Transcript Highlights:

• Yes, they conduct active immigration enforcement in the community and serve immigration-related warrants
• Just this week in San Antonio, ...of immigrants.
• Just this week in San Antonio, immigrants going to court—immigrants that had followed the process under
• Senator Schwertner, I think any study that's credible will show you that undocumented immigrants have
• I'll only say that our undocumented immigrants that serve in this country and in this state have done

Summary: The Senate opened with an invocation and then took up several conference committee matters and resolutions. It granted the House request for a conference committee on House Bill 46 and adopted a conference report on Senate Bill 37, which was described as higher education governance reform, including stronger board authority, changes to faculty senates, general education requirements, and a new ombudsman office. Senators also adopted a large package of resolutions and HCRs by voice vote. A major focus was Senate Bill 12, the “Parental Bill of Rights,” whose conference report was adopted after extended questioning. The bill was described as giving parents more access to school materials and grievance procedures, requiring parental consent for student clubs, and restricting school district employees from assisting with social transitioning or related gender-identity instruction. Senators raised concerns about effects on students already socially transitioned and on parental rights in medical or psychological decisions; the author said the House language was retained in key areas and that districts would need policies and parent notification. The report passed 20-11. The Senate then adopted a resolution allowing the conference committee on Senate Bill 1, the state budget for fiscal years 2026-2027, to go outside the bounds, and later adopted the budget conference report. Senators highlighted major funding for public education, property tax relief, public safety, health and human services, child care, water and transportation infrastructure, and the Texas Energy Fund. The budget discussion also covered higher education, mental health facilities, community attendant wages, rural hospitals, DFPS case management, child care assistance, and a study rider on TRS. The report passed unanimously, 30-0. Finally, the Senate suspended rules to take up Senate Bill 8 and adopted its conference report. The bill requires counties with jails or jail contracts to participate in the federal 287(g) immigration enforcement program, with sheriffs choosing among available models and counties receiving tiered grants to help cover costs. Supporters framed it as a public safety measure targeting criminal illegal aliens, while opponents questioned whether it would divert local resources and increase fear in immigrant communities. The report was adopted after debate.

Transcript Highlights:

• violating immigration laws. violating immigration laws.
• immigration enforcement. immigration enforcement.
• criminal immigration enforcement. criminal immigration enforcement.
• immigration enforcement. immigration enforcement.
• It is civil immigration<01:34:34.240> enforcement immigration enforcement immigration enforcement

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• including legal immigration immigration including legal immigration and<04:26:07.600> believe
• But this bill doesn't even focus on the culpable class of undocumented immigrants who commit crimes that
• But let’s remember undocumented immigrants: they didn’t make college unaffordable, they didn’t destroy
• but let let's remember undocumented but let let's remember undocumented immigrants<04:58:34.120>
• An undocumented immigrant, or illegal alien, whatever you want to call it, he was a member of the 18th

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• It could be anecdotal, but what percentage of these workers are illegal immigrants?
• to this country victims are immigrants to this country um<02:28:00.240> and<02:28:00.359>
• Representative Shear, uh, how does federal immigration law, if at all, treat undocumented individuals
• How does federal immigration law, if at all, treat undocumented individuals who are victims of crimes
• We don't look at anybody as anything other than victims, whether they're undocumented or residents.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• HIPAA protects patient information, including immigration status.
• Many of those came from chefs who, unfortunately, are undocumented.
• Hospitals are places of care, not immigration enforcement.
• Undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for access, except for limited emergency care required
• Immigration enforcement belongs with the federal government, not in hospitals.

Bills: SB1051, SB1114, SB1115, SB1122, SB1132, SB1162, SB1169, SB1171, SB1172, SB1173, SB1174, SB1175, SB1179, SB1188, SB1233, SB1236, SB1242, SB1316, SB1368

Keywords: SB1051, Arizona hospitals, immigration status, patient intake, admission forms, registration forms, health care reporting, uncompensated care, emergency department, lawfully present, undocumented immigrants, noncitizen patients, hospital funding, Arizona Department of Health Services, ADHS, border security, health care institutions, patient privacy, medical access, immigration policy

Transcript Highlights:

