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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (03/11/2025)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- mailing location at Brown University and then distributed to various dorms.
- uh ballots were mailed to a central<00:09:57.800><c> mailing</c><00:09:58.360><c> location</c><00:09
- :58.800><c> at</c><00:09:58.959><c> Brown</c> central mailing location at Brown central mailing location
- </c> place my absentee ballot was mailed place my absentee ballot was mailed seamlessly<00:23:02.440>
- would be the filing deadline and the registering of your party affiliation, etc.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- But give them an opportunity to cure just like we do with vote by mail.
- Can you explain about the deadline?
- a 14-day deadline, and there's a 28-day deadline.
- I was trying to figure out, are those standard deadlines, or are those just deadlines where you felt
- It doesn't say that states can't have deadlines that are shorter.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness, and a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange. Senators also paid tribute to former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron with a moment of silence. The chamber then moved to special-order bills after routine announcements that no committee reports, governor’s messages, or House messages were on the desk.
The first major bill, SB 138/HB 687 on transportation offenses involving death, increased penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide offenses and added warnings and misdemeanor penalties for refusing lawful breath or urine tests. After a brief amendment and questions about attorney rights and prior impairing-substance language, the bill passed 37-0. SB 306 on Medicaid providers followed, requiring broader provider access, including after-hours availability and more primary care access for Medicaid enrollees; it also passed 37-0.
The chamber then took up the major condominium reform bill, SB 1742/HB 913, addressing post-Surfside safety, reserve funding, milestone inspections, budgeting, reserve flexibility, manager regulation, conflicts of interest, and condo sale rescission periods. Senators from both parties praised the sponsors for extensive stakeholder work and the bill passed 37-0 after multiple amendments. The final major item was SB 7016/HB 1205 on constitutional amendments and petition-gathering rules, with sponsors arguing the bill was needed to combat fraud in the 2024 petition process and opponents warning it would burden citizen initiatives. The Senate adopted the House bill and then considered numerous amendments on petition circulator rules, submission deadlines, invalid-signature thresholds, voter notification, and related enforcement provisions; several amendments were adopted, and the substitute was later withdrawn, leaving the chamber to continue on the underlying bill and remaining amendments.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So, I'm all for trying to help. ...help seniors and people get applications or get a ballot by mail.
- for them using a mail signature because the signatures never match.
- online that would be mailed to their homes, as registered on their driver's license.
- The existing law in state statute provided a deadline by which cities had to elect to move elections
- After that deadline, this moves in state statute the date for elections to later this year, December
Keywords:
Texas elections, Election Code, uniform election date, November election, local elections, political subdivisions, general election date, election administration, municipal utility district, county elections, local government, ballot scheduling, candidate filing, voter turnout, election calendar, HB 3097, early voting, electronic application, mail-in ballot, voting accessibility
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
JLCAR Administrative Rules (06/20/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- c> in</c><00:13:09.680><c> their</c> someone were to mail in their someone were to mail in their application
- Most people understand that when you mail an application in, it takes time.
- Most people understand that when you mail an application in, it takes time.
- Most people understand that when you mail an application in, it takes time.
- Most people understand that when you mail an application in, it takes time.
Summary:
The JLCAR meeting opened with approval of the prior minutes and the consent calendar, after one Fish and Game item was pulled from consent for separate discussion. The committee then reordered the regular calendar and postponed an HHS item at the agency’s request because work on the proposal was still ongoing and the sponsoring representative was absent.
The committee next considered OPLC item 2547, dealing with amendments to licensure and discipline forms for regulated professions. Members raised concerns that the form appeared geared toward health professions and that boards were not sufficiently involved in the process. OPLC responded that the form was being moved toward a dynamic online format with logic to collapse irrelevant questions, and that the agency was trying to make the application more user-friendly. The committee approved the item.
DNCR item 2551, concerning volunteer/adopt-a-park program rules, was approved after the agency acknowledged it had been operating the program and using forms before formal rules were adopted, and said it was now correcting that issue. Fish and Game item 2570, on electronic OHRV and snowmobile registration applications, drew discussion over processing times. The committee chair argued for consistency with the five-day mail-in processing period, while Fish and Game said it had concerns about file-transfer delays and workload and preferred 10 days. The committee ultimately approved the proposal with an oral amendment and conditional approval.
In other business, staff described a broader move to an online agency portal for submitting rulemaking documents, replacing email submissions. Members supported the change as a modernization effort and noted it would also make it easier to see which rules are nearing expiration. The committee approved the manual change, with implementation planned for early August after agency training.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Ethics and Elections Mar 10th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This mirrors the vote-by-mail statute.
- That's the one that's being mailed out today on recreational marijuana use for 2026.
- That part of the bill tracks with our vote-by-mail.
- You know, it says that it needs to be sent by mail to the voter.
- You know, it says that it needs to be sent by mail to the voter.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Ethics and Elections heard SPB 7016, a bill revising Florida’s citizen initiative petition process to address fraud, voter information, and ballot integrity. The bill and its amendments would add sponsor bonds and deposit requirements, require more identifying information from signers and circulators, bar certain felons and non-citizens from circulating petitions, require circulator training, shorten the time to submit signed petitions, require notices to voters whose signatures are verified, and change how financial impact statements are handled. Several amendments were adopted, including a $1 million bond framework, 10-point font and page limits for petition forms, a ban on incentive-based pay tied to petition counts or speed, removal of a requirement that fraud be proven by criminal conviction before administrative fines, county deposit and payment procedures for supervisors of elections, invalidation of petitions gathered by ineligible circulators, training requirements within 30 days, and a prohibition on public funds being used to advocate for or against constitutional amendments.
Committee discussion focused heavily on implementation and fairness. Supporters, including the sponsor and the Florida Chamber of Commerce, argued the bill was needed to deter fraud, protect voter information, and ensure sponsors—not taxpayers—bear the costs of the initiative process. Supervisors of elections testified that county taxpayers should not subsidize petition verification, but also warned that some provisions would be difficult to implement quickly because of software and operational constraints. Senators raised questions about the bond cost, the 10-day submission deadline, notice to voters whose petitions are invalidated, the effect on returning citizens, and whether the bill could disenfranchise voters who sign petitions in good faith.
Public testimony was overwhelmingly opposed. Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, NAACP Florida, Florida Rising, Equality Florida, All Voting Is Local, and other advocates said the bill would suppress grassroots participation, criminalize volunteers, create costly barriers, and favor wealthy or corporate interests. They objected especially to the bond, the new signer identification requirements, the shorter submission window, and the lack of notice when a petition is invalidated. A few supporters, including the Florida Chamber, backed the measure as a safeguard against fraud and outside influence. After debate, the committee did not reach a final vote on the bill in the portion provided, but the bill remained before the committee as amended.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (04/01/2026)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- They are only mailed out when there is a request received.
- They are only mailed out when there is a request received.
- They are only mailed out when there is a request received.
- They are only mailed out when there is a request received.
- They are only mailed clerk's offices.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- our voters over the age of 65 do not face challenges in completing an application for a ballot by mail
- turn it into the elections administration in person or they could have to print it out from home, mail
- This bill will simply allow registered voters to fill out their application for a ballot by mail online
- online that will be mailed to their homes that's registered on their driver's license.
- The city charter review process was after that deadline.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- subsequent legislation that speaks to the same underlying term or idea still not defined, with no deadline
- subsequent legislation that speaks to the same underlying term or idea still not defined with no deadline
- on a, on a number. the same underlying term or idea still not defined with no deadline on when it's
- Currently, Florida law prohibits the sale or distribution of prescription hearing aids through the mail
- This bill authorizes the distribution and sale of prescription hearing aids through the mail after a
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Rules met with a quorum present and took up a series of bills, beginning with SB 108 on administrative procedures. That bill, as amended, would require agencies to review all rules on a five-year cycle, submit regulatory plans and annual reports, publish intended agency action within 90 days of new rulemaking authority, improve public access to incorporated materials, and streamline rule publication and correction procedures. After brief testimony from the Florida Bar’s Administrative Law Section and support from Americans for Prosperity and the James Madison Institute, the committee adopted two amendments and reported CS for SB 108 favorably.
