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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Natural Resources Committee Apr 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- College students reporting experiencing homelessness, one in 10 CSU students experiencing homelessness
- Excuse me, Kate Rogers, co-chair of Student Homes Coalition, and Scott Englum from the UC Student Association
- I'm the co-chair of the Student Homes Coalition and also a student at UCLA.
- is just to deliver more housing for students.
- Well, I certainly want to thank our college student that came today and the number of college students
Summary:
The committee heard several climate, environmental, and housing bills. AB 1425, dealing with pit dewatering near the San Joaquin River Parkway, drew extensive testimony. The author and supporters argued the bill was needed to protect the river, groundwater, floodplain conditions, tribal and cultural resources, and public access from a proposed mining project near the river. Opponents, including Cemex, labor representatives, and industry groups, said the bill would bypass the CEQA process before it was complete, threaten jobs, and create uncertainty for an existing operation. Members questioned both sides about hydrology, blasting, dewatering, and the adequacy of the ongoing environmental review. The bill was moved, but several members expressed concern about preempting CEQA and some did not vote or voted no.
AB 881, which would allow California to move forward with carbon capture and sequestration pipelines, was presented as a way to advance state climate goals and capture federal funding. Supporters, including SMUD, labor, and industry groups, said the bill would help deploy carbon capture safely and preserve jobs. Environmental justice opponents supported stronger safety direction and warned that CO2 pipelines pose serious risks and that the state should not move ahead without clearer standards. The bill received a due-pass recommendation to Appropriations.
AB 1207, on the cap-and-trade allowance price ceiling and the social cost of carbon, was presented as a science-based update to California’s climate policy. The author and EDF said the bill would keep the program aligned with current economic and climate data and protect it from federal political interference. It received broad support and a due-pass recommendation. AB 1106, creating a coordinated network of air quality incident response centers, was also approved after testimony about wildfire smoke, toxic emissions, and the need for better real-time monitoring during disasters. AB 28, the Landfill Fire Safety Act, focused on the Chiquita Canyon landfill fire and related health impacts in Castaic and Val Verde; residents described serious illnesses and contamination concerns, while landfill and county representatives warned about costs and asked for more study. The committee nonetheless advanced the bill with a due-pass recommendation. The committee also heard AB 357, which would speed Coastal Commission review of student and faculty housing projects, with supporters citing student homelessness and opponents urging caution but acknowledging the need for more housing; the bill was presented and discussed, with the committee emphasizing the need to balance housing production and coastal oversight.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-14 (4:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- THE MONEY IS SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW THE STUDENTS BUT THE STUDENTS ARE ON THE MOVE.
- THAT'S $270 MILLION WE ARE PAYING FOR STUDENTS WE CAN'T LOCATE.
- THE BILL REQUIRES THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ASSIGN A STUDENT ID TO ALL STUDENTS SO WE CAN KEEP TRACK
- TO ENSURE IF MORE STUDENTS APPLY AND ANTICIPATED THAT ALL STUDENTS CAN STILL RECEIVE FULLY FUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS
- FIRST BY MAKING SURE EVERY STUDENT HAS A NUMBER.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Dyslexia training requirement 3/25/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Things like needs of dyslexic students.
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who <00:04:15.440>show and identify students who show and identify students - <00:07:13.000>
Right better support these students. Right better support these students. - Right now,<00:07:13.560>
170,000 now, 170,000 now, 170,000 students students students need<00: - now require students now require students to<00:10:52.160>
receive <00:10:52.600>training
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 14, February 25, 2026-AM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- If the student student student completes<01:08:57.679>
a <01:08:57.920>course <01:08:59.199 - for a school and not for the student. for a school and not for the student.
- So, he's not a full-time student.
- So the student<01:17:22.000>
goes <01:17:22.320>A student goes A student goes A Mustang - Schools for the solution for students who aren't there. This bill creates ghost students.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (05/27/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- appropriate for that student.
- appropriate for that student.
