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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 13th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 819 by Representative Cruz provides relative to workers' compensation, workers' comp medical
  • House Bill 819 provides relative to workers' compensation, workers' comp medical treatment schedule,
  • The rules that are changing the rules that you have here?
  • Be by statute or rule adopted by any other state regarding medical treatment for workers' compensation
  • State civil service workers.
Bills: HR275, HR276, HR277, HR278, HR279, HR280, HR281, HR282, HR283, HR284, HCR112, HCR113, HR265, HR266, HR267, HR268, HR269, HR270, HR271, HR272, HR273, HCR107, HCR108, HCR109, HCR110, HCR111, SCR63, SCR66, SCR67, SB414, SB484, SB513, HR168, HR174, HR194, HR216, HR264, HCR54, HCR74, HCR79, HCR85, HCR87, HCR94, HCR95, HCR97, HCR98, HCR104, SCR23, SCR29, SCR33, SCR38, HB75, HB705, SB54, SB56, SB72, SB79, SB97, SB105, SB123, SB125, SB129, SB163, SB171, SB252, SB287, SB375, SB386, SB461, SB466, HR84, HR188, HR205, HR3, HR197, HR243, SCR19, SCR3, SCR6, SCR18, SCR11, SCR22, SCR2, SCR20, SCR24, SCR35, HCR6, HB301, HB359, HB657, HB675, HB680, HB727, HB39, HB58, HB112, HB134, HB155, HB187, HB287, HB462, HB782, HB825, HB846, HB903, HB904, HB929, HB941, HB962, HB1200, HB4, HB623, HB944, HB986, HB1098, HB1222, SB45, SB58, SB71, SB81, SB92, SB100, SB109, SB141, SB156, SB181, SB203, SB204, SB205, SB207, SB213, SB214, SB216, SB229, SB257, SB274, SB290, SB304, SB374, SB379, SB396, SB410, SB425, SB427, SB429, SB479, SB522, SB34, SB164, SB172, SB198, SB208, SB232, SB281, SB286, SB317, SB322, SB334, SB380, SB385, SB409, SB417, SB421, SB430, SB439, SB447, SB458, SB510, HB842, HB633, HB1191, HB625, HB1255, HB251, HB582, HB646, HB819, HB998, HB1257, SB197, SB436, SB78, HB901, HR20, HR74, HCR65, HCR71, HB284, HB302, HB306, HB341, HB366, HB393, HB458, HB577, HB603, HB605, HB614, HB733, HB752, HB773, HB798, HB911, HB955, HB996, HB1035, HB1069, HB1113, HB1140, HB1180, HB1240, SB82, SB89, HB258, SB149, SB382, SB441
Summary: The House met with a quorum and began with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several personal privileges recognizing National Police Week, fallen law enforcement officers, a young Olympic weightlifter, a community sports agent, a deceased coach, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Day, the Louisiana Cattlemen’s Association, aviation professionals, and a birthday tribute. The chamber also received Senate messages, committee reports, and a long series of resolutions and bills, many of which were adopted or concurred in without objection. Several measures were returned to the calendar, while others were advanced with technical or clarifying amendments. A major portion of the meeting focused on resolutions honoring or commemorating people and groups, including National Police Week, Barron Baker, Paul T. Derezel II, Coach Emilio Tese, Alpha Phi Alpha, Louisiana Realtors Day, Special Olympics Louisiana, and various memorial highway designations. The House also adopted or concurred in resolutions on topics such as DOTD signage, shrimp procurement, geothermal energy, opioid settlement reporting, hospital design standards, Medicaid redetermination flexibility, chronic wasting disease management, remote online notarization, and a task force on intestate succession. Testimony on these items was generally supportive and brief, with sponsors explaining that most were technical, commemorative, or requests for study. The chamber also took up several substantive bills and Senate amendments. Among the measures concurred in were bills on peace officer citizenship requirements, post-conviction bail limits, portable benefits for independent contractors, workforce development, construction debris burning, license plate coverings, insurance and captive insurers, oil field indemnification, and rural infrastructure financing. One notable bill, HB 39 on peace officer citizenship, drew questions about National Guard members and legal permanent residents before the House concurred in the Senate amendments by a 74-22 vote. HB 134 on harmful material and interactive computer services had its Senate amendments rejected, while HB 359 on nonaffiliated candidates was temporarily returned to the calendar. The most extended debate came on the conference committee report for HB 842, which addressed Louisiana election law in response to the federal Callais decision. Members questioned how the report would affect the current congressional election cycle, absentee ballots, qualifying dates, signature requirements, and whether the closed party primary for U.S. House races had been canceled in favor of an open primary in the fall. The sponsor explained that the report cancels the current closed party primary for congressional races, voids ballots cast in that canceled election, returns qualifying fees, lowers petition-signature requirements, and sets new dates for the open primary and runoff. The House suspended the rules to consider the report the same day it was received, and the discussion highlighted concerns about election administration, district maps, and the scope of the changes before the chamber moved forward.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is no law or rule in Minnesota that requires that any of the higher shared service rate go to workers
  • There is no law or rule in Minnesota that requires that any of the higher shared service rate go to workers
  • So, it's just directly to workers.
  • The rules for a lot of our programs are not in statute or in rule. They're in guidance.
  • programs are not in statute or in rule. programs are not in statute or in rule.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (01/27/2026)

Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • the same rules. the same rules. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Mhm.
  • administrative rule lab 602.01 01. administrative rule lab 602.01 01.
  • in place specific rules to protect private<04:49:51.840> sector<04:49:52.320> workers<
  • We want workers to be safe. to be safe. We want workers to be safe.
  • agent for Iron Workers Local 7. agent for Iron Workers Local 7.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Feb 20, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 19

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • These are teachers, healthcare workers, working families who are simply trying to get by and remain rooted
  • These are teachers, healthcare<00:42:02.319> workers,<00:42:02.800> kuna<00:42:03.920><
  • c> working healthcare workers, kuna working healthcare workers, kuna working families<00:42:04.720
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Tourism and Gaming Working Group (TGWG) - Thu Feb 19, 2026 @ 4:00 PM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Darren Sto, clinical social worker. >> Uh, Joe Rus with DBED.
  • We've all seen exceptions to<00:37:24.000> these<00:37:24.160> rules,<00:37:24.480>
  • And there are to these rules, right?
  • ,<00:37:28.480> but<00:37:28.800> in exceptions to these rules, but in exceptions to
  • And again, depending on what the rules of given departments are, they may be a little squeamish about
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Feb 19, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 18

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • The California Association of Social Workers is the largest chapter of professional social workers in
  • required for California social workers.
  • required for California social workers.
  • find a licensed clinical social worker to be able to do the work.
  • For CDHA, it's really a worker protection issue.
Summary: The Assembly Business and Professions Committee heard a long agenda of licensing, health care, and workforce bills. Measures discussed included AB 957, which would prohibit tobacco sales in licensed pharmacies; AB 447, which would allow patients to take home certain unopened medications started in emergency rooms; AB 427, joining the Social Work Licensure Compact; AB 667, allowing interpreters for certain licensing exams; AB 742, prioritizing descendants of slaves in licensing review; AB 873, changing infection-control training timing for dental assistants; AB 360, requiring a report on menopause education for physicians; and AB 1175, modernizing CPA licensure requirements and mobility. Testimony generally emphasized public health, access to care, workforce shortages, language access, and economic opportunity, while opposition or concerns focused on implementation, worker protections, compact authority, and constitutional issues in AB 742. Several bills drew broad support from sponsors, professional associations, and advocacy groups. AB 957 was backed by cancer and pharmacy advocates and pharmacists who said pharmacies should not sell tobacco; AB 447 was supported by emergency medicine and hospital representatives as a way to reduce waste and help patients leave with needed medication; AB 427 drew support from social work and mental health groups but concerns from AFSCME about standards and displacement; AB 667 was supported by immigrant-rights and community groups, with questions about whether translated exams would be preferable to interpreters; AB 360 received extensive support from women’s health advocates and medical groups, and opposition from CMA and ACOG was removed after amendments; and AB 1175 was supported by the Board of Accountancy and CPA groups as a way to expand the pipeline and improve mobility. The committee took votes after quorum was established. AB 360, AB 427, AB 447, AB 667, AB 873, AB 1175, and AB 742 were all approved and sent to their next committees, with AB 742 going to Judiciary and AB 1175 to Appropriations. AB 957 was initially held on call, then later passed after additional votes were recorded. The consent calendar bills AB 375, AB 1107, and AB 1496 were also approved. Most measures passed on largely party-line or near-unanimous votes, with some members not voting on certain items during the roll calls.
