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DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Health & Social Services Committee Meeting Jun 24th, 2026

Health & Social Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • We use the term—the statutes use the term in a different part of the code about personal possession and
  • Used for sale.
  • We use the term—the statutes use the term in a different part of the code about personal possession and
  • Please use the raise hand function now.
  • And so there is a legitimate use of kratom.
Bills: HB305, HB395, HB341
Summary: The committee met in late June with Senators Hansen, Buckson, Siegfried, Townsend, and Huxable present, and first approved the meeting minutes by voice vote. The opening bill, HB 341, would limit DFS from filing child support in foster care cases unless doing so would not hinder reunification; Children’s Department staff said the department has already decided to stop filing in all such cases, with an estimated fiscal impact of about $140,000 annually. Public testimony from the League of Women Voters supported the bill as a compassionate measure to help families reunite. The committee then heard HB 446/related anaphylaxis legislation for colleges and universities, which would allow institutions to stock and use intranasal epinephrine alongside auto-injectors and update training and reporting requirements. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America supported the measure, emphasizing the need for needle-free options and faster treatment of anaphylaxis. The committee also took up HS1 for HB 356 on PFAS, which would ban firefighting foam containing PFAS beginning in 2028, require disclosure if PPE contains PFAS, and address recalls; DNREC and the fire service supported it, saying most departments have already transitioned away from PFAS foam. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 305, a diabetes wellness pilot program that would use continuous glucose monitoring, app-based care coordination, lab testing, and DHIN data analysis to shift care toward prevention and remission. Sponsor Senator Siegfried described the bill as a response to Delaware’s high diabetes costs and prevalence, and the Medical Society of Delaware supported it as a proactive model. The committee also discussed HB 395, which would regulate intoxicating hemp-derived products and synthetic cannabinoids by classifying products over a THC threshold as marijuana and creating penalties for unlicensed sales; the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner supported the bill, while hemp industry representatives and Senator Hoffner warned it could harm legitimate hemp retailers and access to hemp products. The final item, HS1 for HB 332, would ban sales and marketing of kratom products to those under 21 and direct the state to study testing and regulation of kratom and synthetic variants. Supporters, including the Delaware Healthcare Association and several recovery advocates, said age-gating is a reasonable first step and that synthetic products are the main concern; opponents and some senators argued the bill should go further and fully ban kratom or better distinguish synthetic products from natural leaf kratom. No formal roll-call votes were taken on the substantive bills during the transcript, and the meeting adjourned after public comment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Mar 24th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, and thank you, members, for giving us this opportunity to speak on behalf of Harris.
  • So, again, thank you all for having us here to speak on behalf of Harris Health.
  • I also want to thank Representative Jones for giving us this opportunity. Thank you. Thank you.
  • Thank you for having us. Thank you for having me, members. I appreciate you all letting me talk.
  • Chairman and members, thank you for having us here today.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/25/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • And in Crow Wing County, they use these funds to connect families with necessary services to make sure
  • They provided us with a lot more information about directly what they were seeing with their families
  • They provided us with a lot more information about directly what they were seeing with their families
  • Wing County, they use these funds to<00:02:38.600><c> connect</c><00:02:38.920><c> families</c><00:02
  • because that allows us then to stay with those families, provide that longer-term rental assistance
Bills: HF4561, HF4343
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • The assets of the fund were to be used; it was a 75% rural, 25% urban split.
  • So I would like to pursue this housing needs assessment tool to give us better ends...
  • House Bill 4484, this legislation will allow the OCC workers to use...
  • We work with a lot of these families. Absolutely. Thank you. Any further questions?
  • Could you give us some ideas of what requirements we're going to put on HOA boards?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

