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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Regulated Industries Mar 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a privilege to be here today to speak with you all. As you mentioned. My name is Andy Patz.
- glance, Tampa electric company, unlike my counterparts here, it is a much smaller territory, very compact
- My name is Walter Weller and I have the privilege of representing the customer state of Florida's public
- All 3 of these company says is their privilege.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-06-16 (7:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Today we have the special privilege of welcoming two new representatives to this chamber.
- Members, it's my privilege and pleasure to present the conference committee amendment to H.B. 7031.
- Specifically, the bill redirects funds received by the state pursuant to the 2021 Seminole Gaming Compact
- annually to the Florida Forever program and thought creatively by tapping into the Seminole Gaming Compact
- Repealing the funding through the gaming compact not only puts in jeopardy our conservation and management
Summary:
The House convened on the final day of session, observed a moment of silence for the Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and for Representative Rosenwald’s father, then swore in and seated new members Boyles and Hodgers. The Speaker also outlined the chamber’s end-of-session priorities, including action on the budget and related conforming bills. The House then took up H.J.R. 5019, a constitutional amendment to expand Florida’s budget stabilization fund by raising the cap, requiring annual transfers, and allowing withdrawals for critical state needs. After sponsor explanations and questions about what would qualify as a critical need and how the fund might respond to possible federal funding cuts, the House adopted an amendment that added more flexibility for suspending transfers and withdrawals. The joint resolution then passed on final passage.
Members next considered HB 7031, the tax package conference report. The bill repeals the business rent tax and aviation fuel tax, delays the natural gas fuel tax, creates or extends several sales tax exemptions and holidays, and makes changes affecting property taxes, local taxes, pari-mutuel taxes, and revenue distributions. Debate focused heavily on the new permanent exemption for ammunition and hunting-related items, the elimination of recurring housing trust fund and transit-related distributions, and the shift of some funding from recurring to nonrecurring status. Supporters argued the package provides tax relief and preserves annual budget flexibility, while opponents criticized the ammunition exemption and the reductions in recurring housing and transit support. The conference report was adopted and the bill passed.
The House then passed HB 5017, which creates a debt reduction program funded by a recurring transfer from general revenue to retire state bonds early, and HB 5015, the state group insurance conforming bill, which directs DMS to develop a formulary management plan and codifies the administrative health insurance assessment. Finally, the chamber began explanation and questions on the General Appropriations Act conference report for fiscal year 2025-26, described as a $115.1 billion budget that is down from the current year and includes more than $12 billion in reserves. Subcommittee chairs summarized major budget areas, including K-12 education, health care, transportation and economic development, agriculture and natural resources, higher education, state administration, justice, and information technology, highlighting funding for school choice, Medicaid, housing, transportation infrastructure, Everglades restoration, workforce programs, cybersecurity, and technology modernization.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations.(3-4-26)
Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations
Transcript Highlights:
- So the compacts require the FBI checks, but they need authority in order to implement those. >> Yeah,
- Those were all compacts that we passed. I'm trying to think it's ended.
- So this is simply modernizing and catching up those compacts that were passed that predated that and
- So the compacts require the FBI checks, but they need authority in order to implement those. >> Yeah,
- Those were all compacts that we passed. I'm trying to think it's ended.
Summary:
The Licensing and Occupations Committee met with a quorum and heard several licensing and regulatory bills. House Bill 565, presented by Rep. Myron Dossett with support from the Kentucky League of Cities and the Paducah Fire Department, would clarify and broaden the authority of “fire protection officials” so local fire officials, along with the state fire marshal, can enforce final orders and seek court enforcement locally. The sponsor described it as cleanup language to streamline fire code enforcement and improve efficiency. The bill passed unanimously.
