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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Feb 18th, 2026

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think when we hear CYFD, we often associate that with child safety, but CYFD is also responsible for
Bills: SB241
Summary: The Senate began by outlining the day’s agenda, then received several House messages, including the House’s request for concurrence on Senate Bill 151 and notice that the House had concurred in Senate amendments to House Bills 2, 3, and 70. The Senate also received enrolled bills SB 64 and SB 101, and later adopted committee reports on House Bill 120 and SB 64. The chamber then took up concurrence on SB 151, a tax package that the House amended to remove the gross receipts tax provision for medical supplies, add a 1% salary increase for state employees, higher education, and public schools, extend a high-wage job tax credit, and add sunsets. Senator Hamblen supported concurrence as a friendly amendment, while Senator Cervantes argued the House changes transformed the bill into an unconstitutional appropriations measure and urged a conference committee. The Senate nevertheless concurred, 22-14. On third reading, the Senate passed House Bill 61, which increases the penalty for aggravated battery on a peace officer from a third-degree to a second-degree felony to align with other sentencing provisions. Supporters, including Senator Cervantes, cited consistency in the criminal code and noted the Sentencing Commission’s endorsement; the bill passed 37-0. The Senate also passed House Joint Memorial 3, directing the Environment Department to convene stakeholders and report on implementation of the PFAS Protection Act, despite a brief exchange over whether the memorial could be read as expanding authority under the existing PFAS law; it passed 22-13. The chamber then passed several memorials: Senate Memorial 20, amended to include youth and family voices and legislative appointees in a statewide youth violence summit, passed 35-0; Senate Memorial 21, calling for a study of a statewide overdose prevention program, passed 35-0; Senate Memorial 22, which asks the Legislative Finance Committee to convene a working group on domestic violence funding and CYFD-related funding flows, passed; and Senate Memorial 27, urging expansion of the Radiation Exposure Act to compensate New Mexicans affected by atomic testing and uranium mining, passed 34-0. At the end of the session, the Senate received a governor’s message authorizing consideration of SB 74 on cockfighting penalties, followed by a playful Senate response message. The body also agreed to move House Joint Memorial 2 from Rules to the President’s table and then recessed until 8:30 a.m. the next day.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 10th, 2026 at 04:51 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • grandparents raising their grandchild and a foster parent as an eligible activity to be eligible for child
  • In Section 7, this is where we did incorporate Senator Shendo's concerns in relation to tribal child
  • to provide child care that is in a linguistic and culturally appropriate manner, so as not to infringe
  • So this is basically the clause that ensures that we expend federal child care assistance funds first
  • So the department shall reasonably ensure that eligible federal and state child care tax benefits are
Bills: SB241, SB145
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 10th, 2026 at 09:10 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 241 codifies the child care assistance program and creates stability for New Mexico.
  • a full-time child care assistance contract for a child; that is correct, Mr.
  • child care assistance contract for a child; that is correct, Mr.
  • They have one child.
  • Their child care.
Bills: SB241, SB145
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill is a very simple common-sense bill that I hope helps stabilize in-home family child care providers
  • It reduces child care wait times and helps build or rebuild the child care early learning system capacity
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  • rebuild the child care Early build or rebuild the child care Early Learning<00:05:14.199><c> System<
  • </c><00:48:14.359><c> care</c><00:48:14.760><c> and</c> child to find quality child care and child to
Bills: HF656, HF655, HF633
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • All of that can be true, and simultaneously a child with autism, a child with Down syndrome, a child
  • All of that can be true, and simultaneously a child with autism, a child with Down syndrome, a child
  • All of that can be true, and simultaneously a child with autism, a child with Down syndrome, a child
  • All of that can be true, and simultaneously a child with autism, a child with Down syndrome, a child
  • All of that can be true, and simultaneously a child with autism, a child with Down syndrome, a child
Bills: HF1247, HF628
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 10th, 2026 at 07:02 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, members of the committee, Jason Espinoza, speaking on behalf of the New Mexico Child First
  • Chairman, members of the committee, Jason Espinoza, speaking on behalf of the New Mexico Child First
  • The New Mexico Child First Network is standing in strong support.
  • My name is Keeva Hubbard, and I'm a parent advocate with lived experience in the child welfare system
  • Any stabilization efforts should strengthen families, not delay reunification or shift power away from
Bills: SB241, SB145, HB2
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 10th, 2026

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • As an eligible activity to be eligible for child care assistance.
  • care centers, and more specifically focused on ensuring that tribal child care centers retain their
  • ability to provide child care that is in a linguistic and culturally appropriate manner, so as not to
  • And culturally appropriate child care or limit any educational regulations adopted by Indian nations,
  • tribes or pueblos related to language and culturally appropriate child care.
Bills: SB241, SB145, HB2
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 241 and reviewed a Senate Finance Committee substitute that incorporated several amendments. Staff explained changes related to the child care fund, residency determinations for federally eligible applicants, expanded child care assistance eligibility for grandparents raising grandchildren and foster parents, updated payment-rate rulemaking, tribal child care sovereignty and culturally appropriate services, limits on land grant permanent fund use for nonsectarian/non-denominational services, provider licensure pathways, and reporting clarifications. Members also discussed whether the bill would maximize federal and state child care tax benefits and how the nonsectarian language would apply to faith-based child care providers. The committee adopted the substitute and then passed it on a 7-3 vote. The committee then moved into House Bill 2 budget language review, focusing on budget adjustment authority and other fiscal provisions. Members discussed proposed BAR language for the State Investment Council, State Treasurer, PERA, and the Economic Development Department, with concerns about caps, whether the language was too broad, and whether some items should revert to existing law or be removed. The committee approved some of the BAR language items, but flagged the Treasurer and Economic Development provisions for later review. Members also discussed extending certain appropriations and project timelines, including a Rio Grande Trail Commission item and several IT and public safety projects, generally favoring extensions where work was still underway. The committee then debated proposed public school support language that would bar PED from approving budgets for schools with fewer than 180 instructional days and from approving new moves to four-day school weeks. Several members argued the 180-day language conflicted with existing statute, which is based on instructional hours, and that the four-day-week restriction could have unintended consequences. The committee ultimately voted down both public school support provisions. The meeting ended with a brief discussion of reviewing the rest of House Bill 2 and related supplemental and language items in the next session, and then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> to child protection. to child protection.
  • </c> the child. the child.
  • And I know that in family child<01:24:48.800><c> care</c> child care child care um<01:24:49.840><c> folks
  • </c> of keeping every child safe. of keeping every child safe.
  • </c> privacy or child care. privacy or child care.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm not okay with my tax dollar going to buying popsicles for a child. For your child to eat.
  • And so if you're raised my child alone.
  • And that child and those at times.
  • And um you know in some of child care.
  • </c> fighting to get better, to stabilize fighting to get better, to stabilize their<01:53:44.159><c>
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: Links added Feb 4th, 2026

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know it generated some chatter, but we've amended out the revisions on the child-only section as well
  • Members, this is a request bill from DHS to modify the delivery of any role changes for child care facilities
  • This is another request from DHS adding in a fingerprint requirement for background checks for child
  • So you have currently the Child Care Development Fund block grant, and they require a five-year background
Summary: The Children, Youth, and Family Committee met for its first meeting, with the chair emphasizing a shared goal of improving outcomes for children and families and describing the bills before the committee as work in progress. The committee first adopted a working draft and heard House Bill 4422, which would require applicants for welfare benefits to be checked through the SAVE system to verify American citizenship; the speaker said amendments removed earlier child-only and WIC changes. The bill was reported out 7-1. The committee then considered several DHS- and child welfare-related measures. House Bill 4117 would broaden the definition of family resource centers to better reflect Oklahoma organizations and support access to public and private grants, including faith-based and workforce-training efforts; it was reported due pass after discussion about the range of services such centers provide. House Bill 4298 would allow child care facilities to receive rule-change notices electronically instead of only by mail, while preserving mail delivery as an option, and House Bill 4300 would add a fingerprint requirement to child care background checks to align state law with federal Child Care Development Fund requirements; both were reported due pass. House Bill 2984 would direct DHS to seek a waiver limiting SNAP purchases to Oklahoma in order to reduce out-of-state card skimming and fraud; members discussed border-area concerns and possible radius exceptions, but the bill was reported out 6-0. The final major measure was House Bill 3344, a foster care bill intended to improve placement and support for foster children and families. The author said the bill was only a starting point and that he had been working with DHS, judges, and other stakeholders; members raised concerns about a felony penalty in the bill, and the author said that provision would be revised as the bill moved forward. The committee passed the bill 7-0. Several members also used the discussion to stress the need for stronger funding for vulnerable populations and state agencies, especially foster care and mental health services. The meeting ended with plans for further revisions and a follow-up meeting the next Wednesday.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • There was no instance of child abuse in this case.
  • It's over the legislation and the reporting of child abuse, I guess reported from a hospital.
  • And so to prevent that, he reported the mother for child abuse to keep it covered up.
  • viewing the x-ray, which resulted in the removal where the child was gone for nine months.
  • This could be a child taking a caseworker's $1,000 iPhone and throwing it, breaking it.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Currently, if a child is hospitalized... for any reason.
