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IA
Iowa 2025-2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment Feb 17th, 2025 at 02:00 pm
Natural Resources and Environment
Committee:
Joint Natural Resources and Environment
Keywords:
air quality, greenhouse gas, GHG, emissions inventory, carbon emissions, climate reporting, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Commission, EPA, Clean Air Act, major source, operating permit, emission fees, solid waste incinerator, operator certification, voluntary registry, administrative code cleanup, regulatory conformity, environmental reporting
IA
Iowa 2025-2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment Feb 10th, 2025 at 01:58 pm
Natural Resources and Environment
Committee:
Joint Natural Resources and Environment
Keywords:
deer hunting, baiting, baited area, wildlife management, fair chase, hunting regulations, Iowa Code 481A, intentional interference with lawful hunting, game law, public land hunting, private land hunting, agricultural exemption, food plots, salt blocks, mineral blocks, livestock feed, soil contamination, hunting penalties, misdemeanor, subcommittee recommends amendment and passage
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security Apr 15th, 2026
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Transcript Highlights:
- work on trains now, where there would be a buzzing noise or an indication that there's something blocking
Keywords:
domestic violence, police training, suspicious deaths, homicide investigation, victim support, school bus safety, commission, student safety, operator training, safety standards, Legislative oversight, public health, student transportation, school bus, school pupil transportation, pupil transport, child passenger safety, school van, transportation contractor, motor vehicle safety
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Our members are also landowners, surface owners, and mineral owners, and we represent a wide swath. .
- NARO is a non-profit that was formed in 1980 to advocate and educate mineral and royalty owners.
- We're here today to represent the over 12 million mineral and royalty owners in Texas who cumulatively
- majority of those can be fractionalized, which means these individuals make less than $800 a year in minerals
- appreciate you all taking the time. and I hope that you will look favorably upon us and stand with the mineral
Committee:
House Energy Resources
Keywords:
surface estate, well plugging, Railroad Commission, landowner rights, liability, strategic reserve, gas supply, petroleum products, disaster response, Railroad Commission of Texas, energy security, emergency planning, oil and gas waste, environmental regulation, waste management, mining pits, groundwater monitoring, regulation, commercial disposal facilities, environmental standards
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The court stated, "We now hold a severance of minerals in..." in oil, gas, and other minerals.
- So if you generally understand a thing to be a mineral, it's considered a mineral.
- . mineral, or bromine are minerals.
- The mineral owner didn't.
- and sale of all minerals produced.
Committee:
House Energy Resources
Keywords:
surface estate, well plugging, Railroad Commission, landowner rights, liability, strategic reserve, gas supply, petroleum products, disaster response, Railroad Commission of Texas, energy security, emergency planning, oil and gas waste, environmental regulation, waste management, mining pits, groundwater monitoring, regulation, commercial disposal facilities, environmental standards
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, February 4, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Keywords:
universal child care, early learning, affordable child care, school readiness, child development, community involvement, mental health, socioeconomic diversity, disaster mitigation, tax exclusion, state programs, catastrophe loss, property insurance, windstorm, earthquake, wildfire, Medicare, healthcare, authorization, medical necessity
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, June 2, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> 571,</c><03:38:41.439><c> HR7831,</c> Union Calendar No. 571, H.R. 7831, a bill to amend the Mineral
- Stutzman, who is also the chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Minerals.
- Energy and Minerals. The gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for three minutes. Mr.
- Technologies,</c><04:12:23.520><c> and</c> Rising Action, Ormat Technologies, and Zanskar Geothermal and Minerals
Bills:
HB2860 , HB3922 , HB7250 , SB254 , HB5631 , HB1687 , HB7831 , HB7618 , HB6162 , HB5911 , HB4463 , HB3831 , HB2768 , HR41 , HB5682 , HCR86
Keywords:
Fort Peck Reservation, rural water system, water management, infrastructure, Native American, HB7831, H.R. 7831, License to Drill Act, Mineral Leasing Act, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, oil and gas, drilling permits, permit to drill, APD, application for permit to drill, permit processing fee, federal lands, public lands, energy development
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- My great-grandfather... ...minerals in the United States.
- And right now China dominates our critical and rare earth minerals.
