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NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Education (04/02/2025)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • 667 to the Health Education. Thank you.
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  • </c><00:24:18.480><c> sexuality</c> uninformed sexual educ sexuality uninformed sexual educ sexuality
  • </c> consistent with department of education consistent with department of education requirements<00:
  • </c><00:31:24.840><c> yes</c> areas um related to sex education yes areas um related to sex education
Committee: Senate Education
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Mar 26th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • MAY WE RESPOND TO HATRED WITH LOVE, IGNORANCE WITH EDUCATION, AND DIVISION WITH UNITY.
  • By Education and Employment Committee, Education Administration. ...Subcommittee and Representative Kendall
  • I would like to thank... ...Clara Edwards and all the parents from St.
  • AS AN EDUCATOR, I OFTEN SAY WHEN PEOPLE KNOW BETTER, THEY DO BETTER.
  • WHEN I THINK OF SO MANY PARENTS, LIKE SABRINA, THE PARENTS FROM PARKLAND, AND SO MANY OTHERS, I KNOW
Summary: The Florida House convened for regular business, with Speaker Perez announcing historic budget plans including the largest state tax cut in Florida history - a permanent 0.75% sales tax reduction from 6% to 5.25%, saving Floridians nearly $5 billion annually. The House will propose a budget lower than both the Governor's proposal and last year's budget. Several bills passed including Lucy's Law (boating safety), water access facilities funding, municipal utility rate corrections, hazardous walking conditions for schools, and medical malpractice 'Free Kill Law' repeal. The controversial firearm purchase age bill (HB 759) passed 78-34, lowering the minimum age from 21 to 18, despite emotional opposition citing the Parkland shooting. Other bills addressed cursive writing instruction, peer support for first responders, and government sunset reviews. Multiple veto override motions were approved unanimously, reinstating funding for veterans programs and infrastructure projects.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Mar 23rd, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to the Senate Education Committee.
  • Parents have a natural duty to provide their children with a proper education, as evidenced by Ephesians
  • Parents have a natural duty to provide their children with a proper education, as evidenced by Ephesians
  • Constitution, the power to aid parents in providing children with a quality education is reserved for
  • parental authority, and fails to increase the quality of education nationwide, we ask you to see H.J.M
Committee: Senate Education
Keywords: 989, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 9th, 2025

Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Incarceration interferes with a kid's educational process.
  • Youth need quality education.
  • , because most kids are going to become parents.
  • I will be the first to say: higher education is not easy.
  • true partners in their children's education.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 80 Apr 1st, 2026

Idaho House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • protecting parents' rights.
  • doing the parents of this state any favors.
  • Appropriating money to the Public Schools Educational Support Programs, Division of Educational Services
  • monies to the Public Schools Educational Support Programs, Division of Educational Services for the
  • Education exempted themselves.
Summary: The House convened, completed roll call, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and approved the journal. It also received several communications, including gubernatorial notices of signed bills, Senate-enrolled bills for the Speaker’s signature, and committee reports enrolling or advancing various measures. House Bill 971, an appropriations bill for the Attorney General’s office, was introduced and later considered under suspension of the rules. The House also advanced several Senate bills and resolutions to second reading or enrollment, including bills on health and welfare, education, state affairs, and procurement-related matters. A major portion of the meeting focused on House Bill 822, as amended in the Senate, dealing with pediatric social transition and parental notification. Supporters said the bill clarified that state resources could not be used for social/sexual transition of children and emphasized parental rights and disclosure. Opponents argued it imposed overly punitive, potentially unconstitutional penalties, would chill teachers, health care workers, and child care providers, and would make Idaho more hostile to families and professionals. The House suspended the rules, debated the bill, and passed it 60-9; later, a motion to let one member change her vote failed after the Speaker ruled that House Rule 79 barred post-announcement vote changes without the required two-thirds support. The House also passed Senate Bill 1430 on firearms after debate over state preemption and local restrictions, and Senate Bill 1359, the virtual currency kiosk fraud prevention bill. Supporters of SB 1359 described widespread fraud involving crypto kiosks, especially targeting seniors, and said the bill would require operator registration, disclosures, fraud warnings, recordkeeping, and transaction limits for new users; opponents called it overbroad, intrusive, and a privacy concern. The bill passed 39-9. Senate Bill 1410, concerning Medicaid reimbursement updates for community health centers, also passed. Senate Concurrent Resolution 127, urging rejection of a proposed medical marijuana initiative, passed after debate over public safety, costs, and out-of-state influence versus arguments that patients with serious conditions should have access to medical cannabis. Senate Bill 1436, a procurement clarification bill, failed after concerns about broad administrative discretion and pending litigation. The House later recessed and returned to continue with additional Senate bills and appropriations measures.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c><00:20:33.240><c> for</c> and director of clinical education for and director of clinical education
  • In terms of nurse education and providing nurse education, there is hundreds or thousands of hours of
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  • </c><02:13:02.719><c> my</c> Rights my childhood my education my Rights my childhood my education my
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The House Committees on Health and Labor heard testimony on HB 1244, a measure relating to labor standards at health care facilities and nursing staff ratios. Committee members opened by explaining hearing procedures, including a suggested two-minute testimony limit and Zoom rules. The bill drew extensive testimony from hospitals, nursing organizations, unions, and individual nurses, with the central debate focusing on whether staffing ratios should be set by statute or left to collective bargaining and unit-level staffing decisions. Opponents included the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Straub Benioff Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, Kapiolani Medical Center, and Queen’s Health Systems. They argued that fixed ratios are too rigid for the changing conditions of hospital care, could worsen workforce shortages, and should be handled through labor negotiations, staffing committees, and existing agreements. Several also pointed to investments in nursing education, loan repayment, and workforce development as better solutions. Queen’s said it had recently reached an agreement with nurses after more than 40 meetings that included a staffing framework, and Kapiolani and others emphasized the need for flexibility in emergencies and specialty care. Supporters, including the Hawaii State Center for Nursing, Pride at Work Hawaii, the Hawaii Nurses Association/American Nurses Association chapter, Hawaii Nurses Association Local 50, UNAC/UHCP, and individual nurses, said unsafe staffing levels contribute to burnout, turnover, errors, and patient harm. Testifiers described chronic short staffing, emotionally and physically exhausting workloads, and situations in which nurses were responsible for too many patients at once. Supporters argued that safe ratios are necessary to protect both patients and nurses, and that collective bargaining has not been enough to ensure safe conditions statewide, especially in facilities without unions. No vote or final committee action was announced in the portion provided.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House State Government Committee Jan 14th, 2026

State Government

Transcript Highlights:
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  • ><c> own</c> parents actually replace parents' own parents actually replace parents' own decision-m<00
  • Parents, there's tools out there for parents. Guess what? I'm a good parent.
  • Uh, parents, there's tools out there for parents. Guess what? I'm a good parent.
  • Parents need to be engaged.
Bills: HB69 , HB114 , HB161 , HB69 , HB114 , HB161
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Is that in the Education Code?
  • About special education dollars.
  • For special education students coming not only from the designated special education dollars, but also
  • Yes, the Department of Education does have contact with many Local Education Agencies (LEAs) who are
  • That brings more connections with parents, particularly if you have a parent resource center.
Keywords: 988, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Human Services - 02/03/25

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • > and</c> is to educate and train parents and is to educate and train parents and families<00:03:45.879
  • As a parent, she said she is curious why DHS was so slow to move for years when so many parents were
  • Minnesota Department of Education.
  • Miss Osman, welcome back to our committee. and Etc as a parent and Advocate I and Etc as a parent and
  • </c> children are receiving an education children are receiving an education families<00:39:58.440><c
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We no longer say things like non-custodial parent and custodial parent.
  • We speak to parents using their names.
  • There's always issues that come up with, you know, the parent who's not the supportive parent, who's
  • funds from the biological parent.
  • The California Parent and Youth Helpline has provided vital emotional support to parents, children, and
Keywords: 988, house, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • Some parents were brought to tears as they gave testimony because they felt that our commitment to education
  • Some parents were brought to tears as they gave testimony because they felt that our commitment to education
  • Some parents were brought to tears as they gave testimony because they felt that our commitment to education
  • Some parents were brought to tears as they gave testimony because they felt that our commitment to education
  • Some parents were brought to tears as they gave testimony because they felt that our commitment to education
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee began by announcing that afternoon hearings, including House Bill 283, would be moved to Representatives Hall because of expected public interest. It then took up House Bill 671, which would establish a kindergarten literacy readiness program. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mark Pearson, described the measure as a way to close gaps in early reading readiness and said it was intended as a first step, with only a placeholder appropriation while details are developed. He framed it as a targeted effort to help children who are not entering first grade ready to read. Testimony on HB 671 was largely supportive. Representatives asked about the bill’s structure, whether a specific program had been identified, how it would interact with play-based learning, and why the provider was limited to a registered nonprofit. Waterford.org representatives Teresa Rosenberger and Rob Riley testified in support, describing Waterford Upstart as a home-based, evidence-based early learning program already used in New Hampshire. They said the program provides adaptive instruction, family coaching, and technology support, including computers, tablets, internet access, and translation services in more than 100 languages. They also said the model has been successful in New Hampshire, including a Nashua pilot and later statewide efforts, and that similar legislation has existed in other states. Rep. Jonah Wheeler also spoke in support of the bill. The chair then closed the hearing on HB 671. After a fiscal note for HB 671 was distributed, the committee moved to House Bill 781, which would require school districts to adopt policies for a cell phone-free education and includes an appropriation. The transcript cuts off as Rep. Litchfield was introduced to testify on that bill, so no testimony, debate, or vote on HB 781 is included in the excerpt.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committee first heard HCR 96, which encourages the University of Hawaiʻi to evaluate and expand student mental health services. University of Hawaiʻi Associate Vice President Farah Marie Gomes testified in support and noted the system’s mental health and basic-needs efforts across all 10 campuses. Members discussed staffing and funding constraints, including that the system had 27 adult mental health positions, 21 filled and six vacant, with one vacancy open for about four years. The resolution was adopted unanimously, unamended. The committee then took up several gubernatorial appointments. GM 785 nominated Wendo Hensel to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), and GM 784 nominated Terry George to the same body. Both nominees testified about the value of Hawaiʻi’s participation in WICHE; Hensel emphasized the importance of sharing policy ideas and best practices, while George highlighted Hawaiʻi’s unique higher education needs and the benefits of learning from other western states. Both nominations were supported and moved forward. The committee also considered multiple appointments to the Hawaiʻi Commission for National and Community Service. Kylie Alakard described wanting to serve as a youth voice and role model, and Ray Galas spoke about his prior volunteer board experience and desire to help people connect through service. Sandra Larson said volunteerism and community service were important to her and that she wanted to give back. The committee then heard GM 771 and GM 772 for Ken Kawahara to the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaiʻi; Kawahara said he would bring business and government experience to help with internal operations, education, and strategic goals, though he acknowledged he was still learning the organization’s details. Members also began hearing GM 624 for Joshua Famuina to the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents, with student caucus testimony in strong support emphasizing his attendance, communication, and engagement with students.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

04/16/2026 - Senate Floor Session

Arizona Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator, I was not in education committee. I listened to some of the video.
  • I was not in education committee.
  • I move that the Education Committee amendment to HB 2621 be adopted. Very good.
  • I move that the Education Committee amendment, as amended, be adopted. Thank you, sir.
  • I was under public education. Here, third reading, House Bill 2621.
Summary: The Senate convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, recorded attendance, approved the journal, and received routine communications from the governor and House. The body then moved into Committee of the Whole to consider several House bills, including HB 2369 on photo-enforcement traffic citations, HB 2423 on advanced math course enrollment, HB 2481 on school district financial records, HB 2621 on access to special education in public schools, and HB 2756 on public utilities and high-load factor customers. Each of these bills received amendments and were advanced with do pass recommendations. Members discussed HB 2423 at length, with supporters saying it would better identify high-achieving students for advanced math while critics argued the larger issue was funding and teacher shortages. HB 2756 also drew debate over data centers, utility reporting, and ratepayer impacts, but was amended and advanced. The Committee of the Whole then rose and reported its recommendations, which the Senate adopted. The Senate also adopted a proclamation supporting stronger Arizona and U.S. relations with Taiwan, and welcomed Taiwan’s Director General Jason Poyon Ma. The chamber calendared HB 2192 for additional Committee of the Whole consideration, adopted a Bolick amendment clarifying that telecom and broadband providers are not included in the definition of online hosting platform, and advanced the bill as amended. Later, the Senate took up third-reading votes on multiple measures, including HB 2249, HB 2482, HB 2641, HB 2661, HB 2662, HB 2673, HB 2745, HB 2752, HB 2895, HB 2923, and several House concurrent memorials on foreign ownership, endangered species, and related federal policy. Most passed, though several senators explained no votes on grounds such as budget concerns, policy objections, or opposition to limiting testimony or subpoena enforcement authority. At the end of the session, the Senate also passed HB 2369, HB 2423, HB 2481, HB 2621, HB 2756, HB 2192, and other listed bills by recorded roll call, with final vote totals announced for each. The Committee of the Whole report was adopted, bills were properly assigned, and committee announcements were made for the following Monday. The Senate then adjourned until Monday, April 20, 2026 at 1:15 p.m.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 23rd, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Remember, we want to make for education as put for our students deserve an education.
  • I am a business education IT Academy teacher testifying in opposition.
  • That happens because of belief in public education.
  • That happens because of belief in public education.
  • We also treat and provide wraparound services to the parents or dyad.
Summary: The committee held a public hearing on the Senate operating budget proposal, beginning with a staff briefing from James Kettle. He described the budget as built on relatively flat revenue after multiple forecast updates, with substantial mandatory cost growth, especially in Health Care Authority, DSHS, and DCYF. He highlighted major policy-level additions and savings, including large tort liability costs, continued support for long-term services, reductions tied to child care and K-12 items, several assumed revenue bills, and major transfers from reserves and other accounts. Kettle also noted the four-year outlook remained positive overall, with about $1 billion ending fund balance in the final year and roughly $3 billion in total reserves. A committee member asked about a diagram showing the loss of federal funds, and staff said they would follow up. Public testimony then focused first on K-12 education, where school leaders, teachers, OSPI, PTA, and rural district representatives largely opposed the proposed cuts to local effort assistance, transition to kindergarten, bus depreciation, and related school funding items. Many argued the reductions would disproportionately harm rural and property-poor districts and weaken early learning access, while several students and educators spoke in favor of career and technical education and IT Academy funding. The committee also heard support for wildfire prevention funding from the Commissioner of Public Lands, who thanked the Senate for restoring those dollars but raised concerns about recreation program reductions. Higher education testimony was mixed but generally supportive of the Senate proposal compared with the governor’s budget. Community and technical college leaders warned that the budget still shifts compensation costs to tuition and reduces Running Start funding, while university representatives from Western, Eastern, Central, WSU, and UW thanked the committee for avoiding deeper cuts. Private vocational college students and administrators urged extension of Washington College Grant eligibility for students already enrolled, and others asked to preserve IT Academy and related certification funding. In early learning, child care and advocacy groups praised the decision not to cap Working Connections Child Care but warned that child care and transition to kindergarten still bear a disproportionate share of cuts; they also requested continued support for Dolly Parton Imagination Library and Pierce County early childhood programs, including Family Connects. The hearing continued with testimony on employee compensation, mental health, and human services. State employee and retiree groups supported the budget’s COLA and wildfire funding but objected to cuts in retiree health benefits. Behavioral health and public safety advocates supported mentoring, Trueblood-related funding, crisis stabilization, and the Recovery Navigator Program, while others opposed reductions to those programs and to community-based recovery services. In human services, witnesses thanked the committee for funding victim services, child welfare supports, health homes, adult day care, community health centers, energy assistance, and disability services, while urging the committee to avoid further reductions to skilled nursing, case management, and recovery navigation. No votes were taken during the hearing.
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

February 10, 2026 - 01:30 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • Parents are presumed guilty.
  • When a parent comes into the emergency room, When a parent comes into the emergency room, if they've
  • On the other hand, we have parents who are being impacted, parents of those children.
  • So I just want to thank you, thank the parents, and I know that his parents would say thank you to you
  • I think you can imagine what the worst case might be of a biological parent who's had their parental
Summary: The Health and Human Services Committee considered eight bills and reported all of them favorably, several as amended. HB 1347 on clinical laboratory personnel was presented as a response to staffing shortages in Florida labs; the sponsor and Quest Diagnostics supported aligning state licensure with CLIA standards to improve hiring and turnaround times. The bill passed 24-0. CS/HB 47, dealing with specific medical diagnoses in child protective investigations, drew extensive emotional testimony from parents and advocates who said children had been wrongly removed after misdiagnoses; the bill was amended to tighten timelines and record-sharing requirements, then passed 26-0. CS/HB 287 created a public records exemption for applicants, owners, operators, and references of family foster homes and passed unanimously. The committee also approved CS/HB 439, allowing chiropractors to inject vitamins and nutrients under training and safety limits, after an amendment clarified they may not prescribe prescription drugs; it passed 26-0. CS/HB 1021 would allow pharmacists to administer medications in trauma centers under physician direction, and an amendment added pediatric trauma centers; it passed 26-0. HB 867 would let occupational therapists perform dry needling after specified training and supervision, and it passed 25-0. HB 1309, which shortens deadlines for patients to access their medical records and aligns nursing home access rules with federal law, drew opposition from health information management groups over privacy and portal/data-security concerns, but supporters argued it simply speeds access to records; it passed 21-5. CS/HB 915 codifies and expands Medicaid eligibility protections for working people with disabilities so they can keep coverage while employed, with strong support from disability advocates and emotional testimony from the sponsor about her son’s benefits concerns; it passed 26-0. After these votes, the committee adjourned.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Feb 20th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So parents guide the meaning... ...of the content of any student's reflection.
  • So parents guide the meaning and the school simply provides the space.
  • It also reinforces parental authority.
  • And is there a parent opt-out for something like this? Representative.
  • Parent opt-out for something like this? Representative Scott. Mr.
Committee: House Education
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from February 16 and 17 without objection. It then heard House Bill 623, which would require a 60-second moment of silence at the beginning of each public school day. The sponsor and several supporters, including a rabbi, a pastor, a church representative, and a former teacher, argued that the bill is neutral, low-cost, and intended to promote calm, reflection, and better student behavior while protecting religious freedom and parental authority. Some members raised concerns about mandating the practice, local control, whether it could be seen as encouraging prayer, and how it would apply to late arrivals or charter schools. The sponsor said it would apply to public and charter schools but not private schools, and that students could silently read or pray if they wished. The committee passed HB 623 on a 10-4 roll call vote and sent it to the floor with a due pass recommendation. The committee then took up House Bill 728, a school funding and staffing definitions bill sponsored by Representative Church. She said the bill would clarify statutory definitions for instructional, administrative, classified, and per-pupil staff, and would move positions that are not directly instructing students into the administrative category, based on LSO review and Department of Education guidance. Supporters said the bill would improve transparency and accountability in how state education dollars are categorized and spent. Questions focused on how the new definitions would affect principals, superintendents, teacher-leaders, mentors, instructional coaches, and rural districts that split duties between teaching and administration. The Idaho Association of School Administrators testified in opposition, warning that the bill would reduce flexibility and could make instructional coaching unsustainable, especially in smaller districts with limited administrative allocations. Members debated whether to hold HB 728 for further clarification or move it forward. A substitute motion to hold the bill until February 27 failed on a 6-8 roll call. The committee then voted on the original motion to send HB 728 to the floor with a due pass recommendation, and that motion passed unanimously on the recorded vote.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Education Funding (03/04/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • EFA are payments to the parent.
  • The parent then can use those funds they receive from the state to pay for any qualified educational
  • Whatever educational expense the state pays, the parent then decides to pay somebody else.
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  • ><c> decides</c> pays the parent the parent then decides pays the parent the parent then decides to<03
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The executive session focused primarily on HB 563, which revises the school funding formula, especially the adequate education grant amounts for special education students and the treatment of fiscal capacity disparity aid. Representative Ladd moved OTPA on Amendment 06508, explaining that FY 26 would largely hold the current formula steady, while FY 27 would increase several per-pupil amounts, including base cost, free and reduced-price meals, English language learner aid, and special education differentiated aid. He said the special education change was based on estimated case loads across disability categories and that the amendment also reinstates fiscal capacity disparity aid, using a formula intended to better assist property-poor communities. Several members supported the amendment as a step in the right direction, saying it better recognizes special education costs and separates property wealth from low-income student counts. Others raised concerns about the lack of time and the absence of a printed spreadsheet showing how the fiscal capacity disparity aid would affect each town. In response, sponsors said the spreadsheet existed, that the LBA had copies, and that the amendment would help about 40 target towns, while Manchester would be the main community receiving less under the new formula because of prior shifts in the extraordinary needs grant. Discussion also covered the broader impact of the bill, with members noting that about 200 of the state’s 245 cities and towns would see an increase and 45 a decrease under the proposed FY 27 changes. Supporters argued the bill was a compromise given limited revenues and that it should move forward so it can be considered by the full House and then Finance. No final vote on the amendment or bill was taken in the portion provided, and the chair indicated the committee was still deciding whether it had enough information to proceed.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Jan 29th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • How do you groom the parents?
  • How do you groom the parents?
  • How do they build, how do they help build parental resilience?
  • We need parents to be doing their part. We need schools to be doing their part.
  • There was no disruption for kids, the parents, or the employers.
Keywords: 989, all
Summary: The committee met to hear presentations on possible uses of temporary Millennium Fund dollars for youth- and family-focused prevention programs. Members first approved the prior meeting minutes, then heard from the Idaho Children’s Trust Fund, which requested $682,000 for mid-sized grants to community organizations for child abuse prevention, parenting support, family resource centers, and school-based programs. The presenter emphasized the link between adverse childhood experiences and later substance use, and described the fund’s statewide grant-making process and current projects. Committee members asked about grant selection, funding sources, and how families are identified for services. The committee also heard from Children’s Bridge, which requested $3.5 million over four years to build a shared-services infrastructure for child care providers. The proposal focused on helping providers stabilize their businesses through software, coaching, shared purchasing, bookkeeping, and access to benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans. The presenter argued that child care is part of Idaho’s prevention infrastructure and said the model would transition toward earned income and employer support over time. Members asked about similar programs, infrastructure, and how the model would be sustained after 2029. Idaho Safety Assessment Centers requested $1 million to support 12 youth assessment centers that divert youth from court, ERs, and school discipline into screening, counseling, and family support. The presenter cited individual success stories and said the centers served more than 12,000 youth in a year, with an estimated return of more than $3 in benefits for every dollar invested. The committee also heard from the Idaho Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, which requested $3 million in one-time bridge funding for 10 centers that conduct forensic interviews and coordinate child abuse investigations; members asked about coordination with state agencies and sustainability. Ross Edmunds of the Department of Health and Welfare requested $150,000 for a 10th recovery community center in Kamiah, explaining that the department already oversees nine centers through quarterly payments and reporting requirements. Finally, Representative Jordan Redman proposed a $5 million statewide drug-use awareness campaign using research, surveys, and targeted media buys; he said the campaign would be evaluated through impressions, reach, and frequency. No decisions were made, and the chair said the committee would return later to continue reviewing the requests, noting the fund is one-time money and that the governor’s recommendations and a $25 million request reduce the amount available.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 46 Feb 26th, 2026

Idaho Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • In the House of Representatives, House Bill 728 by the Education Committee, an act relating to education
  • In the House of Representatives, Houseville 635 by Education Committee. Education Committee.
  • In the Senate, Senate Bill 1291 by the Education Committee, an act relating to education, relating to
  • In the Senate, Senate Bill 1288 by the Education Committee, an act relating to education to establish
  • In the Senate, Senate Bill 1288 by the Education Committee, an act relating to education to establish
Keywords: 989, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Commerce and Tourism Feb 4th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • , workforce education.
  • , education, to the colleges and universities and things like that.
  • You know, it's not normally part of education.
  • So it's a matter of exposure not just to the kids but to the parents.
  • It is to on the education and CTE pathways.
Keywords: 999, senate, all