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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Health Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation will improve patient access and quality foot and ankle care while reducing patient costs
- I myself am a type 1 Gaucher patient, and my 19-year-old son, Eli, is also a type 1 Gaucher patient.
- We screen only about 24% of patients who qualify. We screen only about 24% of patients who qualify.
- 627 patients to this disease, and each one of them, you know, it hurts when you lose these patients.
- I'm also a cancer patient.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Public Health
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on a wide range of bills focused on children’s health, tobacco control, newborn screening, pediatric cancer, palliative care, and professional licensure. Early testimony highlighted Senate bills to expand newborn screening for pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency, lysosomal storage disorders, and congenital CMV, with families and clinicians describing severe diagnostic delays, missed treatment windows, and the benefits of early detection. Speakers also supported a bill to improve pediatric cancer research through a dedicated trust fund, and a bill to extend pediatric palliative care services to age 22, with parents and providers emphasizing continuity of care for seriously ill young people.
Several witnesses gave personal accounts in support of the newborn screening measures. Families described children who endured years of misdiagnosis before receiving diagnoses such as Gaucher disease, Fabry disease, Pompe disease, Niemann-Pick disease, and CMV, often after irreversible damage had already occurred. Medical and advocacy witnesses said Massachusetts already collects some of the relevant screening data and argued that results should be reported to families, while others urged the committee to add conditions to the state panel because effective treatments already exist. The committee also heard support for a bill to establish a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder program and training for providers.
On tobacco and youth health, testimony supported bills to ban internet tobacco sales, strengthen youth protections, and reduce lung cancer deaths through point-of-sale information and quit-line access. A student testified about easily purchasing flavored nicotine products online without meaningful age verification, and public health advocates backed measures to keep tobacco out of children’s environments. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to ensure parents have access to their children’s medical records through age 16, with exceptions for sensitive services already protected by law.
The committee additionally took testimony on an optometry licensure bill, where ophthalmologists opposed language they said could broaden scope of practice and allow optometrists to use the title “optometric physician,” while optometry educators and students supported the bill as a modernization measure with no scope expansion. No votes were taken during the hearing; the chair repeatedly reminded speakers of time limits and noted that written testimony could be submitted for additional comments.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Health Services (2-12-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> lose on every Medicare Medicaid patient lose on every Medicare Medicaid patient they<00:07:20.120
- </c> a month almost a thousand patients a month almost a thousand patients visits<00:10:14.560><c> a<
- impact on individual patients?
- </c><00:16:10.120><c> but</c> should have been seeing patients but should have been seeing patients but
- </c> health care or have improved patient health care or have improved patient outcomes<00:26:21.960>
Summary:
The Senate Standing Committee on Health Services met with a quorum, first taking up referred administrative regulations. One regulation was deferred, and two others were noted as deficient; with no one wishing to speak, the committee treated the regulations as reviewed. The committee then heard Senate Bill 13 from Chairman Meredith, which would reduce the number of Medicaid managed care organizations from five to three. Meredith argued the bill would reduce administrative burden, improve oversight, help rural providers, and potentially lower costs for families and the Medicaid program. Senators Berg, Herron, and Douglas asked about data, patient impact, network adequacy, and prior authorization burdens; Meredith said the effect on patients would be indirect through better access and less administrative delay. The committee approved a committee substitute and passed SB 13 favorably on a 10-0 vote.
The committee next considered Senate Joint Resolution 26, presented by Senator Richardson and Kentucky Pharmacists Association Executive Director Ben Mudd. The resolution asks the Department of Medicaid Services to provide data and cost analysis on paying pharmacists fairly for clinical services already within their scope of practice under Medicaid and KCHIP. Supporters said pharmacists can improve access, especially in rural areas, by providing services such as medication therapy management, chronic disease management, and preventive care, and that the resolution is intended to gather information before any future bill. Senator Douglas questioned whether expanded pharmacy duties have actually improved access or outcomes and whether there is published data; Mudd said the Board of Pharmacy tracks use of protocols but that more data is needed. The committee approved the resolution by roll call, with all members voting aye.
At the end of the meeting, Chairman Meredith announced that Senate Bill 27 would be heard for discussion only and not acted on that day so members could review it further. Senator Brandon Storm introduced SB 27, which would create a Kentucky Parkinson’s disease research registry, and noted that a Michael J. Fox Foundation representative could not attend because of a winter storm; her letter was included in the packet. Storm said the registry is intended to support research and policy by tracking Parkinson’s disease in Kentucky, citing national prevalence and cost figures. No vote was taken on SB 27 during this meeting.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Patients with limited mobility face similar challenges.
- This is something that patients deserve and need.
- We originally were strongly opposed to the bill for patient safety reasons.
- This is a patient ...and dispensing of prescription hearing aids.
- This is a patient safety issue that should not be left unaddressed.
Summary:
The committee held public hearings on Substitute Senate Bill 6183, which would require health plans to cover all FDA-approved HIV antiviral drugs without prior authorization, step therapy, or other utilization management, with only one therapeutically equivalent option required if equivalents exist. The prime sponsor said the bill is part of Washington’s effort to end HIV/AIDS, citing ongoing new diagnoses and the need for immediate access to treatment, especially for late-stage cases. No one testified in person or remotely, and public testimony was closed with written comments invited.
The committee also heard Substitute Senate Bill 6226, which limits the Board of Hearing and Speech from adopting rules that would prevent licensed audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and hearing aid specialists from using clinical judgment to choose telehealth or in-person care. Supporters said teleaudiology improves access, especially in rural areas and for patients with mobility barriers, and that the bill preserves professional autonomy. Some testifiers raised patient-safety concerns about first-time hearing aid fittings and asked for amendments or more time to study safeguards, while others said the bill should move forward to protect access.
In executive session, the committee advanced several measures. It adopted amendments and reported out Substitute Senate Bill 5185 on international medical school graduate physician licensing, Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5845 on claims payment timing and refund requests, Senate Bill 5915 on the health technology assessment program, Senate Bill 6025 on the definition of fetal death, and Senate Joint Memorial 8802 requesting federal Medicare changes. The committee recessed briefly for caucus before taking final votes, and each bill or memorial was reported out with a do pass recommendation; 5845 and 5185 were reported out as amended.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- As was stated, we see over 90,000 patient visits per year, and 48% of those patients rely upon medical
- As was stated, we see over 90,000 patient visits per year, and 48% of those patients rely upon medical
- As was stated, we see over 90,000 patient visits per year, and 48% of those patients rely upon medical
- </c><00:41:58.079><c> who</c> our chairs up for um the patients who our chairs up for um the patients
- We do have patients who cancel, patients who don't show up, and so we therefore do have capacity.
Committee:
House Capital Investment
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Nov 7th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The patient doesn't know the sponge is in there.
- What you said was that it doesn't drive patient safety, and patient satisfaction is down.
- Hospitals and the patients, on the eve of trial, are still waiting for the Patient Compensation Fund
- It doesn't all go to the patient.
- We'd have patients who would receive this substandard care, and these patients generally may be in marginalized
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee (10-14-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- opioid use disorder if the patient is opioid use disorder if the patient is transitioning<00:04:22.160
- </c> settings so that you can get patients settings so that you can get patients initiated<00:07:05.919
- </c> deter patients from seeking it. deter patients from seeking it.
- </c> earlier, that period for that patient earlier, that period for that patient after<00:43:45.599><
- </c> we don't kick patients out of treatment. we don't kick patients out of treatment.
Summary:
The subcommittee met on October 14, approved the minutes, and then took up a large group of staff-suggested amendments to multiple regulations. Those staff amendments were approved without objection and were described as technical changes needed to comply with KRS Chapter 13A and other governing law. The committee then moved out of order to consider Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure regulation 2011 KAR 9:270, which governs buprenorphine prescribing and related standards.
Board representatives said the regulation has been updated over time since 2015 and that the current amendments are intended to streamline the rule, remove outdated federal references such as the X-waiver, narrow education requirements to addiction-related topics, and create exceptions for settings like emergency rooms and certain pain treatment situations. The agency amendment would also allow buprenorphine monoproduct for up to 30 days when a patient is transitioning from a full opioid agonist, and would add physicians certified in addiction medicine as eligible specialty consultants. Board officials said the regulation was developed through a two-year process with a work group, informal outreach to medical organizations, and multiple comment periods, and they argued the rule is working because overdose deaths have declined and provider numbers have increased.
