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FL
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-05-29 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • fraud.
  • Yes, I believe they were yesterday in accordance with fraud.
  • In the state of Florida, if you're going to commit fraud, you should be arrested.
  • In the state of Florida, if you're going to commit fraud, you should be arrested.
  • As far as the SNAP program overall, if you want to talk about fraud, waste, and abuse, the big reason
Summary: The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Senator Donnell C. Childers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of Officer Antonio Richardson as law enforcement officer of the day. A quorum was announced, the journal was approved, and the Speaker said the chamber would take up 11 budget conference reports, with debate and final votes on each report. The first report considered was HB 7031E, the tax package, followed by HB 501E, the state budget appropriations bill. On HB 7031E, Chair Duggan explained that the conference report included a range of tax reductions and tax-related changes, including sales tax holidays, property tax and homestead-related provisions, reductions in certain taxes and fees, and new exemptions or administrative clarifications. He said the package also added items such as sales tax relief for certain university construction projects, a tennis admissions exemption, and changes to agricultural property tax treatment, and that the amendment reduced state and local tax revenues by $272.2 million. Members questioned the bill about the child care tax credit reduction from three years to one, the homestead exemption provision for certain diplomats and foreign service personnel, the absence of gas tax relief and combined reporting, and the inclusion of firearm accessories and tennis tickets in sales tax holidays. After structured debate, the House adopted the conference report and passed HB 7031E by a vote of 88-11. The House then began the conference report on HB 501E, the $114.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2026-2027, which was described as below the prior year’s spending level and leaving more than $14 billion in reserves. Subcommittee chairs outlined major allocations across education, higher education, IT, health care, transportation and economic development, justice, state administration, and agriculture/natural resources. Highlights included increased FEFP funding and veteran teacher raises, full funding for Bright Futures, major IT modernization projects, Medicaid and behavioral health funding, transportation and local infrastructure spending, correctional and law enforcement investments, fire station and emergency response funding, and large environmental and water-quality appropriations. Members asked detailed questions about school voucher fraud oversight, scholarship funding, teacher raises, preeminence funding, ADAP changes, SNAP data tools and error rates, Medicaid rate changes, prison wastewater monitoring, and other budget items, but the transcript ends during the budget questions before final action on HB 501E is shown.
AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Senate Health and Human Services COR

Transcript Highlights:
  • This fraud did not happen overnight; it has been occurring since at least 2019 and continues to this
  • This legislation represents an opportunity to finally close loopholes that may have allowed fraud to
  • Another bill coming out of the interim and working with Access related to the fraud.
  • CMS requires ACCESS to investigate health and safety concerns and fraud, waste, and abuse.
  • CMS requires ACCESS to investigate health and safety concerns and fraud, waste, and abuse.
Committee: Senate Senate Health and Human Services COR
Summary: The committee first approved the January 21 minutes and then heard SB 1179, which would remove the delayed repeal date and appropriation contingency from the Developmental Disabilities Group Home Monitoring Program. Testimony from Disability Rights Arizona and program managers described the program’s monitoring and investigative work, including identified systemic concerns in group homes, while the sponsor said the effort should continue. SB 1179 received a do-pass recommendation on a 6-1 vote, with some members reserving their right to revisit the bill on the floor. The committee then took up SB 1114, appropriating $1 million for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office to investigate behavioral health patient brokering. Witnesses, including Native advocates, described widespread recruitment of vulnerable people—especially Native Americans—into fraudulent treatment and sober-living schemes, often through social media and across state lines. Members and the sponsor framed the bill as an enforcement response to long-running abuse. SB 1114 passed 6-0. The committee also heard SB 1115, which would require AHCCCS/Access employees to work in person rather than remotely; supporters argued remote work had harmed oversight and service delivery, while Access said it would need substantial office space and warned of costs and staffing impacts. SB 1115 passed 4-3. The committee next considered SB 1051, requiring hospitals that accept Access payments to collect patients’ citizenship or immigration status on intake forms and report aggregate data to DHS. Supporters said it was a data-collection and accountability measure; opponents, including nurses and physicians, said it would deter care, undermine trust, and function as immigration surveillance. The bill passed 4-3. SB 1122, dealing with prior authorization and prepayment review for behavioral health services under the American Indian Health Plan, was amended to require a corrective action plan before 100% prepayment review; Access said it had minimal concerns with the amended version. It passed unanimously 7-0. SB 1132, a blank appropriation for a new Arizona State Hospital wing, drew testimony from families and advocates about the shortage of psychiatric beds and the effects of the Arnold v. Sarn consent decree; it passed 7-0. The committee also approved SB 1169 for graduate medical education funding, SB 1171 on dual enrollment checks between AHCCCS and exchange plans, and SB 1172 on DCS investigations and court notification, with votes ranging from 4-2 to unanimous support. Finally, the committee heard SB 1173, which would require owners and applicants for outpatient behavioral health facility licenses to be U.S. citizens or lawfully present, with an amendment clarifying lawful permanent resident status. The sponsor said the bill was intended to curb fraud tied to behavioral health licensing and patient brokering; discussion focused on whether the bill language matched that intent. The transcript ends before a final vote on SB 1173.
MA
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Jul 2nd, 2026

