Video & Transcript Research : 'child grooming'

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WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Committee, February 11, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • desire or humiliating the child.
  • > but place a child or child protection, but place a child or child protection, but most<00:53
  • So grooming is out there.
  • So grooming is out there.
  • So grooming is out there.
Bills: HB0008, HB0009
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee, February 24, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • don't let another child feel unsafe. don't let another child feel unsafe.
  • desire or humiliating the child.
  • desire or humiliating the child.
  • a pattern of grooming aimed at a minor. a pattern of grooming aimed at a minor.
  • include the breast of a female child. include the breast of a female child.
Bills: HB0008, HB0009, HB0028
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/24/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:02:52.640> grooming, new felony offense for child grooming, new felony offense for child
  • , and it recognizes that grooming alone causes substantial harm to a child.
  • child. Thank you. child. Thank you.
  • Delayed disclosure is common in grooming and child sexual abuse cases, and this was true with Hannah.
  • Grooming is the slow process of building a false, trusting relationship with the child to facilitate
Bills: HF3489, HF3550
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • definition referred to as grooming there.
  • , and it recognizes that grooming alone causes substantial harm to a child.
  • Grooming is a stand-alone statute.
  • Grooming is the deliberate, slow process of building a false sense of trust with the child with the intent
  • In closing, grooming is always intentional. One cannot accidentally groom a child.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Grooming is the deliberate slow process of building a false sense of trust with the child, with the intent
  • to child protection. to child protection.
  • the child. the child.
  • And I know that in family child<01:24:48.800> care child care child care um<01:24:49.840> folks
  • privacy or child care. privacy or child care.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/24/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Due to the years of grooming, I years.
  • MDE investigations and grooming.
  • Grooming is the deliberate, slow process of building a false sense of trust with the child, with the
  • They target focused on child safety.
  • > detectable Grooming is a predictable detectable Grooming is a predictable detectable pattern
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/20/26

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Creates a new felony offense for child grooming and improves mandatory reporting to include grooming
  • <00:04:58.520> grooming new felony offense for child grooming new felony offense for child
  • Grooming is always intentional. You cannot accidentally groom a child.
  • Delayed disclosure is common in grooming and child sexual abuse cases, and this was true with Hannah.
  • cannot accidentally groom a child. cannot accidentally groom a child.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and grooming with the intent to exploit.
  • Finally, the amendment defines grooming and exploitation.
  • Finally, the amendment defines grooming and exploitation.
  • I was groomed through a fellow high school student's father.
  • Child, so today I absolutely am an eye. Representative Platman. Aye. Good job.
Summary: The committee heard several appropriations and policy bills, with testimony often focused on public safety, education, and procurement. HB 263 would appropriate $1.5 million in FY2027 to the Independent Correctional Oversight Office; the sponsor and supportive testimony argued the office is needed to address serious problems in the corrections system, and the bill received a due pass recommendation, 17-1. HB 2993, as amended, would allow DPS to spend on legal services independent of the Attorney General and redirect $5 million from the Consumer Protection/Consumer Fraud Revolving Fund to the Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team Enforcement Mission Fund; the Speaker framed it as supporting law enforcement and public safety, and it passed 17-0. HB 2271 dealt with firefighter cancer coverage and insurance rates. The bill would allow an insurer covering firefighters and fire investigators to file a uniform rate deviation only if it is not reimbursed by the municipal firefighter cancer reimbursement fund. Testimony described the measure as a temporary shell pending a broader consensus agreement to bring fire districts into the reimbursement system; members stressed that firefighters should not see changes in claim handling, but several said the bill still needed work. It received a due pass recommendation on a 16-1-1 vote. HB 2416 would appropriate $20 million to DPS for local border support, including law enforcement positions, prosecution and detention costs, and equipment; sheriffs and the Arizona Sheriffs Association supported it as a continuation of existing funding for drug interdiction and border-related crime, and it passed 11-6-1. The committee also advanced HB 2692, which revises public construction procurement rules and authorizes progressive design-build and one-step competition for certain federally funded projects. Construction and procurement stakeholders said the bill was the product of a long consensus process, while some members worried about taxpayer impacts and the move away from standard procurement; it passed 10-7-1. HB 2478, as amended, creates the Arizona Commission on Student Outcomes to study K-12 accountability, standards, graduation requirements, early childhood education, and a trade pathways diploma, funded by Classroom Site Fund dollars; members debated whether the work should instead be done by ADE or the State Board, and the bill passed 11-7. The committee also heard HB 4044, which would create a Public Safety Parity Fund to support DPS and corrections salaries using investment earnings from the Budget Stabilization Fund and proceeds from forfeited digital assets; the sponsor and a troopers association witness argued it would provide a stable long-term funding source to address chronic vacancies and pay gaps.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • is an act relating to grooming. is an act relating to grooming.
  • <01:34:27.440> So, grooming or has any criminalization.
  • So, grooming or has any criminalization.
  • In this case, this is a 14-year-old for the grooming bill.
  • It's a 14-year-old for the grooming bill.
Summary: The committee met with a quorum, approved the August 29 minutes, and then heard testimony on a bill relating to machine gun conversion devices, often described as Glock switches or auto sears. Representative Jason Nemis presented the bill with Louisville police Chief Paul Humphrey and Lt. Drew Fox, arguing the measure would mirror existing federal law, make possession of these devices unlawful under Kentucky law, and give state and local law enforcement authority to seize and prosecute them without relying solely on federal agencies. They said the devices are small aftermarket or 3D-printed parts that convert semi-automatic pistols into fully automatic weapons and emphasized that the bill would not affect lawful gun ownership. The presenters cited rising seizures and public-safety concerns, saying LMPD and Jefferson County seizures increased sharply from 2023 to 2024 and that the average age of possession had dropped. They argued the devices are used offensively, are inaccurate and dangerous, and have been linked to violent crime. Two Alabama legislators, Representatives Philip Ensler and Russell Bedsole, testified in support based on Alabama’s recent enactment of a similar law. They said local police and prosecutors there had been unable to act effectively because the devices were handled mainly by federal authorities, and they described bipartisan support, immediate enactment, and reported confiscations after passage. Members asked about the bill’s penalty level, the source and manufacture of the devices, the scope of the definition of “conversion device,” and whether the bill could create constitutional problems given ongoing federal litigation over machine gun restrictions. The sponsors said the penalty would be a Class C felony and that the bill was intended to cover only the device attached to the firearm, not tools like 3D printers. They acknowledged that if federal machine gun laws were ultimately struck down, the state law would also be unenforceable. Some members supported the bill as common-sense public safety legislation, while Representative Roberts opposed it on Second Amendment grounds, arguing Kentucky should focus on expanding gun rights rather than adding restrictions already covered by federal law.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Workforce Development Apr 10th, 2025 at 10:00 am

