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MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Agriculture Committee Meeting - 2025-04-09

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We would ask that you work with the Minnesota Office of Pipeline Safety and impacted stakeholders on
  • Finance contains the Department of Agriculture, the Board of Animal Health, AURI, and the DEED Office
  • of Broadband Development.
  • Broadband, in and of itself, doesn't have jurisdiction. Over locates.
  • Broadband calls and comes alongside to ensure a safe implementation of that.
Bills: HF2446
Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The last agency within the committee's purview is on line 261, which is the DEED Office of Broadband
  • Section 2 appropriates money to DEED for the Office of Broadband Development.
  • Section 2 appropriates money to DEED for the Office of Broadband Development.
  • broadband throughout the Office of Pipeline Safety and local permitting authorities, we are committed
  • <00:47:21.880> broadband the safe installation of broadband the safe installation of broadband
Bills: HF1704
Keywords: Minnesota agriculture budget, Department of Agriculture appropriation, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, farm bill, rural development, agricultural grants, soil health, livestock compensation, crop damage, meat inspection, poultry inspection, county agricultural inspectors, biofertilizer, nitrogen management, commercial nitrogen fertilizer, water quality, farm down payment assistance, beginning farmers
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • is now under the bill is that Broadband is now under the jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdiction of<00
  • He noted that we have a trade office and can focus on how to develop new partnerships with other countries
  • He said we have a trade office and can focus on how to develop new partnerships with other countries.
  • He said you are in direct control of this budget that is in front of us today, and one of the few things
  • <00:31:24.000> that<00:31:24.120> we're of of guiding to consensus that we're of of
Bills: HF1704, HF2052
Keywords: Minnesota agriculture budget, Department of Agriculture appropriation, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, farm bill, rural development, agricultural grants, soil health, livestock compensation, crop damage, meat inspection, poultry inspection, county agricultural inspectors, biofertilizer, nitrogen management, commercial nitrogen fertilizer, water quality, farm down payment assistance, beginning farmers
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Modernization and Technology Feb 9th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Government Modernization and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, House Bill 2293 extends the sunset on the Oklahoma Broadband Office until December 31, 2030.
  • program, which is a Broadband Equity Access Development program, a federal program.
  • With a vote of six and one, we declare the bill to have passed. Thank you. Thank you, members.
  • With a vote of five aye and two nay, I declare your bill to have passed. Thank you, members.
  • House Bill 3545 sets responsible standards for state agency use of AI.
Bills: HB2293, HB3176, HB3545, HB3546
Keywords: broadband, Oklahoma Broadband Office, broadband access, statewide broadband plan, internet connectivity, funding, grant programs, expansion council, termination plan, Oklahoma, Gas Hub, artificial intelligence, national laboratory, public-private partnerships, aerospace, high-performance computing, economic development, state agencies, high-risk AI decisions, deepfakes
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 4/9/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • finance contains the Department of Agriculture, the Board of Animal Health, AURI, and the DEED Office
  • of Broadband Development.
  • the responsibility of the department as far as implementing the rural areas of broadband.
  • animal health, AURI, and the deed of animal health, AURI, and the deed office<00:32:19.279> of
  • > Broadband<00:32:43.039> in<00:32:43.200> of<00:32:43.279> itself Broadband
Bills: HF2446
Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • There are no changes to the Office of Broadband Development, but it does maintain its base funding on
  • <00:13:16.480> of<00:13:16.639> broadband<00:13:17.120> development.
  • <00:13:17.760> Um<00:13:18.000> but office of broadband development.
  • Um but office of broadband development.
  • Section 2 appropriates money to DEED for the Office of Broadband Development. 20,000.
Bills: HF2446
Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Technology and Telecommunications 2ND REVISED Apr 16th, 2026 at 08:45 am

