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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 8th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Well, even our what we call an APO, emergency protective order, is 200 yards, yeah, right, 600 feet.
  • protective orders.
  • The family did nothing to ask for a protective order.
  • The family still does nothing to get a protective order. Ms.
  • This allows for the destruction order to be done at that time.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Mar 19th, 2025

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • Any of the following... so you know you've already violated that lawful order.
  • You've ordered them, and they haven't moved. Then they do any of the following.
  • Then I also, again, have another element: I have to say I gave him an order to vacate.
  • However, I'm talking about when you give the lawful order. Is there anything...
  • You have to demonstrate other interference and then disobey a lawful order.
Bills: HB403, HB224
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Apr 29th, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • The nursing board has done an outstanding job of trying to bring some order to this.
Bills: SB253, SB317
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • emergencies and planned events. emergencies and planned events.
  • and modernizing our respon emergency and modernizing our respon emergency response<00:49:16.960>
  • <00:59:45.359> So, the delivery orders off of that. So, the delivery orders off of that.
  • . order. order.
  • <01:09:00.080> So a delivery order off of that one. So a delivery order off of that one.
Summary: The committee heard a staff report on Kentucky’s statewide emergency responder voice system (SERVS), a multi-phase project intended to improve interoperable radio communications for first responders. Staff said Kentucky State Police did not appear to have violated statutes or regulations, but the project lacked an overall master plan, clear milestones, and consistent documentation, which contributed to delays, spending issues, and deployment problems. The report recommended updating the Kentucky Field Operations Guide to reflect SERVS and noted that the project has been funded in phases since 2018, with appropriations totaling roughly $216 million across 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024, while about $109 million had been spent by the end of fiscal year 2025. The report raised concerns about project sequencing and oversight. Staff said most spending was concentrated in special mobile equipment, with Motorola accounting for about two-thirds of all SERVS expenditures and the top four vendors making up 81 percent of spending. They also said a sample of Motorola payments suggested possible late payments, though they could not confirm whether interest was paid. Staff criticized the use of master agreements for a project of this size, the lack of a centralized ledger, and the absence of a documented timeline or risk mitigation plan. They recommended stronger procurement and planning requirements, including possible legislative changes requiring approved master plans for large capital projects and additional funding conditions tied to SERVS master agreements. Land acquisition and deployment progress were identified as major bottlenecks, especially in Eastern Kentucky. Staff said the project began in western Kentucky using existing tower sites, but the remaining work is concentrated in harder-to-acquire areas, with more than 95 percent of new towers still incomplete. They said the Division of Real Properties did not begin formal contract work on acquisition until October 2024, despite earlier coordination, and recommended earlier consultation on future projects. Staff also noted that the Kentucky Wireless Interoperability Executive Committee had not been active in oversight, and survey results showed limited awareness and involvement among first responders. Committee members agreed that the lack of an initial implementation plan and the continuing need for funding reflected broader planning problems, and they discussed the need for a clearer end-to-end game plan rather than continuing to fund the project without a defined completion path.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, so we're building out the statewide um emergency responder voice system or serves.
  • for disaster response and emergency for disaster response and emergency communications<00:20:03.200
  • So in order to communicate with sight.
  • 12.559> system<00:26:13.120> here statewide emergency response system here statewide emergency
  • Um our officers provide both order.
Summary: The committee received an update on Kentucky’s statewide emergency responder voice system (SERVS) and the supporting microwave network, known as KYeS. Michael Brandon Marshall, the state’s statewide interoperability coordinator, explained that the project began as a replacement for Kentucky State Police’s radio system and has expanded into a statewide public-safety trunked radio system. He reviewed work completed in phases 1 and 2, including upgrades to existing tower sites, construction of new sites, installation of generators and DC power plants, and replacement of microwave routers and stations. He said the microwave upgrade is a separate but necessary part of the project and that the remaining microwave work on existing sites is expected to be finished in 2026, with roughly 20 more sites likely to move from blue to green by the next monthly report if conditions allow. Members pressed Marshall on the pace of deployment and the lack of coverage in parts of Eastern Kentucky. Senator Thomas said the coverage map was especially unfavorable to counties from Whitley and McCreary up to Lewis County and asked when that gap would be fixed. Marshall said the eastern buildout is planned, but those areas have not yet been funded; he estimated that by the end of 2026 the areas around Posts 14, 8, and 11 should be live, while other eastern post areas would remain unbuilt until additional funding is provided. He said the decision to start in Western Kentucky was technical rather than political, based on terrain and the relative ease of building coverage over flatter ground. Senator Wheeler asked whether newer low-orbit satellite systems such as Starlink could reduce the need for tower construction. Marshall said satellite technology could be a useful tool, especially for outdoor or disaster-response communications, but it cannot replace terrestrial radio for public safety because responders often work indoors and need reliable penetration through buildings. He also noted that lower-frequency spectrum such as 700 MHz is better suited for that purpose. Representative Smith asked about contracting and delays; Marshall said the Finance Cabinet’s DECA manages the construction contracts, while his office helps define the scope of work and reviews whether it is adequately met. The committee indicated it will continue to receive monthly updates on the project.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But it only happens in that order.
  • one-time emergency food shelf funding. one-time emergency food shelf funding.
  • have a volunteer named Sue who orders have a volunteer named Sue who orders all<00:54:39.200>
  • it all in her head and she's ordering it all in her head and she's ordering all<00:54:44.079>
  • emergency food distribution system. emergency food distribution system.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The Senate Committee of Criminal Justice comes to order. Clerk, call the roll. Chair Flores?
  • It relates to the issuance of certain… ...protective orders for certain burglary offenses.
  • emergencies.
  • We got to err on the side of the law and order, right?
  • Hearing none, so ordered. Members, that concludes our business for today.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm going to call the meeting to order and ask for a roll call, please.
  • So first up we have the statewide emergency responder voice system testimony.
  • So first uh up we have the uh statewide So first uh up we have the uh statewide emergency<00:03:06.319
  • emergency responder voice system testimony.<00:03:08.560> Um<00:03:09.680> like<00:03:
  • topics included in its monthly emergency topics included in its monthly emergency response<01:21
Summary: The committee opened with roll call, welcomed a new member, approved the July meeting minutes, and then took up testimony on the statewide emergency responder voice system, also described as the state police radio system replacement project. John Hicks, secretary of the governor’s executive cabinet and state budget director, testified that the project is unusually complex because it combines multiple IT replacements, land acquisition, and tower construction. He said the existing system dates to the early 1970s and that the administration is treating the project as a priority, with work proceeding in phases and weekly coordination among the Justice Cabinet, Kentucky State Police, and Finance and Administration Cabinet. Hicks said the project has already spent about $110 million, with nearly 1,900 portable radios acquired, microwave replacement completed at 56 sites and underway at 76 more, and routers, switches, and network upgrades addressed. He explained that because the State Police are not set up to handle real property work, the administration brought in outside real property consulting vendors through an RFP, and three vendors are now qualified to help identify and negotiate sites. He said the goal is to speed up land acquisition and tower construction while the State Police continue the technology work, and he emphasized that the project is intended to close coverage gaps for state police first and later benefit local governments and other first responders. Members of the committee expressed concern about the project’s cost and pace. Representative Petri noted that about $218.8 million has been authorized since 2018 and questioned whether the project could stretch into 2030 or later, asking what more the General Assembly could do to help. Representative Blandon also raised concerns about the long timeline and the risk of the project becoming another costly, delayed infrastructure effort, while asking when the vendor RFP was completed and whether any sites had been acquired since then. Representative Sharp asked whether there was a detailed plan and timeline, and Hicks responded that the technology side is well defined but the property acquisition side must proceed site by site because each location depends on ownership, access, power, and other factors. Hicks said the west-to-east phasing has been a smart approach and that the executive branch should improve performance to beat the current timeline expectations.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 30th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence will come to order.
  • Precision Emergency Physicians is an emergency medicine physician group that staffs three emergency medical
  • Texas currently has over 300 freestanding emergency centers.
  • applies to freestanding emergency medical care facilities.
  • Would it include expired protective orders?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The House will come to order.
Bills: HB4, HB1, HB2, HB20, HB19, HB18
Summary: The House convened with a strict roll-call enforcement request, but only 95 members were present, so a quorum was not present. The chamber heard an invocation from Furman Carpenter, DPS chaplain, followed by the pledges to the U.S. and Texas flags. A member raised a parliamentary inquiry asking whether members must be present to make a motion and whether all members who requested strict enforcement were present; the Speaker said he would need to check the journal. The Speaker then announced that the House was about to receive a motion to adjourn sine die and noted that the governor might call another special session soon. Representative Garin moved that the House of Representatives of the First Called Session of the Eighty-Ninth Legislature adjourn sine die. There was no objection, and the motion carried, ending the session.
TX

Texas 89th 1st C.S.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

Transcript Highlights:
  • It adds interoperable emergency communication systems and coordinated emergency response.
  • None of those classes teach you how to open a shelter, how to order an evacuation or assist in the ordering
  • And while this is the division of Emergency Management, it could be implied the Texas Emergency Management
  • And, and the same kind of goes for emergency management plans too, emergency management coordinators.
  • They're requiring an emergency manager to hold an emergency manager license, basic intermediate advanced
Bills: HB1, HB 2, HB18, HB19, HB20
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Wed Apr 22, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • SD1, urging the insurance commissioner to study the potential benefits of expanding the use of mail-order
  • We think people have access to mail-order pharmacies.
  • We think people have access to mail-order pharmacies.
  • place that views over mail order place that views over mail order pharmacy<00:19:40.160> provides
  • >> I have questions for Shinta. >> Um, is mail order already available to Hawaii residents?
Summary: The Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce heard several Senate concurrent resolutions related to utilities, pharmacy access, critical infrastructure, and energy policy. STR 96 SD1 asked the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to report on the progress of the Hawaii Electric Reliability Administrator; the PUC offered written comments and the measure later advanced as is. STR 109 SD1 urged the insurance commissioner to study expanding mail-order pharmacy use. Testimony was split: DCCA’s insurance division, HMSA, and the Hawaii Association of Health Plans supported the study, while Shipa and the Hawaii Pharmacist Association opposed it, arguing mail-order pharmacy is already available and that in-person pharmacist counseling should be preserved. The measure was ultimately deferred. The committee also heard STR 164 SD1 on protecting Hawaii’s critical infrastructure from foreign influence. Greenpeace Hawaii and 350 Hawaii strongly supported the resolution, framing it as a consumer protection and resilience measure tied to reducing dependence on imports and strengthening local food and energy systems. No opposition was presented, and the resolution was moved out as is. STR 172 SD1 HD1 directed the PUC to conduct a comprehensive analysis of ways to maximize cost reduction and minimize financial risk while meeting state goals. DCCA, the Hawaii State Energy Office, and the PUC offered comments, and Earthjustice supported the measure; it was also advanced as is. For STR 166 SD1, which concerns how the PUC should evaluate generational energy commitments, DCCA, the Hawaii State Energy Office, and the PUC provided comments, while 350 Hawaii, Greenpeace Hawaii, and others opposed any move toward LNG, arguing it would harm ratepayers and conflict with Hawaii’s renewable goals. After discussion, the committee amended the resolution to add language directing the PUC to evaluate any LNG or other imported-fuel proposal for its potential effects on or delays to the state’s renewable portfolio standards, including the 2045 deadline. The amended resolution then passed, and the committee adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 5th, 2025

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

Transcript Highlights:
  • The legislation also requires campgrounds to share their plans with local emergency services, emergency
  • It adds interoperable emergency communication systems and coordinated emergency response.
  • designated as an emergency manager coordinator.
  • They're requiring an emergency manager to hold an emergency manager to life: basic, intermediate, advanced
  • If an autopsy is ordered, it goes to one of those 13.
Bills: HB2, HB1, HB18, HB19, HB20, HB1, HB 2, HB18, HB19, HB20
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:54:27.839> management,<00:54:28.400> emergency<00:54:28.880> medical emergency
  • management, emergency medical emergency management, emergency medical services,<00:54:29.680> and
  • Your emergency responders, your firemen, they all love this system.
  • Your emergency responders, your firemen, they all love this system.
  • Um one of the emergency warning systems.
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from December 19 and June 12, then received a staff report on the Kentucky Fire Commission’s minimum training standards and administrative spending. Staff explained that the commission’s current minimum training hours are 115 for volunteer firefighters and 300 for paid firefighters, down from 150 and 400 before January 1, 2023, after the commission removed elective classes not directly tied to NFPA standards. The report found the commission’s certification testing aligns fully with NFPA standards, but recommended that the commission formally promulgate regulations establishing the reduced training hours. On finances, staff said the commission complied with the first statutory cap on administrative reimbursements to KCTCS, but could not verify compliance with a second, more specific cap because the finance system does not break out program-level costs and the statute is vague. Staff recommended the commission work with KCTCS to fix that issue and suggested the General Assembly may wish to clarify the statute. After questions about reimbursement levels and investment income, the committee voted to accept the report. The committee then heard an update on the Kentucky Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel. Staff reported that the panel has implemented two of three prior recommendations: it revised its agency notification letter to clearly state the 90-day response deadline and added response prompts and checkboxes to improve completeness. The third recommendation, to adopt formal written procedures, remains in progress; staff said the panel plans to develop those procedures alongside its new case management system. The panel is meeting its statutory membership and meeting requirements, but agency responses to its recommendations have been inconsistent: 48% were timely and appropriate in 2022, 36% in 2023, and 82% in 2024, though only three of nine timely 2024 responses were fully complete. Staff also described the new case management system project, funded with $200,000 in one-time money, and recommended the panel consult budget staff about use of those funds beyond fiscal year 2025. They reissued the recommendation that the panel develop written procedures for case review, findings, recommendations, and annual reports. Committee members raised concerns about the lack of penalties for noncompliance, the volume and length of panel meetings, and technology barriers to reviewing cases, and one member said the panel’s findings should inform future legislation.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • to help maintaining order. to help maintaining order.
  • uh option with emergency services. uh option with emergency services.
  • <00:53:50.640> Management<00:53:51.040> Division Emergency Management Division Emergency
  • and threat assessment, emergency and threat assessment, emergency planning,<00:56:15.400> and
  • problems become emergencies. problems become emergencies.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 2/17/25

