Transcript Highlights:

• Specifically, prior auth requests for urgent versus non-urgent, and for prior auth requests for detox
• In our previous hearing, we have requested a lot of information.
• In our previous hearing, we have requested a lot of information.
• We've requested that multiple times, Madam Chair.
• It is a line in our appropriation, so it would appear in the appropriation status report that our payment

Committee: Health and Human Services

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The way the sharing works is an agency can request that we share data with them, and there is an MOU
• If an IPRA request came in, In saying, has a license plate reader picked up XYZXYZ license plate?
• Would that be subject to an IPRA request? Madam Chair, I defer to my expert witness.
• You all graciously appropriated $20 million; cash didn't move the needle.
• That's at their request initially.

Committee: House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:

• Committee on Appropriations; AB 1995, Patel, due pass to the Committee on Appropriations; AB 2043, Calderon
• , due pass to the Committee on Appropriations.
• Respectfully request your aye vote. Thank you.
• The motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations. Baines, aye.
• The motion is due pass to the Appropriations... questions.

Committee: Emergency Management

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

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• appropriations appropriations um um um in<00:15:39.560><c> this</c><00:15:39.839><c> bill</c><00:15:
• </c> um the federal request. um the federal request.
• </c> include the governor's requested include the governor's requested administrative<00:29:14.040><c
• Senator Howe, you know, and I don't know if it's appropriate for this piece of this legislation, but

Committee: Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:03:14.880><c> to</c> Members, we've received a request to Members, we've received a request to
• ,</c><00:14:05.880><c> the</c> And in carrying an appropriation, the And in carrying an appropriation
• House Appropriations Committee The House Appropriations Committee reviewed<00:20:57.640><c> S.
• Only legislators<00:29:45.840><c> and</c><00:29:46.040><c> staff</c> legislators and staff legislators
• Just legislators and staff. invited. Just legislators and staff. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.

Keywords: 926, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• legislation as it was originally written.
• So some of the requests that we, we, we, of their contract time.
• As far as requests, respondents request that district administration provide meet-and-confer meetings
• And then it was picked by legislative management.
• So basically, with the state budget appropriation, how we handle the state portion of the appropriation

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee met to discuss special education funding and retention, beginning with approval of the prior meeting minutes and then hearing a presentation from North Dakota United on a statewide special education survey and retention rubric. Presenters described how the rubric and survey were developed from special educator input around four domains: paperwork and due process support, workload, student and staff safety, and paraprofessional management. They reported high levels of stress and burnout, including increased workload, difficulty taking prep and lunch time, concerns about mental health, and widespread difficulty filling special education positions. Committee members questioned the survey’s lack of a general-education comparison group, the interpretation of terms like “rarely” and “sometimes,” and whether results could be broken down further by district size, unit, or disability area. The survey results showed the weakest area was workload, with respondents reporting caseloads increasing without corresponding adjustments, little additional support or compensation when workloads rise, and few negotiated-agreement protections. Paperwork and due process also scored poorly, with many teachers saying they rarely receive dedicated time during the duty day, often work outside contract hours without compensation, and take work home on evenings and weekends. Student and staff safety scored somewhat better but still showed gaps in crisis follow-up, notification about violent behavior, protective gear, and leave options after incidents. Paraprofessional management also drew concern, especially low pay, insufficient staffing, limited administrative support, and the burden placed on teachers to supervise and train paras. Several teachers then testified directly about the practical impact of these issues. One special education teacher described the job as combining instruction, legal compliance, and paraprofessional supervision, often requiring work beyond contracted hours and contributing to burnout and turnover. Another testified that special education case managers are effectively doing three full-time jobs and that the paperwork and caseload demands are a major reason people avoid or leave the field. Committee members discussed whether the problems are primarily local or state-level, whether more funding would solve them, and whether changes to the funding formula or weighting for high-cost students might be needed. No formal vote or action was taken beyond a recess and return to order for the next presentation, which continued the discussion of possible special education study objectives and potential policy directions.

Transcript Highlights:

• Investigations on an appropriate timeline.
• I have already requested an audit about the department and so I'm waiting.
• Pending approval of this request, we would go through a competitive procurement process.
• They lobby on legislation. Or ACCE, Alliance for California...
• But roughly 60% to 70% of the total cost of what we have requested. Is about to come up.

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And how does your legislation actually close that gap?
• And how does your legislation actually close that gap?
• We appreciate his sponsoring this legislation.
• Just a quick question, or a request, really.
• It's not contemplated in this legislation. Okay.

Committee: Government Efficiency

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It is absolutely appropriate that we named this airport after him. appropriate that we named this airport
• We felt at the state level the branding was appropriate.
• So they would be requested and provided in the same manner that any other public record request would
• When we, I think about the legislation that we pose here, I always hope that this legislation is to help
• And will this particular piece of legislation benefit them?

Keywords: 998, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm the legislative budget assistant.
• I'm the legislative budget Kane.
• . appropriations. appropriations.
• . appropriations. appropriations.
• </c> low under the um appropriations. low under the um appropriations.

Keywords: LBA Briefing on Budget, 928, house, all

Summary: The presentation was an LBA overview of Senate changes to the House-passed state budget, with Michael Kane explaining how Senate Finance updated revenue and spending estimates after April revenue figures and agency discussions. He said the Senate’s revenue outlook was higher than the House’s in some areas, but lower in others, especially video lottery terminal revenue, and that the biggest differences also came from changes to revenue splits between the general fund and education trust fund, lapse estimates, and several policy changes in House Bill 1 and House Bill 2. Kane highlighted several major revenue and policy differences: the Senate changed the business tax, tobacco tax, and real estate transfer tax splits; adjusted liquor revenue dedication; removed the House’s meals-and-rooms distribution cap; delayed the Lakes Region facility proceeds plan; altered the PECARD fund treatment; added a granite patron of the arts tax credit; and changed the treatment of unique funds and video lottery terminal revenue. On spending, he noted Senate changes to judicial, corrections, HHS, human rights commission, and other budgets, including additional settlement costs, higher lapse assumptions, and a different approach to Medicaid premium revenue and retirement savings. He also described Senate additions such as a nursing home bed fee, Hampstead Hospital transition funding, and changes to the YDC claims settlement fund. The presentation focused on comparing House and Senate surplus statements across fiscal years 2025 through 2027, including projected ending balances and rainy day fund transfers. Kane repeatedly emphasized that the numbers were still dependent on final revenues and lapse amounts, and that some balances would be carried forward and trued up later in the biennium. No committee vote or final action was described in the excerpt; it was an informational budget briefing and comparison of the two chambers’ proposals.

Transcript Highlights:

• The original legislation created an exemption for smaller horse events where the entry fee The legislation
• And so what our legislation will do is increase those fees for these And so what our legislation will
• On AB 1142, the motion is due pass to Appropriations.
• for certification now, much less if this legislation is passed.
• The bill and it's do pass to Appropriations.

Summary: The Assembly Agriculture Committee met as a subcommittee at first because a quorum was not yet present, then adopted its committee rules for the 2025-2026 legislative session by a 5-0 vote. The committee heard a series of agriculture-related bills, with most measures receiving broad support and moving forward. AB 1142 by Assemblymember Hoover would raise the fee thresholds for small public horse events that are exempt from equine medication monitoring rules; supporters said the current limits are outdated and hurt small riding clubs, and the bill passed to Appropriations. AB 411 by Assemblymember Papin would allow ranchers to compost livestock carcasses on-farm; supporters cited cost, environmental, and predator-control benefits, while rendering industry representatives asked for amendments to protect existing services and limit the bill’s scope. The bill passed to Natural Resources. AB 482 by Assemblymember Solache would modernize the California Table Grape Commission law and raise assessment caps without increasing assessments themselves; it passed to Appropriations. AB 312 by Vice Chair Alanis would shorten the holding period for ag theft property from six months to three months; it also passed to Appropriations. The committee also heard AB 937 and AB 947 by Assemblymember Connolly. AB 937 would make technical changes to the Organic Transition Pilot Program to improve access to organic transition support, with testimony from a farmer who said the program helped him pursue organic certification; the bill passed to Appropriations. AB 947 would expand and refine technical assistance under the Healthy Soils/Climate Smart Agriculture programs, including training, grant writing, matching funds coordination, equipment sharing, and outcome monitoring; supporters said the changes would help small and organic producers access state climate programs, and it also passed to Appropriations. AB 1486, presented by the chair, would use Proposition 4 funding to start grants for public postsecondary agricultural research farms focused on climate resiliency; members praised the role of CSU and UC research farms, and the bill passed to Natural Resources as amended. The most extensive discussion centered on AB 928 by Assemblymember Rogers, the California Cockfighting Cruelty Act. Supporters argued the bill would help law enforcement target cockfighting and rooster trafficking, reduce avian disease risks, and protect public health and animal welfare; opponents, including poultry hobbyists, breeders, and 4-H-related participants, said it would overreach into lawful poultry keeping and harm heritage-breed and youth programs, urging instead that cockfighting penalties be increased to a felony. Committee members echoed concerns about unintended impacts on legitimate poultry owners and requested continued work on exemptions and language. The bill passed to Judiciary on a 5-2-1 vote, with one no vote and one abstention, and the chair noted that further committee review would continue as the bill advances.

Transcript Highlights:

• Okay, we have an ISP request here, an interim study proposal.
• Okay, we have an ISP request here, an interim study proposal.
• Arkansas as the state's first and only public adult charter, made possible after Arkansas passed legislation
• The Department of Education draws those funds down upon request at DF&A.
• or under their watch that are appropriated in the Public School Fund.

Summary: The House and Senate Education Committee first approved minutes from February 2 and 3, then heard an interim study proposal on Arkansas adult education and the Excel Center model, presented by Goodwill Industries of Arkansas and the University of Notre Dame’s Lab for Economic Opportunities. Witnesses argued that about 300,000 Arkansas adults lack a high school diploma or GED and described the Excel Center as a diploma-granting public charter option for adults 19 and older, with wraparound supports such as child care, transportation, tutoring, life coaching, and career services. They said the Arkansas campuses are not state-funded, highlighted growth in enrollment and graduation outcomes, and cited research showing improved employment, earnings, and reduced criminal justice involvement for graduates. Committee members discussed the role of Goodwill’s nonprofit mission, the need for multiple adult education pathways, and the relationship between adult education challenges and broader state efforts such as LEARNS and ACCESS. The committee then debated the interim study proposal procedure, including whether questions should have been taken before the vote. The motion to adopt the ISP passed, and members noted that the study would broadly examine adult education, GED testing, high school diplomas, charter schools, in-person adult education, and funding allocation. Several members asked for follow-up information on current adult education funding, the availability of Excel Centers, and the criminal justice study results. After that, staff from the Bureau of Legislative Research gave a detailed adequacy funding overview for Arkansas K-12 education. They reviewed national funding principles and then explained Arkansas’s revenue streams and distribution system, including general revenue, the Educational Excellence Trust Fund, the Educational Adequacy Fund, local property-tax revenues, and facilities partnership funding. They also walked through the state’s foundation formula, categorical aid, supplemental aid, and additional funding, including the per-student matrix amount of $7,771 for 2025 and how funds are allocated to districts and charters. Members asked about student support staff, special education high-cost occurrences, ALE funding, teacher salary equalization, and the Excel Center’s treatment in funding totals; staff said some of those questions would be addressed in a later spending presentation. The meeting ended after the committee was told the department was present mainly to answer questions and no further business remained.

Transcript Highlights:

• This inconsistency creates confusion for our local constituency, agencies, stakeholders, legislators,
• and our hard-working legislative council drafters.
• Chairman, of 11 legislative House members, bipartisan, to Israel, and they saw firsthand.
• Section 8 clarifies that the commission may spend appropriated funds to support its retail operations
• So this legislation does that.

Bills: HB1240, HB2768, HB2788, HB3146, HB4850, HB5032, HCR90

Committee: Economic Development

Keywords: border region, infrastructure, economic development, government operations, education, HB 2768, Texas information technology apprenticeship, state IT credential, information resources workforce, junior college, technical institute, apprenticeship program, workforce development, state agency hiring, job classification, career ladder, bachelor's degree substitution, associate degree, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, state auditor classification officer

Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee met without a quorum, so no votes or formal actions were taken. The chair laid out several bills and resolutions for explanation and public testimony, with each item left pending subject to the call of the chair. Early items included House Bill 1240, a cleanup measure to create a single uniform definition of the Texas-Mexico border region across state law, and House Bill 2768, which would establish an IT apprenticeship credential through junior colleges and technical institutions to help fill state government technology jobs. The committee also heard House Concurrent Resolution 90, which would encourage establishing a Texas trade and investment office in Jerusalem. Testimony on the resolution was sharply divided: one witness opposed it on foreign policy and values grounds, while a Texas Association of Business representative strongly supported it, citing Israel’s innovation and trade potential. Another major item was House Bill 4187, a committee substitute for legislation affecting the Texas Historical Commission; the sponsor described changes expanding use of trust fund money for historic sites, allowing more affiliated nonprofits, clarifying retail operations, and creating a framework for training and consistent interpretation at historic sites. A Texas Historical Commission witness explained that the bill would shift responsibility for maintaining many state-owned historical markers and monuments, including markers on private land, to the commission. Additional measures included House Bill 2788, which would shield Texas Workforce Commission fraud-prevention methods from public information requests; House Bill 5032, directing state agencies to plan for public display of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas Constitution, and the Victory or Death letter at the Capitol Complex; House Bill 3146, which would eliminate outdated memoranda-of-understanding requirements for certain State Office of Administrative Hearings arrangements; and House Bill 4815, a cleanup bill modernizing economic development statutes, revising the Made in Texas standard to 51% Texas-origin content, repealing the Governor’s Broadband Development Council, and making other conforming changes. The committee ended by recessing, with members indicating they would likely vote on pending business later when a quorum was available.

Transcript Highlights:

• Obviously, the legislative session just started yesterday.
• , hopefully this legislative session.
• So appropriate training is a part of our approach.
• or reasons for any delay in fulfilling their request.
• or reasons for any delay in fulfilling their request.

Committee: Senate Regulatory Affairs & Government Efficiency Committee of Reference

Summary: The committee first heard the Arizona Auditor General’s 2025 sunset review of the Arizona Barbering and Cosmetology Board. The audit found the board generally processed licenses and complaints timely and had adopted required school curriculum rules, but it also identified inconsistent disciplinary actions, gaps in required infection-prevention and law education for some reciprocity and instructor applicants, weak application review controls, and noncompliance issues involving open meeting law, public records, and conflicts of interest. Auditors also recommended statutory changes on esthetics scope of practice, cease-and-desist authority, and eyelash technician training standards. The board’s executive director said the agency agreed with the findings, had already implemented some changes including updated disciplinary parameters, conflict-of-interest training, lawful presence verification, and revised cash-handling procedures, and was working through the remaining recommendations. After questions, the committee voted 7-0 to recommend the board implement the audit recommendations and be continued for six years, until July 1, 2032. The committee then took up the combined sunset review and performance audit of the Arizona Department of Gaming, the Arizona Racing Commission, and the Arizona Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts Commission. The Auditor General reported that while the department distributed tribal gaming funds and issued some licenses appropriately, it failed to consistently obtain and review required independent audit reports for event wagering and fantasy sports operators, did not fully comply with conflict-of-interest disclosure requirements, lacked comprehensive complaint-handling processes, and had delayed some compact trust fund distributions. Additional issues included IT security documentation, horse-racing suitability checks, fee-setting reviews, rulemaking, and public records procedures; the Boxing and MMA Commission also had licensing and fee-setting deficiencies. The department and commissions agreed to implement the recommendations, and the department director said the agency was already making changes, including updated guidance to operators, a new complaint-tracking process, conflict-of-interest training, and work on trust fund distributions and rule changes. Committee members pressed both the auditor and the department on why fantasy sports audit reviews had not been completed, whether underpayments would be recovered, and why no distributions had yet been made to certain Category 3 tribes under the 2021 compact trust fund. The director said the department was now doing a look-back review, would seek any owed fees, penalties, and interest, and was helping tribes resolve the baseline-revenue formula needed for distributions. Members also asked about conflict-of-interest practices, problem gambling, and whether prediction markets fall under gaming regulation. The discussion continued into the department’s broader presentation, with the director describing the agency’s regulatory role and ongoing modernization efforts.

