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• <00:20:51.120> to other members seeking recognition to other members seeking recognition to
• :49.120> senate<00:29:49.679> uh state and local government senate uh state and local government
• You know the member seeking recognition on this order of business.
• You know the member seeking recognition on this order of business.
• 00:33:46.720> the member seeking recognition before the member seeking recognition before the

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Summary: The Kentucky Senate convened with an invocation, pledge, and roll call establishing a quorum of 37 members. The chamber approved the journal from Monday, January 12, 2026, and then moved through routine business including recessing briefly for the Rules Committee and Committee on Committees. The Committee on Committees reported referrals of Senate Bill 7, Senate Joint Resolution 11, and Senate Joint Resolution 27 to Transportation, and Senate Resolutions 25, 28, 29, 30, and 31 to the Senate floor. Several new bills and resolutions were introduced, including measures on identity documents, youth vaping prevention, local occupational license fees and taxes, healthcare provider credentialing, constitutional amendments on voting and restoration of rights, substance use disorder medication regulations, forcible entry and detainer, coroner response times, special needs trusts, immigration enforcement collaboration, and a resolution recognizing Physician Anesthesiologist Week. The Senate also adopted Senate Citation 001 honoring Shelby County Sheriff Mark Moore as the Kentucky Sheriffs’ Association’s 2025 Sheriff of the Year, and adopted Senate Resolution 14 honoring David Delvin Drake. A major floor discussion centered on Senate Resolution 10, which honored the victims of the UPS Flight 2976 crash and commended first responders. Senator Herron described the crash, named the victims, and thanked emergency responders and government partners; the resolution was adopted unanimously, followed by a moment of silence. Another extended discussion came from the Senator from Marion regarding the I-69 bridge project, explaining the bipartisan effort behind the project, the push for a federal grant, and the state’s tolling requirements if no grant is secured. The Senate also heard announcements about committee meetings, upcoming receptions, and a film release, and several members requested co-sponsorships on various bills before the chamber adjourned until 2 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.

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• Texas seek recognition? Texas seek recognition?
• recognition? recognition?
• recognition? recognition?
• seek recognition? seek recognition?
• seek recognition? seek recognition?

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, December 11, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• Both sons earned all-state recognition.
• BOTH SONS EARNED ALL STATE RECOGNITION.
• PENNSYLVANIA SEEK RECOGNITION? >> MR.
• The system is for local government to function and for local government to call upon county and state
• THE SYSTEM IS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO FUNCTION AND FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO CALL UPON COUNTY AND STATE

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, April 20, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• c><00:15:59.160> Clerk, one seeking recognition, Madam Clerk, one seeking recognition, Madam Clerk
• ,<00:27:24.600> I other members seeking recognition, I other members seeking recognition,
• <00:31:20.320> to As all allows local governments to As all allows local governments to authorize
• No other members seeking recognition.
• :42.640> under Other members seeking recognition under Other members seeking recognition under

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• :56.440> has<00:09:56.640> met State Local Government Committee has met State Local Government
• recognition. All those in favor say I. recognition. All those in favor say I.
• <01:29:56.240> to Seeing no one seeking recognition to Seeing no one seeking recognition to
• Seeing no one<01:31:29.800> seeking<01:31:30.120> recognition one seeking recognition one
• , one else seeking recognition, one else seeking recognition, Madam<01:58:04.160> Clerk,<01

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• Money for a recognition.
• Spiller for recognition. Thank you. Mr.
• Cortez for recognition.
• Villalobos for her recognition.
• Hayes. recognition. Thank you Mr. Speaker.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Why are we preempting local governments from being able to name their local airport that is included
• Representative Tant, you're recognized for a recognition.
• And also, it preempts the local revenue authority, and it removes the authority of local governments
• And also, it preempts the local revenue authority, and it removes the authority of local governments
• Local government's legislature allows local government to have four different parts of funding to provide

