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MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Public Health and Welfare - Room 216, 24 March, 2026; 11:15 AM

Public Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • The confirmation process gives us an opportunity to talk back and forth about how things are going.
  • And then the pendulum inevitably swings back where it's tighter, tighter, tighter, and the process for
  • a contract or for hiring somebody or starting a new program has gotten harder and harder.
  • </c><00:18:19.120><c> or</c> and the process for for a contract or and the process for for a contract
  • </c><00:20:42.720><c> of</c> consultant to start this process of consultant to start this process of
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - Senate Public Safety

Senate Public Safety Committee of Reference

Transcript Highlights:
  • And, you know, typically, you know, again, with this said, new systems and processes need to be put in
  • The entire process, from automated face detection at the edge to a human-verified alert, is under 60
  • So that entire process, though, it doesn't matter whether we're running against $54.5 million or $500
  • The Phoenix Police Department worked with stakeholders on an alternative process that was implemented
  • It's a due process bill.
Summary: The Committee on Public Safety met to hear several presentations and bills. First, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry presented on its K-9 program, describing staffing, specialized detection and trailing teams, and the need to replace retired dogs and modernize an aging, high-mileage vehicle fleet used to transport canines. The committee also heard a presentation from Biometrica on a privacy-focused facial recognition and sensor system designed to identify missing persons and known offenders using law-enforcement-only data; the presenters emphasized that the system does not store video or audio and is intended to balance public safety with privacy. The committee then considered HB 2134, which would prohibit Arizona governmental entities and critical infrastructure providers from contracting for critical infrastructure equipment or software from Chinese companies or the PRC. Supporters, including the sponsor and a national security witness, argued the bill would protect communications and other critical systems from foreign adversary access; concerns were raised about costs and implementation, but the bill was amended to be prospective and to rely on self-certification and risk-based audits. The committee passed HB 2134 with a due pass recommendation by a 4-3 vote. HB 2404, which would shift most inter-facility transport of behavioral health patients from peace officers to authorized transporters, drew support from law enforcement and police association witnesses who said officers are not the right personnel for these transports; it passed unanimously, 7-0. HB 2402, dealing with ambulance certificate-of-necessity rules for small or underserved areas, was presented as a compromise measure after work with ambulance stakeholders and firefighters. The bill and a 15-page amendment would require the Department of Health Services to issue certificates in certain small-population areas, streamline applications, add reporting requirements, and address GPS coverage issues; it passed as amended, 7-0. HB 2673, which originally proposed mental health screening and treatment requirements for jail and prison inmates, was narrowed by amendment to create only a study committee on inmate mental health services; family members testified about tragic failures in the system, and the bill passed as amended, 6-0 with one not voting. HB 2253, protecting public employees from retaliation or obstruction when testifying in law enforcement disciplinary appeals, passed 5-0 with two not voting. HB 2270, expanding county protections over seals, logos, and sheriff’s posse naming rights, passed 6-0 with one not voting. Finally, HB 2941, which would treat certain unsafe motorcycle lane-splitting or passing behavior as reckless driving while preserving legal lane filtering, drew both support and concern about overbreadth; after testimony from the sponsor and members of the public, it passed 5-1 with one not voting, and the committee adjourned.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - Senate Public Safety

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • And, you know, typically, you know, again, with this said, new systems and processes need to be put in
  • The entire process, from automated face detection at the edge to a human-verified alert, is under 60
  • So that entire process, though, it doesn't matter whether we're running against $54.5 million or $500
  • The Phoenix Police Department worked with stakeholders on an alternative process that was implemented
  • It's a due process bill.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 58 Mar 10th, 2026

Idaho Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • , to establish provisions regarding inappropriate online behavior by students, and to prescribe a process
  • for natural resources that provides maintenance adjustments, including personnel benefit costs, contract
  • And when they had to go through the reduction process, the 1% in 2026 and an additional 2% ongoing, they
  • I also will highlight just a few things that I think we kind of got wrong in the budget process this
  • And I think that's what's so heartbreaking to me about this process we're going through.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, prayer, pledge, and approval of the prior day’s journal, then moved through committee reports, House messages, and bill introductions. Several measures were referred to committees or held on the calendar, including new Senate bills and a number of House bills and resolutions. The chamber also received enrolled bills and transmitted others between the House, Senate, and governor’s office. The main floor action centered on Senate Bill 1363, the natural resources maintenance appropriation. The bill funded maintenance budgets for the Department of Environmental Quality, Fish and Game, Lands, Parks and Recreation, Water Resources, and the Endowment Fund Investment Board, with reductions tied to statewide adjustments and removal of one-time funding. Supporters described it as a responsible “tightening of the belt,” while opponents argued the cuts would harm firefighting, water management, park staffing, permitting, and other services. After debate, the Senate passed SB 1363 on a roll call vote of 28-7. The Senate then considered and passed House Bill 558, protecting federal survivor and dependent benefits for children in state custody; House Bill 500, clarifying e-bike and bicycle traffic protections; House Bill 577, eliminating mandatory 10-year license plate replacement; House Bill 636, allowing school districts to use facilities funds for lease purchases; House Bill 539, limiting temporary administrative rules; House Bill 511, raising the cap on the fire suppression surcharge for structures on forest land; House Bill 639, updating midwifery medication authority; and House Bill 628, expanding parent-taught driver education options. House Bill 620, giving county commissioners special-expertise status in federal land management planning, also passed. House Bill 610, which would have extended the homestead tax exemption to homeowners absent for religious missionary service, failed on a 16-17 vote. The Senate then returned to miscellaneous business, made announcements, and adjourned until the next day.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Mar 10th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so what happens then is they form an agreement, signed contracts that says that areas.
  • But the, uh, the, uh, after the contracts have been signed.
  • . on top of that non-profits. ...processes, which are extremely arduous.
  • And, ...the process, we really think transparency remains essential.
  • And so... ...the process adds time, which increases costs.
Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 751, which would expand the STARS program for commercial transportation infrastructure by lowering the minimum project floor from $6 million to $5 million and raising the cap from $35 million to $100 million. Representative Monks explained that STARS lets developers front infrastructure costs and be repaid from a portion of new sales tax generated by the development, and supporters said it helps fund major roadway improvements without costing the state upfront. The committee advanced the bill on a due pass recommendation. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1347, a transparency measure for Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s pass-through homelessness grants, specifically the Continuum of Care and Emergency Solutions Grant programs. Sponsors said the bill would require annual reporting on grant recipients, uses of funds, and outcomes such as housing exits, income changes, and referrals, while not changing funding levels. Testimony included support from transparency advocates and concerns from a senator and nonprofit/housing professionals that the bill could duplicate existing federal and IHFA audits and add unnecessary reporting burden. The committee sent the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation, with Senators Robbie and Taylor voting no. Finally, the committee took up Senate Bill 1352, which would create state standards for “starter home subdivisions” on parcels of at least four acres in cities over 5,000 population by limiting minimum lot sizes and allowing higher density, while preserving local authority over infrastructure, safety, and environmental requirements. Supporters argued the bill would help address Idaho’s housing shortage by enabling smaller, more attainable homes and reducing regulatory barriers; opponents from city, planning, and local government groups said it would override local control, lacked an income-based affordability requirement, and could create infrastructure and neighborhood impacts. After extensive testimony, the committee’s initial motion for a due pass recommendation failed on a 4-5 roll call, and the bill was then moved to the 14th order for possible amendment. Senate Bill 1354 was held over until the next meeting.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, many of them can contract it out. So, it's very confusing.
  • Um, but there's no one to blame, but the process needs to be fixed. So, thank you for the question.
  • Uh, many of them can contract it out. So, it's very confusing.
  • Uh, many of them can contract it out. So, it's very confusing.
  • Uh, many of them can contract it out. So, it's very confusing.
Committee: House Health
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The Committee on Health met on April 11, 2025, and heard testimony on a series of Senate concurrent and Senate resolution measures focused on health system oversight, workforce standards, and access to care. Topics included an auditor study on mandated insurance coverage for intravenous ketamine therapy for depression (SCR 8 SD1), a working group on prior authorization reform (STR 10 SD2), a task force on minimum professional standards for community health worker training (STR 16 SD1), a pharmacy benefit manager reform working group (SCR 69 SD1), a pharmacy reimbursement working group (STR 70 SD1), an aeromedical services working group (STR 86 SD1), a catchment-water feasibility study for business use (STR 118 SD1), an auditor study on mandatory coverage for continuous glucose monitors (STR 120 SD1), and a resolution encouraging reduced use of disposable surgical equipment and more sustainable health care practices (STR 194 SD1). Testimony was generally supportive across the measures, with several agencies and organizations noting the need to address complex health policy issues and improve access, transparency, and sustainability. For STR 16 SD1, community health worker advocates strongly supported the resolution but asked for amendments to include the Hawaii Community Health Worker Association on the task force and to require that at least half of the task force members be community health workers. For the PBM-related measures, SHPDA said it was willing to convene the work group and described the issue as complex, while the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association asked that PBMs be included in the working group. For STR 10 SD2, SHPDA supported the effort to reduce prior authorization burdens and said the process is a "black box" that needs reform; the chair later noted the administration’s commitment to the issue. For STR 86 SD1, the Department of Health supported the aeromed working group, and the chair proposed a House Draft 1 with technical changes and added representation from independent provider operators. In decision making, the committee adopted the chair’s recommendations on all measures considered. SCR 8 SD1 was passed as is. STR 10 SD2 was deferred. STR 16 SD1, STR 70 SD1, STR 118 SD1, STR 120 SD1, and STR 194 SD1 were passed as is. SCR 69 SD1 was passed with amendments, and STR 86 SD1 was passed with amendments. The meeting concluded with adjournment after all votes were taken.
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session - 2026-02-27 - 11:30AM

