Transcript Highlights:

• Is that my understanding with everybody on the committee?
• And in this case, there is a rule of evidence Called the collateral source rule, that says you cannot
• 8 of the Civil Rules of Procedure, Rule 9, Rule 10, Rule 11, Rule 15.
• Yes, it came to the committee.
• doesn't get to encroach on court rules.

Committee: Senate Senate Judiciary

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good Friday morning, everybody.
• Thank you, Chairman and committee.
• For a declaring of a rule—no? Okay. I thought the same thing. I said, do you want Rule 80?
• No, I'm not a Rule 80.
• Committee, thank you for your good work today.

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Existing rules, while not specific to the conduct investigated by the committee, when taken as a whole
• Rule changes.
• </c> joint rule 22-1 is there. joint rule 22-1 is there.
• And if rules. We must follow our rules.
• And to have folks quote rules on rules.

Keywords: 916, all

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• Rule votes aye. Representative Rule votes aye. Schmick, no, without recommendation.
• Rule votes aye. Representative, rule, votes, aye. Schmick. No, without recommendation.
• Rule, aye. Representative Rule votes aye. Schmick, no without recommendation.
• Rule, aye. Representative Rule votes aye. Schmick, aye. Representative Schmick votes aye.
• Rule, aye. Representative Rule votes aye. Schmick, no without recommendation.

Summary: The House Health Care and Wellness Committee met at policy cutoff and first took up executive session on four bills. It considered a proposed substitute for HB 1589 on health carrier contracting practices, which would require carriers to provide providers advance notice and clean copies of contract changes and payment methodologies, and would also add notice requirements for significant payer contract modifications. The committee also considered HB 2402 on phthalates in IV solution containers and tubing, with a substitute delaying implementation dates and creating shortage and FDA-related exemptions. HB 2555, concerning Medicaid coverage of traditional health care practices, and HB 2685, concerning tribal data and disease reporting to tribal health jurisdictions, were also before the committee. HB 2599 was deferred. The committee reported HB 1589, HB 2402, HB 2555, and HB 2685 out of committee with do pass recommendations, with recorded votes showing some members voting no or no without recommendation on the more contested bills. The committee then held a work session on private duty nursing in the Medically Intensive Children’s Program. Health Care Authority and DSHS staff described how the program serves children with complex medical needs through managed care and fee-for-service pathways, the role of prior authorization and medical necessity review, and the ongoing shortage of nursing staff. They said many approved hours are not filled, especially in rural areas, and that family members often provide unpaid care to fill gaps. Committee members asked about the structure of the children’s and adult PDN programs and about how many authorized hours are actually being served. The committee also heard testimony from a home care agency representative and a parent caregiver, both of whom described severe staffing shortages and the burden on families when nursing shifts go unfilled. They supported models that would allow trusted family caregivers to be paid for some of the skilled care they already provide. The committee then heard examples from Montana and Massachusetts of similar family caregiver or complex care assistant programs. Montana described its pediatric complex care assistant model as a gap-filling service with prior authorization and a set hourly rate, while Massachusetts outlined its complex care assistant program, including training, supervision, wage pass-through requirements, and early growth in participation. The meeting concluded after the work session.

Transcript Highlights:

• We will call our Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee meeting to order.
• Clark, welcome to our committee.
• Brown, welcome to our committee.
• Webb, welcome to our committee.
• Tolman, welcome to our committee.

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Rules

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Read the first bill: Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for Senate
• I think it was in the Rules Committee.
• I think it was in the Rules Committee.
• Please contact the Rules Committee by 5 o'clock tomorrow if you have an objection.
• Please contact the Rules Committee by 5 o'clock tomorrow if you have an objection.

Keywords: 998, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good Friday morning, everybody.
• Thank you, Chairman and committee.
• For a declaring of a rule—no? Okay. I thought the same thing. I said, do you want Rule 80?
• No, I'm not a Rule 80.
• Committee, thank you for your good work today.

Summary: The Ways and Means Committee met to consider several RS introductions, all of which were approved without opposition. Representative Mendive introduced RS 33-545, which he said would codify a long-running water rights agreement, provide certainty across the basin, and create a water bank for renting water; he declared Rule 80 because he is a plaintiff in related litigation. Representative Healy presented RS 33-367, a technical correction to a measure exempting certain certified designers so they can sign and seal limited non-structural, non-seismic interior construction drawings, with updated rulemaking language. Representative Sauter introduced RS 33-539, which would restore DMV license suspensions for unpaid traffic infractions, citing increased unpaid traffic debt and the need for stronger consequences and safety enforcement. Representative Monks introduced RS 33-370 C2, a drafting cleanup for small seller/yard sale tax language intended to return to Revenue and Taxation for a full hearing. Representative Palmer presented RS 33-563, which would redirect a portion of beer excise tax-related fees from the permanent building fund to the Idaho State Police to help with pay; members asked questions about the funding amount, current operation, and committee referral, and the motion to introduce it passed. The committee adjourned after all motions carried.

Transcript Highlights:

• But at the time, I thought it was a personal reason, but that same no vote came out of the Rules Committee
• Speaker, out of your Committee for Commerce 9 to 0 and Rules also 10 to 0.
• It came through your committee on rules administrative with an 11 to 0 vote.
• I will say that I will say that we did not have one person come to the committee meetings or committee
• And it was voted do pass by the Standing Committee on Rules-Administrative by a vote of 11 to 0.

Summary: The chamber first established a quorum, then moved through House Bills for Perfection. The first major measure discussed was House Bill 305, which would set policies for reconsideration of library materials in public and school libraries, require appeals processes, and prohibit tracking or retaining personalized user data, especially for minors. Supporters framed it as a local-control and parental-rights bill that largely codifies existing library practices, while some members raised concerns about the privacy language and whether materials should be removed during reconsideration. After discussion, the House adopted the committee substitute and ordered the bill perfected and printed. Members then took up House Bills 2366 and 2511, a bipartisan construction-industry bill aimed at combating illegal labor and off-the-books hiring. The bill would give the Attorney General more investigative authority, including subpoena power, require complaints to be made by affidavit, and impose stronger penalties on violators. Supporters said it would protect law-abiding contractors and workers and level the playing field, while some members asked about possible overreach and whether the bill could be used against businesses unfairly. The substitute was adopted and the bills were ordered perfected and printed. House Bill 2409 followed, proposing child care tax credits for contributions to providers, employer assistance, and provider expansion; it was presented as a response to Missouri’s child care shortage and workforce challenges. Members from both parties largely supported it as an economic and family policy, though one member noted the bill’s fiscal cost and contrasted it with recent budget cuts to child care subsidies. The House adopted the substitute and ordered the bill perfected and printed. The chamber also considered House Bill 1885, which makes changes to the Missouri Clean Water Commission by adjusting membership qualifications and conflict-of-interest rules to make appointments easier while adding recusal procedures. Members said the changes would help fill vacancies and bring in knowledgeable members, and the bill was ordered perfected and printed. House Bill 2658 addressed telephony laws, expanding the no-call list to any phone subscriber, adding anti-spoofing provisions, and creating penalties for caller ID spoofing; an amendment adding misdemeanor penalties for spoofing was adopted, and the bill was then perfected and printed. House Bill 1919 would require more employers to file certain tax withholding documents electronically, aligning state practice with IRS rules; it passed with support and was ordered perfected and printed. Finally, House Bill 1871, an omnibus elections bill, proposed several election administration changes, including electronic receipt of notices, shifting filing deadlines away from holidays, expanding testing windows for voting equipment, protecting the confidentiality of the permanently disabled voter list, requiring tax compliance for certain local candidates, and tightening write-in candidate rules. A key amendment removed an expansion of no-excuse absentee voting to keep the fiscal note at zero; that amendment was debated at length and then adopted before the bill moved forward.

Transcript Highlights:

• Committee to meet.
• We have a motion probably before the committee. We have a motion properly before the committee.
• We have now before the committee... Thank you.
• Properly before the committee is H580.
• any court rules.

Summary: The House Judiciary and Rules Committee met to approve prior minutes and hear two introduction requests plus four bills. The committee introduced RS 33067, which would give prosecutors up to 180 days to find a more stable placement for defendants with neurocognitive disabilities or mental illness, and RS 33197, which would clarify that maliciously and willfully disturbing a religious worship service is disturbing the peace while removing language that raised First Amendment concerns. Members asked about the scope of the language and possible overlap with other statutes, but both RS measures were introduced. The committee then heard House Bill 520, which updates notice requirements for contested case hearings under the Administrative Procedures Act so agencies clearly inform parties of their hearing rights. The Office of Administrative Hearings said the bill standardizes notices across agencies and is not retroactive. HB 520 received a due pass recommendation to the floor. House Bill 579 was a narrow change to the justifiable homicide statute, replacing a list of specific family or household relationships with the broader term “another person” to avoid omissions; it also received a due pass recommendation. House Bill 580 repeals several outdated criminal code provisions related to anti-camcorder piracy and motion picture fair bidding, with the sponsor saying the conduct is already covered by federal law and the statutes are no longer used. House Bill 581 would create a process for the Legislature to formally notify the Idaho Supreme Court by resolution when it believes a court rule may conflict with statute or substantive rights, while preserving judicial rulemaking authority. Both bills were sent to the floor with due pass recommendations, and the meeting adjourned after unanimous or near-unanimous votes on the measures.

Transcript Highlights:

• on Rules.
• President, Senator Waggoner has a report from the Committee on Rules.
• Secretary, please receive the report from the Committee on Rules.
• Secretary, please receive the report from the Committee on Rules.
• President, moves adoption of the report from the Committee on Rules.

Bills: SJR 1 , SB 9 , SB 40 , SJR 36 , SJR 1 , SJR 5 , SB 9 , SB 40 , SR 61 , SR 91 , SR 97 , SR 103 , SR 104 , SR 112 , SR 115 , SR 116 , SCR 16 , SB 26 , SB 26

Keywords: bail denial, illegal aliens, felony offenses, constitutional amendment, law enforcement, bail reform, defendants, pretrial detention, public safety, criminal justice, charitable bail organizations, bail bonds, public funds, political subdivision, injunctive relief, taxpayer rights, bail, criminal justice reform, Texas Music Advocacy Day, music industry

Transcript Highlights:

• Committee reports.
• Pursuant to Senate Rule 21C, I move that the Senate grant leave to the Joint Budget Committee to meet
• The coat rule is relaxed.
• </c> The Committee will come to order. The coat rule is relaxed. Majority Leader Rodriguez.
• I move the committee rise and report. Committee rise and report.

Keywords: 981, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Chairman and committee members.
• Chairman, committee members. Representative Scott: Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee members.
• Committee Committee, we have a motion to introduce RS 32915.
• Committee, with that, that's all we have on the agenda. I believe we're starting rules tomorrow.
• Committee, we'll be looking at rules.

Summary: The House Health and Welfare Committee convened with a quorum, approved the January 19 and January 20, 2026 minutes, and adjusted its agenda to account for absent members. The committee then introduced several RSs, including RS 3305 on cottage food operations, which would allow certain small-scale entrepreneurs to test refrigerated or frozen foods under a $5,000 threshold without full commercial-kitchen regulation. Members also introduced RS 32945, which would allow directed blood donation, and RS 32947, which would require providers to disclose cash and insurance prices for procedures and let patients choose the cash price while applying it toward deductibles. Committee members raised questions about how the pricing proposal would interact with payer-provider contracts and whether patients would have cash available, but the RS was still introduced. The committee also introduced RS 33015, updating Idaho law on epinephrine delivery systems so school-related self-administration or administration with parental permission would cover both EpiPens and newer single-dose nasal spray options. RS 32948, the oral parity proposal, was introduced after a brief numbering correction; it would address anti-cancer oral medications so patients are not required to pay the full deductible up front for pill forms when comparable IV treatments can be paid over time. Representative Bruce said the goal was to align coverage treatment between oral and intravenous cancer drugs. Finally, the committee heard RS 32915, which would repeal the Yellow Dot Program. Representative Scott said the program, created in 2020, is little used, costs the state money, and is outdated by newer technology and other ways to alert EMS to medical conditions. Members asked about the Senate’s prior inaction and the program’s cost, and the RS was introduced. The chair then shifted to committee business, noting that rules review would begin the next day and likely take several meetings, and asking members to submit budget recommendations by the beginning of the next week. The committee also discussed expectations for members to present RSs once they become bills, and the meeting adjourned without further action.

Transcript Highlights:

• Rule 5, section... section 35 actually authorizes this motion, and rule 5, section 35 establishes that
• Pursuant to their committee postings or recess motions, for purposes of this motion, committees and subcommittees
• Part of the Committee on Ways and Means.
• Part of the Committee on State Affairs.
• , for the Committee on Elections.

Bills: HJR4 , HJR6 , HB195 , HB 13 , HB143 , HB135

Keywords: occupation tax, securities, financial regulation, tax exemption, legislative amendment, capital gains tax, realized gains, unrealized gains, investment income, asset sale, capital assets, wealth tax, estate tax, trust tax, tax limitation, constitutional amendment, Texas Constitution, Article VIII, property tax, sales tax

Transcript Highlights:

• [Music] Reports from the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration, pursuant to Rule 1.21, designating
• Nowhere is that a court-imposed rule, not a legislative-imposed rule.
• The concurrent resolution is being referred to the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration.
• </c><01:02:25.039><c> on</c><01:02:25.200><c> rules</c><01:02:25.880><c> and</c> to the committee on
• rules and to the committee on rules and legislative Administration announcements<01:02:38.480><c> I</

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• Hazel, welcome to our committee. Please come forward.
• Condi, welcome to our committee.
• Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for your time.
• The courts have amended the rules of civil procedure since this was put in place, and Rule 16(j) no longer
• This rule deals with juvenile cases.

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Rules

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• As a reminder to the committee, our visitors, and the witnesses today, under House Rule 4, Section 13
• , House committees are subject to the same rules of decorum that govern House proceedings.
• Under those rules, the chair is responsible for preserving order and decorum during committee meetings
• Thank you, committee.
• I also serve on the Texas Commission on Jail Standards Administrative and Rules Advisory Committee.

Bills: HB240

Committee: House S/C on County & Regional Government

Keywords: tax exemption, farm products, ad valorem taxation, tax code, producer ownership

Summary: The subcommittee heard a series of county and regional government bills, with most measures left pending after testimony. HB 2097 would let counties that opt in give sheriff’s deputies an alternative appeal route for certain discipline cases through an independent hearing examiner instead of the Civil Service Commission. The author and a CLEET witness said it would be faster, cheaper, and fairer; questions focused on why the bill was needed and whether sheriffs could already use such a process. No opposition testified, and the bill was left pending. HB 4642 drew extensive testimony after the author said it was prompted by a death involving an out-of-state jail contract. The bill would require counties contracting with out-of-state jail facilities to include Texas-like jail standards and oversight provisions. The author, a former detainee held in Louisiana, his wife, and a Texas Jail Project advocate described poor conditions, lack of accountability, and multiple deaths of Texans housed out of state. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards director said five counties are currently housing 1,251 Texas inmates out of state, mostly because of staffing shortages, and said the bill would give the commission more authority and oversight. The bill was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4350, which would allow peace officers to request redaction of personal information from online real property records. Supporters said officers face retaliation risks and should have protections similar to judges and other officials; a title industry witness cautioned that redaction should not compromise the integrity of land records. The bill was left pending. HB 3687 would require county fire marshals in counties over 100,000 to meet specified training and certification standards, and HB 4105 and HB 4205 would give Harris County preferences in construction contracting and require pay parity for comparable law enforcement ranks within the county, respectively; all drew support from county officials and were left pending. HB 5403 would repeal a special rule requiring Dallas and Tarrant county sheriffs to get commissioners court approval for commissary disbursements, and it was also left pending. Later, HB 4462 would let elected county officials in large counties choose outside counsel in civil cases involving them, rather than relying solely on the county attorney. Supporters argued this would reduce conflicts of interest and protect officials’ reputations; questions centered on who qualifies and whether it could conflict with county interests. Finally, HB 240 would restore a five-member quorum requirement for Harris County tax levies, effectively requiring all commissioners to be present before a new tax rate can be adopted; supporters framed it as a taxpayer protection, while the Conference of Urban Counties opposed it as giving one member a de facto veto and potentially disrupting the budget process. Both bills were left pending.

Transcript Highlights:

• Speaker, we, the Committee on Judiciary, Rules and Administration, report that we have read and approved
• Speaker, we, your Committee on Judiciary, Rules and Administration, report that we have printed House
• House Bill 570 refers to the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee. February 4th, 2026, Mr.
• In the House of Representatives, House Bill 579 by the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee,
• House Bill 581 by the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee, an act relating to the Idaho Supreme

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Chairman and members of this committee.
• Committee, we do have a motion to introduce RS 32947.
• Chairman and committee members.
• Committee, with that, that's all we have on the agenda. I believe we're starting rules tomorrow.
• Committee, we'll be looking at rules.

Committee: House Health and Welfare

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The committee on rules will now come to order.
• I voted yes on a death to committees voting. Yes. And one committee in another.
• We have had this bill passed this every Senate committee in every House committee almost unanimously
• I know that Madam Chair is a great fan of rules committee, stop amendments, especially late files and
• We have a tad David's the Supreme Court Committee on ADR rules and policy waives in support.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Establish it, the Completely Asinine Rule Termination Act.
• and allows the ADEQ director to adopt rules governing sanitary conditions.
• create the rules for licensed health aides.
• study committee on inmate mental health services.
• HB 2592, Artificial Intelligence State Agency Rules.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The caucus reviewed a long list of House bills that had returned from the Senate with amendments, with members repeatedly noting that sponsors intended to concur on most items. Topics included public health and vaccination rules (HB 2086, HB 2248), state investment in gold and silver (HB 2140), property records and voter-registration privacy (HB 2327), municipal and county regulation of business property and development fees (HB 2460, HB 2946, HB 2999), legislative subpoenas (HB 2745), cold plunge regulation (HB 2439), nursing-facility complaint timelines and licensed health aide rules (HB 2195, HB 2189), court-ordered treatment review (HB 2923), Access/Medicaid reimbursement and prior authorization for diagnostic services (HB 2932), inmate mental health study committee language (HB 2673), prenatal development instruction in schools (HB 2830), public records requests by legislators (HB 4056), parents’ rights and social transitioning in schools (HB 2249), school district financial compliance and facilities contracting (HB 2481, HB 2482), Native American language proficiency for graduation (HB 2895), advanced math auto-enrollment (HB 2423), special education and military-family procedures (HB 2621), AI rules for state agencies (HB 2592), eviction record sealing (HB 2244), tax filing penalties (HB 2016), shade structures in HOAs (HB 2342), homelessness-related community restitution (HB 2028), medical records timelines (HB 2557), PFAS firefighting foam restrictions (HB 2641), family-court expert testimony and prisoner transition services (HB 2662, HB 2440), address confidentiality protections (HB 2594), guardianship notice attestation (HB 2661), utilities for high-load customers (HB 2756), and nuclear-ready community planning (HB 2456). The committee also briefly moved to Caucus Calendar 19 for additional bills on mobile food vendors, school board training, out-of-state travel and meeting transparency, and a medical-intervention nondiscrimination bill. Several bills drew substantive discussion or criticism. Members debated HB 2932 at length, with staff explaining that Access said the bill would have a high fiscal impact because it would require reimbursement for non-contracted lab services and eliminate prior authorization for a broad range of diagnostic services, potentially increasing costs substantially. HB 2249 also prompted concern from members who argued it could force teachers to out students and create civil liability for using preferred pronouns or failing to notify parents about social transitioning. HB 2830 was criticized as requiring prenatal-development instruction while barring discussion of sexual activity or reproduction. HB 2028, which allows community restitution instead of a $20 probation assessment for people who are indigent and experiencing homelessness, was questioned as potentially punitive. HB 2481 was discussed as a way to help, rather than punish, small rural school districts struggling with financial-record compliance. The caucus also noted that several of the measures were sponsored by Democrats, which was highlighted as notable during the meeting. No formal votes were taken in the transcript. The caucus chair repeatedly asked for questions, and in most cases there were none, after which the sponsor was understood to intend concurrence with the Senate amendments. The meeting ended with adjournment after the caucus moved through the remaining calendar items.