Video & Transcript Research : 'physician statement'

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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Ethics and Elections Jan 28th, 2026

Ethics and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Or statements of financial interest. Thank you, Mr.
Bills: S1622, S1178
Summary: The committee met with a quorum present and first took up Senate Bill 1178, the Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act, sponsored by Senator Garcia. The bill would expand state restrictions on foreign countries of concern and designated foreign terrorist organizations, including creating a state registration framework for foreign agents, banning gifts to public officials from covered foreign entities, requiring ethics training on foreign influence, tightening procurement limits for information technology and critical infrastructure, restricting sister-city/sister-state encouragement, revising linkage institute rules and tuition provisions, and criminalizing certain conduct tied to foreign governments or unauthorized enforcement of foreign law. Members asked extensive questions about how the bill would affect election technology, software development, federal foreign-agent registration, educational exchanges, and the treatment of organizations such as CARE; the sponsor said the bill focused on ownership/control and foreign countries of concern, not specific components or general participation in events. An amendment by Senator Grall was adopted to clarify definitions, align penalties with willful violations, and specify that new ethics training content is additive. The committee then heard supportive testimony from Kelly Curry of State Armor and Rob Pierce of American Global Strategies, both of whom argued the bill would help Florida counter foreign influence, protect data and infrastructure, and improve transparency. CS for SB 1178 was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1622, which provides a one-time waiver of the automatic fine for a late-filed financial disclosure under specified conditions, including that the filer submitted the disclosure before the maximum fine accrued and had not previously received such a waiver. Carrie Stillman of the Commission on Ethics testified in support, saying the bill preserves transparency and compliance goals while making the fine and appeals process more workable. The bill was reported favorably by roll call vote. Finally, the committee took up confirmation hearings for appointments in tabs 3 through 26. No separate votes were requested, no public testimony was offered, and the block of appointees was recommended favorably to the full Senate by roll call vote. The meeting then concluded with no further business.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Ethics and Campaign Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, clarity to candidate filings of statements of economic interest.
  • If you are affiliated with a political party, you file your statement within...
  • The current statement has been filed as an alternative to refiling again.
  • I think even with a municipal election, you have to file a statement.
  • But at that point, you don't have to do a statement.
Bills: HB250
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Public Health Mar 17th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • OK, so, so a US physician would still have to apply for a residency slot, whereas a foreign physician
  • The requirements to practice under a physician.
  • We need physicians and, If we don't do anything soon here, Texas is going to be, this, this physician
  • , well, the physician shortage in general.
  • called a physician is virtually a paramedic.
Bills: HB163, HB 296
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Health & Social Services Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Health & Social Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Funding would come from the existing rural health transformation funds, earmarked for non-physician workforce
  • more broadly through incentive programs across the continuum of clinical training, including the physician
  • I think I'm curious about the necessity for requirements, or I guess for referral from physicians, just
  • OTs, however, will still need a referral from a physician. Thank you. I missed that.
  • OTs, however, will still need a referral from a physician. Thank you. Thank you. I missed that.
Bills: HB359, HB385, HB165
Summary: The Senate Health and Social Services Committee met with a quorum, approved the minutes from the prior two meetings, and briefly acknowledged the tragedy at Christiana Care before moving to legislation. The committee heard House Bill 385, which creates a statewide nurse preceptor grant program to expand clinical training placements for nursing students; testimony from nursing organizations, health care associations, and educators emphasized workforce shortages, the need for preceptor stipends and training, and the bill’s potential to help students complete programs and remain in Delaware. Members asked about eligibility and reporting, and several senators asked to be added as co-sponsors. Public comment was uniformly supportive, and the bill was advanced out of committee. The committee then considered House Bill 424, which repeals Delaware’s Autism Surveillance and Registration Program and requires DHSS to expunge protected health information collected through the registry. The sponsor and DHSS said the registry is no longer used for research or policy development and that repeal would reduce outdated reporting burdens; Autism Delaware, the Delaware Health Care Association, and the State Council for Persons with Disabilities support the change. A committee member raised the question of whether families would be notified before records are expunged, and DHSS said that process was not yet clear and would need further verification. Members discussed the issue, and the bill also moved forward. House Bill 419 was next, making children in foster care automatically eligible for the Purchase of Care child care subsidy and extending the same treatment to certain kinship and safety-plan placements through House Amendment 1. The Children’s Department and advocacy groups said the bill would provide immediate stability for children and caregivers, reduce delays from applications and income verification, and support working foster and kinship families. The committee also heard House Bill 359, which would allow cremation as an option for unclaimed and indigent remains when there is no family objection or next of kin cannot be found, addressing a shortage of burial plots and lowering costs; funeral industry testimony focused on preserving next-of-kin rights. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 475, creating a Delaware Nursing Advancement Fund financed by a $10 surcharge on nursing licenses and disciplinary fines to support workforce data collection and analysis through a nonprofit partner, and House Bill 165, authorizing physician associates, occupational therapists, and APRNs to perform dry needling under training and practice standards set by the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline. All of the bills received supportive testimony, several members added their names as co-sponsors, and the committee adjourned after moving through the agenda.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 12th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • veteran service organizations by allowing them to petition the Gaming Commission for a declaratory statement
  • The Gaming Commission is required to issue such statement within 60 days, and that statement is binding
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government met with a quorum present and first took up confirmation votes for appointees on tabs 2 through 6, which were recommended favorably without public testimony. The committee then heard CS/SB 1474, which would direct DEP to stop issuing or reissuing permits for Class B biosolids land application when a wastewater treatment facility is reasonably accessible within 50 miles, and it was reported favorably. The committee also heard SB 1708, which removes a timing requirement for veterinarians licensed in good standing elsewhere to qualify for Florida licensure; it received support from Americans for Prosperity and the ASPCA and was reported favorably. Members then considered CS/SB 204 on illegal slot machine operations. An amendment was adopted that set the baseline penalty at a second-degree misdemeanor, elevated violations involving six or more machines or repeat offenses to a third-degree felony, and made violations by a person of authority involving six or more machines or multiple prior convictions a second-degree felony. Testimony supported the bill’s effort to target larger illegal operations while protecting veterans’ organizations and other lawful users from felony exposure; the bill as amended was reported favorably. The committee also adopted a strike-all for CS/SB 1294 addressing Class AA biosolids, requiring agronomic-rate application, recordkeeping, IFAS guidance, and application of fertilizer-related requirements to bulk land application products, with an effective date of November 1, 2026; it was reported favorably after limited questions about oversight and IFAS’s role. Later, CS/SB 772 was heard to allow portable electronics limited licensees to sell “iware” insurance and define that term, and it was reported favorably. CS/SB 1504 updated pre-licensure education for the 440 customer service representative license so a high school student completing a half-credit insurance and personal finance elective can apply upon turning 18; it received supportive testimony from industry groups and was reported favorably. Finally, the committee adopted a strike-all amendment to CS/SB 540 creating cybersecurity program requirements for mortgage and money service businesses, extending oversight to certain investment advisers, clarifying emergency suspension authority for anti-money laundering violations, extending payment deadlines for examination costs, and adjusting director experience requirements for financial institutions; the bill as amended was reported favorably. Senators McClain and Truenow requested to be recorded as voting in the affirmative on tabs 11 and 13, and the committee adjourned at the end of the agenda.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Health Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • So at what point will the patient be required to see a physician?
  • The patient will be referred back to the physician by the physical therapist if the physical Therapist
  • So in this scenario, if the pain had continued, would she have Seen the physician or continued therapy
  • structured and under what the physical therapist rules, he would have referred them back to the physician
  • They go 90 days before they have to go back and see a physician.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025 at 08:04 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • We also work closely with physicians.
  • I would say that we are a safe per physicians.
  • And like I said, I'm not a physician.
  • I'm not trained. to be a physician, so I can't speak just like, you know, a physician can't speak on
  • Sometimes they. already are gonna see their physician or maybe their physician actually recommended they
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 3rd, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of economic forms for your statement of economic forms for your statement of economic interest are due
  • done uh please get your statements done uh please get your statements done uh Alabama Department archive
  • that have been made on the statements that have been made on the statements that have been made on the
  • prior to their being able to statement prior to their being able to statement prior to their being able
  • when you met with class good statement when you met with class good statement when you met with class
Bills: HB 9, HB 22, HB 908, HB 1392
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 3rd, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We started with a statement about allowing Floridians to go out into the community and make a change.
  • False statements to the electorate about what they were signing the petition for.