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:
  • "...workers, or just student workers.
  • Unfortunately, despite these rulings, graduate workers are still prevented from accessing certain safety
  • Unfortunately, despite these rulings, graduate workers are still prevented from accessing certain safety
  • worker demographic.
  • worker demographic.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Financial Services held a public hearing with about 43 witnesses and a 1:00 p.m. hard stop, and the chair repeatedly asked speakers to keep testimony to three minutes. Much of the hearing focused on S. 747/H. 1336, which would extend paid family and medical leave and unemployment insurance to graduate student workers. Supporters included legislators, union leaders, graduate workers from MIT, Harvard, BU, WPI, UMass Lowell, and others, and legal advocates. They argued graduate workers perform full-time teaching and research work, pay taxes, and should not be excluded from basic safety-net benefits; several witnesses described personal hardships involving childbirth, serious illness, mental health crises, funding cuts, or fear of losing income. Testifiers also said the change would be revenue-neutral or revenue-generating and would not create major administrative burdens for universities, which already provide similar benefits to other employees. The committee also heard testimony on insurance-related bills. Christopher Stock of the Massachusetts Insurance Federation supported H. 1113 on public adjusters and H. 1345/S. 753 on flood-zone notifications for homebuyers, but opposed H. 4112, which would add a $2 surcharge on home insurance policies to fund fire cistern programs. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council strongly supported H. 1345, saying flood disclosure is needed because Massachusetts lacks statewide flood-notification requirements and flooding risks are increasing. Karen Alvarado supported H. 4352 on travel insurance, and John Fielding supported H. 1186 on pet insurance; both said the bills would create uniform regulatory frameworks and consumer protections. Rep. LeBoeuf testified for H. 4061 on workers’ compensation premium fraud, describing the bill as a transparency measure to combat fraud in construction by creating a public certificate-of-insurance database and QR-code verification system. Joe Bright of the carpenters’ union also supported H. 4061, citing fraud, misclassification, and the harm to injured workers. The hearing also included testimony on H. 4112, a bill to create a statewide fire suppression water resource fund and cistern program. Rep. Hogan and a Stowe fire chief described drought, brush fires, and the need for dedicated cisterns in communities without municipal water systems, saying the tanks provide reliable water for firefighting and are relatively low-tech once installed. Committee members asked questions about tank capacity, siting, maintenance, and funding. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Jun 24th, 2026

Labor and Employment

Transcript Highlights:
  • We represent over 2.3 million union workers in the state, including thousands of skilled workers who
  • Is that fair to the workers?
  • No employer has legal authority to override federal rules and individual workers' circumstances.
  • Federal rules and individual workers' circumstances, no employer has legal authority to override.
  • workers' comp insurance.
Keywords: 988, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 4/30/25

