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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 29th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

NM
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 17th, 2026 at 12:07 pm

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

NM
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 14th, 2026 at 01:49 pm

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • If they go out of state, that coverage may not be covered, and it's an additional cost and barrier to
Bills: HB145, HB164, HR1, HB20, HB65, HB66, HB80, HB306, SB29, SB37, HB99, HB206, HB213, HB270, SB104, SB193, HB38, HB254, HB256, SB58, SB64, HJM1, HM7, HM17, HM4, HM22, HM23, HM24, HM26, HM2, HM16, HM32, HM13, HM47, HM20, HM51, HM1, HM31, HM35, HM36, HM46, HM53, HM54, HM39, HM29, HM43, HM59, HM11, HM14, HM21, HM34, HM50, HB253
Keywords: high-wage jobs, tax credit, job creation, New Mexico, economic development, lobbying, transparency, public records, government oversight, accountability, House Resolution 1, HR1, House investigatory subcommittee, special committee, legislative investigation, subpoena power, public corruption, criminal activity, Zorro ranch, Santa Fe County
US
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, September 4, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • When they are peaceful and they people protest in a nonviolent way, you don't get as much coverage as
  • as you do you don't get as much coverage as you do if<04:17:42.800> you<04:17:43.359> do
  • Very<04:18:13.840> little<04:18:14.080> coverage.
  • <04:18:15.520> very<04:18:15.920> little Very little coverage.
  • The Edmund Pettus Bridge and Bloody Sunday. coverage coverage as<04:18:32.239> the<04:18:32.399
Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, September 4, 2025, 1012, house, all
US
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, March 6, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • While all of us in Northeast Wisconsin will miss Bill's news coverage, thankfully we will still get to
  • housing, and nutrition assistance, in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, health coverage
  • health coverage under the state's<00:17:14.400> medic<00:17:14.720> health<00:17:15.039
  • budget proposal, overwhelmingly on party lines, that Republicans supported cuts the very health coverage
  • for those that in only health coverage for those that in only use<02:21:28.880> it<02:21:29.000
Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, March 6, 2025, 1012, house, all
MA
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Informal House Session 55 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Massachusetts House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Lon Jr. for legislation to establish contract and coverage standards for health care worker platforms
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several committee reports and procedural motions. Members adopted a resolution designating August 8 and 9, 2026, as a sales tax holiday, concurred with the Senate on a sick leave bank petition for Edward Suber of the Department of Youth Services, and suspended Joint Rule 12 to allow two additional petitions to move forward: one concerning contract and coverage standards for health care worker platforms and another allowing firefighters of the Adams Fire District to continue serving past age 65. The House also received and approved a scheduling report for several bills, including two additional sick leave bank measures and a bill on firefighter and police officer age requirements. The chamber then moved through third-reading and engrossment actions on several bills. It passed Senate Bill 2574, providing accidental death benefits for the surviving spouse of a former Boston firefighter, and Senate Bill 2967, addressing ownership and maintenance of the Town Line Brook and Lindenbrook culverts and dams. The House also enacted House Bill 5392, authorizing the town of North Attleborough to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption. Later, it passed to engrossment House Bill 4716, amending the charter of the city of Pittsfield, and House Bill 5358, authorizing the City of Newton to place municipal charge liens for unpaid local charges or fines. The House observed a moment of silent tribute for Michael P. Higgins of Woburn, recognizing his long service to the community, local courts, politics, and addiction awareness efforts. The session concluded with adoption of an order to meet again Monday at 11:00 a.m., followed by adjournment to an informal session at that time.
MA
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Informal House Session 74 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am

Massachusetts House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Stanley relative to Medicare coverage for end-stage renal disease to the Committee on Health Care Financing
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The House received a gubernatorial message recommending legislation on the terms of certain Commonwealth bonds, which was referred to the Committee on Bonding, Expenditures and Capital Assets. The Committee on Rules also reported a congratulatory resolution for Jason X. Rosala’s Eagle Scout achievement, which was adopted after suspension of the rules. In addition, the House adopted an order extending the Labor and Workforce Development Committee’s reporting deadline to December 3, 2025, and suspended Joint Rule 12 to send several petitions to committee, including matters on Medicare coverage for end-stage renal disease, two sick leave bank proposals, and transportation of certain loads. The House then took up a slate of bills for second and third reading, including measures on retail sales, innovation and entrepreneurship, charity alcohol auctions, water flow in the Central Plymouth County Water District, a Wellfleet food pantry lease, the Richmond Free Public Library, procurement regulations for Cambridge and the Commonwealth, and charter changes for Provincetown. All were ordered to a third reading. Later, the House passed to be engrossed House Bill 3912 to increase the Marblehead Board of Health from three to five members, House Bill 4323 establishing a sick leave bank for a State Police employee, House Bill 4324 establishing a sick leave bank for an Appellate Tax Board employee, and House Bill 4263 establishing a charter for the city of Medford. The House also adopted an order from Representative Mariano setting the next meeting for Monday at 11:00 a.m. After that, Representative Soder moved adjournment, and the House adjourned to meet Monday next at 11 a.m. in an informal session.
FL
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

