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NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor May 31st, 2025 at 11:30 pm
Commerce and Labor
Transcript Highlights:
- It is going back into health care, and we know that.
- Section 23 deals with duty of care.
- And then fiduciary duty, with duty of care, fiduciary duty raises the standard of care.
- And then fiduciary duty with duty of care, fiduciary duty raises the standard of care.
- We have an obligation to take care of a project, to take care of our families, to get paid.
Committee:
Assembly Commerce and Labor
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Human Services Bill - 06/05/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a care uh hospital settings.
- </c> and clients at some direct care and clients at some direct care facilities.<00:34:28.720><c> that
- </c><00:53:17.839><c> related</c> related to the total care related related to the total care related
- </c> related to uh recuperative care related to uh recuperative care services.<01:09:09.199><c> These
- ><c> by</c><01:09:12.799><c> requiring</c> recuperative care services by requiring recuperative care
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 4, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's fake news to care that they care about the Palestinian people.
- </c> feed the hungry and care for the sick. feed the hungry and care for the sick.
- And yet, DOGE didn't care.
- And yet, DOGE didn't care.
- And yet, DOGE didn't care.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This only deals with the foster care youth.
- Care youth. And with the adults, the elderly, they make that decision to give up that right.
- I worked in health care for 23 years in community as well as clinical education.
- about or a person they really care about.
- And I am the medical director for a local family practice urgent care clinic.
Committee:
Senate Health and Welfare
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2023, we passed the Health Care Freedom Act. That was House Bill 7.
- Medically unnecessary state surveillance of abortion care...
- Medically unnecessary state surveillance of abortion care communicates that abortion care is somehow
- This bill does not strengthen health care.
- This is a health care procedure as a statutory right.
Committee:
Senate Senate Judiciary
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And I got to know children in the foster care system.
- And so I know you all sitting here care very much about these issues.
- She will go to the end of the earth to fight for those she cares about.
- That our students are taken care of.
- I had a very loving, caring foster. I had very loving, caring foster parents.
Committee:
Senate House Rules & Order Of Business
Summary:
The committee held confirmation hearings for Don Walters as New Mexico’s first State Child Advocate and for two New Mexico Highlands University regents, Elaine Luna and Grace Margaret Herrera. For Walters, the sponsor and selection committee chair described her extensive child welfare background, including work as a guardian ad litem, CYFD attorney, and director of CYFD’s Office of Advocacy. Multiple supporters testified, including former colleagues, a foster parent, and CYFD Acting Secretary Valerie Sandoval, all praising her integrity, child advocacy experience, and commitment to collaboration and transparency.
Committee members focused heavily on the new Office of the Child Advocate’s startup needs, especially staffing, access to CYFD records, and funding. Walters said she expected the office to need roughly $4.5 million to $5 million to launch and envisioned about 26 to 27 staff, with regional presence across the state. Members urged the legislature to fund the office through House Bill 2 and discussed possible legislation to ensure timely access to records. The committee then voted unanimously to advance Walters to the full Senate.
For New Mexico Highlands University, Senator Campos introduced Elaine Luna for reappointment, highlighting her background in social work, hospital administration, and community service. Luna said she would focus on student support, basic needs, and mental health, and the university president testified in support. The committee asked about campus safety and student issues, including how the board would respond if students were affected by ICE actions. The committee voted to advance Luna unanimously.
The final confirmation was Grace Margaret Herrera, presented as a student regent candidate for Highlands. Supporters described her as a former foster youth, small business owner, and current student success center employee who mentors students and brings lived experience to the role. Members praised her resilience and connection to students, and the committee unanimously advanced her to the full Senate as well.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They're going to get denied care.
- They're going to get denied care.
- They're going to get denied care.
- They're going to get denied care.
- They're going to get denied care.
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 20, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The director from the department that takes care of health issues recognizes question of whether they
- </c> um like the state hospital direct care um like the state hospital direct care is<00:12:39.279><c
- To provide direct care and consultation to the detention center.
- To provide direct care and consultation to the detention center.
- </c> somebody who's already established care somebody who's already established care perhaps<00:26:48.640
Committee:
House Labor, Health & Social Services
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-05-01 (11:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We do care about fraud.
- of what they need to take care of.
- I just feel that this process, They're going to take care of what they need to take care of.
- Then you look at specialty care. This is even more devastating.
- Specialty care is even more devastating.
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of member introductions recognizing interns, pages, volunteers, and the retirement of Pastor Gary Austin from the sergeant’s office. Leadership also announced that budget talks with the House were continuing and that senators would not need to plan on being in next week, suggesting progress toward a budget framework. After routine floor business, the chamber took up a major third-reading measure on citizen initiatives and several education bills, followed later by returning messages from the House on health and school-safety measures.
