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AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Feb 19th, 2026
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- We have an agreement with them. We have them included in our state plan that's approved by F&S.
- So this is, our agreement is with the state-level adult ed...
- So this is, our agreement is with the state-level adult ed, and they have sub-agreements with different
- They would have a sub-agreement with the state agency, and they would receive a portion of that $2.7
Summary:
The subcommittee received a brief DHS update on the Living Choices Assisted Living Waiver reimbursement rate process, with Secretary Janet Mann reporting that the new cost reporting period began in January and that DHS has begun provider and contractor conference calls as the process moves forward.
The bulk of the meeting focused on DHS’s overview of TANF and, especially, SNAP changes under the federal One Big Beautiful Bill. Mary Franklin explained new SNAP work requirements for adults ages 18 to 64 who are not otherwise exempt, including the three-month time limit in a 36-month period unless they meet an 80-hour monthly work, volunteer, education, or training requirement. She also reviewed exemptions, noted that some prior exemptions were removed while new tribal-related exemptions were added, and described SNAP Employment and Training providers, budgets, service areas, participant characteristics, and outcomes. Members asked about how mandatory referrals will work, whether funding and vendors are sufficient, how cross-program participation is tracked, how verification and recertification will be handled, and how error rates and sanctions will be managed. DHS said mandatory participants will be referred directly to providers, verification will occur at application and recertification, interviews can be by phone, and the department will return with more information on error-rate mitigation and other requested data.
DHS then outlined upcoming Medicaid community engagement requirements for the ARHOME population under the same federal law, which must be implemented by January 1, 2027. The department said it is preparing policy, system changes, data matching, communications, and an outbound customer-service verification process, with a soft launch planned for July to help identify who would meet the requirement or need to provide more information. Members raised concerns about notice, local versus centralized decision-making, and how clients will document work, school, caregiving, or medical exemptions. The meeting concluded with broader discussion of the Alliance for Opportunity audit and a shared emphasis on using SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, and workforce programs together to improve outcomes, expand training options, and better connect Arkansans to education and employment opportunities. The committee also discussed extending the audit contract at a future meeting and adjourned without taking any formal vote in the transcript provided.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 3, 2026 - 08:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- the Landlord Tenant Act, which would allow a landlord to terminate a Representative Greco: rental agreement
- It prohibits all cultural agreements with foreign countries of concern or their subdivisions, including
- sister city agreements, and it terminates any existing sister city agreements with subdivisions and
- In the Chinese system, however, these agreements are managed from Beijing through a party-state entity
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Other - PSCOC Dec 11th, 2025
Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Force
Transcript Highlights:
- And I want to make one comment as far as the maintenance. agreement.
- That's a fairly significant amount of money for a maintenance agreement: a half a million dollars.
- some more work to do, but I believe we're going down the right road to get there and to reach an agreement
- It seemed that in our drafting of this agreement, or this lease agreement, we were hoping that would
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The agreement ensures integrity in the child process and that nursing facilities don't manipulate the
- really what this bill addresses whenever a facility is bought or sold within... ...the purchase agreement
- We typically have a document called an Operations Transfer Agreement (OTA) and that OTA covers a variety
- Then, during the transfer, is there a hold harmless agreement to the new owner under this litigation?
- There'd be an indemnification provision in our purchase agreement that says if HHSC comes to me, the
Bills:
HB660 , HB4845 , HB3902 , HB5396 , HB4615 , HB1825 , HB1403 , HB4336 , HB4585 , HB4371 , HB863 , SB1589 , HB5223 , HB3195 , HB2734
Committee:
House Human Services
Keywords:
child protective services, adult protective services, caseload limits, call processing goals, child-care licensing, employee workload, reporting requirements, employee caseload limits, protective services, workload management, accountability, Department of Family and Protective Services, employee goals, call processing, child care, human resources, government accountability, Medicaid, provider enrollment, revalidation
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- And on page eight, we'll clarify that the purpose of achieving health sector agreement on automating
- And on page eight, we'll clarify that the purpose of achieving health sector agreement on automating
- If not, passing unamended. purpose of achieving health sector purpose of achieving health sector agreement
- <00:24:24.000><c> on</c><00:24:24.320><c> automating</c><00:24:24.960><c> determinations</c> agreement
- on automating determinations agreement on automating determinations is<00:24:26.000><c> to</c><00:24
Committee:
Senate Ways and Means
Summary:
The committee took up a long decision-making agenda and repeatedly recommended passage of measures, most either unamended or with technical or date-deferral amendments. Early items included HB 496, which was passed with amendments deferring the effective date to 2050, and HB 700, which was passed with amendments incorporating Alzheimer’s Association language on dementia data collection, standardized cognitive assessments, Medicare Part C, and related definitions. Other bills addressed insurance, health care preceptors, workers’ compensation, labeling, rural emergency hospitals, and numerous budget or policy measures later in the agenda.
