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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Revised Apr 22nd, 2026 at 03:30 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • So would you believe that when we created this program last year, that the intent was so that members
  • So this would be a totally separate program or funding. It would have no connection.
  • So this would be a totally separate program or funding. It would have no connection.
  • Clinical interns and accredited behavioral health graduate programs to build for Medicaid services they
  • This has been a very popular program. There is no fiscal impact to the state.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Apr 14th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Commerce & Economic Development Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so I guess my other question is, why is this not in the Public Safety Oversight Committee versus
  • And so thank you for your public... ...the concerns that you had as well with industry, and so thank
  • you for your public and also with me directly in hearing this bill through this committee.
  • This would facilitate interstate practice of occupational therapy with the goal of improving public access
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules 2ND REVISED Mar 4th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • the adoption of a charter provision Contrary to or inconsistent with the sovereignty established in public
  • growth, shouldn't be surprised when we continue underinvesting in classrooms, infrastructure, and public
  • This proposal consolidates power in ways that could erode public trust.
  • And what this does is that it's called the Tulsa Reconciliation Education Scholarship Program.
  • are especially encouraging to me as many students as feasible, acknowledging that the cap on the program
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 4th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • So the, just so I'm clear, the program will mirror for animals what our PA program has for humans, correct
  • Public testimony. Very exciting. Seeing none. Public testimony. Very exciting.
  • Seeing none, public testimony.
  • , the critical designation program.
  • Public testimony. Very exciting.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills, beginning with CS/SB 796, which would create Veterinary Professional Associates as a new supervised veterinary role, expand telehealth prescription timeframes, and set training and scope limits. Supporters said it would improve access to care, lower costs, and create a career path, while opponents argued the proposal lacked a clear regulatory framework, could create liability and federal-law conflicts, and would not address the real shortage in rural large-animal practice. After debate, the committee reported the bill favorably. Members also heard and favorably reported SB 1682 on local authority over derelict and abandoned vessels, CS/SB 1028 on a commercial Citizens clearinghouse for property insurance, SB 394 on exempting certain reinsurance underwriting managers from licensing, SB 636 on beach management and erosion designations, CS/SB 546 on public notice for conservation land sales or exchanges, CS/SB 302 on Biscayne Bay nature-based solutions and related coastal resiliency provisions, SB 1050 on pharmacy choice for pet medications, and SB 774 extending workers’ compensation benefits to 911 public safety telecommunicators for mental and nervous injuries. Testimony on these bills generally focused on access, regulatory clarity, environmental protection, or workforce support, with some concerns raised on insurance consumer protections and beach-management language. Senator Harrell’s bills were also taken up and reported favorably: CS/SB 480, a major overhaul of state IT governance creating DIGIT and new procurement, reporting, and workforce structures; CS/SB 1230, restricting PFAS-containing firefighting foam and adding testing, inventory, and disposal requirements; and CS/SB 1288, a naming bill designating the Andrew Red Harris Shoal and requiring markers. Finally, the committee heard extensive testimony on SB 1066 regarding restoration of the Oklawaha/Rodman system, with supporters emphasizing ecological restoration, flood-risk reduction, and economic benefits, and opponents warning about local impacts, water quality, and the loss of a world-class fishery. The transcript ends during testimony on that bill, before final action is shown.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • This is just consider the Federal funding eligibility would make ambulances by public entities, such
  • as municipal, county, tribal, or other public entities, consider essential services.
  • first section, an emergency is an event or issue that needs immediate intervention to protect the public
  • other words, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine is trying to make sure that they're protecting the public
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 20th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Chair lays out Senate Bill 747 by Senator King, relating to public school policies and programs.
  • The Chair lays out Senate Bill 747 by Senator King, relating to public school policies and programs regarding
  • The bill is concerning the It is relating to public school policies and programs regarding the production
  • of public schools.
  • Has happened in her public education, and she goes to a public school.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 24th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's a pilot program. That's a that's a new concept program.
  • this program what what we want this mentoring program to be is what this mentoring program to be is what
  • Uh so I order to save the program. Uh so I order to save the program.
  • the program that I'm not necessarily that program, but they've looked at that program, but they've looked
  • at that program, but they've looked at other programs.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 24th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
  • BECAUSE THEY ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND THEY HAVE TO FOLLOW ALL THE SAME RULES AND EVERYTHING AS THE PUBLIC
  • or public input.
  • safety, or youth support programs.
  • You can't stand for public safety and pass policies that make the public less safe.
