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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Transcript Highlights:
- S-17-18 and an act requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace
- First is the significance of incidents of workplace violence and violent assaults in health care and
- Over 15 years ago, we filed workplace violence legislation.
- Workplace violence is a very real and very serious problem for all of our members working in hospitals
- This is also the second time I've given testimony for a workplace violence bill.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security heard testimony on several bills, beginning with a major workplace violence proposal for health care settings. Senator Lovely, the Massachusetts Nurses Association, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, and SEIU 1199 all supported legislation requiring hospitals and other health care employers to conduct facility-specific risk assessments, develop violence prevention plans, train workers, and provide reporting and protections for assaulted employees. Witnesses described workplace assaults as frequent and escalating, and committee members discussed balancing worker safety with concerns about criminalizing mental illness; testimony emphasized that the bill targets intentional assaults while preserving treatment and discretion for behavioral health crises.
The committee also heard strong support for bills to strengthen traffic safety, including primary seat belt enforcement, rear-facing car seat requirements, and seat belts on school buses. AAA Northeast, the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts, law enforcement, legislators, and the Massachusetts Insurance Federation all backed the measures, citing crash data, injury prevention, and personal stories of traumatic brain injury. Senator O’Connor testified for school bus seat belts, saying Massachusetts should join other states requiring them, and later Sophia Furzada of the National Transportation Safety Board urged passage of school bus seat belt and child passenger safety bills, saying lap-shoulder belts would reduce injuries and save lives in crashes where compartmentalization is not enough.
Other testimony included support for a bill to make 9-1-1 disability indicator forms more accessible and inclusive, with the witness arguing the form should better reflect mental health, developmental disabilities, language access needs, and a fifth-grade reading level. The committee also heard opposition to a proposal to extend Christian’s Law to swimming pools, with a parks and recreation director warning of unintended consequences for municipal camps and underserved communities. Finally, the committee took testimony on a bill to expand the Forensic Science Oversight Board to include workforce representation, which MOSES said would restore technical expertise to the board. At the end of the hearing, the committee adjourned without taking votes on the bills discussed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Regulating Artificial Intelligence – Senator Jen McEwen Mar 17th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's already being used in workplaces, and we're seeing more and more that employers are going to be
- You mentioned some of the concerns in the workplace.
- </c><00:03:24.840><c> um</c><00:03:25.000><c> another</c> the concerns in the workplace um another the
- concerns in the workplace um another big<00:03:25.560><c> concern</c><00:03:25.959><c> with</c><00:03
- </c> that's a problem in workplaces that's a problem in workplaces throughout<00:09:36.760><c> the</c
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Status of Persons with Disabilities Jun 21st, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- We're committed to championing workplace accessibility and inclusivity for employees with disabilities
- We're committed to champion workplace accessibility and inclusivity for employees with disabilities.
- We recognize that if individuals are excluded from the workplace, it becomes an upstander.
- So that's internal ableism, and that's very common in the workplace.
- HR has been working with an external resource to help with neurodiversity in the workplace.
Summary:
The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Persons with Disabilities subcommittee on Disability Employment approved the prior meeting minutes, welcomed new commission member Victoria Gill, and heard an opening quote on leadership before moving to presentations and planning. The main presentation was from Kristen Grip and Katie McCarthy of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Disability Alliance employee-led group, which described its mission to build an inclusive workplace through education, community-building, and advocacy. They discussed monthly disability-awareness programming, intersectional events, accommodation and accessibility efforts, internal ableism, universal design, and BCH’s recognition in the 2025 Disability Equality Index. They also described their own lived experience and emphasized that employees with disabilities should lead disability-related workplace efforts.
Committee members asked how to start a disability employee resource group and what external partnerships might help. The presenters said BCH’s HR diversity team helped launch the group over about a year, and members noted related resources, including a Work Without Limits guide and possible connections with Spalding Rehabilitation and other hospitals. The committee also discussed BCH’s continued support for disability inclusion work despite broader political pressure, and members praised the hospital’s efforts and offered to share additional contacts and resources.
The subcommittee then turned to possible collaboration with SEED, the State Exchange on Employment and Disability, on Massachusetts as a model employer and benefit cliff analysis work. Members agreed SEED could help with policy framing, comparative data, stakeholder education, and youth disability employment efforts, and they approved inviting SEED to brief the subcommittee in January or February. The group also discussed possible links to CAPE-Youth, Commonwealth HR and DEI offices, and a future partnership with the Office of the Veterans Advocate. The meeting ended with a motion to adjourn, which was seconded and approved.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Supporting teacher retention, HF3930 3/26/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The reason they leave is the conditions of their workplace.
- The reason they leave is the conditions of their workplace.
