Video & Transcript Research : 'alternative licensure'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU Public Hearing 03-18-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • >> There are different viewpoints on licensure, and we don't want to make any presuppositions as to which
  • So we're talking about licensed psychologists who have obtained licensure in the state.
  • >> Um, so a psychologist who wishes to obtain licensure in the state can do so through multiple pathways
  • I'm just guessing, you know, from my experience. >> How many people go through licensure for?
  • But if the current system had a licensure requirement, they would have to be licensed before DOE can
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • She said that is true not only on the front end of obtaining licensure, but also in the amount of continuing
  • don't see how this bill is anything more than allowing nurses to practice while waiting for the licensure
  • don't see how this bill is anything more than allowing nurses to practice while waiting for the licensure
  • The only reason I'm offering these amendments is to get alternative financing proposals out onto the
  • period of time, and that would have provided this legislature more opportunity to look at other alternatives
Bills: HF837, HF1903, HF499, HF794
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • day in which the digital platforms send notifications, and it requires them to be reasonable, or alternatively
  • be an involved process, but there's not a single product covered by this bill where a reasonable alternative
  • Senate Commerce and Labor Committee that while the manufacturing sector is taking steps to find alternatives
Bills: AB52, AB76, AB163, AB388, AB483
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • routes that they can have alternative routes that they can use?
  • Let's talk about the transportation alternative program.
  • Let's talk about the transportation alternative program. Okay.
  • </c> The Transportation Alternative Program is a federally funded program.
  • </c> with uh transportation alternative with uh transportation alternative program<00:40:56.920><c> funding
Summary: The committee met for the first interim meeting of the 2025 Budget Review Committee on Transportation and heard from Bobby Jo Lewis, commissioner of Rural and Municipal Aid at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. She reviewed the new County City Bridge Improvement Program, created in the 2024 regular session, reporting that phases one and two are complete, 45 bridges have been funded so far, and about $18.45 million has been authorized. She said roughly $6.549 million remains for phase three in the current fiscal year, with about $26.445 million in bridge applications still pending. For fiscal year 2026, the program will again have $25 million and will use four application phases. She also described a training resource, Local Bridges 101, and said a new executive advisor, Greg Meredith, has been brought in to help with the bridge program. Members asked how rollover applications would be handled, whether they would be re-evaluated with new applications, how the program would account for bridge longevity and load posting, and how isolated communities would be prioritized. Lewis said applicants not funded in FY25 would be contacted and could choose to roll their applications into FY26, and all applications would be evaluated together at the end of each phase. She said preservation projects are assessed for how much they extend a bridge’s life, and isolated community access bridges or closed bridges with no detour access receive priority. She also said the department aims for equitable distribution across regions and plans to produce a map showing where funds have been awarded. Lewis then turned to the County Priority Projects Program and the Local Assistance Road Program established in House Bill 546 and related resolutions. She said the application cycle opened June 1 and closes October 1, with 106 memoranda of agreement being prepared for awards in House Joint Resolution 46. She described updated application and reporting forms, a scoring matrix, and a County City Pavement Evaluation Manual used to rate projects based on preservation of assets, average daily traffic, recent improvements, safety, cost, and district priority. She said projects must be rehabilitation projects designed to restore the original condition of the road, cannot exceed $500,000, and must use local match percentages tied to the economic development grant program formula. She also reported on funding status for prior road projects, including completed, partially completed, pending, and underrun amounts that may be reauthorized. Committee members asked about photo documentation, online access to project materials, how to measure whether projects truly restore roads to original condition, and what happens when project costs exceed estimates. Lewis said the department is still working on how best to store and share the large volume of photos, and that projects are certified through district offices and local sign-off after completion. She said overages are the responsibility of the applicant because the state does not have additional money beyond the awarded amount. No formal votes were taken during the discussion.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 13th, 2026 at 04:01 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, senators, if you can start us with House Bill 12, that's the physical therapy licensure compact.
  • If you can start us with House Bill 12, and that's the physical therapy licensure compact.
  • This mirrors the language that was included in the Interstate Physician Licensure Compact.
  • Next, we have House Bill 34 as amended, school nurse licensure provisions.
  • to the pay and three-tier licensure system of educators.
Bills: HB10, HB12, HB34, SB130, SM21
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/3/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Those programs oversee around 630 licensure programs across the state, and by licensure programs we mean
  • One is streamlining teacher licensure.
  • One is streamlining teacher licensure.
  • We are seeing people trying to do alternative licensure in multiple areas. Indiana is doing that.
  • We are seeing people trying to do alternative licensure in multiple areas. Indiana is doing that.
Bills: HF3635, HF3638
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • we'll move to the last measure on this regular agenda, SB 3105 relating to the physician assistant licensure
  • of the provisions reflected within SB 3105, which would enter Hawaii into the physician assistant licensure
Bills: SB3275, SB3105
Summary: The Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection reconsidered two condominium bills and adopted recommendations to pass both with amendments. For SB 2433, members approved amendments clarifying that condominium unit owners’ interests are to be recognized and protected in educational and related programs by the Real Estate Commission and DCCA, while making technical changes and changing the effective date. For SB 2838, the committee replaced the bill’s broader substantive language with a narrower requirement that associations provide electronic copies of specified documents, including master leases, reserve studies, audited financial statements, contracts, leases, and other agreements, along with technical changes and an amended effective date. Both measures were adopted unanimously by the members present, with Senator McKelvey excused. The committee then heard SB 2710 on animal issues, which would define and regulate dog breeders, set care standards, create county licensing authority, require records, and establish an animal abuser registry and related penalties. Testimony was mixed: the Public Defender and the American Kennel Club opposed the bill, arguing for stronger enforcement of existing laws rather than harsher penalties and warning that the bill would burden responsible breeders; the Hawaiian Humane Society supported the bill’s breeder regulation and registry provisions but urged removal of the hoarding section; and the committee noted 26 written testimonies in support, 14 in opposition, and four comments. In decision-making, the committee passed SB 2710 with amendments that blanked the license fee, deleted the animal abuser registry and shelter/pet store/breeder compliance checks, struck the hoarding provisions and proposed criminal penalty changes, and made technical changes with a deferred effective date. The committee also heard SB 2209 on rental discrimination, which would allow attorney’s fees to a prevailing party in source-of-income discrimination cases, and SB 2884, which would create a nonrefundable income tax credit for wind-resistant retrofits or hurricane shelters. The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission supported SB 2209, and the committee later passed it with a deferred effective date. SB 2884 drew support from DCCA’s Insurance Division, the Department of Taxation, HEMA, the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, and a public witness who urged hurricane preparedness; it was passed with the Department of Taxation’s proposed amendments and a deferred effective date. Finally, the committee heard SB 2922 on cooperative associations, which would create a general cooperative associations framework. DCCA offered comments, while the Hawaii Co-op Hui, Purple Maya Foundation, Enliven Cooperative, and Hawaii Farmers Union supported the measure and argued that current law is too limited for worker, producer, and multi-stakeholder co-ops. After discussion about using the existing chapter 421C structure rather than creating a new regulatory scheme, the committee passed SB 2922 with amendments adopting changes proposed in testimony from the Hawaii Farmers Union and deferred the effective date.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/03/2026 - House Commerce

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so that will be one of the netter... ...in and see if we can create some alternative options.
  • We are strong supporters of providing consumers with better alternatives to predatory lending and junk
  • Consumers also report that they understand the product and choose it over alternatives.
  • framed as a modern earned wage access, or EWA, product, it is quite simply a non-regulated credit alternative
  • . ...product, it is quite simply a non-regulated credit alternative, also known as predatory lending,