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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Feb 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • use public meetings, hearings, or review boards in order to grant a variance from design review standards
  • point of contact, and policies... ...review boards in order to grant a variance from design review standards
  • We think this helps create some statewide standards so that everybody is pulling their weight to make
  • I believe that HB 2489 works because it establishes a single, uniform standard tied to shelter availability
  • I think the standard, the bar, is set really high, that it's going to be very difficult for any city
Bills: HB2266, HB2489
Summary: The Housing Committee met in executive session on two bills. On Substitute House Bill 2266, the committee reviewed a proposed substitute for the step housing bill and several amendments. The substitute would set different siting rules for transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, emergency shelters, and emergency housing; allow some local prohibitions in critical areas and certain resource lands; streamline local variance approvals; require local governments to update regulations within two years or at the next comprehensive plan update; and grandfather existing step housing. Members discussed amendments addressing school and daycare setbacks, form-based codes, operational safety requirements, timing of checklist items, local reporting/auditing requirements, and preemption of conflicting local rules. Several amendments were adopted, including the form-based code, timing/clarity, and preemption amendments, while others were rejected. The bill then passed out of committee on a 10-7 vote with a do pass recommendation. The committee then took up Substitute House Bill 2489, which would prohibit local governments from enforcing laws that criminalize or penalize life-sustaining activities on public property unless adequate alternative shelter space is available. The proposed substitute clarified that the bill would not limit state criminal laws, added exceptions for imminent risk, obstruction, and disability access issues, allowed local policies for documenting shelter availability and outreach, expanded the definition of adequate shelter space to include regional interlocal agreements, and narrowed the definition of life-sustaining activities. Amendments were considered on park facilities where children are likely to be present, weapons screening and possession in shelters, and portable mats or beds in drop-in shelters; the park-facility and weapons amendments were withdrawn or rejected, while the portable mat/bed amendment was adopted. After debate over public safety, homelessness, and local control, the committee approved the bill on a 9-8 vote with a do pass recommendation and adjourned for the week.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/20/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • These fees that are standard in the industry in Arizona have not been increased for 25 years.
  • These standard fees in the industry, we are substantially lower than most states.
  • We just did the standard inflation index, but I cap it because if we have really bad inflation, I don't
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • NDE said the law does not allow us to waive you from our current standard of assessment.
  • Over the bill, NDE brought up that if districts are opting not to use the statewide assessment, there
  • That if a, right, I mean, if there's a standard in place that all the districts may follow, then you
  • And I know we already have our statewide assessment... ...any metrics that we set.
  • And then when I see 'may prescribe one or more valid and reliable standards-based statewide assessments
Bills: AB386
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • In total, there are 28 NFPA standards for volunteer firefighters and 14 additional standards for paid
  • ,</c> commission's minimum training standards, commission's minimum training standards, including<00:
  • We they align with national standards.
  • </c> firefighters and 14 additional standards firefighters and 14 additional standards for<00:02:34.959
  • ,</c><00:04:08.959><c> it's</c> commission uses these standards, it's commission uses these standards
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from December 19 and June 12, then received a staff report on the Kentucky Fire Commission’s minimum training standards and administrative spending. Staff explained that the commission’s current minimum training hours are 115 for volunteer firefighters and 300 for paid firefighters, down from 150 and 400 before January 1, 2023, after the commission removed elective classes not directly tied to NFPA standards. The report found the commission’s certification testing aligns fully with NFPA standards, but recommended that the commission formally promulgate regulations establishing the reduced training hours. On finances, staff said the commission complied with the first statutory cap on administrative reimbursements to KCTCS, but could not verify compliance with a second, more specific cap because the finance system does not break out program-level costs and the statute is vague. Staff recommended the commission work with KCTCS to fix that issue and suggested the General Assembly may wish to clarify the statute. After questions about reimbursement levels and investment income, the committee voted to accept the report. The committee then heard an update on the Kentucky Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel. Staff reported that the panel has implemented two of three prior recommendations: it revised its agency notification letter to clearly state the 90-day response deadline and added response prompts and checkboxes to improve completeness. The third recommendation, to adopt formal written procedures, remains in progress; staff said the panel plans to develop those procedures alongside its new case management system. The panel is meeting its statutory membership and meeting requirements, but agency responses to its recommendations have been inconsistent: 48% were timely and appropriate in 2022, 36% in 2023, and 82% in 2024, though only three of nine timely 2024 responses were fully complete. Staff also described the new case management system project, funded with $200,000 in one-time money, and recommended the panel consult budget staff about use of those funds beyond fiscal year 2025. They reissued the recommendation that the panel develop written procedures for case review, findings, recommendations, and annual reports. Committee members raised concerns about the lack of penalties for noncompliance, the volume and length of panel meetings, and technology barriers to reviewing cases, and one member said the panel’s findings should inform future legislation.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/24/25

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Minnesota Department of Transportation, MDOT, will develop a standardized AED sign for general use.
