Transcript Highlights:

• But this basically prevents some business from going to the expense of going through the whole process
• Uh but uh this basically prevents<00:11:38.320><c> some</c><00:11:38.680><c> uh</c><00:11:39.080><c>
• business</c><00:11:39.520><c> from</c><00:11:39.680><c> going</c><00:11:39.960><c> to</c> prevents some
• uh business from going to prevents some uh business from going to the<00:11:40.160><c> expense</c><00
• We were in the opioid crisis. Drug take-back programs were just getting started.

Committee: Senate Energy and Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:

• Members, what this bill does, it just creates a single-subject rule for municipal bonds to prevent logrolling
• I'm trying to prevent that, but also want to be fair to children that are essentially working and make
• Can you help us understand how your language prevents that kind of abuse?
• It is for veteran firefighters, police, anybody that's involved with PTSD, alcoholism, opioid abatement
• Under the scenario that I'm trying to prevent, we have a child who has special needs.

Bills: HB4319 , HB4317 , HB1225 , HB3076 , HB3081 , HB4226 , SCR17 , HB4432 , HB3304 , HB3411 , HB3435 , HB4339 , HB4331 , HB4341 , HB4342 , HB1770 , HB1016 , HB4113 , HB2950 , HB4141 , HB3277 , HB2988 , HB3029 , HB3338 , HB1889 , HB3834 , HB3831 , HB2939 , HB3045 , HB3657 , HB1739 , HB3759 , HB3755 , HB4484 , HB4486 , HB4108 , HB1250 , HB2961 , HB1219 , HB3025 , HB1782 , HB1907 , HB3718 , HB4459 , HB2976 , HB3548 , HB3545 , HB2952 , HB2929 , HB2956 , HB2973 , HB3055 , HB3086 , HB3040 , HB3794 , HB4336 , HB3151 , HB1590 , HB3581 , HB3313 , HB3429 , HB3448 , HB1752 , HB2650 , HB3584 , HB4202 , HB3586 , HB4321 , HB4280 , HB3650 , HCR1020 , HB2116 , HB2206 , HB4301 , HB3625 , HB3147 , HB3403 , HB3498 , HB3970 , HB3975 , HB3976 , HB3980 , HB4265 , HB4266 , HB3638 , HB3880 , HB3930 , HB3942 , HB3944 , HB4191 , HB3242 , HB3678

Summary: The House began with a quorum call, then moved into a series of special presentations recognizing guests and champions, including the Talihina state football team, the Hodgson Bulldogs state basketball champions, Sooner Start families and advocates, the Edmond Republican Women’s Club, Leadership Miami, and other visitors in the galleries. Members also adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 17, honoring the long friendship between Oklahoma and Ireland and welcoming Irish Senator Aubrey McCarthy to the Capitol. The chamber then considered and passed several bills on third reading. Among them were HB 4226, creating a formal recusal/disqualification process for judges with timelines; HB 4432, addressing itemized deductions and gambling-related tax treatment; HB 3304, requiring Service Oklahoma to check the methamphetamine user database before issuing a commercial driver’s license; HB 3411, requiring PFOS testing and related safeguards for biosolids land application; HB 3435, creating a single-subject rule for municipal bonds; HB 4339, updating probate publication requirements for rural Oklahoma; HB 4341 and HB 4342, both CASA-related measures; HB 1770, directing OSU Veterinary Medicine to study the elk population in the northwest zone; HB 1016, setting up trust protections for minors featured in monetized online content; and HB 413, clarifying that people with felony convictions may vote once they have fully completed incarceration, parole, supervision, and probation. The House also passed HB 2950, removing an ACT requirement tied to Oklahoma’s Promise for homeschool students; HB 4141, funding a statewide sexual assault nurse examiner coordinator if money becomes available; HB 3277, cleanup language for VIN inspections on salvage vehicles; HB 2988, expanding the Terry Peach Act; HB 3029, requiring a four-year planning process for the State Department of Education; HB 3338, regulating the pool industry after reports of consumer losses; HB 1889, restoring benefits for a small group of police and fire retirees; HB 3834, authorizing ibogaine clinical trials for PTSD, addiction, and related conditions; HB 3831, seeking state support for Oklahoma Task Force One urban search and rescue; HB 2939, removing fax-machine references from election law; HB 3045, extending response-fee limits to municipal fire departments; HB 3657, modernizing OESC reporting and data sharing; HB 1739, reinstating a half-pay provision for OHP members; HB 3759, setting a June 30 date for temporary school allocations; HB 3755, clarifying juvenile detention medication funding and custody language; HB 4484, allowing certain state vehicles to be used between residences and work sites; HB 4486, creating a Gold Star Families Memorial Monument at the Capitol; HB 4108, adding airports to the critical infrastructure trespass list; and HB 1250, creating a revolving fund for public safety technology tied to the Blue Jay app. Most bills passed with broad support, though a few drew significant debate, especially the homeschool/Oklahoma’s Promise bill and the pool regulation bill, which passed with narrower margins.

