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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota House passes HF1090 to honor the late former Rep. Mary Murphy - 4/21/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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Keywords: 1183, house
OR
Transcript Highlights:
  • OHCS has done a remarkable job quickly identifying projects to receive funding after the legislature
  • People are at higher risk of job loss.
  • The study focused on three types of housing: mobile and manufactured homes, publicly supported rental
  • Good job. Okay, we have two more speakers on this panel. Thank you. Good job.
  • I'm sorry that we had to crunch you, but you did a terrific job giving us a summation.
Keywords: 907, all
Summary: The committee met for a series of information sessions focused on housing stabilization, rental assistance, senior housing, and heat resilience. In the first panel, OHCS and NOAA described the state’s affordable housing preservation work, including the $35 million in 2025 stabilization funding used to reduce debt and keep distressed affordable rental projects operating, plus manufactured home park preservation efforts. OHCS said the portfolio remains under strain, with about a third of projects at debt coverage ratios of 1.0 or less and rising insurance and operating costs. NOAA urged faster closings on the stabilization awards, more funding in 2027, and broader rent assistance and process reforms. Committee members asked about the gap between current appropriations and need, and OHCS explained that the new Article 11-Q bond preservation program is structured differently and requires full refinancing rather than simple cash infusions. The committee then heard a detailed discussion of the state’s eviction prevention and rental assistance program, ORDAP. OHCS said the program is administered through community action agencies, prioritizes households at imminent risk of eviction, and is now funded at a much lower level than in the prior biennium, reducing expected service to about 8,200 households this biennium. The Oregon Law Center, a county community action agency, and Multifamily Northwest all agreed the program prevents homelessness and is effective, but they differed on whether assistance should be tied so closely to eviction court. Legal aid and community action witnesses said the current system is underfunded and that eviction filings are the clearest indicator of need, while Multifamily Northwest argued the process can push people into court unnecessarily and should be moved earlier when possible. Legislators raised questions about whether a pre-eviction model could be developed and about the costs of court involvement; one member shared a personal story about how rental assistance helped keep their family housed. Next, the governor’s office, OHCS, and OHA presented on the new senior housing initiative and healthy homes work. The governor’s housing director said Oregon is making progress on homelessness and housing production, with reductions in homelessness outside Multnomah County and an estimated 50,000 future units added to the pipeline through recent state actions. OHCS outlined the senior housing programs launched in May: a debt-financing program using elderly and disabled bond authority, an older adult housing development program funded through the senior property tax deferral revolving account, and a rehousing program for older adults that will use bridge funding and services to move at least 400 unsheltered older Oregonians into housing. OHA also described its Healthy Homes Grant Program, including $24.6 million already awarded, a new $5 million grant round for seniors and people with disabilities, and examples of home repairs and weatherization that help people remain safely housed. The final information session focused on home cooling and heat resilience. OHA presented data showing rising extreme heat days, more heat-related emergency visits, and likely undercounted heat deaths, especially among older adults, people with disabilities, low-income communities, and people without access to healthy homes. ODOE reviewed implementation of Senate Bill 1536, including a cooling needs study that found 58% of surveyed households in the studied housing types needed permanent cooling, with estimated statewide costs of $582 million to $1 billion. ODOE said its rental home heat pump and community heat pump programs have supported 4,638 installations so far, with a temporary reopening planned using remaining funds. The session ended with a remote presentation from a Community Action Partnership of Oregon representative, continuing the discussion of how community action agencies help deliver energy and anti-poverty services.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Jul 15th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • But that's not our job.
  • In 2023, only 9.7% of law graduates secured public interest jobs.
  • My own research over here seems to be affordable and doing a decent job.
  • Let's give them the tools to do their jobs and enforce the ordinances.
