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• Well, a child's brain is pretty well fried by two in the afternoon.
• Well, a child's brain is pretty well fried by two in the afternoon.
• Because you can say it's the same number of hours, but as you said, the brains go fried.

Bills: HB624, HB1022, HB1203, SB82, SB206, SB305, SB376, SB441

Keywords: school safety, emergency operations plan, crisis management, active shooter, drills, training, classroom security, primary health services, behavioral health, school health providers, medical necessity, student health care, education, school week, instructional time, public schools, performance score, student athletes, cardiovascular health, sudden cardiac arrest

Summary: The House Education Committee met on April 23, 2026, with a quorum present and took up several education-related bills. SB 206 by Chairman Miller would require blood pressure screening for student athletes as part of physical examinations, with amendments narrowing the bill to student athletes and removing BESE rulemaking language. Supporters, including Coach Marcus Scott and the American Heart Association, said the measure could help detect undiagnosed hypertension and prevent serious health events. Rep. Freiberg moved to report the bill as amended, and it passed without objection. The committee also heard SB 305 by Chairman Edmonds, which would require a publicly available statewide career-alignment dashboard showing how degree programs connect to workforce outcomes, including graduation, employment, wages, and job placement data. Edmonds, student task force member Cruz Cassard, and supporters from workforce and business groups said the dashboard would help students understand Louisiana job opportunities and reduce outmigration. Rep. Landry moved to report the bill favorably, and it passed without objection. HB 624 by Speaker Pro Tem Johnson would update public school emergency planning language from “crisis management plans” to “emergency operations plans” and align the law with current safety standards. School safety officials said it was a cleanup bill that would not create new mandates or costs. Rep. Carpenter moved to report it favorably, and it passed without objection. The committee then considered HB 1022 by Rep. Jackson, as substituted, concerning school-based health care services. Jackson said the bill was intended to clarify that medical decisions in school-based health centers should be made by licensed health professionals, not school staff, while preserving parental consent and not expanding services. School-based health center providers and health association representatives supported the bill, citing examples of improved access and continuity of care, but several members raised concerns about consent, the role of school staff, instructional time, and whether the bill could shift authority away from schools or create legal confusion. Jackson said he would work on amendments with stakeholders and legal staff. After discussion, Rep. Landry moved to report the substitute bill, and the committee approved it on a 10-4 roll call vote.

Bills: LB878, LB958, LB958A, LB762, LB1187, LB966, LB929, LB962, LB1209, LB937A, LB962A, LB1050, LB1050A, LB965, LB1022, LB753, LB788, LB913, LB1055, LB1195, LB429, LB721, LB722, LB727, LB745, LB749, LB778, LR293, LR296, LR422, LR495, LR496, LR497, LR498, LR499, LR500, LR501, LR502, LR503, LR504

Keywords: paid parental leave, state employees, workplace benefits, family support, economic impact, Medicaid, Medical Assistance Act, home and community-based services waiver, HCBS waiver, waiver participant, assessment tool, clinical interviewing, service tier, retroactive coverage, doula, doula reimbursement, maternal health, prenatal care, pregnancy, birth outcomes

Bills: LB878, LB958, LB958A, LB762, LB1187, LB966, LB929, LB962, LB1209, LB937A, LB962A, LB1050, LB1050A, LB965, LB1022, LB753, LB788, LB913, LB1055, LB1195, LB429, LB721, LB722, LB727, LB745, LB749, LB778, LR293, LR296, LR422, LR495, LR496, LR497, LR498, LR499, LR500, LR501, LR502, LR503, LR504

Keywords: paid parental leave, state employees, workplace benefits, family support, economic impact, Medicaid, Medical Assistance Act, home and community-based services waiver, HCBS waiver, waiver participant, assessment tool, clinical interviewing, service tier, retroactive coverage, doula, doula reimbursement, maternal health, prenatal care, pregnancy, birth outcomes