• enforcement the sheriff's immigration enforcement the sheriff's immigration enforcement and detainer
• of immigration and housing violators of immigration and housing violators of immigration laws this bill
• to the Immigrant have direct connections to the Immigrant have direct connections to the Immigrant Community
• I've sb53 I have studied immigration I've sb53 I have studied immigration I've worked alongside immigrant
• immigrants and so what to undocumented immigrants and so what to undocumented immigrants and so what

Bills: SB82, SB78, SB4, SB6, SB62, SB66, SB77, SB63, SB79, SB53, SB55, HB14

Keywords: SB82, warrant recall, outstanding warrants, stale warrants, misdemeanor warrants, Class B misdemeanor, Class C misdemeanor, municipal magistrate, circuit court clerk, criminal procedure, court administration, docket cleanup, warrant audit, law enforcement notification, domestic violence, sex offense, weapons offense, deadly weapon, dangerous instrument, felony-related charges

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• Is there any agreement about the vehicle by which you'd pass the undocumented immigrant MinnesotaCare
• immigrants.
• immigrants.
• Undocumented immigrant healthcare. Look, we weren't part of that agreement.
• Undocumented immigrant healthcare. Look, we weren't part of that agreement.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• immigrants. ...as well as state revenues generated by undocumented immigrants.
• Undocumented immigrants are an integral part of our state's workforce, as Senator Gutierrez pointed out
• immigrants.
• Undocumented immigrants are an integral part of our state's workforce, as Senator Gutierrez pointed out
• immigration, we will be a better partner to the federal government in crafting changes in our immigration

Summary: The Senate opened with an invocation by Pastor Jim Harris of Tilden Baptist Church, followed by remarks from Senator Zaffirini recognizing his service and retirement as an agricultural teacher. The chamber also received a message from the governor on appointments to the Coastal Water Authority Board of Directors. Senators then adopted SR 434 honoring Goodwill Industries of San Antonio’s 80th anniversary, with Senators Gutierrez, Menendez, and Zaffirini praising its workforce training and second-chance employment mission; SR 435 recognizing Dr. Christine Ramos Camacho as Doctor of the Day; and a group of additional resolutions adopted by voice vote. Senator Zaffirini also introduced the McMullen County Day delegation, and Senator Gutierrez introduced the Doctor of the Day. The Senate then took up and passed several bills. SB 1951 addressed penalties for late property rendition filings and removed a financial incentive for appraisal districts; SB 1261 related to financing water supply projects in the state water plan; SB 1620 created a Texas Forensic Analyst Apprenticeship Pilot Program; SB 530 updated higher-education accreditation rules; SB 2183 standardized fireworks sales periods statewide; SB 2368 strengthened the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act and added foreign-affiliation safeguards for electricity market participants; SB 1398 limited children without placement (CWOP) practices and added community-based care transparency; and SB 1960 established digital replication rights for voice and visual likenesses. Each of these bills advanced through suspension of the regular order, passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage, with recorded votes generally showing strong support and some opposition on a few measures. The chamber also debated SB 825, which would require an annual study of the economic, environmental, and financial impacts of illegal immigration. Senators Middleton, Hinojosa, Gutierrez, and Eckhardt debated whether the study should include positive as well as negative impacts; an amendment to require that broader analysis failed, and the bill was left pending after passage to engrossment. Other measures passed included SB 2010, prohibiting political subdivisions from operating guaranteed income programs; SB 546, requiring reporting and continued implementation of school bus seat belts; SB 586, establishing the Historical Texas Cemetery designation program; SB 1150, requiring inactive oil and gas wells to be plugged or returned to production under a compliance plan; SB 1184, lowering the minimum age of wine eligible for sale by wine collection sellers; SB 2185, clarifying bilingual education allotment funding; SB 1923, making child support follow the child in certain temporary placements; SB 2252, expanding early literacy and numeracy supports and screening tools; SB 1870, barring local decriminalization of drugs; and SB 2405, the major TDCJ sunset bill, which included facility planning, parole and rehabilitation reforms, and an amendment protecting parole board discretion. Most of these bills were adopted after floor amendments and passed with recorded votes, often along party-line or near-party-line divisions.

