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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 7th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're home and saying we don't care about the victims of sexual abuse and assault, that we don't care
  • I'm seeing unnecessary medical care. You can't call it medical care.
  • I see medical care—chiropractic care—for which there's no indication.
  • Lifetime medical care and lifetime care exceed lifetime income.
  • The reason is that it relies on past health care expenses to determine future health care.
Bills: HB4806
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence May 7th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • you've got a quadriplegic. going to need differing levels of care and different types of care.
  • I do, more than I care to.
  • Life care planners that are charged with trying to bring up evidence of future medical care.
  • You care.
  • Care for your patients.
Bills: HB4806
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • I just don't care.
  • I just don't care.
  • My name is Taylor Avery, and I am the manager of political affairs for the Vegas Chamber.
  • It'll also better prepare students for the demands of professional health care programs.
  • , and the noncompetition covenants for certain providers of health care.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • case management.
  • Case management management services.
  • <00:59:18.319> case about how they are managing case about how they are managing case management
  • case managers.
  • my case manager.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Jan 26th, 2026

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I just think we need to be very careful with that.
  • I just think we need to be very careful with that.
  • The requirement for health care providers to determine...
  • I had a conversation with my primary care doctor.
  • And health care doesn't happen in isolation.
Bills: S1082, S1168, S1756, S1156, S1480
Summary: The committee took up several health-related bills. SB 1082, on a statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program, was presented as a way to let providers and insurers use the federal independent dispute resolution process for emergency out-of-network claims under state-regulated commercial plans. A late-filed amendment clarified when providers and health plans could access the state program, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1168, which would centralize background screening clearinghouse functions at the Agency for Health Care Administration, also passed as amended after an amendment requiring sealed and expunged records to be included in screenings for qualified entities. Supporters said centralization would improve turnaround times, reduce duplication, and save costs; the sponsor said the bill also addresses coaches’ background screening language from last session. The committee then approved SB 1156, which moves ambulatory surgery center regulation out of the hospital-focused chapter of law into a standalone section, and SB 1480, as amended by a strike-all, which would grandfather certain temporary certificate holders practicing in areas of critical need if federal designation changes affect those areas. Testimony on SB 1480 emphasized continuity of care for patients in underserved communities, and the bill was reported favorably. The final and most heavily debated measure was SB 1756 on medical freedom, which would require state-approved educational materials on childhood vaccines, require practitioners to provide those materials and alternative schedules before vaccination, expand school immunization exemptions to include conscience-based objections, clarify that the Surgeon General cannot order vaccination during a public health emergency, and authorize pharmacists to provide ivermectin behind the counter without a prescription with written information and safeguards. The sponsor argued the bill strengthens parental choice and informed consent. Committee members raised concerns about vaccine-preventable disease risks, immunocompromised children, school outbreaks, and the impact of adding a new exemption. A Department of Health representative said the department would need to provide details on the history of exemption consultations and noted that removing the earlier consultation requirement had not been shown to increase outbreaks. The committee adopted a friendly amendment to give physicians the same liability protection as pharmacists for ivermectin dispensing, but rejected a substitute amendment that would have required a consultation for exemption requests. Public testimony was overwhelmingly opposed to the bill, with physicians, pediatric specialists, cancer advocates, parents of immunocompromised children, and public health groups warning that it would lower vaccination rates and endanger vulnerable Floridians. The bill remained pending after testimony, with the committee continuing to hear public comment.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 6th, 2026 at 04:24 pm

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so when we talk about whether private equity is good for health care or bad for health care, or good
  • We all want safe care. We don't want predatory practices.
  • We all want safe care.
  • The doctors or other health care providers who are in the chain of care are often named, and it's their
  • Has your care ever been at issue in a lawsuit?
Bills: HB99, HB49, HB164, SB30, SB43, SB50, SB136
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • system and to contribute to the greater health care environment.
  • And to contribute to the greater health care environment. Thank you all for being here.
  • Arizona health care institutions are facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis due to HR1.
  • Every unnecessary administrative requirement diverts staff from patient care.
  • That's where their babies are, and they will be taken care of best.
