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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Sep 11th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The county jail. They are working through the process to initiate or to start.
- the state is making some changes there because it is hard for us to convince someone at the county jail
- I was happy to hear that Matt is available in your county jail.
- Putting people in jail and expecting that to cure their substance use disorder, so more around that.
- Re-Entry Program, the limiting factor for that is the number of people who are in jail.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- In Harris County, where my daughter lives, they don't put people in jail for non-payment of child support
- They don't put them in jail when they commit crimes and kill people.
- So they don't have room in jail for deadbeat parents. Thank you both. Thank you.
- Plus, me throwing someone in jail is counterproductive too because we want them to work.
- position where they're unable to pay because they've lost their job, or because they're sitting in jail
Keywords:
business court, civil procedure, litigation, jurisdiction, arbitration, divorce, property division, family law, court jurisdiction, marital assets, parent-child relationship, birth certificate, identity proof, Family Code, court process, attorney fees, court costs, legal expenses, dispute resolution, child support
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
March 13, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- and Families state hospital, I served in a forensic admissions unit, admitting patients daily from jails
- I've seen the faces behind the statistics: Floridians in a relentless cycle of untreated illness, jail
- Floridians in a relentless cycle of untreated illness, jail, and readmission because community care remains
- every unfilled prescription, every unanswered cry for help fuels a cycle of despair, clogging our ERs, jails
- our 3,400-strong workforce to deliver early intervention, ease ER burdens, and keep people out of jail
Summary:
The Health Professions and Programs Subcommittee heard and advanced several health care bills. HB 909, joining the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact, was presented with a strike-all amendment and reported favorably as amended by a 13-0 vote. HB 911, the related public records exemption protecting certain biological information, was also adopted and reported favorably as amended by a 14-0 vote. CS for HB 597, allowing schools to procure and administer glucagon for students with diabetes under trained personnel, passed unanimously 14-0 after a technical amendment. HB 519, aligning state law with federal language on controlled substances administered by paramedics, passed as amended 14-0.
The committee then took up HB 919 on nursing education programs. Sponsor Rep. Overdorf argued the bill would create accountability for underperforming nursing schools by requiring remediation, tuition refunds in the lowest-performing programs, and public reporting of passage rates. Supporters said it would improve quality and protect students from debt without licensure success, while opponents from private nursing schools warned it could close programs and reduce nurse supply. After extensive debate, the bill was reported favorably 15-0.
HB 1553, which would require health care providers to submit identified uterine fibroid data so the Department of Health can implement the research database previously authorized by law, passed unanimously 15-0. The final bill, HB 883, would allow psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners to practice autonomously; supporters said it would expand access to mental health care, especially in rural and underserved areas, while opponents raised concerns about quality and physician oversight. After lengthy testimony and debate, the bill was reported favorably 14-3.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House and Governmental Affairs Apr 29th, 2026
House and Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- In March, he pled guilty to all the charges and received a sentence of 21 days in Boishtown, not in jail
- As a result, he got sentenced to 12 days in juvenile jail.
- He was supposed to be in jail until his 21st birthday.
- When somebody gets a juvenile life sentence, that means they have to be in jail until they're 21.
- He should have been in jail. And he couldn't have killed my son.
Keywords:
tax credits, higher education, workforce development, brain drain, economic incentives, public meeting minutes, transparency, government accountability, publication deadlines, open meetings, SB49, Louisiana elections, party primary, primary elections, BESE, State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, school board elections, election law, candidate qualification, ballot access
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- A felony can include a fine of up to $5,000 and county jail for 16 months, two years, or three years,
- I understand that you could be jailed for one year under current law, which I think is pretty extreme
- It doesn't mean they are $5,000 and up to time in jail.
- There's no CDCR involvement in this bill because they do jail time, not prison time.
- And, you know, there's a lot of people that don't want people to go to jail. I get it.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- But if a person is convicted, don't they just go right to jail or whatever?
- They sit in jail for months and months, and they're not receiving their treatment when they're in jail
- So they end up, through failure, ending up in really restrictive psychiatric hospitalization, jail,..
- But in less than three months, he was back in jail, and without using drugs.
- But in less than three months, he was back in jail and without using drugs.
