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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • points with more than 15 community-based agencies providing access to rent assistance and support services
  • and rents and utilities continuing to rise, Minnesotans in the health care, retail, restaurant, and service
  • This project over 100 units of affordable housing with on-site services.
  • This project over 100 units of affordable housing with on-site services.
  • We provide free legal organizing, education, and advocacy services to tenants across Minnesota.
Bills: HF3403, HF3410, HF3424
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

HSH Public Hearing - Thu Feb 12, 2026 @ 10:30 AM HST

Human Services & Homelessness

Transcript Highlights:
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  • I stand on my written uh Services.
  • reduce reliance on emergency services reduce reliance on emergency services and<00:30:23.919>
  • So, they're putting service hours.
  • appropriate services, deployment of appropriate services, probation,<00:55:51.680> incarceration,
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1877, which would expand the membership of the Hawaii State LGBTQ+ Commission and add a youth seat. The commission’s vice chair supported the bill, saying the commission started with eight members, has growing interest, and would benefit from an odd-numbered board and youth representation. Members asked about quorum, and the commission said it has generally met monthly with only one quorum issue in the past 18–19 months and would work with legislative leaders to have appointments ready if the bill passes. Written testimony included support from Kokopac and one individual in opposition. The committee then took up HB 2006, which would create a cash assistance program for pregnant women and mothers of babies. The Department of Human Services explained current TANF rules, including eligibility requirements, child support cooperation, and work-program participation, and said the state has recently raised benefit levels to the maximum allowed, with a family of three or four receiving a little over $900 per month. Supporters from the Hawaii Public Health Institute, Hawaii Children’s Action Network Speaks, and others argued the bill could reduce child poverty and improve maternal and child health, citing evidence from Michigan’s Rx Kids program and the temporary federal child tax credit expansion. A mother and Oahu Youth Action Board member testified from personal experience about the need for direct support during pregnancy. The committee also noted support from several organizations and about 26 individuals. The committee next heard HB 2167, which would direct the Office of Youth Services to run a pilot program providing financial assistance to homeless youth. The Office of the Public Defender, youth advocates, and several organizations supported the measure, saying even small amounts of help can prevent homelessness and help youth transition safely to adulthood. The Office of Youth Services said it supports the intent of the bill but requested clarification, and committee members discussed whether the program should be run directly or through contracted community agencies, how to set performance metrics, and how to structure the RFP and contract process. The chair indicated the committee wanted to work with the vice chair and OYS offline to refine the bill before moving forward. The committee then began discussion of HB 2224, relating to Medicaid pharmacy benefit management, with testimony generally supporting giving DHS flexibility to negotiate with PBMs.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/11/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • We want to make sure that people are able to say what they need to say to get the services that they
  • We want to make sure that people are able to say what they need to say to get the services that they
  • Access to confidential advocacy services, crisis support, and ongoing counseling are critical to the
  • <00:30:57.320> crisis to confidential advocacy Services crisis to confidential advocacy Services
  • They will provide services to you, and I'm deeply sorry that I even had to say that.
Bills: HF1917, HF1083, HF367
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/19/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Special Committee on Health and Human Services is called to order.
  • having no further business before us, and without objection, the House Committee on Health and Human Services
  • And without objection, the House Committee on Health and Human Services is adjourned.
  • And without objection, the House Committee on Health and Human Services is adjourned.
Summary: The committee first took up several continuation bills to extend state boards and agencies, including HB 2728 for the Department of Economic Security, HB 2729 for the State Board of Nursing, HB 2730 for the Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners, HB 2731 for the Physician Assistants Board, and HB 2732 for the Board of Pharmacy. Each was moved for a due pass recommendation, with HB 2731 amended to continue the physician assistant board for four years instead of two. All of these continuation bills passed the committee with strong support. The committee then heard HB 2408, a nursing board reform bill dealing with complaint investigation procedures, timelines, confidentiality, complaint prioritization, access to investigative files, expungement of certain disciplinary actions, and a revised definition of unprofessional conduct. The sponsor and supporters argued it would improve fairness, allow limited expungement for older non-patient-safety issues, and address long investigation delays. The nursing board president and other opponents warned it would raise the evidentiary standard, weaken patient safety protections, and erase useful disciplinary history. After extensive testimony, the committee adopted an amendment and passed the bill 7-4-1. Next, the committee considered pharmacy-related reforms. HB 2434 updated the controlled substances prescription monitoring program, including registration, reporting, confidentiality, and a compliance work group; it passed unanimously after amendment. HB 2733 allowed pharmacists and technicians to complete continuing education after renewal submission if finished before expiration, clarified prescription delivery locations, and addressed temporary operation during ownership changes; it also passed unanimously after amendment. Finally, HB 2725, which would have restricted access contractors from substituting non-opioid drugs and limiting non-opioid utilization controls, drew concerns that it was too broad and could affect many drug classes and costs. After amendment and debate, the committee failed to give HB 2725 a due pass recommendation by a 6-6 vote, and the meeting adjourned.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

