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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 10th, 2026 at 12:22 pm
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- corporation, has supported school-based health services for 25 years, and whereas school-based health
- The New Mexico school-based health clinics.
- The services determined to be held in the school-based health clinics are by the school boards.
- It is tasked with organizing and regulating youth athletics amongst high school and middle school sports
- She will attend law school and help people in her community.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:25:54.799><c> employees</c> for school employees for school employees at<00:25:57.120><c> a</
- </c><01:07:51.599><c> I</c><01:07:51.839><c> think</c> as well as for school employees.
- I think as well as for school employees.
- </c> plans offered to to school employees. plans offered to to school employees.
- on the marketplace, small businesses, nonprofits, and school districts pay every single month.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 33 (2-24-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> if they assault a school employee. if they assault a school employee.
- </c> by a school employee and the school by a school employee and the school board<00:08:54.640><c> in
- </c> against a school employee. Uh Mr. against a school employee. Uh Mr.
- </c> school employee. school employee.
- </c><00:43:09.520><c> systems,</c> school in one of our school systems, school in one of our school systems
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- This is statewide, all schools, public schools.
- :51.320><c> schools</c> Schools public schools Schools public schools I<01:54:53.520><c> mean</c><01:
- So how do we know which schools?
- </c> schools so how do we know which schools schools so how do we know which schools uh<01:56:01.079>
- </c> Purchase or are going to purchase.
Summary:
The joint Ways and Means and Health and Human Services committees heard Hawaii Health Systems Corporation’s biennium budget request, with testimony from HHSC leadership on the Hilo/Big Island region (HTH 212) and the Oahu region (HTH 215), plus discussion of capital improvement projects and systemwide partnerships. HHSC described its role as the rural healthcare safety net, serving a high share of Medicare, Medicaid/Quest, and uninsured patients, and said its costs are elevated by state employee fringe benefits, which it said are about 64% compared with roughly 30% in the private sector. HHSC also said pandemic-era federal aid, including relief funds and PPP loans totaling about $100 million, reduced the need for general fund support in prior years.
For HTH 212, HHSC said its general fund request for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 was higher than the governor’s recommendation because of rising insurance, pharmaceutical, and contractor labor costs, and because it includes $13.2 million in FY 2026 and $2.3 million in FY 2027 for Epic electronic medical record implementation in East Hawaii. For HTH 215, HHSC said the requested general funds were aligned with the governor’s recommendation, in part because of increased Medicaid reimbursement rates for long-term care facilities under prior legislation. HHSC also said it was restoring a special fund ceiling so the region could spend its cash collections on operations.
Members asked about the 64% fringe rate, and HHSC explained the difference was mainly due to defined-benefit pension and retiree health insurance costs, which private hospitals generally do not bear at the same level. Members also asked about the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home, and HHSC said operations would be funded through the general fund corporation for the home when it opens, with management by Ohana Pacific, but no additional legislative operating funds were being requested at that time. Other questions focused on staffing and vacancies, including an abolished procurement position and an ongoing IT help desk recruitment need.
HHSC highlighted several capital and partnership projects, including a $25 million state CIP request matched by $25 million from the Benioff family for the Benioff Health Center, an ER expansion and reconfiguration at Corner Community Hospital, and $7.5 million in each fiscal year for Kauai EMR capital funds to join the Epic platform. Testimony also described collaborations with Queen’s, the University of California San Francisco, Hawaii Pacific Health, the Hawaii Cancer Consortium, the Department of Health, and the state hospital to improve specialty access, clinical trials, behavioral health, and patient placement across the system.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I own A+ Driving School.
- I own A+ Driving School.
- The school<00:07:46.319><c> buses</c><00:07:46.800><c> handle</c> school buses handle school buses handle
- </c> school right in front of the school school right in front of the school because<00:09:11.519><c>
- </c> chairman of the Medford School Board. chairman of the Medford School Board.
Committee:
Senate Transportation
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- My oldest is in kindergarten with after-school care.
- </c> Our tools are not tools you can purchase Our tools are not tools you can purchase in<00:36:02.560
- This is a position learned any schools.
- There's some that have exempted school employees.
- </c> There's some that have exempted school There's some that have exempted school employees.<00:58:30.120
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WTL-HWN DEFER, WTL-PSM, WTL Public Hearings 02-03-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- value, how do we ensure that when our local people, our essential workers, do make the choice to purchase
- that it doesn't the choice to purchase that it doesn't continue<00:16:21.160><c> to</c><00:16:21.360
- Kamia schools? Is anyone from Kamia schools on Zoom? Not present on Zoom.
- Kamia schools? Is anyone from Kamia schools on Zoom? Not present on Zoom.
- </c> schools uh it anyone from Kamia schools schools uh it anyone from Kamia schools on<00:42:39.760>
Summary:
The committee first took up SB 534, a measure concerning development in Kakaʻako Makai involving the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The chairs explained that the hearing was decision-making only and no testimony would be accepted, though members could ask clarifying questions. The chair outlined amendments to clarify HCDA’s approval process, require an environmental impact statement before residential development proposals are submitted, require Department of Health documentation on hazardous substances, and specify that only OHA-owned parcels would be eligible for certain residential development with a 400-foot height limit and maximum floor area ratio of 10.0. The amendments also addressed affordability, owner-occupancy, association fees, and a special fund, while noting Attorney General concerns that the fee could be construed as a tax and suggesting further review by Judiciary and Ways and Means.
Members discussed the affordability threshold, with one senator suggesting 160% AMI instead of 140% due to high housing costs and concern that essential workers could be priced out. Others raised concerns about Native Hawaiian affordability, the long-term effect of perpetuity restrictions, and whether the process would protect OHA’s interests. An HCDA representative said 140% AMI was used in existing reserve housing rules and that lower thresholds could make development economically infeasible. OHA and other supporters said the proposal was still early in planning and emphasized the need for public hearings, community input, and compliance with environmental and remediation standards. The committees voted to pass SB 534 with amendments: Water and Land approved it 4-1, and Hawaiian Affairs also adopted the chair’s recommendation, with one member excused and one voting no.
The meeting then moved to SB 3, relating to water resource management. The bill would authorize the Commission on Water Resource Management to retain independent legal counsel, create an executive director position, allow challenges to emergency orders under certain conditions, establish fines for water use offenses, and revise emergency and shortage declaration procedures; Red Hill-related provisions were noted as removed from this version. Testimony was largely supportive, including from DLNR, the Board of Water Supply, OHA, and Sierra Club, with OHA stressing the measure’s importance to Native Hawaiian water rights and past litigation. A Department of Hawaiian Home Lands representative supported the bill with amendments and recommended explicit language directing the commission chair or designee to advocate for water rights and reservations for homelands. The chair indicated the committees would use the prior Senate-passed version as the basis for further action, and the discussion then moved on to SB 130, a search-and-rescue reimbursement bill.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- The houses are then purchased and they are demolished.
- Senate Bill 1285 creates a statewide policy that high school diplomas from any nonpublic school, so private
- But this is just set in parity that high school education is high school education that puts a strong
- And we all pay for those, whether you're in public school, private school, homeschool, charter schools
- Some of them are private school.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on Pension Policy Jul 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Select Committee on Pension Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The board's also been looking at starting to look at 457 plans and the purchase of additional annuity
- The board's also been looking at starting to look at 457 plans and the purchase of additional annuity
- previously, a while ago, heard about allowing tribes to join the tourist system through tribal compact schools
- increases—and those can serve different policy goals: protecting benefits from inflation and the purchasing
Committee:
Joint Select Committee on Pension Policy
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 2nd, 2026 at 08:43 am
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- We're seeing a decline in the enrollment in our local schools.
- Chair: Would this bill allow you to purchase land?
- So, any purchase, whether it's durable equipment, if it was an acquisition of land in conjunction with
- the construction of A facility, any asset purchased or constructed with any funds from here would be
Committee:
House House Taxation & Revenue
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 13th, 2026 at 01:31 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Specifically, in the LFC recommendation, there's A $100 million general fund appropriation for lands purchased
- We've purchased lapel cams. We are using lapel cams.
- This past year is we purchased a new APER program.
- I don't think I can pass the going to the school to the academy.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
November 18, 2025 - 10:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- on the side, we've got lodging, food service, health care of groceries, laundry, dry cleaners and schools
- investor owned utilities all over the United States batteries and a garage that people have either purchased
- , the beautiful bill this summer, right, batteries continue to be incentivized for homeowners to purchase
- We're incentivized to purchase where there are a tariffs, frankly, right?
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- There's guidance on procurement terms of purchasing property.
- The reality is that school enrollments are in steady decline.
- So these are things that this is a school choice bill.
- So these are things that this is a school choice bill.
- </c><01:39:38.000><c> choice</c> are things that this is a school choice are things that this is a school
Committee:
Senate Commerce
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota's only public medical school, the University of Minnesota Medical School, plays a vital role
- In part, they came because... school for long-term success one of the school for long-term success one
- </c><00:24:50.559><c> I</c> the rankings of the medical school I the rankings of the medical school I
- School rpap faculty design organize and School rpap faculty design organize and oversee<00:56:45.480>
- across</c> middle schools and high schools across middle schools and high schools across the<01:42:06.440
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- like to note that my stance is solely a reflection of my own beliefs and not of the organization or school
- like to note that my stance is solely a reflection of my own beliefs and not of the organization or school
- I'm expressing this testimony as my own and does not necessarily reflect the school.
- necessarily as my own and does not uh necessarily reflect<00:02:57.920><c> the</c><00:02:58.280><c> school
- maximum deduction is $7,000, so if it was a Roth IRA and can be used for a first home buyer for a purchase
Committee:
Senate Housing
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Housing heard three bills. HB 1428 would appropriate funds for HHFC to distribute to HUD-certified housing counseling agencies and require a report to the Legislature. Testimony was uniformly supportive, including HHFC, the County of Hawaii Office of Housing and Community Development, and individual testifiers who said housing counseling, financial education, and one-on-one guidance can help keep residents housed. In response to a question, HHFC said there are five certified agencies in the state and requested $1.5 million for one year, noting uncertainty around federal funding. The chair recommended passage with amendments, and the committee adopted the recommendation unanimously.
HB 833 would create a five-year Community Land Trust Equity pilot program through HHFC, using Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund money to provide lines of credit for acquisition, rehabilitation, renovation, or construction of housing for certain households. Multiple organizations and individuals testified in support. HHFC said the needed funding depends on the size of the pilot and estimated that 50 homes at $500,000 each would require about $25 million; members discussed how the funds would revolve as loans are repaid. The chair recommended passage with amendments, including replacing the income restriction with qualified residents under HRS 20-32 and prioritizing applications requiring the lowest funds per unit per year. The recommendation was adopted.
HB 286 would increase the maximum annual deduction and account limits for Individual Housing Accounts. The Department of Taxation testified, with support also noted from the Maui Chamber of Commerce and several individuals, and one individual in opposition. In response to questions, DOTAX said the change would likely have limited impact because fewer than 100 IHAs have been reported and suggested the deduction would need to be above the Roth IRA limit to matter. The chair recommended passage with technical amendments and reported the proposed limits as $10,000 for single filers and $20,000 for married filing jointly. The committee adopted the recommendation, and the hearing adjourned.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force (6-4-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- this, this, and this, and well, purchase this, this, and this, and well, to<00:16:20.240><c> get</c>
- Bale and Donine about the Bale-Donine method was many of our doctors do not go through medical school
- </c> narrowing what's available in schools narrowing what's available in schools and<00:26:26.320><c>
- So it can be that, um, it can also be, um, you know, I think about kids in school.
- </c><00:58:56.480><c> of</c> Kentucky and with our uh schools of Kentucky and with our uh schools of
Summary:
The Make America Healthy Again task force held its first meeting to set interim priorities rather than take formal action. Co-chairs and members said the group’s goal is to identify practical policy ideas to improve Kentucky’s poor health outcomes, with an emphasis on prevention, and to gather input from members and outside stakeholders. Roll was called, several members were present, and the co-chairs noted the meeting would be limited in length and would not include a lunch break.
Members identified a wide range of possible focus areas, including childhood and adult obesity, nutrition in schools, food deserts, agriculture and support for local farms, health responsibility, physical activity, mental health, and provider education on nutrition. Several speakers stressed that Kentucky’s health care costs are rising unsustainably and that prevention is cheaper than treatment. Others emphasized that the task force should work with agencies, hospitals, universities, and experts, and should narrow its work to a few actionable areas rather than “chase every rabbit.”
There was also discussion of food as medicine, improving the quality of food in schools and hospitals, and making healthier choices more accessible and affordable. Members referenced conversations already underway with industries, the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Hospital Association, and agricultural leaders. No votes or formal motions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided; the main action was the exchange of priorities and direction for future task force work.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- The New Mexico school-based health clinics.
- The services determined to be held in the school-based health clinics are by the school boards.
- It's tasked with organizing and regulating youth athletics amongst high school and middle school sports
- middle schools participating in over 30,000 student athletes.
- She will attend law school and help people in her community.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, prayer, pledges, and a series of announcements recognizing visiting groups and guests, including Pecos High School’s boys cross-country champions, School-Based Health Care Day, Route 66 Centennial activities, New Mexico Highlands University, an honorary lieutenant governor and shadow senator, and Bernalillo County officials. The chamber also received House messages on several bills and a gubernatorial message authorizing consideration of Senate Bill 130, which would change insurance and pharmacy rules related to cholesterol treatment and screening.
Committee reports were adopted on several measures, including Senate Bill 183, Senate Bills 211 and 222, Senate Bill 254, Senate Bill 235 as a committee substitute, Senate Bill 40 as a Judiciary Committee substitute, and Senate Bill 104. The Senate then moved to third reading and took up Senate Bill 30, which repeals the state’s abortion reporting requirement. The bill drew extensive debate: supporters argued the reporting law is outdated, unnecessary, and creates privacy and safety risks for providers, while opponents said the data is needed for transparency, public health oversight, and accountability, and objected to the loss of reporting on a sensitive issue. After a roll call vote, Senate Bill 30 passed 24-15.
The Senate next passed Senate Bill 43 unanimously, updating parole board procedures, including evidence-based practices, reimbursement for closed hearings, and scheduling protections for homicide victims’ families. It also passed Senate Finance Committee substitute for Senate Bill 35 unanimously, creating judgeships in the First and Second Judicial Districts. Debate then began on Senate Bill 193, which would increase transfers from the Irrigation Works Construction Fund to the acequia community ditch infrastructure fund from $2.5 million to $5 million; the sponsor explained the increase as necessary to meet growing statewide acequia needs, while senators raised concerns about existing fund balances and whether the higher transfer was justified.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee May 28th, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- On the public schools thing, as Charles said, some of that money goes straight to the to the um schools
- Um, against, school meals, the state receives about $200 million in reimbursement for school meals.
- One was Silver Schools.
- that was using these funds to support a number of school districts with these school-based health initiatives
- Now the question is, are the local school districts.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Um in Keen, went to Keen High School.
- About 10,000 were in our early college programs, high school students, whether in their high schools,
- students, whether in their high school students, whether in their high<01:17:29.040><c> schools,</c>
- </c> high schools, online or on our campuses. high schools, online or on our campuses.
- </c><01:34:50.080><c> algebra</c> you haven't been in high school algebra you haven't been in high school
Committee:
Senate Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> the</c><00:10:28.720><c> real</c> Private equity may purchase the real Private equity may purchase
- We have been recruiting young girls from public schools, child care schools, to build their self-esteem
- They're purchasing illegal drugs. We're seeing increases in suicidal ideation and suicide.
- They're purchasing illegal trafficked.
- I have a bill with Representative Nadau on cell phones in schools.
Committee:
House Health Finance and Policy
Keywords:
health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration, horizontal consolidation, vertical consolidation, health care ownership, corporate practice, health care regulation