  • </c><00:03:59.360><c> AED</c> Mandot will develop a standardized AED Mandot will develop a standardized
  • So, as long as the annual publishing of the Minnesota Newspaper Association's statewide public notice
  • </c><00:31:24.880><c> public</c> newspaper association statewide public newspaper association statewide
  • public notice website is not statewide public notice website is not an<00:31:39.919><c> added</c><00
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Public Health Mar 23rd, 2026

Joint Committee on Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Pyshe; and H. 5115, an act establishing statewide food truck regulations, filed by Rep. Hogan.
  • And H. 5115, an act establishing statewide food truck regulations, filed by Rep. Hogan.
  • We are held to rigorous standards, education, accountability, and patient safety.
  • It does not assume that screening should immediately become part of standard practice.
  • It does not assume that screening should immediately become part of standard practice.
Bills: H5013, H5087, H5115, S2928
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • We have community standards in our school that was passed. I think a couple of years ago.
  • So you are keeping community standards.
  • of the main concerns in 2022 when this when We went to the idea of local control with community standards
  • And they have a six-page kind of thing that they created in 2023 to meet those community Standards and
  • And looking through the standards, the section listed in law to answer some of the questions, as far
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education Oversight Mar 2nd, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Education Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Standards within 30 legislative days, they shall be deemed disapproved rather than approved.
  • If we don't do anything, we retain the old standards. Correct, so I think.
  • outdated standards. Can you address that? Yeah, I know, and thank you for bringing it up.
  • If we allow a private program to establish standards for a certification program.
  • Therefore, can we not expect the program to solve itself without lowering our standards?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education Oversight Mar 2nd, 2026

Education Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Under your legislation, if we don't do anything, we retain the old standards, correct?
  • I'm just a little worried that we're going to be stuck with out-of-date standards.
  • The way I look at it, the way that we do standards, this normally, they just easily pass, you know.
  • following the same standards held by our 23 education prep programs, including practicum?
  • And therefore, can we not expect the program to solve itself without lowering our standards?
Summary: The Education Oversight committee heard and advanced several bills, with most receiving due pass recommendations by voice vote. HB 4359, by Speaker Pro Tem Moore, would move the annual testing window to the last three weeks of the school year; members asked about district scheduling and possible cost impacts, but the bill passed 10-0. HB 4363 updated outdated statutory references tied to OSU’s early development and also passed unanimously. HB 3467 would extend school-teacher maternity leave protections to include adoption of newborn children, and it passed without opposition. HB 2987 would change how academic standards are handled if the legislature takes no action within 30 legislative days, deeming them disapproved rather than approved; supporters said it preserves legislative oversight, while concerns were raised about leaving outdated standards in place, but it passed. HB 376, as amended, would create a new alternative teacher certification pathway through third-party certifiers; debate centered on whether easier pathways would weaken traditional teacher-prep programs or help fill vacancies, and it passed after extended discussion. The committee also advanced HB 4427, which adds guardrails to the adjunct teacher program by limiting adjuncts in core subjects in grades K-4 and requiring them to work toward certification. HB 3026 would let children of U.S. military allies stationed in Oklahoma start kindergarten according to their home-country timelines, and it passed. HB 3288 would restore physical education emphasis in schools, and HB 3315 would direct a feasibility study on 90-hour bachelor’s degree programs; both moved forward. HB 3711 would require schools to post the percentage of spending devoted to instructional expenditures on their websites and bond applications, with the sponsor declining to extend the same requirement to private schools receiving public tax-credit dollars. HB 3885 drew the most debate. It would establish suspension and expulsion standards for students who physically attack teachers or school employees, with supporters arguing it gives administrators clearer authority to protect staff and students and opponents warning it could conflict with existing protections for students with disabilities and create legal risk. The sponsor said the bill is intended to address intentional violence and allow case-by-case judgment, while critics cited prior civil-rights concerns over disproportionate discipline. Despite the objections, the bill passed on a due pass recommendation. The committee adjourned after announcing it would meet again Wednesday at 9 a.m.
OK
Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including Veteran of the Week Aaron Hudkins, Psychologist of the Day Dr. Emily Corley, Doctor of the Day Dr. Jason Reagan, and a proclamation recognizing Brain Injury Awareness Month. Members also honored the Edmond Santa Fe Palm Squad and Ava Garrett for assembling and funding 100 overnight bags for children entering foster care in memory of fallen Oklahoma service member Serena Butcher. On legislation, the House considered and passed House Bill 3522, a transparency measure requiring alcoholic beverage licensees to report disciplinary actions annually, and House Bill 4300, a Department of Human Services request bill aligning child-care worker assessment language with federal requirements. Both bills advanced without debate; HB 3522 passed by recorded vote and HB 4300 passed 94-0. The chamber also recognized 17 Pages of the Week and heard multiple announcements, including caucus and birthday notices, a planned Jeans Day request tied to Bob Wills Day, and the introduction of Oklahoma Task Force One members and a search dog. The House then adjourned until Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at 9:30 a.m.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/03/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • And that is statewide, and they have implemented that.
  • And that is statewide, and they have implemented that.
  • , inspection standards, and a licensing process.
  • Standard cap, but you can't take all of your paycheck out.
  • Some companies make standard-issue personal loans, auto loans, things like that.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • The 2026-32 statewide capital improvement plan.
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  • :01:49.520><c> capital</c><00:01:49.920><c> improvement</c> the 202632 statewide capital improvement
  • </c><00:02:14.319><c> capital</c> for a review of our statewide capital for a review of our statewide
  • </c><00:04:06.239><c> capital</c> the actual statewide capital the actual statewide capital improvements
Summary: The meeting opened with a quorum, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by approval of the prior meeting minutes. The board then reviewed the 2026–2032 statewide capital improvement plan, including project recommendations across maintenance, renovation, IT, and new construction categories. Staff explained that 15 projects were selected in each category and described how the board’s tiebreaker process was used to finalize the recommendations. Members asked about the asset preservation pool, specifically whether institutions receive a blanket appropriation or must identify projects. Staff explained that the Council on Postsecondary Education serves as the gatekeeper after appropriation, reviewing institution-submitted uses to ensure they meet criteria for maintaining and improving existing facilities rather than new construction. Staff also outlined revisions to the draft plan, including updated summary data, revised wording for clarity, an updated maintenance pool policy recommendation based on Pew research, and a change to cross-reference major state-funded construction project status information rather than listing it directly. During discussion, one member praised the work on the plan and commented on the budget reserve trust fund, noting disagreement with Pew’s suggestion that the process should be in statute because Kentucky has long used the budget bill to govern deposits and uses. The board then moved to final action and unanimously adopted the draft 2026–2032 statewide capital improvement plan, with authority for staff to make final technical and editorial revisions and insert the comprehensive project list before publication. The chair thanked members for their work, noting it was the final meeting of the year, and the meeting adjourned.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, from being with the county, I know we always were trying to get that final mapping statewide.
  • </c> um mapping statewide. Has that occurred? um mapping statewide. Has that occurred?
  • </c><01:01:37.040><c> I</c> come up with the overall statewide I come up with the overall statewide I
  • </c><01:01:54.319><c> there's</c><01:01:54.480><c> no</c> &gt;&gt; well there's no statewide there's
  • </c><01:03:55.119><c> or</c> not affect the safety standards or not affect the safety standards or tariffs
Summary: The joint public hearing covered several housing-related bills and one building-code measure. HB 1719 would make manufactured homes a permitted use by right on residentially zoned lots in the urban district, HB 1742 would authorize self-contained relocatable housing units with restrictions, and HB 1737 would clarify that a farm dwelling in an agricultural district may include an accessory employee housing structure. Testimony on these bills was overwhelmingly supportive from groups including Hawaii Realtors, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, Housing Hawaii’s Future, the Modular Building Institute, the Hawaii Farmers Union, and others, with a few agencies offering comments. No one testified in opposition on HB 1719 or HB 1742, while HB 1737 drew one opposition and one comment in addition to broad support. No votes were taken during the hearing segment provided. A major portion of the hearing focused on HB 2049, which restructures the conveyance tax into a marginal-rate system and changes how the revenue is allocated, including funding for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the rental housing revolving fund, while also affecting the legacy land conservation fund. Supporters, including DHHL, Hawaii Appleseed, Aahu Youth Action Board, Hawaii YIMBY, and others, argued the bill would help Native Hawaiian housing and, for most transactions, function as a tax cut. Opponents, including NAP Hawaii, Hawaii Realtors, Hawaii Land Trust, Mhai Land Trust, and the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, objected to using conveyance tax as a revenue-generating tool and raised concerns about higher upfront costs and reduced funding for other housing uses. Committee members and staff discussed the bill’s revenue estimates, the reduced percentage but higher cap for the land conservation fund, the effect on rental housing funding, and the bill’s cost-of-living adjustment language; staff said a line-by-line comparison of the current and proposed tax structure would be provided before decision-making. The hearing also took up HB 1725, which would extend the state building code adoption cycle from two years to six years, apply the IRC to triplexes and fourplexes, allow counties to adopt more or less stringent amendments, and appropriate funds for code adoption work. Most testimony supported the bill, with advocates saying the current process is unmanageable, too resource-intensive, and creates confusion because state and county codes can diverge; supporters said a longer cycle would improve clarity and allow more focused review. The International Code Council and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers opposed the measure, warning that delaying adoption could have negative consequences and urging the committee to let an existing statewide code-adoption strategy proceed first. Members asked about sequencing, county implementation, and whether the longer cycle would create catch-up problems, but no action was taken in the excerpt provided.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • child care providers the flexibility to bridge the gap between subsidy reimbursement rates and their standard
  • If it gets out of here, it's appropriate standards and not minimum.
