Transcript Highlights:

• During a medical procedure, I think it needs.
• Trying to complete a procedure successfully in or out of the womb.
• She's going in for that procedure. There's payment that is exchanged.
• We're now in a medical procedure where something has happened.
• We're now in a medical procedure where something has happened.

Committee: House Children and Families

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We have also heard that for nearly the past 30 years, CTE rules and procedures have not been updated,
• </c><00:07:06.560><c> have</c><00:07:06.720><c> not</c><00:07:06.960><c> been</c> rules and procedures
• for CTE every 5 years and updates the rules and procedures as deemed necessary following that review
• </c><00:10:52.360><c> for</c><00:10:52.520><c> CTE</c> and procedures for CTE and procedures for CTE
• </c><00:10:58.000><c> as</c> and updates the rules and procedures as and updates the rules and procedures

Keywords: 926, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This meant institutions following 2024 grievance procedures had to tell victims currently in process
• </c><00:09:14.120><c> this</c> robust grievance procedures this robust grievance procedures this included
• that recognized institutions procedures that recognized institutions understandings<00:09:47.360><c>
• procedures the regulations effective<00:09:53.880><c> date</c><00:09:54.200><c> was</c><00:09:54.360
• </c><00:12:32.600><c> in</c> country include grievance procedures in country include grievance procedures

Committee: Senate Higher Education

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• You mentioned the labor commission. You mentioned safety and health violations.
• civil law um and in other cases civil law um and in other cases administrative<04:09:35.199><c> procedure
• in the state, administrative procedure in the state, right?
• Have you heard from any town administrator, fire chief, or commission member that has supported this
• Um, I did present the committee with a letter from some... benefits, and grievance procedures, as people

Committee: House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first reviewed House Bill 1150, which would require disclosure of complaints to public employees within five business days. Members said the sponsor was still working on an amendment, so the bill was held for another week with the understanding it would be executed next week if no amendment was ready. The chair also outlined the committee’s schedule, including upcoming floor reports and the goal of finishing the remaining committee bills on time. The committee then took up House Bill 1168, concerning employer documentation requirements. Supporters argued the bill would give employers more time to gather payroll records, especially when claims arise years later, and said the current system should be adjusted for fairness to businesses. Opponents, including several members, said payroll records are usually electronic and should be produced quickly so workers waiting on wages are not delayed. The Department of Labor deputy commissioner testified that employers can already request extensions and that further extensions could still be requested under the current process. The committee voted 11-9 to ought to pass HB 1168. Next, House Bill 1250, dealing with notice, documentation, and job reinstatement requirements for leave related to childbirth, postpartum care, and pediatric appointments, was considered. Members said the statute was newly enacted, had been carefully negotiated, and should be allowed to work before being revised. The committee voted 20-0 to recommend inexpedient to legislate, and the bill was placed on the consent calendar. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 1043, which would allow private employers to adopt their own minimum pay policies for report-to-work situations instead of being bound by the current two-hour minimum, so long as the policy is established in advance. The sponsor said the bill would modernize an outdated law and preserve the current default if no policy is adopted. Members raised questions about collective bargaining agreements and whether the bill could weaken existing worker protections, while the sponsor and supporters said it was intended to provide flexibility rather than a mandate. The hearing continued with questions and discussion, but no final vote was taken in the portion provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• of and access to records of the General Court, propose a rule relating to internal legislative procedures
• member's receipt of additional regular compensation on legislative compliance with a number of procedural
• And whereas the Senate, House, and joint rules govern the same procedures set forth in the petition,
• pending before the General Court, violate Article 48 by making changes to internal legislative procedures
• senators dependent, in part, on compliance by the House of Representatives with the petition's procedural

Keywords: 1212, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Chairman, Senator Hogue, that would be procedurally just fine.
• So, for the procedural committees... The rules also revise committee structure.
• those normal procedural committees we have.
• The members of those procedural committees, just to note, they're the same members...
• Procedurally, the members of those procedural committees, just to note, they're the same members who