Transcript Highlights:

• House Republicans have passed legislation, including the Fraud... legislation, including the Fraud Prevention
• Speaker, I would like to request a recorded vote. The yeas and nays are requested.
• Speaker, I'd like to request the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays are requested.
• Your request is granted. The House will be in order.
• Let's pass legislation clearly banning it.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I worked with Legislative Council.
• Legislatively, legislative intent, the discussion, everything we talked about during the session said
• And re-referred to Appropriations? No, there is no appropriation. There's no money involved.
• Appropriations Committee.
• It doesn't have an appropriation and therefore it does not need to go to the Appropriations Committee

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 2401, which would require physicians to complete continuing education on nutrition and metabolic health as part of the state’s rural health transformation effort. HHS supported the bill, saying it would help physicians better address chronic disease and preserve federal grant points tied to the state’s application. A member of the public also testified in favor, arguing that better nutrition education could improve diabetes outcomes and reduce costs. The committee then adopted an amendment to add the Board of Occupational Therapy Practice to the background-check statute so the occupational therapy compact could proceed, and it passed the bill as amended on a roll call vote. The committee next heard House Bill 1621, which would require the Presidential Fitness Physical Fitness Test in elementary, middle, and high school physical education courses. HHS said the bill was part of the rural health transformation application and could help preserve federal funding, but members raised many questions about the test’s criteria, adaptive options for students with disabilities, equipment needs, and whether the bill should apply to non-public schools. Senator Clemens offered an amendment to limit the requirement to public schools, but it failed. Senator Hogan then offered an amendment to clarify exemptions and allow DPI to align implementation with federal guidance; that amendment passed. A further amendment adding language allowing DPI to establish criteria for and exceptions to the test also passed. The committee then approved the bill as amended on a roll call vote. The committee also considered House Bill 1622, which joins North Dakota to the physician assistant licensure compact. HHS said the compact would improve access to care, especially in rural areas, support military families, and help preserve rural health transformation funding. Members noted the compact had been discussed in a prior session and that many earlier concerns had been resolved. After brief discussion about the compact process and its consistency with other interstate compacts, the committee voted to do pass the bill. Finally, the committee began Senate Bill 2402, which expands pharmacists’ prescriptive authority and therapeutic substitution powers. HHS and the Board of Pharmacy supported the bill as a way to improve access to care and maintain rural health transformation funding. Senator Roers introduced a detailed amendment negotiated with the Board of Medicine and Board of Pharmacy to narrow and clarify the bill, including notification requirements, limits on certain drug categories, and patient-protection language for therapeutic substitution. The Board of Pharmacy then testified in support of the broader bill and explained the CLIA-waived testing provisions and the repeal of the older, narrower pharmacist-testing language. The hearing and amendment discussion were still underway when the transcript ended.

Transcript Highlights:

• And I'll get to our budget request in the next slide.
• And Then my last slide is related to budget requests.
• This is a modest recurring request that is really focused on ensuring that our employees maintain. appropriately
• and energy-centric legislators there.
• So we do have a request this year.

Committee: Water & Natural Resources Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• Do you want to clarify your question on the appropriations?
• The appropriations have actually already been made, so the Water Trust Board, you already have the appropriation
• And we're certainly happy to report to other committees as requested.
• An appropriation, but then that becomes a very political process.
• To just submit an appropriation during that time.

Committee: Senate Conservation

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> or the other if they U make that request or the other if they U make that request thank<01:30:38.520
• </c><01:47:14.719><c> of</c> anticipation in this uh legislation of anticipation in this uh legislation
• </c><01:49:22.800><c> the</c> privacy of the taxpayer requesting the privacy of the taxpayer requesting
• </c> the required facts prepare the request the required facts prepare the request and<01:54:37.280><
• </c> in 201 22 they appropriated in 201 22 they appropriated funds<02:06:55.320><c> and</c><02:06:55.440

Committee: Taxes

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• President, we are in that order of business: third reading of legislation, and I'll yield. Mr.
• So there's been a request to adopt Senate Floor Amendment Number 1.
• What would happen is that the department would put forward an appropriations request, it would come before
• You know, it's very easy as a legislator to spend someone else's money.
• Rural New Mexico needs this legislation. I am proud to support it. Also, Mr.