Video & Transcript Research : 'educational programs'
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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, February 24, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The big one is to cut the Medicaid program, a program which provides health care for 70 million Americans
- The agricultural education programs offered through F.F.A. equip students with the technical skills,
- SBA Small Business Investment Company program is a multibillion-dollar investment program designed to
- It's not just a government program.
- program that was canceled, the X-33 program.
AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Mar 4th, 2026
Finance and Taxation Education
Transcript Highlights:
- the education trust fund. the education trust fund.
- program and licensure.
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program completion of the EMS education program completion of the EMS education - program and<00:16:40.000>
lensure. - <00:38:50.800>
to in the federal tax credit program to in the federal tax credit program to
Bills:
HB125, HB116, HB183, HB342, HB341, SB280, SB245, SB159, HB125, HB116, HB183, HB342, HB341, SB280, SB245, SB159
Keywords:
HB125, sunset law, Alabama Sunset Committee, Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, veterinary medical examiners, veterinary board, veterinary licensing, veterinary regulation, professional licensing board, state board continuation, sunset review, regulatory board, animal health, veterinarians, disciplinary authority, HB116, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset bill, Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board, bail bonding
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations (2-18-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- We represent the University of Kentucky, which is a youth tobacco prevention and education program, and
- youth tobacco prevention and education youth tobacco prevention and education program<00:16:04.800
- checks annually and enforcement programs checks annually and enforcement programs to<00:18:21.840
- or attend a tobacco service program or attend a tobacco cessation<00:27:30.279>
program <00:27 - The remaining 50% of fines will go to youth education programs about the dangers of nicotine, vaping,
Keywords:
Call to Order 00:00:00
Roll Call 00:00:35
SB 22 Discussion 00:01:20
SB 22 Vote 00:11:45
SB 100 Discussion 00:15:07
SB 100 Vote 00:38:53
SB 88 Discussion Only 00:42:11
Adjournment 01:03:52, 958, all
Summary:
The Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations met on February 18, 2025, and first took up Senate Bill 22 by Senator Reginald Thomas, which was presented as a cleanup measure following prior cosmetology reforms and a Legislative Oversight and Investigations report. The bill would allow cosmetologists to retake exams multiple times with a one-month wait, authorize the Board of Cosmetology to immediately close facilities that intentionally use unlicensed workers while preserving due process, give the board flexibility to hire an executive director based on qualifications rather than licensure, and recognize certain out-of-state or territorial cosmetology licenses. Board officials said the changes were intended to improve fairness, equality, and administrative due process. Senators asked about retesting fees and whether partial retests could dilute standards; Thomas clarified that the exam is cumulative and must be retaken in full. The committee approved SB 22 with all favorable votes, and Senator Meredith explained his support as a workforce and fairness issue.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 100 by Senator Jimmy Higdon, as substituted, concerning tobacco, nicotine, and vapor product retail licensing and enforcement. Youth advocates from the University of Kentucky testified in support, describing youth nicotine use as a public health crisis and urging stronger enforcement, annual compliance checks, retailer licensing, and tougher penalties for illegal sales to minors. Higdon said the bill would create a Division of Tobacco, Nicotine, and Vapor Products Licensing within ABC, require licenses for retailers, authorize inspections and confiscation of contraband, impose escalating criminal and civil penalties for unlicensed sales and sales to minors, publish a list of licensed retailers, and dedicate fine revenue to enforcement and youth education. He said the measure targeted bad actors rather than responsible retailers. A retailer witness also supported licensing but raised concerns about contradictory product definitions that could sweep in hemp and medical marijuana vapor products, and asked that the bill be delayed until after an expected Supreme Court decision affecting federal vapor-product rules. The transcript ends during discussion of SB 100, before any committee vote on that bill.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 2, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- >> Education Administration subcommittee will now come to order.
- seems like it would fall fallen under educational institutions.
- I'm a huge supporter of public education.
- I want to say I'm an advocate for public education.
