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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare Apr 29th, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • Some education requirements.
  • So we're really talking about educating older adults, if you're able to educate older adults, about very
  • I have a PhD in education.
  • So as an educator, I recognize that we need education, but we're losing lives. To give that.
  • So as an educator, I recognize that we need education, but we're losing lives because, not because the
Summary: The committee first heard and favorably reported SB 255, which expands the educational qualifications for psychosocial rehabilitation services to include health sciences and therapeutic recreation degrees, and SB 314, which cleans up prior language on community psychiatric support and treatment services so a limited scope certified social worker license can still be issued even if the applicant is slightly late renewing. Members and witnesses said both bills were intended to improve access to behavioral health services, especially in rural areas, and there was no opposition on either measure. The committee then advanced SB 26, which repeals facility need review for opioid treatment programs to make it easier to open more OTPs in Louisiana, and SB 29, which requires child autopsy reports to include immunization records and access to the LINKS vaccine database. SB 29 drew some concern about whether singling out immunizations could imply causation, but the author and supporters said the bill is only about adding data and that the records would be part of broader medical information. Both bills were reported favorably. Members also reported favorably SB 30, as amended, to allow telehealth for obesity/weight-management treatment with synchronous interaction and other safeguards, though some providers warned the language should not unduly limit future board authority. SB 219 was approved to create an Office of Health and Nutrition within LDH, with testimony from the department, the Alzheimer’s Association, and Pennington Biomedical supporting the focus on nutrition, physical activity, and brain health. SB 222 was reported favorably with amendments to reduce duplicative behavioral health administrative requirements, streamline supervision rules, and expand telehealth for psychosocial rehabilitation. The committee also approved SB 195, the “Danny’s Dose” EMS bill, allowing EMS personnel to administer a patient’s own prescribed time-critical medication in emergencies; testimony from families with rare conditions described life-threatening delays under current rules. Finally, SCR 2 was adopted to update hospital construction standards to the most recent Facility Guidelines Institute edition, and SCR 22 was reported favorably to request a more detailed legislative auditor report on opioid settlement spending and outcomes. The committee then began hearing HB 1093 on naturopathic medicine, with the author proposing a licensing framework under the State Board of Medical Examiners and a large amendment set; members raised questions about scope, prescriptive authority, training, and whether the profession should have its own board, but no final action on the bill was taken in the portion provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And in education finance yesterday, I heard about how we couldn't listen to a person who was on a task
  • , brings together employers, educators, brings together employers, educators, and<01:14:04.920>
  • Forty-eight states have these centers, and many, like Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Oregon, and New
  • It'll allow the CNEE to maintain statewide data systems, coordinate partnerships across education and
  • Forty-eight states have these centers, and many, like Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Oregon, and New
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Veterans and Military Affairs REVISED Feb 12th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Veterans and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Follow up, so currently under this, it would be possible for someone from Texas who is drilling in Oklahoma
  • If the Oklahoma Guard leadership decided to accept somebody from Texas that lived in Texas and wanted
  • How would you feel that that's a fair use of our financial resources to have someone from Texas transfer
  • I have friends that have served in Oklahoma, and they lived in Texas.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session May 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • President, members, we are joined today by fabulous educators from across the state.
  • Educators from across the state.
  • President, the codes formerly the codes that applied for this, the types of business that applied for
  • Like, we're not duplicating or undermining general reporting obligations of educators, right?
  • By law, right now, to enter a college of education, you only have to have 3 years.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Feb 10th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is an update to the trust code.
  • might remember, in 2024, Senator Pugughh, as well as Representative Eccol, put in a uniform trust code
  • , trusts, and state attorneys that have looked through those as we've been operating uniform trust code
  • and Oklahoma trust code.
  • was in current law, and in 175.6 a is what we have that conflict as we move into this uniform trust code
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House & Governmental May 19th, 2026

House and Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • So somebody from Texas, say, couldn't come and trot in with an ID from Texas and say that they live here
  • in and out of the voting booth with a Texas license plate on their car.
  • The bill gives the Secretary of State ample opportunity to educate the public, and some funding, to educate
  • The 2007 election code had 298 pages. The 2007 election code had 298 pages in it.
  • Denise is in education. All right, we'll sit.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

04/28/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • When you answer the lady's question on the $7 million in education, roughly what's the education budget
  • I think that's very educational.
  • This bridges the gap between education and employment.
  • We rank last in education, and these additional cuts to education will make it nearly impossible to attract
  • and employment we rank last in education and these additional cuts to education will make it nearly
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:31 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Saying that New Mexico is destroying virtual education, actually it's not true.
  • They were chartered to do virtual education. They're fine.
  • education and three-year-old students receiving special education services.
  • And then lower on G, early childhood education, ADM, or early childhood education, M-EM, means full-time
  • Everything else is existing language in the public school code.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Mar 24th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/17/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • serve as a lasting source of educational serve as a lasting source of educational funding<00:25:
  • You will of educational endowments.
  • it, not getting invested in education it, not getting invested in education have<00:47:57.040>
  • Um the the future in education.
Bills: HF3900
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

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

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • who right now are still the largest segment of our population, leaving the state of Minnesota for education
  • who right now are still the largest segment of our population, leaving the state of Minnesota for education
  • who right now are still the largest segment of our population, leaving the state of Minnesota for education
Bills: HF11
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

