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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Health Committee Apr 8th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Anna Yap, an emergency physician here in Sacramento.
- Amy Moulin, I'm also an emergency physician here in Sacramento.
- I'm an emergency medicine physician on behalf of CIR, SEIU, in support.
- Can we treat that as your close? Women here. Thank you. Can we treat that as your close?
- California is moving forward in how we treat behavioral health.
Summary:
The Assembly Health Committee met on April 8 and heard a long series of bills, beginning with AB 54 on medication abortion access. The author and supporters, including the Attorney General’s office and reproductive justice advocates, said the bill would protect California’s medication abortion supply chain and shield providers and manufacturers from civil, criminal, and professional liability. Opponents from the California Family Council argued the bill removes safeguards and increases risks. The bill was moved forward on a committee motion.
The committee then heard several reproductive and public health measures, including AB 551 to create a pilot program supporting emergency departments in providing reproductive health services, AB 260 to protect medication abortion access and telehealth, AB 309 to remove sunset dates on laws allowing pharmacy syringe sales and lawful possession of sterile syringes, AB 536 to preserve colorectal cancer screening coverage if federal guidelines are challenged, AB 804 to make housing support services a Medi-Cal benefit, AB 594 to address student health insurance billing and transparency, AB 836 to study and expand the midwifery workforce, AB 1418 to collect data on health coverage for eligible employees, and AB 1500 to maintain and expand the abortion.ca.gov information site. Supporters emphasized access, preventive care, workforce shortages, and public health benefits, while opponents raised concerns about abortion, syringe distribution, and the focus of state resources. Most measures were advanced by committee vote, with roll calls showing broad support and a few no votes from members on some bills.
The final bill discussed in the transcript was AB 1037, which would update substance use disorder laws to reflect evidence-based, harm-reduction approaches and remove barriers to treatment. The author and supporters described it as a compassionate response to overdose and treatment access problems, while law enforcement opposition argued it would encourage drug use and endanger communities. The transcript cuts off during testimony on AB 1037, so no final committee action on that bill is shown in the provided text.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (04/23/2025)
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> tried to treat me through other means. tried to treat me through other means.
- Um, and a physician who damages.
- You know, I'm not a physician.
- </c><01:05:50.319><c> treat</c><01:05:50.960><c> um</c> devices intended to treat treat um devices intended
- to treat treat um terminal<01:05:52.039><c> illnesses.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (04/30/2025)
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- /c><00:50:30.240><c> physician</c> registered nurses or physician registered nurses or physician assistants
- <c> or</c> physicians or physician assistants or physicians or physician assistants or advanced<00:51
- </c> have only minutes to treat the allergy. have only minutes to treat the allergy.
- </c> purview of physician practice right now. purview of physician practice right now.
- c> treat.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/28/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:09:11.040><c> oversight</c> physician oversight physician oversight uh<00:09:13.200><c> scientific
- </c> to be recommended to their treating to be recommended to their treating physician<00:10:28.079><
- ,</c><00:35:05.760><c> we</c> $18,000 patients per year treated, we $18,000 patients per year treated
- </c> treated is approximately $4,889. treated is approximately $4,889.
- Happy to take any questions. physicians. There are no comparable FDA physicians.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 11, 2025 - 12:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- AND WE HAVE THE FLORIDA COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS WAITING AND SUPPORT.
- WE HAVE 4000 IN OUR PHYSICIANS CURRENTLY USING THIS.
- WHAT IT DOES IS THE PHYSICIAN US TO ASK PERMISSION WITH THE PATIENT.
- WHAT IT DOES IS ALLOWS A PHYSICIAN 100 PERCENT INTERACTIVE THE PATIENT.
- THE PHYSICIAN AND THE EXAMPLE IS ABLE TO LISTEN TO THE PATIENT.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPC-CPN Joint Info Briefing - Tue Jan 13, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- <01:18:13.320><c> across</c><01:18:13.680><c> Hawaii,</c> physicians across Hawaii, physicians across
- Physicians have also heard state.
- Versus having a physician, a family doctor, throughout your life. and that physician changes.
- I've and that physician changes.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/11/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services
Senate Health and Human Services COR
Transcript Highlights:
- radiologic technology statutes, such as including school accreditation, program clinical hours, and physician
- I work shoulder to shoulder with these world-renowned physicians performing procedures here every day
- These physicians that I want to continue working with want me to continue working with them as well,
- In Arizona, fluoroscopy and x-ray are delivered and used by physicians, as we know, physician assistants
- is. to make educational and standards of practice for nurse practitioners, just as physician assistants
Committee:
Senate Senate Health and Human Services COR
Summary:
The committee approved minutes from February 18, February 19, and March 4, then took up several health-related bills. HB 2050, which updates radiologic technologist and radiologic assistant standards, school accreditation, clinical hours, supervision rules, fees, and telehealth definitions, received support from a radiologic technologist and a nurse practitioner and passed 7-0 with a do-pass recommendation. HB 2082, creating a Childhood Cancer and Rare Childhood Disease Research Commission and expanding the research fund, was amended to require at least $5 million in funding before commission allocations and to shift grant-awarding authority to the DHS director; it passed 7-0 as amended, though members raised concerns about oversight. HB 2176, which changes DHS licensing denial criteria and complaint-investigation procedures for health care institutions, also passed 7-0 after testimony from hospital and public health representatives supporting clearer timelines and transparency, with one member noting concerns about possible subjectivity in ownership-related denials.
HB 2195, addressing DHS oversight of nursing care institutions, including personnel record access, deficiency timelines, and complaint-investigation deadlines, was amended to delay implementation until July 1, 2027 and allow off-site preliminary reviews; it passed 7-0 as amended, though one member said DHS should have been present to answer questions. HB 2202, appropriating $300,000 annually for a dementia care tele-mentoring program, drew support from the Alzheimer’s Association and a patient with younger-onset Alzheimer’s; it passed 6-1, with one no vote arguing medical schools should teach the material instead of the state funding it. HB 2307, an emergency measure to address placement of dangerous, incompetent, non-restorable defendants, was heavily debated and amended to use up to three beds at the Arizona State Hospital forensic campus temporarily, create a study committee, and sunset after five years; counties and DHS disagreed over whether counties should bear any costs, and the bill passed 4-3 as amended.
Finally, HB 2584, which prohibits public funds from being used for genetic sequencing equipment or services tied to foreign adversaries, passed 4-3 after a sponsor and a national security witness argued it would protect genomic data from hostile foreign control. The committee then adjourned.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Jan 28th, 2026 at 11:26 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for the way that you treat survivors.
- He is a career academic family physician.
- But we have so many more physicians and students in the gallery.
- Got a long way to go, but he is going to be a primary care physician.
- He is a board-certified family medicine and obesity medicine physician.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Children and Families May 11th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Children and Families
Transcript Highlights:
- practice of abortion, you cannot deny that a baby who is born alive is a human being, a person to be treated
- being able to clarify in statute that these children born alive are human beings and deserve to be treated
- so this is a part of that... ...that these children born alive are human beings and deserve to be treated
- those that are born alive after an abortive attempt, are human beings under the law and should be treated
- OBGYNs, like physicians in any other field of medicine, are dedicated to protecting, preserving, and
Committee:
House Children and Families
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules Jun 12th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules
Transcript Highlights:
- That's your physician.
- X is not the treating physician of [the] patient, does this presume that it is the actual treating physician
- 130 physicians that I oversee in their work.
- As a physician, I can access anyone's info.
- As a physician, I can access anyone's information in PDMP, but I do not.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Professional Registration and Licensing Mar 4th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Professional Registration and Licensing
Transcript Highlights:
- There was, the most recent one regarding a physician was December of 2025.
- I should be regulated with other physicians and surgeons.
- Physicians are trained to do their thing. Optometrists are trained.
- Physicians are trained to do their thing. Optomists are trained.
- We work right alongside nurses and physicians in those ICU areas.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (04/15/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> them and treating them right. them and treating them right.
- </c> between a physician and a pharmacist. between a physician and a pharmacist.
- </c> between a physician and a pharmacist. between a physician and a pharmacist.
- If a physician doesn't If the made.
- ><c> pharmacist</c><02:40:18.680><c> should</c> physician thinks a pharmacist should physician thinks
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Professional Registration and Licensing Mar 4th, 2026
Professional Registration and Licensing
Transcript Highlights:
- The most recent one regarding a physician was December of 2025.
- The most recent one regarding a physician was December of 2025.
- I should be regulated with other physicians.”
- “I should be regulated with other physicians and surgeons.
- We assess and treat all pulmonary diseases.
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 3111, which concerns bail bonds oversight. Representative Phelps offered a committee substitute that moved bail bondsmen into the existing Board of Private Investigators, Private Fire Investigators, and Professional Surety Bail Bonds to avoid a fiscal note. An amendment was adopted to remove fee caps in the substitute, and the committee then adopted the revised substitute and voted it do pass 21-0.
The committee then heard Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill 1233, the CPA licensure bill, along with related provisions for social work supervisors and speech pathologists. Senator Trent and supporters from the Missouri Society of CPAs, the speech-language association, the social work community, and the State Auditor’s Office said the bill would address CPA shortages by creating a new licensure path based more on experience, while preserving exam standards and adding reciprocity. No opposition was offered, and the hearing concluded without a vote.
House Bill 2999 on optometry scope of practice drew extensive testimony and debate. The sponsor and ophthalmology witnesses described the bill as a negotiated compromise that would codify specific procedures optometrists may perform, while opponents from optometry argued it would freeze scope in statute, limit modernization, and require repeated legislative action as standards change. Witnesses disagreed sharply over whether the bill improved patient safety and access, whether the procedures were already within current practice, and whether surgical procedures such as lasers should be included. The bill was heard but no committee action was taken in the transcript.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 2957 on respiratory therapist licensure. Representative Castile and respiratory care witnesses said the bill would phase out the CRT as the entry credential for new applicants in favor of the higher RRT standard, while grandfathering current CRTs and adding renewal audits to confirm active credentials. Supporters said the change reflects current training standards and would raise patient-care quality without reducing workforce numbers. No opposition testimony was presented, and the hearing adjourned without a vote.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a physician, a neurologist, and a scientist.
- That's why we believe that education for the public, but also for physicians, is crucial.
- As many of the physicians who were here earlier mentioned, we are treating symptoms, not the root cause
- I have the honor and joy of treating patients with all stages of care.
- Our research program partners not only with physicians and other clinical researchers.
Committee:
Senate Finance
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- That's from a physician. Madam Chair? Go ahead.
- I trained as a physician. I continue to train as a physician.
- Coffin said physician-to-physician conversation is critical.
- Lastly, the bill treats all denials as if they're the same when they're not.
- It has a lot higher standard for physicians.
Bills:
HB2180 , HB2184 , HB2188 , HB2194 , HB2206 , HB2321 , HB2322 , HB2438 , HB2442 , HB2448 , HB2727 , HB2797
Committees:
House Health & Human Services , House House Health & Human Services Committee of Reference
Keywords:
appropriation, funding, University of Arizona, education, state budget, fetal death, funeral homes, informed consent, abortion, women's rights, medical assistance, emotional support, language acquisition, early intervention, hearing impairment, grant program, deaf education, health care, insurance claims, prior authorization
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Just as it is not fair to treat me or you based on our anatomy, it is not fair to treat trans people.
- We are physicians. We love the state.
- women we treat.
- With the patient, with the referring physicians, consulting physicians, and even attorneys to make sure
- Texas physicians in...