General Government REVISED: HB4434 - Added Feb 17th, 2026

General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • The assets of the fund were to be used: it was a 75% rural, 25% urban split.
  • So I would like to pursue this housing needs assessment tool to give us better insight.
  • House Bill 4484, this legislation will allow the OCC workers to use...
  • We work with a lot of these families. Absolutely. Thank you. Any further questions?
  • Could you give us some ideas of what requirements we're going to put on HOA boards?
Summary: The committee took up several bills related to housing, state operations, veterans, and administrative cleanup. HB 4409, as amended by PCS, would create a bicameral, bipartisan legislative committee to oversee workforce and affordable housing issues and coordinate with outside stakeholders; members asked about membership, meeting frequency, and pay, and the bill passed 9-0. HB 4414, also with a PCS, would direct the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency’s housing stability program to use a needs-assessment tool to guide funding decisions, with the tool and related provisions sunset after five years; members discussed whether it would be data-mapping based and how it would connect to broader legislative decision-making, and it passed 6-3. The committee also advanced HB 4484, allowing Oklahoma Corporation Commission workers to use state-owned or state-leased vehicles between home and work when traveling statewide for duties; it passed 9-0. HB 4486 would authorize placement of a Gold Star Family Memorial Monument on state grounds as a gift from the Woody Williams Foundation, with OMES handling routine cleaning, and it passed 10-0 after questions about the final design and consultation with veterans groups. HB 3057, a cleanup bill based on a 2025 evaluation identifying more than 50 obsolete statutory reports, repealed outdated reporting requirements and passed 10-0. Two additional bills addressed governance rules. HB 2588 would add requirements for HOA board service, limiting board membership after developer turnover to owners who live in the neighborhood and excluding tenants and nonresident owners; it passed 10-0. HB 4434 would require the governor to notify officials in the line of succession before being out of state, with members briefly discussing whether 24 hours was enough notice and whether the succession order should mirror the federal model; it passed 10-0. The meeting ended with all bills reported due pass and the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Hi, okay, this bill is important to us.
  • told just to use the bathroom, but there is no bathroom to use.
  • Our thinking is we'll have family bathrooms.
  • That to see if those even exist and get back with us.
  • It's all 35 of us plus our house colleagues.
Bills: SB1, SB83, SB159, SB160, SB1
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/17/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Those are used as a strategy that cities use, planners use, and something called crime prevention through
  • Design standards are used for crime prevention techniques and to use...
  • homes didn't need those garages, and some of the families actually told us that they just needed one
  • The other point that I want to cover, you know, we—I heard family safety, you know, blankets used for
  • I heard family safety, you know, blankets used for insulation, all that kind of stuff.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/12/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation

Artificial Intelligence & Innovation

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, it is, but this is a bill, this is an us bill where every one of us is going to have a little
  • And I used them for a lot of things that I would have used a junior associate for a few years back.
  • I won't even use all that. Mr.
  • I won't even use all that. Mr.
  • We can use all that. Perfect. Mr.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • It also aligns us with other states, including Arizona, that has 30 to 90 days depending on the blood
  • It also aligns us with other states, including Arizona that has 30 to 90 days depending on the blood
  • And I've also heard that this brings us in line with what other states are doing.
  • I've also heard that this brings us in line with what other states are doing.
  • As you know, Speaker has waived the rules for us and given us permission.
Bills: SB60, SB85, SB323, SB309, SB465
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • I have families in my office regularly when I'm back in Vegas because their student is using social media
  • A recent study by the Family Online Safety Institute found that more than four in five households using
  • Klein, for being here with us today and also talking to us about your experience.
  • And for those of us who want it, our future should include the possibility of having future families.
  • used without authorization.
Bills: AB52, AB76, AB163, AB388, AB483
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 4th, 2026 at 06:25 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Mandating detailed use-by-use opt-in workflows, consumers are confronted with repeated legalistic consent
  • We know that home-based child care is essential for serving families, for working families.
  • Finally, there's pervasive use of something called a conditional use permit, which is a lengthy hearing
  • We just want that the same allowance afforded to us to use prescribed medicine in accordance with our
  • Okay, using it as another source.
Bills: SB20, SB53, SB86, SB96, SB129
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Jan 20th, 2026

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I wanted to thank Senator Massullo for working with us to address our concerns.
  • of their property if a county refuses to change the underlying land use.
  • It's limited to residential only, even if it were surrounded by some other higher use.
  • And you have really carried this across the line for us.
  • you just approve someone else to use their property.
Summary: The committee met with a quorum present and took up a series of local claims, public records, growth management, permitting, and nuisance bills. It first heard and approved SB 16, SB 14, and SB 24, all uncontested claims bills providing relief related to injuries or settlements involving the City of St. Petersburg and Miami-Dade County. The committee also approved SB 288 on rural electric cooperatives, which narrows statutory language to protect co-op decisions on generation and power purchases while preserving consumer protections, and SB 830, which creates a public records exemption for certain personal information of county and city managers and their families due to reported threats against local officials. Members then considered SB 1138 on qualified contractors and development review, which would create a registry of licensed professionals to help local governments process pre-application reviews and plats more quickly. Local government groups raised concerns about preemption and preserving quasi-judicial authority, while private-provider supporters backed the bill; Senator Sharief voted no, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 168, expanding public nuisance law to include gambling houses and increasing penalties, and SB 686 on agricultural enclaves, which revises the enclave process, adds a public hearing path, limits it to certain residential projects in urban service areas, and was amended to change a date to June 30, 2026 before being reported favorably. The committee next approved CS for SB 548 on growth management and impact fees, which clarifies plan-based methodology, extraordinary circumstances, interlocal agreements, and refund procedures for improper fee collections. Testimony reflected support for clearer standards but also concerns about fee increases and refund administration. Finally, SB 1234 on building permits and inspections was reported favorably; it would extend permit validity, exempt some low-value work from permitting, create a statewide residential permit form, speed review timelines, and expand private-provider use, drawing opposition from a Miami-Dade building official who argued for continued local oversight and support from private-provider advocates. Senator Jones requested to be recorded as voting affirmatively on several tabs and negatively on tab 9, and the committee adjourned after all bills were disposed of.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Commerce and Economic Development Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:24 pm