Summary: The Senate Health and Human Services Committee opened with approval of the January 28 and 29 minutes and a welcome to Arizona Physical Therapy Day at the Capitol, including remarks from physical therapy advocates and students. The committee then took up several bills related to SNAP, health care oversight, child welfare, dementia planning, and safe haven newborn surrender. On SNAP, SB 1334 would bar DES from seeking or renewing federal waivers of work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents unless authorized by law; it passed 4-1. SB 1333 would require DES to reduce the SNAP payment error rate to 3% by 2030, with regular reporting, corrective action plans, and possible funding penalties; an amendment changed the reporting to quarterly and required a special audit, and the bill passed 4-1 as amended. SB 1331 would require able-bodied adults under 60 receiving SNAP to participate in mandatory employment and training unless exempt; testimony split between supporters citing work incentives and opponents warning of administrative burden and impacts on families and food banks, and it passed 4-2. The committee also advanced SB 1162, which clarifies DHS as the lead licensing and monitoring agency for health care institutions and, as amended, requires DHS and AHCCCS/Access to coordinate to identify duplicative oversight and report back periodically; it passed unanimously. SB 1017, requiring signatures on emergency informed consent forms for surgical procedures, passed 4-2. SB 1149, dealing with DCS periodic review hearings and notice/reporting requirements, including for tribal parties, passed 5-1. SB 1249, which designates DHS as the lead agency on Alzheimer’s and dementia planning and creates a dementia services program funded through lottery monies under the adopted amendment, passed unanimously after emotional testimony from advocates and family members. Finally, SB 1253, clarifying that a parent may surrender a newborn at the hospital of birth without leaving and returning, passed 5-0. The committee then adjourned.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Mar 3, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Aloha Care in support on Zoom. Care? I'm not present.
  • Care? I'm not present.
  • access specialty care. access specialty care.
  • supervising the care. supervising the care.
  • relating to waste management. relating to waste management.
Summary: The committee heard several administration bills related largely to workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance. On HB 2323 HD1, which would modernize workers’ compensation notice and filing procedures, DLIR and other agencies testified in support of the original bill language but said HD1 removed key components and weakened the bill’s clarity and continuity. HB 2324 HD1, which would repeal state hoisting-machine certification requirements and the separate crane operator certificate, drew support from DLIR; members asked about whether the change would affect safety or local operators, and DLIR said OSHA-compliant certifications already exist and the union supported the change. HB 1509 HD1, which would require faster employer responses to treatment plans and impose penalties for nonresponse, received support from DLIR and others, while DHRD said it wanted an amendment. The committee also took up HB 2164 HD1 on compounded prescription drugs in workers’ compensation. DLIR supported the bill as a way to define compounded drugs and curb inflated pricing, but DHRD and a medical provider opposed it and asked for amendments. Testimony focused heavily on whether the definition should include 503B compounding facilities and whether physician dispensing should be limited to the first 30 days after injury. HB 2165 HD1, dealing with unemployment insurance eligibility and removing the two-year limit on recouping overpayments, was supported by DLIR but opposed by Unite Here Local 5, which argued it would make it harder for striking workers and other claimants. Members questioned the impact of changing reporting deadlines from calendar days to business days and raised concerns about future benefit offsets; DLIR said the bill was needed for federal conformity and that the committee would revisit the offset percentage and effective date. Later, the committee heard HB 2367 on pay transparency, requiring salary ranges in job postings and removing the small-employer exemption. The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, AAUW, Hawaii Women Lawyers, and an individual testifier supported the bill, saying pay transparency promotes fairness, trust, and pay equity; one testifier described being underpaid compared with a predecessor and said posting ranges would save applicants’ time. HB 2619 HD1, concerning homemade food products and farm kitchens, received generally supportive comments from the Department of Health, which requested an amendment to preserve flexibility in future rulemaking. HB 1765 HD1, on spear-fishing safety warnings, drew support from a safety educator and comments from DLNR; supporters said warning labels would help prevent hypoxic blackout deaths and were low-cost and easy to implement. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 03-24-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Health care sector.
  • , care, care, and<00:08:38.640> strengthening<00:08:39.159> consumer<00:08:39.680> rights
  • Without anything but the care for wanting to get something done.