- or mineral claims.
- mineral lease or common variety mineral lease of state lands that are located within the boundaries
- The bill allows the Land Department Commissioner to renew an existing mineral or mineral materials lease
Bills:
HB2014 , HB2055 , HB2145 , HB2150 , HB2696 , HB2755 , HB2763 , HB2781 , HB2782 , HB2787 , HB2795 , HB2889 , HB2975 , HB2985 , HB2986 , HCM2009 , HCR2020 , HCR2038
Keywords:
air emissions, fuel blends, environmental quality, feasibility study, Arizona Department of Agriculture, brackish groundwater, water supply development, desalination, Arizona Revised Statutes, water infrastructure, financial assistance, environmental reviews, fuel reformulation, gasoline standards, environmental regulations, ethanol supply, Air Quality, state land department, mineral lease, renewals
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
State Powers REVISED: Links added Feb 4th, 2026 at 09:00 am
State Powers
Transcript Highlights:
- So, it covers fee land, leasehold, minerals, easements, and control mechanisms.
- So, but my be specifically targeted at rare earth minerals and critical minerals, ensuring that our foreign-owned
- adversaries, our foreign adversaries, don't own those mineral rights within the state of Oklahoma.
- But to get more detailed in the critical minerals and protecting our national security and our supply
- chain of critical minerals and rare earth minerals more so than it is and related to our energy minerals
Committee:
House State Powers
Keywords:
foreign ownership, land acquisition, military installation, critical infrastructure, affidavit requirements, state law, penalties, Attorney General, foreign ownership of land, foreign adversary, foreign government adversary, foreign government enterprise, foreign government entity, foreign terrorist organization, specially designated national, SDN, FTO, critical minerals, land ownership, real property
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Jan 22nd, 2026
Transportation and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- already in place, those holes that are already drilled, to those cavities where oil, gas, and other minerals
- already in place, those holes that are already drilled, to those cavities where oil, gas, and other minerals
- already in place, those holes that are already drilled, to those cavities where oil, gas, and other minerals
- already in place, those holes that are already drilled, to those cavities where oil, gas, and other minerals
Committee:
Senate Transportation and Energy
Keywords:
business taxes, annual reports, Alabama Tax Tribunal, tax appeals, local government, SB174, alternative energy, alternative energy wells, alternative energy facility, geothermal, geothermal energy, subsurface energy, energy storage, energy capture, energy generation, hydropower, solar energy, oil and gas well conversion, well conversion, plugging and abandonment
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/17/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- We've been working for several years to open up the Mining, Mineral and Natural Resource Education Museum
- promote the history of the state and the importance of the five seas and to work with the mining mineral
- in okay well let me tell you about it we've been working for several years to open up the mining mineral
- our view, blocks the mountains.
- You can try to block it, but as you all know from floods and so on, it winds up going kind of where it
Bills:
HB2099 , HB2263 , HB2264 , HB2330 , HB2341 , HB2492 , HB2757 , HB2782 , HB2843 , HB2889 , HB2912 , HB2915 , HB2918 , HB4025 , HB4100 , HCR2020 , HCR2057
Committees:
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water , House House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee of Reference
Keywords:
water storage, long-term storage credits, groundwater management, drought contingency, Arizona water regulations, Colorado River, replenishment, groundwater savings facility, groundwater storage, underground water storage, active management area, irrigation non-expansion area, Arizona water law, water rights, water replenishment, recharge, water conservation district, multi-county water conservation district, CAP water, Central Arizona Project
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, rather than disposing of, because again, we're only gas industry, farmers, and ranchers, mineral
Committee:
House Energy
Keywords:
environmental protection, water quality, aluminum, Department of Environmental Quality, EPA standards, groundwater conservation, water rights, permit allocation, metering, Oklahoma Water Resources Board, liquefied petroleum gas, safety regulation, LP-Gas Board, inspections, accident investigations, rural water service, district organization, emergency legislation, Oklahoma, water management
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- And I think the senator hit on this: Is this going to be Treated like mineral rights or surface rights
Committee:
Senate Energy
Keywords:
environmental permitting, Oklahoma, Department of Environmental Quality, public participation, regulatory framework, administered applications, energy, wind energy, financial assurance, property restoration, environmental regulation, mining, blasting, residential protection, buffer zone, Department of Mines, public utilities, electric transmission lines, landowner rights, payment regulations
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Local Government Feb 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Local Government
Committee:
House Local Government
Keywords:
freight rail, rail corridor, short-line railroad, rail-dependent uses, industrial land use, growth management act, GMA, comprehensive plan, transportation element, land use planning, local government, county planning, city planning, critical areas, agricultural lands, forest lands, mineral resource lands, urban growth area, development regulations, notice on permits
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Local Government Feb 18th, 2026 at 08:30 am
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- not only those that are required to fully plan under the GMA, designate agricultural, forest, and mineral
- There are many other impacts, including access to mineral lands.
