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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/23/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speed factored into the crash. Excessive speed is a public health crisis.
  • Speed factored into the crash. Excessive speed is a public health crisis.
  • > uh</c><00:43:16.800><c> in</c> excessive speeds putting people uh in excessive speeds putting people
  • </c> excessive speeding, they get offered. excessive speeding, they get offered.
  • </c><01:26:13.040><c> excessive</c> really really dislike speeding excessive really really dislike speeding
Bills: HF3429 , HF3418 , HF3431 , HF1597
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - Senate Public Safety

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • speeding offense, or has accumulated excessive points that require a one-year suspension.
  • Excessive points that require a one-year suspension.
  • The assistant director for the Motor Vehicle Division must certify speed-inhibiting devices that meet
  • Certify speed-inhibiting devices that meet outlined requirements for certification, publish and make
  • And putting this in, obviously, will control the speed if they can't do it themselves.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/10/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:25:14.920><c> You're</c> kind of a speed speed thing. You're kind of a speed speed thing.
  • </c> speed assist device. speed assist device.
  • </c><01:10:02.160><c> Uh</c> speed assist device. Uh speed assist device.
  • to have an intelligent habitually speed to have an intelligent speed<01:12:10.200><c> assist</c><01:
  • Three strikes and you're out on speeding, speeding, speeding, even 5 miles an hour over the speed limit
Bills: HF2354 , HF3621 , HF3429 , HF3483
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • More importantly, we're behind Florida in high-speed rail, with amazing things leapfrogging over the
  • This bill will repeal the outdated... ban that blocks state investment in high-speed rail and direct
  • TxDOT to partner with a private entity to build a state-of-the-art high-speed rail connecting Dallas,
  • being anti-high-speed rail.
  • If you're going at that speed, I think you're looking at under an hour and a half to connect.
Summary: The meeting was a press event in support of House Bill 483 and its Senate companion, SB 424, which would repeal the current state ban on high-speed rail investment and direct TxDOT to partner with a private entity to develop a Dallas-Austin-San Antonio rail line along the I-35 corridor. Rep. John Bucy, County Judge Andy Brown, Rep. Rafael Anchia, Rep. Ray Lopez, and Sen. Sarah Eckhardt all argued that Texas’ population growth and highway congestion make passenger rail a necessary transportation alternative and a long-term economic development tool. They emphasized benefits such as reduced commute times, improved mobility, lower congestion and emissions, stronger workforce access, and better connections between major metro areas. Testimony focused on the Texas Triangle as a strong candidate for high-speed rail because of its population density, flat geography, and existing growth patterns. Speakers cited examples from other places, including Florida’s Brightline and rail systems in other countries, to argue that Texas is behind and could catch up through public-private partnerships. They also discussed transit-oriented development, last-mile connections through local systems like DART and Austin’s Project Connect, and the possibility of future expansion beyond the initial corridor. In response to questions, Bucy said the bill would allow TxDOT to seek bids and keep costs flexible, that the line would likely require dedicated high-speed track, and that express service could reduce Austin-San Antonio travel time to roughly 30 minutes and Austin-Dallas to under an hour and a half, though no launch date was set. No formal vote or committee action was taken in the transcript. The event ended with Bucy saying the bill was a positive step and could become a bipartisan effort to build a more connected Texas.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Transportation May 28th, 2026

Joint Committee on Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Higher-speed devices should be operated in roadways and under rules more appropriate to the speed and
  • This whole thing has been about speed, and the legislature moves at its own speed.
  • This whole thing has been about, you know, speed and the legislature moves at its own speed.
  • We know that speed kills.
  • We know that speed kills.
Bills: H5400 , H5421 , H5430 , S3077 , S3089
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • We appreciate the intent of the measure to address excessive charges for non-prescription and over-the-counter
  • :18:59.440><c> measure</c><00:18:59.840><c> to</c><00:19:00.080><c> address</c><00:19:00.400><c> excessive
  • </c><00:19:00.880><c> charges</c> the measure to address excessive charges the measure to address excessive
Bills: SB3082 , SB3110 , SB3251
Committee: House Labor
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • speeding and racing.
  • This bill also extends existing laws regarding ignition devices to cover speed inhibitors as well.
