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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 04/14/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Granted, sometimes there are last-minute appointments, but I've personally have taken people to go get blood
- I've notified the guardian, hey, I'm going to take so-and-so on this day to go get their blood drawn
Committee:
House Revenue
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Feb 9th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It is where they go for cancer screenings, birth control, STI testing and treatment, annual exams, and
- Planned Parenthood provides primary and preventative care, cancer screening, STI testing and treatment
- Parenthood every single week will continue to be able to get their care, whether that's pregnancy testing
- These health centers provide the basics people depend on: cancer screenings, STI testing, treatment,
- They rely on Planned Parenthood for STI testing services.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
- So now we will be evaluated on a test that has nothing to do with what we're teaching?
- For non-tested grades and subjects, I think there's permissive language in here to ensure that where
- it's aligned, it's aligned, and then there's language also for those sections that are not tested in
- a tested grade or subject.
- And are you saying because there's only one test for high school, if I teach freshmen, am I going to
Committee:
Assembly Education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- One of these teachers has five tested math preps.
- He's taken three STAR tests this spring, and they were very stressful for him.
- If I do well on this test... and I assumed that had to be inaccurate.
- Hayden, you did you test? We had you downlisted as for the bill; was that accurate?
- Why are we looking at, frankly, sunsetting that test, that certification?
Bills:
HB2
Committee:
Senate Education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- the public, improving the Texas criminal justice system is at the heart of our agenda today, from testing
- Currently, Texas law permits officers to administer these tests without consistent training or testing
- They conduct the tests I previously mentioned.
- Test the calendar. Is there any objection? Hearing none, so ordered. Thank you.
- It kept evidence from him that the state knew about, but they wouldn't test it.
Bills:
SB552 , SB1099 , SB1124 , SB1208 , SB1372 , SB1506 , SB1667 , SB1804 , SB1806 , SB1870 , SB1936 , SB1937 , SB2180 , SB2405 , SB2569 , SB2570 , SB1646
Committee:
Senate Criminal Justice
Keywords:
community supervision, criminal justice, illegal alien, deferred adjudication, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, SB 1099, undocumented immigrant, unauthorized immigrant, immigration status, felony sentencing enhancement, criminal penalty increase, Texas Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, affirmative finding, judgment finding, deportation, public safety, immigration enforcement, sentencing reform, felony offense
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 02/18/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- In the feasibility study to test the feasibility of the cultural mall project that my firm conducted
- </c><00:36:14.839><c> in</c> the zoo launched our own pilot test in the zoo launched our own pilot test
- > from</c> for your test test uh testimony from for your test test uh testimony from remote<00:52:59.040
- For surface waters, we test our water to see if there's anything wrong with it.
- Can they ask you to do those testing, or do you do that?
Committee:
Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 01/30/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- or trained their IT staff or tested or trained their IT staff or their<00:59:04.079><c> staff</c><00
- Then if we kind of switch over to our non-IT area of testing, we looked at lottery retailers and the
- Did you see any major holes in there, any test fires? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr.
- that, but it is something that we didn’t test further.
- </c><01:05:41.880><c> further</c> something that we didn't test further something that we didn't test
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This is typical from the Miller test case law that has serious artistic, literary, political, or scientific
- This is typical from the Miller test case law that has serious artistic, literary, political, or scientific
- While this version narrows some definitions from the 2024 law and more fully embraces the Miller test
- especially small and rural libraries, will have little choice but to remove a restricted material. test
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Rules
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- through the process, I didn't necessarily feel ready for the classroom because I just had to take the test
- And I think that we probably will make some changes to allow for testing because if you're doing a test
- We can improve test scores, and if you look at this.
Committee:
House Common Education
Keywords:
HB4274, Oklahoma schools, interdistrict transfer, open transfer, school enrollment, military families, active duty, National Guard, Reserve orders, military installation, residency requirements, district of choice, public school transfer, student transfer, special education, IEP, Section 504, military housing, base housing, electronic enrollment
ND
Transcript Highlights:
- in and intends a public school is eligible to receive an ESA of $1,000, but I don't see the means-testing
- Chairman Heinert, Representative Hoke, that means test, that 500% was specifically supposed to be Representative
- Hoke, that means test, that 500% was specifically supposed to be for the students that go to a non-partisan
- So that means test was specifically for the non-public students.
Committee:
House Education
Summary:
The committee reconvened to work on re-engrossed Senate Bill 2400, which dealt with education savings accounts and related school-choice provisions. Members discussed several amendments already incorporated into version 4.006, including changes affecting the Center for Distance Education, homeschool language, marketplace penalties, and an increase in the ESA amount from $500 to $1,000. The committee first reconsidered its prior action, then adopted the 4.006 amendments unanimously, while noting that an updated fiscal note was still needed.
A Department of Public Instruction fiscal officer, Adam Tessier, explained the revised fiscal impact. He estimated the bill would cost roughly $124.4 million in the first year, based on assumptions about student participation and utilization rates. He also clarified that the means test at 500% of poverty applied to non-public students in participating schools, and estimated that the private-school portion of the bill accounted for about $5 million of the total cost. Members asked several questions about the assumptions behind the estimate and the scope of the program.
After discussion, Representative Conmy moved a do not pass recommendation, citing concerns that the marketplace structure was administratively cumbersome and that direct aid through another mechanism would be preferable. The committee voted 11-3 to adopt the do not pass motion. Representative Hauck was designated to carry the bill to the floor.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Cancer. screenings, and SDI testing, not more barriers.
- STI testing and screening. cancer screening, prevention methods for diabetes treatment, pregnancy counseling
- patients must navigate. access basic life-saving services like breast and cervical cancer screening, STI testing
- STI testing, education on contraception, and access to birth control.
Keywords:
Texas, healthcare, reproductive health, Care No Matter What Act, Planned Parenthood, maternal mortality, teen pregnancy, funding cuts, community health
Summary:
The meeting addressed critical health care concerns in Texas, highlighting the consequences of funding cuts on access to reproductive health services. Key speakers emphasized the urgent need for the Care No Matter What Act, which aims to restore funding to healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood. They underscored the alarming statistics of maternal mortality and the rising rates of teen pregnancies, particularly in Black and Latina communities. Testimonies shared during the meeting illustrated the real-life impacts of healthcare access issues on individuals and families across the state, illustrating the necessity for legislative action to ensure comprehensive reproductive health services.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Press Conference: C.A.R.E. No Matter What Bill Rollout Mar 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Texans need access to birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing, not more barriers.
- STI testing and screening, cancer screening, prevention methods for diabetes treatment, pregnancy counseling
- navigate just to access basic life-saving services like breast and cervical cancer screening, STI testing
- I was able to access my first annual exam, STI testing, education on contraception, and access to birth
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- Not only did I develop the program and the frameworks, we wrote the teacher testing.
- I was allowed to implement people who wanted to take the test. I was allowed to give the test.
- I was allowed to implement people who wanted to take the test.
- I was allowed to give the test to them. So I covered every basis of this program.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Public Service
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Service held its third hearing of the 194th General Court session, taking testimony on several individual bills and home rule petitions, mostly involving retirement and pension-related relief. The committee chair outlined hearing procedures, including three-minute limits for individuals, ten-minute limits for panels, livestreaming, and the deadline for written testimony. At the end of the hearing, the chair noted that House matters heard that day must be reported by Friday, July 11, 2025, subject to extensions, and the committee adjourned after testimony concluded.
Several witnesses supported bills seeking retirement credit or pension adjustments for public employees. These included H. 2917 for Dedham-Westwood Water District employees seeking pension buy-in credit; H. 2976 for Eileen Mullen to purchase creditable service for teaching in a criminal justice pilot program; H. 2996 for Virginia Cummings, a retired Department of Correction lieutenant seeking greater pension parity; H. 2977 for Wendy Lopieri to buy back part-time community college service; and H. 2989 for Wayne Taylor, who said he was mistakenly credited for fewer years of select board service than he expected. Testimony emphasized long public service, injuries, and what witnesses described as unfair denials or flawed interpretations of retirement law.
