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MO
Transcript Highlights:
- So we have legal assistants and some attorneys too that'll sit at a jail for hours, taking jail staff
- So when we're overloaded, are we looking at any types of delays in terms of cost in courts, jails, all
- cycling through multiple attorneys, which is going to save, I think, significant costs in terms of jail
- won't probably save my agency a ton of money, but I think you'll save money on the back end in, like, jails
- So now that you put an additional burden on someone else, which means longer wait times, longer jail
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Feb 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- They based that on looking at actual experience with firefighters and adjusting the wages for local jail
- support Senate Bill 5882 because the data regarding corrections officers and PTSD is stark. 53% of jail
- Without treatment, people predictably cycle through emergency rooms, jails, and homelessness, with these
- Since outpatient treatment is designed to keep people out of the hospital and ...and jails, and it's
- dangerous deterioration, and stabilizes people who would otherwise cycle through emergency rooms, jails
Summary:
The Ways and Means Committee met on February 6, 2026, and first voted to suspend the five-day notice rule for all bills on the agenda. Senators Braun and Gildon objected, arguing the bill needed more public review and that the fiscal note had only just been released, but a roll call vote passed 15-9 and the committee proceeded to Senate Bill 6346.
Staff briefed SB 6346 as a proposal to create a 9.9% income tax on Washington taxable income above a $1 million per-household standard deduction, with a $50,000 charitable deduction, apportionment rules for nonresidents and certain professions, quarterly estimated payments, and credits for capital gains tax and certain business taxes. Staff said the tax would begin in 2029 and eventually raise about $3.5 billion annually from roughly 30,000 taxpayers. The bill also would expand the Working Families Tax Credit, create a sales tax exemption for grooming and hygiene products, increase the small business B&O tax credit and filing threshold, and end the B&O surcharge on high-grossing businesses one year early. Members questioned the bill’s constitutionality, its exemption from referendum, treatment of student athletes, natural-resource industries, and whether real estate gains would be captured.
Public testimony was sharply divided. Supporters, including labor groups, educators, health care advocates, counties, child care workers, and some business owners and high-income individuals, said the bill would make the tax code more progressive and provide stable funding for health care, education, child care, public defense, and other services, while expanding the Working Families Tax Credit. Opponents, including many small business, construction, housing, and taxpayer advocates, argued the measure would function as a tax on pass-through businesses and retained earnings, harm housing production and investment, encourage wealthy residents and businesses to leave the state, and violate the state constitution or the will of voters. No final action on SB 6346 was taken during the hearing.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations - Room 216, 13 January, 2026; 1:45 PM
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- They went into the jail to, uh, to see the client before initial appearance. And that's the goal.
- They went into the jail to, uh, to see the client before initial appearance. And that's the goal.
- They went into the jail to, uh, to see the client before initial appearance. And that's the goal.
- think everybody's going to agree that they're better results coming out of it, but cutting down on jail
- think everybody's going to agree that they're better results coming out of it, but cutting down on jail
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Jails and prisons in Florida struggle with how to manage our mentally ill population, which is where
- most of our mentally ill are now, in our jails and prisons.
- For the acutely mentally ill, the cycle is jail, a forensic hospital, living on the streets, and inevitably
- health in the criminal justice system to divert clinically appropriate defendants to treatment, not jail
- We're put in jail.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, doctor and guest introductions, and then took up Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, on mental health. Senator Bradley described the bill as a major criminal justice and behavioral health reform measure that would expand pretrial mental health diversion, strengthen treatment-based probation conditions, broaden grant uses for mental health and substance abuse programs, add Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, require certain DOC mental health evaluations, and create a Florida Behavioral Health Data Repository. Senators from both parties spoke in strong support, emphasizing treatment over incarceration, public safety, data collection, and the Murphy family’s role in advancing the bill. The Senate passed the bill 37-0 and then approved 37 co-sponsors.
The chamber then received the Senate’s 2025-26 General Appropriations Bill, SB 2500, with Chair Hooper outlining a $117.4 billion budget that he said reduces spending, preserves reserves, and includes major investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and reporting requirements. Committee chairs summarized their portions: K-12 funding at $34.7 billion with increases for FEFP, scholarships, VPK, school hardening, and school safety; higher education at $11.5 billion with workforce, nursing, reading, autism, and student aid investments; health and human services with a $1.8 billion increase for Medicaid, mental health, opioid response, disability services, and veterans programs; criminal and civil justice at $7.6 billion for corrections, juvenile justice, law enforcement, courts, and judgeships; transportation/tourism/economic development at about $18 billion including roads, housing, Visit Florida, and cultural grants; and agriculture/environment/general government with major Everglades, water quality, citrus, food bank, and agency IT funding.
