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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services REVISED Mar 2nd, 2026

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.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • First, subsection B is amended to replace the term "rules and regulations" with "dedicatory instruments
  • Lawmakers, regulators, and stakeholders, including this committee, came together to negotiate HB 1818
  • Regulations: there's no reason why we can't get better regulations put into place so that we can continue
  • You've heard that there was a compromise bill that would regulate us for regulations.
  • I stand before you strongly opposing this bill not because we fear regulation, but because this bill
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part II) May 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • An outcomes-based approach to the regulation of artificial intelligence offers an approach focusing on
  • An outcomes-based approach to the regulation of artificial intelligence offers an approach focusing on
  • In fact, we have an environment that is saturated with human-like AI actors that need to be regulated
  • And currently there's bad AI actors that benefit. regulated accordingly.
  • The speaker argues that dealers who advertise misleading prices should be referred to regulators.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard testimony on HB 149, the Artificial Intelligence Governance Act. Senator Schwertner described the bill as an outcomes-based AI framework that would require disclosure when people interact with AI, prohibit manipulative or social-scoring systems, address biometric capture, discrimination, and deepfake child exploitation, and give the Attorney General enforcement authority. It would also create an AI Sandbox and AI Council. Witnesses from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a Houston attorney, TechNet, and the Texas Association of Business strongly supported the bill, praising its stakeholder process and pro-innovation approach, while Texas Appleseed suggested regulators should have more examination authority over sandbox participants. The bill was left pending. The committee then heard SB 229, which would prohibit motor vehicle dealers from conditioning a sale on dealer-offered financing or charging more because a buyer uses outside financing or cash. Senator West said the bill is meant to stop forced financing and bait-and-switch pricing, and he noted the bill passed the committee and Senate in the prior session. The Texas Automobile Dealers Association opposed the bill, arguing it would force dealers to accept any third-party lender or cash transaction on terms they cannot control. The Texas Credit Union Association supported the bill, saying consumers should be able to choose outside financing without hidden fees or pressure. After questions about cash purchases and dealer practices, the bill was left pending. The committee also took up SB 2566, which would clarify legislators’ access to information from executive agencies, including confidential information, by setting response deadlines, limiting confidentiality agreements to statutory terms, requiring a standard AG form, and creating a complaint and penalty process for noncompliance. No witnesses testified, and the bill was left pending. Finally, SB 1749, as substituted, would let certain court-related employees and judicial conduct commission personnel keep personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers confidential, with work addresses used in place of home addresses for certain purposes. District clerk and judicial conduct commission witnesses described threats and harassment as the reason for the bill, and a court administration witness answered questions about how the address protections would work with voter registration and precinct records. That bill was also left pending, and the committee recessed without further business.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources & Energy.(7-2-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> So your understanding under current law and the regulation, um, if they're the causer, then they
  • Nursing homes need it to protect the most vulnerable. Businesses need it to function.
  • There's other technologies that we're adding along to the Wow Cart now, um, to meet the rules and regulations
Bills: SB8
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture Apr 27th, 2026

Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • these best management practices to prohibit local governing authorities from enacting ordinances regulating
  • Our city, our community, our parish has regulations. We have zoning ordinances.
  • know the EPA guy or the DEQ guy called me on Friday, and he said that the pile doesn't have any regulations
  • There again, I don't understand communities that have their own zoning ordinances, have their own regulations
  • But because it's said that under the federal preemption, you cannot regulate the ingredients or the manufacturing
Bills: HCR65 , HB512 , HB1194 , SCR23 , SB502
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Commerce and Economic Development Feb 11th, 2026 at 05:14 pm

