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FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Rules Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Patient portals are for the patients, right?
- So until it's about the patient, if it really is about the patient, I'm uncomfortable.
- patient allows.
- The patient that you're taking care of, not just steamrolling their preferences because you think that
- preferences.
Summary:
The committee first took up CS/SB 1606 on patient access to records. The sponsor explained that the bill, as amended, would align Florida law more closely with HIPAA by defining “designated record set,” requiring providers to furnish requested records within set timeframes, allowing a limited extension with notice, and requiring records to be produced in the requested form if readily producible. Several members asked about patient portals, legal representatives, and whether the bill affected meaningful-use rules or post-mortem access. Multiple witnesses opposed the bill, arguing it could create cybersecurity risks, conflict with existing privacy rules, and burden providers; supporters said it would improve patient access and consistency. The committee adopted the amendment and then reported the bill favorably.
The committee then considered CS/SB 712 on construction regulations. The bill would direct DEP to establish rules for synthetic turf and limit local governments from banning it if state rules are followed, while also addressing change orders, public works bidding, elevator rails, alarm contractor work, building code updates, spaceport exemptions, permit document limits, and single-trade inspections. Amendments removed the pool and spa contractor provisions and the tall mass timber language. Testimony on the bill centered heavily on the pool industry, with contractors and the Florida Swimming Pool Association opposing expansion of scope to general and building contractors, while some speakers supported other parts of the bill. After adopting the amendments, the committee reported the bill favorably.
Finally, the committee heard CS/SB 1288 on parental rights. The bill would allow minors to be tested for STDs without parental consent but require parental consent for treatment, expand parents’ rights to access records and control certain health decisions, and restrict health care services, medical procedures, and biofeedback devices for minors absent consent or an exception. An amendment moved survey and questionnaire provisions into the education code, added an explicit court-order exception, clarified DNA and biofeedback provisions, and added emergency behavioral health exceptions. The committee heard extensive public testimony both for and against the bill, with supporters emphasizing parental authority and opponents warning it could delay STI treatment, mental health care, and other services for vulnerable minors. The transcript ends during public testimony on the bill, before any final committee action is shown.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Nov 6th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- So, the Patient Compensation Fund.
- It helps patients, and not just the patient, but also their loved ones, and the emphasis is on care.
- or older would prefer to stay at home.
- again, I hope that when I stop talking, it's really embedded in your brain that care in the home is patient-preferred
- The investment here is huge for patients.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 094 Apr 18th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:56:56.240><c> have</c> important that our patients have important that our patients have options
- </c> do is preference opioid manufacturers. do is preference opioid manufacturers.
- That's the patient. consumer. That's the patient.
- . patient. patient.
- </c> providers and patients. providers and patients.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/04/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency
Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- I need to set eyes on this patient.
- because they're able to suss out which patients they can treat via telemedicine and which patients they
- I need to set eyes on this patient.
- But there are a lot of cases where you don't need to set eyes on the patient, and where that patient
- Patients' choices are important.
Keywords:
health profession, regulatory boards, criminal activity, notification, auditor general, investigations, veterinary technicians, certification, education alternative, Arizona Revised Statutes, veterinary education, ALTCS, providers, ownership change, healthcare, Arizona Long Term Care System, naturopathic physician, naturopathic medicine, naturopathic doctor, naturopathic physicians medical board
NV
Transcript Highlights:
- oh my gosh, I overbilled the patient.
- It relates to the veteran preference.
- to have a 5% preference.
- Those preferences do not stack.
- There's also a loss for patients.
Bills:
AB6 , AB102 , AB131 , AB212 , AB213 , AB220 , AB259 , AB282 , AB376 , AB396 , AB479 , AB503 , AB570 , AB572 , AB574 , AB576 , AB593 , SB185 , SB207 , SB507 , AB6
Committee:
Senate Finance
Keywords:
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, FASD, prenatal alcohol exposure, children's health, developmental disability, early intervention, treatment assistance, Aging and Disability Services Division, Department of Health and Human Services, Autism Treatment Assistance Program, public health, parent education, evidence-based treatment, Nevada NRS 427A, disability services, behavioral health, emergency medical services, ambulance, licensing, health district
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- The same is true with cancer patients.
- A qualifying patient is a person who is a patient of a health care provider who has diagnosed the patient
- We've helped many patients. And part of our program is we would help patients in the hospital, too.
- We have been a patient here and helping the patients.
- patients.
Committee:
Senate Ways & Means
Keywords:
collective bargaining, retirement benefits, employee rights, public sector, supplemental benefits, public employers, employee information, bargaining representatives, labor relations, union representation, electric transmission, energy policies, infrastructure, regulatory framework, transmission systems, aviation, wildland fires, funding, disaster relief, emergency response
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- So with that, we'll start with the Patient Compensation Fund.
- So if you fast forward through the execution of the Patient Compensation Fund, our Patient Compensation
- She reaches out to these real patients.
- She reaches out to these real patients.
- Again, that's my preference.
Committee:
Senate Senate Judiciary
Keywords:
sexual crimes, statute of limitations, criminal justice, victim rights, child abuse, procurement, contracting, small business, local government, disaster recovery, emergency procurement, certification, public spending, juvenile justice, delinquency, rehabilitation, community corrections, risk assessment, public safety, health regulations
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> hearing last time like my preference hearing last time like my preference would<00:40:27.599><c>
- reimbursed for seeing the patients.
- So, I have to say uh I'm for patient.
- Nearly all for our patients.
- I mean my preference is comment.
Committee:
House Taxes
Keywords:
tax credits, sustainable aviation fuel, environmental policy, corporate franchise, Minnesota taxation, electricity generation, property tax exemption, renewable energy, incentives, economic development, fuel delivery, tax exemption, retail transactions, diesel exhaust fluid, fuel lubricants, healthcare tax, gross receipts tax, hospitals, chiropractors, healthcare providers
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Ways and Means May 31st, 2025 at 09:00 am
Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a Section 8 affordable housing complex, 100% affordable, senior preference, which is currently
- We work with below 30% AMI at our 100% affordable senior-preference housing complex, and we've seen what
- Nevada ranks last in the nation when it comes to the ratio of physicians to patients.
- widespread support this legislation has from various constituencies around the state representing patients
- supporting SB 262 as increasing Nevada's resident physician positions directly impacts my future patients
Bills:
AB568 , SB90 , SB133 , SB147 , SB229 , SB233 , SB240 , SB245 , SB280 , SB378 , SB393 , SB417 , SB434 , SB494 , SB495 , AB62 , SB104 , SB119 , SB132 , SB193 , SB262 , SB422 , SB431 , SB435 , SB468 , SB503
Committee:
Assembly Ways and Means
Keywords:
higher education, Nevada System of Higher Education, operational expenses, instructional expenses, public funding, education funding, teacher grants, classroom supplies, instructional support, specialized personnel, civics education, Nevada Center for Civic Engagement, funding, youth programs, civic involvement, Southern Nevada, Clark County, Las Vegas Valley, regional planning, economic resiliency
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Ensuring that patients can obtain syringes without prescriptions at a community pharmacy, along with
- It requires health plans to clearly inform patients that they can contact their plan for help finding
- an in-network provider, and it holds health plans accountable, requiring them to respond to patient
- When patients struggle to find an available provider, they may postpone necessary care or turn to more
- Given the substantial benefits to patient awareness and access to care, AB 787 is more than worth its
Summary:
The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on April 23, 2025, with a large regular-order agenda and first approved a consent calendar covering many bills. Several measures were then heard individually, with most receiving support from sponsors and stakeholder groups and no formal opposition in the room, though some bills drew respectful opposition or no votes. The committee also read and deemed approved a lengthy suspense calendar before taking up additional bills and public comment.
Among the bills discussed, AB 263 would extend temporary flow regulations on the Smith and Shasta Rivers for five years or until permanent rules are completed; AB 309 would remove the sunset on pharmacists’ ability to provide sterile syringes without a prescription to support HIV and hepatitis prevention; AB 631 would require animal shelters to post intake and outcome data online; AB 792 would allow consolidation of bargaining for court interpreters; AB 867 would ban cat declawing except when medically necessary; AB 1206 would require pre-approved housing plans for small residential projects; AB 787 would require health plans to better help patients find in-network providers; AB 596 would protect workers’ right to wear face coverings unless unsafe; AB 282 would allow housing providers to prefer voucher holders without violating source-of-income discrimination law; AB 738 would create a limited rebuilding exemption for disaster survivors from newer solar requirements; AB 566 would require browsers and mobile operating systems to make global privacy opt-outs easier; and AB 622 would clarify CDCR’s authority to award credits to people serving indeterminate sentences who complete rehabilitation programming.
Most of these bills were reported out on roll calls, often with bipartisan or limited dissent. AB 309, AB 631, AB 792, AB 867, AB 1206, AB 787, AB 596, AB 282, AB 738, AB 566, and AB 622 all advanced, while AB 263 also moved forward despite opposition from the Siskiyou Board of Supervisors and the California Farm Bureau. AB 622 generated the most extensive debate, with supporters emphasizing rehabilitation, parole-board review, and cost savings, and opponents warning about public safety and the impact on serious violent offenders. The meeting ended after brief public comment on several other bills on the suspense file and then adjournment.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Feb 26th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The same is true with cancer patients.
- A qualifying patient is a person who is a patient of a health care provider who has diagnosed the patient
- We've helped many patients. And part of our program is we would help patients in the hospital, too.
- Being a patient here and helping the patients, the end of life is something that we have always carried
- through in our patient care and in helping these patients.
Summary:
The committee took up executive action on the capital budget, Proposed Substitute Senate Bill 6003, and several policy bills. Staff described amendments to the capital budget that shifted funding among behavioral health, local/community projects, irrigation projects, and juvenile rehabilitation capacity, plus a technical fix to the water pollution control revolving program. The committee adopted Senator Dozier’s budget-neutral amendment and a technical amendment, then advanced the amended capital budget to the Rules Committee. It also moved House Bills 2441, 2124, 2471, 2133, 2610, and 2338 forward with due-pass recommendations, and advanced Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2251 on Climate Commitment Act accounts to the Transportation Committee after adopting two amendments and withdrawing three others.
A major public hearing focused on Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2034, which would terminate and restate LEOFF Plan 1 in 2029, transfer surplus assets, and direct portions to the Climate Commitment Account and the pension funding stabilization account. Staff said the plan is currently about 160% funded and explained the bill’s IRS-review process, statute of limitations, and estimated implementation costs. Testimony was sharply divided: some retirees, firefighters, counties, and cities opposed the bill as an improper use of pension assets and urged benefit enhancements or protection of local medical obligations, while others supported using the surplus for broader public purposes. No vote was taken on the bill during the hearing.
The committee also heard House Bill 2179 on PERS coverage for certain port workers, with ports and the Washington Public Ports Association supporting clarification for railroad employees covered by the federal railroad retirement system. House Bill 1069, allowing Department of Corrections employees to bargain over supplemental retirement benefits, drew support from Teamsters and corrections workers, while House Bill 2091, expanding employee-information sharing with bargaining representatives, drew union support and privacy objections from Washington Policy Center. Finally, Second Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1210 on targeted urban area tax preferences drew support from labor, local governments, and project proponents, and opposition from contractor groups and environmental advocates over project labor agreement requirements and nuclear-related concerns; Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1408 on community preservation and development authorities and Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1974 on land bank authorities for affordable housing were also heard, with both receiving supportive testimony from community and housing advocates.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Patient portals are for the patients, right?
- patient allows.
- The patient that you're taking care of, not just steamrolling their preferences because you think that
- preferences.
- Whether doctors have a right to not see a patient based on their preferences. I see it. I get it.
Committee:
Senate Rules
Summary:
The committee first took up CS/SB 1606 on patient access to records. Sponsor Senator Grall explained an amendment that aligned the bill more closely with HIPAA by defining “designated record set,” allowing a 14-day extension, and requiring records to be produced in the requested form if readily producible. Several senators asked about patient portals, legal representatives, and whether the bill applied post-mortem; Grall said the bill was limited to authorized access during the patient’s life. Testimony was largely opposed, with health information and provider groups warning that the bill could create cybersecurity risks, conflict with HIPAA and meaningful-use rules, burden facilities, and improperly broaden access to portals and sensitive records. Supporters argued it would improve patient access and speed. The amendment was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably by roll call vote after debate on the bill as amended.
The committee then considered CS/SB 712 on construction regulations. Grall described provisions on synthetic turf, change orders, public works bidding, elevator rails, alarm contractor scope, tall mass timber, pool and spa contractor scope, spaceport exemptions, permit document limits, and solar/energy storage inspections. Two amendments were adopted: one removed pool and spa contractor language and delayed the change-order provision until July 1, 2025; the other removed the tall mass timber section. Pool contractors testified against the scope expansion in the original bill, while others supported the remaining provisions. Senators raised concerns about the Florida Building Commission process and how the public-works language might affect small-business participation, but the bill as amended was ultimately reported favorably.
Finally, the committee heard CS/SB 1288 on parental rights. Grall said the bill would require parental consent for most minor health care decisions, allow parental access to records, restrict surveys/questionnaires, and limit use of biofeedback devices, while preserving certain exceptions such as emergency care and STD testing. An amendment clarified questionnaire opt-outs for K-12 students, added court-order exceptions, addressed DNA sampling for criminal investigations, refined biofeedback language, and added emergency behavioral health exceptions; it was adopted. The bill drew extensive testimony both for and against: supporters said it restored parental authority and protected children from decisions they are not equipped to make, while opponents argued it would endanger minors seeking confidential STI, mental health, or abuse-related care, especially in unsafe homes. Senators also debated whether the bill would conflict with existing laws and whether it could leave some minors untreated. The transcript ends during continued public testimony on the bill.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- , allowing caregivers to maximize the lot size presently allowed for patients to five patients per caregiver
- ,</c> uh to be able to cultivate for patients, uh to be able to cultivate for patients, allowing<00:20
- </c><00:20:44.799><c> to</c> size presently allowed for patients to size presently allowed for patients
- to five<00:20:45.600><c> patients</c><00:20:46.000><c> per</c> five patients per five patients per caregiver
- my preference because I believe it's more comprehensive.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Health Services (3-3-25) - Reupload
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:05:08.720><c> turned</c> working have ever seen a patient turned working have ever seen a patient
- </c><00:05:12.479><c> that</c> away by all means those patients that away by all means those patients
- who happens to be a Jewish patient who happens to be a Jewish patient<00:19:41.400><c> and</c><00:19
- Patients will be harmed.
- </c> information and leaving our patients information and leaving our patients stranded<00:30:09.760>
Keywords:
Discussion on SB 132 - 00:06
Vote on SB 132 - 04:41
Discussion on HB 219 - 43:49
Vote on HB 219 – 49:00
Discussion on HCR 20 – 50:08
Vote on HCR 20 – 51:28, 958, all
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 132, which would create conscience protections for health care professionals who object to participating in certain procedures or services on religious, moral, or ethical grounds. Senator Donald Douglas and several supporters argued the bill is a recruitment and retention tool for Kentucky’s health care workforce, emphasizing provider shortages, maldistribution, and the need to protect individual conscience rights. Supporters said the bill would not apply to emergency care, would not permit denial of care based on a patient’s identity, and would mainly protect professionals from being forced to perform procedures they believe are unethical. They also cited similar laws in six other states and said the bill would have a cause of action to give it enforcement teeth.
Supportive testimony came from an emergency physician, a registered nurse, and others who described personal experiences or examples involving objections to abortion-related care, opioid prescribing, and pressure to participate in procedures that conflicted with conscience. They said conscience protections would help attract providers, preserve ethical integrity, and allow clinicians to make professional judgments without corporate or institutional coercion. In questioning, senators asked about practical examples, the scope of the bill, whether it would cover hypothetical cases involving patients of particular religions or identities, and which states have similar laws. The sponsor and supporters repeatedly said the bill is about procedures, not patients, and that it should not be read to allow discrimination against individuals.
Opponents, including pediatricians and a registered nurse/minister, warned that the bill is overly broad and could allow refusals of care by not only physicians but also pharmacists, clerks, and ambulance drivers. They argued it could delay treatment, increase discrimination, and worsen access problems in rural areas, especially for contraception, Plan B, blood transfusions, and other services. Critics said existing professional ethics already require patient care and that the bill could undermine evidence-based medicine and worsen Kentucky’s provider shortage. The committee took testimony and questions; no final vote or disposition was announced in the portion provided.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Health and Human Services Mar 19th, 2025
House Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I come before you today to remove the sunset on what was Senate Bill 317, which was part of the patient
- So, if the goal of this bill or amendment is to really preserve patient choice, I wouldn't change the
- They also redefined recipient to mean patient, and it permits donations from individuals from out of
- About those preferred generics that are out there that a majority of our individuals across the state
- Like non-formulary preferred generics versus the very high expensive drugs, I guess that we're trying
Committee:
House House Health & Human Services
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Executive Departments and Administration (01/21/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- We held a listening session for patient concerns. We developed patient and provider surveys.
- We held a listening session for patient concerns. We developed patient and provider surveys.
- . preference. preference.
- It just gives preference. require them. It just gives preference.
- This is a preference.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- And what that means is ultimately the patient suffers that, right?
- Patient and not just the bottom line. Okay. Your time is done. Okay, thank you.
- Patients aren't asking for, you know, their cost sharing to be a moving target.
- So patients aren't forced to go to a specific hospital.
- So patients aren't forced to go to a specific hospital.
Committee:
House General Laws
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Blood donor and patient safety are top priorities.
- Any blood, any time, for any patient who demands it.
- Yes, no, the cost often is passed on to the patient.
- Detrimental to the patient. Follow-up? Yes, thank you.
- If you would prefer to testify. Thank you.
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/18/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Hope about this first patient treated. Hope about this first patient treated.
- </c> patients has not been maintained. patients has not been maintained.
- Our patients are more than just patients to us.
- ><c> just</c><00:53:55.359><c> patients</c><00:53:55.680><c> to</c> patients are more than just patients
- </c> most vulnerable patients. most vulnerable patients.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 038 Feb 21st, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- goes to uh qualified uh the preference goes to uh qualified uh coal<00:40:04.160><c> transition</c><
- Uh L5 provides that the hiring preference applies to employment only in coal transition communities.
- I have a county that has no hospital, no clinic, and when a Medicaid patient calls to see if they can
- calls to see and when a Medicaid patient calls to see uh<00:49:55.119><c> if</c><00:49:55.280><c> they
- </c> we have access for all of our patients we have access for all of our patients regardless<00:50:51.200