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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/23/26

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • The state program provides supplemental financial assistance and an incentive actually to Minnesota dairy
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  • The state program provides supplemental financial assistance and an incentive actually to Minnesota dairy
  • The state program provides supplemental financial assistance and an incentive actually to Minnesota dairy
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Mon Feb 2, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 7

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • student association as she chaired Campbell's events, and it caused her to be introduced to this program
  • And right now, so we can see the benefits of this program and what it means for these kids to come to
  • now, so we can see the benefits of right now, so we can see the benefits of this<00:24:44.720> program
  • 45.279> it<00:24:45.440> hap<00:24:45.760> what<00:24:46.000> means this program
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Bills: HB1751, HB1752, HB1636
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PBS Public Hearing - Fri Jan 30, 2026 @ 11:00 AM HST

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> We're moving to House Bill 1751 relating to the Hawaii National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program
  • This authorizes the Adjutant General to expand Hawaii National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program
  • <00:26:41.360> This Tuition Assistance Program. This Tuition Assistance Program.
  • Program.
  • Guard State Tuition Assistance Program. Guard State Tuition Assistance Program.
Summary: The Committee on Public Safety held its first hearing and began with House Bill 1531, which would require the governor or county mayor to provide an ASL interpreter during official emergency announcements broadcast on television or the internet, ensure the interpreter is visible, and require news outlets to show the interpreter in a picture-in-picture window. Testimony was strongly supportive from disability advocates, who said live captions can be inaccurate and that ASL access is critical during emergencies, but broadcasters raised practical concerns that the bill as drafted could require extra camera crews and reduce coverage. Members discussed possible alternatives such as government-provided pool feeds and interpreter placement, and the chair recommended deferring decision-making on the bill to the following Wednesday to allow time for amendment language. The committee then heard House Bill 1751, which would expand the Hawaii National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program to include graduate degrees at the University of Hawaii for qualified enlisted personnel. The Hawaii Army National Guard, the Department of Defense, and University of Hawaii representatives supported the measure as a recruiting, retention, and professionalization tool. A member asked about funding, and the response was that the program is funded through a state appropriation currently set at $250,000 and was described as sufficient at present. The bill drew no opposition in the hearing. Next, House Bill 1752 was taken up. This measure would remove the Adjutant General as a nonvoting ex officio member of the HAIMA advisory committee and add the HAIMA administrator as a nonvoting ex officio member of the MSAC. The Department of Defense and Department of Health supported the bill, with the Department of Health asking that it be aligned with other EMS modernization provisions in the governor’s package so the related measures remain consistent. No objections were raised. The committee also heard House Bill 1577 on 911 services, which would require the 911 Board to establish a statewide emergency safety profile system for residents to voluntarily store emergency-relevant personal information. The Department of Health, disability advocates, the 911 Board, and others supported the concept, saying it could improve emergency response for people with disabilities, kūpuna, families, and others with functional needs. Testimony also raised concerns about funding, system integration, confidentiality, advanced directives, and liability protections if information does not reach responders in time. Members discussed statewide coordination and existing county systems, and the hearing continued with those issues unresolved.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Jan 12th, 2026

