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KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary & Secondary Education & Workforce Development (2-3-26)
Transcript Highlights:
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- 00:46:13.440><c> expansion</c><00:46:13.920><c> program</c> program, our our prek expansion program program
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Summary:
The subcommittee met without a quorum and first heard from Kentucky Department of Education officials on career and technical education funding. KDE explained that House Bill 499 created a CTE funding formula using 60% weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40% incentives, but House Bill 6’s budget language excluded area technology centers (ATCs) from that supplemental funding. KDE requested approval of an additional budget request of $14,789,352 in each fiscal year 2027 and 2028 to include ATCs in the formula and hold local districts harmless. Officials said ATCs serve students from 117 of Kentucky’s 171 districts and argued the change would reduce funding disparities and better reflect the return on investment from CTE programs, citing growth in dual credit and work-based learning participation.
Members asked whether the issue would need to be revisited each budget cycle. KDE responded that the problem could be fixed by removing the notwithstanding language from the budget bill, which they said would allow ATCs to be included under the existing statute. Representative Klein supported the request, saying the current clause could lead to stagnation and that the committee should help the program continue to grow. No vote was taken on the CTE item during the portion of the meeting provided.
The committee then heard a presentation from PreK for All on expanding preschool access in Kentucky. Advocates said the state’s preschool program has been funded since 1990 and currently serves about 14,200 children at roughly $84 million per year, but that many working families still fall into a coverage gap. They proposed expanding eligibility to 250% of the federal poverty line, which they said would add about 9,600 children at a cost of $40 million in year two, after a planning year. The proposal also included regulatory flexibility for classrooms and partnerships with private child care providers and nonprofits, with speakers emphasizing child care deserts in some counties and citing research that early learning improves kindergarten readiness and later outcomes. No action or vote was taken on the preschool proposal in the transcript provided.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Mar 24th, 2025
Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact
Transcript Highlights:
- The state also supports this from two different programs.
- In August 2012, I enrolled in WEVE's Self-Employment Training Program, a 14-year program. week course
- Participated in the accelerator for local goods program by DoorDash a Program designed to support small
- So in 2021, or last year actually, we started the program.
- We had a young man who came into our program.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Status of Persons with Disabilities Apr 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I am the Youth Services Program Manager at Northeastern Evental Little Program in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- And then childcare, obviously, is a tough one for everybody.
- And we offered interpretation, childcare, and various incentives for attending.
- I think that's how long the mayoral programs last in the summer.
- I think that's how long the mayoral programs last in the summer.
Summary:
The Employment Subcommittee of the Commission on the Status of Persons with Disabilities met on April 27 and approved the prior meeting minutes. The main presentation was from the Lawrence Partnership for Transition to Employment (LPTE), a five-year grant project focused on improving transition outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Lawrence. Presenters described the project’s community conversations, consortium, and four work groups, with emphasis on the family-partnership work group and a family survey designed to better understand engagement barriers and transition needs.
The survey results showed that family participation increased sharply when Lawrence Public Schools helped distribute the survey, rising from about a dozen responses to more than 200. Key findings included barriers such as scheduling conflicts, language access, childcare, and limited understanding of the IEP and transition process. Many families said they wanted their children to pursue college or employment after high school, but fewer reported access to pre-employment training, suggesting a gap between expectations and awareness of available services. The Lawrence team also described a bilingual transition website, workshops offered at different times with interpretation and childcare, and efforts to make transition planning more visible and accessible.
Committee members responded with questions and comments about cultural barriers, early transition planning, college and community college pathways, trades, summer youth employment, and how to reach families earlier, especially in middle school. Presenters said Lawrence has a strong transition team and existing resources, but needs more real-world work experiences and better communication so families understand and use them. The meeting ended with thanks to the presenters, a note that committee members would meet with SEED later in the week about Massachusetts as a model employer, and an announcement that the May meeting would feature the Office of Veterans Affairs.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 3727 by Patterson concerns the grant program for certain railroad grade separation projects for the
- HB 3799 by Orr relates to the establishment of the apprenticeship training program sponsorship fund,
- of certain childcare workers for the Subcommittee on Workforce.