Bills: SB2054, SB2143, SB2145, SB2400, SB2447, SB2494, SB2723, SB2727, SB3131, HCR187, SCR177, SR172, SCR5, SCR85, SR75, SCR139, SR131, SCR146, SR138, SR84, SCR31, SR27, SCR46, SR45, SCR48, SR47, SCR9, SR11, SCR83, SR73, SCR20, SR17, SCR56, SR54, SCR87, SR79, SCR160, SR151, SCR28, SCR120, SCR129, SR121, SCR71, SR66, SCR147, SR139, SCR79, SCR179, SCR181, SCR182, SCR60, SR81, SR174, SR176, SR177, SCR89, SCR69, SCR74, SR68

Keywords: public safety, Hawaii National Guard, military deployment, governor authority, federal assistance, elections, chief election officer, vacancy, order of succession, election commission, law enforcement, recording rights, private action, civil rights, police accountability, SB2400, seaglider, wing-in-ground craft, wing in ground effect, WIG craft

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• It just fits into our brain much easier. It is physically easier to lift and to move.
• It just fits into<00:53:11.680> our<00:53:11.920> brain<00:53:12.160> much<00:53
• <00:53:12.800> It<00:53:12.960> is into our brain much easier.
• It is into our brain much easier.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Individuals receiving ICS services, including adults with serious mental illness, brain injuries, and
• I urge you to run to the horizon with your brain, your body. Just keep acting first.”
• There's so many times that you can learn about the impact of addiction on the brain. state, we state,
• 02:03:44.680> the about the impact of addiction on the about the impact of addiction on the brain

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Sometimes you need help for your brain as well.
• Sometimes you need help<01:17:07.520> for<01:17:07.679> your<01:17:07.920> brain
• <01:17:09.440> Um<01:17:09.920> and<01:17:10.159> we help for your brain as
• Um and we help for your brain as well.

Bills: HF2103, HF4508

Keywords: energy, renewable energy, ammonia, hydrogen, certificate tracking, funding, environment, elk, cervidae, cervid importation, chronic wasting disease, CWD, animal health, livestock, wildlife disease, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, state veterinarian, zoo, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, AZA

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• It enhances, allows the brain to relearn to process difficult emotions, facilitates engagement with traumatic
• guidelines released by a working<01:36:40.080> group<01:36:40.320> called<01:36:40.560> brain
• <01:36:40.880> futures<01:36:42.080> um working group called brain futures um working
• group called brain futures um which<01:36:42.719> created<01:36:43.199> a<01:36:44.080

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• can we expand this best practice at where to try to help people with medicine that will block your brain
• c><00:03:03.280> will<00:03:03.400> block<00:03:03.760> your<00:03:03.880> brain
• <00:03:04.600> to medicine that will block your brain to medicine that will block your brain

Bills: HF4493, HF3133, HF4595, HF4143, HF4142, HF3756, HF4289, HF1724, HF2291, HF4568, HF4547

Keywords: opioid use disorder, OUD, medication-assisted treatment, MAT, pharmacist prescribing, pharmacy practice, controlled substances, Schedule III, Schedule IV, Schedule V, DEA registration, Board of Pharmacy, substance use disorder, addiction treatment, buprenorphine, naltrexone, harm reduction, prescription authority, pharmacist intern, Minnesota pharmacy law

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• So, the same rules apply, you know, I guess, because it got my brain going in a million different directions
• cuz<00:12:59.040> it<00:12:59.120> got<00:12:59.320> my<00:13:00.000> brain
• you know, I guess cuz it got my brain you know, I guess cuz it got my brain going<00:13:00.600><

Bills: HF4470, HF2418, HF3417, HF3365, HF3463

Keywords: HF4470, Melissa Hortman, memorial, statue, memorial garden, State Office Building, Capitol Mall Design Framework, capital investment, appropriation, Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board, Department of Administration, public art, commemorative monument, landscaping, artist selection, family consultation, Minnesota legislature, state building site, capital appropriation, political subdivisions

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• He had experienced a traumatic brain injury as a child, therefore had complex medical needs.
• :20.240> experienced<00:31:20.559> a<00:31:20.799> traumatic<00:31:21.200> brain
• <00:31:21.440> injury had experienced a traumatic brain injury had experienced a traumatic
• brain injury as<00:31:21.919> a<00:31:22.080> child,<00:31:22.320> therefore<00

