Video & Transcript Research : 'access to services'

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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare Apr 29th, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we're trying to expand it for access to care. Correct.
  • This bill would allow them to have access to that.
  • So if you have access to the child's medical records, then you have access to LINKS.
  • Senate Bill 222 expands access to behavioral health services by cutting unnecessary red tape and strengthening
  • Senate Bill 222 expands access to behavioral health services by cutting unnecessary red tape and strengthening
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 - March 31, 2020

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:26:51.040><c> in</c> person-directed services or PDS to be in person-directed services or PDS to
  • So, if you had a respite service or if you had a service provided through an agency, you had to go to
  • /c> intensity of services that were to be intensity of services that were to be provided<00:29:27.160
  • to do to provide uh would not be allowed to do to provide PDS<00:30:08.560><c> services</c> PDS services
  • of services to meet their needs.
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes and then took up a series of administrative regulations from several agencies. Early items included Attorney General consumer protection rules on removal sales, health spas, liquidation sales, and nonresident sellers of visual aid glasses; Finance and Administration Controller rules on clearinghouse validation and fraud prevention; and Board of Dentistry rules updating exam requirements, controlled substance prescribing, training for neuromodulators and dermal fillers, infection control, sedation/anesthesia continuing education, and required education on pediatric abusive head trauma and controlled substance ingestion prevention. The committee also approved staff amendments on these items, generally to conform to KRS Chapter 13A, and members asked a brief question about the dentistry controlled-substances changes, which was answered as an alignment with statute. The committee next approved regulations for the Board of Ophthalmic Dispensers, Board of Nursing, and Board of Emergency Medical Services. The ophthalmic dispensers package would revise meeting and recordkeeping language, raise renewal fees, set reinstatement and apprentice-license rules, add complaint and hearing procedures, and repeal a duplicative regulation. The nursing regulations would streamline approval of training programs and require notice and documentation of site visits and deficiencies. EMS rules would create five EMS medical director certifications, set expiration and renewal requirements, require publication of disciplinary sanctions, and exempt currently approved directors before October 1, 2026. Staff amendments were adopted without objection on each set. The Education and Labor Cabinet’s school transportation regulation drew extended discussion. The agency explained the changes were intended to implement Senate Bill 46 and update references affected by later legislation, including an oral amendment to delete a subsection reference tied to KRS 160.380. The committee adopted both the agency and oral amendments without objection after brief questions about the scope of the bill changes and van transportation for students. The committee then heard a lengthy package from the Department for Public Health on WIC and related nutrition program regulations, including updates to infant and child certification periods, documentation requirements, vendor criteria, sanctions, hearing procedures, and high-risk vendor standards. Staff amendments were adopted without objection. Finally, the committee considered the Inspector General’s regulation for freestanding birthing centers, which included both staff and agency amendments. The agency changes would require two neonatal resuscitation program-certified staff, set rules for medical director vacancies and appeals, revise facility and staffing terminology, adjust transfer-agreement requirements, and allow waivers when agreements cannot be secured. Mary Katherine DeLodder of the Kentucky Birth Coalition testified in support, saying the parties had worked through concerns and were ready to move forward. The committee then moved on to Medicaid’s 1915C child waiver regulations, where staff amendments were adopted, but Lucy Heskins of Kentucky Protection and Advocacy testified against the package because it did not include person-directed services, which she said are required by Kentucky law and important for families using the waiver.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:14:07.680><c> to</c> Commissioner of Human Services to Commissioner of Human Services to recover
  • If enacted as written, these provisions will reduce provider capacity, limit access to EIDBI services
  • </c> program integrity and access to care. program integrity and access to care.
  • </c> their services to the child's team. their services to the child's team.
  • :30:28.480><c> modify</c><01:30:28.880><c> the</c> service to be able to modify the service to be able
Bills: HF4207, HF4338
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 24th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Not only to deal... ...with the threat, and stand the service back up, but then respond to the dangers
  • We just want to make sure that the public has access.
  • This amendment will direct the T.A. to establish an accessible, easy-to-use... to use a web portal for
  • This bill establishes a guarantee of a parent's ability to make educational choices, to access school
  • This bill establishes a guarantee of a parent's ability to make educational choices, to access school
Bills: SB37, SJR84, SJR87, SJR27, SB8, SB10, SB227, SB261, SB15, SB12, SB25, SB57, SB127, SB293, SB441, SB3059, SB512, SB241, SB1718, SB140, SB2055, SB2075, SB2018, SB1534, SB1567, SB785, SB1233, SB1580, SB1663, SB413, SB447, SB519, SB467, SB1579, SB1191, SB1021, SB1838, SB2807, SB2835, SB546, SB2121, SB2167, SB2035, SB2024, SB1032, SB1049, SB1266, SB1400, SB1302, SB401, SB1596, SB1281, SB1242, SB1343, SB310, SB1346, SB2753, SB2703, SB2221, SB1719, SB2177, SB800, SB790, SB748, SB571, SB1957, SB1923, SB1896, SB1760, SB1335, SB2368, SB2477, SB2587, SB2972, SB2986, SB2965, SB1563, SB1467, SB1164, SB1137, SB614, SB705, SB961, SB918, SB955, SB869, SB850, SB863, SB1610, SB1055, SB2206, SB457, SB2337, SB1362, SCR9, SB2405, SB2406, SB2407, SB2166, SB2148, SB535, SB777, SB827, SB1141, SB1330, SB1352, SB1664, SB1862, SB1936, SB1453, SB1448, SB1398, SB2137, SB2111, SB53, SB226, SB1677, SB1723, SB1839, SB36, SB38, SB815, SB1856, SB552, SB646, SB37, SJR84, SJR87, SJR27, SB8, SB10, SB227, SB261, SB15, SB12, SB25, SB57, SB127, SB293, SB441, SB3059, SB512, SB241, SB1718, SB140, SB2055, SB2075, SB2018, SB1534, SB1567, SB785, SB1233, SB1580, SB1663, SB413, SB447, SB519, SB467, SB1579, SB1191, SB1021, SB1838, SB2807, SB2835, SB546, SB2121, SB2167, SB2035, SB2024, SB1032, SB1049, SB1266, SB1400, SB1302, SB401, SB1596, SB1281, SB1242, SB1343, SB310, SB1346, SB2753, SB2703, SB2221, SB1719, SB2177, SB800, SB790, SB748, SB571, SB1957, SB1923, SB1896, SB1760, SB1335, SB2368, SB2477, SB2587, SB2972, SB2986, SB2965, SB1563, SB1467, SB1164, SB1137, SB614, SB705, SB961, SB918, SB955, SB869, SB850, SB863, SB1610, SB1055, SB2206, SB457, SB2337, SB1362, SCR9, HB5560, HB762, HB 107, HB 114, HB300, HB138, HB4386, HB2495, HB581, HB3348, HB5323
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is restricting access to care. 290 newborns are at risk, and we're bickering.
  • It is important to remember that hospital-based nurses have immediate access to a team of physicians
  • Access to a team of physicians and specialists when complications arise.
  • These changes will protect newborn safety and preserve access to evidence-based midwifery care.
  • avenues we can make great strides in improving access to care, not only for women and newborns, but
Bills: SB87, HB491, SB43, SB101
VA
Transcript Highlights:
  • get us to the point that we need to be in regard to the legislation.
  • have access to VDEM's emergency briefings and services.
  • stand up more health services, and so it may be worth continuing to work on that.
  • That a number of different tribes are starting to stand up more health services.
  • repeat themselves, and tribal clinic health services to shut down or be under investigation for reasons
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • I think another issue they brought up was access to providers. um mental health parity.
  • </c> was access to um providers. was access to um providers.
  • Medicaid Services to submit an annual report that includes information about their prior authorization
  • </c><00:51:03.600><c> to</c> the Department of Medicaid Services to the Department of Medicaid Services
  • </c> economic status access to the ability to economic status access to the ability to preserve<01:02
Summary: The committee met in a special-called session of the Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance and first took up three Department of Insurance regulations tied to House Bill 256, the Strengthen Kentucky Homes program: 806 KAR 22:00, 22:10, and 22:20. Commissioner Sharon Clark said the program would provide $5 million in grants to help homeowners strengthen roofs, with regulations covering eligibility and operations, contractors and evaluators, and reinspections in cases of suspected fraud. A committee substitute to 806 KAR 22:10 was explained as a technical correction to conform to the statutory preference for in-state contractors and evaluators. Representative Hampton moved and Representative Rudy seconded approval of the substitute, and it was adopted by voice vote; the amended regulations were then reviewed. Clark also said the grant money would be distributed statewide rather than targeted to storm-prone areas. The committee then heard an update from Commissioner Clark on mental health parity in response to questions from Representative Pollock. Clark said the department reviews insurer filings and conducts market conduct examinations, but does not have authority over provider reimbursement rates or to require providers to join insurer networks. She said complaints are investigated and, when needed, teams review claims and data on site to check compliance with parity requirements. No action was taken on that discussion. After approving the November 4 meeting minutes, the committee heard testimony on a proposed PIP reform package from Representative Josh Bray, the Kentucky Hospital Association, the Kentucky Justice Association, and State Farm. Supporters said the bill would apply the workers’ compensation fee schedule to most PIP medical claims, keep the $10,000 PIP limit in place while stretching benefits further, reduce balance billing, modernize benefit amounts, and address fraud and delayed billing. They noted hospitals would be exempt from the fee schedule, while hospital-based physical therapy would be included, and said the compromise reflected negotiations among stakeholders. Some members questioned whether exempting hospitals undercut the bill’s purpose and asked about possible rate effects; proponents said they had not done a rate analysis and that the bill could lead to more treatments within the existing PIP limit. No vote was taken on the PIP proposal during this meeting.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Feb 11, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 13

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Please stand to be recognized. Leua Lei. Please stand to be recognized.
  • I'm going to get to introducing him more later, but he's on the floor.
  • housing projects in KÄ“liai and pick us up to take us to football practice.
  • So, in this bill, basically, you can change your gender, and it's expanding access for people to change
  • So, in this bill, basically, you can change your gender, and it's expanding access for people to change
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Mar 18th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Human Services will come to order. The clerk will call the roll. Chair hole here.
  • I work with that I work with hand in hand every day to service them to see that they can give services
  • Also, we have to establish the service infrastructure before people will come to the program.
  • to offer these, uh, these folks their services.
  • exactly who to invest in and how to route them through services.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Conference Committee on Rules Apr 22nd, 2026

Conference Committee on Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 2115 is a bill having to do with moving some programs from one agency to another, and I move
  • adoption. ...from one agency to another, and I move adoption.
  • Yeah, yield to questions? I yield to questions. Any questions? Do you pass? All right.
  • Okay, if not, I'll take personal privilege here to, since this is my first, last, and only opportunity
  • to chair committee, thank you, Mike.
Bills: HB2115
Summary: The committee considered House Bill 2115, which was described as a measure to move certain programs from one agency to another. Chairman Osborne presented the bill and moved adoption, then yielded for questions. No substantive questions or debate were recorded. A motion for a due pass recommendation was made and seconded, and the committee proceeded without further discussion. The chair then indicated the bill would be opened for signatures. With no additional business, the meeting adjourned. Before adjournment, the chair offered brief personal remarks thanking Mike and noting it was his first, last, and only opportunity to chair the committee.