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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Audit Commission - Evaluation Subcommittee 10/6/25
Transcript Highlights:
- green card or asylum status.
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Summary:
The Legislative Audit Commission Evaluation Subcommittee met on October 6, 2025, to choose additional program evaluation topics for the Office of the Legislative Auditor. Deputy Legislative Auditor Jody Mson Rodriguez explained that the commission had previously selected seven topics from an initial list of 11, with background papers already prepared on five of those items, and that the subcommittee was now being asked to select five more topics for background papers before narrowing the full set to four recommendations later in the fall or early spring.
Members discussed several possible topics, especially emergency medical services, non-emergency medical transportation, MinnesotaCare eligibility, child care assistance, medical assistance fraud prevention, and U.S. Bank Stadium. David Kersner of OLA said emergency medical services and non-emergency medical transportation are distinct programs, and noted the EMS topic was evaluated in 2022 while non-emergency medical transportation had not been reviewed since 2011. Auditor Judy Randall said MinnesotaCare eligibility, child care assistance, and medical assistance fraud prevention are better suited to OLA’s financial audit division or special review unit rather than program evaluation, and that financial audits and special reviews do not require Legislative Audit Commission nomination.
On process, Mson Rodriguez said the subcommittee had already met its minimum required selections under the commission’s policy and was free to choose additional topics. The discussion also covered whether to broaden the stadium topic beyond U.S. Bank Stadium; staff said the U.S. Bank financing structure alone would be a major undertaking, but they could help craft a future topic focused on maintenance across multiple facilities. No final vote or motion was taken in the portion of the meeting provided, and the chair indicated the committee would continue nominations and discussion.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-24 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The Florida Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys is currently housed within the Florida
- Moving the council on the social status of black men and boys on. ...outline and statute.
- Shouldn't all of those churches have lost their tax-exempt status because of that?
- But in the absence of us doing anything, we're going to have the status quo.
- And under the status quo, kids are getting hurt. Additional questions.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including guests from Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Clay County, and a moment of silence for Pope Francis. Members then moved to the special order calendar after adopting a motion to reconsider the earlier failed vote on CS/SB 1080, which was temporarily postponed. The chamber also temporarily postponed several bills during the day, including measures on social media use by minors, veterans’ nursing homes, Parkinson’s disease, mental health and substance use disorders, education, educator preparation, benefits for certain officers injured in the line of duty, Brownfields, and school social workers.
The Senate passed a series of bills with little or no opposition, often substituting House companions for Senate bills. These included expedited DNA testing grants for law enforcement; additional aggravating factors in capital felony sentencing; fertility preservation coverage for cancer patients; commuter rail indemnification; disposition of migrant vessels; specialty license plates; an Alzheimer’s and dementia awareness campaign; relocation of the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to Florida Memorial University; charter school changes; registration rules for sexual predators and offenders; assault and battery penalties for utility workers; juvenile justice revisions; reporting of student mental health outcomes; foster home licensure transfers; water access facilities and boating-related funding; Florida Virtual School changes; school readiness program improvements; protections against lewd sexual images of children; age-related criminal offense provisions; tampering with electronic monitoring devices; certified recovery residences; and codification of the FSU Election Law Center. Most of these bills passed overwhelmingly, though the charter school bill and the aggravating factors bill drew more divided votes.
One of the most debated measures was SB 820, codifying the Office of Faith and Community. Senator Polsky offered an amendment to bar political activity by office employees while on duty and using government resources, citing alleged election-related emails and concerns about mixing government and religious influence. Supporters argued the amendment was needed as a guardrail; opponents said existing law already covered the conduct and that the amendment could be confusing or overly broad. The amendment failed 13-23, and the underlying bill passed 27-9 after extended debate about faith, politics, and the office’s role. Another notable debate involved SB 954 on certified recovery residences, where senators emphasized the need for stable housing in addiction recovery and the bill passed unanimously after supportive remarks from members who had personal experience with recovery. The Senate also passed SB 674 on bonuses for county tax collector and property appraiser employees after questions about safeguards and the purpose of the bonuses.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Why it is that they have a specific need for that, rather than that be the status quo or just something
- Those 255,000 are what we would consider to be in the backlog status.
