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HI
Transcript Highlights:
- This is relating to workers' compensation and requires that employers pay for all workers' compensation
- </c> relating to workers compensation. relating to workers compensation. requires<00:36:36.240><c> that
- claims for comp workers compensation claims for comp compens<00:36:42.640><c> compensible</c><00:36:
- ><00:36:51.200><c> for</c> a presumption of compensibility for a presumption of compensibility for claims
- </c> related to workers compensation. related to workers compensation.
Committee:
Senate Labor and Technology
Summary:
The joint hearing of the Senate Committees on Labor and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs considered three bills. SB 2141 would reclassify certain Department of Law Enforcement leadership and employees as Class A members for retirement purposes and adjust retirement benefit calculations. DLE supported the bill, saying it would address retirement classification without enhancing benefits, while the Employees’ Retirement System said it had no formal board position but wanted key provisions preserved. The Deputy Attorney General raised a potential title/subject issue and warned the bill could be vulnerable to challenge because the reclassification, contribution changes, and benefit calculations are in separate statutory sections. After questions about the number of affected employees and possible amendments, the committees deferred the bill.
SB 2593 would exempt certain Law Enforcement Standards Board positions from civil service and collective bargaining. The board’s administrator said the positions would handle sensitive and confidential information and require specialized experience, and the board chair’s representative said the bill was important to meet certification deadlines. Opposition testimony from HGA argued exempt employees are at-will and suggested civil service protections should remain, with any staffing issues handled through reclassification or other personnel tools. Committee members questioned whether the positions could instead be civil service but excluded from bargaining, and staff explained the distinction between civil service exemption and collective bargaining exclusion. The committees ultimately recommended passing SB 2593 with amendments, including a deferred effective date of January 1, 2077, and the recommendation was adopted.
SB 2824 would create a bribery-related reporting duty for public servants. Supporters, including Indivisible Hawaii, said it would establish a clear duty to report known or suspected bribery and strengthen public trust. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the bill, saying it would criminalize an affirmative duty to report another person’s misconduct. After limited discussion, both committees voted to pass SB 2824 with amendments, including a deferred effective date of July 1, 2050, and the recommendation was adopted. The meeting then adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> executive compensation. executive compensation.
- </c> executive compensation. executive compensation.
- </c><01:31:23.440><c> is</c> uh uh executives, their compensation is uh uh executives, their compensation
- </c> the Thompson Reuters CEO uh compensation the Thompson Reuters CEO uh compensation is<01:40:19.920
- 42:22.080><c> it's</c><01:42:22.400><c> really</c> at this compensation, it's really at this compensation
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
Keywords:
climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, financing, sustainability, environmental policy, renewable energy, Minnesota Climate Innovation Financing Authority, earned incentive release credit, release credits, supervised release, corrections, Minnesota Department of Corrections, sentence reduction, good time, prison time, incarceration, violent offenses, murder, criminal sexual conduct, sex offenses
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, as many of you know, the workers' compensation advisory council is a body with 12 voting members
- The council addresses issues and recommends legislation pertaining to workers' compensation.
- The council only adopts compensation.
- </c> an update to their workers compensation an update to their workers compensation insurance<00:02:
- Um, but the compensation insurance.
Bills:
SF1832
Committee:
Senate Finance
Keywords:
economic development, small business, workforce training, grants, entrepreneurship, equity, community support, 1187, senate, all
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- classifications and pay scales for IT and cyber security professionals informed by comparable compensation
- data from other agencies compensation data from other agencies across<00:29:41.520><c> state</c><00:
- <c> Protection,</c><00:37:59.440><c> Consumer</c><00:37:59.920><c> Contracts,</c> House Bill 103 prohibits
- House Bill 103 prohibits a consumer House Bill 103 prohibits a consumer contract<00:38:19.359><c> from
- ,</c> wage, living wage prohibitions, wage, living wage prohibitions, penalties,<01:01:05.359><c> and
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Feb 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And as the fund has grown, unfortunately, employers' workers' compensation assessments are now being
- Appeals Board, which is the state body that oversees workers' compensation law.
