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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 21st, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • development through education, research, and cooperative extension.
  • development in communities along the road.
  • Experts in addiction medicine, translational science, and therapeutic development.
  • Members, Economic Development, Workforce, and Tourism will meet as soon as we have a quorum.
  • Development, Workforce, and Tourism.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, offered the daily prayer, and recognized a series of guests and special introductions, including Langston University Day, Moore Public Schools cheer and pom squads, a student shadow, former Senator Connie Johnson, Brazilian missionaries, and a long-serving mental health employee. The chamber also heard introductions from the day’s pages. The Senate adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 18, recognizing April 21, 2026, as National Lineman Appreciation Day, and House Concurrent Resolution 1024, designating Route 66 Day at the Capitol and honoring the highway’s centennial. Senators then advanced Senate Joint Resolution 49, which revokes a Wildlife Department rule requiring oil and gas companies to post a surety bond, after discussion clarified the measure was intended to eliminate duplicative regulation; the resolution advanced on a 42-3 vote. The Senate also passed House Bill 4486, authorizing the State Capitol Preservation Commission to arrange a privately funded Gold Star Family Monument near the Capitol Square Arch, and approved several appropriations measures tied to ARPA interest or excess funds. These included Senate Bill 1130 for the University of Oklahoma Hospital Trust Authority’s Child Behavioral Health Project, Senate Bill 1131 for the Office of Juvenile Affairs’ Youth Services Program, Senate Bill 1132 for the Rural Hospital Rebuild Program, Senate Bill 1133 for Griffin Memorial Hospital replacement capacity, Senate Bill 1134 for the Human Performance Project and Pharmaceutical Expansion Project, and Senate Bill 1142 for grants to the Boys & Girls Club and YWCA. Most of these bills were adopted with emergency clauses after roll-call votes, with some members changing votes before final emergency passage. The Senate then announced committee meetings and adjourned until the next scheduled session.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/17/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • And it balances the economic development incentives with annual state budget control.
  • GPEC is the local economic development organization.
  • Uncertainty in our economic development world—it’s a deal killer.
  • development people out there.
  • So new developers, small developers, others who are, you know, entrants into the space.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Housing Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It fuels economic growth and strengthens neighborhoods. It creates great-paying jobs.
  • dollars, encourage new development, and encourage new small local developers to build affordable housing
  • To shape and lead their own community developments.
  • Economic growth and security for Black residents. Means greater economic gains for all Minnesotans.
  • On children and families' well-being, neighborhood development, and public safety.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • dollars, encourage new development, and encourage new small local developers to build affordable housing
  • <00:47:59.640> this their own Community developments this their own Community developments
  • generational wealth Fosters economic generational wealth Fosters economic immobility<00:48:08.119
  • Economic growth and security for Black residents means greater economic gains for all Minnesotans.
  • Economic growth and security for Black residents means greater economic gains for all Minnesotans.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 31st, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Summary: The Senate met with 29 members present, heard a prayer and national anthem presentation, and approved the journal without objection. The chamber then received multiple messages from the House on conference committee reports and concurrence actions, and took up a long calendar of Senate resolutions and House/Senate bills returned from the House with amendments. Several resolutions were adopted without objection, including commendations and requests for reports or studies, while others were left over or returned to the calendar. The Senate concurred in or adopted amendments on a series of bills covering registrar compensation (SB 25), broadband administration and reimbursement (SB 80), school safety master key boxes (SB 132), dental coverage for cancer treatment (SB 155), paid parental leave for educators (SB 157), election supervisor compensation days (SB 202), water utility service line replacement funding (SB 228), weight management services through the Office of Group Benefits (SB 250), medical debt protection (SB 414), Medicaid coverage of weight-loss medication (SB 443), and design-build authority for vertiport facilities (SB 513). It also adopted a House concurrent resolution urging backup motors for the St. Claude Avenue Bridge (HCR 32). One bill, SB 479 on removal of certain judges, had its amendments rejected and was sent to conference. The chamber then considered conference committee reports on several measures. Reports were adopted on SB 312 (labor organization dues and fees), SB 208 (veterans services and VA-related restrictions), SB 382 (workers’ compensation advisory council and reimbursement schedule timing), SB 389 (agent and athlete registration and fee review), and multiple House bills including HB 359 (party primary qualifying rules), HB 368 (New Orleans historic preservation lien procedures), HB 468 (wholesale residential real estate definitions), HB 552 (DWI-related responsive verdict language), HB 732 (motor vehicle fines/fees and hybrids), HB 870 and HB 1236 (pharmacy benefit manager and insurance provisions), and HB 1117 (prescription period issues). HB 210 on retroactivity was also adopted after debate. Several conference reports were temporarily passed over or returned to the calendar, including HB 953, and the Senate adjourned to reconvene the next morning for final work.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 28th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • Put Texas in line with federal law.
  • Bartlett, you are with the Texas Lawyers for Children, and you're testifying for yourself and Texas Lawyers
  • That is the interpretation of Texas Lawyers for Children; the state of Texas is not. out of compliance
  • is a deem for Texas.