Summary: The Florida House of Representatives conducted legislative business including prayer, pledge, and voting on multiple bills. Key legislation included HB 1105 expanding Florida Bright Futures Scholarship eligibility, HB 443 on charter school regulations (passed 83-23), and HB 1539 on materials harmful to minors (passed 81-29) after extensive debate about book challenges in schools. Other bills addressed education funding, law enforcement benefits, parole guidelines, and various local issues. The Speaker announced budget negotiations with the Senate have stalled, with disagreements over spending levels and tax cuts. The House will not meet this weekend as originally planned. Session adjourned until tomorrow at 10 AM.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 24th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Office Salary Assistance Grant Program and the Rural Prosecutor's Office Salary Assistance Grant Program
  • Victim Compensation Program that helps victims. I move passage.
  • and the Texas Teacher Retention Incentive Program.
  • I move to suspend the five-day posting rule to permit the Committee on Public Health in a public meeting
  • early childhood parental support program and pre-kindergarten programs and public schools. and the funding
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means May 5th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • authorizes the Office of Multimodal Commerce to utilize data from certain federal agencies and other public
Bills: HB1039, SB423, SB436
Summary: The Ways and Means Committee met on May 5, 2026, and first considered Senate Bill 436 by Senator Cloud, which revises how annual aviation fuel estimates are calculated for the Aviation Trust Fund. Senator Cloud explained that the fund supports airport and aviation projects and has been supplemented in recent years with general fund dollars because the estimated balance has remained stagnant. The committee adopted amendments allowing DOTD’s Office of Multimodal Commerce to use federal and other public data sources, requiring Revenue to provide annual aviation fuel sales tax collections data, and making a technical change. After a brief question about existing airport disclosure requirements, the bill was reported as amended with support cards entered into the record. The committee then took up House Bill 1039 by Representative Desotel, dealing with local sales and use tax audit procedures. The bill was presented as a fairness and transparency measure for audits, but members and the author discussed substantial amendments that would remove or modify several provisions. The committee adopted the amendments except for Amendment 4, which would have required private auditing firms contracting with taxing authorities to be domiciled in Louisiana; that language was set aside for further work after concerns it could affect audits conducted outside Louisiana. Members also discussed provisions on waiving prescription periods, suspending interest and penalties by agreement, and concerns about multiple parishes auditing the same business at once. The bill was reported as amended, with several support cards and informational cards entered. Senate Bill 423 was voluntarily deferred, and there was no other business before the committee. The meeting adjourned after a motion to adjourn was adopted.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/11/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • and allow for public testimony.
  • and allow for public testimony.
  • program that is currently actually free.
  • the program, to participate in the program, and to make it a priority for them to be in the program
  • know about the program, to participate in the program, and to make it a priority for them to be in the
Summary: The committee approved the minutes and then heard House Bill 2050, which updates Department of Health Services rules for radiologic technologists and radiologic assistants. The bill changes school accreditation and training requirements, reduces clinical hours, revises supervision and scope-of-practice rules, adjusts fees, and removes radiologic technologists from the telehealth health care provider definition. Testimony from a radiologic technologist supported the bill as an update to outdated standards and a response to workforce shortages, while a nurse practitioner supported the section allowing NPs to use diagnostic x-ray machines under nursing board standards. HB 2050 passed 7-0 with a do-pass recommendation. The committee then considered House Bill 2082, which creates a Childhood Cancer and Rare Childhood Disease Research Commission and expands the research fund to include appropriations, gifts, donations, and federal grants. An amendment shifted grant-awarding authority to the DHS director, required the commission to set criteria and review applications, and added public meeting requirements; it also tied funding to at least $5 million in available resources and removed the return-on-investment reporting requirement. Supporters said the bill would strengthen pediatric cancer research and leverage an underused funding source, though members raised concerns about oversight. The bill was amended and then passed 7-0. House Bill 2176 and House Bill 2195 both dealt with DHS licensing and complaint-investigation procedures for health care institutions and nursing care institutions. HB 2176 allows DHS to deny licenses or ownership changes based on serious prior licensing problems or safety risks, and it sets notice, investigation, and deficiency-statement rules; speakers from public health and hospital groups supported it as improving transparency and preventing bad actors from cycling through ownership. HB 2195 limits DHS access to certain personnel records, requires deficiency statements within 10 business days, and bars investigations of incidents older than 12 months; an amendment delayed implementation to July 1, 2027 and added corrective-plan and off-site review provisions. Both bills passed 7-0 as amended. The committee also approved House Bill 2202, which appropriates $300,000 annually for a dementia care tele-mentoring program to train providers statewide, especially in rural and underserved areas. The Alzheimer’s Association and a patient with younger-onset Alzheimer’s testified that the program would improve early diagnosis and care, though one senator opposed state funding on the view that medical schools should teach the material. HB 2202 passed 6-1. Finally, House Bill 2307, addressing placement for dangerous, incompetent, non-restorable defendants when secure state hospital beds are unavailable, drew the most debate. An amendment replaced out-of-state placement with a temporary, limited-use solution involving up to three beds at the Arizona State Hospital forensic campus, created a study committee, and shifted some non-psychiatric costs to counties; counties and hospital stakeholders opposed the county-cost language, while sponsors and DHS said the measure was an emergency stopgap. The amended bill passed 4-3. The committee then passed House Bill 2584 4-3, which prohibits public funds from being used for genetic sequencing equipment from foreign adversary countries or entities; supporters framed it as a national security measure, and opponents voted no. The committee then adjourned.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

HWN-WLA, HWN DEFER Public Hearings 02-10-2026

Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • We must also remember that many of these lands are held in public trust.
