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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 04/11/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Office of appellet council and training. Office of appellet council and training.
- peace officer standards and training. peace officer standards and training.
- ICPOET post training fund.
- of training funds.
- At the root of the reforms was training. At the root of the reforms was training.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Aging and Independence Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Aging and Independence
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- support that this bill will open up a new step on the career ladder path for those professionals to be trained
- People were trained, residents were safe, and the model aligned with the actual needs of a rest home
- People were trained, residents were safe, and the model aligned with the actual needs of a rest home
- They are kind, educated individuals who are well-trained and capable adults.
- The Commonwealth's own material describes it as a program that allows specifically trained unlicensed
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Aging and Independence held a hearing on two assisted living bills, Senate 3057 and House 5376, which would create an Assisted Living Residence Trust Fund to support certification staffing, compliance reviews, complaint investigations, ombudsman services, public reporting, appeals, and oversight. Testimony from MassALA, AARP, and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman generally supported the bills and the dedicated funding stream, but MassALA urged amendments to expand career pathways for staff through certified medication aides and to add guardrails on the use of fines as a funding source. The Ombudsman supported the fund and emphasized the need for additional staffing to better serve the state’s assisted living residents. Committee members asked for draft amendment language, and the chairs indicated they were open to further discussion, especially on fines and CMA language.
The committee then heard testimony on Senate 3056 and House 5243 regarding medication administration in rest homes. Providers, including the Massachusetts Association of Residential Care Homes, LeadingAge Massachusetts, and several rest home operators, opposed proposed Department of Public Health changes that would eliminate the long-standing “responsible person” model and move rest homes toward the Medication Administration Program (MAP). Witnesses said the current model has been used for decades, is tailored to rest homes, and is essential to affordability, staffing stability, and resident continuity of care; they warned that replacing it with MAP or nurse-only administration would raise costs, worsen workforce shortages, and could force closures or resident displacement. They asked the committee to support legislation preserving responsible persons’ authority to administer medications while improving training and oversight.
Committee members asked questions about the history of the responsible person model, how medication administration works day to day, whether other states use similar systems, and whether data exist comparing medication error rates under MAP and the current model. The chairs said they were still reviewing building-code-related recommendations raised in the assisted living discussion and noted that some issues might be better addressed through a task force. The hearing concluded after testimony and questions, and the committee voted to adjourn.
NH
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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery
Transcript Highlights:
- After our trainings, they realize easy access...
- Every single state agency should be demanding trainings for all of their staff.
- And so, you know, when I found out what my children had, I started doing trainings, and I've trained
- We funded research, we trained doctors, and we built systems of care.
- We funded research, we trained doctors, and we built systems of care.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery opened its first public hearing of the 2025–26 session with remarks from the Senate and House chairs outlining the committee’s priorities. They noted recent work on addiction and recovery legislation, the ongoing youth behavioral health crisis, and that members might need to leave periodically for floor votes. The chairs explained hearing procedures, including three-minute testimony limits, written testimony deadlines, and reporting deadlines for Senate and House bills. The hearing then focused on several bills related to youth mental health, overdose prevention, and psychedelic treatment research.
A major portion of the hearing centered on bills to improve youth crisis response and overdose prevention. Testimony strongly supported bills to print the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline on student ID cards, with speakers from mental health organizations, crisis centers, and individuals sharing personal stories of depression, suicide attempts, and the importance of making 988 as familiar as 911. Another set of bills would require schools to stock naloxone and provide overdose prevention education. Physicians, harm reduction advocates, students, and grieving family members testified that school-based Narcan access and education could save lives, reduce stigma, and help students recognize overdoses and understand Good Samaritan protections. Senator O’Connor and Tamika Perry also testified for a bill to strengthen substance use prevention education and reduce overdose abandonment, emphasizing the need to teach students about overdose risks and the legal protections for calling 911.
The committee also heard testimony on a bill to authorize a pilot program for psychedelic treatment in licensed facilities. Senator Friedman and several medical and behavioral health professionals argued the proposal was a narrow, research-based approach distinct from the broader ballot question rejected in 2024. They said the bill would allow only a small number of supervised clinics to use psychedelics for conditions such as depression, PTSD, anxiety, and substance use disorders, with data reporting and Department of Public Health oversight. Supporters described it as a cautious way to study promising treatments while avoiding unsupervised or commercialized use.
