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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Care & Wellness Jan 21st, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • We think that there's plenty of places to get a flu shot and go to most pharmacies now take care of that
  • . ...and go to most pharmacies now take care of that, and plus the health departments, especially in
Summary: The committee held public hearings on House Bill 2261, which would require health care providers to wear badges showing name, credential, and relevant degrees, require similar disclosure in advertising, and restrict use of the title “physician surgeon” to certain physicians and osteopathic physicians. Supporters, including the Washington State Medical Association and patient advocates, said the bill would improve transparency and informed consent. Opponents from nurse, naturopathic, and adult family home groups argued it was overly broad, burdensome, confusing, and could harm access to care or residential home settings; several also said existing disciplinary laws already address misrepresentation. No vote was taken on HB 2261 during the hearing. The committee also heard House Bill 2283, which would raise the medical loss ratio for fully insured individual, small group, and large group health plans to 90 percent. Supporters, including small business, patient, and physician groups, said the bill would push more premium dollars toward patient care and lower costs or increase rebates. Insurers and the Office of the Insurance Commissioner warned it could destabilize the market, reduce flexibility for administrative services, and lead to carrier exits, though OIC said it was working on amendments. The bill was not voted on in the hearing. House Bill 2425, an agency-request bill on nurse delegation, would broaden what tasks registered nurses may delegate, remove some setting and training restrictions, expand emergency medication authority, and adjust liability and retaliation protections. The Board of Nursing, long-term care providers, and skilled nursing/assisted living representatives supported the bill as a modernization that could ease workforce shortages and improve care access, while the Washington State Association for Justice opposed the immunity provisions and raised patient safety concerns. The hearing ended without a vote on HB 2425. In executive session, the committee advanced several bills. HB 2110, with an amendment clarifying ambulance staffing and RN scope, passed 18-0 with one excused. HB 2113 passed 18-0 with one excused. HB 2122, as amended to require hospitals to offer flu vaccines with several flexibility and critical-access-hospital exemptions, passed 15-3 with one excused. HB 2152, as amended to require certain facilities to allow medical cannabis use for qualifying terminal patients and to add related exemptions and protections, passed 17-1 with one excused. The meeting then adjourned.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 3rd, 2025

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've been involved in. from party politics all the way through local politics in Las Vegas and started
  • It funds a lot of important areas: local government planning fund, charter schools, programs, drinking
  • produce or get a stainless steel manufacturing facility in New Mexico and start building our plans here locally
  • I was all over the state, talking and working with local... communities about their economies, how they
  • When I'm at graduation at New Mexico Tech, I get tears because we have our local indigenous population
Committee: Senate Senate Rules
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 8 Jan 19th, 2026

Idaho House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I felt left out, so the pharmacy students are on the fourth floor from Idaho State, if anyone wants to
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:
  • that this weakens the original intent of keeping units truly owner occupied and affordable for our local
  • that this weakens the original intent of keeping units truly owner occupied and affordable for our local
  • that this weakens the original intent of keeping units truly owner occupied and affordable for our local
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Mar 5th, 2025

Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V

Transcript Highlights:
  • districts, to local counties.
  • It's like a local match for a project, basically, because it's not.
  • A local municipality or an individual. It can be a variety of things.
  • This item is the local mental health court liaison program.
  • For C, 1.8 million funding for UTMB to add eight pharmacy FTEs for C, for, sorry.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Organized retail criminals carry out their crime sometimes with impunity, and police in the state and local
  • Massachusetts has already experienced this type of activity locally in December of 2023 in Braintree.
  • Two women from New York were caught with over 4,600 gift cards from a retail pharmacy unactivated.
  • retail industry and the gift card brands Massachusetts has already experienced this type of activity locally
  • of 2023 in brain tree two women from new york were caught with over 4600 gift cards from a retail pharmacy
Summary: The hearing opened with procedural remarks and acknowledgments of Rosh Hashanah, followed by testimony on several criminal justice bills before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. A major focus was S. 1061, the “Raise the Age” bill, which would gradually move 18- to 20-year-olds into the juvenile justice system. Supporters included youth and young adult advocates, former juvenile court Judge Jay Blitzman, ACLU and CPCS representatives, Roca, United Way, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, and Senator Brendan Crichton. They argued that young adults are still developmentally immature, that juvenile court services improve education and rehabilitation, and that adult-system involvement leads to higher recidivism and racial disparities. Committee members asked practical questions about how the bill would work, and witnesses explained that it would expand access to juvenile court diversion, probation, and DYS services for the covered age group. The chairs also noted a notice issue, clarifying that the hearing had been posted seven days in advance rather than the usual ten. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to revise accomplice and joint venture murder liability and sentencing. Representative Sam Montaño and Senator Liz Miranda supported the reform, arguing that current law can impose life sentences on people with limited or no knowledge of a killing and that the doctrine contributes to racial bias and disproportionate punishment. A law professor, a former defendant, and advocates from the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls described cases where people were punished far beyond their actual role and said the bill would better align charges and sentences with individual culpability. Related testimony also supported a proportionality-focused reform to reduce the harshness of joint venture sentencing. Several other public safety and criminal justice bills drew testimony. Senator Robin Kennedy supported a bill redefining strangulation in domestic violence law, saying the current “substantial pressure” standard is too vague and that strangulation is often lethal without visible injury. District Attorney Ryan and a retail business executive backed a bill on organized retail theft, saying it would give prosecutors more flexible charging options and better address coordinated theft rings. Representative Vieira and the family of Kiana Barros urged action on Kiana’s Law, which would improve restraining-order notification and enforcement after Barros’s daughter was killed after an order was not served. The hearing also included support for the HALO Act, which would create a 25-foot safety zone around first responders and penalize harassment or obstruction, and for a bill to enhance courthouse security by creating specific protections for judges and their families. No votes were taken during the hearing."} 0}]}
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 6th, 2025

Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • There are also components of pharmacy, such as, obviously, GLP.
  • And the reason I ask this is because we're really trying to shift our focus to how do we support locally
  • dietitians, dentists, psychologists, social workers, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and pharmacy
  • As you probably know, a local hospital here recently settled a $16.75 million lawsuit because of a 13
  • And I'm working with, or would like to work with some of the local Medicare providers.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (03/19/2025)

Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that again in pharmacy the cash customer got screwed on the pricing because the insurance weren't
  • the cash customer got screwed pharmacy the cash customer got screwed on<00:51:00.520><c> the</c><00:
  • It means a clinic can, because they don't have the services, refer people who are in crisis to the local
  • </c><01:18:34.600><c> Community</c><01:18:35.000><c> Mental</c> crisis to the local Community Mental
  • crisis to the local Community Mental Health<01:18:35.560><c> Center</c><01:18:36.280><c> just</c><01:
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (ALC) Jan 16th, 2026

ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (ALC)

