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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Oversight REVISION 2: Delayed until 11:30 AM
Health and Human Services Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- One of the provisions in that was mandatory: no more than a 6% error rate, otherwise states...
- One of the provisions in that was a mandatory no more than a 6% error rate.
- Well, with Oklahoma being north of 11% error rate, I think that's a problem.
- And we should be talking about the error rate and how we get that down.
Bills:
HB2947 , HB2964 , HB3143 , HB3144 , HB3342 , HB3344 , HB3519 , HB3522 , HB3530 , HB3645 , HB3647 , HB3834 , HB4300 , HB4422 , HB4423
Committee:
House Health and Human Services Oversight
Keywords:
behavioral health, Medicaid expansion, clinical interns, mental health services, licensing requirements, medical records, patient rights, privacy, fees, healthcare access, legal claims, medical marijuana, license transfer, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, moratorium, business regulation, commercial grower licenses, licensing restrictions, agriculture, Medicaid
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Oversight REVISION 2: Delayed until 11:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- One of the provisions in that was mandatory: no more than a 6% error rate, otherwise states...
- One of the provisions in that was a mandatory no more than a 6% error rate.
- Well, with Oklahoma being north of an 11% error rate, I think that's a problem.
- And we should be talking about the error rate and how we get that down.
Summary:
The Health and Human Services Oversight Committee considered a series of bills, beginning with House Bill 4422 and House Bill 4423, which strengthen immigration status verification for public assistance programs, including SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid. Supporters said the measures would improve eligibility checks through the SAVE system, reduce fraud, and help address Oklahoma’s high error rate in benefit programs. Members raised concerns about whether the bills could discourage eligible children or mixed-status families from seeking services, but the author said the bills were intended to target ineligible applicants and would not affect eligible U.S.-citizen children. Both bills were reported out with due pass recommendations by 8-3 votes.
The committee also advanced House Bill 3834, which would create a state-backed vehicle to support ibogaine research for conditions such as PTSD, alcoholism, and opioid addiction, with private matching funds and potential state royalties if a product is commercialized. House Bill 2947 would allow Medicaid billing for mental health therapist interns working under supervision, with an estimated fiscal impact discussed in the hundreds of thousands of dollars rather than millions; it passed 11-0. House Bill 2964 would remove the mandatory fee for copies of medical records requested by attorneys, insurers, or subpoenas, while still allowing providers to charge at their discretion; it also passed unanimously.
Several marijuana-related bills were heard. House Bill 3143 would extend the current moratorium on new marijuana grow licenses, and House Bill 3144 would cap the number of licenses if the moratorium is later lifted. Supporters argued the limits would help law enforcement and regulators control illegal activity and reduce black-market diversion, while critics questioned whether the issue was really license count or agency resources. Both bills were reported out, 9-2 and 8-2 respectively. House Bill 3519 would replace a failed bond approach for cleaning up abandoned grows with a fee-based revolving fund, and House Bill 3522 would require the ABLE Commission to report disciplinary actions annually; both passed 10-0. House Bill 3530 would give ABLE-regulated businesses 10 days to produce requested records, and House Bill 4300 would align DHS child care worker background-check statutes with federal law; both were reported out unanimously. The committee also laid over several other bills before adjourning.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 11th, 2026
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- And if that judge leaves office and another judge comes in at a lower rate, guess what?
- 02:09.800><c> lower</c> and another judge comes in at a lower and another judge comes in at a lower rate
- </c><00:02:11.560><c> The</c><00:02:11.680><c> probate</c><00:02:12.120><c> judge</c> rate, guess what
- The probate judge rate, guess what?
Committee:
House County and Municipal Government
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session, Day 2 (1-7-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 41, an act relating to the levy of an ad valorem tax rate. Senator Boswell.
- relating to the levy of an ad valorium relating to the levy of an ad valorium tax<00:06:24.720><c> rate
- </c><00:06:27.199><c> Senate</c> tax rate. Senator Boswell. Senate tax rate. Senator Boswell.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Appropriations Apr 16th, 2025 at 08:00 am
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- rationale is that that was the input that I received from the Bank of North Dakota, that that's a good rate
- Or, yeah, I mean, you can argue about the rate, why don't we just give out grants, right?
