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TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Mar 31st, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's why I support the bill. I think it's a good bill. Thank you. All right.
  • TREP supports this bill.
  • You can be held in contempt for failing to pay child support.
  • And again, I think it's more in line with the way we treat child support.
  • So we are supporting the bill; it seems to be an easier one.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Mar 31st, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Transcript Highlights:
  • systems, which can help guardians feel supported.
  • I urge you to support this bill and help provide these grieving children with the support they deserve
  • The child support vision collects more child support than any other state in the United States.
  • He doesn't necessarily owe child support for those two. I mean, court-ordered child support.
  • He would owe child support, but he wouldn't...
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • supporting Minnesota's caregivers.
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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Agriculture Committee Meeting - 2025-03-26

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Stuart Lichtenberg to testify in support of the bill.
  • On the other piece here on biomonitoring for workers, when workers get sick or when we have a positive
  • And I'd ask for your support. Thanks, Chair Hanson.
  • So I'd ask for your support to lay this over.
  • I ask for your support.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • grant program and one is agri support. grant program and one is agri support.
  • :41:49.119> processing workers, poultry or livestock processing workers, poultry or livestock
  • here on biio monitoring uh for workers here on biio monitoring uh for workers um<00:44:56.960>
  • I'd ask for your support. continue. I'd ask for your support.
  • Ask for your support.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 26th, 2026 at 12:10 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and nutritional support.
  • When you say that this protects the worker, do you not think that unions protect workers?
  • , and nutritional support.
  • When you say that this protects the worker, do... You do not think that unions protect workers?
  • the country for workers' comp.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 26th, 2026 at 08:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you, and in support. Yes, in support.
  • support. Okay, thank you. support. Okay, thank you.
  • So, we strongly support this bill to protect our educational workers from harassment.
  • educational worker. educational worker.
  • 20 in support. 20 in support.
Bills: HB1890, HB1888, HB1676
Summary: The committees heard three measures, beginning with HB 1890 HD3, which would provide automatic step increases and a COVID-era retention bonus for teachers. Supporters included HSTA, the Democratic Party’s Education Caucus, and a student who said higher pay and predictable salary growth would help retain teachers in Hawaii. The Department of Education supported the intent but asked that the bill be expanded to cover all department employees. The Attorney General’s office said the draft needed clarification to avoid conflict with Chapter 89 and to make clear any funding was subject to legislative appropriation. The Office of the Public Defender and B&F testified in opposition, and committee members questioned whether the step increases were already in the current contract and whether the bill was needed. HSTA said the current contract includes automatic step increases subject to funding, but argued the bill was still needed because funding is not guaranteed and the measure would codify the policy. HSTA also said the COVID bonus would apply only to active teachers who worked during the pandemic and estimated the total cost at roughly $150 million to $200 million over four years. No vote was taken in the portion provided. The committee then took up HB 1888 HD3, which would require DOE and charter schools to report harassment incidents and strengthen penalties for harassment of educational workers from a petty misdemeanor to a misdemeanor. DOE supported the bill and suggested narrowing language about assisting workers with temporary restraining orders, saying that function would be better handled through the Attorney General’s pilot program. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the bill, arguing the harassment language was overly broad, vague, and potentially unconstitutional, and that existing assault and terroristic threatening statutes already protect educational workers. HSTA, the State Commission on the Status of Women, and several individual testifiers supported the measure, describing increased intimidation and harassment of teachers and other school staff, especially since COVID. The Special Education Advisory Council opposed the bill’s language on “disrupting and interfering” with school functions, saying it could chill parents of students with IEPs from advocating for their children. Testimony was split, with the chair noting 20 in support and 16 in opposition in the portion shown. A final witness, Michelle Pestana, testified in opposition based on her family’s experience with special education services, describing alleged seclusion and restraint of her daughter and expressing concern that DOE testimony in prior hearings had targeted special education parents. Her remarks were cut off as time expired. The transcript ends before any committee action or vote on HB 1888 was taken.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health & Human Development Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Health & Human Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • We support this bill.
  • We support SB 196.
  • And so I am a huge supporter. I know he can do it again. And so I am a huge supporter of this.
  • to resources, education, and support.
  • to resources, education, and support.
Bills: SB274, SB301, SB249
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several measures related to health care, public health, and patient protections. House Concurrent Resolution 148, urging a statewide educational strategy on menopause, was presented as a workplace awareness measure and received supportive comments from members before being released. Senate Bill 274, updating Delaware’s MOST program to POLST and clarifying capacity determinations and documentation for end-of-life orders, also drew supportive testimony from medical and nursing groups and was released. House Bill 458, limiting local backflow preventer requirements for certain low-hazard buildings, was presented as a cost-relief measure for homeowners and small businesses; DHSS expressed concerns but said it was willing to work on amendments and a sunset provision, and the bill was released. Senate Joint Resolution 18, designating August 31, 2026 as International Overdose Awareness Day and ordering flags at half-staff, was released after brief supportive remarks. The committee then considered Senate Bill 339, a technical correction to the advance health care directive form clarifying that an agent’s authority for voluntary mental health admission cannot exceed 72 hours, consistent with existing law. Members asked detailed questions about how the 72-hour limit works and whether it applies to voluntary directives; the sponsor and a Disability Rights Delaware witness explained that the bill only aligns the form with current statute and does not expand authority. The bill was released. House Bill 301, requiring hospitals to create discharge plans for pregnant patients discharged while showing signs of labor, prompted extensive discussion. The sponsor and supporters said it would improve safety, transportation planning, and aftercare, while some members noted Delaware hospitals already do much of this work and questioned whether codifying it was necessary; supporters emphasized maternal mortality disparities and the need for guardrails. The bill was released. Senate Bill 196, creating ownership disclosure requirements for long-term care facilities and resident notice rules after ownership transfers, was presented as a transparency measure for seniors and families and was released after supportive testimony from the Delaware Nurses Association and elder-care advocates. Senate Bill 320, expanding pharmacists’ independent prescriptive authority for certain non-controlled medications and allowing opioid use disorder medications under standing order, with added malpractice reporting requirements in Senate Amendment 2, was supported by pharmacists and nurse practitioners as an access-to-care measure and was released. Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 161, establishing a unified licensing and oversight framework for adult behavioral health providers under DSAM, was presented as a patient-protection measure; providers supported the goal but cautioned that regulations must be workable, and the substitute was released. Senate Joint Resolution 19, directing DHSS to study strategies to reduce health care costs, was released with a note reflecting concerns about broadening the analysis to include additional cost drivers and alternatives. Finally, Senate Bill 249 with Senate Amendment 2, modernizing harm-reduction programs and paraphernalia laws, generated the most extended debate: supporters framed it as life-saving public health policy, while opponents raised concerns about needle litter, community impacts, and whether the approach facilitates addiction. Despite the objections, the bill was released.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Insurance May 13th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The result was with support. Control of our PBM services.
  • We do have some other cards in support that wish to speak.
  • We have a couple of cards in support.
  • We have a couple of cards in support.
  • We have a couple of cards in support.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 27th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm here in support of House Bill 1782.
  • I respectfully ask for your support of House Bill 2295.
  • I urge you to support this House Bill.
  • I urge all of you to support this initiative. ...to support this resolution.
  • We ask you to please support HB 321.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • We support in order for us to do this.
  • <00:17:50.960> that of the technology supports that of the technology supports that potentially
  • support for this bill. support for this bill. >> All<00:21:00.880> right.
  • review and approve housing support review and approve housing support agreements<00:53:43.920>
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Transcript Highlights:
  • The electric cooperatives have been very supportive of this bill.
  • They have been very supportive of this bill.
  • So, last year, with the support of I think everyone in this legislature for the most part, we passed
  • It's for the purpose of supporting employees being alleged of committing misconduct.
  • Speaker, Representative, I'm supporting your bill, but I just wanted to clarify for the record.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Wed Mar 4, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Grassroot Institute of Hawaii in support. Hawaii Solar Energy Association in support.
  • I thank you for your support, and I'm in support of the bill. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay.
  • Association in support on Zoom. Association in support on Zoom.
  • Young Brothers in support. Aloha. Young Brothers in support.
  • I don't know whether you supported it then or you support it now.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1984 HD2, which would require government entities issuing building permits to create a self-certification process for certain behind-the-meter rooftop solar and energy storage systems, allowing approved applicants to proceed without waiting for standard permit review. The Public Utilities Commission and DLNR offered comments, and the Hawaii Solar Energy Association, Holoholo Energy, Photon Works Engineering, Malama Solar, RevoluSun, and others testified in strong support. Supporters said the bill would reduce permitting delays, lower costs, and help meet Hawaii’s renewable energy goals while still relying on licensed engineers, electricians, and county inspections for safety. Committee members asked about risk, existing county pilot programs, and whether self-certification had been used before; witnesses said the professional liability remains with licensed signers and that current automated review systems often flag minor issues that slow projects. The committee also noted 16 additional written testimonies in support. The committee then took up HB 1593 HD1, which would require HHFDC-financed affordable rental housing projects to allow residents to own or keep common household pets. The Hawaiian Humane Society testified that the bill is a top priority because housing restrictions are a major reason pets are surrendered and because many unhoused residents with pets avoid housing that does not allow animals. In response to questions, the Humane Society said concerns about pet-related damage are overstated, suggested pet behavior screening as a safeguard, and said it would be willing to work on broader private-market pet-friendly housing policies. Members raised concerns about whether allowing pets in public housing could create problems for residents who later transition to the private market, and the witness said California has a similar law and no major negative effects had been identified. Finally, the committee heard HB 2423 HD2, which would require that by January 1, 2028, diesel fuel sold in Hawaii for on-highway vehicles contain at least 5% biodiesel by volume. The Hawaii State Energy Office offered comments, and Hawaii Transportation Association and Pacific Biodiesel Technologies testified in support. Pacific Biodiesel argued the mandate would improve energy security, stabilize fuel prices amid global supply disruptions, and support local clean-fuel production. In response to questions, the company said its nameplate capacity is 5.5 million gallons per year and it has produced over 6 million gallons annually, but much of its output is tied up in standby generator contracts that can fluctuate. Witnesses said the mandate would provide a stable market signal and could support future investment in expanded local biodiesel production, including agricultural feedstock development and a possible second refinery. No votes or final actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.