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, fraud and fraudulent use aside, scams aside, do you believe these...
  • I'm curious about what kind of fraud transaction is referring to, for example.
  • That's a fraud for me. It costs a lot of money to be in my family and many of my friends.
  • So can you clarify what kind of fraud you're talking about?
  • By the scammers who were posing as representatives of my bank’s fraud division.
Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets
Summary: The House Bonding Committee met to hear testimony on H. 5527, the Mass Wins Act, with Secretary of Economic Development Eric Paley opening by describing the bill as a follow-on to Mass Leads. He said the proposal includes $305 million in bond authorizations, with $180 million for new programs and $125 million to expand existing ones, plus $140 million in deauthorizations of unused or redundant authorizations. He highlighted investments in applied AI and quantum, robotics, business expansion capital, defense innovation, global business attraction, ag tech and food science, downtowns, and the creative economy, and said the bill is intended to support geographic equity and small business growth across the Commonwealth. Committee members questioned the administration on several policy sections, including the MassCEC climate-tech certification language, housing-related provisions tied to 40B compliance and site plan review, the removal of the LCSW exam, AI transparency and federal preemption concerns, and the effect of lower LLC filing fees. Paley generally said some contested sections were added by the Economic Development Committee rather than the administration, defended the MassCEC discretion language as necessary for climate certification, and said the administration would follow up on committee-added provisions. He also said the bill’s housing provisions were meant to help address the state’s need for more homes and that the deauthorizations were housekeeping measures that did not affect current capital plan projects. Public testimony covered a wide range of topics. AARP and local advocates urged a statewide ban on cryptocurrency ATMs, arguing they are heavily used in scams, impose high fees, and drain money from seniors and local economies. Housing groups supported codifying site plan review and adding parking reform and YIGBY-style housing on faith-owned land. Building trades asked to include off-site fabrication in prevailing wage law. The Massachusetts Public Banking Campaign backed the bill and urged inclusion of a public bank concept. Several witnesses supported Section 106, the Transparency and Frontier AI Act, as a way to require safety plans, audits, incident reporting, and whistleblower protections for the largest AI companies, while an AI startup group argued the section would overregulate smaller firms and should be separated from the bond bill. No votes were taken during the hearing.
MA
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Jul 2nd, 2026

Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

Transcript Highlights:
  • Between 70% and 90% of all transactions, and in Iowa even 98%, are based on fraud.
  • So, fraud and fraudulent use aside, scams aside, do you believe these...
  • I'm curious about what kind of fraud transaction is referring to, for example.
  • That's a fraud for me. It costs a lot of money to be in my family and many of my friends.
  • So can you clarify what kind of fraud you're talking about?
Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Conference Committee on SF3045 5/12/25

Transcript Highlights:
  • and scams, and find workplaces to frauds and scams, and find workplaces to be<00:14:17.519><c> agist
  • that grants are administered properly and that there is appropriate oversight in place to prevent fraud
  • and misuse of place to prevent fraud and misuse of those<00:25:30.080><c> funds.
  • First, a key element of the governor's anti-fraud package is Admin's data-sharing proposal included in
  • Uh also uh our fraud prevention efforts.
AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

