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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Mar 9th, 2026
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- about investing in child care, certainly with the support of the legislature.
- They both sow their oats and they figure out that they want to move in a different direction.
- access to early education and care.
- You've shown, I think, considerable care for public housing authorities throughout the state.
- Take care. All right. All right.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Roadmap to Program Integrity and Fraud Prevention 3/9/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> legislative branches, managed care legislative branches, managed care organizations,<00:03:07.599
- I offered um specific direction to them?
- I I'm not sure if enforcement direction.
- </c> person is not acting under my direction. person is not acting under my direction.
- Everybody deacon, a nun, I don't care.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 4/7/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> un unemployment aid, provided direct un unemployment aid, provided direct payments<00:04:49.919>
- The um Department of Human care sector.
- ,</c> on for were facing eviction, child care, on for were facing eviction, child care, my<00:42:14.800
- </c> And then she worked in long-term care. And then she worked in long-term care.
- </c> they'll and then they'll try to direct they'll and then they'll try to direct the<01:20:41.520><
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the direction that the industry is going.
- and prevent more expensive emergency-type care.
- in the foster care system.
- When they meet that level of care, to be clear, just because you meet the level of care does not mean
- We were denied necessary medical care.
Summary:
The committee first introduced RS 33403, a follow-on to prior podiatry legislation that would merge podiatry medical practice oversight with the Board of Medicine and move certain rules into statute. The motion to introduce passed without objection. The committee then heard House Bill 713, which would ban copay accumulator policies so third-party copay assistance counts toward a patient’s deductible and out-of-pocket maximum. The sponsors and supporters argued the bill helps patients with expensive chronic conditions, while opponents from Idaho health plans and some members raised concerns about higher premiums, market interference, and possible conflict with Idaho’s anti-kickback law. After testimony from patients and advocates, the committee rejected the bill on a roll call vote, 7 ayes and 8 nays, and held it in committee.
The committee next took up House Bill 655 and RS 33527, a pilot program aimed at reducing prior authorization burdens for certain Medicaid providers who precept medical students, with the goal of encouraging more rural training and future practice in Idaho. The bill would apply only to Medicaid, cap participation, and include family practice, psychiatry, OB-GYN, and later advanced practice providers and physician assistants. After discussion about the pilot structure and administrative burden, the committee voted to hold HB 655 in committee but then approved RS 33527 for introduction and sent it to the second reading calendar.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 723 on children’s residential facilities. The bill adds quality-of-care oversight, annual unannounced inspections, resident and staff interviews, a youth bill of rights, and critical incident reporting requirements, all intended to address problems identified in an OPE report and testimony about abuse and lack of oversight in facilities. Supporters described serious harm to children and the need for clearer rights and reporting mechanisms; the sponsor said the bill uses existing systems to avoid new costs. The committee passed HB 723 to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (04/15/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:58:53.200><c> of</c> into their house uh and taking care of into their house uh and taking care
- </c> all need to take care of one another. all need to take care of one another.
- She told me the general direction. She actually sent my wife in the opposite direction.
- </c><01:23:17.360><c> She</c> told me the general direction. She told me the general direction.
- I went in one direction, she direction.
Summary:
The committee first heard Senate Bill 302, which would update New Hampshire’s solid waste facility background-check law so the state can continue to access federal FBI criminal databases for checks on key owners and officers. Senator Howard Pearl and DES Waste Management Director Mike Whimsatt said the bill is the third attempt to correct prior drafting problems that prevented the FBI from accepting the language. They explained that the existing statute has long required background checks for hazardous and solid waste facility applicants because of concerns about organized crime, but the current wording is too ambiguous for federal use. The bill also includes technical corrections, clarifies which company officers must be checked, specifies which DES officials receive the results, and removes the Department of Justice as an unnecessary middleman. Committee members asked about the purpose of the bill, whether family members are covered, who pays the cost, and whether permits have ever been denied; Whimsatt said the applicant still pays, the checks focus on key officers, and at least one permit had been denied in the past due to a felony conviction. The hearing then closed, with one person listed in favor on the blue sheet and no opposition noted online.
The committee then opened Senate Bill 229, which would allow retailers to sell uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat and remove the sunset on the existing program. Senator Pearl said the bill would expand market opportunities for farmers while keeping labeling and traceability requirements in place, including identifying the meat as uninspected and maintaining records of the source farms. Representative Bixby, who had worked on earlier legislation, explained the current framework in detail: the animals are raised on closed farms, must be fenced, cannot be newly imported, and are subject to annual veterinary herd inspections and recordkeeping. He said the prior bison inspection regime was too burdensome for farmers to maintain, and the current law was intended as a workable compromise. Questions from members focused on how many farms participate, how many animals have been sold, and whether the program posed disease risks; the witness said he did not know the exact numbers, and Bixby said the existing import and fencing rules help prevent chronic wasting disease from entering the state. No vote was taken during the hearing, and the bill was left before the committee for further consideration.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-06-02 (9:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In all your ways, acknowledge him, and he shall direct your path.
