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KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Education (6-2-26)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Workforce PEL, like I said, extends PEL eligibility to short-term workforce programs.
  • And the fourth is connecting Workforce PEL to broader workforce and post-secondary strategies.
  • remain kind of outside workforce pel. remain kind of outside workforce pel.
  • workforce and post-secondary strategies. workforce and post-secondary strategies.
  • <00:24:16.080> If workforce economic development. If workforce economic development.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Judiciary Jan 21st, 2026

Senate Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Chamber views behavioral health as closely tied to public safety, workforce stability, and economic
  • effectiveness of the behavioral health system is essential to safer communities and a more stable workforce
Bills: SB1, SB3
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/3/25 - Part 1

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Seventy-five percent of our teacher workforce are female.
  • <00:35:46.760> are our teacher Workforce are our teacher Workforce are female<00:35:48.599
  • our hospitals, and the areas where we're really short because we need folks to stay in the workforce
  • our hospitals, and the areas where we're really short because we need folks to stay in the workforce
  • . ...and the areas where we're really short because we need folks to stay in the workforce, and it's
Bills: HF11
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/3/25 - Part 2

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think, as we testified in House Workforce previously, we've already deployed components of the program
  • we've already Workforce previously we've already deployed<00:04:18.519> you<00:04:18.600>
  • He added that during his time on Workforce over the last four years, the number of questions asked to
  • The chair responded, "The motion is to re-refer this bill to the workforce committee.
  • The chair replied that the motion is to re-refer the bill to the workforce committee.
Bills: HF11
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/3/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I urge your support of House File 2741 and this critical investment in Minnesota's educator workforce
  • in 2741 and his critical investment in Minnesota's<01:28:37.520> educator<01:28:38.199> Workforce
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Judiciary Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:37 pm

Senate Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Chamber views behavioral health as closely tied to public safety, workforce stability, and economic
  • effectiveness of the behavioral health system is essential to safer communities and a more stable workforce
Bills: SB1, SB3
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:13:41.680> of your program to the department of your program to the department of workforce
  • 43.120> set<00:13:43.360> the<00:13:43.519> budget<00:13:43.839> that workforce
  • and you set the budget that workforce and you set the budget that you're<00:13:44.240> going<
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have statistics from Alabama, and we have members from all across the state of Alabama, from Mobile
  • He's doing the marine biology program, and he'll be in Mobile in the summer.
  • With this mobile rapid response technology in place, if this bill passes, then teachers, administrators
  • require somewhat of a five-year runway for schools to of a five-year runway for schools to implement a mobile
  • This could be through a button or it could be a mobile device if it meets the criteria within the bill
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture Apr 27th, 2026

Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this is about workforce development, economic development, and community stability, because studies
  • have shown that communities that improve food access see better workforce participation and productivity
Summary: The committee first heard Senate Concurrent Resolution 23, which would create an Agricultural-based National Security Priorities Task Force to study issues such as Chinese drones, farmland ownership, and other technology-related concerns that could affect farmers and national security. Senator Kathy Stewart said the goal was to avoid unintended consequences in legislation and to bring agriculture stakeholders together. The resolution was moved favorably with no objections. The committee then took up Senate Bill 502 on sugarcane bagasse storage. Supporters, including the sponsor, the Commissioner of Agriculture, and the American Sugar Cane League, said the bill would clarify that bagasse is an agricultural byproduct and would protect storage practices that comply with department best practices from local ordinances. Several residents from St. Martin Parish testified in opposition, saying a large bagasse pile near their homes was out of compliance, created dust and odors, and caused health and property-value concerns. Despite the opposition, the bill was reported favorably with no objections. House Bill 512, by Representative Schamerhorn, would prohibit the manufacturing and sale of cell-cultured food products in Louisiana while allowing university research to continue. An amendment was adopted to make the bill effective only if certain federal court rulings allow such a ban. The sponsor and Commissioner Strain argued the issue is still scientifically uncertain and that the state should avoid costly litigation; the bill was reported favorably with amendments after no objections. House Bill 1194, the Healthy Food Retail Act, was amended to shift food-desert research and mapping duties to the LSU AgCenter, while the financing authority would continue handling grants and related funding mechanisms. Supporters said the bill would improve data on food deserts and help target grocery access in underserved urban and rural areas; some members raised concerns about government subsidies and long-term dependence, but the sponsor and Commissioner Strain said the program is intended as infrastructure support to launch stores, not ongoing operating aid. After debate, the bill was reported favorably with amendments by a 10-3 roll call vote. The committee also reported favorably House Concurrent Resolution 65, which urges federal action to reclassify crawfish-industry job duties as agricultural labor for H-2A purposes; testimony emphasized labor shortages, the impact on crawfish and rice producers, and the need for more legal guest workers. The meeting ended with a brief informational handout on direct marketing and custom slaughter plants and adjournment.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Agriculture and Forestry Committee Feb 5th, 2026

Agriculture and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • My name is Luke Kizow, government affairs director for Mobile Baykeeper.
  • Kizow, government affairs<00:09:01.120> director<00:09:01.440> for<00:09:01.600> Mobile
Bills: SB71, SB71
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/10/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Summary: The Commerce Committee heard and advanced five bills. HB 2174, as amended by a strike-everything, redefined “advisory organization” as a modeling and data organization and allowed models used by insurers for rate-making to be filed with DIFI, with DIFI able to require supporting data to verify compliance. The sponsor said the measure was the product of extensive stakeholder negotiations and technical cleanup. The committee adopted the amendment and then approved the bill 10-0 for a due-pass recommendation. HB 2496 would require revitalization district construction contracts to include payment protections allowing contractors and subcontractors to pause or stop work if the district fails to pay. Supporters argued it was a fairness measure to prevent contractors from being forced to continue work without payment; opponents, including bond counsel and the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, warned it could disrupt public infrastructure projects, misalign incentives, and create bond-financing concerns. The committee passed the bill 9-1 with one member present. HB 2910 would extend from 10 to 20 days the time a contractor has to contest an ROC recovery fund claim after notice. The sponsor and Home Builders Association said it was a minor, technical change and requested more time to respond to claims. The committee approved it 10-1. HB 2938, the “penny” bill, would require Swedish rounding for cash transactions when pennies are unavailable, with an amendment clarifying taxes and fees are calculated before rounding and protecting businesses complying with the rule. The sponsor described inconsistent business practices and support from stakeholders; the committee adopted the amendment and passed the bill. HB 2744 would authorize the Industrial Commission of Arizona to investigate and adjudicate overtime wage violations at the state level. Supporters from the carpenters’ unions said federal enforcement is too slow and workers need a faster path to recover earned wages; the Industrial Commission said it would need additional FTEs and spending authority but not general fund money. One member opposed expanding agency authority over private wage disputes, but the committee ultimately passed the bill 10-1 and adjourned.