Several bills received substantive amendment packages. HB 250 was amended to add an objective on treatments for common chronic or long-term conditions and to clarify that automating determinations is intended to reduce delays in patient care. HB 303 adopted Hawaii Pharmacist Association language clarifying the definition of a nationally accredited pharmacy residency program. HB 1179 was amended to adopt Department of Human Services language relating to Med-QUEST. Later, HB 1293 added a $250,000 cap, a $20 million general-fund appropriation for Department of Education food services, and procurement-reporting language; HB 1153 authorized transfers of various non-general-fund accounts to the general fund and added a blank appropriation for the governor’s office; and HB 1168 added a proviso to a revenue bond appropriation to help in-state residents with demonstrated financial need offset room-and-board increases.
The most notable debate was on HB 1308, a sports wagering bill. Members discussed regulatory structure, youth sports restrictions, tax and fee provisions, and gambling-prevention funding. Several members opposed the bill, citing family impacts, gambling addiction concerns, and the possibility that regulatory and social costs would outweigh revenues; others supported it with reservations. The motion to pass with amendments was adopted, with recorded no votes and reservations. Across the agenda, most remaining bills were adopted with little or no discussion, including many measures passed unamended and several with deferred effective dates or committee-report notes reflecting testimony or appropriation requests.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HOU-LBT, HOU DEFER, HOU Public Hearings 02-06-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- ceiling ordinance, to a person as the person's principal residence in the state pursuant to a lease agreement
- ceiling ordinance, to a person as the person's principal residence in the state pursuant to a lease agreement
- pursuant<00:08:39.440><c> to</c><00:08:39.560><c> at</c><00:08:39.640><c> lease</c><00:08:39.880><c> agreement
- c><00:08:40.519><c> of</c><00:08:40.640><c> a</c><00:08:40.760><c> term</c> pursuant to at lease agreement
- of a term pursuant to at lease agreement of a term of<00:08:41.120><c> one</c><00:08:41.240><c> year
Summary:
The Committee on Housing met on February 6, 2025, first in a joint session with the Committee on Labor and Technology. The joint committees heard SB 1235, which would create a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation program for government employee housing, including a revolving fund and a leasehold rent-to-own program. Testimony was generally supportive from HHFDC, the Department of Budget and Finance, and UPW, with one testifier opposing the bill because it was limited to state workers and should be broader. The committees recommended passage with amendments, including technical changes, $450,000 for two positions, removal of an income restriction, and clarification that leasehold and day-one projects are eligible; both committees adopted the recommendation unanimously, and the joint meeting adjourned.
The Housing Committee then took up SB 67, SB 1133, and SB 1333. SB 67 would bar inclusionary zoning requirements on certain housing offered for sale or rent to qualifying residents, and it received support from HHFDC, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, and others; the committee recommended passage with technical amendments and adopted it. SB 1133 would allow counties to set rent increase limits tied to CPI and create a long-term residential lease tax credit; testimony included support from the Department of Taxation and opposition from Hawaii Realtors, NAIOP Hawaii, and the Tax Foundation, which warned about rent-control consequences. The committee recommended passage with amendments that made the credit nonrefundable, allowed limited carry-forward, restricted claims in certain family-lease situations, set filing deadlines, and applied the measure to disaster-affected counties; the recommendation was adopted.
SB 1333 would allow certain counties to use surcharge revenues for transportation and housing infrastructure and extend the surcharge period. DBEDT, OPSD, HCDA, county officials, and the Grassroot Institute supported the bill, while the Tax Foundation opposed it, arguing temporary taxes were becoming permanent. The committee recommended passage with technical amendments, and members noted concerns that prior surcharge revenues had not produced enough housing projects, which were to be reflected in the committee report. Finally, the committee deferred SB 834 indefinitely because it had already been deferred indefinitely by the Hawaiian Affairs Committee, and the Housing Committee adjourned after completing its agenda.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Investments in IT Improvements & Modernization Projects Oversight Board (01-21-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- I just going to suggest we run through this in the bill format and make sure we're in agreement on the
- I just going to suggest we run through this in the bill format and make sure we're in agreement on the
- I just going to suggest we run through this in the bill format and make sure we're in agreement on the
- I just going to suggest we run through this in the bill format and make sure we're in agreement on the
- I just going to suggest we run through this in the bill format and make sure we're in agreement on the
Keywords:
Meeting start 00:00:00
Roll Call 00:00:12
Discussion on 2025 Regular Session Proposals 00:01:00
Discussion for Future Meetings 00:18:25, 958, all
Summary:
The Investments in IT Improvements and Modernization Projects Oversight Board met for its first meeting, approved the minutes from November 13, 2024, and then discussed BR 355, a bill draft intended to revise and clarify the board’s governing statute based on its first year of experience. The draft would rename the body as the Information Technology Oversight Committee, add or refine definitions for cybersecurity projects/systems and legacy projects/systems, move the annual submission deadline earlier, and require a six-year outline and funding-source information for transition planning. Members and staff said the bill was largely a codification of current practice, with no major controversy.
State Budget Director John Hicks and CIO Jim Baird offered technical comments and suggested several drafting changes: using “system” instead of “project” for legacy and cybersecurity references, adjusting the first reporting deadline to give agencies more time if the bill becomes law in March, and clarifying that the statute should ask agencies for estimated expenditures and funding sources rather than implying an electronic link to the budget request. They also suggested that the linkage to the budget process could be handled through budget instructions rather than statute. Members discussed whether the six-year outline should be biennial and agreed that the April timing fit the capital planning process.
After the discussion, the board agreed in principle to revise the draft along those lines, including changing the terminology, making the six-year outline biennial, and refining the budget-related language. The board also discussed future meeting dates and agreed to meet on Fridays upon adjournment, with February and March meetings to be scheduled later. The meeting ended with a motion and second to adjourn, which passed.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-19 (9:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
HHS-AEN-EIG, HHS, HHS Public Hearings 02-02-2026
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- "Vice Chair, members of the committee, Matt, Department of Health, Environmental Health Services Division
- /c><00:31:37.360><c> of</c> "Vice Chair, members of the committee, Matt, Department of Health, Environmental
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
Summary:
The joint HHS, Agriculture, Environment, Energy, and Intergovernmental Affairs hearing focused first on SB 2262, a pollution and illegal dumping measure. The Department of Health said it stood on its written testimony, and public testimony included support from CARES with suggested amendments to involve the counties in standardized response planning and to address pollution caused by individuals. Members questioned the bill’s fines, where they would go, and how the department would handle carcasses and illegal dumping enforcement. DOH said administrative fines go to the general fund, criminal fines are collected by the Attorney General, carcasses are generally buried by the landowner under existing rules, and DOH mainly regulates solid waste and coordinates with counties and other agencies when violations arise.
After discussion, the chair recommended SB 2262 be passed with substantial amendments. The proposed amendments would add DLNR to the task force, deposit all fines into a special fund to support enforcement, allow fines below $5,000 for littering and higher fines for excessive or chronic illegal dumping, and include a January 30, 2050 effective date. The committee adopted the recommendation, with members voting aye.
The hearing then moved to the HHS calendar. On SB 2087, relating to health insurance, agencies including DHS, DCCA, the Attorney General, and Labor stood on written testimony, while several advocacy and medical groups testified in support. One Medicaid recipient opposed the bill, arguing the coverage should be immediate rather than phased in over three years. Angela Melody Young supported the bill but urged amendments to prioritize people with disabilities, kupuna, and mothers. Members questioned whether the rural health transformation program could support the bill’s deductible structure; the Department of Human Services said it was unlikely CMS would allow that level of coverage, though rural funds might help in other ways. The committee then moved on to SB 2089, which would expand services eligible for Medicaid prospective payment system reimbursement, hearing support from OHA, DHS, and others, along with testimony about mental health access and training. The transcript also began SB 2106, relating to health and eating disorder prevention, with a student testifying in support and citing youth eating disorder harms, but the discussion was cut off before any action on that bill.
AL
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Commission on Race and Access to Opportunity (10-21-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Following our standard for visual and environmental culture, I said stuff like environmental culture.
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the September meeting minutes, and heard presentations from Carter G. Woodson Academy in Lexington and related school programs in Fayette County Public Schools. School leaders described the academy as an all-male public school option focused on culture, belonging, and opportunity, with a mission to educate, empower, and equip young men academically, socially, and morally. They emphasized culturally responsive instruction, restorative practices, mentorship, brotherhood circles, and access to advanced coursework, dual enrollment, and career pathways. Student speakers highlighted school culture, leadership opportunities, and clubs such as SGA, Beta Club, FFA, and the Bow Tie Club, along with service and community engagement.