  • I think you do a good job.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills, beginning with SB 41 by Senator Wiener, which would regulate pharmacy benefit managers by increasing transparency, banning patient steering and spread pricing, and requiring full pass-through of rebates. Supporters, including independent pharmacists and health advocates, said PBM practices are driving up drug costs and closing neighborhood pharmacies. Opponents from PBM and health plan groups argued the bill overlaps with recently enacted licensing and reporting requirements, would not lower consumer prices, and may be preempted by ERISA. Members discussed confidentiality issues, consumer savings, and the relationship between SB 41 and the new budget trailer bill; the author asked for an aye vote. The committee then took up SB 378, also by Senator Wiener, aimed at online marketplaces that advertise illegal intoxicating hemp and unlicensed cannabis products. Supporters from labor, public health, and the licensed cannabis industry said online sales are undermining regulated businesses and exposing children to unsafe products. Opponents from tech and hemp industry groups warned the bill is overbroad, could sweep in general-purpose platforms and lawful hemp wellness products, and raises Dormant Commerce Clause and First Amendment concerns. The author said he would narrow the bill, remove industrial hemp references, and address strict liability and standing issues; members largely focused on how to target illegal products without capturing lawful marketplaces. SB 243 by Senator Padilla addressed AI companion chatbots, with supporters including Common Sense Media and transparency advocates warning that these systems can be addictive, manipulative, and dangerous for minors and vulnerable users, citing studies and the death of a Florida teenager. The bill would require disclosures, anti-addiction design limits, self-harm protocols, audits, reporting, and a private right of action. Tech and business groups opposed the measure as overly broad and said its definitions could sweep in general-purpose AI tools; several members supported the goal but questioned the breadth of the definitions and the private right of action. Finally, SB 522 by Senator Wahab would extend just-cause eviction protections to rental units that were previously covered by the Tenant Protection Act but were destroyed in disasters and later rebuilt. Supporters, including Los Angeles city officials and tenant advocates, said the bill would help keep displaced renters housed after wildfires and other disasters. Apartment and realtor groups opposed it, arguing it would remove a key exemption needed to finance rebuilding and could discourage post-disaster reconstruction. Members expressed support for tenant protections in disaster areas, and the author asked for an aye vote.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-23-2025

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • expands the use of monies in the revolving fund to allow financing as matching funds for CDFIs to mobilize
  • funds for to allow financing as matching funds for CDFIs<00:15:13.680><c> to</c><00:15:13.839><c> mobilize
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Keywords: 912, senate, all
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Information Technology Committee Mar 26th, 2026

Information Technology Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • So again, we've done a good job of messaging that.
  • Midco's done a great job as well.
  • Mobile backhaul makes up a large portion of DCN's revenues.
  • I think all four vendors can do the job in those two areas.
  • explaining, and the state did a fantastic job of conducting those events.
Summary: The committee received a series of informational reports from NDIT and DPI on major IT projects, cybersecurity, and the K-12 student information system transition. Justin Data reviewed the quarterly major project portfolio, noting 111 projects totaling about $542.8 million, generally under budget and slightly behind schedule overall. He highlighted three schedule-red projects: Bed Management System and Vital Records, both now complete and being closed out, and the Roadway Capital Planning Project, which is delayed due to vendor bug fixes after user testing. He also summarized new project startups, including the Attorney General’s Victim Notification System, HHS Medicaid correctional facilities data exchange, Highway Patrol’s motor carrier e-permit system, and additional RIMS work, and answered questions about project timing, funding, and whether work had begun on legislatively funded IT projects. Chris Gurgan, NDIT’s chief information security officer, reported on mandatory cybersecurity incident reporting under HB 1314. He said 77 incidents have been reported since August 2021, with 47 meeting the statutory definition of a cybersecurity incident; phishing remains the most common type, followed by email quarantine alerts, XDR detections, and malware. He emphasized that most incidents are resolved, but that timely reporting is critical for any chance of recovering funds in business email compromise or ransomware cases. He also described several notable incidents since the last report, including the PowerSchool breach, a SimpleHelp intrusion at a school district, a court intrusion, a WSUS vulnerability, a business email compromise at a K-12 district, and a recent ransomware report involving a non-state critical infrastructure entity. Members asked about smishing, MFA, conditional access, security awareness training, and recovery of lost funds; Gurgan said state systems use phishing-resistant MFA and conditional access, training is provided to state employees and offered to political subdivisions on an opt-in basis, and broader cybersecurity maturity assessments are underway. Craig Falkley gave brief reports on coordination with political subdivisions and higher education, including shared networking, cybersecurity, radio/911, PeopleSoft, and co-location services. He also explained distributed ledger technology as a tool for decentralized, secure data sharing, but said the state has limited use for it and would likely frame future reporting more broadly around emerging technologies. The committee then heard from Tony Ambrose of DPI on the statewide Infinite Campus implementation. He said district implementations are underway, but the project had to terminate its original data migration vendor for poor performance and replace it with Aurora Educational Technology, which had experience with a similar North Carolina migration. He also said DPI is moving special education data from Tynet into Infinite Campus, is still working through how to preserve e-transcripts and Choice Ready-type functionality after the PowerSchool transition, and is developing identity, authentication, and data-sharing arrangements for the summer cutover. Members raised concerns about procurement timing, summer school disruption, and whether some functions would be ready by July 1.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Information Technology Committee Mar 26th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • So again, we've done a good job of messaging that.
