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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

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  • and movement as regular inmates, and inmates may also be ordered to pay a home confinement fee determined
  • carve-out for a certain group of people, but ultimately I think it's really important that we restore judicial
Summary: The Judiciary and Elections Committee met with a hard stop at 4:30 and approved the February 4, 2026 minutes. The chair announced several bills would be held for a later supplemental meeting, then took up SB 1426, the “squatter” bill. The bill was described as changing forcible detainer rules for unauthorized occupants and requiring immediate writs of restitution after judgment. Testimony from the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office supported the measure as a practical, collaborative response to unlawful occupancy. SB 1426 received a do-pass recommendation on a 7-0 vote. The committee next considered SB 1687, a strike-everything amendment moving the primary election date from late July to the Tuesday before Memorial Day starting in 2027. The sponsor said the goal was to give more time between the primary and general elections and align Arizona more closely with other states. County election officials testified in neutral, saying they generally supported more time but flagged several issues, including filing deadlines, consolidated election dates, polling place availability, redistricting timelines, signature calculations, and possible conflicts with presidential preference elections. The amended bill passed 4-3, with concerns raised about clean elections qualification periods and state versus local control over elections. The committee then approved SB 1110, which creates a home confinement program for certain nonviolent inmates, with GPS monitoring, eligibility limits, and a 50-to-1 inmate-to-officer ratio. Supporters said it would help families, reduce recidivism, and save money; an opponent criticized the retroactive effective date and questioned funding and monitoring capacity. SB 1110 received a do-pass recommendation on a 5-1 vote. SB 1275, which allows courts to consider PTSD and related service-connected conditions when sentencing certain veterans and first responders, drew support from the sponsor and advocates but opposition from county officials who argued it would undermine mandatory sentencing and victims’ rights; it passed 7-0. Finally, the committee heard SB 1140, as amended, which allows expungement of eligible misdemeanor records after a waiting period, with exclusions for serious offenses and special rules for shoplifting and peace officer employment. Supporters, including a formerly incarcerated advocate and a retired police chief working on anti-trafficking issues, said expungement would improve employment and stability and give people a real second chance. The committee adopted the amendment and then passed SB 1140 as amended on a 7-0 vote before adjourning.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part II) May 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

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  • The substitute adds current and former employees and commissioners of the State Commission on Judicial
  • I'm with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. I'm their general counsel.
  • I serve as the executive director of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, and I, too, want to express
  • I serve as the executive director of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, and I, too, want to express
  • Yeah, so that provision allowing court staff or clerk staff or judicial conduct commission staff to use
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard testimony on HB 149, the Artificial Intelligence Governance Act. Senator Schwertner described the bill as an outcomes-based AI framework that would require disclosure when people interact with AI, prohibit manipulative or social-scoring systems, address biometric capture, discrimination, and deepfake child exploitation, and give the Attorney General enforcement authority. It would also create an AI Sandbox and AI Council. Witnesses from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a Houston attorney, TechNet, and the Texas Association of Business strongly supported the bill, praising its stakeholder process and pro-innovation approach, while Texas Appleseed suggested regulators should have more examination authority over sandbox participants. The bill was left pending. The committee then heard SB 229, which would prohibit motor vehicle dealers from conditioning a sale on dealer-offered financing or charging more because a buyer uses outside financing or cash. Senator West said the bill is meant to stop forced financing and bait-and-switch pricing, and he noted the bill passed the committee and Senate in the prior session. The Texas Automobile Dealers Association opposed the bill, arguing it would force dealers to accept any third-party lender or cash transaction on terms they cannot control. The Texas Credit Union Association supported the bill, saying consumers should be able to choose outside financing without hidden fees or pressure. After questions about cash purchases and dealer practices, the bill was left pending. The committee also took up SB 2566, which would clarify legislators’ access to information from executive agencies, including confidential information, by setting response deadlines, limiting confidentiality agreements to statutory terms, requiring a standard AG form, and creating a complaint and penalty process for noncompliance. No witnesses testified, and the bill was left pending. Finally, SB 1749, as substituted, would let certain court-related employees and judicial conduct commission personnel keep personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers confidential, with work addresses used in place of home addresses for certain purposes. District clerk and judicial conduct commission witnesses described threats and harassment as the reason for the bill, and a court administration witness answered questions about how the address protections would work with voter registration and precinct records. That bill was also left pending, and the committee recessed without further business.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 26th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

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  • This aims to enhance psychiatric care while ensuring judicial oversight.
  • Medicare ultimately determined that it was fraud and took back all the money.
  • Last, we have a risk of increased fraud and abuse without judicial oversight.
  • Ott, you mentioned judicial oversight on several occasions.
  • So they've already determined if you meet that criteria.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 26th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

