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MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS Senate Floor - 22 January, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you want to teach, if you want to practice health care, if you want to be inspired to write the next
  • Mississippi Board of Pharmacy. Senator Brian pass and retain. Childc care facility licensing.
  • Mississippi board of pharmacy. seven. Mississippi board of pharmacy.
  • <00:25:53.039> And<00:25:53.279> then<00:25:53.440> on 3:15, and pharmacy 3:
  • And then on 3:15, and pharmacy 3:30.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, received an invocation from Dr. Danny Irvin, and led the pledge of allegiance. Routine business followed, including unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the journal, committee reports, and bill titles. The chamber also recognized several guests, including family members of senators, Dr. Diana Osbrook of the University of Mississippi, recovery day guests, Mississippi State women’s basketball coach Sam Purcell and staff, leaders from the Mississippi Trucking Association’s Lead MTA program, and students from Presbyterian Day School. A major item was Senate Resolution 10, commemorating the bicentennial of Mississippi College in Clinton. Mississippi College President Dr. Blake Thompson addressed the Senate, describing the school’s 200-year history, its church affiliations, and its planned name change to Mississippi Christian University. He also highlighted the school’s partnership with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and introduced the Choctaw Eagle mascot, Tuska. Senators praised the institution’s contributions to the state and its alumni in public office. On the calendar, several measures were taken up and passed over or retained, including Senate Bill 2017 on repealing obsolete commissions, Senate Bill 2259, a government efficiency/structure measure, child care facility licensing legislation, and a Mississippi Board of Pharmacy bill. Senator England was added as a co-author to Senate Bill 2017. The Senate also noted campaign finance report deadlines and remembered Senator Butler’s brother, Percy L. Butler, in memory. The meeting ended with extensive announcements about committee and subcommittee meetings, but the dominant procedural action was a weather-related recess resolution. After warnings of possible severe travel conditions on Monday and Tuesday, the Senate adopted a motion to recess until 5:00 p.m. that day, with the journal to reflect adjournment until 4:00 p.m. Monday unless weather conditions require reconvening Tuesday or Wednesday instead.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