The committee also heard testimony on bills involving post-retirement earnings and disability-related relief. Kevin Blanchett testified in opposition to H. 2931, arguing it would improperly reduce money owed to a regional retirement system and its members, while the bill’s sponsor argued the retirement board was seeking an excessive recovery based on law firm gross earnings rather than the individual’s earnings. Jamie Magarian described severe injuries from a 2018 crash and urged favorable action on his bill, with support from the State Police Association. Michael Palmer testified in favor of S. 1841, seeking to extend prior violent-crime retirement income-cap relief to his case after being shot on duty and later finding that even part-time private-sector work exceeded his retirement earnings limit.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/24/2026 - House Republican Caucus Calendar #13
Transcript Highlights:
- Carter, SB 1037 is focused specifically on the internet connectivity and then logic and accuracy testing
- So what this bill does is remove the financial barrier that allows the continuum of testing to occur
- suspicious, but then you're only covered for the initial mammogram and not the subsequent diagnostic testing
- So what this bill does is remove the financial barrier that allows the continuum of testing to occur
- suspicious, but then you're only covered for the initial mammogram and not the subsequent diagnostic testing
Summary:
The caucus reviewed a long list of Senate bills and memorials, mostly on consent calendars, covering housing, elections, health care, public safety, land use, transportation, and water. Several measures focused on housing and local government regulation, including limits on municipal interference with home design standards, restrictions on alleged “malicious delays” in permitting, and rules on exactions. Election-related bills addressed internet access for voting equipment, timekeeping requirements for election systems, primary election timing, precinct committeeman vacancies, and other election administration changes. Other topics included liquor law updates, assisted living facility rules, deed and title fraud prevention, a Freedom of Speech Monument committee, renaming public spaces, and a bill restricting gender transition procedures for minors.
Health and human services bills drew discussion on behavioral health technician definitions and AHCCCS/DHS coordination, Medicaid billing during facility ownership changes, breast cancer screening cost-sharing, naturopathic physicians administering IV antibiotics and similar drugs, safe-haven newborn surrender at hospitals, and reporting requirements for dialysis social workers. In public safety and judiciary, members considered bills on probation for dangerous crimes against children, sex offender registration limitations, victim restitution costs, unlawful alerting, increased penalties for unlawful flight, and a new offense for motor fuel theft. One member noted a no vote on extending the Vulnerable Adult System Study Committee, saying it would become a long-running study committee, while supporters said the committee had produced useful recommendations.
The caucus also heard land, agriculture, energy, water, and transportation measures, including creation of a foreign entity land review commission, restrictions on transporting Mexican gray wolf pups with state resources, water reuse and banking provisions, solar installation disclosures and roof inspections, a larger revolving fund loan cap, and several congressional memorials. Transportation items included roadable aircraft registration, motor vehicle booting rules, military property signage, a towing and impound study committee, and photo enforcement penalties. Public safety bills included extending traumatic event counseling programs and requiring state data sharing with the federal government regarding unauthorized aliens. No formal votes were taken in the transcript; members mostly asked clarifying questions and several sponsors explained the intent and practical effects of their bills.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Transportation and Public Works Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I also just think that, I mean, in Sequooro County, I don’t have to have an emissions test.
- Atron County, I don’t have to have an emissions test. Right?
- think, is going to be far more than, because you can’t go to an MVD and get this full diagnostic testing
- I just had my car emissions test done...
- I just had my car emissions test done, and actually it failed. It's a 2015, and it drives great.
Summary:
The committee heard House Memorial 23, which asks the Motor Vehicle Division and the Regulation and Licensing Department to study whether New Mexico should reestablish a statewide motor vehicle safety inspection program. The sponsor and expert witness argued that modern vehicles are far more complex than when the old program ended in the 1970s, and cited studies from Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Carnegie Mellon, and an international inspection organization suggesting safety inspections are associated with fewer fatalities. They said the study should examine feasibility, costs, where inspections would be conducted, what vehicles would be covered, and whether small businesses could be certified to perform inspections, similar to Bernalillo County’s emissions model.