- So, do you believe that private school students don't bully public school students?
- and students only, student on student, and do not include the instances of teacher on student bullying
- um protecting all of our students. um protecting all of our students. students<01:40:32.480>
Summary:
The committee opened hearings on SB 69, including a germane amendment on school board votes to accept or reject gifts and donations, and a non-germane amendment creating a virtual early childhood readiness family engagement program for preschool children not yet in kindergarten. Prime sponsor Rep. Glenn Cordelli said the literacy program was modeled on earlier HB 671, would be funded through gifts and donations rather than state appropriations, and would include reporting requirements to the governor and legislature. Members questioned changes from the earlier bill, including the move away from center-based language, the lack of a dollar threshold for school board action on donations, anonymous gifts, and whether the amendment preserved enough evaluation data.
Testimony on the donation provisions raised concerns about broad language, timing, and public-meeting requirements. Rep. Timothy Han and Becky Wilson of the New Hampshire School Boards Association both noted that school districts already have policies and asked how the bill would work for routine donations, anonymous gifts, and situations that might require non-public discussion under right-to-know law. Wilson cited examples such as field-trip scholarships, backpack drives, and sports uniforms, and said the association was not taking a position but wanted clearer guardrails. Rep. Han said school boards may need to discuss some gifts in non-public session and that the bill should better address those circumstances.
On the early literacy amendment, Wilson and others questioned whether the program was sufficiently developed, whether it was appropriate to rely on a primarily online model for very young children, and how it would interact with special education services and IEPs. A representative from Waterford.org, Rob Riley, testified in support, saying the program would be supplementary, adaptive, and family-engagement based, and that Waterford could provide devices and internet access for families who need them. He said the program would work alongside school districts and IEP teams rather than replace existing services. No vote was taken during the hearing; the chair said the committee would later exec the bills and try to get reports in for the calendar.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education May 28th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- our commitments to universal school meals, career education, and supporting our most vulnerable students
- , including immigrant students.
- safety and success of vulnerable students. ...for the only state program dedicated to immigrant students
- I think that's really ridiculous for our students.
- , and particularly students from mixed-status families, need more supports, not less.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Law school debt drives students to big law.
- First, even a school that only has two students or five students or ten students who might have that
- That only has two students or five students or ten students who might have that interest and might not
- They also help the law school in that if students pass the bar at a higher rate, if students are employed
- at a higher rate, if relevant student incentives enable us to attract better students, all of that incentivizes
NH
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- I think Senator is even though a student has been expelled from a A student has been expelled from a
- students in the state of New Hampshire. students in the state of New Hampshire.
- Sure. districts have barely any students districts have barely any students labeled<00:29:24.399>
- , And if we raise that to 16,000 students, And if we raise that to 16,000 students, $60,000<00:29
- . students. students.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary & Secondary Education & Workforce Development (1-13-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- technology coaches, our student technology leadership program for students, cyber security, internet
- technology coaches, our student technology leadership program for students, cyber security, internet
- <00:10:12.800>
but students and primarily our students but students and primarily our students - At one time, it was $25 per student.
- At one time, it was $25 per student.
Summary:
The committee heard an Office of Education Technology presentation on the Kentucky Education Technology System (KTS) and a request to increase its annual budget from $15.4 million to $30 million, including an additional $14.6 million. The witness described KTS as a statewide service model that provides districts with student information and financial systems, internet bandwidth, regional support, cybersecurity, online registration, learning management and email services, and collaborative instructional technology support. He argued the state’s centralized purchasing saves districts 40% to 60% compared with buying services individually, and said federal internet discounts and district matching funds create a strong return on investment. He also said KTS has faced long-term funding cuts, has not received a cost-of-living increase since 1992, and is now at a “breaking point” where some services may have to be shifted to districts at higher cost.