- So about 58% of our applications are in. in that backlog status.
- I mean, what is the status on 1115? Does it impact us in the next budget?
- What's the status of the implementation of the pay rates for kinship caregivers?
Committee:
Senate Finance
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tribal and State Relations Committee Apr 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- There's a system in place that maintains itself, and that's the status quo.
- The Turtle Mountain Band purchases land, turns around and takes it out of trust status.
- The Turtle Mount Band purchases land, turns around and takes it out of trust status.
- . the sale price of that converted into trust status.
- to trust status.
Summary:
The meeting focused heavily on behavioral health and substance use treatment, especially the IMD exclusion and whether North Dakota should pursue a Section 1115 waiver to allow Medicaid reimbursement for services in institutions for mental diseases for adults ages 21 to 64. Turtle Mountain representatives described major local needs, including limited access to care, high syphilis rates, and the importance of timely public health data. They also discussed the tribe’s recovery center, which opened the prior year, now operating five levels of care with 16 beds, and the desire to expand capacity, possibly through an IMD waiver or related policy changes. Committee members also raised related issues such as rural health transformation funding, telehealth, workforce retention, and the need for better coordination between tribal and state public health systems.
A central issue was Turtle Mountain Public Health’s long-running effort to secure a data use agreement with the state so it can receive surveillance data and respond directly to infectious disease cases among tribal members. Speakers said the tribe had a successful COVID-era agreement that allowed faster contact tracing and case management, but that agreement ended with the pandemic. They argued that current delays in sharing data, especially for sexually transmitted infections, leave the tribe unable to respond quickly, while the state and county epidemiology workload is too distant and stretched to be effective. Committee members expressed support and said they would look into the issue, noting that other tribes have secured similar agreements.
The committee also heard a detailed presentation from the National Health Law Program on the IMD exclusion. The presenter explained that federal Medicaid law generally bars payment for care in facilities with more than 16 beds, but that states can use other tools such as state plan amendments, managed care arrangements, telehealth, and community-based services. He said IMD waivers are administratively complex, time-limited, and have shown mixed results in other states, with some gains in residential treatment access but limited evidence of improved overdose outcomes or stronger community-based care. He urged the committee to consider broader continuum-of-care solutions and cautioned that waivers alone are not a cure-all.
No final vote was taken on the bill draft during the portion shown, but the committee discussed the proposal to appropriate $49,000 and one FTE to HHS to pursue an IMD waiver and report back in the next interim. Members also debated the policy rationale for the 16-bed limit, the role of the state versus tribal sovereignty, and whether the bill should move through the Health Care or Human Services committee in the future.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Finance and Taxation Education
Transcript Highlights:
- When we passed that law two years ago, we included in there that the Choose Act status would not impact
- It just says that because of their Choose Act status, they can't be discriminated against as far as their
- When we passed that law two years ago, we included in there that the Choose Act status would not impact
- <00:36:11.920><c> their</c><00:36:12.079><c> choose</c><00:36:12.320><c> act</c><00:36:12.560><c> status
- </c> thing their their choose act status thing their their choose act status isn't<00:36:13.119><c> something
Committee:
Senate Finance and Taxation Education
Keywords:
land bank, land bank authority, local land bank authority, Alabama Land Bank Authority, tax delinquent property, tax sale, tax lien, redemption period, quiet title, blight remediation, vacant property, foreclosure, ad valorem tax, property tax exemption, intergovernmental agreement, county government, municipal government, redevelopment, brownfields, floodplain management
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Public Property - Room 409, 29 January, 2026; 2:30 P.M.
Public Property
Transcript Highlights:
- It also starts a clock with MDH, giving them 90 days to react to the status of the building, if they're
- It also starts a clock with MDH, giving them 90 days to react to the status of the building, if they're
- 00:13:44.079><c> landmark</c> eligible for Mississippi landmark eligible for Mississippi landmark status
- It prohibits alteration or status.