- I'm the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation.
- It was presumed to be compensable, yes. But we didn't do it for this bud. No, we did not. Okay.
- Our next item, number two, is budget change proposal, division of workers compensation plan.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on Pension Policy Jun 17th, 2025
Select Committee on Pension Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I know they plan to look at excess compensation pretty carefully.
- One is in the parking lot, the excess compensation. I think Director Leathers is in the room.
- And then as far as, you know, LEOFF 2 excess compensation.
- we do pay plenty of I’m not criticizing any of the excess compensation.
- Well, let's pencil excess compensation in for December.
Committee:
Joint Select Committee on Pension Policy
Summary:
The committee approved the May minutes by roll call vote and then received brief updates from the Attorney General’s office and the Office of the State Actuary. The AG’s office said it would handle legal analysis related to the committee’s work, while the actuary reported that staff were at capacity this summer due to annual valuation work, experience studies, and other retirement system projects, but would have more capacity in the fall. Members also requested access to fiscal note and actuarial materials related to the LEOFF 1 study and related legislation.
The main discussion focused on the LEOFF 1 study, including actuarial funding, a proposed merger/termination/restatement approach, and the possibility of a permanent COLA for Plan 1 members. Several members supported keeping COLA recommendations in the committee’s work, while others raised concerns about whether merging or restating plans could affect benefits, legal status, or IRS tax treatment. The actuary explained that the temporary pause in certain funding rates reflected prior overfunding buffers and assumptions about future investment returns, and said future base-rate funding could still be needed depending on experience.
Members also discussed constituent correspondence, which staff said largely fell into four categories: the LEOFF 1 study, Plan 1 benefits and COLAs, fossil fuel divestment, and ESSB 5357. The committee agreed that divestment concerns are more appropriately directed to the State Investment Board, not this committee. In reviewing the draft interim work plan, members added or adjusted several topics for future meetings, including a July educational briefing on LEOFF 1 history and tax/IRS issues, a September discussion of COLAs, and a December placeholder for excess compensation/pension spiking, pending coordination with the LEOFF 2 Board. The committee then approved the July agenda and adjourned.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Ethics Board Jun 8th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It also prohibits legislators from engaging in a business or transaction or professional activity in
- The first is RCW 4252 020, which prohibits legislators from having an interest, financial or otherwise
- It also prohibits legislators from engaging in a business or transaction, It also prohibits legislators
- You're not going to hear testimony that Tara Simmons got a bonus or a raise or was compensated for any
- Act does not prohibit a legislator from inducing, supporting, advocating, or voting for legislation
Summary:
The hearing opened in a Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings matter involving Legislative Ethics Board complaint 2025-5 against Representative Tara Simmons. The ALJ outlined the process, the issues on appeal, and the burden of proof, which centered on whether Simmons violated the Ethics Act by using her legislative position for others’ benefit and by holding outside employment that conflicted with her duties, and what sanction would be appropriate. Several exhibits were admitted by stipulation or without objection, while Exhibit 2 was initially held for later ruling but was ultimately admitted after testimony from the witness who prepared it. The board also granted a motion to sequester witnesses and took under advisement a motion to exclude three defense witnesses until after the staff case-in-chief.
In opening statements, board staff alleged Simmons violated RCW 42.52.020 and RCW 42.52.070 by sponsoring a proviso that benefited her outside employer, Equity and Education Coalition (EEC), by using campaign surplus funds to help hire a friend, by intervening in a dispute over the proviso-funded work, and by sending text messages to influence others. Staff said it would seek penalties of up to $5,000 per violation plus costs. Defense counsel argued the allegations were technical ethics issues, denied Simmons profited personally, and contended the proviso funding her employer was permitted under prior board guidance; counsel also argued the campaign donation and later contract dispute were lawful and context-dependent.
The first witness, Kimberly Gordon of American Equity and Justice Group (AEJG), testified that AEJG received state proviso funding and donations from Simmons, including $10,000 and later $40,000, which Gordon said were intended to fund the hiring of Antoine Coleman, Simmons’s romantic partner. Gordon said AEJG returned the donations and terminated Coleman after learning of the relationship and potential conflict of interest. She also testified about a later 2024 proviso involving EEC, a subcontract between AEJG and EEC, and a dispute over EEC’s performance under that subcontract. Gordon said AEJG raised concerns with the Administrative Office of the Courts, met with contract manager Chris Stanley, and ultimately rewrote the subcontract after Stanley, allegedly after speaking with Simmons, directed them to do so. The hearing then recessed for lunch, and cross-examination of Gordon was set to continue afterward.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/27/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- This contains a prohibition on kickbacks in the medical assistance and CCAP program.
- We do not have a prohibition in state law, and then there is no federal prohibition on kickbacks in the
- Um, this contains<00:59:47.280><c> a</c><00:59:47.599><c> prohibition</c><00:59:48.319><c> on</c><00:
- </c> do not have a prohibition in state law. do not have a prohibition in state law.
- </c> around the great start uh compensation around the great start uh compensation support<01:10:28.719
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session Mar 12th, 2026
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- law around two pending ballot questions: public records and legislative rules reforms tied to compensation
- certain provisions of Chapter 3 of the General Laws, which currently govern additional regular compensation
- for members, that compensation in addition to the base compensation calculated pursuant to Article 118
- D, the petition supplants and codifies existing legislative rules on compensation, ensuring that members
- of the House of Representatives and members of the Senate are compensated differently.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Section two establishes operational requirements for an autonomous vehicle, including prohibiting the
- </c> autonomous vehicle including prohibiting autonomous vehicle including prohibiting the<00:26:47.560
- Prohibiting<00:26:55.040><c> a</c><00:26:55.120><c> person</c><00:26:55.480><c> from</c><00:26:55.720
- ><c> operating</c><00:26:56.200><c> an</c> Prohibiting a person from operating an Prohibiting a person
- </c> the Waymo car that actually prohibited the Waymo car that actually prohibited emergency<00:42:40.000
Committee:
Senate Transportation
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Second reading of bills: HB 2008, school libraries professional associations prohibition; HB 2029, water
- It removes the prohibition on the state or state agency maliciously delaying any approval.
- It removes the prohibition on the state or state agency maliciously delaying any approval.
- SB 1115 prohibits access from allowing its employees to work remotely. This might be okay.
- HB 2584, public monies, genetics sequencing, prohibition. Health and Human Services.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appr/Sub-Public Safety and Judiciary 2ND REVISED Jan 28th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- We successfully defended Oklahoma's law to prohibit minors from receiving certain gender transition procedures
- requested judicial salary increase of... 17.58% as you know, Oklahoma has the Board on Judicial Compensation
- It is the request of the Board on Judicial Compensation.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- In relation to collective bargaining, the budget includes $213.6 million for employee compensation.
- prevailing wage and ensuring that our workers are included in discussions about changes to their compensation
- bill were to pass as in print, it would effectively make our contractors no longer competitive and prohibitive
Committee:
House Budget
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session: 2025 First Special Session - part 1 Jun 9th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Murphy, and a prohibition on mid-year drug formulary changes by insurers by Rep. Elkins.
- This includes not prohibiting facility fees.
- This bill also maintains all base funding for the Great Start compensation program, which supports our
- However, the 2021 change that prohibits new water use prevents that from happening.
- The amendment offered would simply allow the DNR to make exceptions to the prohibition of new water use
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/16/2026 - House Health & Human Services
House Health & Human Services Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- For men, the cost for this is relatively low, but for women it can be prohibitive.