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  • In these cases, ...a judge must determine whether the patient can be legally held for treatment while
  • However, under the current process, determining the correct county in which to file an application can
  • Notwithstanding that, which means that they can determine... We can kind of ignore that, almost.
  • The judge still has the ability to determine the qualifications of that interpreter.
  • This bill provides cities with flexibility and promotes judicial. consistency and eliminates the need
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Feb 24th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • We have no determination of how, if a ticket is a lottery ticket for yourself or not.
  • a Texan that bought for the one day drawing drawing and then bought on the side so I can't ever determine
  • So when you, open up another. states do you try to determine what the law is on those states?
  • I do like the enforcement question because it's hard. hard to determine, you know, in age, so.
  • a way that ensures. the longevity of those rights because it's not going to go away with future judicial
Summary: The meeting was a crucial session for discussing several important bills including SB992, which aims to establish a clear time frame for the Attorney General's approval on outside legal counsel for state agencies. Senator Nichols presented the bill, emphasizing its necessity for timely responses to ensure efficient legal processing. Another notable discussion centered around SB523, which seeks to allow parole and probation officers to use a business address on their driver's licenses for safety and security purposes. This bill passed favorably out of the committee, with public testimony supporting the need for such provisions due to the risks these officers face.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

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  • This provides uniform standards statewide by limiting judicial discretion for post-conviction releases
  • And then just how a qualifying member is determined, if that is a member of the legislature or if they
  • The clerk of the court is identified in current law as an integral part of a Chapter 45 judicial sale
  • As the judicial sale administrator, the clerk ensures statutory safeguards are maintained throughout
  • significant as condo owners face rising assessments and liens, and it notes that despite pointed judicial
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice met to consider several criminal justice and court-related bills, along with the committee’s proposed $7.9 billion budget. The committee first heard and approved CS/SB 600 on bail bonds, as amended to adjust solicitation, cash bond return, forfeiture remission timing, and clerk procedures; CS/SB 436 on felony battery, which expands qualifying prior offenses and was amended to correct a drafting issue; CS/SB 928, “Missy’s Law,” requiring immediate remand to custody after conviction for dangerous crimes; SB 1332 on career offender registration, adding in-person reporting, more detailed registration requirements, and stronger penalties for noncompliance; and CS/SB 682 on violent criminal offenses, a domestic violence measure adopted via a substitute amendment that adds stricter penalties, electronic monitoring, injunction protections, and related procedures. All of those bills were reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 1072 creating an anti-Semitism task force in the Attorney General’s Office. The bill drew extensive public testimony both for and against, with supporters emphasizing rising anti-Semitic incidents and the need for statewide review, and opponents raising concerns about free speech, the definition of anti-Semitism, and possible conflation of criticism of Israel with hate speech. Senators also discussed the bill’s scope and the IHRA definition before it was reported favorably. In addition, CS/SB 532 on clerks of court was amended to clarify foreclosure sale procedures and funding predictability for clerks, then reported favorably. CS/SB 644 on attorney’s fees, suit money, and costs was also approved after amendments that aligned family-law fee provisions and codified standards for fee awards in dissolution and paternity cases; the sponsor said the bill was intended to curb vexatious litigation and improve consistency across districts. After the bill actions, the chair summarized the criminal and civil justice budget, describing it as a disciplined proposal that addresses corrections deficits and future inmate growth while funding core public safety needs. The committee then heard substantial public testimony on prison conditions, staffing, pay, heat, infrastructure, and the possibility of reducing prison populations or adding air conditioning in facilities. The chair announced that SB 1632 and its conforming bill SB 1634 would be temporarily postponed to the following week, and the record was supplemented with the names of many people who had registered to speak for or against those bills. The meeting concluded after members were invited to record votes and the committee adjourned.
TX
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  • It is a Texas Judicial Council recommendation and is intended to address the growing shortage of court
  • Judicial Branch Certification Commission, and the Texas Court of Appeals Association.
  • Chairman, yes, Ronald Morgan, I'm the director of the Judicial Branch Certification Commission.
  • Where there's a list of judicial institutions, we are adding the business courts to them, so they're
  • Then we want to integrate the business court more closely into the judicial system as a whole.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation (Part II) Apr 9th, 2025