04/20/2026 - Senate Director Nominations

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have our... ...integrity and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse.
  • As you know, and as I mentioned in a previous response, we did have the wire fraud transfer, and we had
  • I'd love to be able to promise that we would never have an instance of fraud, waste, and abuse again,
  • And it's no wonder that we have issues like the $2 million wire fraud.
  • , outright fraud from happening again, correct?
Summary: The Senate Committee on Director Nominations met to consider Ruby Dylan Williams for Director of the Arizona Department of Housing. Williams described her long career at the department, her work on operational improvements, housing development, manufactured housing, and efforts to expand supply, preserve existing housing, and improve transparency through data and technology. She also said she would work with the legislature, local governments, tribal nations, nonprofits, and private partners, and emphasized the department’s role in addressing housing affordability and homelessness across the housing continuum. Members questioned her about the department’s response to Auditor General findings, including fraud prevention, payment verification, site inspections, and oversight of grantees. Williams said the department had rewritten policies, retrained staff, added stronger controls, and implemented verbal verification steps for wire transfers after a fraud incident. Senators also pressed her on budget priorities, possible cuts, and her view of homelessness policy, with some members characterizing her approach as closer to shelter or transitional housing before permanent placement. Williams said interventions should be individualized and that the department works with local jurisdictions and service providers to match people with appropriate support. Public testimony was overwhelmingly supportive. Developers, housing industry representatives, and nonprofit partners praised Williams’ private-sector housing finance experience, her knowledge of LIHTC and the QAP process, and her leadership in making the agency more efficient and business-friendly. After debate, the committee voted 3-2 to recommend her confirmation to the full Senate. Two members voted no, citing concerns about her answers on fraud oversight, cost controls, and homelessness policy, while the majority supported advancing her nomination.
CA
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session Jul 14th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Reform number one: we need to crack down on fraud.
  • The SNAP program in California has a 13.6% fraud rate.
  • We have an obligation to fix the fraud problem. But.
  • So California will have no cut for its fraud rate as long as we reduce our fraud rate from 13.6% down
  • Yes, there's waste, fraud, and abuse. We understand that.
Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, and pledge, then handled a series of procedural motions, including suspending rules to withdraw SB 104 and SB 138 from Budget and Fiscal Review and to allow several committees to notice bills. Members also introduced guests and honorees, including Equality California Comcast Fellows, tribal youth from the Yohavitham Nation, a legislative fellow, a Chinese language school delegation, local elected officials, staff, and an intern shadowing an Assembly member. On the floor file, the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments to AB 1216 (education omnibus technical changes), AB 377 (high-speed rail), and AB 951 (health care coverage), all by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. The body also adopted ACR 103 designating California Western Monarch Protection Week and ACR 71 designating a portion of Highway 101 as the Little Saigon Freeway, both after supportive remarks about environmental conservation and Vietnamese American history. AJR 18, an apology and acknowledgment of historic harms against California Native Americans, drew extensive bipartisan and caucus support and was adopted with 68-0 after 66 coauthors were added. The most contentious debate came on SCR 66, proclaiming Law Day, where members argued over the rule of law, executive power, and recent court fights involving both the Trump administration and Governor Newsom; the resolution was ultimately adopted after 51 coauthors were added. The Assembly also adopted SJR 3 urging Congress to oppose SNAP cuts, with debate focused on food insecurity, fraud, and work requirements; it passed 69-0 after 70 coauthors were added. SB 757, authorizing local governments to use nuisance abatement liens and special assessments to collect cleanup costs, passed 68-0, and the second-day consent calendar, including ACR 94 on antimicrobial resistance, was adopted. The session concluded with multiple adjournments in memory, including tributes to Jane Day, agricultural leader John C. Harris, and Willie Earl Arno. The Assembly then announced committee meetings and upcoming check-in and floor session dates before adjourning until Thursday, July 17, at 9 a.m.
VA
VA

Virginia 2026 1st Special Session

Commission on Unemployment Compensation Jul 9th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Want to be clear today, VC collects on and works with law enforcement to prosecute all fraud.
  • When folks are victims of identity theft, when, uh, All fraud.
  • And we have, we've put in place systems and metrics to help us prevent that kind of fraud.
  • And our fraud rate is lower than the national out. To detect it.
  • fraud in May, which demonstrates that the tool continues to help us protect program integrity while
Summary: The Commission on Unemployment Compensation met, established a quorum, and elected Delegate Destiny LeVere Bolling as chair and Senator Mike Jones as vice chair. The commission also adopted its electronic meeting policy and heard introductions from new members, staff, and officials from the Secretary of Labor’s office and the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC). Secretary Jessica Lumen outlined the administration’s workforce and labor priorities, including supporting workers, employers, and program transparency, while members raised concerns about business climate, job losses, labor participation, and the implementation of paid family and medical leave. Staff provided legislative updates on recent unemployment-related bills. These included increases to the weekly unemployment benefit amount enacted in 2025 and 2026, a bill on labor dispute disqualification that changed how lockouts are treated for benefit eligibility, and a budget item providing $75,000 for actuarial support to the commission. The commission also discussed the 2025 work group on annual adjustments to weekly benefit amounts; staff reported that the work group did not complete its charge, and members agreed to revisit whether to reconstitute it at a future meeting. Delegate Martinez expressed support for continuing the work, and the chair said the issue would be taken up at the next meeting. Deputy Commissioner Joanna Darkus gave a detailed presentation on Virginia’s unemployment insurance system, including current claims data, eligibility rules, employer tax structure, benefit levels, trust fund solvency, fraud prevention, and customer service operations. She reported that Virginia’s unemployment rate remains low, weekly claims are modest, the current weekly benefit range is $160 to $478, and the trust fund balance factor is projected at 50.9 percent, near the threshold for additional employer charges. Members asked about the taxable wage base, trust fund solvency, the effect of benefit increases, fraud controls, and the planned paid family and medical leave program. VEC said it is implementing that program through regulations, staffing, IT procurement, public listening sessions, and consultation with other states. A public commenter from the Virginia Poverty Law Center urged the commission to strengthen state investment in unemployment insurance and warned that federal support is uncertain. The commission then adjourned without taking further action.
CA
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee Jun 17th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • So AB 871 will strengthen protections against elder fraud and financial crimes by ensuring financial
  • IC3 with clients, encouraging them to submit their own complaints and details about the suspected fraud
  • We know for a fact that when a report is filed, it doesn't necessarily mean that there's fraud on the
  • In many cases, reports are filed when there's not fraud on the account because that's the mandate.
  • In many cases, I would say reports are filed when there's not fraud on the account because that's the
Summary: The committee heard AB 801, which would require the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to conduct fair lending examinations of lenders on a regular schedule. The author and supporters, including the Greenlining Institute and several housing and consumer groups, argued the bill was needed because federal fair lending enforcement has weakened and California borrowers of color continue to face lending disparities. Banking and credit union representatives opposed the bill as duplicative and costly, though they acknowledged the author’s amendments and continued negotiations. The bill was approved on a vote and re-referred to Judiciary, with some members voting no or not voting at first and later the measure passing on a fuller roll call. The committee then heard AB 871, which would strengthen elder fraud protections by requiring financial institutions to report suspected financial abuse to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center and notify customers of the report. The author and county and adult protective services supporters said the bill would improve pattern detection and help stop or reverse scams more quickly. Bankers opposed the customer-notification requirement, warning it could alarm seniors and that the reporting process would add operational burden, but the author and supporters said victim information is important for investigations. The bill passed with committee support and was re-referred to Judiciary. AB 1842 and AB 1847, both related to mortgage forbearance after major disasters and the Eaton and Palisades fires, were also heard. AB 1842 would create a statewide framework for forbearance after federally declared major disasters, and AB 1847 would extend relief for wildfire survivors; both bills were amended to narrow triggers, clarify repayment and documentation issues, and remove some reporting requirements. Supporters included local officials, consumer groups, and housing advocates, while mortgage and banking groups remained in opposition on some implementation points but said they were working toward compromise. Both bills were approved and re-referred to Judiciary. Finally, AB 2116, dealing with merchant cash advances and small business financing transparency, was heard with broad support from small business and consumer advocates and partial support from some industry representatives after amendments; opponents still raised concerns about disclosure authority and unconscionability standards. The bill was also approved and sent to Judiciary. The committee additionally adopted a consent calendar of unrelated bills.
CA
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session May 20th, 2026

California Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Here's the second: how about California fraud? Thank you.
  • Here's the second: how about California fraud?
  • I will also thank the body for finally recognizing the fraud in California.
  • My final comment regarding fraud is specific to Medi-Cal and Medicare. 800 hospices in the County of
  • to address fraud is very incorrect because this administration for years now has been investigating,
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a floor introduction welcoming Berkeley Mayor Adina Ishi. The body then moved through a series of third-reading bills, with most measures presented as responses to current policy concerns and several placed on call before roll votes were completed. Early measures included SB 1312 on abandoned cemeteries, SB 1112 increasing penalties for towing industry notice violations, SB 877 requiring insurers to disclose claim materials and revisions, SB 1046 directing Cal/OSHA to develop protections for workers exposed to transboundary pollution in the Tijuana River Valley, and SB 1091 creating a community anti-displacement and preservation housing program. These bills generally drew support and passed, with SB 1091 ultimately passing 34-2 after a call vote. The floor also considered SB 951 on AI-related layoffs and worker notice, SB 1030 repealing the “man in the house” rule in CalWORKs, SB 1218 tying vehicle registration renewal to payment of illegal dumping fines, SB 1013 tightening privacy and oversight rules for automated license plate readers, SB 1116 making technical changes to the Starter Home Revitalization Act, SB 1201 protecting veterans from food-assistance cuts, and SB 1164 strengthening state voting-rights protections. Debate on SB 1013 featured sharp disagreement over whether the bill’s 30-day retention limit and audit requirements were necessary guardrails or would hinder law enforcement investigations. SB 1164 also drew opposition over concerns about litigation and expanded Attorney General oversight, but supporters argued California should codify voting-rights protections amid federal uncertainty. Most of these measures passed, with SB 1013 and SB 1164 receiving notable no votes. A major portion of the session focused on AB 1768, an urgency measure authorizing Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties to place local sales-tax measures before voters to help offset federal funding cuts to health care and safety-net services. Supporters framed it as a local-control measure needed to backfill losses from federal disinvestment and protect Medi-Cal, CalFresh, hospitals, clinics, and county services; opponents argued it would worsen affordability, expand regressive taxation, and bypass normal committee review. After extensive debate, the urgency measure received the required votes and passed. The Senate also adopted SCR 171 designating May 20 as California Nonprofits Day by unanimous roll call. The session ended with committee announcements, including budget subcommittee meetings, and a notice that the Senate would recess and reconvene later in the week.
NH
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Finance (04/14/2026)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> government where there's no fraud. government where there's no fraud.
  • There's no reflection of fraud. I just want to be very clear there.
  • It's not fraud. Um, I really want to make sure people understand an error is not fraud.
  • It's not fraud. Um I really doing that. It's not fraud.
  • </c> error is not fraud. error is not fraud.
Committee: Senate Finance
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Governor Tim Walz Media Availability 12/4/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We will continue to take and tackle the issue of fraud, of people defrauding the people of Minnesota
  • Should there be a better effort made to quantify the amount of money lost to fraud?
  • But the real goal is to be on the front end to stop it. cases before, Medicaid fraud and other cases
  • And I think the important thing is... how much fraud has impacted how much fraud has impacted &gt;&gt
  • One of the biggest frauds, billions of dollars committed on this.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House/Senate Republican Media Availability 4/23/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The other thing that was encouraging is that the governor has acknowledged fraud for six years under
  • Fraud has gone unaccounted for. There's been no accountability whatsoever within his agencies.
  • taking that serious, I have to think that is because of Republicans pushing in the House to have the fraud
  • with a Republican majority for the next two years, really addressing the issue of needing to prevent fraud
  • One of them is the waste, fraud, and abuse in this state that, finally after six years, the governor
HI
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

