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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Right now, our voting systems are certified to do these reports, and I've given you the EAC certification
  • This is the 2015 certification that we... We in Texas are certified to.
  • talking about how undervotes could also be shown in the current status of... of the requirements for certification
  • Also, with respect to some of the certification components, the language in those certification documents
  • Relating to the issuance of birth certificates to a homeless individual, Senate Bill 801.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce Mar 11th, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • It gives you a certificate.
  • requirements from the connecting utility in their interconnection agreement, which require UL certifications
  • UL safety certifications are considered the gold standard and are implemented nationwide.
  • Those require you to adhere to UL certifications and National Electric Code standards.
  • Those require you to adhere to UL certifications and National Electric Code standards.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met with a quorum and took up several pending bills, first reporting SB 1006 favorably after adopting a committee substitute that adds quarterly ZIP-code-level reporting to TDI on insurer declinations, cancellations, and nonrenewals. The committee also adopted substitutes and favorably reported SB 388, which adds nuclear to a credit program and excludes batteries from the dispatchable definition; SB 917; SB 504, which narrows reporting requirements for certain local entities, raises a salary threshold, and authorizes AG injunctive relief; SB 925, which clarifies that federal match dollars are included in a PLA-related prohibition; and SB 815, which removes downcoding references and focuses on AI use in prior authorization. SB 815 advanced on an 8-2 vote, while SB 388 advanced 6-3 and the others were reported 9-0 or 6-0 as noted. The committee then heard testimony on SB 378, which would prohibit aestheticians and cosmetologists from administering injections or using prescriptive medical devices unless legally authorized and would clarify TDLR disciplinary authority. The author and a retired neurosurgeon testified that unsafe, unauthorized injections pose real patient risks, and a TDLR witness said the bill addresses a long-standing regulatory gap. SB 378 was left pending after testimony. The committee also heard SB 1252, aimed at reducing municipal permitting barriers for residential backup power systems; the author and industry witnesses said city permitting is costly and inconsistent, while municipal utility representatives and advocates said the substitute preserved safety and utility oversight. That bill was also left pending. Additional bills heard but left pending included SB 1172, which would let LPs and LLCs sell their own property without a real estate license; SB 681, which would extend engineer license renewal periods and apply similar flexibility to engineering firms; SB 918, a TDLR cleanup bill for orthotics and prosthetics exemptions; SB 1343, which would require data brokers to post a clear link explaining Texans’ privacy rights and how to exercise them; SB 213, which would prohibit forced bundling of residential property and auto insurance while preserving voluntary discounts; SB 610, which would codify TDLR’s anti-trafficking unit; and SCR 8, expressing opposition to a central bank digital currency over privacy, security, and financial-stability concerns. Public testimony on SB 1343 and SB 213 was generally supportive, with consumer and advocacy groups emphasizing privacy, competition, and survivor safety, and the committee closed the day with those measures and others left pending.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Mar 7, 2025, 12:00PM HST - Day 27

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative Perck, please proceed with a certificate presentation.
  • Representative Perck, please proceed with a certificate presentation.
  • Representative Perck, please proceed with a certificate presentation.
  • <00:21:21.799> proceed<00:21:22.120> with<00:21:22.240> a<00:21:22.360> certificate
  • pick please proceed with a certificate pick please proceed with a certificate and<00:21:23.080><
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The House was called to order with 47 members present. After the journal reading was deferred and there were no messages from the Governor or Senate communications, members offered several introductions recognizing visiting guests, including tourism and hospitality representatives, Kahakai Elementary School students and staff from Kona, a Portuguese delegation from the Luso American Development Foundation, and other constituents and aides. The chamber then moved to floor presentations. House Resolution No. 84 was presented, commending the United States Air Force Reserve Command 624th Aeromedical Staging Squadron Medical Operations Flight for humanitarian service providing mental health support after the Maui wildfires. Representative Perck moved adoption, Representative Cochran seconded, and the resolution was read into the record describing the unit’s work with state and nonprofit partners to distribute supplies and support survivors’ emotional recovery. The House adopted the resolution by voice vote, and the motion carried. Following the presentation, the House recessed briefly so members could congratulate the honorees. When the House returned, there were no resolutions for action, and announcements included the Women’s Legislative Caucus Easter basket drive, recognition of Hawaii Iron Workers Stabilization Fund visitors, birthday greetings, and a reminder that substantive resolutions were due by 6:00 p.m. The House then voted to keep the journal open until 6:00 p.m. for resolution introductions and adjourned into recess until 12:00 noon Monday.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

January 14, 2025 - 01:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • , allowing advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to be issued temporary certificates
  • To implement temporary certificates for area of critical need for physician assistants and advanced practice
  • To implement this bill, a certification application form was created and approved by the Board of Pharmacy
  • The Board of Pharmacy received the first of three certification course applications in September.