- . ...would put one and a half percent into the revolving loan fund, but that's the same percentage rate
- to $10 million for a project, cannot exceed more than 50% of the projected costs, and an interest rate
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee met to clear several remaining bills and discussed scheduling around upcoming conference committees. The chair noted that full committee meetings would likely be held after floor session, while Thursday and Friday mornings were being reserved for conference committees. Members also discussed how conference committees would be scheduled and where they would appear on their dashboards.
The committee first took up House Bill 1577, relating to wastewater facility grants. Amendments were adopted to create a loan/line-of-credit mechanism through the Bank of North Dakota and the Department of Environmental Quality to keep two canceled federal BRIC-funded projects moving: a lagoon project in Fezenden and a wastewater treatment project in Lincoln. Members emphasized the language was intended to apply only to those projects and to preserve the possibility of federal reimbursement later. The amendment passed 16-0, and the bill as amended received a 15-1 do pass recommendation.
The committee then reconsidered House Bill 1009 and adopted an additional amendment transferring the remaining balance in the bioscience innovation grant fund to the general fund, rather than issuing another round of grants. That amendment passed 16-0, and the bill as amended also received a 16-0 do pass recommendation. Finally, the committee considered House Bill 1619, creating a long-term care facility loan fund and adjusting an existing medical facility loan program. After discussion, members amended the bill to reduce the long-term care fund cap to $10 million per project, set the interest rate at 2%, extend repayment to 30 years, and align the medical facility loan program to 2% with a 30-year term. The amendment passed 14-2, and the bill as amended received a 16-0 do pass recommendation.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Health Policy Feb 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- THEY DO NOT HAVE A FAIL FIRST POLICY FOR A SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESS AND THEIR HOSPITALIZATION RATE
- FOR INSTANCE IN MICHIGAN WHEN YOU HAVE A PATIENT SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS THERE HOSPITALIZATION RATES
- , BAKER ACT RATE IS ABOUT 9%.
- THEN IN MICHIGAN AT A RATE OF 19,637.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- So residential tax rate versus commercial is entirely different.
- They're long-term... for below market rate housing. It's for below market rate housing.
- Happy to answer any a feasible rate.
- So there's market rate and then back.
- the tax rate for other property<00:48:26.160><c> taxpayers.
Committee:
House Housing
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
06/12/2026 - House Democratic Caucus Calendar #24
Transcript Highlights:
- Madam Chair, members, House Bill 2305, as passed the House, revises local regulation of private towing rates
- requirement for a municipality or law enforcement agency to enforce the prescribed private towing rate
- Is this the same bill that we voted on and fixing rates from $75 to $150?
Summary:
The caucus reviewed a series of Senate-amended bills, with staff summarizing each measure and noting whether the sponsor intended to concur. HB 2305 would revise Arizona’s private towing laws and remove a requirement that municipalities or law enforcement enforce the prescribed towing rates; HB 2398 would impose insurance requirements for watercraft rentals, charters, and peer-to-peer sharing; HB 2957 would bar state and local governments from requiring a digital or mobile driver’s license for identification, while dropping a House provision on biometric identifiers. Members asked for Senate vote counts on several bills and clarified that HB 2305 and HB 2398 were separate from other towing and boot-related measures.
The committee also discussed HB 2321, which requires DCS caseworkers to place a security freeze on a child’s credit record after entry into care, with the Senate removing a $100,000 appropriation and one FTE; HB 2408, which changes Nursing Board complaint and expungement procedures and expands how anonymous complaints may be investigated; HB 2397, which updates HOA/condo disclosure rules and drew noted opposition from the Community Associations Institute and home builders; HB 4005, which requires public school districts to provide AI instruction at specific grade levels and directs ADE to adopt curriculum; and HB 2755, which shifts state land lease renewal language to notice and sale procedures for underperforming commercial leases. Senate vote counts were provided for several of these measures, generally showing narrow or party-line margins.
The final items were HB 2406, a heavily amended bill now restricting access to records and images related to deceased minors, including child abuse images, with supporters citing concerns about misuse through AI and opponents raising disclosure and media-access concerns; and HCR 2001, a ballot referral on citizenship, voting, and election-related contributions that was substantially narrowed in the Senate but still requires voter ID, limits voting to citizens, bars foreign nationals from election spending, and mandates on-site tabulation for early votes, prompting continued county opposition because of cost and implementation concerns. The caucus ended after members were reminded that the agenda and caucus sheets had been emailed rather than printed.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- That's Representative Ehlers, who is going to talk to us about a tweak to the rate-regulated utilities
- So last year, this committee put forward House Bill 329 around rate-regulated utilities for various reasons
- implementation, the counties wouldn't have an estimate, so they would put zero in, which would mean the levy rate
Committee:
House Revenue and Taxation
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, May 1, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> research projects at an alarming rate. research projects at an alarming rate.
- Or we can just pay the higher interest rates. Well, now you already saw the rates.
- ,</c><04:05:10.720><c> a</c> alluded to, higher interest rates, a alluded to, higher interest rates,
- </c> lowering that abusive federal match rate lowering that abusive federal match rate subsidizing<04
- ,<04:36:48.719><c> which</c><04:36:49.039><c> seems</c> rates, which seems rates, which seems likely.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- If this bill went at a tax revenue rate.
- they own in a lower tax rate.
- Does it have a 100% hit rate? Of course not.
- Does it have a 100% hit rate? Of course not.
- </c><05:30:42.160><c> and</c> being able we can't cut the rates and being able we can't cut the rates
Committee:
House Ways and Means
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, March 19, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><03:32:17.760><c> being</c> update because of interest rates being update because of interest rates
- Our model is we're down to a 1.59 fertility rate.
- France actually has a higher fertility rate than the United States.
- France actually has a fertility rate.
- higher fertility rate than the United States.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House passes SF1832, the workforce, labor, and economic development finance bill 5/9/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- over</c> a success rate of over a success rate of over 61%<00:09:48.720><c> which</c><00:09:48.959><
- And the cap and the expense of this tax rate is important.
- And the cap and the expense of this tax rate is important.
- And the cap and the expense of this tax rate is important.
- And the cap and the expense of this tax rate is important.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> The serious and fatal injury crash rate The serious and fatal injury crash rate on<00:10:20.960>
- </c> levy and utility rates. levy and utility rates.
- The overall crash rate is five times the state average.
- The overall crash rate is five times the The overall crash rate is five times the state<00:42:11.320>
- jumps up to 12 severe crashes, that rate jumps up to 12 times. times. times.
Committee:
Senate Transportation
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, March 3, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Home ownership rates in tribal communities continue to lag behind the national average due in part to
- Home ownership rates tribal communities.
- Home ownership rates in<04:36:53.480><c> tribal</c><04:36:53.840><c> communities</c><04:36:54.359><c>
- </c> rates to residents of U.S. territories. rates to residents of U.S. territories.
- </c> colleges set their own tuition rates colleges set their own tuition rates based<05:18:07.760><c>
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture (11-6-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> rate we are. That's one thing we have. rate we are.
- </c> insurance is we've had to raise rates. insurance is we've had to raise rates.
- We know about readmission rates.
- We know about readmission rates.
- We know about readmission rates.
Summary:
The committee heard first from Kentucky Farm Bureau leaders, who outlined the organization’s current priorities and recent work on farmland transition. Eddie Melton said Farm Bureau is working through 983 county and advisory committee resolutions and highlighted support for the updated selling farmer tax credit, now law through House Bill 775, as well as Senate Bill 28’s agriculture economic development provisions. He said Farm Bureau’s likely priorities include maintaining the 50% share of the tobacco settlement fund for agriculture, protecting funding for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, preserving sales tax exemptions on farm inputs, keeping property taxes controlled, and exploring additional tools to keep farmland in active farmers’ hands, including possible loan or inheritance-tax changes. He also raised concerns about eminent domain transparency, nuisance deer permits, and access to agricultural inputs and crop protection products.
