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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 2nd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- Apprenticeship programs enable individuals to learn trades and occupations through on-the-job training
- The State Apprenticeship Council establishes standards for apprenticeship programs and approved training
- We already treat physical safety as essential in apprenticeship training.
- This bill says mental health safety as essential in apprenticeship training.
- I believe teachers don't have card checks. Okay.
Keywords:
SB 6053, domestic workers, domestic worker rights, labor protections, minimum wage, overtime, private household employment, nanny, home care worker, personal care provider, housekeeper, cleaner, cook, gardener, household manager, wage theft, retaliation, anti-discrimination, immigration status, privacy rights
TX
Bills:
HB146, HB150, HB1500, HB1545, HB1562, HB2067, HB2520, HB2818, HB3214, HB3250, HB3466, HB3512, HB3623, HB4063, HB4395, HB4464, HB4668, HB4690, HB5331, HB3833
Keywords:
HB 146, Texas Capitol, State Capitol, State Preservation Board, Congress Avenue, Travis County, traffic lanes, lane closure, road closure, municipal authority, local control, Capitol area, downtown Austin, special events, construction traffic plan, pedestrian safety, public works, transportation policy, government code chapter 443, cybersecurity
Summary:
The committee took up several pending business items and reported a series of House bills out of committee, including HB 2467, HB 2468, HB 2518, HB 4310, HB 4386, HB 4490, HB 5323, and HB 149. Most of these were advanced on committee substitute motions and sent to the local and uncontested calendar or reported favorably to the full Senate. HB 2467 drew one nay vote, while the others were approved without opposition. HB 4310 and HB 4386 were described as committee-substitute versions with changes narrowing disclosure requirements and preserving attorney-client privilege in certain circumstances.
A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 149, an AI governance bill. The substitute was explained as addressing biometric identifier capture and storage, exempting certain AI uses for security and fraud prevention, clarifying definitions, restricting AI systems that simulate explicit child sexual content, adjusting Attorney General investigative authority, refining sandbox program waivers, reducing Texas AI Council powers and membership, and adding DIR coordination provisions. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill favorably.
The committee then heard extensive testimony on HB 1500, the DIR sunset bill. The author said the bill would continue DIR for 12 years, restructure its board, update advisory committees, require regular cybersecurity assessments and penetration testing for state agencies, improve IT procurement training, and transfer the e-grants program to the Comptroller. A Texas 2036 witness supported the bill as a way to strengthen governance, procurement, and cybersecurity. Members asked detailed questions about the bill’s structure and then left HB 1500 pending.
The committee also heard a lengthy presentation on HB 150, which would create the Texas Cyber Command as a component of the University of Texas System, administratively attached to UTSA and located in San Antonio. The author argued the command would centralize cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and digital forensics, and would be able to support state and local entities, with optional services for local governments. Members raised concerns about university mission drift, governance, security, chain of command, procurement authority, gifts and donations, and civil liberties implications of proactive cyber monitoring. Witnesses from UTSA/NSCC and SecurityScorecard testified in support, emphasizing the security of the downtown San Antonio facility, the existing cyber ecosystem there, and the need for a dedicated cyber capability. The bill remained under discussion with no final committee action announced in the excerpt.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Apr 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm going to look at this from a teacher perspective, middle school and high school teacher.
- , et cetera, other kinds of supports for transportation, or federal grant on apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships
- You indicated that the governor vetoed the apprenticeship funds.
- She vetoed language to target pre-apprenticeships to at-risk and disconnected youth.
- Teachers need it too. Many teachers were on the academic tracks.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Mar 4th, 2026
Finance and Taxation Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Under our present law, a state employee and a teacher can purchase credit for other public service except
Bills:
HB125, HB116, HB183, HB342, HB341, SB280, SB245, SB159, HB125, HB116, HB183, HB342, HB341, SB280, SB245, SB159
Keywords:
HB125, sunset law, Alabama Sunset Committee, Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, veterinary medical examiners, veterinary board, veterinary licensing, veterinary regulation, professional licensing board, state board continuation, sunset review, regulatory board, animal health, veterinarians, disciplinary authority, HB116, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset bill, Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board, bail bonding
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Department of Labor standards for registering apprenticeship programs. Happy to answer questions.
- Department of Labor standards, the registering apprenticeship programs. Happy to answer questions.
- And that's what this bill does: it defines apprenticeship programs.
- It defines apprenticeship programs and does the things that Mr.
- Department of Labor standards for registered apprenticeship programs.