Finally, the committee heard support for a bill to create a special commission and five-year strategic plan for children’s behavioral health services, with testimony that the current system is fragmented, difficult for families to navigate, and strained by workforce and funding challenges. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing; the committee primarily received testimony and questions on the bills.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Advisory Committee on Capitol Area Security 11/21/25
Transcript Highlights:
- So we provided training to them.
- Captain Rosski has provided training within the last month, both drill and training.
- So, fire drills and then the active shooter training, or response, I should say, training.
- And as far as training goes, we have started training different departments.
- That's it from the House. training different departments. Um most training different departments.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Agriculture Mar 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year training our 135 plus tax.
- We have in-house training centers. We train tax.
- And those are trained technicians that's been through hours and hours.
- And, you know, just a lot of training that.
- Our tax are not equipped to service them until they have that training.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Families and Children.(3-24-26)
Families & Children
Transcript Highlights:
- This is an act related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training State
- training uh match. training uh match.
- And SNAP employment and training is a, you know, there are, uh, this will require working with CHFS.
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We have worked with workforce solutions. and other organizations to do teacher training and career training
- We have had the statutory authority to do workforce training; it just has not been funded.
- We train our workforce.
- We've got to start training workers so they can go and be ready to fill the capacity that's coming.
- We've started to work with them and start to train. This indigenous crew is absolutely critical.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/17/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- A film workforce training program provides us an opportunity to do several things: first, to train people
- skilled Workforce need educates trains skilled Workforce need educates trains and<00:20:38.320><
- They do not administer training.
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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- Law enforcement are actually trained, when they go through training run by the Municipal Police Training
- And law enforcement are actually trained when they go through training run by the Municipal Police Training
- Committee, trained so when they go through training run by the Municipal Place Training Committee they're
- training, right?
- Is there adequate training? Restorative justice works.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice held an informational hearing focused on diversion programs and services for high-risk youth, with no bills before the committee and no votes taken. The chair and members emphasized that the session was intended to hear from invited testimony and discuss how to strengthen diversion, reduce court involvement, and improve outcomes for youth. The committee heard first from the Office of the Child Advocate and diversion providers, who described the Massachusetts Youth Diversion Program, its statewide expansion to 10 of 11 court counties, and its reported success rate of about 80% completion without reoffending. Testimony highlighted that diversion keeps youth out of court, connects them more quickly to community-based services, and can address needs such as mental health, education, and substance use. Witnesses also pointed to racial and ethnic disparities in arrests versus summonses, regional variation in diversion access, and the need for clearer statutory authority, more funding, and broader use of pre-arrest diversion.
Committee members asked about the difference between arrest and summons, who can initiate diversion, why arrest rates have increased relative to summonses, and how diversion might prevent harmful downstream consequences such as detention or immigration enforcement involvement. Witnesses said police, clerk magistrates, district attorneys, and judges can refer youth to diversion, and argued that local policy, training, and legislative changes could expand use. They also discussed the impact of detention on youth, including stigma, lost school time, and the lack of credit for time served in the juvenile system. Testimony from Citizens for Juvenile Justice focused on prevention, school discipline, and the school-to-prison pipeline, arguing for more restorative practices, better data, and legislation to limit suspensions and expulsions, especially for younger students and nonviolent conduct. They also raised concerns about DCF-involved and foster youth, who are disproportionately represented in the juvenile system.
The final panel, the Children's League of Massachusetts and transition-age youth providers, shifted to child welfare and young adult supports. They supported reducing court involvement in child requiring assistance cases, expanding family resource centers, and strengthening services for transition-age youth leaving DCF or DYS custody. Providers described housing instability, homelessness, and the need for education, employment, behavioral health, and supportive housing services for young adults ages 18 to 23. Across the hearing, witnesses consistently argued that early intervention, community-based supports, and diversion are more effective than court processing or detention for most youth, and that the legislature can help through funding, statutory clarity, expanded eligibility, and stronger data collection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture (2-25-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- training and who conducts most of your training for your association in the state.
- training and who conducts most of your training for your association in the state.
