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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/18/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- In closing, hospitals will continue to put patients first.
- In closing, hospitals will continue to put patients first.
- In closing, hospitals will continue to put patients first.
- Joe Schindler continued: In closing, hospitals will continue to put patients first.
- Joe Schindler continued: In closing, hospitals will continue to put patients first.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Executive Departments and Administration (02/12/2025)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- Okay, we'll continue on SP-1. Senator Pearl is here to introduce Senate Bill 191.
- with IRP so that we can uh continue with IRP so that we can uh continue being<00:20:51.240>
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to department shall still continue to department shall still continue to provide - You can continue to smoke a pipe—that’s a carve-out? Yes? No, it’s not continue.
- You can continue to smoke a pipe—that’s a carve-out? Yes? No, it’s not continue.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House higher education panel questions U of M representatives about award 1/23/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- How is this continuing to happen? This has never happened to me before.
- And it reminds us to continue this conversation.
- And we'll continue to do our job.
- And it reminds us to continue this conversation.
- And we'll continue to do our job.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony from Amber Cameron of the University of Minnesota’s Office for Public Engagement about the University’s Outstanding Community Service Awards and, specifically, the community partner award given to Communities United Against Police Brutality in 2021 and 2024. Cameron explained that the awards program recognizes faculty, staff, students, and community partners, that nominations are reviewed by University selection committees using criteria such as positive societal impact, innovation, extraordinary results, and overall impression, and that the committee evaluates only the application materials. She said the nomination for Communities United Against Police Brutality described a long-standing partnership with the University through student learning, including work through the Center for Community-Engaged Learning and a student white paper connected to the passage of Travis’s Law.
Committee members raised concerns about the organization’s history, its public messaging, and whether it was appropriate for the University to honor it. One member argued that the group’s IRS records showed it was formally organized in 2020, questioned claims that it had existed for 25 years, and objected to the organization’s letterhead and activism. Cameron responded that the award does not require formal tax status and that the selection process relies on the nomination packet rather than outside information. She also said the award nomination documented work with 130 course offerings across 17 academic departments and about 1,000 students over 24 years.
Cameron further said the award program was being phased out and retooled into a new internal Engaged Scholar Awards program focused on community-engaged scholarship rather than volunteer service. No vote or formal action was taken during the exchange, and the discussion ended with questions about the nomination materials and how the University defines the organization’s work with students and faculty.
HI
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to and continue to and continue to administer<00:25:55.799>um <00:25 - Uh, we continue to do that.
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to projects to go forward uh we continue to projects to go forward uh we continue
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee (6-9-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- fund remains available to continue that. fund remains available to continue that.
- Uh and and continually throw that out.
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to think our taxpayers can continue to think our taxpayers can continue to - continuation of the earlier contracts? continuation of the earlier contracts?
- I will continue to pound information.
Summary:
The committee first approved the May 12 minutes, then deferred item 285 on the routine personal service contract green list for Western Kentucky University to the July 2026 meeting. It also noted that several deferred university contracts had been withdrawn by the institutions, and then approved the remaining agenda items without objection, including personal service contracts, amendments, memoranda of agreement, Kentucky Entertainment incentive agreements, deferred items, and corrections, except for items pulled for further review.
The main pulled item was a Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts contract supporting Fayette District Court’s juvenile treatment court through Fayette County Public Schools. Court officials explained that the program, created under Supreme Court rules in 2022, serves court-connected juveniles with mental health and related needs, operates at the courthouse, and uses a school-employed program manager funded through a pass-through arrangement with Fayette County Public Schools and the Urban County Government. They said the program has had over 100 referrals, accepted about half, and had at least 25 successful graduates, with 11 high school graduates among participants. Members asked about who pays for drug screens, family involvement, and what counts as successful completion; the officials said the Urban County Government’s Division of Youth Services pays for drug screens and services, and that parents must participate in classes and support services. The committee then approved the contract review, with some members explaining their votes in support and one member emphasizing the committee’s role in reviewing contracts in the public interest.
The committee also reviewed two Auditor of Public Accounts contracts. The auditor’s representative said contract 11, with Vantage Point Solutions, will examine the Kentucky Communications Network Authority/Kentucky Wired network for $700,000, well below the $1.5 million appropriated, and that a report is expected before the 2027 regular session. Contract 12 funds a special examination of investment managers used by Kentucky’s retirement systems, prompted by a Legislative Oversight and Investigations request to assess whether investments tied to ESG factors are consistent with fiduciary duties; the representative said the retirement systems have been cooperative and that findings are expected on a similar timeline, with some flexibility built into the deadline. After questions about the Texas litigation referenced in the explanation, the committee approved both auditor contracts without objection.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 04/10/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Mchune, do you want to continue Senator Mchune, do you want to continue your<00:15:45.519
- Um, members and Senator Drazkowski, um, I know this is an unresolved issue, and it will be continued
- <00:40:51.119>
we legislation, but we are continually we legislation, but we are continually - its goal is and we will have to continue its goal is and we will have to continue to<01:05:03.440
- . and I'll continue rice in our statute. and I'll continue to<01:42:42.159>
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AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, please continue to register. Points of personal privilege.
- It will continue to allow middle housing.
- to educate our public and continue to educate our members as to why it's important to protect states
- As we all know with the continued negotiations and the spinning wheel of our legislature, The continued
- It will continue to erode. And when the rainy day...
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- So that will continue for any teachers that have not been trained already.
- We continue to fund, again, language instructors, language and culture instructors.
- We continue to fund at very high levels...
- So again, we've had and continue to prioritize language and culture in the state.
- So that gets replenished every time as long as the legislature continues to put dollars there.
Keywords:
foster children, school transportation, education funding, public education, child welfare, New Mexico Highlands University, soccer field, women's sports, infrastructure improvement, funding allocation, student athletes, appropriation, New Mexico State University, nutrition, travel support, funding, education, university support, financial assistance, parenting students
UT
Utah 2025 Regular Session
Education Interim Committee - November 19, 2025
Education Interim Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And we would love to continue to collaborate with this body in ensuring that sensitive materials and
- So we'd love to continue to have conversations about that with this body. All right. So the...
- The first was to allow that to continue and do nothing.
- and that there's continuity in the educational services for those students. ...that that practice continues
- and that there's continuity in the educational services for those students.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Motion to suspend rules in order to debate gun control, gun violence prevention package 5/14/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- If the author would continue to yield. Representative Greenman: She'll continue to yield.
- . >> She'll continue to yield.
- . >> She'll continue to yield.
- So if we want to continue with the data, if we want to continue with the facts, I think we should.
- I'll continue.<02:30:56.240>
Um, continue. Um, continue.
Summary:
The House took up a motion to suspend the rules so House File 5140 could be recalled from committee, given second and third readings, and placed on passage. Representative Long and Representative Greenman argued the bill was an urgent, comprehensive gun violence prevention package that had already passed the Senate and should be acted on immediately in response to recent shootings, including Annunciation School, Burnsville, and Accent Signage. They said families, students, survivors, doctors, and community members had been pressing legislators to act, and Greenman described the bill as including mental health, intervention, anonymous threat reporting, bans on weapons of war, ghost guns, and binary triggers.
Representative Heintzeman opposed the urgency motion and focused on specific bill language, arguing that parts of the proposal were unclear or overly broad. He questioned whether the language on protruding grips would effectively ban all handguns, whether the penalties section could turn lawful gun owners into felons for possessing multiple noncompliant items, and whether the firearms assembly language could criminalize routine cleaning and reassembly of guns. He said these issues should have been addressed in committee and argued members needed clearer answers before voting on urgency.
Greenman responded that the language was intended to target additional protruding grips, not ordinary handgun grips, and said she was willing to adopt an amendment to clarify that point. On the penalties and assembly questions, she said the bill was aimed at certifying existing weapons, banning ghost guns, and preventing harm, and repeatedly urged members to vote for the urgency motion so the full bill could be considered. The exchange remained focused on the motion to suspend the rules and on the substance of the gun violence prevention package; no final vote or other action is shown in the transcript excerpt.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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Please <00:13:15.120>continue. Nelson. Okay. Please continue. - Today the legacy continues.
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- um, didn't, um, didn't continue. um, didn't, um, didn't continue. >> Yes. >> Yes.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- in testimony, we are happy to continue in testimony, we are happy to continue to<00:18:02.559>
- through this moment and we will continue through this moment and we will continue to<00:37:51.920
- Students continue to disappear from classrooms.
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sessions <01:29:52.400>and continue in your Senate sessions and continue in your Senate- <02:01:37.760>
to going to be to just continue to going to be to just continue to scapegoat
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 9/17/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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our And we are committed to continuing our And we are committed to continuing - <00:09:14.720>
to lot more to do and we will continue to lot more to do and we will continue - <00:24:41.679>
to past 7 months um we have continued to past 7 months um we have continued - Um before we continue, I see >> Thank you.
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protocols Establishes continuity of care protocols Establishes continuity of care protocols
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:
- I am also grateful to the rest of my colleagues on the committee for their participation as we continue
- This topic can be difficult but can also be incredibly important to discuss as we continue to consider
- Stony Brook needs to continue to serve the population that is needed.
- The other thing that this will do is help in continuity of care.”
- And they have continuity of care, and they have” “Readily than they go to a hospital, and they have continuity
Summary:
The committee held its fourth public hearing of the 2025-2026 session on bills dealing with involuntary commitment and access to addiction treatment, especially proposals to move Section 35 civil commitments away from jails and prisons and into facilities licensed or approved by DPH or DMH. Chairs Velis and Domb framed the hearing as a discussion of how to support people in crisis with compassion, while also warning against using involuntary commitment as a way to remove unhoused people from public view. The hearing also touched on related concerns about discharge practices, treatment capacity, and the need for a broader continuum of care.
Testimony split largely along two themes. Addiction researcher Keith Humphreys argued that many people enter treatment under pressure, that involuntary treatment can be ethically justified in the face of overdose risk, but that it should not be mandated unless high-quality services exist first; he emphasized the need for inpatient care when someone is a grave danger, followed by case management and outpatient support. MAMH’s Kate Alicante supported the bill, saying Massachusetts is the only state that commits people with substance use conditions to jails or prisons and that carceral settings add trauma and stigma; she pointed to prior legislative steps, including the Section 35 commission and the planned closure of DOC’s MESAC facility, as evidence that the Commonwealth is moving toward health-based settings.
A major portion of the hearing focused on Stony Brook, a sheriff-run stabilization and treatment center in Hampden County. Boston City Councilor John Fitzgerald, several committee members, and multiple people in recovery described the facility as humane, well-run, and effective, with longer stays, medical monitoring, medication-assisted treatment, counseling, and warm handoffs to aftercare. Several witnesses said Stony Brook saved their lives or helped family members recover, and they argued that the sheriff’s office model should be expanded rather than eliminated. Others, including family members and advocates, countered that even a well-run correctional setting remains stigmatizing and that people should not be treated in facilities run by sheriffs or corrections when they have committed no crime.
No vote was taken. The hearing concluded with continued testimony, including Senator Friedman’s support for Section 35 as a civil commitment tool but not in a criminal justice setting, and her separate support for a bill to speed inpatient mental health treatment.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Special Session 2026 May 7th, 2026
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- We see continued restrictions of the right to vote and we see continued efforts to make things easier
- We<00:30:33.760>
see <00:30:34.400>continued <00:30:34.920>restrictions We see continued - <00:36:47.400>
to <00:36:47.560>make I want to continue to make I want to continue - We represent everybody, and we will continue to do that.
- We will continue to do that every single day. So, thank you, Mr.
Bills:
SB1
Keywords:
special primary election, redistricting, State Senate districts, federal court ruling, injunction, vacated order, election calendar, 2026 general election, 2026 primary election, runoff election, party nominee, Governor proclamation, Alabama elections, district boundaries, court-ordered redistricting, special election, nomination process, Secretary of State, election law, 1136
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, our customers just see a blip and they're continuing to stay on power.
- And our customers just see a blip and they're continuing to stay on power.
- Once that process concluded, ERCOT then took that program over, and it continues to grow.
- So I think that's an opportunity for us to continue talking about. Thank you, Mr.
- Those are added expenses that continue to ramp up.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/10/26
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
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legislative <00:47:35.000>funding <00 - is that process needs to be continued is that process needs to be continued and<01:10:00.240>
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to Department of Health continues to Department of Health continues to mention - think we see stormwater ponds continuing think we see stormwater ponds continuing to<01:14:35.720
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 02/25/26
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh it them to continue to get service.
- We look forward to continuing to keep this committee updated as we continue to implement that new law
- as we continue to committee updated as we continue to implement<00:26:26.159>
that <00:26:26.400 - That conversation amongst those stakeholders needs to continue.
- Uh but I need to be need to continue.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Feb 10th, 2026
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- continued to go up. continued to go up. >> Correct. >> Correct. >> Correct.
- So I'm asking you, are you going to continue profits year after year?
- going to continue profits year after year?
- decision to make whether that continues decision to make whether that continues or<01:01:44.160>
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to If that means that people continue to If that means that people continue
Keywords:
criminal enterprise, database, law enforcement, data privacy, criminal justice, Lamar County, property auction, county commission, online auction, public notice, HB392, Lauderdale County, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, district attorney, chief assistant district attorney, assistant district attorney, assistant district attorneys, prosecutor, prosecutorial compensation, salary supplement
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
- They continuously were went to.
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Thank continue in every part of my life. - Thank continue in every part of my life.
- The question is, shall the member continue? It's a roll call.