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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Health Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm also the vice chair of the Thoracic Surgery Group for the NCI-funded Alliance for Clinical Trials
- I'm also the vice chair of the Thrasic Surgery Group for the NCI-funded Alliance for Clinical Trials
- Despite a well-lived seven-year trajectory, during which he was in three clinical trials and on many
- And though my cancer is currently stable thanks to a clinical trial and excellent care at Mass General
- I'm a patient advisor for several clinical trials and research studies on lung cancer screening.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Public Health
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on a wide range of bills focused on children’s health, tobacco control, newborn screening, pediatric cancer, palliative care, and professional licensure. Early testimony highlighted Senate bills to expand newborn screening for pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency, lysosomal storage disorders, and congenital CMV, with families and clinicians describing severe diagnostic delays, missed treatment windows, and the benefits of early detection. Speakers also supported a bill to improve pediatric cancer research through a dedicated trust fund, and a bill to extend pediatric palliative care services to age 22, with parents and providers emphasizing continuity of care for seriously ill young people.
Several witnesses gave personal accounts in support of the newborn screening measures. Families described children who endured years of misdiagnosis before receiving diagnoses such as Gaucher disease, Fabry disease, Pompe disease, Niemann-Pick disease, and CMV, often after irreversible damage had already occurred. Medical and advocacy witnesses said Massachusetts already collects some of the relevant screening data and argued that results should be reported to families, while others urged the committee to add conditions to the state panel because effective treatments already exist. The committee also heard support for a bill to establish a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder program and training for providers.
On tobacco and youth health, testimony supported bills to ban internet tobacco sales, strengthen youth protections, and reduce lung cancer deaths through point-of-sale information and quit-line access. A student testified about easily purchasing flavored nicotine products online without meaningful age verification, and public health advocates backed measures to keep tobacco out of children’s environments. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to ensure parents have access to their children’s medical records through age 16, with exceptions for sensitive services already protected by law.
The committee additionally took testimony on an optometry licensure bill, where ophthalmologists opposed language they said could broaden scope of practice and allow optometrists to use the title “optometric physician,” while optometry educators and students supported the bill as a modernization measure with no scope expansion. No votes were taken during the hearing; the chair repeatedly reminded speakers of time limits and noted that written testimony could be submitted for additional comments.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/19/26
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- The court found him incompetent to stand trial.
- </c> incompetent to stand trial. incompetent to stand trial.
- He immediately violated that, clinic.
- </c><00:34:34.800><c> the</c> uh granddaughter was in the clinic the uh granddaughter was in the clinic
- </c> oral presentation in court, trial oral presentation in court, trial testimony,<01:15:01.120><c>
Bills:
HF2825
Committee:
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Community Safety Feb 19th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Community Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- So we're hurting people in two different ways here, not getting a speedy trial and not getting justice
- Some are clinical in nature and have accreditation consistent with those.
- So it is not, I don't think it is accurate that most of the trials are crash-related.
- So it is not, I don't think it is accurate that most of the trials are crash-related.
- I don't think it is accurate that most of the trials are crash-related.
Committee:
House Community Safety
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health May 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- My son has been declared incompetent to stand trial 12 times.
- A coach is not a clinical therapist.
- It has to be connected to an actual clinical response.
- the existing dental clinic cannot accommodate the additional resources.
- the existing dental clinic cannot accommodate the additional resources.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Feb 5th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- And this slide is focused on trial courts to illustrate their needs.
- And in the trial courts, that system is called the court application processing system.
- They're responsible for the custodianship of trial court records.
- They're responsible for the custodianship of trial court records.
- You can see we did drop off a few folks from that initial clinical screening.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice met to continue its review of performance measurement in the criminal justice system. The first presentation, from State Courts Administrator Eric McClure, described how the court system uses multiple data sources to track filings, dispositions, clearance rates, workload, and support services, and how those data inform judge need, budget requests, resource allocation, and court administration. He also discussed ongoing efforts to improve case-level reporting, the use of case management systems in trial and appellate courts, and performance efforts in problem-solving courts and civil case management. McClure noted that the legislature provides dedicated funding for problem-solving courts and for medication-assisted treatment, and that the courts are required to report outcomes and monitor compliance with contract requirements.
