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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Human Services Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am
Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- It's associated with reduced maternal mortality, reduced interpersonal violence, and promotes economic
- It's associated with reduced maternal mortality, reduced interpersonal violence, and promotes economic
- A 2025 study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center reviewed insurance claims from over 300, excuse me
- And for those that may not be aware, the Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board is what ISRB stands for
- And for those that may not be aware, the indeterminate sentencing review board is what IRS, ISRB stands
Keywords:
abortion medications, reproductive health, mifepristone, misoprostol, abortion access, medication abortion, early pregnancy loss, miscarriage management, Department of Corrections, Department of Health, health care providers, health care entities, Indian health care providers, pharmacy distribution, wholesale distribution, reproductive rights, women's health, emergency clause, immediate effect, public health
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion Mar 31st, 2026
Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion
Transcript Highlights:
- you take a Black minimum wage's highest income categories in the U.S., their rates of perinatal mortality
- you take a black minimum wage's highest income categories in the U.S., their rates of perinatal mortality
- I'm excited that we're now collecting and reviewing aggregate data as we speak, with plans to release
- I know we're going to review it afterwards, but what were some key findings?
- So what we've done now is that every student at Suffolk, the cost of the bar review course is rolled
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion held a hearing on the impact of federal policy on the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts, with no bills heard. Chairs Bud Williams and Miranda opened by framing the issue as a structural, long-standing disparity affecting Black and brown communities, citing major gaps in wealth, income, housing, and opportunity. Members noted this was the fourth hearing in a series on federal impacts on racial equity, and public written testimony was invited by the posted deadline.
Administration witnesses Secretary Lauren Jones, Secretary Kiami Mahania, and Assistant Secretary Juan Vega described how labor, health, and economic development policy intersect with wealth-building. Jones pointed to higher unemployment, wage gaps, and underemployment among Black and Latino workers, and highlighted ESOL, workforce training, MassHire, and skills-based hiring efforts. Mahania argued poverty drives poor health, linking medical debt, Medicaid instability, maternal health, and chronic disease to wealth loss, and said federal changes could worsen both health and wealth gaps. Vega focused on entrepreneurship and procurement, citing disparities in business ownership and revenue, and described state efforts such as small business technical assistance, founder pipelines, place-based grants, and the Business Front Door; members also pressed him on microbusiness definitions, supplier diversity, and whether state programs were reaching firms that had received prior grants.
Nicole O’Bean of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts testified that Black-owned businesses face a hostile environment due to tariffs, DEI rollbacks, immigration enforcement, capital barriers, and federal funding cuts that reduce contracts from education, health care, and nonprofit sectors. She emphasized that certification alone is not enough and called for stronger inclusive procurement outcomes, better data, and more support for microbusinesses. Dr. Melissa Colon and Dr. Fabian Torres-Dal of the Mauricio Gaston Institute testified on Latino wealth gaps, especially low homeownership, high rent burden, limited access to credit, and occupational segregation; they said structural racism, wage gaps, and education inequities are central drivers and urged housing, labor, and education reforms. Committee members repeatedly linked the hearing’s themes to redlining, medical debt, single-parent households, financial literacy, and the need for legislation and state programs to close the gap, but no votes or formal actions were taken.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- families in several roles, including co-chair of the Arizona Department of Health Maternal Child Review
- This bill is forward-looking to review, analyze, and make recommendations that will help ensure Arizonans
- You know, I'm totally in favor of this group to review the emergency room, but I think what we're going
- I became deeply concerned after reviewing reports from other parents and published materials that ...
- concerned after reviewing reports from other parents and published materials that indicated this clinic
Keywords:
radiation therapy, particle accelerator, critical access hospitals, patient care, rural healthcare, radiologic technologist, radiologist assistant, radiology, imaging, x-ray, diagnostic x-ray, fluoroscopy, mammography, computed tomography, CT technologist, nuclear medicine technologist, bone densitometry, radiation safety, radiation licensing, scope of practice
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 46 (3-13-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This research would be directed toward addressing the scourge of substance use disorder and the mortal
- President, please proceed. >> If you haven't um had the chance to review the committee meeting with this
- If you haven't um had the chance to review the committee meeting with this bill was presented, I would
- The cabinet then has 45 days to respond, and if there is still disagreement, the matter can be reviewed
- </c> reviewed by the Franklin Circuit Court. reviewed by the Franklin Circuit Court.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Comptroller of Public Accounts to serving as arbitrator in an appeal of a binding arbitration of appraisal Review
- supplemental special education services and instruction materials programs by public school admission review
- AB 3339 by Ward Johnson relates to the study of maternal mortality, morbidity among black women in the
- the right of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district, the appraisal district or the appraisal review
- board of the appraisal district to be certain claims in an appeal of an order for the appraisal review
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 41 (3-6-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:52:25.680><c> It</c> disrupting a project under review.
- It disrupting a project under review.
- That way they have enough staff to pull people off to go back and review past cases.
- That way they have enough staff to pull people off to go back and review past cases.
- Whereas by 2030 the cancer mortality.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/18/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections
House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- with the Social Security Administration to verify applicants' Social Security number, citizenship, mortality
- We have a data match with ADHS to provide an additional mortality verification check.
- acceptance of monies from the outlined entities to be submitted to the Arizona Board of Regents for review
- We just now demand or advise them to create the review board.
Summary:
The committee met with all members present, temporarily replacing Vice Chair Keshel with Representative Taylor, and held HB 4014 at the sponsor’s request. It then heard HB 415, which would extend existing state rules on paid petition circulators and initiative/referendum disclosures to municipal and county measures, require paid circulators to display identifying information, and require local measures to disclose expenditures and revenue sources. The sponsor and supporters, including the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, argued the bill would improve transparency and keep initiatives driven by Arizona residents; the bill passed 5-2. The committee also heard the mirror resolution, HCR 2051, which passed 4-3.
The committee next considered HCM 2010, urging Congress to propose a constitutional amendment repealing the Seventeenth Amendment and returning selection of U.S. senators to state legislatures. The sponsor argued it would restore state sovereignty and accountability, while opponents raised concerns about direct democracy and the practical problems that led to the Seventeenth Amendment. The motion initially appeared to pass 4-3, but after a vote correction and a present vote, the measure ultimately failed. The committee then took up HB 2940, a complex AHCCCS/DES bill aimed at tightening eligibility verification, expanding competition in managed care contracting, and creating a unified eligibility rules engine. The sponsor said it would improve fiscal discipline and competition; AHCCCS and health plan representatives said many verification steps already exist, some provisions would add cost or duplicate federal/state processes, and the bill would significantly alter the managed care model. Despite those concerns, HB 2940 passed 4-3.
Later, HB 2874 passed unanimously 7-0. That bill would ease termination requirements and penalties for candidate committees, PACs, or parties that never received contributions and later file termination statements. The committee then heard HB 467, which would require county recorders to display certain voter status information in precinct registers, signature rosters, or electronic poll books; after testimony from county officials and the Association of Counties, the committee adopted a verbal amendment changing “shall” to “may” and passed the bill 5-2. Finally, HB 2775, as amended, passed 4-3. The bill would bar state and local governments from using state resources to implement or enforce rules or policies of international organizations, and the amendment added restrictions on Arizona public universities’ dealings with certain foreign entities, with ABOR given review authority. Supporters framed it as a sovereignty and anti-foreign-influence measure, while the amendment’s removal of rulemaking authority was cited as important to the vote in favor.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Rules Committee Jan 14th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Our plan was, and we're working on now, a two-year update and revision to that, where we review our short
- not actually the ones going in the home to do the activity, but we are working collaboratively and reviewing
- But if you think about the Black infant mortality rate...
- But if you think about the Black infant mortality rate and how we work in the health disparity space
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Rules convened, established quorum, and first approved several governor’s appointments not required to appear: Courtney Welsh to the California Housing Partnership Corporation Board, Janessa Goldbeck to the California Veterans Board, and Tom Huntington to the State Parks and Recreation Commission, each by 3-0 vote. The committee also approved reference of bills to committees, the 2026 committee chair/member assignments, the 2026 session schedule, the 2026 holiday schedule, and floor acknowledgments, all by unanimous votes.
The committee then heard and advanced two appointments requiring testimony. Dr. Hernando Garzon, nominated as chief medical officer for the Emergency Medical Services Authority, discussed his background in emergency medicine, disaster response, EMS data modernization, local flexibility within statewide standards, ambulance offload time regulations, stakeholder engagement, and alternatives to emergency transport such as community paramedicine and telehealth. Members pressed him on strategic planning, rural and climate-related disaster response, ambulance rate reporting, and how EMSA can better protect vulnerable people during evacuations; his appointment was approved 4-0 and sent to the Senate floor.
Stephanie Weldon, nominated as Deputy Director of the Office of Health Equity at the Department of Public Health, described her tribal background, prior public service, and focus on health equity, behavioral health, tribal consultation, data, and community-led programs. Senators asked about measuring outcomes, serving rural communities, balancing equity work amid federal DEI opposition, youth mental health, and preventing fraud or waste through transparency. Public commenters, including tribal, health, and community advocates, strongly supported her nomination. Her appointment was also approved 4-0 and forwarded to the full Senate.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Our plan was, and we're working on now, a two-year update and revision to that, where we review our short
- not actually the ones going in the home to do the activity, but we are working collaboratively and reviewing
- But if you think about the Black infant mortality rate...
- But if you think about the Black infant mortality rate and how we work in the health disparity space
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Select Committee on Biotechnology and Medical Technology Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We don't want to go through another set of reviews for our products as we try to go to India, China,
- It's part of the FDA review. It is. So what part of that is regulated? What is the scrutiny?
- Review. It is. So what part of that is regulated? What is the scrutiny?
- The sample is then reviewed by a pathologist at the microscope.
- And then that is available for review by a pathologist on a monitor.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Ways and Means (01/27/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- So if any of you are reviewing agency budgets, you'll see those class lines appear as an interagency
- So if any of you are reviewing agency budgets, you'll see those class lines appear as an interagency
- agency budgets um you'll see reviewing agency budgets um you'll see those<00:19:55.520><c> class</c>
- We also review forms and rates. We approve or not approve policy rates and forms.
- </c><03:55:40.840><c> tables</c> variability in the mortality tables variability in the mortality tables
Summary:
The meeting featured presentations from the Department of Administrative Services and the Treasury Department on state revenue reporting and unclaimed property. State Comptroller Dana Call explained DAS’s role in compiling statewide revenue reports, including the annual revenue plan set through the budget process and the monthly revenue focus reports that track cash receipts. She noted that unrestricted general fund revenue is about $2 billion annually, while miscellaneous other revenue is a much smaller and less predictable category, averaging roughly $30 million to $32 million a year. She also described two more material internal revenue lines: statewide indirect cost recoveries and post-retirement benefit recoveries, which are billed to agencies and often tied to federal reimbursement rules.
Members asked about the interest line in the revenue charts and about how the figures were presented, and Call clarified that the totals were in millions and that the interest item would be explained by the Treasurer. She also explained that the indirect cost and post-retirement recoveries are internal cost allocations that flow back into the unrestricted revenue pool and are reflected in agency budgets as interagency costs.
Treasurer Monica Meissner then outlined Treasury Department functions, including bank deposits, statewide disbursements, banking relationships, investments, debt management, compliance, the FONA College Savings Program, the ABLE Plan, scholarship programs, and the abandoned property program. In discussing unclaimed property, she said holders report property after a five-year dormancy period, the state uses automated systems and outreach to locate owners, and claim activity has increased. In fiscal year 2024, the state returned about $12.2 million to citizens through roughly 12,000 claims; over the last 10 years, about $72.6 million has been returned. She also said the state escheated $19.9 million to the general fund and $1.8 million to counties last year, and explained that securities-related proceeds are harder to estimate because they depend on market conditions. No votes or formal actions were taken.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (03/12/2025)
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The importance of birth data and identifiers, the maternal mortality review, linking birth and death
- all</c><01:55:03.040><c> the</c><01:55:03.239><c> health</c> a review board to review all the health
- </c> gave this bill to my staff to review gave this bill to my staff to review they<02:35:56.319><c>
- Review Committee, which is vital for helping moms across New Hampshire from the maternal mortality crisis
- c> is</c> mortality Review Committee which is mortality Review Committee which is vital<02:43:16.800>
MS
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:10:12.720><c> and</c> something that we should review and something that we should review and
- I know you review it. Excuse me.
- We've not you review it. Excuse me.
- That's a mortality assumption.
- Um we are reviewing all in general. Um we are reviewing all these<01:20:40.400><c> bills.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It was a double-blinded, peer-reviewed study.
- We use peer review, but we will allow nurse practitioners to review their colleagues' work as well as
- I review... I've got an hour at the end of every day.
- The Chin and Chan study is not peer-reviewed.
- First, obviously, review it to make sure it's within our purview.
Keywords:
grand jury, jury qualifications, jury wheel, small counties, Texas legislation, age verification, obscene devices, online sales, juvenile protection, penalties, antitrust, attorney general, Texas Free Enterprise, business regulations, legal confidentiality, personal identifying information, data brokers, judicial safety, civil rights, data privacy
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection.(6-17-26)
Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- review Western Kentucky, they also review personnel<00:20:38.760><c> limits</c><00:20:39.200><c> at<
- </c> so, in addition to this general review so, in addition to this general review of<00:21:26.240><c
- We have an SMR grant, uh, suicide mortality review, where we're working with the University of Kentucky
- </c><01:14:34.760><c> review,</c> SMR grant, uh suicide mortality review, SMR grant, uh suicide mortality
- We review records.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion
Transcript Highlights:
- —their rates of perinatal mortality or morbidity are still higher.
- you take a black minimum wage's highest income categories in the U.S., their rates of perinatal mortality
- I'm excited that we're now collecting and reviewing aggregate data as we speak, with plans to release
- I know we're going to review it afterward, but what were some key findings?
- So what we've done now is that every student at Suffolk has the cost of the bar review course rolled
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion held a hearing on the impact of federal policy on the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts, the fourth in a series on federal impacts on racial equity. Chair Bud Williams and Chair Miranda opened by emphasizing that no bills were being heard and that the committee would instead take testimony from invited witnesses; public written testimony was also accepted. The chairs and witnesses repeatedly cited long-standing wealth disparities affecting Black and brown communities, including homeownership, wages, business ownership, and access to capital, and linked those disparities to federal policy changes, housing, education, health care, and workforce development.
Administration officials testified first. Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Lauren Jones described persistent labor market disparities, including higher unemployment for Black and Latino residents, lower median hourly wages, and underemployment among degree holders, and highlighted state efforts such as ESOL-for-work funding, workforce training grants, MassHire career centers, skills-based hiring, and the state equity dashboards. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kiami Mahania argued that poverty drives poor health, not the reverse, and said wealth gaps contribute to chronic disease, maternal health inequities, medical debt, and shorter life expectancy; she pointed to the Advancing Health Equity Massachusetts initiative, a health care affordability working group, and the governor’s push to bar medical debt from credit reporting. Assistant Secretary Juan Vega of EOED focused on entrepreneurship and procurement, citing technical assistance grants, founder support programs, place-based investment, the Business Front Door, and the need to broaden access to contracts, capital, and business growth opportunities.
Committee members pressed the panel on the effects of the federal “big beautiful bill” on households, especially single-parent and Black women-led households, and on whether the state could develop more timely data systems instead of relying on federal numbers. Officials said the impacts were still being monitored, but warned that Medicaid and SNAP changes would likely hit lower-income households and community institutions hard. Members also asked about unions and apprenticeships, microbusiness definitions, supplier diversity, pay equity, and degree inflation; the administration said registered apprenticeships and skills-based hiring are key tools, and noted that wage equity reporting is still in its early stages. Later testimony from BECMA’s Nicole O’Bean stressed that tariffs, DEI rollbacks, immigration enforcement, capital gaps, and federal funding cuts are constraining Black-owned businesses and inclusive procurement, while Gastón Institute researchers described severe Latino homeownership and rent burdens, educational inequities, and the need for housing, labor, and education policy changes to close the wealth gap.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion Mar 31st, 2026
Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion
Transcript Highlights:
- you take a Black minimum wage's highest income categories in the U.S., their rates of perinatal mortality
- you take a black minimum wage's highest income categories in the U.S., their rates of perinatal mortality
- I'm excited that we're now collecting and reviewing aggregate data as we speak, with plans to release
- I know we're going to review it afterwards, but what were some key findings?
- So what we've done now is that every student at Suffolk, the cost of the bar review course is rolled
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Aug 19th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2020, mortality was estimated to be 2.8 million years of potential life loss, with an average of 29
- New Mexico has one of the highest rates of alcohol-related mortality.
- We also have problems with gun-related mortality; New Mexico ranks third in the country from 2010 to
- Alcohol-related mortality is increasing.
- There is a table there on alcohol consumption and mortality by race, ethnicity, and tribal affiliation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 1745 by Bell of Kaufman relating to the procedures for protest for the appraisal review boards or
- HB 2080 by Curtis relating to the review of the duties of the Groundwater Conservation District by the
- and Morbidity Review Committee Committee on Disease Prevention and Women and Children's Health.
- HB 2140 by Simmons relates to the composition of the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee
- HB 1540 by Bella Kaufman relating to the government entity subject to the sunset Review processor for
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- inequities, including high rates of unintended pregnancy, teen birth rates, and maternal and infant mortality
- inequities, including high rates of unintended pregnancy, teen birth rates, and maternal and infant mortality
- inequities, including high rates of unintended pregnancy, teen birth rates, and maternal and infant mortality
- up Director Toyoka, if it's okay, and I'll couch this question with: when we were doing our budget review
- The House adjustment changes the amount from $100,000 to $200,000 for the Tax Review Commission.