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MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty Three - Monday, March 30
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We're using the government to take the government back out of education.
- The two entities, the Department of Higher Education and the Department of Economic Development, will
- The Department of Higher Education and the Department of Economic Development will develop a memorandum
- It does not change any other licensure or educational requirement.
- It includes fentanyl-specific education in grades 6 through 12.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- March 11, 2006, the Education Committee reports out House Bill 762 and Senate Bill 1358 and recommends
- March 11, 2006, the Education Committee reports out House Bill 762 and Senate Bill 1358 and recommend
- In the House of Representatives, In the House of Representatives, House Bill 623 by Education Committee
- So this is a significant move, I think, in our public education system. Red tape reduction.
- Under this bill, an applicant may qualify through one of three education pathways.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/10/2026 - House Democratic Caucus Calendar #5
Transcript Highlights:
- $500,000 from the State General Fund to the Department of Veterans Services to partner with an educational
- I will give any of my education members a chance to speak for this or pull it if you want.
- The education committee has been long...
- So the Arizona Education Savings Plan is for children.
- He educates the public on rising costs. He names the policies that drive those costs.
Summary:
The committee worked through a very long minority caucus calendar covering a wide range of bills, with many items being described and then either left on consent, pulled from consent, or noted for votes. Topics included bullion and state depository proposals, a produce incentive appropriation, a biennial budget change, veterans services funding, driver licensing and traffic enforcement measures, procurement and public records changes, school board and school facilities rules, SNAP work requirements and verification, child welfare and juvenile justice provisions, housing and homelessness measures, energy and fuel policy, election administration, and several tax, commerce, and licensing bills. Members repeatedly raised concerns about constitutionality, federal preemption, duplication of existing law, and whether some measures were policy priorities that had been vetoed in prior sessions and were returning unchanged.
Several bills drew extended debate. Members objected to English-proficiency requirements for commercial drivers and motor carriers, arguing federal law and the supremacy clause would bar them. Earned wage access regulation prompted strong opposition over consumer harm, overdraft cycles, and high effective APRs. School-related bills were criticized for overregulating public schools while not imposing similar requirements on ESA/private-school programs, especially on fingerprint clearance and reporting. SNAP-related bills were also opposed as setting unrealistic mandates and repeating vetoed proposals. Other contested measures included a drag-show criminalization bill, a bill restricting photo enforcement, a bill limiting local regulation of unmanned aircraft, and a bill conforming Arizona tax law to federal changes, which members said would benefit wealthy taxpayers and corporations without a clear funding source.
The committee also heard a number of supportive or less controversial measures, including bills on veterans awareness, dementia care telemonitoring, Braille transcription funding, CPA licensure pathways, cash acceptance by retailers, and some child safety and court administration changes. Several bills were pulled from consent for further discussion, while others were noted as having unanimous or near-unanimous votes. The meeting ended with caucus announcements, including an affordability award presentation, an upcoming Latino Caucus discussion on community land trusts, and an invitation to African American Legislative Day activities, followed by adjournment.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- On page 20, Senate Bill 168 by Senator Chestine regarding public education.
- On page 20, Senate Bill 168 by Senator Chestine regarding public education.
- On page 20 of the calendar, Senate Bill 168 by Senator Chastine regarding public education.
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Summary:
The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a roll call establishing a quorum. Early procedural motions were adopted without objection, including excusing absent senators, dispensing with the prior journal, and allowing bills and committee reports to be introduced throughout the day. The Senate then took up several confirmation reports from the Committee on Confirmations, unanimously confirming Ralph Foster, Andre Harrison, Katie Randall, Donna Jones, and Reetta McCannan to the State Textbook Committee for Social Studies.
