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• later</c><00:16:08.800><c> and</c><00:16:09.360><c> got</c><00:16:09.600><c> a</c><00:16:09.920><c> visit
• </c> three or four days later and got a visit three or four days later and got a visit from<00:16:10.480
• Tolbert House is an acquisition as well, as is the Mural House next to it, and we house visiting interim
• officials and professors who come to visit.

Keywords: This meeting is taking place on location at the Kentucky State University Cooperative Extension Building Room 238 using on site equipment., 958, all

Summary: The interim Commission on Race and Access to Opportunity met at Kentucky State University and heard a presentation from President Kofi Aapo and Vice President Michael Dorsy on the university’s role as an HBCU and its current priorities. They emphasized Kentucky State’s impact on Black student outcomes nationally, its focus on workforce development, civic leadership, innovation, and economic mobility, and its efforts to grow enrollment, expand dual-credit partnerships, and launch a prison education program. They also described House Bill 250’s role in prompting program review and the creation or expansion of market-aligned offerings, including manufacturing engineering, agricultural engineering, biological and agricultural engineering, social work, criminal justice, and expanded online programs through “Thoroughbred Global.” A major topic was Kentucky State’s move toward STEM and applied programs. President Aapo said the university is diversifying beyond liberal arts to meet workforce demand and cited plans for a PhD in agroecology, which he said would help farmers adapt to climate conditions and would be federally funded. He also discussed the nursing program as the fastest-growing on campus, partnerships with health systems that pay tuition and guarantee jobs, and the need for a new nursing facility. He said the current nursing space is inadequate and that a new building could double or triple enrollment in the program. He also described a mobile health initiative intended to bring preventive care and health education to underserved areas of the state. Members asked questions about the nursing building, STEM strategy, teacher preparation, dual credit, prison education, and student readiness. Senator Bledsoe asked about the shift toward STEM, and Aapo said the strategy is based on student demand and data from House Bill 250. Senator Berg requested a list of dual-credit partners and encouraged long-term tracking of prison education participants to study outcomes such as recidivism; Aapo said the university has not yet begun that research but intends to. Senator Tidner asked about remedial needs, and Aapo said KSU found more than 100 students with zero GPAs when he arrived and is using co-requisite support and tutoring to address English and math deficiencies. Representative Brown and others highlighted the historical and ongoing value of HBCUs, and no votes or formal actions were taken during the meeting.

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• You might remember the last time we visited I talked about the restricted fund, and Representative, you
• There's a transfer at the end of the year, and I mentioned last time we visited our best four years of
• mentioned<00:08:18.280><c> last</c><00:08:18.520><c> time</c><00:08:18.720><c> we</c><00:08:19.159><c> visited
• </c><00:08:20.159><c> uh</c><00:08:20.479><c> our</c> mentioned last time we visited uh our mentioned
• last time we visited uh our best<00:08:21.360><c> four</c><00:08:21.800><c> years</c><00:08:22.199><

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first heard from the Department of Labor on several House Bill 2 sections. Members discussed raising the annual elevator certificate fee, which had been $50 since at least fiscal year 2014; the commissioner said the Inspection Division generates more revenue than its costs, and members agreed to amend the fee to $75 and later voted unanimously to accept Section 137. The department also explained a proposed change to civil penalty/warning language in Section 139 to align enforcement across labor laws; that section was accepted unanimously. The commissioner then gave a detailed overview of the second injury fund, describing how it is financed by assessments on insurance carriers, how claims are reviewed for reimbursement, and how the fund is intended to reimburse certain workers’ compensation costs. Members questioned whether the program still serves its original purpose, whether it is revenue-neutral, and whether it should be sunset; the department said the fund is a mixed bag for the state and industry, but no sunset language was adopted. Sections 140 and 141 were then accepted unanimously. The committee next heard from the Judicial Council on Sections 125 through 127. The witness said the changes would streamline payment for indigent defense services other than counsel, reduce the number of bills requiring judge review, and expand the council’s ability to contract with providers for services such as translation and evaluations. He also explained a proposed fail-safe allowing the executive director to decline to process questionable invoices and send them to a judge instead. Members generally supported the streamlining, and Sections 125 through 127 were accepted unanimously. Toward the end of the discussion, members asked about the cost impact of changing the misdemeanor/felony threshold from $1,000 to a higher amount. The Judicial Council said felony cases are significantly more expensive than misdemeanors because they involve more hearings, more discovery, and more attorney time, with assigned felony cases costing several times more on average. No action was taken on that question in the excerpt.

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• modern needs for security for events and creating a more welcoming and hospitable space for all who visit
• welcoming and hospitable space for all welcoming and hospitable space for all who<00:04:03.040><c> visit
• ><c> capitol</c><00:04:03.879><c> mall</c><00:04:04.879><c> we</c><00:04:05.519><c> cboard</c> who visit
• the capitol mall we cboard who visit the capitol mall we cboard Minnesota<00:04:06.799><c> Historical
• city street and having housing available as well as, you know, shopping and amenities for people visiting

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So understanding the piece and watching and talking and visiting with the employees who were in that
• A lot of your constituents come to visit the Supreme Court.
• Chavez knows the distance because he's come to visit us. It's a heck of a drive.
• We've been visiting the program at the second judicial district.
• There's one in the 13th that we need to get our team up to visit.

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

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• the station to present ribbons to visit the station to present ribbons to<02:10:19.840><c> Captain</
• When I visited the clinic last May, I saw the healing in action.
• When I visited the clinic last May, I saw the healing in action.
• Last week, I visited older takes effect.
• Last week, I visited a<02:17:52.559><c> tax</c><02:17:52.880><c> preparation</c><02:17:53.679><c> site

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, February 12, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• , they take a temporary absence and visit Florida occasionally.
• , they take a temporary absence and visit Florida occasionally.
• , they take a temporary absence and visit Florida occasionally.
• , they take a temporary absence and visit Florida occasionally.
• , they take a temporary absence and visit Florida occasionally.

Committee: House Election Law

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This care requires multiple patient visits and relationships, but so many of those patients also need
• toward value-based care, if primary care providers are being tasked with reducing emergency department visits
• We're unwilling to give him seven days of medications to get him through to his next visit.
• side—there's a thing called mobile integrated health in EMS, that we can have crews that can go out and visit

Committee: House Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Task Force

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This care requires multiple patient visits and relationships, but so many of those patients also need
• toward value-based care, if primary care providers are being tasked with reducing emergency department visits
• We're unwilling to give him seven days of medications to get him through to his next visit.
• side—there's a thing called Mobile Integrated Health in EMS, that we can have crews that can go out and visit

Committee: House Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Task Force

Summary: The task force meeting opened with a brief organizational update, including new leadership, roll call, and an explanation of the task force’s statutory duties: to study current and future drug and substance use in Missouri, explore solutions, draft or modify legislation, and report recommendations on prevention and treatment. The chair outlined the summer hearing plan, which would feature field experts, with future sessions expected to cover alternative therapies such as psilocybin and ibogaine and testimony from the Department of Mental Health. Members were encouraged to think about legislative ideas and policy recommendations for the upcoming session. The first major testimony came from Dr. Rachel Winograd, who described Missouri’s overdose crisis as evolving into a “fourth wave” marked by fentanyl mixed with animal tranquilizers such as xylazine and medetomidine, along with methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs. She said overdose deaths have declined for a third straight year, with preliminary 2025 data around 1,200 deaths, but emphasized that the crisis remains severe. Her main recommendations were to focus on demand reduction rather than repeated supply crackdowns, expand evidence-based treatment—especially methadone and buprenorphine—broaden naloxone access, and improve practical supports like housing, transportation, and case management. She also said peer services are valuable but should not be used as a substitute for clinical care, and noted that Missouri Medicaid generally covers evidence-based treatment but reimbursement for peer recovery services remains a gap. Dr. Heidi Miller, the state medical director at the Department of Health and Senior Services, reinforced the call for integrating substance use disorder care into whole-person health care. She highlighted the state naloxone standing order, which supports more than 11,000 Medicaid naloxone prescriptions annually, and urged five best practices: integrating SUD treatment into primary care, maternal health, general medical training, EMS initiation of buprenorphine after overdose, and expanded methadone access. She also argued for team-based reimbursement, stronger parity enforcement between behavioral health/SUD and physical health, and caution in regulating emerging substances so policy does not outrun the science. Dr. Doug Burgess of University Health in Kansas City echoed the integration theme, arguing that Missouri’s system is too fragmented and that patients are often stabilized and then left to coordinate their own next steps. He compared ideal SUD care to the coordinated response used for heart attacks, with seamless transitions from emergency care to inpatient treatment, rehab, and outpatient follow-up. He said treatment courts can be effective when they are well coordinated and informed by addiction science, and he stressed the importance of discharge planning, peer recovery coaches, information-sharing, and maintaining Medicaid coverage during justice involvement. No formal votes or committee actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.