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • few that would be possibly impacted, but I would like to have this get discussed in the Ed Policy in order
  • few that would be possibly impacted, but I would like to have this get discussed in the Ed Policy in order
  • few that would be possibly impacted, but I would like to have this get discussed in the Ed Policy in order
  • I would like to have this get discussed in the Ed Policy in order to, because you're talking a much broader
  • I would like to have this get discussed in the Ed Policy in order to, because you're talking a much broader
Bills: HF72, HF66, HF69, HF73
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • > states<00:03:29.080> it As the emergency regulation states it As the emergency regulation
  • Under state law the state of emergency Under state law the state of emergency lasts<00:03:41.280
  • executive order 2026-235. executive order 2026-235.
  • emergency relating to gas prices. emergency relating to gas prices.
  • One, we're called up on executive order.
Summary: The Budget Review Subcommittee on Transportation met for its first meeting and received an overview from Transportation Cabinet officials on the governor’s executive order responding to high gas prices. Deputy Secretary Mike Hancock and budget director Shawn McKiernan explained that the order declared a state of emergency, reduced the state motor fuels tax by 10 cents per gallon, froze the tax rate for FY27, and urged Congress to suspend the federal gas tax. They said the emergency regulation would remain in effect until the war in Iran ends or Kentucky gas prices fall below $3 per gallon, and that any transportation budget shortfalls could be covered by the state budget reserve trust fund if requested later by the governor. McKiernan estimated the 10-cent reduction would reduce the road fund by about $26.8 million per month, with roughly 44% flowing to county road aid, rural secondary, and municipal road aid. He said the immediate impact to counties and cities would be about $11.8 million for one month, while the cabinet would see about $15 million per month less available for its own use. He also said the freeze on the FY27 motor fuels tax rate would prevent a scheduled increase and, compared with the budget assumption, would produce about $42 million in net additional revenue, split between local governments and the cabinet. He added that if the reduction lasted through December, the major transportation programs could be down about 16.9% from budgeted levels. Members focused on the effect on local governments, the road fund, and the cabinet’s cash management process. Several senators and representatives criticized the executive order as short-sighted or political, while others emphasized the need for a long-term solution to transportation funding. Questions were raised about how make-whole payments to counties and cities would be handled, how the cabinet manages cash flow, and whether the state should continue relying on general fund transfers to support the road plan. Cabinet officials said they would work with lawmakers, explained that project authorizations are managed based on cash flow and seasonal spending patterns, and noted that construction and maintenance costs have risen sharply, making revenue adequacy a continuing concern.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Energy Resources Apr 14th, 2025

Energy Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • As Texas continues to diversify its energy portfolio, hydrogen has emerged as a clean, reliable fuel
  • Hydrogen with, you would have your own power source there in order to fuel whatever project you were
  • Then afterwards, we'll call Dia Coit-Kendall. ...range in that order.
  • The main priority was for a... ...emergency power and for drones.
  • After George, we will have Shannon Ratliff and then Ben Seabury, in that order.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Transportation Funding Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Transportation Funding

Transcript Highlights:
  • If anyone would now come to order, the time is 10 a.m. The clerk will call the roll. Canales? Here.
  • And then we will proceed with those who are present in order of seniority.
  • When disaster strikes, a mandatory evacuation order is issued.
  • To suspend the collections of tolls during local mandatory evacuation orders.
  • When a local government leader issues a mandatory order. With that, Mr.