The committee then considered House Bill 776, a modernization of Kentucky’s Dental Practice Act, presented by Rep. Derek Lewis and Jeff Allen of the Kentucky Board of Dentistry, with Rep. Chad Hall also speaking in support. The bill updates definitions and board authority, revises licensure and renewal provisions, clarifies supervision and training rules for hygienists and assistants, updates telehealth standards, and preserves dentists’ authority over diagnosis and treatment planning. Members also discussed a provision allowing the board to use excess licensing funds for a scholarship to attract dentists to Kentucky. After questions about Medicaid access and a promised amendment removing certain ownership-related provisions, the bill passed unanimously.
House Bill 657, presented by Rep. Stephanie Deetsz and Michelle Sanborn of the Children’s Alliance, would give five licensing boards the statutory authority needed to obtain FBI fingerprinting/ORI numbers for interstate compact compliance. The boards named were counseling, speech-language pathology and audiology, occupational therapy, social work, and psychology. Supporters said the bill simply updates Kentucky law to match current FBI fingerprint language. It passed unanimously.
Finally, the committee took up House Bill 273, presented by Rep. Mike Klein and the Kentucky Board of Barbering. A committee substitute was adopted first. The bill reduces barber training hours from 1,500 to 1,200, allows 10-hour school days, shortens out-of-state licensure experience requirements from three years to one year, and makes other cleanup changes, including moving board compensation to regulation. Supporters said it would reduce barriers to entry and help address workforce shortages. The amended bill passed unanimously, and the committee adjourned.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Senate in Special Session E May 29th, 2026
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It has truly been a privilege to help shape this work from the very beginning, as together we built the
- I will say that under the compact with the Seminole Tribe, the revenues have far exceeded any sort of
- This is something to try to certainly, and as I mentioned before, under the Seminole Compact, revenues
- ..what we could have estimated in terms of the state being able to collect and generate from that compact
Summary:
The Senate took up the conference report on House Bill 501E, the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026-27, with Chair Hooper and the appropriations chairs walking through the $114.5 billion budget. Major highlights included pay increases for state law enforcement, firefighters, park rangers, and correctional officers; funding for teacher salary increases and K-12 enrollment stabilization; workforce and university funding in higher education; major Medicaid, nursing home, waiver, and opioid-related investments in health and human services; corrections and prison-capacity funding; transportation, housing, and emergency management spending; and large environmental appropriations for Florida Forever, Everglades restoration, and water quality projects.
Members then asked detailed questions about specific items. Senators pressed on the Hamilton Center at UF, the difference between assistant state attorney and public defender pay, declining student enrollment funding, private school scholarship vouchers, mental health funding in schools, the lack of preeminence funding, APD’s iBudget waiver wait list and provider rates, ADAP premium assistance and the return of Biktarvy to the formulary, prison staffing and air conditioning, Florida Forever land-buying versus easements, SNAP and Sun Bucks funding, Hope Florida, election audit funding, and the IDD managed care program. Chairs generally explained the negotiated compromises, noted where funding was flat or omitted, and in several cases said items would be revisited next year or depended on agency implementation.
Several senators used debate to praise the budget while also criticizing major policy choices. Leader Berman argued the state should have expanded Medicaid, invested more in public schools instead of vouchers, and accepted federal summer EBT funds. Other senators highlighted local wins such as Biscayne Bay restoration, Tri-Rail, housing assistance, ADAP funding, and declining enrollment support. The transcript ends with debate remarks thanking Chair Hooper for his work on the budget; no final vote is shown in the excerpt.
PA
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill authorizes Pennsylvania to join the dental and dental hygienist compact.
- This bill authorizes Pennsylvania to join the dental and dental hygienist compact.
- The background checks with fingerprints that are required in other compact proposals, like the athletic
- trainer compact, the social worker compact, and the physician's assistant compact, along with other
- That we as a body are powerless to amend this compact. Take it or leave it.
Summary:
The House convened, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved several journals, and welcomed a number of guests, including Irish dignitaries, scholarship winners, interns, student pages, and members of Omega Psi Phi. After confirming a quorum, the chamber received committee reports and referred new bills and resolutions, then recessed for caucuses and committee meetings before returning to floor action.
