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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 13th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • That educator is to handle and to educate the kids in the classroom.
  • Representation in education matters profoundly.
  • Seeds Education Justice Project.
  • I spent 13 years as a student in K-12 education.
  • Education Equity Coalition.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Workforce Apr 1st, 2025

S/C on Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we support access to quality and affordable child care as part of our commitment. ...education and
  • I could go into it, but really what it comes down to is early education is what supports the workforce
  • I've dedicated my career to early childhood education. ...I've been working in this field for 16 years
  • We know that by 2030, more than 60 percent of jobs in Texas will require education or training beyond
  • And if, as a state, we want to make sure the most vulnerable can get an education or long-term stable
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Feb 4th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education will now come to order.
  • Tab 2, SB 920, Mathematics Education, by Senator Gates.
  • SB 920, Mathematics Education, by Senator Gates, we're going to show that bill temporarily postponed.
  • Florida's educator compensation statute in 1012.22 was rewritten more than a decade ago to emphasize
  • The Committee on Education Appropriations will come back to order.
Bills: S0920, S1036, S1216
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education met with a quorum present and first temporarily postponed SB 920 on mathematics education. The committee then took up SB 1216 on public school personnel compensation, sponsored by Senator Rodriguez, which would give districts more flexibility in educator pay by restoring meaningful cost-of-living adjustments for teachers with direct student contact, allowing recognition of relevant advanced degrees, and removing rigid performance-pay caps. Several senators spoke in support, emphasizing teacher retention, compensation, and education as a state investment. The bill was reported favorably on a unanimous roll call vote. After a brief recess, the committee considered CS/SB 1036 on school counselors, sponsored by Senator Calatayud, to address counselor shortages by removing certification barriers tied to classroom teacher requirements. The sponsor and supporting testimony described recruitment and retention problems, high counselor-to-student ratios, and the need for counselors to focus on student academics, mental health, and college/career readiness rather than administrative duties. Public testimony came from students, educators, and school personnel who described limited access to counselors and the impact on student well-being and college planning. Committee members broadly supported the bill while noting that counselors are often overburdened and that additional support personnel, including BRACE advisors, may also need attention in the future. Senators also discussed broader efficiency measures and the need for schools and colleges to improve access to guidance services. CS/SB 1036 was reported favorably by unanimous vote. At the end of the meeting, members recorded their votes on the two bills, and the committee adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations Mar 31st, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • These investments in our students and educators will make this a landmark session. ...for public education
  • In higher education, it was important for us to make higher education more affordable and accessible
  • TRTA supports paying our education... Professionals more.
  • I'm the... special education director there.
  • I have been in public education for 30 years and a special education director for 26.
Bills: SB1, HB500, SB 1
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Transcript Highlights:
  • We are going to start our postsecondary education meeting.
  • create credentials of value that help to ensure that they earn enough to cover the cost of their education
  • .credential, apprenticeship credential, or other postsecondary or CareerTech award issued by an educational
  • To me, I believe that grit and education are the two things that bring people up out of poverty.
  • Education and education are the two things that bring people up out of poverty.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
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  • Remove a a continuing education.
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  • Education and Labor Cabinet, Board of Education...
  • Education and Labor Cabinet, Board of Education. 701 KAR 5:150, 704 KAR 3:460, and 701 KAR 5:170. 701
Summary: The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee met for its January meeting, approved the minutes from the prior meeting, and welcomed the new regulations compiler. The first item was a repealer from the Council on Postsecondary Education, 13 KAR 2:111, which was explained as necessary because Senate Bill 77 from the 2025 session removed the regulatory authority for advanced practice doctoral degree programs at comprehensive universities. No questions were raised, and the repealer moved forward without objection. The subcommittee then reviewed a large package of State Board of Elections regulations with staff-suggested amendments. The package would update definitions and election procedures, require e-poll books to be ready before polls open, change the standard and timeline for removing an election officer, add oversight by a State Board appointee on election days, recognize the Kentucky party, require voter registration records to be added to electronic voter records, require ballots to fit all races and questions on a single sheet, adjust precinct consolidation petition deadlines, and update incorporated forms and identification references. The package was approved without objection. The Office of the Attorney General’s Office of Regulatory Relief also presented multiple regulations with staff amendments, covering funeral planning declarations, cemetery companies, pre-need cemetery merchandise and funeral/burial contract sellers, and crematory contract sellers. These changes were described as adding specificity, streamlining forms and reporting, and bringing the regulations into compliance with KRS Chapter 13A; they were approved without objection. The Board of Examiners of Psychology presented several regulations, including compact rules, grace-period extensions, and significant fee increases for applications, renewals, reinstatements, exam retakes, and reciprocity. Board representatives said the increases were needed because many fees had not been raised since 2002, the board was operating at a deficit, and legal and administrative costs had risen sharply after the termination of state legal services. Members expressed concern about the size of the increases, but the chair said he would not hold the matter up and would raise the issue with the committee of jurisdiction. The subcommittee also approved staff amendments for the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s air quality regulations and the Education and Labor Cabinet’s education regulations, which updated nontraditional instruction procedures, waiver requests, instruction topics, superintendent assessment requirements, and academic standards. The meeting ended with the next meeting scheduled for February 9 at 1 p.m., and the agenda was adjourned without further objection.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 6th, 2026 at 09:10 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, members of Senate Education.