Summary: The House opened with prayer, a moment of silence for the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Joseph Di Alessandro, the Pledge of Allegiance, and announcements confirming a quorum. Members also adopted the special order report and recognized several guests in the gallery, including former Speaker Dan Webster and law enforcement and civic visitors. The chamber then moved through a long special-order calendar of bills, mostly on third reading, with several measures passing unanimously or by wide margins. Among the bills considered were measures on civil procedure and estates, including C.S. HB 1407 on commencement of civil actions, HB 895 on trustee settlement and discharge, C.S. HB 1337 on estates, HB 131 on curators of estates, and C.S. HB 351 on concurrent legislative jurisdiction over military installations. The House also passed C.S. HB 441 on conservation lands, which would lengthen notice and increase transparency for land swaps involving conservation property, and C.S. CS HB 919 on commercial service airports, which created a statutory definition for major airports and preempted local naming authority for several airports. HB 919 drew extensive debate over the proposed naming of Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald J. Trump, with amendments to delay or alter the naming failing before the bill passed. Other bills approved included HB 409 requiring K-12 schools to observe Veterans Day, CS HB 461 allowing certain students to volunteer at polling places for community service hours, CS HB 1115 creating grants for genetic counseling education, HB 569 revising forensic client services, CS HB 505 regulating virtual currency kiosks to address fraud, and HB 271 on foreign and alien bail bond insurers. The House also passed HB 191 on re-employment assistance eligibility verification after extended questioning about its effects on benefits, appeals, and suitable work standards. One bill, CS HB 243 on electric bicycles, was temporarily postponed, and CS HB 1073 on school districts was also postponed.

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• Arkansas seek recognition? Arkansas seek recognition?
• Arkansas seek recognition? Mr. Mr. Arkansas seek recognition? Mr. Mr.
• recognition? recognition?
• and local economies. and local economies.
• Michigan seek recognition? Michigan seek recognition?

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• Bajani for recognition. Thank you, Mr.
• Canales for a recognition. Thank you, Mr.
• Hicklin for recognition.
• Wu for recognition. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
• Lalani for recognition. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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• recognition? Mr. recognition? Mr.
• Herodopoulos, seek recognition? Mr.
• <03:31:07.840> Speaker, Ohio seek recognition? Uh, Mr. Speaker, Ohio seek recognition?
• federal, state, county, and local. federal, state, county, and local.
• public health, and local infrastructure. public health, and local infrastructure.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• , >> Seeing no one seeking recognition, >> Seeing no one seeking recognition, Madame<
• the<00:21:01.760> committee seeking recognition on the committee seeking recognition on the
• State and Local Government Committee. State and Local Government Committee.
• Any other members seeking recognition Any other members seeking recognition under<00:42:52.000><
• c> before<00:44:36.000> our Senate seeking recognition before our Senate seeking recognition

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Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, roll call, and approval of the prior journal. The chamber received House messages listing several House bills passed by the House and introduced new Senate measures, including SB 172 on utility fuel adjustment, SB 173 on Medicaid state plan oversight, and several resolutions. The Senate then took up SB 2, which would limit school administrator pay raises so they do not exceed the average percentage raise given to classroom teachers in the same district. Supporters said the bill promotes fairness, transparency, teacher retention, and classroom priorities; it passed 38-0. The Senate next considered SB 4 on school leadership. The bill creates a five-year principal leadership development pathway, including KDE-led training for new principals, a mentorship program, a gap year with continuing education options, expanded use of an existing Truist/Kentucky Chamber Foundation leadership program, and a final year of approved high-level leadership training providers. A committee substitute changed the Chamber reference to the Kentucky Chamber Foundation. Senators speaking in favor emphasized the need for intentional leadership development and noted the bill builds on existing successful training partnerships. One senator suggested clarifying the term "new principal" to "first-time principal" to avoid redundancy. The bill passed 38-0 as amended. The Senate also passed SB 71, as amended by committee substitute, which requires ongoing financial training for local school board members. The substitute clarified the training-hour language after consultation with the Kentucky School Boards Association. The sponsor said the measure supports board members with updated school finance knowledge so they can better serve with superintendents and ask informed questions. After passage, the chamber adopted a title amendment for SB 71. The Senate then recessed for committee meetings, received a committee report assigning bills and resolutions to standing committees or the floor, and heard several announcements and co-sponsorship requests.

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• Senators, we're going to hold off on the recognition.
• I ask that we all adjourn in recognition of their sacrifice.
• in recognition of their sacrifice.
• governments to provide state and local public benefits... ...that allows local governments to provide
• state and local public benefits to all residents.

