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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight REVISED: SB1304 - Added Apr 15th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Health and Human Services Oversight

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  • Alliance Group that is seeking to get some federal funding that will look more closely at the diagnosis
  • So I noticed that it's subject to availability of funding.
  • Should there not be funding for this, would passing this also provide a framework for when there is so
  • There's a national organization that's looking at this and attempting to draw down some federal funds
  • So, this is just hoping to draw down the funds.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Apr 30th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • Members, this is, uh, Representative Gomez's bill regarding economic development at the border.
  • I'm a director of business development at SmartWires.
  • Uh, Heimdahl is a manufacturers, uh, uh, and develops the dynamic line ratings technologies that are
  • It just asks developers to be good neighbors.
  • These standards were developed specifically to address the risk of ESS with modern technology in real
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 30th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • That we're dealing with energy and why these other funds are available.
  • When you all last session passed the Texas Energy. fund.
  • The Texas Energy Fund needs to have a HCR that would allow us to use these funds for these projects.
  • And the funding that's gone into them has been amazing.
  • They are fully federally funded in this status.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 30th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • Members, this is Representative Gama's bill regarding economic development at the border.
  • There are going to be other economic development events like that with other people all over Texas.
  • It doesn't stop progress; it just asks developers to be good neighbors.
  • The geothermal energy industry has developed a wonderful new type of electric energy storage.
  • You can't develop the minerals.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Healthcare

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  • The bill requires that the Alabama Department of Public Health is required to develop educational programs
  • The bill requires the development of educational materials about postpartum depression, which would be
  • And we put the higher percentage of this tax to ABC and then to the general fund and other...
  • ABC and then to the general fund and other AEI as well. Thank you.
TX
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  • Self-funded plans can save 50-80%.
  • I have a quick question on the self-funding part in the committee's substitute.
  • plans are not required to help fund the program, correct?
  • We just didn't fund it. That's just, that's what Senator Hancock said.
  • Have we funded it? No.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025

Public Health

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  • its development.
  • We need funding.
  • Texas is facing a health care workforce crisis.
  • They did not fund mental health.
  • God forbid one of them should develop cancer.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Jan 21st, 2026

State Governmental Affairs

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  • We're a fee-based agency, a middle-column agency, not a general fund agency.
  • <00:11:06.000> So<00:11:06.160> we<00:11:06.720> collect not a general fund
  • So we collect not a general fund agency.
  • :11:42.720> of<00:11:42.959> years<00:11:43.120> ago<00:11:44.240> the fund
  • A couple of years ago the fund.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Apr 28th, 2025

Ways & Means

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  • House Bill 5169 addresses challenges tied to the use of Chapter 380 Economic Development Agreements,
  • It simply reclassified where the sales were reported, pulling funds away from the community that actually
  • growing North Texas community that, like so many others, relies on local sales tax revenue. ...to fund
  • Prosper, meanwhile, lost out on a funding stream we had.
  • We do not need a tax on businesses to fund public services like this.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Public Education

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  • We've talked about school funding. Well, you've got a school funding crisis.
  • And since school funding is tied to student attendance.
  • That policy encouraged timely payments and kept more local funds circulating locally.
  • Increased funding for bilingual education.
  • Now, the funding and the expenses remain, but at least we would have access to some of the funding intended
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Public Education

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  • Members, House Bill 2189 by Representative Howard is in response to ...to our growing health care workforce
  • the governor charged the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board with creating the Health Care Workforce
  • , those being directing TEA, the Higher Education Coordinating Board, and the Texas Workforce Commission
  • House Bill 2310 by Ordaz, relating to developing a strategic plan for the improvement and expansion of
  • lays out as pending business House Bill 3099 by Gerdes relating to adult high school charter program funding
OK
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  • Stimulating economic development through education, research, and extension.
  • Let's get unlimited funds, so no, I'm just joking.
  • You passed the bill to allow us to use the legacy fund for our agronomy research.
  • as economic development.
  • So one of my concerns along with the bond is that a few years ago we passed Redbud funding.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Apr 7, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

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  • State Health Planning and Development State Health Planning and Development Agency<00:46:51.720>
  • We want to also add language to roll any remaining funds in that special fund being repealed into this
  • . fund. fund.
  • remaining funds in that special fund remaining funds in that special fund being<01:47:16.520>
  • fund that's being established. fund that's being established.
Summary: The committee heard several resolutions and one bill focused on energy reliability, utility infrastructure, insurance, tenant rights, and home health licensing. On the energy side, members heard HCR 203/HR 193 on a status update for the Hawaii Electric Reliability Administrator, HCR 204/HR 194 on a comprehensive PUC analysis of cost reduction and risk, and HCR 202/HR 192 creating a legislative task force on future energy pathways. Testimony on the energy measures was generally supportive from the PUC, DCCA’s Division of Consumer Advocacy, the Hawaii State Energy Office, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, with OHA urging that equity, native Hawaiian impacts, and public trust resources be considered alongside cost savings. The committee also heard HCR 125/HR 117 on coordinating with utilities to address aging utility poles and lines along Farrington Highway and other high-risk corridors; Hawaiian Electric supported the measure, Hawaiian Telcom and Charter Spectrum said much of the work is already underway and questioned whether the resolution was necessary, and committee questioning focused on existing double-pole tracking and the role of DOT and the PUC. The committee then took up HCR 137/HR 129 on timely reimbursement of health care claims under the clean claims statute. The DCCA Insurance Division and the Hawaii Insurers Council opposed the measure as drafted, saying it could be read to require payment beyond policy limits and could raise premiums or reduce market participation. United Policyholders supported the measure, arguing it would simply give policyholders more time to collect benefits they already purchased, and clarified that it was not intended to increase coverage beyond policy limits. The committee later amended the resolution to direct the DCCA Insurance Division to prioritize investigation and enforcement of clean claims complaints. In the decision meeting, the committee recommended and adopted passage of HCR 203/HR 193 as is, HCR 204/HR 194 with an amendment removing the eighth whereas clause, HCR 202/HR 192 with an amendment adding a committee representative to the task force, HCR 125/HR 117 as is, and HCR 137/HR 129 with amendments. The committee also heard SB 2960 SC1 on property insurance, which would extend the time policyholders have after a declared disaster to document replacement-cost claims. The Insurance Division and Hawaii Insurers Council opposed it, warning it could force coverage beyond policy limits and increase premiums, while United Policyholders supported it and said it would help disaster survivors recover benefits they already paid for; members questioned whether similar laws in other states had caused premium spikes and clarified that the bill was not intended to exceed policy limits. The committee also heard SB 2347 SD1 on multilingual tenant-rights notices, with OHA, Hawaii Appleseed, and others supporting the bill but urging restoration of language requiring landlords to directly provide the notice at lease signing. Finally, SB 2272 SD1 HD1 on home health licensing drew support from the Department of Health, SHPDA, and the Health Care Association of Hawaii, with the association requesting an effective date amendment; testimony explained that the bill would allow state licensing compliance to be demonstrated through CMS-approved accreditation or certification surveys, potentially reducing duplication and freeing state resources.
OK
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  • ensure Oklahomans can flourish and safe, healthy, and affordable homes while helping communities develop
  • whereas through collaboration among organizations, finance professionals, service providers, economic development