The request was broken into six main items: restoring funding for the computer science and information technology academy; strengthening cybersecurity defenses in response to sharply rising attacks on K-12 systems; funding online registration through Infinite Campus; stabilizing ongoing support costs for Infinite Campus; providing cost-of-living increases for KTS services; and increasing the KTS financial assistance sent to districts, which requires local matching funds. Members asked about the current appropriation, and the witness said it is $15.4 million. One member praised the office’s work and support for districts, while another noted the district had been an early adopter of one-to-one technology.
The committee then received an overview of the KRS 156 salary schedule and step-and-rank system for state-operated career and technical education staff at area technology centers. Officials explained that salaries are set under statute and regulation based on years of service and educational rank, with annual calculations tied to statewide teacher salary averages and retroactive adjustments to July 1. They said the current ABR request is $325,000 over the biennium to cover step and rank increases. The presentation noted that KRS 156 salaries are generally comparable to local districts but are less competitive with business and industry, making recruitment and retention difficult, especially for instructors coming from the trades. Members agreed that trade instructors are underpaid relative to the market and said the issue deserves further review, with department officials indicating they are considering possible statutory revisions and a delayed implementation in a future biennium.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 1/23/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- For our students, a student is considered chronically absent if they are excused absent more than 10%
- And then that obviously is an impact to our students.
- sound like this is benefiting students sound like this is benefiting students is<00:56:06.400>
- <01:20:36.000>
so districts so um and and our students so districts so um and and our students- our students our students exceptionally<01:35:02.719>
it's <01:35:03.000>really <01 - <01:20:36.000>
Summary:
The committee opened by approving the January 16 and January 21 minutes. Members then heard testimony focused on the impact of Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) and the proposed paid family and medical leave program on Minnesota school districts, with the chair framing the hearing as an opportunity to hear from major employers and school leaders about costs and operational effects.
Kimberly Lewis, speaking for the Minnesota School Boards Association and related school administrator groups, said districts generally already provide generous, locally negotiated sick leave and had initially adapted to ESST by separating vacation, sick time, and ESST into different buckets. She argued that a 2024 law effectively converted previously bargained sick leave into ESST, which she said undermines contracts, creates large unfunded costs, and may raise constitutional contract-clause concerns. Lewis cited large accumulated leave banks in some districts, increased sick leave use, and estimated significant costs from paid leave, including a reported $2.5 million impact for one large district. She urged flexibility such as prorating ESST for midyear hires and part-time staff and exempting coaches, short-term substitutes, and similar employees from ESST.
Superintendent Anarie Fuco of St. Michael-Albertville said her district expects about $400,000 in added fiscal 2026 costs from ESST and paid leave, plus indirect costs from substitute coverage and increased absenteeism. She said schools already have generous bargaining agreements, but the new laws reduce verification and require districts to track leave for temporary staff, creating what she described as a need for “substitutes for our substitutes.” Fuco said the district would face more than $211,000 in direct payroll costs from paid leave alone and asked for flexibility or exceptions for districts already offering comparable benefits. Members asked follow-up questions about how substitute teachers accrue leave and how many districts may be cutting budgets; Lewis and Fuco said many districts are making cuts and that substitute and staffing burdens are growing. A third testifier began by Zoom, but the transcript cuts off before her full testimony.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education. (3-25-26)
Primary and Secondary Education
Transcript Highlights:
- and mainly the students. and mainly the students.
- were the two biggest factors in student were the two biggest factors in student success. success
- encouraging growth in student encouraging growth in student performance<00:48:42.480>
across< - help their students. help their students. Ms.<00:53:12.680>
Blair. - >
and <00:53:52.640>school Some students needed books and school Some students needed books
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 6th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We will then add 15 students each successive semester until we reach a cohort of 60 students.
- When I look at all of those students who are there, it's over a thousand students.
- Where can students go on campus?
- I know we use those words, but the reason I say that is that our students. students in general, writ
- also tend to be parenting students.
OR
Transcript Highlights:
- are being educated now, and the students that are in school now... ...students are being educated now
- Our students have changed.
- Students or their education colleagues.
- And it's even worse for our BIPOC and our diverse students.