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  • aina, and taking care of each other. aina, and taking care of each other.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 26th, 2025

Local Government

Summary: The Senate Local Government Committee briefly convened and then immediately moved to recess. Senator Paxton made a motion to recess subject to the call of the chair, which was accepted. No bills, testimony, or substantive policy issues were discussed during the meeting. With no other business before the committee, it stood in recess subject to the call of the chair.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part I) May 26th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • district with limited tax authority, and of course the local board that's locally accountable built and managed
  • There's an interest and great support in the community to do work in the area of memory care and see
  • money, no extra funding, but a volunteer board within that district to focus solely on this memory care
  • And so basically this would be a way to try to collect grants for brain and memory care services to the
Summary: The committee heard and discussed several local-government-related bills, mostly with committee substitutes. House Bill 2731 would let certain border counties regulate roadside vendors selling live animals in unincorporated areas and along public rights-of-way; the substitute narrowed the bill to live animal sales only and excluded livestock and other roadside commerce. House Bill 3483 would streamline TCEQ review of special utility district revenue bonds by removing tax-bond requirements that do not apply to SUDs. House Bill 4308 would create a county industrial development district framework, limited in the substitute to certain counties including Fort Bend County, to help finance industrial sites and related infrastructure. House Bill 5663 would create a Wood County Hospital District memory-care-focused district with no taxing power, intended to help pursue grants and other funding for a new facility. House Bill 4582 addressed attainable housing in Dallas and Tarrant counties, allowing local reimbursement tools for developers under a uniform, optional framework. House Bill 5509 would let municipalities suspend or revoke a hotel’s certificate of occupancy if law enforcement and a criminal court both find probable cause of human trafficking, with the substitute adding due-process protections. House Bill 1532 created a Lake Houston dredging and maintenance district funded by revenue from dredged material sales and revenue bonds, with no taxing authority or eminent domain. House Bill 23, heard as pending business, would revise the process for local governments to rescind development documents and adjust third-party reviewer liability and eligibility rules. House Bill 4580, concerning property tax exemptions for charitable organizations such as the Houston Rodeo, was amended to remove language about exempting revenue from property use and instead focus on land used for agricultural, youth, and educational support. Public testimony was generally supportive on the bills heard, with witnesses including county officials, utility and water association representatives, hotel industry representatives, and housing developers. Several speakers emphasized the need for faster financing or permitting tools, flood mitigation, housing affordability, anti-trafficking enforcement, or local economic development. Some members raised concerns about scope, precedent, consultation with affected senators, and due process, particularly on House Bill 4582 and House Bill 5509, but the committee largely accepted the committee substitutes as improvements. No public testimony was offered on several bills, and most measures were left pending before later being voted out. The committee took recorded votes on multiple pending bills and reported them favorably, often with committee substitutes adopted in lieu of the filed versions. House Bills 1532, 2731, 3483, 5509, 5663, and 4580 were reported out, with 1532 and 5663 passing unanimously and 3483, 2731, and 5509 also receiving favorable votes despite one present-not-voting on 3483. House Bill 23 and House Bill 4582 were left pending subject to call of the chair. The committee then recessed until adjournment or later.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/23/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • care and risk.
  • Fee-for-service maintains the ability to opt in and out of managed care and, again, respects tribal clinical
  • I am certain that if the AIHP had been under the management of a dedicated MCO, managed care organization
  • There's health care providers... What? Oh, there's health care per... I was...
  • of the case management system used to track the placement and location of children in DCS care, including
Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 1121, which would prohibit hospitals from requiring lead aprons for cardiac catheterization staff when a radiation protection system is in place, while still allowing hospitals to require aprons outside the designated safety zone or when exposure levels warrant additional protection. An amendment added flexibility for radiation safety officers to require lead or other PPE if exposures approach occupational limits and removed expedited rulemaking language. Supporters, including the sponsor and interventional cardiologists, argued the devices reduce radiation and orthopedic injuries and improve recruitment and retention; hospital groups shifted to neutral after the amendment. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1121 on a 9-2 vote. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1120, which would require hospitals performing cardiac catheterization procedures to equip at least 50% of those rooms with radiation protection systems by 2027. Supporters said the systems protect clinicians from radiation and long-term injury, while opponents, including hospital and radiology groups, argued the bill was overly prescriptive, could create a captive market, and might not fit all rooms or procedures. After adopting a children’s hospital exemption amendment, the committee passed SB 1120 on a 6-6 vote, with the chair breaking the tie in favor of the bill. Senate Bill 1118, an appropriation measure tied to the radiation protection system proposal, was also advanced after brief discussion, passing 6-5. The committee then took up Senate Bill 1214, which would create guardrails for non-FDA-approved stem cell and regenerative therapies, including provider standards, informed consent, advertising limits, reporting requirements, and a private right of action for violations. Supporters described it as a patient-protection and access bill, while testimony emphasized concerns about unregulated “bad actors” and patients traveling out of state for treatment. The committee adopted an amendment removing a reference to the National Law and passed SB 1214 on a 9-3 vote. The transcript then began discussion of SB 1630, which would create a Medicaid-funded home and community-based service benefit for adults with serious mental illness, with AHCCCS taking a neutral position and estimating a significant fiscal impact.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • all the subsidies, and they don't care all the subsidies, and they don't care for<00:28:22.240><
  • I don’t really care for the consumer.
  • massive corporations that don't care massive corporations that don't care about<00:53:20.160>
  • <00:57:31.599> of farmers uh have to take care of farmers uh have to take care of everything
  • they're cared for in the future as well. they're cared for in the future as well.
Bills: HF3718
Summary: The Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee met with quorum present, approved the March 2 minutes, and then heard a presentation on economic consolidation in agriculture from Austin Ferk, who said he was not taking additional public testimony. Ferk argued that consolidation in meat, dairy, and grain markets has squeezed farmers on both input and output prices, raised consumer prices, and reduced product quality. He used charts and examples to claim that concentrated markets lead to price gouging, that farmers now receive a historically low share of each food dollar, and that industrial production has contributed to environmental problems, especially in Iowa. Ferk focused on several large agribusiness firms, especially JBS and Cargill. He described JBS as a dominant meatpacker with a history of bribery allegations and market power across beef, pork, poultry, and leather, and said its ownership of brands can obscure who is actually selling the product. He also criticized Cargill as an opaque, privately held company with enormous influence over grain and food markets, and said the farm bill and crop insurance system have been shaped to favor overproduction of corn and soy rather than diversified farming. He argued that these policies, along with ethanol demand and export-oriented livestock production, have harmed rural communities, increased manure and nitrate pollution, and contributed to health problems. In the latter part of the presentation, Ferk discussed antitrust and policy responses, including concentration studies, a proposed packer ban that would prevent meatpackers from owning the animals they slaughter, and restrictions on slotting fees and other pay-to-play practices in grocery retail. He also referenced the failed Kroger-Albertsons merger as an example of consolidation harming local communities. No committee vote or formal action was taken on the presentation beyond approving the minutes.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 15th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • survivors agree that increasing access to jobs and stable housing provides the stability needed to care
  • Nick Hudson: We care about equality of justice under the law and what this bill does is it sets up a
  • I understand that the concerns about ensuring a fair trial and we care deeply about that.
  • But we often are so worried about our community we don't take care of ourselves.
  • Second thing is, I've been a critical care nurse for 25 years. I take care of open hearts.
Bills: HB200
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • health care.
  • health care.
  • health care.
  • A patient can expect more frequent but brief interactions with their behavioral health care manager.
  • The behavioral health care manager also meets weekly with a consulting psychiatrist outside of a patient
Bills: HF958, HF688, HF702
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Healthcare

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is not something that should be managed legislatively.
  • The solution to that is if you don't like the care you're getting, find a different doctor.
  • But, uh, I said this is just not something that should be legislatively managed.
  • Are you taking care of the baby? Are you getting out of the house?
  • for physicians or other health care professionals licensed under this chapter."
Bills: HB322, HB346, HB336, HB384, SB237
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Apr 1st, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, we need to get that fixed, and I know you guys will take care of that.
  • I don't care how much it costs, it's costing me nothing.
  • And so whenever, whenever somebody invests nothing, why should they care?
  • It's, I don't, why should I care? Why should I care how much it costs me?
  • And so we try to regulate it instead of letting the free market take care of it.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight REVISED: 11:15 a.m. - New Start Time

Health and Human Services Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Of the committee, House Bill 4275 would allow case managers and peer support specialists to be employed
  • And when suicide or overdose happens, we take care of that in the moment. And we don't look back.
  • So, whether it be a pain management clinic or primary care doc these guys, the patients just stopped
  • Because it at a pain management clinic, for example, when we decided as a country to cut everybody off
  • So they're they're they're seeing their pain management doc.