- It requires things like climate resiliency, climate planning, access to mineral lands.
- There are also substantial long-term fights over access to mineral lands that this railroad could provide
Committee:
House Local Government
Keywords:
freight rail, rail corridor, short-line railroad, rail-dependent uses, industrial land use, growth management act, GMA, comprehensive plan, transportation element, land use planning, local government, county planning, city planning, critical areas, agricultural lands, forest lands, mineral resource lands, urban growth area, development regulations, notice on permits
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- We also have to note that this is a national defense reason as well, because... ...there are minerals
- This is what they specialize in: minerals. We know that is their industry.
- They're going to mine and process that mineral a lot cheaper than we ever could.
- But I still don't feel the need to destroy our earth and basically waste money because that mineral is
- Arizona yield for this particular mineral.
Keywords:
brackish water, groundwater, desalination, water resources, feasibility study, environmental impact, dementia care, telementoring, healthcare education, rural communities, grant funding, braille, disability access, education funding, state corrections, inclusion, produce incentive, agriculture, economic support, funding
IA
Iowa 2025-2026 Regular Session
Natural Resources and Environment Mar 5th, 2025 at 01:17 pm
Natural Resources and Environment
Committee:
Joint Natural Resources and Environment
Keywords:
personal watercraft, flotation device, boating safety, youth protection, state regulations, boat permits, boat liveries, watercraft regulation, Des Moines River, safety regulations, battery recycling, stewardship, environment, hazardous waste, collection sites, producer responsibility, hunting licenses, agriculture, farm units, land requirements
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill allows our department to ask for mineral maps at any time, at any scale.
- and members, House Bill 2264 requires the University of Arizona, in coordination with the Mining, Mineral
Bills:
HB2014 , HB2031 , HB2078 , HB2102 , HB2103 , HB2117 , HB2261 , HB2262 , HB2264 , HB2278 , HB2428 , HB2494 , HB2756 , HB2758 , HB2762 , HB2782 , HB2932 , HB2933 , HB2986
Keywords:
air emissions, fuel blends, environmental quality, feasibility study, Arizona Department of Agriculture, water rights, groundwater, Willcox, active management area, certificate of grandfathered rights, Arizona legislature, aggregate mining, reclamation plans, environmental protection, public safety, land use, domestic water, improvement district, water delivery, water hauling
LA
Committee:
House Ways & Means
Keywords:
severance tax, parish revenue, constitutional amendment, natural resources, local government funding, HB 474, Act 400, Louisiana income tax, tax refund checkoff, refund donation, alumni association, Grambling University National Alumni Association, Louisiana Tech University Alumni Association, Department of Revenue, Title 47, voluntary contribution, tax return designation, state tax refund, nonprofit donation, higher education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- to explain his bill. the transfer of property at Camp Walter in Palo Pinto County to the city of Mineral
- The City of Mineral Wells then deeded the property to the Palo Pinto Livestock Association, which has
- And so basically everyone's okay with the city of Mineral Wells acquiring this property and using it
Committee:
House Culture, Recreation & Tourism
Keywords:
vessel registration, derelict vessels, waterways, removal fee, Parks and Wildlife Department, General Land Office, HCR 89, official state gun, cannon, Texas state symbol, Texas Revolution, Battle of Gonzales, Come and Take It, Alamo, San Jacinto, Twin Sisters, Angelina Eberly, Texas history, historical preservation, heritage tourism