- HB 3821 by Gerties relates to the implementation of a veteran discount program for the use of certain
- HB 3849 by Kinala relates to program categories and the unified transportation program for the Subcommittee
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Feb 6th, 2026 at 11:19 am
New Mexico House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's been featured in numerous national publications for its innovation and powerful education program
- They run the only Youth Conservation Corps program dedicated to providing outdoor opportunities for young
- They run the only Youth Conservation Corps program dedicated to providing outdoor opportunities for young
- Speaker and gentlelady, doesn't this waiver also apply to athletic programs, any facility that a university
- for some of the smaller universities, reaching that threshold, reaching the ability to support that program
Bills:
HB111 , HJR1 , HB61 , HB8 , HB30 , HB43 , HB156 , HJM2 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB70 , SB3 , HJM3
Keywords:
water law, state engineer, civil penalty, compliance order, water rights, overdiversion, illegal diversion, groundwater storage and recovery, well license, permit violation, water enforcement, New Mexico water code, irrigation district, conservancy district, water diversion, unauthorized water sales, measuring device, district court appeal, water resources, water compliance
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Feb 5th, 2026 at 12:10 pm
New Mexico House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a good career, and we need a lot of nurses, and we always support all our nursing programs.
- Mana's Keystone program, Hermanitas, fosters connection with Latina youth in Albuquerque and serves around
- This program offers one-on-one mentoring in personal career leadership training for girls 11 to 18.
- And I do want to note their scholarship program: they've given out more than $200,000 to young students
Bills:
HB95 , HB111 , HJR1 , HB32 , HB33 , HB61 , HJM2 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM3 , HM11 , HM14 , HM15 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB8 , HB30 , HB43 , HB156 , HM2 , HM16
Keywords:
HB95, additional judgeship, district court, judicial district, First Judicial District, Second Judicial District, district judges, court administration, judicial staffing, caseload, access to justice, New Mexico courts, judiciary, judge vacancy, court backlog, state courts, water law, state engineer, civil penalty, compliance order
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- That it's now creating a new general Fund program.
- The next slide on page 12 Interestingly enough, this program provides voucher care for kids up to age
- So we're essentially using child care assistance to pay for after-school programming and some summer
- programming, or do we need to do something about that?
- There are over 10,000 kids enrolled in childcare assistance, but you can see that potential liability
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 27th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- program for only 40,000 students out of 700,000 students.
- House Bill 3980 creates the rule loans assistance program.
- President, are we doing a similar program for the defense attorneys? Thank you for the question.
- It could be immediately, or they might do a payment program.
- President, are we incentivizing young people to go into debt with this program?
Bills:
SJR50 , SJR51 , SJR52 , SJR53 , SJR54 , SJR39 , SB1290 , HB4028 , HB4029 , HB4073 , HB4074 , HB4075 , HB4076 , HB4077 , HB4078 , HB1250 , HB2951 , HB2961 , HB3151 , HB3581 , HB3705 , HB3970 , HB3972 , HB3980 , HB3981
Keywords:
Medicaid, federal funding, state law, healthcare, low-income adults, Oklahoma Constitution, healthcare regulations, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, permanent rules, joint resolution, OHCA, health care rules, administrative rules, major rule, Title 75, Title 317, Oklahoma Administrative Code, OAC 317:30, health policy, state health programs
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services May 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- CalFresh and food programs.
- Food Assistance Program.
- program features and things going on. in the program.
- in both of those programs. programs.
- of this program.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill was very broad and we decided to narrow it to childcare facilities that are licensed.
- You could have a childcare facility that has three kids in it and it could be ran out of your home.
- </c> we decided to narrow it to childcare we decided to narrow it to childcare facilities<00:04:04.879
- You could have a childcare scheme.
- </c> treatment programs. treatment programs.
Committee:
House Judiciary
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Mar 17th, 2026
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Committee:
House Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Keywords:
HB586, Cullman, Cullman County, City of Cullman, annexation, municipal boundaries, corporate limits, local legislation, boundary adjustment, city limits, municipal expansion, zoning, municipal services, property tax, land use, metes and bounds, Alabama Highway 157, Judge of Probate, SSUT, simplified sellers use tax
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- One being the school safety program governed by A.R.S. 15-154. I briefly alluded to it earlier.
- They did do training for all of the alerts and added that to their training programs.
