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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And oftentimes these babies, the parents aren't coming back. There is no parent there.
- The State Board of Education... The State Board of Education has additional oversight.
- plans under special education.
- education, and in the social safety net.
- K-12 education is... ...the rural areas. K-12 education?
Summary:
The House Appropriations Committee met in executive session on a proposed substitute operating budget bill and worked through a long series of amendments before voting on the bill. Members discussed a wide range of budget items, including court funding for Thurston County civil filings, Attorney General funding for a domestic extremism task force, grants for Yakima aquatics access, North Mason mobile integrated health, mentoring programs, poverty reduction work, a proposed Department of Housing task force, federal grant inventory staffing, HEAL Act funding, assisted living rebasing, DCYF family resource centers and pediatric interim care, law enforcement training and equipment, shellfish and birthing center licensing fees, school bus depreciation, charter school accountability, transition to kindergarten priorities, and several Fish and Wildlife and OSPI grants. The committee also considered amendments related to the Columbia River Gorge Commission, shrub-steppe habitat mitigation, and a study on Lower Snake River reservoir drawdown impacts.
Debate on many amendments centered on whether items were statewide priorities or local projects, and on the fiscal constraints of the budget. Supporters often argued that proposals would protect vulnerable populations, improve public safety, or leverage future savings and outside funding; opponents frequently cited budget pressure, the availability of existing funding, or the need to avoid singling out local projects. Some amendments were adopted, including Clark 343 on intent to fund up to 10,000 additional eCAP slots, Jones 419 on paint stewardship funding, and Stevens 070 limiting birthing center license fees. Many others failed, including amendments on Thurston County court funding, the domestic extremism task force, Yakima aquatics, North Mason mobile integrated health, mentoring, poverty reduction workgroup funding, the Department of Housing task force, federal grant staffing, HEAL Act funding, assisted living rebasing, the PIC Center contract, the Lacey regional training academy, and several Fish and Wildlife and OSPI-related proposals.
The committee then moved to the underlying bill, Proposed Substitute House Bill 2289, and adopted a do pass motion after disposing of the amendments. The transcript indicates the committee ultimately reported the bill out of committee with a do pass recommendation.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Rethinking Paying Subminimal Wage to Persons with Disabilities Task Force Apr 24th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- Our experienced special educators are retiring.
- And as a parent navigating it, I I know the system is not set up for parents to know how things work.
- I'm the parent here.
- So how do we make things easier either for parents or easier for emergency educators or those systems
- and parents could identify.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- appropriations for public education to the school districts that educate the students.
- There are homeschooling students who at first were told, if there are educational services or educational
- There are homeschooling students who at first were told, if there are educational services or educational
- Senators, our educators, our teachers, and parents have been sounding the alarms about what we're doing
- In 2022, when the Legislature took up parental rights and education, I found myself receiving death threats
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several gallery introductions before taking up Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, on mental health. Senator Bradley explained that the bill is intended to divert clinically appropriate defendants with mental illness from jail to treatment, create pretrial mental health diversion programs, expand grant uses for mental health and substance abuse reinvestment, require evaluations and treatment follow-up in certain probation and prison settings, add Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, and establish a Florida Behavioral Health Data Repository. Senators from both parties spoke in support, emphasizing treatment over incarceration, public safety, and the Murphy family’s role in the bill. The Senate passed the bill 37-0 and then recorded 37 co-sponsors.
The chamber then moved into presentations on SB 2500, the 2025-26 General Appropriations Act. Chair Hooper said the Senate budget totals $117.4 billion, reduces overall spending from the prior year, maintains reserves, keeps employee health contributions level, and includes major investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and nearly $1 billion in education capital outlay. Committee chairs outlined their portions of the budget, including increased funding for K-12 schools and scholarships, higher education workforce programs, Medicaid and health services, corrections and courts, transportation and housing, and environmental restoration such as Everglades and water quality projects.
Members then asked extensive questions, especially about education funding, school choice, AP/IB and accelerated programs, the Family Empowerment Scholarship, and the FEFP calculations. Senator Burgess repeatedly explained that scholarship funding is being moved “below the line” to improve tracking and that the Senate position is to preserve funding while giving districts more flexibility. Senators also questioned the APD wait list for disability services, opioid settlement spending, arts funding, the My Safe Florida Home condo pilot, and proposed IT and agency restructuring. Several chairs said some issues would be resolved in conference, and no final vote on the budget was taken in the portion provided.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:18 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- education, and student loan repayment; and whereas the State of New Mexico, through the Education Trust
- of in the portfolio of tools for parents navigating costs that obviously are there with education.
- This organization is led by a lot of parents and volunteers.
- Morales has built his educational... State University. Mr.