The committee then approved several other measures, including the Senate veterans package (CS for CS for SB 116), which made technical changes and was supported by veterans and advocacy groups; SB 118 on presidential libraries, which preempts local barriers while preserving state and federal law and building codes; CS for SB 126 allowing mail distribution of prescription hearing aids after a Florida-licensed professional examination; CS for SB 150, “Trooper’s Law,” making it a third-degree felony to abandon restrained animals during declared disasters; SB 294 limiting collaborative pharmacy practice expansion for complex cardiac conditions; SM 314 urging Congress to increase Florida National Guard force structure; CS for SB 322 creating a nonjudicial process to remove unauthorized persons from commercial property; CS for SB 348 on ethics, addressing false military rank claims and delinquent ethics fines; SB 356 designating January 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day; CS for SB 160 expanding CPA licensure pathways and clarifying administrative outsourcing; and CS for SB 50 promoting nature-based coastal resilience measures. Most of these bills received supportive testimony and were reported favorably.
The committee also considered and reported favorably the annual reviser bills SB 36, SB 38, SB 40, and SB 42, which adopt the 2025 Florida Statutes, conform statutory names, remove expired provisions, and clean up obsolete language and cross-references. Throughout the meeting, members asked questions on a few bills, but no roll-call votes were recorded as opposed; each measure was approved and reported favorably. At the end of the meeting, senators requested that a few missed affirmative votes be recorded, and the committee adjourned without objection.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 4 on State Administration and General Government May 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So they have an encumbrance deadline.
- This would allow us to do... ...it has an encumbrance deadline.
- No, no, this is just extending that deadline.
- This is just extending that deadline of the encumbrance deadline.
- You can imagine mailing 15 copies of a draft environmental impact report to Sacramento.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-05-01 (11:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Let's make it harder to vote by mail.
- It's going to require, this bill requires a mail notice to verify.
- It's going to require a mail notice to verify the petition being signed as valid.
- It's going to require that mail notice to be sent by forwardable mail, which means that mail notice is
- You all talked about postage and mail stamps. You all talked about postage and mail stamps.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of member introductions recognizing interns, pages, volunteers, and the retirement of Pastor Gary Austin from the sergeant’s office. Leadership also announced that budget talks with the House were continuing and that senators would not need to plan on being in next week, suggesting progress toward a budget framework. After routine floor business, the chamber took up a major third-reading measure on citizen initiatives and several education bills, followed later by returning messages from the House on health and school-safety measures.
The most extensive debate centered on the citizen initiative bill, which sponsors said was intended to protect the constitutional amendment process from fraud and abuse based on election-crime investigations and a large state report on petition fraud. Supporters argued the bill would add reasonable guardrails, prevent misuse of public funds, and preserve integrity while still allowing grassroots participation. Opponents from both parties argued it would make citizen-led amendments much harder by adding costs, deadlines, criminal penalties, and administrative burdens that would chill participation and favor wealthy or corporate interests. After lengthy debate, the Senate voted 28-10 to pass the bill.
The chamber then passed several education measures with little or no opposition, including bills tied to Bright Futures, dual enrollment, Florida ABLE, teacher preparation, and other education policy updates, all by 38-0. Later, the Senate concurred in House amendments on a stem cell therapy bill, an EKG requirement for student athletes, and a cardiac emergency bill, each passing 37-0. The House also sent back a school safety bill with amendments affecting child care facility partnerships with law enforcement, temporary door locks during active assailant incidents, supervision windows, and funding for panic alarm systems; the transcript ends as that bill is being explained.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Let's make it harder to vote by mail.
- It's going to require, this bill requires a mail notice to verify...
