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KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Education (10-14-25)
Transcript Highlights:
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- > permitted</c> program, the previous program permitted program, the previous program permitted students
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- PhD programs uh this program these two PhD programs will<01:29:17.199><c> provide</c><01:29:17.840><c
- </c> economic viability of the program. economic viability of the program.
Keywords:
Call to Order and Roll Call: 0:00:00
Approval of Minutes: 0:01:45
Federal Education Updates 0:02:12
Dual Credit Updates: 0:43:38
Kentucky State University's Doctoral Program Request: 01:27:08
Postsecondary Accreditation: 1:49:05
Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations: 2:14:48
Adjournment 2:16:31, 958, all
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the previous meeting minutes, and heard a presentation from Austin Reid of the National Conference of State Legislatures on education-related provisions in the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1). Reid said the law is projected to increase the federal deficit over 10 years, with major savings coming from Medicaid, student loan changes, and SNAP. He focused on how those changes could affect schools, including possible effects on free and reduced-price meal certification, state funding formulas that use SNAP as a proxy for low-income status, and Medicaid-funded school services for students with disabilities.
Reid also outlined the new federal scholarship tax credit, which gives a dollar-for-dollar credit for donations to qualifying scholarship-granting organizations. He said families up to 300% of area median income may benefit, the program begins in 2027, and states must opt in and designate eligible organizations. He noted unresolved questions about whether states can add their own criteria and said Treasury regulations will be important. He also described the expansion of 529 plans to cover more K-12 and postsecondary expenses.
On higher education, Reid explained a new workforce Pell grant option for short-term programs, with states and governors playing a role in determining eligible programs. He said the programs must meet placement, completion, and earnings measures and that implementation is expected to be tight before the July 1, 2026 effective date. He also reviewed student loan changes, including lower institutional loan limits, prorated borrowing for part-time enrollment, new caps on graduate and Parent PLUS loans, and a new earnings-based accountability standard that could make some programs ineligible for student loans if graduates earn too little. No votes were taken beyond approval of the minutes.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The small amount for administrative support is targeted to the providers of those programs instead of
- The small amount for administrative support is targeted to the providers of those programs instead of
- The small amount for administrative support is targeted to the providers of those programs instead of
- The small amount for administrative support is targeted to the providers of those programs instead of
- The small amount for administrative support is targeted to the providers of those programs instead of
Bills:
HF1388
Keywords:
BARR Center, Building Assets, Reducing Risks, education finance, school funding, grant appropriation, evidence-based program, student achievement, social and emotional learning, school climate, teacher effectiveness, high school graduation, students in poverty, students of color, BIPOC, equity in education, Minnesota Department of Education, urban schools, suburban schools, rural schools, school coaching
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Apr 23rd, 2025
Transportation and Energy
Bills:
HB443
Keywords:
HB443, Underground Damage Prevention Program, One-Call Notification System, 811, utility locate, dig law, excavation safety, damage prevention, underground utilities, pipeline safety, public utilities, buried facilities, excavation notice, demolition notice, Alabama Public Service Commission, sunset extension, utility protection, locate request, call before you dig, gas pipeline
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Jan 30th, 2026 at 12:05 pm
New Mexico House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaker, first from the Hobbs CTE program, SkillsUSA and CTE program, first I have me.
- Hobbs CTE Program, SkillsUSA, and CTE Program. First, I have Ms. Carmen Contreras.
- the calculation for size adjustment program units.
- I was the mayor of a small community for about nine years.
- , placing restrictions on student enrollment in distance learning programs,... ...learning programs,
Keywords:
nurses, health care workers, healthcare workers, frontline workers, hospital staff, clinicians, allied health professionals, support staff, public health, workforce shortage, nursing shortage, safe staffing, patient safety, rural health care, frontier communities, behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder, substance abuse, health care memorial
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Tourism and Gaming Working Group (TGWG) - Wed Apr 15, 2026 @ 11:30 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:13:23.520><c> or</c> fund education programs or fund education programs or infrastructure<00:
- </c><00:14:05.160><c> where</c> counties and the the host cities where counties and the the host cities
- And those programs where as possible.
- But how does a troubled person enroll into a rehabilitation program?"
- That kind of encompasses a lot of, especially for a small state like Hawaii.
Keywords:
traffic violations, demerit point system, driver license points, traffic safety, hit and run, reckless driving, repeat offenders, recidivism, Department of Transportation, DOT, task force, traffic enforcement, road safety, vehicle code, license suspension, county police, Hawaii transportation, SCR132, Senate Concurrent Resolution, Makakilo Drive Extension
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Workers, parents, students, and small business owners can vote when it fits into their schedules and
- Workers, parents, students, and small business owners can vote when it fits into their schedules and
- It might sound like a small change, but in real life it means that if someone goes to the wrong location
- Voting no on HCR 2016 protects the voices of workers, students, parents, and small business owners across
- Voting no on HCR 2016 protects the voices of workers, students, parents, and small business owners across
Keywords:
sample ballots, elections, primary election, general election, mailing deadline, ballot mailing, county election officials, board of supervisors, secretary of state, early voting list, election administration, voter information, postal service, USPS processing center, city elections, town elections, special district elections, Arizona election law, ballot proofing, party chair
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- $5,000 in legal fees to print Google Maps, MapQuest, and Waze maps to prove that cutting through the city
- It's an app, a program, or software that offers an interactive, iterative experience and owes a duty
- It increases the jurisdictional limit for the city court of Bogalusa.
- it with other city courts across the state and within its region.
- He cleared it with his city court division, and he's in support of it.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
County and Municipal Government Feb 11th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 4335 allows cities to take action against pet shops who have violated the Commercial Pet Breeders
- Additionally, it provides a special exemption for those cities that have already prohibited that prior
- Well, 3417 does the same things but for counties and cities. And towns. I've read that.
- We're outlining that cities and towns and their bidding can use the Lowest and most responsible bidders
- the state auditor's office that updates and modernizes their Oklahoma municipal audit process for small
Keywords:
property rights, public nuisance, compensation claims, government enforcement, Oklahoma Safe Neighborhoods Act, public utility, municipal water, wastewater services, liability protection, third-party contractors, infrastructure maintenance, emergency response, regulatory compliance, animal welfare, pet shops, commercial breeders, county regulations, animal shelter licensing, county purchasing, procurement practices
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- programs that promote tourism.
- which the city is located has not, or the city, sorry, or the county in which the city is located has
- He asked whether, by allowing Leavenworth to tax what it has inside a very small urban area, the city
- So the housing crisis is statewide and very acute in small cities like Leavenworth.
- The housing crisis is statewide and very acute in small cities like Leavenworth.
Keywords:
affordable housing, local government funding, housing programs, community development, financial assistance, adaptive housing, disabled veterans, tax preferences, housing affordability, retail sales tax, property tax, senior citizens, tax exemption, permanent legislation, local government, tax authority, sales tax, use tax, real estate excise tax, REET
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Local Government Jan 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- development code and ensure that we're getting more housing and ensuring that we are creating vibrant cities
- This is a small change in the code. It doesn't affect safety. It doesn't affect the capacity.
- First, some background: before developing land, a developer must obtain permits from the county or city
- We'll likely submit some small language tweaks, but we look forward to continuing to work together.
- So if we make a small tweak to that vesting, we kind of have to reset the whole regime and work through
Keywords:
building code, safety regulations, construction, scissor stairs, state standards, embodied carbon, building materials, sustainability, environment, permit review, project permits, land use, zoning, development regulations, residential development, housing permits, affordable housing, local government, county planning, city planning
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They have a program with their city. To have third-party review, they've created their own program.
- I don't want to speak for the city, but I believe they've created what I would call a pilot program.
- If it's limited to cities, I'll let my great friends from TML and cities cover it.
- Chairman, so for the cities, you'd have to ask the cities about that.
- because that's a city issue.
Keywords:
county platting, subdivision platting, Local Government Code Chapter 232, Section 232.022, Section 232.0014, model subdivision rules, Water Code Section 16.343, Texas county subdivision law, residential subdivision, land conveyance, gift deed, family transfer, consanguinity, affinity, third degree relative, five acres or less, county land use, platting exemption, rural land division, property subdivision
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Apr 29th, 2025
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, a couple of things: the exclusion is counties and cities.
- We're kind of at an inflection point where these two programs are going to meet.
- , economic development road programs.
- costs for anything funded by ARIP 2, the annual grant program, and anything funded... annual grant program
- The amendment and classification are based on the number of people in the city.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Very small amount. Correct.
- We provide services to seniors. leadership programs for teens.
- McNeese did testify that they had a small little bayou.
- McNeese did testify that they had a small little bayou.
- So what the city, what portion would they pay?
Bills:
HB165, HB175, HB198, HB272, HB457, HB488, HB566, HB603, HB763, HB902, HB909, HB971, HB981, HB1066, HB1125, HB1154, HB1231
Keywords:
HB165, lottery proceeds, Lottery Proceeds Fund, Veterans Service Grant Fund, constitutional amendment, veterans, military veterans, veterans' benefits, veterans services, family support, state lottery, education funding, Minimum Foundation Program, problem gambling, compulsive gaming, state treasurer, ballot proposition, constitutional referendum, lottery revenue, Louisiana resident veterans
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Finance Subcommittee REVISED: SB1403 - Added Apr 8th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
A&B Finance Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- The money will go for different things, and one of them is an indigent burial program that they have.
Keywords:
sales tax exemption, nonprofit organizations, contractors, charitable purposes, state law, retirement, public employees, reemployment, benefit adjustment, Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, Olympics, funding, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, local businesses, revolving fund, event hosting, sales tax, tax exemption, tax refund, Oklahoma Sales Tax Code
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
HSH-HLT Joint Public Hearing - Thu Mar 19, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST
Human Services & Homelessness
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> facilitate any other homeless program. facilitate any other homeless program.
- </c><01:15:12.280><c> Does</c> program. So, what does that mean? Does program.
- </c> or under the homeless programs office. or under the homeless programs office.
- </c> and all respite programs together. and all respite programs together.
- </c> positions to support the program. positions to support the program.
Keywords:
mental health, crisis intervention, assisted community treatment, treatment orders, law enforcement training, public safety, court-ordered treatment, Medicaid, healthcare access, unlicensed professionals, supervised services, workforce development, mental health equity, child custody, evaluations, licensed counselors, family court, juvenile justice, waiver of jurisdiction, transfer to adult court
Summary:
The committee heard SB 709 SD2, which would require the Department of Health to respond to reports involving persons with severe mental illness, assess eligibility for assisted community treatment, and coordinate treatment when appropriate. Testimony from the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health supported the measure, with DOH saying it generally supported the bill but had comments on one section it viewed as unnecessary. The Department of Law Enforcement later explained that the bill would shift certification and standards for crisis intervention officer training from DOH to DLE, while still involving DOH in the training process.
Opposition came from the Hawaii Disability Rights Center and an individual testifier, both of whom argued the bill expands state authority over people with mental illness and could worsen forced treatment practices. The Disability Rights Center also raised procedural concerns, saying the bill was effectively moved from a prior administration measure that had not been heard this session, and questioned whether the bill’s changes to assisted community treatment, blood tests, urinalysis, and living arrangements went beyond current law. The individual testifier argued the bill would further entrench harmful psychiatric drugging and urged the committee to defer it.
Committee members questioned the administration about the bill’s process, the role of the Attorney General in treatment-over-objection proceedings, and the practical effects of moving CIT certification to DLE. The Attorney General’s office said the bill was intended to fill a gap by allowing it to assist with treatment proceedings, while public defenders would continue to represent respondents and due process protections would remain in place. DLE and DOH said the change would better align certification with law enforcement training needs, improve speed in crisis response, and still keep DOH involved; members also discussed whether WAM counted as a hearing and whether the bill should more explicitly preserve DOH’s role. No vote or final action was taken in the portion provided.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- However you may feel about diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, programs that are designed to provide
- They could be granted an exemption and talk about how they would be growing the program.
- They could be granted an exemption and talk about how they would be growing the program.
- They just eliminated 41 degree programs.
- They suspended 21 other degree programs that they found to be low producing.
Keywords:
postsecondary education, standardized test scores, educational equity, higher learning access, Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program, HB2978, school libraries, library media center, library media program, community standards, sexually explicit conduct, obscene material, age-appropriate materials, school curriculum, book challenges, book banning, censorship, public schools, school board, education committee
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- They could be granted an exemption and talk about how they would be growing the program.
- They just eliminated 41 degree programs that they determined to be low-producing.
- They suspended 21 other degree programs that they found to be low-producing.
- They just eliminated 41 degree programs that they determined to be low-producing.
- They suspended 21 other degree programs that they found to be low-producing.
Keywords:
postsecondary education, standardized test scores, educational equity, higher learning access, Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program, HB2978, school libraries, library media center, library media program, community standards, sexually explicit conduct, obscene material, age-appropriate materials, school curriculum, book challenges, book banning, censorship, public schools, school board, education committee
Summary:
The Education Oversight Committee heard several bills focused on higher education, school library materials, military student transfers, women’s privacy, academic grading standards, program review, and teacher professional development. HB 2950, by Rep. Woolley, would remove the ACT requirement for homeschool students seeking Oklahoma’s Promise and bar colleges from imposing extra homeschool-specific hurdles; supporters said it would treat homeschoolers the same as other students, while opponents raised concerns about oversight and taxpayer-funded aid. The committee also heard HB 3132, which would direct higher education institutions to seek accreditors that do not impose DEI mandates, and HB 3700, which would require colleges to grade students only on academic criteria rather than opinions or beliefs. HB 3701 would codify regents’ procedures for reviewing and acting on low-performing degree programs, and HB 4115 would cap required teacher professional development hours, with the sponsor emphasizing local control and that the bill is permissive rather than mandatory.
The committee also considered HB 2978, which would prohibit public school library materials from including descriptions or depictions of sexually explicit conduct. Supporters framed it as protecting children and aligning library collections with community standards, while opponents worried the language could limit access to materials that help students understand abuse and safety. HB 4274, a cleanup bill on military student schooling and school choice, would restore omitted transfer language, clarify in-district enrollment timing, and align the six-month relocation requirement with the Open Transfer Act. HB 3242, dealing with privacy for women in schools, universities, and domestic violence shelters, drew questions about how gender would be verified and how the bill would affect transgender students and shelter access.
Most bills advanced on motions for due pass after committee discussion. HB 2950, HB 2978, HB 3132, HB 4274, HB 3242, HB 3700, HB 3701, and HB 4115 all received due pass recommendations. HB 3467 was laid over until the next meeting, and the committee then adjourned.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Feb 2nd, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- Bill 5971 directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish the Green Fertilizer Incentive Program
- Senate Bill 6097 adds tribal members to the Conservation Futures Program.
- Under the Conservation Futures Program, counties levy a property tax of up to $6.5 per $1,000 of assessed
- the bill, federally recognized Indian tribes are added as an entity that may participate in this program
- Federally recognized Indian tribes are added as an entity that may participate in this program.
Bills:
SB5816, SB5838, SB5930, SB5960, SB5971, SB6075, SB6097, SB6104, SB6216, SB6233, SB6318, SJM8015
Keywords:
juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, tribal representation, natural resources, board of natural resources, environmental policy, community involvement, irrigation districts, director contracts, beneficial interests, transparency, governance, ungulate populations, wildlife management, habitat restoration, conservation, sustainability
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Agriculture Apr 27th, 2026
Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- I was a city councilman for 16 years.
- Petri dish or a small container.
- So this program has been in the... In that regard, right?
- As you're aware, the SNAP program, the primary purpose was not as a feeding program, but to allow for
- If you look at one of the Market Umbrella, the original program of the Gus Schumacher program, was designed
Keywords:
crawfish, agricultural labor, H-2A program, seasonal workforce, Louisiana economy, Healthy Food Retail Act, food access, food deserts, economic opportunity, public health, Louisiana agriculture, community development, fresh food, agriculture, national security, food production, supply chain, security task force, farm labor, Chinese investments
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- , which we all call the BEAD program, for short.
- , which we all call the BEAD program, for short.
- That leaves small rural water systems stuck with the bill.
- The only two municipalities that marked their utilities were the city of Picayune and the city of Gulfport
- of Elderly Affairs to make the program optional.
Keywords:
child exploitation, online reporting, platforms, cyber crime, PROTECT Act, excavation, demolition, infrastructure repair, BEAD Program, utility damage, construction coordination, contact point, emergency services, telephone charge, wireless service, reporting requirements, communications district, wireless communication, school safety, community permits