Several members raised concerns about added costs, burdens on rural drivers, possible lawsuits against inspection businesses, and whether the memorial was drafted as a study of benefits rather than a balanced look at pros and cons. Some questioned whether the Regulation and Licensing Department had the capacity to take on the work and whether the program would effectively become another mandate or fee. Supporters emphasized that unsafe vehicles endanger not only drivers but others on the road, and noted that the study could also consider subsidies for low-income drivers and the impact on areas with higher traffic density.
The committee discussed how inspections might work, including whether they would cover physical components like tires, brakes, steering, and axles as well as electronic safety systems such as lane assist and collision avoidance. The presenter said commercial vehicles already face separate inspection requirements and that tribal lands and pueblos would not be covered. After public comment, the committee voted to pass the memorial on a roll call vote, with several members voting yes and others voting no; one member explained her no vote as opposition to added regulation and costs.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Aug 29th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- of concern and menstrual products, do pass with author amendments to, among other things, modify testing
- Chemicals of concern and menstrual products do pass with author amendments to among other things modify testing
- SB 724, Richardson, public housing lead testing, held in committee.
- Weber-Pearson, chemical hair relaxers, do pass as amended to strike the registration requirement, modify testing
- chemical hair relaxers, do pass with author's amendments to strike the registration requirement, modify testing
Summary:
The Assembly Appropriations Committee held its August 29, 2025 suspense hearing on Senate bills, with the chair emphasizing the state’s ongoing budget constraints and the need to make difficult choices among 261 bills on the suspense file. After establishing a quorum, the committee began taking action bill by bill, with many measures receiving do pass or do pass with amendments recommendations, while others were held in committee or designated as two-year bills. The chair noted the agenda was organized alphabetically by author and that results would be posted later on the committee website.
The hearing covered a wide range of topics, including insurance and claims data, wildfire relief and prevention, water planning, energy and utility regulation, housing and land use, health care, labor and employment, criminal justice, education, environmental policy, and election-related measures. Several bills were amended before passage, often to narrow scope, remove sections, adjust definitions, delay implementation, or clarify funding and enforcement provisions. Some notable actions included moving bills on AI regulation, transit-oriented housing, paid family leave, wildfire mapping, chemical hair relaxers, and pharmacy benefit managers, while other bills on subjects such as controlled substances, high-speed rail, and certain education or housing proposals were held.
The committee also took formal roll-call votes on selected bills, with some passing on A roll calls and others on B roll calls; a number of measures were advanced with Republicans not voting. One highlighted vote was SB 79 by Senator Wiener, which passed after amendments and a recorded roll call. At the end of the hearing, the committee reported that 190 bills were moved to the Assembly Floor, either as do pass or do pass with amendments, concluding the suspense hearing for the session.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It clears up. licensing procedures and makes testing more consistent.
- lays out penalties and unlicensed hemp farming and expands. rules on transportation, handling, and testing
- Standardized lab testing requirements including mandatory reporting of THC levels and other countermaneuvers
- This would also bring more testing and quality control. I've been in medical care.
- decades and we have a flawless blueprint on how we've been able to structure and create the type of testing
Committee:
House Agriculture & Livestock
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- My test IC test ike test check one too Chairman's I test one too Est ing testing Rules committee will
- Public schools have testing requirements, so is that an accurate gauge of whether or not we're seeing
- Would you support eliminating those testing requirements in public schools?
Committee:
Senate Rules
Keywords:
emergency management, severe weather, youth camp, summer camp, overnight camp, day camp, outdoor education, adventure camp, wilderness program, campground safety, tornado preparedness, flooding, flash flood, high winds, hail, lightning, extreme heat, extreme cold, wildfire smoke, evacuation plan
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Elementary and Secondary Education Apr 1st, 2026
Elementary and Secondary Education
Transcript Highlights:
- They have different testing about Missouri knowledge, Missouri Constitution knowledge, and then also
- And then is the Missouri state test, the Missouri civic test, that they have to take their sophomore
- So, to answer your question, the civics and patriotic work group—not only the tests that Representative
- So A, to answer your question, civics and patriotic work group, not only the tests that Representative
- The seal should recognize students who engage in rigorous, time-tested activities such as mock trial,
Committee:
House Elementary and Secondary Education