Technology and Telecommunications

Transcript Highlights:
  • effect on the social, emotional, and physical development of minors with overuse of these AI social
  • that I have had with the Oklahoma Broadband Office and how they will wind down.
  • So what we're asking is for the Oklahoma Broadband Office to develop a plan, kind of their window plan
  • The office shall develop a comprehensive plan, bring it to the board.
  • I know what we do with a lot of offices; they make annual reports to sometimes.
Bills: HB1782, HB2293, HB3176, HB3544, HB3546, HB3619, HB4358
Keywords: artificial intelligence, education reform, innovation, funding, advisory council, broadband, Oklahoma Broadband Office, broadband access, statewide broadband plan, internet connectivity, grant programs, expansion council, termination plan, Oklahoma, Gas Hub, national laboratory, public-private partnerships, aerospace, high-performance computing, economic development
AZ
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/29/2026 - House Rural Economic Development

Rural Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Apache Junction for the expansion of broadband and fiber optic networks.
  • So there are a lot of reasons we need to increase, develop, and build our broadband.
  • of a rural business and workforce hub, rural infrastructure revitalization, and development of a rural
  • It has been kind of left off of the map, and then recently, as of the last redistricting, it was absorbed
  • So it's really hard for us to get any type of economic developments on the Navajo Nation.
Bills: HB2065, HB2066, HB2071, HB2106, HB2237, HB2258
Keywords: appropriation, housing, Apache Junction, affordable housing, rehabilitation, blight abatement, broadband, fiber optic, technology, connectivity, infrastructure, rural development, workforce hub, health services, tourism, recreation, Superstition trails, funding, HB2258, Arizona tourism
Summary: The Committee on Rural Economic Development met briefly, adopted its committee rules, and heard several bills focused largely on Apache Junction, La Paz County, broadband, transportation, and rural economic development. HB 2258 would add La Paz County to Area 4 for representation on the Tourism Advisory Council and was described as correcting an omission; it passed unanimously 7-0. HB 2065 appropriates $9.5 million for Apache Junction housing infrastructure, rehabilitation, and blight abatement; members discussed statewide housing shortages and the need for targeted rural-adjacent investment, and the bill passed 6-1. The committee then considered HB 2066, which appropriates $8 million for broadband and fiber optic expansion in Apache Junction. The sponsor emphasized rural connectivity and safety concerns, especially for the Navajo Nation and students, and expressed openness to federal BEAD funding and amendments; the bill passed 6-1. HB 2106, an emergency measure to direct undistributed county transportation excise tax revenues to ADOT for Pinal County road projects, was explained as a way to use escrowed funds for the voters’ intended purpose after litigation over the tax; it passed unanimously 7-0. Finally, HB 2071 would appropriate $15.5 million for a rural business and workforce hub, infrastructure revitalization, and a rural health and community services facility in Apache Junction. Members discussed whether the proposal should be broadened to other rural areas and the need for accountability and possible amendments, including for the Navajo Nation; it passed 6-1. The chair noted that one remaining bill would be held for the next agenda, and the committee adjourned.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/17/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • of Broadband funding is in this bill, and that is why we carried that provision in the bill.
  • of the Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Committee, and regardless of jurisdiction, I have
  • significant concerns about safety when it comes to the installation of broadband.
  • 58.160> broadband funding so the office of broadband funding so the office of broadband funding
  • um when it comes to the installation of um when it comes to the installation of broadband<00:15:
Bills: HF1704, HF1722
Keywords: Minnesota agriculture budget, Department of Agriculture appropriation, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, farm bill, rural development, agricultural grants, soil health, livestock compensation, crop damage, meat inspection, poultry inspection, county agricultural inspectors, biofertilizer, nitrogen management, commercial nitrogen fertilizer, water quality, farm down payment assistance, beginning farmers
KY
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Tourism, Small Business, and Information Technology (8-29-24)

KY
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government (3-9-23)

TX
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 21st, 2025 at 10:08 am

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • My office has heard from many of my constituents directly impacted by the floods along the Guadalupe
  • of the peace to undergo training developed by DSHS and TDEM on managing mass fatality events.
  • One of the recommendations that was included in the Texas Water Development Board's 2024 State Flood
  • This approval will be through the office of the governor and beginning in 2027 the responsibility will
  • This legislation expands the allowable uses. of the Broadband Infrastructure Fund do include emergency
Bills: HB1, HB 2, HB 3, HB 5, HB20, HB 22
Keywords: youth camps, emergency preparedness, safety standards, health regulations, camp licensing, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace, medical examiner, county judge, sheriff, mayor, emergency coordinator, emergency manager license
Summary: The committee meeting primarily focused on the discussion and passage of several key bills, including SB5, which pertains to supplemental appropriations for disaster relief. This bill was passed unanimously, highlighting the committee's commitment to addressing disaster preparedness. HB20, aimed at reducing fraudulent charitable solicitations during disasters, also saw significant debate, with positive sentiments expressed by its sponsor, Mr. Darby. Additionally, HB22, which expands the authority of the comptroller to fund emergency communication systems, was passed with overwhelming support, indicating a consensus on improving emergency response capabilities within the state. The session concluded with discussions about future legislative measures aimed at strengthening infrastructure against disasters.
TX
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 21st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Emergency Management, Department of State Health Services, my office, the Speaker's Office, and, most
  • Development and operations hydrologist and a science and operations officer.
  • This approval will be through the Office of the Governor, and beginning in 2027...
  • office, so we're not inflating the budget of one single state agency.
  • This is the pot of money that exists for the broadband infrastructure. That's correct.
Bills: HB1, HB2, HB3, HB5, HB20, HB22
Keywords: youth camps, emergency preparedness, safety standards, health regulations, camp licensing, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace, medical examiner, county judge, sheriff, mayor, emergency coordinator, emergency manager license
Summary: The House convened in special session with a gubernatorial proclamation adding subjects related to penalties for legislators who absent themselves, ivermectin access, and groundwater study authority. The chamber also handled routine motions, committee scheduling, and first-reading referrals before moving to the main floor calendar focused largely on disaster response and public safety legislation. The central theme throughout the day was the July 4 flooding and related tragedies, with repeated references to families of victims and the need for stronger preparedness and prevention measures. House Bill 1, on youth camp emergency plans and preparedness, was the most emotional and heavily amended measure. Members adopted changes requiring annual emergency plans for resident youth camps, staff training, parent notification, evacuation maps, floodplain-related disclosures, restrictions on sleeping quarters in flood-prone areas, and funding for enforcement. One proposed amendment to require air conditioning or heat in sleeping quarters failed, while another amendment on floodplain restrictions passed after debate over floodplain versus floodway language. HB 1 ultimately passed the House 136-1 on second reading and later 135-1 on final passage. Senate Bill 2 / House Bill 2 on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery also advanced after extensive discussion. The bill creates training for justices of the peace in mass-fatality events, establishes an emergency manager licensing system, sets local succession procedures, creates a statewide volunteer management system, authorizes drone interdiction in disaster zones, expands disaster loan eligibility, and adds review and planning provisions for certain infrastructure and weather-related issues. Members debated the scope of the training, drone impacts on press coverage, volunteer registration, and infrastructure-related amendments; some proposals were adopted and others tabled or withdrawn. SB 2 passed the House 130-4 on third reading and later 132-4 on final passage. The House also passed House Bill 3 creating the Texas Interoperability Council and a grant program for emergency communications equipment, House Bill 20 addressing disaster-related scams and fraudulent charitable solicitations, House Bill 22 expanding allowable uses of the broadband infrastructure fund for emergency communications, and Senate Bill 5 providing supplemental appropriations for disaster relief, including funds for local warning systems and weather monitoring. Each of these bills passed overwhelmingly, with only one or a few dissenting votes, and members repeatedly emphasized the need to improve coordination, communications, funding, and fraud prevention in the wake of recent disasters.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • type of mode of action.
  • And so thus began the work, 18 months of time to develop a good program that worked for farmers.
  • a<01:32:15.960> a work 18 months of time to develop a a work 18 months of time to develop
  • From there, we moved on with our development of our program.
  • of sustainability, we have developed many markets in our oats.
Bills: HF2446, HF2878, HF2667, HF1795, HF2683, HF2916
Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant
TX
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Ways & Means Mar 3rd, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • First of all, I want to reiterate from the Comptroller's office testimony last week we were told that
  • Homebuilders, remodelers, developers, and associate members across the state of Texas.
  • , of Mexico and other parts of South America.
  • economic development, and yet the people who have been there the longest are sort of watching from the
  • Chairman and members of, of, of this committee.
Bills: HB8, HB9, HJR1, HB 22
Keywords: HB 8, Texas public school accountability, school accountability, public school transparency, STAAR, state assessments, instructionally supportive assessment program, Student Success Tool, Texas Education Agency, TEA, accountability ratings, A-F ratings, through-year assessment, benchmark testing, norm-referenced assessment, college career military readiness, CCMR, local accountability plan, school district performance, campus turnaround
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee considers agriculture finance bill, HF2446 4/21/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • of broadband line.
  • You'll note on line 297 that the DEED Office of Broadband remains unchanged from the base. $136,000 appropriation
  • You'll note on line 297 that the deed<00:17:10.799> office<00:17:10.959> of<00:17:11.120
  • > broadband<00:17:11.919> remains deed office of broadband remains deed office of broadband
  • of<00:24:56.559> annual tens of millions of dollars of annual tens of millions of dollars
Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444
Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/21/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • You'll note on line 297 that the DEED Office of Broadband remains unchanged from the base.
  • Any other questions for the chairs of the ag and broadband committee? Uh, closing remarks.
  • Any other questions for the chairs of the ag and broadband committee? Uh, closing remarks.
  • Any other questions for the chairs of the ag and broadband committee? Uh, closing remarks.
  • Any other questions for the chairs of the ag and broadband committee? Uh, closing remarks.
Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444
Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

HF2444, the veterans and military affairs finance bill, heard in Ways and Means Committee 4/21/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:00:48.239> the walk through the spreadsheet of the walk through the spreadsheet of the
  • of<00:02:57.599> Minnesota.
  • We still the state of Minnesota.
  • governor's column and then, um, a set of governor's column and then, um, a set of columns<00:04:
  • I'll begin with a discussion of Article 2 of the bill, which starts on page 10.
Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444
Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant
TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband May 2nd, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • Development Office is required to use under some of the laws that we've passed.
  • eligible for under the various grants that are provided by the Broadband Development Office.
  • some of those inaccuracies, and the Broadband Development Office is now working with data that reflects
  • With the Broadband Development Office, he's the director.
  • Greg Conte, Director of the Broadband Development Office, here as a witness testifying neutral on this
Bills: HB2838, HB2964, HB3213, SB924
Keywords: broadband, internet access, digital equity, tax reduction, government funding, rural counties, fiber-optic, state funding, infrastructure, digital divide, economic development, fiber-optic cable, excavation, utilities, civil penalties, municipal regulations, video services, regulation, public right-of-way, franchise authority
TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband May 2nd, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair recognizes Shelly Botkin, Executive Director of the Texas Broadband Association.
  • The chair calls up Greg Conte, Broadband Development Office Director at the Comptroller of Public Accounts
  • Yeah, we show you registered as Greg Conte, Broadband Development Office Director, Comptroller of Public
  • This is necessary because eligibility for federal subsidies are tied to that definition of broadband,
  • They don't do that, and the Office of the Attorney General of the state of Texas, I think, has the same
Bills: HB2838, HB2964, HB3213, SB924
Keywords: broadband, internet access, digital equity, tax reduction, government funding, rural counties, fiber-optic, state funding, infrastructure, digital divide, economic development, fiber-optic cable, excavation, utilities, civil penalties, municipal regulations, video services, regulation, public right-of-way, franchise authority