  • The department has received 13 applications for dry needling certification as of January 6, and 11 chiropractic
Summary: The Health Professions and Program Subcommittee met for an introductory and oversight briefing from the Florida Department of Health on implementation of several 2024 laws. The committee heard first from Jennifer Winhold on practitioner-regulation measures, including SB 1716 and SB 1600, which expanded workforce pathways through foreign-trained physician licensure, area-of-critical-need temporary certificates for APRNs and physician assistants, graduate assistant physician licenses, interstate compacts, and a new universal licensure-by-endorsement process. She also reviewed HB 197 on massage therapy enforcement, HB 975 on broader background screening, HB 1561 on office-surgery and liposuction safeguards, HB 159 on pharmacist HIV post-exposure prophylaxis certification, and HB 1063 on chiropractic dry needling and foreign degree licensure. Members asked about compact scope, foreign graduate requirements, massage enforcement overlap with DBPR, and registration thresholds for liposuction procedures. Dr. Emma Spencer then outlined implementation of SB 76 and related programs, including changes to the FRAME and dental loan repayment programs, the volunteer health care provider program, the Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program, the Health Care Innovation Council and revolving loan program, and the Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program. She said the department had updated portals, posted forms, launched or was developing public search tools, and submitted required reports and contracts. Members questioned whether loan repayment funds were reaching rural and underserved areas, how nonprofit applicants were being informed about the Alphonse screening grant program, the short application window for that grant, and how the department would evaluate whether the programs were improving recruitment and retention. A third presentation, delivered by Mike Mason standing in for Shea Holloway, covered maternal and child health and other public health initiatives. He reported on the telehealth maternity care program’s expansion from a pilot in Duval and Orange counties to 23 counties, the pregnancy-and-parenting resources website required by HB 415, CMV newborn screening requirements under SB 168, sickle cell registry and research grants under HB 7085, and the swim lessons voucher program under SB 544, which received nearly 10,000 requests for 3,500 vouchers and enrolled 86 facilities. Members asked about utilization, marketing, website launch timing, and how the department was promoting these services. No bills were voted on; the meeting concluded with the chair noting that more committee presentations and bills would follow and that briefing materials would be distributed to members.
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-ADMINISTRATIVE RULES Jun 15th, 2026

ALC-ADMINISTRATIVE RULES

Transcript Highlights:
  • There were changes made to the qualifications for certification...
  • There were changes made to the qualifications for certification, and those are incorporated into that
  • These rules are enacted regarding the certification of community health workers in Arkansas.
  • These rules are enacted regarding the certification of community health workers in Arkansas pursuant
  • These proposed new rules are the rules pertaining to doula certification? Apologize.
Summary: The Administrative Rules Subcommittee met to review a long agenda of agency rule changes, beginning with housekeeping on the order of business and then taking up rules from multiple state agencies. Early items included Department of Energy and Environment rules on landfill post-closure trust fund spending thresholds and liquefied petroleum gas standards, DFA’s odometer disclosure rule allowing electronic signatures and disclosures, and several Department of Health rules covering ionizing radiation, mobile home and recreational parks, lead-based paint, counseling licensure, hearing instrument dispensers, athletic training, dental specialties and compacts, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistants, medical compacts, speech-language pathology and audiology, radiologic technology, massage therapy, community health workers, doula certification, and cosmetology/body art. Most of these were described as technical updates, conformity with recent acts, federal standards, or compact participation, and nearly all were approved without objection after brief questions and, in many cases, no public comment. The committee also reviewed Department of Labor and Licensing rules on minimum wage/independent contractor standards, boiler rules, motor vehicle commission requirements for ATV/LSV dealers, professional wrestling regulation, appraiser qualifications, and military recruiting and retention programs. Testimony generally emphasized that the rules implemented recent legislation, updated fees or licensing standards, or streamlined existing processes. Members asked a few questions about fee structures, the rationale for regulating professional wrestling, and how the National Guard’s public-private partnership and incentive programs would work; the department said the recruiting incentives would be funded from existing appropriations and were intended to improve retention and force strength. These rules were also approved without objection. The most extensive discussion came on the Department of Education’s Arkansas Children’s Educational Freedom Account Program rule. The department said the revisions, based on Act 920 of 2025, were intended to add guardrails, clarify allowable expenses, and speed approval of core educational purchases. Changes included defining core educational expenses, limiting certain sports-related spending, adding an intentional misuse standard, restricting phone purchases except for disability-related needs, setting a $1,000 threshold for additional review of technology purchases, capping carryover funds at $8,500, and creating a reconsideration process for denied expenses. Members raised concerns about safeguards, appeals, sports equipment, provider credentialing, rural vendor access, and whether the department would be flexible or overly restrictive. The department said it would review every request, provide written explanations for denials, allow appeals up to the State Board, and refer suspected fraud to prosecutors if necessary. After hearing from 13 members of the public, the committee continued to discuss the rule, but the transcript ends before any final vote on the EFA rule is shown.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Feb 25th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • The certification resolutions adopted.
  • President, I move certification >> Mr.
  • The certification >> 34 eyes's no nays.
  • President, I move certification >> Mr.
  • The certification >> 33 eyes. No. The certification resolutions<00:22:29.440> adopted.
Keywords: 923, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Taxes - 02/19/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • , on lines 1.9, means the certificate that must be issued by the commissioner of Transportation, since
  • And then also the next item that we deal with talks about the transfer credit certificate, and it then
  • um and which and it then certificate um and which and it then proceeds<00:32:35.960> on<00:32
  • and the process by credit certificate and the process by which<00:32:42.080> the<00:32:42.320
  • process by the Department certification process by the Department of of of Transportation<00:34:39.240
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Finance Division III (03/17/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • , to roll the certification into the existing Health Facilities infrastructure.
  • Certification would be rolled into the existing Health Facilities infrastructure.
  • Mr. or excuse me, Representative Wer, would you support a $1,000 certification fee per site?
  • When this bill began as a certification bill, it was intended to stand up a certification requirement
  • <00:58:06.440> is certain type where certification is certain type where certification is
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: Division 3 Finance held a work session to move through five bills before noon, noting one member’s early departure and adjusting the order of bills accordingly. The first item, HB 54, would allow some alternative treatment centers in the medical cannabis system to operate for profit. Members discussed a fiscal note showing a one-time $133,000 cost, which was described as a Division 1 budget item to be handled through HB 2 rather than directly in Division 3. After discussion about keeping Division 1 informed and the distinction between retaining a bill versus funding it, the committee voted unanimously to retain HB 54 for further finance work and conversion into HB 2. The committee then took up HB 547, concerning reimbursement to counties for enhanced FMAP funds during the COVID period. The chair summarized the issue as federal enhanced Medicaid matching funds that were received by the state before authority existed to pass them through to counties, creating a disputed amount owed to counties. County representatives said the money should have gone to counties and clarified the relevant time period, while the department did not take a position. The chair proposed retaining the bill and moving it into HB 2, with discussion of a possible four-year repayment structure in equal annual installments. The committee agreed to retain the bill for continued work in the budget process. During the HB 547 discussion, members also clarified the fiscal and accounting details, including that the fiscal note had not been widely available and that some figures in the note should be treated as county revenue rather than county expenditure. Testimony explained that the enhanced FMAP increased from 50 percent to 56.2 percent, and that the state’s and counties’ shares of claims were affected by the timing of the federal change and the later state authorization. The committee emphasized that the issue was complex and budget-dependent, and that retaining the bill would allow further negotiation and incorporation into HB 2 rather than immediate final action.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 29th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3931 pertains to death certificates and addresses issues such as corrections to death certificates
  • Currently, corrections on death certificates can be made within one year of the initial issue.
  • That's caught more than one year after the death certificate. So, with it, a question.
  • the skill sets that they had developed during their time in the guard to be able to get these certifications
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (02/04/2025)

Election Law and Municipal Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • allow me to go get my birth certificate allow me to go get my birth certificate from<01:21:11.679
  • certificate.
  • So this says a copy of your birth certificate.
  • , not the photocopy of the birth certificate.
  • So this says a copy of your birth certificate.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy and Administration (02/04/2026)

Education Policy and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • modifying the term one-year certificate modifying the term one-year certificate of<00:06:27.680>
  • modifies the term one-year certificate modifies the term one-year certificate of<00:06:55.199>
  • towards the certification? towards the certification?
  • <00:23:43.600> It a specific certification levels. It a specific certification levels.
