Transcript Highlights:

• And they offer general life skills curriculum for the most part. ...of low- and high-risk kids.
• And I know that even for us, for services for young women, we're in need of that too.
• I'm the deputy county manager for behavioral health for Bernalillo County.
• Thank you for that.
• What this will do is give the opportunity for the rural hospitals to sell themselves, and I hope we can

Bills: SB5 , SB6 , SB8

Committee: Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs

Keywords: physician residency, healthcare, rural communities, medical education, appropriation, education, medical school, New Mexico, construction, behavioral health, funding, mental health services, general fund transfer, 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Gun violence has been an issue for a long time, but these really brought it to the forefront for us.
• We'll pass something, I hope.
• The time for action is right now.
• The time for action is right now. Senator, thank you for your time. Thank you.
• </c> Senator, thank you for your time. Senator, thank you for your time. Thank<00:15:28.200><c> you.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The interview focused on Minnesota gun violence prevention efforts following the June shootings of the Hortmans and Hoffmans and the Annunciation shooting. The senator said those events prompted him and Senator Zaynab Mohamed to form a gun violence prevention working group during the interim to gather public and expert input, explore ideas, and build bipartisan support. He said the group was meant to set the stage for session work, and that several ideas vetted there are now appearing in legislative proposals, along with a package from the governor’s office. Asked what the legislature should prioritize, the senator said there is no single solution and outlined a multi-pronged approach: enforcing and expanding red flag and universal background check laws, considering an assault weapons ban and high-capacity magazine limits, banning ghost guns and binary triggers, improving firearm storage and security, and increasing school counseling and wraparound mental health supports. He emphasized that mental health alone is not the cause of violence, but said better identification of students in distress and easier access to care could help. He also argued that these measures can coexist with the Second Amendment and said regulation is appropriate to keep firearms from people with violent criminal histories, domestic violence histories, or other prohibitions. On politics and prospects, he said passage will depend on bipartisan negotiation in a closely divided legislature, noting that some Democrats and Republicans are uncomfortable with certain proposals while others are open to them. He said he is willing to adjust language, as he did on earlier red flag and background check laws, and hopes members will work with him and Senator Mohamed, especially in swing districts. If no package passes this session, he said the issue will return next session and voters should hold legislators accountable in the next election. He closed by telling families affected by gun violence that lawmakers are working on the issue now and should not wait for another mass shooting, adding that gun violence also includes suicides and other daily deaths, not just mass shootings.

Transcript Highlights:

• > was</c> in high school for school was in high school for school was Frankenstein<00:01:05.119><c> so
• I appreciate it and thank you for being here and for sharing this information.
• For example, is some of the absenteeism rates more prevalent in high school, or is it something that
• for not for a what's the consequence for not for a student<00:43:12.000><c> but</c><00:43:12.119><c>
• I'm really excited for it.

Committee: Senate Education Policy

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> been an improvement for the 100% for all been an improvement for the 100% for all of<00:21:37.200
• for for our law gym equipment to um to for for our law enforcement<00:41:04.079><c> students</c><00:
• They are looking at a human services or social work program, which is a high need for them, and they
• My heart just stopped for just a moment, because I imagine that makes it really hard to keep your high-quality
• </c> what we put together last year hoping what we put together last year hoping for<01:43:29.599><c>

Committee: House Higher Education Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• :35:39.280><c> this</c><00:35:39.440><c> wonderful</c> much for for having this wonderful much for for
• </c> for being here today. for being here today.
• for for people to uh quick enough to for for people to boil<01:12:22.720><c> them</c><01:12:22.880><c
• So, the one question I would have is, could you give us a little bit more detail about hoped-for processing
• The one question I would have is, could you give us a little bit more detail about hoped-for processing

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This table is a summary of the required courses for high school students, both required to graduate and
• But for any student who's not in a high school, those categories would not be included in their scores
• These states in 2024 tested between 90% and 100% of high school graduates for the 2024 school year.
• So these states in 2024 tested between 90 and 100% of high school graduates for the 24 school year.
• So for English benchmarks, the average percentage of high school graduates meeting those ranged from

