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NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (01/29/2026)
Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> where where this would somehow prevent where where this would somehow prevent that<01:11:16.159>
- It does prevent the state from, or does not prevent the state from, enforcing consumer protection, safety
- </c> includes explicit limitations to prevent includes explicit limitations to prevent anti-competitive
- This bill will prevent decisions.
- </c><04:31:44.080><c> catastrophic</c> great expense to prevent catastrophic great expense to prevent
Committee:
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (02/07/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:50:27.160><c> of</c> your heart and provide some measure of your heart and provide some measure
- </c><01:03:31.760><c> and</c> that with spending on prevention and that with spending on prevention and
- What we do know is that preventing access to the preferred method of suicide prevents total suicides.
- What we do know is that preventing access to the preferred method of suicide prevents total suicides.
- ><c> suicide</c><06:25:18.680><c> prevents</c><06:25:19.558><c> total</c> method of suicide prevents
Committee:
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (04/08/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> harm reduction measures. harm reduction measures.
- However, it does reduction measures.
- I just it just seems very measures.
- However, it goes on to talk about harm reduction measures and identifying harm reduction measures, and
- </c> and identifying harm reduction measures. and identifying harm reduction measures.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This change prevents<00:05:23.759><c> negative</c><00:05:24.160><c> values</c><00:05:24.479><c> from<
- /c><00:05:24.639><c> pushing</c> prevents negative values from pushing prevents negative values from
- And while we made some measures and made some movement in that direction, we certainly could do that,
- </c><00:16:19.120><c> movement</c><00:16:19.440><c> in</c><00:16:19.680><c> that</c> measures and made
- some movement in that measures and made some movement in that direction,<00:16:20.720><c> we</c><00:
Bills:
HF4266
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
Keywords:
higher education, state grants, financial aid, college affordability, Office of Higher Education, Minnesota State Grant, need analysis, expected family contribution, student aid, grant formula, living and miscellaneous expense allowance, dependent student, independent student, parental contribution, student contribution, surplus appropriation, biennium, summer 2026, 1183, house
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:48:51.680><c> for</c><00:48:52.000><c> our</c> important um safety measure for our important
- um safety measure for our students<00:48:53.640><c> but</c><00:48:53.839><c> also</c><00:48:54.119><c
- Arrest and preventable sudden cardiac death through education and advocating for change.
- </c><01:05:06.279><c> of</c> national voice for the prevention of national voice for the prevention of
- It's most likely from Parent HeartWatch, the national voice for cardiac arrest prevention.
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- But the purpose wasn't a cost savings measure. That's a secondary benefit of the closure.
- <00:29:27.039><c> savings</c> the purpose wasn't a cost savings the purpose wasn't a cost savings measure
- That's a secondary benefit of measure. That's a secondary benefit of the<00:29:29.440><c> closure.
- </c> um additional accountability measures. um additional accountability measures.
- </c><02:05:17.920><c> uh</c> ask for um extraordinary measures uh ask for um extraordinary measures uh
Committee:
Senate Education
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Richfield would likely have prevented Richfield would likely have prevented the<00:04:59.360><c>
- We have specific benchmarks and safety measures that we closely track as part of this pilot.
- There's quite a few other performance measures that we as an agency maintain, but if you look at our
- There's quite a few other performance measures that we as an agency maintain, but if you look at our
- It aligns with a federal measure that’s similar, but it’s a little different.
Committee:
Senate Transportation
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- with an emphasis on measurable impact.
- , prevention shows a cut of $300,000.