The chamber also received a favorable report on Senate Bill 174 from the Transportation and Energy Committee, and later adopted a special order calendar from the Rules Committee. On the floor, the Senate passed a series of measures, including SB 104, which requires training for members of certain boards, commissions, and councils under the sunset law but was amended to exclude county and municipal boards; HB 59, a cleanup bill concerning the Certified Public Accountants Board; SB 8, authorizing the Emergency Management Agency to spend public funds on public information; SB 66, changing University of Monavalo board terms and related requirements, with an amendment protecting certain trustees appointed before January 1, 2027; SB 168, codifying limits on a reading technique and emphasizing the science of reading; SB 149, creating a temporary teaching certificate pathway for qualified military veterans; SB 46, adding a special driver’s license designation for individuals with invisible disabilities; and SB 90, addressing seafood dealer licenses and support for domestic seafood producers. Local bills including SB 175 and HB 84, HB 200, HB 201, HB 184, HB 203, HB 204, HB 205, HB 133, HB 134, HB 193, and HB 112 also advanced or passed, with several county-specific measures receiving BR adoption, final passage, and in one case certification.
Near the end of the meeting, leadership and members discussed severe weather and contingency plans for the coming week. Budget hearings scheduled for Monday were canceled and moved to Thursday, with the Senate planning to meet Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. if weather permits, or Wednesday if necessary. The Senate also received several House messages referring local bills to committee. The session adjourned after a motion to adjourn until Tuesday, January 27 at 3:00 p.m., with the journal left open to receive House messages.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Nov 13th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- How can we best support this effort to get education into the schools?
- Part of what we do is like a peer-to-peer education model.
- And so there's a lot of layers that go into that education. ...education too, and so it's really just
- So it would be trying to educate, like Rachel was saying earlier, educating the community is going to
- We should all be able to talk to our children about this, educating our community.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Taking away the entire portion of federal funding for prevention and education has been cut.
- It's critical that we continue to do prevention and education to prevent new cases.
- Taking away the entire portion of federal funding for prevention and education has been cut.
- It's critical that we continue to do prevention and education to prevent new cases.
- One final fact, to do prevention and education to prevent new cases.
Summary:
The subcommittee held an oversight hearing on federal actions affecting California’s public health and family planning systems, focusing first on the freeze to Title X family planning funds and then on broader CDC/public health grant terminations. Chair and members described the cuts as abrupt, harmful, and likely to create major gaps in disease surveillance, vaccination, contraception, STI testing, and other preventive services, while also criticizing the federal administration’s explanation that the actions were tied to DEI or civil-rights compliance. The chair thanked Attorney General Bonta for legal action and said the hearing was intended to document the real-world impacts and inform state budget responses.
Witnesses from Essential Access Health, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, a Central Coast clinic, and other providers said California’s Title X network serves more than half a million low-income patients annually and relies on the funds for staffing, outreach, training, mobile and school-based clinics, and confidential care. They warned that the freeze has already forced reserve spending, delayed services, and could lead to layoffs, reduced hours, longer waits, and fewer appointments, especially for sexual and reproductive health care. Public comment included support for a proposed state backfill of Title X losses, with advocates emphasizing impacts on low-income, LGBTQ+, and communities of color.
On the public health side, CDPH, county health officials, and local health officers testified that the CDC’s rescission of $11.4 billion in grants would affect California by an estimated $840 million and threaten lab capacity, immunization programs, health disparities work, and data systems such as CalConnect and vaccine registries. Sacramento County and others described how the grants supported outbreak response, sequencing, community vaccination clinics, and equity-focused partnerships, and said terminations had already led to canceled appointments, stopped contracts, and layoffs. Several speakers urged the Legislature to preserve and expand state “future of public health” funding and to backfill federal losses, while public commenters from HIV, immunization, labor, and county organizations echoed concerns about workforce losses and worsening health outcomes.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Apr 7th, 2025 at 01:00 pm
North Dakota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And five, Senate Bill 2354 also includes exceptions for medical needs and special education needs.
- During committee work, your education committee spent a significant that come from this bill.
- Your Education Committee gave amended Senate Bill 2354 a 13-1 due-pass recommendation.
- In 2024, the National Education Association polled teachers across the United States.
- In 2024, the National Education Association polled teachers across the United States.
Summary:
The North Dakota House convened with prayer, roll call, and recognition of guests and student visitors, then moved through a long calendar of resolutions and bills. Early in the session, members honored Mandan High School’s e-sports team for state championships and recognized House Minority Leader Zachary Ista’s birthday. The House then passed HCR 3037 unanimously, urging mandatory reporting requirements for public officials, after committee support and remarks emphasizing accountability in public office.
