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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (02/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> other parent and helping the the parent other parent and helping the the parent they're<00:07:43.680
- be</c> parenting any parenting should be parenting any parenting should be considered<00:55:41.480><
- :55:51.960><c> really</c><00:55:52.280><c> vindictive</c> parent if a parent is really vindictive parent
- > mothers</c> are parents parents there are mothers are parents parents there are mothers that<02:10:
- </c><03:31:36.479><c> parental</c><03:31:37.080><c> rep</c> says a parental parental rep says a parental
Summary:
The Children and Family Law Committee opened a hearing on House Bill 285, which would add language to the parental rights and responsibilities statute directing judges to consider known mental health or medical conditions that could affect parenting. Representative Ball, the bill’s sponsor, said the intent was not to require disclosure of private records, but to give judges a reminder to ask whether anything in a parent’s condition could interfere with parenting and to help ensure children’s safety and best interests, especially in high-conflict or pro se family court cases. He said the proposal was meant as a guardrail and not as a way to reduce parenting time or take children from parents.
Committee members questioned whether the existing best-interest factors already cover parenting ability, whether the new language could invite stigma or weaponization in custody disputes, and whether judges already have authority to ask these questions. Ball responded that judges often do not ask, that family court can be difficult for unrepresented parties, and that the language would simply make the issue explicit. He also said he would be open to amendments, including language that more directly instructs judges to ask the question. One member raised concerns about whether the bill should say judges “shall” ask rather than “may,” and Ball said he was willing to work with the committee on wording.
Sarah Horn, a NAMI New Hampshire board member and parent, testified in opposition. She described her own history with OCD, ADD, PTSD, hospitalization, and recovery, and said mental illness had not harmed her ability to parent; she warned the bill could increase stigma and discourage people from seeking treatment. In response, Ball said her testimony was part of why he had considered an amendment to include physical health as well, so the bill would not single out mental health. The hearing ended without a vote in the transcript provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- to receive parental consent.
- What parents need to know.
- , but let's ask, which parents?
- This helps build trust between the parents and schools. Parents are more informed.
- Parents know this.
Bills:
SB12 , SB1565 , SB13 , SJR12 , SB686 , SB371 , SB204 , SB609 , SB112 , SB400 , SB813 , SB 12 , SB 13
Committees:
Senate Education , Senate Education K-16
Keywords:
parental rights, education, social transitioning, diversity, equity, inclusion, school policy, student clubs, school district, grievance procedure, public education, diversity and inclusion, funding penalties, school libraries, library advisory councils, library materials, educational content, challenging materials, constitutional amendment, school choice
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- One hundred percent of kids have parents, and for parents who—most parents are involved in the lives
- And the parents know almost everything about— ...on a child without their parents knowing, and the parents
- If a parent If a parent is abusing that child, suppose a parent does abuse that child, doesn't that suggest
- The parents are the ultimate... ...that we trust the parents.
- a parent.
Committee:
House Education
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- One hundred percent of kids have parents, and for parents who—most parents are involved in the lives
- If a parent If a parent is abusing that child, suppose a parent does abuse that child, doesn't that suggest
- It's simply disclosure to the parents, and then the parents handle it.
- The parents are the ultimate... ...that we trust the parents.
- a parent.
Committee:
House House Education Committee of Reference
Summary:
The committee first heard Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horn’s annual State of Education address, which focused on school safety, academic outcomes, school choice, teacher pay, and opposition to DEI/CRT in schools and teacher preparation. Horn said the department has expanded school police officers, promoted Project Momentum and tutoring, supported cell phone restrictions in classrooms, and pushed for more phonics-based reading instruction and stronger university teacher-prep programs. Members questioned him about DEI complaints, cell phone implementation, ESA oversight, school safety funding, reading proficiency, and teacher compensation; Horn said ESA spending is reviewed and recovered when inappropriate, and argued teacher raises should come directly to teachers, not through districts. No formal action was taken on his presentation.
The committee then considered HB 2008, which would prohibit public school libraries from using public funds to pay dues to professional library associations. Sponsor Representative Cooper argued the bill would keep school libraries politically neutral and prevent taxpayer money from supporting ideological advocacy, while saying membership itself would still be allowed if paid privately. Opponents, including a former librarian, a school board member, and the ACLU of Arizona, said the bill would undermine professional development, local control, literacy support, and constitutional rights of association and petition. Supporters said associations promote ideological content and that free professional-development alternatives exist. After public testimony and debate, the committee voted to return HB 2008 with a do-pass recommendation.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- parental rights.