Transcript Highlights:

• As you go down, there's a very small piece of the opioid epidemic response fund in here that comes into
• </c><00:07:16.160><c> piece</c><00:07:16.319><c> of</c><00:07:16.479><c> the</c><00:07:16.599><c> opioid

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:

• For example, we have reached a total of $565 million in settlements with opioid companies. $183 million
• resource in your office, but also one of the things that we've heard about, the best way that we can prevent
• resource in your office, but also one of the things that we've heard about, the best way that we can prevent

Bills: HF627 , HF474 , HF361 , HF1837

Committee: House State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:

• House Bill 1058, Youth Delinquency Prevention Fund establishment, is on third reading and final passage
• House Bill 149, fire prevention, assistant fire marshals, residential rental high-rise property fire
• <01:04:17.080><c> Bill</c><01:04:17.200><c> 149,</c><01:04:17.880><c> fire</c><01:04:18.160><c> prevention
• ,</c> House Bill 149, fire prevention, House Bill 149, fire prevention, assistant<01:04:19.280><c> fire
• House Bill 222, county boards of education opioid overdose reversing medications policy requirements.

Bills: HB4358 , HB2398 , HB3557 , HB3129 , HB3312 , HB2210 , HB1937 , HB3021 , HB4246 , HB4230 , HB3617 , HB3657 , HB2976 , HB3391 , HB4459 , HB4128 , HB3989 , HB2989 , HB4060 , HB3145 , HB2992 , HB3464 , HB3552 , HB2984 , HB4124 , HB3934 , HB3448 , HB3131 , HB4200 , HB4201 , HB3011 , HB1912 , HB3380 , HB3881 , HB3538 , HB3851 , HB3907 , HB4430 , HB4431 , HB4457 , HB2947 , HB2951 , HB2980 , HB3082 , HB3519 , HB3644 , HB3882 , HB3661 , HB3996 , HB4335

Keywords: screen time, education, public schools, child development, digital learning, youth health, academic performance, credential of value, workforce development, labor market, government reporting, Oklahoma Agricultural Extension, local funding, financial institutions, county extension services, state funds, free expression, colleges, security fees, public forums

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• But it includes preventative care, fillings.
• Then we've also focused on preventative services and strengthening the funds that go to local doctors
• for doing more, um, in the care coordination and preventive services.
• And so we're putting more emphasis on prevention and an authentic relationship between the patient and
• They're more likely now to be using their own physician, getting preventive kinds of services.

Summary: The House Finance Division Three work session on February 21, 2025 focused on the Division of Medicaid Services budget. The chair opened with procedural guidance, noting the division’s role is to make recommendations to the full Finance Committee, that the budget must be balanced, and that members should track possible amendments ahead of a March 26 target for House Bills 1 and 2. Members also discussed the importance of using official budget documents and online resources, and the chair said no motions would be taken at this session. A major early topic was concern over a five-point Medicaid policy document and the timing of House Bill 2. Representative Tarki objected that the document appeared to be an unofficial draft and argued that significant Medicaid policy changes should have been transmitted by February 15 under state law. He said the lack of an official, posted document raised transparency concerns because the changes could affect tens of thousands of residents. Committee leadership responded that the five-point document was a working document, that it would be posted online within minutes, and that House Bill 2 is often delayed while the Office of Legislative Services finalizes and formats the governor’s proposed trailer bill. DHHS Chief Financial Officer Nathan White and Medicaid Director Henry Litman then began the budget presentation. White said the committee would use the PowerPoint as the document of record, starting with the governor’s operating budget pages 885-893, and noted that Medicaid is the largest accounting area in the state budget. He said the governor’s budget reflects about $60 million in reductions within the Medicaid area, with Granite Advantage handled off-budget and another $10 million in reductions there, for roughly a $70 million difference overall. Members asked whether the comparison was being made against an efficiency budget or a prioritized-needs budget, and White said the department could look at it different ways. The presentation then outlined Medicaid’s role in New Hampshire: it provides health coverage, serves as the state’s direct interface with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and helps finance related services such as long-term supports, school-based services, adult dental coverage, and re-entry programs for people leaving correctional settings. White also reviewed enrollment and program context, saying New Hampshire has about one in seven residents enrolled in Medicaid, making it the fourth smallest Medicaid program in the country by enrollment, and described recent efforts such as youth re-entry and the Medicaid unwind after the end of the federal continuous coverage period. He said the state had to process more than 238,000 redeterminations after the public health emergency and that the department tried to avoid unnecessary coverage loss during that transition.

Transcript Highlights:

• allocated this in the budget a little bit as well as, I guess, got a better number, but now there's some opioid

Committee: House Budget

Transcript Highlights:

• We provided a portion of our opioid settlement funds to Luna County to fulfill their needs in that area

Committee: House House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• So then, if they clean it, are they using solutions to prevent it from going down the drain?
• </c> to accomplish here which is to prevent to accomplish here which is to prevent people<03:46:41.279
• any sort or would impose a would prevent any sort or would impose a ban<03:50:19.800><c> on</c><03:50
• New Hampshire continues to experience an opioid crisis.
• from those positions if they prevented from those positions if they are<03:59:53.279><c> under</c><03

Summary: The committee held a public hearing on House Bill 451, which would create a postconsumer paint stewardship program in New Hampshire. Prime sponsor Representative Karen Ebel described the bill as a bipartisan, broadly supported model based on PaintCare programs used in other states. She said consumers and businesses could drop off leftover paint at participating retailers or municipal household hazardous waste sites, with the paint then collected and recycled by the stewardship organization. She emphasized that the program is intended to reduce landfill disposal, improper dumping, and contamination of groundwater and soil, while also helping municipalities save on hazardous waste handling costs. Members asked several questions about how the program would work and how it would be funded. Ebel explained that the program would be financed by a small fee charged at the point of sale on paint products, not a general sales tax, and that retailers could either list it separately or roll it into the price. She said the fee would cover the Department of Environmental Services’ administrative costs, which were described as minimal, and that the program’s structure was developed with DES and industry input. Questions also addressed whether cans would be recycled and how collected paint would be processed; Ebel said the ACA and PaintCare representatives could provide more detail, but that the paint and containers would be handled through recycling or other approved disposal methods rather than landfilled. Representative Judy Aron, a co-sponsor and chair of the House Environment and Agriculture Committee, testified in support, saying the bill had been developed over several years with stakeholders and would keep toxic paint out of landfills while saving municipalities and taxpayers money. Representative Peter Bixby, the ranking member of Environment and Agriculture, also supported the bill, saying his committee had heard it many times and that it had strong bipartisan enthusiasm. No vote was taken during the hearing.

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• Resolution by Representative Walters to designate Wednesday, April 15th, as HIV Hepatitis C Education, Prevention

Bills: HR119 , HR120 , HR121 , HR122 , HR123 , HR124 , HR125 , HR126 , HR127 , HR128 , HR129 , HR130 , HR131 , HR132 , HCR53 , HCR54 , HCR55 , HCR56 , HR115 , HR116 , HR117 , HR118 , SCR19 , SCR26 , SB102 , SB222 , SB255 , SB270 , SB273 , SB314 , SB418 , SB420 , HB21 , HB24 , HB29 , HB31 , HB39 , HB45 , HB49 , HB77 , HB136 , HB150 , HB211 , HB263 , HB273 , HB299 , HB315 , HB324 , HB376 , HB377 , HB422 , HB431 , HB444 , HB450 , HB519 , HB533 , HB538 , HB549 , HB559 , HB562 , HB663 , HB664 , HB715 , HB717 , HB805 , HB822 , HB823 , HB834 , HB864 , HB867 , HB1011 , HB1017 , HB1018 , HB1068 , HB1134 , HB1137 , HB1234 , HB1235 , HB1236 , HB310 , HCR6 , HCR19 , HCR10 , HR74 , HCR26 , HCR35 , HCR7 , HB51 , HB82 , HB143 , HB145 , HB160 , HB180 , HB192 , HB393 , HB430 , HB445 , HB506 , HB515 , HB521 , HB565 , HB590 , HB614 , HB638 , HB670 , HB672 , HB685 , HB692 , HB752 , HB773 , HB781 , HB799 , HB860 , HB874 , HB887 , HB917 , HB937 , HB956 , HB965 , HB972 , HB977 , HB982 , HB1006 , HB1010 , HB1044 , HB1072 , HB1088 , HB1179 , HB1200 , HB76 , HB132 , HB181 , HB210 , HB250 , HB265 , HB275 , HB291 , HB322 , HB342 , HB475 , HB486 , HB616 , HB635 , HB639 , HB690 , HB740 , HB757 , HB761 , HB774 , HB808 , HB855 , HB872 , HB883 , HB886 , HB903 , HB949 , HB962 , HB996 , HB1003 , HB1036 , HB1054 , HB1071 , HB1076 , HB1078 , HB1113 , HB1132 , HB1146 , HB1232 , HB1233 , HB140 , HB750 , HB911 , HB52 , HB154 , HB400 , HB463 , HB570 , HB631 , HB637 , HB870 , HB952 , HB961 , HB399 , HB868 , HB905 , HB401 , HB901 , HR20 , HB9 , HB58 , HB151 , HB193 , HB284 , HB459 , HB476 , HB577 , HB582 , HB605 , HB615 , HB682 , HB733 , HB915

Keywords: condolences, public service, environmental justice, sustainability, local government, military service, World War II, veteran, community, Italian Festival, cultural celebration, Tickfaw, Italian-American, community pride, heritage, Miss Louisiana Teen USA, Heaven Riley Breaux, recognition, youth empowerment, community service

Transcript Highlights:

• The state opioid response grant is one that this is a grant that the HHS provides to the Department of
• The state opioid response grant is one that this is a grant that the HHS provides to the Department of
• other part of our mission is obviously to provide community outreach and education in an effort to prevent

Committee: Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• We are a 36-year-old Minnesota-based suicide prevention nonprofit organization.
• a death sentence for far too many people that are using what is really an emerging technology. prevention
• We prevention nonprofit organization.
• reality is that artificial intelligence and chatbots may someday be a powerful tool in suicide prevention
• Um, I also just want to say suicide prevention is something that is really hard for a lot of us to talk

Summary: The committee first approved the March 11, 2026 minutes, then heard House File 4048, which would exempt chiropractors from Minnesota’s provider tax if they are no longer eligible to provide chiropractic benefits under Medicaid/MinnesotaCare. Representative Robbins said the bill corrects an unfair situation because chiropractors still pay the tax even though the benefit was eliminated. Testifiers from the Minnesota Chiropractic Association and a longtime chiropractor supported the bill, arguing that most chiropractors are small-business owners and should not pay a tax for services they can no longer provide. Several members said they supported restoring chiropractic coverage instead of changing the tax, and there was discussion about whether the tax applies to all providers and whether it is effectively passed on to patients. The committee adopted a motion to recommend HF 4048 to the Committee on Taxes. The committee then took up House File 3893, as amended, a bill to restrict artificial intelligence from engaging in psychotherapy or counseling with humans. The author and supporters said the bill is intended to prevent AI chatbots from posing as therapists or counseling vulnerable people, citing reports of suicides and other harms linked to chatbot interactions. The A2 amendment was adopted; the author said it reflected stakeholder concerns and added informed-consent language. Testifiers in support, including a psychologist and a suicide-prevention nonprofit leader, urged strong safeguards and said AI should not replace licensed professionals in crisis settings. Other testimony raised concerns about overbreadth and unintended effects. TechNet and a rural mental health provider said the bill should be narrowed so it applies to clinical therapy rather than wellness or educational tools, and should allow supervised AI uses such as transcription and administrative support. Members discussed rural access, existing licensing-board authority, privacy laws, and whether the bill should target AI companies directly rather than licensed clinicians. The transcript ends during continued discussion of HF 3893, with no final committee action shown in the excerpt.

Transcript Highlights:

• This is what I understand, so I think this is a policy that would prevent churches from having to evict
• I mean, that is it, but keep in mind it's also to prevent them from getting evicted, and it puts whether
• mind<00:23:34.480><c> it's</c><00:23:34.679><c> also</c><00:23:34.960><c> to</c><00:23:35.120><c> prevent
• </c><00:23:35.400><c> them</c><00:23:35.559><c> from</c> mind it's also to prevent them from mind it's
• also to prevent them from getting<00:23:36.159><c> evicted</c><00:23:37.159><c> and</c><00:23:37.799

Committee: Senate Ways and Means

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• and addressing waste fraud preventing and addressing waste fraud and<00:13:52.480><c> abuse</c><00:13
• </c> integrity and fraud prevention integrity and fraud prevention provisions<00:31:20.559><c> related
• This investment acts as a stopgap measure to prevent further funding reductions, bolstering oversight
• </c><00:43:52.160><c> using</c> fraud detection and prevention using fraud detection and prevention using
• </c><02:09:54.400><c> them</c> many other barriers that prevent them many other barriers that prevent

Bills: HF2434

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> to have a law specifically to prevent to have a law specifically to prevent rape<00:34:56.280><c
• It doesn't prevent DOC regarding this.
• </c> help prevent rape in our facilities. help prevent rape in our facilities.
• ><c> and</c><01:42:29.200><c> and</c> prevention [clears throat] and and prevention [clears throat] and
• </c><01:42:57.600><c> and</c> standardized initial prevention and standardized initial prevention and

Transcript Highlights:

• Side note: I proposed an opioid bill, and five years ago I actually met with the secretary of the VA
• Side note: I proposed an opioid bill, and five years ago I actually met with the secretary of the VA
• Side note: I proposed an opioid bill, and five years ago I actually met with the secretary of the VA
• Side note: I proposed an opioid bill, and five years ago I actually met with the secretary of the VA
• The European standards on unions and collective bargaining, health care and disease prevention, children's

Committee: House State-federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• What about bullying prevention month banners in school counselor's offices?
• And so that kind of banner that are you suggesting that that, like autism awareness, suicide prevention
• So there are mental health awareness, there are suicide prevention.
• So, preventing a teacher from being able to have a nonverbal representation of their openness to be there
• We have one about human trafficking and another about the opioid epidemic.

Committee: Senate Executive Departments and Administration

Transcript Highlights:

• We are also streamlining our suicide prevention reporting.
• Right now, we have prevention reporting.
• lifeline and then suicide prevention lifeline and then suicide prevention<01:51:35.080><c> reporting
• </c><01:51:36.440><c> This</c> prevention reporting generally. This prevention reporting generally.
• </c><01:51:45.400><c> in</c> with 988 and suicide prevention in with 988 and suicide prevention in Minnesota

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:

• The next one is opioid treatment program rate changes.
• The next one is opioid treatment program rate changes.

Bills: HF3379

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy