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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • When Minnesota politicians colluded with the YouTuber to target Somali child care providers and child
  • child care assistance based on unproven child care assistance allegations. allegations. allegations.
  • </c> That's part of being part of the child That's part of being part of the child care<00:10:39.000>
  • </c> guns coming into our child care centers? guns coming into our child care centers?
  • child that I'm I got a child, foster child that I'm caring<01:39:50.400><c> for,</c><01:39:50.720><c
Bills: HF3542, HF3819
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/12/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • Parenting a child with special needs already carries significant stress.
  • Parenting a child with very limited.
  • </c> have serious consequences for the child have serious consequences for the child involved.<00:26:
  • relationship except if there's clear and convincing evidence of harm to the child.
  • </c><00:37:35.440><c> You</c><00:37:35.680><c> can</c> evidence of harm to the child.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 1st, 2026 at 01:15 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • No child should ever be harmed or exploited.
  • For years trying to survive and make sense of what happened.
  • Lex Garcia, and I'm here as a survivor of sexual child abuse.
  • I'm a survivor of child sexual abuse.
  • How can abortion, killing a child, be health care? Health care is...
Bills: SB41, SB33, SB32, SB30
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • The child had bruises on its neck.
  • . child. child.
  • that if a child cannot safely be that if a child cannot safely be maintained<01:24:21.120><c> in</c><
  • </c> a a deep bruise on this child. a a deep bruise on this child.
  • U obviously the child cannot afford one.
Summary: The Legislative Oversight and Investigation Committee met without a quorum, so no votes were taken. Staff presented a study of the Kentucky Fire Commission focused on firefighter minimum training standards and administrative spending. The presentation explained that Kentucky’s training standards are built from NFPA guidelines, that the commission currently requires 115 hours for volunteer firefighters and 300 hours for paid firefighters, and that those reduced hours were adopted by removing electives and other non-NFPA content. Staff also said the commission’s IFSAC certification testing for firefighter 1 and firefighter 2 aligns with NFPA standards, but the commission cannot require local departments to train or certify firefighters. Staff recommended that the commission formally promulgate regulations establishing the reduced training hours and work with KCTCS to better separate administrative costs for certain programs so compliance with the statute can be demonstrated. The finance portion of the report said the commission is funded by general fund appropriations for State Fire Rescue Training and by an insurance premium surcharge that supports the Firefighter Foundation Program Fund. Staff reported that the commission stayed within the 5% administrative cap tied to the overall surcharge allotment, but could not confirm compliance with a separate 5% cap for specific programs because KCTCS accounting does not break out those costs in enough detail. Staff suggested the General Assembly may want to clarify what counts as administrative cost in statute. Members asked about investment returns, local fire department funding, and whether training documentation is required; staff said some of those topics were outside the study scope and that IFSAC testing relies on chief certification that a candidate is ready to test. Representatives from the Fire Commission then responded, saying they agreed with the report’s recommendations and would work to clarify the 5% issue with legislators and KCTCS. They explained that the reduction in training hours was intended to remove electives, better align with NFPA standards, and address the difficulty volunteer departments have in getting members to complete lengthy training. Commission officials said training is documented through rosters and annual compliance reviews, and that IFSAC-certified firefighter testing is based on demonstrated skills rather than a required number of training hours. They also said the difficulty in tracking the second 5% cap stems from the way KCTCS’s PeopleSoft system records reimbursements as single transactions, making it hard to isolate administrative costs by program.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The child has an attorney ad litem.
  • Under current statute, if a child subject to an order of support from the child support After 154, the
  • Simply stated, SB 1923 will allow the child support or to follow the child, if the child is placed with
  • The child must have been voluntarily relinquished and the person having physical possession of the child
  • services. but when I got the child, I didn't get any of those services to be able to help the child.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services REVISED Feb 23rd, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So all the services that child welfare currently has would all transfer to this piece.
  • if we had it in one place, we're gonna save money because now we're not duplicating both OjaA and child
  • It just has says child welfare, child safety.
  • And so what this bill is aimed at is to give The people and child welfare the tools they need to help
  • Right, if we don't strengthen the family, then the child is the one that's hurt.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's harder to, you're in survival mode, so you're trying to... ...monitor.
  • This change does not weaken child safety. It strengthens it.
  • , protect the child receiving it, and prevent escalation.
  • The way I read child abuse, there are two ways that child abuse can be charged.
  • You say 17 is acceptable for a child... So, Mr. Chair, one follow-up.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/20/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Williams for an overview. differently we have a a chunk of child differently we have a a chunk of child
  • The child credit amount, as I said, is $1,750 per qualifying child.
  • The difference between the older child and the younger child amounts is that the younger child amounts
  • </c> are smaller per CR per uh per uh child are smaller per CR per uh per uh child amounts<00:01:52.759
  • the younger child amounts um the younger child<00:03:38.640><c> amounts</c><00:03:38.920><c> apply</
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Public Safety Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So these public events will not survive without some financial help.
  • committee's jurisdiction are the new criminal penalties for kickbacks in medical assistance and the child
  • beginning with Section 1, this is Representative Rapinski's House File 129, which requires a Director of Child
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And of course we have emerging communities in the kin community, so these public events will not survive
  • 01:01:41.480><c> assistance</c><01:01:42.280><c> and</c><01:01:42.480><c> the</c><01:01:42.640><c> child
  • </c><01:01:43.000><c> care</c> medical assistance and the child care medical assistance and the child
  • </c><01:34:36.800><c> sex</c><01:34:37.119><c> trafficking</c> the director child sex trafficking the
  • director child sex trafficking prevention<01:34:38.520><c> to</c><01:34:38.679><c> submit</c><01:34:
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • A witness said 55% of child sex trafficking occurs within school zones.
  • With a rising number of arrests for child pornography and, even worse, child trafficking, why are we
  • waiting until a child is hurt before we can call the police?
  • That was the best I had to offer. offer my child that day, to keep her and my other two kids home from
  • Smith was finally arrested on pending unrelated charges of child indecency.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • its citizens and to ensure that the evidence and testing protocols meet the high standards regarding child
  • Members, as you know, Texas law currently requires mandatory reporting of child abuse, and that includes
  • abuse, and child sexual abuse every year.
  • Even if they're not a child.
  • , child pornography, and other more serious crimes related to children.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Justice (Part II) Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Earlier, the SB 1212 witness said 55% of child sex trafficking crimes occur within school zones.
  • With the rising number of arrests for child porn and even worse child sex trafficking, why are we waiting
  • until his child is hurt before we can call the police?
  • Smith was finally arrested on pending unrelated charges of child indecency.
  • I'm grateful this alleged child predator was arrested, but there should have been a way for police to
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Habitually late with paying their child support. We previously had this statute.
  • The intent is that they provide the financial support ordered by the court for their child.
  • Ordered by the court for their child. We have a motion. Do I hear a second?
  • of the child, and what they have found...
  • . ...stuff maybe down at OU involving DHS and a child.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Jan 28th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • The intention of the bill is for us to recognize the unborn child, the child in the womb, the same as
  • We're talking about a child and an unborn child in this statute in particular.
  • Therefore, please consider defining an unborn child as an unborn child and eliminate the reference to
  • And I left for my child.
  • Right now, in the state of Florida, if that child was killed wrongfully the day before the child was
Bills: S0164, S0656, S0892
Summary: The committee heard a lengthy presentation from Miami-Dade State Attorney Catherine Fernandez-Rundle on human trafficking, describing Florida’s high victim counts, the role of online recruitment, common victim and trafficker profiles, and several case examples involving sexual exploitation, labor trafficking, and interstate trafficking. She highlighted Miami-Dade’s task force model, partnerships with law enforcement, schools, businesses, and shelters such as Camillus House’s Project Phoenix and the Thrive Clinic, and said the office relies heavily on technology, training, and victim-centered prosecution. Members asked about school-based trafficking, warning signs, social media platforms, and information-sharing about offenders across states; Fernandez-Rundle said more training and better interstate communication are still needed. The committee then took up CS for SB 656, which would codify FDLE’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Funding Program and rename/expand the online sting operations grant program to better support investigations, training, technology, and personnel. The bill was supported as a timely tool to combat online child exploitation and was reported favorably on a unanimous roll call. The committee also passed SB 892, which streamlines sentencing procedures for habitual felony offenders and related violent offender designations by clarifying notice and clemency-related paperwork requirements; it too was reported favorably unanimously. The remainder of the meeting focused on SB 164, which expands Florida’s Wrongful Death Act to allow parents to recover civil damages for the death of an unborn child. The sponsor said the bill is intended to recognize unborn children in civil law and allow recovery when a pregnancy is lost due to another’s negligence. Opponents from the ACLU, reproductive rights groups, medical insurers, and domestic violence advocates argued the bill is overly broad, could function as fetal personhood legislation, and could expose doctors, friends, family members, businesses, and abusive partners to lawsuits while chilling medical care, IVF, and pregnancy-related treatment. Supporters from pro-life organizations urged broader language and stronger protections for unborn children. No vote on SB 164 was taken in the portion provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) Feb 26th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • What's worse, to survive financially, the meal program is forced to sell sugary drinks and ultra-processed
  • teachers have to take those and you know there were pushback on that, but, you know, again, if you have a child
  • uh, you in there and Um, I did talk to Doctor Hyman about this example here, and he did treat this child
  • I certainly, if I had to choose, would not choose them for my own child.
Bills: SB 25, SB 314
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Children and Youth Health Committee Feb 27th, 2025

