Video & Transcript Research : 'sunset law'
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AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama House State Government Committee Jan 14th, 2026
State Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Why would we reduce something that's so important to just a law that we could somehow put on the books
Keywords:
firearms, possession, Class 1 municipalities, criminal penalties, federal law, stolen firearms, prohibited persons, HB114, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset bill, Board of Dental Examiners of Alabama, dental board, dental licensing, dentist regulation, professional licensing, occupational licensing, healthcare regulation, licensure board, state agency continuation, agency sunset review
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Transcript Highlights:
- The sunset committee, when the evaluation... ...committee.
- Issue number eight pertained to charging fees not authorized by law.
- Just to ding them wasn't effective, so this sunset is a very effective, so this sunset is a very active
- sunset.
- It is my pleasure and my honor to present HB125, which is the sunset law on the Alabama State Board of
Keywords:
U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, public facilities, space exploration, education programs, bond issuance, Governor involvement, HB110, sunset bill, Alabama Sunset Law, State Board of Medical Examiners, Medical Licensure Commission, medical licensing, physician regulation, healthcare regulation, professional licensing, ethics law, state ethics code, public servants, board members
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Governmental Oversight and Accountability Jan 12th, 2026
Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Transcript Highlights:
- This amendment sets a new sunset date of October 2nd, 2031 instead of removing the date altogether.
- This amendment sets a new sunset date of October 2nd, 2031. Okay, great.
- The repeal dates are being extended because portions of the link substantive law have been enjoyed by
- This exemption will automatically be repealed October 2, 2026, unless this bill becomes law.
- This exemption will automatically be repealed October 2, 2026, unless this bill becomes law.
Keywords:
public records exemption, open government sunset review, OGSR, emergency shelter, public emergency shelter, storm shelter, catastrophic event, evacuees, disaster response, hurricane, evacuation, privacy, confidential records, address confidentiality, telephone number, Florida Statutes section 252.385, agency records, public records law, Open Government Sunset Review Act, Florida Public Service Commission
Summary:
The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability met and first postponed SB 350 for a future meeting. The committee then considered a series of Open Government Sunset Review bills preserving or extending public records and public meeting exemptions. SB 7000, relating to emergency shelter recipients’ address and phone information, and SB 7002, relating to Department of Military Affairs records in Department of Defense systems, were both amended to set a new sunset date of October 2, 2031 and reported favorably. SB 7012, concerning Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles records, was amended to conform its effective date with the House companion and also reported favorably.
The committee next heard SB 7006, which preserves exemptions for certain Florida Public Service Commission hearing portions involving confidential proprietary utility information, and SB 7008, which preserves similar exemptions for the Florida Gaming Control Commission; both were reported favorably without amendment. SB 7004, concerning conviction integrity unit investigation information, was also reported favorably after testimony that state attorney conviction integrity units support keeping the exemption in place beyond its current repeal date.
Later, the committee took up SB 7014, presented by Senator Arrington on behalf of Senator Leitz, and adopted a committee substitute extending to October 2, 2031 two exemptions tied to Department of Legal Affairs investigations of social media platforms. The committee also approved SB 7016, which preserves the exemption for certain financial information used by economic development agencies to administer small business loan programs. At the end of the meeting, members recorded affirmative votes on several bills and the committee adjourned.
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Transcript Highlights:
- Board of Examiners of Optometry, this is an extension of their sunset. Move for adoption.
- House Bill 3005 is an extension of the sunset on the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.
- House Bill 3006 is an extension of the sunset on the Oklahoma Advisory on Indian Education.
- House Bill 3006 is an extension of the sunset on the Oklahoma Advisory on Indian Education.
- This is currently required under common law.
Keywords:
cosmetology, barbering, massage therapy, State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, Service Oklahoma, license renewal, license reinstatement, licensing fees, sunset extension, board membership, human trafficking, victim services, beauty school, barber school, esthetics, manicurist, eyelash extension, blow-dry styling, makeup artist, occupational licensing
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Transcript Highlights:
- So, they are set to sunset permanently on December 31st, 2030.
- Boards of tests for alcohol and drug influences extends the sunset date. Move for adoption.
- Senate Bill 1457 extends the sunset on the construction. Would you please declare the vote?
- It extends the sunset date for the board of licensed professional engineers and surveyors.
- That should take care of our sunsets. We will have 4567 more resolutions that I know of.
Bills:
HJR1088, SB1280, SB1316, SB1433, SB1455, SB1456, SB1457, SB1459, SB1461, SB1463, SB1465, SB1466, SB1721
Keywords:
education rules, administrative rules, joint resolution, Oklahoma State Department of Education, higher education, State Regents for Higher Education, Teachers' Retirement System, charter schools, Statewide Charter School Board, career and technology education, CTE, OEQA, rule approval, legislative oversight, permanent rules, school governance, teacher retirement, education agencies, excise tax, oil tax
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- Michael had gone to his law office and I was trying to be the stoic woman, a mother, to handle it.
