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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • of size or operational date, to qualify as a carbon-free technology under state statute.
  • , regardless of size or operational date, to qualify as a carbon-free technology under state statute.
  • or allowing existing facilities to upgrade equipment and increase generation.
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  • that we have in existing facilities that we have in Minnesota<00:13:18.240> the<00:13:18.399>
Bills: HF75
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services REVISED Feb 9th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Health and Human Services

TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Such measures include security reviews of school facilities and the development of an active shooter
  • It's an existing facility, existing training, you know, this is the first responder training. out of
  • It's a world-class facility, and it's not only dealing with integrating how the first responders...
  • I've spent the last 30 years of my life... ...working at zoological facilities in Texas.
  • trespassers by creating a specific criminal offense for trespassing in these facilities.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, and those include state police posts, our residential youth facilities, day treatment facilities,
  • > um facilities, day treatment facilities, um facilities, day treatment facilities, um adult<00
  • for those two facilities?
  • facilities? facilities? >> Yes,<00:08:30.639> ma'am.
  • Um you know that was facilities.
Summary: The subcommittee heard capital project requests from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet for fiscal years 2026-28. The cabinet described its large statewide footprint and said its facilities face significant deferred maintenance, with the governor’s budget proposing full funding for maintenance pool requests, including an additional $60 million for the Department of Corrections’ maintenance pool and cash funding through investment income. Officials said the projects were based on facility assessments and were presented as necessary public safety investments rather than wish-list items. For the Department of Juvenile Justice, the main requests were $35 million for a high-acuity mental health treatment facility and $45 million each for two new female detention facilities. Officials said the mental health facility would fill a gap for youth needing psychiatric care, while the female facilities were needed to support a regional detention model and address overcrowding; they noted the current female population has grown by 50% since July 2024. Members asked about locations, and staff said they were considering western Kentucky abandoned mine land and available land in Fayette and Jefferson counties, with current female placements in Boyd County and Warren County. For the Department of Corrections, officials requested funding for critical mechanical, electrical, plumbing, roof, and structural repairs, including $15.78 million for Kentucky State Penitentiary utilities infrastructure and additional funding for North Point Training Center projects. They also highlighted two re-entry initiatives: a KCTCS partnership for a re-entry campus at North Point and the East Kentucky Applied Manufacturing Institute at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex, both aimed at reducing recidivism through intensive training and job preparation. Members asked about the KCTCS re-entry model, and DOC explained it would be a more immersive, campus-style program than current prison-based vocational classes. The Department of Criminal Justice Training discussed projects at its Richmond campus and the planned Western Kentucky Training Center, including a replacement flat track and campus access road at Richmond and added training features in Madisonville. Officials said the Richmond changes were needed because EKU construction had removed the existing flat track and would affect access, while the Western Kentucky project would expand training capacity and reduce travel for law enforcement agencies. The Kentucky State Police then outlined the final phase of the statewide emergency radio system replacement, estimated at about $17.5 million, and said the system is being built in geographic phases; members asked how long completion would take, and staff estimated roughly four years after funding, assuming no major inflation spikes. No votes were taken, and the meeting remained informational with member questions and staff responses.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Apr 16th, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • They have a project up in the Panhandle, and they've just been told they have to relocate facilities.
  • A client was explaining to me that if a city says to a large provider that has quite a few facilities
  • A private concern to move their facility. The primary driver is certainly transportation.
  • Lastly, there would be the public works bucket that we mentioned, including facilities, public arenas
  • , and conventions. centers, city halls, and facilities of some nature.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/24/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, the way we discussed this before was that when, let's say, a water facility or a sewage facility
  • So, we're making sure that we're maintaining these facilities as they're getting built. Thank you.
  • <00:15:36.040> or facility or a sewage facility or facility or a sewage facility or whatever
  • facilities as they're getting built. facilities as they're getting built.
  • This bill would provide $20 million for a public works facility in the city of Robbinsdale.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/9/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The first step, if they're 21 years old or older, is receiving a diagnosis of a qualified medical condition
  • An enrollee must consume the psilocybin at a licensed facility with a licensed facilitator present during
  • to be more than 1,000 patients approved, 50 registered facilitators approved, and three testing facilities
  • of Health, but also include and that includes licensure process for both the facilitator and the facility
  • going to be more than 1000 patients approved, 50 registered facilitators approved and 3 testing facilities
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/2/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • When facilities are financial practices.
  • It showed how leverage buyouts burdened facilities with massive debt.
  • Minnesota has a facility collapse.
  • We also was by for-profit facilities.
  • Uh we do facilities, and some hospitals.
Bills: HF3668, HF2779, HF2771
Summary: The House Finance and Policy Committee met on March 2 with a quorum present and heard House File 3668, which would create a state Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The bill author argued the office would treat gun violence as a public health crisis, improve research and coordination, and help reduce deaths and trauma, especially among children. Several supporters testified, including representatives from the Minnesota Medical Association, Protect Minnesota, family medicine, public health, and obstetrics/gynecology, all emphasizing firearm injury and suicide as major public health problems and urging a coordinated, data-driven response. Multiple testifiers shared personal accounts of shootings and their effects on children and families, including the Annunciation shooting, and said the office could help align prevention efforts across health care, law enforcement, and community organizations. Opposition came from the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, which argued the bill would create a permanent taxpayer-funded bureaucracy that could be used to shape firearm policy and restrict a constitutional right. The group said Minnesota should focus instead on enforcing existing laws, prosecuting violent offenders, and providing direct victim services. During committee discussion, Vice Chair Nadeau offered an A2 amendment to move the proposed office from the Department of Health to the Department of Public Safety, citing data-sharing, accountability, and examples from other cities and states; after discussion with the bill author, he withdrew the amendment. Chair Becker then noted existing state and local spending on violence prevention and public safety programs and raised concerns about duplication of effort.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House State Government Committee Feb 18th, 2026

State Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • out some of that inappropriate drone use that we're seeing starting to happen in these kind of facilities
  • in<00:15:29.279> these<00:15:29.519> kind<00:15:29.680> of<00:15:29.839> facilities
  • in these kind of facilities. in these kind of facilities.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

House Floor Session Jan 23rd, 2026 at 09:00 am

North Dakota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The operating officer of this facility in my district informed me that closure of their facility would
  • So imagine, okay, let the facility that's in need of this money...
  • This is a facility that has been operating in the red for a few years.
  • Understand that this is, without question, a bill for one facility.
  • That creates another need that would be gone if that facility wasn't there.
Summary: The North Dakota House convened in special session with prayer, roll call, and a quorum present, then took up several rural health-related bills. Senate Bill 2401, as amended, required physicians to complete one hour of continuing education in nutrition and metabolic health each renewal cycle and also added language allowing criminal history background checks for the Board of Occupational Therapy Practice. Supporters emphasized the role of nutrition in reducing chronic disease, and the bill passed 92-0. The House then considered Senate Bill 2402, which expanded pharmacists’ limited prescriptive and therapeutic substitution authority for certain low-acuity conditions and clarified related lab-test and communication requirements. Members discussed examples such as motion sickness, cold sores, lice, hypoglycemia, COVID and flu testing, emergency access to medications and supplies, and limits excluding certain drug classes; the bill passed 91-1. Senate Bill 2403 created a temporary medical facility emergency operating loan option through the Bank of North Dakota for qualifying rural hospitals facing severe financial distress, with extensive debate over the targeted nature of the aid, anti-gifting concerns, repayment terms, and the hospital’s turnaround plan; it passed 80-12. Senate Bill 2404 appropriated funds for NDIT to address federal digital accessibility requirements and for the Public Service Commission’s litigation efforts related to transmission costs, with a backup loan authorization available if needed; it passed 92-0. At the close of the session, leaders thanked members and staff for their work on the rural health transformation package, a committee notified the Governor and the Senate that the House had completed its business, absent members were excused, and the House adjourned sine die.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

House Floor Session Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:30 am

North Dakota House Floor Meeting

Summary: The North Dakota House convened in special session with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the reading of communications from the Secretary of State and Governor Kelly Armstrong certifying the special session call. The governor’s executive order said the session was called to act on funding for the Rural Health Transformation Program so the state could accept and appropriate federal funds and avoid interruptions to government services. Three new members, Representatives McNally, Scraw, and Timmons, were sworn in, and the roll showed 91 members present, establishing a quorum. The main business was a Rules Committee report outlining temporary special-session rules. The changes were designed to speed up floor action, including allowing second reading the same day a bill is reported from committee, final passage one day after first reading, and immediate transmission to the other chamber unless reconsideration is noticed. The report also replaced the regular standing committee structure with two joint committees: Joint Appropriations and Joint Policy, allowed remote testimony and remote member participation with approval, and limited bill introduction to Legislative Management-approved bills or bills approved by a two-thirds vote. Several deadline changes for resolutions and bill filing were also described, with some provisions delayed until the special session ends. The House adopted the Rules Committee report after a motion by Representative Bosch and no opposition. During announcements, the clerk listed the membership of the Joint Appropriations and Joint Policy committees, and the Highway Patrol announced safety sessions for legislators in the Rough Rider Room at 11 a.m. that day and the next day. The House then recessed until the joint session scheduled for 10 a.m. the following day.