Children and Youth Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • It happened to my child; he was exposed.
  • to make sure that the child is protected from the harms of explicit content.
  • you will be "child protection," you will be scrolling for quite some time.
  • It's hard for us adults to understand, and a child can't.
  • child if this app is worth it.
Bills: SB186, SB187
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 15th, 2025

Local Government

Summary: The Senate Committee on Local Government met with a quorum and took up a series of pending bills, mostly local-government measures. Early action included final committee approval of Senate Bill 1633 and S.J.R. 60, followed by Senate Bill 3038 and Senate Bill 3045, both reported favorably and placed on the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also considered House Bill 24, adopted a committee substitute, and reported the substitute version favorably; House Bill 2025 was likewise reported favorably and sent to the local and uncontested calendar. Members then handled several companion and local bills, including House Bill 2713 as the companion to Senate Bill 1331, which was reported favorably and placed on the local and uncontested calendar. House Bill 3348, House Bill 3370, House Bill 3505, and House Bill 4506 were each reported favorably, with no objections to local-and-uncontested placement. House Bill 5424 passed on a 6-1 vote, and House Bill 5652 passed with one present-not-voting, both also sent to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also adopted substitutes and reported House Bill 3687 and House Bill 4205, though both were later reconsidered because the wrong script had been read. After reconsideration, House Bill 3687 and House Bill 4205 were each re-voted and reported favorably to the full Senate, with both placed on the local and uncontested calendar. Senate Bill 3071 was also reported out on a 5-2 vote after adoption of a committee substitute. The meeting ended with no further business and the committee standing at recess subject to the call of the chair.