Several witnesses and committee members raised concerns that the regulation remains too restrictive. Senator Rocky Adams noted that major medical organizations had said the proposed language could restrict access and worsen overdose risk, and he questioned whether the committee was being asked to choose between conflicting expert views. Opponents, including a medical student, a recovery advocate, and Dr. Colleen Ryan of the Kentucky Society of Addiction Medicine, argued the rule is outdated, creates unnecessary barriers to buprenorphine treatment, and should be repealed or substantially revised to align with federal guidance and evidence-based care. They said rigid requirements can discourage treatment and that addiction should be treated like other chronic illnesses. No final vote on the medical licensure regulation is reflected in the transcript excerpt, and the discussion ended with the chair preparing to hear from additional opponents.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 27th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Civil Rights & Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- in licensing actions critical to protect patients and protect the public.
- They work closely with patients in a documented and hands-on patient-prescriber relationship.
- We only only do not... on patient prescriber relationship.
- We are providing direct patient care to our patients with psychiatric disorders, all of which come to
- We are providing direct patient care to our patients with psychiatric disorders, all of which come to
Committee:
House Civil Rights & Judiciary
Keywords:
psychiatric pharmacists, mental health, pharmacy regulations, healthcare, pharmacological treatments, limited equity cooperatives, common interest ownership, housing, exemption, community ownership, probate, estate administration, inheritance, heir finder, heir locator, beneficiary interest, transfer of inheritance rights, probate for profit, personal representative, executor
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- Patients throughout the care continuum.
- able and willing to accept the patient.
- Then they must get approval for the patient to go to the facility able to admit the patient.
- For the patient to go to the facility able to admit the patient.
- It offers services regardless of patients’ ability to pay.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
Working Connections Child Care, child care subsidy, subsidized child care, Washington DCYF, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, low-income families, child care providers, licensed child care centers, family child care, market rate survey, subsidy rates, income eligibility, state median income, SNAP, Basic Food, collective bargaining, provider reimbursement, daily payment, half-day care, partial-day care
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- It is incredibly labor-intensive to move one patient, especially a critical patient in a rural area that
- During the COVID pandemic, in two years, we did 12,000 patient referrals.
- For the patients, a study just came out this morning from Kaiser Health News, where patients across the
- Documentation requirements aren't always given to patients at once.
- Documentation requirements aren't always given to patients at once.
Bills:
HB2180 , HB2184 , HB2188 , HB2194 , HB2206 , HB2321 , HB2322 , HB2438 , HB2442 , HB2448 , HB2727 , HB2797
Committee:
House Health & Human Services
Keywords:
appropriation, funding, University of Arizona, education, state budget, fetal death, funeral homes, informed consent, abortion, women's rights, medical assistance, emotional support, language acquisition, early intervention, hearing impairment, grant program, deaf education, health care, insurance claims, prior authorization
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Health Care Affordability, Select Apr 30th, 2026
Health Care Affordability, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- And the patient doesn't have that. Best interest, and the patient doesn't have that engagement.
- Spending without benefiting patients or to decrease spending while benefiting patients.
- But patients need a strong independent sector because it provides patient choice, creates local price
- , where if you resell those drugs to, say, Medicaid patients or poorer patients, there's not as much
- And so you imagine if I'm seeing 20 patients in clinic, every patient needs an MRI order, and that's
Committee:
House Health Care Affordability, Select
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Health Services (3-6-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:16:23.319><c> goes</c> means is for example if a patient goes means is for example if a patient
- </c><00:54:26.079><c> Service</c> Fulton 19 lost money on Patient Service Fulton 19 lost money on Patient
- </c> can get a access to care to the patients can get a access to care to the patients that<01:07:23.880
- as Medicaid patients.
- </c> hospitals want to get insured patients hospitals want to get insured patients and<01:22:25.000><
Keywords:
00:00:00 Call to Order/Roll Call
00:01:19 Discussion of 25RS HB 785
00:30:25 Roll Call Vote on 25RS HB 785
00:32:15 Discussion of 25RS HB 61
00:36:42 Roll Call Vote on 25RS HB 61
00:38:07 Discussion of 25RS HB 788
00:51:01 Discussion of 25RS SB 14
01:11:09 Discussion of 25RS HB 685
01:44:57 Adjournment, 958, all
Summary:
The House Standing Committee on Health Services met with a quorum and took up House Bill 785, as amended by a committee substitute that combined language from HB 785 and HB 787. The bill was described as addressing Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) audits, provider contract notice and amendment procedures, mental health parity compliance, and related transparency requirements. Supporters said the measure would tighten notice to providers, limit repeated contract amendments and rate reductions, require more standardized audit procedures, and add reporting on Medicaid claims, appeals, and grievances. It also includes a provision requiring coverage of at least two evaluation-and-management billable services per physician per recipient per date of service, and a section addressing narcotic/opioid treatment program licensing and reimbursement language.