- I've kept up with y'all your training I've kept up with y'all your training and<00:24:29.240>
- and who conducts most of your training and who conducts most of your training<00:24:33.600>
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Intro: 00:00
Attendance Roll Call: 00:31
Discussion of SB 122: 02:30
Roll Call Vote on SB 122: 26:47, 958, all
Summary:
The Senate Agriculture Committee took up Senate Bill 122, a measure dealing with pet stores, breeders, and the scope of local regulation. The chair explained the bill was intended to balance private business rights with local control, and said he wanted to clarify definitions such as qualified breeder, local authority, and where fees and fines would go. He also said he would work on a floor amendment and noted concerns about whether the bill would allow localities to outright ban pet stores or instead only regulate them. The committee first adopted a committee substitute by motion and voice vote.
Supporters of the bill, including representatives from Petland and an attorney who had worked on animal-related regulation in Ohio, argued that the bill would create statewide standards, protect responsible pet retailers from what they described as politically motivated local bans, and preserve consumer choice. They said local governments would still be able to inspect, require documentation, and enforce licensing, but not shut businesses down without due process. A senator from Campbell County asked whether the bill would interfere with strong local ordinances; supporters responded that the bill would set standards higher than USDA rules and still allow local regulation, while opposing local bans.
Opposition came from the Kentucky League of Cities and representatives of Kentucky animal care and control agencies. KLC said local decisions should remain at the local level and noted that several cities and one county already had ordinances that could be affected; it also said the bill was opposed by its board and might overlap with pending litigation. Animal control representatives said the bill did not clearly define breeder verification or enforcement responsibility, could restrict local authority, and did not address animal care conditions or consumer transparency. After questions and debate, the committee voted on the bill; the roll call ended in a 5-5 tie, and Senate Bill 122 failed to pass out of committee.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- With seasonal employees that we train: retirees, people that are able to come.
- They go through training. Not all make it.
- So we try to prepare and train as supervisors.
- We all, as part of signature training—which everybody that does this is part of—there's a state-run training
- All of those things have alterations that are part of our training.
Summary:
The committee heard a presentation from several county supervisors of elections and the Florida Supervisors of Elections Association on the 2024 election cycle and priorities for the 2025 session. They described very high turnout in the presidential election, major operational planning needs, and the heavy reliance on seasonal workers, list maintenance, ballot-on-demand systems, and secure chain-of-custody procedures. They also discussed the impact of recent legislative changes on voter-roll maintenance, including inactive voter removal, and said Florida’s election administration has improved to what they called a “platinum standard.”
The supervisors outlined several legislative requests: allowing more than one non-government “wild card” early voting site to improve access and emergency flexibility; requiring newly naturalized citizens to update driver’s license information so voter records match DHSMV data; exempting home addresses of certain election workers and ballot transporters from public records to improve safety and recruitment; restoring a checkbox on vote-by-mail return envelopes so voters can stay on the vote-by-mail list for the next cycle; aligning base salaries for supervisors, property appraisers, and clerks with other constitutional officers; and reducing ballot length by removing precinct committee races from the ballot. They also said they expect a committee bill to carry some of these proposals.
Members questioned the panel about ballot transport security, signature verification, vote-by-mail expiration, public records transparency, and the petition process for constitutional amendments. The supervisors said ballots are transported under detailed county plans with tamper-evident seals, chain-of-custody logs, trained workers, and in some cases two-person transport teams. On petitions, they said the process is labor-intensive and expensive, that fraud has occurred in some cases, and that they favor reforms such as requiring more personal identifying information and having initiative sponsors mail petitions to voters rather than making supervisors handle the mailing. They also said signature mismatches can be cured within 72 hours after Election Day and that voters are notified when possible. After the supervisors’ presentation, the committee also heard brief public testimony from Kathleen Griffiths, who urged adoption of commercial-style risk management standards in election systems and referenced several election-related bills her group supports.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Does that fund more vocational training at schools? That part of it? Mr.
- and parental training.
- How are we training for the future?
- More money, but we ignore that part of it and training.
- The higher education department has been training on this.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- We can and should train first responders to recognize and mitigate swatting incidents, but training alone
- first aid training.
- So there is training. Yeah, that's a good question. It is difficult, so there is training involved.