Rules and Legislative Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:08:22.240> in school workers are the only workers in school workers are the only workers
  • just like any other seasonal worker, just like construction workers.
  • do, as other workers do.
  • Our kids and they are seasonal workers just like any other seasonal worker, just like construction workers
  • do, as other workers do.
Keywords: 1183, house
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Mar 17th, 2026

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I suspend the rules.
  • the rules. the rules.
  • workers were there? workers were there?
  • worker was there, I got a problem. worker was there, I got a problem.
  • >> agency rules >> agency rules >> agency<03:04:24.960> rule With their
Keywords: 1136, house, all
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Insurance Jan 12th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2375 addresses workers' compensation reform.
  • with the Missouri Automobile Dealer Association Workers' and Workers' Compensation Trust Fund, which
  • Is the number of judges we have and the rules established by the division of workers' compensation as
  • or the worker is ever stuck with that bill.
  • But as a contractor myself, I'm looking at workers' comp.
Keywords: 959, house, all
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • Central to that work is the rule reform.
  • We must return to the rule of Minnesota.
  • Thank you. immigrant workers, both documented and immigrant workers, both documented and undocumented
  • cognitive I think of when we make rules cognitive I think of when we make rules and<00:19:00.640
  • We need some workers to come up there.
Keywords: 918, senate, all
Summary: State legislators and farm leaders held an impromptu discussion focused on the impact of federal immigration enforcement activity, especially ICE presence in Minnesota, on agriculture and rural communities. Speakers argued that agriculture is central to the state’s economy and said fear of raids is causing legal immigrant and guest workers, including H-2A workers, to stay home, disrupting farms, food processors, restaurants, grocery stores, and other parts of the food supply chain. They also linked the issue to broader federal uncertainty, including USDA funding freezes and cuts, and said the lack of transparency from federal agencies is making it difficult for state officials and producers to plan. Senator Rob Kupec and Minnesota Farmers Union president Gary Wertish said ICE activity in both the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota is creating fear, trauma, and labor shortages, with reports of workers avoiding work, lunch trips, medical appointments, and school. Wertish said the organization supports comprehensive immigration reform and called for an end to the ICE surge, while also emphasizing the need to respect local law enforcement and the rule of law. Deputy Agriculture Commissioner Andrea Vaubel said immigrants are a critical part of Minnesota’s food and agriculture workforce, warned that labor shortages could raise production costs and food prices, and said the state would not have its current food supply without immigrant workers. In response to questions, speakers said they had anecdotal reports from rural areas such as Pelican Rapids, Willmar, and Detroit Lakes, but that the situation is changing quickly and many incidents may not yet be public. They said the lack of coordination with local law enforcement and the use of masks contribute to fear and confusion. Legislators said they have no direct jurisdiction over ICE operations but see their role as documenting what is happening, communicating with constituents, and avoiding state actions that would worsen the problem. They also said the issue is not purely partisan and may be mobilizing concern across political lines, especially among farmers worried about labor availability for planting and other seasonal work.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Rules and Administration - 04/30/25

Rules and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'd like to remind on 50,000 workers.
  • The micro businesses like mine workers.
  • rules committee. rules committee.
  • further rules hearings going forward? further rules hearings going forward?
  • that there will be further rules that there will be further rules hearings. hearings. hearings.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Transportation Apr 3rd, 2025

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Presently, what I understand is the City of Austin has a rule: they can relocate, but the rule is that
  • This sends our workers scrambling for their lives.
  • the traveling public. workers are present.
  • aid, another drunk driver speeding through our work zone hits one of my workers.
  • If there's workers present, yes. Otherwise, I feel like it's a speed trap.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 10th, 2026 at 11:16 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Madam Speaker, The oil and gas industry relies on these workers, and these workers pay an estimated $771.1
  • Is this going to be made by rule, Madam Speaker?
  • And we are not going to create rules that we are not going to follow.
  • Is there any rules that you can break by helping these folks?
  • Madam Chair, Representative, no, I cannot break any rules.
WV