  • Standards and not minimum.
  • I think it's time for Oklahoma to have appropriate standards and not minimum. I would agree.
  • And that's what this is really looking to set a standard for.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • child care providers the flexibility to bridge the gap between subsidy reimbursement rates and their standard
  • House Bill 3131 started off as a statewide continuum of care.
  • that everybody is aware of so that everybody's... ...minimum standard that everybody is aware of so
  • There are already adequate standards that are being enforced through local and state government.
  • And that's what this is really looking to set a standard for.
Summary: The committee first considered House Bill 3552, which would let child care providers bridge the gap between subsidy reimbursement rates and tuition rates. An amendment was adopted unanimously to make the bill subject to approval by the Administration for Children and Families, with the author explaining it was intended to protect federal DHS funding. The bill then passed on a 4-1 vote. Members then heard several child welfare and human services measures. House Bill 3380, on foster care reform and DHS transparency, passed 5-0 after questions about how public input and scoring would be documented. House Bill 3502, the parental rights and child welfare bill, passed 4-1 after debate over whether the bill addressed a real problem and whether resources would be better spent recruiting foster parents. House Bill 3849, updating and broadening a mentoring program for children and youth, passed 5-0, and House Bill 3886, requiring Health Department personnel to remain on site after an immediate jeopardy finding at a nursing home until a removal plan is accepted, also passed 5-0. The committee also approved House Bill 3907, which would prohibit certain facilities serving vulnerable juveniles and adults from being staffed through temporary staffing agencies, on a 5-0 vote. House Bill 4201, changing master teacher requirements in licensed child care from license capacity to actual enrollment, passed unanimously after discussion of how staffing ratios would work in practice. House Bill 4302, as amended, passed unanimously after removing subpoena language and instead allowing the Office of Juvenile System Oversight to disclose a complainant’s identity to law enforcement when needed to protect safety. House Bill 3448, requiring umbrella insurance coverage for certain child care caregivers, and House Bill 3409, streamlining recertification for five-star child care providers, both passed unanimously. House Bill 4095, reauthorizing and clarifying the 211 collaborative as the state lead entity for hotline services, also passed 6-0. The most extensive debate came on House Bill 3131, which would establish statewide baseline standards for transparency, public safety, and health safety in homeless shelters and create an advisory board. Members raised concerns about local control, rural county burdens, agency workload, and whether the bill duplicated existing requirements, while the author said he was open to further changes, including strike title and possible population-based exceptions. Despite objections, the bill advanced to the Oversight Committee on a 4-3 vote. Before adjournment, the chair said the committee would begin a deeper review of OCCY multidisciplinary teams and CAC child advocacy groups in upcoming meetings.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/11/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • We can have fair standards, but excluding all trans people isn't fair. Please vote no. Thank you.
  • This bill is about policing women's bodies and culturally defined femininity standards.
  • Lastly, the bill delays the date by which LEAs must receive statewide assessment test scores and data
  • The high school assessment, as you probably all know, the statewide assessment is the ACT, and we are
  • This is critical for all ELA, math, and science standards being assessed during state testing.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • on that basis, this bill simply took the framework of that very limited audit and expanded it to statewide
  • Um, there's one county that maybe you could argue about down in South Alabama, but just statewide legislative
  • And there were like six... were in and there were like six incidents statewide, and they were most of
Bills: SB245, SB246, HB30, HB30
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/19/25

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • supplement market and more closely align Minnesota law and guaranteed renewability with federal standards
  • supplement market and more closely align Minnesota law and guaranteed renewability with federal standards
  • supplement market and more closely align Minnesota law and guaranteed renewability with federal standards
  • Um, this language also came to us from MBA, I believe, but these standards laid out in place are kind
  • laid out in place are kind the standards laid out in place are kind of<01:17:55.840><c> specific</c>