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MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • roles with their employers the retail roles with their employers the retail management<00:23:39.720
  • next year we expect that the retail next year we expect that the retail management<00:23:56.159>
  • Joy Jones, the workforce director at Urban League Twin Cities, testified that this bill is for the workforce
  • I'm the workforce director at Urban League Twin Cities, so this bill is for the workforce appropriation
  • League um now I am the workforce League um now I am the workforce director<00:43:26.359> I
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism REVISED Feb 17th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • Economic development, workforce, and tourism will come to order.
  • The responsibility for the healthcare workforce is now housed with the Department of Commerce, which
  • The work done on developing a pipeline and retaining healthcare workforce folks in Oklahoma is now with
  • But what it is, it limits our ability to source products to include in our retail stores.
  • So, we want to be able to purchase more through a wider, more diverse array of retailers.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Finance and Taxation Apr 8th, 2025 at 09:00 am

Finance and Taxation

Bills: HB1428
Summary: The Finance and Tax Committee met with a quorum and took up House Bill 1482, which would require certain municipal bond elections to be held on primary or general election days rather than at special elections. Senator Rummel walked the committee through a proposed amendment from Representative Wagner that would remove special-election language, align ballot timing requirements, and make related cleanup changes. Members discussed the distinction between constitutional debt limits and the bill’s election-timing requirements, with Senator Powers seeking clarification that the measure did not change levy or bond limits themselves. The committee also discussed whether the amended language would comply with the Secretary of State’s requirements. Chairman Weber and Senator Rummel said they had consulted legislative council and wanted a further check before the bill moved forward, and the chairman said he would hold the bill until that review was complete. The amendment was approved unanimously, 6-0, and the bill as amended was then adopted unanimously, 6-0. After passage, the committee discussed who would carry the bill, eventually settling on Senator Rummel as carrier. The chair also said several other bills, including gas tax and property tax measures, would be held for the time being while the committee waited for developments in the House. The committee announced it would not plan to meet the next day unless called from the floor, and then adjourned.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
  • would authorize large distilleries to sell alcoholic beverages that are produced on-site for both retail
  • As y'all know, we have manufacturers, we have wholesalers, and we have retailers.
  • The retained rules require that a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer only operate in one tier.
  • So, they want to be a manufacturer as well as a retailer in the same business. That's not allowed.
Bills: SB312, SB316, SB90
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/25

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're a retail art supply store on Grand Avenue in St. Paul.
  • So how will that trickle down to the retail?
  • to retailers that currently that do uh to retailers that currently and<00:54:04.960> I<00:54:05.079
  • Would retailers potentially be held to the same level that, say, another retailer would be for selling
  • adopted would we be have retailers adopted would we be have retailers potentially<00:58:11.240><
Bills: HF737, HF247, HF325, HF1330
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Tourism Jan 21st, 2026

Commerce and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • Florida faces gaps every year in the cybersecurity workforce due to a lack of job readiness and time
  • Florida faces gaps every year in the cybersecurity workforce due to a lack of job readiness and time
  • In 2022, the Attorney General prosecuted the state's largest retail seller of dogs and cats, In 2022,
  • All different kinds of humane groups have concerns about pet retail sales and puppy mills.
  • The overwhelming majority of puppies for sale in any given retail store come from out of state.
Summary: The Committee on Commerce and Tourism heard and advanced several bills focused on economic development, consumer protection, workforce issues, and technology. SB 1076 would raise Florida’s research and development tax credit cap from $9 million to $50 million beginning with the 2027 allocation, and it was reported favorably. SB 1266, as amended, creates a cybersecurity experiential internship and clearance-readiness program with Cyber Florida and was also reported favorably. SB 554, a Florida Bar-backed update to the not-for-profit corporations statute, was approved without opposition. SB 1004, aimed at protecting buyers of dogs and cats from deceptive sales practices and predatory financing at retail pet stores, received supportive testimony from animal welfare advocates and was reported favorably. SB 1074, which sets rounding rules for cash transactions if pennies are unavailable, also passed favorably. The committee also considered SB 998, the Department of Commerce package, which combines updates to the Small Cities CDBG program, clarification of rural community eligibility, an exemption from a reverter clause for military-related land conveyances, and revisions to E-Verify enforcement. The E-Verify portion drew the most debate, with questions about employer cure periods, treatment of current investigations, and whether the bill creates a loophole for independent contractors. Senator Smith opposed the bill, arguing it creates unequal enforcement between employers and immigrant workers, while Senator Wright supported the military-related provisions. SB 998 was reported favorably on a divided vote. SB 214, which expands the rural community definition to include special districts in rural counties, was reported favorably. The committee then took up SB 482, an artificial intelligence consumer-protection bill that creates an “AI bill of rights” covering companion chatbots, parental controls for minors, data privacy, de-identified data, unauthorized use of likeness, and enforcement by the Attorney General, with a limited private cause of action for minors. The bill drew extensive testimony both in support and in opposition, including concerns about privacy, age verification, and enforcement, but it was reported favorably. Finally, the committee approved SPB 7030, a public-records exemption tied to Department of Legal Affairs investigations under the AI bill, and adjourned after members requested to be recorded on certain votes.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances REVISED: HB3851 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3334 creates a limited retail on-supply and alcohol act, which allows on-premise licensees
  • to purchase... ...limited retail on-supply and alcohol act, which allows on-premise licensees to purchase
  • with the availability of getting alcohol in time and periods where unexpected demand has hit those retail
  • While I wouldn't advocate for our licensed retail premises to do anything illegal, I have been informed
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • point of sale and then distinguish between what a licensed producer is able to answer and what a retailer
  • a licensed producer can do versus a a licensed producer can do versus a travel<01:09:42.400> retailer
  • there will be a number travel retailer there will be a number or<01:09:44.719> a<01:09:44.960
  • :10:04.880> a producer is able to answer and what a producer is able to answer and what a retailer
  • retailer is able to respond to. retailer is able to respond to.
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from February 26, after correcting the header date to Thursday, February 26. It then took up House File 36004, as amended by the author’s technical A1 amendment. Representative Van Binsbergen described the bill as a change to statute governing bulk delivery of nonoxygenated fuel, especially for boats and other watercraft, to allow direct delivery to vehicles rather than requiring transport of fuel in containers or removal of boats from the water. Members generally supported the concept, citing convenience for lake users, reduced travel and potential invasive species spread, and fewer spill risks, but the chair said the bill would be laid over pending additional clarification from the State Fire Marshal’s Office and other agencies. House File 2236 was then introduced as a vehicle bill for possible future omnibus use and laid over without testimony or opposition. The committee also heard House File 3709, which would allow Minnesota banks and credit unions to offer custodial accounts for digital assets such as cryptocurrency. The authors framed the bill as a consumer-protection and competitiveness measure that would let local institutions keep pace with customer demand and prevent Minnesotans from relying on out-of-state or offshore providers. Testimony from the Department of Commerce and credit union representatives supported the bill, saying it would level the playing field, keep digital assets under Minnesota oversight, and help local institutions remain relevant; one witness said significant liquidity had been leaving local communities for outside exchanges. Questions from members focused on whether the accounts would be NCUA-insured, how the bill related to unclaimed property, and whether the policy goal was consumer protection or simply preserving bank relevance. Several members expressed support but also cautioned about crypto volatility, scams, and the need to avoid turning credit unions into exchanges. The discussion ended without a final vote in the excerpt, with the bill still under committee consideration.
VA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for all the work you did on the Senate cannabis retail bill.
  • We still do not have a legal adult-use retail market.
  • Creating this well-functioning retail cannabis market is not a one-time legislative act.
  • When Virginia moves into retail sales, especially considering businesses that would do adult use and
  • Obviously, there are other bills that passed this session, not just the big retail framework.
Summary: The Joint Commission on Cannabis and Hemp Policy met for its first meeting of 2026, elected Senator Lashrecse Aird as chair and Delegate Paul Krizek as vice chair, confirmed a quorum, adopted the virtual participation policy, and heard member introductions. Opening remarks emphasized the commission’s ongoing charge under HJR 497 to oversee Virginia’s transition toward a regulated retail cannabis market, with leaders noting that cannabis possession and home cultivation are already legal but retail sales remain unregulated and that the commission’s work continues despite the veto of the 2026 retail market bill. The commission then received a virtual briefing from NCSL on federal cannabis and hemp developments. Presenters explained the federal rescheduling of certain cannabis products to Schedule III, stressing that it applies only to FDA-approved cannabis drugs and state medical cannabis products, does not legalize adult-use sales, and leaves unresolved issues such as banking and broader tax compliance. They also reviewed the 2026 federal hemp changes narrowing the hemp definition, effective November 12, 2026, and warned of enforcement, interstate commerce, and market-disruption concerns for hemp-derived products. Members asked questions about whether rescheduling could lead to decriminalization and about tax and compliance implications for states. Commission staff then reviewed Virginia’s cannabis-related legislation from the 2026 session. They summarized bills that became law, including a process for modifying certain pre-2021 marijuana-related sentences, a bill allowing the Department of Health to address cannabis oil use in hospitals and convene a work group on medical-care-facility access, and a medical cannabis labeling/delivery measure. They also described SB 543, which strengthened hemp and illicit cannabis enforcement by requiring license decals, creating penalties for unlicensed sales and false decals, authorizing cease-and-desist actions and seizures, establishing a public tip line, directing law-enforcement training, and creating a consumer-protection civil action for certain high-THC products. No public comments were offered, and the meeting adjourned without further action.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/10/25 - Part 2

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • regional retailers to national retailers.
  • <00:58:37.079> okay<00:58:37.760> you're retailer okay you're retailer okay you're good
  • <00:59:49.559> delivery against um the retail delivery against um the retail delivery fee<
  • especially a small affects a retailer especially a small retailers<01:00:13.839> um<01:00:14.000
  • Representative Murphy, you mentioned retailers.
Bills: HF5
Summary: The Transportation Committee resumed consideration of House File 5, which would reduce transportation-related revenues while also providing tax relief, including a subtraction for Social Security income, elimination of the delivery fee, and a cap on automatic gas tax indexing. The committee adopted the A1 author’s amendment, which added the phrase “using existing resources,” and then proceeded to public testimony. Representative Joy described the bill as making Minnesota more affordable, while several members and testifiers raised concerns about the impact on transportation funding and road maintenance. MnDOT Commissioner Nancy Doppenberg testified that reductions in planned transportation investments would worsen pavement, bridge, and roadway conditions, reduce construction projects and jobs, and add to an already large funding gap. Committee discussion focused on the estimated revenue losses from the bill, including about $45 million in fiscal year 2026 and $55 million annually from repealing the delivery fee, plus additional losses from capping gas tax indexing, for a combined transportation revenue reduction of about $131 million in the 2026-27 biennium. Members also asked about bridge aesthetics, paint, transit impacts, and whether other mandates and cost increases should be considered alongside revenue reductions. Supporters of the delivery fee repeal, including the Minnesota Grocers Association and Minnesota Retailers Association, argued the fee is costly to administer, confusing to consumers, and disproportionately burdens small businesses and lower-income or disabled consumers who rely on delivery. The Minnesota Association of Townships and the Minnesota Transportation Alliance emphasized that rural and local governments face major road and bridge funding needs and warned that reducing revenue would shift costs to property taxpayers or leave projects unfunded. No final vote on the bill was taken in the portion of the meeting provided; the committee continued with testimony and member questions.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/10/25 - Part 1

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It could be workforce, could be support services for workforce, but certainly that can have an impact
  • what need to be cut could be Workforce what need to be cut could be Workforce could<01:09:27.239
  • could be support services for Workforce could be support services for Workforce um<01:09:30.159>
  • Yes, um, not only to the workforce in general, but impacts to the workforce in general, but impacts to
  • Yes, not only to the workforce in general, but impacts to the workforce in general, but impacts to the
Bills: HF5
Summary: The committee began with member and staff introductions, then heard an overview of the governor’s transportation budget recommendations from fiscal staff Andy Lee. He explained that the spreadsheet showed only proposed changes, not base spending, and highlighted General Fund and trunk highway adjustments for MnDOT and the Department of Public Safety, including operating changes, extensions of prior appropriations, increased state road construction and Blatnik Bridge authority tied to anticipated federal funds, State Patrol hiring and a metro headquarters item, aeronautics changes, and revenue adjustments in the Driver and Vehicle Services special revenue account. The main testimony came from Metropolitan Council Chair Charlie Zelle, who outlined three budget-related items: advancing funds to MnDOT to help coordinate a highway reconstruction with a transitway project, making Metro Mobility riders eligible for free fixed-route transit, and reducing the Metro Transit general fund appropriation by $32.454 million annually. He said the advance would speed delivery and reduce disruption, the free-fare pilot had been successful and could save money if even a small share of Metro Mobility trips shifted to fixed-route service, and the general fund reduction was manageable in the near term because of new revenue streams but could constrain future expansion and capital maintenance. Members questioned the long-term effects of the proposed reduction, possible impacts on safety, service expansion, and capital maintenance, and whether federal funding uncertainty could affect operations and bus procurement. Zelle said the cuts would not affect immediate operations but could limit future BRT, microtransit, and transitway expansion, while also noting that capital maintenance needs include platform rebuilds, track work, rolling stock, and station repairs. He also said the 2023 funding package had accelerated projects and that the council was opening three transit lines this year. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Nuad of the Minnesota Retailers. Nuad of the Minnesota Retailers.