HHS-AEN, HHS Public Hearings 01-31-2025

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:21:20.400> practicable<00:21:21.400> with To as much as practicable with the goal
  • While we are committed to promoting effective recycling practices, we respectfully oppose the section
  • Next, we have Nichol Nazaki in support, Alisa Pang Times Pharmacy in support, Tiffany Aima Pharmacy in
  • It will only mandate reimbursements of pharmacists practicing within their scope.
  • It will only mandate reimbursements of pharmacists practicing within their scope.
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills related to cesspools, Red Hill cleanup, water testing, environmental governance, and beverage container recycling. For SB 472, SB 501, SB 675, and SB 958 on cesspools, most testimony supported accelerating cesspool conversion and expanding Department of Health capacity, though the Attorney General flagged a single-subject issue on SB 472 and the Department of Health and others raised concerns about funding, program structure, and coordination. Supporters emphasized cesspools as a major water pollution source and urged earlier deadlines, while some testimony questioned the tax credit approach and asked for clearer grant and staffing language. For SB 639 on underground storage tanks and Red Hill cleanup, the Department of Health asked for clearer cleanup standards and noted limits on laboratory detection and sampling, while supporters argued the bill would create a binding legal standard for remediation and help prevent reopening of the facility. Testimony also stressed the need to remove all contamination to the extent practicable and protect aquifers and drinking water. SB 664 on water quality testing drew strong support from residents and water advocates, but the Department of Health warned the measure could duplicate existing authority and create significant cost; the Board of Water Supply supported the concept while noting it would expand responsibilities into private-property testing. SB 674 on environmental advisory council and waste reduction received mixed testimony: supporters said it would help address landfill siting and protect water resources, while industry groups requested changes to advisory council membership and exemptions for certain products, and one witness opposed the measure. For SB 1067 on deposit beverage container recycling, the Attorney General said the grant language may be constitutionally problematic because it lacks standards, while industry testimony both supported the recycling goals and asked for amendments, including broader representation on the advisory council and clearer treatment of compostable and packaging-related issues. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion provided.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS Senate Floor - 10 March, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • with the Pharmacy Board, is that right? with the Pharmacy Board, is that right?
  • pharmacy reimbursement in real time. pharmacy reimbursement in real time.
  • And no, the the board of pharmacy.
  • pharmacies. I've already addressed that. pharmacies. I've already addressed that.
  • I don't know why the reverse repealer was removed. pharmacy board are independent pharmacy board are
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, received the invocation and pledge, and then dispensed with reading the journal, committee reports, and bill titles. Several guests and pages were introduced, including junior pages, a doctor of the day, Farm Bureau representatives, and other visitors in the galleries. The chamber also recognized a birthday and welcomed a House member to the Senate. On the calendar, the Senate took up several bills and mostly adopted strike-all amendments before passing them, often by morning roll call. These included HB 1646, which increased disaster trust fund transfer limits for declared and non-declared disasters; HB 1649, which authorized additional state fund transfers for Main Street revitalization projects and increased the total authorized expenditure; HB 1653, which kept a local improvements project fund bill alive for possible repurposing of funds, including a Mississippi Valley State residence hall project; and HB 669, which allowed patrons to bring wine into licensed premises with a corkage fee and changed wine shipment reporting from quarterly to semiannual. HB 1620 created an economic zone around the Chevron refinery in Jackson County, and HB 2787 changed school district gas-piping inspection requirements from annual testing to a two-year cycle, with funding support from gas companies. The Senate also handled several concurrence and conference motions on House and Senate bills, including SB 2263 on probable-cause requirements for Marine Resources officers boarding or stopping vessels, SB 2524 establishing the Postsecondary Attainment Council, and SB 2597 involving the ABC warehouse transfer in Madison County, with the chamber choosing not to concur and to invite conference on those items. SB 2368 made technical changes to the higher education legislative plan grant program, and SB 2526 on the Rural Water Oversight Committee returned with changes removing a reverse repealer and shifting administration of some duties to a nonprofit using rural water revolving loan funds. The Senate also tabled motions to reconsider on some items, and one nomination-related motion drew extended remarks about the role of the capital post-conviction counsel office and respect for crime victims.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • Is it something that the pharmacy board has to authorize to happen?
  • So there's a gap there that we're not recognizing, and so some best practice validation, whether it seems
  • Chair, Representative Vincent, so a pharmacy can dispense it, and then the individual can do it in their
  • I'm the Director of Pharmacy for Medicaid. What Allegra said is largely correct.
  • And the injection has to be administered either in a doctor's office or a pharmacy; it can be done at
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session - 04/07/26

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • open and pharmacies functional. open and pharmacies functional.
  • What's the years of practice. Members, I urge you years of practice.
  • Where it's often that you can't find another pharmacy across town.
  • On one side you have rural hospitals, local pharmacies, and patients in rural communities.
  • pharmacy across town. pharmacy across town.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

January 20, 2026 - 09:30 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • I believe what you are saying is in theory, and I don't practice in criminal law and I know you did,
  • presence of contaminants like heavy metals or even salmonella Jeff Smith: if good manufacturing practices
  • Will physicians, especially endocrinologists, want to train or practice in Florida?
  • Also, this is strange, Representative Bartleman: but only because my sister is a pharmacy technologist
  • That is crazy to do and it puts an undue burden on pharmacies and pharmacy technicians.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee Jun 8th, 2026

