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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Judiciary Mar 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- programs to facilitate the provision of legal services to low-income individuals.
- we are able to continue to provide the same heightened levels of services using the private business
- Legal aid provides services that save us a lot of money when it comes to the court.
- This ought to be used to provide more services and more funds to legal aid. But I am caught, Mr.
- As a strong supporter of legal aid I believe they ought to have access to the funds available to them
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty - Tuesday, March 24
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- To provide funding and services to these people.
- allow them to take money from meal services and provide to other services.
- allow them to take money from meal services and provide to other services.
- allow them to take money from meal services and provide to other services.
- The services that they provide are job readiness training, access to felon-friendly employers, resume
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Jan 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This is language access. Yes, so this is the language access bill. I'll speak to it briefly.
- Senate Bill 5847 is an act relating to access to medical care and workers' comp.
- Medical access challenges are real, and L&I fully supports efforts to reduce delays and improve access
- promotes access to medical care in multiple ways, I want to talk about the medical treatment guidelines
- I had no access to counseling when I needed it most.
Summary:
The committee first held a public hearing on Senate Bill 6136, which would require Labor and Industries to publish actuarial indicated workers’ compensation rates for each risk class and disclose when rate increases are capped below those indicated levels. The sponsor and supporters from the hospitality, retail, business, and construction sectors said the bill would improve transparency about how rates are set and how reserve funds and investment earnings are used to hold down premiums. L&I testified that the bill would require publication of a large amount of rate-setting information, but said it was already developed in the normal process and that the bill had no fiscal impact. Questions focused on reserve use, advisory committee involvement, and how the actuarial calculations interact with investment returns. The committee then moved to executive session and took action on several bills, adopting substitutes or amendments and advancing bills including SB 5292, 6014, 5972, 5869, 5874, 6058, 6039, 5944, and 6180, with most sent to Rules and SB 5292 sent to Ways and Means.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 5847, which would expand injured workers’ access to medical care by allowing treatment outside the L&I provider network when no provider is available nearby, limiting employer steering to specific providers, shortening utilization review timelines, allowing provider deviation from L&I guidelines when medically appropriate, and expanding continued treatment and cancer monitoring. Labor and worker advocates argued the bill would better reflect the Murray decision and reduce delays in care, while L&I and employer groups said the current evidence-based guideline system works for most claims and warned the bill could weaken quality controls, create vague standards, and increase costs. Testimony also raised concerns about the 15-mile access rule, the employer communication restrictions, and the appeal process for provider removal. The sponsor said the goal was to improve individualized care and continue working with stakeholders.
Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 6067, which would change workers’ compensation time-loss calculations so that 100% of the employer-paid health insurance contribution is included in the benefit calculation instead of the current partial inclusion. Supporters said the bill would help injured workers keep health coverage during recovery and reduce pressure to choose between medical care and income, while opponents argued it would not guarantee the money is actually used for health insurance, could be diverted to other uses or attorney fees, and would significantly increase costs for employers and the accident fund. L&I said the bill would require IT and administrative changes and estimated substantial ongoing benefit costs. The hearing ended without further action on SB 6067, and the chair closed the session after public testimony concluded.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Increases accessibility to qualified defense attorneys if they can participate electronically.
- Uh, I appreciate your service to Texas and specifically the commitment to the subcommittee on juvenile
- It has become difficult to find contract care to provide these youth with the extra support services
- Expanding access is an excusing violence is a smarter way to reduce future harm.
- Uh, really quickly, um, I just want to say that drug court programs really provide vital services to,
Committee:
House S/C on Juvenile Justice
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We get access to an annual self-assessment survey to evaluate cybersecurity maturity.
- We get access to an annual self-assessment survey to evaluate cybersecurity maturity.
- We get access to an annual self-assessment survey to evaluate cybersecurity maturity.
- We get access to an annual self-assessment survey to evaluate cybersecurity maturity.
- to key decision knowledge and access to key decision makers<01:14:59.480><c> it</c><01:14:59.600><c>
Committee:
Senate Elections
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 02/20/25
Commerce and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- Commerce goes in and accesses that database to pull information to see where the Minnesota consumers
- can file complaints with us if they don't have access to the CFPB's complaint database or ability to
- access that database to we go in and we access that database to pull<00:09:21.399><c> information</c>
- </c><00:09:52.440><c> to</c><00:09:52.600><c> the</c> us um if they don't have access to the us um if
- </c><00:11:45.279><c> to</c><00:11:45.480><c> any</c> wouldn't have necessarily access to any wouldn't
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Feb 4th, 2026
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
Transcript Highlights:
- The shortage impacts the ability for students to receive services that promote success in areas of academics
- And so school is really their number one platform for being able to access some sort of support.