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Summary: The Senate opened with a quorum call, prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, guest recognitions, and approval of the Senate journals. Members then considered several gubernatorial appointments to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Despite protest from Senator Grove over the lack of action on a separate rehabilitation appointment, the Senate confirmed Kathleen Ratliff and Joseph Tuggle, Jason Johnson, Madeline McLean, Brian Bishop, and Sarah Larson, with each confirmation passing overwhelmingly or unanimously. The chamber next adopted Senate Resolution 86 recognizing Cinco de Mayo Week and the 2026 Latino Spirit Award honorees. Senators from multiple caucuses spoke in support, emphasizing Mexican history, Latino civic engagement, and solidarity across communities. The Latino Caucus then introduced the honorees, including leaders in higher education, philanthropy, labor, health, advocacy, environmental justice, journalism, culinary arts, and the legacy band Los Tigres del Norte. The Senate also adopted SCR 146 declaring May Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, and SCR 154 establishing Green Star Veterans and Families Day to honor veterans who died by service-related suicide and their families. Later, the Senate adopted SCR 123 for California Peace Officers Memorial Day after emotional remarks naming officers killed in the line of duty and honoring their families, and SCR 164 recognizing Black Health Equity Advocacy Week, with speakers citing racial disparities in health outcomes and maternal mortality. The body also adopted SCR 103 on Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week, with a guest recognition for a behavioral health advocate. In third reading, the Senate passed SB 1159 on artificial intelligence and public participation, SB 1416 shortening refund timelines for duplicate medical/dental payments, SB 1273 and SB 1195 on alcoholic beverage tied-house exemptions, SB 941 limiting commissary markups in private detention facilities, SB 1099 clarifying local authority to provide public benefits, and SB 990 allowing a highway information sign near Ridgecrest. The session concluded with adjournments in memory of labor leader Kent Wong and Navy veteran and artist Victor Valar.

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• Facial recognition enables mass surveillance without consent.
• reforms applying to police use of facial recognition.
• So currently we're using facial recognition in the Commonwealth, correct?
• A warrant rule for facial recognition is a key safeguard against abuse.
• Special Commission to evaluate government use of face recognition technology.

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Summary: The committee opened with procedural guidance for a very large hearing, explaining testimony limits, written testimony procedures, and rules for maintaining order. Members then heard testimony on a wide range of bills, including proposals to define antisemitism using the IHRA definition, regulate facial recognition technology, restrict weaponized robotics and drone use, expand protections for journalists’ confidential sources, address access to decedents’ email accounts, and create or adjust rules around municipal enforcement and animal cruelty fines. Several sponsors and advocates asked for favorable reports, and committee members asked clarifying questions on implementation, costs, and how the bills would interact with existing law. On facial recognition, sponsors and advocates described the technology as a threat to privacy, due process, and civil liberties, and urged adoption of the Special Commission’s recommendations, including warrant requirements, notice to defendants, and limits on untargeted surveillance. Support came from legislators, the ACLU, CDT, EFF, and a UMass professor, while committee members asked about current state law and municipal bans. On robotics, Senator Moore and industry witnesses from MassRobotics, Boston Dynamics, and AUVSI supported a bill prohibiting weaponized robots and requiring warrants for certain law enforcement uses, describing it as a public-safety and trust-building measure. On the shield law bill, newspaper publishers, journalists, NEFAC, and the Reporters Committee argued Massachusetts needs statutory protection for confidential sources, citing costly subpoenas and chilling effects on reporting. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to expand the right of publicity to cover image and voice, with SAG-AFTRA members supporting protections against AI-driven exploitation and some discussion about viral content and consent. Another bill would allow limited access to a decedent’s email accounts, with one witness describing a family’s inability to use a deceased relative’s email to notify friends. The committee then took testimony on psilocybin-related bills: supporters described medical and personal benefits and argued for narrow decriminalization or study, while an opponent warned of public-health risks, impaired driving, and youth exposure; the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society supported limited, safety-based decriminalization. Finally, the committee heard strong support for a “safe reporting” bill for sex workers and trafficking survivors, with advocates saying immunity would encourage victims and witnesses to report crimes without fear of arrest, and members raised questions about how the immunity would work in practice.

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• This bill was brought before us in local state local government just a few weeks ago.
• <00:36:03.720> state<00:36:03.880> local brought before us local state local brought
• before us local state local government<00:36:05.000> just<00:36:05.240> a<00:36:05.280
• ,<00:37:37.280> Madam Seeing no one seeking recognition, Madam Seeing no one seeking recognition
• ,<00:39:11.560> there Seeing no one seeking recognition, there Seeing no one seeking recognition

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• from Mariana Island seek recognition? from Mariana Island seek recognition?
• I commend our local first of need.
• New Jersey seek recognition. New Jersey seek recognition.
• Pennsylvania seek recognition? Pennsylvania seek recognition?
• Texas, seek recognition. Texas, seek recognition.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Friday, May 15, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• SEEK RECOGNITION? MR.
• For what purpose does the gentleman from California seek recognition?
• IT REDUCES FOOD INSECURITY AND BOOSTS OUR LOCAL ECONOMIES.
• For what purpose does the gentleman from Georgia seek recognition?
• For what purpose does the gentleman from Indiana seek recognition?