Business, Professions and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm Melissa Aguirre, a board-certified pediatrician who's been practicing for 25 years.
  • These products are required to be kept behind the pharmacy counter, and the amount sold is tracked to
  • These products are required to be kept behind the pharmacy counter, and the amount sold is tracked to
  • I manage obstetric emergencies in my daily practice.
  • California was the first to codify advanced practice abortion care in 2013.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
Summary: The committee began with announcements about consent items and then heard AB 72, which would create an electric vehicle economic opportunity zone in Riverside County. Supporters said the bill would help bring EV manufacturing jobs and training to the Inland Empire, while some senators questioned whether the state should favor one region over others and whether local economic development groups should handle the effort. The bill was passed on a roll call vote and sent to Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement. Members then took up AB 685, which would establish the Small Business Resiliency and Innovation Fund to support technical assistance and capital infusion programs for small businesses. The author and supporters emphasized the importance of TAP and related programs for women-owned, minority-owned, immigrant-owned, veteran-owned, and rural businesses, while some chambers of commerce raised concerns about amended eligibility language and whether the funding would be truly supplemental. After discussion, the bill was passed and sent to Senate Appropriations. The committee also approved ACR 173 on a 7-0 vote, and consent items AB 375 and AB 1587 were adopted 10-0. Later, AB 1760, a Dental Practice Act cleanup bill, and AB 1637, which would limit who may alter physician-authored medical records, both passed unanimously. AB 1785, allowing online sales of pseudoephedrine products with existing safeguards, also passed 10-0. AB 1973, expanding abortion-care authority for advanced practice clinicians, drew strong support and opposition and passed 7-3 after senators raised safety and training questions. AB 2025, requiring disclosures for digitally altered rental listings, passed 8-1, and AB 2697, allowing locally approved drive-through cannabis sales with security requirements, passed 7-3. The committee then heard AB 2249, which would tighten cannabis packaging rules to reduce child appeal, and the author described it as a response to poison-control calls and an audit finding that current law is too vague.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

FIN Info Briefing - Tue Jan 6, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Severe shortages exist in practically Severe shortages exist in practically all<01:42:14.480>
  • ,<01:42:43.840> and the Daniel Anoi College of Pharmacy, and the Daniel Anoi College of Pharmacy
  • But the, uh, School of Pharmacy, um, Daniel K.
  • > partnering<02:07:46.880> more um pharmacy has been partnering more um pharmacy has been
  • pharmacy to grow as we move forward. pharmacy to grow as we move forward.
Keywords: 910, house, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 19th, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Read the next bill. 294, a bill to be entitled an act relating to pharmacy practice for chronic health
  • As you may remember, six years ago we... passed collaborative pharmacy practice, which allows pharmacists
  • practice, and that is the bill.
  • RELATED TO COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE FOR CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS.
  • Every one of us practically has some type of rural component.
Bills: SCR5, SCR13, SB3, SB6, SB10, SB12, SB13, SB15, SB17, SB18, SB19, SB24, SB35, SB57, SB65, SB112, SB284, SB290, SB388, SB400, SB402, SB412, SB495, SB499, SB502, SB509, SB621, SB706, SB740, SB815, SB842, SB854, SB875, SB893, SB917, SB974, SB1025, SB1061, SB1073, SB1106, SB1268, SB1281, SB1300, SB1362, SB1379, SB1447, SB1451, SB1555, SB1902, SJR36, SJR12, SCR13, SCR25, SCR5, SCR22, SCR12, SCR24, SB495, SB412, SB10, SB18, SB565, SB372, SB842, SB765, SB62, SB19, SB666, SB707, SB888, SB687, SB706, SB847, SB290, SB13, SB1248, SB740, SB14, SB1006, SB504, SB917, SB925, SB388, SB1902, SB1121, SB995, SB857, SB305, SB296, SB284, SB35, SB6, SB815, SB3, SB1281, SB1379, SB1300, SB1497, SB1499, SB1498, SB1451, SB1061, SB15, SB65, SB241, SB304, SB402, SB499, SB621, SB974, SB1023, SB1024, SB1025, SB1106, SB686, SB112, SB371, SB204, SB400, SB609, SB1447, SB670, SB502, SB427, SB850, SB854, SB413, SB1555, SB1362, SB1346, SB1033, SB1220, SB1073, SB810, SB987, SB1539, SB893, SB447, SB875, SB406, SB509, SB985, SB965, SB17, SB1119, SB1505, SB12, SB24, SB57, SB1194, SB1253, SB1215, SB1532, SB1268, SB1302, SB856, SB650, SB583, SB673, SB840, SJR57, SCR8, SB213, SB681, SB1172, SB1252, SB378, SB610, SB918, SB1343, SB608, SB487, SB955, SB957, SB988, SB990, SB1019, SB1021, SB1120, SB251, SB958, SB535, SB761, SB1, SB541, SB315, SB379, SB1018, SB1737, SB266, SB1415, SB3, SB6, SB15, SB35, SB290, SB706, SB842, SB917, SB1281, SB1451, SB1902, SB12, SB13, SB17, SB19, SB388, SR261, SR265, SR276, SR277, SR281, SR286, SR293, SCR5, SCR13, SB2425, SB2880, SB10, SB12, SB13, SB17, SB18, SB19, SB388, SB412, SB495, SB2425, SB2880
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Jan 22nd, 2025