The chamber then considered numerous Senate amendments and final-passage votes on bills covering ambulance service grants (HB 1597), Public Service Commission records and open meetings (HB 1110 and HB 1063), squatter/trespass law (HB 1305), nonconforming structures in local governments (HB 1500), academic tenure policy (HB 1437), retirement eligibility for correctional officers and state radio dispatchers (HB 1274 and HB 1419), a Medicaid dental study (HB 1567), above-ground fuel storage tank regulation (HB 1058), gaming site authorization procedures (HB 1615), an oil extraction tax incentive outside the Bakken and Three Forks formations (HB 1483), and simple assault protections for hospital workers (HB 1341). Most of these measures passed, though HB 1231, which would have created a study on early discontinuation of sex offender registration, failed on final passage.
A major point of debate was Senate Bill 2354, which would restrict student use of personal electronic devices during the school day in public and nonpublic schools, with exceptions for medical and special education needs and annual reporting on impacts. Supporters argued it would improve focus, behavior, and mental health, while opponents raised concerns about private-school regulation, logistics, liability, and duplication with a similar bill. The House passed SB 2354, and also passed SB 2112, which temporarily authorizes the Life Skills and Transition Center to serve certain non-eligible youth in crisis, despite objections that the facility should remain focused on developmental disabilities and concerns about repeating past institutional problems. The House also debated and rejected HB 1300 on legislative term limits after extensive discussion about whether the Senate’s date change altered the effect of the voter-approved measure. The session ended with announcements, committee notices, and adjournment until April 8, 2025.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We have had interns over the years because we love education.
- I think it's something that, honestly, it's education more than anything.
- But what had to happen is somebody needed to educate them. They needed to know.
- It's not that they don't want to help, but there's just an education process to it.
- I was glad earlier to hear several references to higher education, and in particular, the education film
Committee:
Senate Finance
Keywords:
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The clerk will read the first bill on the calendar for the day: An act relating to education, restricting
- The bill is in the education section of the statute, so is the school vaccination.
- This is strictly an education-related bill. Sir, it is meted by the title of the bill.
- This is exemptions for education, and in subdivision 2, it's about athletic teams.
- system because they have educational value.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Debate on bill to bar transgender athletes from girls sports 3/3/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 2/27/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Jeremy Schmidt said that reducing support services, scaling back educational programs, and all of which
- </c> Traditions developing educational Traditions developing educational materials<01:01:54.039><c> on
- I am an independent foraging educator.
- And like any new laws that are new, there's a big educational piece that comes along with it, whether
- </c><01:36:27.159><c> the</c> frame that we need to help educate the frame that we need to help educate
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota Department of Education.
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- Autism is not a joke; it's a 24/7 issue. educated and our children cannot have educated and our children
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Committee:
Senate Human Services
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (01/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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- people and provide education.
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- It also ties into our education.
- is education.
Summary:
The meeting began with introductory remarks for new and returning members of the House Commerce Committee, led by Chairman John Hunt. Members briefly introduced themselves and their backgrounds, and several noted the committee’s bipartisan, collegial tone. Hunt explained the committee’s structure and traditions, including the division into three subcommittees: banking and business, consumer protection, and liquor commission matters, with insurance now handled as a single area. He also reviewed basic hearing procedures, including decorum, questions for information only, and the committee’s practice of moving bills through subcommittees before full committee executive sessions.
The committee then heard an overview from the New Hampshire Insurance Department, led by Commissioner DJ Bettencourt and staff. The department described its mission as promoting a safe and competitive insurance marketplace and emphasized consumer protection, market competition, and affordability. Officials outlined the department’s responsibilities, including licensing insurers, producers, adjusters, and TPAs; reviewing insurance forms; regulating companies and market conduct; overseeing financial solvency; and investigating insurance fraud. They also noted that the department is self-funded through assessments on insurers, collects premium taxes and fees for the state, and returned more than $2.7 million to companies in fiscal year 2024 due to underspending.
The presentation also covered the broader regulatory framework for insurance, including the role of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in promoting uniform standards across states and territories. Officials said New Hampshire licenses about 1,200 insurance companies and roughly 245,000 producers and adjusters, and that the department’s financial examinations are part of an accreditation system used nationwide. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the portion provided; the session was primarily organizational and informational, with the insurance department presentation beginning the committee’s substantive work for the term.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- S. 220, an act relating to addressing education spending in fiscal year 2028 and 2029.
- Listen to the first reading. >> S. 220, an act relating to addressing education spending in fiscal years
- S. 221, an act relating to creating an equitable vision for implementing civic education.
- . >> Now you've heard the first reading of the bill, and it is referred to the committee on education
- President, the education committee will have a joint hearing in Room 11 at 1:15 with the House Education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House honors former Rep. Mary Murphy 4/21/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> for things like education or pensions. for things like education or pensions.
- And, uh, she kind of tolerated us men and, uh, would educate us.
- And, uh, she kind of tolerated us men and, uh, would educate us.
- This was a piece of her life, but her life was in education.
- </c><01:07:07.280><c> after</c> under the Department of Education after under the Department of Education
NJ
Transcript Highlights:
- Meanwhile, students, educators, and communities in my district continue to be shortchanged.
- The state began increasing its share of the cost of special education.
- The 2022 budget funded 90% of extraordinary special education costs.
- We have an education crisis. We have a state health plan crisis.
- At a four-year public institution of higher education. Senator McCurdy moves the bill.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Artificial intelligence in psychotherapy services 3/18/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Therapy should be provided by an educated, trained, and licensed mental health professional, not a chatbot
- They are not human beings who go through many years of education, thousands of hours of training, including
- I'm the CEO of SAVE Suicide Awareness Voices of Education.
- We are a 36-year-old of Education.
- Second, we suggest or educational tools.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 30th, 2026 at 09:51 am
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Item number 70 for the Public Education Department is a small language fix, a technical change.
- Item number 70 for the Public Education Department is a small language fix, a technical change.
- And then item number 77 to HED: this is for adult education.
- This is for adult education. This has been flagged by several members.
- This is 3.2 million. adult education. This has been flagged by several members.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 21, 2026 - 10:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- in the education space where a lot of Mickey Mouse schools are just popping up, saying that they're
- 905 in the education space where a lot of Mickey Mouse schools are 906 just popping up, saying that
- We were going through last year, and I kept asking for education, education, education, and the ability
- Education, education, education, and the ability for people to be able to understand it, because I had
- Education. We need to educate people.
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and heard several insurance and banking bills. HB 1399, relating to property insurance affiliates, would increase Office of Insurance Regulation oversight of transactions between property insurers and affiliates, require fair-and-reasonable documentation, review of dividends and asset pledges, contract termination clauses, affiliate registration, and penalties for violations. Members from both parties generally supported the goal of transparency and accountability, though some raised concerns about costs and whether the bill would actually return money to insureds. The bill was reported favorably.
HB 427, on public adjuster contracts, would allow vulnerable adults or their legal representatives to rescind public adjuster contracts without penalty, reflecting the sponsor’s personal concerns about protecting elderly and otherwise vulnerable family members from predatory contracting. Public testimony included support from several industry and elder-law groups, while the public adjuster association warned the bill could unfairly target one profession and urged broader language. Members debated whether the bill should be expanded to cover other solicitations and whether legal representatives should be treated differently, but the bill was ultimately reported favorably.
The committee also approved HB 893, which aligns bank handling of law-firm trust accounts with Florida Supreme Court rules and supports legal aid funding, and HB 767, a transparency bill requiring insurers to provide consumers with plain-language explanations of rate increases and related factors. Members emphasized consumer education and clearer disclosures, and HB 767 passed 2-0. Later, HB 381, the Office of Financial Regulation agency bill, was amended and reported favorably; it updates financial regulation provisions including cybersecurity-related requirements, money services business rules, credit union and financial institution provisions, and fee timing. HB 777, a related public-records bill protecting nonpublic personal information submitted to OFR, was also heard and moved forward without opposition.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- H75 to Education. H706 to Commerce and Economic Development.
- H716 to Education. H716 to Energy and Digital Infrastructure.
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- </c><00:09:14.480><c> Vermont's</c> ways we support and educate Vermont's ways we support and educate
- , these educators are stepping forward<00:09:25.920><c> as</c><00:09:26.160><c> leaders.