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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 6th, 2026

Education

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  • right now is we try to change the way we educate Louisiana as our executive vice president of the system
  • So it's not an overarching board for the entire system.
  • It provides for concurrence of a public school system prior to changing certain information assigned
  • to a student in the data collection system.
  • Fell out of the system. We don't know where they are. Correct.
Summary: The House Education Committee met on May 6 and began with a presentation from LSU leadership, including LSU System President Wade Roos and Chancellor Jim Dalton. They outlined LSU’s goals of building an “elite” flagship university while maintaining accessibility through transfer pathways from regional campuses, increasing research expenditures toward top-tier status, and keeping more Louisiana students in-state for college and jobs. Members responded positively, praising LSU’s leadership, workforce focus, and efforts to retain the state’s best and brightest students. The committee then considered several bills. SB 105, by Sen. Kathy, would reinstitute a TOPS Tech-related benefit for veterans using existing TOPS Tech funds, with no new money added; it was reported favorably. SB 374 would create a uniform framework for college economic development districts, allowing other institutions to establish districts with local government approval; Rep. Tarver offered and the committee adopted an amendment adding a legislator to each district board, and the bill was reported with amendments. SB 304 would let Louisiana institutions choose from a Board of Regents-approved list of accreditors recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, while preserving specialized accreditation; it was reported favorably. The committee also took up SB 522, which would allow vocational and technical charter schools to apply directly to BESE as Type 2 charters when supported by the State Board of Commerce and Industry. Rep. Taylor objected that the bill should apply equally to public schools and charter schools, but the committee ultimately voted 9-1 to report the bill favorably. SB 290, a cleanup bill on student exit codes and school accountability data, was reported favorably. H.R. 175, which would have asked for a study of TOPS Tech, was voluntarily deferred by the author. Finally, H.C.R. 81, by Rep. Freiberg, requested a Department of Education study on options for public school systems facing declining enrollment, including funding, staffing, closures, and consolidation. Caroline Romer of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools supported the study, and Rep. Taylor asked whether charter schools should be included in the review. The resolution was reported favorably. The meeting ended with several members recognizing visiting mayors and other guests before adjournment.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 20th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

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  • You can't exceed a certain compensation level. Um, there's an allowance for part-time.
  • Chairman, you say this removes the cap on compensation or does it remove the cap on compensation?
  • > compensation?
  • Even though the cap cap on compensation?
  • The University of Alabama system may do that.
TX
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  • The bill provides for apparently a different compensation for the business court judges than it does
  • to make just incremental changes in the connectivity of the business court into the Texas judicial system
  • Then we want to integrate the business court more closely into the judicial system as a whole.
  • Resolved by the court system, which is as you would hope it would be in most of these.
  • It's suitable, as the federal court system does, to put that back in the hands of the judges and the
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • So really all it is doing is creating an advanced notification system.
  • The responsibility of securing that border lies with the federal system.
  • restoration costs through the Texas Electric Utility System Restoration Corporation.
  • Also under this bill, compensation.
  • Help to compensate the landowners for the damages caused. Thank you. Thank you.
TX
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  • company cannot use the new permit structure to circumvent taxes in our three-tier alcohol distribution system
  • would open up in any way to other. concerns in the industry with regard to our complex three-tiered system
  • I think that's a bigger opportunity down the road for Texas, obviously, to look at our system. broadly
  • , the three-tier system, how it works, and so on and so forth.
  • absolutely correct that we should have a broader discussion. around what we do in the three-tier system
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/31/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

