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DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee Meeting Jun 25th, 2026

Elections & Government Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It mandates that a campaign may not have a negative balance at the time of reporting and establishes
  • It can have a chilling effect on campaigns.
  • Mandates that a campaign may not have a negative balance at the time of reporting, establishes at a committee
  • after being cited for failure to file reports.
  • House Bill 448 is also related to campaign finance.
Bills: HB344
Summary: The Senate Elections and Government Affairs Committee heard several election- and campaign-related bills. House Substitute 2 for House Bill 155 would make Public Integrity Commission reports publicly available on the commission’s website, add a specific travel-expense reporting category, and remove the FOIA requirement for accessing reports; Senator Richardson said he supported the transparency measure and asked to be added as a co-sponsor. The committee also took up House Bill 444, the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would create state protections against voter suppression and vote dilution, expand language access, prohibit intimidation and deception, and allow court remedies for violations. The bill drew strong support from advocacy groups including YWCA Delaware, the League of Women Voters, the ACLU, and the Legal Defense Fund, and several senators voiced support and interest in moving it quickly. House Bill 430, a constitutional amendment proposal, would make explicit that only natural persons may vote in Delaware elections, including municipal elections, in response to concerns about corporate or other artificial-entity voting in some towns. The discussion focused heavily on Fenwick Island, where the mayor testified that the town’s charter has long allowed certain artificial entities to vote in local elections and said the system is limited and has worked for years; other speakers argued the bill was needed to prevent corporate dilution of residents’ votes. Senator Richardson expressed concern about restricting entities with a local stake, while Senator Hoffner and others emphasized the principle of one person, one vote. Senator Townsend presented House Bill 344, which would tighten campaign finance rules by requiring Delaware bank accounts for candidates and committees, recurring training, better documentation of candidate loans, longer record retention, automatic filing extensions, and inactive status for noncompliant committees; one public commenter opposed the bill on cost grounds. He also presented House Bill 448, which would allow campaign funds to be used for reasonable security expenses for candidates and elected officials, with guardrails, and a commenter suggested allowing electronic security systems without a cap. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 472, a local de-annexation measure for Noble’s Pond in Cheswold to remove scattered residential lots from town boundaries and resolve uneven tax treatment; Senator Hoffner noted local law enforcement supported the change. The committee adjourned after hearing no further public comment on HB 472, and the vote to adjourn was unanimous.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Apr 1st, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Your bill receives a favorable report. Thank you, Senator.
  • Seeing none, your bill receives a favorable report. Thank you, Representative Sales.
  • <00:10:38.000> Thank<00:10:38.200> you, favorable report.
  • Thank you, favorable report. Thank you, Representative<00:10:38.640> Sales.
  • Seeing none, your bill receives a favorable report. Thank you, committee. Okay, what's next?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/18/26 - Afternoon Meeting

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • register with the board and file reports register with the board and file reports with<00:53:33.599
  • <00:57:25.359> by your reports in in reports filed by your reports in in reports filed by
  • board from enforcing this reporting board from enforcing this reporting provision<01:04:32.720><
  • > the provision for reports filed by the provision for reports filed by the plaintiffs.<01:04:
  • Uh, Representative Roach. directly with the campaign finance board directly with the campaign finance
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JDC-LBT, JDC DEFER Public Hearings 02-05-2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Christy Chang appearing on behalf of the Campaign Spending Commission.
  • appearing on behalf of the campaign appearing on behalf of the campaign spending<00:05:13.520>
  • c><00:09:44.160> spending you're saying with campaign spending you're saying with campaign spending
  • People do reporting, and then the enforcement aspect.
  • If not, Senator Gabbard on SB 2533. committee report put um the total committee report put um the total
Bills: SB2841, SB2533
Summary: The joint Judiciary, Labor, and Technology Committee heard two bills in the morning session and later took up two Judiciary decision-making items. SB 2841 would require human trafficking awareness training for transient accommodation workers. Testimony was generally supportive from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Department of Law Enforcement, and the Hawaii Hotel Alliance/American Hotel and Lodging Association, which also proposed amendments to preserve existing industry training programs and broaden coverage. Members clarified that the administration wanted DLE to be the lead agency instead of DLIR, while the Attorney General would still handle approval of training programs. The committee recommended passage with amendments, including coverage for third-party contractors and implementation dates, and the measure was adopted with no recorded opposition. SB 2533 would adjust the salaries of the Campaign Spending Commission’s executive director and associate director to better align with comparable enforcement/compliance positions. The commission supported the bill, saying its salaries lag behind similar offices by about $30,000 and that recruitment and workload have become more difficult, while one testifier opposed the proposal. Members questioned why the bill used the Department of Health as the salary comparator and whether Ethics would be a better benchmark; the committee agreed to revise the bill to peg the salaries to the Ethics Commission instead, blank out the dollar amounts for further review, and note the requested appropriation in the report. The committee recommended passage with amendments, and the measure was adopted. In the Judiciary decision-making agenda, SB 2203, concerning the use of masks or personal disguises by law enforcement officers, was amended to allow exceptions for officers who are unmasked nearby or who are supporting undercover operations, to change the term to “facial covering,” and to add definitions covering federal, state, and county law enforcement. The committee also set a far-future effective date and passed the bill with amendments. SB 2442, relating to judiciary purchase-of-service contracts with community-based organizations, was also passed with amendments; the committee added a far-future effective date, clarified the consumer price index reference, and noted a recommended appropriation amount of $4.26 million in the committee report. All measures were adopted without recorded no votes or reservations.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • You get a favorable report. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Yes, sir.
  • I'll second motion for favorable report I'll second motion for favorable report by<00:03:08.159>
  • land you get a favorable report. land you get a favorable report.
  • You have a favorable report. HB 252 is going to be carried over by this officer.
  • <00:04:00.480> by Motion for a favorable report by Motion for a favorable report by Representative
Bills: HB16, HB214, HB252, HB16, HB214, HB252
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/3/25

