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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 13th, 2026 at 11:03 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Maternal mortality rates for Black women are three times higher than for white women.
  • Their next number one priority is for a helipad and an access road to that helipad.
  • For our rural communities to be able to have this type of access. And Mr.
  • In order to do that, again, Madam Speaker, we had to open access.
  • As a body, we are all, A higher value depending on where you live.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:04 am

Senate Indian, Rural & Cultural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • A club I just learned that goes around and helps with anything.
  • And she's going to learn the process today here and what it is. This is a great committee.
  • have heard legislators yesterday in this hall, as well as they have shared that they have not even learned
  • Bodies and justified through harmful stereotypes and unequal access to informed consent, the impacts
  • looked into this, and you indicated the very difficult time in trying to find records and getting access
Bills: SM14
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/22/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So it is associated with improved learning outcomes in IQ.
  • Because he's covered under Access, we're in.
  • Once home, access to a skilled lactation consultant changed everything.
  • This bill removes a critical barrier by ensuring families covered by access can access breastfeeding
  • It is learned, supported, and sustained through care.
Summary: The committee opened with attendance and member introductions, then heard a series of health-related bills, many focused on access to care in rural and underserved communities. HB 2049 would allow particle accelerators for radiation therapy in critical access hospitals and counties under 400,000 population under general supervision; sponsors and rural oncology witnesses said it would reduce travel burdens for cancer patients while maintaining safety protocols. HB 2050 updated radiologic technologist statutes to align with current national standards, adjust accreditation and clinical-hour requirements, and allow radiologist assistants to work under supervision rather than direct supervision; an amendment also added registered nurses to the list of professionals not needing a separate license to use diagnostic X-ray machines. Both bills were supported by testimony about workforce shortages and access, though one member voted no on HB 2050 over concerns about oversight and board authority. Both measures received do-pass recommendations, with HB 2050 amended. The committee then unanimously advanced HB 2082, which creates a Childhood Cancer and Rare Childhood Disease Research Commission to award grants for phase-one pediatric cancer and rare disease trials. Testimony came from families affected by pediatric brain cancer, including a parent who described traveling internationally for treatment and a college student currently undergoing treatment who urged the state to invest in research. Members expressed strong sympathy and support, and the bill passed 12-0. Next, HB 2015 would require Access to cover breastfeeding and lactation services in multiple settings; the sponsor and medical witnesses described breastfeeding as preventive care with benefits for infants and mothers, while Access testified neutral and noted a fiscal estimate was being developed and that the amendment would protect the state if CMS does not approve the services. The bill, as amended, also received a unanimous do-pass recommendation. The committee also approved HB 2177, which directs Access to seek CMS waivers so tribal and Indian Health Service facilities can be reimbursed for certain covered services, including dental care, for American Indian and Alaska Native members. The sponsor and a Sage Memorial Hospital representative said the bill would help rural tribal facilities keep services local and maximize federal matching funds; it passed unanimously as amended. HB 2178, requiring a state agency medical chief officer to hold an active medical or osteopathic license, was described as a cleanup measure after a lapse in licensure exposed a statutory gap, and it also passed unanimously. HB 2179, which clarifies definitions separating air ambulance from ground ambulance regulation, was supported as a technical clarification to avoid unintended consequences and likewise received unanimous approval. Finally, the committee advanced HB 2183, which creates an emergency medicine study committee to examine Arizona’s EMS system, including rural and urban capacity, workforce burnout, uncompensated care, and emergency department utilization. The sponsor said the study would help the state understand system pressures and identify policy solutions; firefighters, health care advocates, and an emergency medicine nurse practitioner testified in support, emphasizing the ER’s role as the safety net and the strain from staffing shortages, rural closures, and high volumes. The bill was still under discussion at the end of the transcript, with testimony continuing after the initial supporters spoke.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It's free, and everyone can access it.
  • Unfettered access was first passed by Nebraska in 1957.
  • We ask for your support of HB1942 to extend access to more Texans.
  • The last thing I want to say is, this is about access.
  • The greater the number of exemptions, the higher the risk of outbreaks.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • That's when I learn.
  • We've specifically worked with Charlie's Law and the access we’ve provided as a state.
  • We were the first state in America to provide access to adult stem cells.
  • You brought up an excellent point that this amendment is to broaden access.
  • When a caregiver is licensed, they have access to more financial assistance.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Nationally, the rate is even higher.
  • Nationally, the rate is even higher. higher. higher.
  • , what can't be accessed.
  • , what can't be accessed.
  • things that we should have learned from. things that we should have learned from.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Jan 28th, 2026 at 08:33 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I am learning.
  • in all K-12 classrooms, access to STEM enrichment through after-school programs... ...learning in all
  • So it's providing access for teacher professional learning across the state in priority areas.
  • It ensures that where a student lives does not determine whether they can access high-quality STEM learning
  • to STEM learning for students.
Bills: HB40, HB100, HJR1, SB64, SB19, SB44, SB83
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It needs to be a learning environment.
  • School systems and school systems with higher levels of poverty.
  • If you blended those two stats, it would even be higher than 75%, obviously.
  • And we learn the most from the testimony we receive.
  • Expanding TIA to include more tiers will allow more teachers access to higher salaries.
Bills: SB26, SB 26
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 14th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • They can go to a trade school and learn a trade if they want to.
  • And for higher education, it is in fact where they get most of their money from.
  • The reason it's in our constitution is because we learned it the hard way.
  • The reason it's in our constitution is because we learned it the hard way.
  • And what we know for sure is that hungry children can't learn.
Summary: The Senate Education Committee met with four members present and took up a long agenda of education-related bills. Early items included SCR 65, which would create a K-12 student success task force to study statewide career and academic pathway advising; the committee adopted a substantive amendment adding designees and then reported the resolution favorably. The committee also reported favorably on SCR 119, honoring Coach D.D. Breaux, after brief remarks about her LSU gymnastics legacy and the request that LSU study naming its gymnastics training facility in her honor. Several bills affecting school operations and student support were heard and reported favorably, including HB 434 on probationary school bus driver employment and superintendent authority over dismissal; HB 484 expanding scholarship benefits for children and spouses of fallen or disabled firefighters and police officers; HB 749 and HB 1059 on savings accounts and TOPS math eligibility alignment; HB 218 adding food insecurity questions to student questionnaires, which was amended and reported favorably; HB 325 expanding TOPS Tech eligibility through dual enrollment and part-time use; HB 476 requiring Safe Haven law postings in middle and high school restrooms; HB 1249 clarifying access to school-based health centers, with an amendment adopted; HB 1242 allowing more than one early learning center license at the same location under certain circumstances; HB 632 improving data protections and functionality for LA First; and HB 352 on behavioral health services for public school students, which was amended to address IEP and dispute-process concerns before being reported favorably. Two bills drew extended debate over transparency, privacy, and school autonomy. HB 608 would create confidentiality for intercollegiate athletics revenue-sharing documents; LSU representatives argued the bill was needed to protect student-athletes and competitive information, while PAR and the Louisiana Press Association opposed it as an improper secrecy carve-out for state-generated revenue. Despite the opposition, the committee reported HB 608 favorably. HB 1112, which would exempt BESE-approved non-public pre-K programs from certain licensure and safety requirements and adjust related definitions, was amended and then heard with testimony from the Pelican Institute in support, arguing it corrects overreach from prior law and protects private school autonomy and parental choice.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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  • access to opportunity. access to opportunity.
  • Thank you. do not have access to equal workforce do not have access to equal workforce opportunities<
  • When you but it's limited by access.
Bills: HF3004, HF3663