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VA
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 773 relates to elections, absentee voting, cure process legislation, excuse me, the Governor's
- This legislation relates to elections, absentee, and provisional ballots, a cure process.
- administration and certain activities of conduct prohibited at polling places, applicable to locations for absentee
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Jun 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The first is through absentee or mail-in ballots.
- years to pass, um, online voter registration, automatic and same day voter registration, expanded absentee
- I have a couple of copies here that I'm happy to share talking about the reduction of chronic absenteeism
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Feb 4th, 2025
House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- the fact that these youth asthma hospitalizations are also a factor when we're looking at chronic absenteeism
- And we know chronic absenteeism plays right now a very large factor in our school success rates.
- Cause of chronic absence, but is unlikely to significantly affect chronic absenteeism at the statewide
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Special Session 2026 May 5th, 2026
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- People have voted absentee now.
- People<00:53:42.480><c> have</c><00:53:42.840><c> voted</c><00:53:43.600><c> absentee</c><00:53:44.720
- </c> People have voted absentee now. People have voted absentee now.
Bills:
HB1
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Sep 24th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't call this chronic absenteeism, and the reason why I don't is because what you talk about gets
- replicated when we discuss absenteeism.
- More absenteeism, because that's what's talked about. We talk about consistent attendance.
- You had the parts of high absenteeism. Now, you have a lot of parents with fear.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- the League of Women Voters: establish a clear timeline, prohibit this activity from the start of absentee
- prohibit this activity from the<00:19:43.039><c> start</c><00:19:43.120><c> of</c><00:19:43.280><c> absentee
- </c><00:19:43.840><c> ballot</c><00:19:44.240><c> through</c> the start of absentee ballot through the
- start of absentee ballot through election<00:19:44.880><c> day</c><00:19:45.120><c> to</c><00:19:45.520
- And this does restrict this activity during the period beginning on the first day of the absentee voting
Committee:
Senate Elections
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Representative Haroldson left an absentee vote of aye. Representative Pendergraft. >> Aye.
- Representative Haroldson left an absentee vote of aye. Representative Pendergraft. >> Aye.
- Representative Alamand. >> I. >> Representative Angelos. >> I. >> Representative Haroldson left an absentee
- 01:01:50.319><c> Harelton</c><01:01:51.040><c> left</c><01:01:51.280><c> an</c><01:01:51.599><c> absentee
- </c> >> representative Harelton left an absentee >> representative Harelton left an absentee
Bills:
SF0101
Committee:
House Appropriations
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/16/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement
House Public Safety & Law Enforcement Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- B, it will also reduce absenteeism and... ...care of these problems, B, it will also reduce absenteeism
Summary:
The Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement heard several public safety measures. SB 1520 would have required state agencies to share certain immigration-related data with the federal government and included a repeal date in 2029. Representative Abatia offered a strike-everything amendment to replace the bill with a firefighter support grant program to help pay for station food, supplies, and small appliances, but the committee rejected the amendment and then gave the underlying SB 1520 a due pass recommendation.
SB 1216 would repeal the sunset on traumatic event counseling for public safety employees and expand coverage to crime scene and digital forensics technicians. Supporters said the program helps officers and firefighters cope with trauma and that utilization is relatively low, while members asked about costs and usage. The bill passed 12-0. SB 1391 would create an AZ POST pilot program for law enforcement stress management, funded at $950,000 and run through a nonprofit, with emphasis on prevention, peer support, and family impacts. Some members objected that it was too prescriptive and looked like a vendor bill, and the committee failed to give it a due pass recommendation.