- So yeah, I just wanted to share about my experience with... Really get that access.
- us to be more accessible and more open.
- operations that are constantly doing stuff like that, so that every community has access to some of
Keywords:
mathematics education, career pathways, applied algebra, college readiness, technical education, school counselors, educational standards, certification requirements, evaluation criteria, professional development, public school personnel, salary adjustment, performance salary schedule, cost-of-living adjustment, school administration
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education met with a quorum present and first temporarily postponed SB 920 on mathematics education. The committee then took up SB 1216 on public school personnel compensation, sponsored by Senator Rodriguez, which would give districts more flexibility in educator pay by restoring meaningful cost-of-living adjustments for teachers with direct student contact, allowing recognition of relevant advanced degrees, and removing rigid performance-pay caps. Several senators spoke in support, emphasizing teacher retention, compensation, and education as a state investment. The bill was reported favorably on a unanimous roll call vote.
After a brief recess, the committee considered CS/SB 1036 on school counselors, sponsored by Senator Calatayud, to address counselor shortages by removing certification barriers tied to classroom teacher requirements. The sponsor and supporting testimony described recruitment and retention problems, high counselor-to-student ratios, and the need for counselors to focus on student academics, mental health, and college/career readiness rather than administrative duties. Public testimony came from students, educators, and school personnel who described limited access to counselors and the impact on student well-being and college planning.
Committee members broadly supported the bill while noting that counselors are often overburdened and that additional support personnel, including BRACE advisors, may also need attention in the future. Senators also discussed broader efficiency measures and the need for schools and colleges to improve access to guidance services. CS/SB 1036 was reported favorably by unanimous vote. At the end of the meeting, members recorded their votes on the two bills, and the committee adjourned.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty Five - Wednesday, April 1 - Afternoon Session
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They have access from, I mean, 130,000 students across this state have access to this organization for
- to people that are not yet getting good service.
- to people that are not yet getting good service.
- And they continually tried to do better and better to bring those services out to us.
- We have to go somewhere else to get our broadband service.
Summary:
The House first established a quorum after a roll call and then moved through House Bills for Perfection, Informal. Members briefly recognized Doug Pitt and Crystal Simon of Care to Learn, with remarks highlighting the organization’s work providing clothing and other support to students in 60 communities and reaching about 130,000 students statewide.
Several bills were then taken up and advanced. HB 2848, creating the offense of masked intimidation, was explained as targeting intentional harassment or threats while hiding one’s face; members discussed examples ranging from domestic intimidation to historical hooded groups, and the bill was ordered perfected and printed. HCS HB 1791, aimed at speeding building permits to help address housing costs and disaster recovery, drew debate over whether the 30- and 60-day permit deadlines would burden local governments; an amendment requiring code-enforcement staff to be certified in the adopted code was added, and the bill was adopted and perfected and printed as amended. HCS HB 2465, expanding small-business health coverage options by allowing one-person businesses to access group plans outside the ACA framework, was adopted and perfected and printed. HCS HB 2711, reducing the assessment rate on broadband infrastructure investment to encourage expansion, received amendments clarifying that the tax break is intended to promote broadband expansion; members debated whether upgrades within existing territories should qualify, and the bill was adopted and perfected and printed as amended.
The chamber also advanced HCS HB 3080, restoring historic preservation tax credit language that had previously been struck down by the courts; supporters cited recovery and redevelopment projects in places such as Joplin, St. Charles, Independence, Odessa, and St. Louis, and the bill was adopted and perfected and printed. HB 1772, increasing state payments for adoption attorneys and separating guardian fees to help move children out of foster care more quickly, was described as a targeted effort to reduce legal barriers to adoption and was perfected and printed. HB 2096, raising state matching funds for regional planning commissions and updating the list of commissions, was also perfected. Finally, HCS HB 2913 and 3228, which would protect teachers and other school employees from liability when intervening to protect themselves or students in violent situations, was supported as a response to teacher concerns and was adopted and perfected and printed.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Jan 14th, 2026
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
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- She can use your right-of-way access. You don't have to have access. You can use your access.
- So what this is saying is your family can use it, but when they want to sell it, it needs to have access
- "If she turns around and sells that, now who she sells it to, they don't have access anymore."
- "So what this is saying is your family can use it, but when they want to sell it, it needs to have access
Committee:
House County and Municipal Government
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Appropriations Apr 15th, 2025 at 02:00 pm
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- Critical access hospital networking came to us with a request for $2 million, and we reduced that to
- Programming to help people become aware of and to access services.
