Video & Transcript Research : 'unauthorized practice'
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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 16th, 2026 at 09:09 am
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- So it's 70 million from a technical standpoint, but from a practical standpoint it's less than that.
- It is the practice, and you know, we've talked about this. I've talked about it publicly.
- Right now, with only two staff managing the 20 billion when the best practice is 4 billion.
- That will show the best practices to have Four portfolio managers managing about four to five, maybe
- errors that needed to be rectified, that we didn't have the best internal controls based on best practices
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee - Morning Session Dec 17th, 2025
A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- We've worked with farmers and ranchers up there, put practices on the ground, and we're able to measure
- With that, we've begun to assist farmers and ranchers in putting conservation practices on the ground
- With that, we've begun to assist farmers and ranchers in putting conservation practices on the ground
- The map on the right shows all the different practices, basically.
- He attended our course, installed the practices that we teach them how to do, from building the road
Summary:
The meeting began with a budget presentation from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Secretary Blaine Arthur and Deputy Commissioner Jan Lee described the agency’s divisions and recent efforts to improve efficiency, including expanded online licensing, electronic veterinary inspection certificates, and a new laboratory information system. They highlighted youth and workforce programs, local food initiatives for schools, market development efforts, and ongoing animal health concerns such as avian influenza, equine herpesvirus, and the threat of New World screwworm. They also discussed staffing, turnover, and uncertainty around federal cooperative agreement funding, while noting they were not requesting new or additional appropriations for the upcoming fiscal year.
Members asked about meat inspection staffing, the use of one-time forestry firefighting funds, biosecurity and national security coordination, and agency staffing levels. The department said meat inspection was currently in good shape but dependent on federal funding stability, and explained that prior firefighting dollars had been used for equipment purchases. They also said they work with state and federal partners, including DHS and FBI, on threat preparedness and have reduced turnover by adjusting salaries and maintaining staffing at or below prior levels.
The Oklahoma Conservation Commission then presented its budget and program overview. Staff described the agency’s long history and current work in water quality, flood control, soil health, unpaved roads, wetlands, and woody species control, especially eastern red cedar removal. They emphasized data-driven, voluntary conservation practices, citing stream cleanups, flood-control dam benefits, pond cleanouts during drought, and the Cherry-Peach watershed project as examples of programs that improve water resources and reduce wildfire risk. The agency said its workload has grown significantly and requested funding for critical dam repairs, local conservation district staffing, continued unpaved roads work, and expansion of woody species control statewide.
Members asked about county matching for road and dam projects, who to contact about flooding roads, sediment removal from pond cleanouts, and the effectiveness of county training programs. Commission staff explained that county in-kind work can count as match, local conservation districts are the first point of contact, and the road training has produced measurable savings and better maintenance practices. They also clarified that “high hazard” dams are those where failure could threaten people or infrastructure downstream, not necessarily dams that are structurally failing.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Dec 10th, 2025 at 08:35 am
Transcript Highlights:
- That group of students look like and how we can think about conservation practices, our next generation
- It's critical to note that these are given to individuals who have completed and passed practice exams
- Number two, we know if we can do that, they are more likely to come back and practice in New Mexico.
- Things such as the infrastructure and creating the practice environment do allow us to recruit.
- And so hopefully they take that on into their practice. Thank you.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 May 16th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Practices start August 1st. If you've had kids, you know those kids are as active as ever.
- It's best practices. Now, principals will admit, schools will admit, we’ve got work to do.
- I know in my principal world that's just best practice.
- This has a dispute process that's already practiced.
- They've reformulated epinephrine, which, yes, I did practice...
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- ask um we have had some conversations just u and this has been as I understand it long-standing practice
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Keywords:
Department of Corrections, DOC, corrections budget, supplemental appropriation, deficiency funding, public safety finance, incarceration, prerelease services, community supervision, postrelease services, supervised release, probation, reentry, reentry services, prison reform, body-worn cameras, corrections officer cameras, ARMER radio system, PREA, Prison Rape Elimination Act
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This is our work from House Bill 3767, but this is how it gets applied practically in real life.
- Because of the nature of the credential that's needed to do that job, and Because of the amount of practical
- Practically, however, I think it's cumbersome and underutilized.
- Are you making sure that innovative practices are also put into these courses or are they just learning
- To get into a big debate on scope of practice, but just to ask the question, does your Has your study
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 6, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- No, they would only be licensed in Florida to practice in Florida, though. Thank you.
- This is a practical, necessary update that helps businesses and consumers alike.
- So I'm really concerned about some of these practices. ...at it, right?
- So I'm really concerned about some of these practices and how businesses are increasing their services
- So I'm really concerned about some of these practices and how businesses are increasing their services
Summary:
The subcommittee heard and approved four bills focused on reducing or modernizing professional regulation. HB 6015, by Rep. Oliver, repeals the word “reusable” from the wine keg statute to allow businesses more flexibility in container materials; members joked about the possibility of a Home Depot bucket, and the bill passed 16-0. HB 339, by Rep. Abbott, creates an alternative temporary licensure pathway for surveyors and mappers based on employer recommendation and exam passage, but members raised concerns about qualifications, liability, and oversight; Abbott said he was open to amendments, and the bill passed 14-1 with Rep. Overdorf dissenting. HB 139, by Rep. Lopez, allows pawnbrokers to use digital transaction forms instead of only printed forms; a technical amendment added readability and placement requirements for digital forms, and the bill passed unanimously. HB 195, by Rep. Chambliss, lets the Department of Corrections coordinate with DBPR boards so inmates who complete licensure-related classes can receive credit toward professional licensure; supporters framed it as a second-chance and workforce bill, an amendment clarified that DBPR handles professions without boards, and the bill passed favorably 15-0.
The committee then received a presentation from DBPR Secretary Melanie Griffin on the department’s role overseeing more than 1.7 million businesses and professionals across over 30 fields. She highlighted enforcement and complaint data, including more than 24,000 inspections and complaints handled in the last fiscal year, a preference for education and voluntary compliance over formal discipline, and the department’s alternative dispute resolution program, which returned $2.7 million to consumers and saved $270,000 in costs. Griffin also reviewed recent deregulatory and efficiency efforts, including endorsement/reciprocity reforms, fee waivers, reduced processing times, and shorter call wait times, and said DBPR is continuing to look for ways to cut red tape while protecting public safety.
Members questioned Griffin about permitting, continuing education, complaint processing, board vacancies, fraud in cosmetology and construction, coordination with other agencies, and whether schools can block students from taking state exams over unpaid tuition. DBPR staff said complaints are generally processed within 60 days, schools cannot bar graduates from taking the exam because of tuition debt, and the department works with other agencies when issues cross jurisdictional lines. The panel discussion that followed featured industry representatives from landscape architecture, building/code administration, pools, roofing, construction, HVAC/electrical, and hospitality, who generally supported reducing local permitting burdens, standardizing requirements, improving reciprocity and training pathways, and using technology and clearer scopes of work to make licensure and inspections more efficient.
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Transcript Highlights:
- We've also been a national leader in quantifying the value of college and providing practical information
- or program adjustments reflect university standards and direction, align with common patterns of practice
- However, the nature of the practice of law has changed and continues to evolve.
- Having practiced law at a very high level for many years, there are things that I focus on.
- is an area where we found that where health care professionals get their education, they tend to practice
TX
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- I would say in practice, that's not happening with consistent quality control.
- They're practice recommendations, things that local school districts can do.
- He was sick of practice tests for the start that he was having to do in anticipation of third grade.
- Those districts have to actually have materially different budget practices locally.
- So that they can access college they can access specific careers and there's a set of best practices
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 27th, 2025
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- It's been the practice of this committee since I've served on the committee to generally make the executive
- It's sort of, uh, one of the, in a very unique circumstance, it's been the practice of the committee.
- The penalties for a UPA violation, an Unfair Practices Act violation, is $5,000.
- It is designed to incentivize certain practices we would like to see on state land.
- Some of those practices people already do. Like I said before, we have 3,500 grazing lessees.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 15, February 26, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Fourth, the bill addresses instructional practice.
- Fourth, the bill addresses instructional practice.
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And practices. And we highlighted this. And practices. - And then page 14, it's that word practices again.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 13, February 24, 2026-AM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- is they're practicing ADM farming. is they're practicing ADM farming.
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settings I think in some very practical settings I think in some very practical - And they can do that, but it's just not a healthy practice.
- It's not a good a healthy practice.
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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Executive Departments and Administration (04/23/2025)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
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- Um I'm gravely gravely practice.
- Any response you want to offer from a practical standpoint?
- I think the 48 a practical standpoint?
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 04/03/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- This would add capacity to do that compliance review of agency payroll practices, as well as create some
- called out in statute, that this cannot be considered an unfair labor practice?
- I think it's here because it would be considered a conflict or unfair labor practice.
- I think it's here because it would be considered a conflict or unfair labor practice.
- And so I I think it's unfair practice.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 04/02/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- You're sending a clear message that Minnesota values practical, homegrown energy solutions that work
- You're sending a clear message that Minnesota values practical, homegrown energy solutions that work
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to that we take industry best practices to that we take industry best practices
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
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- a whole family systems framework in our programs and services, meaning that we will approach our practice
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- Intervention and restorative practices Intervention and restorative practices so<00:14:24.720>
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Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 2/19/25
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And candidly, I think we've benefited from some of those best PR practices.
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and from some of those best PR practices and from some of those best PR practices- You're not going to see a policy or a suggestion or best practices from the MCAA that says prosecutors
- So thank you very much. in better and indeed best practices and in better and indeed best practices and
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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Fri Feb 7, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- We view a variety of conservation agricultural practices as being a key opportunity for the department
- The Natural Resources Conservation Service of the USDA has already outlined a variety of practices in
- The Natural Resources Conservation Service of the USDA has already outlined a variety of practices in
- As currently set up, the subsidy programs for these types of practices are mostly within the Department
- But in practice, we view this as being important to put in the language that producers use, in language
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA ADVISORY COUNCIL Jul 9th, 2026
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA ADVISORY COUNCIL
Transcript Highlights:
- But we're trying to standardize the practice of the use of biomarkers across populations.
- But we're trying to standardize the practice of the use of biomarkers across populations.
- health systems, they usually have access to the research and the data and the guidance, the best-practice
- guidelines, not only for blood-based biomarkers and diagnostics, but also the best-practice guidelines
- And it's not the physician's fault because they're overloaded and they have a heavy rural practice, but
Summary:
The Arkansas Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Advisory Council met to introduce members, adopt its rules and procedures, approve prior minutes, and authorize the co-chairs to approve special expenses. The main discussion focused on updating the Arkansas State Plan for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, with David Cook of the Alzheimer’s Association outlining major changes in prevalence, caregiving burden, diagnostics, and treatment since the prior plan. He noted rising disease and caregiver numbers in Arkansas, the expansion of amyloid PET access, the growing use of blood-based biomarkers, and the availability of FDA-approved treatments such as Leqembi and Kisunla, while emphasizing that access, insurance coverage, and provider education remain major barriers.
Members and presenters also discussed the need to better reach rural primary care providers, who may not be aware of new diagnostics and therapies, and the bottlenecks caused by limited specialists and infusion capacity. There was concern about overreliance on blood tests without confirmatory evaluation, and several members stressed the importance of collaboration, public education, and promoting brain health through exercise and diet. The council also heard about existing programs such as the dementia services coordinator, the BOLD grant, caregiver respite grants, workforce training, and a pilot dementia resource center with UAMS Centers on Aging.
The council approved a new four-part outline for the next state plan: advancing risk reduction and brain health/early detection, strengthening family caregiver support, improving access to diagnostics and treatment, and supporting access and quality of care, including workforce and crisis response. Members also agreed to consider future agenda items on new treatments, brain health and lifestyle prevention, workforce training, and possible legislative changes to the enabling statute. The meeting ended with discussion of scheduling the next meeting, tentatively set for August 12 in Hot Springs, and adjournment.