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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/24/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • denied, not renewed, or revoked, or with any other offense that requires the person to register as a predatory
  • offender. description sorry a summary in your description sorry a summary in your packets.<00:03:18.400
  • investigations solely based on<00:10:29.360> time<00:10:30.160> protects<00:10:30.560> offenders
  • ,<00:10:31.120> not on time protects offenders, not on time protects offenders, not children
  • They target predatory behaviors, not educators. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you so much.
Bills: HF3489, HF3550
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The target is predatory behavior over years. in closing grooming is always intentional.
  • It started when the Criminal Offender Rehabilitation Act of 1974 was put out to encourage and contribute
  • to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders through employment.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/09/2026 - House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, they are on the predatory list, right? But... Chairman, they are on the predatory list.
  • It's the management of predatory control.
  • So there are... ...it's called predatory animal control, so there are controls in taking predatory animals
  • These are predatory animals.
  • It's very similar to the predatory act, or the predatory bill, that we just heard.
Summary: The House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee heard a series of wildlife- and agriculture-related bills, with most of the discussion focused on conflicts between ranching, public hunting, and wildlife management. HB 2197 would revise the unlawful camping statute near watering sites; after a Griffin amendment and verbal amendment, the committee heard support from the sponsor, Arizona Game and Fish Commission, and a rancher, while one member raised concerns about expanded criminal penalties. The bill received a do pass recommendation on a 6-1 vote. HB 2497, which would recognize a statutory right to lawfully hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife and limit unreasonable restrictions, drew strong support from hunting groups and opposition from animal welfare and conservation advocates who argued it would undermine Game and Fish authority and repeat a measure voters rejected in 2010. After debate over whether hunting is a right or a privilege, the committee recommended the bill do pass by a 5-3 vote. HB 2147 would require landowner deer permits on private lands under certain conditions, with a cap tied to lottery-issued deer tags. The sponsor said it was meant to address deer damage to crops in St. David and planned an amendment to make the permit nontransferable; Game and Fish said population management hunts were already addressing the problem, while opponents warned against privatizing wildlife. The committee approved the bill 5-3. HB 2158 would expand the definition of predatory animals to include bears, cougars, mountain lions, and wolves; Game and Fish testified that big game status preserves data collection and science-based management, while supporters said ranchers need more flexibility to protect livestock and property. Opponents argued the bill would weaken protections and conflict with endangered species rules. It passed 5-3. HB 2159 would allow landowner permits for taking Mexican gray wolves on private and leased grazing lands and create a voluntary compensated trapping program. Opponents said it would violate the Endangered Species Act and privatize wildlife, while the sponsor and supporters argued it was needed to protect ranchers and challenge federal control; Game and Fish said the bill would be unlawful until the wolf is delisted, though they acknowledged ongoing recovery and stakeholder meetings. The committee still recommended it do pass by a 5-3 vote. HB 2162, which would require at least one Game and Fish Commission member to be a cattleman or rancher, was introduced as a way to ensure agricultural experience on the commission; Game and Fish opposed it, saying the current appointment process already includes ranching input and the commission is meant to represent all Arizonans. The discussion ended with the commission explaining its current membership and appointment structure, but the transcript cuts off before a final vote on HB 2162 is shown.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal JusticeAudio only. May 25th, 2025

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill I'm sponsored by Representative Freo and strengthen the Texas sex offender registration system
  • Under current law, convicted sex offenders must register with law enforcement to help protect.
  • of the Code of Criminal Procedure to increase the criminal penalty for failing to comply with sex offender
  • A22407 addresses the original intent of the statute to allow for courts to properly sentence offenders
  • The bill explicitly recognize that repeated failures registered by offenders are considered aggravating
Bills: HB 2407, HB 3425
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/24/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Preventing investigations solely based on time protects offenders, not students.
  • They target predatory behavior, not educators. Thank you for your time. true with Hannah.
  • protect offenders, not students. protect offenders, not students.
  • <00:18:48.240> Thank predatory behavior, not educators.
  • Thank predatory behavior, not educators.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Criminal Justice Jan 20th, 2026

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 212 on sexual offenders and sexual predators. There's a delete-all amendment.
  • I've been doing sex offender evaluation and treatment for 35 years.
  • Former offenders, their children, and their families.
  • We're going to jump to Senate Bill 892, habitual felony offenders, habitual violent felony offenders,
  • three-time violent felony offenders, and violent career criminals.
Summary: The committee took up a series of criminal justice and public safety bills. SB 1084, which exempts certain identifying and location information for non-legal support staff in state attorneys’ offices from public records requests, was supported by prosecuting attorneys and reported favorably. SB 212, as amended, created new restrictions related to sexual offenders and predators, including a 200-foot restricted presence provision near certain locations and updated notification/supervision requirements; it drew strong opposition from researchers, advocates, and affected families who argued it lacked evidence and would increase homelessness, but it was reported favorably. SB 682, addressing domestic violence, coercive control, strangulation, animal abuse, injunctions, and related training and enforcement issues, received emotional survivor testimony and support from animal welfare and law enforcement groups and was reported favorably. SB 656, creating and renaming FDLE Internet Crimes Against Children funding and grant programs, was amended and reported favorably and unanimously. The committee also considered SB 810 on sealing criminal history records, which would expand eligibility for some non-conviction records and one low-level misdemeanor conviction after waiting periods and judicial review; supporters said Florida is unusually restrictive, while one senator raised concerns about the scope, and the bill was reported favorably. SB 890, creating a standalone battery by strangulation offense applicable outside domestic relationships, was reported favorably after the sponsor said it would close a gap in current law. SB 892, revising habitual offender and violent career criminal sentencing procedures and notice requirements, was reported favorably, with defense lawyers supporting the clearer pretrial notice. SB 928, “Missy’s Law,” requiring immediate remand to custody after conviction of certain dangerous crimes, was amended to include computer pornography/child exploitation offenses and reported favorably after a family member of the namesake victim testified in support. Later, SB 1284 modernized arrest and search warrant statutes, expanding judicial summons options for some misdemeanors and broadening warrant/arrest authority in certain DUI, injunction, domestic violence, and misdemeanor force cases; defense lawyers supported the judicial-discretion portions but raised concerns about DUI/BUI arrests, and the bill was reported favorably. Finally, SB 812, a technical companion to SB 810 updating public records treatment for sealed criminal history records, was amended to clarify prosecutorial access for later cases and reported favorably. Several bills were supported by law enforcement, prosecutors, and advocacy groups, while others drew opposition from civil liberties, treatment, homelessness, and criminal defense advocates. The meeting adjourned after members recorded additional votes on selected tabs.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm going to present a statement on the Texas sex offender registration system.
  • of the Code of Criminal Procedure to increase the criminal penalty for failing to comply with sex offender
  • registration requirements, particularly in cases involving repeated offenders or individuals in contention
  • HB 2407 addresses the original intent of the statute to allow for courts to properly sentence offenders
  • I recognize that repeated failures to register by offenders are considered aggravating factors in the
Bills: HB2407, HB3425
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Committee, February 25, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • shall verify the residential address of the offender to determine whether the offender lives near a
  • shall verify the residential address of the offender to determine whether the offender lives near a
  • <00:02:40.560> procedures, registration of offenders procedures, registration of offenders
  • of the offender to determine whether<00:02:56.800> the<00:02:56.959> offender<00:02:57.360
  • A sex offender, somebody who's already a sex offender before July 1st, covers them, but it does not cover
Bills: SF0071, SF0088, SF0056