- So I hear constantly from home education.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Aug 18th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- These efforts include the Health Pathways Program, our Center for Career and Technical Education Program
- We would just have to train them in nursing education while they're in the program.
- Do you do that for the other health care-related programs, behavioral health programs?
- So, your program here is a two-year program for the... The RN, is that correct?
- Are already in the development of their programs, providing overdose prevention education, including
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Apr 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Re-evaluation services were originally funded as a four-year program, and authorizing the program on
- develop an online platform to better align our employment recruitment efforts with the educational program
- In one case, not on this program, but also a similar program, like I said, the CCE program, the letters
- At least 70% of the total grant funds for that program must be used by LEAs and county offices of education
- Whether it's this program, last hearing's program, or a program from two hearings ago, we keep hearing
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (04/17/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm an education consultant in the Bureau of Special Education Support at the Department of Education
- I'm an education consultant in the Bureau of Special Education Support at the Department of Education
- are educational surrogate parents. are educational surrogate parents.
- and teacher prep programs at the Department of Education.
- Education surrogate.
Summary:
The committee heard Senate Bill 254, which Senator David Roford described as a technical correction to controlled substance inventory law for pharmacies. He said the bill would remove outdated language requiring inventories to be done in an odd-numbered year, while keeping the existing requirement that pharmacies conduct a full controlled substance inventory every two years in line with federal law. Members asked several clarifying questions about whether the requirement is pharmacy-by-pharmacy, whether new pharmacies would be affected, and whether the change would alter scope or compliance; the sponsor and a representative of the New Hampshire Pharmacist Association said it would not, and that it mainly provides clarity for pharmacies and inspectors. The public hearing on SB 254 was then closed, and the committee also heard support from a representative of the pharmacist community, who said the association supports the bill.
The committee then discussed a non-germane amendment to SB 254 dealing with FBI background checks for educational surrogate parents under the Department of Education. Representative Leyon explained that the amendment was requested by the Department of Education after the FBI rejected prior statutory language, and that the goal was to allow people serving as educational surrogate parents to complete FBI fingerprint-based background checks so they can perform their duties. Department of Education and Department of Safety staff testified that the amendment mirrors language that has worked in other education-related background check statutes, including provisions with specific disqualifying offenses tied to child safety, and that the FBI requires precise statutory language and direct transmission of records through the Department of Safety. Members questioned why the FBI’s approval was needed, whether individuals could simply provide their own records, and whether changing federal leadership could require future changes; witnesses said the state needs both state and national records, that records must come directly from the FBI through the Department of Safety, and that the language is intended to satisfy current federal requirements.
During the discussion, some members expressed skepticism about the need for the amendment and about placing it on a bill about controlled substance inventories, but no vote was taken during the portion of the transcript provided. The committee also briefly discussed a separate bill on physician assistants/physician associates, with members noting that the proposed name change would not alter scope of practice and that some outside groups had raised concerns about transparency, but that discussion was interrupted and not concluded in the excerpt.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Obviously, that's going to be a best educated guess.
- this all leads us to educating our kids better.
- I mean, they keep wanting more after-school programming money.
- Right now, our student loan repayment program is not competitive.
- And then we have an existing program called the Economic Transition Program.
Keywords:
child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool, pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Children's Code, early childhood education and care department, ECECD, child care facilities, licensed child care, registered child care, copayments, waitlist, subsidy, federal poverty level
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- programs.
- ) programs.
- ) program.
- tax rebate program for a good.
- , the qualified hotel program, and then an add-on to that program, right?
Keywords:
SB 529, Texas Tax Code, municipality, hotel and convention center, hotel convention center project, tourism development, economic development, tax revenue pledge, revenue commitment, qualified project, municipal finance, local government, special district, hotel occupancy tax, nearby establishments, convention center financing, city population 130000, Section 351.155, Section 351.157, child care
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-02-13 - 11:30AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The Agency of Education had $700,000 of savings from a program.
- The Agency of Education had $700,000 of savings from a program.
- The Agency of Education had $700,000 of savings from a program.
