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FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 4, 2026 - 01:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Not to confuse what we're doing with any federally funded program.
- Just to go back to the existing workforce programs that are part of degree programs, you know, there's
- It's not a new program for the employees, but for the students themselves who are in, say, a degree program
- that exists, exist, they would never be asked to sign a waiver to keep participating in that program
- So, I went to the university and created an internship program.
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-12 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Administration (04/15/2026)
Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- I can have full participation.
- I can have full participation.
- You are competing under a program established by the state.
- participate in that particular thing. participate in that particular thing.
- <00:44:06.079>
isn't constituents through participation isn't constituents through participation
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions Jun 21st, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- note that this funding also goes to the Cannabis Control Commission to support its social equity program
- It's different than the social equity program I just talked about. It's a separate fund.
- It's different than the social equity program I just talked about.
- Just because they're not part of the medical program does not mean that they do not exist.
- program because we were directly impacted by the war on drugs, unfortunately.
Summary:
The Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions held a public hearing on Initiative Petition 25-10, House Bill 5002, titled “An Act to Restore a Sensible Marijuana Policy,” which would repeal Massachusetts’ adult-use cannabis legalization framework. Chairs Brendan Crighton and Kate Hogan outlined the Article 48 initiative process and explained that the committee is gathering testimony for a report to the legislature. The hearing was organized into expert, proponent, opponent, and public testimony, with written testimony accepted through March 27.
The first witness, Jessica Trow of MassBudget, testified in opposition to repeal and focused on cannabis-related revenue and social equity. She said legalization has generated nearly $2 billion statewide since adult-use sales began, with revenue flowing through the Marijuana Regulation Fund, the state sales tax, and local taxes and fees. She emphasized that funds support public health, the Cannabis Control Commission’s social equity work, the Cannabis Social Equity Fund, and municipal budgets, and argued that legalization has created pathways for communities harmed by prohibition. The petition’s spokesperson, Wendy Wakeman, argued in favor of repeal, saying legalization has worsened public health, safety, and quality of life, citing higher potency, addiction, youth use, impaired driving, workplace positives, and black-market concerns. Committee members questioned her about the data sources, the will of the voters, the role of paid signature gatherers, and the petition’s funding, including out-of-state and dark-money concerns.
Opponents of the initiative then testified that repeal would harm a regulated industry that has created jobs, tax revenue, and social equity opportunities. Caroline Pino of STEM, Kristen Rogers of Levia, Judith Ledbetter of Project De-Stigmatized Healthcare, and Armani White of Firehouse Dispensary/EON described their businesses, community investments, and personal reliance on cannabis, and warned that repeal would push consumers back to the illicit market and undermine equity programs. In public testimony, Lucas Thayer of the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition and Jeff Rawson, a chemist and consumer protection advocate, also opposed the measure, arguing that regulated cannabis is safer than unregulated products and that repeal would damage investments and public safety. The hearing ended after the public testimony, and the committee voted to close the hearing.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/17/26 - Part 6
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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enforcement 340B drug discount program enforcement 340B drug discount program - members participating remotely. members participating remotely.
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Summary:
The House took up House File 719, the capital investment/bonding bill, and members spent much of the debate praising committee staff and describing the bill as a bipartisan product shaped by statewide bonding tours and negotiations. Supporters highlighted major infrastructure and public facility projects, including water and sewer work, transportation projects, housing, natural resources, and specific local needs such as Grand Marais, the Manomomen County hospital/nursing home, and airport tower funding. Several members emphasized that the bill was a “Team House” effort and argued that infrastructure funding should not be treated as partisan.
During debate, members also focused on the bill’s water infrastructure investments and the need for broader, dedicated funding to address lead pipes, PFAS contamination, and rising wastewater costs. Representative Lee noted that more than $400 million in the package went to water infrastructure, while other speakers pointed to transportation funding and a one-time reduction in tab fees as important elements of the bill. Representative Franson and others urged support, saying the package reflected statewide needs and was a down payment on larger asset-preservation needs.