Transcript Highlights:
  • and educational supplies and instructional services that are very similar between charter schools, local
  • So school boards and superintendents at home and their local communities can make the decisions.
  • School boards and superintendents at home in their local communities can make the decisions that they
  • But again, we allow them to make those local decisions to determine how they're going to educate kids
  • And I think a lot of the PBMs and the pharmacies, frankly, are waiting on the rule draft.
Summary: The Arkansas Legislative Council meeting began with approval of the December 2025 minutes and a presentation from the Bureau of Legislative Research on the December revenue report. Dr. Carlos Silva said gross collections were about $4.02 billion, up slightly from the prior year, and net available for distribution was also above last year but down modestly from the previous month because of higher-than-expected corporate income tax refunds. Members asked about corporate tax trends, tariffs, and inflation, and Silva said it was too early to call the corporate decline a trend and that tariff effects would likely show up mainly in sales tax collections. The council then adopted several subcommittee reports, including the Executive Committee Subcommittee, Administrative Rules, Hospital/Medicaid/Developmental Disabilities, Occupational Licensing Review, PEER, Review, State Insurance Program Oversight, and Personnel. The PEER report drew the most debate because of a Department of Agriculture grant tied to Perry County and Central Arkansas Water; members discussed whether removing the Perry County portion would affect the grant’s competitiveness, and the report was ultimately adopted with the item included. The Review Subcommittee also heard questions about a BDO contract for the rural health transformation program, with DFA explaining that the contractor would manage the program while state agencies would make funding decisions consistent with the state’s application. A major portion of the meeting focused on the Education Freedom Account appropriation tied to LEARNS. Senators and representatives debated whether the program helps families or diverts money from public schools, with supporters arguing it funds students and choice and opponents arguing it is costly, vulnerable to fraud, and harms public school funding. Department of Education officials said roughly 28,000 private school students and 17,500 homeschool students were participating, that EFA students must submit standardized tests annually, and that the requested $32 million was to cover existing participants. After multiple substitute motions and extended debate, the body rejected a motion to strip out the $32 million and then adopted the report and related motions. The meeting ended after routine approvals of additional agency items and adjournment.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Jan 14th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Some of those categories are drug and violent crime prevention, assisting local law enforcement partners
  • Some of those categories are drug and violent crime prevention, assisting local law enforcement partners
  • We are requesting $15 million to the SAFE program to support local law enforcement and combat fentanyl
  • There was a press conference last week where he said, as a state, we have been involved in local law
  • It covers everything to do with health services with the exception of pharmacy.
Bills: S0054 , S0156 , S0296 , S0298
Summary: The committee first heard a presentation on the Governor’s fiscal year 2026-27 public safety budget, which totals about $8.2 billion within a $117.4 billion overall state budget. Caitlin Dawkins of the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget outlined funding and reductions across the public safety silo, including the Department of Corrections, Juvenile Justice, FDLE, Legal Affairs, the courts, and related entities. Agency heads then presented their requests, with FDLE seeking funding for fentanyl enforcement, career offender registry staffing, alert system upgrades, alcohol testing equipment, officer mental health, criminal alien detection, and statutory staffing needs; DJJ requesting money for the Florida Scholars Academy, uniforms, residential contract rate increases, a new Broward detention center, and facility maintenance; and DOC requesting major funding for correctional officer pay increases, 500 additional FTE, facility construction and maintenance, communications and security technology, offender information system modernization, inmate health care, pharmaceuticals, and food service. Members discussed staffing shortages, prison conditions, immigration enforcement, public records burdens, mental health and substance use treatment, and the need for continued investment in corrections. A member of the public also testified about poor conditions in some prisons, including clothing, food, medical care, and maintenance issues. The committee then considered and passed CS/SB 156, the Jason Rayner Act, which would clarify that a person may not resist a law enforcement officer with violence when the officer is performing official duties and would increase penalties in cases involving violence against officers. The bill sponsor described the case of Officer Jason Rayner and said the measure was intended to prevent defendants from using claims about unlawful detention or arrest to justify violence. An amendment conforming the bill’s language was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably after support was noted from several law enforcement and municipal groups. Next, the committee passed CS/SB 54, which addresses use of substances affecting cognitive function. An amendment narrowed the medical-records language to records relevant to investigations of violent offenders and clarified privacy protections. The bill was then reported favorably. The committee also passed CS/SB 296, the Haven Act, which would direct a study of a secure web-based alert system for domestic violence victims so they can contact 911 without alerting an abuser, and would expand the Address Confidentiality Program to include dating violence victims. Testimony from survivors and advocates emphasized the danger victims face when trying to leave abusive situations. Finally, the committee passed CS/SB 298, the public-records companion bill, which extends confidentiality protections for participants in the Address Confidentiality Program to dating violence victims as well. All three bills were reported favorably, and the committee adjourned after no further business.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 19th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Round Rock Chamber, the YMCA, and a number of local charities.
  • Are we talking about the local municipalities, or what are we talking about?
  • That pay any bail bonds from receiving a grant from a local entity, correct?
  • Are we talking about the local municipalities, or what are we talking about?
  • Yeah, well, I think that's a decision that will be made locally.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 5th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker I move to set a local consent resolutions counter for 10 a.m. Wednesday 7th.
  • SB 1008 by Middleton ruling to state and local authority to regulate the food service industry.
  • Members, this is a local bill that authorizes ASR projects in my district.
  • This is a local provider participation program and there is an amendment.
  • So, this is adding Collin County, so it's the local hospital district bill? That's correct.
Bills: HJR34 , HB 113 , HB184 , HB198 , HB247 , HB367 , HB449 , HB1778 , HB514 , HB576 , HB632 , HB1395 , HB2225 , HB2582 , HB2494 , HB766 , HB2715 , HB2712 , HB3069 , HB3505 , HB 1269 , HB4224 , HB3609 , HB5032 , HB2240 , HB5180 , HB3348 , HB4668 , HB4909 , HB4665 , HB4895 , HB3395 , HB3157 , HB4762 , HB4395 , HB4325 , HB4952 , HB4386 , HB4273 , HB2760 , HB2697 , HB2820 , HB1828 , HB1768 , HB1579 , HB1773 , HB1871 , HB2035 , HB2448 , HB2492 , HB1411 , HB4753 , HB4666 , HB4529 , HB1499 , HB1610 , HB2028 , HB1506 , HB886 , HB3546 , HB796 , HB223 , HB1475 , HB3556 , HB4638 , HCR126 , HB38 , HB 104 , SB1008 , SB1106 , SB1172 , SB2629 , SB2964 , SB616 , HB2214 , SB552 , HB3181 , HB3628 , HB589 , HB3529 , HB3354 , HB333 , HB2914 , HB4130 , HB4131 , HB24 , HB 1160 , HB3962 , HB4115 , HB2295 , HB5398 , HB1407 , HB3800 , HB2613 , HJR138 , HB42 , HJR34 , HB 129 , HB677 , HB426 , HB668 , HB1699 , HB2017 , HB2128 , HB2038 , HB3783 , HB3717 , HB2316 , HB3686 , HB2563 , HB3883 , HB4021 , HB2788 , HB2663 , HB3305 , HB3173 , HB3474 , HB 1105 , HB3531 , HB3490 , HB3597 , HB 1295 , HB3512 , HB3010 , HB3112 , HB4215 , HB3223 , HB3464 , HB3120 , HB4214 , HB4511 , HB3704 , HB4081 , HB4783 , HB4063 , HB2783 , HB4937 , HB5085 , HB2510 , HB3426 , HB4361 , HB 1169 , HB2516 , HB2347 , HB4034 , HB4700 , HB3560 , HB5150 , HB3860 , HB3146 , HB3924 , HB 113 , HB184 , HB198 , HB247 , HB367 , HB449 , HB1778 , HB514 , HB576 , HB632 , HB1395 , HB2225 , HB2582 , HB2494 , HB766 , HB2715 , HB2712 , HB3069 , HB3505 , HB 1269 , HB4224 , HB3609 , HB5032 , HB2240 , HB5180 , HB3348 , HB4668 , HB4909 , HB4665 , HB4895 , HB3395 , HB3157 , HB4762 , HB4395 , HB4325 , HB4952 , HB4386 , HB4273 , HB2760 , HB2697 , HB2820 , HB1828 , HB1768 , HB1579 , HB1773 , HB1871 , HB2035 , HB2448 , HB2492 , HB1411 , HB4753 , HB4666 , HB4529 , HB1499 , HB1610 , HB2028 , HB1506 , HB886 , HB3546 , HB796 , HB223 , HB1475 , HB3556 , HB4638 , HCR98 , HCR92 , HCR126
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Wed Mar 19, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c> it could touch on Purely local it could touch on Purely local transactions<00:21:22.000><c> for<
  • </c> this bill to to reach those purely local this bill to to reach those purely local uh<00:21:39.480
  • Ibw Local 1260, opposition not present.
  • Yeah, I've just one for the pharmacy pharmacist Association.
Summary: The committee met on March 19, 2025, and first heard SB 137 SD2 HD1 relating to electric utilities. The Division of Consumer Advocacy and the Public Utilities Commission said they stood on their written comments, IBEW Local 1260 supported the bill, and Ulupono Initiative also supported it. Hawaiian Electric supported the intent but asked for an amendment, saying the bill’s definition of “acquiring entity” was too broad and could unintentionally cover purely local utility transactions. A later witness from Life of the Land supported the bill only if the merger/acquisition language were removed, arguing the PUC would not have a workable mechanism to let a cooperative intervene in a utility sale process. Committee members questioned whether the bill could still work without that section, and Ulupono said it was open to clarifying language but did not seek to remove the provision; the discussion ended without a vote in the excerpt provided. The committee then took up SB 1220 SD2 relating to a renewable gas tariff. The Division of Consumer Advocacy and the PUC again stood on written comments. HGas strongly supported the measure, saying it would create a faster, more cost-effective path for a voluntary renewable gas tariff without requiring a full rate case, while preserving PUC oversight and consumer protections. The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas also supported the bill, emphasizing that it would expand consumer choice and help Hawaii’s clean energy goals while keeping the program voluntary and shielding non-participating customers from costs. Henry Curtis of Life of the Land opposed the bill, arguing that HGas already had an active rate case and could have raised the issue there, and that the proposal did not increase renewable gas supply or speed up acquisition; he called it a gimmick. In response, HGas said the bill was mainly a mechanism to speed filing and that the details would be worked out in a PUC docket. Committee members pressed HGas on whether the measure would actually add renewable gas, what source would be used, and whether customers would simply be paying more for the same gas; HGas said it had two projects in development, including banagrass and hydrogen-related work, and that the tariff would be a voluntary opt-in rate for customers seeking renewable natural gas to meet sustainability goals. No vote was taken in the excerpt provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • behavioral health, which includes our executive medical director, our outpatient clinic operations, pharmacy
  • director our Outpatient<00:04:30.560><c> Clinic</c><00:04:30.960><c> operations</c><00:04:31.639><c> Pharmacy
  • </c> Outpatient Clinic operations Pharmacy Outpatient Clinic operations Pharmacy services<00:04:33.080
  • , and the reason I'm raising it is that one of the things I have seen, I've heard from some of our local
  • It's more locally driven in that process, and that's something I think we all need to look at as we kind
NV