  • Chairman, members of Senate Education.
  • Research consistently shows that quality early care and education improves educational outcomes, reduces
  • We are leading the nation in the bookends of education in early childhood and higher education.
  • federal education law.
Bills: SB204, SB241, HB34
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Parents should be the guiding influence and the strongest voice in any educational decision.
  • I applaud the removal of educators, counselors, and district leadership from the SHAC.
  • I'm speaking for myself but also for Texas Education 9-1-1.
  • I'm testifying for the bill on behalf of myself and Texas Education 9-1-1.
  • Senate Education Committee K through 16 will stand in recess.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome back, everyone, to the Committee on Education K through 12.
  • At PAISD, we are incredibly proud of the quality of education we provide, but the escalating cost of
  • We understand our role in support. supporting the broader public education system in Texas.
  • The goal of this bill is simple: to put educational dollars back into the classroom if passed.
  • This bill relates to repayment. of certain mental health professional education loans.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Serving there in her final year, she was the education chief. Today, Dr.
  • and behavioral health workforce education and training programs.
  • It promotes practical life-saving education.
  • and the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training.
  • Of the House and Pewh of the Senate and act relating to education.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education May 6th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • The better that our institutions of higher education...
  • Sarah Keaton of the Higher Education Coordination Board.
  • And the Soviet Central Committee's Commissariat for Education.
  • I'm pursuing a degree in theater education.
  • Higher education already has enough oversight.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay, then I show you registered as Mike Morath, Commissioner of Education.
  • Texas Education Agency testifying on the bill, is that correct? Yes, sir.
  • And I'll show you right here's Mike Morath, a commissioner of the Texas Education Agency. the Education
  • Educators are not afraid of accountability.
  • We have leveraged educator input throughout the process.
Bills: HB8
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Committee on Public Education will come to order, and the clerk will call the roll.
  • So Good Reason Houston is an organization that focuses exclusively on public education. education and
  • This proposal limits parent and educator input.
  • We're talking about students, parents, and educators.
  • HB 8 helps educators and families.
Bills: HB8
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • You get one shot at a good education.
  • OK, then I show you registered as Mike Marra, Commissioner of Education, Texas Education Agency, testifying
  • Mike Moath, Commissioner of Education.
  • commissioner of Texas Education Education Agency testifying on the bill. Is that correct?
  • They're still educating the students.
Bills: HB8
Summary: The House Committee on Public Education met to hear House Bill 8, which would replace STAAR with a new assessment and accountability system beginning in the 2027-28 school year. The chair described the bill as reducing testing time, limiting benchmark tests, adding beginning-, middle-, and end-of-year assessments, requiring faster score turnaround, involving Texas teachers in test development, and tightening accountability timelines and transparency rules. Members also discussed provisions on A-F ratings, cut scores, CCMR, local accountability plans, and TEA reporting requirements. Committee members and invited witnesses split sharply on the bill’s approach. Supporters, including the chair, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, and Ed Trust’s Nicholas Munyon Penny, argued the bill would reduce high-stakes pressure, provide quicker and more actionable data, limit over-testing, and better align assessments to Texas standards while preserving criterion-referenced accountability. They said the new system would help teachers and parents intervene sooner and would improve transparency, including parent access to student responses and automatic rescoring in some writing cases. Opponents, including Rep. Hinojosa and student witness Ella Moran, argued the bill still increases testing and replaces one high-stakes test with multiple TEA-created tests. Moran testified that STAAR creates anxiety, disrupts instruction, and does not reflect real learning, while Hinojosa said the House had previously passed a better bill based on a nationally norm-referenced model and criticized the new proposal as a concession to the Senate. Questions also focused on AI scoring of writing, rescoring rates, and whether the bill’s new accountability rules would be reliable and fair. The committee did not take a final vote during the portion provided, but the chair said a vote on HB 8 would be called after public testimony later in the day.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • free safety education to more than 3,000 Hawaii residents, 85% of whom participate in spear fishing.
  • Education and outreach are essential. I have dedicated years to that work.
  • to more than 3,000 safety education to more than 3,000 Hawaii<00:11:56.640> residents,<00:11:
  • Education and outreach are times.
  • A warning label is not a replacement for education. It is a starting point.