- Senate Bill 1813 requires the Arizona State Hospital to admit patients based on clinical need and prohibits
- Senate Bill 1095, effective April 1, 2027, establishes prohibitions on gender transition procedures and
- However, House Bill 2085 included prohibitions for using public monies to pay for these procedures, and
- Every single one of us should have been protected, and now we deserve to be compensated for suffering
Summary:
The committee heard several bills related largely to Arizona’s behavioral health and Access system, plus a fertility coverage mandate, a state hospital admissions bill, and a naturopathic scope-of-practice bill. SB 1114 would appropriate $1 million to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for investigations into behavioral health patient brokering; the sponsor described ongoing fraud involving vulnerable Native American patients, while some members questioned why the Attorney General was not handling the work. The bill passed 10-1 with one present. SB 1116 would require claim denials and appeal determinations for American Indian Health Program behavioral health services to be reviewed by someone with at least two years of relevant clinical experience; Access said it was neutral but raised concerns about vague language and added staffing needs, and the bill passed 7-4 with one present. SB 1346 would require Access to notify providers of claim deficiencies within 72 hours and approve or deny corrected claims within 10 business days; supporters said it would reduce long delays and unpaid claims, while Access said it would need more staff and system changes. The bill passed 7-5.
The committee also approved SB 1347, which requires insurance coverage for fertility preservation services for cancer patients of reproductive age whose treatment is likely to cause infertility, with a religious-employer exemption. Supporters, including cancer survivors and an advocacy representative, said the bill protects patients who must make rapid decisions before treatment begins; insurers were neutral. The bill passed unanimously 12-0. SB 1813 would require the Arizona State Hospital to admit patients based on clinical need rather than county of residence, effectively ending the Maricopa County cap tied to the Arnold v. Sarn settlement. Supporters argued the cap leaves seriously ill patients waiting in other facilities for long periods, while ADHS warned of possible litigation and rural access concerns; the bill passed 9-2 with one present.
Finally, the committee began hearing SB 1178, which would allow naturopathic physicians to administer certain antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals intravenously. The sponsor argued naturopaths should be able to practice to the full scope of their training amid physician shortages, while the Arizona Medical Association and osteopathic representatives opposed the bill, saying IV antimicrobials are high-risk therapies that require hospital-level training, monitoring, and stewardship. Testimony focused on patient safety, appropriate setting, and whether the bill should be narrowed or amended; no vote on SB 1178 was taken in the portion provided.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Rules and Administration - 01/30/26
Rules and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- shirts, those staff provided from the Department of Public Safety, would be or could be the cost compensation
- would be or or could be the<00:21:41.919><c> the</c><00:21:42.240><c> cost</c><00:21:42.640><c> compensation
- </c><00:21:43.200><c> could</c><00:21:43.440><c> come</c> the the cost compensation could come the the
- cost compensation could come from<00:21:43.840><c> the</c><00:21:44.000><c> DPS</c><00:21:44.640><c>
- references that letter and the protocols for the Senate chamber, including security scanners and the prohibition
Committee:
Senate Rules and Administration
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 04/04/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- appreciate and look forward to working with you on, including funding for the elk and wolf depredation compensation
- funding for the elk and wolf including funding for the elk and wolf depradation<00:21:59.600><c> compensation
- /c><00:22:00.720><c> uh</c><00:22:01.039><c> account,</c><00:22:01.840><c> our</c> depradation compensation
- uh account, our depradation compensation uh account, our meat<00:22:02.400><c> inspection</c><00:22:
- But our license rules that we use in order to approve a license would prohibit you from working in a
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- to prohibit the left from destroying Americans' rights.
- My home state of Florida already prohibits this type of surveillance.
- My home state of Florida already prohibits this type of surveillance.
- My home state of Florida already prohibits this type of surveillance.
- My home state of Florida already prohibits this type of surveillance.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- We worked a great deal with stakeholders on the compensation matrix and how it needed to reflect the.
- matrix and how it needed to reflect the We worked a great deal with stakeholders on the compensation
- In the compensation matrix, we talked a lot about the market rate for grazing season and calendar year
- We talked a lot about injured livestock compensation.
- And how to compensate for sale at a reduced price and how to help pay for the cost of veterinary care
Committee:
House Agricultural Affairs
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 7th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I would scrap the patient compensation fund. I'll show you why.
- The second thing I'd do is scrap your patient compensation fund.
- Well, because the patient compensation fund is slow.
- So if that is the purpose of the compensation...
- There are eight states with patient compensation funds.