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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 02-04-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

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  • So thank you and I support my colleague that I have been her vice chair for so many years on the education
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  • chair for so many years on the education chair for so many years on the education committee.<00:
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • and Labor Cabinet, Board of Education, Department of Education 701 K5055 with staff suggested amendment
  • Education.
  • <00:04:58.000> and Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Department of Education and
  • State Board of Education. Thank you. State Board of Education. Thank you.
  • <00:05:12.080> labor regulation from the education labor regulation from the education labor
Summary: The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee met to reorganize its leadership for the new term, renewing Representative Derek Lewis as House co-chair and Senator Steven West as Senate co-chair. The committee then approved the minutes and moved through a series of agency regulations, generally adopting staff-suggested amendments without objection. Among the regulations reviewed were an Attorney General rule changing how a commission reviews and distributes funds and how grant reporting is handled; Personnel Board changes abolishing and renaming certain job classifications and adjusting probationary periods; an Education and Labor Cabinet rule removing references to local board of education members; several Public Protection Cabinet rules covering Board of Claims and Crime Victims’ Compensation procedures; an Alcoholic Beverage Control rule on direct-to-consumer shipping forms; and a Medicaid Services emergency regulation establishing the Kentucky Trauma Hospital Rate Improvement Program for rural hospitals serving many Medicaid patients. The committee also heard that the Board of Claims and Crime Victims’ Compensation regulations included both staff and, in one case, an agency amendment, which were approved. The most extended discussion came on the Department for Community Based Services’ regulation increasing per diem rates for private child-placing therapeutic foster care levels 2 and 3. Committee members questioned the estimated $10 million biennial cost, the source of the funding, and why the cabinet had not yet filed regulations implementing Senate Bill 151 on kinship care. DCBS staff said the rate increase was discretionary and intended to address placement crises for children with high needs, while acknowledging they could not personally explain the budget decisions. A kinship caregiver testified in support of the rate increase but urged the cabinet to also implement SB 151 and expand support for kinship families. The committee expressed frustration over the lack of SB 151 implementation but stated the rate increase itself was appropriate and allowed the regulation to proceed.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Workforce Mar 25th, 2025

S/C on Workforce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair lays out HB 322, relating to the use of funds awarded under the Jobs and Education for Texas, JET
  • committee unanimously and the House overwhelmingly as House Bill 4131, strengthens the Jobs and Education
  • We show you registered as Priscilla Aquino Garza, Senior Director of Policy and Programs for Educate
  • I represent an organization, Educate Texas, that does technical assistance for P-TECH and other college
  • And I know you don't always get education people here, but we, you know, this is all a continuum, right
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/9/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • . educators. educators.
  • Department of Education. Department of Education.
  • individual educators. individual educators.
  • educational divide. educational divide.
  • . education. education.
Bills: HF3119
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education May 6th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • education in Texas.
  • than those who are educators or experts in their field in education.
  • Make Texas higher education thrive.
  • Without liberal arts classes, my education and my peers' education will suffer.
  • As well as in higher education, and we know that in public education in particular, we have concerns.
Bills: SB 37
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/04/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Finally, I thank the committee for recognizing the value of physical education as a part of education
  • recognizing the value of physical education as a part of education for the whole child, specifically
  • the state's educational mission.
  • And Madam Chair, it's about education spending.
  • We'll continue to hear bills, and I'll continue to support helping educate our whole education system
Summary: The committee took up several education bills. HB 2395 would create a voluntary Arizona School Fitness Program in ADE to recognize schools that participate in nationally recognized fitness testing or events and allow the designation on school report cards. Supporters, including the sponsor and outside witnesses, argued it would encourage student activity and support the whole child; the bill passed with a 6-0 do pass recommendation. HB 2409, the Getting Arizona Ready for AI Act, would create a voluntary summer AI course program through ADE with curriculum on digital hygiene, civic integrity, and AI for small business/entrepreneurship, with optional facility use and academic credit. The sponsor said it was meant to prepare students for AI-driven job disruption without requiring new appropriations; it passed 4-2. HB 2203 would direct ADE to review public school and agency reporting requirements for duplicative, expired, or obsolete reports and recommend consolidation or repeal, and an amendment making a technical correction was adopted before the bill passed 6-0. HB 2008 would bar school libraries from using public money to pay dues to certain professional library associations; opponents from Secular AZ and the ACLU argued it was viewpoint discrimination and a threat to professional association rights, but the bill still received a do pass recommendation on a 6-0 vote, with one member explaining a no vote because the problem did not exist. The committee also heard HB 2075, which would require school districts to submit superintendent and CFO employment contracts to ADE, post them online, keep them available for five years after termination, and create a searchable database with compensation details. The Goldwater Institute supported the bill, citing difficulty obtaining contracts through public records requests and examples of very high superintendent compensation and opaque contract terms; the Arizona School Administrators opposed the bill as singling out districts while not applying to charters or other public-dollar schools, though they said they could support it if expanded to all schools receiving public funds. Members debated whether charters are political subdivisions and whether the bill should extend to charters and ESAs, and some discussion also focused on transparency and public records access. The bill ultimately received a 4-2 do pass recommendation.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:27:04.720> insurance the bipartisan educator group insurance the bipartisan educator group
  • 32:30.080> Insurance named the Educator Group Insurance named the Educator Group Insurance Program
  • Mananderville educators have seen 11.1% Mananderville educators have seen 11.1% average<00:35:18.160>
  • <00:40:12.400> counterparts than our equally educated counterparts than our equally educated
  • <00:51:15.440> and programs like special education and programs like special education and
Bills: HF3422, HF3461, HF2904
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • been changed in 30 years. 38 years prior to that, we had a complete overhaul of how we fund public education
  • And we can educate people around tax rates as much as we educate them around appraisals.
  • better job, Republicans and Democrats, of funding key infrastructure: transportation, water, energy, education
  • Obviously, the state has a constitutional obligation to provide a public education. To our kids.
Bills: SB9, SB 9
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair: I want to welcome everyone to the House Ways and Means Education Committee this morning.
  • status so that they of their educational status so that they have<00:09:18.320> actually<00:09
  • The first amendment is to replace on line 105 through 107, that the Education Trust Fund Appropriation
  • Um, the Commission on Higher Education may— >> All right. Are there any questions on the amendment?
  • on higher education on higher education >> and<00:22:40.000> I<00:22:40.240> respect
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I've also worked with the state department of Education specifically to get this language, as well as
  • meetings with the federal department of Education.
  • One of the things that I've worked with the federal Department of Education on is if the feds were to
  • President, at the top of my head, but when I was with the Department of Education last month, it was
  • And so I'm continuing to work with higher education on.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are not denying education to anyone.
  • This does not take away the opportunity for education. Follow up: Thank you, Mr. President.
  • So, if we want to educate workers in our economy, why would we intentionally make higher education unaffordable
  • for students who were educated in... ...our own public schools?
  • We already invested years of public education in them.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Military and Veterans Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's going to be a win for our education system who needs to recruit teachers.
  • > needs<00:06:37.199> to<00:06:37.360> recruit education system who needs to recruit
  • education system who needs to recruit teachers.<00:06:38.560> But<00:06:38.720> the<00
  • What this bill does is really, once again, we're working with education and, as far as making things
  • and as far as making with the education and as far as making things<00:11:28.800> better<00:11
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Since 1990, we have helped thousands of job seekers and business owners gain the education, training,
  • What this program does is a career technical education pathway that allows for CNAs to be trained in
  • It is similar to education, similar to public safety, similar to everything.
  • or other education entities.
  • partnership with with the educational partnership with with the educational institutions<01:01:33.440
Bills: HF110, HF111, HF263, HF105
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Administration Committee Meeting Jun 24th, 2026

Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 231 is a straightforward bill that addresses an oversight in Delaware's educator salary supplement
  • therapists, and I've been working for six years for Delaware to incorporate music therapists in the educational
  • therapists, and I've been working for six years for Delaware to incorporate music therapists in the educational
  • SB 231 helps correct this long-standing inequity by recognizing the education, training, and expertise
  • I'm the NEA Director for the Delaware State Education Association.
Bills: SB231
Summary: The House Administration Committee met and first considered Senate Bill 231, which would extend the existing 6% salary supplement for school-based mental health professionals with advanced credentials to school social workers who hold licensed clinical social worker credentials and have passed the national exam. The bill sponsor and multiple witnesses described school social workers as essential to student mental health, crisis response, attendance, and family support, and argued the measure corrects an oversight and inequity in the current salary supplement structure. Public testimony was uniformly supportive, and the committee voted to release the bill. The committee then heard Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 212, a constitutional amendment to protect the rights to hunt, fish, and trap. Supporters, including sportsmen’s groups and individual residents, said the amendment would preserve longstanding traditions, support wildlife management, and guard against future threats to hunting and trapping. An opposing witness argued there was no current threat in Delaware and said the Constitution should not be used to protect trapping or elevate hunting and trapping over other wildlife management approaches. Despite the opposition, the committee voted to release the substitute bill. Finally, the committee took up Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 284, the First State Emergency Response Act, which would create a 25-foot buffer around first responders at emergency scenes after warning, with misdemeanor penalties for knowingly entering or remaining in the zone to interfere with duties. Supporters said the bill would protect police, firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics from interference, while opponents from the ACLU and the Office of Defense Services raised concerns about vague terms, potential First Amendment impacts, enforcement clarity, and jurisdictional issues. Committee members also questioned how the buffer would be marked and enforced. The sponsor and staff said they would continue working on the language, and the committee voted to release the bill.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Committee, February 27, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • education schools. No private schools. education schools. No private schools.
  • Education? Education? All<00:26:29.279> right.
  • ,<00:47:59.040> those student access to education, those student access to education, those
  • safety, and equal access to education. safety, and equal access to education.
  • more piece about the educational more piece about the educational instructional<00:49:28.079>
Bills: HB0159
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Education Committee, February 27, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:39:11.520> education.
  • <00:39:12.320> It's it's clearly public educ education.
  • It's it's clearly public educ education.
  • <00:51:10.400> A in the power of public education. A in the power of public education.
  • And our public education system.
Bills: HB0159