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • as a condition of program participation.
  • that excluding faith-based programs is not just discriminatory.
  • Next, the bill addresses the Step Into Success program.
  • stipend for foster youth in the program.
  • I am delighted to see the program now go statewide.
Bills: S0042, S0578, S0624, S7018
Summary: The committee met with a quorum and first heard SB 624, which would codify DCF’s current practice of allowing batterers intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities so long as participation is voluntary. The bill drew support from faith-based and family organizations, which argued it would restore access to effective rehabilitation options and remove discriminatory barriers. SB 624 was reported favorably after a roll call vote. The committee then heard SB 42, which would require child protective investigators and child protection teams to rely on qualified medical professionals when a child has a documented pre-existing diagnosis or when a parent requests an exam, and would require clearer notice to parents and custodians at the start of an investigation. Testimony overwhelmingly came from parents, advocates, and disability rights representatives describing cases in which medically complex children were allegedly misdiagnosed as abuse victims and families were separated unnecessarily. Members expressed sympathy and support, and SB 42 was reported favorably. Next, the committee considered CS/SB 578, creating an Alzheimer’s disease awareness initiative within the Department of Elder Affairs to promote early detection, brain health education, research updates, and clinical trial awareness, with outreach focused on older adults and at-risk populations. An amendment was adopted to place the campaign within the Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative. A caregiver testified about the need for public education and early diagnosis, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee also took up SPB 7018, a committee bill on child welfare that would extend the definition of “visitor” for foster homes to reduce repeated background checks, make the Step Into Success foster youth workforce pilot permanent and statewide, and create a program through the Florida Institute for Child Welfare to catalog best practices among community-based care lead agencies. The bill was approved as a committee bill and reported favorably. Finally, the Department of Children and Families presented its 2025-26 final funding methodology and rates report for community-based care. Members questioned the proposed tiered model, including insurance costs, risk corridors, prevention funding, performance measures, and regional funding disparities. No vote was taken on the presentation, but members discussed the possible need for follow-up legislation and additional stakeholder input.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Meanwhile, Meanwhile, ordinary people are being forced to skip treatments, to ration their medications
  • The California Health Benefits Review Program estimated that a bill like this would increase health insurance
  • So if the division does have to come to present a work program during the interim, that we all understand
  • could go out, even if it's not a declared natural disaster or emergency, to be able to provide that assistance
  • It wasn't a declared emergency, but our guys were out there assisting.
Bills: AB93, AB204, AB414, AB504, AB598
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 11th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • How does a child enroll into the program? I'm sorry? How does the child enroll into the program?
  • organization educational assistance. educational assistance organization.
  • They apply to the program through the Educational Assistance Organization. while they are simultaneously
  • Applying to the program under the Education Assistance... Organization, is that family enrolled?
  • this by the Education Assistance Organization into the program which is separate from getting accepted
Bills: HB3, HB3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Mar 11th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Program was a D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. The... I didn't...
  • So this program, various programs around the country do an excellent job.
  • When you evaluate these programs that are... lack of a better term, voucher programs, really.
  • in that program.
  • But there could be a program.
Bills: HB3, HB3
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

ECD Public Hearing - Wed Feb 18, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST

Economic Development & Technology

Transcript Highlights:
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  • or a grant with a subsidy program or a grant program<00:30:45.279> as<00:30:45.520> opposed
  • So I do know that heavy treatment.
  • <01:15:22.320> being there is unequal treatment being there is unequal treatment being um<
  • <01:37:44.480> that economy by funding HCDC programs that economy by funding HCDC programs
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures, beginning with HB 2410 relating to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Testifiers from HTDC and the Hawaii Food Industry Association stood on written testimony, and members discussed the funding request, which was described as $1 million each for three programs, for a total of $3 million. The measure appeared to have broad support, with no opposition noted. The committee then took up HB 2235 HD1 on the military and community relations office, where Lori Moore of MACC asked for additional funding to support local businesses and education-to-career initiatives statewide. Members asked about the amount, and the request was identified as $1.3 million total. HB 904 on space operations followed, with three supporters and one opponent, though no substantive testimony was captured beyond the vote counts. HB 2201 on state enterprise zones drew testimony from Georgia Skinner of DBEDT’s Creative Industries division, who said the measure would build on a well-run enterprise zone program and help make Hawaii’s film industry more competitive. Tom Yamashita of the Tax Foundation also provided comments. The committee then considered HB 2349 relating to DCCA and DBEDT coordination; DCCA explained it already provides links and information to DBEDT programs, while DBEDT argued that direct data sharing would allow more proactive outreach. Members raised privacy and cost concerns, and DBEDT said it would consider opt-in collection and acknowledged system changes and possible funding needs. The committee also heard two tax credit bills. HB 1972 HD1, on a caregiver tax credit, received strong support from AARP, the Hawaii Public Health Institute, the Hawaii Children’s Action Network, and others, who described caregivers as an “invisible workforce” and argued the credit would help families keep loved ones at home and reduce financial strain. The Tax Foundation suggested a grant or subsidy program might be more efficient than a tax credit and raised concerns about debarment provisions. HB 20007 HD1, on the household and dependent care services tax credit, also drew strong support from public health and family advocacy groups, who said Hawaii families face some of the nation’s highest child care costs and that the bill would better reflect current expenses; the Tax Foundation again raised technical concerns about complexity and debarment. Members asked about fiscal impacts, and testimony indicated the current credit costs about $6 million, with the bill expected to increase that amount. The committee then moved on to HB 2385 HD1 on housing, where the Deputy Attorney General began presenting written comments on whether the bill limits county authority.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2026-04-13

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • the commercial market and MA program. the commercial market and MA program.
  • programs. Thank you. programs. Thank you. Thank<00:18:41.520> you. Thank you.
  • One, it says standard of treatment. Another one, it says current standard of treatment time frame.
  • be outside of the program scope then. be outside of the program scope then.
  • Minnesota healthcare program. Minnesota healthcare program.
Summary: The committee met at 1:00 p.m., confirmed a quorum, and approved the April 8, 2026 minutes. The first bill heard was House File 4712, which was laid over after the committee adopted a DE2 amendment. Representative Schultz said the bill would create a narrow additional exception to public pool limitations so highly certified swimming instructors could use certain pools for specialized infant, youth, and developmental-disability swim instruction. The only testifier, Tessa Seppelt, described ISR instruction as water-safety and drowning-prevention training for very young children and children with developmental delays, and said access to appropriate facilities is the main barrier. Members raised questions about emergency egress, public safety, and insurance coverage, and the author said he would follow up on those concerns. The committee then took up House File 4801, a bill by Representative Nadeau aimed at health care program integrity. He said it would align commercial and Medicaid partners to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse by changing prior authorization and retrospective review processes, improving data sharing on suspected fraud, addressing conflicting or duplicative services, allowing managed care organizations to verify provider credentials, and making risk corridors in MCO contracts permanent. The Minnesota Council of Health Plans supported the bill, saying it would help detect fraud and improve coordination, while the Minnesota chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics opposed it, arguing that expanded prior authorization would delay care, increase physician burden, and harm children with chronic conditions. Members debated patient safety, fraud detection, and whether the bill would undermine recent prior-authorization reforms. The bill was laid over. House File 3756, a technical update to the insulin safety net program, was also laid over. Representative Backer said the bill clarifies that a hospital-use intravenous insulin product is not part of the program because it is sold only to health care institutions and infused by practitioners, not dispensed to patients for self-use. The Board of Pharmacy testified that the language was drafted to avoid affecting future legitimate uses, and members asked whether the definition could limit new uses if treatments change. The committee then began House File 4860, but the transcript cuts off before the bill’s presentation is completed.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm an Assistant County Johnson.
  • . assistance. assistance.
  • we could not get them into a program. we could not get them into a program.
  • programming cost me over $26,000. programming cost me over $26,000.
  • them up just because school programming them up just because school programming was<00:26:50.240
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services REVISED Feb 9th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • shall be used to support the development and implementation of evidence-based pretrial diversion programs
  • to reside in an assisted living facility in age. and place once they've been diagnosed with a cognitive
  • It works is a contractor is typically the physician in charge of the hospice program, mostly in rural
  • cleans up language related to the healthcare authority's diabetes management education and support program
  • The purpose of this program is to increase patient access to affordable insulin in this state and.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • integrity in medical enhancing program integrity in medical assistance.<00:03:49.280> That<00
  • It modifies emergency overdose treatment requirements for certain programs.
  • And, uh, I also am the chair of the Autism Treatment Association of Minnesota.
  • I also represent the Autism Treatment Association of Minnesota and providers who deliver the critical
  • Yeah, in our program, we review the child's treatment plan on a weekly basis.
Bills: HF4207, HF4338
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm an Assistant Attorney General with the Office of the Attorney General.
  • We've also assisted with access to education, assistance with special education, obtaining Medicaid,
  • Our second largest category of rejections, which we don't assist with.
  • by these non-profit organizations by creating this grant program.
  • As an attorney and an assistant DA here in Travis County, I did that for many years.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/19/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Next up, House File 2102, Representative Lee, local food purchasing assistance program funding provided
  • or the lfpa purchasing Assistance or the lfpa program<00:41:11.240> in<00:41:11.520> short
  • As a farmer, the local food purchasing assistance program has been a huge help in building my business
  • As a farmer, the local food purchasing assistance program has been a huge help in building my business
  • The local food purchasing assistance program has allowed Sprout to positively impact well over 2,500