- It's going to require that mail notice to be sent by forwardable mail, which means that mail notice is
- You all talked about postage and mail stamps. Generate and just send out.
- You all talked about postage and mail stamps. This is an interface.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of member introductions recognizing interns, pages, and a retiring Senate employee. Leadership also announced that budget talks with the House were continuing and that senators should not plan to be in next week, with hopes of sharing more budget news soon. The chamber then moved to third reading and took up a major bill on citizen initiatives and constitutional amendments, with sponsors saying it was needed to address documented petition fraud and to protect the integrity of the process.
That bill drew extensive debate. Supporters argued that recent investigations showed widespread fraud in petition gathering, that the measure would add reasonable guardrails, and that it would prevent taxpayer-funded government messaging from being used to influence ballot measures. Opponents said the bill would make it much harder for ordinary Floridians to place amendments on the ballot by adding costs, deadlines, registration requirements, fines, and felony exposure, and they warned it would chill grassroots participation and effectively favor wealthy or corporate-backed campaigns. After debate, the Senate passed the bill 28-10.
The Senate then adopted several House amendments and concurred on a series of education and public-safety measures, including bills on stem cell therapy, student-athlete electrocardiograms, cardiac emergency planning in schools, school safety, Bright Futures and other education policy items, and educator preparation. Most of those measures passed unanimously or with overwhelming support, and the chamber also recognized additional interns and a long-serving education advocate before recessing and returning to continue with House messages.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- California has passed a number of disclosure rules over the years related to mail, TV, social media posts
- It also, in the event that someone monkeys with the mail system, provides for perhaps additional days
- appreciate the author's effort to address the elections officials' concerns related to the vote-by-mail
- ballot drop locations and your willingness to delete the extended vote-by-mail receipt deadline.
- Additionally, the deadline for the list to be provided to candidates always falls on a Saturday, which
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- However, at the end of the appeal deadline, from what I understand, we probably have maybe a handful
- or not mail those out if the business personal property $75,000 exemption wiped out the account.
- balance notice or not mail those zero balance notice or not mail those out<00:53:35.599><c> if</c><00
- </c> they saw those forms come in the mail they saw those forms come in the mail that<02:03:04.159><c
- When do the tax bills have to be mailed, when are they due?
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Elect Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- The deadline for the defendants to appeal passed earlier this month.
- We are also very pleased to see the inclusion of the absentee ballot application deadlines.
- In section 6, the office would prefer 5 days for absentee applications to be received by mail, email,
- if there was a delay in the mail, they would actually receive it before election day.
- The policy deadline obviously is Friday.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- But give them an opportunity to cure just like we do with vote by mail.
- But before February 2nd, because February 1st is the deadline.
- a 14-day deadline, and there's a 28-day deadline.
- I was trying to figure out, are those standard deadlines, or are those just deadlines where you felt
- It doesn't say that states can't have deadlines that are shorter.
Summary:
The Senate began with opening prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness, and a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. The chamber also observed a moment of silence for former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. After routine business, the Senate took up several special-order bills.
The first major bill, transportation offenses involving death, increased penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide offenses. An amendment added penalties for refusal to submit to breath or urine testing and required law enforcement to notify suspects of those penalties. The bill passed 37-0. The Senate then passed SB 306 on Medicaid providers, requiring broader after-hours and holiday access to care and setting network standards for Medicaid managed care plans, also by a 37-0 vote.
The chamber next considered a major condominium and cooperative associations bill responding to post-Surfside safety and financial concerns. Senators described the measure as balancing building safety with financial relief, extending reserve-study deadlines, allowing temporary reserve relief after inspections, tightening oversight of managers and inspectors, and adjusting voting, resale, and reserve rules. After extensive debate and praise from members for the bill’s sponsors and staff, the bill passed 37-0.