Committee:
House State Affairs
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Health Committee Jul 1st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- As a physician, I routinely counsel my patients on the importance of prenatal vitamins.
- Ryan Spencer, on behalf of the California Academy of Family Physicians, in support.
- I think that's really essential, as we can educate physicians and patients alike.
- And that's very physician dependent.
- They're probably going to be treated initially.
Summary:
The committee heard several health-related bills, with extensive testimony on maternal health, prenatal safety, privacy, valley fever, Medi-Cal contracting, anti-discrimination protections, and health data sharing. SB 32 would require time-and-distance standards for labor and delivery units in health plan networks; the author and supporters said it would address maternity care deserts and improve access, while health plans opposed. SB 646 would require testing and public disclosure for toxic elements in prenatal vitamins; supporters emphasized fetal and maternal safety and transparency, while industry opponents warned it could confuse consumers or lead to reduced nutrient content. Both bills drew broad support from medical and public health groups, and both were advanced on party-line or near-unanimous votes after committee discussion.
The committee also approved SB 313, which moves a parent’s birthplace on birth certificates into the confidential section to protect privacy, and SB 297, which directs CDPH to identify high-incidence valley fever regions and publish them for screening and awareness; valley fever experts and supporters stressed rising cases and the need for earlier diagnosis, while local health jurisdictions raised concerns about mandates. SB 324, dealing with Medi-Cal enhanced care management and community supports, would prioritize local community-based organizations and clarify contracting and data practices; it received strong support from nonprofits and community health advocates, with children’s hospitals and health plans seeking amendments, and it was sent forward after amendments were discussed.
The committee then considered SB 418, which would codify ACA nondiscrimination protections in state law and allow up to a 12-month prescription supply for hormone therapy when medically necessary. Supporters framed it as protecting continuity of care for transgender patients and others using hormone therapy, including IVF and menopause patients, while opponents argued it would conflict with federal policy and promote harmful treatments. The bill passed to the next committee. Finally, SB 660 would strengthen the California Health and Human Services data exchange framework by creating governance and accountability for data sharing across health and social service entities; supporters said it would reduce duplication and improve care coordination, while some providers and hospital groups raised concerns. It was approved and sent to the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. The consent calendar and the other measures were also voted out, with the committee recording the required roll-call votes and sending the bills onward.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This agreement allows our faculty who also practice as physicians to pursue their dual role in treating
- Physicians teach by doing.
- We are the Minnesota physician?
- . physicians. physicians.
- </c> Minnesota physicians. Of course. Minnesota physicians. Of course.
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- And sometimes you go to an emergency room, a physician may perform it.
- I'm an emergency medicine physician of almost 30 years.
- of physicians that may or may not have the training.
- Now, I'm a retired emergency physician.
- Like, you need to make sure that your partner is treated as well.
Bills:
HB62 , HB124 , HB182 , HB193 , HB198 , HB203 , HB223 , HB237 , HB469 , HB486 , HB574 , HB779 , HB796 , HB919 , SCR2 , SB4 , SB36 , SB38 , SB109 , SB152 , SB168 , SB195 , SB216 , SB221 , SB236 , SB404
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
Keywords:
Louisiana Women's Policy, gender equality, policy research, commission membership, women's representation, Domestic Violence, judicial experience, legislation, criminal law, family law, HB182, sexual assault, rape kit, forensic examination, forensic medical exam, sexual assault survivor, sexual assault nurse examiner, SANE, emergency department, hospital staffing
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 18, 2026 - 08:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- clinics and physician-led clinics owned by physicians that have a contractual relationship. relationship
- Physicians can freely move between the hospital and clinic to see the patient through care.
- Neurology care by embedding pharmacists in a 2025 article by a physician, Noah Rosen.
- HB 683 modernizes the physician assistant practice to improve access to care across Florida.
- It requires physicians who diagnose or treat a patient for Parkinson's Disease to report nationally recognized