The most extensive debate centered on the citizen initiative bill, which sponsors said was intended to protect the constitutional amendment process from fraud and abuse based on election-crime investigations and a large state report on petition fraud. Supporters argued the bill would add reasonable guardrails, prevent misuse of public funds, and preserve integrity while still allowing grassroots participation. Opponents from both parties argued it would make citizen-led amendments much harder by adding costs, deadlines, criminal penalties, and administrative burdens that would chill participation and favor wealthy or corporate interests. After lengthy debate, the Senate voted 28-10 to pass the bill.
The chamber then passed several education measures with little or no opposition, including bills tied to Bright Futures, dual enrollment, Florida ABLE, teacher preparation, and other education policy updates, all by 38-0. Later, the Senate concurred in House amendments on a stem cell therapy bill, an EKG requirement for student athletes, and a cardiac emergency bill, each passing 37-0. The House also sent back a school safety bill with amendments affecting child care facility partnerships with law enforcement, temporary door locks during active assailant incidents, supervision windows, and funding for panic alarm systems; the transcript ends as that bill is being explained.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> in monthly health care premiums. in monthly health care premiums.
- </c> for my medical care. for my medical care.
- </c> care I needed. care I needed.
- </c> preventive care due to medical costs. preventive care due to medical costs.
- </c> budget, wages or health care." budget, wages or health care."
Bills:
HF3119
Committee:
House Education Finance
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- The kinship care issue continues.
- </c> is Medicaid long-term care specific. is Medicaid long-term care specific.
- </c> compassionate patient care. compassionate patient care.
- and quality health care.
- </c><02:02:40.480><c> That's</c> care and quality health care. That's care and quality health care.
Committee:
Joint Health Services
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government, Finance, Personnel and Public Retirement (9-17-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Each year we take in that care for them.
- ,</c><00:08:18.800><c> and</c> covering treatment, daily care, and covering treatment, daily care, and
- Um, and we will go there and do high-volume spay and neuter or medical care.
- </c> volume spay and neuter or medical care. volume spay and neuter or medical care.
- </c> to care for those pets. to care for those pets.
Summary:
The committee heard a presentation from Alyssa Gray, president and CEO of the Kentucky Humane Society, on the organization’s statewide animal welfare work and its request for a $5 million matching contribution from the General Assembly for a new Kentucky Animal and Community Campus in Louisville. Gray said KHS, an independent nonprofit founded in 1884, serves cats, dogs, and horses, reaches 96 counties, provides shelter relief, spay-neuter services, low-cost veterinary care, and disaster response, and has supported communities during recent tornadoes and floods. She described the new campus as a hub for disaster housing, shelter transfers, veterinary training, and expanded services to reduce overpopulation and relieve pressure on county shelters and local governments.
Members asked about the campus’s location, staffing, veterinary student involvement, and the scope of KHS’s services. Gray said the new site would be next to KHS’s current spay-neuter clinic on Preston Highway, that the facility would include shelter medicine, high-volume spay-neuter, and a low-cost clinic, and that it could host veterinary students and interns for hands-on training. She also explained that KHS works with county officials and shelters to move animals during crises or cruelty cases, can connect counties with partner organizations when KHS is full, and provides mobile clinic services and occasional grant support for rural shelters.
Committee members praised the presentation and discussed how KHS could fit into disaster recovery planning. One member suggested the organization could be folded into long-term recovery efforts because of its role in post-disaster animal care. The presenter said KHS wants to be a formal disaster response resource and already works with the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association and other partners. No vote on the funding request was taken during the meeting.
At the end of the meeting, the committee noted it still lacked a quorum, so approval of the minutes was postponed to the next meeting, tentatively scheduled for October 15. The meeting then adjourned.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Military and Veterans Affairs Aug 13th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- But some of the challenges we have are child care, access to medical care, housing, and schools.
- The after-school care and preschool care is not as bad, but the straight CDC is a big challenge for us
- Yes, and there's access to medical care.
- They want to work with child care in their area. There's not enough child care in treating.
- When we talk about manpower regarding education, child care, and health care, it's always a struggle
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Who is the person identified as to who's going to take care of this child?
- center to child care center.
- identify a new child care center repeatedly throughout the lifespan of a young child's child care period
- center to child care center.