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• We also support the Joint Venture Bill Oversight and Visitation.
• They instituted no-cost telephone calls as well as no-cost video visits.
• And through these surveys, we figured out specific points that they are lobbying for, such as the visitation
• Elected officials stopped visiting prisons as frequently as they used to, and with less accountability

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Election Laws

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Election Laws held a hearing on a wide range of voting-access and election-administration bills. The largest portion of testimony focused on same-day voter registration (H. 834/S. 505), with support from Rep. Gentile, Boston and Chelsea officials, civic groups, and election administrators from Maine and Vermont. Supporters argued that same-day registration would help eligible voters who move frequently, miss deadlines, or face administrative errors, and would reduce rejected provisional ballots. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Vermont elections director Sean Sheehan testified that same-day registration has worked in their states without major administrative problems and has helped increase turnout. A Boston-based panel also described high rejection rates for provisional ballots and the burden of registration cutoffs on renters, students, immigrants, and low-income voters. A second major topic was restoration of voting rights for incarcerated people, including S. 524 and related House bills. The committee heard extensive virtual testimony from incarcerated individuals at MCI Norfolk and MCI Shirley, who said voting should be restored as part of rehabilitation, civic engagement, and reintegration. They described disenfranchisement as dehumanizing and argued that voting would help maintain family and community ties, reduce recidivism, and give incarcerated people a voice on laws affecting prisons and reentry. Rep. Erica Uyterhoeven also testified in support, saying the bill would restore municipal voting rights for incarcerated residents and align with broader efforts to expand political participation. The committee also heard testimony on bills affecting election administration and access, including a proposal to reduce or eliminate mandated early in-person voting in primaries and shorten the general-election early voting period, with supporters from the town clerks’ community arguing that low usage, staffing burdens, and costs justify the change. Opponents warned that reducing in-person early voting could hurt voters who do not use mail ballots and could disproportionately affect communities of color. Other bills discussed included decoupling the municipal census from voter registration, requiring periodic accessibility inspections of polling places, and a Somerville home-rule petition on non-citizen municipal voting and another on lowering the voting age in municipal elections. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• But one thing I wanted to acknowledge is my visit with Jim Votruba. excluding families like that.
• </c><00:23:50.200><c> is</c> wanted to acknowledge is wanted to acknowledge is my<00:23:51.280><c> visit
• </c> my visit with Jim Votruba. my visit with Jim Votruba.

Committee: Joint Appropriations & Revenue

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Votruba Young Scholars Academy 00:01:55 Taxation of Financial Deposit Institutions 00:36:50, 958, all

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• California School-Based Health Alliance Conference at the beginning of last week, and we did a site visit
• in Kern County in the latter part of last week, where we were visiting school district sites, going
• I believe deeply that it was school-based supports that really helped my child after the hospital visit
• housing models and laws in other states, as well as operational expense funding to support travel to visit

Summary: The hearing focused first on behavioral health, especially serious mental illness and anosognosia, a condition described by witnesses as a neurological symptom that prevents people from recognizing they are ill. The chair framed the issue around families cycling through emergency rooms, jails, conservatorships, and short-term stabilization without lasting treatment, and warned that federal changes under H.R. 1 could reduce Medi-Cal funding and worsen access. Dawn Marie Anderson gave a personal account of her son’s long history of psychosis, homelessness, arrests, repeated jail and state hospital stays, and eventual stability when he received sustained medication and coordinated support. She argued that the system often treats the problem as criminal rather than medical and that voluntary programs and short-term services are not enough for people who lack insight into their illness. Other panelists, including representatives from the California Behavioral Health Association, Santa Barbara County Behavioral Health, and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association, agreed that anosognosia is not denial or noncompliance and said the system needs long-term, coordinated care, including assertive community treatment, mobile crisis, supportive housing, medication support, and stronger handoffs between county and managed care systems. They said CalAIM and other reforms have improved some coordination, but significant gaps remain, especially for people with serious mental illness, for those in jail or locked settings, and for people with private insurance, which witnesses said often offers little meaningful coverage for early psychosis or intensive behavioral health services. Several witnesses urged the Legislature to protect Medi-Cal, shore up county safety-net services, and invest in training and family engagement. The committee then turned to the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, with a focus on the virtual services platforms BrightLife Kids and Soluna and the CYBHI fee schedule. DHCS reported strong growth in app registrations, coaching sessions, referrals, and positive user outcomes, saying the platforms provide free, culturally responsive, early-intervention support statewide and help connect users to higher levels of care when needed. On the fee schedule, DHCS said more than 500 LEAs, colleges, universities, and school-linked providers are participating, 181 LEAs have submitted claims, and $9.6 million has been reimbursed to date, with 41,556 students represented in claims. The chair and several members criticized the pace of implementation and the amount of money spent relative to reimbursement levels, saying the Legislature had requested data earlier and that the return on investment still appeared low. DHCS responded that many claims are still being submitted, that 70% of denials are correctable, that $400 million in capacity grants has been distributed locally, and that reimbursement is increasing rapidly as more districts come online. Public comment included a rural county behavioral health director who said private insurance denials leave counties with significant uncompensated work, especially for unlicensed staff providing case management and mobile crisis services.

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• With the chair's discretion, I'm going to have a few, and we'll probably come back and visit again before
• A few, and we'll probably come back and visit again before we're done, but I want to go back on a couple
• I'd like to visit a little bit more about that.
• and I, they would have a set of GPS coordinates, provided to them by Texas Rangers, like we do, to visit

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• sessions, spoke with hundreds of Minnesotans, interviewed 42 system actors in Minnesota, conducted site visits
• system actors in Minnesota,<00:04:38.800><c> conducted</c><00:04:39.360><c> site</c><00:04:39.680><c> visits
• </c><00:04:40.400><c> to</c> Minnesota, conducted site visits to Minnesota, conducted site visits to

Committee: House Rules and Legislative Administration

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• After I had been visiting him for a few years, he decided that it was best for me not to come back.
• I understand the desire to sit with family, to visit with those, especially the elderly who are on their
• those that are at the end of their life or at the end of care to expand the ability to be released to visit
• those that are at the end of their life or at the end of care to expand the ability to be released to visit

Bills: HB91 , HB123 , HB167 , HB255 , HB264 , HB321 , HB884 , HB955 , HB967 , HB968 , HB969 , HB978 , HB985 , HB994 , HB1005 , HB1104 , HB1107 , HB1109 , SCR3

Committee: House Administration of Criminal Justice

Keywords: criminal procedure, disclosure, criminal records, witness protection, trial rights, electronic monitoring, GPS ankle monitor, ankle bracelet, pretrial release, post-conviction supervision, bail monitoring, house arrest, corrections, criminal justice, law enforcement, prosecuting authority, court reporting, provider registration, LCLE, Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:

• Whereas Lori Parker especially wanted young people to visit the memorial and learn about its importance
• c><02:03:35.360><c> young</c><02:03:35.560><c> people</c><02:03:35.880><c> to</c><02:03:35.960><c> visit
• </c> especially wanted young people to visit especially wanted young people to visit the<02:03:36.440

Keywords: In an effort to stave off issues that may occur with long format live streams, we have split this stream into two parts., 958, all

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• So, to your left and my right in the upper gallery, we have the Zion Lutheran School today visiting,
• We have the Zion Lutheran School today visiting, and they are standing.
• buried in Arlington National Cemetery, who lost one grandparent serving this country, I get to go visit
• I get to go visit Arlington National Cemetery, and it's beautiful, it's peaceful, it's clean, and every

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• at the reports that I've seen on the specific case that I believe Senator Bollock had a family who visited
• at the reports that I've seen on the specific case that I believe Senator Bollock had a family who visited
• Normally it's the assistant principal that's assigned to handle the visiting students that are sent to
• Normally it's the assistant principal that's assigned to handle the visiting students that are sent to

Committee: House Education

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• establishing a maximum grant size that can be awarded under the program, requiring in-person monitoring visits
• <c> requiring</c><00:30:05.240><c> in-person</c><00:30:05.960><c> monitoring</c><00:30:06.480><c> visits
• </c> uh requiring in-person monitoring visits uh requiring in-person monitoring visits uh<00:30:07.880

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And we have been taking photos every year with him visiting the Senate each year during that time.
• been taking photos every year with have been taking photos every year with him<00:24:03.840><c> visiting
• ><c> the</c><00:24:04.799><c> Senate</c><00:24:05.200><c> each</c><00:24:05.440><c> year</c> him visiting
• uh the Senate each year him visiting uh the Senate each year during<00:24:06.000><c> that</c><00:24:

Keywords: 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Um, so I will visit with my truck drivers to get a sense maybe there's a reason why they wouldn't want
• Um so I will visit<00:26:39.200><c> with</c><00:26:39.440><c> my</c><00:26:39.760><c> truck</c><00:26
• :40.000><c> drivers</c><00:26:40.480><c> to</c><00:26:40.640><c> get</c><00:26:40.799><c> a</c> visit
• with my truck drivers to get a visit with my truck drivers to get a sense<00:26:41.279><c> maybe</c>

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 1187, senate, all