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Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Fiscal Affairs May 11th, 2026

Revenue & Fiscal Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • For P5 state projects, about $4.1 billion... For P5 state projects, about $4.1 billion.
  • P5 for non-state projects, approximately $2.6 billion, and other means of finance that are non-state
  • P5 for state projects is $4.1 billion... P5 for state projects is $4.1 billion.
  • And then the re-engrossed bill adds six new state projects totaling $95 million and 55 new non-state
  • Well, on the state side, not much.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, there are 13 states that currently provide for paid family medical leave at the state level.
  • So, there are 13 states that currently provide for paid family medical leave at the state level.
  • So, House File 4569 the state.
  • unions across the state.
  • And I'm here to across the state.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/23/26

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:05:18.160><c> are</c> and food shelves across the state are and food shelves across the state
  • </c> reducing food waste across our state. reducing food waste across our state.
  • One of the issues over a dozen states.
  • </c> to more uniformity across the states. to more uniformity across the states.
  • </c> in state after state. in state after state.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the state attorney said no.
  • The state attorney, the assistant state attorney, was not aware of the pending investigations against
  • across the United States last year, across the Sunshine State.
  • As stated earlier, the definitions within this can easily fall to a point where criticism of the state
  • Many I know came from out of state.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 4th, 2026 at 10:04 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Through this program, the state has optimized nearly $1.5 billion.
  • , as well as the services for healthcare provision to our state.
  • The state of hospitals in New Mexico is so important.
  • I graduated from New Mexico State University down south.
  • We have over 70 solar companies in the state.
Bills: SB101, SB58, SB55
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Jan 26th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am the only pediatric hospice nurse up there in the whole state.
  • Such children could, in other states, benefit from the current care.
  • , but 50% from the state.
  • So does the state have to write some new rules... Thank you.
  • David Gallegos, State Senator, District 41, Eddy and Lea County.
Bills: SJR1, SM2
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture & Natural Resources Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am

Agriculture & Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • That part of the state is predominantly government land, whether it's federal, state DNR, and it causes
  • I'm really honored to be here, as this isn't my home state.
  • This is a Western states issue that is only going to get worse.
  • We work on a contingency, and it's that way all across the state, or all across the western states.
  • So what we've had to do is address it state by state, and that is what is happening in California.
Bills: HB2275, HB2238
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Care & Wellness Jan 13th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Health Care & Wellness

Transcript Highlights:
  • So many of our laws in Washington State were created in defense of our state legal market against federal
  • We've initiated it in the 37 states that allow medical cannabis.
  • We've initiated it in the 37 states that allow medical cannabis.
  • I'm the advocacy director for AARP here in Washington State.
  • We're facing a growing shortage of radiologists in our state.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • The timeline shown indicates that from 2013 to 2016 the state operated a state-based exchange.
  • we be a state-based exchange?
  • </c> um the state-based exchange. um the state-based exchange.
  • </c> at the state fair and they can enter it. at the state fair and they can enter it.
  • </c> includes both in-state and out of state includes both in-state and out of state providers.<01:21
Summary: The Medicaid Oversight Advisory Board met for its third meeting and approved the July 30 minutes. The chair outlined a full agenda covering the state-based marketplace versus the federally facilitated marketplace, connectors and navigators, presumptive eligibility, eligibility/enrollment/redetermination, and a rural health transformation update. Commissioner Lisa Lee and Assistant Director David Barry presented first on Kentucky’s state-based exchange, Connect, explaining that it is an integrated eligibility and enrollment system for Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, TANF, child care, and qualified health plans. They reviewed Kentucky’s move from a state-based exchange to healthcare.gov in 2017 and back to a state-based marketplace in 2021, and said the system helps route applicants to the correct program and allows families to move more easily between Medicaid and exchange coverage as circumstances change. The presenters said the exchange is funded by carrier assessments on qualified health plans rather than general fund dollars, with costs allocated across programs based on use. They said Kentucky’s exchange fees are lower than the federal platform’s and that the state-based system provides local assistance through DCBS offices, connectors, and licensed agents in every county. Members asked about startup and operating costs, fee-setting, and whether any general fund dollars are used; the department said it would follow up with the CFO on fee details and said it was not aware of general fund support for exchange operations. Members also raised concerns about Medicaid eligibility verification and improper enrollment, while the department emphasized that the state system uses different questions than healthcare.gov and is designed to identify the correct coverage based on monthly Medicaid income and annual tax-credit income. The board also discussed enrollment trends, including a COVID-era spike during the public health emergency when disenrollments were largely paused, and current qualified health plan enrollment of more than 97,000 people on Connect. Commissioner Lee explained presumptive eligibility as temporary Medicaid coverage, noting it applies to pregnant women and hospital-based cases, with hospitals able to grant it and certain providers able to grant it to pregnant women. She said full eligibility is still determined within 30 days and that presumptive eligibility ends when full Medicaid eligibility is determined or at the end of the following month. The meeting then shifted to connectors, with representatives from Community Action Kentucky and the Kentucky Primary Care Association describing their statewide outreach network, local offices, and role helping residents apply for Medicaid, renew coverage, report changes, and navigate benefits; they said connectors do not determine eligibility but assist with applications, recertifications, and outreach events across the Commonwealth.
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Tourism Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • And this, in essence, is going to diminish their ability to provide that level of revenue for the state
  • I have a serious concern about us losing revenue directly coming to the state, and especially since it's
  • That, we have to figure out how we are going to fill those holes here in the state.
  • The locals are taking control of the problem, if you will, with the assistance and help of the state
  • to fix... ...with the assistance and help of the state to fix this issue.
Bills: SB268, SB262, HB237, SB90
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • We know how important agriculture and farming is to this state.
  • Two other states... ...from hospitals, but two other states, there's only two states that have addressed
  • And the only two states that address it didn't do it this way.
  • No other state has handed over enforcement of these plans to their insurance departments.
  • and for all people here in the state.
Bills: HB506, HB513, HB437
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Education Finance - 02/18/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm State Senator Mary Kunesh.
  • </c> officers throughout the state. officers throughout the state.
  • </c> in the state. Thank you. in the state. Thank you.
  • It is library day.
  • It is library day. So, if you have year. It is library day.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
ND
Transcript Highlights:
  • As in the state of North Dakota.
  • You know, we're a state school or state college of science, right? So...
  • Or state college of science, right?
  • Dual credit does transfer well within state. It also transfers decently outside of state.
  • That's the state grant.
Summary: The committee met at North Dakota State College of Science for a presentation from President Flanagan and campus leaders on the college’s mission, enrollment growth, workforce programs, facilities needs, and industry partnerships. Flanagan highlighted student success in national competitions, strong placement and retention, the college’s strategic plan, and new or expanding programs such as aviation maintenance, fire science, dental hygiene, community health worker, surgical technology, HVAC/plumbing, and precision agriculture. He also described the need for a new dorm and a remodel of the library into academic and allied health space, including a simulation center, to address capacity limits and support growth. Several committee members asked about program demand, faculty recruitment, pay competitiveness, and how the college shifts resources from lower-demand programs to high-demand ones. Industry partner Jim Albright of Comdell testified that the college has been essential to the local manufacturing workforce and that many employees and interns come from NDSCS. A major topic was dual credit. Flanagan said dual credit is important but financially challenging, noting that only a small share of dual credit students ultimately matriculate to NDSCS and that the college’s dual credit model is close to break-even. He explained that many dual credit credits are general education rather than CTE, and that the college pays instructors, supports high schools, and absorbs indirect costs. Williston State College President Bernal Herning added that his institution loses money on the front end but has shifted toward helping students complete associate degrees before high school graduation because many go directly to work after high school. Committee members questioned how dual credit is delivered, how instructors are qualified, and whether students are truly doing college-level work. The committee then received a University System presentation from Jamie Wilkie on the cost of delivering dual credit statewide. Wilkie explained the methodology used to allocate direct and overhead costs and said the analysis shows dual credit is not profitable at several institutions once tuition, instructor payments, and overhead are included. Members asked how much of the cost is borne by students, families, and the state, and whether K-12 funding should also be considered. Discussion also covered the difference between subsidized and unsubsidized dual credit, payments to high school teachers or schools, and the possibility of waiving tuition in the future. No votes were taken, and the committee mainly gathered information for the ongoing dual credit cost study.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Aug 19th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • On an annual basis, 6,000 New Mexicans go across the Texas state line, and we subsidize medical jobs
  • We've met with New Mexico State.
  • You have relationships with four states: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
  • Yes, um, so in the United States, primarily in Texas, in San Antonio.
  • Texas and Dallas, Texas; in the Midwest, Chicago, Illinois; on the East Coast, northern Virginia, southern
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Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 27th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Lord, send your blessing upon our great state.
  • Indiana State statute in 1991.
  • He can use his time for how he sees fit, I would say, to state what he wants to state on the bill.
  • I did not hear you state, or did you state, that the Third Circuit had the exact same number of cases
  • of Louisiana, state level, local level.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum and opened with prayer by Archbishop Checchio, the pledge, and the national anthem. Members also used personal privilege to recognize visiting officials, university leaders, grocers, Governor’s Fellows, and several special guests and honorees, including Grambling State University for its 125th anniversary, Tiger Athletics, and the Tiger Marching Band, as well as CASA volunteers and advocates. The chamber adopted a number of ceremonial resolutions and made several conference committee appointments and committee discharge motions. The floor then took up a series of Senate and House resolutions, many of which were adopted without objection or after brief debate. These included resolutions creating or studying task forces on topics such as homeowner catastrophe claims and insurance-related litigation, the Louisiana-Ireland Trade Commission, informed consent laws, fiscal note procedures, K-12 student success pathways, and military funding alignment. Members also adopted resolutions on domestic violence protective-order access, flood risk mapping, seismic activity in North Louisiana, illegal dumping enforcement, toll signage and customer service, and other local or commemorative matters. Several Senate resolutions were temporarily returned to the calendar, while others were adopted by recorded vote, including SCR 29, SCR 33, SCR 37, SCR 63, SCR 30, SCR 65, and SCR 40. The House then considered Senate Bill 259, which authorizes an online application process for civil protection orders and restraining orders for domestic violence victims; it passed 93-0. Senate Bill 312, dealing with public-sector labor organizations and dues/withdrawal procedures, prompted extended debate focused on whether the bill unfairly singled out teachers’ unions and whether teachers already have the ability to opt out; the bill ultimately passed 60-38. Senate Bill 348, allowing the City of St. George to contract for administrative assistance in motor-vehicle crash response, passed 84-9 after questions about citations, reports, and the role of third parties. Senate Bill 485, concerning St. George’s municipal fiscal authority and insurance premium taxes, passed 91-0 after an amendment removed new public facility charge authority. The House also debated Senate Bill 197, which would reduce the number of judges on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal from 12 to 10 based on a workload and population study by the National Center for State Courts. Supporters cited the circuit’s smaller population and lower per-judge workload, while questions focused on the study’s publication and whether it actually recommended a reduction. The transcript ends during that debate, before final disposition is shown.
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Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives May 27th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Indiana state statute in 1991.
  • He can use his time for how he sees fit, I would say, to state what he wants to state on the bill.
  • The National Center for State Courts. Okay.
  • I did not hear you state, or did you state, that the Third Circuit had the exact same number of cases
  • of Louisiana, state level, local level.