Summary: The committee received a lengthy Bureau of Legislative Research presentation on Arkansas academic standards, accountability systems, and adequacy-related requirements. Staff reviewed the history of state curriculum and accreditation laws, the current standards for grades K-12, required high school units and graduation pathways, and recent changes such as career-ready pathways, embedded instruction requirements, and the distinction between courses required to be offered versus courses actually taken by students. Members asked for a chart comparing the 1997, 2003, 2015, 2017, and later law changes, and staff agreed to provide one. The presentation then turned to the federal ESSA plan and Arkansas’s state accountability system. Staff summarized ESSA requirements, Arkansas’s long-term goals for proficiency, English learner progress, and graduation rates, and recent data showing that 2025 proficiency rates remained well below the 80% goal, while English learner progress and graduation rates were also below long-term targets. The committee discussed school support and improvement, equitable access to educators, report cards, and the apparent lack of evidence that equity labs are currently being conducted. Members requested follow-up from the Department of Education on equity labs, report card data, and whether the ESSA plan can be changed. The presentation also covered state assessment results under the Arkansas Accountability Act, including ATLAS, DLM, ELPA 21, ACT, and NAEP data, along with teacher access measures and geographic shortage districts. Staff reported that Title I and high-poverty schools tend to have more emergency/provisional teachers and less experienced staff, and that shortage districts are concentrated in parts of the state. Members asked for additional information on test highs and lows, the number of assessments students take, dropout data, and whether higher teacher salaries have affected shortage areas. The committee also discussed district levels of support under the state accountability system, including the possibility of state intervention at the highest level of support.

Transcript Highlights:

• We pay for the administrative costs and account for that.
• Obviously, the state has taken on a portion of funding for school meals for for students that do not
• Yes, DFA comes up with a, a calculation for an indirect cost for federal grants for things like their
• And what my hope is, is that as we're going through this process this summer and we're responsible for
• it for.

Committee: House Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:

• Chair and Ranking Member, in my ten years in the Senate, I hope I've established a reputation for being
• I pray for their families, I pray for law enforcement and military personnel, and I pray for their souls
• and later for For the Southern District of Florida.
• Were called for.
• And we're going to hold you accountable for that. I hope you do.

Committee: Senate Senate Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:

• At this point, we only have aggregated high-level numbers for each category.
• You know, the idea of even value-based purchasing, that is a model that is used for different high-cost
• It was not included in the budget, which we were hoping for and expecting, and the current maintenance
• At the heart of Prop 35 is ensuring access to high-quality care for Medi-Cal members across the state
• This is a high priority for the department. Thank you. Thank you for that.

Summary: The committee heard a budget oversight hearing on the Department of Health Care Services, focusing first on the overall Medi-Cal budget and a March General Fund loan to cover a current-year shortfall. DHCS said the 2025-26 budget proposal totals $193.4 billion, with Medi-Cal projected at $188.1 billion total funds and $42.1 billion General Fund, driven by higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, managed care growth, and costs tied to eligibility expansions and the COVID-era redetermination unwinding. The department said the $3.44 billion loan was needed to manage cash flow and ensure timely payments to providers and plans, while the LAO noted Medi-Cal’s cash-basis budgeting creates volatility and that more detailed estimates would come with the May Revision. Members discussed federal Medicaid threats, the need for transparency on cost drivers, and the impact of pharmacy spending, long-term care, and immigration-related coverage expansions. The second major topic was family health programs, including California Children’s Services, the continuous coverage unwinding, and opioid settlement fund spending. DHCS described CCS funding methodology changes, ongoing county stakeholder work, and a delayed rollout of CCS monitoring and oversight until July 1, 2025, while county representatives and advocates argued the program is underfunded and asked for more technical assistance and a delay in implementation. On the unwinding, the department explained that federal redetermination flexibilities helped maintain coverage after the pandemic, but the Governor’s budget proposes ending them at the end of June 2025; advocates urged making the flexibilities permanent to avoid coverage losses. For opioid settlement funds, DHCS and Finance said the budget increases funding for naloxone distribution while reducing other harm-reduction spending based on updated settlement revenues, prompting criticism from members and public commenters who argued the change would weaken effective harm-reduction programs. The hearing also included an update on Proposition 35 implementation. DHCS said the voter-approved measure continuously appropriates MCO tax revenues beginning in 2025, with up to $4.6 billion annually available for specified Medi-Cal and provider investments in 2025 and 2026, but implementation depends on consultation with the required stakeholder advisory committee. The department and LAO noted uncertainty about future federal rules affecting the MCO tax after 2026. Public testimony largely supported maintaining Medi-Cal expansions, protecting immigrant coverage, preserving harm-reduction funding, and increasing support for community health workers, pediatric dental care, and CCS county administration. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• This will make health care less expensive for the Granite State families that can least afford the high
• For these reasons, I hope we will overturn the ITL motion so a better motion may be brought forward.
• For these<05:11:51.920><c> reasons,</c><05:11:52.798><c> I</c><05:11:52.958><c> hope</c><05:11:53.120
• </c><05:46:49.680><c> for</c><05:46:49.920><c> 24</c> through the house and I hope for 24 through the
• house and I hope for 24 votes<05:46:50.638><c> in</c><05:46:50.798><c> this</c><05:46:50.958><c> room

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Thank you all for the invitation to be here today and thank you for your service.
• We pray for unity in Kentucky.
• </c> senator for from Taylor and for Taylor. senator for from Taylor and for Taylor.
• suicides</c> on looking for help for veteran suicides on looking for help for veteran suicides or<00
• And, you know, I hope that my colleagues will see the value in this and that this is for research.