- of the building is, if where the status of the building is, if they're<00:13:56.720><c> going</c><00
Committee:
Joint Public Property
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE Jun 18th, 2026
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
Transcript Highlights:
- a sexual assault can honestly go on, have an idea, go on to the system, and be able to track the status
- I think it really helps them that's been sexually assaulted to know the status of that and where that
- a sexual assault can and honestly go on have an idea go on to the system and be able to track the status
- lot of transparency there I think it really helps them that's been sexually assaulted to know the status
- kits collected, or they would have their children's kits collected, and they would have no idea the status
Committee:
All ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
Summary:
The committee met with representatives from the Arkansas State Crime Lab for what members said was likely the first appearance by the lab before this committee. Lab officials gave an overview of the new crime lab facility now under construction, saying it is on schedule, under budget, and expected to be completed by the end of July next year, with phased move-in beginning around August 1. They explained that the current building is over 40 years old and overcrowded, with caseloads having doubled over the past 20 years, and said the new facility will improve workflow, add morgue capacity, and allow new technologies and equipment to be brought online.
Members asked about staffing and recruitment, and the lab said recent pay changes and legislative support have made Arkansas more competitive for forensic specialists and medical examiners. Officials said vacancies have been reduced, a new deputy chief medical examiner has been hired, two more medical examiners are starting in August, and a new fellowship program has already attracted applicants. They also said the lab is prepared for the staffing needs of the new facility and that training periods remain long for many analyst positions.
The discussion also covered rapid DNA, CODIS, sexual assault kit processing, genetic genealogy, and overdose-related data sharing. The lab said rapid DNA is in final testing with pilot agencies in Faulkner and Saline counties and could go live by the end of July, which would make Arkansas among the first states to do so. Officials described CODIS as a key investigative tool, said DNA profiles are entered automatically when they qualify, and reported that the sexual assault kit backlog has been cleared with the lab now maintaining a 60-day turnaround. They also confirmed Arkansas uses a kit-tracking system, works with private labs such as Othram and Bode for genetic genealogy, and is developing an overdose dashboard to share toxicology and overdose data with public health and law enforcement partners. Members praised the lab’s progress and the committee adjourned after announcing an August site visit to Lake Conway and the dam project.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE Jun 18th, 2026
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
Transcript Highlights:
- a sexual assault can honestly go on, have an idea, go on to the system, and be able to track the status
- I think it really helps them that's been sexually assaulted to know the status of that and where that
- a sexual assault can and honestly go on have an idea go on to the system and be able to track the status
- lot of transparency there I think it really helps them that's been sexually assaulted to know the status
- kits collected, or they would have their children’s kits collected, and they would have no idea the status
Committee:
All ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
Summary:
The committee met with representatives from the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an update on operations, staffing, technology, and major projects. Crime lab officials said the new facility is on schedule and under budget, with completion expected at the end of July next year and phased move-in beginning around August 1. They described the current building as overcrowded and outdated, and said the new lab will expand workspace, improve workflow, double morgue autopsy tables, and allow new technologies such as 3D firearms microscopy, improved drug testing for emerging synthetic drugs, and enhanced fingerprint visualization. Officials also said the lab has been able to hire positions tied to the 2023 overdose-autopsy law and that recruitment for medical examiners and fellows has improved, including two new medical examiners starting in August and a successful new fellowship program.
Members asked about rapid DNA, CODIS, forensic genealogy, sexual assault kit backlogs, and staffing. The lab said rapid DNA is in final testing with Faulkner and Saline counties and could go live by the end of July, which would make Arkansas one of the first states to do so. Officials explained that CODIS is used routinely, with DNA profiles from qualifying cases uploaded automatically and audited regularly, and cited it as a key investigative tool. On forensic genealogy, they said Arkansas currently relies on private labs such as Othram, Bode, and DNA Labs International, and is exploring whether to bring that capability in-house in the future. They reported that the sexual assault kit backlog from around 2016 has been cleared and that the lab is now meeting the statutory 60-day turnaround time, with kits tracked through a barcode-based system for transparency.