Bills:
HB2128, HB2255, HB2397, HB2429, HB2591, HB2680, HB2834, HB2868, HB2911, HB2951, HB2979, HB2991, HB2996, HB2999, HB4001, HB4011, HB4017, HB4020, HB4026, HB4086, HB4088, HB2244, HB2342
Keywords:
homeowners associations, condominiums, open meetings, governance, transparency, Arizona Teachers Academy, teacher preparation, education funding, public schools, scholarships, teacher certification, community colleges, HOA, homeowners association, planned community, condominium, CC&Rs, covenants, conditions and restrictions, resale disclosure, association disclosure
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Children and Senior Advocacy
Keywords:
Ebony Alert, missing youth, public safety, law enforcement, racial equity, HB170, supplemental appropriations, Education Trust Fund, Alabama education budget, school funding, K-12 education, local boards of education, textbook adoption, school buses, school safety, charter schools, summer programs, afterschool programs, reading intervention, college and career readiness
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Windberg wants to know what training teachers are required to complete every year.
- Windbird wants to know what training teachers are required to complete every year.
- </c><00:19:16.559><c> are</c> to know what training teachers are to know what training teachers are required
- salaries Paris salary support teacher salaries Paris salary support teachers<00:43:22.800><c> or</c>
- </c><01:15:05.120><c> which</c> also with those apprenticeships which also with those apprenticeships
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a product of an apprenticeship program. It was life-changing for me. To secure work for us.
- I'm a product of an apprenticeship program. It was life-changing for me.
- I am a journeyman wireman, trained by a registered apprenticeship program through the contractors who
- Because they want to use skilled labor and to utilize and self-reinvest back into the apprenticeship
- You know, my wife's a math and science teacher.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Aug 29th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Assembly Bill 1119 by Assembly Member Patel, an act relating to teacher credentialing.
- This bill instructs the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing to produce regulations that establish
- efficient pathways for both current and aspiring teachers to obtain dual credentials.
- Building infrastructure and to have good-paying jobs and opportunities, apprenticeship opportunities
- Job site standards and apprenticeship programs, never mincing his words when it came to his passion.
Summary:
The Assembly convened with a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance, then moved through a largely procedural floor session. Members also heard guest introductions recognizing the 20th anniversary of UC Merced and visiting interns and local officials. The Speaker reminded members about floor managers for Senate bills and noted several items were passed and retained on file or deferred during the day’s business.
On the Daily File, the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments to AB 385 on park property and AB 1119 on teacher credentialing, both by unanimous 57-0 votes. The house also passed SB 351, a health practices measure presented as strengthening enforcement of California’s corporate practice of medicine rules and protecting the doctor-patient relationship, by a 61-0 vote. SB 697, relating to water rights adjudication and allowing the State Water Board to use technology such as drones for investigations, passed 55-0.
The Assembly then took up SB 346 on local government and short-term rentals. Supporters said it would help cities collect transient occupancy taxes, enforce local ordinances, and identify unpermitted rentals; Assembly Members Bauer-Kahan, Papin, and Dixon spoke in favor, with Dixon describing local regulatory challenges from her time in Newport Beach. The bill passed 50-0. The second-day consent calendar was then approved.
The remainder of the session was devoted to adjournment in memory remarks honoring Miguel Antonio Cano, Officer of the California Highway Patrol; Vincent Dino, a longtime Palmdale water district and civic leader; Andrew Meredith, a labor and building trades leader and former Galt mayor; and Erica Hoffman, a California School Boards Association advocate for public education. The Assembly then adjourned until Tuesday, September 2 at 1 p.m.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And then the apprenticeship programs in Texas continue to grow, and they're growing into fields that
- , things we think of as professional jobs that might not lend themselves well to an apprenticeship.
- a lot of opportunities for apprenticeships outside of our traditional craft trades that we've typically
- And I think even more importantly so we can take advantage of the good teachers that may not be in a
- We often hire our faculty straight out of industry and then we teach them to be teachers.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Twin Cities filled with great teachers Twin Cities filled with great teachers who<01:15:00.800><
- </c><01:16:11.360><c> actually</c> impressive where the teacher actually impressive where the teacher
- The speaker said this is pre-apprenticeship, prior to entering the apprenticeship model.
- </c> them getting into the apprenticeship them getting into the apprenticeship model<01:19:11.920><c>
- <01:19:23.760><c> programs</c> apprenticeship programs apprenticeship programs yes<01:19:27.159><c> uh
Keywords:
nursing home, employment standards, worker rights, Minnesota Statutes, labor compensation, workforce development, job training, economic stability, low-income, career pathways, education funding, Summit Academy, employment, STEM programming, GED preparation, Neighborhood Development Center, NDC, small business, entrepreneurship, business training
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a registered apprenticeship program. Is that right?
- It's like their training facilities, their apprenticeship programs, things like that.
