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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - Senate Government

Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've been working very closely with the retailers on, again, a nuanced approach to it, and it's working
  • If you're not mandating vaccines, you're not mandating physicals, whatnot, what's stopping kids on a
  • It's, that's not the way it works under the bill.
  • We're happy to work with you.
  • has worked.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm trying to make the math work. That seems low to me that...
  • income tax if you work one hour.
  • If you work one hour, now is that always reported? ...reported?
  • If you tell them you can work for us, but you got to pay tax where they can work for somebody else in
  • This is a bill that we've actually been working on for a couple of years and...
Bills: HB46, HB379, SB22, HB487, HB273, HB525
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The sales tax revenue clearly works.
  • This, all the great work we're doing.
  • the state itself does not often work the state itself does not often work with.<00:30:51.919>
  • forward I don't anticipate that our work forward I don't anticipate that our work will<00:42:16.480
  • working on. Representative Schultz. Yes. working on. Representative Schultz. Yes.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The creation of new benefit mandates. The creation of new benefit mandates.
  • these mandates come with a cost. these mandates come with a cost.
  • that's what we have to work with. that's what we have to work with.
  • mandates that we pass. mandates that we pass.
  • from the mandates? from the mandates?
Bills: HF3388, HF400
Summary: The committee approved the minutes from the prior day and then heard House File 400, a bill described as a defrayal measure for health insurance mandates. Representative Perryman said the bill would not block future mandates, but would require the state to pay the added costs of any new mandated benefits so those costs would not be shifted to premium payers. She and supporters framed the bill as a way to protect affordability for Minnesota employers, workers, and families, especially in the fully insured market. Testimony in support came from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and the Minnesota Council of Health Plans. They argued that Minnesota has a high number of mandated benefits, that each new mandate adds cost to premiums, and that businesses—especially small and midsize employers—are already struggling with rising health insurance costs. The health plans representative said the bill would use the existing Commerce defrayal process to reimburse plans for eligible mandate-related claims, allowing those costs to be removed from premium rates. Several members echoed support, saying the bill would improve transparency by showing the fiscal impact of proposed mandates and help prevent people from being priced out of coverage. Members also explored how mandates apply in the market and how premiums are set. Deputy Commissioner Julia Dryer explained that, unless otherwise specified, mandates generally apply to the individual, small group, and fully insured large group markets, while self-insured ERISA plans and other markets are generally outside that scope. Representative Elkins noted that the affected market is relatively small and said small businesses are increasingly moving to self-insured plans because of cost. He and others raised concerns about affordability, while Representative Smith argued that mandates often ensure needed care and that the bill shifts costs to taxpayers rather than insurers. Representative Bacham added a personal example from tribal self-insurance, saying preventive physicals had saved lives and asking whether other factors besides mandates are driving insurer costs. No amendments were offered, and the bill was laid over for possible future consideration.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • So something's not working right for the 100. ...of the state of Arizona, so something's not working
  • A few weeks ago, I was working in the department...
  • puts that work on my colleagues, and delays care for those patients.
  • I work for the Indian Health Service. Okay, thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • And so we take all of that phone call work, the administrative work, off of their plates.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • So again, in this particular mandate, it was mandated without cost sharing.
  • They also work with numerous other states. So that's pretty much on the health mandate statements.
  • They also work with numerous other states. So that's pretty much on the health mandate statements.
  • For a mandate?
  • So, when mandates are passed, I cannot go above that ceiling. And so, it it was a lot of work.
Summary: The Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance met for its first interim meeting, established a quorum, approved routine opening items, and welcomed a new committee assistant and a legislative intern. The committee first heard a Kentucky Bankers Association presentation from Tim Shank and John Cooper focused on the state’s housing shortage, which they described as affecting all 120 counties and especially low- and moderate-income and workforce housing. They urged support for a proposed $20 million banker-backed revolving fund, paired with tax credits, to finance new housing construction; they said the program would be flexible, could support alternatives such as manufactured housing, and would use below-market loans with tax credits vesting over five years only after units are completed. They also asked for extension of the historical tax credit carryforward from five to seven years and for continued support of new market tax credits, arguing that supply-chain delays make the longer period necessary for historic rehabilitation projects. The bankers also raised concerns about credit unions, arguing that because credit unions do not pay the same taxes as banks, they should not be allowed to acquire healthy state-chartered banks or hold state and local deposits. They cited the recent purchase of First State Bank of Middlesborough as an example, saying the transaction would reduce state, county, and city tax revenue and weaken local tax bases. In response to committee questions, the presenters said local regulations, zoning, parking, sidewalk, and utility easement issues can significantly delay housing projects, and they emphasized that state policy and infrastructure support are needed to help address affordability and development barriers. The committee then shifted to a Department of Insurance presentation by Commissioner Sharon Clark on how to read KRS 6.948 health mandate and federal cost defrayal impact statements. Clark explained that the mandate statements were created in 1998 so legislators would have actuarial estimates of how proposed health insurance mandates would affect administrative costs, premiums, and total costs, and she noted that later legislation added federal cost-defrayal analysis. She also reviewed the background of the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits framework and said the department’s statements are intended to help lawmakers make informed decisions on proposed health coverage mandates. No votes or formal actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Apr 30th, 2025

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a good opportunity for you to see a lot of things up here and how the process works.
  • So, there are attempts and works going on to deal with this very issue. Issue.
  • Then, the first part of next year, we would work on addressing it and see what we could do to move forward
  • What happens Inventory that's out there, what happens with that and how they work it, and he understands
  • This bill, by throwing out a system that works in favor of one that is random and unsystematic, will
Bills: HB491, SB85
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 2nd, 2026 at 02:11 pm

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a beautiful, thorough piece of work, and I'm just dazzled.
  • That was something we had an interim working group that worked all through the summer months to get to
  • Thank you all for the opportunity to work together to find solutions.
  • The intent of the task force is to do a lot of evidence-based work, as we are working off of data that
  • It worked beautifully.
Bills: HB9, HB50