Melanie Brown-Whor of the Florida Behavioral Health Association then reviewed the medication-assisted treatment program funded through the courts budget. She said the program combines medication with counseling and behavioral supports, serves people involved in or at risk of criminal justice involvement, and has expanded over time to include additional medications and more counties. She reported improved engagement and retention, with more than 10,000 people screened over five years, about 9,200 receiving medication, and over 6,600 successfully discharged. Senators asked about racial and ethnic demographics, hospital referrals, and how services are delivered; Brown-Whor explained that local community providers deliver treatment under contract and that the program is working to improve data reporting and consistency.
The Department of Law Enforcement then presented on investigations, forensics, and criminal justice information services. Deputy Commissioner Vaden Pollard outlined FDLE’s strategic plan and major investigative priorities, including cybercrime, targeted violence, crimes against children, mutual aid, and the SAFE fentanyl eradication program. He said SAFE has led to major seizures, arrests, and a reported decline in fentanyl deaths. Director Jason Bundy described FDLE’s forensic laboratory operations, DNA and rapid DNA capabilities, cold case and missing persons work, and the staffing and turnaround-time challenges tied to complex evidence testing. Director Lucy Saunders reviewed FDLE’s criminal history, biometric, incident-based crime reporting, and criminal justice transparency systems, noting that Florida is still transitioning agencies from summary reporting to incident-based reporting. The committee raised questions about Rapid DNA deployment, cold case coordination, and the slow pace of NIBRS/FIBRS adoption. No votes were taken, and the meeting adjourned after the presentations and questions.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Nov 6th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- How many went to trial? I have to say that we don't have all that information.
- Deficit premiums for independent providers and independent clinics that are supposed to be settled.
- You classified as trial lawyers, is that correct? I am a trial lawyer. You are a trial lawyer, Mr.
- Chair, and it's a known fact here that we have legislators who are trial lawyers.
- You heard from a trial lawyer practitioner.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Land Grant Aug 14th, 2025
House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a medical clinic that was donated to us by the county.
- And our clinic... Well, it used to be the old clinic before the Clinica came in, so it needs work.
- If that's at the clinic, it won't be taken away from us during budget cuts.
- You need to know about IHS services and the clinics we have in places like Dulce.
- All of them were trial attorneys except for one paralegal that worked for a trial attorney.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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- Second, the mobile dental clinic.
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- </c><00:43:20.880><c> trials</c><00:43:21.680><c> for</c> for developing clinical trials for for developing
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Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/21/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections
House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- This plan was presented as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terrorism trial ever
- We serve around 8,300 people in 2025, including we have a clinic, free clinic, two of them, and also
- we have a... ...clinic, free clinic, two of them, and also we have a mobile clinic, dental clinic.
- We run the mental health clinic also. I mean, there is acute shortage here.
- I remember in my childhood reading about the Salem trials, Salem Witch Trials, and you read about McCarthyism
Summary:
The committee convened with roll call, member and staff introductions, and a review of amendment deadlines and decorum rules. Members also suspended the committee rule on late-distributed amendments to allow consideration of a Kolodin amendment. The chair then moved to the agenda bills, beginning with HCM 2001, a memorial urging Congress and the President to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization and asking Arizona agencies to monitor related organizations. Testimony on HCM 2001 was sharply divided, with supporters arguing the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR are linked to terrorism and Sharia law, and opponents calling the memorial discriminatory, unsupported by evidence, and an attack on Muslim civil rights organizations and free speech. The committee voted 4-3 to pass HCM 2001 out of committee.
