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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • online, out-of-state, fully online program, and ensures that if any issue arises, they will have access
  • The bill prohibits a public school from discriminating against or denying access to any patriotic youth
  • group that wishes to conduct a meeting, including discriminating against or denying access to a patriotic
Summary: The Senate Education Committee considered three bills. SB 1210 would create a separate out-of-state registration process for private post-secondary institutions domiciled outside Arizona that enroll Arizona residents in fully online programs, require certain disclosures and financial protections, and extend student tuition recovery fund protections to those students. Testimony from the Arizona Private School Association supported the bill as closing a regulatory loophole and protecting Arizona students; the committee moved it forward with a due pass recommendation by a 7-0 vote. SB 1370 would allow principals, during the first quarter of the school year, to let eligible patriotic youth groups address students and distribute materials, and would prohibit public schools from discriminating against such groups based on membership criteria or oath requirements. The sponsor’s representative said the bill would allow, not require, access and would expand a list of youth groups that has not been updated since 1978. The committee approved the bill with a due pass recommendation by a 7-0 vote. SB 1422 would continue the Credit Enhancement Eligibility Board until July 1, 2036, with termination tied to the retirement of outstanding obligations, and SB 1423 would continue the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education until July 1, 2036. Both bills were described as continuations of existing programs; WICHE’s president testified in support of SB 1423 and noted the state’s long partnership with the organization. The committee passed both bills with due pass recommendations, each by 7-0 votes, and then adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's to inspire and train that next generation of bioscience workers that we so desperately need.
  • Alpha's campuses and get that real-world experience as well as the networking and connections that they need
  • That's not going to give you the kind of results that you really need, especially in an intensive situation
Bills: HB447, HB447
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • , as well as... ...long-term mental health needs, as well as the damaging effects to the long-term development
  • These materials would be available for anyone to access on the Alabama Department of Public Health's.
  • I want to give a shout out to Medicaid for realizing the need for this to be already done.
  • I think it was a result of just good conversation about a lot of things that need to be discussed.
  • our educational facilities that this is something that ... facilities that this is something that needs
Bills: HB330, HB336, HB322, HB346
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Do we still need to adopt the second amendment? We need to...
  • To adopt the second amendment, we need to do the second one as well. Very good.
  • We need to move along, so... Sure, my name is Dr. Gerald Simus.
  • Perhaps we need to do something where it's not addressed in the state.
  • Clerk, call the long roll, because we need a good one. Long roll, because we need a good one.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think that's something else we need to address.
  • , have access to a safe and sanitary space.
  • But we need to back up our families, particularly those in need, and I think everybody agrees with that
  • Y'all need that information; that's... Y'all need that information; that's inside info.
  • I need you all, and this here, it's our budget. I need you all, and this here, it's our budget.
Bills: SB1, SB83, SB159, SB160, SB1
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Apr 22, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 49

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • I do agree that we need to wait at least one legislative day to take this up in a proper manner and to
  • I do agree that we need to wait at least one legislative day to take this up in a proper manner and to
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 325 Conference PM - Wed Apr 22, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

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  • All right, so we do need Finance and WAM approvals, so why don't we roll to tomorrow and we'll make our
  • All right, so we do<00:32:38.360> need<00:32:38.880> Finance<00:32:39.360> and<00
  • :32:39.760> WAM<00:32:40.040> approvals,<00:32:40.840> so do need Finance and WAM
  • approvals, so do need Finance and WAM approvals, so why<00:32:41.560> don't<00:32:41.679>
  • So, our suggestion would be to just accept the House amendments, but we need a clean date, and so the
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

RM 309 Conference PM - Wed Apr 22, 2026

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, our citizens need relief. They need unexpectedly. So, I think we have to unexpectedly.
  • We have other cuts that we need million.
  • <00:14:26.079> They<00:14:26.640> need Our citizens need relief.
  • Our taxpayers need relief now. What's happening right now?
  • Our taxpayers need relief now. What's happening right now?
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Revised Apr 22nd, 2026 at 03:30 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • level yet, but I anticipate that if they're already doing testing with the seven-panel and they just need
  • Do you think this is going to change what information is like, how the public's able to access information
  • It's my same question: why do we need to increase these caps? Thank you.
  • Successful, and so we need to increase the caps.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 4th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Access to veterinary care is an essential need here in Florida.
  • And what we need to do here is really address the health care needs and look at the ultimate long-term
  • Well, folks, these are my people, and they need help.
  • Well, folks, these are my people, and they need help.
  • We don't need them anymore.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills, beginning with CS/SB 796, which would create Veterinary Professional Associates as a new supervised veterinary role, expand telehealth prescription timeframes, and set training and scope limits. Supporters said it would improve access to care, lower costs, and create a career path, while opponents argued the proposal lacked a clear regulatory framework, could create liability and federal-law conflicts, and would not address the real shortage in rural large-animal practice. After debate, the committee reported the bill favorably. Members also heard and favorably reported SB 1682 on local authority over derelict and abandoned vessels, CS/SB 1028 on a commercial Citizens clearinghouse for property insurance, SB 394 on exempting certain reinsurance underwriting managers from licensing, SB 636 on beach management and erosion designations, CS/SB 546 on public notice for conservation land sales or exchanges, CS/SB 302 on Biscayne Bay nature-based solutions and related coastal resiliency provisions, SB 1050 on pharmacy choice for pet medications, and SB 774 extending workers’ compensation benefits to 911 public safety telecommunicators for mental and nervous injuries. Testimony on these bills generally focused on access, regulatory clarity, environmental protection, or workforce support, with some concerns raised on insurance consumer protections and beach-management language. Senator Harrell’s bills were also taken up and reported favorably: CS/SB 480, a major overhaul of state IT governance creating DIGIT and new procurement, reporting, and workforce structures; CS/SB 1230, restricting PFAS-containing firefighting foam and adding testing, inventory, and disposal requirements; and CS/SB 1288, a naming bill designating the Andrew Red Harris Shoal and requiring markers. Finally, the committee heard extensive testimony on SB 1066 regarding restoration of the Oklawaha/Rodman system, with supporters emphasizing ecological restoration, flood-risk reduction, and economic benefits, and opponents warning about local impacts, water quality, and the loss of a world-class fishery. The transcript ends during testimony on that bill, before final action is shown.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Apr 17th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's really a great need here in Texas to provide access to mental health services to these children
  • By making MST reimbursable through Medicaid, we can do two things: expand access to children. who need
  • The Strategic Plan has called for improving access for children in Texas with the most complex needs.
  • This just allows people to access the food they need to live healthier lives.
  • This allowed for people who have the medical... need for insulin to access their medication during times
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Apr 17th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • The study is necessary to update pre-pandemic data and guide food access solutions.
  • In rural communities, accessing healthy food at affordable rates can often mean driving 30 miles.
  • Let's let them have access to healthy foods, and let's make sure every... ...community has access to
  • Before you today, House Bill 2036 closes an important gap in access to mental health.
  • You might go ahead and stay up there, but I could close later if we need to go.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Tue Feb 10, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 12

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:34:02.960> So<00:34:04.080> although that we need to service.
  • So although that we need to service.
  • Every time money is distributed to the Hawaii election campaign fund, it needs to be itemized.
  • And that's one of the reasons why, given recent revelations, maybe this needs to be revisited.
  • And that's one of the reasons why, given recent revelations, maybe this needs to be revisited.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, it is desperately needed to make sure we have our Kiki have access to mental health.
  • Um, it is desperately needed to make sure we have our Kiki have access to mental health.
  • to make sure we have uh our Kiki needed to make sure we have uh our Kiki have<01:13:34.239> access
  • <01:45:47.440> And to access basic services and needs.
  • And to access basic services and needs.
Summary: The committee opened a hearing on multiple health-related bills and first took up HB 2315, which would create a Department of Health pilot program allowing eligible employees to defer unused vacation leave in exchange for a payout to help with home purchase assistance. The Department of Health testified in support, saying the proposal could aid recruitment and retention, and United Public Workers also supported it as a creative, cost-effective benefit that could help employees become first-time homebuyers. The chair likewise praised the department’s effort, and there were no questions or opposition before the committee moved on. The committee then heard HB 2562 on workplace violence in health care settings. The Department of Health said it preferred requiring licensed hospitals to adopt workplace-violence prevention policies and public reporting rather than creating a new state program. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said it appreciated the intent and explained that, absent a specific standard, enforcement would rely on OSHA’s general duty clause, guidance, and inspections. Nurses and the Hawaii Nurses Association gave emotional testimony describing harassment, threats, doxxing, and fears for patient and worker safety, arguing that existing processes were too slow and that hospitals needed immediate, enforceable requirements. The committee discussed current hospital alarm systems and OSHA enforcement, and Labor said it does inspect hospitals and can receive complaints from employees. HB 1532, concerning importation of large cigars and pipe tobacco, was announced as deferred at the request of the bill’s author so it could be refined with proponents and the Attorney General. The committee also discussed HB 1857, a very large measure redefining qualified health care provider and making extensive changes to health care law; the chair said the House would likely pass it without substantive changes and instead defer the effective date while using the Senate companion bill as the vehicle. Testimony on HB 1857 was generally supportive, including from the Hawaii Association of Nurse Anesthesiology and a certified genetic counselor, though both referenced proposed amendments. Finally, the committee heard HB 2209, which would require insurers to honor a patient’s written assignment of benefits to a substance use disorder treatment provider. The Insurance Division and HMSA opposed the bill as drafted, arguing it would create a special class of providers, raise fraud and litigation concerns, and potentially increase premiums. Treatment providers and advocates strongly supported the measure, saying insurers often refuse direct payment even when patients assign benefits, forcing families to front large sums and delaying access to residential treatment; they argued the bill would improve access and help keep care in Hawaii. A psychiatrist testified that he had not seen fraud in Hawaii and that the bill could help address long wait times for life-saving treatment. The committee also received written support from multiple individuals and organizations, and members began asking questions about HMSA’s network size and wait times, with follow-up information requested."}】【。final json to=commentary 天天中彩票出票 to=commentary code 彩神争霸邀请码 to=commentary 彩票平台招商 to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary ುತ್ತಾರೆ to=commentary