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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Pro Forma Floor Session Feb 9th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 6351 by Senator referred to Committee on Ways and Means. Senator Riccelli.
  • First order of business: Reports of standing committees. The Secretary will read.
  • I move that the measures on this evening's reports of standing committees be referred to the committees
  • the committees as designated.
  • to the committees as designated.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Pro Forma Floor Session Feb 9th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I move that the measures on this evening's reports of standing committees be referred to the committees
  • I move that the measures on the reports of standing committees be referred to the committees as designated
  • committees as designated.
  • the committees as designated.
  • to the committees as designated.
Summary: The Senate briefly convened to approve the previous day’s journal, then moved through the fifth order for introduction and first reading of bills. Senate Bill 6351 was introduced and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. The chamber then went at ease in anticipation of fiscal cutoff committee report activity later in the day. When the Senate reconvened, it took up reports of standing committees and supplemental standing committee reports. Substitute Senate Bill 5292, concerning family and medical leave rates, and engrossed substitute House Bill/Senate Bill 5466 were both reported and referred to the Committee on Rules. The referrals were approved without objection. No substantive debate or votes on the bills occurred in this transcript beyond the referral motions. The Senate adjourned at the end of the session until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

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

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, your Judiciary Committee has referred House Bill 195 to the Health and Human Services Committee
  • Speaker, your Judiciary Committee has referred House Bill 279 to the Health and Human Services Committee
  • I move that House Health and Human Services Committee substitute for House Bill 66 do now pass.
  • I move that House Health and Human Services Committee Substitute for House Bill 38 do now pass.
  • House Health and Human Services Committee Substitute for House Bill 65 as amended. Mr.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 14th, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, your Judiciary Committee to whom has been referred House Health and Human Services Committee
  • Adoption of a favorable committee report for House Health and Human Services Committee substitute for
  • Speaker, your Judiciary Committee to him has been referred to Health, Health and Human Services Committee
  • Adoption of a favorable committee report for House, Health and Human Services Committee substitute for
  • Speaker, your Judiciary Committee, to whom has been referred House Health and Human Services Committee
Summary: The House opened with quorum, invocation, pledge, and several announcements recognizing guests and Early Childhood Day at the Roundhouse, including remarks supporting New Mexico’s universal child care efforts. The chamber then received and adopted a long series of committee reports, moving multiple bills forward, including HB 303, SB 96, HB 195, HB 279, HB 292 (with a Judiciary substitute), SB 30, HB 234, SB 35, SB 40, SB 43, HB 153 (with an Appropriations substitute), HB 253, HB 255, HB 287, HB 371 (with an Appropriations substitute), SB 143, HB 248 (with a Taxation and Revenue substitute), HB 309, SB 48, and enrollment/signing reports for memorials. The House also received Senate Judiciary Committee substitute for SB 41, which would eliminate the statute of limitations for certain sexual crimes and was referred to Judiciary. The main floor debate centered on House Judiciary Committee substitute for HB 99, a medical malpractice reform bill. Supporters said it would balance patient compensation with provider stability by capping punitive damages, raising the burden of proof for punitive damages, and limiting when such claims can be pleaded. Several members described the bill as the product of months of bipartisan work and argued it would help retain doctors, especially in rural areas. The House passed HB 99 on final passage by a vote of 16-3. The House also passed HB 66, expanding the health care provider loan repayment program, by 69-0; HB 306, addressing unexpected patient-facing facility fees, by 69-0; HB 38, adding wheelchairs to insurance coverage for certain prostheses-related benefits, by 69-0; HB 20, allowing Native American applicants to request a distinguishing designation on driver’s licenses and ID cards, by 66-3; and HB 253, preserving and regulating virtual education with an emergency clause, by 69-0. The chamber then took up HB 213, which expands optometrists’ scope of practice to include certain laser eye procedures. A proposed amendment requiring patients to sign a disclosure acknowledging that optometrists are not MDs or DOs and did not attend medical school was debated at length, with supporters framing it as informed consent and opponents calling it demeaning and unnecessary. The House tabled that amendment 35-19, and the underlying bill continued in debate at the end of the transcript.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Welcome to committee this morning. Mr. Chairman. Thank you committee.
  • "And I respect the committee.
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HI