Bills: HF4438, HF4467, HF4379, SF3402, HF4349, HF4064, HF84, HF85, HF3804

Keywords: healthcare, WIC, community health, licensing, speech-language pathology, audiology, contract term limits, healthcare services, provider enrollment, disenrollment, premium payments, medical assistance, substance use disorders, mental health, children's mental health, early childhood, early intervention, consultation grants, Head Start, child care

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• Your brain is working perfectly fine, but your speech won't work.
• Your brain<01:08:58.680> is<01:08:58.839> working<01:08:59.319> perfectly<01:08:
• 59.880> fine,<01:09:00.680> but brain is working perfectly fine, but brain is working perfectly

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• In early childhood, when the brain is rapidly developing, repeated or intense stress can disrupt emotional
• 00:42:49.080> childhood,<00:42:49.640> when<00:42:49.760> the<00:42:49.880> brain
• <00:42:50.120> is early childhood, when the brain is early childhood, when the brain is rapidly

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• An emergency room nurse who lost his colleague, Gabe Harvey, and suffered serious brain trauma.
• colleague, Gabe Harvey, and suffered colleague, Gabe Harvey, and suffered serious<01:13:37.600> brain
• 38.560> Also,<01:13:39.040> a<01:13:39.120> young<01:13:39.360> man serious brain
• Also, a young man serious brain trauma.

Bills: HF2354, HF3621, HF3429, HF3483

Keywords: medical assistance, fraud prevention, subpoena authority, criminal penalties, consumer protection, fraud, payment withholding, withheld payments, program integrity, public funds, state agency, program participant, credible allegation of fraud, administrative reconsideration, contested case, chapter 14, data practices, confidential data, protected nonpublic data, anti-fraud

Summary: The committee approved the minutes from March 5 by voice vote and welcomed new member Representative Van Binsbergen. It then took up House File 2354, which Chair Liebling moved to re-refer to the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee. Representative Norris presented the bill as an updated version of the Medical Assistance Protection Act, aimed at strengthening the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, closing loopholes, equalizing fraud penalties, and increasing penalties for large-scale Medicaid fraud. Attorney General Ellison said the bill would add 18 specialized staff to the unit, moving it from 32 to 50 positions, and argued the federal-state matching structure makes the Attorney General’s office the proper home for the funding because the unit is dedicated to Medicaid fraud work. Nick Wonka, director of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, explained the bill’s provisions affecting committee jurisdiction: expanded subpoena authority to obtain financial account contents in provider-fraud investigations, conforming legal representation language to preserve the unit’s authority, venue changes to allow charging in counties where parts of the offense occurred, and a restitution change to let courts order restitution for related conduct in the same scheme. He said the subpoena change would speed investigations and align the Attorney General’s authority with other agencies, and that the restitution change would help recover more fraudulently obtained Medicaid funds. No public testimony was offered. Members questioned why the funding should go to the Attorney General’s office rather than the BCA, whether the new records authority was federally required, how the venue language would work across state lines, and whether the added FTEs indicated the fraud problem was larger than expected. Ellison and Wonka responded that the federal grant requires the work to stay within the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, that the unit’s investigators are specialized and work with, but separate from, law enforcement, and that the venue provision applies only within Minnesota while out-of-state matters would be referred to the appropriate authorities. The amendment that had been posted was withdrawn and not offered.

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• Uh, and so I'm really excited that we took the time to do that and use the brains out there and the experience
• that<00:40:12.960> and<00:40:13.440> use<00:40:13.680> the<00:40:13.920> brains
• <00:40:14.320> out<00:40:14.560> there to do that and use the brains out there to do
• that and use the brains out there and<00:40:15.040> the<00:40:15.359> the<00:40:15.839

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Guess I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around this.
• :31.679> my Guess I'm having difficulty wrapping my Guess I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain
• brain around this. brain around this.