- The reason they leave is the conditions of their workplace.
- And so I'm just going to keep using workplace, workplace, workplace as a sort of a new lens of addressing
- And so I'm just going to keep using workplace, workplace, workplace as a sort of a new lens of addressing
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (10/22/2025)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:13:57.839><c> Remember,</c> workplace at the state level.
- Remember, workplace at the state level.
- </c><00:33:42.640><c> safety</c> obligation to providing workplace safety obligation to providing workplace
- workplace workplace and<00:38:07.440><c> uh</c><00:38:07.680><c> the</c><00:38:08.240><c> uh</c><00:
- So is from the workplace safety rules.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Bill to allow striking workers to receive unemployment benefits heard in committee 4/3/25
Transcript Highlights:
- bargaining agreement and when we provide them with a pathway to be fully human and successful in the workplace
- proud rank-and-file union member, I know that unions provide workers with a strong voice in the workplace
- know that unions set the standard for all workers when they negotiate fair wages and benefits and workplace
- proud rank-and-file union member, I know that unions provide workers with a strong voice in the workplace
- </c> all working people have safe workplaces all working people have safe workplaces a<00:04:57.720><
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And to say that we shouldn't do anything until an assault or a raid... occurs is wrong.
Keywords:
real property, fraud, theft, elderly, disabled, statute of limitations, criminal offense, property rights, property tax, ad valorem tax, voter-approval tax rate, no-new-revenue tax rate, tax rate calculation, Tax Code, local government finance, municipality, county, special taxing unit, sales and use tax, property tax cap
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee May 14th, 2025
Appropriations
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Last year, the governor had to basically raid the rainy day fund and deplete it by $67 million.
- ><03:24:41.920><c> had</c><03:24:42.160><c> to</c><03:24:42.399><c> basically</c><03:24:42.960><c> raid
- </c><03:24:43.200><c> the</c> the governor had to basically raid the the governor had to basically raid
- group during a raid on Haveril, Massachusetts<04:51:27.360><c> during</c><04:51:27.600><c> King</c><
- In the last budget cycle, the fund was raided to add to the general fund.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Indeed, we're seeing increasingly troubling uses of AI in the workplace.
- </c> way it is used and improve workplaces way it is used and improve workplaces rather<00:09:20.519>
- We must also regulate AI's invasiveness and use in workplace decision-making.
- Life in their workplace or their lives could be compromised by this technology.
- </c><01:11:58.840><c> I</c> experiencing AI am in their workplaces I experiencing AI am in their workplaces
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Labor and Industrial Relations May 7th, 2026
Labor & Industrial Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- It happens everywhere in any kind of workplace environment. So I oppose that.
- And it's not, workplace violence isn't just unique to our small box, right?
- But yes, it's a comprehensive workplace safety bill. Okay.
- But we're addressing workplace violence prevention.
- It doesn't change the fact that I have a director of workplace violence.
Summary:
The committee first disposed of several measures without debate, including deferrals of House Bill 460, House Bill 561, Senate Bill 322, and another deferred Senate measure, before taking up House Bill 819 by Chairman Cruz. HB 819 would replace Louisiana’s current workers’ compensation medical treatment schedule with ODG by MCG, a private evidence-based guideline system used in other states. Cruz and Troy Prevo argued ODG is more comprehensive, updated more frequently, and could reduce claim duration, medical costs, and premium rates; Dr. Jason Picard said Louisiana already uses ODG as a secondary reference for gaps in the state schedule and that the bill would not change appeals or variance procedures. Opponents, including injured-worker advocates Joseph Jola St. and Robin Crumholt, argued Louisiana’s current guidelines are working, that ODG is more cost-cutting and insurer-driven, and that the bill could increase denials and delay care. Members discussed amendments to add a two-year sunset, allow tacit approval when treatment follows the schedule, require payment within 30 days, and raise the carrier’s burden to challenge care; the committee adopted the amendments and then reported HB 819 favorably by a 7-6 vote.
The committee then began Senate Bill 409 by Senator Myers, the Louisiana Living Donor Leave Protection Act. The bill would provide paid leave protections for living organ donors, set eligibility and verification procedures, and prohibit forfeiture of leave in certain circumstances for private employers. Myers said the measure is intended to remove job and paycheck barriers for people willing to donate organs and to support better transplant outcomes. Technical amendments were adopted at the start of the presentation, and the bill was introduced for further discussion.
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Caucus of the Whole - 2026-01-13 - 11:15AM
Vermont House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Today we have our respect in the workplace training.
- </c><00:12:35.279><c> This</c> So, what does a respectful workplace mean?
- </c> So, what does a respectful workplace So, what does a respectful workplace mean?