West Virginia 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 14th, 2026 at 09:19 pm

West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill is our revenue rules bundle.
  • This bill is our revenue rules bundle containing 27 rules.
  • Again, this is the revenue rules bundle containing 27 rules from six different agencies.
  • Your Committee on Rules has… Your Committee on Rules has had under consideration Senate Concurrent Resolution
  • I've never had an illegal worker in my business.
Keywords: 994, senate, all
Summary: The Senate considered and passed House Bill 4245, the Department of Revenue rules bundle covering 27 rules from six agencies. Members withdrew the committee amendment, adopted a floor amendment making changes to two lottery rules and one tax rule related to pre-need cemetery companies, then passed the bill 30-1. The Senate also adopted a title amendment and made the bill effective from passage by a 31-0 vote. Later, when the House rejected the Senate’s amendments, the Senate receded from its amendments and again passed the bill, making it effective from passage. The chamber also adopted several concurrent resolutions from the Rules Committee, including studies on school finance transparency, divorce grounds, the Southern West Virginia water crisis, athletic trainer access in public secondary schools, the eastern gray fox population, upland game bird stamp purchases, and the Public Service Commission. Senate Concurrent Resolution 50, calling for a study of the PSC, was also adopted. In addition, the Senate passed House Bill 5381, which expands the Office of Energy’s role to develop a comprehensive energy policy and grid stabilization plan, and House Bill 5412, the Future Ready Education Act, after amending it to require annual vocational and agriculture offerings unless not viable and to set science-of-reading training requirements for K-5 literacy teachers by 2028-29. The Senate passed House Bill 845, a supplemental appropriation to the Governor’s Office Civil Contingent Fund, after concurring in a House amendment that reappropriated federal match grant funds and increased the civil contingency surplus fund from $15 million to $25 million; it was made effective from passage. The chamber also concurred in House amendments to House Bill 4106 on constitutional carry for 18- to 20-year-olds, House Bill 4004 creating the Recharge West Virginia training reimbursement program, House Bill 5453 revising the school aid funding formula for special education weighting, and other measures including House Bill 4009 on portable benefits, Senate Bill 164 on substitute teacher definitions, and House Bill 4606 on pretrial release for certain felonies. A lengthy debate centered on House Bill 4198, the E-Verify Safe Harbor Act. The Judiciary Committee amendment would have required public and certain private employers to use E-Verify, while a further amendment from the Senator from Randolph would have limited the mandate to public employers and made E-Verify optional for private employers with liability protections for good-faith use. After extensive discussion about small business impacts, federal-state conflicts, and enforcement, the Senate adopted the Randolph amendment and then passed the bill 31-3, with a title amendment also adopted. The Senate later refused to concur in House amendments to House Bill 4010, concurred in House amendments to House Bill 5438, receded from amendments to House Bill 4765, and adjourned sine die.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 6th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Under the rules, it is recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
  • Members, this bill, a workers' comp bill, passed the Senate 38 to 0.
  • an all workers' compensation medical claims database.
  • an all workers' compensation medical claims database.
  • Louisiana's workers' compensation medical reimbursement system by creating an all workers' compensation
Keywords: 974, senate, all
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 118 May 12th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Tax credit for contributions to the enterprise; allocation notice rules... Allocation notice rules.
  • Rules.
  • Firefighters, the firefighter cancer trust and workers' comp Workers' comp and the firefighter cancer
  • Workers' comp does... Workers' comp does involve investigation, delaying access to benefits.
  • They have workers' comp.
Keywords: 981, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Executive Departments and Administration (04/23/2025)

Executive Departments and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • to the rules proposed by the dental board.
  • We came on those children. in the rules.
  • in addition to the regular workers comp. in addition to the regular workers comp.
  • addition to all other workers addition to all other workers compensation<01:01:05.440> benefits
  • an injured worker can be paid out. an injured worker can be paid out.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all