Vermont Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also would remove the section that dealt with federal contracts to address the concerns of the senator
  • It also would remove the section that dealt with federal contracts to address the concerns of the senator
  • It also would remove the section that dealt with federal contracts to address the concerns of the senator
  • The constitutional amendment process requires that we have it in the calendar for 7 days.
  • process constitutional amendment process requires<00:42:28.640><c> that</c><00:42:28.960><c> we</c><
Keywords: 927, senate, all
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

February 12, 2026 - 09:15 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • It will help speed up Representative Andrade: the process while at the same time guaranteeing due process
  • No local government can hire contract lobbyists using tax dollars or general funds?
  • And that's a good example of the process that we're going through.
  • So just wondering what that would look like in this final process. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
  • By process of elimination, I was going last and second last.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JDC DEFER, JDC-EDU Public Hearings 02-12-2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • For families, this ensures contracts.
  • </c> contract. So, yes, it would help us. contract. So, yes, it would help us.
  • So, leaving open the option for a contract.
  • . contract. contract.
  • There's either contracts boxes, right?
Bills: SB3123
Committee: Senate Judiciary
Summary: The Judiciary Committee took up three measures in decision-making. SB 2678, which would create a Judiciary working group to improve family court processes and youth access to legal representation in the child welfare system, was recommended for passage with amendments. The amendments would clarify that members with lived experience are those who have navigated the state child welfare system, replace an actively serving guardian ad litem with a former GAL, allow co-chairs to invite additional experts, and provide compensation for lived-experience members. The committee report would also recommend a $20,000 appropriation, and the motion passed without objection. SB 2528, a Campaign Spending Commission proposal to expand the partial public financing program and raise expenditure limits, was also recommended for passage with amendments and adopted without objection. The committee’s changes would increase the public-funds match to 4:1, raise the maximum public funding available to 20% for statewide executive offices and 25% for legislative and certain county offices, blank out the appropriation in the bill, and instead recommend $7.2 million in the committee report. Technical amendments would also rename the program for consistency and set the bill’s effective date to March 22, 2075. In a joint Judiciary/Education hearing, SB 3123 drew extensive testimony in support from the Governor’s office, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Hawaiian Council, Kamehameha Schools, and many private-school and community representatives. Supporters said the bill would clarify that donor-funded scholarships, grants, and tuition-free educational programs are charitable gifts rather than contractual obligations, giving donors and schools greater certainty and preserving educational access. Some members questioned whether the bill could affect Kamehameha Schools’ admissions practices or allow schools to avoid donor conditions; witnesses responded that the measure is intended to clarify donor intent, not change admissions, and that an opt-out clause would preserve the ability to create contractual agreements if the parties choose. The discussion ended with the bill still under consideration, with no final vote reflected in the transcript excerpt.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Dec 15th, 2025 at 09:14 am

Revenue Stabilization & Tax Policy Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Again, professional, scientific, and technical services, the one notable contraction at 4.
  • So, in FY 2025 PIT contracted by 2.9%, but that included legislative changes.
  • But there was also a contraction of the labor market, particularly in the federal workforce, leading
  • But we also have the contraction around federal workers that's playing into that.
  • Most notably, we have the federal employment sector that is contracting in FY26 and again in FY27.
Keywords: 996, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • That's currently under contract with those providers.
  • So this would be the state kind of taking that out of the negotiation process.
  • So this would be the state kind of taking that out of the negotiation process.
  • So the idea is that we want to make sure that there is a certification process in the long term, but
  • Artificial intelligence would do the process of connecting coursework completed from the transcripts
Keywords: 987, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • This is designed to reflect the amount of preschool spending that's currently under contract with those
  • So this would be the state kind of taking that out of the negotiation process.
  • So the idea is that we want to make sure that there is a certification process in the long term, but
  • No, to clarify, so it's the 3 million is for a study to be done by an entity that is contracting with
  • So artificial intelligence would do the process of connecting coursework completed in the transcripts
Summary: The committee heard presentations on the Governor’s May Revision TK-12 education proposals, beginning with Proposition 98. The Department of Finance explained that the minimum guarantee rises by about $6.4 billion relative to the January budget across the three-year window, with a total of $124.9 billion in 2024-25, $125.1 billion in 2025-26, and $127.1 billion in 2026-27. Finance also described revised settle-up and reserve actions, including maintaining a $3.9 billion settle-up balance, increasing discretionary deposits into the Prop. 98 reserve, and ending with a projected reserve balance of about $10.3 billion. The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the overall estimates were reasonable but urged the state to fully fund the guarantee and use other budget actions or reserves to manage volatility rather than delay settle-up payments. Members questioned the rationale for leaving the $3.9 billion unsettled, and Finance said the amount reflects revenue uncertainty and the risk of overappropriating Prop. 98 if revenues later fall. The committee then reviewed the Department of Education portion of the May Revision. Finance said the budget adds positions and state operations funding for CDE and includes trailer bill changes affecting community schools, preschool, literacy, special education, charter accountability, and other programs. The LAO highlighted concerns and recommendations on several proposals, including the size and structure of the LCFF increase, the special education base-rate increase, additional one-time community schools funding, literacy coach and math professional development augmentations, the multilingual screener, inclusive college grants, homelessness grants, and the proposed paid pregnancy disability leave mandate. CDE supported the special education increase, paid pregnancy leave, community schools, homelessness funding, literacy and math investments, and preschool parity, while urging more support for county offices of education and clearer definitions and implementation details for some programs. Finance said the paid pregnancy leave proposal would cost an estimated $218 million annually and is intended as a recruitment and retention measure. In the Commission on Teacher Credentialing item, Finance proposed funding for legal staffing tied to SB 848 and educator misconduct cases, plus funding and fee changes to support a statewide transcript review platform for subject matter competency and additional support for the residency technical assistance center. The LAO said it had no concerns with the staffing for misconduct and SB 848, recommended the transcript review platform and related fee increase if the platform moves forward, and recommended rejecting the residency technical assistance center expansion because current funding lasts through 2029. CTC said the misconduct workload has grown over the last five to six years and that AI would be used only as a backstop to human review in the transcript system. Public commenters were split, with unions and education groups supporting special education, paid pregnancy leave, community schools, homelessness funding, and literacy investments, while opposing the $3.9 billion settle-up delay and the reduction to preschool COLA.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/9/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm actually going to process right now myself because I'm not interested in getting my license since
  • This program operates under contract oversight of the Board of Pharmacy.
  • It allows people to go deeper, to process through traumas, and to help feel unstuck.
  • It allows people to go deeper to process through traumas and to to help feel unstuck.
  • In other words, it is a very structured therapeutic process designed to maximize benefit and minimize
Bills: HF3454 , HF3917 , HF2906 , HF3832 , HF3769
AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

JBC-SPECIAL LANGUAGE Apr 22nd, 2026

JBC-SPECIAL LANGUAGE

Transcript Highlights:
  • It simply affirms what I have been told is that I've engaged with stakeholders throughout the process
  • TV contracts, name, image, and likeness contracts, brand deals, naming rights for every, not just some
  • And I believe what we are seeing right now is, for four years, we've seen this process work fairly well
  • But why not through a resolution, the normal process?
  • I assume these contracts happen once a year.
Summary: The committee resumed consideration of several amendments to fiscal bills. It adopted Senator Johnson’s amendment to Senate Bill 15, which shifts responsibility for Keep Arkansas Beautiful-related functions and roadside litter cleanup coordination toward ARDOT, with the current commissioners becoming an advisory council. The committee also adopted Representative Perry’s amendment to Senate Bill 7, lowering from 50 to 25 the employee threshold for employers to request claims data from insurers for group health coverage, aimed at helping smaller businesses and municipalities obtain more competitive insurance quotes. Representative McKinsey’s amendment to Senate Bill 41, which would have blocked a University of Arkansas at Fayetteville athletic funding transfer and imposed a one-year rider, was rejected after questions about the university’s finances and whether such a transfer had ever occurred. Senator Hester’s amendment to House Bill 1051, intended to cap online sports betting free play at 5% of gross receipts, also failed after debate over whether the proposal was properly fiscal language and whether the free-play incentives constituted a subsidy. Representative Walker’s amendment to a Save the Children appropriation, which would have converted the funding into a matching grant to encourage private donations, failed for lack of a motion. Representative Vaught’s amendment related to an agricultural tax exemption for certain tractor parts and diesel exhaust fluid systems likewise failed, with concerns raised about drafting, enforcement, and whether it belonged in revenue tax committees. The committee then added two late items: Representative Johnson’s technical correction to a physician licensure pathway bill, which was adopted to broaden qualifying underserved-area definitions, and Senator Tucker’s amendment to Senate Bill 77, which deleted a fund-transfer section and created a matching appropriation mechanism to help Arkansas TV/PBS retain affiliation and pay dues. Senate Bill 77 passed as amended, and the meeting adjourned.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Feb 5th, 2026

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • So what this will do is be able to help our government entities with their procurement process.
  • departments, this will give them the opportunity to work right with the IT and make it simplify the whole process
  • ever been a big groundswell effort of Idaho citizens to try to bring this up through the initiative process
  • We have to be very, very, very clear when we start changing the language of our social contracts.
  • We have to be very, very, very clear when we start changing the language of our social contracts, because
Committee: House State Affairs
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from February 2 and 3, then heard RS 33159 on OITS powers and duties, which would shift most state IT procurement to IT professionals rather than other departments, with exceptions for entities like the military, judiciary, legislature, constitutional officers, and schools. The motion to introduce the RS passed. The committee also heard RS 33195, a campaign finance cleanup bill requiring candidates to maintain a separate bank account for election funds and to certify loans to campaign accounts within seven days; that motion to introduce also passed. The main item was H.J.R. 7, which would place before Idaho voters the question of repealing Article 9, Section 5 of the Idaho Constitution, the Blaine Amendment prohibiting aid to sectarian institutions. The sponsor and supporters argued the provision is rooted in anti-Catholic and anti-Mormon discrimination, conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent on religious neutrality, and has already caused litigation and confusion in Idaho. Opponents argued the amendment helps preserve separation of church and state, protects public school funding, and prevents state money from flowing to religious schools or creating entanglement with religion. Testimony was split along those lines, with supporters emphasizing equal access and constitutional conflict, and opponents warning about discrimination, public funding, and the consequences of repeal. After extensive questioning and testimony from advocates, clergy, policy groups, students, and attorneys, the sponsor closed by saying repeal would not automatically send money to religious schools and that any future funding issues would require further legislation. The committee then voted on the motion to send H.J.R. 7 to the floor with a due pass recommendation, and it passed 8-6.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-03 (9:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I truly appreciate your involvement in this process.
  • It's up to the feds now to step in and begin to look at a lot of these military contracts currently being
  • This amendment specifies a three-year teacher contract rate and the bill does not remove the authority
  • of the district school superintendent to reassign the teacher during the period of the contract.
  • Similar to the process adopted by the Appropriations Committee, amendments cannot be balanced by drawing
Keywords: 998, house, all
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS House Floor - 12 February, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • to get the contract?
  • And that's why I like this process.
  • </c> see this bill passed and it is a process see this bill passed and it is a process as<02:21:48.880
  • </c><03:00:25.120><c> I</c> move the bill through the process. I move the bill through the process.
  • . process. process.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Land Grant Aug 14th, 2025

House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • And once they're stabilized, once they go through the court process, then they're discharged back to
  • The We looked at five-year contracts so that every five years it would be up for renewal.
  • We work with USGS and some private contracting that we contracted through some of our grants from FEMA
  • We're also conducting a webinar outlining the application process. It's going to be online.
  • We go through that process, and the auditor is not either willing when they do that.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/14/2026)

Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> school nurses that oversee this process school nurses that oversee this process at<00:58:23.839>
  • </c><01:08:00.960><c> for</c> already have a a a review process for already have a a a review process
  • Director process. Oh, you got Director. Director process.
  • :06.960><c> that</c> consistent evidence-based process that consistent evidence-based process that has
  • There's probably more, but how is it contracted? What's the child's risk of contracting hep?
Keywords: 1189, house, all
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Feb 9th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Substitute House Bill 2248 is the bill that addresses a variety of filings and documents processed by
  • requires grant applicants for the Digital Opportunity Program to explain in detail the selection process
  • Also, we included parents and made sure that they were part of the process.
  • You know, they're looking into the contracts.
  • We have found that contracting with private insurers has been a bit clunky.
Summary: The committee first received staff briefings on amendments for a series of bills, including measures on child care workforce standards, homelessness programs, community preservation authorities, domestic violence survivor relief, public defense funding, student behavioral health supports, water system ownership changes, nonprofit health carrier surplus assessments, 340B drug pricing reporting, Secretary of State filing fees, step housing, campaign security reimbursements, digital equity programs, a Boys and Men’s Commission, a waste-to-energy facility’s Climate Commitment Act obligations, 6PPD tire substitutes, and an early education scholarship. Staff described the policy changes and, where available, the expected fiscal effects of each proposed substitute or line amendment. The committee then went into caucus before returning for executive session. In executive session, the committee voted out House Bill 1073, then adopted a Couture line amendment to House Bill 1128 exempting private K-12 schools with licensed child care programs from the child care employer definition before reporting the bill out as Second Substitute House Bill 1128. House Bill 1316, 1408, 1591, 1592, 1634, 1906, 1960, 2073, 2145, 2248, 2266, 2301, 2333, and 2365 were also reported from committee, with several amendments adopted along the way. Notable actions included adopting an emergency clause for House Bill 1408, rejecting proposed amendments to House Bill 1591 that would have narrowed relief for survivors and removed retroactivity, adopting a narrower amendment to House Bill 1592’s public defense funding formula, and adopting a substitute to House Bill 2145 that limited 340B reporting to hospitals. The committee also debated and rejected several amendments to the step housing bill, House Bill 2266, including proposals for larger school/daycare buffers, more local oversight, and broader local government authority; the bill still advanced on a 16-13 vote. House Bill 2073, which requires nonprofit health carriers to contribute surplus funds to Cascade Care Savings, advanced over concerns about using one-time money for an ongoing program. House Bill 2248 advanced after an amendment redirected annual license fee deposits to the state treasury rather than the Secretary of State’s revolving fund. House Bill 2333 was narrowed to allow use of campaign funds for personal security reimbursements, and House Bill 2365 advanced with some amendments adopted and others rejected as the committee began discussing additional digital equity oversight provisions.