LBT, LBT DEFER Public Hearings 03-12-2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've also had court cases to help us recover fraud as well, and we've implemented lots of different
  • fraud tools to help us combat fraud moving forward.
  • c><00:09:11.079><c> help</c><00:09:11.279><c> us</c><00:09:11.519><c> recover</c><00:09:11.959><c> fraud
  • </c><00:09:12.480><c> as</c> cases um to help us recover fraud as cases um to help us recover fraud as
  • tools to help us combat different fraud tools to help us combat fraud<00:09:18.600><c> moving</c><00
Summary: The Committee on Labor and Technology met on March 12 in Room 224 at the Hawaii State Capitol and heard testimony on several labor, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, collective bargaining, and related measures. On House Bill 202, which would revise the definition of the adequate reserve fund for calendar year 2026 and beyond, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations strongly supported the bill, saying it would protect the solvency of the Unemployment Insurance trust fund. The department explained that the reserve standard had been lowered from 1.5% to 1% in 2010 and argued that restoring it would better prepare the fund for future shocks. Questions focused on whether the change would affect employers’ costs and whether the trust fund had recovered fraud losses from the pandemic; the department said some fraud had been recovered and additional fraud tools were now in place. The committee recommended passage with amendments, including technical changes and a defective date, and adopted the recommendation. The committee also heard House Bill 477 on the Hawaii Employment Security Law, which the department supported as a modernization of the UI system but asked to amend for clarity, especially on registration-for-work language. The committee accepted those requested amendments and recommended passage with amendments. It then took up House Bill 1026 and House Bills 1027 through 1039, covering emergency appropriations for public employment cost items and collective bargaining for units 1 through 14. Testimony from the Budget and Finance director, United Public Workers, the University of Hawaiʻi, HGEA, UHSC, and others was generally in strong support, with one opposition noted on HB 1038. The committee moved all of those measures together and recommended passage with amendments. In its later decision-making agenda, the committee approved several previously heard bills with technical amendments and defective dates, including House Bill 423 on workers’ compensation, House Bill 480 on workers’ compensation, House Bill 162 on collective bargaining arbitration procedures, House Bill 164 on indebtedness to the state, and House Bill 1152 on tax administration. House Bill 214, relating to government and school resource officers, drew discussion about labor shortages and whether the bill should help train existing school resource officers into law enforcement roles; the committee still passed it with amendments. House Bill 874 on child performers was amended to require trust accounts for certain minors’ earnings and place oversight with DLIR’s Wage Standards Division, and House Bill 159 on qualified community rehabilitation programs was passed with amendments after the committee blanked the $850,000 cap for further discussion. All recommendations were adopted without recorded opposition, and the meeting adjourned.
NH
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary (01/14/2026)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • It can be a lot of it in files that is not presumed bailed to the property of the service provider, which
  • It can be a lot of it in files that is not presumed bailed to the property of the service provider, which
Committee: House Judiciary
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivers State of the State address 4/28/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • In February, I introduced a comprehensive anti-fraud package that we began to implement: a nine-part
  • My ask for you tonight is simple: If you're taking fraud seriously, take your responsibility seriously
  • </c> statewide fraud prevention efforts. statewide fraud prevention efforts.
  • If you're taking<00:33:37.760><c> fraud</c><00:33:38.120><c> seriously,</c><00:33:39.040><c> take</c>
  • <00:33:39.320><c> your</c> taking fraud seriously, take your taking fraud seriously, take your responsibility
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 3/12/25

Rules and Legislative Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think it’s really interesting that we talk a lot about waste, fraud, and abuse, and then amending on
  • and Abuse um and then about waste Fraud and Abuse um and then amending<00:05:10.160><c> on</c><00:05
  • She said that when we talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, we should focus on the fact that there is a
  • She said that when we talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, she wants us to focus on the fact that there
  • She said that when we talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, she wants us to focus on the fact that there
Committee: House Rules and Legislative Administration
FL
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Mar 4th, 2025