- to prevent Youth Tobacco Use Prevention Initiatives to implement evidence-based interventions to prevent
- Major initiatives include maternal mortality review and prevention, sexual violence prevention and response
- Major initiatives include maternal mortality review and prevention, sexual violence, prevention, and
Committee:
House Budget
Summary:
The committee heard the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services present its FY 2027 budget request, with Director Sarah Wilson and budget staff describing the department’s mission, major divisions, and the impact of federal funding shifts, especially the FMAP change that will shift costs to general revenue. Wilson emphasized prevention, public health infrastructure, workforce capacity, and data modernization, while several members praised the department’s responsiveness and cost-cutting efforts. The discussion repeatedly focused on lapses, excess authority, and the department’s stated practice of spending federal and other funds before general revenue where possible.
Members asked detailed questions about local public health agency support, nutrition programs, rural health and primary care, newborn screening, the state public health lab, and the department’s use of flexibility and reallocations. There was extended discussion of substance use disorder funding: the department explained that some funding is being reduced in its own budget because transfer authority is being added for the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Corrections, while some other SUD-related lines are actual reductions. Members also questioned tobacco prevention and cessation cuts, maternal and infant health programs, fetal infant mortality review, and minority health initiatives, with staff explaining program purposes and noting that some reductions were tied to excess authority or to moving programs to other departments.
The committee also reviewed specific operational items such as the Health Initiatives Fund transfer, debt offset escrow for loan repayment defaults, donated funds authority, emergency preparedness, environmental health, health informatics, HIV/STI/hepatitis services, local public health incentives, and the COVID/ARPA authority reductions. Several members requested follow-up information on vacancies, lapse trends, grant spending plans, and program details. No final vote or formal action was taken in the portion provided; the chair recessed briefly and the hearing continued with additional budget testimony.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 120 May 14th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It ensures that evidence-based programs are aligned, accountable, and focused on measurable outcomes
- Because of Representative Valdez, Colorado pharmacists are able to provide HIV prevention meds directly
- The more expensive offset is the sales tax retention measures.
- It expires after two years, and the EAC will be increased to measure it with that amount. >> Mr.
- 1309. >> House Bill 1309 by Representatives Furlick and Story, also Senator Wallace, concerning measures
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of these challenges are harsh realities that may prevent them from completing their studies.
- The inflation measures that we are asked to compute, they're all in statute.
- Now, C3 operational grants have helped prevent a deeper crisis.
- because that only measures students. Thank you. Representative Holmes.
- So our federal graduation rate is only measuring less than 20% of our total and hold students.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Summary:
The hearing was a Joint Committee on Ways and Means budget session held in Lawrence focused on the governor’s proposed FY27 education and local aid budget, with remarks from legislative co-chairs, local officials, and education agency leaders. Acting Mayor Giovanni Rodriguez and Superintendent Ralph Carrero emphasized Lawrence’s high-need student population, the importance of Chapter 70 and Student Opportunity Act funding, and the impact of state aid on schools serving many English learners and low-income families. Carrero highlighted Lawrence High School programs such as early college, dual degrees, career pathways, and early childhood classrooms embedded in the high school, while lawmakers introduced themselves and noted the importance of the hearing to their districts.
Acting Secretary of Education Amy Kershaw, Commissioner of Higher Education Noi Ortega, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Pedro Martinez, and Commissioner of Early Education and Care Amy Kershaw outlined the administration’s FY27 priorities. They described investments in literacy initiatives, universal school meals, student mental health, early college and career pathways, higher education affordability, community college and university student-success supports, preschool expansion, child care subsidies, and workforce supports for early educators. The commissioners also discussed federal funding threats, equity gaps, and the administration’s efforts to improve outcomes for Black and brown students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and low-income students.
Members questioned the panel about the local contribution formula study, the final year of Student Opportunity Act implementation, and the need to revisit Chapter 70 funding to better address rising costs such as special education, transportation, and health care. Officials said the local contribution study report is expected by the end of June, with a draft to be shared after data analysis and public comment. Commissioner Martinez said the Student Opportunity Act narrowed funding gaps but more work is needed, and he pointed to a proposed Accelerating Achievement Initiative to support the highest-need schools. Senator Oliveira also raised concerns about Chapter 70 disparities and asked about partnerships with libraries to support literacy, prompting discussion of broader early literacy collaboration.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- And this bill doesn't prevent them >> No.
- </c><02:27:38.640><c> And</c> >> So, this process will prevent that.
- And >> So, this process will prevent that.
- We're just preventing disenfranchising.
- </c> about, well, this is going to prevent about, well, this is going to prevent independents<03:16:42.720
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill also establishes crisis prevention training requirements.
- The bill also establishes crisis prevention training requirements.
- Because you can't hardly measure it, and you really don't know until it happens.
- The NCES as the way that we measure rural, I do not believe is in statute.
- So I'm hoping that as you look towards measures to retain teachers, that needs.
Committee:
House Public Education
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Session Day 35 (2-26-26)
Kentucky House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:05:48.639><c> providing</c> appropriations measures providing appropriations measures providing
- </c> must be accompanied by measurable must be accompanied by measurable improvements<00:16:20.480><c
- </c> measures reinforce the state's measures reinforce the state's commitment<00:18:37.360><c> to</c>
- 55.120><c> a</c> Overall, these measures reflect a Overall, these measures reflect a disciplined<00:28
- </c><02:35:55.359><c> classes</c> years, taught drug prevention classes years, taught drug prevention
Summary:
The meeting opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then moved into committee and floor reports. Several measures received favorable committee reports and were ordered to first reading and placed on the calendar, including Current Resolution 9, Senate Joint Resolution 23, House Bill 145, House Bill 567, and House Bill 506 with House Committee Substitute 1. The chamber also noted that House Bills 500 and 504 had already received two readings and were sent to the Rules Committee before House Bill 500 was brought up for final consideration.
Most of the discussion focused on House Bill 500, the executive branch budget bill. Members described it as a “good first draft” and emphasized a budget process they said was more transparent than in prior years. The bill was presented as a restrained two-year operating budget with spending growth kept at a little under 2% annually, while setting aside about 2% of projected revenues, or roughly $614 million, in the Budget Reserve Trust Fund for future needs. The budget also used base reductions in some areas while exempting others such as Medicaid benefits, SEEK, corrections, behavioral health, and veterans programs.
Subcommittee chairs then outlined major spending areas. Education provisions included a 2% annual increase in base SEEK funding, transportation funding held flat, equalization for recallable nickel funding, continued retirement contributions, and major support for postsecondary access, dual credit, asset preservation, and workforce training. Health and family services provisions held Medicaid steady while adding waiver slots, behavioral health and substance use support, public health investments, and funding for rural health and laboratory capacity. Other sections covered personnel and pensions, veterans services, infrastructure, public safety, economic development, tourism, and environmental projects.
The only recorded action on the floor was adoption of House Committee Substitute 1 to House Bill 500, followed by a motion for final passage of the bill as amended. The transcript ends as discussion on final passage begins, before any final vote is shown.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Capping Property Taxes / Resuming the Fight Against Fraud / A New Senator Takes Her Seat Mar 13th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- More on how this affordability measure provides relief and empowers residents.
- erosion along ditches and preventing erosion along ditches and bodies<00:09:33.240><c> of</c><00:09:
- A popular bipartisan approach to preventing fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars is back again this
- fraud and protecting taxpayer preventing fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars<00:10:38.920><c> is</
- >> Yeah, I mean, so in my first term, I've spent almost all of the years working on fraud prevention.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 16th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health & Long-Term Care
Transcript Highlights:
- These timely alerts also help us direct prevention and harm reduction efforts strategically to areas
- I am the prevention and treatment manager at the Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program
- And I'm talking partners like treatment and harm reduction partners, community prevention coalitions,
- They also control and prevent the spread of diseases, provide public information on the cause, nature
- , and prevention of disease, and report certain contagious diseases or infections to the state board
Committee:
Senate Health & Long-Term Care
Keywords:
nursing titles, licensure, healthcare professionals, patient safety, professional standards, SB 5915, health technology assessment, HTA, clinical committee, medical technology review, coverage determination, state-purchased health care, Washington health care, RCW, evidence-based medicine, cost-effectiveness, safety and efficacy, Medicare coverage, national coverage determination, clinical guidelines
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- But if we don’t introduce a measure, then the discussion will stop right here today, you know.”
- “What I’ll do then is continue to introduce the measure for this year.
- </c> the case of Energy Efficiency measures the case of Energy Efficiency measures we<00:51:42.040><c
- So here are some notable measures and things of our office.
- So here are some notable measures and things of our office.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Legislative Procedure and Arrangements Jan 8th, 2026 at 02:30 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- I could ask how many constitutional measures were, I don't...
- Well, I could ask how many constitutional measures were, I mean, were drafted?
- But I think they should be, those constitutional measures should be moved up.
- So, Senator Hogue, could we not now, you could motion that we would mirror the constitutional measure
- The constitutional measure with the other resolution date or whatever date you were thinking?
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.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- We were also required under Section 29 for an analysis of potentially preventable health care events
- So this is also measured in milligrams. The trend is upward as well.
- It's measured in ounces, and you can see that if you double the number for FY 24-25, it is on a growth
- So we're measuring the labs.
- So we're measuring the labs, the private laboratories are testing things, and we're coming in behind
Committee:
Senate Health Policy
Summary:
The Senate Health Policy Committee received updates from the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Department of Health on implementation of 2024 health care laws. AHCA reviewed progress on workforce and reimbursement measures in Senate Bill 7016 and related bills, including FRAME and TEACH funding, graduate medical education reporting, behavioral health teaching hospitals, acute hospital care at home, advanced birth centers, non-emergent care access plans, and rural emergency hospitals. Agency officials said several programs are already operational or have begun payments, while others are still in rulemaking, federal approval, or report-preparation stages. Senators asked about timing, funding reversion concerns, and whether appropriated dollars would be spent on schedule, especially for behavioral health teaching hospitals and the new birth center category.
The Department of Health then reported on practitioner licensure and public health programs. MQA described implementation of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, the Mobile Act licensure pathway, massage therapy enforcement changes, background screening expansion, liposuction safety requirements, pharmacist HIV post-exposure prophylaxis authority, and chiropractic dry needling. Public health staff updated the committee on FRAME and dental loan repayment, the Sinati screening grant program, the cancer research and innovation changes, the health care innovation council and loan program, the pediatric rare disease grant program, telehealth maternity care expansion, newborn screening for congenital CMV, the sickle cell registry and grants, and the swimming lesson voucher program. Members focused questions on how practitioners were being recruited to underserved areas, the pace of licensure approvals, and whether new programs were on track to use appropriated funds.
The committee also heard a lengthy update from the Office of Medical Marijuana Use. The director reported more than 900,000 qualified patients, real-time seed-to-sale tracking now integrated across most dispensaries and labs, and ongoing compliance work on product testing, advertising, diversion, and patient safety. Senators questioned the decline in qualified physicians, how THC potency is labeled and verified, and what the agency can do about diversion to non-patients. The director said the office relies on complaints, inspections, lab audits, and coordination with law enforcement, and that patients can be suspended if violations are confirmed.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- with an emphasis on measurable impact.
- The core for communicable disease control and prevention reflects our program areas that work on prevention
- , prevention shows a cut of $300,000.
- to prevent and reduce youth tobacco use.
- Major initiatives include maternal mortality review and prevention, sexual violence prevention and response
Committee:
House Budget
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 7 on Accountability and Oversight Aug 5th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Our purpose is not simply to measure the size of the challenge.
- Preventive services are excluded.
- And so there is little preventive care. It is really... And so there is little preventive care.
- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- If the state is willing to invest in prevention to prevent that pain and suffering, we'd be happy to