, bundled-sale restrictions, and impacts on build-to-rent and affordable housing projects. Members and the author discussed possible amendments to address those concerns. SB 1238 would impose a duty of care and additional transparency requirements on HOA managers and boards; supporters said it would protect homeowners from mismanagement, while the main opposition argued the duty should remain contractual and could increase litigation. Finally, SB 423 would require disclosure of emergency-service records related to private detention facilities, and SB 28 would make changes to the CARE Court process, including a statewide ombudsperson and expanded oversight; both drew support and opposition, with concerns focused on transparency, privacy, implementation, and the balance between treatment and coercion. SB 574, discussed at the end, would require disclosure and human oversight for AI use in courts and legal practice and create a complaint process for ADR providers, with the State Bar noting requested amendments related to complaint handling and confidentiality.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am

Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • about the health impacts of smoking tobacco, with 47 percent of them being able to clearly recall the text
  • Please pass these common-sense, very basic public health reforms we're asking for, just basic messaging
  • going to end with this quote from a 15-year-old man who is an incredible writer who sent me this message
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy held a hearing on a broad set of cannabis and hemp bills, with the chairs opening by emphasizing unfinished work on equity, public health, safety, and market stability. The committee heard testimony on House Bill 146, which would create more efficient cannabis testing standards by increasing batch sizes, reducing or eliminating some environmental testing, standardizing lab reporting, and requiring annual scientific review and public data reporting. Industry witnesses, including a representative of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, cultivators, and a testing lab owner, said current testing rules are overly burdensome, costly, and inconsistent, and argued the bill would lower compliance costs while preserving consumer safety. A testing lab witness also said some operators switch labs to obtain higher THC results or pass contaminated batches, and urged greater transparency and better sampling protocols. A major portion of the hearing focused on intoxicating hemp and related bills that would bring hemp-derived intoxicating products under a stronger regulatory framework. Legislators and industry witnesses described products sold in gas stations, smoke shops, and convenience stores as often untested, not age-gated, and sometimes mislabeled or far above the federal hemp THC threshold. Testimony from attorneys and cannabis business leaders said states can regulate these products more strictly under the Farm Bill’s non-preemption language, and pointed to New Jersey and other states as possible models. Some witnesses and committee members stressed that any new rules should avoid harming non-intoxicating CBD businesses or lawful hemp farmers, while others argued that the products are effectively cannabis and should be regulated like cannabis for licensing, testing, age limits, and taxation. The committee also heard extensive public-health testimony in support of bills S. 95, S. 96, S. 97 and their House counterparts H. 191, H. 192, and H. 193. Parents, advocates, and public health professionals urged stronger warning labels, THC potency caps, and improved data collection on cannabis-related harms, citing cannabis-induced psychosis, addiction, anxiety, and youth exposure to high-potency products. Several witnesses said Massachusetts has not done enough to track health outcomes or warn consumers, and referenced other jurisdictions such as Connecticut, Vermont, Colorado, Canada, and Quebec as examples of stronger limits or warnings. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing; the committee primarily received testimony and questions.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Government

Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I just texted my girlfriend, who is a dentist in Calgary, and she said, ‘I see it every day.
  • So we pulled off and I sent a message to the staff, and we put this bill together.
  • Placing this issue on the ballot sends a painful message to families like mine, that our children's basic
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • further clarifies that a person may not intentionally develop or distribute AI systems engaging in text-based
  • And I think that's the message I want to leave. Um, good segue.
  • As many of us know, we don't typically check online portals very often, and if you're delivering a message
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 17th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, I have a message from the Senate at the door of the House. I'll admit the messenger.
  • If you would like to leave a message, please use the link at the end of this video.
  • And other religious texts in public schools or for the committee on state affairs SB 27 by Creighton