Nevada 2025 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Jun 2nd, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Nevada Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We know every single one of us has experienced walking into a pharmacy or a big-box retailer and not
  • Assembly Bill 388 entitles state employees of the executive branch and employees of private and local
  • requires public and private health insurance plans, including Medicaid, and insurance for state and local
  • It says the legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following cases: regulating
  • That's what happens when you remove local accountability and hand the reins to bureaucrats and unelected
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Mar 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • We didn't want to inadvertently hurt our smaller local community banks and things of that nature.
  • Just like the last bill, we are trying to not harm our small local financial institutions.
  • just trying to make sure that we are focusing on larger financial institutions and not harming our local
  • They that they just don't have good inventory control, and it really punishes our local wholesalers.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • The way I read some language in this bill, though, puts quite a few handcuffs on a local community that
  • I want to ask: we want to talk about local control, but just a while ago I heard that if we don't agree
  • there in every county throughout our state that are toying with the opportunity, want to gauge the local
  • That's why the local control component of this bill is so important.
Bills: HB2989 , HB3724 , HB2992 , HB3464 , HB4246 , HB3989
Committee: House Utilities
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Feb 5th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • It can be used to evaluate transfer requests that come either from the local jurisdiction or from the
  • In addition to the statutory RJT process, WSDOT is authorized to abandon or transfer to local agencies
  • Barkis's fiscal note does say that they transfer about 15 lane miles per biennium to local agencies.
  • The current abandonment statutes do not consider whether local governments want the highway segments,
  • Chair, members of the committee for the record, Elizabeth Renz, after the local government.