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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Mar 3, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill refers to a state health services workforce and facilities plan.
  • So that inserting of the word workforce, did you mean to try to rename the plan, or is it ...?
  • We'd be fine with workforce as well. We'd be fine with that,<01:43:52.160> Chair.
  • It refers to State Health Services Workforce and Facilities Plan.
  • We're just going to take out the word workforce to conform the name to what is in HRS 332D-15.
Summary: The committee heard several administration bills related largely to workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance. On HB 2323 HD1, which would modernize workers’ compensation notice and filing procedures, DLIR and other agencies testified in support of the original bill language but said HD1 removed key components and weakened the bill’s clarity and continuity. HB 2324 HD1, which would repeal state hoisting-machine certification requirements and the separate crane operator certificate, drew support from DLIR; members asked about whether the change would affect safety or local operators, and DLIR said OSHA-compliant certifications already exist and the union supported the change. HB 1509 HD1, which would require faster employer responses to treatment plans and impose penalties for nonresponse, received support from DLIR and others, while DHRD said it wanted an amendment. The committee also took up HB 2164 HD1 on compounded prescription drugs in workers’ compensation. DLIR supported the bill as a way to define compounded drugs and curb inflated pricing, but DHRD and a medical provider opposed it and asked for amendments. Testimony focused heavily on whether the definition should include 503B compounding facilities and whether physician dispensing should be limited to the first 30 days after injury. HB 2165 HD1, dealing with unemployment insurance eligibility and removing the two-year limit on recouping overpayments, was supported by DLIR but opposed by Unite Here Local 5, which argued it would make it harder for striking workers and other claimants. Members questioned the impact of changing reporting deadlines from calendar days to business days and raised concerns about future benefit offsets; DLIR said the bill was needed for federal conformity and that the committee would revisit the offset percentage and effective date. Later, the committee heard HB 2367 on pay transparency, requiring salary ranges in job postings and removing the small-employer exemption. The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, AAUW, Hawaii Women Lawyers, and an individual testifier supported the bill, saying pay transparency promotes fairness, trust, and pay equity; one testifier described being underpaid compared with a predecessor and said posting ranges would save applicants’ time. HB 2619 HD1, concerning homemade food products and farm kitchens, received generally supportive comments from the Department of Health, which requested an amendment to preserve flexibility in future rulemaking. HB 1765 HD1, on spear-fishing safety warnings, drew support from a safety educator and comments from DLNR; supporters said warning labels would help prevent hypoxic blackout deaths and were low-cost and easy to implement. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

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

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Frances Holk-Jones, Mobile, District 98. >> I'm Margie Wilcox, your chair, District 104, Mobile
  • District 4, Morgan, Limestone, and Madison counties. >> Bill Lamb, House District 62, Tus... races Mobile
  • District 980. races Mobile District 980.
  • 37.600> it, The bill is intricate in that once we got to it, they do want to be a part of workforce
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 2nd, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • We show you registered as Jason Stolenski on behalf of the Texas Workforce Commission and you will be
  • The Texas Workforce Commission is very dedicated to eliminating and eradicating any fraud, waste and
  • Proactive measures include cyber security workforce training.
  • Reduce the nitrogen oxides emissions. from mobile sources in the state.
  • We have mobile sources.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • better than my good friend at the FCC, Chairman Carr, when he says the single choke point of the mobile
  • You cannot access anything on a mobile device without going through, as you rightly said, Senator, one
  • Mobile applications have become a gateway to harm, exposing minors to inappropriate content, predatory
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2026-04-13

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill claims to address the anesthesia workforce challenges, but anesthesiology assistants, or AAs
  • It would help address workforce shortages and improve timely access to surgical care for patients across
  • That is a utilization issue, not a workforce shortage. At its core, it is a question of access.
  • Do we support workforces that can meet patients where they are, or one that cannot?
Summary: The committee met at 1:00 p.m., confirmed a quorum, and approved the April 8, 2026 minutes. The first bill heard was House File 4712, which was laid over after the committee adopted a DE2 amendment. Representative Schultz said the bill would create a narrow additional exception to public pool limitations so highly certified swimming instructors could use certain pools for specialized infant, youth, and developmental-disability swim instruction. The only testifier, Tessa Seppelt, described ISR instruction as water-safety and drowning-prevention training for very young children and children with developmental delays, and said access to appropriate facilities is the main barrier. Members raised questions about emergency egress, public safety, and insurance coverage, and the author said he would follow up on those concerns. The committee then took up House File 4801, a bill by Representative Nadeau aimed at health care program integrity. He said it would align commercial and Medicaid partners to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse by changing prior authorization and retrospective review processes, improving data sharing on suspected fraud, addressing conflicting or duplicative services, allowing managed care organizations to verify provider credentials, and making risk corridors in MCO contracts permanent. The Minnesota Council of Health Plans supported the bill, saying it would help detect fraud and improve coordination, while the Minnesota chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics opposed it, arguing that expanded prior authorization would delay care, increase physician burden, and harm children with chronic conditions. Members debated patient safety, fraud detection, and whether the bill would undermine recent prior-authorization reforms. The bill was laid over. House File 3756, a technical update to the insulin safety net program, was also laid over. Representative Backer said the bill clarifies that a hospital-use intravenous insulin product is not part of the program because it is sold only to health care institutions and infused by practitioners, not dispensed to patients for self-use. The Board of Pharmacy testified that the language was drafted to avoid affecting future legitimate uses, and members asked whether the definition could limit new uses if treatments change. The committee then began House File 4860, but the transcript cuts off before the bill’s presentation is completed.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • believe that employers know how to navigate that now and would write policies that reflect their workforce
  • commission and several others that work in the workforce development Realm, and there are some glaring
  • So After looking at all of this, you know, we could very easily overwhelm the new workforce commission
  • There just seems to be an awful lot of people with fingers in the pot in the workforce pot.
  • Why would you not just work with the workforce commission and the new executive director To address the
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Juvenile Justice Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Juvenile Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • provides justice-involved youth with intensive art-based programming, social skill building, and workforce
  • justice programs in equipping our youth with the necessary skills required to succeed in today's workforce
  • You are testifying on behalf of the Texas Workforce Commission, and you are testifying neutral on House
  • Again, I am Mary York with the Texas Workforce Commission.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Apr 3rd, 2025

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It just so happens that addressing the nursing workforce shortage has been an ongoing issue since even
  • The nursing industry is facing severe workforce shortages.
  • Students and the workforce and beyond.
  • Health care workforce shortage.
  • These students are entering college and the workforce with a proven multilingual advantage.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 14th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • billion worth of investment across the great state of Louisiana, I bring H.B. 325 as part of my workforce
  • We have 11 school-based health centers and three medical mobile units that serve those students in the
  • allows parents to have more affordable education for their children and allows them to go back to the workforce
  • executive director of early childhood education. ...the children and allows them to go back to the workforce
Summary: The Senate Education Committee met with four members present and took up a long agenda of education-related bills. Early items included SCR 65, which would create a K-12 student success task force to study statewide career and academic pathway advising; the committee adopted a substantive amendment adding designees and then reported the resolution favorably. The committee also reported favorably on SCR 119, honoring Coach D.D. Breaux, after brief remarks about her LSU gymnastics legacy and the request that LSU study naming its gymnastics training facility in her honor. Several bills affecting school operations and student support were heard and reported favorably, including HB 434 on probationary school bus driver employment and superintendent authority over dismissal; HB 484 expanding scholarship benefits for children and spouses of fallen or disabled firefighters and police officers; HB 749 and HB 1059 on savings accounts and TOPS math eligibility alignment; HB 218 adding food insecurity questions to student questionnaires, which was amended and reported favorably; HB 325 expanding TOPS Tech eligibility through dual enrollment and part-time use; HB 476 requiring Safe Haven law postings in middle and high school restrooms; HB 1249 clarifying access to school-based health centers, with an amendment adopted; HB 1242 allowing more than one early learning center license at the same location under certain circumstances; HB 632 improving data protections and functionality for LA First; and HB 352 on behavioral health services for public school students, which was amended to address IEP and dispute-process concerns before being reported favorably. Two bills drew extended debate over transparency, privacy, and school autonomy. HB 608 would create confidentiality for intercollegiate athletics revenue-sharing documents; LSU representatives argued the bill was needed to protect student-athletes and competitive information, while PAR and the Louisiana Press Association opposed it as an improper secrecy carve-out for state-generated revenue. Despite the opposition, the committee reported HB 608 favorably. HB 1112, which would exempt BESE-approved non-public pre-K programs from certain licensure and safety requirements and adjust related definitions, was amended and then heard with testimony from the Pelican Institute in support, arguing it corrects overreach from prior law and protects private school autonomy and parental choice.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 1771 is a Workforce Commission bill.
  • The Workforce Commission already is empowered to collect certain data about workforce.
  • The Workforce Commission already is empowered to collect certain data about workforce.
  • development, expenditures made for workforce development, and performance data.
  • The idea is to allow the Workforce Commission to see how we're doing with our spend on workforce.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 28th, 2026 at 11:02 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Arthur and Jeanette Smith campus, a satellite campus down in Deming, that educates our health care workforce
  • with legislators on matters related to New Mexico's health care system, including access to care, workforce
  • But B.com educates a diverse osteopathic physician and health care workforce committed to improving the
  • Hope we can continue to retain her here in our workforce.
  • But I think we really need to keep an eye on how these compacts are affecting our workforce and keeping
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 21st, 2025 at 01:04 pm

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is currently a privately owned operating facility operated by the Louisiana Workforce LLC.
  • speak to the commissioners’ court, I found a copy of the contract, which is not even with Louisiana Workforce
  • Louisiana Workforce LLC is not even named on the contract.
  • ability to promote economic growth within their region and enhance the sustainability of the region's workforce
  • ability to promote economic growth within their region and enhance the sustainability of the region's workforce
Summary: The subcommittee on county and regional government heard a long agenda of county-related bills, with most measures left pending after testimony. HB 2097, by Rep. Martinez, would let counties that opt in use an independent hearing examiner instead of a civil service commission for certain deputy sheriff discipline appeals; the bill drew support from CLEET’s Robert Leonard, who said it would be fairer and faster, and it was left pending. HB 4642, by Rep. Gonzalez, would require counties that contract with out-of-state jail facilities to include Texas jail-standard protections and oversight; Gonzalez, detainee Jess Hampton, his wife, Texas Jail Project’s Krish Kundu, and TCJS director Brandon Wood all discussed deaths and poor conditions in Louisiana facilities, staffing shortages, and the need for guardrails and data collection. The bill was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4350, by Rep. Capriglione, allowing peace officers to request redaction of personal information from online real property records. Supporters said officers face targeted threats and should have protections similar to judges; a title industry witness warned about preserving the integrity of land records. The bill was left pending. HB 3687, by Rep. Harless, would require county fire marshals in counties over 100,000 to meet training and certification standards within set timeframes; Harris County Fire Marshal Laurie Christensen supported professionalization, and the bill was left pending. HB 4105 would let very large counties give a local-bid preference for construction and infrastructure contracts, and HB 4205 would require pay parity for similar law enforcement ranks within large counties; both were supported by Harris County officials and constables and left pending. Later, the committee heard HB 5403, which would repeal a special rule limiting Dallas and Tarrant county sheriffs’ control over commissary funds; the author said it would remove an outdated population bracket, and the bill was left pending. HB 4462 would require large counties to allow elected officials named in civil suits to seek outside counsel and have a role in settlement decisions; supporters argued county attorneys and commissioners court can have conflicts of interest, while questions focused on who qualifies and whether the bill could complicate settlements. The bill was left pending. Finally, HB 240, by Rep. Swanson, would restore a five-member quorum requirement for Harris County tax levies, effectively preventing tax action without all commissioners present and defaulting to the no-new-revenue rate if quorum is not met; urban counties opposed it as a potential budget obstruction, while supporters said it protects taxpayers and representation. That bill was also left pending. The transcript ends as the committee begins HB 3319, which would create a civil service system for constable department employees in large counties, but the discussion is cut off before testimony or action.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 21st, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • The facility is operated by Louisiana Workforce LLC.
  • speak to the commissioner's court, I found a copy of the contract, which is not even with Louisiana Workforce
  • ability to promote economic growth within their region and enhance the sustainability of the region's workforce
  • Seven rural counties strengthening Nueces County's physician workforce benefits the entire South Texas
MN