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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

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  • These disqualifications are with regard to the level two background screening.
  • These disqualifications are with regard to the level two background screening.
  • The bill modernizes the care provider background screening process by centralizing screenings through
  • The bill also allows individuals who have not undergone a background screening to act as an athletic
  • Ten years of that have been in emergency trauma.
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services met to hear and vote on a series of health, human services, and education-related bills, along with a presentation of the committee’s proposed HHS budget. The budget was described as increasing by more than $2.1 billion over the current base, with major funding highlighted for Medicaid and KidCare, rural health, provider rate increases, child welfare, mental health and substance use, opioid treatment, Alzheimer’s initiatives, cancer research, ADAP, veterans’ services, and IT modernization. Public testimony on the budget focused heavily on AIDS Drug Assistance Program funding and concerns about Department of Health changes affecting access, premium assistance, notice, and continuity of care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Among the bills reported favorably were measures on podiatric medicine and tissue-based products (SB 1092), background screening and clearinghouse procedures (SB 1168), child protective investigations involving specific medical diagnoses and second opinions (SB 42), clinical laboratory personnel licensure standards (SB 878), uterine fibroid data tracking and research (SB 196), medical marijuana treatment center oversight and related health provisions (SB 902), dyslexia and dyscalculia screening and intervention in schools (SB 1340), memory care licensure for assisted living facilities (SB 1404), congenital CMV education materials (SB 1414), Parkinson’s disease registry and related public records exemption bills (SB 1684 and SB 1686), and occupational therapy dry needling licensure standards (SB 914). Several bills were amended before passage, including SB 1092, SB 42, SB 902, SB 1684, and SB 1404. Testimony generally came from professional associations, advocacy groups, and affected stakeholders, with support voiced for most measures. The committee adopted amendments on the floor, heard no opposition during debate on the bills described, and then voted to report each measure favorably. At the end of the meeting, senators requested to be recorded in the affirmative on selected bills, and the committee adjourned.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:04 am

Senate Indian, Rural & Cultural Affairs

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  • United States of America. which causes Native women to bear the heaviest burden of the historical trauma
  • The unspoken trauma caused marriage to dissolve, alcohol, drug abuse, living with shame, and Women are
  • and unequal access to informed consent, the impacts of these actions live on through generational trauma
  • The impacts on survivors and their descendants include trauma, loss of cultural continuity, And mistrust
  • It's right there on the screen. I don't want to misquote her.
Bills: SM14
HI
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  • Plant medicines have traditionally helped people to heal from addiction, trauma, illness, and as well
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  • which only added to my medical trauma. which only added to my medical trauma.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on SB 847, which would create a Kauai pilot program allowing qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications. The Board of Psychology supported the bill’s intent but asked for amendments to delay the effective date or extend the pilot so rules could be written first, and to clarify the education/training language. Supporters, including the Hawaii Psychological Association, Hawaii Mental Health Coalition, and several psychologists, argued that prescribing psychologists have long safety records in other jurisdictions and that the pilot could improve access to care on Kauai, especially amid ongoing mental health needs and storm-related stress. They cited studies and examples from New Mexico, Louisiana, the Department of Defense, and other places. Opponents, including the Hawaii Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Queen’s Medical Center, and a Department of Health representative, said the bill needed substantial work, raised concerns about training, liability, and workforce impacts, and urged a team-based model with psychiatrist oversight rather than independent prescribing. Some testimony also referenced a GAO report, with witnesses disagreeing over its meaning and cost-effectiveness. No vote was taken during the discussion, and members asked questions about how the bill would address the workforce shortage and whether a psychiatrist on Kauai could already meet the need. The committee then moved to SB 2271 on hospital licensing and SB 2272 on home health care licensing. The Department of Health, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported both measures, which were described as streamlining and clarifying licensing oversight by relying on accreditation or certification reports. A member asked whether the bill language on hospital accreditation reports was duplicative, and the response was that the second provision was intended to strengthen enforcement by requiring hospitals to provide the actual report to DOH. The committee did not take final action in the portion of the hearing provided, and the chair noted that all bills on the agenda would later be considered for decision-making.
TX
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  • We will now begin public testimony on House Bill 21, and I'm looking at the screen here.
  • House Bill 198 would require political subdivisions to offer occupational cancer screenings for their
  • ; clarifying that if a department already offers a comprehensive cancer screening, they can continue
  • So at a cost of $800 for a cancer screening compared to what the town lost and TML lost, is...
  • If you ask, it was for us to carry on and get these screenings completed.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 15th, 2026 at 12:53 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

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  • Shaken baby syndrome is now called abusive head trauma, and it is brain damage from baby shaking.
  • Chair, Representative, would you say that in many ways it's more victim-centered and trauma-informed?
  • One of my biggest concerns is that we're not causing the person to relive their trauma again.
  • that this is brought forward... the more that somebody is having to relive this trauma.
  • I have suffered a lot of DWIs because of my trauma from this. Thank you very much.
Bills: HB97, HB280, HB183, HB151, HB202
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 15th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

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  • how many folks voted for it that didn't even know what it was. because it wouldn't show up on my screen
  • Many students who end up in a D.A.P. setting are there because they're dealing with trauma, mental health
  • , certain kinds of trauma. we had a we had a child psychologist who came to our committee some time ago
  • The clerk will read the bill. 5451 by Thompson relating to a screening for the risk of commercial sexual
  • We have screening involved with children who are in foster care and TJJD. And I move.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Jan 26th, 2026

