Video & Transcript Research : 'membership stores'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Agriculture & Livestock May 14th, 2025

Agriculture & Livestock

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, you can go to a grocery store and buy 10.
  • farmers who are selling their ungraded eggs at the farmers market and let them get into the local store
  • Stores. We have an egg shortage, and somehow this isn't a new thing.
  • I have no problem, and my membership has no problem.
  • Have you ever gone to the grocery store to buy eggs? And all the choices you have.
Bills: SB1864
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Tourism Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've been working with hospitality industry and the convenience store industry and other people that's
  • I've been working with hospitality industry and the convenience store industry and other people that's
  • :03:16.080> hospitality I've been working with the hospitality industry and the convenience store
  • Right now, you just show them your ID. about mom and pop stores.
  • I think about about mom and pop stores.
Bills: HB393, HB61, SB234, SB234
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Jefferson County Legislation Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Jefferson County Legislation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Under existing law, there are two types of memberships in the...
  • There are two types of memberships in the civil service system, and I'll get back to the civil service
Bills: HB343, HB345
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Education Policy Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So just have to turn the phone off, store it off your person in a locker, car, whatever your storage
Bills: SB278, HB459, HB61
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Once a student begins full-time employment at the cabinet, they establish membership in the Kentucky
  • This allowed a few KERS members to attain an earlier membership date for purposes of creating retiree
  • Once a student begins full-time employment at the cabinet, they establish membership in the Kentucky
  • the cabinet, they establish membership the cabinet, they establish membership of<00:34:20.079>
  • members to attain an earlier membership members to attain an earlier membership date<00:34:57.520
Summary: The committee heard testimony from Rep. Ashley Tackett Laferty on a bill to extend minimum line-of-duty hazardous duty retirement benefits to certain CERS and KERS non-hazardous members who are injured in the line of duty and cannot return to that work. She used a video and examples from Eastern Kentucky first responders, including a deputy who lost a leg and an emergency management director who lost an eye, to argue that some injured officers and responders fall through the cracks because their employers did not elect hazardous-duty coverage. She said the proposal would provide 25% of pay to the disabled officer, plus 10% for dependent children and minimal health benefits, and noted estimated actuarial costs of about $2.9 million for CERS and $0.542 million for KERS, funded through small employer-rate increases. Members asked how far back the bill would reach, how many people might qualify, and whether the benefit would apply only to active employees or also to past injuries. Laferty said the bill would include a five-year window for recent situations and could potentially cover a total of 3,333 positions statewide that could be certified as hazardous, though benefits would only apply if the person was injured in the line of duty and disabled from returning to that work. Questions also focused on whether a non-hazardous employee could qualify if injured in a hazardous situation; Laferty said yes, if the position could be certified as hazardous, but only for the bill’s minimum benefits. Rep. Josh Calloway and others noted that local governments choose whether to pay the higher hazardous-duty contribution rates, which they said often drives the coverage decision. The committee then heard Rep. Daniel Gberg present a separate bill revising school leave rules so teachers and school employees may use accumulated sick leave to observe religious holidays not on the school calendar, with a required personal statement and advance notice. He said the change would address a longstanding inconsistency for teachers who observe non-Christian holidays and currently may have to choose between unpaid leave or improperly using sick days, and he said prior concerns about retirement service credit and maternity leave were reduced by other policy changes. The discussion ended without a vote, with members indicating they had the relevant materials and that the bill would be revisited later.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Apr 7th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Transcript Highlights:
  • level of flexibility available to the federally chartered credit unions and revises the field of membership
  • for state charter credit unions to disallow geographic or membership overlap consideration.
Bills: SB1623, SB2067, SB2132
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 13, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • have talked about you've got two different places where personally identifiable information is being stored
  • have talked about you've got two different places where personally identifiable information is being stored
Bills: SF0020, SF0021, SF0022
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • He said it is very simple: he would like to see the membership on PPoB expanded to get some younger members
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from its January 27 meeting and then took up House Bill 694, which would create a default rule for the Teachers’ Retirement System health insurance trust fund once it reaches 100% funding, currently anticipated around 2027. The bill would redirect two funding streams now going to the health trust—state payments on behalf of local districts and other employer contributions—into TRS pension benefits if the health fund reaches and maintains full funding. The sponsor said this would add about $154 million annually to TRS pensions and would only serve as a default if no other plan is adopted later. Members asked whether the bill would shift the unfunded liability to teachers or affect employee contributions. The sponsor and staff said it would not shift liability to teachers and would not change the employee contribution; only the employer-side payments would be redirected. Several members asked about the meaning of actuarial 100% funding, whether the fund could fall back below 100%, and whether employee contributions might be reduced in the future. The sponsor said the bill is based on actuarial projections, would revert the money back to the health trust if funding fell below 100%, and does not prevent future legislative or board action. Senator Higdon and others spoke in support of discussing the issue, noting the 2010 shared-responsibility changes and the need for a default approach as full funding is reached. The committee then heard Senate Bill 183, which would amend Kentucky law governing proxy advisers used by retirement systems. The sponsor said the bill would require proxy advisers, when handling shareholder-sponsored proposals, to act solely in the interest of retirement system members and beneficiaries and to provide an economic analysis when voting against a company board’s recommendation. He argued the measure is aimed at proxy advisers such as ISS and Glass Lewis, which he said often advance ESG-related proposals not tied to shareholder value. A guest from APCIA said the bill is meant to distinguish proxy advisers from investment managers and to strengthen the 2023 law by requiring a clearer economic justification for votes that depart from board recommendations. Members asked how proxy advisers differ from other financial advisers, whether Kentucky uses them, and whether the bill would prevent pension funds from investing in companies with ESG factors if those investments are profitable. The sponsor and guest said the bill would not bar such investments; it is intended to regulate proxy voting recommendations, not investment decisions. They described the bill as a proactive measure to reinforce fiduciary responsibility and limit outside proxy influence on pension voting. No final vote on either bill was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/26/2026 - House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so it doesn't come directly from the store.
  • You mean that the ranchers have to furnish the stores with the beef in order for the humans to buy it
  • because the gray wolves have killed a lot of the stock, would that mean that there's less meat in the store
  • He added that people can walk to the grocery store, but can also drive or take a flying car thanks to
Summary: The House Committee on Land, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs met for its first session, with members and staff introducing themselves before taking up committee-of-reference business and several bills. The committee first heard a presentation from the Arizona Beef Council, which described its checkoff-funded promotion, education, and research work for Arizona beef producers, including classroom materials, nutrition outreach, and ranch tours. After questions about how the program is funded and whether the state would lose its Arizona-retained share if the council were not continued, the committee voted to recommend continuing the council for eight years, until July 1, 2034. The committee then considered HB 2155, which also continued the Arizona Beef Council for eight years, and advanced it on a 7-1 vote. HB 2156, which appropriates money to the livestock compensation fund for wolf depredation losses, was amended to set the appropriation at $250,000 from the general fund in fiscal year 2027 and then passed 5-2, with supporters emphasizing rancher compensation and opponents questioning use of general funds and noting unused prior funding. HB 2162, which would require at least one Arizona Game and Fish Commission member to be a cattleman or rancher, drew testimony for and against but was ultimately held by the chair after discussion about representation, existing appointment structures, and rural interests. The committee also advanced two cell-cultured protein bills. HB 2762 would require a disclaimer on packaging for food derived from cultivated cells; supporters argued for consumer transparency and opponents said federal labeling rules already apply and state-specific requirements could create confusion. It passed 5-3. HB 2791 would prohibit the sale of cell-cultured protein for human consumption and make violations a felony; supporters raised safety, innovation, and agricultural concerns, while opponents argued it would criminalize federally approved products and restrict consumer choice. That bill also passed 5-3. The committee adjourned after completing its agenda.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 18, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • interest or any right there is freely transferable to another person through conveyance of the membership
  • through conveyance of the membership through conveyance of the membership interest.<00:15:48.240
  • So the way that these projects are constructed, um, the members have a say over a store of assets.
  • So the way that these projects are constructed, um, the members have a say over a store of assets.
  • Um, the members have a say over a store of assets.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development May 12th, 2026

Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • And, you know, the owners of the grocery stores put up the vast majority of the money.
  • that was opened up was the Circle in New Orleans reopened, and this act provided equipment in that store
  • We do not—this is not state-owned grocery stores, anything of that nature.
  • It's one of the tools we use to try to get a store open and keep it open in those food deserts.
  • He's removing that, or he's dropping that membership down to 23.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • But if you're a country store and you don't have a scanner, I mean, a scanner in the country store, like
  • ." to these stores where you do go through to these stores where you do go through a<00:17:26.880>
  • store is in trouble and they get a fine. store is in trouble and they get a fine.
  • and<00:27:13.360> convenience And my grocery stores and convenience And my grocery stores
  • stores are heavily subsidized stores are heavily subsidized by<00:27:18.960> EBT.