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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Jan 21st, 2026

State Governmental Affairs

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  • So, you certainly make that one call to make sure if the underground facilities, wire, cable, whatever
  • So, you certainly make that one call to make sure if the underground facilities, wire, cable, whatever
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Health & Long-Term Care

Transcript Highlights:
  • annual premium tax of 2% on the premium for certain carrier lines, and the Washington Healthcare Facilities
  • Lastly, this proposed substitute amends the Washington Health Care Facilities Authority's definition
  • Cooperative agreements and contracts could explode as facilities seek access to the funds that would
  • Denial of a claim must be communicated to the provider or facility and must include the specific reason
  • Currently, there are no rural emergency hospital-designated facilities in the state.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Everyone is ag... Noring us this morning. Nope. I need to talk to somebody.
  • County Hospital District to lease all or part of its property, including hospital buildings and facilities
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So there's a young woman who is about to age out of foster care now.
  • and assisted living facilities.
  • Assisted living facilities.
  • Where are the assisted living facilities on this newest substitute?
  • Several other countries have already placed age-based restrictions on mRNA vaccines.
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part I) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • While the majority of Texans, age 60, more urgently needed than an access to care.
  • of sudden death occurring at only 50 years of age.
  • So the original plan was for him to age out of care.
  • So the original plan was for him to age out of care.
  • Nobody wants a child to age out of the department.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services met with a quorum and took up several House and Senate bills, with public testimony limited to two minutes per witness. The committee first heard HB 2358, a cleanup bill requested by HHSC that would repeal outdated training and conference requirements for long-term care facility surveyors and certain providers; there were no witnesses, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard HB 18, the rural hospital stabilization bill, which would create financial assessment tools, a rural hospital finance office at HHSC, an academy for rural hospital officers, multiple grant programs, enhanced Medicaid reimbursement tied to average cost, OB/GYN add-on payments, expanded pediatric telehealth connectivity, and a rural pediatric mental health program. Senator Perry and witnesses from TORCH, a rural hospital, AARP Texas, and ARCHI strongly supported the bill as a way to stabilize rural hospitals, improve OB access, and address workforce and financial pressures. Committee members discussed rural hospital closures, low-volume quality metrics, system affiliation, and the need for predictable monthly reimbursement; the bill was left pending after testimony and questions. The committee next heard HB 37, which would create a perinatal bereavement care initiative for families experiencing stillbirth, neonatal death, or intrauterine fetal demise, including counseling, staff training, and access to cooling devices, with possible grants and a recognition program for hospitals. Senator Huffman explained the bill, and several witnesses testified in support, sharing personal stories about infant loss and the importance of time with the baby, trained staff, and cuddle cots or similar devices. A neonatologist also supported the bill while suggesting clarification that hospitals should not be penalized if state funding is unavailable and recommending use of regional advisory councils to help implement training. Public testimony was then closed and the bill left pending. The committee also heard HB 879, which would create a streamlined licensing pathway for veterans with medical or nursing experience to practice in Texas, and HB 913, which would add new state hospitals to statute and split the North Texas State Hospital into two separate hospitals with their own superintendents; both bills had no opposition testimony and were left pending. Later, the committee heard SB 2744, a heart disease screening bill that would update the 2009 Texas Heart Attack Prevention Act to require insurance coverage for coronary CT angiography with plaque analysis, including soft plaque detection, as a preventive screening tool. The author and invited witnesses argued the technology is more effective than calcium scoring alone, can identify patients before symptoms appear, and could save lives at a cost comparable to or lower than colonoscopy. An insurance industry witness opposed the bill, arguing the technology has not been recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for universal screening and that the mandated coverage and payment level would raise costs; the bill was left pending after testimony. Finally, the committee heard HB 1151, a parental rights bill clarifying that refusing psychotropic medication or psychiatric treatment is not neglect unless the child is harmed. Supporters, including parent advocates and attorneys, said the bill would protect parents from CPS overreach and preserve medical decision-making authority, while one witness urged broader attention to physical causes of behavioral issues. Public testimony was closed and HB 1151 was left pending.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Apr 29th, 2025