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary 2ND REVISED Mar 3rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you very much, and I'll appreciate your assistance with.
  • Allowed to do immediate treatment to protect that person without having an intake screening with the
  • We don't want to delay treatment. Senator Rosino for a follow-up. Thank you.
  • want to delay treatment, and I think your.
  • Currently, there are 5 certified human trafficking programs. 3 are urban, 2 are rural.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • For day treatment programs, on an average weekly basis, we had 867 people waiting for service.
  • Madam Chair, members, Senate Bill 1052 allows assisted living homes and assisted living centers to provide
  • It enables hyperbaric oxygen treatment therapy to be allowed in assisted living facilities.
  • SB 1052 allows off-label medical treatments to be provided in assisted living facilities, which are not
  • Petitioning for involuntary treatment was necessary.
Summary: The committee began with member and staff introductions, then took up a series of health and human services bills. The first group focused on radiation protection in cardiac catheterization and other ionizing-radiation procedure rooms: SB 1120 would require at least half of procedure rooms in covered facilities to have a radiation protection system by July 1, 2027; SB 1118 would create a state grant program for rural hospitals to help pay for those systems; and SB 1121 would prohibit requiring lead aprons in rooms equipped with such systems, while allowing voluntary use with a real-time dosimeter. Physicians, nurses, and a hospital CEO testified that long-term radiation exposure and heavy lead aprons have caused cancer, cataracts, and orthopedic injuries, and that commercially available systems can reduce exposure to near zero. Some members raised questions about cost, vendor involvement, FDA clearance, and whether the bills should be discussed with stakeholders; the Health Systems Alliance of Arizona said it was neutral and wanted further stakeholder meetings. All three bills were adopted by 7-0 votes, with SB 1120 and SB 1121 amended. The committee then heard SB 1001, which would appropriate $1 million to the Department of Economic Security for the Older Individuals Who Are Blind program. Blind and low-vision speakers described long waitlists, the need for independent living training, and how services help seniors remain at home rather than enter more costly care. The bill passed 6-0 with one member not voting. Next, SB 1072 proposed ongoing General Fund and Medicaid spending to raise reimbursement rates for home- and community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, plus room-and-board funding and a workforce survey/reporting requirement. Providers testified that the system is underfunded, staff turnover is high, overtime is extensive, and many people wait for services; the bill passed 6-0 with one not voting. The committee also approved SB 1125, requiring the Department of Child Safety to annually seek MOUs with tribes and improve tribal access to information about placements and enforcement actions involving licensed group homes, after members asked about the stakeholder process and tribal participation. SB 1123, which removes the requirement that a supervising forensic pathologist be board-certified before delegating autopsy-related tasks to trainees, passed after Maricopa County said the change would help address training delays and workforce shortages. SB 1052, allowing mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy in assisted living facilities under specified safeguards, drew support from the sponsor and an assisted-living operator but also opposition from a member concerned about off-label treatment in nonmedical settings; it passed 5-2. Finally, SB 1112, reducing the number of acquaintance witnesses required in court-ordered treatment proceedings from two to one and allowing a judge to waive the witness requirement in some cases, passed 5-2 after testimony from supporters who said the current rule often blocks treatment for seriously mentally ill people and from opponents who argued it weakens due process. The committee then began SB 1113, which would allow service of court-ordered evaluation and treatment documents by evaluation-agency employees or other court-authorized persons, but the transcript cuts off before action on that bill.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 12th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you require assistance in registering or testifying, please contact Michael, our assistant clerk.
  • We reached out to law enforcement and APS, but again, his rights allowed him to refuse treatment.
  • The Excellence Program is an initiative by the Texas Judicial Council to identify, support, and highlight
  • I think it's a great program and I'm glad to see it's going to be expanding.
  • We have 30 that are on the waitlist and seven that are actively going through the program right now.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The amendment does apply to the state-operated treatment program, which has its own set of rules
  • facilities, much like our CNA, or certified nursing assistant, program operates today.
  • <00:32:08.679> program certified nursing assistant program certified nursing assistant program
  • First, this bill incorporates and evenly applies the specificity of residential programs to assisted
  • First, this bill incorporates and evenly applies the specificity of residential programs to assisted