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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
FULL INTERVIEW: Investing in Education by Modernizing School Funding | Senator Mary Kunesh May 8th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- to be generated that is going to look at how school districts are using their dollars for health insurance
- It's a report that will help us understand better how schools are using their dollars to pay for insurance
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Am I in front of insurance next week? Do I have to go? Am I in front of insurance next week?
Bills:
SB8 , SB10 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB14 , SB16 , SB17 , SB18 , SB20 , SB21 , SB22 , SB416 , SB455 , SB456 , SB477
Committee:
House Retirement
Keywords:
Municipal Employees' Retirement System, Louisiana, participation, employer, retirement, SB 10, Act 222, Louisiana State Police Retirement System, state police retirement, retirement system funding, employer contributions, actuarial gains, amortization, Permanent Benefit Increase, PBI account, benefit increase reserve, supplemental permanent benefit increase, public retirement systems, state pension, pension funding
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- President, your Committee on Finance, having under consideration House Bill 2693, relating to insured
- Having under consideration House Bill 2693, relating to insured modified balance of qualifications, recommends
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved the journal, and recognized several guests and community groups, including Central Arizona Aging and visitors connected to the Santa Rosa Barrio/Washington Park community. Senator Bravo read a proclamation honoring the legacy of the Santa Rosa Barrio and celebrating the Washington Park community in Phoenix, recognizing its cultural history, labor heritage, military service, and the unveiling of a commemorative mural. The chamber also received introductions of other guests, including Ken Berger and John Elvis Taska.
The body then moved through Committee of the Whole calendars. On the first calendar, the Senate considered and advanced House Bills 2050, 2176, 2189, 2195, and 2584, all receiving do-pass recommendations, with amendments adopted on HB 2050, HB 2176, HB 2189, and HB 2195. The discussion on these bills centered on health care and licensing issues, including radiologic technologies, health care institutions, licensed health aide rules, nursing facility records/timelines, and public money-related provisions. Several amendments were described as stakeholder-requested or clarifying supervision, timelines, or related requirements.
On the second and third calendars, the Senate advanced additional measures including HB 2003, HB 2006, HB 2226, HB 2378, HB 2693, and HCM 2007, along with HB 2013, HB 2031, HB 2102, HB 213, HB 2117, HB 2262, and HB 2278. Topics included driver license destruction permits, elections and sample ballots/mail-in dates, arrest/processing and veteran status, school facilities oversight, accountable health plans, air pollution control and wildfire-related waivers, water rights and water improvement districts, natural resource conservation, geological survey matters, and a memorial urging a geographic name change for State Route 16. HB 2029 was retained on the calendar. The Senate adopted the Committee of the Whole reports and properly assigned the bills, then adjourned until Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- I have is, you know, my understanding is that this is likely to kick about 40,000 people off of insurance
- If the parent cannot, they still can't afford medical insurance.
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services REVISED Mar 2nd, 2026
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We anticipate insurance reimbursing for this activity, which is why it does have a fiscal impact for
- Insurance companies and taxpayer-funded health care plans are not required to cover the cost of these
Bills:
SB1328 , SB1380 , SB1436 , SB1558 , SB1572 , SB1651 , SB1805 , SB1831 , SB1836 , SB2014 , SB2023 , SB2044 , SB2179 , SB933
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
Summary:
The Health and Human Services Committee met to consider a series of Senate bills, beginning with SB 2014, which would allow ivermectin to be sold over the counter with FDA approval. After questions about whether a prescription would still be required and how FDA guidance would affect the law, the bill passed 9-3. SB 1805, as amended, barred detention and youth facilities from using temporary agencies or contracting organizations for staffing; the author said the change was intended to address transparency and records issues in a related lawsuit. That bill passed 12-0. SB 2044, also amended, clarified chiropractic-related language regarding serum and multiple vitamins; members discussed whether the bill changed scope of practice, and it passed 10-2.
The committee then approved SB 1836, which requires a board-approved mental health screener during routine annual primary care visits. The author said it was meant to normalize mental health screening and noted an updated fiscal impact estimate of $284,000 to $560,000; some members raised concerns about mandates and cost, but the bill passed 8-4. SB 1380 would require the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to verify Medicaid eligibility against death records and conduct monthly death-record checks for enrollees; after questions about current practice, costs, and recoupment from deceased enrollees, the author requested title be stricken, and the bill passed 10-2. SB 2179, dealing with not-guilty-by-reason-of-mental-illness cases, adds staff accompaniment for therapeutic visits, requires structured violence-risk assessments before discharge or conditional release, and adds drug screening when substance-use monitoring is ordered; Department of Mental Health staff testified about treatment planning and monitoring, and the bill passed 11-1.
Later, the committee passed SB 1436, which requires families to be informed of their right to certification after fetal death or miscarriage, and SB 1558, which clarifies that older youth in OJA custody may be placed in Level E group homes. SB 933, the “Right to Try for Individualized Treatment Act,” passed 11-0 and would allow certain terminally ill patients to seek individualized investigational treatments after informed consent. SB 1651, an Oklahoma Medical Board cleanup bill covering several licensed professions, also passed 11-0. Finally, SB 1328 modernizes parental access to minor medical records with safeguards for abuse situations, and SB 1572 removes the DHS and OJA directors from the OCCY board; both passed 11-0. The committee adjourned after noting a possible interim meeting for a Tier 1 nomination.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services 2ND REVISED Feb 16th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Outside of that, it would fall under your private insurance. Thank you.
- Do we have an idea of the fiscal potential cost on private health insurance or Medicaid with any of these
Bills:
SB1421 , SB1427 , SB1484 , SB1503 , SB1553 , SB1557 , SB1564 , SB1566 , SB1567 , SB1591 , SB1642 , SB1794 , SB1837 , SB2044
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
Keywords:
mental health, nonphysical intervention, training, youth care, conflict resolution, staff training, pediatric screenings, type 1 diabetes, health care providers, parental consent, reimbursement, state funding, public health, medicolegal investigation, medical examiner, coroner, sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, sudden unexpected infant death, SUID
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- system, the counties had the capital crimes defense fund, which was almost a little bit like a self-insurance
- They would all kick in money to that capital crime... ...which was almost a little bit like a self-insurance
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- We can't get good health insurance. The families that depend on us ain't done nothing wrong.
- We can't get good health insurance. The families that depend on us ain't done nothing wrong.
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Tourism
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget REVISED: Time changed to 2:30 p.m. for Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
Appropriations and Budget
Transcript Highlights:
- Ongoing business budget pressures, such as rising insurance costs and inflation, and shifting business
- instructional and operational costs at our colleges and universities, including faculty salaries, insurance
Committee:
House Appropriations and Budget
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- There's some tweaks in the temporary rules that we're going to have to adjust for the Department of Insurance
- But the 76 pages of pending Insurance to make sure that things don't lapse.
Committee:
House Business
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee Jan 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- As you said, we right now pay for both wildfire insurance really and through our costs through the utility
- And I say that as chair of the Insurance Committee, as we know, that it's become quite the issue.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications heard two bills. SB 742 by Senator Perez, the Wildfire and Emergency Management Act, would require investor-owned utilities to inventory and remove permanently abandoned or decommissioned transmission lines, update CPUC General Order 95, and participate more directly in emergency operations centers. The bill was presented as a response to the Eaton Fire and concerns that an unused transmission line may have contributed to the ignition. Supporters, including TURN and a utility wildfire survivor coalition representative, argued that abandoned lines are a serious wildfire risk and that utilities should be required to create removal plans and timelines. Senators raised questions about implementation, CPUC oversight, and ratepayer impacts, but the author and supporters said the bill is designed to reduce future fire and litigation costs. The committee adopted amendments and voted 12-0 to pass SB 742 as amended to Senate Appropriations, holding the roll open briefly before closing it.
The committee also heard SB 327 by Senator McNerney, which would bar investor-owned utilities from using ratepayer funds to oppose municipal utility formation or expansion and would clarify the Public Advocates Office’s authority to inspect utility books and accounts. TURN and California Environmental Voters supported the bill, saying ratepayer money should not be used for political lobbying and that the Public Advocates Office needs clear statutory authority to investigate misuse of funds. PG&E and SDG&E/Southern California Gas opposed the bill unless amended, saying some of the cited lobbying costs were not recovered from ratepayers, that the bill could blur the roles of the CPUC and the Public Advocates Office, and that due process concerns remain. After discussion about clarity and amendments, the committee voted 10-3 to pass SB 327 as amended to Senate Appropriations, and the hearing adjourned.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 12 January, 2026; 4:00 PM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- To be qualified, this person has to be eligible for TRICARE, which is their health care insurance.
- This person is not insured by another employer, and this person is an actively drilling member of the
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- out HB2563 by Representative Ashby, relating to the establishment of the temporary certified and insured
- prescribed burn manager self-insurance pool, authorizing a fee in lieu...
Committee:
Senate Natural Resources
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- jurisdiction over a non-custodial parent, that judge may order the non-custodial parent to provide health insurance
- So, if you were ordered to provide insurance and you did not, and then the child ended up in the hospital
Committee:
House Judiciary
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Transportation and Public Works Jan 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Contractor risk or insurance company, and they can be paid that way.
- It essentially is an Impact to the state's risk liability insurance, and so that's how it's covered.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- :53.920><c> organization</c> insurance and dental plan organization insurance and dental plan organization
- pay to an insurance producer that issues an insurance policy on behalf of the fund from 10% of the total
- pay to an insurance producer that issues an insurance policy on behalf of the fund from 10% of the total
- It is identical to insurance producer.
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - Part 1 - 03/19/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- No-fault insurance generally is limited at $20,000. That's the max you're going to get.
- against insurance companies when it comes to these kinds of provisions.
- I know there's a lot of frustration with insurance companies, both property casualty and health.
- against insurance companies when it comes to these kinds of provisions.
- insurance companies when it comes to these kinds of provisions.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
FIN Info Briefing - Thu Jan 8, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- insurance division uh program<04:18:58.399><c> operations.
- And so we can’t do that with regular unemployment insurance positions.
- </c><04:43:13.760><c> And</c><04:43:14.000><c> so</c> unemployment insurance positions.
- And so unemployment insurance positions.
- So that's the reason for the vacancies in unemployment insurance.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Committee of Conference on HB 1, HB 2 (06/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- for you have private insurance.
- by the government, but it's an insurance program to treat it like an insurance program.
- </c><07:41:55.520><c> coverage</c> Bill 120 relative to insurance coverage Bill 120 relative to insurance
- But it it was insurance mandates Right.
- </c><07:45:48.718><c> mandates</c> Uh yes, there are insurance mandates Uh yes, there are insurance mandates
Summary:
The committee of conference for HB 1 and HB 2 reviewed the side-by-side budget comparison and began working through agreed and disputed items. Members first confirmed that grayed-out items were already settled and discussed a process for making later technical and intent changes, especially to true up abolished positions after additional decisions were made. They then moved through several budget sections, including judicial branch reductions, retirement systems, the Department of Justice, the Human Rights Commission, liquor enforcement, corrections, and the Department of Information Technology.
Several items were agreed to or treated as settled package items, including the judicial branch position, the Department of Justice reduction, the Human Rights Commission item being held until related HB 2 language is finalized, the Housing Appeals Board being moved into the Board of Tax and Land Appeals, and the Office of Child Advocate. The committee also agreed to update the House bill language as needed based on HB 2 decisions, and to keep certain IT support rows in place unless related boards and commissions are eliminated. The effective date remained July 1, 2025, with no change.
The main unresolved discussion centered on the retirement systems budget, where the Senate defended a large increase for deferred IT security and investment-function improvements, while the House argued the increase was too large and favored a back-of-the-budget cut. The Senate said the funds would support strategic IT and investment changes and would remain in the trust if cut, while the House emphasized the size of the increase and suggested a compromise. The committee ultimately retained the Senate position on retirement systems for the moment and said it would return to the issue later.
On corrections and liquor enforcement, the committee described a negotiated back-of-the-budget cut structure, including a $10 million cut for corrections with some restoration of POS offices and administrative aides, and a liquor enforcement cut that was treated as part of a broader package. The Department of Safety item related to commercial enforcement and motor vehicle inspections was held for later discussion. The meeting ended with several items agreed, several held for coordination with HB 2, and some major budget questions still open.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee Jun 30th, 2026
Water, Parks, and Wildlife
Transcript Highlights:
- They are not being compensated through insurance, and we need to have a system for that.”
- “They are not being compensated through insurance, and we need to have a system for that.
- They really do save both the people and the cars, which will in turn hopefully keep our insurance lower
- They really do save both the people and the cars, which will in turn, hopefully, keep our insurance lower
Committee:
House Water, Parks, and Wildlife