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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It should be noted that if a parent did nothing to... find their missing child, we would likely remove
- The bill prohibits the dismissal of suits affecting the parent. child relationship while the child is
- If biological parents were just not searching for their child who is missing, that would be a huge problem
- The state in these cases is the child's parent and dismissing the court case while they're missing is
Committee:
Senate Jurisprudence
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- participating organizations include the Domestic Violence Action Center, Institute for Human Services, Parents
- Institute for Violence Action Center, Institute for Human<00:05:26.560><c> Services,</c><00:05:27.440><c> Parents
- </c><00:05:27.840><c> and</c><00:05:28.000><c> Children</c> Human Services, Parents and Children Human
- Services, Parents and Children Together,<00:05:29.120><c> the</c><00:05:29.280><c> Salvation</c><00:
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Mar 25th, 2026
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They had parental consent.
- The parents can request it any time, but it also allows the health providers to let parents know that
- that testing for free, why wouldn't a parent do that?
- I just wanted to ask again, can parents do this on their own volition?
- parental rights to understand.
Bills:
SB1778 , SB1570 , SB134 , SB1966 , SB1636 , SB1725 , SB1726 , SB259 , SB504 , SB592 , SB2030 , SB1572 , SB843 , SB1242 , SB1255 , SB1262 , SB1264 , SB1286 , SB1581 , SB1290 , SB1316 , SB1319 , SB1369 , SB1379 , SB1381 , SB1400 , SB1427 , SB1436 , SB1461 , SB1496 , SB1509 , SB1534 , SB1553 , SB904 , SB1592 , SB1645 , SB1684 , SB1767 , SB1772 , SB1813 , SB1894 , SB1928 , SB1946 , SB1980 , SB2040 , SB2060 , SB2061
Summary:
The Senate first handled several gallery introductions recognizing visiting groups, including Muskogee Day, domestic violence advocates, Wagner High School leadership students, the Bixby Chamber and football team, and the Heartland Home Educators co-op. The chamber also adopted a motion to suspend debate rules for the remainder of the day so third-reading bills could be debated under shortened time limits.
Senate Bill 134, which shortens the waiting period for Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System retirees to return to public employment from one year to six months, drew questions about “double dipping,” actuarial impact, and workforce shortages. The author said the bill was requested by the Association of County Commissioners to help counties retain experienced workers, noted an actuarial estimate that the system would drop from 107% to 105% funded, and explained there were no special safeguards beyond existing limits. The bill advanced and then passed 47-0.
Senate Bill 196, a measure naming multiple bridges, highways, and interchanges for veterans, law enforcement officers, and other honorees, was presented as a personal bill by the author, including a bridge named for his grandfather. After brief questions, it advanced and passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1636, which allows immediate family members or similar individuals to request OSBI review of cold homicide cases after a local law enforcement case-file review, also advanced after questions about eligibility, timing, and workload; supporters said it would give families a path to seek answers in long-unsolved cases. It passed 47-0.
The chamber then considered Senate Bill 1725, which addresses expressive activity on higher-education campuses by allowing content-neutral security fees, limiting discipline to narrowly defined harassment, and requiring free speech training for first-year students. Debate centered on campus free speech, university accountability, and whether the bill would add costs or sufficient enforcement; it passed 40-17 and was advanced as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1726, a companion bill requiring training for graduate assistants who teach, emphasizing classroom management, academic integrity, and viewpoint neutrality, passed 41-7 and was also advanced as an emergency measure. Finally, Senate Bill 259, a long-debated water bill requiring metering or approved measuring devices for groundwater use, drew extensive discussion over costs, property rights, regional differences, and regulation of irrigators; the bill was advanced to final passage after a 34-8 vote, with debate continuing at the end of the transcript.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/18/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Another came to Minnesota with a parent but was later removed from their care because of neglect.
- Another came to Minnesota with a parent but was later removed from their care because of neglect.
- Another came to Minnesota with a parent but was later removed from their care because of neglect.
- Minnesota and experienced severe abuse by a step parent, so CPS removed them from their homes.
- </c> as well as the parents. as well as the parents.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HSH Info Briefing - Fri Nov 7, 2025 @ 1:30 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- parent caretaker relatives, that's parent caretaker relatives, that's 52,000<01:20:56.719><c> people
- So why am I separately calling out parents of 13-year-olds?
- Um, and then parent caregivers MedQuest.
- </c><01:47:19.199><c> So</c><01:47:19.440><c> parent</c> out parents of 13y olds?
- So parent out parents of 13y olds?
Summary:
The House Committee on Human Services held an informational briefing on the impacts of federal funding cuts, inflation, labor shortages, and chronic underfunding on Hawaii’s nonprofit social safety net. Hawaii Community Foundation opened with a story about a federal worker family relying on food pantry support, then described a “perfect storm” facing human services nonprofits: historically high demand, rising costs, staffing challenges, federal cuts, and state and county contracts that do not cover true service costs. The foundation said it has reactivated its Hawaii Resilience Fund, launched strengthened service grants, and is tracking policy changes and data to help nonprofits respond.
Trey Gordner of UHERO presented research on the vulnerability of Hawaii’s nonprofit sector, explaining a framework that assessed political, financial, and structural risk. He said about 8,200 501(c)(3) nonprofits are active in Hawaii, but only about 200 receive direct federal funds; 74 grants to 59 organizations were flagged as politically at risk, totaling about $126 million in unpaid obligations. He said about 68 of the direct-funding recipients rely on federal funds for more than 20% of annual revenue, and that human services nonprofits are among the most exposed subsectors because they serve vulnerable populations and depend heavily on federal support.
Catholic Charities Hawaii and the Hawaii True Cost Coalition said community-based organizations were already under strain before the current crisis, with most contracts not covering full costs and many groups depending on private philanthropy to fill gaps. They reported that half of surveyed organizations expect to reduce programs, more than a third may decline future contracts, and some are waiting months for reimbursements. Examples included reduced shelter admissions, fewer case management hours, and cutbacks in kūpuna services. The coalition urged higher contract rates, regular inflation and cost-of-living reviews, and timely reimbursement; no votes or formal actions were taken.
Partners in Development Foundation described the loss of Native Hawaiian education funding as especially damaging, saying the federal Department of Education has zeroed out support that creates a roughly $46 million gap, including about $20 million for early childhood programs. The speaker shared a family story from the Nā Pono program to illustrate how early learning services support both children and parents, and warned that the organization’s federal funds make up 72% of its budget. The briefing ended with a call for continued emergency funding and longer-term structural changes to sustain nonprofits statewide.
SC
South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Jun 25th, 2026
South Carolina House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We are the parents. 13 states formed the federal government, and we Child, we are the parents. 13 states
- We were insistent on the four weeks for a co-parent.
- I think you may be confused about the co-parent.
- What this conference committee report does is say that a co-parent has four weeks.
- I want to thank my parents.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Would this only cover the parents or guardians and not necessarily the minors?
- , again, that is their business and not their parents.
- , again, that is their business and not their parents.
- There is nothing to the parents. There's nothing to his siblings.
- There is nothing to the parents. There's nothing to his siblings.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a lengthy hearing on June 18 focused on workers’ compensation, independent contractor and classification issues, workplace safety, warehouse worker protections, extreme temperature protections, retaliation against injured workers, and workplace bullying. Committee chairs outlined procedures for the hybrid hearing and noted that members would be leaving intermittently for floor votes. Testimony also touched on a bill to expand workers’ compensation disfigurement benefits by removing the current $15,000 cap and extending coverage beyond scars on the hands, neck, and face.
A major theme was workplace safety in warehouses and in extreme heat or cold. Teamsters, warehouse workers, and labor advocates described high injury rates, strict quotas, lack of water, inadequate ventilation, frozen or missing safety equipment, and pressure to work through heat waves and snowstorms. Supporters urged favorable reports on bills protecting warehouse workers and requiring employers to adopt heat- and cold-safety plans, while the NFIB opposed the temperature bill as overly prescriptive and burdensome for small businesses. Sen. Edwards, Sen. Roche, Rep. O’Day, and others argued that the measures are needed to prevent heat illness, provide shade, water, rest breaks, training, and emergency plans, and to cover all workers regardless of immigration status.
Another major subject was the “Act to Protect Injured Workers,” backed by labor groups, immigrant worker centers, legal services organizations, and individual workers. Witnesses said employers often retaliate after injuries by threatening deportation, lying about how injuries occurred, delaying care, or firing workers, and they supported stronger anti-retaliation enforcement, multilingual notices, and a rebuttable presumption of retaliation within 90 days of protected activity. The Mass AFL-CIO and immigrant advocacy groups supported the bill and opposed measures they said would weaken employee classification standards. Testimony also supported a funeral-benefits bill to raise workers’ compensation death-benefit reimbursement for burial and funeral costs, based on a family’s experience after a workplace fatality. The committee heard additional testimony on workplace bullying bills, with some witnesses urging a new legal duty for employers to prevent and respond to bullying, while others described the harms of toxic workplaces and the lack of effective remedies.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-05-29 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Parents make either public or non-public, and the funding follows the student.
- Parents pay nearly $800 to $1,400 a month for child care.
- Parents pay nearly $800 to $1,400 a month for child care.
- We don't have tangible accountability measures for voucher programs. 100% of parents in the state of
- want for their children, and 80% of those parents choose public schools.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- We are all about ensuring cancer patients have that ability to become a parent after they get on the
- I don't know of any laws we pass when it comes to parental rights where we want to allow child abuse
- by the parent.
- The decision should be between parents, their children, and their physician, not the government.
- The decision should be between parents, their children, and their physician, not the government.
Bills:
SB1095 , SB1114 , SB1116 , SB1162 , SB1164 , SB1178 , SB1179 , SB1249 , SB1253 , SB1346 , SB1347 , SB1446 , SB1561 , SB1813
Committees:
House Health & Human Services , House House Health & Human Services Committee of Reference
Keywords:
gender transition, minors, irreversible surgery, health professionals, puberty-blocking drugs, medical procedures, prohibition, Arizona Revised Statutes, behavioral health, patient brokering, appropriation, state funds, Maricopa County, claims review, medical necessity, American Indian health program, healthcare regulations, healthcare compliance, behavioral health technicians, licensing
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Education (2-13-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- At its core, this bill is about educating our parents, our coaches, and our kids.
- and students of laws inform parents and students of laws meant<00:37:59.680><c> to</c><00:37:59.880>
- that they have a right to and parents that they have a right to report<00:38:13.000><c> abuse</c><00
- our coaches and educating our parents our coaches and our<00:38:23.000><c> kids</c><00:38:24.000><c>
- And so if we can educate parents, kids, coaches about what to do when you see something that concerns
Summary:
The Senate Education Committee met with a quorum and heard a presentation from Parker Keys, Northern Kentucky State Vice President for Kentucky FFA, on the value of career and technical education (CTE). He highlighted enrollment of more than 143,000 secondary students in CTE, work-based learning, dual credit, industry certifications, and the role of student organizations such as DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, FFA, Educators Rising, TSA, and SkillsUSA. Senators praised CTE as important for workforce readiness and resume building, and encouraged continued engagement with the committee.
The committee then considered Senate Concurrent Resolution 43, sponsored by Senator Steve West, supporting a Southern Regional Education Board initiative to expand crisis counseling and recovery support for schools and colleges after tragedies and disasters. Dr. Steven Puit and Linda Tyrie described a regional network of trained counselors modeled on Kentucky’s response after Marshall County, emphasizing long-term recovery, psychological first aid, and deployment support for up to a year after an event. Members spoke in strong support, citing the lasting impact of Marshall County and Heath, and the resolution passed 13-0 and was reported favorably.
Finally, the committee took up Senate Bill 77, a cleanup bill relating to the Education Professional Standards Board. Senator Matt Deneen and Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities representative Mr. Dyer explained that the bill clarifies that small independent colleges and universities may designate a qualified education department representative, not only a chief academic officer, to serve on the board. The committee adopted a committee substitute by voice vote, and the substitute was approved.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Opening Day Floor Session 01-15-2025 10:00am
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:56:40.039><c> there</c> back home to be with her parents there back home to be with her parents
- We will resist when they try to take our rights as parents.
- </c><01:07:00.760><c> we</c><01:07:00.880><c> will</c> as parents we will as parents we will resist<01
- I had to move back in with my parents just so I could do this job, and I didn't take a single dollar
- I had to move back in with my parents just so I could do this job, and I didn't take a single dollar
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 112 May 5th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't think that parents should be restricted in being able to be a parent just because they may have
- I don't think that parents should be restricted in being able to be a parent just because they may have
- I don't think that parents should be restricted in being able to be a parent just because they may have
- just</c> in being able to be a parent just in being able to be a parent just because<01:55:05.800><c>
- </c><01:55:37.000><c> to</c><01:55:37.080><c> be</c> for a parent to be for a parent to be considering
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 26th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Army in occupied Japan, on his first leave, arranged to visit the village where his parents were raised
- Fifteen babies during that time were born in the emergency department without parental care.
- AB 2555 will establish a reclassification system for English learners and their parents.
- Bonta: The Informed Parents, Healthy Schools Act, notifies parents when their child's school vaccination
- To ensure herd immunity, parents need school-level vaccination rates. Ms.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jul 23rd, 2026
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Retirement equity for parenting teachers. Senator Velis. Thank you, Mr.
- Part-time teachers who continue educating our youth while being parents.
- system, when these dedicated educators reach retirement, those years of part-time service while parenting
- as we have done, to continue to demonstrate our deep respect for our teachers, educators, working parents
- districts and co-sponsored this amendment, and I urge this body to support our teachers and working parents
Summary:
The Senate considered a large number of amendments to an economic development bill and adopted them one by one, with repeated brief recesses as members finalized language. Early amendments made permanent the option for hybrid public meetings and added procedures for alleged open meeting law violations, authorized speed camera enforcement in school and construction safety zones, and created a retirement credit option for part-time teachers who reduced hours to care for children. Other adopted amendments updated gateway municipality designations every three years, capped ticket resale prices and banned speculative “ghost tickets,” and addressed vulnerable road users, crumbling concrete, and a fund for seasonal communities housing.
Members also approved amendments to create a new framework for responding to crimes against women, including better investigation of staged suicides and adding sex and gender to the hate crimes statute; to establish a trigger law protecting private-sector labor organizing rights if federal labor law is weakened; to create a bottom-up “Enough Act” fund to fight poverty; to allow airport restaurants and bars at Logan to operate during flight hours; and to protect seniors and adults with disabilities from financial scams by allowing temporary delays of suspicious transactions and reporting to protective agencies. Additional housing-related amendments were adopted for rural communities, residential PACE financing, and a five-community tenant opportunity to purchase pilot program. A Senate Ways and Means amendment was then adopted, the substitute draft was applied to the underlying bill, and the bill was ordered to a third reading and then passed to be engrossed.
The chamber also adopted an order to reconvene the following Monday at 11 a.m. and to dispense with printing a calendar. The Senate then adjourned.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Human Services Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I am a parent of three children, including a daughter with complex medical needs, and a former elementary
- Today, paper signatures can slow down eligibility and access to child care for parents, delay provider
- payments, and create unnecessary burdens for working parents.
- And we also know that every day in California, there are parents working full-time jobs who still have
- This provision, which is not required by federal law, presumed cohabiting men were substitute parents
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Human Services heard several bills focused on homelessness, child care, food security, public assistance, immigration legal services, and veterans’ benefits. SB 479 would allow city-based local health jurisdictions, including Berkeley and Oakland, to use multidisciplinary homeless response teams and share specified information across departments; supporters said the change would improve coordination and outcomes, and no opposition testified. SB 902 would allow electronic signatures for child care and development services paperwork while preserving paper options; supporters said it would reduce burdens on families and providers, and the bill passed to the Assembly Education Committee 4-0.
The committee also heard SB 1025, creating an Office of Food Security and Affordability to coordinate California’s food assistance efforts, and SB 1030, repealing the CalWORKs “man-in-the-house” rule. Supporters of SB 1025 said the state’s food system is fragmented and needs a coordinated strategy; SB 1030 supporters argued the rule is outdated, redundant, and rooted in racist and sexist assumptions. Both bills received no opposition testimony and were approved on 4-0 votes, with SB 1025 sent to the Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Committee and SB 1030 to Appropriations.
