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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26 - Part 1

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • ,</c> to make sure that as a Medicaid system, to make sure that as a Medicaid system, we<00:37:00.560
  • ><c> East</c><01:02:12.559><c> Asian</c> system of traditional East Asian system of traditional East
  • medicine—is a primary health system.
  • Asian medicine—is a primary health system.
  • The witness said the system itself can be a first point of contact for people.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • to—I mean, being that it already had gone through, whenever we see a bill that has gone through the system
  • I am here because I have seen over and over again how the system fails protected parents and children
  • thousands of dollars fighting accusations like this, not because I did anything wrong, but because the system
  • thousands of dollars fighting accusations like this, not because I did anything wrong, but because the system
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PBS Public Hearing - Fri Feb 6, 2026 @ 8:30 AM HST

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • testimony is meant to be interpreted as though we don't believe that there is a necessity for that system
  • </c> there is a necessity for that system. there is a necessity for that system.
  • that, my guys, we have passed this and helped pass this bill in six other states, in the federal system
  • So if we create this new position or system, wouldn't there be some redundancy?
  • that allows residents to profile system that allows residents to voluntarily<03:22:13.040><c> create
Bills: HB676
Summary: The committee heard three public safety bills. HB 2235 would appropriate $1.3 million for the Military Affairs and Community Relations Office to strengthen coordination on military and defense issues. Supporters, including the Hawaii National Guard and DBEDT’s military relations office, said the office helps Hawaiʻi understand federal contracting, USA Jobs, and military-related economic impacts. One member questioned why the state should fund a DoD-related office while Hawaiʻi remains under-reimbursed on impact aid; supporters responded that the office serves Hawaiʻi communities and helps prepare residents for federal jobs. The chair said she intended to recommend the bill pass with a HD1, a blank appropriation to be filled in the committee report, technical amendments, a defective effective date, and updated office title language. HB 2263 would expand Hawaiʻi family leave law to cover qualifying military exigencies. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, DBEDT’s military relations office, and the Hawaii National Guard supported the measure, saying military families often face short-notice deployments, relocations, briefings, and urgent family arrangements that require time away from work, and that aligning state law with federal standards would provide clarity and consistency. The chair said she would recommend passage with a HD1, a defective effective date, and technical amendments. HB 2291 would clarify that certain National Guard Youth and Educational Programs employees are excluded from collective bargaining, rename the program, and codify its Hawaiian name. The Hawaii National Guard said it was a housekeeping bill with no appropriation, but requested an amendment to align the bill with updated authorities and program references; the chair asked for proposed language before the later decision-making. She said she would recommend passage with a defective date and the requested amendment if provided, and then recessed the hearing until 11:30 a.m. for decision-making on all three bills.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:43:31.200><c> to</c> of 26 we're using the new system to of 26 we're using the new system to
  • This system. However, it's a technical system. You can't just build it and walk away and let it go.
  • </c> that have statewide trunk radio systems that have statewide trunk radio systems for<01:29:41.920
  • ,</c> somebody who used these radio systems, somebody who used these radio systems, uh<01:31:03.760><
  • </c> allow locals to join onto this system. allow locals to join onto this system.
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from December 19 and June 12, then received a staff report on the Kentucky Fire Commission’s minimum training standards and administrative spending. Staff explained that the commission’s current minimum training hours are 115 for volunteer firefighters and 300 for paid firefighters, down from 150 and 400 before January 1, 2023, after the commission removed elective classes not directly tied to NFPA standards. The report found the commission’s certification testing aligns fully with NFPA standards, but recommended that the commission formally promulgate regulations establishing the reduced training hours. On finances, staff said the commission complied with the first statutory cap on administrative reimbursements to KCTCS, but could not verify compliance with a second, more specific cap because the finance system does not break out program-level costs and the statute is vague. Staff recommended the commission work with KCTCS to fix that issue and suggested the General Assembly may wish to clarify the statute. After questions about reimbursement levels and investment income, the committee voted to accept the report. The committee then heard an update on the Kentucky Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel. Staff reported that the panel has implemented two of three prior recommendations: it revised its agency notification letter to clearly state the 90-day response deadline and added response prompts and checkboxes to improve completeness. The third recommendation, to adopt formal written procedures, remains in progress; staff said the panel plans to develop those procedures alongside its new case management system. The panel is meeting its statutory membership and meeting requirements, but agency responses to its recommendations have been inconsistent: 48% were timely and appropriate in 2022, 36% in 2023, and 82% in 2024, though only three of nine timely 2024 responses were fully complete. Staff also described the new case management system project, funded with $200,000 in one-time money, and recommended the panel consult budget staff about use of those funds beyond fiscal year 2025. They reissued the recommendation that the panel develop written procedures for case review, findings, recommendations, and annual reports. Committee members raised concerns about the lack of penalties for noncompliance, the volume and length of panel meetings, and technology barriers to reviewing cases, and one member said the panel’s findings should inform future legislation.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 7th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's established a pilot program in partnership with city-parish and other local public school systems
  • a fund and a mechanism to where we can incentivize industry to partner with our community college system
  • What I can tell you is as a system for the LCTCS, or LCTC, we are working collaboratively with our local
  • sensibly and safely establishes such a mechanism, and it empowers Louisiana to comprehend its own system
Summary: The committee met with a large docket and adopted the April 29 minutes. Several bills were heard and advanced, mostly on education, workforce, literacy, early childhood, charter schools, and student mental health. Testimony was generally supportive, with many witnesses waiving in favor; a few bills drew questions about implementation, student awareness, and whether proposals were sufficiently broad or specific. House Bill 406, requiring the Department of Education to study the direction and regulation of interscholastic high school athletics and report back by March 1, 2027, was reported favorably after testimony from a retired principal who urged an open-minded study and discussion from the bill author about compliance and the bill’s purpose. House Bill 380, creating a pilot program between community and technical colleges and local school systems to expand awareness of CDL, entry-level driver training, and related programs, was also reported favorably. House Bill 807, creating a workforce and structure capacity investment program and fund to help industry partner with colleges to train instructors, was reported favorably after support from higher education and industry witnesses; senators raised interest in adding a stronger health care component and in reaching students earlier, but the author said he would work on amendments. The committee also advanced House Bill 316 on adolescent literacy and high-dose tutoring, with amendments clarifying teacher training timing, existing statutory bans on outdated literacy practices, and charter school participation; House Bill 1146, consolidating early childhood governance into a commission; House Bill 28, creating an appeal path for denied teacher certification applicants through BESE; and House Bill 992, assigning early childhood education identification numbers to support data collection on outcomes. House Concurrent Resolution 26, urging BESE to add the science of human growth and development to science and health standards and provide approved instructional resources, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 386, allowing local districts to let locally authorized charter schools operate as their own LEA under district rules, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 392, expanding suicide prevention information requirements on school websites, ID cards, handbooks, and signage, was reported favorably as well.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 18th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
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  • retirement systems as well.
  • of retirement systems including military uh<00:30:17.039><c> other</c><00:30:17.360><c> state</c><00
  • :30:18.080><c> uh</c><00:30:18.240><c> retirement</c><00:30:18.799><c> systems</c><00:30:19.200><c> as
  • </c> uh other state uh retirement systems as uh other state uh retirement systems as well.<00:30:19.760
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/02/2026 - Senate Finance

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Just for everyone's awareness, our system is not really bringing up our request to speak.
  • As I mentioned before, our request-to-speak system is not working, so if you want to speak, just come
  • So I think the disconnect is maybe a concern of abuse within the system right now. Okay.
  • Okay, we do need you to sign in when you get done, please, because I don't have you in the system.
  • I do, but there were problems with the system, so who knows. No problem.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 6th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • right now is we try to change the way we educate Louisiana as our executive vice president of the system
  • So it's not an overarching board for the entire system.
  • It provides for concurrence of a public school system prior to changing certain information assigned
  • to a student in the data collection system.
  • Fell out of the system. We don't know where they are. Correct.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/23/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • And one of the problems with the No Surprises Act is it's a winner-take-all system.
  • The ones who are systemically billing the state, go ahead and email all of us.
  • So I’ve worked on or in pension systems for 23 years now since graduating from college.
  • But we have to combat the fraud, waste, and abuse that's in the system.
  • And I think that's ultimately what will benefit Arizona kids and our education system.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 20th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So when they come back to work as a retired person, they're not in a retirement system any further.
  • When they come back to work as a retired person, they're not in a retirement system any further. >> Uh
  • think what was said was that, you know, we do allow RSA people can retire and come back into the system
  • The University of Alabama system may do that.
  • they mentioned you university system they mentioned you know<00:15:07.360><c> we</c><00:15:07.519><c
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • to make just incremental changes in the connectivity of the business court into the Texas judicial system
  • Then we want to integrate the business court more closely into the judicial system as a whole.
  • Resolved by the court system, which is as you would hope it would be in most of these.
  • It's suitable, as the federal court system does, to put that back in the hands of the judges and the
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • So really all it is doing is creating an advanced notification system.
  • Under local law, current law, local authorities could regulate sound through permitting systems, fees
  • The responsibility of securing that border lies with the federal system.
  • restoration costs through the Texas Electric Utility System Restoration Corporation.
  • The bill states that system restoration costs can also use this mechanism if #1, provides lower cost
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • company cannot use the new permit structure to circumvent taxes in our three-tier alcohol distribution system
  • would open up in any way to other. concerns in the industry with regard to our complex three-tiered system
  • I think that's a bigger opportunity down the road for Texas, obviously, to look at our system. broadly
  • , the three-tier system, how it works, and so on and so forth.
  • absolutely correct that we should have a broader discussion. around what we do in the three-tier system
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • partners to explore establishing a military-civilian trauma partnership to strengthen the Hawaii trauma systems
  • strengthen the trauma partnership to strengthen the Hawaii<00:16:54.240><c> trauma</c><00:16:54.839><c> systems
  • </c> Hawaii trauma systems. Hawaii trauma systems.
Bills: SCR7, SCR59, SCR182
Summary: The Committee on Health heard testimony on three concurrent resolutions. SCR-7 would affirm that hospitals must provide life-saving emergency care to pregnant people; supporters included the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, AAUW Hawaii, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and Hawaii Women’s Lawyers, with two individuals in opposition. A member raised a wording concern about “pregnant people” versus “pregnant women,” and the chair agreed to note the comment in the committee report. The committee then recommended passage, and the measure was adopted by vote, with Representatives Alcos voting no and Garcia not voting. SCR-59 SD1 would ask the governor to establish procedures allowing certain health care professionals to practice in Hawaii without a Hawaii-issued license during a state of emergency. The Hawaii Organization of Nurse Leaders strongly supported the resolution, citing emergency response problems during Kona low storms and the Lahaina wildfires when out-of-state licensed providers were available but could not serve. The committee recommended passage as is, and the recommendation was adopted, with Representative Garcia voting with reservations. SCR-182 would request that the governor and Department of Health work with the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal military partners to explore a military-civilian trauma partnership to strengthen Hawaii’s trauma system. The Department of Health supported the measure, and a member suggested the title should reflect “Department of War,” while another member noted the federal department name has not changed; the chair said the comments would be noted in the report. The committee recommended passage, and the resolution was adopted without objection, with Representatives Martin and Olds excused.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Ways & Means

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we're one of the only few systems in the country that has this cap.
  • It is a number of systems.
  • in the other systems?
  • Chairman, Representative Sandoval, yes, because the PSPRS system is an umbrella system.
  • Chairman, Representative Sandoval, our PSPRS system is, Mr.