Bills:
SB1095, SB1127, SB1170, SB1208, SB1211, SB1237, SB1239, SB1240, SB1243, SB1244, SB1259, SB1283
Keywords:
gender transition, minors, irreversible surgery, health professionals, puberty-blocking drugs, medical procedures, prohibition, Arizona Revised Statutes, reporting abuse, child neglect, mandatory reporting, child safety, medical treatment, faith exemptions, penalties, narcotic drugs, fentanyl, sentencing, drug offenses, juvenile justice
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- , which establishes consecutive or executed sentences for incarcerated persons who assault certain jail
- , which establishes consecutive or executed sentences for incarcerated persons who assault certain jail
- , which establishes consecutive or executed sentences for incarcerated persons who assault certain jail
- , which establishes consecutive or executed sentences for incarcerated persons who assault certain jail
- , which establishes consecutive or executed sentences for incarcerated persons who assault certain jail
WA
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Civil Judiciary REVISED: Links added Feb 5th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Civil Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- attention from a multitude of my counties when it comes to the incarceration of inmates in county jails
- legislation essentially would do is say that if two counties did join together to form a multi-county jail
- You can only sue the county that had placed the inmate into the jail.
Bills:
HB3790, HB2941, HB2959, HB3087, HB3974, HB3500, HB3697, HB3262, HB3582, HB4226, HB3037, HB4139, HB4143, HB4144, HB2936, HB3322, HB4296, HB3278, HB4202, HB4176, HB3303, HB3648, HB4119
Keywords:
home repairs, consumer protection, contracts, homeowner rights, rescission, fentanyl, overdose, first responders, drug reporting, immunity, controlled substances, penalties, school abuse reporting, child abuse, neglect, mandatory reporting, student safety, school employee misconduct, administrator reporting, superintendent
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 090 Apr 14th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- medical assistance treatment, jail-based medical assistance treatment, and<01:27:26.080><c> HCBS</c>
- It reimburses jail settings for the opioid treatment and includes transparency around provider agency
- It reimburses jail<01:32:39.800><c> settings</c><01:32:40.280><c> for</c><01:32:40.440><c> the</c><01
- :32:40.560><c> opioid</c><01:32:40.960><c> treatment</c> jail settings for the opioid treatment jail
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- In the MOU for the jail enforcement, it says the law enforcement agency is responsible for the salaries
- I asked a simple question: have we jailed anyone and then had someone deported through that effort with
- So, in other words, if we collected anyone through law enforcement efforts, brought them to our jail,
- They report on their jail every day so that that information is there and available.
- I don't know what happened to it that would say anyone in our jails or our prisons that are illegal,
Summary:
The House first approved the journal and then received several Senate messages, including enrolled bills and resolutions sent onward for gubernatorial action. It also concurred in Senate amendments to House Bill 516 after a lengthy debate over process and committee referral; members argued both that the bill had been handled through the rules and that it had been routed around the Education Committee and public input. The concurrence passed 41-23-6, and a later motion to send HB 516 to the Education Committee failed 20-45-5.
The chamber then suspended rules to take up Senate Bill 1254, which would allow chiropractors with a clinical nutrition certification to acquire certain vitamins, minerals, fluids, epinephrine, and oxygen for office use. Supporters described it as a narrow deregulation to reduce barriers and costs, while opponents said it expanded scope and raised patient-safety concerns. The bill passed the House 43-22-5 and was transmitted to the Senate.
The House next debated Senate Bill 1247, a 287(g) immigration-enforcement bill requiring local law enforcement agencies to apply for participation or explain why they could not. Supporters said it would strengthen immigration enforcement, bring federal reimbursement, and align with constituent concerns; opponents said it would impose an unfunded mandate, undermine local control, and force agencies into federal arrangements they did not want. After extensive debate, the House passed the bill 47-13-4. The House then moved to House Bill 621, a firearms/preemption measure affecting county buildings and courthouses, with supporters arguing it protected constitutional carry rights and opponents warning of major local costs and safety risks; debate was interrupted by a recess and continued when the transcript ended.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This is not every person that comes into jail with a mental illness that everyone is going to go through
- I worked in the psychiatry department at the Dallas County Jail, and I've seen inmates come in.
- You can put them in jail forever, right?
- That client asked me for months why I'm... in jail, and despite them repeatedly telling him it was for
- And often fear being placed in jail.
Bills:
HB 1194, HB 1221, HB1738, HB1913, HB2177, HB2178, HB2180, HB2229, HB2282, HB2448, HB2492, HB2777, HB2984, HB3357, HB3553, HB3602
Keywords:
emergency protection order, protective order, magistrate, criminal procedure, victim safety, family violence, domestic violence, stalking, assault, magistrate's order, temporary protection, court order duration, defendant restrictions, Article 17.292, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, emergency restraining order, victim protection, firearm restriction, pretrial intervention, reimbursement fee
NH
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> in jail? in jail?
- </c> federal prisons and 44% in the jails. federal prisons and 44% in the jails.
- </c> utilizers in our county jails utilizers in our county jails experienced<00:53:44.239><c> some</c
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee opened a hearing on House Bill 1067-FN, which would formalize and expand mental health courts in New Hampshire and create a grant-based funding structure for them. Representative Mark Pearson, the prime sponsor, described the bill as a bipartisan, compassionate, and cost-effective approach that would connect people with mental illness to treatment and supervision instead of incarceration, while still holding them accountable. He said the proposal was developed with input from the judicial branch, law enforcement, corrections, mental health organizations, and others, and emphasized that local courts could tailor programs to their needs.
Committee members questioned the bill’s fiscal note, whether the legislature had previously studied the issue, how the program would be funded, and whether the bill should more explicitly address treatment, prevention, and data collection. Representative Buzz Sher, who helped develop the bill, explained how mental health courts work, including referral, clinical and public-safety assessments, case management, goal-setting, and graduation from the program. He said existing New Hampshire mental health courts are mostly partial and county-funded, and that the bill would formalize them, set standards, and allow grant funding. He also cited data from Georgia and New Hampshire suggesting significant savings from reduced incarceration and related costs.
Members also raised concerns about due process, whether people not formally charged could be swept into the system, and whether individuals with violent offenses or domestic violence histories could be diverted inappropriately. Sher responded that only people already in the criminal justice process are eligible and that courts use safety assessments to screen out most violent cases. The committee requested that Sher file supporting financial data from other jurisdictions, and he agreed to do so. No vote or final action was taken during the hearing.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on S.F. 4760 - Omnibus Public Safety policy provisions - 05/08/26
Transcript Highlights:
- What it's doing is giving the Department of Corrections more authority to sanction jails that failed
- that failed to meet the sanction jails that failed to meet the important<00:25:18.280><c> standards<
- This is on the jail house medication making a change. >> Description, Mr. Deavel. >> Mr.
- standards for jails to provide prescription<00:33:15.240><c> medications</c><00:33:15.920><c> to</c>
- The jails found the statute facilities.
Summary:
The Public Safety Policy Conference Committee met on May 8, 2026, with all conferees present. The chair opened with decorum instructions, explained that the meeting was policy-only, and noted that no public testimony had been signed up. Members then introduced themselves, with several noting they were retiring at the end of the session or year.
The committee adopted a series of provisions, mostly by unanimous voice vote, including House language on identity theft and financial crimes updates, supervision abatement and restitution considerations for corrections, protective-order enhancements for murder penalties, prediction markets, victim-notification requirements for plea and sentencing hearings, research data privacy, ignition interlock and impaired-driving license changes, DOC licensing and sanctions for juvenile/adult community-based residential facilities, criminal-conviction employment and licensing standards, jail medication procedures, domestic abuse law changes, and a grant-use extension for dual-status/crossover youth funding. Several items were described as technical or clarifying changes, while others updated law to address AI-related identity theft, foreign protective orders, victim privacy, and corrections oversight.
The committee also heard discussion on a Senate provision allowing victims of domestic violence to petition for wireless account and phone-number transfers. A witness supported the concept but urged changes to better align the state language with existing federal law; members noted the issue might need another vehicle or further work. For the domestic abuse item, staff explained that an A15 amendment would later adjust the warrantless-arrest window from 28 days to 14 days. On the jail-medication item, a member emphasized the changes were clarifying and not an admission that last year’s law was flawed. All adopted provisions passed by voice vote without opposition.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 27, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- What it ends up doing is leaving someone maybe in jail or at a hospital or at their home where they may
- Particularly in our jails that maybe just had a meltdown and they're sitting there waiting around to
- You know, this is something we've dealt with in other issues, people sitting in jail for weeks waiting
- So, but it could be anyone, you know, not necessarily the folks in the jails, but I think that's the
- And so both in Title 25 and Title 7, there's been discussions around folks in jails, etc.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 9th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Any jail in the United States is to be full; you cannot give quality care.
- Are you similar to the jails where you're overflowing, or do you have a pretty consistent flow-through
- You're not a prison; you're a jail.
- At least when it comes to the jail setting—not necessarily just the long-term prison setting, which I
- So if you could just talk about that collaborative approach jail-wise.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Corrections and Public Institutions Apr 8th, 2026
Corrections and Public Institutions
Transcript Highlights:
- some, maybe like some forms or something, but do you all provide, like, in-house legal material to jail
- And I don't even know if we have a jail library inside of St.
- Louis City. jail libraries, and I don't even know if we have a jail library inside of St.
- If, you know, do we have a jail in St. Louis City Justice? I mean, do we have a library in the St.
- I don't even know if we have a library inside of our jail. It was just a question I was wondering.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Local Government Mar 25th, 2026
Local Government, Elections and Pensions
Transcript Highlights:
- So we just built a new jail, right? The county did. $300 million, holds a thousand inmates.
- Sure, but they do so in proportion to the number of people who the jail houses or simply in proportion
- Then Service Three, we had a time when we were providing patients care in our jail because our county
- jail cannot afford to have medical in it in Osage County.
- all the inmates to Maries County Jail, which was outside of our coverage area.
Summary:
The committee first met in executive session and unanimously voted Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 914 and House Committee Substitute for House Bill 3467 due pass. HB 3467 was amended before passage; the sponsor said the changes clarified that any tax authority would apply only if a tax change is actually approved, corrected county/city references, and fixed ballot-language issues involving sheltered workshops. Members generally praised the sponsor’s work, though one member noted concern about shifting more burden to sales taxes.
The main public hearing was on H.J.R. 107, which would place before voters a constitutional question allowing Jackson County to consider separating Kansas City from the county or otherwise altering its charter government. Sponsor Rep. Steinmeyer argued the measure was about voter sovereignty and local control, citing prior Jackson County ballot measures and saying entrenched local power had blocked reform. Supporters echoed that Jackson County residents were frustrated with representation, taxes, and county governance. Opponents, including Kansas City and chamber representatives, argued the proposal was unnecessary, costly, procedurally unclear, and potentially destabilizing; several members also questioned the 10-year resubmission clause, the exclusion of local officials from the transition process, and the statewide fiscal impact. No action was taken on the resolution during the hearing.
The committee then heard Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 975, dealing with ambulance district mergers and community paramedic/mobile integrated health services. Senator Black and supporters said the bill would help struggling rural ambulance districts merge without disrupting billing, contracts, or service, and would expand community paramedic care for low-acuity patients and hospital-at-home models. Several witnesses from ambulance and fire districts described successful programs and said the bill would improve patient care and help rural areas. Opponents, including ambulance and fire district representatives, supported the merger provisions but objected to Senate-added language they said would let districts provide community paramedic services across jurisdictional lines without memorandums of understanding, undermining local control and negotiating power. The hearing ended with testimony still ongoing after a recess for floor session; no vote on SB 975 was reported in the transcript.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
- I went to jail for the first time when I was 11 years old. My offense was stealing a Snickers bar.
- Instead, jail was always the answer.
- And when jail is the only lesson you're taught, your behavior doesn't get better, it gets worse.
- And unfortunately, that's offered more likely in jail. effective therapeutic involvement.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on House Bill 2456, which would create a juvenile firearm early intervention alternative for youth charged in juvenile court with unlawful possession of a firearm in the second degree. Staff explained that the program would require prosecutor agreement, intensive community supervision, random suspicionless searches, therapy and mentoring services, periodic court review, and dismissal of the charge upon successful completion. The bill would also raise concealed pistol license fees by $100 each and dedicate the revenue to a new account funding the alternative. Representative Davis said the bill is intended to fill the gap between firearm possession charges and later juvenile sentencing, and to fund evidence-based services; one member questioned whether the fee increase functions more like a tax than a fee. The chair then paused testimony on HB 2456 to return to the other bill.
The bulk of the hearing focused on House Bill 2389, which would expand suspended disposition alternatives, reduce some juvenile robbery sentencing ranges, add a midpoint review for certain youth committed to DCYF, and create new rules for juvenile rehabilitation capacity and emergency transfers. Supporters, including youth currently or formerly in juvenile facilities, defense advocates, restorative justice providers, and some judges, argued the bill would reduce overcrowding, improve rehabilitation, address racial disparities, and give judges more individualized options. Several testified that youth need treatment, family connection, and incentives for progress rather than long confinement, and that current sentencing practices are outdated and underuse suspended dispositions.
Opponents, including sheriffs, prosecutors, county officials, victim advocates, and some judges, argued the bill would shift costs and responsibility to counties, require resources that do not exist, and weaken accountability for serious offenses such as robbery, assault, and trafficking. They raised concerns about expanded appeals, added court workload, the need for more staffing and programming, and the impact on victims and public safety. DCYF said it supports reducing overcrowding but wants clearer emergency transfer authority for Green Hill; facility staff described improved conditions as population has fallen, but said overcrowding still creates safety and programming problems. No vote was taken in the portion of the hearing provided.
UT
Utah 2025 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Interim Committee - November 19, 2025
Health and Human Services Interim Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- As in most states, by far the largest mental health institutions are the prisons and jails.
- health institution in the United States is, and it's typically either Rikers Island or the LA County Jail
- , just to indicate the severity of the problems... ...County Jail, just to indicate the severity of the
- reduce homelessness from about 8,000 to 900, reduce police shootings, and close one of their three jails
- would hope that either there are APIs or the ability to transfer data as inmates maybe move from a jail