- if no one was harmed, would be, okay, you all need to go back to training and undergo training to resolve
- if no one was harmed, would be, okay, you all need to go back to training and undergo training to resolve
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- If they're providing training to 80 people, we look to see if they're training 80 people.
- 80 people, we look to see if training 80 people, we look to see if they're<00:31:00.720>
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MN
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- He reported that the required outreach and training will be administered by their existing Title IX training
- 9 training their existing title 9 training administrator<00:06:58.000>
within <00:06:58.280>- Last year, we trained 185 learners who spent over 21,000 hours with us.
- provide new and different training provide new and different training opportunities<01:36:37.040
- more effective more effectively train more effective more effectively train future<01:50:11.960>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 01/29/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- As we move on and look to our priorities, training funds, commonly called the Philando Castile training
- and look to our priorities uh training and look to our priorities uh training funds<00:52:58.480
- efforts related to improving training efforts related to improving training requirements<00:53:19.520
- state mandated approach to training state mandated approach to training requirements<00:53:32.440
- that its mandating uh mandated training that its mandating uh mandated training requirements<00:
MN
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- state we also expanded training state we also expanded training offerings<00:30:05.640>
to to those systems are properly trained to those systems are properly trained and<00:34:40.520>
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services Apr 29th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And I'm going to give a brief update on CDSS's online mandated reporter training.
- Again, similarly, we are The CDSS online mandated reporter training is being revised.
- The training helps mandated reporters understand their role, how to identify abuse and neglect, when
- It includes both the general training module and eight profession-specific modules.
- We're also developing a distribution and communication plan for the revised training.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- I think ...and training standards, ensuring quality and consistency as this model grows.
- That'll mean enhanced training, quality assurance, and data verification within the agency.
- What it allows is 80 hours a month of on-the-job training, vocational education training, job skills
- We're giving an opportunity to participate in on-the-job training, vocational training, because that's
- The more we can educate people, the more job training we can give them.
Keywords:
nursing title, advanced practice registered nurse, advertising, professional standards, disciplinary action, uterine fibroids, public records, health privacy, epidemiology, medical information, emergency department, physicians, privacy, personal information, sickle cell disease, sickle cell anemia, pain management, controlled substances, prescribing education, continuing medical education
Summary:
The committee first considered SB 268, a public records exemption for emergency physicians. Senator Rodriguez’s strike-all amendment narrowed and clarified the exemption, and testimony from an emergency physician described threats, harassment, and safety concerns tied to mandatory reporting and patient encounters. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute.
Members then heard SB 514, creating the Dula Support for Healthy Births Pilot Program in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties for pregnant and postpartum women affected by substance use disorder. Senator Osgood explained the pilot would provide non-medical doula support and data collection, and an amendment changed the funding source to specific appropriations in the General Appropriations Act. Supporters said doula care can improve maternal and infant outcomes and complement medical providers. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute.
The committee also approved SB 36 on use of professional nursing titles after extensive debate over whether nurses with doctoral degrees should be allowed to use “doctor” in clinical settings, with concerns raised about patient confusion and the need for clearer identification. The bill was amended to align with the House version and then reported favorably as a committee substitute. The committee next approved SB 864, a public records exemption for uterine fibroid research data, after a technical amendment setting a July 1, 2026 effective date; Senator Sharif said the exemption is needed so the Department of Health can collect sensitive data for the related research bill. SB 844, requiring continuing education on sickle cell disease care management for certain licensed physicians and nurses, was also reported favorably after emotional testimony from patients and advocates describing delayed care and bias.
Later, the committee approved SB 1404 on memory care, after a strike-all amendment creating a new memory care specialty license for assisted living facilities that advertise or provide specialized memory care services, while allowing optional supportive services without the new license. Supporters from the senior living industry backed the clarification. The committee then passed SB 914, which clarifies that licensed occupational therapists may perform dry needling, after an amendment adjusting supervision and continuing education language. Finally, the committee took up SB 1758, a broad Medicaid and SNAP reform bill that would strengthen fraud enforcement, impose Medicaid work requirements for certain able-bodied adults, expand behavioral health services, modernize drug purchasing and prior authorization, and require SNAP fraud-reduction measures. Several amendments were adopted, and members questioned the work requirement, implementation costs, EBT card photo identification, and due process concerns; debate continued as the transcript ended.