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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight Mar 4th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Health and Human Services Oversight

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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight Mar 4th, 2026

Health and Human Services Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • All those wishing to vote or change vote, Chair is prepared to close.
  • All those who wish to vote or change vote, Chair is preparing to close.
  • Chair's prepared to close. Clear the vote. Fourteen aye, zero nay.
  • Chairman, are you prepared to present HB 4457? Yes, I am.
  • Chair, prepare to close. Please close the vote. 13 yeas, 0 nays.
Summary: The committee took up a series of health, human services, and related bills. House Bill 3552, allowing child care providers to bridge the gap between subsidy reimbursement rates and standard tuition rates, was adopted and reported out 11-2. House Bill 2984, as a substitute, would direct DHS to compile a report on the child care system, including subsidy payment error rates, the number of facilities, closures, and voluntary closure feedback; it was reported out 14-0. House Bill 4201, changing master teacher requirements in child care from licensed capacity to actual enrollment, also passed unanimously. House Bill 3380, creating the Fostering the Future for Oklahoma Children and Families Act to modernize foster care data systems and improve outcomes, passed 12-0. House Bill 4430 and House Bill 4431, both cleanup measures tied to prior nurse practitioner/PA scope and pharmacy-related provisions, each passed 13-0. Several bills focused on health care access, regulation, and public safety. House Bill 4124 would allow over-the-counter ivermectin sales for human use with labeling and dosing information; after extensive questioning about safety, labeling, children, and liability, it passed 9-5. House Bill 3934, a large amended measure affecting dental practice and supervision rules, passed 14-0 after discussion about x-rays, telemedicine, and dental assistants. House Bill 3448, requiring insurance coverage related to group home provider liability for property damage, passed 14-0. House Bill 3131, setting baseline standards and oversight for homeless shelters with roles split between Commerce and Health, drew concerns about local control, temporary shelters, and fiscal impact, but passed 8-6. House Bill 4200, creating a revolving fund for forensic assertive community treatment teams to address the jail-to-homelessness cycle for people with severe mental illness, passed 11-3. The committee also advanced several public health, consumer, and industry bills. House Bill 1912, the Corn Masa Nutrition Enhancement Act, generated extensive debate over folic acid fortification, parental choice, MTHFR genetics, and potential health effects; with a PCS allowing a non-fortified option, it passed 9-5. House Bill 3011 repealed the home brewing license while keeping home-brewing limits and sales restrictions, and passed 11-3. House Bill 3881, the Alternative Nicotine Products Regulatory Act, increased application costs and removed a registry deemed inconsistent with federal law, passing 13-0. House Bill 3538, targeting pharmacy benefit manager vertical integration and its effects on access and pricing, passed 13-0 after discussion of mail-order restrictions and pharmacy closures. House Bill 3851, defining private label/control label alcoholic beverages under the three-tier system, also passed 13-0. House Bill 3907, requiring direct-hire staffing for facilities serving vulnerable adults and children with a short temporary staffing grace period, passed 13-0. The committee then moved on to House Bill 4457, a specialty-drug/PBM measure, with discussion beginning about PBM practices and specialty pharmacy access.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 25th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairs, preparing to close. Senator Burns, Senator Daniels, chair is preparing to close.
  • Senators Hicks, Burns, and Ye, the chair is preparing to close.
  • Chairs preparing to close. Close the roll.
  • The chair is preparing to close.
  • The chair is preparing to close. roll.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 25th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairs preparing to close, close the roll.
  • Chair is preparing to close. Senator Nice. Senator Burns. Chair is preparing to close.
  • Chair is preparing to close. Senators Hicks, Burns, Yuck. Chair is preparing to close.
  • The chair is preparing to close.
  • Chairs preparing to close. Close the roll.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer, and recognized the Doctor and Nurse of the Day, along with several guests and visiting groups, including a military honoree, a women’s rugby team from Southern Nazarene University, a homeschool co-op, gun-rights advocates, and other constituents. The chamber also heard a citation honoring Chief Master Sergeant Scott R. Irwin for 34 years of military service, and the SNU women’s rugby team was congratulated for winning the 2025 National Collegiate Rugby Division I championship. On the floor, members considered House Joint Resolution 1032, which would align Service Oklahoma rules with existing law and executive action regarding changes to birth certificate and license sex markers. The measure drew extended questioning and debate about gender identity, intersex individuals, and whether the repeal would change current practice. Minority Leader Kurt opposed it as political and harmful, while the author said it simply removed outdated administrative code. HJR 1032 passed 38-8. The Senate then passed Senate Bill 1314, increasing caps on the groundwater well drillers and pump installers indemnity fund, 46-0; Senate Bill 1257, classifying THC as a Schedule I drug, 43-3; Senate Bill 1326, modernizing the self-storage facilities lien act and changing notice provisions, 40-4; Senate Bill 1365, raising the threshold for Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department inventory purchases from local vendors and making it an emergency measure, 35-11; and Senate Bill 1932, allowing certain motor carriers to be represented by an officer or partner at administrative hearings, 46-0. The Senate also heard announcements about an Appropriations Committee meeting and an upcoming Bible Reading Marathon before adjourning until February 26, 2026.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Prepared and trained.