- Both of her parents have worked in agriculture.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Higher education panel hearing on HF2241 4/1/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (04/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> special education aid uh reimbursement. special education aid uh reimbursement.
- </c> accusation down the road by a parent. accusation down the road by a parent.
- can we better support general education teachers, general education curriculum?
- general education teachers, general education<02:05:57.440><c> curriculum?
- </c> level classes for special education. level classes for special education.
Summary:
The subcommittee opened its second meeting on House Bill 742, which would require catastrophic special education aid to be drawn from the education trust fund, and discussed whether to also examine differentiated aid within the adequacy formula. The chair said the committee had previously heard from HHS/Medicaid officials and now wanted to hear from local special education directors about how the aid system works in practice, including billing, training, data collection, and whether districts handle claims consistently. Members also referenced Arkansas as a possible comparison state and said they hoped to develop ideas by November to address the current funding process.
Committee members focused on the current special education aid thresholds and the impact of proration. The chair described the existing formula as requiring districts to absorb costs up to 3.5 times the state average per student, with the state paying 80% from 3.5 times through 10 times and paying above that, and said FY25 appropriated about $34 million while actual claims were about $50.1 million, leaving roughly a $16 million shortfall that caused proration. Members also raised the possibility of lowering the threshold to 2.5 times and asked how that would affect the number of eligible students and costs. Another member asked about how districts decide whether services are education-related or medical-related and how Medicaid or private insurance reimbursement affects later state aid claims.
District representatives from Boothby Therapy Services, Bedford, and Guilford introduced themselves and described their roles. Guilford’s director said the district tracks students with paraprofessional support, nurses, transportation, or specialized programming, uses a data system to log every service touchpoint, and tries to maximize both Medicaid and special education aid; she said a lower threshold would likely capture all students with paras or nurses and that rising staffing and service costs would increase the number of students over the cap. Bedford’s assistant director said the district uses a different system, tracks roughly 60 to 80 students a year, and pursues Medicaid and special education aid simultaneously but does not pursue private insurance if it would affect FAPE; she said reducing the threshold to 2.5 times would likely double the number of qualifying students. Members asked follow-up questions about software, data entry, and how districts decide whether to bill Medicaid or seek state catastrophic aid, and the directors explained that their systems log services by staff type and student, with some districts using the same data for both Medicaid and state reimbursement claims.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Families and Children. (2-5-26)
Families & Children
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> about the other parent in order to win. about the other parent in order to win.
- Um, and I don't want them to be punished. how to co-parent at a much higher level. how to co-parent at
- </c> billion in divorce in single parent billion in divorce in single parent related<00:13:39.839><c>
- ,</c> Greater Than is a coalition of parents, Greater Than is a coalition of parents, students,<00:15
- </c><00:18:22.640><c> education</c> actually go through parental education actually go through parental
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Parents at Excel Academy and across Minnesota deserve options when it comes to their children's education
- Parents at Excel Academy and across Minnesota deserve options when it comes to their children's education
- Parents at Excel Academy and across Minnesota deserve options when it comes to their children's education
- Parents at Excel Academy and across Minnesota deserve options when it comes to their children's education
- </c><01:08:02.240><c> parents</c><01:08:03.160><c> should</c> high quality education parents should high
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 079 Apr 3rd, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- on Education, after Committee on Education, after consideration<00:29:22.200><c> on</c><00:29:22.280
- ,</c><00:34:17.440><c> and</c> maternal health, girls' education, and maternal health, girls' education
- ,</c><00:53:46.160><c> uh</c><00:53:46.200><c> data</c> and through education, uh data and through education
- </c> with African American birthing parents with African American birthing parents suspected<00:54:45.120
- </c> birthing parents. birthing parents.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 094 Apr 18th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Education Committee Jul 16th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- As a former trustee in a school district representing many, many parents, and within those parents many
- and within those parents many parents of students with disabilities this is a huge need we sometimes
- As an educator for 17 years, I know that dismantling the United States Department of Education poses
- for our nation's education system.
- Rob Reynolds, parent of a special-needs child and teacher for the San Joaquin County Office of Education
Summary:
The Assembly Education Committee met without a quorum for much of the hearing and heard several bills out of order. SB 249 by Senator Umberg would move county board of education elections from the primary to the statewide general election. Supporters, including the League of Women Voters and many educators, argued the change would increase turnout and make the electorate more representative. The Orange County Board of Education opposed the bill, saying it would increase costs, reduce local control, and bury education races on crowded general-election ballots. The chair and members discussed turnout, cost, and representation, but the bill was held pending a quorum.
