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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Being eligible does not guarantee release, and these individuals undergo a rigorous assessment to determine
- Being eligible does not guarantee release, and these individuals undergo a rigorous assessment to determine
Summary:
The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on April 23, 2025, with a large regular-order agenda and first approved a consent calendar covering many bills. Several measures were then heard individually, with most receiving support from sponsors and stakeholder groups and no formal opposition in the room, though some bills drew respectful opposition or no votes. The committee also read and deemed approved a lengthy suspense calendar before taking up additional bills and public comment.
Among the bills discussed, AB 263 would extend temporary flow regulations on the Smith and Shasta Rivers for five years or until permanent rules are completed; AB 309 would remove the sunset on pharmacists’ ability to provide sterile syringes without a prescription to support HIV and hepatitis prevention; AB 631 would require animal shelters to post intake and outcome data online; AB 792 would allow consolidation of bargaining for court interpreters; AB 867 would ban cat declawing except when medically necessary; AB 1206 would require pre-approved housing plans for small residential projects; AB 787 would require health plans to better help patients find in-network providers; AB 596 would protect workers’ right to wear face coverings unless unsafe; AB 282 would allow housing providers to prefer voucher holders without violating source-of-income discrimination law; AB 738 would create a limited rebuilding exemption for disaster survivors from newer solar requirements; AB 566 would require browsers and mobile operating systems to make global privacy opt-outs easier; and AB 622 would clarify CDCR’s authority to award credits to people serving indeterminate sentences who complete rehabilitation programming.
Most of these bills were reported out on roll calls, often with bipartisan or limited dissent. AB 309, AB 631, AB 792, AB 867, AB 1206, AB 787, AB 596, AB 282, AB 738, AB 566, and AB 622 all advanced, while AB 263 also moved forward despite opposition from the Siskiyou Board of Supervisors and the California Farm Bureau. AB 622 generated the most extensive debate, with supporters emphasizing rehabilitation, parole-board review, and cost savings, and opponents warning about public safety and the impact on serious violent offenders. The meeting ended after brief public comment on several other bills on the suspense file and then adjournment.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 22nd, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- A million of that went to the statewide student assessment, which is on line 34. assessment, which is
Keywords:
education funding, appropriations, local education boards, school safety, workforce development, Alabama, technology, higher education, career technology centers, public institutions, grants, local education agencies, RAISE Act, student outcomes, public schools, accountability, weighted allocations, special education, English language learners, gifted students
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part II) Feb 26th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- This includes providing physical education instructors with state-required CPR and fitness assessment
- program that presents key nutritional information on the front of packaging, facilitating quick assessment
Keywords:
attorney ad litem, indigent parents, parent-child relationship, legal representation, Texas Family Code, court procedures, nutrition, health standards, food labeling, education, dietary guidelines, medical education, food safety, school meals, child nutrition, food additives, public health, 1185, senate, all
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Feb 4th, 2025
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- So some of the modules that we are focusing on now are our overall case management module, our assessment
- So the first two, the assessments and safety planning module and the majority of the case administration
Summary:
The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs received a Department of Children and Families update from CIO Cole Sousa on three major technology modernization efforts: ACCESS, CWIS, and FASMS. For ACCESS, he described the six-year, $205 million project to replace the aging eligibility system used for SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid applications, noting completed releases such as the MyACCESS portal, document management, partner portal, workload management, and client registration modules. He said the system now supports mobile applications, multi-factor authentication, and bot detection, and that the next budget request is $36.625 million to continue moving workers off the mainframe, modernize notices, and complete more worker-portal functions. Members asked about performance data, interoperability with other systems, and the relationship to the FX project and APD; Sousa said API-based real-time exchanges are the goal and that current average case processing time is about 30 days, though he would provide a more exact figure later.
The committee then heard about CWIS, a four-year, $75 million child welfare modernization project. Sousa said phase one is complete, including hotline intake, investigations, mandatory reporter, youth, parent, and mobile portals, along with mobile field tools, e-signatures, and customizable dashboards. Current work is focused on case management, assessment and safety planning, licensure, and placement modules, with collaboration from community-based care providers through advisory sessions. For the next fiscal year, DCF is requesting $28 million and expects to finish development by summer and launch in September, while continuing change management and training. Senators pressed on interoperability with ACCESS, FX, and FASMS, the use of a single unique identifier, and whether CBCs would be required to use the statewide system; Sousa said the department’s goal is one statewide system, with licensing costs absorbed by the state and no plan for dual systems after go-live.
Finally, Sousa gave a brief update on FASMS, the financial and services accountability system used by managing entities. He said it remains in maintenance mode while DCF prioritizes ACCESS and CWIS, and that modernization of FASMS is still being planned with partner agencies. He estimated current maintenance costs at about $1.3 million and suggested a future modernization could cost roughly $5 million to $7 million, though no firm timeline has been set. The committee expressed support for using data and interoperable systems to improve decision-making, and the meeting adjourned without any votes or formal actions beyond adjournment.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Counsel Oversight Jan 13th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't like looking at the final trial prep and what we've really got until I've assessed what it is
- At that point in time, once I can assess the strength of the case, we look at the filings.