Presenters said the academy began in 2012, is housed with Frederick Douglass High School, uses an application and lottery process, and can serve up to about 350 students but is intentionally kept near 300 because of space. They reported 302 enrolled students, about 38 seniors, a 100% graduation rate, 95% average attendance, 100% postsecondary success, and $1.8 million in scholarship offers last year. They also shared demographic and achievement data, noting growth in MAP scores, strengths in reading and writing, and math as an ongoing focus area. The school said 90% of high school scholars are taking at least one dual credit class this year, and some students have earned opportunities at selective programs such as Gatton Academy and Craft Academy.
Committee members praised the school’s results and asked about enrollment, funding, and whether the model could be replicated statewide. School leaders said the program is fully funded through Fayette County Public Schools, could be replicated with committed staff and training, and that teachers receive preparation through the Gearing Institute to better understand how boys learn. They also noted that Fayette County has other specialized programs, including girls’ academies and other options for underrepresented students. Members expressed interest in long-term tracking of graduates, and the school said it is preparing to study outcomes as the first graduating class approaches its 10-year anniversary.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Housing Task Force 2025 (6-30-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- We have to do environmental reviews. We often have to do Davis-Bacon wage reporting.
- We have to do environmental reviews. We often have to do Davis-Bacon wage reporting.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:15
Roll Call 00:00:45
Discussion of Pro-Growth Housing Policies 00:02:33
Adjournment 01:17:15, 958, all
Summary:
The Housing Task Force 2.0 reconvened with several new members and heard a presentation from Kentucky Housing Corporation Executive Director Winston Miller and Deputy Executive Director Wendy Smith. They framed the task force’s work as a practical effort to address Kentucky’s housing shortage, update members on the current housing landscape, summarize existing state and federal resources, and suggest areas for the task force to focus on over the coming year.
KHC said its 2024 housing supply gap analysis found Kentucky is short about 206,000 housing units, split roughly evenly between rental and homeownership, and projected the gap could grow to 287,000 units by 2029 if current trends continue. They emphasized that every county in Kentucky needs more housing, that the 2008 housing crisis and loss of construction capacity remain major causes of the shortage, and that current pressures include high interest rates, rising insurance and tax costs, construction cost inflation, and housing prices and rents growing faster than incomes. KHC also said homelessness has risen in Kentucky, with point-in-time counts showing double-digit increases in recent years.
The presenters reviewed existing resources, including federal programs, the Kentucky Affordable Housing Trust Fund, the rural housing trust fund, KHC mortgage and down payment assistance programs, and the state mortgage interest deduction. They said these resources are important but insufficient to close the gap, and noted that a proposed federal FY2026 budget would cut HUD programs by 44%, potentially removing about $286 million from Kentucky housing resources, though no action has been taken yet. They urged the task force to consider stronger, more flexible tools such as a revolving loan fund, a state affordable housing tax credit, and economic development and employer-assisted housing incentives, and pointed to Indiana’s housing infrastructure and regional development funds as examples. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
MN
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 114 May 8th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Once an intergovernmental agreement has been reached, and that's between the housing authority and the
- But what happens is a housing authority can enter into a partnership agreement with a developer on a
- And that partnership agreement in and of itself makes the entire property property tax exempt.
- But what happens is a housing authority can enter into a partnership agreement with a developer on a
- And that partnership agreement in and of itself makes the entire property tax exempt.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/12/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- be developed um especially to agreement be developed um especially to to<01:49:40.599><c> handle</c>
- We received feedback in the letter that's posted from DHS about concerns about the interagency agreement
- Madam Chair, then why was an interagency agreement not included in this similar agreement, similar to
- </c><01:59:13.360><c> I</c> discussing the inter agency agreement I discussing the inter agency agreement
- </c><02:00:06.960><c> or</c><02:00:07.119><c> include</c> the uh inter agency agreement or include the
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Transportation Jan 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So I just want to say that this designation doesn't require universal agreement with Charlie Kirk's views
- Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and county tax collectors to enter into interagency agreements
- Articles of agreement amend several sections to adhere to IFTA for motor fuels, authorizes private license
Summary:
The Transportation Committee met and considered several transportation-related bills, including multiple honorary roadway designations, specialty license plates, and Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles agency measures. SB 628, by Senator Gates, designated a portion of South Navy Boulevard in Pensacola as Warrior Sacrifice Way to honor three sailors killed in the 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola attack; it passed favorably without debate. SB 174, by Senator Rodriguez, designated part of State Road 985 in Miami-Dade County as Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue. Senator Arrington spoke in opposition, citing Kirk’s controversial public statements, while Senator Rodriguez said the bill honored civic participation rather than ideology; the bill passed favorably. SB 388, by Senator Arrington, raised the annual use fee for the Florida wildflower specialty license plate from $15 to $25, with an exception for certain fleet purchases, to support conservation and education programs; it received supportive public comment and passed favorably.