Senator Grove presented SB 373, which adds safeguards for California students placed in out-of-state non-public schools through IEPs. The bill would require more robust LEA and CDE oversight, including annual site visits, student interviews, quarterly contact, stronger certification standards, and restrictions on prone, supine, and mechanical restraints. Testimony from a survivor of an out-of-state placement and from advocates emphasized abuse, neglect, and the need for stronger monitoring. There was broad support and no opposition testimony, but the measure was also held pending a quorum.
Senator Ashby presented SB 568, the epinephrine in schools modernization act, to clarify and expand requirements for stocked epinephrine so they clearly apply to all public schools, including preschool programs. School nurses and medical experts said the bill would close gaps created by universal preschool and ensure life-saving treatment is available for anaphylaxis. The committee discussed dosing and implementation, and the bill was supported without opposition testimony. The committee also heard SB 414, the Charter School Accountability Act, which would strengthen fiscal oversight, audit standards, and transparency for charter schools and authorizers. Supporters said it responds to fraud and audit findings while preserving charter flexibility; opponents, including school employees and teachers, said it did not go far enough on authorizer accountability and small-district oversight. After discussion, the committee voted 7-0 to pass SB 414 as amended to Appropriations.
The committee also briefly heard SB 743 by Senator Cortese, which would create an equalization reserve account to provide additional funding to underfunded school districts and reduce funding inequities tied to ZIP code. The author said the bill would support student achievement and teacher retention over time. The transcript cuts off before testimony or action on SB 743 was completed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Budget Targets Eliminate The Deficit But Cut From Committees / Advancing Education in Minnesota Apr 6th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> students teachers and the education students teachers and the education system<00:04:38.120><c>
- </c> ranking minority member of the education ranking minority member of the education policy<00:04:45.240
- </c> Community but when it comes to education Community but when it comes to education we've<00:15:25.399
- </c> teacher and chair of the education teacher and chair of the education policy<00:15:49.839><c> committee
- Department of Education the Minnesota Department of Education there's<00:28:19.919><c> an</c><00:28:
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Children and Family Law (04/24/2025)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- As a former foster parent and adoptive parent of children with disabilities who've received special education
- in educational decision-making for children in their care who are without legal parental parents to
- to make educational foster parents to make educational decisions<00:05:26.800><c> on</c><00:05:27.039
- or between a custodial parent and a non-custodial parent who may have equal rights to the education and
- or between a custodial parent and a non-custodial parent who may have equal rights to the education and
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
April 7, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- And I did not know that so many parents were going through that.
- And I did not know if so many parents were going through that.
- You're balancing the safety of a child that a parent is leaving with that parental choice of the place
- Parents will always find a way.
- That's 100 parents that have to go figure out. Any more?
Summary:
The Health and Human Services Committee heard and passed several bills. HB 293 would codify the Office of Faith and Community in the Executive Office of the Governor, create a liaison and advisory council, and was supported by faith-based and nonprofit groups; some members questioned possible duplication with existing services and the source of any future funding, but the bill passed 24-0. CS/HB 547 would create an exception to the 30-day notice requirement before hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers sell medical debt when the debt buyer agrees not to use interest, fees, or extraordinary collection actions and must return charity-care-eligible debt; it passed unanimously after brief support testimony. CS/HB 1553 would require reporting of uterine fibroid data to the Department of Health to create a de-identified public database and reauthorize funding for implementation; it also passed 24-0, with members noting the earlier database mandate had not been carried out.
The committee then took up CS/HB 1195, “Gage’s Law,” which would require hospitals and hospital-based emergency departments to test for fentanyl in urine drug screens for suspected overdose or poisoning cases. The bill was presented as a response to overdose deaths and the need to better detect fentanyl, and emotional testimony from a parent described a son’s death after a hospital did not test for fentanyl. Members from both parties spoke in strong support, emphasizing stigma, the need for better treatment and data, and the potential to save lives; the bill passed 24-0. CS/HB 47 on child care and early learning providers would streamline inspections, speed background screening, offer free online training/testing, update definitions, protect certain family child care homes from insurance issues, and create a license-exempt category for employer-provided child care; after questions about parent notice, database listing, background checks, and insurance, an amendment was adopted and the bill passed 24-0 as amended.
Finally, CS/HB 647 would allow advanced practice registered nurses to sign death certificates in hospice settings, addressing delays that can leave families waiting to complete burial arrangements. Support testimony came from advocacy and hospice groups, and members cited the bill’s importance for families and religious burial timelines. The bill passed 23-0. The committee then adjourned.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Welcome to Senate Education today.
- Can you educate me? Mr.
- Was the money spent educating them wasted? No. Was the money spent educating them wasted? No.
- Part of being the Education Committee is we love to be educated, and we love to see the great things
- Education, to a certain degree, if it moves in this direction, is kind of an education in freedom as
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 5, 2025 - 01:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- have 6 to 7 years of education.
- Very educational. I've learned a lot from this. Thank you. Additional debate members.
- The purpose of this is for schools to notify parents Financial impact.
- Too many times parents don't know what it is.
- "Parents don't know. They're not aware. They don't know what the signs are.
Summary:
The Health Professions and Programs Subcommittee met with a quorum and heard two bills. HB 649 would remove the current written physician protocol requirement for certified registered nurse anesthetists, allowing CRNAs to practice autonomously. The sponsor and supporters argued the change would modernize Florida law, address anesthesia workforce shortages, keep graduates in the state, and improve access especially in rural areas; opponents, including the Florida Medical Association and a cardiologist, warned that physician oversight is important for patient safety and that anesthesia complications can arise quickly. After debate, the committee passed HB 649 favorably by a vote of 12 yeas and 6 nays.
The committee then heard HB 723, which requires the Department of Health, working with school districts, to develop informational materials on early detection of type 1 diabetes and have schools notify parents within the first 30 school days about those materials. The sponsor said the goal is to help parents recognize warning signs earlier and avoid emergency diagnoses such as diabetic ketoacidosis, with minimal fiscal impact because the materials would be distributed digitally. Members generally supported the bill and discussed timing and distribution methods, suggesting the notice not get lost in back-to-school paperwork. HB 723 passed unanimously, 18 yeas and 0 nays, and was reported favorably.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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- through 20, to include educators, psychologists, librarians, parents, and community members in material
- </c> children while preserving educational children while preserving educational Freedom<01:16:59.560
- Constitution, where parental rights are held, so you're violating parental rights.
- This is not education. You cannot find any educational component in these books.
Summary:
The joint committees heard Senate Bill 659, which would exempt the Department of Education from the electronic procurement system for purchases of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added processed agricultural or food products up to $100,000, and require geographic preference guidelines for locally sourced products. The Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, and State Procurement Office all testified in support or support of the intent. DOE said the bill would give it short-term flexibility to buy local items not currently on the vendor list, such as poi and limu, while procurement staff said they would provide written comments and a corrected version of their testimony.
Committee members questioned why the bill was needed, why the threshold would rise from the current $24,999 small-purchase limit to $100,000, and whether the department should instead amend its vendor list or RFP process. Members raised concerns about efficiency, administrative burden, whether the bill was a temporary fix for procurement planning gaps, and whether purchases would remain compliant with federal USDA rules if federal school-lunch funds were used. DOE responded that the measure would help it expand local purchasing, support farmers, and allow purchases of products not currently available through existing distributors, and said it was working with partners on food-safety certification and federal compliance.
The committees then voted to pass SB 659 with amendments. The Joint Committee on Education approved it 3-2, and the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Environment later approved the amended measure 4-0. The chair noted an amendment and a deferred effective date, and the motion was adopted.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I work as a PA educator at the Mass General Institute of Health Professions.
- For infants, this includes parental postpartum mental health concerns.
- Last year, Surgeon General Murthy issued a parental stress advisory, reporting that nearly half of parents
- Last year, Surgeon General Murthy issued a parental stress advisory, reporting that nearly half of parents
- and work and education support.
Summary:
The committee held a hearing on a large group of behavioral health and insurance-related bills. Topics included expanding access to mental health services by allowing physician assistants to authorize Section 12 emergency holds and be recognized as licensed mental health professionals (H. 1131/S. 773); improving coverage for community behavioral health centers so commercial insurance matches MassHealth’s bundled outpatient and crisis services (H. 1276/S. 703); eliminating cost sharing for certain behavioral health services (S. 718); extending detox and clinical stabilization coverage from 14 to 30 days and adding transitional support services (H. 1319/S. 772); requiring coverage for dual-diagnosis treatment in psychiatric facilities (H. 1277/S. 771); and preserving access to treatment for serious mental illness through coverage of coordinated specialty care and assertive community treatment (H. 1135/S. 709). The committee also heard bills on preventive behavioral health services for children (H. 1228/S. 802) and post-pregnancy mental health care, including postpartum depression and pregnancy loss-related care (H. 1314/S. 823).
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Public education will come to order and the clerk will call the roll. Chairman Buckley, I here.
- We're responsible for the education and well-being of hundreds of students.
- And so this is not just an educational issue, it's a fundamental equity issue.
- Uh, the parent notification forms are really important, closing that loop.
- educators, and certainly it's good for society.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, same thing for parents.
- </c><00:21:35.679><c> Parents,</c><00:21:36.640><c> teachers,</c> education standpoint.
- Parents, teachers, education standpoint.
- . education. education.
- </c> parents. So that's first and foremost. parents. So that's first and foremost.