The longest discussion centered on a constitutional amendments/petition process bill aimed at curbing fraud in citizen initiative petitions. Sponsors argued that the 2024 petition process was plagued by fraud and identity theft and proposed tighter rules for circulators, faster submission deadlines, voter notification, penalties, and limits on petition handling. Senators offered and adopted multiple amendments, including changes to petition-circulator definitions, invalid-signature thresholds, and voter notification procedures. After a substitute amendment was withdrawn, the Senate continued debating the underlying amended bill, with members split between concerns about election integrity and worries that the bill would burden volunteers and make it harder for citizen initiatives to qualify.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So we're really going to be pushing for that April deadline.
- You said a mailing address; does that include a physical address?
- We really don't want any of this to be mailed at all, period.
- We really don't want any of this to be mailed at all, period.
- supply you can't get that they're just mailing to people?
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Ethics and Elections Mar 10th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- THIS MIRRORS THE VOTE BY MAIL STATUTE.
- THEY ARE PROVIDING INFORMATION AND IT IS BEING MAILED BACK TO THEIR SUPERVISOR.
- YOU MENTIONED ABOUT PETITIONS BEING MAILED, I AGREE THAT'S A VERY ORGANIZED WAY.
- THE INDIVIDUAL HAS TO MAIL IT BACK ON THEIR OWN.
- VOTE BY MAIL, OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITH THE BALLOT.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (02/19/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:44:46.680><c> and</c> Envision people opening their mail and Envision people opening their mail
- </c> get mailed this letter you get mailed get mailed this letter you get mailed the<00:44:58.599><c>
- an even longer deadline, or at least the same deadline, correct?
- deadline or at least<03:02:04.560><c> the</c><03:02:04.640><c> same</c><03:02:04.880><c> deadline</c
- </c> week before our division deadline week before our division deadline so<03:02:34.960><c> if</c><03
Summary:
The committee first took up HB 129, which would redefine “evidence-based” in public education. Department of Education testimony said the bill’s definition would conflict with the federal definition and be unusually restrictive, potentially affecting curriculum, educator training, and many existing state requirements. The department said it could force a broad overhaul of school programs and create a need for at least one new state position, with local districts likely facing significant unbudgeted costs. Members raised concerns about impacts on federal pass-through funding, curriculum materials, and whether the bill was workable at all.
Several members said the proposal would be too costly and difficult to implement, especially during a tight budget cycle. Representative Papovich moved to retain HB 129, and the motion passed 7-0. Members who supported retention said they wanted to set the bill aside because of the scale of the concerns, while also stating they did not support the bill as written.
The committee then opened HB 133, dealing with DMV follow-up on residency and licensing issues tied to voting and other interactions. Department of Safety/DMV officials said the bill would require a $40,000 technology update plus a full-time position to handle manual correspondence and review of possible matches, and that postage was not included in the fiscal note. They said the bill’s 60-day residency trigger is vague, that the DMV would be acting outside its normal role by investigating status after the fact, and that the measure could create privacy and operational problems. Members questioned whether the bill would effectively force people to buy a driver’s license to vote, whether non-driver and voter ID options would avoid that concern, and whether the Secretary of State rather than DMV would be the more appropriate agency to handle any follow-up.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (01/21/2025)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, and I would also echo the chair's question about the deadline as it applies to primary elections
- So, I think perhaps some modification may be required on the deadline.
- The recount deadline, extending it 15 days, feels is too long of a time frame given the UOCAVA ballots
- c> recount</c> have already been brought up the recount have already been brought up the recount deadline
- extending it 15 days feel is is deadline extending it 15 days feel is is too<00:40:29.839><c> long</
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Oregon for example do everything by mail Oregon for example do everything by mail um<00:14:50.880
- </c><00:33:35.679><c> is</c> that every vote cast by mail is that every vote cast by mail is legitimate
- It deals only with mail-in applications that are requesting a ballot to be mailed to an address other
- </c><01:43:14.119><c> it</c> they either hand it out or mail it they either hand it out or mail it out
- </c> just to clarify that the 45-day deadline just to clarify that the 45-day deadline applies<03:31: