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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So, yeah, government does step in and say there are things that shouldn't be done.
- Currently, kids must be diagnosed before their 10th birthday in order to access ABA therapy, which is
- Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy.
- This is really a critical step in updating the Texas autism insurance mandate.
- Appraisers and umpires are not supposed to step into that role.
Keywords:
autism, health insurance, coverage, medical treatment, health benefit plan, HIV prevention, prescription drug, prior authorization, health benefits, insurance coverage, insurance, contract termination, property and casualty, insurance agents, discrimination, appraiser, umpire, licensing requirements, continuing education, admin penalties
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, May 15, 2026 - PM
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- ,<00:57:28.320>
I <00:57:28.480>had When I went to therapy, I had When I went to therapy - Um, if you'd like, I can explain the major trauma that sent me to therapy.
- trauma that sent me to therapy. trauma that sent me to therapy.
- pay for two um, therapy sessions. pay for two um, therapy sessions.
- That is definitely the first step.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
January 14, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of our folks have probably never Chair: Stepped in a courtroom.
- I'm going to ask our cast to step to the front, Chair: Walk around to the front so that while we're doing
- I take her to all her checkups, occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy. Everything.
- Ben Knope: I've actually been in talks with my company about taking a step back and taking on a different
- I mean, so if you sort of step back from the process, I think that that's an interesting thing to note
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs May 28th, 2026
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- As far as therapy goes, we do provide free and confidential therapy, so our folks do not need to go anywhere
- That can be anything from individual therapy to couples therapy, as often the job can take a toll on
- relationships, as well as family therapy.
- You don't have to do therapy; it's not therapy. We just want you to check on them.
- And receive the therapy and training.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 5 March, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I would say that this is a creative, responsible way of exploring promising therapy in the middle of
- I will be happy to yield for any questions. breakthrough therapy designation and breakthrough therapy
- to take that step. to take that step.
- He said this is a great step for the state and moved for final passage on the morning roll call.
- And I would great step for our state.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with an invocation by Dr. Ryan Wade and the Pledge of Allegiance, and then handled routine business by dispensing with the reading of the journal and committee reports. Several guests were recognized, including Leadership Jackson County, Farm Bureau members, a doctor of the day, adult educators, and other visitors in the gallery. Senator Brumfield also announced support efforts for Senator Warren Barnett, asking members to contribute to him through Ms. Anita Jackson.
The chamber then considered a series of House bills, most of them taken up with strike-all amendments and passed by use of the morning roll call. Measures included HB 1390 on personal services funding allocations, HB 1571 on ARPA funds and unexpended balances, HB 1655 on the State Aid Road Construction director’s personnel status, HB 1650 on dormant state accounts and pooled investments, HB 1651 on state agencies using other agencies’ facilities and charging 50% of fair market value, HB 1345 on administrative forfeiture of illegal cigarette and vaping products, HB 1386 on allowing sidewalks as an eligible use of municipal infrastructure funds, HB 671 on alcoholic beverage delivery responsibility ending when retailers transfer possession to delivery services, and HB 1385 on eliminating paper-original homestead exemption submissions. Members asked questions on several bills, especially about whether the fairgrounds language in HB 1651 would affect youth livestock shows and whether HB 1386 or other measures would change county revenue; sponsors generally said the bills were intended to address state-agency use, municipal reporting, or administrative efficiency rather than alter those programs.
The Senate also advanced HB 898, creating a sales tax diversion study committee to review misallocated municipal sales tax revenues, assess impacts, examine technology and oversight, and recommend reforms by the 2027 session; Senator Hill questioned whether counties should be included, but the sponsor said that would be a separate policy decision. Later, the Senate reconsidered HB 1265, the Mississippi Debt Management Services Act extended repealer, adopted an amendment to remove the repealer instead of extending it, and then passed the bill. The body also took up SB 2632, the local governments disaster recovery emergency loan program, and voted not to concur and to invite conference. Finally, HB 1142 on bench warrant notices was called up; the sponsor explained a strike-all that would replace certified mail with personal service or electronic transmission and include a reverse repealer for further conference work.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- that guarantees a minimum salary increase to each covered educator above their local salary schedule. step
- Step away for what was going to be four to six weeks.
- The $615 million needs to be doubled, not just a one-time step up for the biennium.
- We want to support proactive steps to make sure that crises do not happen.
- Oftentimes they have to go for therapies, and it affects our attendance.
Keywords:
public education, teacher compensation, certification, funding, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
ACT 310, SLH 2025 Nonprofit Grants Program Info Briefing - Thu Oct 30, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I am Nina Guerrero, clinical director at Sounding Joy Music Therapy.
- As the sole nonprofit music therapy organization in Havi, Sounding Joy requests a grant for music therapy
- director at Sounding Joy Music Therapy. director at Sounding Joy Music Therapy.
- As the sole nonprofit music therapy As the sole nonprofit music therapy organization<00:32:04.960
- requests a grant for music therapy requests a grant for music therapy services<00:32:10.000>
Summary:
This joint informational briefing on Act 310 grants and aid focused on organizations describing how federal funding cuts, Medicaid/SNAP changes, and related policy shifts are affecting their services and budgets. Committee members explained there would be no Q&A, testimony would be limited to one minute, and in-person participants would be heard before Zoom callers. Members repeatedly asked testifiers to identify the amount of federal funding lost or at risk.
Testimony came from a wide range of nonprofits and community providers, including Aloha Care, Hawaii Bicycling League, Hawaii Literacy, Hawaii Youth Symphony, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the Tsunami Museum, The Kohala Center, West Hawaii Community Health Center, West Hawaii Region Hospital Foundation, Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, Dynamic Community Solutions, Feeding Hawaii Together, Girl Scouts of Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hawaiian Lending and Investments, Homana, Honolulu Theatre for the Youth, Kids Hurt Too Hawaii, and Kokua Kalihi Valley. Most described reduced or threatened federal support and requested state funding to maintain services such as health care access, food security, disaster preparedness, literacy and digital inclusion, youth mentoring, arts education, housing, and climate or agricultural resilience.
Several speakers emphasized direct impacts on vulnerable populations, including kūpuna, low-income families, immigrants, homeless youth, and people with disabilities. Requests ranged from relatively small planning or program grants to multi-million-dollar stabilization asks, with some organizations citing specific losses such as reduced Medicaid or USDA funding, canceled EPA or FEMA support, or expiring federal grants. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Taking Courage from the Interim / Increasing Security at the Capitol / Affordable Housing Efforts Feb 20th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Meanwhile, a string quartet and therapy dogs were on hand to help senators, Capitol staff, and visitors
- Meanwhile, a string quartet and therapy dogs were on hand to help senators, Capitol staff, and visitors
- Meanwhile, a string quartet and therapy Meanwhile, a string quartet and therapy dogs<00:04:24.000
- It's the perimeter of the Capitol grounds, but the Senate has taken its own steps to improve security
- So, talk to me about those extra steps. Sure. And just to clarify, they're not banned on the floor.
Summary:
The program opened the 2026 Senate session with tributes to Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and others lost or injured during the interim, including Senator John Hoffman, who returned to the floor after surviving an attack. Senators repeatedly framed the session around courage, grief, civil discourse, and a commitment to govern despite heightened fear and political violence. The Capitol itself has changed in response, with locked doors, new security systems, more law enforcement presence, and new visitor guidelines.
A major segment focused on Capitol security. Senator Bonnie Westlin said the Axtell report, commissioned by the Department of Public Safety, was the basis for new screening measures and identified weapon screening as the top priority. She said the goal is to create a safer perimeter for members, staff, and the thousands of annual visitors, while keeping access workable through single entry points and Evolv screening machines. She also discussed Senate restrictions on guns in the gallery, possible future legislation to ban guns on the Capitol complex, encrypted badges, internal access controls, and behavioral threat assessments. She noted some recommendations will require funding, with the Department of Administration seeking about $41 million.