- to human services to fund that.
- to the kinds of services that you might have in the city, but they're able to prevent situations from
- So to move that to that facility would be no increase in the cost of the services.
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 1012, the Department of Health and Human Services budget. Senator Dever walked through the amended budget, highlighting a roughly $5.85 billion all-funds total, major one-time items for IT, child care, housing, behavioral health, juvenile justice, rural EMS, and supportive housing, along with funding for Medicaid expansion, CCBHCs, opioid settlement uses, and several studies and reporting requirements. Members discussed the provider inflation increase, with Senator Mathern urging a 2%/2% rate instead of 2%/1.5%, but the committee adopted the subcommittee amendment and then passed the amended bill 15-0 with a do-pass recommendation. Senator Dever was named as carrier.
The committee then considered House Bill 1540, a school choice/education savings account-style bill. Senator Shibley explained the subcommittee amendments, including clarifying the Bank of North Dakota as administrator, adding a means test at 400% of the federal poverty guideline, and adjusting the fiscal note to about $21.7 million for the second year. In debate, members raised concerns about the bank being assigned duties outside its normal role, the lack of DPI involvement, and whether the means test should be tiered rather than a hard cutoff. The committee rejected a do-not-pass motion 5-10-1, then approved a do-pass motion on the amended bill 9-6-1, with Senator Wobama noted as the likely carrier.
The meeting ended with the chair announcing the committee would adjourn and reconvene the next morning.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Mar 16th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- , to acknowledge the barriers to accomplishment, and how women persist to rise above to make society
- secure equal access to opportunity regardless of wealth, race, income, or place.
- ...to fighting for women's health care and reproductive freedom while providing essential health services
- Through her unwavering commitment to service, mentorship, and community building, Dusharm has positively
- And to be clear, if your guests want to stay, they have permission to stay at your desk.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Are you providing services to the toll authority, or are you providing services to the people whose tax
- toll authority as opposed to the services you're providing to the citizens.
- 206 full-time deputy constables to service our roadways.
- , and other parties to litigation still have access to the identities of the rail crew and other information
- that law enforcement, victims of accidents, as well as parties to litigation, have access to the identities
Committee:
Senate Transportation
Keywords:
commercial motor vehicle, truck liability, motor carrier, trucking, civil liability, respondeat superior, negligent entrustment, negligent maintenance, negligent loading, negligent repair, bifurcated trial, exemplary damages, punitive damages, personal injury, collision, employer liability, vicarious liability, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Texas tort reform, commercial truck accident
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- And I have brought each one of you a poppy pin to wear to signify those that have fallen in service.
- And neither should it deny him the right to actually have access to education.
- And it is simply because the district fails to provide access to those records.
- He did not have access to his education.
- We're providing the service. All they have to do is presented.
Committee:
Senate Education
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Children and Senior Advocacy
Transcript Highlights:
- This is totally unrelated to any other bill, but you have access to their entire feed.
- This is totally unrelated to any other bill, but you have access to their entire feed.
- This is totally unrelated to any other bill, but you have access to their entire feed.
- </c> you have access to their entire feed. you have access to their entire feed.
- </c><00:43:16.319><c> to</c><00:43:16.480><c> that</c> doing and you should have access to that doing
Committee:
House Children and Senior Advocacy
Keywords:
Ebony Alert, missing youth, public safety, law enforcement, racial equity, HB170, supplemental appropriations, Education Trust Fund, Alabama education budget, school funding, K-12 education, local boards of education, textbook adoption, school buses, school safety, charter schools, summer programs, afterschool programs, reading intervention, college and career readiness
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children (7-30-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- accessing services and supports.
- increase access to intensive services through different pilots and different initiatives.
- So these are activities that include assisting participants in gaining access to all of the waiver services
- it's for enhancing access to the delivery of school-based services for Medicaid and CHIP eligible and
- ><00:55:21.680><c> that</c> and family services to live up to that and family services to live up to
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and first heard brief presentations on Kentucky’s 2025 Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant and Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant. Department for Public Health staff explained that the preventive health block grant provides about $2.3 million annually and supports programs such as accreditation and performance improvement, local health department grants, community health workers, prescription assistance, asthma and COPD programs, workforce development, and a sexual assault programs set-aside. They said the Title V block grant provides about $11.7 million, with 35% directed to children and youth with special health care needs and 65% to maternal and child health populations, largely through local health departments and a five-year needs assessment process.
After no questions, a motion was made and seconded to approve both block grants. The roll call vote passed 19-0, and the two block grants were approved. The committee then approved the minutes from the prior meeting.
The next item was a discussion of the child waiver created in House Bill 6. Committee members raised concerns that the proposed 1915(c) waiver did not match the legislature’s intent, which they said was to move children from the Michelle P. waiver to free slots for adults. Cabinet officials from DCBS, behavioral health, and Medicaid described the proposed “Community Health for Improved Lives and Development” waiver as a targeted home- and community-based program for children under 21 with severe behavioral health or developmental needs, including those stepping down from inpatient or residential care or at risk of out-of-home placement. They said the waiver is designed for about 100 slots, uses a standardized needs-based assessment, and includes case management, community living supports, home modifications, respite, supervised residential care, and clinical therapeutic services. Officials said the public comment period ended July 15, responses are being compiled for August submission to CMS, and the waiver is part of the broader Families First initiative.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Suited for our small operators and startups to be able to have the ability to have more access to fruit
- Meanwhile, ... ...this bill doesn't address the root challenges facing our industry: access to land,
- additional features that some wineries may be able to access and other wineries will not be able to
- Thank you for your time and your service to the state of Texas. Thank you.
- , impacting low-income working families' access to child care.
Bills:
HB223
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
Keywords:
municipal budget, county budget, local government finance, spending cap, expenditure limit, inflation plus population growth, taxpayer impact statement, budget transparency, property tax, fees, Legislative Budget Board, voter approval, disaster spending, fiscal restraint, Texas Local Government Code, city budget, county expenditures, 1185, senate, all
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 21, 2026 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- only to earn community service hours.
- to reproductive health, which includes access to accurate medical-based information.
- Students come to school with diverse interests and experiences, and they benefit from having access to
- And I am offended by the public service I've given to this country and this state to be under attack
- You always have, you know, want to enhance the services that we have in the school system.
Summary:
The subcommittee first heard HB 461, which would allow registered or preregistered students to volunteer at polling locations to earn community service hours, including on weekends. The sponsor and several supporters, including the Duval County Supervisor of Elections and League of Women Voters representatives, said the bill would promote civic education and give students firsthand experience with elections. After brief questions and overwhelmingly supportive testimony, the committee voted unanimously to report HB 461 favorably.
The committee then took up HB 1071, an omnibus education bill described by the sponsor as reinforcing parental rights, student safety, early learning accountability, and oversight of scholarship and instructional programs. Members adopted eight amendments, including provisions on charter school discipline during improvement plans, child care and attendance accountability, medically accurate embryologic/fetal development materials, school space calculations, reading notifications, law enforcement access to campuses and canine units, lab school admissions criteria, and the composition of the FHSAA advisory council. Debate and testimony focused heavily on the bill’s provisions restricting DEI- and activism-related spending, the fetal development video requirement, and the law enforcement amendment; supporters framed the bill as promoting merit, safety, and parental rights, while opponents warned about vague definitions, censorship, and potential impacts on students and school programs.
Public testimony on HB 1071 was extensive and sharply divided. Supporters included organizations such as Florida Voice for the Unborn, the Christian Family Coalition, and various individuals who backed the fetal development instruction and limits on DEI-related spending. Opponents included Planned Parenthood Florida Action, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Equality Florida, the ACLU of Florida, the Florida Education Association, teachers, parents, and students, who argued the bill was too broad, could chill instruction and student activities, and could introduce ideological content into health education. The transcript ends during closing debate on the amended bill, before a final vote is shown.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill will facilitate the ability of students in our state who want to take CTE to be able to access
- Human Services to see how they can coordinate if they want to coordinate.
- /c><00:40:04.319><c> can</c> human services to see how they can human services to see how they can coordinate
- ><c> morning</c><01:06:44.559><c> as</c> gone to health services that morning as gone to health services
- personal</c> action to limit access to personal action to limit access to personal devices<01:31:38.360
Committee:
Senate Education
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 21, March 6, 2026-AM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for your time, your talent, and your continued service to the state of Wyoming. my term of
- /c> continued service to the state of continued service to the state of Wyoming.<00:12:33.600><c> Service
- How do we want all of that completely accessible to everyone?
- I guess I'm just trying to figure out what kind of data is accessible, Mr. President.
- </c> that completely accessible to everyone? that completely accessible to everyone?
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Sep 26th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- At one point, I was told that returning to the office would mean losing access to my home health coverage
- We are simply asking for equal access to the work that we are passionate about.
- remove the barriers. to allow us equal access to employment.
- I have been trying to encourage the Public Education Department to repair an accessible button on a restroom
- Another thing is, as the Director trying to recruit people to work in health services, one of the questions