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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Feb 26th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2689 concerns the Working Connections Child Care Program. Mr.
  • child care investments.
  • I needed child care to go back to school and build a life for my family.
  • child care.
  • And I hope we will do everything you can to protect child care investments now and into the future so
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/16/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, please protect the programs we rely on.
  • Members, protect North Star Promise and fund the full state grant program. Thank you. Thank you.
  • Members, please<01:30:50.200><c> protect</c><01:30:50.480><c> the</c><01:30:50.560><c> programs</c><01
  • </c> please protect the programs we rely on. please protect the programs we rely on.
  • ><c> Promise</c><01:30:53.360><c> and</c> Members, protect North Star Promise and Members, protect North
Bills: HF4252
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Feb 11th, 2026

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This legislation helps continue the work that we have all done together to protect newborns.
  • In my role overseeing child death and reviewing some of the cases, we saw time and time again when it
  • Now, when you start adding in parks and child care and early learning, and you dig into these statutes
  • The bill also prohibits unlicensed practice and protects...
  • The bill also prohibits unlicensed practice and protects Standard disciplinary authority.
Summary: The committee took up several health-related bills and confirmations. It first heard SB 1414 on congenital cytomegalovirus education, which would require the Department of Health to develop and distribute educational materials to expectant and new parents through maternity, prenatal, newborn, and OB-GYN settings; an amendment removed a section on required instruction for medical professionals, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. The committee then approved a block of appointees on tabs 2 through 7 and separately confirmed Chavon Harris as Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration after her testimony on Medicaid accountability, transparency, managed care oversight, rural health, behavioral health, and the state’s technology modernization efforts. Senators asked Harris about Hope Florida, Medicaid redeterminations, the CORE project, an anti-marijuana ad campaign at DCF, and compliance with a federal Medicaid-related court order; she said she would follow up on some issues. The confirmation was recommended favorably, with Senator Berman voting no. The committee next passed SB 186 on student health and safety, which expands epilepsy and seizure-disorder training requirements to more school personnel, including bus drivers and charter school staff, and requires seizure-first-aid posters and updated Department of Health education efforts. It also approved SB 902 on Department of Health issues after amendments narrowed the bill’s scope and added provisions on medical marijuana regulation, early childhood intervention, practitioner accountability, and autism workforce development; one speaker raised concerns about marijuana dispensary location restrictions and low-THC ratios. SB 196 creating a uterine fibroid research database was also reported favorably after an amendment protecting patient privacy; the bill drew emotional testimony from a patient describing severe symptoms and the need for more research. SB 688 on naturopathic medicine was approved after committee discussion about scope of practice, referral obligations, and whether naturopathic care should be adjunctive to conventional medicine; supporters described complementary care and access issues, while opponents worried about delayed treatment for serious disease. Later, the committee passed SB 1574, “Maddie’s Law,” to add biliary atresia screening to newborn screening using the same blood specimen already collected at birth and to launch an education campaign; parents of a child affected by the disease testified that earlier screening could have prevented severe harm. SB 878 on clinical laboratory personnel was reported favorably to address staffing shortages by allowing Florida to rely more directly on federal CLIA standards for qualified lab workers. SB 1092 on podiatric medicine was approved after an amendment narrowed it to cellular/tissue-based products and podiatrists’ use of certain therapies; the bill also addresses continuing education, informed consent, and advertising disclosures. SB 1032 on medical marijuana was amended and passed, aligning physician certification and card renewal timelines, setting 70-day and 35-day supply limits, and reducing the fee for honorably discharged veterans while preserving funding for FAMU; Senator Harrell opposed it, saying the longer timeframes were too much of an expansion. The committee also heard SB 1760 on Medicaid coverage transparency from Senator Brodeur, who said the bill focuses on accountability and fiscal responsibility, but the transcript cuts off before further discussion or action on that measure.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • In the process, it strips away essential worker protections and safeguards that employees performing
  • So some of the amendments I actually argued were too open, that it didn't protect private data.
  • So some of the amendments I actually argued were too open, that it didn't protect private data.
  • So some of the amendments I actually argued were too open, that it didn't protect private data.
  • So some of the amendments I actually argued were too open, that it didn't protect private data.
Bills: HF1, HF98
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/20/26

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:04:58.520><c> grooming</c> new felony offense for child grooming new felony offense for child
  • You cannot accidentally groom a child.
  • </c> cannot accidentally groom a child. cannot accidentally groom a child.
  • </c> the bill and also saying, "Hey, my child the bill and also saying, "Hey, my child was<00:25:27.120
  • “Um, and their business model isn’t one that protects the miners or protects the families.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • We know that because we run election protection programs every single election.
  • If there's a right to protect individual liberties, will that happen?
  • Nevada already has strong safeguards in place to protect election integrity.
  • In Nevada, there's probably only 10 legal aid attorneys doing consumer protection. I...
  • In Nevada, there's probably only 10 legal aid attorneys doing consumer protection.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 6th, 2026 at 09:04 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • My wife, Donna, and I adopted a special needs child in 2009.
  • He's a child who was constantly bullied in Albuquerque and beaten up.
  • In the words of my child, they have found their people.
  • What are those measures, protections, all of those kinds of things?
  • What does that mean for their child? What does that mean for the charters?
Bills: HB2, SB204, SB241, HB34
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Commerce and Economic Development Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:24 pm

House Commerce & Economic Development Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • It allows child care operators and at-home child care facilities to provide assistance or to provide
  • child care without additional regulations.
  • Finally, child care is a revenue generator.
  • For every dollar invested in child care, states realize about $2 in local spending because child care
  • We want to make sure that they're protected.
Bills: HB303, SB96, HM6
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 05:40 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's to protect people.
  • This amendment would protect them, give them that opportunity.
  • This amendment very fundamentally protects law enforcement.
  • Protects law enforcement discretion from being political.
  • This is a good protection. It protects local control. It protects, dare I say it, democracy.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 02:05 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I ask you to vote yes, to protect your family, to protect my family, so that the food that we enjoy
  • So to protect your family, to protect my family, so that the food that we enjoy doesn't inadvertently
  • This bill is about common-sense guardrails that protect residents, protect data, and preserve the public
  • And I think we really need to protect children.
  • That should be allowed so that we can protect children.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Protect them. God, protect them from their own pride, from their own hearts.
  • work from the gentleman from the 31st in connecting with DCYF to come up with some language that can protect
  • What we need to do, and what we need to focus on as a state, is protecting and making sure that these
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026 at 08:25 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we are responsible for making sure that people like that are protected and that if we do a taking
  • One of the most common reasons is fire protection and access of first responders.
  • This bill protects your personality digitally.
  • I mean, it's not just that we want to protect the Ed Harrises or the Ed Sheerans or Ed Begley Jr.s.
  • It also helps our state agency support industry and protect consumers by ensuring fuel quality. Mr.
Summary: The House received a Senate message that Substitute House Bill 1570 had passed the Senate, then moved several bills from Rules to the second reading calendar, including Substitute Senate Bill 5242 on anaphylaxis medications in schools and Senate Bill 6132 on Inland Port District debt. The chamber then took up several bills, beginning with Senate Bill 5988 on Department of Health accreditation fee authority for opioid treatment programs. Amendment 2336 to cap the fee at $17,000 was debated at length but rejected, and a separate amendment to add safe-injection-site language was ruled out of scope. Senate Bill 5988 then passed 62-34. Substitute Senate Bill 6309 on enhanced municipal permitting tools for high-capacity transit projects drew multiple amendments focused on Sound Transit’s authority. Amendments to require written consent from abutting property owners, to add flood-zone and seismic/critical-area protections, and to address public-records issues were either rejected or ruled beyond scope, though the local government committee amendment was adopted. The bill passed 56-38. The House also passed Substitute Senate Bill 5886 on digital personality rights and Senate Bill 6136 on transparency in workers’ compensation rate-setting, both with strong bipartisan support. Later, the House passed a series of additional bills: Substitute Senate Bill 6034 codifying the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs; Gross Second Substitute Senate Bill 5395 on prior authorization reform, with remarks emphasizing limits on AI in health care decisions; Substitute Senate Bill 6248 creating the Washington Travel Insurance Act; Substitute Senate Bill 5720 establishing uniform consumer debt default judgment procedures; Senate Bill 5995 on port modernization funding and labor considerations; Senate Bill 6103 affecting rural hospitals; Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6110 creating a work group on e-motorcycles; Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5156 allowing smaller elevators to support accessible, more affordable housing; Substitute Senate Bill 6269 updating motor fuel definitions to include hydrogen; Substitute Senate Bill 6189 giving Thurston County more time to pursue an aquatics public facilities district; and Senate Bill 6134 requiring unemployment applicants to acknowledge repayment obligations if retroactive union pay is received. Most of these bills passed with large margins, and the House adjourned after completing final passage votes.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's changing some adult protective arrangements.
  • Speaker, this is an absolutely essential amendment to protect people's liberties, to protect people's
  • We have to protect religious freedoms. We have to protect religious freedoms. Please vote yes.
  • Speaker, let's protect that.
  • The bill seeks to protect constitutional rights of inhabitants of Washington State. seeks to protect
Summary: The House took up a series of Senate bills and moved most of them quickly to third reading and final passage, often suspending the rules and adopting committee amendments without objection. Early action included Senate Bill 5944, which addresses compensation for interpreters working for L&I when appointments are canceled or missed; it passed 86-10. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5837, dealing with guardianship and supported decision-making, drew debate over a new right to counsel in guardianship cases and concerns about expanding civil legal obligations, but it passed 73-23. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6197, a plumbers enforcement/discipline measure tied to task force work on wages and the underground economy, passed unanimously. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6019, fixing a loophole in home care worker parity law, also passed unanimously, as did Senate Bill 6011, which extends authority for Court of Appeals bailiffs to assess threats against judges and staff, though members noted concerns about access to non-conviction data. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6058, aimed at improving Labor and Industries’ ability to address wage theft complaints and backlog, passed 96-0 after House amendments. Substitute Senate Bill 5923, allowing an island hospital in Skagit County to become a critical access hospital, passed 96-0 amid support for rural health care. Senate Bill 5994, which changes how timber tax revenue is distributed so school districts are not penalized when levies fail, also passed 96-0. Substitute Senate Bill 6076, streamlining public utility district procurement and raising spending thresholds, passed 95-1 after a capital budget amendment. The House then moved to second reading of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5925, a major bill expanding the Attorney General’s authority to issue civil investigative demands in constitutional and discrimination-related matters. The bill prompted extensive debate over civil liberties, due process, and the potential for government overreach. Amendment 2160, which would have required clear and convincing evidence before a CID could issue, was rejected 38-48. Amendment 2149, creating a right to cure before a CID, was also rejected. Amendment 2150, requiring assistant attorney general approval and a reasonable suspicion standard, failed 38-48. Amendment 2151, requiring the Attorney General personally to approve CIDs in writing, failed as well. However, several narrowing amendments were adopted, including limits on scope and relevance (2288), a prohibition on CIDs to federal agencies (2289), a ban on sharing CID-derived information for criminal law enforcement purposes (2290), and a requirement that the Attorney General’s office consult with other agencies in certain overlapping investigations (2154 was rejected, but later amendments continued). Other proposed protections, such as fee-shifting for successful CID challenges and reimbursement when a CID produces no action, were debated at length but not adopted in the portion of the transcript provided.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • least accessible child care, as we have child care deserts in many of our areas.
  • WIC is the stopgap for working connections child care. ...is the stopgap for working connections child
  • least accessible child care as we have child care deserts in many of our areas.
  • We made not enough to pay for child care.
  • We need to be eliminating these child care deserts.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer from Tammy Stamphley, a Presbyterian minister and hospital chaplain. After approving the previous day’s minutes and receiving a Senate message, the chamber moved to second and third reading of several bills, with multiple measures advanced under suspended rules. The first major vote was on Engrossed Senate Bill 5872, which establishes a pre-K-related account to support up to 10,000 additional early learning slots for three- and four-year-olds. Supporters emphasized the Balmer Group’s private funding commitment and the value of early learning and family support; the bill passed 97-0. Substitute Senate Bill 5834, a Department of Retirement Systems request bill changing the fund source for legal, medical, administrative, and fraud-prevention expenses using interest earnings from pension funds, also passed 97-0. Substitute House Bill 2689, dealing with the Working Connections Child Care program, drew the most debate. Supporters said it aligned attendance policy with federal rules, adjusted reimbursement rates, and helped balance the budget while preserving child care resources. Opponents argued it cut support in rural and underserved counties, would worsen child care deserts, and placed budget savings on the child care industry; it passed 53-44. The House then passed Senate Bill 5922, allowing school districts to transfer vehicle depreciation funds with OSPI approval, by 59-38, and Senate Bill 6065, a narrower bill for districts under enhanced financial oversight such as Prescott, by 97-0. The session ended with announcements that both caucuses would meet later in the day.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 4th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • One of the most common reasons is fire protection and access of first responders.
  • One of the most common reasons is fire protection and access of first responders.
  • This bill protects your personality digitally.
  • I mean, it's not just that we want to protect the Ed Harris's or the Ed Sheerans or Ed Begley Jr.'
  • This bill protects your personality digitally.
Summary: The House received a Senate message announcing passage of Substitute House Bill 1570 and then moved several bills from Rules to the second reading calendar, including Substitute Senate Bill 5242 on anaphylaxis medications in schools and Senate Bill 6132 on Inland Port District debt. The chamber then took up a series of bills, beginning with Senate Bill 5988 on Department of Health accreditation fee authority for opioid treatment programs. An amendment to cap the fee at $17,000 was debated at length but failed, and a separate amendment was ruled beyond the scope of the bill. Senate Bill 5988 then passed 62-34. The House next considered Substitute Senate Bill 6309 on enhanced municipal permitting tools for high-capacity transit projects. Several amendments were offered to require written consent from abutting property owners, preserve setback and seismic/critical-area protections, and add transparency provisions, but the scope challenge to the transparency amendment was sustained and the other amendments failed. Supporters argued the bill would streamline permitting for Sound Transit and reduce taxpayer costs; opponents said it gave a large transit authority too much discretion and weakened property-rights and land-use protections. The bill passed 56-38. The House also passed Substitute Senate Bill 5886 on personality rights and digital likeness protections, and Senate Bill 6136 on workers’ compensation transparency, both with strong bipartisan support. After caucuses and a rule suspension to work past 10 p.m., the House took up additional second-reading bills. It passed Substitute Senate Bill 6034 to codify the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs, Gross Second Substitute Senate Bill 5395 on prior authorization and AI in health care, Substitute Senate Bill 6248 creating the Washington Travel Insurance Act, Substitute Senate Bill 5720 on uniform consumer debt default judgments, Senate Bill 5995 on port modernization funding with labor-related concerns, and Senate Bill 6103 affecting rural hospitals and enrollment status subject to appropriation. Later, the House passed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6110 on e-motorcycle regulation, Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5156 allowing smaller elevators in some housing, Substitute Senate Bill 6269 updating motor fuel definitions to include hydrogen, Substitute Senate Bill 6189 extending time for Thurston County to pursue an aquatics public facilities district, and Senate Bill 6134 requiring unemployment applicants to acknowledge repayment if retroactive union pay is received. Most bills passed with large majorities, though some drew dissent over labor, property rights, transit governance, or regulatory scope.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Protect humanity, protect dignity, and protect human rights. Of trans people. Ms.
  • Protection of laws.
  • It is my honor tonight to lay out House Bill 7, the Texas Woman and Child Protection Act.
  • In Texas, it could just as easily be a child here, even your child.
  • Speaker, I proudly move passage of House Bill 7. 7, the Texas Woman and Child Protection Act.