The program also highlighted the Senate fiscal review, described as a nonpartisan summary of the enacted budget that is being moved toward a more interactive web format. Another segment featured Senator Eric Lucero on affordable housing and home ownership. He said the Minnesota Housing workforce and affordable home ownership program is intended to increase owner-occupied housing supply, but argued that 123 homes built statewide is not enough to address the shortage. Lucero blamed regulation and permitting delays for higher costs, said Minnesota homes can cost $50,000 to $150,000 more than comparable homes in neighboring states, and said he will continue pushing for regulatory rollbacks to make home ownership more attainable.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You've said a couple of times, and I agree. 100%, we shouldn't be allowing people to find medical therapies
- might have you said you know with the proper controls and this and this and they might have some therapy
- I mean, that's probably not a step, if you will, that they're going through. So.
- What is a necessary step in order to protect our kids?
- I have a very personal friend of mine that has chronic back pain she has spent numerous year in therapies
Keywords:
hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes, election law enforcement, criminal prosecution, Election Code, Government Code Chapter 402, local prosecutors, county attorney, district attorney, grand jury, probable cause reports, state election offenses, voter fraud, election integrity
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine biomedical research, focusing on keeping America's edge in innovation. Apr 30th, 2025 at 09:30 am
Senate Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- FDA has approved more than 600 new cancer treatments, including standard chemotherapy, targeted therapies
- Since 2014, cell and gene therapy trials have tripled in recent years, and CBER is managing approximately
- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, which... affects over 10 million Americans, as well as a new self-therapy
- percent in 2018. 65 percent in 2024, and it is no coincidence that these trends align with positive steps
- We have talked a lot about clinical studies so the next step is It's now also translational research.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 114 May 8th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Clinics' care includes neurology, pulmonology, nutrition, physical therapy, occupational therapy, social
- ,<00:47:33.760>
occupational <00:47:34.400>therapy, <00:47:34.880>social therapy - , occupational therapy, social therapy, occupational therapy, social work,<00:47:35.600>
and <00 - So, I humbly ask bill is the first step.
- The the federal government stepped away.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
The Push for New Protections for Consumers / Adding MLD to Minnesota’s Newborn Screening Program Mar 10th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 14, February 25, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- or manufacture stem cells shall be obligated by this act to provide stem cell therapy or stem cells,
- or manufacture stem cells shall be obligated by this act to provide stem cell therapy or stem cells,
- stem cell therapy pursuant to this<00:50:29.119>
act. - <00:51:05.280>
or this act to perform stem cell therapy or this act to perform stem cell therapy - Right now, this therapy is taking place all over the world, just not in America.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, December 1, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- co-sponsor, is a necessary first step co-sponsor, is a necessary first step toward<03:23:11.040>
- , believe that this is an important step, believe that this is an important step, but<03:39:39.520
- Uh it's critically important step.
- <04:14:38.080>
that pipeline of new cancer therapies that pipeline of new cancer therapies - successful drug combination therapies successful drug combination therapies are<04:24:43.439>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Human Services - 03/11/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- So, every MA provider needs to go through various steps, and the department needs to take various steps
- <00:25:38.720>
for to take various steps in order for to take various steps in order for somebody - evidence-based therapy that's happening evidence-based therapy that's happening for<01:09:10.400
- Under EIDBI you're allowed to do a real comprehensive therapy program.
- You're allowed to do a real comprehensive therapy program.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm actually very proud to lay out this bill, House Bill 179. 1987 which takes an important step towards
- Looking for steps we can take to support the professionals who choose to educate the next generation
- Segment six is a smart and strategic step.
- To bring to our attention and together that many signatures, I think is a very important step.
- I'm a non-traditional occupational therapy doctorate student at UT Health.
Bills:
HB 1105, HB1527, HB1787, HB1972, HB2081, HB3296, HB3976, HB4071, HB4234, HB4438, HB4701, HB5092, HB5150, HB5180, HB5265, HB5333, HJR203
Keywords:
tuition exemption, paramedics, higher education, laboratory fees, emergency medical services, peace officers, criminal justice, law enforcement, degree programs, public institutions, HB 1787, HPV, human papillomavirus, college health, university health, student health, public health education, prevention program, screening, early detection
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
MA cover weight-loss drugs 3/25/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, you know, we currently restrict occupational and physical therapy to kids to to adults under the
- Um, you know, we currently restrict occupational and physical therapy to kids to to adults under the
- <00:05:16.200>
to occupational and physical therapy to occupational and physical therapy to - Reducing coverage that is already available to Medicaid beneficiaries is a step backward, increasing
- <00:13:49.040>
is to effective obesity therapies is to effective obesity therapies is crucial
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Feb 26th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Transcript Highlights:
- We know cognitive behavioral therapy says that that is what research says impacts recidivism.
- We are using a. form of cognitive behavioral therapy called dialectical behavior therapy that has very
- What kind of steps are you taking to keep... children closer to home? Yeah, yes ma'am.
- Well, we've got to get the first step in place, and that's to have the trainers for it.
- But I do think it's a step further and a conversation that we absolutely need to have.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- get mental health... therapies, they can't pay for it.
- Physical or occupational therapies, if you didn't have a particular therapy... before, you can't get
- If we can, take a step back. My home base is in the criminal justice world.
- And so that's where I'm at, and I apologize for stepping on and off.
- House Bill 4806 is one step in the right direction.
Bills:
HB4806
Keywords:
civil action, damages, health care services, noneconomic damages, negligence, legal standards, 1184, house, all
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Banking & Insurance (2-19-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- But we're here today because this legislation represents a meaningful step toward reform.
- But we're here today because this legislation represents a meaningful step toward reform.
- and hopefully this is the first step of and hopefully this is the first step of what<00:08:59.600>
- House Bill 3 is a huge step in doing that.
- office visits involve some drug therapy office visits involve some drug therapy utilizing<00:29:
Keywords:
Meeting Start: 00:00
Roll Call: 00:13
HB423 Discussion: 01:38
HB423 Vote: 12:30
HB415 Discussion: 13:50
HB415 Vote: 15:13
HB390 Discussion: 16:30
HB390 Vote: 21:48
HB3 For Discussion Only: 23:15, 958, all
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 423, a prior authorization reform measure sponsored by Representative Kim Moser. A committee substitute was adopted to clarify that the bill’s prior authorization exemption program does not apply to Medicaid. Supporters, including the Kentucky Medical Association, said the bill would reduce red tape, improve transparency, and let providers spend more time on patient care. The bill would create a framework for insurers to establish a gold carding or waiver program for certain health services, exclude prescription drugs, prohibit retrospective reviews based solely on an exemption, and require annual reporting by the Department of Insurance and the Department for Medicaid Services. After questions about how exemptions would work and whether the bill addressed repeat prior authorizations, the committee voted to pass HB 423 with favorable expression.
The committee then considered House Bill 415, sponsored by Representative Pollock and supported by AFLAC representatives. The bill was described as clarifying that health insurance coverage mandates are generally intended to apply only to primary major medical policies. With no substantive opposition or questions, the committee voted to pass HB 415 with favorable expression.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 390 from Chair Meredith, presented with support from multiple insurance industry representatives and the Department of Insurance. The bill would move motor vehicle insurance verification data from the old system to the CAVIS database and shorten the reporting turnaround from 30 days to a ceiling of seven days, with the possibility of a shorter period by regulation. After brief discussion and no objections, the committee voted to pass HB 390 with favorable expression. The committee also heard House Bill 3 for discussion only, sponsored by Representative Neighbors and supported by the Kentucky Pharmacists Association. The bill would require Kentucky Medicaid to reimburse pharmacists for covered clinical services they already provide, aligning Medicaid with existing commercial insurance policy. Supporters argued it would improve access, especially in underserved areas, and could reduce emergency room use and improve outcomes; the bill was not voted on during this meeting.