- And so parental rights, God gives us wisdom to be parents.
- Um, I, I, I, a parent, a parent looks at a child.
- I'm here as a parent.
- That thrive with parental support with the affirming support of their parents.
Bills:
HB 2646 , HB 3941 , HB 5153 , HB 5155 , HB 5394 , HB 1106 , HB 426 , HB 4529 , HB 3984 , HB 4273 , HB 1097 , HB 3940 , HB 1941 , HB 4377 , HB 3153
Committee:
House Human Services
Keywords:
child care, task force, high-quality care, affordability, prekindergarten partnerships, foster care, transitional living, Medicaid reform, youth assistance, independent living, services for youth, employment training, educational support, mental health services, health care, public health, child health program, reimbursement, local health entities, maternal health
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Children and Youth Health Committee Jan 28th, 2026
Children and Youth Health
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill restores parental authority and puts parents back in the driver's seat.
- and puts parents back in the authority and puts parents back in the driver's<00:08:53.440><c> seat.
- ><c> children</c><00:09:08.720><c> are</c> parents know what their children are parents know what their
- So, what I like about this bill as a parent and then also as a professional is that it allows parents
- If the parent >> Oh, okay.
Committee:
Senate Children and Youth Health
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- parent? parent?
- ><c> parent</c><00:15:23.360><c> of</c><00:15:23.600><c> the</c> Custodial parent is a parent of the
- is a custodial parent, It's a the parent is a custodial parent, has<00:15:37.680><c> custody</c><00:
- </c> it's not a parent. it's not a parent.
- parent? parent? >> Yes. Thank<00:16:04.280><c> you.
Committee:
House Judiciary
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (04/09/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- consent for the IEP parental of parental consent for the IEP parental consent<01:00:48.720><c> to</c
- </c> allowed to keep secrets from parents. allowed to keep secrets from parents.
- </c> have to report back to their parents? have to report back to their parents?
- </c> parent or they don't want to the parent. parent or they don't want to the parent.
- The parents the number the parents job.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 34, which would require parental consent for each new service provided to a student through the Medicaid to Schools program and require reports to legislative policy committees. Senator Ruth Ward said the bill was intended to increase transparency, protect parental involvement, and ensure continuity of care, especially for students with disabilities. She also noted a proposed amendment she received shortly before the hearing that would change the bill’s focus from a “new service” to a “new care plan.”
Representatives from the New Hampshire Primary Care Association and Amoscake Health testified that they opposed the bill as written but would support it with the amendment. They explained that tying consent to individual diagnosis codes or services could be burdensome, could delay care, and could create compliance problems if a diagnosis changes during a visit. They said the amendment would better align consent with the overall care plan and avoid interrupting treatment mid-appointment. Committee members raised questions about how the bill would interact with IEPs, individualized health plans, homebound services, telehealth, billing, and whether the amendment would still require parental involvement after a care plan changes.
The deputy Medicaid director from the Department of Health and Human Services testified that the amendment was more operationally feasible because Medicaid billing involves many ICD-10 codes that can change or overlap, and consent should be tied to the care plan rather than to each code. He said the current law already requires parental consent for participation in the Medicaid to Schools program and annual consent for billing, but the bill would make explicit consent for care-plan changes. No vote was taken during the portion of the hearing provided, and the committee appeared to continue discussion with DHHS after the testimony.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Children and Family Law (03/19/2026)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> parents that we we do under parental parents that we we do under parental supervision<00:30:11.679
- </c> parenting time. parenting time.
- </c> parent they love. parent they love.
- It is another way that one parent can abuse the other parent. Parents pick each other.
- </c> parent alienation. parent alienation.
Committee:
Senate Children and Family Law
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- parent parents parents navigating single parent parents parents navigating gender<01:18:56.760><c> identity
- Parents don't always agree.
- respond to Parent A or Parent B, and how is that determined which parent, if they both have equal custody
- ><01:25:42.280><c> and</c> to respond to parent a or parent B and to respond to parent a or parent B
- One parent says, I want this. The other parent says, I disagree.