The committee also discussed overdose data and confidentiality. The lab said a new overdose dashboard is being developed with the Office of State Technology and should go live by the end of the year, using newly available reporting data to help public health and law enforcement target prevention efforts. Members praised a recent law allowing toxicology information to be shared with the state drug director and another law protecting coroner records and toxicology reports from public release during criminal investigations; lab officials said both changes have been very helpful. The meeting ended with no votes or formal actions on the crime lab items, and the chair announced an August site visit to the Lake Conway dam project.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE Jun 18th, 2026
ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
Transcript Highlights:
- a sexual assault can honestly go on, have an idea, go on to the system, and be able to track the status
- I think it really helps them that's been sexually assaulted to know the status of that and where that
- a sexual assault can and honestly go on have an idea go on to the system and be able to track the status
- lot of transparency there I think it really helps them that's been sexually assaulted to know the status
- kits collected, or they would have their children's kits collected, and they would have no idea the status
Committee:
All ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING Mar 13th, 2026
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING
Transcript Highlights:
- The committee also updated the status on the December 31st, 2022, delinquent private water and sewer
- The committee also updated the status on the December 31st, 2022, delinquent private water and sewer
- The committee also updated the status of the December 31st, 2023, delinquent private water and sewer
- prosecutor's office as well as State Police and our own Police Department, and I believe that the status
- prosecutor's office as well as State Police and our own Police Department, and I believe that the status
Committee:
All LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING
Summary:
The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee approved the February 13 minutes and then heard several committee reports. The executive committee report noted that audit and special reports were scheduled for presentation, one requested report remained outstanding, and staff was asked to review selected Benton County circuit court case transfers. The committee also received and adopted reports from the counties and municipalities committee, the education committee, and the state agencies committee. Those reports covered delinquent private water and sewer audits, education audit reports, and state agency findings such as duplicate vendor payments, collateral issues, record-keeping problems, and vehicle log deficiencies. In each case, the committee voted to file or adopt the reports, with some reports deferred for follow-up or for officials to appear at a later meeting.
A major portion of the meeting focused on the City of Pine Bluff’s 2024 financial audit. Auditors said the city received a clean opinion overall, but management letter findings identified serious issues in the mayor’s office, Parks and Recreation, and the finance department. The Parks and Recreation finding involved $179,629 in manual receipts that could not be traced to city deposits, missing receipts from several facilities, $48,415 in unallowable purchases, $13,000 in questionable purchases, altered invoices, unapproved vendors, and missing equipment; those matters were referred to the prosecuting attorney, attorney general, Governmental Bonding Board, and Arkansas State Police. The finance finding cited weak cash-receipting and bank-reconciliation procedures and late or missing deposits.
City officials, including the mayor, finance director, and parks director, testified that the problems predated the current administration and said they had taken corrective steps. They described hiring a forensic audit firm, creating or updating standard operating procedures, improving receipting and deposit processes, adding procurement oversight, and moving Parks and Recreation to electronic or system-based receipting. Committee members questioned the officials about oversight, nonprofit relationships, and whether theft or system failures were to blame. After discussion, the committee voted to file the Pine Bluff report. The next meeting was announced for June 4-5, 2026.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- However, this status has not been codified into law.
- Unclassified employee status provides that current mansion authority employees are entitled to payment
- However, this status has not been codified into law.
- Unclassified employee status provides that current mansion authority employees are entitled to payment
- "Unclassified employee status provides that current mansion authority employees are entitled to payment
Bills:
HB44 , HB400 , HB444 , HB487 , SB249 , SB252 , SB58 , HB44 , HB400 , HB444 , HB487 , SB249 , SB252 , SB58
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
Keywords:
teachers retirement, credit purchase, St. Clair County, DAY Program, pension reform, dental insurance, benefit rollover, healthcare, insurance policy, annual maximum, HB444, vaccines, vaccine exemption, religious exemption, religious liberty, private school, church school, faith-based school, parochial school, school immunization
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- proposed legislation before you, RS 33182, will require that Idaho employers verify legal immigration status
- prohibit the employment of unauthorized workers or aliens, require verification of legal employment status
- asked for the names in advance, and also asked for the names of any companies trying to achieve that status
- they're, in addition to any of the companies that you're aware of that are trying to achieve that status
- in two other states, although because I've practiced in Idaho, I've put those licenses on inactive status
Committee:
House Business
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Facilities Review Subcommittee Jul 10th, 2025
Facilities Review Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- For the sake of the public watching at home, what is the status of the Executive Office Building?