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • And it's going to tag fraud. And at that point, there's going to be a pause in the transaction.
  • And so they will tag that as fraud. You know, the Nigerian prince.
  • the bank manager might come out and say, listen, we think this is fraud.
  • Fraud alert, then the bank manager might come out and say, listen, we think this is fraud, and we're
  • Okay, so I get the point of the fraud. And if I, as her trusted person and advisor...
Committee: Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Summary: The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs met with a quorum and first took up SB 398, which would create a statewide public health awareness campaign through the Department of Elder Affairs on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Senator Burgess said the campaign would focus on early detection, brain health, risk reduction, clinical trial access, and community resources. The committee heard supportive testimony from a caregiver, AARP, the Alzheimer’s Association, and others, with members discussing the need for culturally responsive outreach and continued funding. SB 398 was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee then heard SB 106, which would strengthen Florida’s exploitation injunction law for vulnerable adults by allowing service of an unascertainable exploiter through the same communication method used to contact the victim, such as text, Facebook Messenger, or WhatsApp. Senator Martin explained the bill as a way to close a loophole that lets scammers evade traditional service, and witnesses from the Florida Bankers Association and the Florida Bar’s Elder Law Section supported it, describing how the bill could stop ongoing thefts more quickly while preserving due process. Members asked about gift card scams, clerk workload, and the definition of an unascertainable respondent. SB 106 was reported favorably. The Department of Children and Families then presented an update on the Adoption Benefits for Qualifying Adoptive Employees Program, describing its expansion over time and the current one-time lump-sum benefit structure for eligible adoptive parents. The presentation covered eligibility rules, open enrollment, funding history, and the program’s impact on adoption placements, with members asking why tax collectors were included but other constitutional offices were not, and whether foster relatives could qualify. Finally, the committee considered SPB 7012, a committee bill addressing child welfare workforce shortages, treatment foster care for high-acuity children, and improved data collection on commercially sexually exploited children. The bill would direct DCF to recruit former public safety workers for CPI and case manager roles, create a treatment foster care pilot in two judicial circuits, and require more detailed, analyzable data and capacity studies. The bill drew support from child welfare advocates, with some members urging DCF to return with a more developed framework; it was adopted as a committee bill and reported favorably.
AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

06/12/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is this maybe you're trying to use military families as a pawn to protect the fraud in the ESA program
  • And I think maybe they don't want to stop the waste, fraud, and abuse.
  • To suggest that this caucus wants waste, fraud, and abuse to go on is imputing our motives.
  • And so to impugn us by saying we want waste, fraud, and abuse, that's going a little far because...
  • We want waste, fraud, and abuse.
Bills: HCR2048
Committee: Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
US
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

Hearings to examine the nomination of William Briggs, of Texas, to be Deputy Administrator, and Casey Mulligan, of Illinois, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, both of the Small Business Administration. Mar 12th, 2025 at 01:30 pm

Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • They can't find any fraud.
  • Well, we know there's waste and fraud all over those contracts, if you're going to be honest about it
  • However, as you have noted, there is way too much fraud in these programs or was too much fraud.
  • That reduced a lot of that fraud.
  • current programs and have a zero-tolerance approach to fraud going forward.
Committee: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Keywords: SBA, small business, nominations, Bill Briggs, Casey Mulligan, regulations, capital access, public support
Summary: The Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship convened to consider the nominations of Bill Briggs for Deputy Administrator of the SBA and Dr. Casey Mulligan for Chief Counsel for Advocacy. The discussions highlighted the critical role of the SBA in promoting small businesses, with emphasis on overcoming challenges posed by excessive regulations and the need for improved access to capital. Several committee members expressed their concerns over recent layoffs within the SBA and the closure of district offices, which they believe undermine support for small businesses across the nation. The committee meeting saw extensive dialogue about the implications of regulations on small business operations and how the nominees plan to address these issues if confirmed. Public support for the nominees was acknowledged through letters from various stakeholders who advocate for small business interests.