  • We're a trade group that Retailers.
  • <01:24:52.320> or use the proceeds from their retail or use the proceeds from their retail
  • Chair, we have a retailer and Mr.
  • day-to-day basis what are retailers day-to-day basis what are retailers looking<01:42:18.000>
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • under the purview of the workforce under the purview of the workforce Standards<00:26:36.039>
  • ensuring that we have a strong Workforce ensuring that we have a strong Workforce coming<00:40:09.480
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • . retailers. retailers.
  • feature of retail pricing technology. feature of retail pricing technology.
  • Retail workforce systems are designed to align staffing with customer demand and ensure stores operate
  • , retail.
  • big box stores and online retailers. big box stores and online retailers.
Bills: HF3794, HF3408
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from March 3, 2026, and then received a presentation from the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General on the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act. Assistant Attorney General Caitlin Miko and Deputy Attorney General Jessica Whitney reviewed the law’s scope, consumer rights, business obligations, and enforcement history. They said the law took effect July 31, 2025, gives Minnesotans rights to access, delete, and opt out of sale, profiling, and targeted advertising, and is enforced by the Attorney General with penalties up to $7,500 per violation. They reported more than 200 complaints in the first six months, many warning letters, and a shift from education to active enforcement now that the initial warning-letter period has expired. Committee members asked about how the universal opt-out works, what happens when companies deny deletion or editing requests, how the office determines willful noncompliance, and whether the law could burden small businesses. The AG’s office said the opt-out can be set through privacy-protective browsers or extensions, companies must respond to consumer requests within 45 days, small businesses are exempt as defined by the SBA, and investigations look for patterns and evidence of willful conduct rather than minor technical violations. The office also said it needs additional funding to fully staff enforcement efforts and noted that it has already issued subpoenas and civil investigative demands. The committee then took up House File 3408, the Stop Grocery Surveillance Price Gouging Act. The author explained that the bill would prohibit retail grocers, physical and online, from setting individualized prices based on consumer information, would limit certain uses of facial recognition and electronic shelf labels, and would preserve narrow exceptions for discounts and loyalty programs. Public testimony followed from the Minnesota Farmers Union in support, arguing that grocery consolidation and surveillance pricing could worsen already high food costs and harm fair competition. The Minnesota Grocers Association opposed the premise that grocery stores use surveillance pricing, said shelf prices are generally uniform and set from a single storewide database, and argued electronic shelf labels are efficient and not nefarious. A technology company representative similarly said ESLs do not use personal data or facial recognition, prices are uniform, and a 2025 study found no meaningful price increases after ESL adoption. The bill was laid over for possible further discussion after the testimony.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The National Retail Federation is in search that organized retail crimes cost retailers $720,000 for
  • The focus is on organized retail theft.
  • One prior organized retail theft arrest.
  • Two terms that we use, and those are organized retail theft and organized retail crime, both are... accurate
  • do talk about organized retail crime and not just the theft.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:02:37.440> task law that uh created the workforce task law that uh created the workforce
  • years with um in the the workforce years with um in the the workforce development<00:14:28.959><
  • with uh an group of workforce with uh an group of workforce organizations<00:19:24.799> as
  • true, I think, on the workforce true, I think, on the workforce development<00:31:05.600> side
  • <00:34:04.320> They're governor's workforce board. They're governor's workforce board.
Bills: HF4072, HF3691, HF4613