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Resolution relating to public safety, amending definitions, providing for courses of instruction and practical
  • disclosure any record containing personal identifying information or sensitive information related to the practice
  • Benefits Manager Regulation Act to restrict the types of fees that pharmacy benefits managers can collect
  • Actions made by pharmacy benefits managers as unfair or deceptive trade practices.
  • Senate Bill 68.** **Senate Bill 69**, introduced by **Senator Pope**, an act relating to unfair trade practices
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • University of Texas at Austin, but I come here today as a pharmacist and on behalf of the Texas Pharmacy
  • Today in our pharmacies and in small businesses across your district, such as the 240 independent pharmacies
  • These products are taxed in the pharmacies, whether we sell them or not.
  • taxation is good policy, whether you operate a small, family-owned grocery store, an independent pharmacy
  • The coalition consists of more than 35 retailers, pharmacies, convenience stores, food distributors,
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Higher Education Institutions Committee Jun 18th, 2026

Higher Education Institutions Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're also pleased that we are the only state institution that has a pharmacy and architecture.
  • It is also important to note that programs like pharmacy, law, and medicine don't typically use those
  • Like she said, I'm a recent doctor of pharmacy graduate.
  • for Collaboration in Advancement in Pharmacy.
  • When I joined the group, it consisted of six School of Pharmacy faculty members who not only gave me
Summary: The Higher Education Institutions Committee met at NDSU and heard an extensive presentation from President David Cook/President Stewart and NDSU leadership on the university’s priorities, including enrollment, student success, research growth, and use of New Horizons funding. Leaders emphasized NDSU’s land-grant mission, its role in workforce development, and its goal of becoming more distinctive through strategic planning, recruitment and retention, commercialization, and partnerships. They highlighted that NDSU awarded 2,370 degrees in 2025, produces a large share of the state’s engineering, nursing, and agriculture graduates, and reported strong outcomes for graduates staying and working in North Dakota. They also noted enrollment headwinds, competition from other institutions, and the need to manage tuition waivers more carefully through a scholarship optimization effort. Provost Sherry Vale outlined academic stewardship efforts, including review or consolidation of low-producing programs, strategic hiring tied to institutional priorities, faculty workload policy changes, and expanded online and regional offerings. She said the university is using New Horizons dollars to strengthen advising, student support, and programs in engineering, agriculture, and health. NDSU leaders also described new or expanded academic offerings such as robotics and automation, artificial intelligence, material science and engineering, nuclear engineering certificates, accelerated nursing, nurse practitioner certificates, a Master of Health Administration, and a clinical research master’s program with Sanford Health. They stressed that these investments are intended to improve student completion, meet workforce needs, and increase return on public investment. The committee also heard testimony from students and recent graduates who described the value of NDSU’s education, mentorship, internships, research opportunities, and support services. Alyssa Hodges spoke about pharmacy education, public health work, and campus support as a parent and student; Ethan Blessy described engineering coursework, internships with Marvin, and career preparation; and Aiden Freolic discussed neuroscience research, federally funded projects, and plans for graduate study. Their testimony was followed by presentations on partnerships with Gateway to Science for K-12 STEM outreach and with Sanford Research on biomedical research, clinical trials, obesity research, and a joint biostatistics hire. NDSU also highlighted systemwide shared services, Governor’s School programming, and research growth, including a reported 8% increase in research expenditures from $199 million to $215 million. No bill votes were taken; the meeting was informational and featured presentations, testimony, and discussion of future planning and partnerships.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 8th, 2025

Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • residential treatment facilities to ensure that providers are operating according to current best practices
  • dosing, removing the requirement for a needs assessment to open a new OTP, removing the need for pharmacy
  • practices such as those, I know there has been a lot of recent federal attention on these approaches
  • These pharmacy requirements necessitate that a pharmacy be employed at the OTP, which is pretty burdensome
  • It takes practice and rigor and intention and a lot of learning along the way. To make it work.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Finance (04/21/2025)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • talk about our pharmacy and our pharmacy<00:34:18.720> uh<00:34:18.879> process<00:34:19.359
  • combined experience medical and pharmacy combined experience medical and pharmacy and<02:02:50.560
  • Um, without knowing private practice.
  • c><02:33:22.080> attorney experience as a practicing attorney experience as a practicing attorney
  • <03:33:41.040> Formula the national best practices. Formula the national best practices.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • , and increases in pharmacy costs.
  • It mentioned several times kind of the additional, like, rising costs around pharmacy costs.
  • One would be scope of practice: are they allowed to, according to state law or their practice board?
  • One would be scope of practice.
  • Are they allowed to according to sort of state law or their practice board?
Summary: The committee heard a budget oversight hearing on the Department of Health Care Services, focusing first on the overall Medi-Cal budget and a March General Fund loan to cover a current-year shortfall. DHCS said the 2025-26 budget proposal totals $193.4 billion, with Medi-Cal projected at $188.1 billion total funds and $42.1 billion General Fund, driven by higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, managed care growth, and costs tied to eligibility expansions and the COVID-era redetermination unwinding. The department said the $3.44 billion loan was needed to manage cash flow and ensure timely payments to providers and plans, while the LAO noted Medi-Cal’s cash-basis budgeting creates volatility and that more detailed estimates would come with the May Revision. Members discussed federal Medicaid threats, the need for transparency on cost drivers, and the impact of pharmacy spending, long-term care, and immigration-related coverage expansions. The second major topic was family health programs, including California Children’s Services, the continuous coverage unwinding, and opioid settlement fund spending. DHCS described CCS funding methodology changes, ongoing county stakeholder work, and a delayed rollout of CCS monitoring and oversight until July 1, 2025, while county representatives and advocates argued the program is underfunded and asked for more technical assistance and a delay in implementation. On the unwinding, the department explained that federal redetermination flexibilities helped maintain coverage after the pandemic, but the Governor’s budget proposes ending them at the end of June 2025; advocates urged making the flexibilities permanent to avoid coverage losses. For opioid settlement funds, DHCS and Finance said the budget increases funding for naloxone distribution while reducing other harm-reduction spending based on updated settlement revenues, prompting criticism from members and public commenters who argued the change would weaken effective harm-reduction programs. The hearing also included an update on Proposition 35 implementation. DHCS said the voter-approved measure continuously appropriates MCO tax revenues beginning in 2025, with up to $4.6 billion annually available for specified Medi-Cal and provider investments in 2025 and 2026, but implementation depends on consultation with the required stakeholder advisory committee. The department and LAO noted uncertainty about future federal rules affecting the MCO tax after 2026. Public testimony largely supported maintaining Medi-Cal expansions, protecting immigrant coverage, preserving harm-reduction funding, and increasing support for community health workers, pediatric dental care, and CCS county administration. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Financial Services Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> I'm Ben Moltry, and I'm representing myself, but also the Alabama Independent Pharmacy Alliance.
  • As a gastroenterologist when I was in private practice, if you'd come to me and had an upper endoscopy
  • fairness for pharmacies and patients. fairness for pharmacies and patients.
  • if you'd come to me and had a practice if you'd come to me and had a endospy<00:27:39.440> upper<
  • today and will be able to acquire health care practices once this legislation is passed.
Bills: HB55, SB15, SB247
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Task Force Jun 25th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Task Force