- When the state creates a program to help specific people and the program gets hijacked by fraud, the
- I've been following this program.
- been heavily highlighted how the social equity program had immense failures built into it.
Bills:
SB1071 , SB1315 , SB1317 , SB1416 , SB1493 , SB1537 , SB1542 , SB1584 , SB1626 , SB1740 , SB1751 , SB1804 , SCR1047 , SCR1049
Keywords:
Arizona Rangers, statutory repeal, security, state law, regulatory changes, school safety, interoperable communications, law enforcement, emergency response, funding, reentry programs, criminal justice, grants, recidivism, attorney general, missing children, kidnapping, reporting requirements, child safety, training
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Public Safety and Homeland Security
Transcript Highlights:
- with the following: Employees of a licensed daycare center must complete and say the word training program
- Department of Public Health to each employee who successfully completes the anaphylaxis training program
- the employee who successfully completes the analexia<00:20:13.760><c> training</c><00:20:14.160><c> program
- </c><00:20:15.120><c> Each</c><00:20:15.360><c> daycare</c> analexia training program.
- Each daycare analexia training program.
Committee:
House Public Safety and Homeland Security
Keywords:
driver license, English examinations, language requirement, immigration, testing standards, motor vehicles, window tint, law enforcement, prosecutors, vehicle regulations, medical condition, communication, first responder, invisible disabilities, anaphylaxis, day care centers, training, child safety, healthcare, parole
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Feb 4th, 2026
State Governmental Affairs
Committee:
Senate State Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
elder abuse, financial exploitation, inheritance, joint tenancy, conviction effects, HB110, sunset bill, Alabama Sunset Law, State Board of Medical Examiners, Medical Licensure Commission, medical licensing, physician regulation, healthcare regulation, professional licensing, ethics law, state ethics code, public servants, board members, agency continuation, sunset review
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Human Services Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am
Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I think the key operating word here is pilot program.
- If we're doing a pilot program and we're going to be using this program to steer future legislation,
- This program, this amendment simply is letting you know if they're already in one program, they don't
- to help the ones who really need this program.
- to help the ones who really need this program.
Committee:
Senate Human Services
Keywords:
abortion medications, reproductive health, mifepristone, misoprostol, abortion access, medication abortion, early pregnancy loss, miscarriage management, Department of Corrections, Department of Health, health care providers, health care entities, Indian health care providers, pharmacy distribution, wholesale distribution, reproductive rights, women's health, emergency clause, immediate effect, public health
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- counties in the Groundwater Conservation District to make the necessary improvements to develop programs
Committee:
House Natural Resources
Keywords:
SB 612, Texas Water Code, Section 49.2127, conservation and reclamation district, water district, reclamation district, developer fees, pipeline construction, water pipeline, sewer pipeline, associated infrastructure, subdivision infrastructure, cost recovery, fee cap, actual reasonable documented costs, engineering fees, legal fees, inspection fees, infrastructure relocation, utility connections
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 22nd, 2025
S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships
Transcript Highlights:
- It also supports job training for formerly incarcerated men, mentoring programs for fatherless youth,
- If you have to go to court in order to get that safety, and you have to perhaps get childcare, maybe
- They take time off work, arrange childcare, and often do not sleep the night before.
- And they're stuck in this cycle of uncertainty. ...Either going to work the program or they're not.
- Texas CASA is the statewide membership organization for the 74 local CASA programs in Texas.
Keywords:
fatherhood, family support, fatherlessness, community engagement, youth development, social policy, male role models, child development, policy reform, role models, mental health, parenting, single-parent homes, welfare reform, economic opportunity, mentorship, community initiatives, children, welfare programs, education
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Mar 24th, 2025
S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships
Transcript Highlights:
- ask that our abusers be subjected to taking anger management classes and a batterer's intervention program
- Is he going to be ordered to attend a batterer's intervention program and an anger management class?
- There's a program established under the IC MacGyver program that lends money to providers, the Justice
- Department, so that this five-year program gives child insurance and child benefit, not only to the
Bills:
HB809 , HB 1193 , HB1916 , HB2558 , HB1973 , HB2350 , HB2399 , HB2340 , HB 116 , HB330 , HB2496 , HB116
Keywords:
digitized signature, waiver of citation, marriage dissolution, electronic notarization, family law, HB 1193, informal marriage, common-law marriage, declaration of informal marriage, confidentiality, privacy, county clerk, vital statistics unit, Family Code, Health and Safety Code, marriage records, public records, personally identifying information, PII, legal representative
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Select Committee on Child Care Costs Oct 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Grant Programs, and L.A.
- grant programs, and L.A.
- this program.
- This includes even access to programs such as Head Start and other federally funded programs that are
- and home-based programs by leading to program disruptions and closures.
Summary:
The hearing focused first on how wildfires and other disasters affect child care providers, families, and early education infrastructure. State officials from the Department of Social Services and Department of Education described disaster response and preparedness efforts, including shelter coordination, licensing outreach, emergency waivers, distribution of supplies, and the statewide child care disaster plan. Testimony from providers and advocates emphasized major gaps in recovery funding, insurance coverage, rebuilding support, mental health services, and coordination with local rebuild plans. Several witnesses urged more dedicated disaster-recovery funding for child care facilities and suggested statutory changes, including allowing greater flexibility for rebuilding costs and requiring early childhood programs to be included in local disaster planning.
The second panel addressed immigration enforcement and its impact on child care. Advocates from the Children's Partnership, Every Child California, and CHIRLA said enforcement activity is causing families to keep children home, disrupting continuity of care, reducing enrollment, and creating fear and trauma for children and providers. They argued that immigrant and mixed-status families need clearer protections, privacy safeguards, legal support, trauma-informed guidance, and safe-haven policies for child care settings. Speakers also stressed that the child care workforce is heavily immigrant and that recent state laws such as AB 49 and AB 495 will require funding, training, and technical assistance to implement effectively.
Public commenters, including child care providers, described personal experiences with fire damage, displacement, permit delays, lost income, and the emotional toll of serving families during crises. Others described how immigration enforcement has made parents afraid to attend events, drop off children, or remain connected to providers. Committee members repeatedly noted that child care is often overlooked in emergencies and asked state officials how child care systems are being integrated into disaster planning and how local and state agencies can better coordinate. No formal votes were taken during the hearing.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Human Services Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 902 is now creating a new technology requirement for programs and the families.
- SB 902 is now creating a new technology requirement for programs in the families.
- SB 1025 does not create another food program.
- This policy is a remnant from the old AFDC program, whereby... ...being married.
- that program, when it was established, was set up... ...program.
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Human Services heard several bills focused on homelessness, child care, food security, public assistance, immigration legal services, and veterans’ benefits. SB 479 would allow city-based local health jurisdictions, including Berkeley and Oakland, to use multidisciplinary homeless response teams and share specified information across departments; supporters said the change would improve coordination and outcomes, and no opposition testified. SB 902 would allow electronic signatures for child care and development services paperwork while preserving paper options; supporters said it would reduce burdens on families and providers, and the bill passed to the Assembly Education Committee 4-0.
The committee also heard SB 1025, creating an Office of Food Security and Affordability to coordinate California’s food assistance efforts, and SB 1030, repealing the CalWORKs “man-in-the-house” rule. Supporters of SB 1025 said the state’s food system is fragmented and needs a coordinated strategy; SB 1030 supporters argued the rule is outdated, redundant, and rooted in racist and sexist assumptions. Both bills received no opposition testimony and were approved on 4-0 votes, with SB 1025 sent to the Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact Committee and SB 1030 to Appropriations.
The committee then approved SB 1077, which would require CDSS to create a communications and contingency plan for CalFresh disruptions during federal government shutdowns, including a public webpage and planning for state-funded benefits; it passed 4-0 to Appropriations. SB 1194 would codify the Immigration Legal Fellowship Project to expand immigration legal services in underserved areas, and supporters emphasized the need for legal representation in rural and Central Valley communities; it passed 4-1 to Judiciary. SB 1201 would seek federal waivers to protect veterans from CalFresh time limits, require referrals to county veterans service officers, and adjust treatment of job-search expenses; it passed unanimously 6-0 to Military and Veterans Affairs. The consent calendar, including SB 557 and SB 1051, also passed unanimously. After all items were heard, the committee completed roll calls for absent members and adjourned.