Transcript Highlights:

• Chairman and members of the committee. John Thomas, Mr. Chair, members of the committee.
• Under Rule 9, we are in committee talk; we should not impute that another senator's behavior is unbecoming
• And I would suggest we check with the rules attorney after this committee, and we'll clarify.
• We would suggest we check with the rules attorney after this committee and we'll clarify that rule.
• , this committee is...

Summary: The committee first took up SB 1114, which would appropriate $1 million to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office to investigate patient brokering in behavioral health and substance abuse treatment. Sponsor Sen. Werner described patient brokering as a continuing abuse tied to the state’s Medicaid fraud crisis, especially affecting Native Americans, and said the county attorney had the capacity to handle statewide oversight. The bill was moved and received a do pass recommendation on a 9-0-1 vote. The committee then considered SB 1111, as amended by a strike-everything amendment, to create statewide rules for automated license plate readers. Supporters from law enforcement said ALPRs are important for investigations, missing persons, stolen vehicles, and violent crimes, and argued the bill adds needed guardrails and training requirements. Opponents, including the ACLU, Institute for Justice, and private citizens, warned the systems enable mass surveillance, can be inaccurate, and raise Fourth Amendment and privacy concerns; they also objected to broad terms like “legitimate” law enforcement purposes and the lack of a clear retention limit. The committee adopted the amendment and then gave SB 1111, as amended, a do pass recommendation by a 7-2-1 vote. Next, SB 1116, as amended, was heard to require behavioral health claim denials and appeals at AHCCCS to be reviewed by someone with relevant clinical experience. Sen. Werner said the bill responds to improper denials and appeals handled by staff without behavioral health expertise; AHCCCS was neutral but said the bill could create compliance and staffing issues because “relevant clinical experience” is not well defined. The committee adopted the amendment and passed the bill 10-0. SB 1122, also as amended, would bar AHCCCS from requiring prior authorization or 100% prepayment review for certain behavioral health services under the American Indian Health Plan unless a provider is on a corrective action plan; Werner said it was aimed at ensuring providers are paid and reducing patient brokering. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1122 10-0. Finally, the committee heard SB 1072, which would appropriate ongoing state and Medicaid funds to DES for rate increases for home- and community-based services and room-and-board services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with reporting on workforce outcomes. Supporters from APAD and providers said the direct care workforce is in crisis, with large numbers of vacancies, overtime costs, and unassigned authorizations, and argued the funding is needed to retain staff and maintain care. Members discussed wage disparities, whether funds would reach caregivers, and the limits of legislative control over private provider pay, but no vote on SB 1072 was reached before the transcript ended.

Transcript Highlights:

• Program Interim Committee.
• After the committee had voted to implement the bill in committee, we recognized that it did not allow
• So that's my read on the rule. And, but. So that's my read on the rule. But is that right?
• I've got the chairman of the Rules Committee with me, Madam Chair.
• Madam President, your committee to Madam President, your committee to notify the House has returned.

Bills: SB2401 , SB2402 , SB2403 , SB2404

Keywords: SB 2401, North Dakota, Century Code, occupational therapy, occupational therapy board, criminal history record check, background check, licensee investigation, physician continuing education, medical license renewal, nutrition education, metabolic health, chronic disease prevention, health occupation boards, medical board, licensure fee, audit response, disciplinary action, Title 43, board of medicine

Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, roll call, and a quorum present, then took up second reading and final passage of several House bills related to the Rural Health Transformation Program and other matters. House Bill 1621, requiring the presidential fitness test in school physical education with exceptions and a delayed effective date, passed 43-3. House Bill 1623, appropriating federal rural health transformation grant funds and creating a related loan program and reporting structure, passed 46-0 after extensive debate about using the federal money for community health, infrastructure, and sustainability. House Bill 1622, joining the physician assistant licensure compact, also passed unanimously 46-0. House Bill 1625, authorizing the Ray Richards Golf Course land sale to support a Grand Forks transportation project and golf course improvements, passed 46-0. House Bill 1626, clarifying that the primary residence credit is applied after the early payment discount so taxpayers receive the full $1,600 benefit, passed 40-6.

Transcript Highlights:

• Chair, and members of the committee.
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• </c><00:53:46.559><c> that</c> Rules in addition to any new rules that are deemed to be appropriate for
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Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Committee on Education Case 16 will come to order. The clerk will please call the roll.
• The committee substitute... There is a committee substitute.
• Apparently, the committee substitute is for Senator Hinojosa.
• It says I have a committee substitute. So I'm gathering...
• There is adoption of the committee substitute for House Bill 2243.