SB 1493 would require employers to pay taxable costs, attorney fees, and expert fees when a law enforcement officer wins a wrongful termination appeal and the employer still refuses reinstatement. Supporters argued it was a fairness and due process measure for officers who must appeal twice to be made whole, while members debated whether similar treatment should apply in criminal cases and whether the bill should also restore other lost compensation. After adopting a chairman’s amendment, the committee gave SB 1493 as amended a due pass recommendation and then adjourned.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- One of the issues with this distance in siting is that many of the turbines are sited on land by absentee
- seven or eight wind projects, challenging them in the siting of them, is that when they're sited on absentee
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- members about how ICE's presence in and near schools has resulted in abducted children, terror, absenteeism
- , and forced schools to close absenteeism, and forced schools to close across<00:07:19.680><c> Minnesota
- This has driven us to have a new term for representism, which is fear-driven or fear-based absenteeism
- This has driven us to have a new term for representism, which is fear-driven or fear-based absenteeism
- We have a new term for representism, which is fear-driven or fear-based absenteeism, which is kids who
Committee:
House Education Policy
Keywords:
school access, school site, school district, charter school, federal agents, DHS, Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, CBP, Customs and Border Protection, USCIS, immigration enforcement, judicial warrant, student privacy, school safety, sanctuary schools, warrant requirement, federal warrant, school grounds
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I'd be happy to give you, specifically as it relates to waste, fraud, and abuse, and maybe even absenteeism
- I'd be happy to give you, specifically as it relates to waste, fraud, and abuse, and maybe even absenteeism
- </c><01:31:59.280><c> enrollment</c><01:32:00.000><c> and</c> maybe even absenteeism enrollment and maybe
- even absenteeism enrollment and scores<01:32:00.920><c> of</c><01:32:01.040><c> our</c><01:32:01.199
- And yes, their task force and absenteeism and working groups, and there's a bipartisan group working
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The second greatest concern is addressing chronic absenteeism, which I'm going to get to in a moment
- , which I'm going to chronic absenteeism, which I'm going to get<00:23:30.600><c> to</c><00:23:30.920
- As I already mentioned, student attendance or chronic absenteeism was number two in their top challenges
- was number two in their top absenteeism was number two in their top challenges.<00:25:04.120><c> We<
- Number four, um, the chronic absenteeism on page six of the presentation, I'm just really surprised to
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (01/20/2026)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- to see how many voters are voting to or from a particular address, especially when you consider absentee
- private information, address-specific information of voters, but we can see, you know, how many absentee
- to see how many voters are voting to or from a particular address, especially when you consider absentee
- private information, address-specific information of voters, but we can see, you know, how many absentee
- Voters are voting to or from a particular address, especially when you consider absentee ballots, and
Committee:
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Mar 18th, 2025
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Sergeants, please call absentees. Since we do not have a quorum, we'll start as a subcommittee.
Committee:
House Banking and Finance
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Housing Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Housing
Transcript Highlights:
- One of the challenges that we have is when there is a fire, especially if it’s an absentee landlord,
- district around fires one of the challenges that we have is when there is a fire especially if it's an absentee
- landlord in the residents are displaced the Red Cross comes especially if it's an absentee landlord
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Housing
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Housing heard testimony on several housing bills, with much of the discussion focused on seasonal communities and funding for year-round housing in places like Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod, and the Berkshires. Speakers supported bills including H. 4410/S. 966 and related seasonal communities legislation, which would allow local option real estate transfer fees and expand tools for towns to preserve and create affordable housing. Testimony emphasized severe housing shortages, high home prices, workforce displacement, and impacts on public safety, schools, health care, and local businesses. Many witnesses said the transfer fee would provide a sustainable local revenue stream, citing prior land bank models on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as proof the approach can work.
The committee also heard testimony on H. 3989 regarding seasonal community designation, with supporters arguing that towns should be included automatically or through a simpler opt-in process, and on H. 4568 to expand the Family Self-Sufficiency Program, which would broaden access to a federal voucher-based savings and self-sufficiency model. Senator Edwards testified in support of a bill to create training for municipal board members, describing it as a toolkit to improve informed local decision-making. Senator O’Connor testified for a bed bug bill, saying it would create clearer landlord and tenant notification and treatment requirements and provide needed legal guidance after his family’s experience with an infestation. Senator Lovely also testified for the Homeworks program, which provides transportation so homeless children in motels and shelters can attend after-school activities.
The committee further heard testimony on a bill to fund housing in seasonal communities through a transfer fee and on a companion measure to expand the seasonal communities toolkit, with repeated calls for favorable reports. Witnesses from public safety, health care, housing nonprofits, schools, and local government described staffing shortages and housing insecurity as urgent problems. Later, the committee took testimony on H. 1559/S. 102 to maintain stable housing for families with pets, with animal welfare groups supporting protections against eviction, breed discrimination, and excessive pet rent. They said housing-related pet surrenders are a major driver of shelter intake. The hearing also included testimony on H. 1498 to limit criminalization of homelessness, which would restrict citations, fines, and related consequences for outdoor camping tied solely to homelessness.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses May 7th, 2026
Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses
Transcript Highlights:
- We can also focus and target chronic absenteeism as a community.
- need them most: neighborhoods with the highest child poverty rates, health disparities, chronic absenteeism
- know about outcomes: significantly improved academic achievement, significantly reduced chronic absenteeism
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business held its final hearing of the session on H. 5187 and S. 3022, the Enough Act, which would create a grant program to support place-based, cradle-to-career anti-poverty initiatives in high-need communities. Chairs Andy Vargas and Sen. Adam Gómez opened the hearing by thanking committee members and stakeholders, and several lawmakers, including Sen. Sal DiDomenico, Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian, and Rep. Antonio Cabral, described the bill as a bottom-up approach that would let local organizations, schools, and community partners direct resources where they are most needed. They emphasized that poverty, housing instability, food insecurity, and chronic absenteeism are interconnected and that the bill is intended to build local “backbone” infrastructure rather than fund isolated programs.
A series of educators, school leaders, and nonprofit advocates testified in support, including leaders from Chelsea Public Schools, Bunker Hill Community College, Strategies for Children, AFT Massachusetts, United Way, the Boston Foundation, the New Commonwealth Fund, Give Black Alliance, Eastern Bank Foundation, and the Greater Boston Food Bank. They argued that schools alone cannot overcome the effects of concentrated poverty and pointed to research showing that children arrive at school already affected by poverty-related gaps. Several witnesses described existing local efforts in Chelsea, Boston, New Bedford, Springfield, Haverhill, and Lowell, and said the Enough Act would help coordinate services, align data and goals, and strengthen community voice. Some also noted that the bill could leverage philanthropic and private investment and cited Maryland and Harlem Children’s Zone as models.
The hearing also featured testimony from Harlem Children’s Zone CEO Kwame Owusu-Kesse and founder Jeffrey Canada, who said the model has shown that sustained, coordinated supports can reduce the role of luck in children’s outcomes and should be scaled in Massachusetts. Committee members asked about sustainability, funding, and how the bill would interact with existing efforts such as community schools, the Student Opportunity Act, and McKinney-Vento homelessness supports. Witnesses responded that the bill would complement those programs by creating a broader, community-led framework and that long-term sustainability would require public, philanthropic, and private support. No vote was taken during the hearing.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses May 7th, 2026
Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses
Transcript Highlights:
- We can also focus and target chronic absenteeism as a community, and expand the work that we're already
- need them most: neighborhoods with the highest child poverty rates, health disparities, chronic absenteeism
- know about outcomes: significantly improved academic achievement, significantly reduced chronic absenteeism
Keywords:
ENOUGH Act, ENOUGH fund, anti-poverty, poverty reduction, community development, place-based grants, distressed neighborhoods, economic mobility, housing and livable communities, community schools, cradle-to-career, child poverty, intergenerational poverty, social services, workforce development, education equity, public health, behavioral health, mental health, affordable housing
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/16/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement
Public Safety & Law Enforcement
Transcript Highlights:
- B, it will also reduce absenteeism and them leaving the job and retraining people.
- that it's focused on prevention, and thank you. care of these problems, B, it will also reduce absenteeism
Committees:
House Public Safety & Law Enforcement , House House Public Safety & Law Enforcement Committee of Reference
Keywords:
trauma, public safety, counseling, mental health, employee benefits, law enforcement, stress management, suicide prevention, workforce readiness, disciplinary action, appeals, termination, superior court, investigative process, reinstatement, immigration, data sharing, federal government, undocumented immigrants, visa overstays
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee, February 27, 2026
Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions
Transcript Highlights:
- This goes back to a golden oldie, which was in 2021, when absentee ballot counting was moved up.
- And in that amendment there was a really important provision: no results of absentee ballots prepared
- </c> absentee ballot counting was moved up. absentee ballot counting was moved up.
- Uh<01:10:00.960><c> no</c><01:10:01.280><c> results</c><01:10:01.520><c> of</c><01:10:01.679><c> absentee
- </c><01:10:02.239><c> ballots</c> Uh no results of absentee ballots Uh no results of absentee ballots
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, as you know, there are some organizations and entities that send out absentee ballot applications
- that there may be individuals, um, who might require additional assistance to complete, uh, um, absentee
- c> complete,</c><01:36:29.640><c> uh,</c> to complete, uh, to complete, uh, um,<01:36:30.640><c> absentee
- 31.880><c> but</c><01:36:32.200><c> if</c><01:36:32.520><c> there</c><01:36:32.880><c> we</c> um, absentee
- ballots, but if there we um, absentee ballots, but if there we have<01:36:33.240><c> individuals</c>
Committee:
Senate Elections