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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 20, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It saves time and money, and it's great for doctors, nurses, and seniors.
- IT SAVES TIME AND MONEY, AND IT'S GREAT FOR DOCTORS, NURSES AND SENIORS.
- However, for small businesses seeking financing to build something like a surgery center or a nursing
- However, for small businesses seeking financing to build something like a surgery center or a nursing
- And time after time, the doctors, nurses, therapists, and staff have delivered world-class care rooted
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
04/08/2026 - House Democratic Caucus Calendar #15 & #16
Transcript Highlights:
- We're going to go over to the blue sheet, and Israel—it's trampoline court regulations.
- for applying for holding and share salespersons establishes regulations for applying for holding and
- So this bill is moving the regulations to HOAs as well, yes? Yes. Okay, excellent. Thank you.
- Madam Chair and members, House Bill 2875, Local Regulation Prohibition; Unmanned Aircraft, prohibits
- Think of drone delivery services in regulating the ownership or operation of an unmanned aircraft system
Summary:
The caucus reviewed a long list of Senate and House bills, many of them on consent or with strike-everything amendments. Early items included SB 1457 on advanced air mobility for border security, SB 1519 raising the off-highway vehicle weight limit to 3,500 pounds, and HB 2383, which now cites the 2014 trampoline court safety law known as Ties Law. Members also discussed SB 1041 on electronic monitoring in health care facilities, with supporters emphasizing resident safety and accountability and opponents from assisted living facilities arguing it could function as a mandate. SB 1168 on dental school complaint jurisdiction, SB 1713 on pharmacist testing authority and HIV prevention, SB 1497 on school district self-insurance procurement, HB 2203 on reducing redundant education reporting, and several other measures were briefly described, with some members requesting bills be pulled from consent or noting support or opposition.
The caucus also covered a series of strike-everything bills on housing, labor, licensing, and insurance. These included SB 1118 on historic neighborhood middle housing design standards, SB 1189 on late-payment protections in revitalization district construction contracts, SB 1274 creating a separate timeshare salesperson license, SB 1428 on workers’ compensation notice and recordkeeping, HB 2120 on property tax disability exemptions and widow eligibility, HB 2174 on insurance predictive modeling oversight, SB 1582 on HOA rules for pets and backyard chickens, SB 1503 expanding first responder death benefits to certain law enforcement pilots, and SB 1286 changing prescription lengths for virtual veterinary visits. Members raised questions about the scope and practical effects of several bills, and in some cases noted changes in support, such as unions backing SB 1189 and some members supporting SB 1582’s limits on HOA restrictions.
On the second calendar, members reviewed HB 2176 on health facility complaint investigations, HB 2050 on radiologic technologist and assistant supervision rules, HB 2010 on digital goods seller refund requirements, HB 2875 on local regulation of unmanned aircraft and drone delivery near airports, HB 2428 on county emission reduction credit permits, and HB 2877, which was amended in the Senate to create a supervised work route for veterinary technician certification rather than the original timeshare licensing language. Several sponsors were said to intend to concur with Senate amendments, while HB 2010 was headed to conference because the sponsor intended to refuse the Senate’s five-year refund window amendment. The meeting ended after the chair announced the caucus was adjourned, with no formal votes taken in the transcript beyond references to prior floor and committee votes.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee and Senate Environmental Quality Committee Aug 11th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- As a result of litigation, DPR was compelled to adopt regulations, but the regulations were designed
- Regulated entities, if you guys can come on up. regulated entities, if you guys can come on up.
- of the state laws and regulations.
- We need more strict regulations for the industries, while they are necessary.
- I think it's critical. and local regulators and many other stakeholders.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 04/09/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- What is within our jurisdiction is a proposal that has to do with HMO regulation.
- Are there any questions regulation. Are there any questions about<00:07:59.120><c> that?
- The Allina nurses, they feel overworked, and they can't give the care they need.
- </c> executive talking about the nurse executive talking about the nurse uh<01:14:40.480><c> nursing<
- </c> you know, many of the doctors and nurses you know, many of the doctors and nurses there<01:46:09.680
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (03/19/2026)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- is is to ensure that the Department of Environmental Services continues to be the authority over regulating
- is is to ensure that the Department of Environmental Services continues to be the authority over regulating
- Uh, this clarification in no way would hamper the regulation at this point in time.
- </c><01:12:55.560><c> and</c> the things we've done for nursing and the things we've done for nursing
- If the jail and the nursing home don't have power, that's a problem.
Committee:
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- This regulation was written into state law for a reason.
- those nursing facilities?
- those nursing facilities?
- What do they need to in a nursing home?
- It those documents at the nursing home.
Committee:
House Election Law
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Select Committee on Wildfire Prevention Jun 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We had to have the cancer center and other skilled nursing facilities in Fountain Grove shut off their
- We also really had to look at what was the intent behind a lot of the regulations that we had.