- They deserve careful review. They deserve reform where reform is needed.
- They deserve careful review. They deserve reform where reform is needed.
- They will receive no direct benefit from this proposal.
- It's a direct quote from their debate. And we ought to do it, right?
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- I care a lot about the future of our state.
- It's not that they don't care.
- It's not that they don't care.
- And part of what we loved so much and still do about our hometown is the care, the great care, And deliberation
- I could care less about Kansas City, Missouri at this point.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the grandparent or it's the kinship that's taking care of that child.
- </c><00:07:40.560><c> So,</c> taking care of that child. So, taking care of that child.
- Directed Trust Act.
- The other directed trust, electronic wills, those things have all been adopted.
- The other directed trust, electronic wills, those things have all been adopted.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Education Feb 19th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We also encourage careful consideration of how financial conditions are monitored.
- We are in this work because we care about students, ...have what they need to be successful.
- with OSPI, we have some direction here for ESDs.
- The current bill directed OSPI, if there was, I believe that. That a little bit makes sense, right?
- The 2023 legislation also directed OSPI to ensure that the universal platform will permit transition
Summary:
The House Education Committee heard several bills focused on school district operations, student access, and special education. Substitute Senate Bill 6222 would allow school districts and educational service districts to sell or grant surplus technology hardware, such as laptops and tablets, directly to public school students, with priority for low-income students and documentation of the transfer. Testimony from the sponsor, district staff, and advocates emphasized helping students keep familiar devices, reducing waste, and extending the public investment in technology. The committee also heard Second Substitute Senate Bill 5969, which would better integrate IEP transition plans with the statewide online IEP system and the universal high school and beyond plan platform to reduce duplication; staff noted a fiscal note had been requested, and there were no public testifiers on the bill.
The committee spent substantial time on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6247, a school district financial management bill. The bill would require additional ESD oversight and support for districts showing signs of financial distress, create mandatory school director training on funding and finance, strengthen penalties for knowing violations of budget expenditure limits, and require disclosure authorizations before hiring certain budget or accounting personnel. Senator Dozier said the bill was prompted by district financial problems, declining enrollment, failed levies, and reserve fund declines. ESD, WSSDA, WASA, WOSBO, and OSPI testified in support overall, though some witnesses raised concerns about mandatory training, funding for implementation, and whether training should extend beyond school directors. Committee members asked about the bill’s scope, the undefined term “significantly,” the $750,000 reimbursement cap, and how it compared with House Bill 2593.
The committee also heard Substitute Senate Bill 622, which would exempt school districts and ESDs from certain surplus-property notice requirements when selling or granting surplus technology hardware to students at depreciated cost or no cost to low-income students. Senator Hunt said the bill came from constituent concerns about unused laptops and tablets and would help students transition to work, college, or technical school. Zero Waste Washington and an Issaquah School District official supported the measure, citing environmental benefits and practical student access to technology. The committee closed public hearings on the bills, noted sign-in counts for pro and con positions, and announced amendment deadlines and upcoming executive sessions.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Attorney General, I hate to interrupt, but I did want to take care of one quick housekeeping item.
- you know numbers, but I don't even know if we've actually had a direct complaint in our office.
- you know numbers, but I don't even know if we've actually had a direct complaint in our office.
- you know numbers, but I don't even know if we've actually had a direct complaint in our office.
- we're very careful sometimes we'll hire we're very careful sometimes we'll hire a<01:01:42.200><c> third
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- c><00:31:43.039><c> the</c> programs like Minnesota Care, the programs like Minnesota Care, the childcare
- </c><00:32:19.440><c> So</c> assistance and Minnesota care. So assistance and Minnesota care.
- support for child care providers and workers.
- And fund our MA Minnesota Care programs.
- provider taxes and directed payments.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:03:40.319><c> I</c><00:03:40.480><c> hope</c><00:03:40.640><c> that</c> this change in direction
- I hope that this change in direction.
- Final reading of Senate Bill 1438, House Draft 1, relating to home care agencies.
- </c><00:12:43.200><c> System</c><00:12:43.519><c> from</c> Oahu Regional Health Care System from Oahu
- </c> draft 1, relating to home care agencies. draft 1, relating to home care agencies.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- So I'll start off going out from this direction.