Bills: HB 9, HB 22, HB 908, HB 1392
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 3rd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 4504 by Bonnen, ruling in the restrictions of the covenants not to compete for physicians and certain
  • Culture Recreation and Tourism HB4539 by Tronson relates to the dispensing of certain drugs by physicians
  • calculations of penalties for violating certain laws governing the prompt payments of claims submitted by a physician
  • by Harrison reviewing the requirements of certain complaints made against proceedings involving a physician
Bills: HB9, HB22, HB908, HB1392
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 9th, 2026 at 02:06 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Soules, Senate Bill 222, Physician Residency Programs. Physician residency programs.
  • We have a problem with physicians. This is a direct way to address that problem.
  • In the 90s, they thought we were going to have too many physicians.
  • This needs to be something that continues so that New Mexico has plenty of physicians.
  • Most of the other issues—this is not the only thing that's going to solve our physician thing.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2026-04-13

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill would introduce more prior authorization in Minnesota than the number one cause of physician
  • And again, I'm not a physician, so maybe we want to have a physician come back, but it's my understanding
  • ,<00:34:18.640> so care And again, I'm not a physician, so care And again, I'm not a physician
  • <00:34:20.159> come maybe we want to have a physician come maybe we want to have a physician
  • model under uh the physician model under uh the physician anesthesiologist.<01:40:36.720> And
Summary: The committee met at 1:00 p.m., confirmed a quorum, and approved the April 8, 2026 minutes. The first bill heard was House File 4712, which was laid over after the committee adopted a DE2 amendment. Representative Schultz said the bill would create a narrow additional exception to public pool limitations so highly certified swimming instructors could use certain pools for specialized infant, youth, and developmental-disability swim instruction. The only testifier, Tessa Seppelt, described ISR instruction as water-safety and drowning-prevention training for very young children and children with developmental delays, and said access to appropriate facilities is the main barrier. Members raised questions about emergency egress, public safety, and insurance coverage, and the author said he would follow up on those concerns. The committee then took up House File 4801, a bill by Representative Nadeau aimed at health care program integrity. He said it would align commercial and Medicaid partners to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse by changing prior authorization and retrospective review processes, improving data sharing on suspected fraud, addressing conflicting or duplicative services, allowing managed care organizations to verify provider credentials, and making risk corridors in MCO contracts permanent. The Minnesota Council of Health Plans supported the bill, saying it would help detect fraud and improve coordination, while the Minnesota chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics opposed it, arguing that expanded prior authorization would delay care, increase physician burden, and harm children with chronic conditions. Members debated patient safety, fraud detection, and whether the bill would undermine recent prior-authorization reforms. The bill was laid over. House File 3756, a technical update to the insulin safety net program, was also laid over. Representative Backer said the bill clarifies that a hospital-use intravenous insulin product is not part of the program because it is sold only to health care institutions and infused by practitioners, not dispensed to patients for self-use. The Board of Pharmacy testified that the language was drafted to avoid affecting future legitimate uses, and members asked whether the definition could limit new uses if treatments change. The committee then began House File 4860, but the transcript cuts off before the bill’s presentation is completed.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Health - Part 1 Feb 18th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • So on the ultrasound, are those read by a physician? The bill. Are you finished?
  • So on the ultrasound, are those read by a physician or just who reads the results of those ultrasounds
  • way that states that the ultrasound tech cannot be the one that interprets the results and that a physician
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • You're a physician on the bill. Yeah. I'm Zeke Silva.
  • It allows patients and physicians to address concerns together.
  • As Senator mentioned, we see a physician shortage.
  • , and I want physicians in Texas.
  • What was your statement about the 4,000 unmatched?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services REVISED Apr 13th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a family physician. I've worked in Skyiau since 1998. I own my own business.
  • At our last meeting, I think we approved, was it Cammi 10 or 1w2 osteopathic physicians who had shown
  • Can you help us understand maybe what we could do better here to try to get more physicians in rural
  • I likewise have a great desire to see excellent rural medicine performed from physicians, physician assistants
  • And obviously, physicians are in high demand these days.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Primarily for physicians who are employed, as opposed to physicians who own part of the practice?
  • Will people be able to follow the physician, or will they be disallowed from following the physician
  • assistant, or a physician.
  • call absentee physicians, where physicians will kind of lease out their licenses.
  • No physician is involved in that.