- You know, there's so many complex regulations in a million different places.
- around interface fire area, specifically skilled nursing facilities, mobile limited occupancies, care
- When you look at some of the regulations regarding, for For example, low-income, high-density housing
Summary:
The hearing focused on lessons from the 2017 Tubbs Fire and how Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, and local partners have changed wildfire prevention, recovery, and rebuilding practices since then. Assemblymembers emphasized that the region has become a model for the state, with a shift from suppression to prevention, and panelists described improvements in defensible space, home hardening, vegetation management, alerting, and community coordination. The discussion also highlighted the continuing importance of sharing Sonoma County’s experience with other wildfire-impacted communities across California and beyond.
Fire officials and local leaders described specific prevention measures now in place, including Santa Rosa’s vegetation management ordinance, ignition-free/Zone Zero requirements in rebuilding, restrictions on certain mulches, removal of dead and dying trees near roads and defensible space zones, and expanded prescribed burning authority. They also stressed the importance of community organization through block captains, Firewise/COPE-style networks, and the Mark West Area Community Fund. Speakers said these networks helped residents navigate recovery, avoid fraud and bad contractors, coordinate with local agencies, and support neighbors, but they argued that such efforts need more formal structure and stable funding.
Water and permitting officials discussed how the fires changed their work. Santa Rosa Water described new regional coordination, generator and backup power upgrades, emergency training, and lessons learned about wildfire-related contamination in water systems, including the need to restore pressure, flush, and test quickly after a fire. Permit Sonoma said rebuilding was balanced by streamlining permits while still requiring safer, more resilient construction, and noted that reduced fees and one-stop permitting helped speed recovery. United Policyholders described helping residents maximize insurance proceeds, organize information, and avoid scams, while warning that insurance availability and affordability remain major barriers and that insurers are increasingly rewarding risk-reduction measures.
Across the panels, the main policy requests were for faster and more flexible grant processes, more stable long-term funding for prevention and community programs, stronger support for home hardening and defensible space, better training and tools for local governments and legislative staff, and continued attention to insurance and utility-related resilience. No formal votes or actions were taken in the transcript excerpt; the hearing was informational and ended with a transition toward public comment and further discussion of remaining statewide wildfire policy needs.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 2nd, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Nevada Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- subcommittee to review regulations, and the regulations will become effective.
- of the subcommittee to review regulations and the regulations will become effective.
- The constant growth in regulation in the state of Nevada.
- We need to block regulations that are bad for the state of Nevada and ensure that every regulation that
- To come up with those sorts of rules and regulations in the first place.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The reforms will remove some of these overly burdensome regulations and then also focus our testing regulations
- on the science and... ...regulations and then also focus our testing regulations on the science and
- or should be fully regulated.
- Well, I'm regulated to this point, but you do have CBD shops that are very well suited and are regulating
- So I guess my point is, if we get to a point of regulating, we have a certain amount that we can regulate
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy held a hearing on a broad set of cannabis and hemp bills, with the chairs opening by emphasizing unfinished work on equity, public health, safety, and market stability. The committee heard testimony on House Bill 146, which would create more efficient cannabis testing standards by increasing batch sizes, reducing or eliminating some environmental testing, standardizing lab reporting, and requiring annual scientific review and public data reporting. Industry witnesses, including a representative of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, cultivators, and a testing lab owner, said current testing rules are overly burdensome, costly, and inconsistent, and argued the bill would lower compliance costs while preserving consumer safety. A testing lab witness also said some operators switch labs to obtain higher THC results or pass contaminated batches, and urged greater transparency and better sampling protocols.
A major portion of the hearing focused on intoxicating hemp and related bills that would bring hemp-derived intoxicating products under a stronger regulatory framework. Legislators and industry witnesses described products sold in gas stations, smoke shops, and convenience stores as often untested, not age-gated, and sometimes mislabeled or far above the federal hemp THC threshold. Testimony from attorneys and cannabis business leaders said states can regulate these products more strictly under the Farm Bill’s non-preemption language, and pointed to New Jersey and other states as possible models. Some witnesses and committee members stressed that any new rules should avoid harming non-intoxicating CBD businesses or lawful hemp farmers, while others argued that the products are effectively cannabis and should be regulated like cannabis for licensing, testing, age limits, and taxation.
The committee also heard extensive public-health testimony in support of bills S. 95, S. 96, S. 97 and their House counterparts H. 191, H. 192, and H. 193. Parents, advocates, and public health professionals urged stronger warning labels, THC potency caps, and improved data collection on cannabis-related harms, citing cannabis-induced psychosis, addiction, anxiety, and youth exposure to high-potency products. Several witnesses said Massachusetts has not done enough to track health outcomes or warn consumers, and referenced other jurisdictions such as Connecticut, Vermont, Colorado, Canada, and Quebec as examples of stronger limits or warnings. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing; the committee primarily received testimony and questions.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Artificial Intelligence Task Force 2025 (10-9-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- And we can't regulate that to a certain extent.