In the afternoon session, the House considered several bills and amendments. It approved amendments to House Bills 426, 1127, 2551, and Senate Bill 146, while rejecting an amendment to HB 1127 that would have tightened background-check requirements for out-of-state dentists. The chamber also agreed to HB 2234, which creates a spent grain donation tax credit and updates the malt beverage tax credit, and HB 2551, which limits text-message notices by the Turnpike Commission and other agencies about unpaid fines, fees, or tolls. Senate Bill 146, creating the Veterans Trust Fund Board, was amended to add audit-related changes and then agreed to.
The House then took final passage votes on several bills. HB 133, allowing a process to petition for reinstatement of parental rights, passed 191-11; HB 138, barring parental incarceration as the sole basis for termination of parental rights, passed 200-2; HB 2207, on capital development loans, passed 202-0; and HB 2224, dealing with utility rate and tax-related changes, passed 202-0 after extensive debate over affordability, consumer protections, and tax relief. HB 2473, repealing the Flood Insurance Education Information Act of 1996, also passed unanimously, and HB 2544, addressing school administrator rights and compensation disputes, passed 141-61.
The most extensive debate centered on HB 2632, which reallocates educational tax credit caps and replaces the EITC and OSTC programs with a new options tax credit framework beginning in 2027-28. Supporters said it would improve transparency, accountability, and access for the poorest students, while opponents argued it would reduce scholarship opportunities, add burdens, and harm families and schools that rely on the current programs. After lengthy debate, the House passed HB 2632 by a vote of 105-97. The chamber then announced a Finance Committee voting meeting, recommitted several bills to Appropriations, and adjourned until June 23, 2026.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 10, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- OUR COMPACT WAS ACTUALLY SIGNED IN 1948 HERE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA WHEN THE SOUTHERN GOVERNORS MET
- TO SIGN THAT COMPACT.
- OVER THE PAST YEAR, SREB HAS BROUGHT TOGETHER LEADERS ACROSS OUR 16 COMPACT STATES TO UNDERSTAND HOW
- >> Speaker: WE ARE A VERY UNIQUE ORGANIZATION IN THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN A REGIONAL COMPACT THAT WAS
- ONE THING I'VE KNOWN FROM A LONG TIME AGO IS THAT THE COMPACT ITSELF IS VERY NICE.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- How difficult is that to tell them that in order for the privilege to do business in the state of Florida
- You're going to run into constitutional issues, and you're also going to end up violating the compact
Summary:
The Committee on Regulated Industries heard a presentation from the Florida Gaming Control Commission on illegal gambling in Florida. Executive Director Ross Marchman described the commission’s role, the limited number of legal slot-machine locations in the state, and the prevalence of illegal casinos, including “fish tables” and other machines found in strip malls, gas stations, and back rooms. He said the commission has received thousands of complaints, conducted 88 operations, seized thousands of machines and millions in cash and other property, and is currently storing large amounts of seized evidence at significant cost because the cases and appeals are still pending.
Marchman argued that illegal casinos are tied to broader criminal activity, including robberies, drug trafficking, human trafficking, firearms offenses, and even murders, and said the current penalties are too weak because most gaming offenses are second-degree misdemeanors. He and members discussed the need for stronger deterrents, better resources, and possible changes to the law, including whether evidence could be reduced to samples rather than retained in full. Senators also asked about cease-and-desist letters to online gaming operators, the role of manufacturers and landlords, and how the commission distinguishes legal amusement machines from illegal slot machines.
Daniel McGinn, speaking as an individual, supported the commission’s concerns and said prior enforcement efforts were limited by the statutory scheme. He referenced the Gator Coin case and explained that operators often use licensing agreements and repeated cash-split arrangements to keep machines in circulation. He urged legislative action, noted a gap in the statute regarding private rights of action, and warned against creating carve-outs that could raise constitutional or compact issues. No votes were taken, and the committee adjourned after the presentation and questions.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- I've had the privilege of working with Mariana during her tenure as Director of the New Mexico Children's
- During my tenure at the WCA, I've been privileged to work with Heather Jordan, first when she was Clerk
- I had the opportunity and privilege to work with Heather, including. closely as senior managers together
- was. in New Mexico, but I was actually sued by the state of Colorado for the Colorado-Texas Water Compact
- I have the privilege of serving as President-elect of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, what that will do is compact your salary schedules for these personnel.