January 21, 2026 - 10:00 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • CLERGY AND TO REVEAL THINGS THEY MAY NOT TO FAMILY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT SO THIS TO ME IS ADDITIONAL COVERAGE
NY
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York State Senate Session - 06/03/2026

New York Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • IMPORTANT PHYSICAL PROCESS What this bill will do is require Medicaid to automatically authorize coverage
  • Currently in New York, Medicaid provides up to $50 in coverage for blood pressure cuffs and devices,
  • In addition to the problems with the coverage requirement, it is also very concerning that none of the
  • IN ADDITION TO THE PROBLEMS, FOR COVERAGE REQUIREMENT, IT IS ALSO VERY CONCERNING THAT NONE OF THE DEVICES
  • It will require Medicaid to automatically authorize coverage for blood pressure monitors, without a prescription
Keywords: 993, senate, all
Summary: The Senate convened, approved the journal, and then moved through a large number of motions to discharge bills from committees and substitute identical Senate bills for third reading. The chamber also received and accepted a Finance Committee report on nominations for Kathleen Mosier as Commissioner of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Terrence O’Leary as Commissioner of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, and John Kagia as Executive Director of the Office of Cannabis Management. All three nominees were confirmed, with Mosier and O’Leary confirmed unanimously and Kagia confirmed 57-1, with Senator Walczyk voting no. The Senate adopted previously approved resolutions recognizing June 2026 as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month and mourning the death of Susan Irene Wright of Harlem. Senators Brisport and Bottcher spoke at length in support of Pride Month, emphasizing LGBTQ+ history, resilience, and ongoing threats to the trans community. On the Susan Wright resolution, Senators Cleare, Bailey, and Bottcher praised her community leadership, philanthropy, and family legacy, and Assembly Member Jordan Wright was recognized in the chamber. The body then considered and passed many bills on the calendar, including measures on insurance, environmental conservation, public health, education, business law, labor, social services, highway law, and local tax exemptions. Several bills drew brief explanations of vote, including a measure to end higher insurance premiums for widows, a bill to prohibit correctional facilities from denying visitation because of menstrual products or IUDs, and a Medicaid-related bill to expand access to blood pressure monitors for pregnant people. Most bills passed with broad support, though some had notable opposition from a small group of senators. Late in the session, the Senate took up a proposed constitutional amendment on redistricting. Senator Stewart-Cousins sponsored the measure, and Senator Walczyk questioned it extensively, arguing voters had previously approved an independent redistricting process and objecting to changes that would remove the Legislature’s two-thirds map-approval requirement and alter the commission’s role. The sponsor said the changes were needed in response to aggressive partisan redistricting in other states and would still require voter ratification in future sessions. The transcript ends during that debate, with no final vote on the amendment shown.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 2/23/26

Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • early intervention because insurance companies in the past routinely placed caps on their share of coverage
  • early intervention because insurance companies in the past routinely placed caps on their share of coverage
  • of the pandemic came from lack of direct site visits and oversight by the Department of Human... coverage
  • and imposed controls over the coverage and imposed controls over the kinds<01:09:13.759> of<01
  • Private and self-insured may reconsider the scope of autism coverage and increase public doubt about
Bills: HF3542
Keywords: data privacy, investigative data, welfare system, public funds, transparency, 1183, house
FL
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Senate in Session Apr 9th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 756, a bill to be entitled an act relating to health insurance coverage
  • Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 756, a bill to be entitled an act relating to health insurance coverage
  • A current statute related to mandated insurance and managed care coverage of services for persons diagnosed
  • This bill repeals the diagnosis age of eight years old and also repeals the age cap for mandated coverage
  • Is that something that, is that coverage that's available at a state capital complex for insurance?
Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, doctor and guest introductions, and then took up Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, on mental health. Senator Bradley described the bill as a major criminal justice and behavioral health reform measure that would expand pretrial mental health diversion, strengthen treatment-based probation conditions, broaden grant uses for mental health and substance abuse programs, add Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, require certain DOC mental health evaluations, and create a Florida Behavioral Health Data Repository. Senators from both parties spoke in strong support, emphasizing treatment over incarceration, public safety, data collection, and the Murphy family’s role in advancing the bill. The Senate passed the bill 37-0 and then approved 37 co-sponsors. The chamber then received the Senate’s 2025-26 General Appropriations Bill, SB 2500, with Chair Hooper outlining a $117.4 billion budget that he said reduces spending, preserves reserves, and includes major investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and reporting requirements. Committee chairs summarized their portions: K-12 funding at $34.7 billion with increases for FEFP, scholarships, VPK, school hardening, and school safety; higher education at $11.5 billion with workforce, nursing, reading, autism, and student aid investments; health and human services with a $1.8 billion increase for Medicaid, mental health, opioid response, disability services, and veterans programs; criminal and civil justice at $7.6 billion for corrections, juvenile justice, law enforcement, courts, and judgeships; transportation/tourism/economic development at about $18 billion including roads, housing, Visit Florida, and cultural grants; and agriculture/environment/general government with major Everglades, water quality, citrus, food bank, and agency IT funding. Members then questioned several budget items, especially education funding formulas, the shift of scholarship dollars below the line, the impact on public school districts, AP/IB and other accelerated program funding, the APD wait list, opioid settlement spending, arts grants, and the My Safe Florida Home and condo pilot programs. Chairs generally said scholarship and accelerated-program dollars were being restructured for transparency and flexibility rather than cut, that school districts would still receive funding based on enrollment, and that APD and other human services issues would continue to be worked out in conference. The budget discussion concluded with remarks praising staff and noting a 4% across-the-board pay raise for state employees and targeted increases for law enforcement and firefighters, followed by a recognition for FAMU Day at the Capitol.
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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • health plans is if there are<00:30:17.519> gaps<00:30:17.799> in<00:30:18.039> coverage
  • if<00:30:19.279> we<00:30:19.399> need<00:30:19.559> to are gaps in coverage
  • right if we need to are gaps in coverage right if we need to allocate<00:30:20.159> $9<00:30:
  • 30:21.679> supplement allocate $9 million to supplement allocate $9 million to supplement coverage
  • through the health plans is coverage through the health plans is there<00:30:23.960> something
Bills: HF2367, HF2319, HF2523, HF1742, HF671, HF2331, HF2722, HF2406, HF1674
Keywords: HF2367, Community First Services and Supports, CFSS, personal care assistance, PCA, consumer-directed community supports, CDCS, home and community-based services, HCBS, direct support professionals, direct care workers, caregivers, support workers, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa, collective bargaining agreement, retention stipend, health care cost stipend, training stipend, orientation program, retirement trust
NH
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Ways and Means (02/12/2025)

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • regulations concerning height, structures, yard sizes, lot sizes, setbacks, open space, building coverage
  • regulations concerning height, structures, yard sizes, lot sizes, setbacks, open space, building coverage
  • regulations concerning height, structures, yard sizes, lot sizes, setbacks, open space, building coverage
  • 44:49.800> open<00:44:50.119> space<00:44:50.640> building<00:44:51.119> coverage
  • setbacks open space building coverage setbacks open space building coverage requirements<00:44:52.119
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Finance (Part II) Jan 29th, 2025

