Transcript Highlights:

• with an emergency room or an ambulatory surgical center, it requires the Department of Health to contract
• and that kind of thing, but not the actual training. >> And one last question for me, DOH is now contracted
• with a private contracting with the private entity.
• Senator Davis through the chair to Senator Davis, it would be no cost to the state and they would contract
• We have Chris Dawson from the Florida Roofing and sheet Metal contract association waiving in support

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Thanks to the program, we have now employed eight motans, both full-time and contract positions.
• </c><01:05:52.960><c> And</c> full-time and contract positions.
• And full-time and contract positions.
• And so the law used to say, or current law says, that the contracts would include both sheriff's residence
• </c> um the um the contracts um the um the contracts um<01:15:45.840><c> would</c><01:15:46.159><c> include

Committee: Senate Taxes

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We have limited the attorney's fees, so if you go over $25,000, then it's limited to the contract rate
• , the normal contract rate, which I think right now is $150 an hour for attorney's fees.
• 46.680><c> the</c> uh over 25,000 then it's limited to the uh over 25,000 then it's limited to the contract
• <00:42:47.240><c> rate</c><00:42:47.640><c> the</c><00:42:47.720><c> normal</c><00:42:48.000><c> contract
• </c><00:42:48.319><c> rate</c> contract rate the normal contract rate contract rate the normal contract

Keywords: The live stream for this meeting cut off before the end. This is the complete meeting pulled from back ups. Meeting Start: 00:00:00 Roll Call: 00:00:05 HB 38: 00:02:42 HB 206: 00:29:22, 958, all

Summary: The committee began with roll call and introductory remarks, including recognition of new members and guests. It then took up House Bill 38, sponsored by Representative Tipton, which would increase penalties for repeated violations of an order of protection. Under the committee substitute, a third violation involving the same order and same individual could be elevated from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony. Tipton and domestic violence survivor Maryanne Pratt testified in support, with Pratt describing repeated abuse, protective-order violations, and ongoing fear despite arrests and jail time. Several members spoke in favor of the bill and praised Pratt’s testimony. Members and outside witnesses raised concerns about the substitute’s language, especially the requirement that the same victim be involved and whether the bill could leave gaps for repeat abusers with different victims. Representative Burke and others questioned whether the conduct was already covered by stalking or assault statutes. Scott West, speaking for the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, argued that the bill could allow technical contempt findings to be used as predicate offenses and noted that existing assault and stalking laws already address much of the conduct. Sponsor Tipton said the language was not final and that further changes might be considered in the Senate. Despite the concerns, the committee adopted the substitute and passed HB 38 with favorable expression by a 19-0 vote. The committee then heard House Bill 206, sponsored by Representative Nemes, on wrongful conviction compensation. Nemes introduced exonerees and representatives from the Kentucky Innocence Project, and the substitute was adopted without objection. Testimony came from Paul Herd, who spent 20 years wrongfully convicted and described the difficulty of reentry, and Jon Acar, who said he was wrongly convicted as a teenager and spent years in custody and on parole. Both urged passage of the bill as overdue support for people exonerated after wrongful convictions.

Transcript Highlights:

• It's not going to be, you know, not everybody has the same contract with the payer, so there's going
• It's not going to be, you know, not everybody has the same contract with the payer, so there's going
• It's not going to be, you know, not everybody has the same contract with the payer, so there's going
• It's not going to be, you know, not everybody has the same contract with the payer, so there's going
• It's not going to be, you know, not everybody has the same contract with the payer, so there's going

Keywords: 00:00 Call to Order/Roll Call 00:16 Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations 25:49 Discussion of Hospital Rate Improvement Plan 58:50 Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The committee began by reviewing a large slate of administrative regulations and explaining that it does not approve regulations but can find them deficient and send them back for further work. Members then asked questions on several items, including EMS reciprocity, dental hygienist licensure, and interpreter licensure. The EMS board explained that reciprocity would extend to applicants from any state, not just contiguous states, because the underlying statute had been amended. On the dental regulation, staff said the changes mainly clarified licensure requirements, reinstatement fees, and that dental hygienists administering local anesthetic must do so under direct dentist supervision. The most extended discussion involved the Board of Interpreters for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The board chair said the main concern was that the EIPA is an educational specialty assessment, not a nationally recognized certification, yet the regulation would allow it to support full licensure. Members discussed whether that could let educational interpreters work outside their intended scope and whether a separate educational license or statutory change would be more appropriate. The board said it did not think the regulation could be fixed further at this point and suggested a statute could create a narrower educational interpreter license. After discussion, the committee voted to defer both related interpreter regulations, 201 KAR 39:030 and the companion regulation, for further work. The committee then took up two community mental health regulations, 907 KAR 1:044 and 907 KAR 5:005, which had been found deficient in Administrative Regulations. Department for Medicaid Services staff said the rules would expand and rename the mental health associate role as a behavioral health associate, making the role available in many more facilities, but would also require additional coursework or progress toward licensure. Some members and providers raised access-to-care concerns, especially for rural areas and unlicensed staff already working in the field. Staff said the proposal had been revised through work with CMHCs and licensing boards, but the committee ultimately voted to defer both regulations as well. After finishing the regulation review, the committee heard a presentation from the Kentucky Hospital Association on the ATRIP hospital rate improvement program. Hospital representatives said ATRIP is a Medicaid state-directed payment program funded through a provider tax and federal matching dollars, allowing hospitals to receive payments tied to quality measures. They reported improvements including lower Medicaid readmissions, high sepsis screening rates, reduced infections and opioid prescribing, expanded postpartum depression and suicide screening, and training for more than 1,000 people. They said the program has helped hospitals invest in staffing and quality improvement and warned that without it, many hospitals would face severe financial strain.

Transcript Highlights:

• The department will select one consortium and enter into an interagency contract with lead institutions
• </c><01:32:38.440><c> change,</c><01:32:39.040><c> change</c> you doing this contracts change, change
• you doing this contracts change, change orders<01:32:39.640><c> occur,</c><01:32:40.720><c> lawsuits
• And I think whether you're in public or private business, and you know, we do have a contract with a
• with a private warehouse have a contract with a private warehouse operator.<01:38:35.800><c> So,</c>

Keywords: MS Senate Floor - 5 March, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Also, in the past, our highway superintendent didn't have a contract.
• So in the past, our highway superintendent didn't have a contract or an MOU.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

Summary: The Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government held a public hearing on several local bills affecting Plymouth, Dunstable/Groton-Dunstable, Shrewsbury, Danvers, and the Town of Berry. Committee chairs reviewed hearing procedures, including three-minute testimony limits, livestreaming, and written testimony submission, and noted members joining in person and online. No votes were taken on the bills themselves during the hearing. Representative Michelle Badger testified in support of H.5497 for Plymouth, which would let the town move its annual spring town meeting and local elections to a later date so budget decisions can be made with more complete information about the state budget and state aid. Lacey McCabe and Dunstable Town Administrator Jason Silva supported S.3118/H.5542, which would address an election error that left a Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee seat off the ballot and allow the vacancy to be filled for the full three-year term rather than only a one-year appointment. Kevin Mizikar supported H.5512 for Shrewsbury, which would allow digital postings to serve as official legal notices for procurement instead of requiring newspaper publication. Senator Lovely, Danvers Town Manager Jill Cahill, and Representative Kearns testified for H.5571, describing it as an update to Danvers’ town meeting act with precinct changes, moderator-election provisions, and other governance revisions approved locally. Kearns said the bill followed a year-long review and included largely housekeeping and modernization changes. John Chase testified against H.5577 for the Town of Berry, arguing that eliminating the DPW board would reduce oversight and concentrate too much power, though he noted the highway superintendent now has a signed MOU. The hearing ended after the chair asked for and received a motion to adjourn, which was approved by voice vote.

Transcript Highlights:

• following: birth of a child, establishment of legal parentage through a gestational carrier surrogacy contract
• , legal adoption, and establishment... ...through a gestational carrier surrogacy contract, legal adoption

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Representative Barbieri, I don't deal with those contracts, and I don't want to stand up here and explain
• that I do, but I would assume when they're developing these buildings and they're negotiating these contracts

Summary: The House Revenue and Taxation Committee heard House Bill 897, a revised data center tax incentive bill presented by Representative Chris Bruce and Senator Lori Den Hartog. The sponsors said the bill narrows the existing sales tax exemption so it applies only to internal server equipment, limits the exemption to 20 years, requires Tax Commission reporting on foregone sales tax revenue, and modifies the property tax treatment for large data center investments. They also emphasized new conditions intended to protect ratepayers and water resources, including requiring utilities to recover electricity costs from the qualifying business entity and requiring efficient water-use arrangements. The sponsors described the measure as a tax incentive bill, not a regulatory bill. During questions, members asked about how the bill would protect utility customers and whether data centers that generate their own power or use closed-loop cooling systems would still qualify. The sponsors said the electricity costs would need to be covered through energy service agreements and that construction for on-site power generation or cooling systems would not qualify for the sales tax exemption because the bill limits the incentive to server equipment. Public testimony was generally supportive. Lane Thornton, a Kuna farmer, backed the bill because of concerns about power costs and water use, and Courtney Dawson of the Idaho Rural Water Association supported the water-related provisions and asked for a due pass recommendation. After closing remarks, Representative Monks moved to send House Bill 897 to the floor with a due pass recommendation. The committee approved the motion by voice vote, and Representative Bruce was designated to carry the bill on the floor.

Transcript Highlights:

• Chairman, Representative Barbieri, I don't deal with those contracts, and I don't want to stand up here
• But I would assume that when they're developing these buildings and negotiating these contracts, they

Committee: House Revenue and Taxation

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• apprenticeship programs to grow the pipeline of new teachers, creating a three-year multi-instructional contract
• apprenticeship programs to grow the pipeline of new teachers, creating a three-year multi-instructional contract

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and introductions recognizing the YMCA’s 175th anniversary, the Senate’s doctor of the day, and visiting guests. The chamber then moved to the special order calendar after confirming there were no committee reports, executive messages, House messages, or other pending motions. The Senate passed several bills unanimously: SB 100, adopting the 2026 Florida Statutes and the 2025 session laws; SB 102, deleting statutory provisions that had already been repealed or expired; and SB 104, the general reviser’s bill, which removes obsolete language, updates cross-references, and corrects drafting errors. Senators briefly joked during debate on SB 104, but there was no substantive opposition. The Senate also passed SB 320 on administrative efficiency in public schools, which reduces district-level requirements, expands teacher apprenticeship and certification flexibility, streamlines assessment and budgeting rules, and adjusts VPK oversight and facility planning requirements. The chamber also approved SB 7010, allowing state and local deferred compensation plans to offer Roth post-tax contributions in addition to pre-tax options. In addition, SB 1720 on public school personnel compensation was withdrawn from further consideration. After passage of the day’s bills, the Senate adopted a motion to immediately certify the passed bills to the House, then adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.

Transcript Highlights:

• They disrupted contracts. They gave themselves private contracts.
• , for NASA contracts to their friends, for weather service contracts to their friends.
• They gave disrupted contracts.
• </c> themselves private contracts. themselves private contracts.
• </c> service contracts for their friends. service contracts for their friends.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• caveat: if the governing board sets a different type of policy that allows them to do job order contracting
• or sole-source contracting, then they can bypass the statutory limit of a million dollars.
• caveat, if the governing board sets a different type of policy that allows them to do job order contracting
• or sole-source contracting, then they can bypass the statutory limit of a million dollars.
• These job order contracts have higher rates, have higher hourly rates than you would find with competitive

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• That is designed to reflect the amount of preschool spending that's currently under contract with those
• That's currently under contract with those providers.
• the Golden State Teacher Grant Program, the Special Education Office of Administrative Hearings contract
• There's an additional $15 million to increase the contract for the statewide technical assistance center
• No, to clarify, so it's the $3 million is for a study to be done by an entity that is contracting with

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This is designed to reflect the amount of preschool spending that's currently under contract with those
• the Golden State Teacher Grant Program, the Special Education Office of Administrative Hearings contract
• There's an additional $15 million to increase the contract for the statewide technical assistance center
• No, to clarify, the $3 million is for a study to be done by an entity that is contracting with the statewide
• No, to clarify, so it's the 3 million is for a study to be done by an entity that is contracting with

Summary: The committee heard presentations on the Governor’s May Revision TK-12 education proposals, beginning with Proposition 98. The Department of Finance explained that the minimum guarantee rises by about $6.4 billion relative to the January budget across the three-year window, with a total of $124.9 billion in 2024-25, $125.1 billion in 2025-26, and $127.1 billion in 2026-27. Finance also described revised settle-up and reserve actions, including maintaining a $3.9 billion settle-up balance, increasing discretionary deposits into the Prop. 98 reserve, and ending with a projected reserve balance of about $10.3 billion. The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the overall estimates were reasonable but urged the state to fully fund the guarantee and use other budget actions or reserves to manage volatility rather than delay settle-up payments. Members questioned the rationale for leaving the $3.9 billion unsettled, and Finance said the amount reflects revenue uncertainty and the risk of overappropriating Prop. 98 if revenues later fall. The committee then reviewed the Department of Education portion of the May Revision. Finance said the budget adds positions and state operations funding for CDE and includes trailer bill changes affecting community schools, preschool, literacy, special education, charter accountability, and other programs. The LAO highlighted concerns and recommendations on several proposals, including the size and structure of the LCFF increase, the special education base-rate increase, additional one-time community schools funding, literacy coach and math professional development augmentations, the multilingual screener, inclusive college grants, homelessness grants, and the proposed paid pregnancy disability leave mandate. CDE supported the special education increase, paid pregnancy leave, community schools, homelessness funding, literacy and math investments, and preschool parity, while urging more support for county offices of education and clearer definitions and implementation details for some programs. Finance said the paid pregnancy leave proposal would cost an estimated $218 million annually and is intended as a recruitment and retention measure. In the Commission on Teacher Credentialing item, Finance proposed funding for legal staffing tied to SB 848 and educator misconduct cases, plus funding and fee changes to support a statewide transcript review platform for subject matter competency and additional support for the residency technical assistance center. The LAO said it had no concerns with the staffing for misconduct and SB 848, recommended the transcript review platform and related fee increase if the platform moves forward, and recommended rejecting the residency technical assistance center expansion because current funding lasts through 2029. CTC said the misconduct workload has grown over the last five to six years and that AI would be used only as a backstop to human review in the transcript system. Public commenters were split, with unions and education groups supporting special education, paid pregnancy leave, community schools, homelessness funding, and literacy investments, while opposing the $3.9 billion settle-up delay and the reduction to preschool COLA.

Transcript Highlights:

• ethics and fairness, carrier business practices, downcoded claims, prior authorization, and required contract
• the final change clarifies the expectation that certain information be included in the provider contract
• Over on page 23, we come to House Bill 569, which relates to prevailing wage rates for public works contracts
• It relates to the Virginia Public Procurement Act, additional public works contract requirements report
• House Bill 1046 increases transparency on the use of independent contractors on public contracts and

Keywords: April 22, 2026 - Reconvened Session, 976, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• She has multiple wholesale contracts, and she just moved her farm to that land from Big River Farms last
• She has multiple wholesale contracts, and she just moved her farm to that land from Big River Farms last
• She has multiple wholesale<00:18:25.600><c> contracts</c><00:18:26.240><c> and</c><00:18:26.480><c> she
• </c><00:18:26.720><c> just</c><00:18:26.880><c> moved</c> wholesale contracts and she just moved wholesale
• contracts and she just moved her<00:18:27.280><c> farm</c><00:18:27.520><c> to</c><00:18:27.679><c>

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• This was a breach of construction contract case. Mr.
• Simpson had an agreement with USDA Rural Development to build a home, and there was a breach of contract
• understand it, the state is only involved to the extent that there was a breach of construction contract
• claim filed in state court, which the state adjudicated..." "...construction contract claim filed in
• he filed a counterclaim when he was sued by the plaintiff in that case, and that was a breach of contract

Committee: All ALC-CLAIMS REVIEW/LITIGATION REPORTS OVERSIGHT

Summary: The committee first reviewed litigation reports from the Department of Labor and Licensing involving wage claims brought under the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act. Members questioned the department’s authority, jurisdiction, use of attorney fees and costs, and whether defendants had to be licensed. The department explained it has long enforced wage and overtime laws, that the claims were small-dollar cases handled by investigators and counsel, and that one case had been paid and dismissed while others were unresolved or had service issues. The committee voted to review or batch-file the labor cases after discussion. The University of Arkansas System then reported three pending lawsuits: an age- and race-discrimination claim by a tenured professor that was resolved early; an ADA/FMLA retaliation claim by a former employee that survived in part on a motion to dismiss and was moving into discovery; and a Section 1983 claim against a UAMS sergeant arising from a parking-ticket dispute, with the university explaining that only punitive damages could create personal exposure for the officer. The committee reviewed each report and voted to accept them. The Department of Finance and Administration presented a proposed tax settlement reducing a sales-and-use tax assessment from about $48,000 to $20,000 and waiving interest and penalties, which the committee approved for review. The Claims Commission then presented several claims: an unpaid salary differential for a Department of Health employee, reissued warrants, unpaid DHS bills, and multiple negotiated settlements involving ATRS, UAMS, Arkansas State Police, and ARDOT. Members approved or affirmed most of these items, including a $65,000 settlement in the Tetronics/ATRS matter, a $150,000 medical-negligence settlement, and several vehicle-accident settlements. The most extended debate involved a tax-delinquent property sale claim by Sharon Greer and relatives. The claimant argued they were not properly notified and sought the $4,200 excess from the 2009 sale. Land Commissioner counsel explained the excess had escheated to the county after the statutory claim period expired, while members debated sovereign immunity, standing, heirs, and whether the committee could or should award money anyway. The committee ultimately chose to hold the matter over for further review in a future joint session rather than decide it immediately. The committee also heard appeals from dismissed claims, including a UAMS medical-negligence claim, a land-sale notice claim, a pothole claim against ARDOT, and a judicial-immunity claim against the Court of Appeals; most dismissals were affirmed, and the Simpson matter was held over for additional review after the claimant testified.

Transcript Highlights:

• This program operates under contract oversight of the Board Rx is able to accept these medications that
• This program operates under contract oversight of the Board of Pharmacy.
• always supported the program and was glad to see it move kind of under the Board of Pharmacy as a contracted
• This is—we're now in the posture of actually contracting with the... ...program to provide the services
• contractor of the state, of the Board of Pharmacy, to provide the services that... ...you know, a contract

Bills: HF3454 , HF3917 , HF2906 , HF3832 , HF3769

Committee: House Health Finance and Policy

Keywords: social work, licensure, employment titles, health occupations, professional standards, medication repository, drug donation, healthcare, Minnesota Statutes, pharmacy, public health, controlled substances, psilocybin, psilocin, psychedelic, psychedelic medicine, hallucinogen, mushrooms, magic mushrooms, therapeutic use

Transcript Highlights:

• In the course of doing my job, I came across some contract irregularities that I would consider, in the
• I was found to have held up contracts that had compliance problems.
• And I was found to have held up contracts that had compliance problems.
• Every person that I spoke to about this as I was working up the chain of command to try to get the contract
• Every person that I spoke to about this as I was working up the chain of command to try to get the contract

Committee: House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm not a clinician, and so my area of practice for the past 28 years has been in contract oversight.
• if all those standards and safeguards are in place, it's not possible to build public or private contracts
• greater access to state hospital beds, and it was in about that time that we saw a significant contraction
• Since 2008, 2009, when we saw the contraction in the state hospitals, basically the only way in is through
• Since 2008, 2009, when we saw the contraction in the state hospitals, basically the only way in is through

Committee: House Health and Mental Health

Keywords: 959, house, all