Workforce Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • second thing that we did is that on the bottom of page three, number five, we were clear that the Child
Bills: HB1119
Summary: The Workforce Development Committee reconvened to consider House Bill 1119 with amendment version 02005. Senator Hogan explained that the amendment removed a section requiring the Department of Human Services to respond to legislative management, in order to make the bill feel more like a program evaluation than an audit and to avoid placing an unreasonable burden on the executive branch. The amendment also clarified that the Child Care Advisory Committee would provide an update and that the committee would dissolve after the rewrite of licensing standards, making it a time-limited body. Committee members discussed the bill as a novel approach to forming a group to study an issue and then disbanding after reporting back. Senator Larson noted the concept was similar to broader performance-review ideas, and Senator Hogan said the Legislative Council program evaluation effort was parallel to, but separate from, other performance-review proposals. The committee then voted 4-0-1 to adopt the amendment. Afterward, the committee moved to give House Bill 1119, as amended, a do pass recommendation. That motion also passed on a roll call vote, and the committee adjourned.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • grooming to register as sex offenders.
  • Interference with child custody. has been and always will be illegal.
  • It could mean months, even years, of not seeing their child.
  • Even a friend who refuses to return the child.
  • ran out of the house and attacked the child.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Mar 25th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Child-like sex dolls enable predators to practice subduing a child and overcoming... ...resistance and
  • whether the doll is recognizable as an actual child or imagery of a child.
  • And it's very easy for us to understand that in child pornography, sexual conduct involves a child.
  • Child, okay, so it's against the child who is the victim.
  • Extraneous charges or activity in child cases.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JDC Public Hearing 03-04-2026

Judiciary

Summary: The Judiciary Committee met in decision-making only session and considered several Senate bills, generally following recommendations to pass measures with or without amendments. SB 2981 would prohibit minimum off-street parking requirements for new development in urban districts and was adopted unamended, with Senator Awa voting no. SB 2982, which bars foreign entities and foreign-influence business entities from making election-related contributions or expenditures, was adopted with an amendment adopting Attorney General language for required advertisement statements. The committee also advanced SB 2983, creating a misdemeanor offense for criminal destruction of a tree on state or county property; one member opposed it, suggesting a replanting requirement would be a better environmental remedy, but the bill was still adopted unamended. SB 2986, concerning Land Use Commission authority to amend or revise district boundary amendment decisions when conditions are not met, passed with an amendment addressing a defective effective date. SB 2991, on driver’s license revocations for certain alcohol-related offenses and re-examination requirements, passed with amendments clarifying revocation orders and re-examination procedures. Members then approved SB 3001, which regulates conversational artificial intelligence services by requiring disclosures and protocols to prevent suicidal ideation, with amendments incorporating AG and OCP recommendations, including a personal data definition and broader data minimization language. SB 3010, allowing officials and in some cases private citizens to enter unattended vehicles to protect endangered pet animals, passed with amendments. The committee also adopted SB 3014 on higher fines for taking or harassing protected turtles, SB 3032 clarifying beach and marine deposit prohibitions, and SB 3033 allowing petitions to review beach structure integrity despite a bad effective date; Senator Awa again voted no on SB 3033. The meeting adjourned after the committee noted a later joint hearing with Ways and Means.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 10th, 2026 at 04:51 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • grandparents raising their grandchild and a foster parent as an eligible activity to be eligible for child
  • In Section 7, this is where we did incorporate Senator Shendo's concerns in relation to tribal child
  • to provide child care that is in a linguistic and culturally appropriate manner, so as not to infringe
  • So this is basically the clause that ensures that we expend federal child care assistance funds first
  • So the department shall reasonably ensure that eligible federal and state child care tax benefits are
Bills: SB241, SB145