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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Business and Professions Committee Jun 30th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1302 is a sunset bill for the Board of Registered Nursing.
- Good morning, Roxanne Gould on behalf of the American Nurses Association.
- Good morning, Olina Svetloff, President of California Clinical Nurse Specialist.
- You asked about education, and so Lori from the Board of Registered Nursing, the nurse practitioner education
- Karen Stout here on behalf of the California Nurse Midwives Association. Appreciate it.
Summary:
The Assembly Business and Professions Committee heard a long agenda of licensing, consumer protection, and sunset-review bills. Early items included SB 1148, which would let aspiring security guards complete all required training before a guard card is issued; SB 342, which would soften the penalty for contractors who were licensed during part of a project but had a brief lapse; and several sunset bills for boards and bureaus, including the Board of Registered Nursing (SB 1302), the Board of Naturopathic Medicine (SB 1303), the Respiratory Care Board (SB 1304), the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (SB 1363), and the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board (SB 1368). The committee also heard SB 1311, which makes various updates to DCA boards and programs, and SB 1314, which restricts new tobacco retailers from locating within 600 feet of schools or daycare centers and bans nitrous oxide sales and related paraphernalia.
Testimony was generally supportive on the training, sunset, and licensing cleanup bills, though several measures drew “opposed unless amended” or neutral positions over scope and implementation details. On SB 1314, supporters including prosecutors and school administrators argued it would reduce youth exposure to tobacco, while gas station, convenience store, cigar lounge, pharmacy, and business groups raised concerns about impacts on existing businesses, transferability of tobacco licenses, and possible de facto limits on future stations; some public health groups shifted to neutral after amendments. On SB 1302, nursing groups supported the board sunset bill, while the California Medical Association objected to allowing out-of-state nurse practitioner transition-to-practice experience to count without a California attestation process. On SB 1304, health facilities and long-term care groups supported the board extension but sought broader clarification so LVNs could perform respiratory tasks consistently across settings.
After quorum was finally established, the committee voted to send the consent calendar bills SB 1376, SB 1391, SB 1416, and SB 1315 to Appropriations, and then approved SB 342, SB 1148, SB 1302, SB 1303, SB 1304, SB 1311, SB 1314, SB 1363, and SB 1368, all moving forward to the Committee on Appropriations. SB 1314 passed with some no votes, while the other measures advanced with broad support. The hearing ended after additional members were added on the record and the committee adjourned.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- My name is Laura Kinchlow, director of practice at the Texas Nurses Association and a, a registered nurse
- An example of this that the Board of Nursing oversees over 400 license for registered nurses alone.
- If you've got a nurse who's doing something that's endangering the public, only the nursing board can
- revoke a nursing license.
- Does the nurses have, do the nurses have authority to go after chiropractors?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Today is Texas Nurses Day at the Capitol and I know we have at least a few nurses left because they came
- Nurses are the backbone of our health care system.
- I am proud to be a nurse and I'm honored to recognize today as Nurses Day. in the Texas House.
- UTMB School of Nursing improves the health of Texas by advancing nursing excellence through leadership
- Gah, Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Ascension Texas.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- nursing is quite a bit expensive.
- always do contract nursing and paying three to four or five times?
- We compete with the private sector as well as other state agencies for nursing personnel.
- This is also for skilled nursing at the Arkansas Health Center and other agency facilities.
- This is also for skilled nursing at the Arkansas Health Center and other agency facilities.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25 - Part 2
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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NH
Transcript Highlights:
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- know to obviously registered nurse science<00:39:21.640>
and <00:39:21.800>nursing <00: - <00:39:28.920>
uh that Masters master prepared nurse uh that Masters master prepared nurse
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- The local governments provide paramedics and nurses from their existing EMS and visiting nurse systems
- Certified nurse midwives are key to reversing this trend.
- H. 1061, an act to increase nurse midwifery services.
- H. 1069, an act to increase access to nurse midwifery services.
- But many mothers cannot nurse directly at first.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Financial Services held a lengthy public hearing with testimony on a wide range of health insurance and access-to-care bills. Early testimony focused on prescription drug pricing and pharmacy reimbursement, with supporters of H. 1326 arguing that pharmacy benefit managers and MassHealth managed care arrangements reimburse independent pharmacies too little, contributing to pharmacy closures and “pharmacy deserts.” The committee also heard repeated support for H. 1151/S. 742 on cognitive rehabilitation for acquired brain injury, H. 1288/S. 716 on telehealth parity for nutrition counseling, H. 1309/S. 761 on full-spectrum pregnancy care without cost-sharing, H. 1312 on insurance coverage for doula services, H. 309 on prompt access to health care by removing deductibles for certain services, H. 809/H. 1227 on biomarker testing, H. 1162/S. 810 on reducing inequities in access to medical procedures by limiting insurer cuts tied to Modifier 25, and S. 726 on insurance coverage for mobile integrated health.
Testifiers included legislators, physicians, pharmacists, dietitians, emergency and rehabilitation clinicians, and patients and family members. Supporters of the brain injury bill said cognitive rehabilitation is medically necessary, improves long-term outcomes, and can reduce institutional care and public costs; they noted the bill has been heard repeatedly and has support from the Brain Injury Commission and prior favorable committee action. Supporters of the pregnancy care and doula bills described out-of-pocket costs as a barrier to maternal health and shared personal stories of high bills and unmet support needs. Biomarker testing advocates and cancer patients said coverage gaps deny patients access to precision treatment, can lead to avoidable suffering, and should be standardized across insurers; several speakers said insurers often deny claims despite clinical benefit. Dermatology witnesses said insurers’ use of Modifier 25 cuts reimbursement for same-day evaluation and procedure visits, forcing separate appointments and increasing patient burden. Mobile integrated health supporters described home-based care as a way to reduce emergency department use and hospital readmissions, especially for patients with transportation or mobility barriers. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the hearing itself.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In full circles, she spent her final days in the care of some of the special nurses and doctors with
- whom she worked at the Lafayette skilled nursing facility in Marblehead.
- She started her nursing career at Salem Hospital, where she became, very likely, the youngest head nurse
- Shortly thereafter, she became a licensed nurse practitioner with a specialty in geriatrics.
- head nurse in the hospital's records.
Summary:
The Senate opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several resolutions, including commendations for Healthy Birth Day, Incorporated, Empty Arms Bereavement Support, Incorporated, for recognizing September 19, 2025 as Stillbirth Prevention and Awareness Day, and for the town of Plymouth becoming the 451st International City of Peace. Both resolutions were adopted by voice vote.
The chamber then advanced several local and private matters. A bill authorizing Lexington to grant ten additional on-premises wine and malt beverage licenses was read a third time and passed to be engrossed. A bill authorizing Melrose to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption was ordered to a third reading and then passed to be engrossed. The Senate also suspended the rules to take up a House bill establishing a sick leave bank for John C. Murphy and ordered it to a third reading.
The Senate additionally suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer a House petition establishing a sick leave bank for Kathleen Roderick, an employee of the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, to the Committee on Public Service. The body adopted an order to adjourn on Thursday at 11 a.m. in full formal session without a calendar. It then agreed to adjourn in memory of K. Walsh, heard a tribute to her life and service in nursing and geriatrics, observed a moment of silence, and adjourned accordingly.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (04/24/2026)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
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getting <00:28:34.720>cornered a nurse getting cornered a nurse getting - Nurses Association, and they had no Nurses Association, and they had no problem<00:32:13.880>
with - Well, my daughter is a nurse, a registered nurse down in Nashua, and we've talked about this, these type
- Well, my daughter is a nurse, a registered<00:35:01.520>
nurse <00:35:01.760>down <00:35 - A lot of nurses, emergency room nurses actually, and a physician have reached out to me, and they actually
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Working Group on Omnibus Human Services Appropriations - 05/22/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- nursing facility payment system changes. nursing facility payment system changes.
- This increases nursing facility payment rates.
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facility this would adjust the nursing facility this would adjust the nursing - >
home as a nursing home as a nursing home uh<00:10:20.560>construction <00:10:21.120>< - proposal to add home care nursing proposal to add home care nursing services<00:21:20.720>
to
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Health committee approves HF2464, the omnibus health policy bill 4/2/25
Transcript Highlights:
- You just heard a fellow, a former nurse or a nurse, currently talk about the training they went through
- until they got it right, and that's the standard for training a nurse.
- We graduate 4,000 nurses in the state of Minnesota a year, and the provision to have a temporary nurse
- >
have type of thing with nurses that have type of thing with nurses that have graduated<00:32 - shortage, and this just adds more stress to nurses for their working conditions.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Floored, my mother said quietly, would you like to meet that nurse? That nurse was me.
- Would you like to meet that nurse? That nurse was me.
- I did check our nurse passage rate. It was 94%. Also outstanding.
- One of the best programs is the nursing program, where the practical nursing students pass at 90.91%,
- Um, my name is Sherry Young, and I am a nurse practitioner.
Summary:
The committee on Higher Education Appropriations heard and favorably reported two bills: SB 1570, which revives the former Project Leo program to help locate missing persons with special needs through voluntary tracking devices and coordination with sheriff’s offices, and CS/SB 1376, which creates a grant program to support genetic counseling education in response to a statewide shortage of genetic counselors. Both bills drew supportive comments, with the genetic counseling bill also receiving public support from a university representative.
The committee then took up a large slate of confirmations. It first approved a block of reappointments to various university and college boards of trustees, including institutions such as UWF, Broward College, Chipola College, FIU, Pasco-Hernando, Polk State, St. Petersburg College, Valencia, FAMU, FAU, UCF, FSU, New College, UNF, USF, and Broward College. It then heard from numerous new appointees and some requested reappointments, many of whom emphasized workforce training, nursing, military and veteran support, dual enrollment, and local economic development as priorities for their institutions.
Several nominees highlighted their personal ties to the schools and communities they would serve, including appointees to Pensacola State, Polk State, St. Petersburg College, UNF, UWF, FIU, the College of the Florida Keys, Valencia College, and Chipola College. Committee members repeatedly asked about nursing NCLEX pass rates, workforce alignment, and institutional growth. One reappointment, Thomas Zachary Smith to the UWF board, was pulled from the block for separate questioning about his past public comments and his role in Project 2025; he said he would serve in his personal capacity and treat all students equally. The committee also separately heard from a Florida Poly reappointment, I. Shapiro, who was questioned about prior remarks regarding race and Supreme Court nominations, and from a New College reappointment, Mark Bowerlaine, who described campus improvements and enrollment growth. The meeting ended amid ongoing confirmation processing and separate votes on the remaining nominees.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/21/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- skilled nursing facility public nursing skilled nursing facility that<05:56:58.400>
is <05:56: - assistants to licensed nursing assistants to registered nurses.
- nursing assistants to registered nurses. nursing assistants to registered nurses.
- registered nurses. registered nurses.
- Directors of nursing must be registered nurses in our state.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Nurses, optometrists, chiropractors.
- I practice at the Texas Nurses Association and am a registered nurse here in Texas.
- An example of this is the Board of Nursing, which oversees... over 400 licenses for registered nurses
- If you've got a nurse who's doing something that's endangering the public, only the nursing board can
- revoke a nursing license.
Keywords:
e-cigarettes, marketing prohibition, youth protection, criminal penalties, public health, school funding, education reform, state budget, property taxes, equity in education, health care, licensing, complaint procedure, disciplinary action, law enforcement, death records, vital statistics, healthcare, trauma facility, Medicaid
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Legislative Administration (05/08/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- execute one bill, which is SB 197, relative to the medical supervision of the licensed registered nurse
- something happening here and a nurse something happening here and a nurse being<00:32:26.080>
- I'm not sure, as I understand it, this isn't dealing with the nurse in liability.
- I would think the nurse would be, I mean, it is saying here that the nurse will be acting... where can
- and and chairman state house nurse?
Summary:
The Legislative Administration Committee met to consider SB 197, which concerns medical supervision for the licensed registered nurse employed by the Legislative Facilities Committee. The main discussion focused on an amendment, 2025188H, that adds language about the chief medical officer’s authority to issue standing orders and includes immunity language for civil or criminal liability when acting in good faith and with reasonable care. John Williams of Health and Human Services explained that the language was modeled on similar provisions used for standing orders such as Narcan and epinephrine, and that it was vetted with the Attorney General’s office. Members raised questions about whether the immunity could shield mistakes or apply beyond the State House nurse; the chair clarified that the provision applies to the chief medical officer’s issuance of standing orders under this section, while the nurse’s practice remains governed by RSA 326.
Representative Wade moved the amendment, which was seconded and adopted on a roll call vote of 10-0. The committee then voted on SB 197 as amended and recommended it ought to pass as amended, again by a 10-0 roll call vote. The bill was placed on consent, and the chair noted that a written committee report would be prepared.
After the vote, the chair briefly updated members on other upcoming matters, including a Senate message on the Gold Star flag bill, the status of an enroll bills issue, and a Senate amendment to HB 248 on ethics. The committee also discussed scheduling for a joint historic committee meeting and a proposed Wentworth Cheswell portrait item, and members offered closing thanks to the chair, clerk, and staff for their work.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Miller, an advanced practice registered nurse, has to have a supervising physician to practice.
- Texas Nurse Partners, and herself. Well, thanks for being here today, Holly.
- We show you registered as Holly Jeffries. on behalf of Texas Nurse Practitioners and yourself.
- I'm a board-certified family nurse practitioner as well as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
- And the ones who suffer are really the nurse practitioner owners, like myself.
Keywords:
HB 1818, Texas Insurance Code, Texas Department of Insurance, commissioner of insurance, health maintenance organization, HMO, insurer, utilization review, preauthorization, prior authorization, medical necessity review, health care services, medical care, insurance regulation, insurance examination, regulatory oversight, confidential records, public information exception, Chapter 843, Chapter 1301
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- My name is Alexis Hall, and I am a registered nurse.
- Network and the Florida Nurses Association.
- I love being a nurse.
- I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner and a member of the Florida Nurses Association and the Florida Nurse
- But today I'm not here only as a nurse.
Summary:
The committee first received an update from the Department of Health on the Cancer Connect Collaborative, the Cancer Innovation Fund, and the new Cancer Connect Collaborative Research Incubator, created and expanded by recent legislation. The department reported that the Cancer Innovation Fund has awarded $80 million to 95 researchers to date, with $60 million available in the current cycle and 65 projects funded across 28 institutions in 16 cancer areas last year. The new pediatric cancer incubator received $30 million and awarded four Florida children’s hospitals $7.5 million each. Senators asked about outreach to oncologists statewide, peer review and accountability, funding for National Cancer Institute-affiliated institutions, and whether underserved and rural areas are being prioritized; the department said it uses website notices, listservs, collaborative outreach, and eligibility criteria favoring rural and high-cancer-care providers, and that it monitors projects through reports, expenditures, and contract provisions.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 312 on patient-directed medical orders, which would create a voluntary, portable, physician-authorized electronic registry for patients to document end-of-life and serious-illness treatment preferences. Supporters, including nurses, hospice and emergency care advocates, and medical professionals, said the bill would help ensure patient wishes are accessible in emergencies, reduce unwanted interventions, and improve continuity of care. Opponents, including Florida Right to Life, argued the bill could broaden end-of-life decisions too far, raise privacy and coercion concerns, and allow withdrawal of care inappropriately. The sponsor said the measure is intended to support patient autonomy and is not anti-life, and noted she was open to amendments.
After public testimony, the committee voted on SB 312 and reported it favorably. The roll call showed support from Senators Berman and Harrell, with the bill passing on the committee vote. The meeting then adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- and nurse practitioners into nursing homes.
- and nurse practitioners into nursing homes.
- and nurse practitioners into nursing homes.
- and nurse practitioners into nursing homes.
- On the CMS databases on nursing homes, where you find the rankings of nursing homes for the like.
Keywords:
health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration, horizontal consolidation, vertical consolidation, health care ownership, corporate practice, health care regulation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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home required in a similar nursing home required in a similar nursing home - have it for to be for a hospital nursing have it for to be for a hospital nursing home<00:20:40.640
- programs uh to be done in nursing programs uh to be done in nursing facilities<00:32:05.600>
- I had seen the public health nurse form.
- I had seen the public health nurse form.
Keywords:
PACE, elderly, Medicaid, health services, long-term care, community-based services, support person, healthcare, patient rights, assisted living, community support, caregiver respite, financial eligibility, Minnesota Statutes, HF1477, residential program licensing, community residential setting, small group home, licensed capacity six or fewer, rental licensing
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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facilities <00:42:11.680>are most nursing facilities are most nursing - So this funds the nursing home 164.
- <01:37:13.040>
services note and um that if the nursing services note and um that if the nursing - looking at if just adding that nursing looking at if just adding that nursing component<01:37:40.960
- I'm just saying if I look at that expenditure versus nursing home, I'd much rather help nursing homes