- </c><00:17:44.320><c> AI,</c> lawyers who say to me regulate AI, lawyers who say to me regulate AI, right
- </c><00:17:54.880><c> than</c> house the rules and regulations than house the rules and regulations than
- </c><00:18:20.080><c> that</c> wrong place. and we can't regulate that wrong place. and we can't regulate
- </c><01:07:30.880><c> what</c> those um attempting to to regulate what those um attempting to to regulate
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the prior meeting minutes, and then heard testimony on the use of artificial intelligence in therapy and mental health settings. Representative Lisa Willner and Brenda Rosen of NASW Kentucky argued for “guard rails” on AI chatbots so they cannot present themselves as licensed therapists or replace school counselors, psychologists, or social workers. They said AI can support licensed professionals, but warned that chatbots cannot reliably recognize nonverbal cues, escalate crises, or provide accountable care, and they cited examples of harmful chatbot interactions, including a suicide case and a chatbot telling a user to “Please die.”
The witnesses also raised concerns about data privacy, commercialization of sensitive mental health conversations, and the use of personal clinical content to train AI models. They said minors should require parental consent and suggested transparency about how a chatbot is trained and who created it. They distinguished between unvetted consumer chatbots and AI tools that have been scientifically validated or approved as digital therapeutics, noting that some evidence-based tools may be useful for specific conditions such as depression, anxiety, or eating disorders.
Committee members asked whether regulation should be handled by the legislature or by professional boards, and whether a multi-state model would be preferable to 50 different state approaches. The witnesses generally favored expert-led standards and said a board or panel of experts could review and approve mental health chatbots, but members cautioned that boards can become too restrictive and that legislation should preserve flexibility and avoid discouraging children from seeking help. The discussion ended with a request for the witnesses to restate their proposed policy ideas, including privacy protections, bans on commercialization, limits on training AI with clinical content, transparency requirements, and informed consent.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations (2-18-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- It will develop administrative regulations governing these products.
- This is the same authority given to ABC and its regulators to regulate malt beverage and spirits.
- </c><00:35:30.280><c> like</c> easier which makes uh regulations like easier which makes uh regulations
- </c> Because of these outdated regulations, Senate Bill 88 modernizes these regulations.
- towards hiring more nurse practitioners towards hiring more nurse practitioners who<00:51:54.280><c>
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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.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 27th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII
Transcript Highlights:
- This decrease also includes the construction. of the West Texas Veterans Cemetery, Veterans State Nursing
- And drinking water programs are also experiencing changes in federal regulations, which results in the
- . regulations are invalidated.
- So in the event that the federal regulations are. or amended that impact our resource needs, TCQ would
- This is one type of regulated entity that we do public engagement but yes.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/04/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Or nurse didn't need to meet the education standards because they worked for the government, you would
- I just, um, we protect the title nurse; we don't protect the title counselor.
- When the nurse conversation came up, people would be a high school senior.
- Those are the three agencies<01:24:39.760><c> that</c><01:24:39.960><c> regulate</c><01:24:40.640><c>
- pharmaceutical</c> agencies that regulate pharmaceutical agencies that regulate pharmaceutical waste
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor May 30th, 2025 at 08:00 am
Commerce and Labor
Transcript Highlights:
- This is consistent with what we also have currently in regulation.
- This amendment removes. and reduces the environmental impact of the regulation.
- Well, I understand you came under that for regulations if you go forth regulations, and I'm glad you
- And that's part of what we need to work through through regulations.
- And that's part of what we need to work through through regulations.
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Labor
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- . regulation.
- Hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacies survive in 191 rural.
- And we didn't go just there, we went to first responders, nursing homes, whoever needed us.
- I have to comply with federal government rules and regulations.
- Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to help it remediate its problems.
Committee:
House Agriculture & Livestock
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill affects CDDs which affects turf regulation and expands urban mixed-use districts.
- This ensures CDDs will continue and adds regulations to synthetic turf consistent with health committees
- We have framework and strict regulations on this recall process.
- bill revises its reporting language, specifically to physicians and advanced practice registered nurses
- Calatayud: The disease states of the individuals that are reported by physicians and advanced practice nurses
Committee:
Senate Fiscal Policy
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House and Governmental Affairs Apr 29th, 2026
House and Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Before I stand here as a sister, I stand here as an ICU nurse by background. In nursing...
- I stand here as an ICU nurse by background. In nursing, accountability is not optional.
- I'm happy to review our rules and regulations.
- I'm happy to review our rules and regulations. generally your problem cell phone with you.
- I'm happy to review our rules and regulations.