- I like to talk about workplace bullying. Currently, it's not illegal.
- </c> creating a respectful workplace. creating a respectful workplace.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- Again, we create the definition for workplace here.
- Uh again, so we create define workplace.
- Um, the definition for workplace here.
- This would cover all workplaces. All workplace. Okay. Thank you.
- This would cover all workplaces. them. This would cover all workplaces.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Labor and Industrial Relations Apr 9th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Erica Zucker from Workplace Justice Project, Melissa Flournoy from 10,000 Women.
- Workplace violence against an employee is a crime and will not be tolerated.
- Fourth, and finally, this bill promotes workplace harmony and fairness.
- This is the workplace, by the way. Peyton Rose Michelle: We chat. We're here.
- I surely would be in this workplace where I spend time with you all, I think. Okay.
Summary:
The committee first took up Senate Bill 162, which would change the workers’ compensation medical treatment schedule appeals process by allowing additional medical evidence submitted in court to be sent back to the medical director for review and a new opinion. The Attorney General’s office explained the bill, noting a 30-day deadline for the medical director to act before the case returns to court. The bill drew support from injured workers and several business and labor groups, and the committee adopted technical amendments and then reported the bill favorably without objection.
House Bill 353, which would establish a state minimum wage starting at $12 in 2027, rising to $15 in 2029 and then indexed to inflation, prompted extensive testimony and debate. Supporters, including the sponsor, Invest in Louisiana, the Workplace Justice Project, 10,000 Women Louisiana, and the AFL-CIO, argued that Louisiana’s wages have lagged behind living costs, that many workers remain in poverty despite working, and that higher wages would help families and local economies. Opponents, including NFIB and several members, argued that the market is already setting wages above the federal minimum in many jobs, that a mandate would raise costs, compress pay scales, reduce hours or jobs, and hurt small businesses. After discussion, the committee voted on the bill and it failed on a roll call vote.
The committee then reported Senate Bill 383 favorably with amendments. That bill expands the incumbent worker training program by increasing funding flexibility, shortening the business eligibility period from three years to two, and allowing unobligated funds to roll over. Members and the Louisiana Works secretary discussed workforce training, outreach, and how to connect workers to existing training programs and high-demand jobs. The committee also reported Senate Bill 382 favorably, which repeals the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council, and began hearing House Bill 422, the “Behind-the-Counter Safety Act,” aimed at workplace violence protections for retail and food service workers, including signage, reporting, and enhanced penalties; the sponsor explained it was intended to address attacks on frontline workers and to give businesses a tool to warn against violence.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Labor and Industrial Relations Apr 9th, 2026
Labor & Industrial Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- Erica Zucker from Workplace Justice Project, Melissa Flournoy from 10,000 Women.
- enhanced penalties for certain crimes committed by an offender of workplace violence.
- Fourth, and finally, this bill promotes workplace harmony and fairness.
- This is the workplace, by the way. We chat. We're here. This is the workplace, by the way.
- I surely would be in this workplace where I spend time with you all, I think. Okay.
Summary:
The House Labor and Industrial Relations Committee met on April 9 and first took up Senate Bill 162, which would change the workers’ compensation medical treatment schedule appeal process. The bill, presented as a collaboration between the Attorney General’s office and trial lawyers, would require additional medical evidence submitted on appeal to be sent back to the medical director for review before court review continues. Members discussed the 30-day turnaround for the medical director and whether the process would delay injured workers’ cases. After testimony from injured workers’ representatives and support cards from several business and labor groups, the committee adopted the technical amendments and reported SB 162 favorably.
The committee then heard House Bill 353, which would establish a state minimum wage beginning at $12 per hour in 2027, rising to $15 in 2029 and then indexed to inflation. Supporters, including the sponsor, Invest in Louisiana, the Workplace Justice Project, 10,000 Women Louisiana, the AFL-CIO, and a young witness from People’s Promise, argued that Louisiana’s wages have lagged behind costs of living, that many workers remain in poverty, and that the bill would help families, reduce reliance on public benefits, and improve economic stability. Opponents, including NFIB and small-business advocates, argued that the market should set wages, that the bill would raise labor costs, compress pay scales, reduce hours or hiring, and potentially increase prices. After extended debate, the committee voted and HB 353 failed.
The committee next considered Senate Bill 383 on the incumbent worker training program. Senator Bass and Louisiana Works officials said the bill would expand and make the existing program more flexible, increase available funding, shorten the business eligibility period from three years to two, and allow unused funds to roll over. Members focused on how the program would reach workers, how businesses and employees would learn about training opportunities, and how it would support workforce development in growing regions. Support came from business and economic development groups, and the committee reported SB 383 favorably with amendments.
Finally, the committee began Senate Bill 382, which would repeal the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council, described as the Senate version of a bill the committee had already considered. The transcript cuts off during discussion of the prior vote on the similar House version, and no final action on SB 382 is shown in the excerpt.
MI
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for hearing Senate Bill 948, the Workplace Employees Boundaries Act, or the WEB Act.
- establishing a mechanism for creating clear boundaries in increasingly timeless and boundaryless workplace
- Because to be at a workplace should not be a 24-7 adventure.
- Stable workplaces lead to better outcomes for workers and residents alike.
- We want to provide the best care possible, and that requires workplaces where employees are respected
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Labor met with a quorum, adopted the June 4 minutes, and then took up Senate Bill 948, the Workplace Employees Boundaries Act (WEB Act), after adopting an S-1 substitute by a 4-1 vote. Senator Geis presented the bill as a Michigan “right to disconnect” measure that would generally bar employers from requiring employees to access or respond to work communications outside usual work hours, allow employees to set availability hours, prohibit retaliation, direct LEO to write rules, and provide complaint and enforcement procedures with exceptions for emergencies and existing collective bargaining agreements. In questioning, Senator Albert raised concerns about how the bill would apply in small businesses and practical situations like staffing calls, school notifications, and emergency-like circumstances; Geis said the bill was meant to protect non-work time while preserving emergency carve-outs and informational messages. NFIB’s Amanda Fisher opposed the bill, arguing it was too broad, difficult to define across industries and schedules, potentially duplicative of existing wage-and-hour law, and likely to create confusion and reduce flexibility, especially for small employers.
The committee then shifted to testimony on health care workforce and labor disputes. Nurses from Teamsters Local 332 described a 291-day strike at Henry Ford/Genesis over safe staffing, return-to-work terms, and alleged union-busting, saying the hospital’s staffing levels and use of replacement workers threatened patient safety and could displace experienced specialty nurses. Michigan Nurses Association president Aaron McCormick and Marquette RN union president Christina Hanson said Michigan’s problem is not a shortage of licensed nurses but of nurses willing to stay in overworked, hostile workplaces; they cited retaliation, slow grievance/arbitration processes, hospital consolidation, rural OB closures, and unsafe staffing ratios as drivers of burnout and departures. They urged stronger protections and faster dispute resolution, especially given the limited effectiveness of the NLRB and delays in labor processes.
Additional testimony came from UAW Local 4911’s Kim Wheeler, who said UMH Sparrow was outsourcing two low-paid support groups—patient transport/housekeeping and food and nutrition—despite their importance to hospital operations and despite a recently ratified contract, and asked for transparency and limits on corporate outsourcing. Don Hill of SEIU Health Care Michigan described chronic understaffing in nursing homes, mandatory overtime, burnout, retaliation fears, and the need for enforceable patient-to-staff ratios and stronger wage support; he also noted that home care workers are negotiating first contracts after restored bargaining rights. The committee took no vote on SB 948 beyond adopting the substitute, heard extensive testimony, and adjourned without further business.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- The Hayash law also has prohibitions on retaliation for reporting workplace hazards.
- Uh, the Hayash law also has prohibitions on retaliation for reporting workplace hazards.
- hazards as well as control workplace hazards as well as responsibilities<00:11:27.120><c> for</c><00
- </c><00:11:38.160><c> Um,</c><00:11:38.480><c> and</c> reporting workplace hazards.
- Um, and reporting workplace hazards.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It's the workplace.
- It's the workplace. A even privacy. It's the workplace.
- We as a state are falling the workplace.
- ,</c> And on decision-making in the workplace, And on decision-making in the workplace, there<00:20:16.520
- workplace workplace issues<01:18:45.240><c> and</c><01:18:45.400><c> not</c><01:18:46.080><c> of</c>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Surveillance-based price and wage discrimination prohibited 3/4/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- and responsive to workplace needs.
- Workplaces in Minnesota already are heavily regulated.
- </c><00:23:51.919><c> and</c> appropriate for their workplace and appropriate for their workplace and
- </c> responsive to workplace needs. responsive to workplace needs.
- 57.039><c> are</c> Workplaces in Minnesota already are Workplaces in Minnesota already are heavily<00
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- democracy is pretty alien cuz workplace democracy is pretty alien cuz we're<00:21:29.240><c> not</c>
- And in the run-up to our approval and passage of the Safe Workplaces for Meat and Poultry Processing
- for Meat and Poultry the Safe Workplaces for Meat and Poultry Processing<01:04:01.600><c> Workers</c
- </c> protect Minnesotans in their workplaces. protect Minnesotans in their workplaces.
- Workplace safety laws mean little without enforcement.