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  • the people that really serve and really make our health care system great.
  • and the integrity of the system, and it came back 66% yes.
  • and the integrity of the system, and it came back 66%.
  • Yes. the system and the integrity of the system and it came back 66% yes and that's six points above
  • This bill gets us much closer to a by-right system than what we have today.
Summary: The committee began with Senate Bill 1272, which would provide $5 million for the City of Douglas as a state match for the Douglas Port of Entry project. The chair adopted a Livingston amendment changing the funding source from the General Fund to the Water Supply Development Revolving Fund. Senator Gowen, Douglas Mayor Jose Grijalva, and city staff testified that the project could unlock $678 million in federal funding, create jobs, improve trade and national security, and generate future tax revenue. The bill passed 15-0 with three present and one not voting. Senate Bill 1503 was then amended with a strike-everything to expand the state death benefit for first responders to include pilots employed by law enforcement agencies, retroactive to January 1, 2026, and subject to voter approval. Senator Gowen and DPS Director Colonel Jeffrey Glover said the change would ensure the family of a DPS aviation supervisor killed in a helicopter crash would qualify for the benefit. The committee approved the bill 18-0 with one not voting. Senate Bill 1274 was converted by strike-everything amendment into a timeshare salesperson licensing measure, creating a separate license and training path focused on timeshare sales. Supporters said the change would better prepare salespeople and streamline licensing, while the sponsor said it would make government more efficient. The bill passed 17-1 with one not voting. Senate Bill 1286, dealing with veterinary telemedicine, was also approved after negotiated changes extended most telemedicine prescription periods to 30 days, kept antimicrobials at 14 days with no renewal, and allowed longer flea-and-tick prescriptions; supporters said it would help rural and disabled pet owners. It passed 18-0 with one not voting. The committee next considered Senate Bill 1519 on off-highway vehicles. A hostile strike-everything amendment proposing paid family and medical leave failed 7-11 with one not voting. The committee then adopted a Lopez amendment and advanced the underlying bill, which raises the OHV weight threshold from 2,500 to 3,500 pounds and adjusts registration and funding provisions. Supporters said it reflects newer enclosed and electric vehicles and helps trail funding, while opponents warned of trail damage and said the issue should wait for the study committee. The bill passed 10-7 with one present and one not voting. Senate Bill 1618, which updates the Military Affairs Commission, expands its membership and duties, and creates a military affairs fund, drew mixed testimony about whether it would strengthen Arizona’s ability to attract and retain military missions or shift the commission away from its traditional support role; it passed 10-6 with two present and one not voting. Finally, Senate Concurrent Resolution 1020, which would send to voters a CPI-based annual adjustment to legislative salaries, passed 9-8 with one present and one not voting after members debated legislative compensation, citizen-legislator concerns, and whether the change would broaden access to public service.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 7th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • On page 8, line 8, section 18, it Discussed the compensation for student teachers.
  • Yes, so it's the same as the Horizon system.
  • and our substance abuse system.
  • They like there's a system. You hire a very influential person, a good lobbyist.
  • You write your text that you want to pay, and then the system keeps going.
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  • We have HB 2384 HD2 relating to student athlete compensation. vote I.
  • We have HB 2384 HD2 relating to student athlete compensation.
  • And I'll support our healthcare system."
  • This work took the system in dark or rely on chance to be system in dark or rely on chance to be listened
  • long-term population management systems. long-term population management systems.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 18th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Feb 10th, 2026

Rules

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  • One-third of your constituents in the state use on-site systems.
  • Properly designed, installed, and maintained systems are what do this, transferred over to the DEP.
  • Class B biosolid sewage sludge application site, who actually ended up having to buy a treatment system
  • However, the federal court system lacks suitable services for juveniles and often tries them as adults
  • However, the federal court system lacks suitable services for juveniles and often tries them as adults
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills, beginning with CS for CS for SB 54, which requires district medical examiners to perform toxicology screenings for psychotropic drugs and intoxicating substances in autopsies of violent offenders and report findings to state agencies. It was reported favorably after brief discussion about how the data would be used. CS for SB 176 also passed, requiring public postsecondary institutions to make campus safety reporting and response procedures clearer and more accessible for students, faculty, and staff who receive threats. Both bills were approved without opposition in the meeting. The committee then took up the large Florida Farm Bill, CS for CS for CS for SB 290, which drew extensive testimony and multiple amendments. The bill includes changes to fair associations, a preemption on local restrictions affecting gas- and diesel-powered farm equipment, surplus of certain state-owned lands for agricultural use, a food animal veterinary loan repayment program, permanent authorization for Farmers Feeding Florida, expanded Florida Forest Service training, a ban on signal jamming devices, tougher CDL English-proficiency penalties, protections for food safety inspectors, biosolids provisions, and contractor payment enforcement. Amendments expanded veterinary loan eligibility to equine veterinarians, merged citrus research entities, made technical corrections, and revised contractor payment language; a late-filed amendment removed the bill’s disparagement clause after significant First Amendment concerns and public testimony. A separate amendment delayed biosolids compliance deadlines. The bill was reported favorably as amended. Also approved were CS for CS for SB 834, which repeals a restriction on health care sharing ministries partnering with licensed insurance agents, while adding a disclaimer requirement; SB 936, allowing temporary door locking devices at any height above the floor and directing the Building Commission to add standards to the code; and CS for SB 50, expanding veterans’ courts statewide. Later, CS for CS for SB 1004 advanced with a strike-all regulating dog and cat sales, requiring disclosure of medical records and financing terms, a three-day waiting period for financed purchases, and consumer protections against deceptive pet sales; an amendment removed an appropriation section. The committee also approved CS for CS for SB 178, which directs the FHSAA to adopt rules allowing coaches to provide limited good-faith support to student-athletes, and CS for CS for SB 198, regulating virtual currency kiosks with registration, warnings, transaction limits, receipts, and refund protections. Each of these bills was reported favorably by recorded vote.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • organization is to promote public awareness of the value of physical therapy in an evolving health care system
  • to the new requirements of documentation for an exemption of participating within the new online systems
  • It aims to ensure our health care systems' resilience in the face of upcoming challenges.
  • The plan must assess and identify relevant gaps in existing services and resources, health systems capacities
  • And we know that there is a very complicated and complex process within the hospital systems.
Summary: The Senate Health and Human Services Committee opened with approval of the January 28 and 29 minutes and a welcome to Arizona Physical Therapy Day at the Capitol, including remarks from physical therapy advocates and students. The committee then took up several bills related to SNAP, health care oversight, child welfare, dementia planning, and safe haven newborn surrender. On SNAP, SB 1334 would bar DES from seeking or renewing federal waivers of work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents unless authorized by law; it passed 4-1. SB 1333 would require DES to reduce the SNAP payment error rate to 3% by 2030, with regular reporting, corrective action plans, and possible funding penalties; an amendment changed the reporting to quarterly and required a special audit, and the bill passed 4-1 as amended. SB 1331 would require able-bodied adults under 60 receiving SNAP to participate in mandatory employment and training unless exempt; testimony split between supporters citing work incentives and opponents warning of administrative burden and impacts on families and food banks, and it passed 4-2. The committee also advanced SB 1162, which clarifies DHS as the lead licensing and monitoring agency for health care institutions and, as amended, requires DHS and AHCCCS/Access to coordinate to identify duplicative oversight and report back periodically; it passed unanimously. SB 1017, requiring signatures on emergency informed consent forms for surgical procedures, passed 4-2. SB 1149, dealing with DCS periodic review hearings and notice/reporting requirements, including for tribal parties, passed 5-1. SB 1249, which designates DHS as the lead agency on Alzheimer’s and dementia planning and creates a dementia services program funded through lottery monies under the adopted amendment, passed unanimously after emotional testimony from advocates and family members. Finally, SB 1253, clarifying that a parent may surrender a newborn at the hospital of birth without leaving and returning, passed 5-0. The committee then adjourned.
TX
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  • It moves state agencies to use the CAP telephone system.
  • Again, we have great respect for UTSA and the UT System.
  • Are we going to do it through the UT system?
  • Their water system overflowed last year, and it wasn't a glitch.
  • attack two other water systems. systems during that same week.
TX
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  • So, but if it drops into the system in July, the computers are updated.
  • Then, if it comes through the system, and they're in the system today, is it Is there some exception
  • their suppression systems, the not having power generator backups is going to impact.
  • But also for Fort Bend County and our EMS system.
  • You may be entitled to compensation. because it's being pulled off the market.
TX
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  • In that time, I've experienced firsthand at least two different SSCCs as well as our local system in
  • When the system itself was at a loss as to how to come alongside my family personally.
  • However, in the court system, we have seen this work.
  • That court system had an 85% success rate.
  • Raising children involved in the foster care system in a rural community showed us that the system needs
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 5th, 2025

Health & Human Services

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  • The primary reason for this is due to a lack of support and poor experiences with the system itself.
  • , uh, more than our system currently offers.
  • Uh, that court system had an 85% success rate.
  • the system needs some major changes.
  • It will save money if you have transparency to the system, OK?