Testimony in support came from Representative Kim Moore, John Inman of BrightView Health, Michelle Sandborne of the Children’s Alliance, and Kelly Cormic of RYSE. They argued that MCOs often use audits and recoupments in ways that are burdensome, opaque, and financially damaging to providers, especially smaller and rural ones. They cited examples of multiple audit requests in short timeframes, large record requests with short deadlines, delayed or absent feedback, and recoupments taken before appeals are resolved. They also said parity laws are not being consistently enforced and that the bill would give the Department of Insurance authority to suspend or revoke an MCO certificate of authority for willful or repeated parity violations. Committee members generally expressed support for provider protections and transparency, while asking for clarification on the narcotic treatment and E/M billing provisions.
Tom Stevens of the Kentucky Association of Health Plans testified in opposition, saying the bill is complex to implement and should be handled through the broader Medicaid oversight work of House Bill 9, the MOAB. He said the issues raised were better suited for that bipartisan stakeholder process and noted the committee substitute had not yet been fully reviewed by his group. After discussion, the committee adopted the committee substitute and then moved to a vote on the bill; the roll call began, with several members recorded as voting yes, but the transcript cuts off before the final vote result is shown.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/25/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> patients to think PAs are physicians. patients to think PAs are physicians.
- </c> for patients. for patients.
- </c> cause further confusion among patients cause further confusion among patients and<01:30:50.680><
- </c> risks misleading our patients further. risks misleading our patients further.
- </c> And it's not necessary for patient care. And it's not necessary for patient care.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- As a result, patients are held harmless.
- between the insurer and provider, not the patient.
- And in order for a patient...
- It can affect patients as early as one day old.
- This is particularly true for patients with blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, as well as patients
Committee:
Senate Health Policy
Summary:
The committee took up several health-related bills. SB 1082, on a statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program, was presented as a way to let providers and insurers use the federal independent dispute resolution process for emergency out-of-network claims under state-regulated commercial plans. A late-filed amendment clarified access to the state program, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1168, on background screenings, would centralize clearinghouse screening functions at the Agency for Health Care Administration; an amendment clarified that sealed and expunged records may be reviewed for eligibility determinations, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1156, on ambulatory surgical centers, would move their regulation into a standalone section of law separate from the hospital-focused Chapter 395, and it was reported favorably.
The committee also considered SB 1480 on temporary certificates for practice in areas of critical need. A strike-all amendment created a grandfathering process for current certificate holders with active primary care relationships if federal designation changes remove an area’s critical-need status. Supporters said it would protect patients and preserve access to care in underserved areas, and the bill was reported favorably.
The most extensive debate was on SB 1756, the medical freedom bill. The sponsor said it would require vaccine educational materials and alternative schedules for parents, expand school immunization exemptions to include conscience-based objections, clarify that emergency treatment authority does not include mandatory vaccination, and allow pharmacists to provide ivermectin behind the counter with written warnings. The committee adopted one amendment to extend liability protections to physicians as well as pharmacists, but rejected a substitute amendment that would have required counseling for exemption requests. Public testimony was overwhelmingly opposed, with physicians, pediatricians, cancer advocates, parents of immunocompromised children, and public health groups warning that the bill would lower vaccination rates and increase risk to vulnerable Floridians. The bill remained pending after testimony, with no final vote taken in the portion provided.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The goal is to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and empower patients and their families.
- The goal is to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and empower patients and their families.
- The goal is to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and empower patients and their families.