Transportation

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  • The state auditor's office shall, yeah, promptly investigate the section to determine the county violated
  • that exceeds the lesser of the county's no-new-revenue tax rate or voter-approval tax rate, as determined
  • Judicial security officials, particularly the United States Marshals Service, are concerned this visibility
Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee reconvened on SB 2722, as substituted by Senator Bettencourt, which would redirect a portion of Harris County Toll Road Authority surplus revenues to the City of Houston and impose audit and tax-rate penalty provisions. Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz and Fire Chief Thomas Munoz testified in support, arguing that Houston bears a large share of toll-road public safety burdens, citing thousands of police and fire responses on toll-road property and the need for compensation for emergency services. Bill King, testifying neutrally, said the toll authority generates large excess revenues and urged stronger oversight and clearer controls on how the money is spent. Opponents, including Harris County officials, business and neighborhood representatives, and toll-road critics, argued the bill would divert transportation dollars, create a precedent for taking toll revenues for general municipal use, and could worsen project delivery and incentives; several also questioned the accuracy and interpretation of the revenue figures and the lack of comparable audit requirements for the city. The committee took extensive testimony but left SB 2722 pending without a vote. The committee then heard SB 2129, which would increase fines for motorists who disregard railroad crossing gates or flaggers, and SB 2323, which would redact railroad crew members’ personal information from public accident reports. Both bills were presented as safety measures, with railroad labor testimony in support, and both were left pending after brief public testimony. The committee also heard SB 2141, a Zaffirini bill concerning specialty license plates for judges, with the substitute aimed at reducing security risks by changing how judges are identified on plates; it too was left pending. Finally, the committee heard SB 2439, another Zaffirini bill, described as a TDLR cleanup measure related to ATV and off-highway vehicle safety certification. The bill would abolish the current training and certification program, which supporters said was burdensome and underused given the small number of approved instructors statewide. With no significant opposition on the record, the committee closed testimony and left SB 2439 pending as well.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs (Part I) Mar 20th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • between the courts and only if there's a conflict between the courts, someone has to make that determination
  • what you still have is the Court of Criminal Appeals, the experts in criminal law within the Texas judicial
  • I'm the Judicial District Attorney for the 106th Judicial District, which covers four counties in rural
  • And you might now have the Supreme Court having to stay an execution just to determine what's going on
  • that constitutional provision dates from 1891, which was the year that the current structure of our judicial
Summary: The Senate Committee on State Affairs met and heard several bills related to legislative process and court jurisdiction. Senate Bill 1386, by Senator Huffman, would change compelled legislative testimony from blanket transactional immunity to testimonial immunity, allowing compelled statements or documents to be used against a witness in criminal prosecution only if not derived from the compelled testimony, while preserving protection against perjury and false statements and retaining the right to counsel. No public witnesses testified, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1470, by Chairman Hughes, which would require DPS to share existing data on cross-state driver’s license cancellations with the Secretary of State for voter-roll maintenance. Hughes said the bill does not create new data collection and is intended to improve list maintenance. A DPS resource witness was present, there was no substantive opposition, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1210, also by Hughes, would address conflicts between the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals on constitutional questions by making the Supreme Court the final arbiter in limited circumstances. Chris Hilton supported the bill, but Allen Place, Jack Rohde, and Philip Furlow opposed it, arguing it was unconstitutional, unnecessary, and could create practical problems in criminal post-conviction litigation. The bill was left pending after testimony. The committee also heard Senate Bill 311, which would conform the Government Code to the Texas Constitution by clarifying the Supreme Court’s original writ authority against lower courts and officials other than the governor. Justice Evan Young and Chris Hilton supported the bill as a clarification of existing authority, while no one testified against it; the bill was left pending. The committee then recessed to allow the chamber to rearrange for the Senate session.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

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  • for these individuals, from home health care to hospitalization, and dealing with all the social determinants
  • for these individuals, from home health care to hospitalization, and dealing with all the social determinants
  • for these individuals, from home health care to hospitalization, and dealing with all the social determinants
  • for these individuals, from home health care to hospitalization, and dealing with all the social determinants
  • He added that he wanted clarity because there is often confusion in guidance, especially when determining
TX
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  • The committee substitute also clarifies that the comptroller will determine the state employee's median
  • And the median salary would be determined by the comptroller.
  • The substitute includes downcoding in the definition of adverse determination.
  • In this bill regarding an adverse determination, which of course has the same ramifications.
  • And prohibiting all use of AI in any adverse determination.
Bills: SB 6, SB6, SB504, SB765, SB815, SB929
TX
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  • and members, Senate Bill 1574 relates to a Centers of Excellence program developed by the Texas Judicial
  • Members, the Centers of Excellence program is an initiative by the Texas Judicial Council to identify
  • Now, in my eighth year of judicial service, I preside over criminal misdemeanors, family law programs
  • In 2019, the Texas Judicial Council recognized Webb County Court of Law II as a Judicial Center of Excellence
  • I know that last year at the Annual Judicial Conference we had Judge D.C.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 14th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

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  • Members Senate Bill 1174 rejects the judicial pay increases in the final report of the Board on Judicial
  • It says the Board of Judicial Compensation shall be six members.
  • the legal community in determining what the salary should be.
  • They look at the national judicial salaries as well as regional and federal judges.
  • The Judicial Board on Judicial Compensation makes recommendations and we either accept or reject those