Keywords: 958, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> high standard for education in Wyoming. high standard for education in Wyoming.
• They get funded for an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.
• our high school as a public run for our high school as a public run charter,<03:55:19.920><c> but</c
• high school athletics for the uh varsity high school athletics for the first<03:56:03.040><c> time</
• </c> standards for our high school people. standards for our high school people. you<04:34:25.439><c>

Committee: Joint Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Keywords: 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• for for our university, what he's done for for our university, this<00:25:43.600><c> state,</c><00:25
• President, ask for floor privileges for the Columbus High School Championship 5A basketball team. >>
• the team and coach Philip Morris for the team and Columbus<00:32:02.320><c> High</c><00:32:02.559><c
• Hope to see you soon. Appreciate you coming, Senator Chasnoff. >> For an introduction, Mr.
• an</c> for the committee uh for a uh an for the committee uh for a uh an appointment<00:51:11.599><c>

Keywords: MS Senate Floor - 25 March, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I hope the amendment is adopted. Thank you, Mr. President. I hope the amendment is adopted.
• But tickets for Friday's show appeared on the scalping site StubHub for between $939 and $1,000.
• for better justice.
• That's very bad for community, for neighborhoods, for the city.
• That's very bad for community, for neighborhoods, for the city government.

Summary: The Senate considered a large number of amendments to an economic development bill and adopted them one by one, with repeated brief recesses as members finalized language. Early amendments made permanent the option for hybrid public meetings and added procedures for alleged open meeting law violations, authorized speed camera enforcement in school and construction safety zones, and created a retirement credit option for part-time teachers who reduced hours to care for children. Other adopted amendments updated gateway municipality designations every three years, capped ticket resale prices and banned speculative “ghost tickets,” and addressed vulnerable road users, crumbling concrete, and a fund for seasonal communities housing. Members also approved amendments to create a new framework for responding to crimes against women, including better investigation of staged suicides and adding sex and gender to the hate crimes statute; to establish a trigger law protecting private-sector labor organizing rights if federal labor law is weakened; to create a bottom-up “Enough Act” fund to fight poverty; to allow airport restaurants and bars at Logan to operate during flight hours; and to protect seniors and adults with disabilities from financial scams by allowing temporary delays of suspicious transactions and reporting to protective agencies. Additional housing-related amendments were adopted for rural communities, residential PACE financing, and a five-community tenant opportunity to purchase pilot program. A Senate Ways and Means amendment was then adopted, the substitute draft was applied to the underlying bill, and the bill was ordered to a third reading and then passed to be engrossed. The chamber also adopted an order to reconvene the following Monday at 11 a.m. and to dispense with printing a calendar. The Senate then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• Kindle hope in our words and thoughts for the goodness that is in us and others. Namaste.
• But there is reason for great hope, especially here in California.
• His joyful, contagious optimism was a profound source of hope for so many of us over the last year and
• And I just want to thank you for being here and thank you for his legacy.
• High School and later superintendent of the Almaty Union High School District.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And I am definitely in high favor of this AB 91 for second chance.
• I am definitely in high favor of this AB 91 for second chance.
• For families who have been incomplete for decades, this bill offers hope. It creates a lot of...
• For families who have been incomplete for decades, this bill offers hope.
• There is no incentive for them, no hope. This bill provides that life at the end of the tunnel.

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: 909, all

Transcript Highlights:

• the sectors, for the key sectors, development strategies for the sectors, for the key sectors, and then
• So thank you for that.
• quality living wage jobs for, ...and so that there will be more high-quality, living-wage jobs for Washingtonians
• It'll be on business environment, and we hope you'll join us for that event.
• I'm here to express support for the record for Senate Bill 5871.

Bills: SB5871 , SB5919

Committee: Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development

Keywords: motor vehicle, glass repair, insurance claims, consumer protection, regulations, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, 904, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This is especially important for us in Texas because we have high diabetes rates and high limb amputation
• Hospitals are lowering the standards for orthopedic surgeons and making really high standards for podiatrists
• So I thank you for the opportunity to testify. And I hope you will support the bill.
• The fact that Haven for Hope has—you're the consultant, but there is a big difference between...
• In fact, Haven for Hope is currently voluntary.

Bills: SB1117 , SB1373 , SB672 , SB1986 , SB1098 , SB626 , SB1784 , SB2480 , SB2487 , SB437 , SB660

Committee: House Public Health

Keywords: dentistry, botulinum toxin, aesthetic treatments, dental regulation, training, medical staff privileges, hospital administration, healthcare regulation, Texas Health and Safety Code, consistency in privileges, SB 672, Texas hospital emergency operations plan, hospital diversion, emergency department, cyberattack, cyber security, power outage, electrical outage, patient diversion, hospital preparedness

Transcript Highlights:

• the sectors, for the key sectors, Development strategies for the sectors, for the key sectors, and then
• So thank you for that.
• living-wage jobs for... ...and so that there will be more high-quality living-wage jobs for Washingtonians
• And we hope you'll join us for that event.
• I'm here to express support for the record for Senate Bill 5871.

Summary: The Senate Business, Trade, and Economic Development Committee met for its first session under the committee’s new name and heard a work session on Washington’s economic development policy from the Department of Commerce. Commerce described its Office of Economic Development and Competitiveness, including small business finance, export assistance, business attraction, and sector development work, and emphasized the need for a statewide economic development strategic plan with regular review, stakeholder input, and attention to rural and regional needs. Members asked about foreign trade offices, federal funding uncertainty, tax competitiveness, workforce programs, and the role of the Keep Washington Working program. Commerce said the state’s trade and investment efforts are valuable but face funding challenges, and that Washington must compete on more than taxes, including its business ecosystem and workforce. The committee then heard public testimony on Senate Bill 5919, which would encourage fire districts and insurers to develop voluntary incentives for wildfire mitigation best practices related to agricultural activities. The sponsor described the bill as a way to reward farmers for practices such as defensible space, fire breaks, equipment storage, and avoiding high-risk work during red flag conditions. A fire chief testified in support, citing recent standing grain fires and the need for practical incentives in rural areas. The bill was described as having no appropriation and no requested fiscal note. Members also heard testimony on Washington in the Making 2040 from the Association of Washington Business and a business owner. Supporters said the 16-year economic vision plan was built from broad public engagement and focuses on workforce, business climate, infrastructure, housing, and community. They argued Washington needs more housing, a more competitive regulatory and tax environment, and reliable energy to support growth. Senators questioned how the plan would achieve its housing goals and what specific regulatory changes were needed; AWB said it would provide a regulatory study soon. The committee also received a wildfire mitigation work group update from the Office of Insurance Commissioner, which recommended stronger community mitigation, better data sharing, consumer transparency, and a possible grant program for home hardening, though it did not reach full consensus on a single property mitigation standard. Finally, the committee held a public hearing on Senate Bill 5871, which would prohibit assignment of benefits in property and casualty insurance and set new rules for motor vehicle glass repair claims, including ADAS-related disclosures and limits on steering and inducements. The sponsor and supporters, including the Office of Insurance Commissioner, Safelite, NAMIC, and the Northwest Insurance Council, said the bill would reduce auto glass fraud, improve transparency, and help stabilize premiums. Independent glass shop owners and the Independent Glass Association opposed the bill as written, arguing it would favor large vertically integrated companies, restrict small businesses, and fail to address insurer steering and conflicts of interest. Several witnesses requested technical amendments, and the committee took no final vote before adjourning.

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm not sure if this is the correct bill for this question or not, but I'm hoping that it is.
• I'm not sure if this is the correct bill for this question or not, but I'm hoping that it is.
• all, is my hope.
• Move for adoption. Yield for questions. The member yields.
• Move for adoption. Yield for questions. The member yields.

Summary: The House convened, completed the roll call, prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions and recognitions, including guests from a South African refugee program, Weatherford Middle School students, international students, and the 2025 Aviation State Teacher of the Year, Sam Madewell. Representative Ranson also presented remarks for International Student Recognition Day, highlighting the economic and cultural contributions of international students in Oklahoma. The chamber then took up House Bill 4329 on dental insurance claims, with Pro Tem Moore arguing it would restore fairness by preventing insurers from controlling prices for services they do not cover; the bill drew questions about free-market effects, rural dentistry, and premiums, but Moore said it should not raise costs and noted similar laws in other states. HB 4329 passed 91-5. The House also passed House Bill 2730, which ties the interest rate on taxpayer underpayments to market rates rather than a fixed statutory rate, after brief questions about how the rate would fluctuate; it passed 87-11. House Bill 3465, extending the sunset on the emission tax credit program from July 1, 2027 to July 1, 2029, passed 82-16. House Bill 4426, extending the sunset on the strategic industrial development enhancement sales tax credit from December 31, 2027 to December 31, 2032, passed 76-20. During announcements, members noted upcoming committee meetings, a rural caucus with OSU President Hess, a devotional, and a lunch event tied to International Student Recognition Day. The House then recessed until the next day, Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 1:30 p.m.