- this agency of education. this agency of education.
- for the bridges to health program. for the bridges to health program.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The Chair calls the Education Policy Committee for Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, to order.
- The Minnesota Civic Education Coalition, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education, will
- As it is right now, when you turn age 12, there's a shift in education.
- We're education advocates for kids. Thank you for the opportunity.
- We're the largest educational neglect and truancy program in Minnesota.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
House Chamber - Tue Apr 14, 2026, 9:00AM HST - Day 44
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Education. Education.
- Society's Pristine Seas program. Society's Pristine Seas program.
- No vote.” programs. Those protections already programs.
- Uh, it renames the program as the agriculture enforcement program and expands the program statewide.
- > enforcement program and expands the enforcement program and expands the program<01:47:37.920>
statewide
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- . of outdoor educational and recreational opportunities, from day-long schoolyard outdoor programs to
- A little bit about the programs: to lose the ability to supplement programs such as our animal encounter
- over 100,000 school kids—one of the biggest environmental education programs in the state.
- for llamas, dinosaurs, our bus scholarship programs, treetop trail programming, our adult programming—all
- The proposed funding of $250,000 per fiscal year would have supported essential programs including education
Bills:
HF2563
Keywords:
HF2563, legacy finance bill, Legacy Amendment, outdoor heritage fund, clean water fund, parks and trails fund, arts and cultural heritage fund, Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, Clean Water Council, Minnesota legacy funds, habitat conservation, prairie restoration, wetland restoration, forest conservation, riparian buffers, water quality, groundwater protection, drinking water, septic systems, watershed planning
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- The Committee on Education is called to order. Will the secretary please call the roll?
- That way, they're educating others that they can have even more educational opportunities.
- Chair Angus, members of the Senate Committee on Education, good afternoon.
- health and animal sciences programming.
- to the State Board of Private Post-Secondary Education.
Summary:
The Senate Education Committee met, approved the March 25, 2026 minutes, and considered two executive nominations. First, the committee heard testimony from Aidan Kane Vaux, nominated as a student regent for the Arizona Board of Regents. Vaux described his background as an ASU biomedical engineering graduate student and researcher, his teaching and mentoring experience, and his interest in representing students. Senators asked about how his engineering training would inform board service, student concerns about tuition and cost transparency, expanding STEM and health care education, mental health resources, and improving educational access in rural Arizona. Vaux said he would bring a problem-solving, data-driven perspective and emphasized affordability, student support, rural outreach, and broader access to research and health-related opportunities. The committee voted 6-0, with one member not voting, to recommend his confirmation to the full Senate.
The committee then heard from Andrea Marasota Snow, nominated to the Arizona State Board for Private Post-Secondary Education. Snow said she serves as Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer at Pima Medical Institute and would use her legal and regulatory experience to help the board with licensing, complaint review, compliance, and student protections. She emphasized balancing institutional growth with oversight and protecting students through the Student Tuition Recovery Fund and other safeguards. The committee voted 6-0, with one member not voting, to recommend her confirmation to the full Senate.
Before adjourning, members thanked staff and nominees, and the chair noted Senator Diaz’s birthday. The committee then adjourned.
NY
Transcript Highlights:
- An act to amend the education law in relation to lockdown drills.
- or programs for preschool school students with disabilities from having to obtain program approval from
- the Commissioner of Education.
- psychologists and special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions
- Another productive meeting of the Senate Education Committee. programs for preschool children with handicapping
Summary:
The Senate Standing Committee on Education met on April 21 and considered several education-related bills, mostly extensions or technical changes. S-57 (BOCES services to out-of-state school districts), S-150B (small-city school board nominating communication deadlines), S-8904A (BOCES lease terms for properties), S-9148 (exempting certain preschool special services providers from separate Commissioner approval), and S-9611 (extending provisions on certified school psychologists and preschool special education services) were all moved to the floor with little or no opposition.
The committee also took up S-2498, which would reduce the required number of lockdown drills in schools from 12 to 10 and adjust the timing of drills. Senator Tedisco spoke strongly against the bill, arguing that repetition is necessary to prepare students and staff for emergencies and that reducing drills would move in the wrong direction on school safety. Chair Mayer responded that the bill still requires a significant number of drills and is intended to reduce trauma, especially for young children. The bill advanced, with Senators Stec and Tedisco opposed and Senator Weber recorded without recommendation.
Most other bills were described as aligning existing rules, easing administrative burdens, or extending current law. The committee concluded by noting the meeting was productive and adjourned after moving all listed bills forward.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 25th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII
Transcript Highlights:
- We also regulate the 219 and growing number of pre-licensed nursing education programs in Texas.
- The 3rd item in this request is an education database, a cloud-based program that would help us streamline
- the process for education programs who seek approval to operate in Texas.
- some advanced practice programs, graduate programs and so that takes away.
- Um, last session, it was Senate Bill 25 that streamlined a lot of nursing education funding programs,
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 5th, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- to administer the program, and for each local Board of Education to adopt a policy reflecting the requirements
- have priority for the Career Tech programs in their district.
- They love being able to participate in the Career Tech program.
- for education employees.
- This is extremely important as far as law enforcement and education.
Keywords:
home school, career and technical education, public schools, K-12 education, enrollment policy, parental leave, state employees, adoption, employee benefits, aircraft tax, aviation tax, sales tax exemption, use tax exemption, lease tax, rental tax, commercial aircraft, air carrier, airline, aircraft parts, maintenance
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Feb 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill also replaces the existing unauthorized alien transport program with a new program where the
- Chair well on the subject of education. >> Why then are we not cutting back on K through 12 education
- >> Rhule or program to Senator Berman earlier question.
- If you start education.
- We cannot meet these educational goals.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 11, February 21, 2026-AM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- program.
- That's where their soul and function is, and the programming and educational opportunities they provide
- and provide programming. and provide programming.
- > in<01:05:56.400>
terms program programming they want in terms program programming they want - education, even though liberal education education, even though liberal education had<03:29:51.120
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children (8-27-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- are programs.
- Our member programs are programs.
- Um we educate them what an paper trail. Um we educate them what an EPO<00:40:57.359>
means. - This is a program that provides program.
- that operates those programs.
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes from its July 30, 2025 meeting. Members then heard a presentation from Roger McCann of the Department for Community Based Services on Kentucky’s 2026-2027 Community Services Block Grant state plan. He explained that the federally funded grant, now about $12 million annually, is distributed through 23 local community action agencies that use flexible funds for locally identified needs such as housing, nutrition, transportation, Head Start, and domestic violence services. McCann said the plan is submitted every two years and that the agencies served about 264,000 Kentuckians and 130,000 families in 2024. Senator Meredith asked whether there was a central place to review local projects, and McCann said regular reports exist and could be shared with members.
The committee then approved the CSBG state plan by roll call vote. After that, members received an update on Kentucky’s state-designated domestic violence shelter programs from Angela Yanelli of ZeroV, Mary Foley of Maryman House Domestic Crisis Center, and Elizabeth Martin of the Center for Women and Families. The presenters described ZeroV’s role as the statewide domestic violence coalition, its 15 member programs across all area development districts, and its contract with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide emergency shelter, supportive services, housing assistance, and batterers intervention programming. They emphasized that services are available 24/7 and are trauma-informed, with a strong focus on children and family support.
The domestic violence providers reported high demand and rising costs. ZeroV said its network served more than 14,000 adults and children in fiscal year 2025, including nearly 900 children in shelter and more than 500 in outreach, while Maryman House reported operating at 90-92% capacity, with 53 households waiting for emergency shelter and 63 more waiting for intake. Maryman House also described an 8-unit transitional housing complex and plans for a 48-unit apartment complex if tax credit funding is approved. The Center for Women and Families highlighted school-readiness support for children, tutoring, counseling, and family services, including back-to-school supplies and rights information for homeless students. No additional votes or formal actions were taken during the domestic violence presentations.