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MA
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am

Joint Committee on Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • The pharmacy that filled my prescriptions for the past 25 years was the awesome pharmacy, Olden's Pharmacy
  • of pharmacy.
  • of pharmacy.
  • benefit managers and pharmacy benefit managers are agents of insurance Pharmacy benefit managers are
  • I am the President of the Massachusetts Pharmacy Association and the Director of Pharmacy at Greater
Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services
Summary: The Joint Committee on Financial Services held a lengthy public hearing with testimony on a wide range of health insurance and access-to-care bills. Early testimony focused on prescription drug pricing and pharmacy reimbursement, with supporters of H. 1326 arguing that pharmacy benefit managers and MassHealth managed care arrangements reimburse independent pharmacies too little, contributing to pharmacy closures and “pharmacy deserts.” The committee also heard repeated support for H. 1151/S. 742 on cognitive rehabilitation for acquired brain injury, H. 1288/S. 716 on telehealth parity for nutrition counseling, H. 1309/S. 761 on full-spectrum pregnancy care without cost-sharing, H. 1312 on insurance coverage for doula services, H. 309 on prompt access to health care by removing deductibles for certain services, H. 809/H. 1227 on biomarker testing, H. 1162/S. 810 on reducing inequities in access to medical procedures by limiting insurer cuts tied to Modifier 25, and S. 726 on insurance coverage for mobile integrated health. Testifiers included legislators, physicians, pharmacists, dietitians, emergency and rehabilitation clinicians, and patients and family members. Supporters of the brain injury bill said cognitive rehabilitation is medically necessary, improves long-term outcomes, and can reduce institutional care and public costs; they noted the bill has been heard repeatedly and has support from the Brain Injury Commission and prior favorable committee action. Supporters of the pregnancy care and doula bills described out-of-pocket costs as a barrier to maternal health and shared personal stories of high bills and unmet support needs. Biomarker testing advocates and cancer patients said coverage gaps deny patients access to precision treatment, can lead to avoidable suffering, and should be standardized across insurers; several speakers said insurers often deny claims despite clinical benefit. Dermatology witnesses said insurers’ use of Modifier 25 cuts reimbursement for same-day evaluation and procedure visits, forcing separate appointments and increasing patient burden. Mobile integrated health supporters described home-based care as a way to reduce emergency department use and hospital readmissions, especially for patients with transportation or mobility barriers. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the hearing itself.
TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services May 14th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a pharmacist with Amazon Pharmacy here in Austin, and I'm testifying on behalf of Amazon Pharmacy
  • I'm testifying on behalf of Amazon Pharmacy in support of House Bill 2402.
  • Amazon Pharmacy is a full-service, digital-forward pharmacy in your pocket.
  • The small pharmacies, and I know we're going to argue, well, U&C's not well— The small pharmacies, and
  • For the local and uncontested calendar, is their objection hearing none is so ordered.
Bills: HB 107 , HB742 , HB1639 , HB1700 , HB2071 , HB2187 , HB2402 , HB2516 , HB3211 , HB4529 , HB5342 , HB694 , HB923 , HB4655 , HB107
Committee: Senate Health & Human Services
Summary: The committee heard testimony on a series of health and human services bills and left each one pending after public testimony. HB 4655 would expand financial literacy instruction for youth aging out of foster care to include credit scores, predatory lending, scams, banking, budgeting, and related consumer topics; the sponsor and Buckner International described the need to protect foster youth from financial pitfalls. HB 923 would add three public members and one physician to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel; supporters said it would improve informed consent and patient voice, while a witness raised concerns about a House amendment requiring a physician majority for decisions and senators questioned scope-of-practice limits. HHSC said the panel is an independent body and the bill expressly bars it from changing scope of practice.
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Public Safety Subcommittee Feb 11th, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Public Safety

AL
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

WA
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Jan 22nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Higher Education & Workforce Development

AL
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee Apr 3rd, 2025

Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety

AL
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Baldwin County Legislation Committee Feb 25th, 2025

Baldwin County Legislation

OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget 3rd Reviion: SB1427 added to agenda Apr 21st, 2026 at 04:30 pm

Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • Member of Senate Bill 985 codifies the local school local food for schools program and.
  • Authorize ODev to continue to build the program to get fresh locally produced food in the schools.
Bills: SB44 , SB237 , SB248 , SB985 , SB1204 , SB1239 , SB1307 , SB1360 , SB1390 , SB1400 , SB1405 , SB1427 , SB1428 , SB1732 , SB1832 , SB1859 , SB1989 , SB2018 , SB2143
Committee: House Appropriations and Budget
Keywords: sales tax exemption, nonprofit organizations, contractors, charitable purposes, state law, ad valorem tax, manufacturing facilities, exemption, battery energy storage, employment, payroll, state tax regulation, tourism, revolving fund, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, real property, fund management, Oklahoma Local Food for Schools, school meals, local food procurement
WA
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 27th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Civil Rights & Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, if local values are increasing, they still increase.
  • I mean, if local values are increasing, they still increase.
  • Since 2000, pharmacists have earned a doctor of pharmacy degree.
  • training and training in pharmacy law in order to earn our Doctor of Pharmacy.
  • training and training in pharmacy law in order to earn our doctorate of pharmacy.
Bills: HB2453 , HB2590 , HB2445 , HB2386 , HB2585
Committee: House Civil Rights & Judiciary
Keywords: psychiatric pharmacists, mental health, pharmacy regulations, healthcare, pharmacological treatments, limited equity cooperatives, common interest ownership, housing, exemption, community ownership, probate, estate administration, inheritance, heir finder, heir locator, beneficiary interest, transfer of inheritance rights, probate for profit, personal representative, executor
WY
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, May 15, 2026 - AM

Labor, Health & Social Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> Pharmacies were open. We were there. Pharmacies were open. We were there.
  • </c> pharmacy for a lot of different reasons. pharmacy for a lot of different reasons.
  • , but they are State Board of Pharmacy, but they are pharmacy<02:41:57.360><c> technicians.
  • . pharmacy. pharmacy.
  • </c> include a few local ones, too. include a few local ones, too.
Committee: Joint Labor, Health & Social Services
CA
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health May 19th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Finally, the last proposal related to pharmacy is related to step therapy protocols.
  • For Medicaid, pharmacy as a whole is an optional benefit.
  • We discussed higher pharmacy costs. Have you analyzed or done any research on that? No?
  • My name is Teresa Velasco, and I am an executive board member for SEIU Local 725.
  • I have local clinics in my own district.
MO
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty Eight - Wednesday, April 8 - Afternoon Session

Missouri House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Non-profit pharmacies. Is that correct? The lady from St.
  • can't get to their own pharmacies.
  • They're keeping our small-town local pharmacies open.
  • They're keeping our small-town local pharmacies open.
  • They do so much for our constituents, for our local areas.
LA
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House & Governmental May 19th, 2026

House and Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • And what if you have, let's say, a senator on your ballot, which obviously is federal, and judges, local
  • Are you going to be able to ...on your ballot, which obviously is federal, and judges, local judges?
  • To implement at the local level, we are the ones that interact with each individual voter regarding the
  • interest, recreational fishing interest, hydrologist, and sediment transport experts, and landowners and local
Bills: HR118 , HR196 , HR237 , HR285 , HCR85 , HB442 , HB443 , SCR5 , SCR29 , SCR33 , SCR63 , SB25 , SB202 , SB319
Committee: House House and Governmental Affairs
Keywords: water utility, tax credit, excessive rates, residential service, subcommittee, fallen trees, property damage, insurance, property values, hurricanes, storm damage, local government, homeowners, risk management, committee study, census, military population, Department of Defense, representation, federal funding
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

County and Municipal Government Apr 8th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