- This bill also modernizes state law...
- This bill also modernizes state law to reflect changes to national board policy that occurred over 28
- From HB108 to the end of the agenda are all sunset bills, right? They are. All sunset bills, right?
- This is just saying the state law does not supersede the local law.
Bills:
SB191, HB84, HB79, SB132, HB108, HB109, HB110, HB114, HB118, HB120, HB122, HB124, HB126, HB128, HB129, HB131
Keywords:
postpartum depression, mental health, Medicaid, screening, education, maternal health, Chiropractic, Board of Chiropractic Examiners, license renewal, continuing education, election procedures, off-label, pharmacists, medical treatment, state board of pharmacy, employment protection, SB132, Alabama, controlled substances, Schedule I
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Transcript Highlights:
- >> So does this bill have a sunset? >> No. >> But we're only going to collect it for a year?
- I'll be glad to put a sunset on it.
- And we collect this data for a period of time, sunset it if you want to, and I'm happy to do that.
- it if you want to, and uh time, sunset it if you want to, and uh I'm<00:22:53.040>
happy <00:22 - And I'm happy on the floor to take an amendment to sunset it if you think it's too eternal looking at
Keywords:
HB128, Alabama Board of Nursing, Sunset Law, sunset review, nursing board, nurse licensure, registered nurse, RN, licensed practical nurse, LPN, advanced practice nursing, certified registered nurse anesthetist, CRNA, consumer member, board appointments, congressional districts, geographic representation, nursing regulation, nursing education programs, licensure compact
AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Feb 4th, 2026
State Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
elder abuse, financial exploitation, inheritance, joint tenancy, conviction effects, HB110, sunset bill, Alabama Sunset Law, State Board of Medical Examiners, Medical Licensure Commission, medical licensing, physician regulation, healthcare regulation, professional licensing, ethics law, state ethics code, public servants, board members, agency continuation, sunset review
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Keywords:
HB 290, Act 426, sunset law, Department of the Treasury, Louisiana Treasury, re-creation, reauthorization, statutory entities, termination date, sunset review, Title 49, fiscal administration, state finance, agency continuation, legislative authority, insurance premiums, Municipal Fire and Police, dedicated fund, assessments, Louisiana legislation
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 9th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- Although they are certified by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and perform critical law enforcement
- Fire marshals not only have to obtain the same training that law enforcement... law enforcement does,
- House Bill 1545 is a sunset schedule bill.
- This now moves our sunset date. back out to 2033.
- That is the law.
Bills:
HB 111, HB1545, HB2145, HB2467, HB2520, HB4136, HB4181, HB4214, HB4218, HB4219, HB4359, HB4437, HB4822, HB111
Keywords:
Texas Public Information Act, open records, public records, government transparency, confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, governmental body, Chapter 552, public information law, nonprofit association, quasi-governmental entity, economic development, trade secrets, proprietary information, commercial financial information, Alamo restoration, local workforce board, TDCJ contract facility, civil commitment facility, water supply corporation
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 5th, 2025
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Transcript Highlights:
- It is a good bill we have discussed regarding Sunset issues with the 911 board.
- My sixth year on the Sunset Committee is going into my seventh year.
- Boards come to the Sunset Committee.
- Sunset bills and got them in position.
- The sunset committee was what we voted to do.
Bills:
HB25, HB108, HB109, HB111, HB112, HB113, HB117, HB118, HB119, HB120, HB121, HB122, HB124, HB126, HB127, HB128, HB129, HB130, HB131, HB25
Keywords:
emergency services, 911, local districts, joint operations, contracting, HB108, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset reauthorization, board continuation, speech-language pathology, audiology, licensing board, professional regulation, healthcare regulation, occupational licensing, speech therapist, speech pathologist, audiologist, Sunset Committee, Code of Alabama 1975
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Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 21st, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- That's all covered in current state law.
- That's all covered in current state law.
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This <00:07:48.960>just covered in current state law. - This just covered in current state law.
- And so current law does consolidation.
Keywords:
illegal alien, enhanced sentencing, criminal offenses, minor victims, felonies, Alabama legislature, HB116, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset bill, sunset review, Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board, bail bonding, bail bonds, bail bond industry, professional bail bondsman, licensing board, state agency continuation, agency reauthorization, regulatory board, criminal justice
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee, February 26, 2026
Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, this law of 1978, the national law, allowed that to continue to happen.
