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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Mar 18th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So imagine not being able to go to medical school. appointments, not being able to go grocery shopping
  • At that time, they sent me to the Texas School for the Deaf, which uses sign language for communication
  • I was even a cheerleader at my school. school.
  • After graduation from Texas School for the Deaf, I attended college at Southwest College.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Mar 18th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • And everybody that sits in this school today, even if they're hard of hearing, they're taught to read
  • Right, it happens in schools, it happens with psychiatric hospitals.
  • I am a middle school math teacher and a parent of a child who battled a rare medical condition, and I
  • Entities, schools, and even medical professionals are making critical health and education decisions.
  • While other bills say which is 4381, focus on transparency in schools regarding parental medical rights
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're going to be hearing first of all from the Rural Finance Authority folks.
  • </c><00:03:42.319><c> finance</c> supervisor for the rural finance supervisor for the rural finance Authority
  • Minnesota Farm Bureau supports funding for the Rural Finance Authority.
  • economy, and increase our energy security.
  • security</c><01:16:21.840><c> thank</c><01:16:21.960><c> you</c> increase our energy security thank
Bills: HF770 , HF857 , HF38 , HF1500 , HF43
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Jan 26th, 2026 at 01:45 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • That is really rural. I think Albuquerque deserves rural.
  • And so just say, well, it's rural. Rural me, no paved roads, population.
  • It is rural New Mexico's culture. It is rural New Mexico's food.
  • Actually, the School of Actually, the School of Medicine, we don't use Fitz Hall.
  • I know dental school. I come here and go to dental school.
Bills: SB5 , SB6 , SB8
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education REVISED Apr 7th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • for school improvement but a school having a letter grade of C, D, or F.
  • What kind of schools are they going to? So, I believe in our schools I believe in public schools.
  • I went to public schools. I want public schools to succeed. I know they can't succeed.
  • But on page two, it states that this relates to private school or public school district.
  • are public schools.
Committee: Senate Education
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • The local public schools.
  • It's a mechanism to try to help recruit rural DAs in our most rural counties.
  • For those private schools, it has nothing to do with private schools.
  • Speaker, is this school days or is this just days? Thank you for the question. It's 10 school days.
  • We added an additional 10 school days to 15 school days.
OK
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/16/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Went to school full-time. In the summer, I had two jobs.
  • Went to school full-time. In the summer, I had two jobs.
  • Went to school full-time. In the summer, I had two jobs.
  • I mean with the high school pages that.
  • </c><01:28:24.160><c> students</c> This would limit public school students This would limit public school
Bills: HF4252
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Common Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Common Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 4274 deals with military students and military school choice.
  • So, virtual charter schools are obviously online only.
  • So, in the PCS, it is a requirement for the schools to offer it.
  • So, I guess my question comes: could a school already do this?
  • So you know, we're treating them as elementary school kids, right?
Bills: HB4274 , HB3076 , HB4358 , HB3312 , HB3288 , HB3885
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Smith, on page three at the bottom 124, it has school nurses programs.
  • That's how—that's the nurses we have in our school. Yes, sir. Okay, good.
  • But what can we do, you know, for middle school, you know, high school?
  • At the top, it should say programs that are available to school systems.
  • We should help support the frontline educators and the children going to school, summer school, or whatever
Bills: SB305 , SB109 , SB122 , SB111 , SB114 , SB113 , SB150 , SB112 , SB289 , SB303
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 04/29/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's a social security define that?
  • </c><00:26:27.919><c> districts,</c> 45% to counties, school districts, 45% to counties, school districts
  • </c> geographical area of the school geographical area of the school districts<00:26:36.559><c> within
  • </c> in a circular radius and whatever school in a circular radius and whatever school districts<00:26
  • </c> towns within uh those school districts towns within uh those school districts as<00:27:07.679><c
Bills: HF1049
Committee: Senate Taxes
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 6th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • public school could create a mission-based school if it wanted to.
  • schools and public schools can come under the umbrella of the bill.
  • This type of school could be a regional school of choice focused on vocation. Rep.
  • or public schools.
  • Well, you know, charter schools or public schools.
Bills: HR175 , HCR81 , SB105 , SB290 , SB304 , SB374 , SB522
Committee: House Education
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 11th, 2026 at 04:38 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The school district had cut the SEG and the money we have gave for the online school.
  • understanding that federal rural grant...
  • The company said they control and manage their, you know, that school online school, and the Constitution
  • This was limited to charter schools.
  • Chairman, line 242 is one that's funding the medical school as part of the medical school package.
Bills: SB152 , SB145 , SB190 , HB247
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/10/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Tom Priselski, Rural Arizona Action.
  • So this bill is designed to support the rural.
  • So this bill is designed to support the rural.
  • The rurals.
  • This fund is commonly referred to as the rural fund.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Feb 12th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 7036 strengthens school turnaround tools, expands early literacy supports, and updates several
  • expands when a district may declare an educational emergency by adding persistently low-performing schools
  • and dismissal rules through the school improvement process, and updates epinephrine policies to include
  • And so there are several school districts that are operating and using those door locks.