Health Policy

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  • clearinghouse have different processes to address their own background screenings.
  • Different processes to address their own background screenings.
  • Modernization of the clearinghouse system in 2024 enables the centralization of all screenings to one
  • The bill also addresses the coaches background screening that we talked about a little bit last year
  • Modernization of the clearinghouse system in 2024 enables the centralization of all screenings to one
Bills: S1082, S1168, S1756, S1156, S1480
Summary: The committee took up several health-related bills. SB 1082, on a statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program, was presented as a way to let providers and insurers use the federal independent dispute resolution process for emergency out-of-network claims under state-regulated commercial plans. A late-filed amendment clarified when providers and health plans could access the state program, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1168, which would centralize background screening clearinghouse functions at the Agency for Health Care Administration, also passed as amended after an amendment requiring sealed and expunged records to be included in screenings for qualified entities. Supporters said centralization would improve turnaround times, reduce duplication, and save costs; the sponsor said the bill also addresses coaches’ background screening language from last session. The committee then approved SB 1156, which moves ambulatory surgery center regulation out of the hospital-focused chapter of law into a standalone section, and SB 1480, as amended by a strike-all, which would grandfather certain temporary certificate holders practicing in areas of critical need if federal designation changes affect those areas. Testimony on SB 1480 emphasized continuity of care for patients in underserved communities, and the bill was reported favorably. The final and most heavily debated measure was SB 1756 on medical freedom, which would require state-approved educational materials on childhood vaccines, require practitioners to provide those materials and alternative schedules before vaccination, expand school immunization exemptions to include conscience-based objections, clarify that the Surgeon General cannot order vaccination during a public health emergency, and authorize pharmacists to provide ivermectin behind the counter without a prescription with written information and safeguards. The sponsor argued the bill strengthens parental choice and informed consent. Committee members raised concerns about vaccine-preventable disease risks, immunocompromised children, school outbreaks, and the impact of adding a new exemption. A Department of Health representative said the department would need to provide details on the history of exemption consultations and noted that removing the earlier consultation requirement had not been shown to increase outbreaks. The committee adopted a friendly amendment to give physicians the same liability protection as pharmacists for ivermectin dispensing, but rejected a substitute amendment that would have required a consultation for exemption requests. Public testimony was overwhelmingly opposed to the bill, with physicians, pediatric specialists, cancer advocates, parents of immunocompromised children, and public health groups warning that it would lower vaccination rates and endanger vulnerable Floridians. The bill remained pending after testimony, with the committee continuing to hear public comment.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 2nd, 2026 at 09:12 am

Senate Rules

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  • United States, which caused many Native women to bear the heaviest burden and shame of this historical trauma
  • This unspeakable trauma caused marriage dissolve, alcohol, drug abuse, and living with this shame silenced
  • She also has a documentary that you know, makes people aware of what has happened and just the trauma
  • I have been proud to serve the courageous Community of survivors of rape, child abuse, and trauma for
Bills: SM13, SM14
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Healthcare

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  • for and treating postpartum... of screening for and treating postpartum depression, but that's what
  • It's a postpartum screening form, and if you score above a certain level, then you know you're at risk
  • We don't mandate legislatively that if you're overweight, your doctor has to screen you for high blood
  • pressure or if you have a family history of heart disease, that they have to screen your cholesterol
  • Uh,... they have to screen your cholesterol.
Bills: HB322, HB346, HB336, HB384, SB237
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

ECD Public Hearing - Fri Apr 17, 2026 @ 8:30 AM HST

Economic Development & Technology

Summary: The committee met in Room 430 on April 17 at 8:30 a.m. and heard several resolutions focused on Hawaii’s sister-state and international relationships. Measures discussed included SCR 184, SCR 169 SD1, SCR 47, SCR 57 SD1, SCR 170 SD1, and SCR 163 SD1. Testimony generally supported expanding or formalizing ties with Japanese prefectures and other partners, including Yamaguchi, Okayama, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, as well as maintaining the Hawaii-Taiwan relationship. DBED’s Dennis Ling explained that sister-state agreements provide a framework for broader government, nonprofit, and private-sector relationships, and cited existing exchanges in transportation, health, education, culinary rice development, biosecurity, and food innovation. Catherine Stanway of the Division of Forestry and Wildlife supported the Aotearoa measure for predator control, biosecurity, and conservation cooperation. Jerry Chang of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office testified in support of the Taiwan resolution, noting 33 years of sister-state ties and ongoing cooperation in education, culture, economy, and disaster management. One witness raised a concern about language in SCR 57 SD1 related to double taxation, saying that portion did not relate to the sister-state relationship, but the committee chose not to amend the measure to avoid possible delay or conference issues. A committee member also asked about how sister-state relationships work and whether other states have similar country-level arrangements; Ling said Hawaii has an MOU with Israel and mentioned Singapore as another possible partner, while noting that such arrangements often depend on the governor and are not standardized across states. After testimony, the committee voted to recommend passage of all measures as is. SCR 184, SCR 169 SD1, SCR 47, SCR 57 SD1, SCR 170 SD1, and SCR 163 SD1 were all adopted by the committee without amendments. Some members were excused during the hearing, and the meeting adjourned after the final vote.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Insurance

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  • Many women face significant out-of-pocket cost after following up breast cancer imaging after a screening
  • This removes the financial barriers when it's medically necessary for the breast cancer screening and
  • Many women face significant out-of-pocket cost after follow-up breast cancer imaging after a screening
  • <00:15:44.959> I'd<00:15:45.120> be screening and diagnostic imaging.
  • I'd be screening and diagnostic imaging.