- I don't know the status of that; I would have to turn to either Shauna or Senator Wirth if you know anything
- about the status of it.
- I am wondering, Madam Chair and Director Casper, if you could find— Yeah, what is the status of the EOB
- question, which I think we can find an answer to in terms of what was put into House Bill 2, what the status
Committee:
House Facilities Review Subcommittee
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 30th, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- With the tax-exempt status, they'd be able to buy these goods at wholesale price. Okay.
- Chair, that you asked earlier, they have had federal exemption status for more than...
- They have had federal exemption status for more than the last three years.
- This zoo was initially given tax-free status in 2018, but that status expired in September of 2022.
Committee:
House Ways and Means Education
Keywords:
entertainment, film, music, production incentives, Alabama Film Office, tax rebates, media industry, economic development, Baptist convention, tax exemption, sales and use tax, Alabama, nonprofit, HB203, High Socks for Hope, nonprofit tax exemption, sales tax, use tax, state tax exemption, local option tax exemption
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Rules Mar 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- a lot of duty a lot like I encourage you if you don't realize how much the time he spends in duty status
- You're recognized to explain the bill on tat One Florida statues. >> Sb 36 is the Adoption Act which
- Is reported favorably. >> Now we're going to take up Tab. 2 SB 38 of Florida statues by Senator Passadomo
- We're not going to take up Tab. 3 SB 40 but one Florida statues, President Passadomo.
- We're not to take up tab for SB. 42 Florida statues by President Saddam for them to do.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And, um, I know we talked about Mary's statue in D.C. and now today your Eleanor Roosevelt line.
- statue to the best of my knowledge.
- And, um, I know we talked about Mary's statue in D.C. and now today your Eleanor Roosevelt line.
- statue to the best of my knowledge.
- DC is me out that her statue in DC is alongside<01:32:22.400><c> of</c><01:32:22.560><c> her</c><01:
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/14/26 - Part 1
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Yesterday, when I asked about the status of the bill, you said that it would be released at the appropriate
- ><00:14:03.720><c> asked</c><00:14:04.000><c> about</c><00:14:04.240><c> the</c><00:14:04.320><c> status
- </c> Yesterday, when I asked about the status Yesterday, when I asked about the status of<00:14:04.720
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-04-28 (12:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- promoting freedom over fear; and whereas no Floridians should face discrimination based on mRNA vaccine status
- family in Florida possesses the fundamental right to parental informed consent related to the vaccine status
- And whereas no Floridians should face discrimination based on the MRNA vaccine status.
- family in Florida possesses the fundamental right to parental informed consent related to the vaccine status
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Status in this system is largely inherited. There's no clear objective pathway for upward mobility.
- We need a single, uniform national framework for NIL, revenue sharing, and eligibility status to preempt
- We need a single uniform national framework for NIL, revenue sharing, and eligibility status to preempt
- property holder who provides access for a polling location, it doesn't change their tax exemption status
Committee:
House State Affairs
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: Lt. Governor Dan PatrickRegarding the gubernatorial veto of Senate Bill 3 (89-R), and issues relating to the upcoming special session. Jun 23rd, 2025
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- He talks about basically that we have to leave the status quo where it is.
- If we don't pass a bill, if we don't pass a bill, that regulates hemp and marijuana, then the status
- So if we don't pass a bill, if we don't pass a bill, the status quo continues.
- If we do nothing, the status quo continues for the next 2.5 years, 3 years to the next session until