Video & Transcript Research : 'discriminatory covenants'

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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Local and County Government Feb 24th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Local and County Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 2139 directs county clerks to remove discriminatory language from an existing plot after
  • a community that I represent, who passed an ordinance and still has not been able to get that discriminatory
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Committee Meeting - 2026-03-25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • shall be conducted at a place designated by the commissioner within the county where the unfair discriminatory
  • shall be conducted at a place designated by the commissioner within the county where the unfair discriminatory
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Summary: The Senate Education Committee heard a presentation from Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne focused on school safety, academic improvement, career and technical education, ESA oversight, and teacher pay. Horne argued that students cannot learn without safe schools and urged more funding for school police officers, citing threats and violent incidents. He also highlighted Project Momentum, tutoring, attendance, classroom phone restrictions, the Student Industry Partnership, expanded ESA participation, and his call to use Proposition 123 land trust funds for direct teacher raises. In response to a question, he said the department is using AI tools, residency checks, and investigators to reduce ESA fraud and abuse. The committee then considered SB 1074, which would require written certification from a principal or administrator before a student removed for discipline could return to class. Horne and the sponsor said the bill would support teachers and hold administrators accountable, while opponents from the Arizona Education Association argued it was redundant, could undermine administrator judgment and FERPA-protected information, and would not address the root causes of classroom disruption. The bill passed 4-3. The committee also heard SB 1327, as amended by a strike-everything amendment requiring Arizona public universities to adopt and report on research security policies to protect against foreign adversary threats and preserve federal funding eligibility. Support came from the sponsor, State Armor, and the Arizona Board of Regents, and the amended bill passed 5-2. Members next approved SB 1475, which bars students convicted of, or admitting to, certain serious offenses from participating in school-sponsored interscholastic activities, with some discussion about rehabilitation, school discretion, and whether a readmittance process should exist. Supporters said the measure was needed for accountability and uniformity after a particularly egregious case; opponents warned it could remove an important rehabilitative outlet. The bill passed 4-3. The committee then advanced SB 1582 and SB 1583, both related to school safety interoperability funding and technical corrections; SB 1582 passed 4-2, and SB 1583, as amended, passed 4-2. Finally, SB 1598, which appropriates $500,000 for school and community gardens, passed unanimously 5-0 after testimony that gardens serve as hands-on learning spaces and supportive environments for students.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Commerce (03/04/2025)

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • That happens from time to time where HOAs have a discriminatory covenant, um, that would probably lead
  • That happens from time to time where HOAs have a discriminatory covenant, um, that would probably lead
  • That happens from time to time where HOAs have a discriminatory covenant, um, that would probably lead
  • That happens from time to time where HOAs have a discriminatory covenant, um, that would probably lead
  • That happens from time to time where HOAs have a discriminatory covenant, um, that would probably lead
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Commerce (03/07/2025)

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • My experience with covenants is that they're not crazy. I've endorsed covenants in the past.
  • That's the bill, 175, the covenants.
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  • as specific to the private covenants as specific to the private covenants there<00:15:35.880>
  • uh neighborhoods with private covenants uh neighborhoods with private covenants to<00:16:12.800>
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 27th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • covenant or gender-specific language.
  • Declaring void unlawful discriminatory restrictive covenants, requiring the removal of unlawful restrictive
  • covenants, restrictions, and conditions from instruments affecting the transfer of real property before
  • recorded, providing that a deed or other instrument of writing may include a statement that a discriminatory
  • restrictive covenant is void as against public policy.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

JHA Public Hearing - Thu Mar 20, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST

Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This measure allows a person who discovers a recorded discriminatory restrictive covenant to take certain
  • actions without liability to invalidate the covenant, and it defines discriminatory restrictive covenant
  • > actions<00:27:45.840> without covenant to take certain actions without covenant to take
  • <00:27:49.039> and liability to invalidate the covenant and liability to invalidate the covenant
  • it defines discriminatory restrictive it defines discriminatory restrictive covenant.<00:27:52.720
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures. SB 1296 HD1, relating to disaster recovery, would exempt reconstruction of lawfully constructed structures damaged or destroyed in a declared disaster from special management area permits under certain conditions. OPSD, DLNR, the County of Maui, Front Street Recovery, and the Grassroot Institute supported the bill, saying it would speed rebuilding after disasters like the Maui fires; one witness noted the bill would not cover shoreline parcels unless amended, and members asked about the five-year rebuild window, the meaning of “lawfully constructed,” and whether unlawful structures were excluded. Testimony was also heard on SB 1413, which would allow the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to dispose of abandoned property in federal public housing projects after notice and within five days; HPHA said the bill would help address illegal dumping and clarify procedures. SB 31 HD1, concerning discriminatory restrictive covenants, was briefly described and had support from the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission and comments from the Uniform Law Commission, with no in-person testimony. The committee then heard SB 1341, which would add HEMA and the Office of Homeland Security to agencies allowed to review energy industry information and would expand the program’s emergency-management purpose. The Hawaii State Energy Office supported the measure, saying the data is important for emergency response and fuel-supply planning. SB 10008 HD1 would authorize counties to adopt ordinances enforcing accessible parking space requirements and clarify county enforcement of EV-related parking provisions; the Disability and Communication Access Board strongly supported the accessible-parking provisions, saying current enforcement is weak, while noting section three on EV spaces is already largely in statute and could be struck if the committee preferred. Tina Yamaki of the Retail Merchants of Hawaii testified in opposition. Finally, the committee heard SB 1028 SD1 HD1, which would eliminate fees, fines, and court costs for offenses committed by minors, discharge existing related debt, limit community service for minors to 72 hours, and repeal certain penalties tied to minors and their parents or guardians. The Office of the Public Defender, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council, Community Alliance on Prisons, and DebtFree Justice Hawaii supported the bill, arguing that youth fines burden families, worsen poverty, and disproportionately affect Native Hawaiian youth. The Department of the Attorney General offered comments, raising possible constitutional title issues because the current draft incorporates material from HB 129 and includes sections that may relate more to restitution or curfew than to fines and fees; supporters responded that the title is sufficient and cited case law. No votes or final actions were taken on the measures in the portion of the meeting provided.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Committee on Housing (02/03/2026)

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • And in fact, the jurisdictions in the country that have adopted these restrictive covenants on affordable
  • And in fact, the jurisdictions in the country that have adopted these restrictive covenants on affordable
  • And in fact, the jurisdictions in the country that have adopted these restrictive covenants on affordable
  • ,<03:39:24.880> would definitions, but discriminatory, would definitions, but discriminatory
  • It is a public policy discriminatory.
Keywords: 1189, house, all