Bills: HB0130, HB0147

Keywords: Second Amendment, firearms, state rights, federal regulation, law enforcement, civil penalties, government liability, property tax, homeowner exemption, Wyoming, voter initiative, tax legislation, 916, all

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• Your brain screaming for relief louder than any rational thought.
• <01:37:32.800> Your<01:37:33.040> brain<01:37:33.360> screaming<01:37:33.679
• Your brain screaming for off your body.
• Your brain screaming for relief<01:37:34.320> louder<01:37:34.719> than<01:37:34.880>

Bills: HF362, HF2590, HF2760, HF3444

Keywords: massage therapy, Asian bodywork therapy, massage therapist, Asian bodywork therapist, licensure, professional licensing, health occupations, Department of Health, commissioner of health, advisory council, protected title, unlicensed practice, scope of practice, consumer protection, background check, professional liability insurance, continuing education, credentialing examination, state preemption, municipal regulation

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• And forgive me, my brain is a little foggy. We were here 12 hours ago.
• And forgive me, my<00:53:56.960> my<00:53:57.359> brain<00:53:57.520> is<00:53:57.680
• <00:53:58.400> We<00:53:58.559> were my my brain is a little foggy.
• We were my my brain is a little foggy.

Bills: SF0035, SF0090, SF0072

Keywords: education, cell phones, smart devices, school policy, student conduct, school property, rental fees, youth activities, education policy, Wyoming legislature, teacher licensure, teacher mobility, interstate compact, education compact, licensure reciprocity, reciprocal certification, teacher certification, professional teaching standards board, out-of-state teachers, military spouse

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• My granddaughter could have had permanent brain damage from being hit, her head on the floor due to deletion
• My granddaughter could have had permanent brain damage from being hit, her head on the floor due to deletion
• My granddaughter could have had permanent brain damage from being hit, her head on the floor due to deletion
• My granddaughter could have had permanent brain damage from being hit, her head on the floor due

Bills: HF1027, HF2226, HF1916, HF1915, HF1567, HF1986

Keywords: mortgage foreclosure, redemption, foreclosure surplus, sheriff's sale, junior lienholder, mortgagor, homeowner protections, loss mitigation, dual tracking, foreclosure redemption period, certificate of redemption, certificate of sale, sheriff, county recorder, registrar of titles, homeownership center, lien priority, real property, foreclosure by advertisement, surplus funds

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• At 36 years old, I was diagnosed with brain cancer and was able to access psychedelic treatment to assist
• old I was therapies um at 36 years old I was diagnosed<01:07:44.760> with<01:07:44.960> brain
• cancer<01:07:46.599> and<01:07:46.880> was<01:07:47.119> able diagnosed with brain
• cancer and was able diagnosed with brain cancer and was able to<01:07:48.160> access<01:07:49.000

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The Committee on Health heard testimony on several bills. On SB 1441, which would repeal the transfer of the Oahu Regional Health Care System from HHSC to the Department of Health, the Department of Health said it strongly supports the measure and requested clarifying amendments. HHSC/Oahu Region also supported the bill and said it had no objection to the department’s amendments. In response to questions, witnesses said the agencies have been working on an MOU to support transfers of long-term care patients to Leahi, with the current goal being about 10 to 15 patients, but transfers would occur only as space and staffing allow; one patient was reportedly being admitted at the time, and the process was described as slow and case-by-case. The committee then heard SB 1443 on payment rates for state hospital patients and related Department of Health services. The hospital administrator said the bill would allow rates above Medicaid for community or foster-home placements if patients cannot be placed at Leahi or elsewhere, and would set Medicaid-level reimbursement for outside medical services used by state hospital patients. He said at least one provider was interested in offering services at that rate and that the population involved is largely non-ambulatory long-term care patients. Members asked about availability and training, and the witness said special training could be provided. SB 1322, a broad mental health bill, drew mixed testimony. The Department of Law Enforcement supported giving crisis-intervention-trained officers more discretion to transport people to medical care instead of arresting them. The Attorney General supported the bill but recommended revisions to emergency-transport language and restoring liability protections. HHSC and Queens Hospital supported the overall goal but sought amendments to preserve the mental health emergency worker role in decision-making and to avoid negative impacts on emergency departments. The Disability Rights Center and ACLU opposed parts of the bill, arguing that it weakens due process, reduces protections in involuntary treatment and transport, and should retain a three-person treatment panel rather than reduce it to one. A Queens representative said the current program works well and reported that more than 90% of MH1 cases once went to hospitals, but that figure has dropped to about 60-70%, with about 20% now diverted to community settings or the behavioral health crisis center. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion provided.