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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Mar 19th, 2025

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, we know they're beyond the 25 feet.
  • That would, you know, clearly be within the 25 feet. Twenty-five feet is just shy of 10 yards.
  • They just have to know to stay 25 feet away.
  • I asked you where is 24 feet?
  • So that's 24 feet... You're not in a threat, so that's 24 feet.
Bills: HB403, HB224
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Natural Resources & Energy. (3-11-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 100, I think, is an important bill for us to look at in these times where we've talked just
  • So, what does Senate Bill 100 do? It makes EPIC more independent.
  • But SB 100 with this particular provision would change that structure.
  • But SB 100 with this particular provision would change that structure.
  • But SB 100 with this particular provision would change that structure.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Next up on our agenda is Senate Bill 100, and it is sponsored by Senator Jimmy Higdon.
  • As I mentioned before, we have a sub to Senate Bill 100. Do I have a motion to adopt PSS1?
  • A second violation is a $100 fine to the clerk and a $500 fine to the retailer.
  • The third violation is a $100 fine to the sales clerk and a $1,000 fine to the retailer.
  • All right, Senate Bill 100 passes with favorable expression.
Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations met on February 18, 2025, and first took up Senate Bill 22 by Senator Reginald Thomas, which was presented as a cleanup measure following prior cosmetology reforms and a Legislative Oversight and Investigations report. The bill would allow cosmetologists to retake exams multiple times with a one-month wait, authorize the Board of Cosmetology to immediately close facilities that intentionally use unlicensed workers while preserving due process, give the board flexibility to hire an executive director based on qualifications rather than licensure, and recognize certain out-of-state or territorial cosmetology licenses. Board officials said the changes were intended to improve fairness, equality, and administrative due process. Senators asked about retesting fees and whether partial retests could dilute standards; Thomas clarified that the exam is cumulative and must be retaken in full. The committee approved SB 22 with all favorable votes, and Senator Meredith explained his support as a workforce and fairness issue. The committee then heard Senate Bill 100 by Senator Jimmy Higdon, as substituted, concerning tobacco, nicotine, and vapor product retail licensing and enforcement. Youth advocates from the University of Kentucky testified in support, describing youth nicotine use as a public health crisis and urging stronger enforcement, annual compliance checks, retailer licensing, and tougher penalties for illegal sales to minors. Higdon said the bill would create a Division of Tobacco, Nicotine, and Vapor Products Licensing within ABC, require licenses for retailers, authorize inspections and confiscation of contraband, impose escalating criminal and civil penalties for unlicensed sales and sales to minors, publish a list of licensed retailers, and dedicate fine revenue to enforcement and youth education. He said the measure targeted bad actors rather than responsible retailers. A retailer witness also supported licensing but raised concerns about contradictory product definitions that could sweep in hemp and medical marijuana vapor products, and asked that the bill be delayed until after an expected Supreme Court decision affecting federal vapor-product rules. The transcript ends during discussion of SB 100, before any committee vote on that bill.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Energy. (3-19-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So first I'd like to start with Senate Bill 100. Representative McCool. Here.
  • Bill 100 has a committee sub, if you Bill 100 has a committee sub, if you wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't
  • So, next we have a motion to approve Senate Bill 100 as amended by the committee sub.
  • And are you 100% sure Lowe's has that? Absolutely. Yes.
  • 100% sure Lowe's has that? Absolutely. 100% sure Lowe's has that? Absolutely.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
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  • The parts dealing with Senate Bill 100 go into effect January 1, 2026.
  • The basic change to Senate Bill 100 was it raised the fee for a license from $250 to $500.
  • With Senate Bill 100, um, go into effect January 1, 2026.
  • I agree with you 100% that we should treat these products with parity.
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 100, which would place cigarettes, vapes, and related nicotine products under the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) system, add enforcement tools against bad actors, and regulate nitrous oxide/laughing gas sales to those under 21. Supporters, including youth advocates Mallerie Jones and Griffin Kian Neth, argued the bill would reduce youth access to nicotine products through retail licensing, compliance checks, and escalating penalties. Higdon said the bill targets illegal sales rather than most retailers, and noted the measure also updates House Bill 11 from the prior year and raises the retail license fee from $250 to $500. The committee adopted the committee substitute and then passed the bill on a roll call vote, with members voting yes and no opposition recorded in the transcript. The committee then considered Senate Bill 202, focused on cannabis-infused beverages. Senator Julie Raque Adams said the bill was intended to create common-sense public health guardrails for a rapidly growing product category sold in gas stations, liquor stores, and vape shops, and to address enforcement gaps. She explained the committee substitute would define cannabis-infused beverages at a 5-milligram limit per 12-ounce can, place enforcement under ABC while keeping CHFS manufacturing and testing rules in place, require a University of Kentucky report back to the General Assembly, allow existing higher-dose inventory to be sold through June 1, exempt festivals and fairs until January 1, 2026, and allow stores to obtain licenses to continue selling the product. The committee adopted the substitute and then heard testimony from hemp-industry representatives and a consumer. Opponents of SB 202/SB 22, including Dee Taylor of the Kentucky Hemp Association, Cornbread Hemp co-founder Jim Higdon, Annie Rouse of Cannabuzz Barn, and consumer Nancy Roberts, argued the bill would hurt a legal Kentucky hemp industry, reduce consumer access, and force sales into liquor stores. They said the 100-milligram beverage referenced in debate is actually 10 servings with a resealable top, that hemp retailers educate customers, and that the industry already operates under 2024 regulations and needs better enforcement rather than new restrictions. Higdon and Rouse objected to the 5-milligram cap, the on-premise sales ban, the move to ABC enforcement, and the taxation approach, warning the bill could wipe out a large share of business and jobs. No final vote on SB 202 was taken in the portion of the transcript provided.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 15th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • They actually impaneled three juries of 100 people each.
  • Richard Hayes: What I would say is, you know, 99 out of 100 clients I would never make them available
  • walk with them through their trauma, sometimes hand in hand, into the courtroom where they sit six feet
Bills: HB200
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: HF2090, HF982, HF2229