House Commerce & Economic Development Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • As working families, we know the benefits this will extend to us.
  • They can use that spot, and then someone else can use it after them.
  • It's an option for us to use; we don't have to use it. All the risk is on the utility.
  • It's an option for us to use; we don't have to use it. All the risk is on the utility.
  • And let us have this memorial to be able to give us some advice.
Bills: HB303, SB96, HM6
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 15th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • His family has faced this issue.
  • To nine other family members, perhaps that would apply.
  • Oh, so this only applies when a family wants to have their family close.
  • So this is a way for families to keep it in the family but legally subdivided.
  • So the 10 acres, if it was an unrelated family member...
Bills: SB1708, SB2523, SB1450
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So anything that uses any pivot system that waters or electricity is used. >> Irrigation. >> So irrigation
  • So anything that uses any pivot system that waters or electricity is used. >> Irrigation. >> So irrigation
  • So anything that uses any pivot system that waters or electricity is used. >> Irrigation. >> So irrigation
  • So anything that uses any pivot system that waters or electricity is used. >> Irrigation. >> So irrigation
  • Is there any objection using discussion.
Bills: SB159, SB159
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> families with our pharmacists is great. families with our pharmacists is great.
  • </c> opioid use disorder, or OUD. opioid use disorder, or OUD.
  • </c> bill before us, Representative Franson. bill before us, Representative Franson.
  • </c> share us your bill. share us your bill.
  • </c> the decisions were not made without us. the decisions were not made without us.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 9th, 2026 at 09:11 am

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Mansion Foundation then supports us.
  • So for us, it's a little bit of a problem because there's not transparency into the fund that uses the
  • People aren't using it.
  • I'd like to thank you all for allowing us to be here today.
  • And I remember us fighting for money just to keep our doors open.
Bills: SB238, HJR1, SM21, SM22
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 9th, 2026

House Rules & Order Of Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Mansion Foundation then supports us.
  • So for us, it's a little bit of a problem because there's not transparency into the fund that uses the
  • People aren't using it.
  • I'd like to thank you all for allowing us to be here today.
  • And I remember us fighting for money just to keep our doors open.
Bills: SB238, HJR1, SM21, SM22
Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 238, which would rename the governor’s residence advisory commission as a governor’s residence management committee and clarify its duties, membership, and authority over furnishings, maintenance, inventories, and hospitality functions at the governor’s residence. Senator Worth and Secretary Designate Anna Silva said the change was needed to remove ambiguity during the transition to a new administration and to improve transparency around the residence, the General Services Department fund, and the separate Mansion Foundation fundraising role. Several senators questioned whether the bill concentrated too much authority in the governor and whether it could enable a large renovation project without sufficient legislative oversight; supporters said major renovations would still require legislative appropriations. The committee ultimately advanced the Senate Rules Committee substitute for SB 238 on a 5-2 vote. The committee then approved House Joint Resolution 1, which would create bipartisan nominating commissions to vet and recommend university and special school regents to the governor, rather than leaving appointments entirely to the governor’s discretion. Senator Steinborn said the resolution would improve qualifications and reduce conflicts of interest, including by changing the student regent selection process. After brief discussion about party-affiliation restrictions, the resolution received a due pass with no objection. Two memorials followed. Senate Memorial 21, presented by Senator Stephanics for Senator Bergman, calls for a Department of Health study of overdose prevention tools, including overdose prevention centers and other harm-reduction strategies, in response to New Mexico’s high and rising overdose death rates. Supporters cited rural access challenges and the need to explore all available tools; one senator asked for more accurate county and demographic data in the memorial’s background. The committee gave SM 21 a due pass. Senate Memorial 22, presented by Senator Charlie and the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence, asks the Legislative Finance Committee to convene a working group to map how domestic-violence funding flows through CYFD and related agencies, with an emphasis on transparency, accountability, and provider input. Witnesses said funding streams are fragmented and sometimes unclear, and senators discussed whether the work should remain within CYFD or be overseen elsewhere. The committee also gave SM 22 a due pass. The chair then announced that the committee would hear SB 264 and SB 261 at its next meeting and recessed.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 7th, 2026 at 06:52 pm

Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • One student told us, 'Give us more chances and more opportunities.
  • SB 18 threatens that strength for us. SB 18 threatens that strength for us.
  • Families, consumers, and businesses are effectively paying an extreme heat tax when we have to use more
  • Would you mind telling us?
  • Can you touch on that for us? Would you mind telling us?