  • speed. suspension or revocation for certain traffic offenses such as excessive speeding and racing.
  • You even have the freedom to break the speed limit.
  • And we will take children to jail for periods that would be excessive.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 19th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • commission ahead of time, and it would also allow the insurance commissioner the option of declaring an excessive
  • Would you believe that Oklahoma law already prohibits rates that are deemed excessive and unfairly discriminatory
  • I'm not sure how that Would you believe that Oklahoma law already prohibits rates that are deemed excessive
  • This bill is focused on ensuring fiscal stability for the companies without excessive rates burdening
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means Apr 27th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • I apologize for missing last week and deferring your efficiency and speed of agenda, passing through
  • I apologize for missing last week and deferring your efficiency and speed of agenda, passing through
Bills: HR118 , HB1039 , SB436 , SB442
Committee: House Ways & Means
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • I believe that provision that we have right now claiming that, you know, it can only be deemed excessive
  • I believe that provision that we have right now claiming that, you know, it can only be deemed excessive
  • and the Commissioner can only disapprove if it's deemed... ...excessive and the Commissioner can only
Committee: House Insurance
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Jan 20th, 2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Let’s talk about the school speed zones. We’ll start with the school speed zones.
  • School speed zones. Let’s start with the school speed zones, if I may.
  • limit, that the motorist knows that they need to follow that 15-mile-an-hour speed limit.
  • The average speed of a bicyclist, non-motorized, is somewhere between 13 and 14 miles an hour.
  • You do have a couple points in it, though, with speed limits. Go ahead.
Bills: S0382 , S0654 , S0684 , S0880 , S1080
Summary: The Transportation Committee heard and advanced several measures. SB 654 on traffic infraction enforcement was presented as a comprehensive cleanup of camera-based enforcement for red lights, school zones, and school bus violations. The sponsor said the bill aims to improve consistency, transparency, privacy limits, and due process, including clerk fee retention, virtual hearings, recordkeeping, limits on data use, school district approval for bus cameras, and reporting requirements. An amendment clarifying reporting and liability-transfer procedures was adopted without objection. Members raised questions about information sharing, facial recognition, school-zone flashing lights, private school buses, and bus stop safety; the sponsor said those issues were either already covered in statute or outside the bill’s scope, though he was open to future clarification. The committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also heard SB 1080, which received a delete-all amendment concerning FDOT direct payments to first-tier subcontractors and takeover agreements with sureties. The amendment was adopted and the bill was reported favorably. A block of appointments to various boards was then considered together and reported favorably after a single confirmation vote. Later, SB 382 on electric bicycles and scooters was substantially revised with a strike-all amendment. The new version keeps pedestrian-yield and audible-signal rules, adds a 10-mph limit when pedestrians are within 50 feet, creates an e-bike task force, and requires crash data collection and reporting. Members discussed whether the speed rule applies to shared-use paths, how it would be enforced, whether licensing or speedometers should be required, and whether the bill could create barriers for seniors or others who rely on e-bikes. Supporters emphasized safety, data collection, and the need for stakeholder input; the bill was reported favorably. The committee also reported favorably SB 684, which allows electronic signatures in connection with total-loss vehicles and vessels, and SB 880, creating a Miami Northwestern Alumni Association specialty license plate. The meeting ended after all bills and appointments were approved and the committee adjourned.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, December 18, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Speed Act is holding us back.
  • </c> permitting system through the speed act. permitting system through the speed act.
  • The speed act brings common process. The speed act brings common sense<01:16:06.159><c> reform.
  • </c> speed act. Thank you. Yield back. speed act. Thank you. Yield back.
  • I urge my colleagues to speed act.
Bills: HR498 , HR845 , HR1366 , HB4776
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Jan 14th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • expertise in roadway safety, and we use a safe systems approach, where we do things like looking at speed
  • For example, more than 35 locations across the state have rough roads or reduced speed limit signs.
  • We're planning for population growth, including the Cascadia High Speed Rail and I-5 program.
  • in the Highway Safety Account, including resources for improved data analysis to better understand speed
  • in the Highway Safety Account, including resources for improved data analysis to better understand speed
Bills: HB2306