The committee then approved SB 1077, which would require CDSS to create a communications and contingency plan for CalFresh disruptions during federal government shutdowns, including a public webpage and planning for state-funded benefits; it passed 4-0 to Appropriations. SB 1194 would codify the Immigration Legal Fellowship Project to expand immigration legal services in underserved areas, and supporters emphasized the need for legal representation in rural and Central Valley communities; it passed 4-1 to Judiciary. SB 1201 would seek federal waivers to protect veterans from CalFresh time limits, require referrals to county veterans service officers, and adjust treatment of job-search expenses; it passed unanimously 6-0 to Military and Veterans Affairs. The consent calendar, including SB 557 and SB 1051, also passed unanimously. After all items were heard, the committee completed roll calls for absent members and adjourned.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Human Services Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I am a parent of three children, including a daughter with complex medical needs, and a former elementary
- Today, paper signatures can slow down eligibility, access to child care for parents, delay provider payments
- , and create unnecessary burdens for working parents.
- And we also know that every day in California, there are parents working full-time jobs who still have
- This provision, which is not required by federal law, presumed cohabiting men were substitute parents
Committee:
House Human Services
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Growing up here as a state-educated child myself, with two educating parents, I have a real passion for
- He and I have met together with several superintendents and parents as we have tried to look for ideas
- I was raised in Woodward, Oklahoma, by parents that were married for 69 years until mom passed away.
- She will be representing the at-large member of a parent enrolled with a child enrolled in public school
- Tell me things they don't tell their parents, and they're living in utter chaos.
Committee:
Senate Education
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- Louis County, and I overheard an officer tell me that if the parents are not concerned with the runaways
- If the parents are not concerned with the runaways, why should we be?
- You know, it's not, it's out of context for the parents. They've never done this before.
- look at those cases, and each one is truly individual with what you've got, because you can have parents
- we've heard on the task force, and that I personally heard from the mouths of the mother and their parents
Committee:
House Crime and Public Safety
Summary:
The committee on Crime and Public Safety met with nine members present and held public hearings on three bills. Senate Bill 1652, sponsored by Sen. Angela Mosley, would create a permanent office in the Missouri Department of Public Safety focused on missing and murdered African-American women and girls, including a Phoenix Alert system, data collection, cold-case review, and support for families and community groups. Supporters, including family members and advocates, described disparities in how missing Black women and girls are reported and investigated, often being labeled as runaways and lacking photos or media attention; some members raised concerns about whether the office should be broader, but the sponsor and supporters argued the disparity justified a dedicated office. No vote was taken on the bill in this hearing.
Senate Bill 1572, sponsored by Sen. Mike Henderson, would change the St. Louis Police Retirement System board by staggering the mayoral appointments and limiting three board seats to actively commissioned officers elected by active members, with travel time provided for board duties. The sponsor and witnesses said the change was needed because vacancies and illness had previously prevented a quorum and delayed board action; testimony noted the bill had unanimous support in the Senate and House committee. The hearing then moved to House Bill 3533, which would raise casino admission fees and gaming taxes and adjust related revenue provisions. The sponsor said the bill would generate additional revenue for state funds, while the Missouri Gaming Association and Missouri Chamber of Commerce opposed it, arguing the fee and tax increases would burden a specific industry and could affect investment and competitiveness. The sponsor and some members discussed inflation, illegal gaming machines, and whether the admission fee is effectively paid by casinos rather than patrons; no committee vote was taken in the transcript.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Government Efficiency Mar 12th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- Murphy and others continued to express appreciation for the work on the amendment, saying it helps parents
- part of a process that works, and that the alternative is going to court, which is expensive for parents
- I can tell you, if students and parents, this gives them some more options and gives them another step
- It's either that or they go to court, which then becomes expensive for parents and becomes elongated
- This is another way to help our students, help our parents. Gotcha.
Committee:
House Government Efficiency
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Anyone can be nominated by anyone—obviously a teacher, but a parent, a student, another faculty member
- What parent is going to this game? What's this? Tag in, tag in, tag out.
- I had students in the public school system at the time and served on my local board, active parent, and
- recognized a misalignment in... ...active parent and recognized a misalignment in many of the things
- Allowing a student to, and their parents, have these conversations on matching the assessment that fits
Committee:
Senate Education