  • Y'all know I can't ever stop being a school board member with our school districts, who many are being
Bills: S7036
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:35 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We did receive input from the School Nurses Association, but that was one of many.
  • Not all schools have RNs, registered nurses.
  • Not all schools have RNs, registered nurses.
  • districts are creating a funding crunch for school districts around the state.
  • Same thing as eliminating Rainier School.
Summary: The House took up several bills on second and third reading, beginning with House Bill 2360 on expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools. A motion to recommit the bill to the House Health Care and Wellness Committee failed on a roll call vote, 38 yeas to 56 nays. Supporters said the bill would help school nurses respond to students in respiratory distress and reflected input from nurses, OSPI, and the Department of Health. Opponents raised concerns about training, drug interactions, follow-up care, costs to districts, and schools making medical decisions without a diagnosis. The bill then passed 60-34. House Bill 2467, clarifying measurement rules for fifth-wheel travel trailers, passed 94-0 after sponsors said it would help Washington dealers and consumers. House Bill 1983, relating to timberland tax treatment when land is sold to DNR, passed 68-26 amid debate over whether it would help forest management or make it easier for DNR to acquire timberland. House Bill 2531, updating ambulance transport fund quality assurance rules to align with federal regulations and preserve matching funds, passed unanimously 94-0. The House also passed Substitute House Bill 1390, which phases out the Community Protection Program for certain developmentally disabled individuals with high-risk histories and transfers participants to other waiver programs. Supporters said the program was overly restrictive, out of compliance with federal law, and had trapped people in long-term confinement-like conditions; opponents argued it would weaken public safety and move dangerous individuals into community settings without adequate safeguards. The bill passed 52-44. House Bill 2367, eliminating a preferential treatment related to the former TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, passed 63-33 after supporters framed it as closing the book on coal and opponents warned about energy reliability, jobs, and an emergency clause. Substitute House Bill 2133, making a property tax exemption for certain senior centers permanent, passed 96-0. Substitute House Bill 2355, establishing labor protections for domestic workers, passed 57-39 after supporters emphasized dignity and long-standing worker abuse concerns, while opponents cited fiscal impacts. The House then passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2534, with a technical amendment, to improve educational stability for children in military families; it passed 96-0. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1974, creating a land banking framework to support affordable housing, passed 59-37 after an amendment reduced fiscal impact by striking some tax preference sections. House Bill 2223, allowing certain irrigation district board service by farmers with spouses employed by the district, passed 93-3. Substitute House Bill 2239, allowing family burial grounds on private property, passed 96-0 after supporters cited rural needs, cultural traditions, and personal family stories. The session also included a brief congratulatory recognition for Representative David Stuebe after his first bill passed the House.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 12th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I haven't had a grade like that since high school.
  • This is going to be great for rural communities and for our ranchers.
  • better coverage of veterinary services when there are issues on the large ranches, in farms, or in rural
Summary: The House convened with a quorum present, the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer were offered, and the chamber approved the previous day’s minutes. Members then caucused briefly before moving into second reading and third reading action on several bills, with the day also marking the start of the three-minute debate rule through House of Origin cutoff. The House passed House Bill 2338, which expands the low-income home weatherization program to support community-scale weatherization projects, especially for multifamily housing. It also passed House Bill 2353, raising the threshold for requiring predesign work on public projects from $10 million to $15 million, and Substitute House Bill 2363, a trailer bill allowing music therapy students to practice under supervision while exam scores are pending. Members described these as efficiency measures and consumer or workforce improvements. The chamber also approved Substitute House Bill 2525 to establish the Heritage Orchard Program and a registry at Washington State University to preserve rare and heritage apple varieties, with sponsors emphasizing the importance of Washington’s apple industry and agricultural history. Additional bills passed unanimously included Substitute House Bill 2420 on increasing small works roster thresholds, Substitute House Bill 2428 on preventing unintended lapses in life insurance by allowing third-party designees, House Bill 2604 allowing electronic signatures for transferring salvage vehicles to insurers, and Substitute House Bill 2107 making permanent a pilot requiring Labor and Industries to notify employers of identified job-site hazards within 10 days. Finally, the House adopted Amendment 1517 and passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2247, which updates veterinarian-client-patient relationship rules to allow telehealth between required physical visits and requires annual veterinarian oversight for certain animal production, commercial, and breeding operations. All of the listed bills received overwhelming support, with each final passage vote recorded at 94 yeas and 0 nays, except House Bill 2338, which passed 93-1.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • I don't think any school is going to be overrun with virtual school or virtual charter school or homeschool
  • Before school, after school?
  • during the school day?
  • I won't name the school. Maybe not to do that because our school could be sued.
  • So that could be before school. It might be after school.
Bills: HB4491 , HB3240 , HB4146 , HB4158 , HB4159 , HB3718