Transcript Highlights:
  • Narcan and medication-assisted treatment are discussed or practiced.
  • Four, use evidence-based policies and practices.
  • Like a lot of harm reduction practices, the ripple effect extends far beyond just recovery.
  • So moving on to the next section with medical care and pharmacy services at APO.
  • So moving on to the next section with medical care and pharmacy services at APO.
Keywords: 959, house, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-03-19 (2:30PM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Clerk: Senate Bill 294, a bill to be entitled an Act relating to pharmacy practice for chronic health
  • As you may remember, six years ago we passed collaborative pharmacy practice which allows pharmacists
  • practice and that is the bill.
  • Clerk: Senate Bill 294, a bill to be entitled an Act relating to collaborative pharmacy practice for
  • Every one of us practically has some type of rural component.
Keywords: 998, house, all
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • for you than it would be many pharmacies for you than it would be if<00:04:45.840> pharma<00:
  • You've talked about how this is for our rural pharmacies and our safety net facilities.
  • Well, you know that I practiced for about 15 years.
  • <00:08:53.040> At science-based vaccine practices are.
  • At science-based vaccine practices are.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

CPN-AEN, HHS-CPN, TCA-CPN, CPN DEFER, CPN, CPN Public Hearings 04-01-2025

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • polluters knowingly responsible' with 'polluters who knowingly engaged in misleading and deceptive practices
  • Thank you. practices regarding the connection practices regarding the connection between<00:18:28.880
  • <00:49:35.200> reimbursement and convene a pharmacy reimbursement and convene a pharmacy reimbursement
  • The next set are STR 70 and SR 54 relating to the pharmacy reimbursement working group.
  • uh relating to the pharmacy uh relating to the pharmacy reimbursement<01:00:04.160> working
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: At a joint Senate hearing on SCR 198 and SR 178, the committees considered resolutions urging Hawaii insurers and the Hawaii Property Insurance Association to seek subrogation claims against polluters linked to worsening climate impacts and higher insurance costs. Testimony was overwhelmingly supportive, with 47 written testimonies in support and additional oral support from former Honolulu chief resilience officer Josh Tamro. The committees recommended passage with amendments, narrowing the language to refer specifically to polluters who knowingly engaged in misleading and deceptive practices about the connection between their products and climate change, along with technical non-substantive edits. Both committees adopted the amended resolutions by vote. At a separate joint hearing on STR 226 and SR 201, which urged changes to Medicaid 1915 home and community-based services waiver eligibility criteria, supporters argued the current rules and administrative guidance were inconsistent and left some people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including those with mental health dual diagnoses, without proper access. The Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities and Hawaii Disability Rights Center supported the intent but noted factual issues and said a memo from the department addressed only part of the problem, not the mental health-related concerns. After discussion, the chair concluded the resolution was not the best vehicle and deferred it, suggesting a more comprehensive bill would be needed. The Commerce and Consumer Protection committee also took up HB 799 HD2 SD1 on healthcare and recommended passage with amendments, including striking a written transfer-agreement requirement, shortening the sunset to June 30, 2028, removing a related timeline, and making technical corrections. In another joint hearing, SCR 222 and SR 197, which would have urged towing companies to have on-site ATMs for vehicle owners, drew opposition from the Office of Consumer Protection, which said Act 60 already requires credit and debit card acceptance and that ATMs could let companies evade the law. Members noted ongoing complaints and weak enforcement, and the chair recommended turning the issue into a task force for further study, with decision-making deferred because of quorum issues. The committee also heard several other resolutions: STR 57 and SR 41, urging Congress to create a national reinsurance program, received only supportive testimony; STR 70 and SR 54, calling for a pharmacy reimbursement working group, also drew support; and STR 123, proposing an attorney general-led landlord-tenant working group, received comments from the Attorney General’s Office suggesting a more appropriate lead agency and noting the Legislative Reference Bureau may be better suited to assist. No final adverse action was taken on those measures during the hearing segment described.