Committee: Senate Education

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

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• Chairman, members of the committee. Nice to see you all.
• Uh, but we were waiting on some rules to come forward.
• </c><00:17:27.600><c> to</c> but we were waiting on some rules to but we were waiting on some rules to
• How what those rules would come forward.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Report from the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration. The House will come to order.
• We will now hear the report from the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration, pursuant to Rules
• At the time, Representative Niska, when you were the sole chair of the Rules Committee, there was a unanimous
• If they had shown up for the Rules Committee hearing that was referenced, what any Democrat would know
• The Senate respectfully requests that a conference committee be appointed. appointed as such committee

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• It had a unanimous vote in the Judiciary Committee.
• It has unanimous vote in the Judiciary Committee.
• tem offer a ruling on the point of order.
• We had informational hearings in our policy committee, a long session debating this in our committee,
• McKinnor, you are recognized on the committee bill.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Committee for further action.
• Then the next order of business would be meeting of the rules committee and committee on committees.
• I move that the Senate recess for a meeting of the rules committee and the committee on committees at
• The rules committee has met and posted the following bills to the regular orders for Monday, February
• The committee on committees has met and referred the following bills to agriculture: Senate Bills 5,

Keywords: 958, all

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• In your packets, Development Committee.
• Boy, they sure know how to committee.
• ,</c> and welcome back to the committee, and welcome back to the committee, Senator<00:56:57.920><c>
• Chair, members of the committee.
• And I'm vets committee so far.

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• makes the committee go way too long.
• Good afternoon, committee members.
• Chair, members of the committee.
• I echo my colleagues on this committee.
• I echo my colleagues on this committee.

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard Senate Bill 1272 on guardianship, which would limit a guardian’s ability to isolate an adult ward from family and require notice of major events such as a ward’s death or relocation to a more restrictive setting. Senator Jones and supportive speakers said the bill was intended to protect wards from abuse and isolation by bad actors, while still preserving good-faith guardianship. With no opposition testimony or debate, the committee voted 8-0 to report the bill favorably. The committee then considered CS for Senate Bill 1284, which would expand Florida’s Wrongful Death Act to allow civil claims for the death of an unborn child. An amendment was adopted to define “unborn child” as a member of the species Homo sapiens carried in the womb and to state that the act does not authorize claims against the mother or against health care providers acting within the lawful standard of care. The bill drew extensive debate and testimony. Supporters argued it would give parents parity and fuller damages, including economic losses and mental anguish, when negligence causes the death of an unborn child. Opponents, including the ACLU, medical professionals, and reproductive rights advocates, warned it could be used to target abortion care, increase malpractice exposure, worsen physician shortages, and create speculative damages. The committee approved the bill 6-4. Finally, the committee took up Senate Bill 1288 on parental rights, with a strike-all amendment that would strengthen parental control over minors’ medical decisions, surveys, and biofeedback devices, while adding exceptions for emergencies, court orders, certain legal statuses, and situations involving abuse or out-of-home placement. Supporters said the measure restores parents as primary decision-makers and protects children from inappropriate questioning or treatment without consent. Opponents argued it could block minors from confidential care for STIs, mental health, or abuse-related issues, and could chill school and medical screenings. The transcript ends during testimony and debate on this bill, before any final vote is shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• I move the proposed substitute receive a due pass recommendation and be sent to the Rules Committee.
• Committee.
• Committee.
• Madam Chair, I move the bill receive a due pass recommendation and be sent to the Rules Committee.
• Committee.

Summary: The Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee met on January 27 and heard extensive public testimony on several bills before moving into executive session. Senate Bill 5921 would create a Department of Health medical psilocybin program for adults with qualifying conditions, with licensed producers and clinician participation requirements, training, background checks, and program standards. Supporters, including the sponsor and many clinicians, veterans, first responders, and patients, described psilocybin as promising for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, trauma, and end-of-life anxiety, while opponents and some medical groups raised concerns about missing safeguards, contraindications, monitoring, cost, and the bill’s narrow medical model. Testimony was split sharply, with many also urging broader decriminalization or community-use protections. The committee later heard Senate Bill 6115, which would have the Department of Health contract for age-appropriate cancer education for grades 6-12; supporters from Cancer Pathways, educators, and families said it would improve prevention and risk awareness, while the bill drew substantial opposition in sign-in counts, and the hearing was ultimately closed without action that day. The committee also heard Senate Bill 5185, a pilot pathway for international medical graduates to obtain full unrestricted primary care licensure after supervised clinical practice, completion of exam and competency requirements, and annual reporting. The sponsor, Washington Medical Association, the Medical Commission, and IMG advocates said the proposal would expand access to primary care while maintaining patient safety, and the bill received supportive testimony. In executive session, the committee adopted proposed substitutes and advanced Senate Bill 5916 on non-opioid pain drugs, Senate Bill 5985 on endometriosis, Senate Bill 6019 on home care rate statutes, Senate Bill 6161 on dementia information, and Senate Bill 6183 on HIV antiviral drug coverage. For Senate Bill 5981 on the 340B drug pricing program, the committee adopted an amendment adding reporting and transparency requirements before moving the bill forward. The committee then adjourned, and the remaining hearing items were rescheduled for a later date.

Transcript Highlights:

• The committee offers up the committee substitute. Chair, hearing none, the substitute is adopted.
• The committee offers up the committee substitute. The committee substitute.
• The chair offers up a committee substitute. Is there objection to the committee substitute?
• The committee substitute, Mr.
• Thank you, committee.

Bills: HB 1301 , HB2278 , HB2776 , HB2820 , HB3848 , HB3920 , HB4172 , HB4215 , HB4284 , HB4285 , HB4463 , HB4517 , HB4690 , HB4765 , HB4766 , HB4767 , HB4768 , HB4769 , HB4773 , HB4830 , HB5506

Committee: House Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Keywords: alcohol, beverages, winery permit, restaurant, malt beverages, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, alcohol production, home brewing, family use, craft beverages, massage therapy, licensing, criminal offenses, sexually oriented businesses, public safety, bingo, charitable gaming, operating capital, regulation, funding

Summary: The Committee on Licensing and Administrative Procedures met with a quorum present, corrected the minutes from April 8, and then took up a long list of pending bills, most of which were reported favorably or left pending after hearing testimony. Early action included HB 1764 (accounting practice for certain out-of-state CPAs), HB 1788 (continuing education for barbers and cosmetologists on recognizing and assisting victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking), HB 2204 (land surveyor regulation), HB 2885 (local option elections on alcohol sales), HB 2996 (gambling offense definitions and prosecution), HB 3250 (real estate appraisals and appraisal management companies), HB 3352 (driver education on work zones), HB 3385 (farm winery permit), HB 3756 (powers of certain nonresident sellers’ permit holders who also hold a winery permit), HB 3816 (cruelty to livestock animals), HB 3913 (real estate licensing), and HB 3928 (electronic notice of towed vehicles), all of which were advanced with unanimous or near-unanimous votes. Several of these bills were reported with committee substitutes, and some were also sent to the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars. The committee then heard testimony on HB 2278, which would legalize limited home distilling of spirits for personal or family use and add honey as an approved ingredient; supporters framed it as a consistency and freedom issue, and the bill was left pending. HB 3920, a TDLR workforce/CTE bill, and HB 1301, which would allow beer or malt beverages to be sold at certain wineries with on-site restaurants, were also laid out and left pending after discussion. HB 2776, aimed at tightening massage therapy licensing restrictions for people convicted of sexual and trafficking-related offenses and strengthening TDLR enforcement, and HB 3848, which would allow electronic filing of elevator and escalator inspection reports, were both heard and left pending as well. A major portion of the meeting focused on alcohol-related bills. HB 4215 would place delivery network companies under a statewide TDLR regulatory framework; Favor Delivery supported it, and it was left pending after the committee substitute was withdrawn. HB 4172 and HB 2820 would raise bingo reserve limits and update charitable bingo rules; supporters from veterans and nonprofit groups argued the changes would help charities, but both bills were left pending after the substitutes were withdrawn. HB 4463, a broadly supported bill allowing contract brewing and alternating brewery proprietorships, was also left pending. HB 4284 would remove the “excessive discount” prohibition in alcohol sales, HB 4285 would allow airlines to store alcohol within five miles of an airport in the same county, HB 4517 would create a complaint process for Texas distillers not paid by wholesalers, and HB 4773 would let breweries and brewpubs transport their own beer between facilities; HB 4773 drew the most debate, with supporters citing efficiency and opponents warning about unintended consequences and possible effects on the three-tier system, but it too was left pending. The committee also heard and left pending a series of TDLR cleanup bills and other measures, including HB 4765 through HB 4769, HB 4830 on service contracts for lease vehicles, HB 5506 giving civil immunity to ringside physicians at combative sports events, and HB 4690 on gasoline vapor pressure compliance. The meeting ended after all business was completed and the committee adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• What is actually in this House Committee Sub.
• I now move that House Committee Substitute for House Bills 32, 31, and 25— I now move that House Committee
• Ranking Member, members of the committee.
• The court can rule that you can go out. ...current symptoms, the court can rule that you can go ahead
• Chair, members of the committee.

Committee: House Commerce

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Because all of the prime sponsors for the legislation in our committee today are members of this committee
• Thank you for hearing this bill, committee.
• Again, Lily Smith, staff to the committee.
• Again, Lily Smith, staff to the committee.
• Again, Lily Smith, staff to the committee.