06/10/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • People with disabilities die without services.
  • Commit is not another service provider; it's not another bureaucracy.
  • Commit is not another service provider; it's not another bureaucracy.
  • I appreciate that full funding for DDD services is so important.
  • It says the debt service, 80%, whatever's left, so your debt service could be less than 20%.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services will come to order.
  • Okay, my name is Esther Cox, and I'm the Director of Social Services for Christian Home and Family Services
  • I am a social worker at Christian Homes and Family Services.
  • , or medical service will be covered for payment.
  • Care services with an A or B recommendation from the United States Preventive Services Task Force and
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 21st, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's not just surgical services.
  • service is worth.
  • Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Did anyone have questions for Health, Human Services?
  • And our hospitals currently offer these services.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Child Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is an easy bill that should prioritize efficiency and ease in how we get our services to our neighbors
  • This initiative is vital for sustaining and enhancing child care services in our rural communities.
  • the increasing number of young families has... ...intensified the demand for quality child care services
  • Members, during the first Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services established
  • It requires six hours of annual in-service training for those relatives.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is an easy bill we should prioritize—efficiency and ease in how we get our services to our neighbors
  • <00:21:41.760> currently Quality child care services currently Quality child care services
  • as well as possibly even services as well as possibly even expanding<00:22:09.120> our<00:22:
  • He said it requires six hours of annual service training for those relatives.
  • requires six hours of annual service requires six hours of annual service training<01:36:24.320>
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WAM Public Hearing 02-19-2026

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Compost deputy director department<00:05:16.639> of<00:05:16.800> human<00:05:17.039> services
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  • Um we also department of human services.
Summary: The Committee on Ways and Means met for decision-making only and adopted recommendations on a long list of Senate bills, with no oral testimony taken. Early actions included SB 99 to pass unamended, SB 585 to pass with a date correction to 2015, SB 2060 to pass with amendments involving public project lists, legislative approval for fund transfers, and removal of certain appropriations, and SB 2069 to pass with amendments extending a sunset date and requiring transit-oriented development zoning. The committee also advanced several other measures, including SB 2110, SB 215, SB 2259, SB 2382, SB 2442, and SB 2485 unamended, while SB 2152, SB 2315, SB 2446, SB 2919, SB 2577, SB 2580, and SB 2861 were moved with various amendments, mostly date changes, appropriation blanks, or technical clarifications. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on SB 2211, where Department of Human Services officials explained how the department was covering costs by using restricted funds and shifting Med-QUEST funding, and noted a need for $14 million plus support for $16.5 million in ACA enhanced tax credit subsidies. The chair indicated the bill would move forward with amendments, including blanking the appropriation pending more information on lapses, and the recommendation was adopted. SB 2544 was also amended to remove a specific appropriation and replace it with a blank cap on funds from DUR, and SB 2342 was amended to require projects to be in transit-oriented development zones and to reflect prior committee concurrence. The most extended debate was on SB 3326, which would address utility restructuring. One senator opposed the bill, arguing it could raise rates, worsen reliability issues, and disrupt an existing utility without a clear plan, especially given island-specific conditions. Supporters argued the bill would separate generation from transmission and distribution, create competition, protect union jobs, and respond to aging infrastructure and financial weakness in the utility sector. After recesses and discussion of the Public Utilities Commission’s role, the chair changed the recommendation from pass unamended to pass with amendments requiring the PUC to conduct a study, provide an interim report before the next session, and a final report the following session. That amended recommendation was adopted, and the meeting then adjourned with no further business.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House and Governmental Affairs May 12th, 2026

House and Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • provide basically an umbrella organization to facilitate exchanges on trade, academics, financial services
Summary: The House and Governmental Affairs Committee met on May 12 with a quorum present and took up several measures. It first heard HCR 74, which would establish a Louisiana-United Kingdom Trade Commission modeled after the existing Louisiana-Ireland commission. The author said the commission would serve as an umbrella group to promote exchanges in trade, academics, financial services, economic development, and the arts, with no compensation for members. After brief questions and supportive testimony from a member familiar with the Ireland commission, the committee reported HCR 74 favorably. The committee then considered SCR 38, which repeals Joint Rule No. 7 related to the Atchafalaya Basin Program Oversight Committee. The author explained that the repeal was tied to a separate study commission on Atchafalaya Basin water quality, aimed at addressing sediment buildup, stagnant hypoxia, and harm to the fishing industry. Members discussed sediment management and water quality concerns, and the committee adopted a technical amendment to the title before reporting the resolution favorably, as amended. Finally, the committee began hearing Senate Bill 495 on campaign finance disclosures. The author described a series of changes, including raising the threshold for unitemized individual contributions to $200, adjusting when a PAC is considered to be participating in an election, extending the annual report deadline from February 28 to March 15, and allowing leadership PAC funds to cover replacement or repair of items damaged in connection with public office. The transcript cuts off during the bill presentation, so no final action on SB 495 is shown.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Aug 15th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • When I was four years old, I was molested in the men's room of our church meeting house during a service
  • Stop and think about what you're doing in service to a malignant narcissist in the White House, to bigoted
  • them get the necessary resources they need, mental health resources, get them pointed to social services
  • them get the necessary resources they need, mental health resources, get them pointed to social services
  • them get the necessary resources they need, mental health resources, get them pointed to social services
Bills: SB6, SB7, SB8, SB11, SB12, SB13, SB15, SB17
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 8, the Texas Women's Privacy Act, and heard extensive public testimony both for and against the measure. Supporters, including representatives of Texas Values and Texas Values Action, argued the bill was needed to protect women’s privacy and safety in restrooms, locker rooms, showers, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and other government-controlled spaces, and said it would provide clear, sex-based rules. Opponents, including many transgender Texans, civil rights advocates, clergy, business and public safety voices, and others, argued the bill would invite harassment, gender policing, lawsuits, and invasive inspections, while harming trans, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people as well as cisgender women who do not fit stereotypes. Several witnesses said the bill would conflict with federal law or prison standards, worsen safety in shelters and prisons, and hurt Texas’s reputation and economy. The chair repeatedly noted the compressed special-session schedule and said flood relief remained the session’s top priority. Public testimony on SB 8 was eventually closed, and the bill was left pending. The committee then moved to Senate Bill 6, dealing with consumable hemp product restrictions. Testimony on SB 6 focused on whether the bill went too far in restricting hemp-derived THC products. Opponents argued hemp and THC have medical and economic value, that the bill would criminalize conduct and burden courts, and that regulation—not prohibition—was the better approach. Some witnesses supported tighter rules such as testing, child-resistant packaging, and limits on marketing to children, but still opposed the bill’s broad THC ban, higher fees, and age restrictions. Several speakers emphasized benefits for veterans, chronic pain patients, and small businesses, and warned that prohibition would push consumers toward the illicit market. The committee heard the testimony and then continued with additional witnesses, with no final vote or disposition reported in the excerpt.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • May I extend my congratulations to Director Collier for 40 years of service to the state.
  • Thank you all for your service. Thank you. Thank you.
  • We have someone from the Forensic Mental Health Services here as a resource as well.
  • As many of you know, Harris County is the hub for mental health services.
  • They receive the highest level of mental health outpatient services.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Sometimes four digit zip code anyway.
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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections May 15th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's about making government work the way it's supposed to: efficiently, securely, and in service to
  • Right now, we live in a digital world. We can renew our driver's license online.
  • Oh no, I was just saying we have a digital witness today.
  • Okay, so we're going to call a digital witness first.
  • The digital signature would be on file, but not signed on a computer.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, in my eighth year of judicial service, I preside over criminal misdemeanors, family law programs
  • Thank you for your service to Texas. Thank you, Judge. Senator Perry? Madam Chair, thank you.
  • daily lives, and for those of us that serve on the bench, the best way to do that is through our service
  • and also by reaching out to all others that share our service.
  • Roger Harris, President of the Textile Rental Services Association, you're recognized.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Mar 10th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is for the EMT services. We have a motion and a second. Any questions?
  • And then there's $750,000 for the Youth Services Reimbursement Fund for the Department... $150,000 for
  • the Youth Services Reimbursement Fund for the Department of Youth Services for diversion programs for
  • youth services.
  • Senior Services, on that page 17, we've got a $100,000 increase, and that's reflected in the RSVP program