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • This coverage includes all state employees and their families, along with all of higher education, except
  • you're doing on the eight percent premium increases, so that would only be seen on the dependent coverage
  • and for what you're doing on the 8% premium increases so that would only be seen on the dependent coverage
  • You passed legislation last session that provided coverage for biomarker testing.
  • You passed legislation last session that provided coverage for biomarker testing.
Bills: SB1, SB 1
Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all
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ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Care Committee Jul 15th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • But as far as insurance coverage goes, like I said, it is now covered by Medicaid.
  • There was news coverage that you can see here, and I won't read through these, but we get notes from
  • There was news coverage that you can see here, and I won't read through these, but we get notes from
  • expansion population to a fee-for-schedule situation where they would be included in, with dental coverage
Summary: The committee first approved the previous meeting minutes and then heard a detailed annual report from Dr. Thomas Arnold, chair of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee, on maternal mortality trends and policy issues. He explained the committee’s review process, confidentiality protections, and national and North Dakota data showing that most maternal deaths are preventable and that mental health conditions, substance use, cardiovascular issues, infection, hemorrhage, and embolism are the leading causes. Members asked about suicide, domestic violence, midwife training, home births, and whether pregnancy testing at death scenes should be expanded; Dr. Arnold said better coroner education, more investigation of unexplained deaths, and possible post-mortem pregnancy testing could improve case identification, especially in rural areas. He also noted that deaths often occur well after 42 days postpartum and that mental health-related deaths remain a major concern. The committee then heard from State Fire Marshal Dr. Matthew Clark on cigarette reduced-ignition-propensity standards and related fire prevention issues. He recommended updating the state’s cigarette propensity law to current national standards and also raised a separate recommendation to require fast-breakaway oxygen tubing for home oxygen users, citing fatal fires linked to smoking around oxygen. Members asked about implementation, cost, insurance coverage, and whether the standards apply in tribal communities; Dr. Clark said he would provide follow-up information and was willing to help with any legislation, but no agency bill had yet been planned. Next, Christine Greff of the Department of Health and Human Services reported on the North Dakota Stroke System of Care. She described the statewide network of stroke-ready hospitals, registry-based quality improvement, and performance data showing continued improvement in stroke recognition, imaging, thrombolytic treatment, transfers, and EMS pre-notification. She highlighted new quality measures for inter-facility transfers and intracerebral hemorrhage care, and said the system remains strong but depends on continued legislative and hospital support. Committee members asked about participation by the VA hospital and were encouraged to consider outreach to include it more fully in the stroke system. Finally, the committee began a presentation on prior authorization and non-opioid pain treatment from Taha Khan of Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He argued that prior authorization can delay access to non-opioid acute pain medications, especially in the 24- to 72-hour post-discharge window when pain is most severe, and said delays can push patients toward opioids. He emphasized that prior authorization has a role in utilization management but should not create barriers in acute pain care, and he noted that current use of the company’s non-opioid product remains very low. The discussion was still underway when the transcript ended.
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MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Transcript Highlights:
  • People will die if we reduce health insurance coverage in this state.
  • whole programs, reduce provider rate reimbursements, or make it harder to qualify for MassHealth coverage—more
  • that will increase dramatically as soon as we cut the state's revenue and kill our interest rate coverage
  • depend on the kind of state and federal housing assistance, utility payment assistance, health care coverage
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions held a public hearing on two proposed ballot initiatives: one to reduce the state personal income tax rate from 5% to 4% over three years, and another to revise the state’s tax collection cap/62F process so it would be based on prior-year collections plus wage growth and include surtax revenue. The committee chair and House co-chair outlined the hearing process, and the first witness was Doug Howgate of the Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation, who testified as the committee’s subject-matter expert on both measures. He said the income tax proposal would lower taxes broadly but would reduce state revenue by about $5.4 billion when fully implemented, with an estimated $800 million hit in FY27, and he discussed possible effects on competitiveness, taxpayer savings, and public finances. On the 62F proposal, he said the revised cap would make refunds more likely, could have produced several large refunds in recent years, and would reduce stabilization fund deposits and constrain recovery after recessions. Committee members questioned Howgate about competitiveness, outmigration, prior tax ballot measures, spending growth, MassHealth, and the interaction between the income tax and surtax. He emphasized that taxes are only one part of the state’s overall competitiveness and that housing, public services, and other factors also matter. He also noted that the surtax is constitutionally restricted but can still support ongoing spending choices. After his testimony, the committee moved to the proponents’ panel. Proponents of both initiatives, including representatives from Taxpayers for an Affordable Massachusetts, the National Federation of Independent Business, Pioneer Institute, and the Mass Opportunity Alliance, argued that the measures would improve affordability, help retain residents and businesses, and support job growth. They cited polling support, outmigration, small-business reinvestment, and comparisons to lower-tax states such as North Carolina. Their economist, Rebecca Paxton, said her model showed smaller revenue losses than critics claim and projected that the revised revenue cap would not create additional annual revenue losses while producing more regular taxpayer refunds. Committee members pressed the panel on competitiveness, prior ballot initiative implementation, and whether the measures would actually address broader affordability pressures; the hearing ended with the committee continuing to take questions from the proponents.
NH
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Finance (05/05/2026)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The department reviews coverage, financial projections, operational plans, and risk assumptions to ensure
  • The<00:07:50.000> department<00:07:50.440> reviews<00:07:50.920> coverage, The department
  • reviews coverage, The department reviews coverage, financial<00:07:52.080> projections,<00:07
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
NH
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Finance (04/13/2026)

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • expensive, the 10-plus kids over the 10-plus multipliers, because every time when you have 100% coverage
  • c><00:35:24.640> you<00:35:25.359> have<00:35:26.160> 100%<00:35:27.119> coverage
  • <00:35:27.520> and time when you have 100% coverage and time when you have 100% coverage and
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session 3/23/26 - Part 2

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • benefits for these Minnesotans from a very rarely utilized and woefully inadequate $250 benefit to coverage
  • 48.240> to and woefully inadequate $250 benefit to and woefully inadequate $250 benefit to coverage
  • 48.920> the<00:17:49.040> umbrella<00:17:49.480> of<00:17:49.600> the coverage
  • under the umbrella of the coverage under the umbrella of the Minnesota<00:17:50.240> GI<00:17
Keywords: 1183, house
KY
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Day 50 (3-19-26)

Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • prohibits the Department for Medicaid Services and any MCO with which they contract from providing coverage
  • 17.200> contract<00:46:18.400> from<00:46:18.600> providing<00:46:19.080> coverage
  • they contract from providing coverage they contract from providing coverage for<00:46:19.880>
Keywords: 958, all