  • , including placement stability and determining the foster care. placement for the child.
  • That we must do everything in our power to get that first placement right for that child. child.
  • I'm testifying from the perspectives of both a former DFPS child abuse investigator child death cases
  • In 2020, DFPS indicated we are seeing improvements within the Texas child welfare system and state child
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's whether or not the child is harmed or could be harmed as a result of that drug use.
  • harm to the child, you could terminate under a different ground.
  • In a Child Protective Services case, you can be ordered into services on something less.
  • I'm the Director of Child Protection Policy at Texans Care for Children.
  • I'm the Director of Child Protection Policy at Texans Care for Children.
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part I) May 7th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • prescribed a cannabis product to your child, declining immunization, allowing a child to participate
  • The child, in consultation with the child and/or their legal representative, may permit the department
  • for the child?
  • And that's... ...your child.
  • It actually removes injury to a child, felony injury to a child, and also felony endangerment or abandonment
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services met with a quorum and took up several House and Senate bills, with public testimony limited to two minutes per witness. The committee first heard HB 2358, a cleanup bill requested by HHSC that would repeal outdated training and conference requirements for long-term care facility surveyors and certain providers; there were no witnesses, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard HB 18, the rural hospital stabilization bill, which would create financial assessment tools, a rural hospital finance office at HHSC, an academy for rural hospital officers, multiple grant programs, enhanced Medicaid reimbursement tied to average cost, OB/GYN add-on payments, expanded pediatric telehealth connectivity, and a rural pediatric mental health program. Senator Perry and witnesses from TORCH, a rural hospital, AARP Texas, and ARCHI strongly supported the bill as a way to stabilize rural hospitals, improve OB access, and address workforce and financial pressures. Committee members discussed rural hospital closures, low-volume quality metrics, system affiliation, and the need for predictable monthly reimbursement; the bill was left pending after testimony and questions. The committee next heard HB 37, which would create a perinatal bereavement care initiative for families experiencing stillbirth, neonatal death, or intrauterine fetal demise, including counseling, staff training, and access to cooling devices, with possible grants and a recognition program for hospitals. Senator Huffman explained the bill, and several witnesses testified in support, sharing personal stories about infant loss and the importance of time with the baby, trained staff, and cuddle cots or similar devices. A neonatologist also supported the bill while suggesting clarification that hospitals should not be penalized if state funding is unavailable and recommending use of regional advisory councils to help implement training. Public testimony was then closed and the bill left pending. The committee also heard HB 879, which would create a streamlined licensing pathway for veterans with medical or nursing experience to practice in Texas, and HB 913, which would add new state hospitals to statute and split the North Texas State Hospital into two separate hospitals with their own superintendents; both bills had no opposition testimony and were left pending. Later, the committee heard SB 2744, a heart disease screening bill that would update the 2009 Texas Heart Attack Prevention Act to require insurance coverage for coronary CT angiography with plaque analysis, including soft plaque detection, as a preventive screening tool. The author and invited witnesses argued the technology is more effective than calcium scoring alone, can identify patients before symptoms appear, and could save lives at a cost comparable to or lower than colonoscopy. An insurance industry witness opposed the bill, arguing the technology has not been recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for universal screening and that the mandated coverage and payment level would raise costs; the bill was left pending after testimony. Finally, the committee heard HB 1151, a parental rights bill clarifying that refusing psychotropic medication or psychiatric treatment is not neglect unless the child is harmed. Supporters, including parent advocates and attorneys, said the bill would protect parents from CPS overreach and preserve medical decision-making authority, while one witness urged broader attention to physical causes of behavioral issues. Public testimony was closed and HB 1151 was left pending.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Pardee and Representative Harris, an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code relating to child
  • care. ...and an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code relating to child care licenses for youth
  • Every child deserves the opportunity to explore nature, develop confidence, and create lasting summer
  • As Delaware begins this review of child care regulations, thank you for your consideration.
  • When affordable child care is unavailable, parents are forced to make difficult decisions.
Bills: SB293, SB279, SB293, SB279
Summary: The House Education Committee met and first heard Senate Bill 293, the Youth Camp Licensing Act, which would amend child care licensing rules for youth camps. The sponsor said the bill, with amendments, would remove accreditation language, clarify shelter requirements for outdoor camps, and eliminate limits that had restricted the number of children camps could serve, especially for families using purchase-of-care assistance. YMCA and school representatives testified in support, saying the measure would expand access to safe, affordable summer care for low-income working families. The committee voted to release the bill. The committee then approved Senate Bill 328, which would require the Department of Education’s school facility evaluation instrument to be established by regulation and to include lead-based paint hazards in the standard of good repair. The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee supported the bill, explaining that lead had not been included in the original evaluation tool and that the new language would improve transparency and public comment. Senate Bill 318, updating the Delaware State Education Association special license plate program, also passed after DSEA testified that proceeds support scholarships for educators and students pursuing education careers. House Bill 443, dealing with background checks for education volunteers and mentors, passed as well. The sponsor said it would allow DOE to continue receiving wrapback reports for mentors in the state mentoring program and ensure state and federal criminal background checks remain in place. The committee also released Senate Joint Resolution 15, which directs DOE to reevaluate Delaware’s use of the SAT, modernize the accountability framework, and develop additional measures of student achievement and readiness; supporters argued the SAT does not capture career and technical pathways or other indicators of success. House Bill 459, which prohibits the sale of energy drinks on public middle and high school campuses during school hours or events, passed after discussion focused on whether the bill would affect possession versus sale and whether it could lead to student discipline; DOE said the bill only bans sales, and the sponsor said an amendment would clarify intent. Finally, House Concurrent Resolution 137 passed, directing DOE to review math instruction and MTSS supports statewide; testimony emphasized low math proficiency and the need for stronger, more coherent interventions. The committee also began hearing Senate Bill 279 on occupational therapist salary placement, with discussion centered on aligning OT compensation with other specialist roles and broader salary regulation updates, though the transcript cuts off before final action is shown.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Committee Meeting Jun 17th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code related to child care.
  • It's an act to amend title 14 of the dollar code related to child care.
  • And, you know, child care is a really big deal.
  • And if they have child care opportunities, or they could be coaxed into doing child care opportunities
  • And the key stakeholders are business people who need child care.
Bills: SB293, SB279
Summary: The Senate Education Committee approved the June 10 minutes and then heard House Bill 447, which would create a framework for voluntary child care cost-sharing partnerships among the state, employers, community sponsors, and families. Supporters said the bill is meant to help make child care more affordable and support workforce participation by using the existing Interagency Resource Management Committee to coordinate planning and funding. Committee discussion focused on how the tri-share model would work, who would participate, and whether it would reach lower-income families; no public comment was offered on the bill. The committee then took up House Bill 300, as amended, which would establish a statewide Title IX coordinator within the Department of Education to provide training, technical assistance, data collection, and oversight for interscholastic athletics in grades 6 through 12. The bill’s sponsor and supporters said the position would help schools comply with Title IX, improve consistency, and make athletic participation and spending data more transparent; opponents or skeptics questioned whether a new DOE position was needed and whether districts were already meeting their obligations. The sponsor and witnesses responded that existing federal data are delayed and incomplete, that some Delaware schools have participation gaps, and that a state-level coordinator would provide needed support and accountability. Public comment on HB 300 included testimony from the Delaware State Education Association, the Delaware Association of School Administrators, the Delaware School Sports Network, and the Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy, all generally supporting the bill or its goals. DASA noted it remained neutral but appreciated changes made in House Amendment 1 to reduce reporting burden. After public comment, the chair asked members to sign the bill release forms for the two bills heard, and the committee adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • > visited despite those Child Care Centers visited despite those Child Care Centers receiving<00:20:13.679
  • </c> Services does oversight over these child Services does oversight over these child care<00:20:27.840
  • </c> those concerns it mandates that child those concerns it mandates that child care<00:21:21.039><c
  • It is to provide help for child care facilities, right?
  • It is to provide help for child care facilities, right?
Bills: HF1169, HF1916
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/25/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a member of the Dyslexia Coalition, a dyslexic adult, and a parent of a dyslexic child.
  • In that moment, I realized the shame I carried as a child was beginning to pass on to the next generation
  • moment, I realized the shame I carried<00:07:11.759><c> as</c><00:07:12.000><c> a</c><00:07:12.160><c> child
  • </c><00:07:12.720><c> beginning</c><00:07:13.039><c> to</c><00:07:13.199><c> pass</c> carried as a child
  • was beginning to pass carried as a child was beginning to pass on<00:07:13.599><c> to</c><00:07:13.680
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Child Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am testifying to express my strong support. which seeks to establish the Rural Child Care Stabilization
  • We pay $1,200 every month for child care for Dean, and we also pay $1,200 every month for child care
  • goal is to have no family pay more than 7% of their income for child care and early learning, child
  • child care for him, and we could not afford child care for my daughter.
  • to afford quality child care.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 4/2/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • . home child care for almost 11 years I am home child care for almost 11 years I am testifying<00:20:
  • </c> dundis hosts a limited number of child dundis hosts a limited number of child care<00:21:44.760>
  • the other child.
  • to afford quality child care.
  • </c> child welfare definition to uh child child welfare definition to uh child welfare<01:37:05.040><