Summary: The House Committee on Health heard testimony on a series of bills related to public health, pharmacy regulation, disability access, and health care infrastructure. HB 1535, creating an income tax credit for automated external defibrillator installations, drew support from the Department of Health, tax department comments, and public testimony emphasizing AED access in community and transit settings. HB 1765, requiring safety warnings for spear fishing gear, received comments from DLNR and strong support from a free-diving safety advocate who described blackout risks and argued for point-of-sale warnings. HB 1549, which would repeal the law prohibiting drug paraphernalia, drew mixed testimony: the Department of Health, the Public Defender, and harm-reduction advocates supported repeal as a public health measure, while HPD and a county prosecutor opposed it, warning it could encourage drug use and create public safety issues. The committee also heard HB 1550, which would exclude drug testing products from the definition of drug paraphernalia. The Department of Health and harm-reduction advocates supported the bill, saying drug checking tools save lives and help prevent overdoses, while one written opponent was noted. HB 1995, allowing people who are blind or deaf to receive disabled parking permits, drew opposition from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Disability and Communication Access Board, and other opponents, while a few written supporters were also noted. HB 1671, allowing licensed dental hygienists to place interim therapeutic restorations in public health settings, received support from the Department of Health and several oral health organizations, with the Board of Dentistry offering comments. HB 1643, establishing a framework for pharmacy audits and record retrieval, prompted the most extended discussion. The Board of Pharmacy and independent pharmacy representatives supported the bill as a needed framework to limit burdensome audits and protect patient care, while HMSA raised concerns about possible conflicts with upcoming federal PBM reforms and potential unintended consequences. Committee members questioned both sides about timing and workload, and supporters argued the bill was needed now to protect rural and independent pharmacies. Finally, HB 1978, appropriating funds for a new outpatient care center in North Kona, received strong support from Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Queen’s Health Systems, the Kona-Kohala Chamber, and others, who described it as a long-term investment in West Hawaii’s health care capacity and economy. No votes or final actions were taken in the portion of the hearing provided.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.(2-10-26)

Appropriations & Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Department of Education sent people to. Department of Education sent people to.
Summary: The committee met for a budget-only discussion with no bills scheduled for a vote. Members first welcomed a group of high school guests, then heard from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services on funding issues for child advocacy centers, domestic violence centers, rape crisis centers, and SNAP. DCBS Commissioner Lisa Dennis and budget director Misty Sammons said the victim-services programs were included in the current baseline budget, but it was too early in the budget process to know final funding levels. They said earlier reports of major cuts were based on a misunderstanding, that conversations with the agencies were ongoing, and that they would provide the committee with the agency’s base-budget information. A member also asked about domestic violence shelter funding, and the cabinet explained that prior one-time money had been used to replace lost federal Victims of Crime Act funds. On SNAP, the cabinet said Kentucky does not expect to need additional money for benefit costs because the payment error rate is about 4%, below the threshold that would trigger added state costs. However, they said the federal HR1 change shifting SNAP administrative costs from a 50/50 state-federal split to 75% state and 25% federal will require additional funding to operate the program. Members praised the eligibility and family support staff for keeping error rates low and asked to be notified quickly if more implementation support is needed. Representative Bojanowski asked whether a specific SNAP administrative cost figure was already in House Bill 500; the cabinet said it was not, and that such an item would be an additional budget request not included in the bill. The committee then heard from the Department for Medicaid Services. Commissioner Lisa Lee and Senior Deputy Commissioner Veronica Judy Cecil described Medicaid fraud-and-abuse monitoring, including a new CMS file and guidance on concurrent enrollment across states. They said DMS refers suspected fraud or abuse to the Attorney General’s office and that the relationship is working well. When asked about using AI, they said the department is not yet using AI but does use internal algorithms to flag potential fraud, waste, and abuse. Finally, Eric Lowry of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services discussed fiscal note processing, saying House Bill 2 is a complex Medicaid bill and that the cabinet is working to set up a meeting with the sponsor; he said the cabinet is responding and hopes to meet on Monday. The committee also briefly heard from the Kentucky Department of Education, where Matt Ross said the existing $7.4 million for school-based mental health services is already in the base budget and that no additional language is needed in House Bill 500 to distribute it, though KDE has requested additional funding to raise the overall appropriation to $18 million.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

06/10/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • We educate more Arizonans than any other education institution. 90% of our students stay in Arizona.
  • We educate more Arizonans than any other education institution. 90% of our students stay in Arizona.
  • We educate more Arizonans than any other education institution. 90% of our students stay in Arizona.
  • We educated 11,000 students, or we will educate 11,000 students this year.
  • One more education question. Okay.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 2nd, 2026 at 09:02 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Senate Education on this beautiful Monday morning.
  • This is an act that is used in all of our higher education institutions.
  • We were only able to get 52, but that's across all of our higher education institutions.
  • I think we are ready for you for Senate Bill 179, UNM Medical Spanish Education Program.
  • I'm going back to a state board of education. My guess is we'll have a couple of others.
Bills: SB106, SB171, SB179