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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Human Services - 03/04/26
Health and Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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to just work for businesses it needs to just work for businesses it needs to - maintenance, things like uh park needs maintenance, things like uh park needs and<01:13:08.320><
- ongoing needs that and other ongoing needs that infrastructure<01:13:10.800>
is <01:13:11.120> - But we do need to work in a later.
- We need to part of their moniker.
Keywords:
HF1587, Cass County, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, DNR, condemnation, eminent domain, state land, surplus land, public waters, tribal land transfer, federally recognized Indian Tribe, tribal ownership, land conveyance, no consideration, land appropriation, natural resources, U.S. Highway 2, Section 27 Township 145 North Range 28 West, land return, Tribal sovereignty
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Jobs, Labor and Economic Development - 05/22/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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across development and workforce needs across development and workforce needs - So, you’ll see lines 211 to 220, the information they need to provide, and this needs to be given to
- that was needed to the A34 amendment. that was needed to the A34 amendment.
- I'm not sure what you need to why we need to recess to discuss a bill that was already heard.
- power to really uh negotiate and need power to really uh negotiate and need those<02:24:58.160><
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Task Force on Homeowners and Commercial Property Insurance 12/16/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- insurance to, you know, they and we need insurance to, you know, they need<00:13:26.639>
insurance - need insurance to continue to operate. need insurance to continue to operate.
- We don't need to go down path.
- need to carry out this program. need to carry out this program.
- would need to chew up both of those. would need to chew up both of those.
Summary:
The task force approved the minutes from the previous meeting and then reviewed the structure and statutory requirements for its final report. Staff explained that the report must go to the commissioners of commerce, housing finance, and economic development, as well as relevant legislative leaders, and must include a summary of task force activities, adopted findings and recommendations, tort reform recommendations to reduce insurance costs, any draft legislation, and other necessary information. A draft report, likely excluding recommendations and draft legislation, is expected to be circulated before the first January meeting.
Most of the meeting focused on the Fair Plan and whether it could be expanded to help homeowners associations, affordable housing, and common interest communities that are struggling to obtain coverage. Supporters said these groups are facing availability problems and often end up in the surplus lines market, which lacks the consumer protections of the admitted market. They argued the Fair Plan could serve as a third-market option with stronger protections and better access, especially for properties that are having difficulty getting quotes.
Several members and witnesses raised concerns that the Fair Plan was never intended to be a broad affordability solution and warned against using it to artificially lower prices below risk-based levels. They said doing so could shift losses onto other policyholders through assessments and potentially weaken the broader insurance market. The Fair Plan administrator explained that any expansion would require substantial research, staffing, actuarial and underwriting expertise, reinsurance planning, IT changes, and likely assessments or other capitalization decisions, and that the plan would need to focus on a limited subset of properties rather than the entire market. No votes were taken on policy recommendations, and the discussion ended with agreement that more information and scoping work are needed before any formal recommendation is made.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 02/03/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- you need to get from the state?
- license or a certificate that you need license or a certificate that you need to<00:40:19.880>
- I need it next week.
- step in fixing a mandate that's in need step in fixing a mandate that's in need of<01:13:31.520>
- together it's a problem and so we need together it's a problem and so we need to<01:40:44.599>
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- Not an agency doesn't need 10,000 square feet. They might need five.
- We do need a plan for this, and we need to train a whole lot of people, and we need people out in the
- So it was just, again, we need to bid those and we need to make them five-year.
- It needs to be recognized.
- I need that ombudsman.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We need... If you want it... Okay, can we do it that way? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Sorry about my phone.
- It's the low-income families of the state of Texas, and I've done an analysis on that.
- bigger projects, and we'll have more units online. for those families, those working families who need
- These are all needed affordable housing developments throughout the state. They serve...