  • program in a chemistry certification program in a chemistry certification But<00:28:40.000> it
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Education (04/10/2025)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • They need the certification.
  • They need the certification.
  • They need the certification.
  • They need the certification.
  • They need the certification.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • <02:51:58.800> coordinator we have one certification coordinator we have one certification
  • 5,000 just about 4,840 certificates uh 5,000 just about 4,840 certificates uh just<03:37:39.040>
  • health certificate or official certificate<03:38:01.160> of<03:38:01.319> transfer<03:
  • <03:50:19.159> and certification and certification and inspection<03:50:21.840> um<03:50
  • quantity generator self-certification quantity generator self-certification program<04:42:53.600
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The Environment and Agriculture Committee held an introductory orientation for members, many of whom were new or newly assigned to the committee. Leadership emphasized that the committee is intended to operate in a nonpartisan, collaborative way, and members introduced themselves and described their backgrounds in farming, gardening, food service, environmental work, water and waste issues, veterinary work, and related fields. Several members noted personal ties to homesteading, livestock, orcharding, food security, landfill concerns, and animal welfare, while others said they were eager to learn the committee’s work. The chair then reviewed committee procedures and expectations. Members were told the committee would generally meet on Tuesdays, with hearings starting around 10 a.m. and often running until about 4:30 p.m., and that absences, substitutes for executive sessions, and email communications would be handled through House rules and the committee’s email system. The chair also covered decorum rules for live-streamed meetings, including professional dress, limiting food and drink at the table, and giving full attention to witnesses. Members were reminded that legislative emails are subject to public records laws and that the committee may soon transition to a new email domain. The chair also explained logistics such as bill folders, committee room storage, and emergency procedures for evacuation or shelter-in-place. No bills were debated or voted on in this meeting, but the chair noted that the committee already had roughly two dozen bills pending, including animal welfare, landfill, policy, and cat-and-dog related measures. Members were told to expect a broad mix of topics beyond agriculture, including solid waste and animal-related legislation.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • These are the various elements here of the national certification, the bachelor's degree, and academic
  • Six and a half years, if you want all three board certifications together.
  • Our credentials are certified, and certifications are standardized.
  • And that certification is there to continue their competency as they practice, and that certification
  • There are available programs as well as post-master's certificates. Thank you very much.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We have supported nearly 300 tribal members with tuition assistance for vocational certificates and college
  • And finally, we have a—not sure if you're familiar with the certification process, but the RG STAR certification
  • They're all required to complete RG STAR certification or training and maintain their certification through
Summary: The joint hearing of the Senate Business, Trade, and Economic Development Committee and the House State Government and Tribal Relations Committee focused on proposed amendments to the tribal-state gaming compacts for the Tulalip Tribes and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Washington State Gambling Commission staff explained the compact approval process under IGRA and said the parties had reached tentative agreement; the commission and ex officio members will take public comment and vote at an August 28 special meeting on whether to forward the compacts to the governor or return them for further negotiation. Tulalip Chairman Hazen Chappell described the tribe’s long history of gaming in Washington and emphasized that gaming revenues support governmental services, jobs, charitable giving, and community support. Commission advisor Johnny Bray said the Tulalip restated compact consolidates 12 prior amendments, reorganizes and updates appendices, removes some outdated provisions, and includes higher wager limits, jackpot sharing, and the option to increase player terminal allocation in stages. Chappell also noted the tribe’s ongoing responsible gaming efforts and community support, including aid for wildfire-affected families. For the Cowlitz Tribe, Chairman William Ayala and Ilani Casino President Kara Fox LaRose described the tribe’s history, community programs, and the resort’s growth. The proposed sixth amendment would raise gaming station wager limits up to $1,000, create a special higher-limit player process with financial suitability and anti-money-laundering checks, strengthen responsible gaming signage and marketing requirements, allow temporary gaming areas, and adjust TLS ticket pricing through the most favored nation process. Committee members asked about self-exclusion and credit practices; Cowlitz gaming officials said hundreds of people have used the self-exclusion program and that higher-limit play is tied to substantial credit/front-money requirements. No votes were taken at the hearing, and the meeting ended with closing remarks and adjournment.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Capital Investment - 03/05/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Assistant Commissioner, what are certificates of participation then?
  • certificates of participation then? certificates of participation then?
  • Certificates of participation question.
  • For certificates of supporting the debt.
  • <01:07:57.039> of appropriation bonds, certificates of appropriation bonds, certificates of
Keywords: 1187, senate, all