House Commerce & Economic Development Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • We regulate cannabis dispensaries and alcohol more strictly than we regulate gun dealers in our state
  • This is simple regulation.
  • Just like our state regulates cannabis, restaurants, cosmetology, we should regulate gun dealers.
  • And so there's no regulation on that right now. No regulation on that right now.
  • regulation.
Bills: SB48 , HB250 , SB17
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Local Government Jan 15th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • designated as a critical aquifer recharge area by the county that is maintained per county development regulations
  • And the bill mandates that these areas must be maintained per county development regulations, ensuring
  • The areas involved in swaps must still be maintained under existing county development regulations, and
  • The areas involved in swaps must still be maintained under existing county development regulations, and
Bills: SB5903 , SB6037 , SB5983 , SB5995 , SB6016 , SB6066
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Aug 22nd, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • They want to be regulated.
  • So what are we regulating and what's not being regulated? Yes, sir.
  • At regulating, we regulate the right things because we are going to regulate a lot of things out of business
  • It's regulated by the Medical Practice Act and it's regulated by the Texas Pharmacy Act.
  • As a transplant nurse, I'm a cardiovascular transplant nurse.
Bills: HB265 , HB25
Committee: House Public Health
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Agriculture and Forestry Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Agriculture and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • The gamereeder regulation gamereeder regulation 220-2-38, I think it's subsection number two.
  • And we do have that in our current regulation: five years.
  • We have regulations in place to make sure that those are hunted fairly.
  • That is what changes the other regulations that Mr. Gunnels was talking about.
  • regulations that we have in place.
Bills: HB509
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Who will regulate? Who will pay for the regulation? Who will regulate?
  • House Bill 28 aims to regulate these substances, but regulation is not enough.
  • Last week, a nurse from a local nursing home came into our shop.
  • They want regulation.
  • : regulation.
Bills: HB28 , SB3 , SB 3
Committee: House State Affairs
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am all for testing, COAs, regulation, and extensive regulation, establishing a...
  • Sensible regulation. Why regulate a mess? Follow the money. Don't let California become Texas.
  • Functional regulations work.
  • I am a nurse; I've been a nurse for 20 years. I am also a store owner.
  • We support additional common-sense regulation, but HB28 is not regulation. It's devastation.
Bills: HB28 , SB3 , SB 3
Committee: House State Affairs
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 28th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2320, the Secretary will read: An act relating to the regulation of firearm
  • We can then regulate that. We can showcase some of that.
  • We can't build things in the state of Washington because we have so much regulation here.
  • Could be a doctor, the physician assistant, could be a nurse, or a health care provider.
  • President, to some of the increasing regulations and other things that the state says are very important
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Insurance REVISED: SB1592 - Removed Apr 7th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The only real opposition to this bill, or the bundle of bills regulating the drug delivery process in
Bills: SB1684 , SB1443 , SB1447 , SB378 , SB1920
Committee: House Insurance
Summary: The committee considered several bills and moved each one forward without opposition. Senate Bill 1684, presented by Representative Bayshore, would require highway remediation companies to carry at least $3 million in liability insurance before entering roadways to protect the public; it passed 6-0 and was recommended to the next committee. Senate Bill 378, also presented by Bayshore, would modernize the multi-county bail bonds statute by adding flexibility in writing capacity and strengthening financial oversight and transparency; it passed 6-0 and was recommended for the floor. Senate Bill 1447, presented by Representative Marti, would change requirements for the RFP for the state employee prescription drug plan. Marti used the presentation to sharply criticize the State Chamber and outside messaging about the bill, arguing the legislation would not raise drug costs and that similar laws in other states have produced savings; the bill passed 6-0. Senate Bill 1920, presented by Representative Tedford, would raise the salvage title threshold for autos from 60% to 70% to align more closely with neighboring states and avoid prematurely totaling vehicles; it passed 6-0 and was sent to the next committee. After a brief suspension, the committee took up Senate Bill 1443, presented by Representative Sneed on behalf of Chairman Chad Caldwell, which concerns anesthesia services. No questions or debate were raised, and the bill passed 6-0. The meeting then adjourned.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, we are not regulated by the PUC, so we really need that addition there.
  • Uh, we are not regulated by the PUC, so we really need that addition there.
  • Uh we are not<01:04:11.200><c> regulated</c><01:04:11.680><c> by</c><01:04:11.839><c> the</c><01:04:12.000
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  • Uh so we not regulated by the PUC.
Committee: House Housing
Summary: The joint public hearing covered several housing-related bills and one building-code measure. HB 1719 would make manufactured homes a permitted use by right on residentially zoned lots in the urban district, HB 1742 would authorize self-contained relocatable housing units with restrictions, and HB 1737 would clarify that a farm dwelling in an agricultural district may include an accessory employee housing structure. Testimony on these bills was overwhelmingly supportive from groups including Hawaii Realtors, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, Housing Hawaii’s Future, the Modular Building Institute, the Hawaii Farmers Union, and others, with a few agencies offering comments. No one testified in opposition on HB 1719 or HB 1742, while HB 1737 drew one opposition and one comment in addition to broad support. No votes were taken during the hearing segment provided. A major portion of the hearing focused on HB 2049, which restructures the conveyance tax into a marginal-rate system and changes how the revenue is allocated, including funding for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the rental housing revolving fund, while also affecting the legacy land conservation fund. Supporters, including DHHL, Hawaii Appleseed, Aahu Youth Action Board, Hawaii YIMBY, and others, argued the bill would help Native Hawaiian housing and, for most transactions, function as a tax cut. Opponents, including NAP Hawaii, Hawaii Realtors, Hawaii Land Trust, Mhai Land Trust, and the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, objected to using conveyance tax as a revenue-generating tool and raised concerns about higher upfront costs and reduced funding for other housing uses. Committee members and staff discussed the bill’s revenue estimates, the reduced percentage but higher cap for the land conservation fund, the effect on rental housing funding, and the bill’s cost-of-living adjustment language; staff said a line-by-line comparison of the current and proposed tax structure would be provided before decision-making. The hearing also took up HB 1725, which would extend the state building code adoption cycle from two years to six years, apply the IRC to triplexes and fourplexes, allow counties to adopt more or less stringent amendments, and appropriate funds for code adoption work. Most testimony supported the bill, with advocates saying the current process is unmanageable, too resource-intensive, and creates confusion because state and county codes can diverge; supporters said a longer cycle would improve clarity and allow more focused review. The International Code Council and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers opposed the measure, warning that delaying adoption could have negative consequences and urging the committee to let an existing statewide code-adoption strategy proceed first. Members asked about sequencing, county implementation, and whether the longer cycle would create catch-up problems, but no action was taken in the excerpt provided.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 17th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, we do have a resource witness. from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations.
  • TDI-regulated insurance have state-level parity protections.
  • So we have concerns that CMS is not getting the job done. on parity regulation and compliance for the
  • I appreciate the opportunity to lay out House Bill 1094. relating to the regulation of Transportation
  • I'm thinking the problem It must be that the funeral homes are getting wrapped up in the regulations.
Bills: HB201 , HB272 , HB618 , HB 1094 , HB 1142 , HB201 , HB272
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • bill were required after the REAB had their federal audit this summer to ensure our statutes and regulations
  • Members, this bill regulates the pool industry.
Committee: House Business