Video & Transcript : 'bank' :
Page 1 of 340
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services May 19th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Troxler, Senate Bill 621 seeks a prohibition on the establishment, operation, or ownership of a public bank
- Endeavors outside of those core functions, like running one or more public banks, siphon away finite
- duties, while it aggressively pursues all manner of social justice initiatives, including public banking
- , but I was just going to be curious as to what services and to what level of involvement a public bank
- What we all understand and basically know about what our banking system is all about.
Keywords:
bond election, ballot proposition, debt obligation, municipal bonds, local government finance, property tax, ad valorem tax, school district bonds, county bonds, special taxing district, voter information document, public debt, municipal finance, tax-supported debt, election ballot language, bond transparency, homestead tax impact, capital improvements, general obligation bonds, public bank
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill allows certain entities to act as land banks.
- Land banks must prepare an annual report containing information.
- I am with the Spokane Regional Land Bank.
- will mean to the Spokane Land Bank and land banks across the state.
- And so while everybody can land bank, this coordinated land banking allows us to create a pipeline of
Committee:
House Housing
Keywords:
land bank, land banking authority, affordable housing, housing crisis, housing supply, public corporation, public housing authority, nonprofit housing, tax-foreclosed property, blight remediation, redevelopment, anti-displacement, equity, redlining, racial segregation, deed restriction, affordability covenant, property tax exemption, excise tax exemption, predevelopment
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the Land Bank Bill. I briefed this proposed substitute in committee.
- removes several provisions, including the requirement that the county formally authorize the land bank
- I commend the Spokane Regional Land Bank for kicking this off to include nonprofits in this land banking
- land banking work that are going to get some additional benefits.
- So with that I Also doing land banking work that are going to get some additional benefits.
Committee:
House Housing
Keywords:
land bank, land banking authority, affordable housing, housing crisis, housing supply, public corporation, public housing authority, nonprofit housing, tax-foreclosed property, blight remediation, redevelopment, anti-displacement, equity, redlining, racial segregation, deed restriction, affordability covenant, property tax exemption, excise tax exemption, predevelopment
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- Public Bank Alliance.
- Commercial banks.
- It is a wholesale bank, so it does not compete with local banks or community banks.
- So California public banks, similar to the Bank of North Dakota model, are wholesale banks.
- In the U.S., we only have one bank: that's Bank of North Dakota.
Bills:
SB5754
Committee:
Senate Ways & Means
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- First, land owned by a nonprofit land bank is exempt from property tax.
- In addition, the bill exempts all property sales to or by a land bank from real estate excise tax.
- Banks to hold property tax-free.
- And you may not know, but I actually helped shepherd the first state land bank legislation.
- Land trusts and land banks really work well together.
Committee:
House Finance
Keywords:
coal-fired plant, preferential treatment, energy policy, electric generation, regulatory reform, land bank, land banking authority, affordable housing, housing crisis, housing supply, public corporation, public housing authority, nonprofit housing, tax-foreclosed property, blight remediation, redevelopment, anti-displacement, equity, redlining, racial segregation
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 1974 is the bill creating land bank authorities. Serena Dahlia.
- House Bill 1974 is the bill creating land bank authorities.
- authority and establish a land bank.
- House Bill, 1974, is the bill creating land bank authorities.
- authority and establish a land bank.
Committee:
House Finance
Keywords:
timberland, real estate, excise tax, governmental entities, property taxation, land bank, land banking authority, affordable housing, housing crisis, housing supply, public corporation, public housing authority, nonprofit housing, tax-foreclosed property, blight remediation, redevelopment, anti-displacement, equity, redlining, racial segregation
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- always be a bank.
- But if you're a bank, you are a bank.
- Farmers and Merchants Bank, a division of Merchants and Marine Bank.
- We are still a bank.
- We are still a bank. They're saying, ...and many, many banks disagree. We are still a bank.
Bills:
HB387 , HB673 , HB947 , HB975 , HB1102 , HB1228 , HB1229 , HCR66 , SB102 , SB165 , SB280 , SB291 , SB326 , SB521
Keywords:
engineering, land surveying, construction, state fire marshal, plan review, security cameras, abandoned property, blighted structures, property management, digital assets, abandonment, custodian, escheatment, blockchain, cryptocurrency, unclaimed property, state treasurer, Department of Public Service, statutory entities, public administration
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 7th, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Committee:
House Ways and Means Education
Keywords:
land bank, land bank authority, local land bank authority, Alabama Land Bank Authority, tax delinquent property, tax sale, tax lien, redemption period, quiet title, blight remediation, vacant property, foreclosure, ad valorem tax, property tax exemption, intergovernmental agreement, county government, municipal government, redevelopment, brownfields, floodplain management
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Commerce and Small Business Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Commerce and Small Business
Committee:
House Commerce and Small Business
Keywords:
state bank, public bank, government funds, financial services, constitutional amendment, tax abatements, international headquarters, publicly traded companies, economic incentives, Alabama tax reform, social-emotional learning, education policy, parental consent, K-12 education, teacher training, student surveys, disciplinary action, automatic renewal, consumer protection, cancellation policy
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 7th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Because what had happened, they hacked a bank in India. And they ended up having to close.
- Chairman, do we have a witness on this from the banking department? Chair: Yes, we do. Thank you.
- Chair: The Chair calls Marcus Adams on behalf of the Texas Department of Banking.
- Cash out of her bank accounts, etc. And there was nothing she could do.
- We show you registered as Marcus Adams on behalf of Texas Department of Banking.
Keywords:
HB 3803, Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 712, perpetual care cemetery, perpetual care trust fund, cemetery regulation, financial confidentiality, confidential records, regulatory examination, Texas Department of Banking, commissioner disclosure, interagency information sharing, state agency enforcement, federal agency disclosure, trust fund oversight, burial services, cemetery trust, consumer protection, state banks, Texas Finance Code
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- banks and privately held banks are able to keep records of their shares, and to allow for the use of
- Instead of having to use paper stock certificates, publicly traded banks and larger banks currently do
- to allow, like I say, state banks, savings banks, and savings and loans and their holding companies to
- Publicly traded banks and larger banks currently do this.
- to allow, like I say, state banks, savings banks, and savings and loans and their holding companies to
Bills:
HB1163 , HB1168 , HR252 , HR253 , HCR103 , HCR108 , SB80 , SB131 , SB251 , SB254 , SB279 , SB384 , SB414 , SB468 , SB469 , SB496
Keywords:
fireworks, retail sales, fire safety, legislation, holiday celebrations, construction standards, precast concrete, DOTD, building regulations, minimum requirements, public projects, private projects, consumer protection, credit card fees, cash transactions, rounding practices, transparency, low-income, economic impact, residential construction
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Finance and Taxation Education
Committee:
Senate Finance and Taxation Education
Keywords:
land bank, land bank authority, local land bank authority, Alabama Land Bank Authority, tax delinquent property, tax sale, tax lien, redemption period, quiet title, blight remediation, vacant property, foreclosure, ad valorem tax, property tax exemption, intergovernmental agreement, county government, municipal government, redevelopment, brownfields, floodplain management
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Conservation Jan 29th, 2026 at 09:13 am
Senate Conservation
Transcript Highlights:
- That's uncommon in the food banking world. That's something to celebrate.
- pantries, and is oftentimes the most challenging to source for our food banks and pantries.
- And is oftentimes the most challenging to source for our food banks and pantries.
- That is the backbone program to support the Regional Farm to Food Bank.
- We stand in support of Senate Bill 108, a Regional Farm to Food Bank program.
Committee:
Senate Senate Conservation
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Urban and Rural Development Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Urban and Rural Development
Committee:
House Urban and Rural Development
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Apr 14th, 2026
Joint Committee on Public Service
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Public Service
Keywords:
retirement benefits, teachers' retirement system, creditable service, public education, emergency law, sick leave bank, leave donation, personal days, vacation days, extended illness leave bank, public employee, county sheriff, Worcester County Sheriff's Office, personnel bill, employee leave, disability leave, illness leave, compassionate leave, Massachusetts public service, police recruitment
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Some bank would be appointed to handle that account?
- If I went to a bank or to an investor and said, hey, can I have $20,000?
- The bank answers the interrogatories.
- This is for when you can garnish bank accounts as well. Okay.
- But this is just for the garnishment of bank accounts of, you know, FDIC-insured banks. Got it.
Committee:
House Civil Law and Procedure
Keywords:
carbon capture, damages, environmental liability, legal liability, site restoration, expert witness, expert testimony, witness fees, pecuniary interest, conflict of interest, civil procedure, evidence law, Louisiana evidence code, Louisiana civil litigation, expert report, discovery, pretrial disclosure, litigation transparency, settlement, damages award
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas Water Bank was established in 1993 to facilitate the transfer, sale, or lease of water rights.
- Four years later, the legislature created the Texas Water Trust, a program within the bank to. accept
- And what it really does is expands the use of the water trust and the water bank. So, let's say...
- leaking pipes, has some extra water, and wants to either permanently or temporarily put it in the water bank
- Making the water bank and water trust more flexible will not only help the state meet its water needs
Committee:
House Natural Resources
Keywords:
water filtration, public drinking water, health and safety, well maintenance, water quality, Edwards Aquifer, water conservation, reclaimed water, aquifer storage, environmental protection, public utility agency, dissolution, local government, regulatory framework, municipal authority, Texas Water Bank, Texas Water Trust, water rights, water banking, instream flow
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Feb 25th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Postsecondary Education & Workforce
Committee:
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce
Keywords:
funding, education, higher education, Western Washington University, state funding parity, financial aid, state funding, student support, educational reform, university procedures, academic policy, student success, Washington Medical Commission, medical license, license relinquishment, voluntary surrender, nondisciplinary pathway, physician regulation, health professional licensing, disciplinary database
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "GENIUS Act of 2025", and S.875, to curtail the political weaponization of Federal banking agencies by eliminating reputational risk as a component of the supervision of depository institutions. Mar 13th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- banking.
- This could include multinational development banks like the China-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Bank
- , or New Development Bank, or the Russia-sponsored Eurasian Development Bank.
- This reporting would include any impacts on the banking sector, and that includes community banks.
- That money laundering scandal closed Riggs Bank, the largest bank then in Washington, D.C.
Bills:
SB875
Keywords:
banking regulation, federal agencies, reputational risk, financial services, supervision, FIRM Act, bank supervision, depository institutions, federal banking agencies, FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve, NCUA, CFPB, credit unions, Operation Choke Point, financial discrimination, safety and soundness, supervisory guidance, examination manual
Summary:
This meeting focused on the markup of the Genius Act and the FIRM Act, two significant pieces of legislation addressing stablecoin regulation and the financial industry's regulatory framework. The Chairman noted the importance of providing clarity to the digital asset community and protecting American consumers, while also promoting innovation and competition within the financial sector. Members of both parties expressed varying viewpoints, with some highlighting concerns related to national security and the potential risks associated with stablecoins.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Jan 21st, 2026
Military and Veterans Affairs
Committee:
House Military and Veterans Affairs
Keywords:
homestead exemption, disabled veterans, tax relief, annual verification, property tax, state holidays, federal holidays, public holidays, legal holidays, office closures, state employees, personal leave, compensatory leave, bank closures, school closures, Mardi Gras, Mobile County, Baldwin County, Rosa Parks Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day