  • amount<00:05:25.039> of program, a certain amount of program, a certain amount of independence
  • uh the the vast majority of the public uh the the vast majority of the public um<00:58:14.319>
  • <01:21:16.159> Um radio program way back in like 2009.
  • Um radio program way back in like 2009.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures affecting Hawaiian affairs, historic preservation, water access, and land governance. SB 1406 would let the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands assume historic preservation review for projects on lands under its jurisdiction, except for properties listed or nominated for the state or national historic registers. DHHL supported the bill, while a descendant testifier strongly opposed it, arguing that burial and preservation review protects ancestors and should not be streamlined or reduced. No questions were raised and the bill was moved on after testimony. SB 521 would require DHHL to work with county water boards or water departments to provide potable and agricultural water on Hawaiian homelands, with agreements made public. DHHL said it already works with counties but objected to the bill’s mandatory language, saying it could undermine the department’s discretion and independence. A public testifier supported the measure, and committee discussion focused on how water requirements could affect subsistence lots and infrastructure decisions. The committee then took up SB 3247, which would create a Royal Mausoleum Commission within DLNR to oversee preservation, operations, and outreach at Mauna Ala. State Parks said it valued existing collaboration with the aliʻi trusts but wanted clarity on roles, coordination, and funding if a new commission is created. The Royal Order of Kamehameha strongly supported the bill as a culturally grounded way to protect the site, while several other testifiers opposed it, saying the real issue is the curator selection process and warning that a commission could add bureaucracy and delay. The committee also heard SB 1654, authorizing transfer of certain state lands to DHHL, and SB 112, which would add the DHHL chair or designee to the Hawaii Community Development Authority; the Attorney General and HCDA offered technical and policy comments, with HCDA opposing the board change and DHHL supporting participation to protect beneficiary interests. No votes or final actions were taken in the portion provided.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Local and County Government Feb 3rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Local and County Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Their business activities would be conducted in a manner that was not visible to the public.
  • , as you say, no-impact business as it relates to traffic and parking, how, when someone from the public
  • state program that we have that we're giving to businesses, and so it would only be for that.
  • Relates to fire bans or public displays.
  • They are not public, but even private fireworks engagements. I guess this wouldn't be.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Health Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Let's, let's, let's, uh, we do have a public hearing for one to speak today, but let's allow the sponsor
  • So, we will start the public hearing and we only have one, so five minutes or less.
  • Uh, same type of program where they cross compact, where they can cross the state line to start work
  • Uh same type of program<00:25:40.960> where<00:25:41.200> they<00:25:41.440> cross
  • c><00:25:41.840> compact,<00:25:42.320> where program where they cross compact, where program
Bills: HB139, HB172, HB156
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We will open public testimony. The chair calls Jackie Schlegel and Michelle Evans.
  • If we want Texans to continue placing trust in medicine, public health, and science, we must ensure that
  • Including science communicators being able to educate the public when there is some sort of a health
  • Seeing and hearing none, public testimony is closed. Thank you. Thank you.
  • We have closed public testimony, and the bill is still in front of us.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • In 2024, Texas lost $81 million to romance scams alone, according to public federal data.
  • Seeing and hearing none, public testimony is closed. It's closed.
  • We'll open public testimony on House Bill 4449, and the chair, Steven DeLine.
  • Public testimony on House Bill 2240. No one has registered to testify.
  • that promote public safety.