Members then questioned several budget items, especially education funding formulas, the shift of scholarship dollars below the line, the impact on public school districts, AP/IB and other accelerated program funding, the APD wait list, opioid settlement spending, arts grants, and the My Safe Florida Home and condo pilot programs. Chairs generally said scholarship and accelerated-program dollars were being restructured for transparency and flexibility rather than cut, that school districts would still receive funding based on enrollment, and that APD and other human services issues would continue to be worked out in conference. The budget discussion concluded with remarks praising staff and noting a 4% across-the-board pay raise for state employees and targeted increases for law enforcement and firefighters, followed by a recognition for FAMU Day at the Capitol.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/11/25
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- created this fraud were organized, greedy, arrogant criminals who are being prosecuted and sent to jail
- created this fraud were organized, greedy, arrogant criminals who are being prosecuted and sent to jail
- created this fraud were organized, greedy, arrogant criminals who are being prosecuted and sent to jail
- </c><00:54:15.799><c> which</c><00:54:15.920><c> is</c> prosecuted and sent to jail which is prosecuted
- and sent to jail which is awesome<00:54:17.000><c> that</c><00:54:17.599><c> but</c><00:54:17.960><c
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (02/05/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- and still is, only one immigration detention facility in New Hampshire, and that’s Strafford County Jail
- Strafford County Jail is used for nonviolent detainees whose only major alleged offense was being in
- brought in for minor crimes, but if you’re accused of something really serious, you don’t go to the jail
- A lot of those were just kept in an old part of the jail, with fairly minimal supervision.
- Anyway, my bill simply mandated best practices, which the jail was already honoring.
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 180, which concerns critical incident stress management teams. Representative Mark PR, the bill sponsor, proposed an amendment to add a definition of “team leader” and to clarify that teams may or may not be affiliated with a municipality. He argued that a certification test offered by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation is unnecessary and too expensive at $400, since team members are volunteers who already receive training and continuing education. Committee members asked about the training structure and certification language, and the sponsor explained that the teams are self-certified and that the amendment was intended to clean up the bill’s language.
The committee then voted on HB 180 in executive session. Amendment 0261H was adopted 11-0, and the bill was then moved as amended and passed 11-0. The committee placed the bill on consent.
Later, the committee heard House Bill 438, sponsored by Representative Timothy Horan, dealing with immigration detention and related state policy. Horan described the bill as an update to earlier legislation and said it would codify best practices, prohibit state cooperation with mass deportation efforts, bar for-profit operation of immigration detention facilities, and require Executive Council approval before the governor could deploy the National Guard for immigration deportation activities. Committee members questioned whether the bill could be read as authorizing detention facilities and discussed the relationship between the state and Strafford County Jail. An amendment presented on behalf of Representative Patrick Long was described as a technical rewrite that removed several sections and changed language, but the hearing ended before any vote was taken on HB 438.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Press Conference: Texas State Employees Pay Raise Jan 27th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The starting corrections officer for county jail, 50,000.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- are legal to purchase in neighboring states, can face a misdemeanor conviction and up to a year in jail
- The effects of a misdemeanor in jail.
- I talked to a end up going to jail I talked to a public<02:00:10.800><c> defender</c><02:00:11.199><
- Second offense, class B misdemeanor up to $500, no jail.
- Third offense, class B misdemeanor up to $1,000, no jail.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/22/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Do we want to live in a country where people are held in jail without a judicial warrant?
- And John Welock, who we know was the founder of Exeter, you know, he escaped from jail in Boston in a
- Because the Puritans had, um, thrown into jail antinomians, so-called, like John Welock or like Anne
- Because the Puritans had, um, thrown into jail antinomians, so-called, like John Welock or like Anne
- </c> Puritans had um thrown into jail Puritans had um thrown into jail antonyymians<04:09:36.080><c>
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- And I would hate to send people to jail for something that is societally acceptable.
Summary:
The Crime and Public Safety Committee met with a quorum and first went into executive session. In that session, members adopted a House Committee Substitute for Senate Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution 87 and voted it do pass by an 8-0 roll call. The committee also adopted a House Committee Substitute for House Bills 1868 and 3257, which were combined into one bill string, and voted that substitute do pass 8-2. House Bill 3017 was then voted do pass 8-2 as well.
The committee then moved to public hearing on House Bill 2808, which would create a new offense for an adult who knowingly permits, encourages, aids, or causes a minor to commit an offense. The sponsor said the bill is intended to address adults exploiting minors to commit crimes such as car theft, burglary, and theft, with penalties ranging from a class C misdemeanor if the minor commits a misdemeanor to a class A misdemeanor if the minor commits a felony, along with possible restitution. Members asked about whether the bill could reach parents at teen gatherings, how it would apply beyond parents to other adults or guardians, and how prosecutors would prove encouragement or causation.
The sponsor responded that existing laws already cover some conduct like providing alcohol to minors, that the bill is meant to apply to any adult who encourages a minor, and that proof would rely on ordinary criminal standards such as text messages, emails, witness testimony, and other circumstantial evidence. One member raised concern that the language could be used to overreach against parents or be weaponized in investigations; the sponsor said the bill would only apply after the minor is adjudicated guilty and would be a secondary review of whether an adult caused the offense. No one signed up to testify in support, opposition, or for informational purposes, and the hearing on HB 2808 concluded without further action.
MO
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- coordinators who work with our local mental health authorities, veterans treatment courts, and county jails
Keywords:
veterans, mental health, Texas Veterans Commission, peer support, suicide prevention, community mental health, grant program, cemetery, General Land Office, burial plot, remembrance, monthly designation, honoring military, Texas legislation, rural services, paid leave, fire protection personnel, military service, public employees, employment benefits
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs heard several House bills related to veterans’ services, mental health, military leave, burial access, suicide data, and Veterans Month. House Bill 114 would transfer administration of certain veterans’ mental health initiatives from HHSC to the Texas Veterans Commission, create a TVC grant program for community-based mental health services, require a statewide veteran suicide prevention action plan, and mandate annual reporting. A committee substitute was mentioned, but members said they were not prepared to adopt it yet. No one testified for or against the bill, and it was left pending.
House Bill 1965 would direct TVC to study ways to expand access to mental health services through the military veteran peer network, including increasing peer support coordinators, with emphasis on rural communities and broader use in veterans treatment courts. Support testimony came from the Texas VFW, which emphasized the value of peer-to-peer support and the network’s role in suicide prevention. The bill was left pending after testimony. House Bill 2513 would clarify military leave rules for state-employed firefighters by counting their 24-hour or 48-hour shifts appropriately so they do not have to use vacation time to fulfill military duty; a firefighters’ representative testified in support, and the bill was left pending.
The committee also heard House Bill 1875, which would require the General Land Office and TVC to study veterans’ burial needs, access to cemeteries, and cemetery operational needs, and House Bill 39, which would require DSHS to provide TVC de-identified death certificate data when a veteran dies by suicide or homicide to improve understanding of veteran deaths. The Texas VFW supported HB 39. House Bill 1894 would designate November as Veterans Month in Texas. All of these bills were left pending, and members indicated they were waiting on committee substitutes before voting, with possible action later on the floor or in committee.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 1, 2025 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- They were punished with a short stay in jail.
Summary:
The committee heard three member bills. CS/HB 1095 would create a criminal offender substance abuse pilot program in Hillsborough County for probationers ordered to abstain from drugs and alcohol, with frequent testing, immediate arrest for violations, and a cap of 150 participants. An amendment removed the fiscal impact by eliminating an appropriation and directing any appropriated funds to the administering entity; the amendment and bill both passed, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute.
CS/HB 1455 would establish mandatory minimum sentences for repeat sexual offenders or predators who commit specified sexual offenses, including 10-year and 20-year minimums depending on the offense, with no gain time or discretionary early release. The only public testimony was in support from the Smart Justice Alliance. The committee approved the bill 11-1 and reported it favorably.
CS/HB 1283 would make the sex trafficking of a child under 12 or a mentally incapacitated person a capital felony punishable by death or life imprisonment. Members questioned the fiscal impact, housing on death row, and how the death penalty process would work; the sponsor said the bill was aimed at the worst offenders and that current law already provides mandatory life for trafficking a child under 12. Public testimony included opposition from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and support from the Smart Justice Alliance. After debate focused on constitutionality and the death penalty, the committee passed the bill 10-3 and reported it favorably.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: Texas State Employees Pay Raise Jan 27th, 2025 at 11:01 am
Transcript Highlights:
- The starting corrections officer for county jail is $50,000.
Keywords:
Texas state employees, retirees, compensation, House Bill 343, House Bill 247, Senator Sarah Eckhardt, Representative John Busey, cost of living, workforce, legislative session
Summary:
The committee meeting focused on critical issues facing Texas state employees and retirees, highlighting the need for increased compensation and improved benefits. Senator Sarah Eckhardt and Representative John Busey presented new legislation aimed at addressing these longstanding problems, including proposed House Bills 343 and 247, which seek a $10,000 across-the-board pay increase for state employees. Senator Eckhardt emphasized the growing wage gap between public sector jobs and private sector offerings, which has led to high turnover rates and the loss of institutional knowledge. Public testimonies underscored the urgency of the issue as retirees shared their struggles with stagnant pensions amidst rising living costs.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans - 03/03/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans
Transcript Highlights:
- I explain to others in shorthand that my job is keeping veterans alive, under roofs, and out of jail.
- to work with veterans on their claims: the Union Gospel Mission men's shelter, the Hennepin County jail
- <00:21:00.960><c> I'm</c><00:21:01.240><c> not</c> jail I'm not jail I'm not exaggerating<00:21:03.480
- to work with veterans on their claims: the Union Gospel Mission men's shelter, the Hennepin County jail
- I first met him down at the jail, where he was wearing an orange jumpsuit.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/03/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- situation would have been charged a felony and would have had a $5,000 fine and up to four years in jail
- </c><01:32:34.159><c> four</c><01:32:34.400><c> years</c><01:32:34.600><c> in</c><01:32:35.080><c> jail
- </c><01:32:36.080><c> driving</c> and up to four years in jail driving and up to four years in jail driving
- Chair, Senator Limmer, last word before we lay it on the table. prescription is not a get out of jail
- prescription is not a get out of jail free<01:48:09.639><c> card</c><01:48:10.280><c> if</c><01:48:10.400
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
PSM-WLA, PSM Public Hearings 02-04-2026
Public Safety and Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- I think for years we've been talking, and we know that our jails are overcrowded.
- This is not a get out of jail free card just because you're sick.
- This is not a get out<01:11:21.280><c> of</c><01:11:21.440><c> jail</c><01:11:21.760><c> free</c><01:
- 11:22.080><c> card</c><01:11:22.719><c> just</c><01:11:22.960><c> because</c> out of jail free card just
- because out of jail free card just because you're<01:11:23.520><c> sick.
Summary:
The joint committees heard testimony on several measures. SB 2723, which would designate April 27 as State Sheriff’s Day, was supported by the Department of Law Enforcement and a long-serving sheriff, who described the historical roots of Hawaii’s sheriffs in the Kingdom of Hawaii and said the bill would recognize that legacy. HGA submitted written comments, and there was no opposition or vote taken on the measure during the excerpt.
The committees then heard SB 17 on wildfire mitigation. The Public Utilities Commission, DLNR, the State Fire Council, OPSD, the Attorney General’s office, and Kamehameha Schools all testified, mostly in support of the bill’s intent but with suggested amendments. Several witnesses said the bill should better define the working group’s structure, staffing, and funding, and the Attorney General noted constitutional concerns about placing the group outside a principal department and pointed out possible overlap with Acts 302 and 303 from the prior year. Committee members questioned whether SB 17 duplicated earlier wildfire legislation, and witnesses generally said it did not directly conflict but overlapped with existing efforts.
On SB 2358, which would require reimbursement for search-and-rescue costs when people leave trails and enter closed areas, the State Fire Council and the Hawaii SAR Alliance testified in opposition or caution, arguing that reimbursement could deter people from calling for help and that Hawaii’s SAR system still has structural and administrative gaps. A committee member asked whether other jurisdictions had used similar measures without discouraging rescues; the Fire Council said Kauai has a similar law but it has not resulted in invoices being sent. No action was taken in the excerpt.
The final measure discussed was SB 2475 on Red Hill remediation funding and reimbursement from the Department of Defense. The Board of Water Supply, DLNR, and other testifiers supported the bill, emphasizing the need for long-term research, monitoring, and cleanup, while also noting the unique groundwater conditions and the importance of keeping the funds focused on Red Hill contamination response. Committee members asked about existing federal and state funding, whether the state had received any direct federal money, and what would happen if reimbursement is not obtained. DLNR said it was still working through the reimbursement mechanism and that some federal funding had gone to the Red Hill registry, but not directly to the state for this purpose.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaking of jail safety...
- Next panel, we'll be looking for Joe, Jail Henry, Sarah Roberts, James Jackson, and Richard Vega.
- Currently requires that prisons and jails, detention facilities, establish who should be where on a case-by-case
- Out of the 232 jails that we have, and over 50 prisons, I think it's really important that we trust our
- is dangerous and it is traumatizing for a child or woman to share a restroom, locker room, shelter, jail
Keywords:
gender designation, civil penalties, private civil rights, multiple-occupancy spaces, Texas Women's Privacy Act, law enforcement, confidentiality, personnel files, employee records, misconduct, abortion, civil liability, abortion-inducing drugs, qui tam actions, Texas Citizens Participation Act, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, healthcare regulations, impact fees, water conservation, reuse projects
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/23/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- :20.600><c> risking</c><01:27:21.400><c> prosecution</c><01:27:22.400><c> and</c><01:27:22.600><c> jail
- </c> they're risking prosecution and jail they're risking prosecution and jail time<01:27:23.239><c>
- Most of the people that were in jail are at the state level.
- in jail in federal prisons over many years when we've had millions and millions of people using this
- The medical cost of having somebody with a chronic condition in the jail is just skyrocketing, and it