The committee also approved SB 470 by Senator Wright, which opens the existing Fraternal Order of Police specialty license plate to the general public and allows a redesign to increase sales and funding for law enforcement memorial efforts. A representative of the FOP testified in support, explaining that the memorial benefits fallen officers’ families. SB 584, by Vice Chair Avala, authorizes DHSMV and county tax collectors to enter agreements allowing local enforcement of certain commercial driving school laws, aimed at reducing fraud and improving oversight; it passed favorably with supportive comments from lobbyists. The committee then took up DHSMV agency package bills: SB 488, which updates motor fuel tax and vehicle-related provisions, including IFTA compliance, online filing, higher crash-reporting thresholds, and email communications; and SB 490, the companion public records exemption for email addresses used under SB 488. Both were reported favorably, with SB 490 noted as requiring a two-thirds vote.
At the end of the meeting, members recorded missed votes in the affirmative on SB 628, SB 174, and SB 388. The committee then adjourned without objection.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Common interest communities provisions modified 2/24/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- As drafted, the bill restricts certain contract renewals unless agreements allow for termination at any
- As drafted, the bill restricts certain contract renewals unless agreements allow for termination at any
- contract renewals unless agreements allow<00:26:00.159><c> for</c><00:26:00.320><c> termination</c><
- </c> service agreements that exist today. service agreements that exist today.
- So we have to think agreements. Right?
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Personal care assistance and community first services and supports 3/10/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Representative Hicks continued: “But the part of the problem is that the collective bargaining agreement
- The collective bargaining agreement can do something for self-directed services, but it doesn’t affect
- </c><00:24:27.520><c> only</c> collective bargaining agreement only collective bargaining agreement only
- The collective bargaining agreement<00:24:46.880><c> can</c><00:24:47.200><c> do</c><00:24:47.360><c>
- something</c><00:24:47.919><c> for</c> agreement can do something for agreement can do something for
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Department of Agriculture update 2/18/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So, we were told grants, cooperative agreements, you know, were suspended till further notice, pending
- So, we were told grants,<00:04:47.120><c> cooperative</c><00:04:47.600><c> agreements,</c><00:04:48.560
- ><c> you</c> grants, cooperative agreements, you grants, cooperative agreements, you know,<00:04:49.120
- Um, this is again that we a agreements. Um, this is again that we a new<00:14:30.720><c> program.
- Is there any priority given to somebody who has a purchase agreement in hand compared to somebody who
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-17 (1:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- will the state court be able to have jurisdiction because they're still in the military with this agreement
- to have jurisdiction because they're still in the military with this agreement, if they are in Okinawa
- The airport renaming bill currently in the Florida Legislature requires a license agreement from the
- Districts from requiring or incentivizing employees to sign nondisclosure or confidentiality agreements
- .. districts from requiring or incentivizing employees to sign nondisclosure or confidentiality agreements
Summary:
The House opened with prayer, a moment of silence for the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Joseph Di Alessandro, the Pledge of Allegiance, and announcements confirming a quorum. Members also adopted the special order report and recognized several guests in the gallery, including former Speaker Dan Webster and law enforcement and civic visitors. The chamber then moved through a long special-order calendar of bills, mostly on third reading, with several measures passing unanimously or by wide margins.
Among the bills considered were measures on civil procedure and estates, including C.S. HB 1407 on commencement of civil actions, HB 895 on trustee settlement and discharge, C.S. HB 1337 on estates, HB 131 on curators of estates, and C.S. HB 351 on concurrent legislative jurisdiction over military installations. The House also passed C.S. HB 441 on conservation lands, which would lengthen notice and increase transparency for land swaps involving conservation property, and C.S. CS HB 919 on commercial service airports, which created a statutory definition for major airports and preempted local naming authority for several airports. HB 919 drew extensive debate over the proposed naming of Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald J. Trump, with amendments to delay or alter the naming failing before the bill passed.
Other bills approved included HB 409 requiring K-12 schools to observe Veterans Day, CS HB 461 allowing certain students to volunteer at polling places for community service hours, CS HB 1115 creating grants for genetic counseling education, HB 569 revising forensic client services, CS HB 505 regulating virtual currency kiosks to address fraud, and HB 271 on foreign and alien bail bond insurers. The House also passed HB 191 on re-employment assistance eligibility verification after extended questioning about its effects on benefits, appeals, and suitable work standards. One bill, CS HB 243 on electric bicycles, was temporarily postponed, and CS HB 1073 on school districts was also postponed.