  • The Texas Family Code.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 31st, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • We show you registered as Katrina Daniel on behalf of the Texas Retirement Teacher... ...system of Texas
  • economy and Texas citizens.
  • And Texas is far from immune to this crime; Texas FCIC deals with this crime on a regular basis. and
  • Current Texas law is inadequate for addressing this problem.
  • It can be in either, but we prefer to do it in Texas.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Throughout Texas, AARP.
  • Specifically, drilling down into Texas, Capital One reported. that Texas businesses in 2022 lost $5.9
  • Texas law enforcement, or a Texas retail establishment, we are adequately encouraging. issue.
  • It's interesting because not that long ago there was a Texas prosecutor in North Texas that pushed out
  • in Texas.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation May 23rd, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Caesar is recognized on the Medal of Honor wall in the Texas Capitol.
  • in 1972 and later served the Texas Senate.
  • We have rangers that are, uh, West Pointers, uh, Texas Aggies, VMI.
  • the Texas Panhandle.
  • People look to Texas. Uh, for How do they do it down there?
Bills: HB227
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • We all had to have a statement of economic interest on file with the Ethics Commission.
  • there was a provision in here that we had to prove to the Ethics Director that we had a statement of economic
  • there was a provision in here that we had to prove to the Ethics Director that we had a statement of economic
  • there was a provision in here that we had to prove to the Ethics Director that we had a statement of economic
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WLA DEFER, WLA Public Hearings 02-13-2026

Water, Land, Culture and the Arts

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is it highly developed? Is there contaminants?
  • Is it highly developed?
  • <00:24:57.360> I developed? Is there contaminants? I developed? Is there contaminants?
  • to shoot for and how do you then develop to shoot for and how do you then develop policy<00:25:37.120
  • definition of development. definition of development. um<01:05:32.000> which<01:05:32.240
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures related to hunting, trespass enforcement, conservation banking, coral reef resilience, and search and rescue. SB 2130 would require DLNR to increase the percentage of public land acreage designated for public hunting areas; DLNR offered comments, the Hawaii Cattlemen’s Council expressed concern, and a Game Management Advisory Commission member urged adequate funding for both study and maintenance of any expanded hunting areas. SB 2128 would require forfeiture to the state of firearms or motor vehicles used in hunting trespass on private land; the Hawaii Cattlemen’s Council supported the bill, and another signer testified without additional detail. The committee also heard SB 3053, which appropriates funds to DLNR’s Division of Aquatic Resources for mangrove removal and shoreline/stream maintenance in the Westlock and Middleock shorelines and watersheds. DLNR supported the measure and noted staff involved in mangrove removal work; no other testimony was offered. On SB 20005, which authorizes conservation banks for compensatory mitigation in habitat conservation plans and incidental take licenses, DLNR supported the bill but said a House measure, HB 1802, would place key safeguards in statute rather than administrative rules. Earthjustice opposed SB 20005 for lacking statutory safeguards and said it would support incorporating the House language, while CARES supported the bill as a modernization that could reduce permit processing time and provide more predictable costs. A lengthy discussion followed on SB 3201, which would direct DLNR to prioritize coral reef resilience and set performance targets for coral cover and herbivore biomass. DLNR said it supported the intent but wanted more flexibility because outside factors such as climate and emissions policy affect reef conditions; the Nature Conservancy shared that concern and asked for more flexible language. For the bill, For the Fishes strongly supported stronger protections and suggested adding abundance as a metric, while NOAA and DLNR discussed the difficulty of setting universal benchmarks because reef conditions vary by location. Randy Kosaki and CARES supported the bill, emphasizing coral decline and the need for measurable goals, while committee members asked about restoration projects, benchmarks, and whether the bill’s deadlines were meant to require a plan rather than immediate achievement. Finally, the committee took up SB 2937, which would create a search and rescue card program and special fund to reimburse state, county, and volunteer search-and-rescue operations. DLNR’s wildlife division said it stood on its written testimony, and the Hawaii SAR Alliance supported the concept but said Hawaii first needs a stronger search-and-rescue framework, including a state coordinator, before implementing such a program. No votes or final actions were taken on any of the measures in the portion of the meeting provided.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair. 3031 requires the eating consultant with hiring and career tech to develop and implement a common
  • Texas just adopted this law to protect their schools and to protect their students.
  • The economic impact that the House Fiscal Team has found this soul generate at least 76 million dollars
  • worth of economic impact into Oklahoma.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Jun 1st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And these parcels of land are necessary to support a lot of big economic development projects that are
  • The furthest reaches of New Orleans East, and a posture to support all economic development in St.
  • House resolution by Representative Lyons to direct the Louisiana Economic Development to make a report
  • House resolution by Representative Lyons to direct the Louisiana Economic Development to make a report
  • House resolution by Representative Lyons to direct the Louisiana Economic Development to make a report