- identify a new child care center repeatedly throughout the lifespan of a young child's child care period
Committee:
Senate Education Pre-K - 12
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Education Pre-K through 12 considered a series of education-related bills, many of them after adopting amendments. SB 1122 on Florida Virtual School was amended to remove virtual preschool provisions and then passed favorably, with the sponsor describing it as a clarifying bill about FLVS operations, revenue sources, reporting, and student access. SB 1374, on school district reporting requirements for educator arrests and misconduct, was also approved; it requires faster district action and reporting when instructional personnel are arrested for certain offenses and clarifies that self-reports are not admissions of guilt. SB 1402, on student enrollment and dropout retrieval programs, was amended and passed to broaden eligibility for dropout retrieval services and allow certain virtual providers to receive a school improvement rating instead of a school grade. SB 364, moving the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys from the Department of Education to Florida Memorial University, was amended and reported favorably.
The committee also approved SB 772 on diabetes management in schools, which would allow districts to obtain and store glucagon for emergency use by trained school staff or nurses, with liability protections included. SB 1102 on school readiness programs for children with disabilities passed after testimony that it would expand identification of disabilities, require more training for providers, and direct special-needs funding toward better-supported classrooms. SB 1382, also on school readiness, was approved and would change the definition of economically disadvantaged families, adjust priority tiers, and update the waitlist and forecasting process for child care assistance.
The most debated measure was SB 140, which was substantially rewritten by delete-all amendment to create “job engine charter schools,” allow municipalities to seek charter schools aimed at attracting industry, authorize parent votes for conversion of existing public schools, and set requirements for district five-year property plans and surplus property use, including affordable housing and charter school purposes. Supporters argued it could aid economic development and repurpose underused property, while opponents raised concerns about privatization, reduced stakeholder input, unclear voting procedures, and loss of district control over property. Despite extensive debate and multiple public speakers against it, the bill passed favorably. The committee also approved SB 430, a merged AED and cardiac emergency response bill requiring public schools to have a cardiac emergency plan, trained staff, and an operational AED in a publicized location, with reimbursement provisions and liability protections; it passed after supporters emphasized life-saving benefits and manageable training costs. The committee adjourned after recording additional members’ votes on selected bills.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Jan 22nd, 2025
Senate Budget
Transcript Highlights:
- You're going into another area, and that is the health care system in general.
- Do you believe that health care... Is a human right.
- Health care is a human right. Yes?
- When you give health care to those very illegals, when Americans don't have the health care that they
- Congress seems to not care about a budget.
Committee:
Senate Senate Budget
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- Our residents are feeling the immense pinch of high costs in child care, health care, housing, electricity
- , energy, health care.
- , energy, health care.
- care seats across the state.
- Take care of your health. Thank you. Take care of your health. God bless.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Summary:
The joint budget hearing opened the FY27 budget process with remarks from the Senate and House Ways and Means chairs, who described the fiscal outlook as challenging because of slow revenue growth, rising health care and other costs, and uncertainty from federal policy changes. Governor Healey and Secretary of Administration and Finance Matthew Gorzkowicz then presented House 2, a $62.8 billion budget that they said grows by about 1% and does not raise taxes or fees. They emphasized affordability, fiscal discipline, protection of core services, and continued investment in education, transportation, housing, child care, health care, and public safety. The administration also discussed a separate bill to delay and phase in certain federal tax-code changes from the so-called OB3 law, especially research and experimental expense provisions, to reduce immediate budget impacts and preserve competitiveness.
A major portion of the hearing focused on education and municipal aid. The administration said House 2 provides about $7.6 billion for Chapter 70 aid, fully funds the final year of the Student Opportunity Act, increases special education circuit breaker funding, and raises rural school aid. Senators and representatives from both parties raised concerns that Chapter 70 and other aid formulas are not equitable for small, rural, and low-wealth communities and are not keeping pace with inflation, and several called for broader review of the formula and related funding streams. The governor and secretary said they are open to further discussion, pointed to additional support through rural aid, special education, transportation reimbursements, and minimum aid, and said total Student Opportunity Act investment would reach about $2.1 billion over the life of the law.
Transportation, housing, and fair share spending were also central topics. The administration said fair share revenues are being used holistically, with education-heavy spending in the operating budget and transportation-heavy spending in the supplemental budget, and estimated the overall split to date at roughly 57% education and 43% transportation. They highlighted MBTA stabilization, regional transit authority support, microtransit, fare-free regional transit, and bridge and commuter rail investments, while noting the MBTA remains a major fiscal concern. On housing, the governor stressed production, permitting reform, ADUs, down-payment assistance, and support for public housing authorities, while lawmakers pressed for more funding for local housing authorities and for ways to address out-migration, energy costs, and affordability. The governor also said the administration will not withhold fire safety grants from communities over MBTA Communities Act noncompliance and will handle such issues case by case. No votes were taken at the hearing; it was an informational presentation and question-and-answer session.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- ,</c> with expertise in in safety net care, with expertise in in safety net care, DCT<00:03:06.320><c
- </c> care that they need, they do better. care that they need, they do better.
- Children's mental health care term.
- </c> Officer for Direct Care and Treatment. Officer for Direct Care and Treatment.
Committee:
House Capital Investment
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
2026 Budget Conference Committee (3-20-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> And then Medicaid Medicaid managed care And then Medicaid Medicaid managed care organization<00:
- </c><00:46:40.280><c> incentive</c> match for managed care incentive match for managed care incentive
- Personal care homes uh the Personal care homes uh the the<00:50:27.160><c> base</c><00:50:27.560><c>
- child care assistance Employee child care assistance partnership<00:50:42.040><c> uh</c><00:50:42.280
- </c> moved from the employee child care moved from the employee child care assistance<00:51:24.600><c
Summary:
The Free Conference Committee on the 2026 General Assembly budget met to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of House Bill 500. Leaders opened by thanking the other chamber’s work, asking members to turn microphones on and off to avoid feedback, and stressing the need to clearly note decision points so both chambers record the same actions. Staff then walked through the bill page by page, explaining that the committee was comparing only House and Senate differences, not the governor’s proposed budget.
The discussion covered a wide range of appropriations and language items, including next generation non-911 services, school safety reporting tools, restored funding for brain injury, epilepsy, veteran service, homeless veterans, and rocket docket programs, debt service changes, rural infrastructure, disaster aid caps, Attorney General and Medicaid fraud funding, agriculture and county fair grants, auditor and pension-related appropriations, school facilities and SEEK funding, and numerous education programs. Members also discussed charter-related funding such as Star Academy, Dolly Parton Imagination Library, school resource officers, school-based mental health providers, AP/IB exams, Governor’s Scholars and Entrepreneurs, and several pilot or initiative programs in economic development, energy, and labor. Several items were described as technical corrections or restorations of language and funding, while others reflected differences in amounts or how funds would be distributed.
There were several questions and comments from members about wording such as “implement and carry out,” the absence of the governor’s budget from the comparison document, and whether SEEK funding should be tied to teacher raises. The chair and other members emphasized that the committee’s role was to reconcile the two chambers’ budgets, not to adopt the governor’s proposal. Members also raised concerns about opioid settlement funds and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library match rate, with one senator urging restoration of the House language. No final vote or formal action was taken in the portion provided; the meeting primarily consisted of explanation, questions, and discussion of proposed budget differences.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Session Day 35 (2-26-26)
Kentucky House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- of their own families and taking care of their own families and taking care<00:49:54.480><c> of</c><
- </c> care of our kids as the collective hour. care of our kids as the collective hour.
- </c> who are in foster care um are taken care who are in foster care um are taken care of<01:38:28.080
- </c> care.
- The fact remains that health care care.
Summary:
The meeting opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then moved into committee and floor reports. Several measures received favorable committee reports and were ordered to first reading and placed on the calendar, including Current Resolution 9, Senate Joint Resolution 23, House Bill 145, House Bill 567, and House Bill 506 with House Committee Substitute 1. The chamber also noted that House Bills 500 and 504 had already received two readings and were sent to the Rules Committee before House Bill 500 was brought up for final consideration.
Most of the discussion focused on House Bill 500, the executive branch budget bill. Members described it as a “good first draft” and emphasized a budget process they said was more transparent than in prior years. The bill was presented as a restrained two-year operating budget with spending growth kept at a little under 2% annually, while setting aside about 2% of projected revenues, or roughly $614 million, in the Budget Reserve Trust Fund for future needs. The budget also used base reductions in some areas while exempting others such as Medicaid benefits, SEEK, corrections, behavioral health, and veterans programs.
Subcommittee chairs then outlined major spending areas. Education provisions included a 2% annual increase in base SEEK funding, transportation funding held flat, equalization for recallable nickel funding, continued retirement contributions, and major support for postsecondary access, dual credit, asset preservation, and workforce training. Health and family services provisions held Medicaid steady while adding waiver slots, behavioral health and substance use support, public health investments, and funding for rural health and laboratory capacity. Other sections covered personnel and pensions, veterans services, infrastructure, public safety, economic development, tourism, and environmental projects.
The only recorded action on the floor was adoption of House Committee Substitute 1 to House Bill 500, followed by a motion for final passage of the bill as amended. The transcript ends as discussion on final passage begins, before any final vote is shown.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- citizenship, even if such care comes at a financial cost.
- </c> the definition of who deserves care the definition of who deserves care Jesus's<01:02:09.160><c>
- </c> traveler makes clear that showing care traveler makes clear that showing care is<01:02:13.680><c
- </c><01:05:01.559><c> for</c> our elected government must care for our elected government must care for
- Your bill does nothing to make health care more affordable for those families.
Bills:
HF10
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy