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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 4th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're a concern for the people who live and who will live in this state.
  • to all the state of Texas.
  • All over the state of Texas. And Norta, his wife, was always by his side.
  • future leaders of this great state, so may God bless you.
  • Travis's last express states San Antonio was strongly besieged.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Legislative Oversight & Sunset

Transcript Highlights:
  • Many states already permit hybrid learning, including our closest state, Pennsylvania.
  • We have a campus in Newport, Delaware, as well as several other states.
  • It stated that 82% of all currently licensed... back. Thank you. And any? That would say it.
  • We have a campus in Newport, Delaware, as well as several other states.
  • It stated that 82% of all currently licensed.
Bills: SB295, HB378
Summary: The Senate Legislative Oversight Committee met in hybrid format, approved the minutes from its April 22 and May 13 meetings, and then heard two bills. HB 420 would modernize massage therapy licensure by allowing the Board of Massage and Bodywork to decide which coursework may be completed in a hybrid format and which must remain in person, while also removing outdated references to a license type the board no longer issues. The sponsor said the change would improve access for students who cannot easily travel or stop working, while preserving public protection through board rules. Public testimony on HB 420 was entirely supportive. Robert Overmiller spoke in favor, and Mackenzie Francis of Alpha School of Massage also supported the bill, citing workforce growth in massage therapy and arguing that hybrid education would expand access, especially for students entering the field later in life. No committee questions or objections were raised. The committee then discussed HB 378, which would continue the Council of Corrections’ partnership with the Criminal Justice Council and avoid the sunset of that arrangement in 2026. Members noted the bill stemmed from a prior Joint Legislative Oversight effort to provide the council with staff support and training. Robert Overmiller again testified in support, and there was no opposition or further public comment. The meeting concluded after discussion of the two bills, with no votes recorded in the transcript.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Fiscal Affairs May 11th, 2026

Revenue & Fiscal Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • For P5 state projects, about $4.1 billion... For P5 state projects, about $4.1 billion.
  • P5 for non-state projects, approximately $2.6 billion, and other means of finance that are non-state
  • P5 for state projects is $4.1 billion... P5 for state projects is $4.1 billion.
  • And then the re-engrossed bill adds six new state projects totaling $95 million and 55 new non-state
  • Well, on the state side, not much.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, there are 13 states that currently provide for paid family medical leave at the state level.
  • So, there are 13 states that currently provide for paid family medical leave at the state level.
  • So, House File 4569 the state.
  • unions across the state.
  • And I'm here to across the state.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 4th, 2026 at 10:04 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Through this program, the state has optimized nearly $1.5 billion.
  • , as well as the services for healthcare provision to our state.
  • The state of hospitals in New Mexico is so important.
  • I graduated from New Mexico State University down south.
  • We have over 70 solar companies in the state.
Bills: SB101, SB58, SB55
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Jan 26th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am the only pediatric hospice nurse up there in the whole state.
  • Such children could, in other states, benefit from the current care.
  • , but 50% from the state.
  • So does the state have to write some new rules... Thank you.
  • David Gallegos, State Senator, District 41, Eddy and Lea County.
Bills: SJR1, SM2
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • um the state-based exchange. um the state-based exchange.
  • a fed to a state is more control,<00:25:57.120> more<00:25:57.360> flexibility<00:25:58.000
  • at the state fair and they can enter it. at the state fair and they can enter it.
  • level and the state can control that if it wants to.
  • includes both in-state and out of state includes both in-state and out of state providers.<01:21
Summary: The Medicaid Oversight Advisory Board met for its third meeting and approved the July 30 minutes. The chair outlined a full agenda covering the state-based marketplace versus the federally facilitated marketplace, connectors and navigators, presumptive eligibility, eligibility/enrollment/redetermination, and a rural health transformation update. Commissioner Lisa Lee and Assistant Director David Barry presented first on Kentucky’s state-based exchange, Connect, explaining that it is an integrated eligibility and enrollment system for Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, TANF, child care, and qualified health plans. They reviewed Kentucky’s move from a state-based exchange to healthcare.gov in 2017 and back to a state-based marketplace in 2021, and said the system helps route applicants to the correct program and allows families to move more easily between Medicaid and exchange coverage as circumstances change. The presenters said the exchange is funded by carrier assessments on qualified health plans rather than general fund dollars, with costs allocated across programs based on use. They said Kentucky’s exchange fees are lower than the federal platform’s and that the state-based system provides local assistance through DCBS offices, connectors, and licensed agents in every county. Members asked about startup and operating costs, fee-setting, and whether any general fund dollars are used; the department said it would follow up with the CFO on fee details and said it was not aware of general fund support for exchange operations. Members also raised concerns about Medicaid eligibility verification and improper enrollment, while the department emphasized that the state system uses different questions than healthcare.gov and is designed to identify the correct coverage based on monthly Medicaid income and annual tax-credit income. The board also discussed enrollment trends, including a COVID-era spike during the public health emergency when disenrollments were largely paused, and current qualified health plan enrollment of more than 97,000 people on Connect. Commissioner Lee explained presumptive eligibility as temporary Medicaid coverage, noting it applies to pregnant women and hospital-based cases, with hospitals able to grant it and certain providers able to grant it to pregnant women. She said full eligibility is still determined within 30 days and that presumptive eligibility ends when full Medicaid eligibility is determined or at the end of the following month. The meeting then shifted to connectors, with representatives from Community Action Kentucky and the Kentucky Primary Care Association describing their statewide outreach network, local offices, and role helping residents apply for Medicaid, renew coverage, report changes, and navigate benefits; they said connectors do not determine eligibility but assist with applications, recertifications, and outreach events across the Commonwealth.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections May 15th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • If the Secretary of State finds a violation, the Secretary of State can require the county to remedy
  • I believe this is an attempt to impose state. ...control over local election administration, and we oppose
  • State. Thank you for that answer.
  • measures. ...modernization—red states, blue states, big states, and small states alike.
  • It's replicating the best practices from other states, including neighboring states to Texas, such as
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • If you would, state your name, who you represent, and your position on the bill.
  • We're the Texas State Chamber, and I'm testifying in strong support of SB 2255.
  • We have Chapter 55, which... ...lays out all the requirements for the states.
  • The state agency is then...
  • And increase accessibility for our veterans in the state of Texas.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Judicial Council to identify, support, and highlight the excellent work done by courts across the state
  • have six, and we are now all teaching at our training center and helping all other judges across the state
  • We have 24 probate courts across the state.
  • Twice and became the first county, the first court in the state of Texas to have a judge appointed by
  • This bill saves staff time and state resources spent processing paper tax. All right.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Tourism Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • And this, in essence, is going to diminish their ability to provide that level of revenue for the state
  • I have a serious concern about us losing revenue directly coming to the state, and especially since it's
  • That, we have to figure out how we are going to fill those holes here in the state.
  • The locals are taking control of the problem, if you will, with the assistance and help of the state
  • to fix... ...with the assistance and help of the state to fix this issue.
Bills: SB268, SB262, HB237, SB90
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • We know how important agriculture and farming is to this state.
  • Two other states... ...from hospitals, but two other states, there's only two states that have addressed
  • And the only two states that address it didn't do it this way.
  • No other state has handed over enforcement of these plans to their insurance departments.
  • and for all people here in the state.
Bills: HB506, HB513, HB437
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 25th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Please state your inquiry. Is the chair advised...
  • State your inquiry.
  • They want the states to act.
  • Let's let the states start taking control.
  • On line three, does it not read, "not later than the 30th day of each state fiscal biennium, the controller
Bills: SB835, SB3070, SB22, SJR59, SB926, SB1494, SB251, SB456, SB500, SB1307, SB2615, SB2995, SB2321, SB973, SB974, SB865, SB506, SB781, SB1522, SB1558, SB510, SB667, SB763, SB2073, SB1858, SB1660, SB505, SB2900, SB1433, SB1540, SB1964, SB1300, SB1644, SB2217, SB2373, SB2431, SB1758, SB2480, SB3039, SB3047, SB3073, SB2920, SB2781, SB826, SB766, SB2460, SB527, SB1946, SB2885, SB1243, SB2610, SB2595, SB857, SB37, SB8, SB10, SB227, SB261, SB12, SB15, SJR27, SB552, SB835, SB3070, SB22, SJR59, SB25, SB57, SB127, SB293, SB441, SB3059, SB512, SB241, SB1718, SB140, SB2055, SB2075, SB2018, SB1534, SB1567, SB785, SB1233, SB1580, SB1663, SB413, SB447, SB519, SB467, SB1579, SB1191, SB1021, SB1838, SB2807, SB2835, SB546, SB2121, SB2167, SB2035, SB2024, SB1032, SB1049, SB1266, SB1400, SB1302, SB401, SB1596, SB1281, SB1242, SB1343, SB310, SB1346, SB2753, SB2703, SB2221, SB1719, SB2177, SB800, SB790, SB748, SB571, SB1957, SB1923, SB1896, SB1760, SB1335, SB2368, SB2477, SB2587, SB2972, SB2986, SB2965, SB1563, SB1467, SB1164, SB1137, SB614, SB705, SB961, SB918, SB955, SB869, SB850, SB863, SB1610, SB1055, SB2206, SB457, SB2337, SB1362, SB926, SB1494, SB251, SB456, SB500, SB1307, SB2615, SB2995, SB2321, SB973, SB974, SB865, SB506, SB781, SB1522, SB1558, SB510, SB667, SB763, SB2073, SB1858, SB1660, SB505, SB2900, SB1433, SB1540, SB1964, SB1300, SB1644, SB2217, SB2373, SB2431, SB1758, SB2480, SB3039, SB3047, SB3073, SB2920, SB2781, SB826, SB766, SB2460, SB527, SB1946, SB2885, SB1243, SB2610, SB2595, SB857, SCR9, HB5560, HB762, HB 107, HB 114, HB300, HB138, HB4386, HB2495, HB581, HB3348, HB5323
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 14th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're getting state dollars.
  • I'm usually in state governmental, but everything that Mr.
  • They're getting state dollars.
  • No other state is releasing this information.
  • We’re state approved by BESE. And Cognia. We’re state approved by BESE.
Summary: The Senate Education Committee met with four members present and took up a long agenda of education-related bills. Early items included SCR 65, which would create a K-12 student success task force to study statewide career and academic pathway advising; the committee adopted a substantive amendment adding designees and then reported the resolution favorably. The committee also reported favorably on SCR 119, honoring Coach D.D. Breaux, after brief remarks about her LSU gymnastics legacy and the request that LSU study naming its gymnastics training facility in her honor. Several bills affecting school operations and student support were heard and reported favorably, including HB 434 on probationary school bus driver employment and superintendent authority over dismissal; HB 484 expanding scholarship benefits for children and spouses of fallen or disabled firefighters and police officers; HB 749 and HB 1059 on savings accounts and TOPS math eligibility alignment; HB 218 adding food insecurity questions to student questionnaires, which was amended and reported favorably; HB 325 expanding TOPS Tech eligibility through dual enrollment and part-time use; HB 476 requiring Safe Haven law postings in middle and high school restrooms; HB 1249 clarifying access to school-based health centers, with an amendment adopted; HB 1242 allowing more than one early learning center license at the same location under certain circumstances; HB 632 improving data protections and functionality for LA First; and HB 352 on behavioral health services for public school students, which was amended to address IEP and dispute-process concerns before being reported favorably. Two bills drew extended debate over transparency, privacy, and school autonomy. HB 608 would create confidentiality for intercollegiate athletics revenue-sharing documents; LSU representatives argued the bill was needed to protect student-athletes and competitive information, while PAR and the Louisiana Press Association opposed it as an improper secrecy carve-out for state-generated revenue. Despite the opposition, the committee reported HB 608 favorably. HB 1112, which would exempt BESE-approved non-public pre-K programs from certain licensure and safety requirements and adjust related definitions, was amended and then heard with testimony from the Pelican Institute in support, arguing it corrects overreach from prior law and protects private school autonomy and parental choice.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 02-02-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to the state Addison Har.
  • Welcome to the Hawaii State Senate.
  • Welcome to Hawaii State Linda Jury.
  • Welcome to your state Senate. And Mr.
  • President, can I state senate. And Mr.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Jan 21st, 2026

State Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:21:18.240> by out of committee as as it was stated by out of committee as as it was stated
  • So, it's citizens, but this great state.
  • And so I'm just saying it just in other words, this is to protect the state.
  • There are about a dozen states in the country that do that.
  • There are about a dozen states in the country that do that.