Human Services

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  • Their facilities were short staffed. Some, there were no staff.
  • Some of these facilities are charging us upwards of $6000 to $10,000.
  • Emiliano Romero, leading age Texas neutral on the bill, is that correct?
  • So my mother is in an assisted living facility right now.
  • I have examples where facilities shipped their residents to the hospital. Who paid for it?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 29th, 2025

Human Services

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  • And in the federal law, we have something called EPS. ... that means that if a child under the age of
  • And these people are in these facilities.
  • There are facilities with short staff, some that were...
  • These facilities have independent living and assisted living in the same building, that's right.
  • I have examples where facilities shipped their residents to the hospital. Who paid for it?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 29th, 2025

Human Services

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  • Rehabilitation facilities, unlike long-term care facilities, do not have access to the state's long-term
  • But anyway, we need to know who owns the different facilities.
  • It repeals the nursing facility direct care staff rate enhancement program.
  • But the point is, Jerry says these are all different facilities.
  • Facilities are different from each other, and the best.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Public Education

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  • This insurance is mandated in order to protect our facilities.
  • a doctor to provide that prescription may also be logistically impossible, given that most school-aged
  • Over public instructional facilities.
  • These facilities are not only centers of education but also hubs of community life.
  • Our maintenance and operations teams also benefit from being able to monitor our facilities and check
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 21st, 2025 at 01:04 pm

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • the Phelps Correctional Facility.
  • All these things, I doubt, would happen if I was in a Texas facility. Is that...
  • Detainees do not even have those protections in the out-of-state facilities.
  • We contract that with our facilities.
  • We have things like age, younger people reoffend more than older people.
Summary: The subcommittee on county and regional government heard a long agenda of county-related bills, with most measures left pending after testimony. HB 2097, by Rep. Martinez, would let counties that opt in use an independent hearing examiner instead of a civil service commission for certain deputy sheriff discipline appeals; the bill drew support from CLEET’s Robert Leonard, who said it would be fairer and faster, and it was left pending. HB 4642, by Rep. Gonzalez, would require counties that contract with out-of-state jail facilities to include Texas jail-standard protections and oversight; Gonzalez, detainee Jess Hampton, his wife, Texas Jail Project’s Krish Kundu, and TCJS director Brandon Wood all discussed deaths and poor conditions in Louisiana facilities, staffing shortages, and the need for guardrails and data collection. The bill was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4350, by Rep. Capriglione, allowing peace officers to request redaction of personal information from online real property records. Supporters said officers face targeted threats and should have protections similar to judges; a title industry witness warned about preserving the integrity of land records. The bill was left pending. HB 3687, by Rep. Harless, would require county fire marshals in counties over 100,000 to meet training and certification standards within set timeframes; Harris County Fire Marshal Laurie Christensen supported professionalization, and the bill was left pending. HB 4105 would let very large counties give a local-bid preference for construction and infrastructure contracts, and HB 4205 would require pay parity for similar law enforcement ranks within large counties; both were supported by Harris County officials and constables and left pending. Later, the committee heard HB 5403, which would repeal a special rule limiting Dallas and Tarrant county sheriffs’ control over commissary funds; the author said it would remove an outdated population bracket, and the bill was left pending. HB 4462 would require large counties to allow elected officials named in civil suits to seek outside counsel and have a role in settlement decisions; supporters argued county attorneys and commissioners court can have conflicts of interest, while questions focused on who qualifies and whether the bill could complicate settlements. The bill was left pending. Finally, HB 240, by Rep. Swanson, would restore a five-member quorum requirement for Harris County tax levies, effectively preventing tax action without all commissioners present and defaulting to the no-new-revenue rate if quorum is not met; urban counties opposed it as a potential budget obstruction, while supporters said it protects taxpayers and representation. That bill was also left pending. The transcript ends as the committee begins HB 3319, which would create a civil service system for constable department employees in large counties, but the discussion is cut off before testimony or action.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 21st, 2025

Public Health

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  • So we currently do that right now in Austin and a facility like this would be a more robust facility
  • When people in a young age start doing, they probably will pick up something in a later age.
  • So is your age?
  • Austin, facility to facility. And so that's a small scale.
  • Facilities fees or it would be our costs.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 21st, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

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  • as the Phelps Correctional Facility.
  • The facility is operated by Louisiana Workforce LLC.
  • All these things I doubt would happen if I was in a Texas facility.
  • Our facilities...
  • Age, younger people have higher recidivism rates than older people.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Mar 19th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • Both of those facilities have 2 reactors each. Both were designed to have 4 reactors each.
  • Also when we define electric generation facility, we want to make sure those, these MSRs and the Texas
  • A&M facility are included in that definition.
  • In addition, Texas Southern University has for 120 million to replace an aging law school.
  • I'm glad that they're looking at data, but I mean, are they blaming public safety facilities for, for
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs - Part 1 Mar 19th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • At age four, my half-brother molested me.
  • data, so we pulled all the AG complaint data over a five-year period.
  • assisted living facilities. dialysis centers and hospice facilities, which has been in statute since
  • 2011. bill would require the utilities to maintain a list of those facilities.
  • Generator, hospitals, all of these facilities.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 20th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and pledges, and recognized several visiting groups and honorees, including students from Wesleyan Christian School, Claremore Day participants, and a tribute to Dr. J. Craig for his Marine Corps service, chiropractic career, and aid to first responders after the Oklahoma City bombing. The chamber also welcomed a Cricket Oak High School AFJROTC unit and the Lincoln Christian wrestling team, both recognized for recent achievements. The Senate then adopted Senate Resolution 43 commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and honoring victims, survivors, and first responders. The Senate took up House Bill 1933, first rescinding prior action and then adopting a floor amendment to correct a drafting error and shift a penalty provision; the bill then passed 47-0. House Bill 4248, which would require purchasers of hemp beverages to be 21 and treat them similarly to beer for age purposes, passed 45-0 after brief discussion about whether it had medical implications. The Senate also adopted House amendments to Senate Bill 1847, described as a compassion bill that would have saved the state money, and passed it 35-11 before later approving it as an emergency measure with 43 ayes. The chamber next adopted House amendments to Senate Bill 1778, a major literacy bill adding early intervention, teacher training, and optional early ELA testing for second graders, along with good-cause exemptions; it passed 43-2 and then as an emergency measure. The Senate also passed House Joint Resolution 1086, approving rules from several agencies, by 42-4. Finally, the Senate advanced and passed a series of sunset-extension bills for boards and councils, including the Child Death Review Board, county government training commission, Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Board of Examiners in Optometry, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, several environmental advisory councils, and the Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence, with most later receiving emergency passage. The Senate concluded with announcements of upcoming committee meetings and adjourned until April 25, 2026 at 1:30 p.m.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 23rd, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • To transportation facility designations. Debate? Representative Jacques in debate.
  • We recognize that these facilities are necessary.
  • This facility burned down four years ago, and it burned for three weeks.
  • Approximately 23.4 Floridians are age 60 or older, and for adults aged 60 and older living in a mobile
  • We need to get you ready at age 1 and... ...two.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 23rd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

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  • and services to a person who are at least 62 years of age.
  • , and protection for facility employees who report human trafficking. recognizes Ms.
  • in protection for facility employees who report human trafficking.
  • Members, in 2023, House Bill 3474 raised the juror exemption age. For petted juries, it's 75.
  • The only change is really made is in the age. from 70 to 75, that's the only change.