- It was brought up when we talked about the compaction issue as well. And I do.
- I think that we also have to be cognizant of the compaction issues that this has.
- Compaction, and I don't want to cause a problem there. I'm very intrigued by what Mr.
- Rounds had to say about compaction. Did you give me an example?
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I would take a personal privilege moment to represent Ms.
- Senator Brodeur: This revises distributions from the Gaming Compact and includes the following changes
- is my understanding there is a change as it relates to the hundred million dollars for the Gaming Compact
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 14, 2026 - 10:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- IS HOUSE BILL 13 I WOULD SUGGEST IT IS A LUCKY NUMBER 13 BUT THIS IS ONCE AGAIN THE SOCIAL WORKER COMPACT
- FLORIDA IS NOT ONE OF THE COMPACT MEMBER STATES.
- THE COMPACT WOULD ALLOW SOCIAL WORKERS TO JOIN FLORIDA IS NOT ONE OF THE COMPACT MEMBER STATES.
- THE COMPACT WOULD ALLOW SOCIAL WORKERS TO JOIN THE COMPACT IN FLORIDA AND THEY COULD PROVIDE SERVICES
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Oct 1st, 2025
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- The chamber also supports funding for the compact study.
- In this budget, Page it says to study interstate compacts.
- It doesn't say to implement interstate compacts.
- And I haven't seen a bill to implement the compacts. Did I miss a bill?
- Intention to join health care compacts.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Feb 5th, 2026 at 09:02 am
House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas is not paying for this water, and we are getting no credit on the river compacts.
- He understands that if New Mexico can satisfy the compact requirements with Texas with produced water
- if treated produced water can be used for economic development in southern New Mexico and meet the compact
- river and fill the compact, then we wouldn't be cut.
- But certainly, and the compact I'm much more familiar with, is the Texas v. New Mexico Compact.
Keywords:
Taos County, Questa, produced water, treated produced water, water reuse, water quality control commission, freshwater conservation, rural communities, acequias, Indian nations, tribes, pueblos, water rights, industrial water use, data centers, artificial intelligence, AI, quantum computing, economic development, renewable energy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance May 20th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Deferring compact funding presents significant challenges as campuses have already enrolled students
- based on the compacts requirements.
- The administration is fully committed to funding the compact deferral.
- So right now we are planning on fully meeting the compact enrollment for 25-26.
- I have just a couple questions around the compact repayment.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Working Group 1/15/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This slide lists the compacts of which Minnesota is a member, and it shows whether they’re in effect
- or, some of them, are active, meaning the requisite number of states have joined the compact but they
- This slide lists the compacts of which Minnesota is a member, and it shows whether they’re in effect
- or, some of them, are active, meaning the requisite number of states have joined the compact but they
- This slide lists the compacts of which Minnesota is a member, and it shows whether they’re in effect
Summary:
The meeting was an informational walkthrough for the Health Finance and Policy Working Group, focused on committee structure, budget basics, and major health-related accounts and programs. Staff explained the roles of House Research and House Fiscal, then reviewed key funds used by the committee, including the general fund, government special revenue fund, federal funds, the health care access fund, remediation account, and drinking water revolving fund. They also outlined the committee’s main budget areas, noting that medical assistance is the largest general fund item and that the Department of Health is a substantial agency funded by a mix of federal, general fund, and special revenue dollars.
A major portion of the presentation covered subsidized health coverage programs. Staff described Medical Assistance (Minnesota’s Medicaid program) as an entitlement for eligible Minnesotans, with no premiums or cost sharing, and explained its managed care and fee-for-service delivery systems. MinnesotaCare was presented as a separate federal-state basic health program for people who are not eligible for MA, with income limits, premiums for adults age 21 and older, and cost-sharing requirements; staff noted that federal premium tax credit changes affect MinnesotaCare premium ranges. The presentation also summarized MNsure’s role in the individual market and in determining eligibility for premium tax credits, cost-sharing reductions, MinnesotaCare, and MA.
The committee also received an overview of health-related licensing boards and occupational regulation. Staff said Minnesota has 16 health-related licensing boards, funded mainly through the state government special revenue fund and subject to legislative appropriation, and explained that health occupations may be regulated by the Department of Health, the Office of Emergency Medical Services, or the boards under chapter 214. Interstate licensure compacts were briefly noted as a way to ease practice across states. No bills were debated and no votes or formal actions were taken during the meeting.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/30/2026 - House Republican Caucus Calendar #14
Transcript Highlights:
- bill as well, like we're trying to say also, if, you know, we also are going to look at potential compacts
- So in the bill, it allows us to study to go into a compact. So right now, they don't know.
- This bill allows us to figure that out and enter into a compact with states that could take it on.
- So in the bill, it allows us to study um So in the bill, it allows us to study to go into a compact.
- This bill allows us to figure that out and enter into a compact with states that could take it on.
Summary:
The caucus briefly reviewed House Bill 2307, which addresses the placement and treatment of dangerous, incompetent defendants when no secure mental health beds are available in Arizona. Staff explained the Senate amendments would allow one such defendant to be housed temporarily at the Arizona State Hospital in a secure setting, require DHS to study the cost of building or converting a secure facility on ASH grounds, create a study committee on long-term secure mental health facility options, and include an emergency clause. The sponsor said the bill is intended as a temporary fix while the state works toward a permanent secure facility, and noted the individual would receive mental health treatment aimed at restoring competency to stand trial. Members asked about where the person would be housed, whether treatment would be provided, and whether out-of-state compacts might be used if needed.
The group then discussed House Bill 272, which as passed the House would have created an optional state certification program for lactation care providers and a related advisory committee under the Arizona Department of Health Services. Staff reported that the Senate adopted a strike-everything amendment turning the bill into an emergency measure repealing Dr. Cesar Estrada Chavez Day. The sponsor, Representative Fink, was reported to concur with the Senate amendments. No votes were taken during the caucus discussion.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Jan 20th, 2026 at 04:07 pm
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- A bill enacting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, providing for the appointment of New Mexico
- Compact Commissioners, requiring the public posting of Interstate Commission bonds, laws, rules, and
- the Medical Practice Act, and providing for a contingent repeal of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
- An act relating to licensure, enacting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. of New Mexico Compact
- of the Medical Practice Act, providing for a contingent repeal of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- A bill enacting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, providing for the appointment of New Mexico
- Compact Commissioners, requiring the public posting of Interstate Commission bylaws, rules, and minutes
- the Medical Practice Act, and providing for a contingent repeal of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
- An act relating to licensure, enacting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. of New Mexico Compact
- bylaws, rules, and minutes, providing for a contingent repeal of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (01/20/2026)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- relative to intermunicipal compacts. relative to intermunicipal compacts.
- the compact and get voters to buy in on the compact, all of those guidelines as to how the compact would
- So, I mean, as they develop the compact and get voters to buy in on the compact, all of those guidelines
- What does that mean that it compact.
- uh compact, what what does housing mean? uh compact, what what does housing mean?
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- It addresses physician assistant interstate licensure compact.
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where program where they cross compact, where program where they cross compact - I'm pleased to voice our support for HB 1566 and Alabama's adoption of the PA compact.
- I'm pleased to voice our support for HB 1566 and Alabama's adoption of the PA compact.
- I'm pleased to voice our support for HB 1566 and Alabama's adoption of the PA compact.
Keywords:
HB139, Alabama discrimination, civil rights, public accommodations, employment discrimination, equal access, protected classes, race discrimination, sex discrimination, religious discrimination, age discrimination, disability discrimination, national origin discrimination, school board discrimination, labor organization, employment agency, retaliation, private right of action, punitive damages, attorney fees