- It's even worse for our BIPOC and our diverse students and our students living in poverty.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children.(6-17-26)
Families & Children
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, that's not 12% of students as a whole, it's 12% of students in special education, but that's up
- as a whole, it's 12% not 12% of students as a whole, it's 12% of<00:10:08.080>
students <00:10 - And many of these students with intellectual disabilities are students with autism.
- disabilities are students intellectual disabilities are students with<00:18:35.720>
autism. - support those students. support those students.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education. (3-4-26)
Primary and Secondary Education
Transcript Highlights:
- find some students.
- find some students.
- Students can or teachers can contact the students.
- find some students.
- students.
Summary:
The committee began with introductions of student guests, including an FCCLA national officer who spoke in support of career and technical education. She emphasized that CTE connects classroom learning to real careers, builds leadership and employability skills, and deserves continued state supplemental funding to keep programs current, expand offerings, and support student organizations. Members thanked her for her remarks and for representing FCCLA students.
The committee then considered House Bill 67, a cleanup bill to address unintended consequences from last session’s Senate Bill 181 on traceable communication in schools. Rep. Josh Calloway explained that the substitute clarified definitions of family members, coaches, volunteers, certified/classified/contract employees, and virtual instruction; exempted group messaging, public social media posts, translation services, parent-provided phone numbers, emergency communications, and field trip/work-based learning contacts; and allowed teachers to disclose outside commercial or nonprofit involvement so they can communicate with students for those purposes. He said the bill was developed with input from school boards, administrators, KDE, school HR groups, Kentucky League of Cities, and Farm Bureau. The committee approved the substitute and passed HB 67 favorably.
Next, the committee heard House Bill 759, which KDE described as a consistency bill for teacher certification pathways. The bill renames and standardizes alternative certification routes, clarifies content mastery requirements, allows teachers to add certifications more consistently, and lets educators extend certification into lower grade bands if they already hold higher-level certification and pedagogical knowledge. Members asked about chemistry majors, CTE occupational pathways, the veterans pathway, and grade-band “bandwidth”; KDE said the bill preserves the veterans route, does not create a new pathway but reorganizes existing ones, and will help make certification options easier to understand. HB 759 also passed favorably.
Finally, Rep. Shane Baker presented House Bill 654, a follow-up to last year’s effort to reduce administrative burdens on schools. He said the bill would eliminate additional reporting requirements, bar KDE from requiring components of a comprehensive improvement plan not expressly required by statute or federal law, and allow EARS to temporarily authorize reports when the legislature is not in session while preserving necessary reporting tied to SEEK funding and school operations. The committee took up the substitute and began discussion of the bill.
MN
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who gains in supporting our students who gains in supporting our students who - students in the state.
- next set of items are around student next set of items are around student support<00:40:34.079><
- targeted aid for bringing on student targeted aid for bringing on student support<00:40:43.680><
- >
to students, to uh feed our students, to students, to uh feed our students, to support<01:30
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- So we can see whether it's effective for all our students.
- and disadvantaged students.
- Kids can relate math to that student and make them more effective.
- But we still have students walking.
- Our students don't want to get to school; our student absenteeism rate—there's many, many factors.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:18 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- in Action; Madison Sal's, Student Council; and Camilla Fierro, Student Council.
- in student council.
- President, we also have Eric Holland, and he's here with 24 students from the Student Council at Mesa
- She is an eighth grade student at Mesa Middle School, and she currently serves as the Student Council
- She's an honor roll student, a student leader, and a mentor.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Ethics and Elections Apr 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I SPENT TIME WITH STUDENTS AT UWF.
- WHETHER NEW YOUNG STUDENTS OR RETURNING STUDENTS TO PREPARE THEM TO COME OUT OF THE UNIVERSITY WITH
- NO, I WILL TALK TO THE MEETINGS WITH THE STUDENTS.
- THIS SHOWS POSITIVE STUDENT GROWTH.
- THAT IS HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE COMING OUT.