Bills: HB2104 , HB2348 , HB2454

Committee: House Agriculture & Natural Resources

Keywords: aviation, wildland fires, funding, disaster relief, emergency response, timber sales, land sales, process efficiency, legislation, department language, regulatory burdens, small producers, infrastructure materials, economic growth, manufacturing, 904, all

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• We're going to suspend the rules.
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• All of our committee chairs are the chairs that have gone into the conference committees, are working
• Thank you. have gone into the conference committees have gone into the conference committees are<00:13
• That is absolutely committee.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• Chopsky, who is with us in committee. Thank you. ...who is with us in committee. Thank you.
• All right, committee.
• this committee, but so many rules.
• this committee, but so many rules.
• Thank you, committee.

Committee: Senate Health and Welfare

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• He's trying to get over to his committee. The Senate Transportation Committee will come to order.
• The motion is due pass to the Committee on Rules. Cortese: Aye. Strickland: No. Archuleta: Aye.
• The motion is due pass with the committee on rule centers Cortese. Aye. Cortezi. Aye. Strickland.
• The motion is due pass with the Committee on Rules. The current vote is 7-2.
• By Senator Cortese, the motion is due pass to the Committee on Rules.

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• </c><00:12:52.399><c> Workforce</c> House Committee on Education Workforce House Committee on Education
• </c> Ways and Means Committee when Mr. Ways and Means Committee when Mr.
• For this reason, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee, if the House rules permitted
• clause B of Rule 19.
• clause B of Rule 19.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, June 12, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• I am staffing the Jude and PSLE committees, and I’m a sophomore at...
• I am in the Democratic Caucus as an intern, and I’m in the Ways and Means Committee, the Commerce Committee
• , and Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Committee.
• So the theory being from the process when we came up with this rule was that since it came out of committee
• So we did pull this from the rules agenda yesterday, and all of the Democrats on that committee voted

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The caucus began with introductions from pages and interns, followed by a procedural reminder on consent calendars and how bills can be pulled for floor debate or amendment. Members were told that third-read consent bills bypass caucus debate, while caucus consent bills may have committee amendments adopted together unless pulled. The meeting then moved into Minority Caucus Calendar No. 2. A large number of bills were briefly presented, with several members pulling measures from consent or voicing opposition. Topics included appropriations and federal monies accounting (HB 2148), a Buffalo Soldiers memorial (HB 2062), school library funding restrictions (HB 2008), prayer at school governing body meetings (HB 2110), school safety center administration (HB 2142), parental rights and social transitioning disclosures (HB 2249), insurer assessments (HB 2091), agricultural property classification and inspection rules (HB 2104 and HB 2105), firefighter workers’ compensation definitions (HB 2138), truth-in-taxation bond notices (HB 2289), late tax filing penalties (HB 2016), engineering and professional licensing reciprocity (HB 2122), felony murder involving an unborn child (HB 2043), body concealment and mutilation penalties (HB 2044), domestic violence order-of-protection service rules (HB 2048), mandatory reporting of partial-birth abortions (HB 2074), unlawful flight sentencing enhancements (HB 2108), weapons trafficking and fentanyl sentencing changes (HB 2131 and HB 2132), drive-by shooting forfeiture rules (HB 2045), probation review notice changes (HB 2046), venue changes for cases involving court employees (HB 2126), and child support for pre-born children (HB 2144). Members repeatedly criticized several abortion-related bills, the library bill, and the tax and agriculture measures as harmful, unnecessary, or unfunded mandates. The latter part of the meeting focused on water and election legislation. Water bills included snowpack augmentation funding (HB 2024), water conservation grant disclosures (HB 2029), removal of education/research as an eligible water grant use (HB 2030), stormwater recharge mapping with an appropriation (HB 253), cesspool remediation assistance (HB 2096), groundwater pumping limits in INAs (HB 2097), Colorado River litigation funding (HB 2116), and natural resource conservation board changes (HB 2117). Election-related items included moving the primary date earlier and changing signature cure timelines and observer rules (HB 2022), a memorial urging designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization (HCM 2001), a memorial urging review of CAIR for terrorist designation (HCM 2002), and a constitutional amendment on citizenship, voter ID, foreign contributions, and early voting limits (HCR 2001). Members raised concerns about voter access, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and the practical effects of the election changes. The caucus concluded with birthday acknowledgments and an announcement for Muslim Day at the Capitol before adjournment.

Transcript Highlights:

• clause six of rule 20.
• Security Committee and Homeland Security Committee.
• So stated in Rule 23 of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
• Thank you very much for yielding, my colleague, Ranking Member McGovern of the Rules Committee.
• Committee.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 1012, house, all