The committee then heard HCM 2002, which urges a federal review of CAIR for possible foreign terrorist organization designation and supports related congressional action. Testimony again split along similar lines: opponents, including CAIR representatives, a veteran, and community members, said the measure was scapegoating, lacked legal basis, and would stigmatize Muslim communities; supporters cited the Holy Land Foundation case, FBI concerns, and alleged ties between CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas. After debate, the committee voted 4-3 to pass HCM 2002 out of committee. Following a brief recess, the committee took up HB 2009, which would prohibit committees primarily organized to influence constitutional amendments from accepting foreign national contributions and require disclosure of out-of-state funding. The sponsor said the bill was intended to improve transparency and keep constitutional initiatives focused on Arizona voters; members discussed whether the measure should apply to all ballot initiatives and how donor verification would work. HB 2009 was also approved 4-3.
The committee then began HCR 2001, a proposed constitutional amendment on election procedures, including citizenship requirements for voting, limits on foreign contributions to candidate and ballot measure campaigns, government-issued ID requirements, and changes to early voting and mail ballot rules. The committee adopted a late amendment after procedural discussion, and the sponsor described the resolution as a broad election-security reform modeled on Florida. Members raised concerns that the proposal could reduce access, increase lines, and create confusion for mail voters, while the sponsor argued it would improve security and voter confidence. The transcript cuts off during this bill’s discussion, before final action is shown.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I became a licensed clinical social worker in 2004.
- I'm a clinical psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital.
- In my clinic, most of this work is never billed.
- Clinical effect was seen in fewer than half the people in the trials. That's fine.
- , like you'd expect, and also non-clinical services like ...clinical services like you'd expect and also
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services
Summary:
The committee held a hearing on a large group of behavioral health and insurance-related bills. Topics included expanding access to mental health services by allowing physician assistants to authorize Section 12 emergency holds and be recognized as licensed mental health professionals (H. 1131/S. 773); improving coverage for community behavioral health centers so commercial insurance matches MassHealth’s bundled outpatient and crisis services (H. 1276/S. 703); eliminating cost sharing for certain behavioral health services (S. 718); extending detox and clinical stabilization coverage from 14 to 30 days and adding transitional support services (H. 1319/S. 772); requiring coverage for dual-diagnosis treatment in psychiatric facilities (H. 1277/S. 771); and preserving access to treatment for serious mental illness through coverage of coordinated specialty care and assertive community treatment (H. 1135/S. 709). The committee also heard bills on preventive behavioral health services for children (H. 1228/S. 802) and post-pregnancy mental health care, including postpartum depression and pregnancy loss-related care (H. 1314/S. 823).
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- One, when the clinical team says, we're going to release this person early, One, when the clinical team
- His Maricopa County public fiduciary delivered his check to his SMI clinic.
- His clinic had failed to renew it. We were unaware it had expired.
- One time the clinic failed to renew his court-ordered outpatient treatment.
- One time the clinic failed to renew his court-ordered outpatient treatment.
Bills:
SB1095 , SB1127 , SB1170 , SB1208 , SB1211 , SB1237 , SB1239 , SB1240 , SB1243 , SB1244 , SB1259 , SB1283
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Elections
Keywords:
gender transition, minors, irreversible surgery, health professionals, puberty-blocking drugs, medical procedures, prohibition, Arizona Revised Statutes, reporting abuse, child neglect, mandatory reporting, child safety, medical treatment, faith exemptions, penalties, narcotic drugs, fentanyl, sentencing, drug offenses, juvenile justice
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- They getting, um, pre-trial?
- I’m talking about the pre-trial detaining population, male population.