- So I'll start off going out from this direction.
- and they say no one actually cares about you being gay. They care about Israel bombing you.
- However, HB 2061 is a step in the wrong direction.
- And honestly, I don't care about how it affects them.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture (11-6-25)
Transcript Highlights:
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- health care system today.
- </c> healthy fresh food, postpatient care healthy fresh food, postpatient care with<00:57:44.640><c>
- </c> takes for that after care of a patient. takes for that after care of a patient.
- </c> really kind of outline the direction really kind of outline the direction that<01:08:55.520><c>
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:01:00
Approval of Minutes 00:02:31
Kentucky Farm Bureau 00:02:42
Kentucky Department of Agriculture 00:28:18
Kentucky Cattlemen's Association 01:48:13, 958, all
Summary:
The committee heard first from Kentucky Farm Bureau leaders, who outlined the organization’s current priorities and recent work on farmland transition. Eddie Melton said Farm Bureau is working through 983 county and advisory committee resolutions and highlighted support for the updated selling farmer tax credit, now law through House Bill 775, as well as Senate Bill 28’s agriculture economic development provisions. He said Farm Bureau’s likely priorities include maintaining the 50% share of the tobacco settlement fund for agriculture, protecting funding for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, preserving sales tax exemptions on farm inputs, keeping property taxes controlled, and exploring additional tools to keep farmland in active farmers’ hands, including possible loan or inheritance-tax changes. He also raised concerns about eminent domain transparency, nuisance deer permits, and access to agricultural inputs and crop protection products.
Alita Bots described the farmland transition initiative in more detail, saying the revised state tax credit is generating strong interest and that a new federal tax provision now allows eligible land sales to actively engaged farmers to spread capital gains taxes over time. She said the initiative has reached 22 counties and more than 1,300 people this year through outreach and meetings, and that Farm Bureau is pairing policy work with resources to help farm families plan transitions and prepare wills and other estate documents. Drew Graham added that the effort is also meant to bridge the rural-urban divide and support rural communities, and Farm Bureau invited members to its annual meeting in early December.
Members asked about rising insurance costs and deer damage. Farm Bureau representatives said severe convective storms, inflation, and higher repair and material costs have driven insurance rate increases, citing five major storm events since 2021 and a recent Owensboro hailstorm that caused about $350 million in losses; they said the company is moving toward percentage deductibles to help moderate increases. On deer, they said crop-loss totals are hard to quantify but acknowledged the problem and discussed possible coordination with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Hunters for the Hungry. Commissioner Jonathan Shell then began the Department of Agriculture presentation, reporting gains from the department’s school agriculture outreach program, including a 23% increase in county participation between March and September and improved teacher-reported student learning, before continuing into the department’s legislative priorities.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Higher Education and Workforce Development Feb 17th, 2026
Higher Education and Workforce Development
Transcript Highlights:
- The Community Service Commission was established in 1994 as a direct response to the National and Community
- The Community Service Commission would greatly benefit from having more direct access to these resources
- Be careful here, Representative. I agree. go to the witness section of the hearing.
- volunteer program offers great opportunities for the state and then helping us to connect them and direct
- Be careful here, representative. I agree. “Be careful here, Representative.” “I agree.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Local Government Committee Jul 16th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Just leave the cart, let the city take care of it.
- I care deeply about neighborhoods and local government.
- I definitely directed money. We had what was called divide-by-nine money.
- Money can be directed to great programs.
- We don't get to direct dollars. And we have extensive training.
Summary:
The committee first heard SB 753, which would modernize California’s shopping cart recovery rules by allowing cities and counties to return abandoned carts directly to retailers, recover documented retrieval costs, and avoid the current impound-and-wait process. The author and supporters, including San Jose officials and the League of California Cities, said the bill would help clear streets, sidewalks, and waterways and reduce local costs. Grocers and retailers opposed the measure unless amended, arguing it would turn cart retrieval into a new cost burden and could create incentives for cities to charge too much for stolen property. After extensive discussion about notice periods, cost caps, and local ordinances, the committee adopted amendments and passed the bill 6-0 as amended.
The committee then took up SB 445, which would speed up permitting and approvals needed for high-speed rail by requiring early engagement, setting rules for third-party coordination, and creating a dispute-resolution process. The author said the bill was narrowed from an earlier, broader transit proposal and was intended to reduce delays caused by utilities, local governments, and other entities. Supporters said permitting bottlenecks add major costs and delays to infrastructure projects, while opponents from utilities, cities, counties, telecoms, and special districts raised concerns about safety, reliability, affordability, and the need to review the pending amendments. The bill passed 8-1 to the Utilities and Energy Committee.
The committee also heard SB 9, a narrower housing bill focused on accessory dwelling units. The author explained that it would require local ADU ordinances to be submitted to HCD for review and would make state standards control if a local agency fails to submit a compliant ordinance or respond to HCD findings. Supporters from housing and YIMBY groups said the bill would improve enforcement of state ADU law and prevent local barriers from slowing housing production. There was no opposition, and the bill passed 6-0. The committee then began hearing SB 79, which would allow more housing near major transit stops; the author and supporters framed it as a response to the housing shortage and transit underuse, and the hearing continued with extensive support testimony as the transcript ended.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- They provide comprehensive health care, including confidential reproductive health care, to students
- who would otherwise face significant barriers to accessing care.
- SB 608 pushes the opposite direction by normalizing early sexual activity.
- This is a step in the right direction. This is not the end-all to teen pregnancies.
- Should be fostered and this bill moves the needle in the right direction.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans
Transcript Highlights:
- It applies the bill's protections for minors to AI companion chatbots that are directed to minors.
- A victim is defined as an individual who has suffered direct physical, emotional, or pecuniary harm as
- does provide victims that additional level of trauma care that you may be referencing.
- And so the trauma care would be embedded in that. Thank you very much. Appreciate that.
- And all of that is necessary to move us in the direction and to ensure justice.
Keywords:
fire services, reimbursement, state agencies, local jurisdictions, mobilization plan, military justice, victims' rights, militia, Washington code, legal protections, artificial intelligence, AI regulation, algorithmic discrimination, high-risk AI, machine learning, generative AI, synthetic content, impact assessment, risk management policy, consumer protection
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans Jan 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It applies the bill's protections for minors to AI companion chatbots that are directed to minors.
- A victim is defined as an individual who has suffered direct physical, emotional, or pecuniary harm as
- does provide victims that additional level of trauma care that you may be referencing.
- And so the trauma care would be embedded in that. Thank you very much. Appreciate that.
- And all of that is necessary to move us in the direction and to ensure justice.
Summary:
The committee first met in executive session on several technology and economic development bills. Staff briefed proposed substitutes and amendments for House Bill 2157 on high-risk AI, House Bill 2225 on AI companion chatbots, House Bill 2351 on emergency responder protections, and House Bill 2186 on federal fund acquisition for economic development. Members discussed the competing approaches in the two proposed substitutes for HB 2225, including enforcement, disclosures, minor protections, and crisis-response requirements. The committee then voted to adopt the proposed substitute for HB 2225 and report it out with a due pass recommendation, with a 7-3 vote and three excused. It also passed HB 2186 out of committee with a unanimous due pass recommendation after discussion about reducing fiscal impact.
The committee then held a public hearing on House Bill 2397, which would require timely reimbursement within 60 days for state agencies and local jurisdictions mobilized under the Washington State Fire Services mobilization plan. Fire officials and fire finance staff testified in support, describing reimbursement delays of six to ten months that strain local budgets and can discourage participation in wildfire deployments. Testifiers said the bill would improve cash flow and staffing stability, while also noting the need for technical clarification on when the 60-day clock starts and possible staffing needs at the State Patrol. No one testified in opposition.
The final public hearing was on House Bill 2417, which would add victim-rights protections to the Washington Code of Military Justice, aligning state military justice procedures with the federal Uniform Code of Military Justice. The prime sponsor and military legal experts testified that the bill closes a gap so victims serving in the Washington National Guard receive the same notice, participation, and fairness protections regardless of whether they are in state or federal status. Veterans’ advocates also supported the bill, saying it would improve trust, reporting, and accountability. The bill was scheduled for future executive action, and the meeting adjourned after the hearings.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They've got this standard of care, this obligation to maintain, repair, and replace improvements.
- And look, I don't care whether you're in the Valley or in Houston.
- They don't want it directed to special interests or friends of the public voters.
- Unfortunately, that is not the direction that some local governments are heading.
- That means that expenditure of direct assistance was $17 million, $17.4 million.
Bills:
SB434, SB844, SB898, SB1177, SB1214, SB1454, SB1920, SB1927, SB1935, SB1965, SB2010, SB2046, SB2068, SB2073, SB2183, SB2260, SB3034, SB907
Keywords:
SB 434, Harris County Hospital District, hospital district police, peace officers, commissioned officers, law enforcement authority, Health and Safety Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, public safety, hospital security, county hospital district, local government, Texas criminal procedure, district police, armed security, SB 898, low income housing tax credits, LIHTC, affordable housing, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs