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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Divided testimony will be limited to five minutes, and we'll have a public testimony limit of two minutes
  • But when we know that we're dealing with DEI discrimination issues in terms of private causes of effective
  • Right now, county employees in Texas have limited options when facing major family issues.
  • law, which are... across the board to all entities under sunset review and updates board members' terms
  • The Texas Education Code currently places limits on severance pay for ISD superintendents, but those
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • One is, just as my colleague over here said, we are concerned that the bill will have limited impact
  • Efficacy in the short term does not negate the need for rigorous scrutiny of long-term consequences.
  • There's also a tremendous lack of long-term safety data, which we've learned in the past is critically
  • an elderly lady who got a COVID shot, which is modified RNA, a new technology that we have no long-term
  • Doctor, how are we going to get limited, how are we going to get longitudinal studies if we ban this
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part I) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Each public testimony will be limited to two minutes total to speak on the bills we are taking up today
  • Noble, relates to training required or offered by the Health and Human Services Commission for long-term
  • It addresses unnecessary, outdated training placed on long-term care facility surveyors.
  • uninsured, and a rural hospital support grant to help hospitals continue operations and build long-term
  • And so that's the only thing with this limited service plan and they are under bond conditions.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services met with a quorum and took up several House and Senate bills, with public testimony limited to two minutes per witness. The committee first heard HB 2358, a cleanup bill requested by HHSC that would repeal outdated training and conference requirements for long-term care facility surveyors and certain providers; there were no witnesses, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard HB 18, the rural hospital stabilization bill, which would create financial assessment tools, a rural hospital finance office at HHSC, an academy for rural hospital officers, multiple grant programs, enhanced Medicaid reimbursement tied to average cost, OB/GYN add-on payments, expanded pediatric telehealth connectivity, and a rural pediatric mental health program. Senator Perry and witnesses from TORCH, a rural hospital, AARP Texas, and ARCHI strongly supported the bill as a way to stabilize rural hospitals, improve OB access, and address workforce and financial pressures. Committee members discussed rural hospital closures, low-volume quality metrics, system affiliation, and the need for predictable monthly reimbursement; the bill was left pending after testimony and questions. The committee next heard HB 37, which would create a perinatal bereavement care initiative for families experiencing stillbirth, neonatal death, or intrauterine fetal demise, including counseling, staff training, and access to cooling devices, with possible grants and a recognition program for hospitals. Senator Huffman explained the bill, and several witnesses testified in support, sharing personal stories about infant loss and the importance of time with the baby, trained staff, and cuddle cots or similar devices. A neonatologist also supported the bill while suggesting clarification that hospitals should not be penalized if state funding is unavailable and recommending use of regional advisory councils to help implement training. Public testimony was then closed and the bill left pending. The committee also heard HB 879, which would create a streamlined licensing pathway for veterans with medical or nursing experience to practice in Texas, and HB 913, which would add new state hospitals to statute and split the North Texas State Hospital into two separate hospitals with their own superintendents; both bills had no opposition testimony and were left pending. Later, the committee heard SB 2744, a heart disease screening bill that would update the 2009 Texas Heart Attack Prevention Act to require insurance coverage for coronary CT angiography with plaque analysis, including soft plaque detection, as a preventive screening tool. The author and invited witnesses argued the technology is more effective than calcium scoring alone, can identify patients before symptoms appear, and could save lives at a cost comparable to or lower than colonoscopy. An insurance industry witness opposed the bill, arguing the technology has not been recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for universal screening and that the mandated coverage and payment level would raise costs; the bill was left pending after testimony. Finally, the committee heard HB 1151, a parental rights bill clarifying that refusing psychotropic medication or psychiatric treatment is not neglect unless the child is harmed. Supporters, including parent advocates and attorneys, said the bill would protect parents from CPS overreach and preserve medical decision-making authority, while one witness urged broader attention to physical causes of behavioral issues. Public testimony was closed and HB 1151 was left pending.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Apr 8th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • In fact, the only rules applying to them limits how contracts between referral agencies and assisted
  • Secondly, Texas needs to set an upper limit on how long a referral agency can track a lead or own a lead
  • as SSCCs are meeting the state standards and in compliance with DFPS policies, state law, and the terms
  • 18 months before incentives and remedies kick in around their performance outcomes, and that that limit
  • Oh yeah, it was 3 terms I took off from this committee.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 8th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • In fact, the only rules applying to them limit how contracts between referral agencies and assisted living
  • Secondly, Texas needs to set an upper limit on how long a referral agency can track a lead or own a lead
  • DFPS evaluates their performance on an ongoing basis, yet they have limited options when SSCCs are not
  • It was those three terms I took off from this committee.
  • So, I just want to make sure since it's by a client, is that a broad enough term?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 8th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • As a reminder, testimony from each individual will be limited to a specified time.
  • Each witness will be limited to two minutes, and we will save questions for the end of each panel.
  • We believe that for someone who has a long-term disability, has been on SSI for years and years, they
  • services. supports, and in terms of an intentional gap in coverage that could potentially jeopardize
  • And do you have those people flagged in your system as long-term recipients?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 7th, 2025 at 03:30 pm

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • In terms of the research and in terms of your experience, my understanding is if you do the test trial
  • There are no long-term studies regarding whether these products are safe for humans and what the long-term
  • This is not a situation where we have long-term studies or long-term tests.
  • This is not where you have long-term studies or long-term tests like a drug type of trial that is requested
  • And you have certain limitations.
Summary: The meeting of the public health committee focused on the pressing issue of opioid addiction in Texas, with a particular emphasis on House Bill 3717. Chairman Harris detailed the bill's intent to fund a grant program for Ibogaine clinical trials, framing it as a critical response to the ongoing opioid crisis. He shared poignant testimonies highlighting the struggles of families and veterans battling addiction and mental health issues. The conversation underscored the necessity of innovative treatments, like Ibogaine, which showed promising results in studies for reducing symptoms of withdrawal and PTSD.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

04/28/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • And what we have is some limited changes to the baseline budget moving forward.
  • But ultimately, in terms of implementing the lump sum reduction, it would be up to education in terms
  • One is: does that deduction have an income limit?
  • One is: does that deduction have an income limit?
  • I believe it's subject to 165% off the top of my head of income limits.
Summary: The committee met in a special joint appropriations session to review the FY 2027 budget package, including House Bill 4138 and Senate Bill 1831, the general appropriations or “feed” bills. Staff described the budget as including a one-time transfer of state funds, a 5% lump-sum reduction to most agencies’ discretionary general-fund budgets, continued funding for the state health insurance plan and school facilities, and various one-time restorations or reversions of prior appropriations. Members spent much of the meeting clarifying how the 5% reductions would work, noting that formula and mandatory funding such as K-12 basic aid are excluded, while the governor’s executive branch would decide how to implement the cuts within agencies. The chair repeatedly emphasized that the committee was not specifying line-item cuts and that agencies would have discretion over implementation. A large portion of the discussion focused on the practical effects of the budget on universities, public safety, health care, rural programs, and fund sweeps. Arizona Board of Regents and university representatives said the proposed reductions would amount to more than $85 million statewide and could affect programs such as the Arizona Promise Program, Teachers Academy, and tuition freezes, though no specific program cuts were written into the bill. Other testimony raised concerns about fund sweeps from encumbered balances, including university research funds, housing trust funds, utility regulation funds, and ADOT-related accounts, with some members warning about possible impacts on rural infrastructure and federal matching dollars. The committee also discussed the state employee health plan, including a $228 million general-fund infusion and proposed employee premium increases over three years, as well as questions about corrections, forestry and fire management, and rural critical access hospitals. Public testimony was largely opposed to the budget. Speakers from Opportunity Arizona, the Arizona Board of Regents, health care, and local government argued that the package would reduce support for education, housing, SNAP, health care access, and rural communities while preserving tax benefits for data centers and wealthy taxpayers. A mayor from Globe described severe flood damage and asked for state help for a flood relief fund, while a motorcycle safety advocate questioned a proposed transfer from the motorcycle safety fund. Committee members debated whether the budget’s effects should be described as speculative or as likely consequences of the broad cuts, and several exchanges became contentious over comparisons to the Great Recession and references to federal tax policy. The meeting ended with continued public testimony and no final vote taken in the portion provided, though leadership had earlier said the committee planned a mass roll-call vote on all the bills at the end.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

TRS-EIG, TRS Public Hearings 02-05-2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • And over time, we can build long-term habits such as lifelong transit use.
  • <00:56:34.799> your written testimony or limit your written testimony or limit your testimony
  • limitations for those protrusions. limitations for those protrusions.
  • In terms of uh the failure to covered.
  • We're time limited here.
Summary: The committees heard testimony on several transportation-related measures. SB 2356, relating to parking, drew support from the Office of Planning, the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Appleseed Center, Realtors, and the Hawaii Bicycling League. Members discussed the bill in the context of the planned stadium-area mixed-use development, with questions about whether parking would be built in structures rather than as large surface lots. Senators expressed support and noted the measure’s broader housing and parking-reduction goals, but no vote was taken during the hearing. The bulk of the hearing focused on SB 2699, which would create a fare-free youth transit program, a special fund, annual evaluations, and appropriations tied to the environmental, energy, and food security tax. The Attorney General’s office raised technical concerns about whether the special fund met statutory requirements. The Department of Education and Department of Health supported the bill, as did the City and County of Honolulu DOT, Appleseed Center, Hawaii Youth Transportation Council, Public Health Institute, Hawaii Children’s Action Network, Hawaii Bicycling League, Our Children’s Trust, and numerous youth testifiers. Supporters emphasized reduced family transportation costs, better school attendance, improved health and mobility, and environmental benefits. One senator raised emergency-planning concerns about how children using free transit would be handled during events like tsunamis; DOT and DOE responded that emergency procedures are being developed. The chair said the committee would work on language changes, including a delayed effective date to July 2027, and defer decision-making until the 12th. The final measure discussed was SB 2470, which would require leading pedestrian intervals, accessible pedestrian signals, and other safety improvements at state-controlled intersections, and create a process for community requests for accessible pedestrian signals. Appleseed Center, the Hawaii Association of the Blind, and the Disability Rights Center supported the bill, citing pedestrian safety, reduced collisions, and the need for audible cues for blind and low-vision pedestrians. Testifiers urged a phased-in approach that prioritizes high-traffic intersections. The hearing ended with the bill still under consideration and no final vote announced.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House State Government Committee Feb 4th, 2026

State Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill also addresses fraud prevention and transaction limits.
  • In that first 30 days, it limits you to only depositing $1,000 at a time.
  • Existing customers, anyone that's beyond the 30-day, they're limited 10,500 per day.
  • This bill also addresses fraud prevention and transaction limits.
  • In that first 30 days, it limits you to only depositing $1,000 at a time.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 1st, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • We limit public testimony to two minutes per witness.
  • So, witnesses, if we can limit the testimony as much as possible...
  • That established regulations provide long-term certainty.
  • Communities, slowing economic growth, and limiting infrastructure development.
  • They introduce long-term cost savings and reduced insurance risks.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 1st, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • Public testimony will be limited to two minutes.
  • Local regulations governing short-term rentals in cities are expressly allowed to extend those regulations
  • Additionally, political subdivisions may limit the square footage of ADUs.
  • We suggest limiting applicability to cities with a population of less than 150,000. would ensure growing
  • We can guarantee transportation access by geographic... limiting applicability to properties within one
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Public Safety Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Additionally, all of the testifiers who have signed up in advance have been provided with a time limit
  • Please adhere to these time limits. We are short on time and we have a lot of bills.
  • The proposal here, in our opinion, punishes the compliant because currently, if you violate the terms
  • Just to let you know, we are on a very tight schedule, so we're limiting time.
  • This has huge implications in terms of law enforcement and mental health partnerships.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Public Safety Finance and Policy

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  • <01:08:29.080> of really good implications in terms of really good implications in terms of
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Does this bill set any outer limit on how long after driving a chemical test may be taken and still be
  • And if they're evicting someone that is not making proper payment, limiting the times that they can do
  • Identification for who's renting a short-term rental and who's actually showing up.
  • And so, I understand, and maybe I and I'm certain that my colleague knows the term, but I think that
  • special law is a a term of art where you provide a specific benefit to one identified organization.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're going to limit that to two minutes apiece.
  • And I apologize for the time limitations, but that's the best that we have in this situation.
  • Um, again, recognizing that we've got limited time, two minutes for you, sir.
  • I know, and I apologize again, being limited to two minutes is difficult, but thank you for coming.
  • Adams. with us but just with limited time we've with us but just with limited time we've got<00:21:50.640
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session May 2nd, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate amendment and concerning waste facilities which limits its application to Miami-Dade and does
  • Neither the Hope operator nor school district has carte blanche to dictate terms of the agreement.
  • Since the language located in lines 572 through 582 expands it for a co-location simply on the terms
  • In terms of Section 29 on the mathematics endorsement, what does that look like in terms of if I am an
  • I just want to acknowledge and I am not in opposition to limitations on cell phones.
Bills: HJR 138, HB 42, HB 104, HB 129, HB 677, HB 426, HB 668, HB 1699, HB 2017, HB 2128, HB 2038, HB 3783, HB 3717, HB 2316, HB 3686, HB 2563, HB 3883, HB 4021, HB 2788, HB 2663, HB 3305, HB 3173, HB 3474, HB 1105, HB 3531, HB 3490, HB 3597, HB 1295, HB 3512, HB 3010, HB 3112, HB 4215, HB 3223, HB 3464, HB 3120, HB 4214, HB 4511, HB 3704, HB 4081, HB 4783, HB 4063, HB 2783, HB 4937, HB 5085, HB 2510, HB 3426, HB 4361, HB 1169, HB 2516, HB 2347, HB 4034, HB 4700, HB 3560, HB 5150, HB 3860, HB 3146, HB 3924, HCR 98, HCR 92, HB 1520, HB 1545, HB 5265, HB 1887, HB 1914, HB 2402, HB 2306, HB 2350, HB 3000, HB 3237, HB 3326, HB 3211, HB 1056, HB 2081, HB 2187, HB 3092, HB 3308, HB 3526, HB 3750, HB 4219, HB 4230, HB 4290, HB 5238, HB 4804, HB 4749, HB 245, HB 1465, HB 294, HB 793, HB 809, HB 3928, HB 334, HB 2037, HB 1973, HB 285, HB 4341, HB 1043, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 1729, HB 2498, HB 1314, HB 1353, HB 3960, HB 3923, HB 2221, HB 2517, HB 2518, HB 2213, HB 5092, HB 3748, HB 5246, HB 4344, HB 1482, HB 4044, HB 2702, HB 4264, HB 2807, HB 2898, HB 3181, HB 3250, HB 2091, HB 2115, HB 2542, HB 2768, HB 3349, HB 4406, HB 1593, HB 1899, HB 3133, HB 3133, HB 4960, HB 3214, HB 2145, HB 1201, HB 5061, SB 29, SB 879, SB 65, SB 1745, SB 412, SB 412, SB 1746, SB 1238, SB 1341, SB 522, SB 1532, SB 1378, SB 1062, SB 2066, SB 1963, SB 2204, SB 1366, SB 2077, SB 1967, SB 1151, HB 1618, HB 2156, HB 2615, HB 2615, HB 2349, HB 1926, HB 569, HB 1762, HB 38, HJR 138, HB 42, HB 104, HB 104, HB 129, HB 677, HB 426, HB 668, HB 1699, HB 2017, HB 2128, HB 2038, HB 3783, HB 3717, HB 2316, HB 3686, HB 2563, HB 3883, HB 4021, HB 2788, HB 2663, HB 2663, HB 3305, HB 3173, HB 3474, HB 1105, HB 3531, HB 3531, HB 3490, HB 3490, HB 3597, HB 1295, HB 3512, HB 3010, HB 3112, HB 4215, HB 3223, HB 3223, HB 3464, HB 3120, HB 4214, HB 4511, HB 3704, HB 4081, HB 4783, HB 4063, HB 2783, HB 4937, HB 5085, HB 2510, HB 3426, HB 4361, HB 1169, HB 2516, HB 2347, HB 4034, HB 4700, HB 3560, HB 5150, HB 3860, HB 3146, HB 3924, HCR 98, HCR 92