- </c> not only driven always driven clinically not only driven always driven clinically kind<01:02:28.799
- :30.000><c> not</c><01:02:30.559><c> and</c> kind of driven clinically but not and kind of driven clinically
- </c><02:03:49.159><c> fairness</c> those X number of pre-trial fairness those X number of pre-trial fairness
Committee:
House Public Safety
Summary:
The Public Safety Committee held a hearing on House Bill 433, which would appropriate $4 million for Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation re-entry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Director Tommy Johnson said the department supports the bill’s intent but noted the governor’s executive budget already includes $4 million for the same purpose and asked that the measure defer to that budget. Supporters, including the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, Community Alliance on Prisons, and the ACLU, backed the funding but urged that it be tied to a clear re-entry plan, performance measures, transparency, and regular reporting to the legislature. They emphasized that re-entry should begin at intake and involve community partnerships, housing, treatment, employment, and family reunification services.
Committee members questioned the department about current re-entry services, pre-trial detainees, and how the new funds would be used. Johnson said the department’s current statewide re-entry budget is about $1.5 million to $1.7 million, separate from the larger Corrections Program Services Division budget for in-facility programs. He described the proposed $4 million as supporting a mix of services, including a pilot apprenticeship program, substance abuse treatment, navigator or warm-handoff services, and short-term transitional housing. He also said the department already tracks performance outcomes in its annual report and can provide a matrix showing the intake-to-discharge process, program contracts, and volunteer organizations.
The discussion also covered pre-trial detainees, electronic monitoring, and mental health services. Johnson said the department has limited jurisdiction over pre-trial detainees but works with courts to seek supervised release when possible; he noted that many requests are denied, though electronic monitoring has improved release rates somewhat. On mental health, he said the jail is not an ideal therapeutic setting for people found unfit to proceed and suggested a secure community-based step-down facility run by the Department of Health for those needing care above what the jail can provide but below forensic-level treatment. No vote or final action on the bill was taken during the hearing.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- So I'm here for myself and others like me who need a clinical trial but can't get them yet here on the
- The tax will help the Cancer Center provide these needed clinical trials to me and others like me, not
- So I'm here for myself and others like me who need a clinical trial but can't get them yet here on the
- The tax will help the Cancer Center provide these needed clinical trials to me and others like me, not
- The tax will help the Cancer Center provide these needed clinical trials to me and others like me, not
Committee:
House Health
Summary:
The House Health Committee held its first hearing of 2025, with Chair Greg Takayama and Vice Chair Representative Leoy opening the meeting and outlining housekeeping rules, including a two-minute limit for testifiers and Zoom etiquette. The committee first heard HB 303 on health care preceptors. The Department of Health, Department of Taxation, University of Hawaiʻi, Hawaii State Center for Nursing, and several health care organizations supported the bill, saying the existing preceptor tax credit program has been successful and that expanding eligibility to additional professions and students would help address workforce shortages. In response to questions, the Department of Health said the annual tax credit cap is $1.5 million, about 650 to 670 credits are currently used each year, and the bill applies only to unpaid preceptors. The committee then moved on to HB 441, which would raise cigarette taxes. The Attorney General, Department of Health, University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, Hawaii Public Health Institute, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, and others supported the measure as a way to reduce smoking, especially among youth, and to support tobacco control and cancer-related programs. Opponents, including the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and the Cigar Association of Hawaii, argued the tax is regressive and unreliable as a revenue source. The Department of Health noted the last cigarette tax increase was in 2011, and one witness urged a larger increase than proposed. No vote was taken on either bill in the portion of the hearing provided.
The committee also heard HB 557 on telehealth. The Department of Health supported the bill so long as it did not displace executive budget priorities, and the Hawaii State Health Planning and Development Agency and Hawaii Primary Care Association supported it. HPCA said the bill would conform state insurance law to recent Medicare changes expanding audio-only telehealth coverage beyond mental health services, and it emphasized access for rural residents, kupuna, and people with disabilities. HMSA opposed the bill as written, saying it strayed from the intent of Act 107 and that audio-only telehealth should remain limited because of quality-of-care concerns, though it supported continued access and asked for a different amendment approach. A telehealth provider also testified that payment disparities limit provider expansion and that audio-only access remains important for patients with serious illness. The hearing ended in the excerpt before any committee action or vote on HB 557.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Jan 16th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health Care & Wellness
Transcript Highlights:
- Washington's Medicaid program currently covers up to three monthly IVIG therapies when a trial of two
- When clinically appropriate trials of two less intensive treatments were completed and were not effective
- Health carriers may require that a patient be clinically re-evaluated at three-month intervals.
- I co-founded the Stanford PANS Clinic, which is now called the Immune Behavioral Health Clinic at Stanford
- We know that patients who have access to their information have better clinical outcomes.
Committee:
House Health Care & Wellness
Keywords:
patients' rights, healthcare information, medical confidentiality, health data security, healthcare access, abortion, medications, reproductive health, access, healthcare, PANDA, PANS, treatment access, mental health, legislation, preventive services, state authority, definitions clarification, public health
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (04/23/2025)
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- <c> this</c> clinical trial established where this clinical trial established where this woman<01:15:
- wouldn't</c><01:16:54.080><c> be</c> clinical trial they probably wouldn't be clinical trial they probably
- But challenges for the clinical trial.
- </c><01:17:02.480><c> trial</c> between the time that the clinical trial between the time that the clinical
- c><01:46:23.440><c> system</c> current clinical trial evaluation system current clinical trial evaluation
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- It also requires courts to consider both the evidence presented at trial and the clinical assessment,
- I've instead spent months at a time prepping for trials.
- an appeal is pending, and then he's focusing on a new trial.
- Asher Wade-Jones, a clinical supervisor at the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law, just
- The standard used in every adult criminal trial.
Committee:
House Public Safety
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- I participated in the clinical trials and I always found that the tumor registry was very helpful to
- us who had to deliberate over the clinical trials that come into the state so we would know the kinds
- I participated in the clinical trials and I always found that the tumor registry was very helpful to
- us who had to deliberate over the clinical trials that come into the state so we would know the kinds
- </c> deliberate over the [snorts] clinical deliberate over the [snorts] clinical trials<01:22:37.280>
Bills:
HB1183 , HB1656 , HB1658 , HB1661 , HB1663 , HB1664 , HB1859 , HB2116 , HB2271 , HB2276 , HB2335 , HB2360 , HB2387 , HB2472 , HB1805 , HB2469 , HB1815 , HB1860 , HB2117 , HB2118 , HB2437 , HB2438 , HB2604 , HB1590 , HB2156 , HB2268
Committee:
House Finance
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Dec 15th, 2025 at 01:04 pm
Revenue Stabilization & Tax Policy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- So they have about 500 to 1,000 hours of clinical experience versus our 12,000 to 16,000 hours of clinical
- They're in the ER, they're the hospitalists, they're in the clinics—they're everywhere.
- in, say, Las Cruces, for a trial in Santa Fe, and we think this should not be the case.
- So now, attorneys can skip the panel review process and go straight to trial.
- To trial, even after a negative verdict from the Medical Review Commission.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- clinics for frontier populations and unhoused communities.
- Our priority, ...is to protect clinical decision-making.
- It just restricts the clinical decision-making.
- We have complete control over clinical judgment.
- At sound, clinical decisions are made. above all others.
Bills:
SB6294 , SB6211 , SB5650 , SB6033 , SB6297 , SB6343 , SB6067 , SB6082 , SB6323 , SB6324 , SB5862 , SB5923 , SB6151
Committee:
Senate Ways & Means
Keywords:
local government finance, Washington state, RCW, real estate excise tax, REET, sales and use tax, property tax levy, county tax, city tax, affordable housing, housing services, behavioral health, mental health, developmental disabilities, children and families services, youth services, utility tax, low-income utility assistance, veterans assistance, homelessness
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So we're waiting for their competency to be restored so they can have a trial.
- So if there... ...incompetent to stand trial, it's possible they could have a bed at a state hospital
- , at least to head towards trial.
- It doesn't include clinical trial vaccines because they already exist.
- trial but have not yet been approved for general use by the FDA.
Committee:
House Public Health