- So we're not allowed to use our own qualified apprenticeship programs, our own craft labor; we have to
- Access to registered apprenticeship programs like ours, project labor agreements (PLAs), and our apprenticeship
- Over the course of my apprenticeship, I've seen firsthand how project labor agreements (PLAs) provide
Bills:
HB1951, HB2715, HB3092, HB3237, HB3278, HB3511, HB3592, HB3675, HB3778, HB3782, HB3826, HB3970, HB4016, HB4049, HB4341, HB4344, HB4406, HB4427
Keywords:
collective bargaining, public works, government contracts, labor agreements, state funding, removal from office, political subdivisions, local government, judicial proceedings, administrative judicial region, electric transmission, public convenience, landowner consent, utility regulation, energy infrastructure, energy consumption, higher education, governmental entities, sustainability, electricity reduction
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Jan 14th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- This budget provides funding to expand our career education programs, including apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships
- additional $20 million in continued funding for the Pathways to Careers Opportunity Grant Program for apprenticeship
- and pre-apprenticeships, which includes $5 million to continue to grow your own teacher-registered apprenticeship
- My mom was an academic advisor at the local university, and my father was a teacher and coach, a football
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Higher Education received a presentation from the Governor’s Office and the Commissioner of Education on the proposed higher education budget. The presentation highlighted a $117.4 billion overall state budget, with education at $32.5 billion and higher education receiving a modest overall increase. Key items included no tuition or fee increases for Florida residents, major financial aid funding such as Bright Futures, Benacquisto, EASE, Open Door, and first responder scholarships, as well as workforce investments including apprenticeship programs, career and technical education, nursing pipeline funding, and performance-based funding for colleges and universities.
Committee members asked questions about the proposed expansion of the Guardian program at state colleges and the $100 million university recruitment and retention fund. Officials said the Guardian funding would give colleges flexibility to use trained personnel for campus safety, sometimes alongside or in place of campus police or private security. The Chancellor explained that the recruitment and retention money would be distributed to universities with no specific directives beyond using it for faculty recruitment and retention, emphasizing Florida’s favorable demographics and the opportunity to attract faculty from states facing enrollment declines.
The committee then heard testimony from multiple appointees and reappointees to boards of trustees at state colleges and universities, including Eastern Florida State College, Lake-Sumter State College, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota, Miami Dade College, Northwest Florida State College, and St. Johns River State College. Each described their backgrounds and stressed themes of affordability, workforce alignment, nursing and technical programs, dual enrollment, and local community needs. Several cited strong nursing licensure pass rates and college outcomes. After hearing all appointees, the committee voted unanimously to confirm the full block of nominees, and the confirmations were reported favorably before the meeting adjourned.
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Jan 12th, 2026
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- States that are not Office of Apprenticeship states—or, excuse me, state apprenticeship agencies that
- after we set up a state apprenticeship agency because we were kind of in control of our own destiny
- rather than using one federal Office of Apprenticeship official who was covering multiple states and
- kind of register, and we had an apprenticeship...
- , and that culminates in registered apprenticeship, and other, you know, high-quality employer-based
Summary:
The committee heard testimony from Nick Moore, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Office of Career and Technical Education, on efforts to better align workforce, education, and human services programs. Moore argued that WIOA, Perkins, and ESSA were designed to function as an integrated talent system, but that federal and state bureaucracy has kept them siloed. He said the Department of Labor and OCTAE are working on more integrated state plan guidance, including a 2026 plan modification timeline, combined Perkins/WIOA plans, and greater use of labor market information to align training with in-demand jobs and Workforce Pell.
Moore emphasized reducing overhead, cross-training staff, using common intake and integrated case management, and focusing on the “shadow labor force” of people facing benefit cliffs, child care barriers, or other obstacles to work. He repeatedly urged states to use waivers and flexibility where possible, to consolidate or streamline local workforce structures, and to hold programs accountable through measures such as labor force participation, training-related employment, retention, and cost per successful outcome. Members asked about the balance between flexibility and accountability, the role of employers versus postsecondary institutions, rural “training deserts,” state waivers, and data systems such as Mississippi Spark and Arkansas Launch. Moore said states should use technology and integrated intake to co-enroll eligible participants in multiple programs and better match people to jobs.
In response to questions, Moore said some federal rules cannot be waived, but many reporting and administrative requirements can be streamlined, and he encouraged Arkansas to propose ideas for waivers or state-level integration. He also discussed the need for enhanced wage records and state longitudinal data systems to improve workforce planning and economic development. After Moore’s presentation, DHS Secretary Janet Mann and Director Jay Hill gave a brief update on reimbursement rates, saying the department had compiled more than 100 public comments, recommended holding the current rate, and was awaiting executive review; they estimated the process could take 30 to 60 days. The committee then adjourned, noting a later audit presentation scheduled for the afternoon.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 5, 2026 - 12:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to focus on our registered apprenticeship programs.
- The city of Jacksonville alone is home to various top-notch apprenticeship programs.
- I am a product of an apprenticeship program and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
- Also hurt are apprenticeship programs. Chair Salzman: Thank you. I got a little confused.
- We have been in committee meetings where we have been pushing apprenticeship programs.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- note. thought it was just a teacher note that maybe someone thought it was just a teacher note that
- Sky Tooley, 5th grade teacher in Los Angeles. I support.
- Allowing us to tap into apprenticeship programs.
- Charles Stone high school math teacher and I support.
- I'm from the California Teachers Association.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (04/16/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> has an apprenticeship program. Correct. has an apprenticeship program. Correct.
- </c><02:18:13.599><c> The</c> apprenticeship. That's one issue. The apprenticeship.
- ,</c> public schools as a coach, teacher, public schools as a coach, teacher, headmaster,<02:29:29.280
- </c><02:30:15.760><c> of</c> a lifelong educator, a teacher of a lifelong educator, a teacher of teachers
- ,</c><03:14:11.120><c> by</c> that they're stupid by teachers, by that they're stupid by teachers, by
Summary:
The committee opened a hearing on Senate Bill 185, which would add timelines to Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC) investigations. Senator Howard Pearl said the bill was prompted by concerns from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors about delays at the Real Estate Commission, and he explained that the proposal would require OPLC staff to make an initial determination within 30 days and, if misconduct is found, complete an investigation within 60 days. He said the goal is to improve transparency and give consumers and licensees more timely information, while preserving the board’s adjudicatory role. He also noted that the bill had been amended to delay implementation to give OPLC time to work through its backlog.
Committee members questioned how the bill would work when an investigation is incomplete and whether the board could send a case back to OPLC without a firm deadline. Pearl said the board would have discretion to continue the investigation or make a final determination, and that the bill was intended to streamline OPLC’s process rather than impose a hard cap on complex cases. OPLC Executive Director Deanna Durus and General Counsel Nicholas Fry then testified that the agency has already changed its procedures under prior legislation, including a facial review of complaints and monthly board review of dismissal memos. They said the bill would substantially alter the current structure, could conflict with existing limitation periods and board duties, and would be difficult to implement without additional staff and funding.
Durus said the agency’s backlog is large, that new complaints are being triaged and prioritized, and that some urgent matters are moved ahead based on risk and statutory deadlines. She said OPLC had completed a review of about 500 backlog cases that would now be dismissed under current screening standards, and that those cases are being turned into memos for board review. Board of Medicine public member Nina Gardner testified in favor of the bill but said the backlog is significant and that the agency needs more resources to make the process work effectively. She said the board is seeing progress, but not fast enough, and suggested the bill may not go far enough without additional staffing and funding. No vote was taken during the hearing.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee Jan 22nd, 2026 at 09:00 am
A&B Education Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- If we remember that time frame, that was teacher raises. Most of you remember that.
- And they must provide transportation for that teacher for the events that they go to.
- and trains the teacher to present career.
- So, 1.5 million dollars is going to go into apprenticeships.
- Done by Lucas Simmons, OBU faculty, and art teacher, art studio teacher, and professor from Hawnee.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer, of Oregon, to be Secretary of Labor. - Part 2 of 2 Feb 19th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- and specifies that the funding is only available for registered apprenticeships.
- be used for registered apprenticeships, yes or no?
- The Women in Apprenticeship and Non-Traditional Occupations Grant Program.
- Is there ways that we can look at to expand apprenticeship programs, youth apprenticeship programs?
- How can you see us expanding that through youth apprenticeships?
Keywords:
PRO Act, labor laws, worker rights, unionization, right-to-work, public testimony, political polarization
Summary:
The meeting centered around an in-depth discussion of the PRO Act, with representatives expressing passionate opinions both for and against the legislation. Representative Chavez de Rimmer emphasized the importance of worker freedom, arguing that the PRO Act would infringe upon individual rights by coercing unionization. This perspective was strongly received by members from right-to-work states, who articulated their concerns about the potential erosion of workers' choices and protections. Speaker after speaker conveyed conflicting views on labor laws, indicating a deeply polarized environment surrounding labor issues at the moment.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> went to the school nurse as a teacher went to the school nurse as a teacher and<00:15:59.759><c>
- Many teachers from around James.
- </c> short straw on being the health teacher. short straw on being the health teacher.
- </c> understanding of the teacher shortage. understanding of the teacher shortage.
- </c> teachers available than 5 years ago. teachers available than 5 years ago.