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee first discussed security and member contact procedures, with several members emphasizing the need for formal security training at the start of each session and clearer procedures for knowing where legislators are staying during session for welfare checks and emergency contact. Members also raised concerns about the disclosure of home addresses in other public records and forms, and Legislative Council was asked to prepare a background memo on possible training, best practices, and related legislative or rule changes. The committee then took up a bill draft to reduce the number of paper copies of state publications sent to the State Library from eight to two. Legislative Council explained the cost savings and the move toward digital distribution, but the State Librarian testified that the library still needs paper copies for circulation, archives, and depository libraries, and requested a minimum of three copies. After discussion, the committee amended the draft to require three copies instead of two and passed the motion. The committee also approved a related House and Senate Rules amendment reducing the number of bound journals distributed, and a separate rule change removing the requirement that legislators’ home addresses be printed in the rule book and allowing a lower print run based on request and need. The committee next reviewed data on bill pre-filing and legislative workload. After hearing testimony that agency bills tend to arrive in a late-year rush and that staff workload is especially heavy around organizational session and the holidays, the committee voted to move the agency pre-filing deadline to the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. It also amended the deadline for constitutional amendments and study resolutions, moving them earlier so they would occur before crossover, and adjusted the reporting deadline accordingly. Members discussed whether these changes should be handled in special session or organizational session, and staff explained that the agency deadline change could be made effective for the next regular session through a permanent rules change. Finally, the committee reviewed proposed special session rules. Staff explained that the special session would use joint appropriations and joint policy committees, with expedited bill processing, limited bill introduction routes, and remote participation allowed for members and public testimony with approval. The committee also resolved a House appropriations membership issue by keeping the House side at 23 members and giving the House majority leader authority to appoint a replacement for the vacant seat, while increasing the Senate dollar threshold to match the House. Members then discussed the upcoming rural health special session process, including how the interim rural health group would differ from the actual special session committees, the timing of committee work and the governor’s address, and whether remote participation would be permitted in the special session.

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• Clerk, we will follow that procedure. Resolutions, petitions, memorials, and other papers.
• Clerk, we will follow that procedure. Resolutions, petitions, memorials, and other papers.
• I'm talking about procedure and what I have discussed with counsel.
• Hearing none, we will follow that procedure.
• Hearing no objection, we'll follow that procedure.

Bills: HR144 , HB4182 , HC51 , HR169 , HB4178 , HB4179

Keywords: commendation, sports, team achievement, high school, state championship, suffrage, restoration of voting rights, conviction, probation, law-abiding citizen, congressional term limits, constitutional amendments, Article V, state resolution, political reform, Jackson State University, Veterans Memorial Stadium, economic growth, property tax, multi-purpose facility

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:13:52.880><c> He</c><00:13:53.120><c> was</c><00:13:53.200><c> a</c> villages traffic commission
• He was a villages traffic commission.
• I'm proud that this legislation includes my Closing the Provider Fraud Gap Act, which commissions GAO
• I'm proud that this legislation includes my Closing the Provider Fraud Gap Act, which commissions GAO
• I'm proud that this legislation includes my Closing the Provider Fraud Gap Act, which commissions GAO

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And because those procedures differ, uh, we do have some concerns if the board were To make, but um,
• And because those procedures differ, uh, we do have some concerns if the board were your willingness
• procedures for determining whether<01:10:16.239><c> a</c><01:10:16.400><c> student</c><01:10:16.640>
• :10:24.960><c> uh</c><01:10:25.040><c> we</c> because those procedures differ, uh we because those procedures
• Under the Office of Higher Education's kind of standard surplus and rationing procedures, they don't

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The Higher Education Finance and Policy Conference Committee met publicly to compare House and Senate positions on the higher education budget, with the chairs emphasizing transparency and alternating gavel control. Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through a spreadsheet of differences across the Office of Higher Education and Minnesota State, including major items such as state grants, childcare grants, work study, tribal college grants, emergency assistance grants, hunger-free campus grants, student parent support, direct admissions, paramedic scholarships, and several medical residency and fellowship programs. The House and Senate also differed on administrative funding, campus sexual assault reporting, and a House FY25 cancellation that would be carried forward. Members discussed several of the larger policy and funding choices. The Senate explained its increase for Minitex as support for operating costs and statewide access to information. The House explained its cuts to student parent support and other items as necessary to work within a zero target and to prioritize direct aid to students, while the Senate said it focused on direct appropriations and access-related programs. On hunger-free campus grants and emergency assistance grants, the Senate said it was changing the distribution method and direct appropriations rather than reducing the overall money, while the House noted differences in whether nonprofit institutions remained included. The committee also reviewed Senate-only additions and reductions in Minnesota State, including free course materials, Lake Superior College remediation, and changes to the Kids on Campus appropriation. A representative from Lake Superior College testified that the PAS remediation funding would help address contamination issues at an emergency training site near Lake Superior and that the money was shifted from the Kids on Campus initiative. No final conference agreement or vote was taken in the portion of the meeting provided; the committee continued discussing differences and testimony.

Transcript Highlights:

• procedures for people with transgender procedures for people with transgender uh<00:51:17.440><c> feelings
• </c><00:51:44.400><c> on</c> interest in covering those procedures on interest in covering those procedures
• </c><00:52:56.319><c> and</c> back on support for these procedures and back on support for these procedures
• and say that they regret those procedures and those treatments, and that those procedures and treatments
• </c><00:53:45.920><c> for</c><00:53:46.240><c> gender</c> elective procedures for gender elective procedures

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee first took up administrative regulations, found no concerns, and then passed House Bill 389 with a favorable expression by a 9-0 vote. HB 389 was described as a cleanup bill for the CASPER prescription monitoring program: it clarifies that practitioners must have active CASPER accounts, exempts charitable health care providers from e-prescribing requirements, allows sharing CASPER data with certain federal entities such as military-base providers, and updates references to hydrocodone’s Schedule II status. The sponsor said there was no expected fiscal impact. The committee then passed House Bill 392, also by a 9-0 favorable expression. HB 392 would streamline payment for non-elective medical care for patients in state mental facilities when the facility cannot provide the needed treatment, allowing care in community-based settings and payment to those providers. The sponsor said the bill was intended to improve efficiency and would not have a fiscal impact on the cabinet. House Bill 501 was next and likewise passed 9-0 with favorable expression. The bill would allow pharmacists, in their professional judgment, to refill certain prescriptions for up to 180 days when a physician has died, while excluding controlled substances and preserving pharmacist discretion to require follow-up care. Senators raised concerns that the bill does not require patients to seek a new provider during that period, but supporters said the longer window addresses rural provider shortages and access delays. The committee then heard House Bill 495, as amended by a committee substitute. The substitute would prohibit Medicaid services and managed care organizations from covering cross-sex hormones above normal levels and gender reassignment surgery. Testimony on the bill was overwhelmingly opposed, with speakers including a former senator, psychologists, advocates, and legal and social work representatives arguing that conversion therapy is harmful, that the substitute would deny medically necessary gender-affirming care, and that the measure could increase suicide risk and litigation. One witness from the Family Foundation of Kentucky spoke in favor, arguing the executive order on counseling limits free speech and that counseling should not be restricted by government. The transcript ends during testimony, with no final committee vote on HB 495 shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• So my commission, That we already have in each one of our 351 cities and towns.
• I think I fully support having a commission to look at it.
• I think I fully support having a commission to look at it.
• I won't belabor the point too much on the review commission.
• We could go through all the commissions. So I just really wanted to say that.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means

Summary: The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held a public hearing in Lawrence focused on the governor’s proposed FY27 budget for education and local aid. Opening remarks from Senator Pavel Payano, Representative Pat Duffy, and local leaders emphasized the importance of education funding for Lawrence and other Gateway Cities, with Acting Mayor Giovanni Rodriguez and Superintendent Ralph Carrero highlighting the city’s high-need student population, Chapter 70 and Student Opportunity Act funding, early college and career pathways, and the need for sustained support to close achievement gaps. The Education Secretariat testified in support of the budget, with Acting Secretary Amy Kershaw outlining investments in early literacy, universal pre-K, student mental health, school meals, high school redesign, higher education affordability, and early childhood systems. Commissioner Noi Ortega described higher education proposals including expanded free community college, continued free tuition at public four-year institutions, student success funding, early college and dual enrollment investments, and the Bright Act and Drive Act. Commissioner Pedro Martinez detailed K-12 proposals such as full Student Opportunity Act funding, increased Chapter 70 aid, special education circuit breaker funding, transportation aid, literacy initiatives, and a new Accelerating Achievement Initiative aimed at schools with the greatest needs. Commissioner Kershaw also described early education proposals including funding for C3, child care financial assistance, CPPI, workforce supports, and administrative funding restoration. Committee members questioned the administration about the pending local contribution formula study, the final year of Student Opportunity Act implementation, and the need to address health care and other cost drivers in school funding. Officials said the local contribution report is expected by the end of June and that a draft will be shared for public comment after data analysis is complete. Members also raised concerns about Chapter 70 disparities between districts and urged a broader review of the formula. In response, the commissioners said the Student Opportunity Act narrowed funding gaps but further work is needed, and they pointed to the new achievement initiative, literacy efforts, and early college expansion as ways to improve outcomes. No votes were taken at the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:12:52.720><c> This</c> delicate ocular procedures. This delicate ocular procedures.
• </c><00:19:04.000><c> before</c> observing hundreds of procedures before observing hundreds of procedures
• </c> to do injections or eyelid procedures to do injections or eyelid procedures risks<00:20:02.240><
• Injections around lowrisk procedures.
• would</c><00:27:03.840><c> be</c><00:27:04.000><c> rural</c> procedures you think would be rural procedures

Committee: House Health Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> Human Services has they have a procedure Human Services has they have a procedure that<00:08:56.120
• I think it's so routine that the department does have policies and procedures on how to handle these
• on how to handle these types procedures on how to handle these types of<00:20:20.000><c> things</c><
• </c> recommendations of policies procedures recommendations of policies procedures things<00:57:20.680
• </c> manual and their policies and procedures manual and their policies and procedures the<00:58:01.720

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> restrictive procedures. restrictive procedures.
• That's our restrictive procedures.
• That's our restrictive procedures.
• </c> procedures statute applies. procedures statute applies.
• procedures that we're seeing.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• by that minor within 25 years of the transition procedure.
• for 25 years after the transition procedure.
• And so that's why this is a special case, unlike a cosmetic procedure.
• So not an unhappiness with the procedure, but from the discrimination that resulted.
• If you're an adult, you can still have the procedure here, correct? Yes, you can. Yes, you can.

Summary: The committee first took up SB 1066, which would allow the Attorney General or a county attorney to sue researchers for knowingly or recklessly publishing fraudulent scientific research, and would let injured parties recover damages. The sponsor and a supporting witness argued the bill would create personal accountability for deliberate research fraud and cited examples of retracted or manipulated studies; opponents warned that peer review and existing scientific processes already address bad research and that the bill could chill research and speech. The committee later passed SB 1066 on a 4-3 vote. The committee then heard SB 1015, which would impose strict personal liability on providers who perform gender transition procedures on minors for later detransition costs and related injuries. Supporters, including the sponsor, a doctor, a detransitioner, and a parent, said the bill would protect children, create accountability, and help families seek redress for irreversible harm. Opponents from the ACLU and others argued the measure discriminates against transgender patients, would likely chill care by making providers uninsurable, and could function as a backdoor ban; the committee nevertheless advanced the bill on a 4-3 vote. SB 1049, as amended, limited spousal maintenance to four years and adjusted eligibility and guideline factors. The sponsor and a family law attorney said the bill would curb overly long awards and better account for assets and income, while the Judicial Council explained the existing guideline work and noted the new calculator was intended to add uniformity; one senator objected that the cap was arbitrary and ignored case-specific context. The committee adopted the amendment and passed the bill 4-2. The committee also unanimously passed SB 1189, allowing campaign funds to be used for candidate and family security, and SB 1133, eliminating a duplicate financial disclosure filing for candidates who already filed an annual statement. Finally, the committee heard SB 1081, which would bar a DCS attorney from appearing before a judge after appearing before that judge in any of the attorney’s previous five DCS cases, and advanced it 4-3 after debate over judicial familiarity and rural-court impacts. The committee also heard SCR 1001, a proposed constitutional referral to end early voting the Friday before the election, require proof of citizenship and government ID, and restrict mail ballots to voters who affirmatively request them; supporters framed it as an election-integrity measure, while ADOT testified neutrally but warned that free IDs could cost tens of millions in lost revenue and affect road funding. The transcript ends during testimony on SCR 1001, before any vote on that measure.

Transcript Highlights:

• These are emergency procedures. Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the committee.
• These procedures in Section 4 are for emergent events that impact elections.
• So this codifies those procedures.
• That section is specific to emergency procedures... That just doesn't make sense.
• That section is specific to emergency procedures, emergency ballots.

Summary: The subcommittee heard a bill aimed at protecting New Mexico elections from outside interference and codifying emergency election procedures. The sponsor argued New Mexico already ranks first nationally in election administration, but said the bill was needed in response to threats of federal interference, including possible deployment of federal agents at polling places. The bill would create state prohibitions on stationing troops or armed federal personnel at polling places, interfering with election workers or voters, or changing voter qualifications or election rules contrary to state law. It would also create civil enforcement authority for the Attorney General, Secretary of State, county clerks, or affected voters, with injunctions and civil penalties, and make violations a fourth-degree felony. A second major section would allow emergency changes to polling locations and voting procedures during declared disasters such as wildfires or floods without first obtaining a court order, including use of mobile voting units and secure online ballot return options for some voters. The Secretary of State’s office said these procedures were already largely in rule and that the fiscal impact would be minimal, with existing voter education materials and law enforcement guides covering implementation. The office also said the bill would extend who may request law enforcement assistance and strengthen existing election offenses by adding “under color of law” language and a new offense for intentionally obstructing access to a polling place. Committee members raised concerns about definitions, possible effects on military personnel, police, federal officers, county clerks, tribal jurisdictions, and polling places on federal property, as well as the scope of civil penalties and how intent would be proven. Several members questioned whether the bill was rushed, whether all analyses had been received, and whether the emergency provisions could disadvantage rural communities if notice requirements could not be met during disasters. The sponsor and Secretary of State representative responded that the bill would not prevent qualified voters, including military members, from voting, that local police were treated differently from federal personnel, and that courts would determine intent and appropriate defendants. No vote was taken; the chair said the hearing was being held as a subcommittee and would reconvene later, likely the next day, for a vote.

Transcript Highlights:

• <00:10:40.519><c> vote</c><00:10:40.920><c> on</c><00:10:41.040><c> the</c><00:10:41.240><c> procedural
• </c><00:10:41.760><c> vote</c> procedural vote on the procedural vote procedural vote on the procedural
• To sort of recap on the procedural elements of this, we saw last year, if this ethics complaint goes
• </c><00:13:52.959><c> motions</c><00:13:53.959><c> to</c><00:13:54.240><c> to</c> the other procedural
• elements of this we saw last procedural elements of this we saw last year<00:14:51.120><c> um</c><00

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• with these codes and other proper accounting procedures, as noted on the screen.
• Accounting procedures for municipalities that are set forth in Arkansas code says the city and the city
• was in non-compliance with these codes and other proper accounting procedures as noted on the screen
• We are working on the standard operating procedures, which we did have some in the finance department
• Involving money, those procedures are being implemented and documented across all the departments.

Committee: All LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING

Summary: The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee met to approve prior minutes and receive reports from several subcommittees and audits. The executive committee reported that audit and special reports were scheduled for presentation, one requested report remained outstanding, and staff had reviewed circuit-court caseload assignments in Benton County’s 19th West Judicial District. The committee also heard that Arkansas legislative audit financial statements and audits for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 received clean opinions with no internal-control findings, and that the report was accepted. The counties and municipalities report covered delinquent private water and sewer audits, with many entities reinstated after filing required reports, and reviewed current and deferred reports; several reports were referred to prosecutors, the attorney general, or the Government Bonding Board. The education audit report covered 57 school district audits, with three districts—Camden Fairview, Forest City, and Eudora—deferred until the June meeting because of findings and referrals. A substitute motion amended the report to file the Nettleton School District report, and the amended report passed. The state agencies report noted findings at the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Transportation and Shared Services, including duplicate payments, collateral issues, record-keeping problems, and missing vehicle logs; the committee filed five reports. The committee then reviewed the City of Pine Bluff’s 2024 financial audit. The city received clean opinions overall, but the management letter identified serious issues in the mayor’s office, Parks and Recreation, and Finance, including unaccounted-for receipts, altered invoices, unallowable and questionable purchases, missing equipment, and weak cash-receipting and reconciliation procedures. City officials, including the mayor and department heads, testified that the problems largely involved prior activity, said they had terminated involved employees, referred matters to law enforcement, and described corrective steps such as a forensic audit, new procurement and accounting procedures, electronic receipting and payments, and software upgrades. After questions from members, the committee voted to file the Pine Bluff report and adjourned, with the next meeting set for June 4-5, 2026.

Transcript Highlights:

• with these codes and other proper accounting procedures as noted on the screen.
• Accounting procedures for municipalities that are set forth in Arkansas code says the city and the city
• was in non-compliance with these codes and other proper accounting procedures as noted on the screen
• We are working on the standard operating procedures, which we did have some in the finance department
• Those procedures are being implemented and documented across all the departments, so in the event that

Committee: All LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING

Keywords: 1204, all

Transcript Highlights:

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• ,</c> protocols for organ donation procedures, protocols for organ donation procedures, particularly<
• A central feature of this legislation is the creation of a pause in procedure.
• Under this bill, any in procedure.
• >> But the pause in procedure is the major part of the bill.

Committee: House Health Services

Keywords: This meeting failed to start and as part of it was not live streamed. This is the complete meeting pulled from backups. 00:00 - Call to Order/Roll Call 01:03 - Discussion of 26RS HB 510 05:32 - Roll Call Vote on 26RS HB 510 06:32 - Adjournment, 958, all