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, June 9, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• recognition is is incredibly important. recognition is is incredibly important.
• really productive for our local really productive for our local breweries<01:00:54.559> in
• locals.
• locals.
• locals.

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• Father, keep us from the temptation to seek recognition.
• building out locally approved courses. ...in some of the negotiations as local school districts were
• building out locally approved courses.
• So we protected that local control of those approved courses.
• So there's really not much change at the local level. ...local control of those approved courses.

Bills: HJR1088, HJR1090, HJR1091, HB1370, SB2154, HJR1092, HJR1093, HJR1095, HJR1099, HJR1100, HB3021, SB893, SB206, SB248, SB259, SB423, SB563, SB604, SB633, HJR1077, SB667, SB1224, SB1257, SB1264, SB1319, SB1360, SB1437, SB1531, SB1543, SB1806, HB3004, SB1572, HB4342, SB1618, SB2, SB237, SB1632, SB1687, SB1726, SB1859, SB1894, SB1461, HB4432, SB1948, SB1589, SJR52, SR46, HCR1030, SB2071, SB2182, SB1451

Keywords: education rules, administrative rules, joint resolution, Oklahoma State Department of Education, higher education, State Regents for Higher Education, Teachers' Retirement System, charter schools, Statewide Charter School Board, career and technology education, CTE, OEQA, rule approval, legislative oversight, permanent rules, school governance, teacher retirement, education agencies, Oklahoma Register, Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry

Summary: The Senate met with a quorum, prayer, pledges, and recognition of two student pages before taking up a long agenda of House joint resolutions and bills, mostly related to administrative rules and agency approvals. The chamber advanced and passed H.J.R. 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1095, 1099, and 1100, which approved permanent rules for education, energy and agriculture, business and commerce, building code, health-related agencies, general government agencies, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, and OMES. Several senators criticized the process for moving rule resolutions quickly and without committee vetting, while supporters said the calendar delays required direct consideration. The Senate also adopted conference committee reports and passed SB 206, SB 248, and HB 3021, with HB 3021 making small changes to graduation requirements, including science/math course language, Oklahoma history flexibility for some military families, and personal financial literacy counting toward math in some cases. A major portion of the meeting focused on House Bill 1370, which was described by its author as repealing an automatic state trigger that would replace any federal gasoline tax if the federal government suspended it. Supporters argued the bill would prevent Oklahoma drivers from paying more if the federal gas tax were repealed and framed it as tax relief; opponents argued it could reduce highway and bridge funding and create a budget hole. The Senate suspended several rules to bring the bill up, but rejected a motion to suspend the fiscal-impact rule for a proposed amendment. After debate, the chamber passed the measure 41-7 and then approved it as an emergency measure. The Senate also took up Senate Bill 893, a conference report dealing with foreign ownership near critical infrastructure and agricultural land. The bill would restrict certain foreign adversary ownership or leasing within 10 miles of critical infrastructure, add training zones and other protected areas, delay implementation until July 1, 2027, and create an enforcement process involving Attorney General review and whistleblower-style reporting. Senators raised concerns about enforcement, possible misuse, and profiling, while the author said the bill was aimed at national security and infrastructure protection. The conference report was adopted and the bill passed. Later, the Senate received notice that the House was ready to convene in joint session, and the chamber briefly stood at ease before returning to continue its work.

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• Mayor McDonald's leadership was never about titles or recognition.
• The gentlewoman from Oregon seeks recognition?
• For what purpose does the gentleman from New York seek recognition?
• For what purpose does the gentleman from New York seek recognition?
• For what purpose does the gentleman from Indiana seek recognition?

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, September 8, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• recognition on the motion?
• See no other person seeking recognition. See no other person seeking recognition.
• consolidated local governments. consolidated local governments.
• >> Any members seeking recognition? >> Any members seeking recognition?
• other members seeking recognition, Mr. other members seeking recognition, Mr.

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