The House adopted three technical amendments to House File 719, then gave the bill its third reading. After floor discussion, Representative Niska moved to lay House File 719 on the table, and the motion prevailed, tabling the bill. The chamber then moved on to House File 2484, the cash portion of the infrastructure package, where members again described the measure as a small but important funding bill and discussed a Lower Sioux Indian Community Dakota language item and the limited size of each caucus’s cash allocation.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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do medical graduates assistance program do medical graduates assistance program - They make technical changes to the state's hospital directed payment program, which was a program that
- <00:25:14.040>
that <00:25:14.120>was program, which was a program that was program - Dana Bacon. for the programs administered by the for the programs administered by the Department<00:29
- Thank you. participation, and it puts that at risk. participation, and it puts that at risk.
Keywords:
HF4401, Minnesota Medical Assistance, dental reimbursement, dental rates, critical access dental providers, Medicaid dental, MinnesotaCare, managed care plans, county-based purchasing plans, fee-for-service, oral health access, safety-net clinics, federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, Indian health services, state-operated dental clinics, low-income patients, children's dental care, provider reimbursement, dental access
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Feb 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- versus this program versus this program?
- For the wildfire mitigation grant program, it looks like there's currently a program in six counties.
- Programs.
- Program.
- When the program first started, there was a lot of grandfathering of foresters into the program.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture (11-6-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- donated over $170,000 into a program donated over $170,000 into a program that<00:58:46.400>
- um surrounding the PACE program and um um surrounding the PACE program and um is<01:12:30.719>
that - So, I funding for programs like PACE.
- <01:18:09.120>
through and we're working on programs through and we're working on programs - idea of the participation out there.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:01:00
Approval of Minutes 00:02:31
Kentucky Farm Bureau 00:02:42
Kentucky Department of Agriculture 00:28:18
Kentucky Cattlemen's Association 01:48:13, 958, all
Summary:
The committee heard first from Kentucky Farm Bureau leaders, who outlined the organization’s current priorities and recent work on farmland transition. Eddie Melton said Farm Bureau is working through 983 county and advisory committee resolutions and highlighted support for the updated selling farmer tax credit, now law through House Bill 775, as well as Senate Bill 28’s agriculture economic development provisions. He said Farm Bureau’s likely priorities include maintaining the 50% share of the tobacco settlement fund for agriculture, protecting funding for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, preserving sales tax exemptions on farm inputs, keeping property taxes controlled, and exploring additional tools to keep farmland in active farmers’ hands, including possible loan or inheritance-tax changes. He also raised concerns about eminent domain transparency, nuisance deer permits, and access to agricultural inputs and crop protection products.
Alita Bots described the farmland transition initiative in more detail, saying the revised state tax credit is generating strong interest and that a new federal tax provision now allows eligible land sales to actively engaged farmers to spread capital gains taxes over time. She said the initiative has reached 22 counties and more than 1,300 people this year through outreach and meetings, and that Farm Bureau is pairing policy work with resources to help farm families plan transitions and prepare wills and other estate documents. Drew Graham added that the effort is also meant to bridge the rural-urban divide and support rural communities, and Farm Bureau invited members to its annual meeting in early December.
Members asked about rising insurance costs and deer damage. Farm Bureau representatives said severe convective storms, inflation, and higher repair and material costs have driven insurance rate increases, citing five major storm events since 2021 and a recent Owensboro hailstorm that caused about $350 million in losses; they said the company is moving toward percentage deductibles to help moderate increases. On deer, they said crop-loss totals are hard to quantify but acknowledged the problem and discussed possible coordination with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Hunters for the Hungry. Commissioner Jonathan Shell then began the Department of Agriculture presentation, reporting gains from the department’s school agriculture outreach program, including a 23% increase in county participation between March and September and improved teacher-reported student learning, before continuing into the department’s legislative priorities.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Apr 22nd, 2025
Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- in structured sports programs, compared to 59% of White youth.
- longer even apply for our programs.
- to the programs in Canada, New York, and other countries.
- As part of the 2023 Film and Television Tax Credit Program 3.0, the program expanded its diversity, equity
- AB 1377 strengthens these programs through additional accountability and the new 4.0 program protections
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/02/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- , review of energy efficiency programs, review of energy efficiency programs, changes<00:14:05.279
- If we were just, you know, selling any... participate in them as well uh that are participate in them
- , the energy efficiency programs, the energy efficiency programs, virtually<02:16:54.080>
identical - was done to uh preserve the programs was done to uh preserve the programs which<02:17:57.280>
- <02:42:00.720>
in of of um energy efficiency programs in of of um energy efficiency programs
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Natural Resources Committee Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- There's a program.
- We have a program. It's called cap and trade that invests in those programs.
- don't pass the program.
- According to their website, the participants in the program are provided with additional rehabilitation
- and job training skills, According to their website, the participants in the program are provided with
Summary:
The committee hearing centered first on AB 1243, the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025, which would direct CalEPA to identify major fossil fuel companies, study California’s climate damages, and assess fees on the largest polluters to fund resilience, recovery, and related projects. The author and supporters argued the bill would make polluters help pay for climate harms, protect taxpayers, create jobs in construction and clean energy, and dedicate at least 40% of funds to disadvantaged communities. Support testimony came from environmental justice groups, labor, youth advocates, health organizations, and many individual witnesses, while opponents from the building trades, chambers of commerce, petroleum, and business groups warned it would raise fuel and consumer costs, threaten refinery jobs, and create legal and economic uncertainty. Committee members debated the bill’s impact on affordability, jobs, refinery closures, and whether cap-and-trade already addresses climate funding needs. The committee ultimately voted to give AB 1243 a due pass recommendation to the Judiciary Committee, with the roll left open.
After AB 1243, the committee moved to another bill on wildfire mitigation and related resilience work. The author said the measure addresses a long-running wildfire problem and accepted committee amendments, describing the bill as a response to increasingly severe wildfire seasons and the need to help communities stay safe and rebuild after disasters. The transcript cuts off as that presentation begins, so no final action on the second bill is shown in the excerpt.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Jun 23rd, 2026
Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact
Transcript Highlights:
- workers participating in the union construction program, where we went from Black workers participating
- Even though they were 10% of the trained apprentices, they were participating at 2%.
- , hydrogen, additional alternative energy, or other programs that we partner with the feds on.
- California invests billions of dollars in food assistance programs.
- SB 1025 does not create another food program.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 28th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- It applies to participants in the employee's retirement system, the teacher retirement system, and the
- uniformed services. group insurance program.
- Do we know how many employees right now participate in direct?
- Anecdotally, I know people who participate in this type of model where it is significantly higher than
- Thank you. ...that an individual could spend on one of these DPC programs.
Keywords:
healthcare, direct primary care, insurance deductibles, Texas Health Benefit Plans, telemedicine, police retirement, disability pension, municipalities, law enforcement, retirement benefits, retirement, beneficiary, Employees Retirement System of Texas, divorce decree, beneficiary designation, Veterans' Land Board, general obligation bonds, constitutional amendment, veterans, housing assistance
NY
Transcript Highlights:
- It would allow reciprocity for folks who are from other states to participate in the medical cannabis
- program for the State of New York.
- Again, it would establish a pilot program for maternal infant care centers around the state. Any?
- Again, it would establish a pilot program for maternal infant care centers around the state. Any?
- The specific appropriation of $350,000 is for pilot programs.
Summary:
The Senate Standing Committee on Health considered a series of health-related bills, many of which were reported favorably. Among the measures approved were SB 999, which would restructure Medicaid reimbursement for early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment services for children with IEPs or disabilities; SB 1816, lowering the state definition of elevated blood lead levels to 3.5 micrograms per deciliter; SB 1911A, extending due process protections for health care professionals when insurers terminate or fail to renew them; and SB 3105, allowing reciprocity for out-of-state medical cannabis patients. The committee also advanced SB 4589 on federally qualified health center rate adequacy, SB 4955B on Medicaid Inspector General audit procedures, SB 9196 to ban new for-profit hospices, SB 9237 expanding the definition of family for certain foster care health facility services, and SB 9275 requiring Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care and prohibiting related discrimination. Several of these bills were sent to Finance, while others were sent to First Reading or Higher Education as noted.
The committee also discussed SB 2625, which would expand pharmacists’ authority to prescribe, administer, and dispense medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. One member raised concerns about expanding scope of practice without coordination with primary care or a holistic review of patient conditions, and indicated opposition; the bill was nevertheless referred to Higher Education. SB 5056B, requiring the Department of Health to examine heat vulnerability and heat-related deaths, prompted discussion about whether the bill should explicitly require recommendations for prevention; the sponsor said the idea was to gather data and that recommendations could be added, and the bill advanced with some reservations.
Other measures included SB 7460, reauthorizing a maternal infant care centers pilot program using an existing $350,000 appropriation, and SB 9388, requiring public notice and engagement when a general hospital closes or shuts down a psychiatric, mental health, or substance use unit. The hospital closure bill drew discussion about relocations and whether moves that shift services to a new site would trigger the community engagement process; the sponsor said they would. Most bills were approved by voice vote, with some members voting no or without recommendation on certain measures, and the committee adjourned after reporting the bills onward.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- issues with the program issues with the program um<00:57:35.359>
I <00:57:35.960>I - She said the bill supports HTC's three core programs: the MAP, SPR, and accelerator programs.
- local business Assistance programs local business Assistance programs especially<01:05:41.400>
- <01:36:14.679>
that don't really have any programs that don't really have any programs that- just us but there was a pilot program just us but there was a pilot program across<05:08:17.680>
- <01:36:14.679>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And the program is very successful. It's modeled after a program in North Carolina.
- This is a bracketed program.
- childcare program.
- One of the situations that we have is that because they have to work in order to participate in the program
- of sponsors for apprentice programs.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Mar 19th, 2025
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- If you are in a program that is ongoing, and this is a lengthy program, I think it's like 26 weeks or
- Yes, just to follow up to that so that the program ...itself may, the entire program may be faith-based
- Our program was more than just mere words.
- These are ...programs must adhere to the program rules, which prohibit the inclusion of faith-based ideology
- These programs must adhere to the program rules, which prohibits the inclusion of faith-based ideology
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum present and took up several bills. SB 894, relating to faith-based content in batterers’ intervention programs, was explained as allowing certified programs to offer voluntary faith-based components alongside existing models. Members raised questions about how faith would be defined, whether participation would be optional, and how all faiths would be included. An amendment was adopted clarifying that faith-based activities may be offered but not required and removing language directing DCF to repeal a rule. After supportive testimony from faith-based advocates and some debate, the committee reported the bill favorably, with Senators Harrell and Garcia later recording affirmative votes.
The committee then considered SB 1240 on substance abuse and mental health care, which would assign state oversight of the 988 Lifeline, remove the annual needs assessment barrier for medication-assisted treatment licensing, and require annual continuing education for forensic evaluators. An amendment with technical conforming changes and two substantive clarifications was adopted. Members expressed support for expanded access to behavioral health services, and the bill was reported favorably.
Later, the chair presented SB 1736, which would allow direct support professionals and relatives to administer insulin in group home settings for individuals with developmental disabilities. After an amendment clarifying sliding scale insulin and related medication administration, the committee heard testimony from family advocates describing how the bill would prevent unnecessary institutionalization and reduce costs. The bill was reported favorably. The committee also passed SB 1286, which clarifies that allowing children to engage in unsupervised activities such as biking or playing outside does not by itself constitute neglect unless reckless or dangerous. After brief support testimony, that bill was also reported favorably, and the meeting adjourned.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 12, February 23, 2026-PM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- program, improved alternative certification programs with pre-service training and supports, and a grow-your-own
- TIA to include CTE programs.
- Arts programs are often why students come to school.
- I plan to be a band director as a career, and participation in middle school and high school band programs
- Those programs are exactly what builds that community.
Bills:
HB2
MN