Committee:
House Education Policy
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- rights if the— The potential of terminating parental rights if the parent has been or likely will be
- I am a foster parent and an adoptive parent in Idaho.
- I am a foster parent and an adoptive parent in Idaho.
- This doesn't expand parent rights.
- Yes, parents can still opt in.
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:05:01.120><c> the</c><00:05:01.360><c> parent</c> the teacher and the parent the parent the teacher
- So thank you to those parents.
- So thank you to those parents.
- parent</c><01:13:36.600><c> after</c> parents after parents after parent after parents after parents
- </c><02:02:29.679><c> and</c> all parents but what some parents and all parents but what some parents
Committee:
Senate Education
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Mar 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- If only one parent terminates and the other parent doesn't, you're still going to have to go through
- I am a foster parent and an adoptive parent in Idaho.
- I am a foster parent and an adoptive parent in Idaho.
- This doesn't expand parent rights.
- Yes, parents can still opt in.
Summary:
The committee approved the March 3 and March 10 minutes, then introduced RS 33592C1, a proposal for a state pilot program to study psychedelic substances for PTSD and traumatic brain injury, with the sponsor saying no state funding was requested. The committee also heard and advanced Senate Bill 1255, which would add tribal health care facilities and tribal police officers to Idaho’s involuntary commitment process so tribal members in mental health crises can be evaluated and held more quickly; tribal representatives and the sponsor said it would improve coordination without changing state funding or the underlying commitment standards. The bill was sent to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
The committee then took up Senate Bill 1257 on foster care visitation and permanency. The bill would clarify that visitation can include in-person, video, phone, and written contact, limit in-person visitation after substantiated serious physical or sexual abuse unless a court finds it is in the child’s best interest, and allow courts to consider a parent’s likely long-term incarceration when deciding permanency and termination. Department officials, foster parents, adoptees, and child welfare advocates testified that the bill would protect children from re-traumatization and give courts clearer statutory guidance. Some members raised due process and parental-rights concerns, arguing the bill could expand agency power or reduce protections, but after a failed motion to hold the bill in committee, the committee approved it on a roll call vote and sent it to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
The committee also resumed testimony on House Bill 808, which would expand the Medical Freedom Act. County, hospital, city, business, and public health witnesses opposed the bill, saying it would create conflicts with federal health and accreditation rules, weaken school and child care immunization protections, reduce the usefulness of the IRIS immunization registry, and interfere with employer and public-safety decisions. Supporters argued the bill would strengthen bodily autonomy and parental choice and reduce coercion around vaccines. The sponsor closed by saying the bill was about protecting private medical decisions, but no final action on HB 808 was taken in the portion provided.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House State Government Committee Jan 14th, 2026
State Government
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> store accountability act puts parents store accountability act puts parents back<00:12:30.560><c
- ><c> own</c> parents actually replace parents' own parents actually replace parents' own decision-m<00
- Parents, there's tools out there for parents. Guess what? I'm a good parent.
- Uh, parents, there's tools out there for parents. Guess what? I'm a good parent.
- Parents need to be engaged.
Committee:
House State Government
Keywords:
firearms, possession, Class 1 municipalities, criminal penalties, federal law, stolen firearms, prohibited persons, HB114, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset bill, Board of Dental Examiners of Alabama, dental board, dental licensing, dentist regulation, professional licensing, occupational licensing, healthcare regulation, licensure board, state agency continuation, agency sunset review
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Children and Senior Advocacy
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:32:34.960><c> parent.
- This gives parents more control. It takes no control away from parents.
- This gives parents more control. It takes no control away from parents.
- This gives parents more control. It takes no control away from parents.
- This gives parents more control. It takes no control away from parents.
Committee:
House Children and Senior Advocacy
Keywords:
Ebony Alert, missing youth, public safety, law enforcement, racial equity, HB170, supplemental appropriations, Education Trust Fund, Alabama education budget, school funding, K-12 education, local boards of education, textbook adoption, school buses, school safety, charter schools, summer programs, afterschool programs, reading intervention, college and career readiness
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (05/20/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- How do you answer the parent? If child. How do you answer the parent?
- </c> parents and educators. parents and educators.
- . parent. parent.
- counselor calling the parent, and then the parents are called in.
- Parents are told reportable to parents.
Summary:
The committee took up Senate Bill 206, which requires public schools to adopt policies limiting student cell phone use. Supporters argued that cell phones and personal devices contribute to student mental health problems, bullying, distraction, and disruptive behavior, and said teachers and administrators want a clear statewide rule rather than having to enforce policies themselves. Opponents raised concerns about local control, the breadth of the term “personal communication device,” and whether the bill would interfere with instructional uses of devices, especially in schools that rely on bring-your-own-device or have limited access to school-issued laptops.
Members debated Amendment 2249H, which added an exception for teacher-led instruction and clarified that superintendent-approved exceptions could still apply for medical, disability, or language-proficiency needs. After discussion about whether the amendment was too restrictive or too broad, the committee adopted the amendment on a 9-8 vote, with one member not voting. The committee then voted 9-8, with one not voting, to recommend Senate Bill 206 ought to pass as amended.
The committee then moved to Senate Bill 96, concerning mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents. The sponsor offered Amendment 2199H to replace language that would have required referral to DCYF whenever an educator withheld information due to concern about possible abuse at home. The amendment instead allows a district to withhold information if a reasonably prudent person would believe disclosure would result in abuse, abandonment, or neglect, and requires the decision to be documented in the student record. The amendment was discussed as a narrower, more workable safeguard, and the committee was still in discussion on the bill at the end of the transcript.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (04/08/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Some parents parents and school systems.
- Parents rule, right? Unless there's a reason for the parent not to—the parents' right. Right.
- Parents rule, right? Unless there's a reason for the parent not to—the parents' right. Right.
- Parents rule, right? Unless there's a reason for the parent not to—the parents' right. Right.
- Parents rule, right? Unless there's a reason for the parent not to—the parents' right. Right.
Summary:
The committee opened with Senate Bill 22-FN, which would expand child care licensing background checks so the Department of Health and Human Services can receive fuller criminal history information, including pending charges and other non-conviction records, similar to the system already used for school staff. Grant Bossi, for Senator Pearl, and DHHS officials Melissa Clement and Christine Sheay testified in support, saying the bill closes a gap that can allow people with disqualifying charges to work with children. They explained that the FBI record is a snapshot in time, that juvenile records are not included, and that the bill would apply to child care programs including residential group homes. Questions focused on what “confidential criminal history” means and how often checks are repeated; DHHS said checks are done every five years or sooner if new charge information is received. The hearing on SB 22 was then closed.
The committee then took up Senate Bill 23-FN, which would expand the child endangerment statute and remove the word “purposely” from part of the language. Senator Pat Long said the bill is intended to strengthen protection for children and allow more serious conduct to be charged appropriately. Testimony from law enforcement, including Executive Counselor Dave Wheeler, Sergeant Ryan Rooney of Nashua Police, and Nicholas Georgulis of Manchester Police, supported the bill as a way to distinguish routine misdemeanor cases from the most egregious abuse and neglect cases, such as children living in squalor or being exposed to severe danger. Wheeler and some members raised concerns that the language could be vague or overbroad and cited a prior Manchester firearm-in-a-car arrest as an example of possible unintended consequences; supporters responded that the bill still requires knowingly violating a duty of care and that the serious bodily injury or death standard limits its reach. Rooney also described a fentanyl overdose case involving an 11-year-old and said the current misdemeanor charge did not fully reflect the seriousness of the conduct. The committee recessed SB 23 briefly to open and close SB 161, then returned to SB 23, which remained under hearing with no final vote taken in the excerpt.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (02/17/2026)
Children and Family Law
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> a parenting plan. a parenting plan.
- </c> parenting time. parenting time.
- . parenting. parenting.
- fit parent or not a fit parent.
- fit parent or not a fit parent.
Committee:
House Children and Family Law
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> could still do that as a parent. could still do that as a parent.
- </c> parents who may deem them objectionable. parents who may deem them objectionable.
- Parents can use it.
- Parents can use it.
- . parents. parents.
Committee:
Senate Education
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Yes, and that's why I'm here today in opposition, in that the parents in Caldwell, parents in Nampa,
- The parent is there for 50 hours.
- Some kids don't listen to their parents, even if they're driving their parents' car.
- Some kids don't listen to their parents, even if they're driving their parents' car.
- They will listen to somebody else, but they won't listen to their parents. Their parents' car.
Committee:
House Transportation and Defense