  • Midco's done a great job as well.
  • Mobile backhaul makes up a large portion of DCN's revenues.
  • did a fantastic job of conducting those events.
  • So he's done a phenomenal job.
Summary: The committee received several informational reports from NDIT and DPI. Justin Data reviewed the quarterly major IT project portfolio, noting the portfolio was slightly under budget and behind schedule overall, with three red schedule items: Bed Management System and Vital Records were essentially complete and being closed out, and the Roadway Capital Planning Project was delayed by vendor bug fixes after testing. He also summarized recent project startups and closeouts, including the Victim Notification System, Medicaid data exchange, Highway Patrol’s motor carrier permit system, and several completed HHS and RIMS projects. Members asked for follow-up on ADA compliance work, the public-facing RIO website, and the state’s mainframe retirement timeline, and staff agreed to provide updates later. Craig Falkley reported on coordination of services with political subdivisions and higher education, including StageNet, cybersecurity, radio/911 services, and PeopleSoft coordination. He also explained distributed ledger technology as a tool for transparency and fraud prevention, but said it is not widely used in state government and suggested the report be modernized to focus more broadly on emerging technologies such as AI and cybersecurity. The committee generally agreed that the topic should be updated. Chris Gurgan presented the mandatory cybersecurity incident reporting program created by HB 1314, explaining how agencies and political subdivisions report incidents through NDIT’s website or service desk. He said 77 incidents had been reported since 2021, 47 met the statutory definition, and most were phishing-related; most reported incidents were resolved, with one recent ransomware matter still open. He also reviewed notable incidents since the last report, including the PowerSchool compromise, a SimpleHelp intrusion at a school district, a court intrusion, a WSUS vulnerability, a business email compromise, and a recent ransomware incident involving a non-state critical infrastructure entity. Members asked about recovery of stolen funds, early warning signs, smishing, training, MFA, conditional access, and cybersecurity maturity assessments; Gurgan said the state uses MFA and conditional access, provides awareness training to state employees, and would return with more information on maturity assessments. Tony Ambrose then updated the committee on the K-12 student information system bridge project. He said district implementation of Infinite Campus had begun statewide, but the data migration vendor originally selected was terminated for poor performance and replaced by Aurora Educational Technology, which had experience with similar statewide migrations. He also said DPI is migrating special education data from Tynet into Infinite Campus, and that some SLDS-based tools such as e-transcripts and Choice Ready may not function exactly as they do now at July 1, requiring interim or alternative solutions. Members raised concerns about summer school disruptions, the timing of the cutover, and whether the new system would support existing reporting and transcript functions; DPI said it was working on identity, authentication, data-sharing agreements, and post-go-live integrations, and would continue to refine the plan beyond June 30.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Higher Education - 02/26/26

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I can tell you this with all sincerity and all honesty: I would not have my day job, or I would not be
  • doing the job half as well as I do, if I didn't have access to all kinds of materials throughout the
  • partners in community development, strengthening<00:20:23.200><c> economic</c><00:20:23.760><c> mobility
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  • 11:13.120><c> the</c> degree or certificate required for the degree or certificate required for the jobs
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:43 am

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I definitely want to just mention that you've done a great job.
  • Our job is to represent the people of New Mexico.
  • Thank you very much, Senator, and congratulations on a job outstandingly done.
  • And he's doing a great job in that capacity. It's pretty cool.
  • So, and he's doing a great job in that capacity.
Keywords: 996, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations Feb 18th, 2025 at 08:00 am

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our local mental health authorities do a great job. Programs like multisystemic therapy.
  • It's hard to be. a spouse or bring in the, you know, your, I have a job, hold a job. etc.
  • Was anybody relieved of their jobs or their appointments as a result? your review? No ma'am.
  • And they don't have a job that ends at 5 p.m.
  • I know it's a very mobile population. hadn't spoke about in here is money.
Summary: The meeting primarily focused on reviewing the proposed budget for the upcoming biennium, with substantial discussions around House Bill 1 and its implications for public education, healthcare, and border security. The Comptroller presented a revenue overview indicating a total of $194.6 billion available for general purpose spending, which reflects a slight decrease compared to previous years due to fluctuating economic conditions. Members raised questions regarding spending limits and the impact of federal funding on state programs, highlighting concerns about the sustainability of funding in light of potential changes at the federal level.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 3/2/26

Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Translation providers that they work with are simply trying to do their job in providing rides to and
  • I don't know if we have work to do, um, on ensuring that Metro Mobility is what people need it to be,
  • I don't know if we have work to do, um, on ensuring that Metro Mobility is what people need it to be,
  • I don't know if we have work to do, um, on ensuring that Metro Mobility is what people need it to be,
  • I don't know if we have work to do, um, on ensuring that Metro Mobility is what people need it to be,
Keywords: 1183, house
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Jan 29th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • The purpose and need: improve freight mobility, improve access for the freight that's generated in this
  • It widens the Altamont Bridge, provides a roundabout, which will improve mobility in and around the Altamont
  • a transportation system that is designed to protect life, support accessibility, and ensure safe mobility
  • Washingtonians. ...system that is designed to protect life, support accessibility, and ensure safe mobility
  • However, if the RTA issued bonds over 40 years in length, they would not be eligible for regional mobility
Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee met for work sessions, public hearings, and executive action. In the work session, WSDOT briefed the committee on the U.S. 12 corridor near Walla Walla and the North Spokane Corridor. Brian White said U.S. 12 is an eight-phase project with seven phases complete, and phase eight would finish the corridor, improve freight mobility and safety, and include a jurisdictional transfer of the old highway back to Walla Walla County. He said the project remains short of full funding, including a gap between the $350 million corridor cost and the $110 million federal Rural Surface Transportation grant, but WSDOT hopes to build smaller independent-utility pieces and begin construction in summer 2027. Charlene K. then reported that the North Spokane Corridor is seven of eight highway miles open, with major remaining work on the I-90 connection and related interchanges, bridges, and trail segments. She described the project as on track for design completion in 2027 and construction completion around 2030, while noting risks tied to federal approval, tight construction space, labor and contractor availability, utilities, and community impacts. The committee also heard from Karen Messmer of the Cooper Jones Active Transportation Safety Council, who summarized the council’s 2025 report and 2026 priorities. She emphasized that pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities remain unacceptably high and urged a safe-system approach focused on safer speeds, roads, road users, vehicles, land use, and post-crash care. She highlighted recommendations including safety-based performance measures, better speed management, more local safety planning support, improved driver education, attention to micromobility and large vehicles, and faster toxicology and crash-data processing. In public hearings, the committee heard Senate Bill 6131, which would expand the Washington Traffic Safety Commission’s fatal crash review authority, designate it as a public health authority for limited access to health information, and create a confidential fatality review committee. The sponsor and Traffic Safety Commission said the bill would help identify common contributing factors in all fatal crashes while protecting confidential information; a media representative testified that the bill preserves public access to records already open and supports the goal of improving safety. The committee also heard Senate Bill 6155, which would extend disability parking placard renewal from every five years to every 20 years and remove the need for a health care practitioner’s signature at renewal; supporters said this would reduce burdens on permanently disabled people, while opponents warned it could increase fraud and misuse of placards. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 6238, which would raise the minimum tug escort horsepower for oil tankers in restricted waters to 3,000 horsepower or 5% of tanker deadweight, whichever is greater; the sponsor and Board of Pilotage said the change would align statute with current practice and newly adopted rules. Testimony was mixed, and the hearing closed with two people signed in pro and two con. In executive session, the committee advanced several bills. It passed Senate Bill 5746 on EV charging infrastructure property crime, Senate Bill 5824 on fifth wheel travel trailer length, Senate Bill 6110 on e-bikes and e-motos, Senate Bill 5839 on county ferry district passenger-only service, and Senate Bill 6148 on regional transit authority bond terms, all with due pass recommendations to the Rules Committee. An amendment to SB 6110 adding several state agency leaders to the e-moto work group was rejected. The committee adjourned after signing committee reports.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

March 12, 2025 - 10:15 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's not a mobile app that's available for I-Connect.
  • I-Connect requires users to use their browser on their mobile device to access it, which has challenges
  • because what we're debating is screenshots versus whether or not somebody can access something from a mobile
  • There are fundamental technological challenges in the application with browser compatibility and mobile
  • mobility.
Summary: The subcommittee heard a lengthy presentation on the Agency for Persons with Disabilities’ I-Connect system, based on an ILAB assessment of the platform’s performance and requirements. ILAB said the system provides useful centralized records, reporting, compliance support, and audit trails, but users described it as cumbersome, outdated, and inefficient, with excessive manual entry, weak navigation, limited notifications, no mobile app, poor printing/export options, and performance issues. ILAB also said the original 2013-era requirements were too high-level and that only a portion of the requirements could be verified, with some features de-scoped or never implemented. Their recommendations included better integration with electronic health record systems, improved performance monitoring, electronic signatures, OCR, and more modern export and verification tools. Public testimony from providers and advocates echoed those concerns. A support coordination provider said the system is nicknamed “I Disconnect,” described problems with EVV/GPS sign-ins, lengthy support plans, lack of a phone app, and possible HIPAA concerns. Another advocate said the system should have preserved family access to records and criticized the need for providers to use workarounds and additional software. APD staff said the agency has spent about $19.7 million through FY 2023-24, has regular build updates under the current contract with WellSky, and uses an internal help desk and vendor ticketing process to triage bugs versus enhancement requests. They said some issues are handled case-by-case, critical tickets have SLAs, and the agency is working on interoperability and other requested improvements. Members questioned whether the system should be fixed or replaced, whether the original contract and SaaS arrangement were sufficient, and whether the state received value for the money spent. APD said the system went live in phases and that all functionality was in place by June 2024, while ILAB and members noted significant technical debt and unresolved gaps. The committee also discussed record retention, provider access to records after a consumer changes providers, and whether federal funding or compliance could be affected. The meeting ended with broader budget remarks emphasizing completion over expansion, stronger upfront planning for technology projects, and more accountability before funding new systems or major enhancements.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • income discrimination, which ultimately makes it more difficult for our communities to find upward mobility
  • income discrimination, which ultimately makes it more difficult for our communities to find upward mobility
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Keywords: 1187, senate, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee Apr 8th, 2026

Public Employment and Retirement

Transcript Highlights:
  • Remote and hybrid workplaces are becoming the standard for a wide range of jobs.
  • It's their job. And so with that, I recommend an aye vote. Madam Secretary.
  • or job duty that the proponents, or whomever, find objectionable.
  • Looks like an actual real job.
  • Sometimes these temporary part-time short-term jobs reflect student populations.
Keywords: 988, house, all
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • last but not least is our new technology in the new entrance to aviation, whether it's advanced mobility
  • 'Hey, I just didn't know, and I'm glad that you have educated me, so that's an exciting part of my job
  • But again, we've got to get hundreds of jobs and many tenants, maybe even thousands of jobs out there
  • job needs if the area was to grow?
  • And so there's a lot of opportunities to be able to tie from to get jobs to come out here.
Keywords: 914, all
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • ABOUT 777 BILLION DOLLARS IN SALES AND 2.5 MILLION JOBS.
  • WE WILL LOOK AT JOB SECTORS ENCLOSED WITH SOMEWHAT OF A BOLD STRATEGY.
  • THESE CONTINUE TO GROW IN THE JOBS CONTINUE TO EVOLVE.
  • THESE NEW JOBS REQUIRE NEW SKILL SETS, SOME OF WHICH WE ARE NOT PREPARING PEOPLE 4 AT THE MOMENT.
  • NOW WE CAN LOOK AT SOME OF THE JOB SECTORS.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Emergency Management Committee Mar 17th, 2026

Emergency Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • The vast majority of emergency calls originate from mobile devices rather than traditional landlines.
  • One was an actual outage that affected T-Mobile calls to Tulare County Sheriff.
  • One was an actual outage that affected T-Mobile calls, only T-Mobile calls, to T-Mobile Calls to T-Wallamy
  • And, you know, the reality of mobile phones being the original calls to 9-1-1, so, yeah, it's pretty
  • The public communicates today through mobile devices and data, and we have a responsibility to meet that
Keywords: 988, house, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • For example, we may have a certain population that is more mobile and they live in an urban area, and
  • For example, we may have a certain population that is more mobile and they live in an urban area, and
  • For example, we may have a certain population that is more mobile and they live in an urban area, and
  • For example, we may have a certain population that is more mobile and they live in an urban area, and
  • </c><00:29:58.360><c> and</c> population that is more Bo mobile and population that is more Bo mobile
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The Budget Review Subcommittee on Health and Family Services held its first meeting and received an overview from the Department for Medicaid Services on Medicaid’s behavioral health and substance use disorder services. Commissioner Lisa Lee and CFO Steve Beal said Kentucky Medicaid serves about 1.4 million members, including over half of Kentucky children, with 485,000 expansion members, more than 69,000 enrolled providers, and total fiscal year 2024 expenditures of $18.5 billion. They said Kentucky covers a broad range of behavioral health services, and behavioral health provider enrollment has grown from a little over 4,500 in 2019 to nearly 8,000 in 2024. They also described how Medicaid spending and utilization are tracked through claims and encounter data, with most members served through managed care organizations. Members focused on sharp increases in certain behavioral health billing codes, especially peer-to-peer services, and asked about reimbursement, utilization review, and whether the growth reflected increased need or expanded coverage. DMS said the rise was partly tied to combining facility and nonfacility behavioral health fee schedules in 2023, choosing the higher reimbursement rate to avoid cuts, and that the department has seen an uptick in peer-to-peer services. In response to concerns about overutilization, DMS said it mailed a letter to behavioral health providers, is considering limits and prior authorizations for some services, and plans to create a standardized monthly behavioral health report to monitor trends consistently and identify when controls may be needed. Lawmakers also asked whether the provider network is sufficient and whether access is adequate, especially for children. DMS said provider enrollment has expanded because behavioral health services were added to Medicaid in 2014 and because demand increased after COVID, but acknowledged studies showing children have less access than adults and said that would be an area of focus. The department said managed care organizations are required to ensure access to needed services and that current trends indicate access is available, though one member disagreed and said workforce shortages remain a major concern. Another member asked about non-emergency medical transportation spending, and DMS explained that it is handled through a capitated arrangement administered by the Transportation Cabinet rather than directly by the managed care organizations.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • probate judge that has to be a lawyer, and it would have equity powers similar to Jefferson County and Mobile
  • So, I don't really care how we change it or what we do, but somebody needs to do their job.
  • Not only their job, but what the law tells them they have to do.
  • Good job. Thank you. Uh, I appreciate this opportunity. Yes, sir. Mr.
  • I guess just from being out there and doing the job. And now granted, it was in the 90s.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • centers, and prioritizes funding for 988 call centers, for dispatch technology, and for a backup mobile
  • Call centers for dispatch technology and a backup mobile responder, building a sustainable behavioral
Summary: The committee briefly laid over Senate Bill 1570 at the office request, then took up Senate Bill 1369. The bill was described as a measure to keep Oklahoma’s 988 mental health lifeline operating after federal grant funding ends by creating a dedicated 988 revolving fund. It also would strengthen statewide oversight, set quality standards for crisis centers, and direct funding toward 988 call centers, dispatch technology, and backup mobile response services. After the bill explanation, there were no questions or debate. The committee moved to a vote, and Senate Bill 1369 passed unanimously by a vote of 5-0. The meeting then adjourned.