Transcript Highlights:

• I know a lot of people standing here don't like the give on undocumented immigrants on MNCare.
• I know a lot of people standing here don't like the give on undocumented immigrants on MNCare.
• I know a lot of people standing here don't like the give on undocumented immigrants on MNCare.
• So your contention is that ensuring these undocumented immigrants is actually saving money rather than
• They want to open up paid leave, but don't you all want to open up the undocumented health care?

Keywords: 1183, house

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• illegal immigrants over your own citizens?
• So I know a lot of people in this body want to expand Medi-Cal to undocumented immigrants.
• If we say we stand with our immigrant communities, then we have to stand with them fully.
• , who are immigrants, who come... ...that are people who are undocumented, who are immigrants, who contribute
• for illegal immigrants when our California citizens right now are suffering.

Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call and proceeded to floor business, with the main item being SB 101, the state budget bill. Before debate on the bill, Assembly Member Sanchez offered amendments to redirect funding toward Proposition 36 implementation, wildfire prevention, Medi-Cal provider reimbursement, developmental services, and other priorities; the majority moved to lay those amendments on the table, and the motion passed 43-18. The chamber then took up SB 101 as the budget bill for immediate effect. Debate on the budget was extensive and sharply divided. Supporters, including Assembly Member Gabriel and several committee chairs, described the budget as a difficult but responsible compromise that protects Medi-Cal, IHSS, child care, housing, wildfire prevention, and other safety-net programs while responding to a projected deficit and federal uncertainty. Opponents criticized the budget as fiscally unsound and argued it relied on accounting gimmicks, did not adequately fund Proposition 36 or wildfire prevention, and continued spending on high-speed rail and Medi-Cal coverage for undocumented immigrants. Several members also raised concerns about gas taxes, provider reimbursement, probation funding, and the impact on vulnerable Californians. After debate, the Assembly voted on SB 101 and passed it 57-19. The measure was sent immediately to the Senate. The body then announced upcoming session schedules, with no floor or check-in sessions on June 14 and 15, and a floor session set for June 16 at 1 p.m., before adjourning.

Transcript Highlights:

• We've heard about how the rollback for undocumented immigrants goes in.
• <00:05:02.160> roll<00:05:02.400> back<00:05:02.800> for<00:05:03.040> undocumented
• minare roll back for undocumented minare roll back for undocumented immigrants<00:05:04.240>
• <00:05:04.720> We've<00:05:04.880> heard<00:05:05.040> about immigrants um goes
• We've heard about immigrants um goes in.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: A state leader briefed reporters on ongoing budget negotiations, saying talks were still active and that he remained optimistic a responsible Minnesota budget could be completed soon. He emphasized the legislature’s narrow margins, the need to finish the remaining bills, and the goal of producing a budget that leaves money on the bottom line, invests in priorities that improve Minnesotans’ lives, and reduces a projected structural imbalance in 2028-29. A major focus was the risk of a government shutdown and the possibility of a special session. He said state agencies, including MMB, had already prepared contingency plans, with essential 24/7 operations such as corrections and state patrol continuing if a shutdown occurred. He noted that if no agreement is reached by Monday, he is contractually obligated to send out more than 28,000 potential layoff notices, which he said would create unnecessary uncertainty and chaos. He said he wanted a one-day special session and that the bills had already gone to revisers, with the remaining work centered on final amendments, votes, and agreement on procedure. When asked about policy sticking points, he declined to go into specifics because the negotiations were fragile, but acknowledged that the talks covered a wide range of issues, including transportation funding, undocumented immigrants, and non-competes. He said the challenge was not one issue alone but the fact that every legislator could effectively become a veto point on the overall deal. He described the process as difficult but collaborative, said the bills were nearly finished and would be posted for public review, and expressed confidence that lawmakers would reach a budget agreement in the next few days.

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• state exclusively to undocumented state exclusively to undocumented immigrants<00:59:18.880>
• Eighteen states have figured out how to have undocumented immigrants' drivers properly road tested and
• Eighteen states have figured out how to have undocumented immigrants' drivers properly road tested and
• <01:07:29.599> immigrants<01:07:30.839> drivers have undocumented immigrants drivers
• have undocumented immigrants drivers properly<01:07:32.400> Road<01:07:33.240> tested<

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• So, anybody that is a undocumented immigrant that is convicted of a Class A misdemeanor going to get
• So, anybody that is a undocumented<03:08:31.560> immigrant undocumented immigrant undocumented
• It's been mentioned that there are some 19 states that issue license to undocumented immigrants.
• <04:01:03.520> Is<04:01:03.560> that undocumented immigrants.
• Is that undocumented immigrants. Is that correct? correct? correct?