Committee:
House House and Governmental Affairs
Summary:
The House and Governmental Affairs Committee met on Senate Bill 123, a proposed constitutional amendment to create a legislative process for removing judges for cause. Senator Morris said the bill was needed because of uncertainty in the current Constitution about whether impeachment applies to judges, given the Judiciary Commission’s role in judicial discipline. He argued the measure would provide a clearer, higher-threshold accountability mechanism, and the committee adopted a technical amendment renumbering provisions and later clarified that the bill uses a majority vote in the House and two-thirds in the Senate, consistent with impeachment-style thresholds.
Much of the hearing centered on testimony from Anna Carter and her family, who supported the bill after the murder of Jacob Carter in New Orleans. They described his death and other cases they said showed judges releasing dangerous offenders despite repeated violations, missed electronic-monitoring check-ins, and other warning signs. They argued the bill would create a last-resort accountability tool when judicial decisions or supervision failures lead to preventable harm. Several committee members expressed sympathy and said the testimony highlighted serious problems in the justice system, though some also suggested the bill should address district attorneys, electronic-monitoring oversight, or broader systemic issues.
Opposition came from members who warned the proposal was overly broad, could become a political tool, and might conflict with existing constitutional provisions governing impeachment and judicial discipline. They argued the Judiciary Commission and Supreme Court already provide a disciplinary framework and that the bill could chill judicial independence or create due-process concerns. The ACLU’s Sarah Whittington also opposed the bill, noting technical inconsistencies in the draft, questioning why impeachment had not been tried first, and arguing the measure singled out judicial discretion while leaving other elected officials’ discretion untouched. The committee took no final vote on the bill during the hearing, but did adopt the technical amendment.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- Section six, distribution of duties for the health care regulation and health care reform report.
- care regulation and health care reform and identify where each function should ideally be housed.
- </c><00:41:45.280><c> Executive</c> Financial Regulation. Executive Financial Regulation.
- </c><00:41:58.760><c> Family</c><00:41:59.040><c> Nurse</c> Health Center.
- Family Nurse Health Center.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Higher Education Committee Nov 17th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- importantly, the majority of those Grad PLUS students are California's future doctors, dentists, nurses
- Our state regulations have not changed, and our state focus has not changed.
- In addition, some of the regulations haven't really been written yet.
- in high-need areas like nursing or teachers, etc., like the LA grant I mentioned, is cutting off the
- Oversight to ensure that campuses are actually following what's regulated by SB 98.
Summary:
The Assembly Higher Education Committee held an oversight hearing on how federal actions are affecting California higher education, with opening remarks from the chair and members emphasizing the importance of state-federal shared governance and the need to protect access, affordability, and campus diversity. The first panel included leaders from the CSU, University of the Pacific, California Community Colleges, and UC, who described broad impacts from federal grant terminations, changes to student aid, loan limits, visa and immigration policy, and proposed reductions to research support. Testimony focused on the elimination of Grad PLUS loans, caps on Parent PLUS and Pell-related changes, the loss or suspension of hundreds of grants, and the resulting harm to student support services, research, workforce pipelines, food assistance, and health care training. UC and CSU representatives warned of major losses in research funding, indirect cost reimbursement, and student opportunities, while community college leaders highlighted uncertainty around federal grants and the need to maintain services for low-income, first-generation, undocumented, and other vulnerable students.
Committee members asked how the state could respond, including through intersegmental partnerships, dual enrollment, transfer pathways, and support for basic needs and nutrition programs. Witnesses said California could help by sustaining financial aid, protecting minority-serving institution programs, and investing in research, housing, and workforce development. Several speakers stressed that federal changes were creating instability for students and campuses, and that the effects would likely be long-lasting, especially in health care, teaching, STEM, and social work pipelines.
A second panel then focused on equitable access. The California Student Aid Commission described state efforts such as the $3.9 billion investment in aid programs, the Cal Grant system, the Dream Act, and possible reforms to better serve adult learners, foster youth, undocumented students, and students with dependents. The Los Angeles Community College District reported that federal cuts and policy shifts are discouraging students from applying for aid, threatening TRIO and MSI/HSI-funded services, and reducing support for basic needs, counseling, and workforce programs. The Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities and the CSU Academic Senate echoed concerns about FAFSA confusion, international student restrictions, grant losses, and the erosion of equity-focused programs. No formal votes or legislative actions were taken during the hearing; the committee primarily received testimony and discussed possible state responses.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 20, 2026 - 10:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- I am a very strong supporter of veterinary technicians, veterinary nurses, veterinary assistants, other
- All right, last but not least, we have House Bill 929, Local Government Regulations of Cheekies.
- And also, if it complies with the federal floodplain regulations.
- And a word about that: some local governments have different regulations from the federal standard.
- If you're within 10 feet, you have to. abide by the fire safety regulations.