- This state law that we're looking at now basically mirrors that federal law and strengthens that for
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of tradition and culture uh this law of tradition and culture uh this law of - > um 1978 the national law um 1978 the national law um allowed<00:01:56.640>
that <00:01:56.960 - was basically mirrors that federal law was basically mirrors that federal law and<00:02:05.439><
Keywords:
Indian child welfare, tribal relations, sunset repeal, Wyoming law, child custody, sales tax, motor vehicle, family transfer, tax exemption, Wyoming legislation, driver's license, motor vehicle services, third-party providers, Wyoming, regulatory compliance, registration, license plate, electronic system, State Department of Transportation, county treasurers
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee, February 26, 2026
Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs
Keywords:
Indian child welfare, tribal relations, sunset repeal, Wyoming law, child custody, sales tax, motor vehicle, family transfer, tax exemption, Wyoming legislation, driver's license, motor vehicle services, third-party providers, Wyoming, regulatory compliance, registration, license plate, electronic system, State Department of Transportation, county treasurers
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Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Jan 14th, 2026
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Transcript Highlights:
- And as we recall through our work in Sunset Committee, it is a very well-run board, as evidenced by our
- first year of Sunset, and they are asking for just a few changes that have also been vetted through
- Through our work in Sunset Committee, it is a very well-run board, as evidenced by our first year of
- Sunset, and they are asking for just a few changes that have also been vetted through not only them but
Keywords:
early voting, electoral participation, voting centers, Alabama elections, absentee ballot, HB128, Alabama Board of Nursing, Sunset Law, sunset review, nursing board, nurse licensure, registered nurse, RN, licensed practical nurse, LPN, advanced practice nursing, certified registered nurse anesthetist, CRNA, consumer member, board appointments
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Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama House Financial Services Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- representative on the Uniform Law representative on the Uniform Law Commission.<00:20:33.600>
- uniform law commission for the house. uniform law commission for the house.
- law trumps.
- So federal law for law trumps.
- bankruptcy, those laws still are there. bankruptcy, those laws still are there.
Keywords:
fishing, licensing, jubilee, Marine life, Alabama, regulations, sex offenders, employment restrictions, first responders, public safety, juvenile offenders, local laws, registration requirements, picketing, protesting, residential protest, noise amplification, amplified sound, residential picketing, harassment
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Feb 4th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Doesn't it just say that I wanted to get the correct law, the law of the land, into this bill because
- the law of the Supreme Court is.
- That's the intent of the law.
- That's what this law is about.
- One of the very first laws passed by our early legislators in 1910 was a very Law before us today.
Bills:
SB1519, SB1775, SB1900, SB1948, SB2080, SB1226, SB1456, SB1462, SB1463, SB1980, SB1479, SB1608, SB1923
Keywords:
municipal zoning, home-based businesses, no-impact businesses, local government, regulation, short-term rentals, municipal ordinance, municipal court, court of record, court not of record, city penalties, fine limits, penalty cap, ordinance enforcement, state statute, traffic offenses, speeding, parking, DUI, DWI
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Feb 3rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- plan to double major in music, business and economics, and then I plan To continue my education in law
- am sponsored by Senator David Bullard, and after school, I plan to pursue a degree in either arts, law
- major and after high school, I plan to attend college, probably pursue public policy, and then get my law
- She is a health business major and pre-law, and so she will be interning in our office this session on
Bills:
SB1519, SB1775, SB1900, SB1948, SB2080, SB1226, SB1456, SB1462, SB1463, SB1980, SB1479, SB1608, SB1923
Keywords:
municipal zoning, home-based businesses, no-impact businesses, local government, regulation, short-term rentals, municipal ordinance, municipal court, court of record, court not of record, city penalties, fine limits, penalty cap, ordinance enforcement, state statute, traffic offenses, speeding, parking, DUI, DWI
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- What these all three of these are are sunset extensions.
- This is a sunset extension, 10 years.
- So again, I'm not a law enforcement expert.
- But the Senate Bill 1479 is a new law.
- And the facts of it are that the law protects this law would protect crime and collision scene-specific
Bills:
SB1226, SB1456, SB1462, SB1463, SB1980, SB1479, SB1608, SB1923, HB2979, HB2980, HB3662, HB4107, HB3082, HB2997, HB3083, HB3055, HB2951
Keywords:
motor vehicle, accident, notification, liability, civil action, gender neutral, SB1456, Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence, sunset extension, sunset law, breath alcohol testing, DUI, DWI, drunk driving, drug testing, chemical testing, field sobriety, roadside screening, blood test, saliva test
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Feb 2nd, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Bills:
SB1519, SB1775, SB1900, SB1948, SB2080, SB1226, SB1456, SB1462, SB1463, SB1980, SB1479, SB1608, SB1923
Keywords:
municipal zoning, home-based businesses, no-impact businesses, local government, regulation, short-term rentals, municipal ordinance, municipal court, court of record, court not of record, city penalties, fine limits, penalty cap, ordinance enforcement, state statute, traffic offenses, speeding, parking, DUI, DWI