County and Municipal Government

TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 28th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 5663 enables a proactive, locally governed response to brain and memory care needs without
  • Yeah, we usually just find them at the local firework shops, you know, when it's in season.
  • Mostly using the locals? Yeah, because I don't know. I'm not too...
  • A lot of lion dance teams have a supplier; there's a local supplier here in Houston.
  • So I just try to be safe and just buy it locally when it's in season.
Bills: HB2814 , HB4477 , HB5084 , HB5108 , HB5127 , HB5383 , HB5611 , HB5663 , HB5664 , SB1563 , HB2668 , HB3841 , HB4114
Committee: House S/C on County & Regional Government
Keywords: juvenile justice, release documents, children, identification, Texas Juvenile Justice Department, civil service, staffing requirements, local government, positions exemption, Texas legislation, fireworks, Lunar New Year, retail permits, public safety, Texas law, holiday sales, HB 5108, deaths in custody, custodial death, jail death
TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 28th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Cole was in city government, and I'm not sure if anybody else was in local government.
  • But we've got to make sure that our local taxpayer dollars are respected and that we look at every way
Bills: HB2814 , HB4477 , HB5084 , HB5108 , HB5127 , HB5383 , HB5611 , HB5663 , HB5664 , SB1563 , HB2668 , HB3841 , HB4114
Committee: House S/C on County & Regional Government
Keywords: juvenile justice, release documents, children, identification, Texas Juvenile Justice Department, civil service, staffing requirements, local government, positions exemption, Texas legislation, fireworks, Lunar New Year, retail permits, public safety, Texas law, holiday sales, HB 5108, deaths in custody, custodial death, jail death
AL
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Mar 10th, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • funding and assume that as they pay more in property taxes this means that more money goes to their local
  • In local school districts and how much will be sent back to the state and recapture the bill as five
  • Locally for school district use example two is our exhibit to is an example that I have mocked up using
  • , and federal law enforcement and our state, local, and federal decision makers.
  • I'm sure that the local appraisal district level, so it'd be up to the chief appraisers.
Bills: HB195 , HB247 , HB255 , HJR2 , HJR4 , HJR6 , HJR31 , HJR34 , HB195 , HB247 , HB255 , HJR6 , HJR31 , HJR34
Committee: House Ways & Means
Keywords: school district, ad valorem tax, local revenue, tax collection, education funding, border security, tax exemption, ad valorem, real property, infrastructure, Texas-Mexico border, ad valorem taxation, farm products, livestock, timber, death tax, inheritance tax, estate tax, property transfer, constitutional amendment
WA
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 10th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are now basically using the Department of Corrections pharmacy intended for purchasing pharmacist.
  • This is just creating, again, a wholesale distribution through the Department of Corrections pharmacy
  • Folks need to know that DOC is, in fact, the largest state-operated pharmacy.
  • Folks need to know that DOC is, in fact, the largest state-operated pharmacy.
  • I called every major pharmacy chain in the state of Washington.
Summary: The Senate opened with roll call, the pledge, prayer, and recognition of guests from the Sikh Coalition and Kalsa Gramath Center. Members then approved the journal and moved through committee reports and resolutions, including Senate Resolution 8678 honoring the Chimicum High School Marching Band for being selected to represent Washington in the 2026 National Independence Day Parade in Washington, D.C. The resolution was adopted unanimously, and the band and its supporters were recognized in the gallery. The chamber then confirmed two gubernatorial appointments to major health agencies. Ryan Moran was confirmed as Director of the Health Care Authority by a 49-0 vote, with supporters citing his Medicaid and health system experience and ability to provide stable leadership. Dennis Worsham was also confirmed as Secretary of Health by a 49-0 vote, with senators highlighting his long public health career, statewide outreach, and work on HIV/AIDS and community health. On legislation, the Senate passed Senate Bill 6011, expanding Court of Appeals bailiff authority to conduct threat assessments, and Senate Bill 5831, creating the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act. Senate Bill 6188, which expands Labor and Industries’ authority to update asbestos training and certification rules, passed 38-19 after an amendment to limit the bill to federal standards was rejected. Substitute Senate Bill 5917, concerning access to abortion medications through the Department of Corrections pharmacy, passed 32-17 after several Republican amendments were defeated. The Senate also passed In Gross Senate Bill 6024 on developmental disability services confidentiality and Substitute Senate Bill 6091 on prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties in exclusive private listings. Finally, Substitute Senate Bill 5840, adjusting campaign finance expenditure reporting deadlines, passed 46-3. After completing the day’s business, the Senate recessed for caucus and lunch until 1:15 p.m.
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Judiciary Subcommittee - Morning Session Jan 13th, 2026 at 09:00 am

A&B Judiciary Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • First of all, I'd like to address the Pharmacy Benefit Management unit.
  • This action included more than 68,000 claims and 330 pharmacies.
  • to PBM practices so that pharmacies are not financially disadvantaged in the process.
  • This was due to OptumRx's own negligence and not the fault of pharmacies.
  • And so I get as well having the discretion at the local level.
Committee: House A&B Judiciary Subcommittee