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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a corporations bill. finance bill. It's a corporations bill.
  • <00:26:24.080> career<00:26:24.480> corporate I'm uh also a corporate career corporate
  • Corporate rights versus corporate powers.
  • <01:04:04.400> interest corporations public interest corporations public interest corporations
  • <01:04:05.680> corporation<01:04:06.559> entities corporations corporation entities corporations
Bills: HF4133, HF3419
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, House Bill 3498 is a modernization of the Oklahoma General Corporation Act and our state's LLC
  • It's updating some outdated provisions to better reflect how corporations actually operate in Today's
  • It's creating or modernizing our corporate structure so that we can invite Those businesses here and
  • This is bringing us in line with today's standards in terms of laws that govern corporations and LLCs
  • actually are kind of operating but to actually make the state more competitive with regards to corporations
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 6th, 2026 at 04:24 pm

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The corporation might be.
  • They practice law under a professional limited liability corporation or an S corp.
  • , limited liability corporations, would be protected under the proposed cap with the language and the
  • I practice as a corporation. I mean, I get how that works.
  • Large corporations and private equity have deep pockets.
Bills: HB99, HB49, HB164, SB30, SB43, SB50, SB136
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Wed Mar 18, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • of political spending by corporations of political spending by corporations that<00:58:33.680>
  • A basic principle of corporate<00:58:52.200> corporate<00:58:53.000> for<00:58:53.440><
  • c> excuse<00:58:53.680> me, corporate corporate for excuse me, corporate corporate for excuse
  • They simply register corporations.
  • The point is that corporation has.
Summary: The committee heard SB 1166 SD2, a bill on insurance and climate-related damages that would authorize the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and, in amended versions discussed during testimony, other public and private entities to pursue civil actions to recover losses tied to climate disasters and extreme weather. DCCA’s Insurance Division and the Department of the Attorney General raised legal concerns, saying the bill’s scope may not fit the insurance code section being amended, that it could create subject-matter and title issues, and that some subrogation language may be duplicative of existing rate-filing practice. Lawyers for Justice opposed the measure, arguing it conflicts with existing subrogation law and recent Hawaii Supreme Court rulings that treat the judicial lien process as the exclusive remedy. The American Petroleum Institute also opposed, warning the bill would add liability and litigation risk for companies operating under existing permits and could undermine energy reliability and investment. Supporters said the bill would help shift climate-related insurance costs away from residents and onto fossil fuel companies and other responsible parties. Testimony in support came from the Polluters Pay Hawaii Coalition, Center for Climate Integrity, Hawaii Island Council, Our Hawaii, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and others, who described recent flooding, storm damage, rising premiums, non-renewals, and underinsurance as evidence of a worsening climate-driven insurance crisis. Several supporters urged amendments to give the Attorney General explicit authority to recover insurance-related losses for the Hurricane Relief Fund, HPIA, and private insurers, and to ensure recovered amounts benefit policyholders. Committee members questioned whether HPIA is a private entity, whether the Attorney General could represent it, whether the bill could create double recovery or affect pending climate litigation, and whether insurers would have standing or damages if they are only paying contractual claims. The committee then took up SB 888 SD2, a consumer protection bill that would restrict smart household security device operators from sharing user data with law enforcement without consent or a judicial order, and would bar conditioning device use on such consent. The Office of Consumer Protection testified in support and said an Illinois law could serve as a useful template for exceptions to the warrant requirement. An individual supporter said the measure would protect immigrant communities, judges, and others from surveillance and misuse of private data. No vote was taken during the portion of the meeting provided, and the chair noted additional written testimony submitted in support of SB 1166.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 11th, 2026 at 05:05 pm

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I don't have large corporations in my district.
  • Our juries, as examples, have held corporations accountable where these corporations fail to implement
  • A jury held A jury held that corporation accountable.
  • I don't like the cap on major corporations.
  • I don't like the cap on major corporations.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN-EIG, CPN DEFER, CPN DEFER Public Hearings 02-04-2026

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Summary: The committee first reconvened on SB 2471 and SB 2829, both relating to the powers of artificial persons. After discussion with the Attorney General’s office and a prior Q&A period, the chair said the committee would defer decision-making again, with the intent to return with amended versions of both bills that could gain support from the administration and its lawyers. The measures were deferred to Tuesday, February 10, 2026, in Conference Room 229 at 9:30 a.m. The committee then took up SB 2180, relating to deposits of public funds. Members noted late testimony from the prior day’s joint hearing with the Housing Committee and moved to pass the bill out with amendments, including a defective effective date. The motion carried unanimously among those voting: the chair, vice chair, Senator Lamosao, and Senator Awa voted aye; Senator McKelvey was excused. The measure was adopted. A joint hearing followed on SB 2033, relating to renewable energy and a streamlined grid-ready homes interconnection process. The PUC supported the bill’s intent but raised concerns about the time, resources, and stakeholder input needed to establish the proposed process, and asked for clarification of terms such as “grid-ready homes” and the role of HERA. Hawaiian Electric said it supported the intent but opposed the proposed process and HERA funding use. The Hawaii Solar Energy Association strongly supported the bill, arguing that faster interconnection is needed to meet rooftop solar goals and lower costs over time. Testimony totaled 27 in support, two in opposition, and four with comments. Members questioned costs, consumer protections, and whether the bill would burden low- and moderate-income households; the bill’s supporters said amendments could clarify the definition of grid-ready homes and add guardrails, while acknowledging that upfront costs and interconnection costs would still need to be addressed.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Feb 24th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Commerce & Economic Development Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • One of them being, for instance, right now we allow corporations to have personhood under law so a corporation
  • system to have personhood, for instance, if that system decided to go steal your bank accounts, the corporation
  • House Bill 3498 is a targeted modernization of our corporate code and limited liability company statutes
  • probably already know, the state of Delaware has one of the most comprehensive laws with regards to the corporate
  • statutes, and so... ...laws with regards to the corporate statutes, and so a lot of companies will incorporate
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee, February 13, 2026

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Senate Corporations Committee will come to order.
  • Wyoming companies or large corporations Wyoming companies or large corporations that<00:03:23.760
  • that could be out of state corporations. that could be out of state corporations.
  • and limited liability companies.
  • <00:15:15.120> a send out to those new corporations a send out to those new corporations a
Bills: SF0082
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, February 13, 2026

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, uh, I don't think we want to put liability where liability is not where it needs to be.
  • Keep the liability where it lies.
  • So, uh, I don't think we want to put liability where liability is not where it needs to be.
  • Keep the liability where it lies. Keep the liability where it lies.
  • investigating and there' be a liability investigating and there' be a liability on<01:00:09.760>
Bills: SF0082
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • derivative action is on a shareholder, basically saying… A derivative action is basically saying the corporation
  • Senator Singleton, does the age limit make it a strict liability crime, or are there other elements the
  • No, it would be a strict liability.
  • If you have intercourse or sodomy with someone under the age of 12, it's a strict liability.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN DEFER Public Hearing 02-17-2026

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Bills: SB2738
Summary: The meeting reconvened on Senate Bill 2760 during the Tuesday, February 17, 2026 decision-making agenda in Conference Room 229 at the Hawaii State Capitol. The only action discussed was a recommendation to defer action on the measure for one additional day. Members were informed that the committee would reconvene in Room 229 on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 10:07 a.m. to consider action on the bill. No vote was taken on the measure at this session. The meeting was then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/11/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so, expensive corporate tax breaks.
  • tax breaks, which result in many corporations, the largest, most profitable corporations in our country
  • of mankind, having zero federal tax liability?
  • And I the large wealthy corporations.
  • multinational multi-state corporations multinational multi-state corporations in<01:26:10.719>
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/25/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:01:43.880> law process within the uh corporate law process within the uh corporate law
  • <00:01:51.079> act in the model business corporations act in the model business corporations
  • <00:01:55.040> law leading jurisdiction for corporate law leading jurisdiction for corporate
  • Like, this is corporate law. I don't trust corporate corporations or their lawyers, you know.
  • corporate law I don't trust corporate corporate law I don't trust corporate corporations<00:15:13.120
Bills: HF747, HF360