Alita Bots described the farmland transition initiative in more detail, saying the revised state tax credit is generating strong interest and that a new federal tax provision now allows eligible land sales to actively engaged farmers to spread capital gains taxes over time. She said the initiative has reached 22 counties and more than 1,300 people this year through outreach and meetings, and that Farm Bureau is pairing policy work with resources to help farm families plan transitions and prepare wills and other estate documents. Drew Graham added that the effort is also meant to bridge the rural-urban divide and support rural communities, and Farm Bureau invited members to its annual meeting in early December.
Members asked about rising insurance costs and deer damage. Farm Bureau representatives said severe convective storms, inflation, and higher repair and material costs have driven insurance rate increases, citing five major storm events since 2021 and a recent Owensboro hailstorm that caused about $350 million in losses; they said the company is moving toward percentage deductibles to help moderate increases. On deer, they said crop-loss totals are hard to quantify but acknowledged the problem and discussed possible coordination with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Hunters for the Hungry. Commissioner Jonathan Shell then began the Department of Agriculture presentation, reporting gains from the department’s school agriculture outreach program, including a 23% increase in county participation between March and September and improved teacher-reported student learning, before continuing into the department’s legislative priorities.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on Education (9-17-25) - Reupload
Transcript Highlights:
- We were rated in the highest possible state rating in our elementary school last year.
- We were rated in the the schools.
- ><c> rating</c><00:40:30.880><c> in</c><00:40:31.119><c> our</c> highest possible state rating in our
- </c> rate of 96.4. rate of 96.4.
- </c> our acceptance rate to MIT is over 19%. our acceptance rate to MIT is over 19%.
Summary:
The meeting focused on Kentucky school choice and innovation, with discussion of the state constitution’s “common schools” requirement and how that has been interpreted alongside newer education models. Chairman Tipton described model laboratory schools, Gatton and Craft Academies, magnet and virtual programs, and said these options show that Kentucky has long expanded opportunity through innovation. He then turned the discussion to Senate Bill 207, which he said was designed to support schools of innovation.
Senator Steve West reviewed the history of Kentucky charter schools and explained that SB 207 was modeled on a South Carolina approach. He said the bill allows a local school board to contract with a third-party entity to manage an existing school, seek waivers from certain state rules, and receive SEEK funding while also allowing outside private investment. He emphasized that the district initiates the process, that the school remains public, and that the bill includes accountability through a time-limited contract that can be ended if the school is not performing.
Members asked about the difference between SB 207 and the earlier charter school law, whether schools could cherry-pick students, and whether teachers would remain district employees. West and Tipton said the new model is tied to an existing school rather than a new charter, cannot cherry-pick students, and keeps teachers as district employees. Representative Brown raised concerns that charters and exceptions could leave some children out, especially lower-income students, while West responded that the proposal is intended to expand choice for families who may not otherwise have it and cited examples from other states where similar models improved low-performing schools. No vote or formal action was taken during the discussion.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- of discipline referrals and higher rates of academic engagement.
- of discipline referrals and higher rates of academic engagement.
- of discipline referrals and higher rates of academic engagement.
- It's simply a flat amount of the counseling rate right now for secondary students.
- </c><01:43:10.239><c> of</c> reimbursing colleges at a rate of reimbursing colleges at a rate of somewhere
Committee:
House Education Finance
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- Reimbursement rates are set by Medicare and mirrored by private insurers.
- Optometrists and ophthalmologists are already paid the same rate.
- Reimbursement rates are set by to care.
- Reimbursement rates are set by Medicare<01:05:06.400><c> and</c><01:05:06.720><c> mirrored</c><01:05:
- There are no facility fee same rate.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 4/7/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- rates in the childare<00:14:58.240><c> assistance</c><00:14:58.720><c> program</c><00:14:59.440><c>
- ><c> expansions,</c><00:18:56.640><c> and</c> rate increases, service expansions, and rate increases,
- </c><01:23:44.159><c> Um</c><01:23:44.480><c> that's</c> fraud rates in the country.
- Um that's fraud rates in the country.
- So we can be fraud rates in the country.