  • Representative Schreiber, are you prepared to present your bill at this time?
  • Master teachers even though they only have 80 students.
  • This regards how many teachers with certain credentialing...
  • kids, how many teachers per infant or how many teachers per student.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 18th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Those wishing to vote or change the vote, chairs, preparing to close.
  • Chairs, prepare to close. Brooks. Those who vote, change the vote. Chairs, preparing to close.
  • The chair is preparing to close. Close a roll.
  • The chair is preparing to close the vote.
  • The chair is preparing to close the vote.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I don't know what the answers are, but I think... ...prepared and trained.
  • Are you prepared to present your bill at this time? If you are, we have a PCS. Is that correct?
  • kids, how many teachers per infant or how many teachers per student.
  • This regards how many teachers with certain credentialing.
  • kids, how many teachers per infant or how many teachers per student.
Summary: The committee first considered House Bill 3552, which would let child care providers bridge the gap between subsidy reimbursement rates and tuition rates. An amendment was adopted unanimously to make the bill subject to approval by the Administration for Children and Families, with the author explaining it was intended to protect federal DHS funding. The bill then passed on a 4-1 vote. Members then heard several child welfare and human services measures. House Bill 3380, on foster care reform and DHS transparency, passed 5-0 after questions about how public input and scoring would be documented. House Bill 3502, the parental rights and child welfare bill, passed 4-1 after debate over whether the bill addressed a real problem and whether resources would be better spent recruiting foster parents. House Bill 3849, updating and broadening a mentoring program for children and youth, passed 5-0, and House Bill 3886, requiring Health Department personnel to remain on site after an immediate jeopardy finding at a nursing home until a removal plan is accepted, also passed 5-0. The committee also approved House Bill 3907, which would prohibit certain facilities serving vulnerable juveniles and adults from being staffed through temporary staffing agencies, on a 5-0 vote. House Bill 4201, changing master teacher requirements in licensed child care from license capacity to actual enrollment, passed unanimously after discussion of how staffing ratios would work in practice. House Bill 4302, as amended, passed unanimously after removing subpoena language and instead allowing the Office of Juvenile System Oversight to disclose a complainant’s identity to law enforcement when needed to protect safety. House Bill 3448, requiring umbrella insurance coverage for certain child care caregivers, and House Bill 3409, streamlining recertification for five-star child care providers, both passed unanimously. House Bill 4095, reauthorizing and clarifying the 211 collaborative as the state lead entity for hotline services, also passed 6-0. The most extensive debate came on House Bill 3131, which would establish statewide baseline standards for transparency, public safety, and health safety in homeless shelters and create an advisory board. Members raised concerns about local control, rural county burdens, agency workload, and whether the bill duplicated existing requirements, while the author said he was open to further changes, including strike title and possible population-based exceptions. Despite objections, the bill advanced to the Oversight Committee on a 4-3 vote. Before adjournment, the chair said the committee would begin a deeper review of OCCY multidisciplinary teams and CAC child advocacy groups in upcoming meetings.
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Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 18th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The chair is preparing to close the roll.
  • Those wishing to vote or change your vote, the chair is preparing to close.
  • The chair is preparing to close the roll.
  • The chair is preparing to close. Okay. Close the vote.
  • The chair is preparing to close. Close the roll. Close the roll.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer, and handled several floor introductions, including recognition of an intern, visiting FFA members, and later a Sand Springs state championship football team and Murray County visitors. The chamber also laid over Senate Bill 2067 and adopted a unanimous-consent request to bring HCR 1006 directly to calendar. HCR 1006, which calls on Congress to propose a constitutional amendment giving states more control over campaign and ballot-initiative money, passed by voice vote. Senate Bill 1226, expanding hit-and-run scene-retention requirements to include property damage, passed 47-0. Senate Bill 1239, dealing with transportation-related statutory cleanup and extending a sunset date for structurally deficient bridge funding from 2026 to 2031, was amended twice, advanced, and passed 44-2, then was approved as an emergency measure. Senate Bill 1309, adjusting the amount that may be reserved from the Roads Fund for debt service, advanced and passed 46-0 as an emergency measure. Later, Senate Bill 2132, increasing a justice surcharge on credit-card point-of-sale transactions from 2% to 3%, passed 28-17; Senator Hall recorded a personal-interest abstention. The Senate then confirmed Daniel LaFortune to the Oklahoma Tax Commission by a 44-1 roll call vote. The body concluded by moving to adjourn until Thursday, February 19, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. when the clerk’s desk is clear.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

TRS-LBT, TRS-EDT, TRS Public Hearings 02-10-2026

Transportation

Summary: The joint committees on Transportation, Labor and Technology, and later Transportation and Economic Development and Tourism, heard several bills. SB 2573 would allow administrative driver’s license revocation hearings to be held by interactive conference technology such as Zoom and permit electronic exchange of evidence. The chief adjudicator for the ADLRO supported it as a non-mandatory option that has worked well since 2021, improving attendance and saving time and money; DOT also supported it. The committees voted to pass SB 2573 with technical, non-substantive amendments. SB 3215 would make permanent the requirement that securing mooring lines at commercial docks be performed by labor subject to collective bargaining by repealing the sunset date in existing harbor safety law. DOT did not submit testimony, and the chair noted support from longshore labor. The committees voted to pass SB 3215 unamended. The committees also heard SB 2693, which authorizes $15 million in general obligation bonds for planning, design, and construction of a 50,000-square-foot aerospace hangar and related facilities at Hilo International Airport. A Phoenix Space executive testified in support, saying Hawaii and Hilo have geographic advantages and that the project could support aerospace investment and jobs; several other organizations and individuals submitted supportive testimony. Committee members questioned whether federal matching funds or airport capacity existed, and DOT said it had no assurance of federal participation and would need to check on capacity and potential users. The hearing then moved to SB 2698, which would create a cruise ship special fund and impose a per-passenger head fee on cruise ships docking in state commercial harbors while repealing the existing cruise ship TAT framework effective January 1, 2026. DOT supported the bill but requested amendments to clarify that the new fee is in addition to existing passenger, port entry, and dockage fees and to raise the fee from $6.50 to $10; DOT said the higher amount would better fund harbor improvements such as shore power. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings testified in support but said the added fee would significantly increase costs, while a local ship supply business supported the cruise industry and opposed the TAT approach, saying cruise activity benefits local farmers and jobs. No final vote on SB 2698 was taken in the excerpt provided.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • So you think about what would have to happen in that six months: the election clerks have to prepare.
  • You know, the election clerks have to prepare.
  • The genesis of the teacher-specific part of the bill came—and actually, I would say all of it, but I
  • Was there, like, did you start with social workers and then you just branched out to the teachers?
  • Or did you start with teachers and branch out to the social workers?
Bills: AB49 , AB169 , AB188 , AB284 , AB296 , AB306 , AB356 , AB366 , AB467 , AB499 , AB515 , AB540 , AB542 , AB595
Committee: Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a former teacher.
  • I was groomed and abused by my physics teacher.
  • Seven years before my abuse, my teacher told another teacher.
  • There needs to be educational tools that will equip teachers and students.
  • Thank you for preparing.
TX
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  • , which was really the landmark legislation that was first cracking down on inappropriate student-teacher
  • Bill 3. and 2019 which continue their preventing inappropriate relationships between citizens. and teachers
  • So if I'm a teacher and I have concerning...
  • He was dating a new teacher there.
  • So this occurred, your abuser was a teacher. or principal, he was a coach.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • In the last study, I linked teacher preparation.
  • teacher preparation.
  • And so I've had the opportunity to look at the teacher shortage and preparation of teachers. teachers
  • , and teacher preparation program leader.
  • on teacher preparation.
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  • teacher preparation.
  • And so I've had the opportunity to look at the teacher shortage and preparation of teachers. teachers
  • by paying for results-driven, hands-on teacher preparation models.
  • on teacher preparation.
  • Along the teachers were success coaches who prepared us for the real world.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • And then that preparing to do.
  • </c> teacher at Campbell High School. teacher at Campbell High School.
  • The uh of charter school teachers.
  • Coaching for the teachers.
  • Our teachers are fund education.
Committee: House Finance
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Sep 3rd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • success in all his endeavors, and be it further resolved that an official copy of this resolution be prepared
  • He's carried landmark legislation: DEI, CRT, school choice, teacher pay, tenure reform, parents' bill
  • He was prepared and knew. He knew what the issue was and what issues mattered.
Bills: SB 8 , SB 1 , SB 2 , SB 5 , SB 10 , HB27 , HB7 , HB17 , HB1 , SB 9 , SB 7 , SB 17 , SB 4 , HB20 , HB18 , HB7 , HB17 , HB1 , HB20 , HB18 , SB9 , SB7 , SB17 , SB4 , SB1 , SR85 , SR87 , SB8 , SB5 , SB2 , SB10 , HB27
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Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Sep 3rd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • told her she needed a DNC scheduled for the next morning and prescribed misoprostol that night to prepare
  • Nothing could have prepared me for seeing her body.
Bills: SB 8 , SB 1 , SB 2 , SB 5 , SB 10 , HB27 , HB7 , HB17 , HB1 , SB 9 , SB 7 , SB 17 , SB 4 , HB20 , HB18 , HB7 , HB17 , HB1 , HB20 , HB18 , SB9 , SB7 , SB17 , SB4 , SB1 , SR85 , SR87 , SB8 , SB5 , SB2 , SB10 , HB27
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • We support the bill and particularly the investments in life sciences and health that help prepare the
  • It'll also better prepare students for the demands of professional health care programs.
  • $50 million general fund appropriation in 2025 to the Nevada Department of Education to support teachers
  • provided to students in kindergarten through grade 12 rather than grades 3 through 12, and that related teacher