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
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  • lines onto that report script, and boom, it'll pop out the report with that added on.
  • we are we're asking for this new report we are we're asking for this new report and<00:48:00.359
  • So the effect of this change would be that the principal campaign committee that's reporting this additional
  • <01:05:27.760> um report reports from other states um report reports from other states um
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JDC Public Hearing 02-06-2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because they're ... reports that um Pomponius Label and his reports that um Pomponius Label and his wife
  • > spending This is the campaign spending This is the campaign spending commission's<00:42:07.200
  • laws by requiring designated campaign laws by requiring designated campaign finance<00:46:07.680
  • Otherwise, it would escheat to our campaign fund. campaign spending commission bill and um campaign spending
  • various sections of Hawai's campaign various sections of Hawai's campaign spending<01:10:54.480>
Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard testimony on several bills. SB 2444 would raise the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution, which the Attorney General said could create vague retroactivity language and litigation risk; the committee noted the exemption had last been adjusted around 1978. SB 2446 would add a seventh associate judge to the Intermediate Court of Appeals. Judiciary staff testified in opposition, saying recent internal restructuring and a pending vacancy had improved output and that it would be prudent to wait and see the effect before adding another judge. The Public Defender supported the goal of faster appellate resolution but said it would defer to the court’s assessment and had no objection to revisiting the issue later. The committee also discussed current appellate timelines, with staff saying at least 225 days is built into the process before a case reaches a merit panel, and that a two-year delay from panel assignment was realistic under the current structure. The committee then heard SB 2450, which would establish a presidential preference primary for the 2028 cycle. The Chief Election Officer said the election would cost about $4 million, less if combined with the regular primary. Several opponents argued the bill would add bureaucracy, duplicate or undermine party-run processes, and waste taxpayer money; one speaker estimated the total cost could be closer to $6 million when county costs are included. Supporters and committee members discussed that the measure would not require parties to use the results and that Hawaii remains one of the few states still using caucuses. The committee also asked whether counties could staff the election and whether the results would be useful given Hawaii’s current primary timing. SB 2453 would require the Office of Elections to include a notice with each ballot that a digital and printed voter information guide is available, with the notice in 32-point font as a separate insert. The Chief Election Officer said the insert would cost about $90,000 and asked for an effective date of January 1, 2027 because mailing preparations for the primary would already be underway. The Disability and Communications Access Board, League of Women Voters, National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii, and others supported the bill. The committee also began hearing SB 2461, which would have the Office of Elections prepare a questionnaire for candidates and publish responses online and in the voter guide; the Chief Election Officer said the office did not think it should be the agency to shape campaign questions, though he said it could work if the questions were specified in statute. Finally, the committee heard SB 2457, which would require a criminal conviction before seized property could be forfeited. The Attorney General and Honolulu Police Department opposed the bill, arguing it would prolong cases, increase storage costs, and make forfeiture less effective against crime, especially where owners flee, die, or hide assets through shell companies. The Public Defender strongly supported the measure, saying forfeiture should be tied to convictions and that people challenging forfeiture often lack counsel. The Honolulu Prosecutor also opposed the bill, but said it supported transparency, due process, and even a right to counsel; it argued conviction-only forfeiture would fail in cases involving fugitives, deceased suspects, or hidden ownership structures. The committee questioned what would happen to property if an owner could not be found, and the prosecutor said the outcome would depend on the type of property and could involve abandonment or interpleader proceedings.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/4/26

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is providing for classification of reports that are going to the Campaign Finance Board.
  • <00:43:48.160> on >> Chair, this relates to expenditures reported on campaign reports.
  • It does not change campaign reports.
  • It does not change address reporting for contributors to campaigns.
  • This is an amendment that has to do with the campaign reports that are filed by principal campaign committees
Summary: The committee met on March 4, 2026, and first approved the minutes from March 2 by voice vote. It then took up several Metropolitan Council agency bills, with members repeatedly moving to lay them over for possible inclusion or, in one case, to re-refer a bill to another committee. The first three bills discussed were House File 3884, House File 3881, and House File 3882, all presented as administrative or programmatic changes intended to streamline Met Council processes. House File 3884 would allow tribal governments and tribal development entities to apply directly for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Act grants and community tree planting grants, rather than applying through a city or other local government. Testimony from Met Council staff said the bill would simplify access and align the Met Council’s tree-planting program with existing DNR authority. House File 3881 would expand the Met Council’s contracting authority to include small businesses more broadly, require an annual report to the legislature on small-business contracting, and repeal a duplicative statute on certificates of compliance. House File 3882 would make a range of administrative cleanups, including removing an obsolete housing-bond review role, clarifying outdated statutory language, extending the review cycle for metropolitan significance rules from every two years to every 10 years, clarifying reporting and Livable Communities Act provisions, changing regional parks operations-and-maintenance reimbursements to rely on audited financial statements, and clarifying agricultural preserves procedures. The committee also considered House File 3883, which was amended with an A1 amendment before adoption. That bill updates appointments to the Metropolitan Area Water Supply Advisory Committee, known as MOSAC, including direct appointments for certain county representatives and adding a tribal representative appointed by the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, while also cleaning up outdated language and eligibility provisions. A former MOSAC member spoke in support of the committee’s work, and the chair said the bill was common-sense and renewed the motion to lay it over as amended. Finally, the committee began House File 3363, a bill described by the author as a response to safety concerns after the June events, aimed at removing public access to legislators’ home addresses from Campaign Finance Board materials; discussion had just begun when the transcript ended.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN Public Hearing 01-29-2026

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 2039 relating to elections prohibits certain business entities from engaging in election campaign
  • And that is not campaign finance. It is corporate regulations, corporate definition.
  • loss ratio and requires dental insurers to include dental loss ratio information in their annual reports
  • report information. report information.
  • We already meet many of the reporting and transparency requirements included in this bill.
Summary: The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee opened its first hearing of the year with remarks from Chair Jared Kohole outlining hearing procedures, a two-minute testimony limit, rules for remote testimony and decorum, and a revised testimony-publication pilot that keeps 96-hour notice but returns to a standard 24-hour testimony deadline. He then moved through the agenda, beginning with SB 2004 on outdoor advertising, which would increase penalties for violations of billboard and outdoor advertising laws. Testimony on that measure was limited; Henry Curtis of Life of the Land was first up, and written support was noted from Hawaiian Electric and the Outdoor Circle. The committee then heard SB 2039 on election campaign finance, which would prohibit certain business entities from engaging in campaign finance activities. The Attorney General’s office offered comments and did not take a formal position at the hearing. Several proponents testified in support, including Josh Frost, Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress, Hapa/Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action, and Common Cause Hawaiʻi, all arguing the bill would curb corporate and dark-money influence and return elections to the people. Moore distinguished between regulating corporate “rights” and limiting corporate “powers,” and said the state can redefine the powers it grants corporations. In questions, Senator McKelvey asked whether the bill could be expanded to include unions; the Attorney General said he would need to get back with legal analysis, while Moore said his preferred approach would include all entities and that leaving out nonprofits or unions would create problems. Members also discussed whether the bill would affect PACs, and Moore explained that the proposal would prohibit corporate and dark-money flows into PACs while leaving individual political giving and existing political committees in place. The committee then moved on to the next measure. SB 2042, relating to insurance, was heard next. The bill would reduce the unimpaired minimum capital and surplus required of class 4 sponsored captive insurance companies under certain circumstances. The DCCA Insurance Division said it stood on its written testimony, and the Hawaii Captive Insurance Council testified in support, describing the change as a narrow, risk-based adjustment that would not affect the commissioner’s authority where actual risk resides and would help keep Hawaii competitive. The committee noted additional written support and proceeded without a vote or final action in the portion of the hearing provided.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 19th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have annual reporting, I think that ... ...we have annual reporting.
  • they don't report.
  • Some reports, like the crime reports, are supposed to be done within 72 hours, and they're not.
  • Bill reported. It was very... Thank you. Bill reported. It was very... Thank you. Bill reported.
  • Report second. All in favor say "Aye." All opposed? Likewise. Bill reported. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/04/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • finance report.
  • The bill further requires a campaign finance report to include the aggregate amount of contributions
  • That's easy when there are no campaign funds left in these accounts.
  • That's easy when there are no campaign funds left in these accounts.
  • What if they were monies that he had contributed to his campaign?
Summary: The Committee on Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections met and took up several election- and campaign-related bills. SB 1006 would raise the threshold for itemizing in-state individual campaign contributions in committee reports from $100 to $200 and increase the aggregate reporting threshold accordingly; staff described it as a straightforward campaign finance update, and it passed 4-3. SB 1029 would treat a candidate committee as intending to terminate upon the candidate’s death and allow certain designated individuals to serve as treasurer; testimony from the Town of Queen Creek described practical problems encountered after the deaths of officeholders, and the bill passed unanimously 7-0. SB 1038 would require county election officials to transmit the cast vote record to the Secretary of State and prohibit alteration except as otherwise allowed; members debated whether CVRs are already public records and whether the bill was needed, and it passed 4-3. SB 1237 would add county recorders and the House and Senate election committee leaders to the list of officials consulted by the Secretary of State when prescribing the Elections Procedures Manual; county officials testified this would better reflect their role in early voting and other election functions, and it passed 4-3. The committee also heard SB 1057, which would require vendors providing ballot paper fraud countermeasures to meet specified ISO certifications and include at least three of ten listed security features. Staff explained the ISO standards, and members discussed whether the bill needed additional safeguards and whether it differed from a vetoed bill from the prior session. The bill passed 4-3, with some members noting they wanted amendments or had concerns about the standards and the bill’s structure. After discussing several additional measures, the chair indicated he was not comfortable moving the remaining bills without the sponsor present. Without objection, the committee held the remaining bills and adjourned.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 02-03-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Beginning on page two, standing committee report numbers 21101 through 21106 for adoption.
  • President, I move the adoption of standing committee reports numbers 21101 through 21106. >> Senator
  • accordance with the order of the day and any supplemental orders of the day that may be filed later today. reports
  • numbers 21101 through 21106. reports numbers 21101 through 21106.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • All it is, is under current law if you're late filing the campaign report.
  • You're late filing the campaign report, and currently, the Secretary of State is required to send you
  • It saves state money for filing a report by Rep. L. State money for filing a report by Rep.
  • A motion for a favorable report by Representative Stringer, seconded by ...
  • The bill receives a favorable report. Thank you, Chair.
Bills: HB310, HB363
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2025-04-07

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But if it's not transparent, we've seen in reports where this isn't private equity, but United Health
  • Almost half of surveyed PAs report experiencing symptoms of burnout or report being completely burned
  • Reported symptoms of burnout include severe anger, tearfulness, or anxiety at work.
  • Many of these stories are about physicians, but similar reports exist for other provider groups.
  • The committee report I think got tied up on its way over here.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Almost half of surveyed PAs report experiencing symptoms of burnout or report being completely burned
  • Almost half of surveyed PAs report experiencing symptoms of burnout or report being completely burned
  • Almost half of surveyed PAs report experiencing symptoms of burnout or report being completely burned
  • of physicians reported 48.2% of physicians reported experiencing<00:21:54.000> burnout<00:21:
  • <00:24:46.400> exist physicians, but similar reports exist physicians, but similar reports
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/25/26

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • . campaign. campaign.
  • <00:21:27.200> a it clarifies how cities can report a it clarifies how cities can report a
  • <00:50:34.960> and When I look at how campaigns and When I look at how campaigns and messaging
  • She said, “I’m a campaign finance lawyer.”
  • also that information is self-reported also that information is self-reported um<01:39:06.000>
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Constitution, Campaigns and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • sent in our reports.
  • sent in our reports.
  • sent in our reports.
  • reports. >> Right, but all I mean your campaign report, everything about it, I mean the whole process
  • instance the report that we just filed. instance the report that we just filed.
Bills: SB42, SB166, SB42, SB166