Summary:
The joint committee met with a quorum present and first received an overview of its jurisdiction and duties related to appointing the Florida Public Counsel. Staff explained the committee’s authority under joint rules and state law, noted that the current Public Counsel’s term expires February 28, 2025, and that applications for the next four-year term were open with a February 6, 2025 deadline. The committee then heard an extensive update from Public Counsel Walt Truerweiler on the Office of Public Counsel’s work representing utility ratepayers before the Public Service Commission and in appeals.
Truerweiler described the office’s caseload and priorities, including electric, gas, water, and wastewater rate cases; storm recovery dockets; cost-recovery clauses; rulemakings; and customer service hearings. He emphasized that the office seeks to challenge unsupported or imprudent costs, find value for customers, and use expert analysis and customer testimony to shape outcomes. He highlighted recent and ongoing matters, including major Duke, TECO, Sunshine water/wastewater, and hurricane recovery proceedings, and said the office had fully litigated four of its last five rate cases, while also achieving a major settlement in Duke that reduced a requested increase and imposed cost controls on solar projects.
Members praised the office’s work and asked about the benefits of settlements, staffing and compensation, and how the office decides when to fully intervene versus provide guidance or monitor a case. Truerweiler said settlements can create predictability, reduce uncertainty and expense, and produce tangible value for both customers and utilities. He also acknowledged recruitment challenges, including lower pay than comparable agencies and difficulty attracting attorneys who do not want in-person litigation work. The committee took no substantive action beyond receiving the presentations, and adjourned after a motion was adopted.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Expansions of the judicial security unit to increase capacity for threat assessment, coordination with
- and Secure Courthouse Initiative, providing matching grants to counties for courthouse security assessments
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threat official events. conduct threat official events. conduct threat assessments - with the assessments, coordinate with the sergeant-at-arms<00:25:52.400>
and <00:25:52.559> - that would provide security and protective services for state officials, conducting the threat assessments
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 04/16/26
Health and Human Services
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These <00:09:36.440>are <00:09:36.560>just assessment section - These are just assessment section.
- This amendment would modify the process and remove the requirement for manufacturers to be assessed.
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what <00:43:20.840>to I guess, in terms of assessing what to I guess
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- With all of this information, we are required to work with a qualified actuary each year to assess the
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to with a a qualified actuary each year to with a a qualified actuary each year to assess - <00:25:09.120>
which assess assess the premium rate which assess assess the premium rate which - So the county does these MURE assessments for pregnant people, for various categories where they need
- So the county does these MURE assessments for pregnant people, for various categories where they need
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
FIN-WAM Joint Info Briefing - Mon Jan 26, 2026 @ 1:00 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
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of <00:26:20.640>801 <00:26:21.520>county-managed assessment of 801 - county-managed assessment of 801 county-managed parcels, parcels, parcels, 35<00:26:24.440>
high-risk - Because I can promise for an assessment.
- We are looking at that as well, but that’s more of an assessment directly at the property owner.
- And the assessment was $80 to $100 million plus. Okay. I'm just not clear then.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force (6-27-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- So, um, it's going to include risk assessment, strategic planning.
- So, um, it's going to include risk assessment, strategic planning.
- Data management and risk assessment. What's at risk?
- Data management and risk assessment. Data management and risk assessment.
- strategic planning, and risk assessment. strategic planning, and risk assessment.
Summary:
The first meeting of the Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force focused on the task force’s mission and on recent Kentucky flooding disasters. The co-chairs described the need to better prepare for increasingly frequent and costly natural disasters, including flooding, tornadoes, wildfires, and ice storms, and emphasized coordination among local, state, federal, and interstate partners. The discussion also stressed the importance of budgeting for mitigation, infrastructure resilience, housing, insurance, and recovery planning, with several members sharing personal experiences with disaster impacts in their districts.
Kentucky Emergency Management Director Eric Gibson gave the main presentation, responding to questions about the February and April flooding events. He said the February event affected the entire state, with 11,825 individuals registering for assistance and 1,194 public-assistance projects written so far; he also reported 134 households still sheltered, 190 households moved to permanent housing, and three disaster recovery centers still open after a regional consolidation. For the April event, he said 37 counties had individual assistance, 83 counties were still pending public assistance, and no hazard mitigation had yet been declared; 5,893 people had registered for individual assistance, and 144 households were sheltered, with 83 families already moved to permanent solutions. He noted that counties without public assistance would have to cover expenses locally unless state or federal aid is approved.
Gibson also outlined Kentucky Emergency Management’s tools and resources, including a 24/7 state operations center and warning point, embedded National Weather Service meteorologists, five regional warehouses stocked with water, MREs, blankets, and kits, a statewide web-based damage reporting system, laundry trailers, generators, a disaster needs hotline that has received 6,972 calls, and a mutual aid system used to deploy resources such as water tankers. He highlighted ongoing work on urban search and rescue, qualification systems for emergency operations personnel, and aerial documentation of storm damage. No votes or formal actions were taken at this meeting.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/12/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- , working out whether we indeed need to pause them or don’t need to pause them, and are trying to assess
- I do know our faculty have received those, and our administration is working to assess that and working
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are <00:31:33.200>trying <00:31:33.440>to <00:31:33.600>assess - to pause them and are trying to assess to pause them and are trying to assess that<00:31:34.120>
- our Administration is working to assess our Administration is working to assess that<00:31:40.279
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (01/14/2026)
Education Policy and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, this would create a position to do data research and analysis specifically around assessment and
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and <00:13:31.360>accountability around assessment and accountability - The first and primary one is the administration of the assessment.
- , they ensure that students assessments, they ensure that students are<00:16:00.959>
receiving - falsifying assessment scores, right? falsifying assessment scores, right?
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (02/04/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- care via the repeal of 141-C:20-e, thereby preventing families, facilities, and communities from assessing
- and that's an absolute risk assessment and that's an absolute right<00:40:56.160>
of <00:40:56.319 - They have to make a risk-based assessment.
- They have to make a risk-based assessment.
- , following up on your uh last assessment, following up on your uh last assessment, can<02:40:28.479
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration, January 22, 2026 - PM
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration
Transcript Highlights:
- Assessments currently are not embedded in the block grant.
- It presumes the YTOP interim and modular assessments are used. $25 has been embedded under the Select
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are <00:36:12.960>not uh assessments currently are not uh assessments - And we have the staff and the resources to continuously assess and adjust and move those kids around
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and then we have high quality assessment and then we have high quality assessment
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Next, on to risk assessment and conflict of interest.
- and hazard vulnerability assessments.
- Thank you. that work to develop threat assessments that work to develop threat assessments and<01:06:
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hazard <01:06:27.280>vulnerability <01:06:27.920>assessments. - and hazard vulnerability assessments. and hazard vulnerability assessments.
MN
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- tool to help bring employers into compliance without taking enforcement action or, for example, assessing
- penalties and would recommend assessing penalties and would recommend um<01:54:01.360>
that <01 - must provide payroll, policy, and timekeeping records for review, and DLI interviews employees to assess
- review and DLI interviews<02:00:20.960>
employees <02:00:21.440>to <02:00:21.599>assess - interviews employees to assess interviews employees to assess compliance. compliance. compliance
NH
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uh <00:17:41.039>charged <00:17:41.520>$5 instead of being assessed - uh charged $5 instead of being assessed uh charged $5 per<00:17:42.240>
thousand, <00:17:42.559 - It’s, you know, it would be like if we assessed 4% tax on everybody’s stock and bond portfolio.
- So the taxpayer gets one bill with the assessed value per the town's assessment, and with rates that
- are consistent with that assessed value.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- So, in terms of assessing the that.
- And that's how I'm going to look at assessing this is the NIL money I would give her.
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this how I'm going to look at assessing this how I'm going to look at assessing - It is based on a legal assessment.
- It is based on a legal assessment.
Summary:
A joint informational briefing of the House and Senate higher education committees focused on how the University of Hawaiʻi athletics department plans to remain competitive in the new NIL era, including the effects of the House v. NCAA settlement, direct institutional payments, and the need to balance competitiveness with the university’s educational mission. Senators and committee members introduced themselves, and the briefing featured remarks from women’s basketball coach Laura Beeman, football coach Timmy Chang, and Athletic Director Matt Elliott.
Coach Beeman said NIL has already affected recruiting and retention in women’s basketball, estimating the program has lost six to 10 student-athletes because it lacks the funding to keep comparable talent. She emphasized that the issue is not greed but retention, culture, and keeping student-athletes who value the university and community, while also using NIL as a way to teach financial literacy, privacy, and adult responsibilities. Coach Chang described similar pressures in football, including transfer portal volatility and competing offers from other programs, and gave examples of players whose personal and family circumstances made NIL support important for staying at Hawaiʻi.
Athletic Director Elliott said the department’s vision is to create an outstanding student-athlete experience, recruit and retain elite athletes, compete at the top of the Mountain West, and strengthen community ties. He said the department wants to preserve the educational focus while adapting to a system in which student-athletes can share in revenue. Elliott explained that UH is seeking a $5 million annual NIL fund, is fundraising through the community and the “Boost the Bose” account, and is also pursuing individual NIL deals, corporate sponsorship-related deals, and licensing opportunities. In response to Senator Kim’s question, he said NIL compensation can come through two tracks: institutional payments within the department’s discretion and outside deals that must be reviewed for market value under the new reporting system. No votes or formal actions were taken; the meeting was informational only.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 3/17/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- School property taxes make up about a third of all the property taxes that are being assessed by other
- School property taxes make up about a third of all the property taxes that are being assessed by other
- School property taxes make up about a third of all the property taxes that are being assessed by other
- School property taxes make up about a third of all the property taxes that are being assessed by other
- School property taxes make up about a third of all the property taxes that are being assessed by other
MN
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the quarterly for one year to assess the quarterly for one year to assess the - we would like to continue for the panel decided, uh, for an additional two years while further assessment
- can be done um while further assessment can be done um what<00:42:49.440>
that <00:42:49.599>< - And so we let people—it takes a while to do the actual assessment and then decide that someone should