Video & Transcript Research : 'data reliability'
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KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Education (1-25-24)
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Education (1-18-24)
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Governor's Budget Hearing (11/30/22)
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
JDC DEFER Public Hearing 10-19-2022 10:30am
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
JDC Public Hearing 08-18-2022 11:00am
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
GVR Public Hearing - Wed Feb 9, 2022 @ 9:30AM HST
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
COMMITTEE ON CORRECTIONS, MILITARY, & VETERANS - Thursday, January 14, 2021 2PM
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Committee on Finance - Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:30PM
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Committee on Finance - Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:00AM
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Committee on Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Jan 7th, 2021
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
HI
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 12/9/20 1pm
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 12/4/20 2pm
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
HI
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 11/13/20 1:00pm
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Committee on Transportation 10/28/20 1pm Room 016
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 10/9/20 1:00pm
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- If you go on to the Energy and Environment website, there's a data portal that shows all those tools
- So this data is on the way.
- So we get the data first, recommendations on how to do it. This plan is saying go ahead full speed.
- Do you have any data or any number from the actual testing about what that number might be?
- those half a million are being exposed, the data we do have is alarming.
Summary:
The hearing covered a broad set of environmental and water-related bills, with much of the testimony focused on blue economy and circular economy proposals, drought management, drinking water safety, flood resilience, and water infrastructure funding. Supporters of bills such as H. 987 and H. 988 described grant programs for blue economy workforce development, research, small businesses, and public education about a circular economy. Other speakers backed measures on coastal erosion research, recreational boating dredging, cranberry water-right transfers, sand mining oversight, and a voucher program for home water filtration in PFAS-impacted communities. Several elected officials and advocates also urged passage of bills to require private well testing, improve school drinking water safety, and address sand mining pollution and PFAS contamination.
Water supply and drought issues drew extensive testimony. Senator Eldridge and others supported legislation to let the state, through DEP and the drought management task force, impose regional water-use restrictions during droughts and make the task force permanent in statute. Advocates from watershed groups, farms, and environmental organizations said the current town-by-town approach is inconsistent and ineffective, and they described drought impacts on rivers, farms, private wells, and wildfire risk. A related bill on private wells was supported as a way to help homeowners test and remediate contaminated wells, especially in rural areas without public water.
The committee also heard testimony on a bill to allow the Lynnfield Water District to join the MWRA, with local officials saying the move would help address PFAS and other contamination and improve supply reliability. Another major panel supported a water infrastructure funding bill, arguing that aging drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need major new investment, including support for PFAS treatment, sewer rate relief, biosolids research, and regional interconnections. Members asked about costs, funding sources, and the relationship to existing revolving loan funds; witnesses said the bill would need to be paired with future bond funding and new revenue ideas. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chairs repeatedly invited written testimony and noted the large number of speakers.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee BR Sub. on Justice, Public Safety, & Judiciary (3-4-25)
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The subcommittee met to discuss the guardian ad litem system, including appointment qualifications, training, payment, and whether any changes are needed. Roll was called, the February 25, 2025 minutes were approved, and the chair emphasized that the meeting was informational only and no vote would be taken. Representatives from the Court of Justice, including Chief Justice Deborah Henry Lambert and several family and district judges, testified about how the system has evolved since concerns raised in 2019 about overappointment and fees.
Court witnesses said the judiciary responded to earlier concerns by requiring open appointment lists of trained and qualified attorneys, improving training, and increasing oversight of fee orders. They reported that statewide GAL fees have fallen from a little over $14 million in 2019 to about $12 million, even as caseloads have grown, and said the average payment works out to about $650 per case, with the statutory cap for trial-level GAL fees still set at $500 since 1986. They argued that the current local appointment model works well, especially in rural areas, and warned that moving to a DPA-style regional model would create serious scheduling and conflict problems because of overlapping dockets and related criminal cases.
Judges from rural districts described shortages of available attorneys, high burnout, travel burdens, and the difficulty of finding enough counsel in smaller counties. They also said the Court of Justice cannot seek certain federal Title IV-E reimbursements, but urged the legislature to encourage the Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to pursue that funding through an MOU. One judge noted that some appointed attorneys are effectively underpaid relative to private rates and that better compensation would help attract and retain lawyers.
The discussion also covered training standards adopted after the 2019 audit. Witnesses said Rule 37 now requires initial training and four hours of multidisciplinary continuing training every two years, with topics including child development, trauma-informed care, substance use, child welfare, forensics, ethics, and communication with clients. They said the Court of Justice has offered in-person regional trainings and remote options, and that the goal is to keep qualified attorneys on the appointment lists while improving representation for children and parents in dependency, neglect, abuse, and termination-of-parental-rights cases.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Dec 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- For data centers, though increasingly controversial for their energy demands and water use, data centers
- And in the case of data centers, they create a lot.
- And in the case of data centers, they create a lot.
- Data Center Watch recently reported that $64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or
- So data centers are getting quite a bit of pushback.
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes from its fourth meeting, held October 27-28 in Santa Fe, with Representative Duncan moving approval and no opposition. The chair then introduced a panel on the cost of providing medical care in New Mexico, focusing on physician shortages, rising practice costs, and access problems, especially in southern New Mexico and Las Cruces. Panelists included family physicians, a pediatrician, a cardiologist/electrophysiologist, and a community health center medical director, who described their backgrounds and practices before turning to the policy discussion.
The doctors argued that New Mexico is losing physicians because of three main pressures: medical malpractice exposure, gross receipts tax on medical services, and low Medicaid reimbursement. They said malpractice premiums are much higher than in neighboring states, punitive damages and venue shopping increase risk, and the patient compensation fund and attorney fee structure create additional costs. They also described administrative burdens from insurance billing and referrals, the high debt and long training period for physicians, and the effect of corporate medicine and private equity on practice decisions. One panelist emphasized the economic impact of each physician on jobs and local spending, while another noted that shortages force patients into emergency rooms and delay specialty care.
The panel presented a list of proposed solutions: reform punitive damages, limit venue shopping and stacking, restore lifetime medical payments from the patient compensation fund, enact apology protections, cap attorney fees, continue Medicaid funding improvements, and eliminate gross receipts tax on medical and dental services. Committee members generally agreed the presentation was thorough and useful, but several noted that some proposals fall outside this committee’s jurisdiction and would likely need to move through other committees, especially judiciary and tax. Some members supported drafting legislation or working on separate bills, while others urged caution, requested more input from hospitals and economists, and raised concerns about local government revenue impacts from GRT changes. The chair concluded by encouraging members to continue discussions offline and noted that the tax-related issue would be taken up further in the next day’s work.