- approvals, the bill promotes investment in housing development and supports the construction of much-needed
Bills:
HB164, HB411, HB627, HB 1226, HB1677, HB1865, HB1997, HB2985, HB3462, HB4188, HB4685, HB4840, HB5370, HB5424, HB5466, HB5509, HB5660, HB5673, HB164
Keywords:
migrant labor, housing regulations, civil penalties, complaints, occupants' rights, remediation, education, retaliation, housing, rental regulation, municipal authority, local government, leasing, housing regulation, local control, rental properties, leasing laws, landlord, tenant rights, municipal regulation
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (05/01/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- We have the information we need.
- addressing the needs of these children. addressing the needs of these children.
- to—we all need to consider.
- There are needs and wants in the budget, and this is definitely not a need.
- need to treat them all equally. Equal. need to treat them all equally. Equal.
Summary:
The Education Funding Committee met in executive session on a bill concerning school meal access and reimbursement. The bill would address local school districts’ responsibility to provide meals during school hours, reimburse schools for meals served at no cost, and make an appropriation. The committee first moved to retain the bill, with supporters saying it was complex, had uncertain fiscal impacts, and should be considered alongside other related meals bills. Opponents argued the committee already had enough information, that the bill served a small number of students at relatively low cost, and that delaying action would harm children who need food to learn.
The committee also heard from Tim Roar, a Keene school business administrator and co-designer of the bill, who explained that the proposal was intended to be an opt-in program for districts, with rulemaking to set participation requirements. He said the bill was meant to target aid to students between 175% and 200% of poverty, reduce bad meal debt, and avoid spending taxpayer money on families who could afford to pay. He estimated the state cost at about $250,000 in year one, with local taxpayer costs around $8,500 for Keene, and said some districts already have systems for online applications while others do not.
Committee members questioned him about meal debt, online application software costs, and how districts handle students who reach debt limits. Roar said districts still feed students who are hungry, but use other resources and family outreach when meal debt is capped, and he argued that parents should be responsible for providing lunch when they can afford it. Other members pushed back, saying they had seen students go hungry and that teachers sometimes pay for lunches themselves. One member noted the bill would increase eligibility, make it easier to apply, strengthen personal responsibility, and was not a mandate. The discussion ended without a recorded final vote in the excerpt, though the retain motion remained the central action under debate.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Mar 1st, 2025
Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- So, given those factors, we suspect it's no longer needed to be able... to do annual background checks
- This was recommended by the Department of Justice in their analysis, where you're saying to meet the
- Freedoms, but AMAFCA has not needed that in the past and doesn't seek it currently.
- We need to do something in statute, and that's what this proposes to do: to codify the oversight.
- The whole auditing system needed to be rebuilt from the ground up.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board (9-24-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Other individuals may have high needs, where others may have lesser needs.
- There's a need there that needed to be addressed.
- There's a need there that needed to be addressed.
- based on those identified needs. based on those identified needs.
- <01:38:03.360>
to we need to operate and how we need to we need to operate and how we need
Summary:
The Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board met on September 24, 2025, approved the minutes from the September 9 meeting, and then continued its discussion of Medicaid waivers with Leslie Hoffman and Carmen Hancock from the Department for Medicaid Services. Members asked for updates on the 2024 waiver waitlist management assessment recommendations, including aligning waiver policies, standardizing applications and waitlist placement, and modernizing data systems. DMS said that work is being done jointly with Aging and Independent Living and Behavioral Health/Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities through task forces, that ARPA spending delayed action, and that implementation timelines extend through March 2027.
The board also reviewed per-member waiver cost averages for fiscal years 2023 through 2025 for ABI, ABI long-term care, HCBS, Model II, Michelle P, and SCL. DMS emphasized these figures were benefit-only averages based on paid claims, not full waiver costs, and explained that true budget neutrality is calculated on an aggregate basis against institutional care comparisons approved by CMS. DMS said all six waivers remain in compliance with budget neutrality and that the most recent 18-month lag review for FY 2022 and FY 2023 found costs at or below institutional care. Members also asked about unused waiver slots; DMS said slots generally cannot be reallocated mid-year if they have been used, except in cases such as death or reserved capacity, because CMS treats participants as unduplicated for the waiver year.
A major portion of the meeting focused on the new child waiver created under House Bill 6. Legislators questioned whether the waiver’s design, including the exclusion of participant-directed services and the emphasis on high-acuity children with behavioral health, DCBS, or juvenile justice involvement, matched the bill’s intent to keep children at home. DMS said it used the $14.7 million appropriated for FY 2026 to develop the program, that there is no priority list, and that the waiver is intended to serve the highest-acuity children while also addressing residential needs for those sleeping in offices or placed out of state. Members also raised concerns about the rapid growth of the HCBS waiting list and asked for more detail on age and timing patterns, which DMS said it would provide later. Finally, DMS gave average processing times from application to eligibility determination and from approval to service start, and said the overall average from application to services beginning was about 80 days, while members requested follow-up information on the Carewise assessment contract and related costs.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Judiciary (02/03/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- law an example of why this is needed law an example of why this is needed during<00:11:50.959>
- <00:54:34.960>
on believe that clarification is needed on believe that clarification is needed- Um, all of that would need to be considered, and all of that would need to be calculated in order to
- statistical analysis statistical analysis only<04:43:10.480>
the <04:43:10.638>bill - <00:54:34.960>
- <05:03:20.440>
to is a just a little tweak that needs to is a just a little tweak that needs
Summary:
The House Judiciary Committee opened with a hearing on CACR 7, a proposed constitutional amendment to explicitly state that defendants are innocent until proven guilty in all cases and suits brought by the state. The prime sponsor argued the amendment would strengthen due process, prevent government overreach, and extend the presumption of innocence beyond criminal cases into civil and administrative matters such as forfeiture and family court proceedings. In testimony and questioning, the sponsor cited New Hampshire constitutional provisions, historical examples, and concerns about courts shifting burdens onto individuals. Committee members raised questions about the amendment’s wording, its relationship to existing law, and whether it would have practical effect if current statutes already place the burden on the state. The hearing was then closed without further witnesses.
The committee next moved to executive session on House Bill 480, which establishes a procedure for restoring competency and creates a pilot forensic liaison position in Merrimack or Strafford County to assist with that process. After discussion about prior concerns, including an email from the Disabilities Rights Center and whether enough members were present, the committee voted to adopt Amendment 2025-61H and then voted ought to pass as amended. The amendment passed unanimously, and the bill passed on a 10-1 roll call, with Representative Andrew voting no. The chair noted the bill would not go on consent and that no minority report was planned.
Finally, the committee opened a hearing on House Bill 666-FN, which would add restitution for violations of library-use confidentiality and expressly include library cards and membership status among confidential records. The sponsor said the bill was intended to strengthen privacy protections after a local dispute and to provide a remedy and deterrent for improper disclosure. Committee questions focused on whether the restitution penalty would apply to accidental disclosures, how the bill interacts with existing exceptions such as court orders or investigations, and whether the language was consistent with current confidentiality law. The hearing remained open at the end of the transcript.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Health and Human Services Feb 18th, 2026 at 09:38 am
House Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Why do we need to...? But that's not what this law says.
- Senator, I think you need to turn on your microphone.
- Senator, there's no need to hand it over to her.
- You... can point to her or look at her and scream for help or whatever you need.
- This needs to be amended. I hope to work with you.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Press Conference: Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Dec 9th, 2025
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to pass legislation, and we've begun working on this with a 3.5% cap on spending. we need to
- It needed a one. time to be able to set up their COLA. It's not something we have to do every year.
- And I said that in 2017, we had $3 billion in our budget for property tax analysis. 50.
- We need to be sure that everyone can grow because that's how you develop that's why 1600 People today
- No, I don't need it. a hundred million dollar football stadium, or I don't need this, or I don't need
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
JHA Public Hearing - Wed Mar 19, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- critical need in Hawaii um we are critical need in Hawaii um we are however<01:08:37.400>
concerned - <01:30:41.520>
for you definitely need to be there for you definitely need to be there for - That's my analysis of it.
- That's my analysis of it.
- That's my analysis of it.
Summary:
The House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs heard SB 104, which would restrict the use of restrictive housing or solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with specified exceptions. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation strongly opposed the bill, saying its existing policy already meets or exceeds ACA and National Institute of Corrections standards, and objecting to language they said would give the oversight commission operational decision-making authority. The Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission supported the bill, but also said it was not intended to run operations and described concerns about restrictive housing practices, including CoreCivic’s SHIP program at Saguaro.
Supporters included the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Office of the Public Defender, the Disability Rights Center, ACLU Hawaii, Easter Seals Hawaii, and individual testifiers. They argued that Native Hawaiians are disproportionately impacted by incarceration, that solitary confinement is harmful and linked to depression, anxiety, suicidality, and poor reentry outcomes, and that confinement beyond 15 days is widely condemned under international standards. Several testifiers cited suicides and deaths in custody as reasons to codify limits in statute rather than rely on policy alone. The department responded that it already has 24/7 medical care, though not 24/7 mental health coverage at one facility, and explained that it uses four custody categories: disciplinary segregation, administrative segregation, protective custody, and placements for inmates seeking separation for safety reasons.
Members questioned the department and commission about the SHIP program, whether the bill was based on other states’ laws, and how current policies compare with national standards. The director said the bill was too ambiguous in places and that the department was willing to work with the commission on policy changes, but still opposed the measure as written. The committee took testimony and questions; no vote or final action was taken in the portion provided.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Do we need to go through this Richards.
- <00:38:28.960>
for far would not eliminate the need for far would not eliminate the need for - to do a costbenefit analysis. to do a costbenefit analysis. >> Okay. >> Okay.
- unfortunately those numbers are needed unfortunately those numbers are needed for<02:46:25.359><
- need your approval to number those. need your approval to number those. Okay. >> All right.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26 - Afternoon Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- provides a vehicle to serve the needs provides a vehicle to serve the needs for<00:05:20.880>
- We need to do the right thing.
- We need to do the right thing.
- their needed products. their needed products. >> Go<01:28:24.400>
ahead. - Minnesota does not need to act.
Summary:
The committee first approved the March 11, 2026 minutes, then heard House File 4048, which would exempt chiropractors from Minnesota’s provider tax if they are no longer eligible to provide chiropractic benefits under Medicaid/MinnesotaCare. Representative Robbins said the bill corrects an unfair situation because chiropractors still pay the tax even though the benefit was eliminated. Testifiers from the Minnesota Chiropractic Association and a longtime chiropractor supported the bill, arguing that most chiropractors are small-business owners and should not pay a tax for services they can no longer provide. Several members said they supported restoring chiropractic coverage instead of changing the tax, and there was discussion about whether the tax applies to all providers and whether it is effectively passed on to patients. The committee adopted a motion to recommend HF 4048 to the Committee on Taxes.
The committee then took up House File 3893, as amended, a bill to restrict artificial intelligence from engaging in psychotherapy or counseling with humans. The author and supporters said the bill is intended to prevent AI chatbots from posing as therapists or counseling vulnerable people, citing reports of suicides and other harms linked to chatbot interactions. The A2 amendment was adopted; the author said it reflected stakeholder concerns and added informed-consent language. Testifiers in support, including a psychologist and a suicide-prevention nonprofit leader, urged strong safeguards and said AI should not replace licensed professionals in crisis settings.
Other testimony raised concerns about overbreadth and unintended effects. TechNet and a rural mental health provider said the bill should be narrowed so it applies to clinical therapy rather than wellness or educational tools, and should allow supervised AI uses such as transcription and administrative support. Members discussed rural access, existing licensing-board authority, privacy laws, and whether the bill should target AI companies directly rather than licensed clinicians. The transcript ends during continued discussion of HF 3893, with no final committee action shown in the excerpt.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- additional needs. That was my point. additional needs. That was my point.
- Like, imagine a world where we don't need seclusion. We don't need restrictive procedure.
need procedure.- We don't need procedure.
- students who have highly complex needs. students who have highly complex needs.
Summary:
The Seclusion Working Group approved the minutes from its November 5, 2025 meeting and then heard presentations from Jessica Heiser and Aaron Sansmark of Solutions Not Suspensions and the Minnesota Disability Law Center on the misuse and illegal use of seclusion in schools. They described illegal seclusion as including use outside emergencies, for discipline or noncompliance, beyond the emergency period, in unregistered rooms, without parent notice, without required observation or documentation, for students outside the grade-limit rules, when meals/restroom/water are withheld, or when staff are not properly trained. They emphasized that Minnesota lacks a single reliable data source for identifying illegal seclusion and that families often learn about incidents late, if at all, making complaints and legal action difficult because of barriers such as time, cost, language, and access to advocates.
The presenters summarized Minnesota Disability Law Center records, saying they receive about one seclusion-related case per month during the school year, statewide, and that in the cases reviewed over the last year the children were all boys with disabilities, including autism, ADHD, developmental delay, or emotional disabilities; three were white and two were children of color, and four of the five were age 10 or younger. They said all of those families pulled their children from school afterward, and that five of five cases potentially had valid illegal-seclusion claims, though only three pursued legal action. They also noted PACER reports many discipline and behavior calls involving seclusion but does not keep hard records. The presenters proposed better statewide data collection, including identifying school buildings, staff, or students involved, reporting incident duration, and adding a checkbox on MDE complaints to flag restraint/seclusion allegations.
A substantial portion of the discussion focused on disproportionality. The presenters cited national research showing students with disabilities and students of color, especially Black boys, are disproportionately restrained or secluded, while acknowledging Minnesota does not have a single statewide racial aggregate for seclusion. Members discussed whether banning seclusion would reduce misuse and disproportionality, whether it could increase physical holds or injuries, and whether the issue should be viewed in the broader context of emergency interventions. Heiser argued Minnesota is moving in the same direction as federal actions and other states that have restricted or banned seclusion, and noted that the current birth-through-third-grade ban has reportedly reduced seclusion by 40%. Other members agreed disproportionality is a serious systemwide problem, but emphasized the need to keep the conversation focused on seclusion and emergency use. No additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond approval of the minutes.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-LOTTERY OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE Jun 16th, 2026
ALC-LOTTERY OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- We'll need a motion to review these as they come up. So we'll start with item C, I guess.
- We'll need a motion to review this. We'll need a motion to review this. Got a motion?
- Smith, if you need me to. Nope. All right. Thank you. Okay. years.
- Smith, if you need me to. Nope. All right. Thank you. Okay.
- Total proceeds analysis is net proceeds plus unclaimed prizes.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We since we don't need a law solution.
- We need to name what’s happening.
- needs bipartisan solutions that work. needs bipartisan solutions that work.
- have to adhere to and spectators needs have to adhere to and spectators needs to<01:27:17.600>
- to just hear you guys and we we need to just hear you guys and we need<01:31:23.360>
to <01:31 - to just hear you guys and we we need to just hear you guys and we need<01:31:23.360>
Keywords:
immigration status, undocumented students, immigrant rights, K-12 education, public school enrollment, Plyler v. Doe, school district, charter school, cooperative unit, law enforcement access, ICE, immigration enforcement, civil lawsuit, private right of action, injunctive relief, mandamus, student records, directory information, parental engagement, equal access to education
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- I think they need a cost-effective alternative. I need one that works for them.
- They need, I think it was 144, 25 specialists before; they only needed, they said they needed $1.6 million
- I think they need a coste alternative I think they need a coste effective<00:09:03.920>
alternative - /c> effective alternative I need one that effective alternative I need one that works<00:09:06.440>
- said they um they said they needed needed needed uh<00:09:35.360>
$1.6 <00:09:36.120>million - said they um they said they needed needed needed uh<00:09:35.360>