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TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 31st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Appropriations for the foundation school program total 75.1 billion dollars in all funds, an increase
  • The Appropriations and Finance Committee had to solve this session, but that's not the case.
  • We legislators don't appropriate that money.
  • Now, therefore, be it resolved by the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas that the appropriate...
  • It just wouldn't be appropriate. It wouldn't be an approved item if they brought it up there.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 9th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I move for adoption at the appropriate time and yield for questions.
  • Senator Galahar, you knew moved for adoption at the appropriate time and yield for questions.
  • A few questions and a move for advancement at the appropriate time.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> And then I just want to highlight that the appropriation ask is for salaries plus fringe benefits
  • then, in addition to all the other incidentals like office space and computer equipment, so our appropriation
  • Wilkinson continued that the appropriation request is for salaries plus fringe benefits, plus the education
  • She added that the appropriation includes incidentals such as office space and computer equipment.
  • We feel that it may not be appropriate to apply it to all forms of diabetes without the required necessity
Summary: The committee heard testimony on SB 2047, relating to pharmacy benefit managers. The Insurance Division said the bill would require new enforcement resources and estimated an appropriation of about $1.5 million and five positions. Kaiser Permanente asked for an amendment to exclude HMOs from the definition of third-party PBMs, saying the bill should not interfere with integrated care models. PCMA and the Hawaii Pharmacist Association supported narrowing amendments, with pharmacists objecting to section 3 and warning the bill as amended could create major operational burdens and a significant general fund cost. No vote was taken in the portion provided, and the chair moved on to the next measure after questions. The committee then took up SB 2080, which would allow Hawaii to join the psychology interjurisdictional compact. Supporters, including DCR, the Hawaii Association of Health Plans, the Hawaii State Association of Counties, the Grassroot Institute, and others, said the compact would expand access to psychology services, especially for people in rural areas or those needing continuity of care while traveling. Opponents, including the Board of Psychology and a Shamanad University psychology professor, raised concerns about client safety, crisis-response procedures, enforcement costs, FBI background checks, and possible loss of state control over training and specialization standards. The board said Hawaii’s current 1,900-hour internship/postdoc requirement is higher than the compact’s standard and that the state is still implementing a separate provisional licensing law that may address some access issues. The discussion focused on whether the compact would meaningfully reduce shortages and whether Hawaii should instead pursue changes within its existing licensing system. Finally, the committee heard SB 2277 on hospital price transparency. The Office of Consumer Protection initially noted the bill could require significant staffing, but later testimony from SHIP suggested the measure could be handled more simply by working with the Healthcare Association of Hawaii and publicly posting violations. The Healthcare Association of Hawaii opposed the bill, arguing hospitals already must comply with federal CMS transparency rules and that adding state requirements would increase costs and legal exposure, especially if violations were treated as unfair or deceptive trade practices. Steve Fenberg testified in support, saying the bill would simply codify existing federal requirements in state law and that he was open to amendments removing state enforcement and the unfair trade practice language. No final action was taken in the excerpt provided.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 24

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But this is a direct appropriation to fund now all free school lunches, and we're looking at close to
  • But this is a direct appropriation to fund now all free school lunches, and we're looking at close to
  • But this is a direct appropriation to fund now all free school lunches, and we're looking at close to
  • But this is a direct appropriation to fund now all free school lunches, and we're looking at close to
  • But this is a direct appropriation to fund now all free school lunches, and we're looking at close to
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • It was called in an appropriate time. Do we have a signup list? >> All right.
  • It was called in It was called an appropriate<00:31:43.519> time.
  • :43.919> we<00:31:44.080> have<00:31:44.080> a<00:31:44.240> signup appropriate
  • Do we have a signup appropriate time. Do we have a signup list? list? list?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I have tremendous concerns about whether or not these questions on these exams are appropriate.
  • institution of higher education that will. vet the test to ensure it's accurate, reliable, and appropriate
  • If I say that again, my understanding is we have a base House account that we appropriate money into
  • They can appropriate funds from it to us, which they do. with our operating budgets that come to us from
  • House Bill 1 no longer has any appropriations as did the engrossed version, which will be handled by
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Sep 3rd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Bonin in the House on will appropriate 200 million dollars to cover the projected 25% non-federal matching
  • technology. ...moves quickly and changes quickly, but I would anticipate that in the interim the appropriate