Keywords: MS House Floor - 31 March, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

Summary: The House convened with prayer, a guest vocalist, and the Pledge of Allegiance before moving into routine business. Members first recognized several special guests and school groups, including championship teams from Simpson County Academy, New Albany High School, Tougaloo College, Madison-Richland Academy, East Rankin Academy, Morton High School, and others, along with honorees such as Dr. Katrina Cox, Pamela Moody, Joe Helen Joey Walker, and Jimmy Carr. The chamber also noted a prior resolution honoring Reverend Dr. Victor Dixon and the Copiah County Ministerial Alliance, and Dr. Dixon led the opening prayer. On the calendar, the House adopted a conference report on House Bill 1752 dealing with judicial salaries. The report set new salary amounts for state court judges effective January 1, 2027, froze district attorney salary increases until January 1, 2028, and then tied DAs to 95% of circuit and chancery judges’ pay. It also removed mandatory raise language for judges and county court judges, and members briefly discussed the broader issue of legislative compensation. The report passed 115-2. The House then adopted a conference report on House Bill 377, the missing persons bill, which clarified definitions, added forensic genetic genealogy testing provisions, and set timelines for law enforcement to enter credible missing-person reports into NamUs and NCIC. That report passed 120-0. The chamber also adopted a conference report on House Bill 525, changing the penalty for sexual battery in a position of trust or authority from a 0-to-30-year range to a 5-to-30-year range; it passed 112-0. Later, the House adopted a conference report on House Bill 925 after removing veto-message language, and adopted another conference report on House Bill 939 combining a low-sat repealer change and a fire truck acquisition program that creates a Fire Equipment Fund supported by recurring black tag revenue. The House also approved unanimous-consent amendments to Senate Bill 3105 and recommitted Senate Bill 2747 for further work.

Transcript Highlights:

• immigrants.
• immigrants, would not be appropriate.
• immigrants.
• immigrants, would not be appropriate.
• <00:21:44.960> don't they assume that all immigrants don't they assume that all immigrants

Bills: HB585

Keywords: Washington County, circuit clerk, compensation, county government, local legislation, 1136, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It costs us to take care of many immigrants, but also is there any benefit that immigrants are contributing
• ... ...buckets of money, for example, to house illegal immigrants.
• a whole on the state, not just undocumented people.”
• and not a study of illegal immigration, or at least a study of international immigration, and to the
• extent illegal immigration could be determined?

Bills: SB825

Keywords: illegal immigration, economic impact, environmental impact, financial impact, annual study, Texas, government report

Summary: The Senate Committee on Border Security heard testimony on Senate Bill 825 by Senator Middleton, as substituted, which would require an annual or biennial study of the economic, environmental, and financial impacts of illegal immigration in Texas. Middleton said the bill is intended to provide lawmakers with comprehensive data on costs to law enforcement, health care, education, infrastructure, and taxpayers, and to support possible federal reimbursement claims. Several senators, including Hinojosa and Eckhardt, agreed that a study is needed but raised concerns about bias, the scope of the study, and whether the Comptroller’s Office rather than the governor’s office should conduct it. Middleton argued the governor’s office was the best coordinating entity because it could direct multiple agencies to provide data, while Hinojosa and others emphasized the Comptroller’s expertise and prior 2006 study. Public testimony was generally supportive of the idea of a study but critical of the bill’s framing. Sarah Cruz of the ACLU of Texas said the study should be a full cost-benefit analysis and warned that focusing only on costs could create an anti-immigrant narrative. Danny Woodward of the Texas Civil Rights Project also supported the concept but recommended moving the study to the Comptroller or, alternatively, creating a neutral commission. Jaime Pointe of Every Texan likewise supported updating the 2006 analysis and said state agencies should be able to cooperate with a governor-led study. Resource witnesses from the governor’s office, HHSC, TEA, OCA, TDCJ, and DPS explained that data collection would be uneven across agencies. HHSC and TEA said they often do not collect immigration status and, in TEA’s case, federal law limits schools from requesting such information; OCA and TDCJ said they could provide only partial or indirect data unless new reporting requirements were added. DPS said it already has Operation Lone Star data but would need to collect additional information if tasked with the broader study. The chair asked the governor’s office to provide a follow-up answer on separation-of-powers and related authority questions by the following Tuesday, and the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair without taking a vote on the bill.

Transcript Highlights:

• Last month, zero illegal immigrants were Last month, zero illegal immigrants were released<02:10:32.960
• Under current immigration law, undocumented people are already both inadmissible and deportable.
• Over the past four years, the Biden administration has allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to
• amendment to ensure that immigration amendment to ensure that immigration judges<02:51:24.000>
• > act<03:04:48.080> to immigration and nationality act to immigration and nationality act

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, June 26, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• So adults on MinnesotaCare as undocumented, that will come to an end.
• undocumented, that will come to an end. undocumented, that will come to an end. children<00:13:38.880
• I'd also like to just comment briefly on undocumented health care for undocumented Minnesotans.
• and children of immigrants, and this is a deeply personal issue.
• immigrants starting on January 1st.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Denying community supervision for illegal immigrants emphasizes accountability.
• That illegal immigration, illegal immigration into our state and into our country is an issue here in
• Um, that, that parole is not an option for these illegal immigrants.
• ICE with the immigration, um, service and, and allows ICE to come in.
• And, uh, one illegal immigrant in this state that commits a crime is one too many.

Bills: HB153

Transcript Highlights:

• <00:03:50.799> Now,<00:03:51.360> um, care to undocumented residents.
• Now, um, care to undocumented residents.
• /c><00:04:03.760> you I think unfortunately this taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants
• <00:04:56.160> So, 20,000 illegal immigrant enroles.
• So, 20,000 illegal immigrant enroles.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• , newly new citizens and immigrants.
• to sit down in immigrant communities.
• And when I speak about the immigrant community that we work with, it's not only the undocumented families
• Or, like I was saying earlier, in many immigrant households, in many immigrant homes, you have easily
• was undocumented for a period of time.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate Committee on the Census held an early planning hearing on how Massachusetts can maximize participation in the 2030 census, with Chair Will Brownsberger and Vice Chair Rebecca Rausch emphasizing the need to start well in advance. The first panel, made up of leaders from the Massachusetts Voter Table, MassVOTE, MIRA, and MESA, stressed that grassroots community organizations are trusted messengers and should be funded early to do multilingual outreach, training, and direct assistance in hard-to-count communities. They described lessons from 2020, including the shift to internet response, reduced federal census infrastructure, the importance of coordinated statewide networks, and the need to begin messaging several years before Census Day because building trust and staffing outreach takes time. Panelists repeatedly warned that immigrant communities are facing heightened fear because of federal immigration enforcement and the possibility of a citizenship question or other federal changes, making census participation more difficult. They said 2020 funding arrived too late to fully staff and train outreach teams before the pandemic, and argued that future resources should be deployed earlier and more flexibly. In response to committee questions, they estimated Massachusetts should invest roughly $8 million to $10 million or more in state census outreach, with one proposed model of about $3 million to $5 million at the start, additional funding in the middle years, and a larger final push closer to 2030. They also suggested that funding should support communications infrastructure, translation, social media and ethnic media outreach, and possibly a permanent complete count structure or trust fund to preserve institutional knowledge. A second panel from Common Cause Massachusetts and the ACLU of Massachusetts echoed the call for stronger, earlier investment and stronger privacy protections. They urged the legislature to expand existing census line items, consider a trust fund or other dedicated funding stream, and coordinate census outreach with other state programs that already work through trusted community messengers. The ACLU testimony focused on racial inequities in census counts and warned that federal efforts to exclude non-citizens or add a citizenship question would deepen distrust and undercount immigrant communities. Committee members asked about the 2020 overcount/undercount results, funding levels, timing of grant distribution, and whether census outreach should be routed through the Secretary of the Commonwealth or other state mechanisms; no votes were taken, and the hearing moved on to a later panel on immigrant-community outreach.