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

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative Kia, at this time I'll move to re-refer the bill to the Education Finance Committee and
  • Representative Kia, at this time I'll move to re-refer the bill to the Education Finance Committee and
  • finance committee um and would education finance committee um and would and<00:16:00.360> I<00
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  • He noted that there were 25 different hearings for passage of the bill, not including Education Finance
Bills: HF11
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Feb 3rd, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Christian Cochran, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Right on Crime, waiving in support.
  • Harris, Panhandle Area Education Consortium, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • Harris, Panhandle Area Education Consortium, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • The relentless CCP attacks on the U.S. educational system, especially our crown jewels in higher education
  • .. ...because it is one of the most frequent religious codes evaluated in our courts.
Summary: The committee heard a series of bills, most of them claims or civil-law measures, and reported each favorably. Among the bills approved were SB 326 on curators of estates, SB 1096 clarifying filing deadlines under the Florida Civil Rights Act, SB 28 and SB 26 on claims against the City of Lakeland and the estate of Mark Legata, SB 6 involving a DCF-related claim for Layla Estrada/Sapphire Williams, SB 786 creating a nonjudicial process for closing trusts, SB 18 and SB 2 on claims involving the estate of McKenzie Navarre and Daniel Mosley, and SB 50 expanding veterans’ courts statewide. The committee also approved SB 538 on extracurricular activities, SB 1004 on pet sales and financing disclosures, and SB 1366, the sovereign immunity bill, which was presented as a starting point for negotiations with the House over higher claims caps and related provisions. Most of these bills were explained by sponsors as clarifying existing law, modernizing procedures, or resolving uncontested claims, and several had support from affected organizations or individuals; some also drew opposition or concerns from speakers, especially on trust notice issues, sovereign immunity, and the scope of the extracurricular and pet-sale bills. Several bills were amended before passage. SB 326 was narrowed by removing a section and changing reporting language for curators. SB 786 received a technical clarification amendment, while SB 18 removed an unneeded Medicaid-related section. SB 50 on veterans’ courts drew broad support from veterans’ groups and criminal-justice organizations. SB 538 on extracurricular activities was amended multiple times to address home education eligibility, activity fees for homeschool participants, technical cross-references, and compensation for extracurricular sponsors. SB 1004 was supported by animal-welfare advocates and consumer-protection interests. SB 178 on athletics in public K-12 schools was amended to limit the bill to head coaches, require personal funds, and allow similar bylaws by other athletic associations; it passed after discussion of a Miami Northwestern coaching controversy. The committee also took up two major policy bills with substantial testimony and questions. SB 1178 on foreign influence would create a state framework for foreign-agent registration, restrict gifts and contracts tied to foreign countries of concern and designated foreign terrorist organizations, limit certain sister-city and university linkage activities, and increase penalties for crimes committed to benefit foreign governments or terrorist groups; supporters framed it as a national-security and transparency measure, while the sponsor withdrew one amendment before passage. SB 1632 on ideologies inconsistent with American principles generated the most extended questioning, especially about its domestic-terrorism designation process, references to Sharia law, notice and due-process protections, and potential effects on students and speech; supporters argued it targets conduct, not belief, while opponents warned it could chill protected activity and unfairly target Muslim communities. The committee heard many public speakers on both sides, but no floor debate followed before the bill was moved forward.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Jan 27th, 2026

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I realize that you keep the fire code and occupancy probably in there.
  • or a land development code.
  • Form-based codes allow the types of things we're talking about.
  • Form-based codes allow the types of things we're talking about.
  • Let me just finish by comparing Texas and Florida.
Summary: The committee took up a series of land use, housing, local government, and public notice bills, along with a firefighter cancer bill and a bill on temporary door locking devices. SB 984 on firefighter cancer benefits and prevention was explained as clarifying access to death benefits and a one-time cancer payment for firefighters; it was reported favorably. SB 1612 required local governments to accept electronic payments online; it also passed favorably. SB 1180 created a recall framework for elected community development district board members and, through a strike-all amendment, also addressed synthetic turf enforcement and expanded compact urban mixed-use district definitions; the amendment was adopted and the bill was reported favorably. SB 936 allowed temporary door locking devices above the finished floor and directed the Building Commission to add standards to the Florida Building Code; it passed favorably. The committee also considered SB 380 on legal notices, which would let certain local government entities publish notices on their own websites or other designated sites instead of relying on newspapers in more cases. The Florida Press Association, Common Cause, and newspaper representatives opposed the bill, arguing it would fragment public notice access and make notices harder to find and verify, while supporters said it would modernize and reduce costs. The bill’s amendment clarified which agencies were covered, and the committee reported the bill favorably. SB 962 on affordable housing narrowed prior zoning preemption language so working farms and farm operations would not be unintentionally captured by Live Local-style rules; it passed favorably. SB 1444 on state preemption and religious expression, private clubs, and minor home construction drew support from religious freedom advocates and opposition from cities and counties, which warned of vague terms and overbroad preemption; it was reported favorably. The committee then approved SB 218, which would limit the reach of last session’s hurricane recovery land-use preemption to counties actually damaged by hurricanes and restore normal local land-use authority in unaffected counties. SB 1434 on infill redevelopment would streamline zoning and subdivision approvals for environmentally impacted parcels in certain urban counties to encourage housing on contaminated or underused land; counties and local-government groups opposed it as an overbroad preemption and raised concerns about the environmental threshold and density provisions, but the bill was reported favorably. SB 1020 on chickees prohibited local ordinances from blocking chickee construction if setback requirements are met and made unauthorized attempts to circumvent the building code a misdemeanor; it passed favorably. Finally, SB 948 on local government land development regulations and orders, as amended, proposed a statewide starter-home framework with lot-split and zoning changes to increase housing supply; local-government and planning groups warned it would function as a rigid statewide zoning code and could drive overdevelopment, while housing advocates supported it as necessary state action. The committee reported the bill favorably after extensive debate.