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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Jan 28th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • which counts toward three hours of college credit or equivalent in-service education for their certificate
  • teaching the recertification course for special ed teachers that's required every time you renew your certificate
  • teaching the recertification course for special ed teachers that's required every time you renew your certificate
  • tell you how many mandated courses I take that are not really, I don't get points for them for certification
  • tell you how many mandated courses I take that are not really, I don't get points for them for certification
Bills: S0124, S0206, S0420
Summary: The committee first heard SB 124, which updates Florida Virtual School’s statute to remove outdated language and clarify its service, funding, governance, reporting, and district coordination provisions without changing day-to-day operations. Florida Virtual School testified in support, members praised the bill, and it passed unanimously on a roll call vote. The committee then took up CS for SB 206 on students with autism spectrum disorder. Senator Harrell explained that the bill would require autism and neurodevelopmental training in educator preparation programs, require ESE-certified teachers to complete an autism microcredential, create an Autism Educator Loan Forgiveness Program, provide salary supplements for teachers with the autism endorsement, and require district professional development to include autism-specific training with local CARD centers. A large number of speakers—teachers, parents, students, and advocacy groups—supported the bill while urging that implementation be fully funded, high quality, and not become an unfunded mandate. Several members spoke in favor, emphasizing the growing number of students with autism and the need to recruit and retain special education teachers. The bill was reported favorably by committee vote. Finally, the committee considered SB 420 on patriotic displays in classrooms. Chair Burgess explained the bill as a way to place portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in schools to encourage civic and patriotic reflection, and he offered an amendment narrowing the requirement from every classroom to one prominent display in each school and adding language making it subject to state appropriation. The amendment was adopted. Testimony on the bill was mixed: some speakers supported the idea as a spark for civic discussion, while many others opposed it as symbolic, unnecessary, or better addressed through curriculum and teacher training rather than mandated displays. In debate, some senators argued the portraits could prompt broader historical conversations, while others raised concerns about representation, classroom autonomy, and funding. The transcript ends during debate on the amended bill, before a final vote is shown.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • be removed once you completed your participation in this program successfully, once you got that certificate
  • So these are not classroom teachers that are thinking like, I'm going to do this certificate program
  • These are people that want to teach because there's no other reason that you would participate in a certificate
Bills: SB175, SB277, SB374, SB400
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It allows the MDA to accept a payment for a food certificate at the time of application.
  • <00:01:09.439> for<00:01:09.840> a<00:01:10.000> food<00:01:10.439> certificate
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Bills: HF1704, HF2052
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 1st, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Finally we would love to see these basic protections also added to apply. to nursing facilities.
  • Nursing and assisted living facility residents.
  • Hurricane Beryl that was loss of power for 100 nursing homes and 227 assisted living facilities.
  • Peterson with the Independent Coalition of Nursing Home Providers and himself, and you're from?
  • Registered nurse, working her 40 hours down at the ER so that she can put her salary in.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Thu Apr 23, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 50

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This could have a chilling effect on the next time we stand in solidarity with nurses who are looking
  • Say doctors, nurses, health care workers, medical students, patients, all kinds of regular people who
  • remedy that these employer groups, these hospital employer groups, can now wield against striking nurses
  • 02.760> striking groups, can now wield against striking groups, can now wield against striking nurses
  • <00:55:04.520> who<00:55:04.840> are nurses who are nurses who are you<00:55:06.000>
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Health - Part 1 Feb 18th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have a nursing shortage. I'm surrounded by medical people and nurses in my family.
  • So I'm the son of a nurse. I'm the son and grandson of a nurse.
  • They have a track record and they produce good nurses.
  • But whenever we're tens of thousands of nurses shy of what we need, 200 nurses a year going through a
  • . the Vice Chair or his two favorite nurses.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • To give some clarity, you're an ER nurse, so you're aware of troponin.
  • The Texas Nurses Association is opposed to the bill.
  • The Texas Nurses Association has a standing position that nurses need to be familiar with the CDC guidelines
  • I will tell you, I am not a nurse.
  • I am not a nurse.
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.