- </c><00:08:19.680><c> and</c> reduce costs and Empower patients and reduce costs and Empower patients
- </c> monitors and tracks the patients monitors and tracks the patients progress<00:10:46.959><c> the<
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
Keywords:
mental health, behavioral health, psychiatric care, collaborative care model, healthcare funding, service dog, service animal, service dog in training, assistance dog, guide dog, disability rights, housing accommodations, fair housing, landlord, rental housing, homeowners association, HOA, Minnesota human services, accessible housing, reasonable accommodation
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Health Policy Feb 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- NOT ONLY IS SURGICAL SMOKE A WORKPLACE HAZARD, IT IS ALSO A PATIENT SAFETY RISK AND THAT IS THE BILL
- OUR PATIENTS AS WELL AS AN ESTIMATED 500,000 HEALTHCARE WORKERS ARE EXPOSED TO SURGICAL SMOKE 8 TO 12
- WE ARE HOPING YOU WILL TAKE THE ACTION TO PROTECT OUR PATIENTS SURGEONS NURSES AND ALL WHO STEP INTO
- I'LL REPEAT MYSELF, NOT ONLY IS SURGICAL SMOKE A WORKPLACE HAZARD BUT IT IS A PATIENT SAFETY RISK AS
- WELL SO LET'S SUPPORT OUR PATIENTS AS WELL AS OUR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- This is just not a sustainable path for patients or providers.
- The Patient Coalition of Washington represents 18 of the state's leading patient groups to have one voice
- Medical debt is a serious issue that patients face.
- discharge out-of-county patients.
- This includes patients that are in crisis.
Committee:
Senate Law & Justice
Keywords:
spring blade knives, knife legislation, weapon regulation, public safety, law enforcement, medical debt, garnishment, wage garnishment, earnings exemption, exempt wages, debt collection, consumer debt, student loan debt, private student loans, disposable earnings, minimum wage, writ of garnishment, exemption claim, judgment debtor, creditor
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 12th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Requirements and does not create patient confusion.
- Second, the amendment strengthens patient transparency protections.
- Second, the amendment strengthens patient transparency protections.
- It is common for sickle cell patients across the state.
- Pass it for the patients whose pain has been questioned instead of treated.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, May 15, 2026 - AM
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> patient days or on volume base? patient days or on volume base?
- </c> they have a patient in the hospital. they have a patient in the hospital.
- </c> morning and see you Wyoming patients. morning and see you Wyoming patients.
- , cancer patients, we didn't patients, cancer patients, we didn't courage<02:53:38.760><c> consideration
- </c> metastatic cancer patients. metastatic cancer patients.
Committee:
Joint Labor, Health & Social Services
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- We'll those uh governed how patients would go those uh governed how patients would go and<00:14:42.639
- </c> we could grow this market as our patient we could grow this market as our patient population<00:
- But when a patient like Mr.
- We refer to it as a 70% potency cap. patient. This solution, patient patient.
- </c> patients is as minimized as possible. patients is as minimized as possible.
Committee:
Joint Agriculture
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 13, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- help adult patients for, reach their developmental milestones, and they help adult patients return to
- care of our patients.
- And the feds changed the law. ...to our emergency care of patients, taking care of our patients, and
- Patients then can see the provider of their choice.
- You have to be treated as a new patient.
Summary:
The Health Professions and Programs Subcommittee heard and advanced several health care bills. HB 909, joining the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact, was presented with a strike-all amendment and reported favorably as amended by a 13-0 vote. HB 911, the related public records exemption protecting certain biological information, was also adopted and reported favorably as amended by a 14-0 vote. CS for HB 597, allowing schools to procure and administer glucagon for students with diabetes under trained personnel, passed unanimously 14-0 after a technical amendment. HB 519, aligning state law with federal language on controlled substances administered by paramedics, passed as amended 14-0.
The committee then took up HB 919 on nursing education programs. Sponsor Rep. Overdorf argued the bill would create accountability for underperforming nursing schools by requiring remediation, tuition refunds in the lowest-performing programs, and public reporting of passage rates. Supporters said it would improve quality and protect students from debt without licensure success, while opponents from private nursing schools warned it could close programs and reduce nurse supply. After extensive debate, the bill was reported favorably 15-0.
HB 1553, which would require health care providers to submit identified uterine fibroid data so the Department of Health can implement the research database previously authorized by law, passed unanimously 15-0. The final bill, HB 883, would allow psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners to practice autonomously; supporters said it would expand access to mental health care, especially in rural and underserved areas, while opponents raised concerns about quality and physician oversight. After lengthy testimony and debate, the bill was reported favorably 14-3.