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KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • He has provided the report of Dr.
  • He has provided the report of Dr.
  • He has provided the report of Dr.
  • And the providers are very clear.
  • provided last year.
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission met on November 18, 2025, approved the October 14 minutes, and then took up five motions in ethics matters 24LEC3 and 24LEC6. Those motions included a renewed motion to dismiss and motion to quash by Representative Daniel Gberg, a renewed motion to compel/sanctions and continuance request by Mr. Jenkins, and competing motions in limine concerning evidence and redaction of deposition transcripts. Vice Chair Mike Schaw was appointed hearing officer for the motion practice, and the commission agreed to hear the motions one at a time in open session. Representative Chris Lily joined later by Zoom. Counsel for Representative Gberg argued the remaining allegations were minor, that the commission lacked key exculpatory materials such as an alleged LRC report, policies, procedures, and training materials, and that the record did not support the ethics charges. She also argued the case had been broadened by extraneous allegations and that the respondent had been unfairly prejudiced. Enforcement counsel responded that he had produced all materials in his possession, that any LRC materials were not in the commission’s custody, and that the commission’s probable-cause findings were based on sworn testimony and affidavits already in the record. He argued the motions to dismiss and for summary judgment should be denied because genuine issues of material fact remained and the commission had already found probable cause on three ethics violations. Commission members questioned both sides about the alleged LRC report and whether it was part of the commission’s record. The chair stated the commission had not relied on any LRC report and had not withheld anything, while another member emphasized that the proceeding concerned alleged violations of the ethics code, not LRC sexual-harassment policy. A commissioner also noted the unusual structure of the proceeding and questioned whether the complaints, taken as true, stated a basis for dismissal. The transcript ends during continued discussion of the standard for dismissal and summary judgment, with no final ruling on the motions captured in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Ways & Means Mar 31st, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • So we see this bill as providing, uh, a way for the city of Houston to provide lower cost, critical services
  • this property tax relief to providers.
  • Uh, the childcare providers and the families that they serve.
  • childcare associations, and educational service providers.
  • Again, I appreciate the opportunity to provide comments and support.
Committee: House Ways & Means
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Elections - 01/23/25

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> January 1st but the statute provides January 1st but the statute provides that<00:11:03.200><c>
  • And then also if you work for a corporation who provides government services or tries to provide information
  • And then also if you work for a corporation who provides government services or tries to provide information
  • bill today is hopefully provide bill today is hopefully provide incentives<00:35:12.800><c> any</c><00
  • </c> existing Solutions where they provide existing Solutions where they provide that<01:04:35.839><c
Committee: Senate Elections
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 67 Mar 19th, 2026

Idaho House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • for fees, provide for the suspension or revocation of licensure, provide for a state of eligibility
  • after license revocation, provide for license renewal or reinstatement, provide for the disposition of
  • for fees, provide for the suspension or revocation of licensure, provide for a state of eligibility
  • after license revocation, provide for license renewal or reinstatement, provide for the disposition of
  • , to provide for the prevention of fraudulent activity and money laundering, to provide for refunds,
Summary: The House opened with roll call, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a moment of silence for Nampa Mayor Rick Hogaboam. Members then approved the journal and received a series of messages from the Senate and governor, including enrolled bills and new Senate measures. Standing committee reports moved several bills and resolutions forward, including House Bill 911 and Senate Bill 1258 from State Affairs, and House Concurrent Resolution 36 supporting the Idaho National Guard. The chamber introduced several new bills, including House Bills 933-935, and later took up a number of memorials and resolutions. House Joint Memorial 20, urging Congress to address the fiscal impact of Plyler v. Doe on Idaho schools, passed without objection. House Joint Memorial 19, supporting federal efforts to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, passed 61-8-1 after debate over whether eliminating the department would shift enforcement costs to the state. House Concurrent Resolution 34, directing feasibility studies on Bear River Basin water development, also passed, 67-2. The House then considered and passed several Senate bills, including SB 1301 on adding a retail location for small breweries, SB 1256 cleaning up outdated reporting requirements for the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, SB 1345 allowing voluntary secure electronic tax commission communications, and a series of water-related bills clarifying ditch easements, water district fees, withdrawal procedures, canal/lateral responsibilities, and irrigation district board eligibility. SB 1286, restricting predatory veteran disability-claims services, also passed after supportive testimony from veterans’ advocates. Later, the House approved a House Business Committee report on administrative rules, then suspended rules to move a large set of appropriation and policy bills, including HB 919 through HB 925 and HB 889 and HB 931, all of which passed with varying vote margins. The day ended with announcements, committee meeting notices, and adjournment until March 20, 2026.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • It allows providers to reasonably plan their annual budget.
  • March also provided a survey about the scope of clawbacks.
  • </c> providers can't rely on past earnings. providers can't rely on past earnings.
  • </c> bankrupt the small provider. bankrupt the small provider.
  • </c> Members, this bill strengthens provider Members, this bill strengthens provider oversight<00:24:
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: The committee took up House File 729, an omnibus policy bill, and walked through a series of amendments before moving the bill forward. Early amendments addressed adult maltreatment accountability, senior nutrition flexibility, MA provider enrollment and fraud prevention, Direct Care and Treatment data and staffing provisions, disability and aging policy changes, technical corrections from DHS, behavioral health language, and MDH policy updates. Most amendments were adopted without public opposition, and several members and testifiers described them as clarifications or technical fixes to existing policy. Testimony focused on the practical effects of the bill’s provisions. Direct Care and Treatment representatives said the changes would help with data sharing, governance, staffing, patient care, and longer return stays for certain patients. Several witnesses from the substance use disorder and health care provider community supported changes to discharge summary deadlines and claims recoupment rules, arguing that business-day timelines and limits on late clawbacks would reduce administrative burden and financial uncertainty. A disability advocate also urged passage of the bill, saying services for people with disabilities were at risk if it did not advance. After public testimony and member discussion, the committee adopted the DE2 amendment as amended and then approved the bill as amended. Chair Noor renewed the motion to re-refer House File 729 to the Committee on Ways and Means, and that motion passed.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • That is provided for in the state constitution.
  • So, I provide police services throughout the city, but ESD 6 and ESD 8 provide my fire services through
  • If you are doing the test, if you're providing it, you have to provide it to everyone.
  • They provide police services, but then they recently annexed people and they don't provide police services
  • Now we don't have to provide you with any service plan, we don't have to provide you with any services
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Seclusion Working Group 11/5/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Not all of the behavioral health services provided in schools are provided by grants.
  • Some are provided by school staff.
  • Schools are provided by grants.
  • provider of Medicaid.
  • </c><00:32:27.039><c> in</c> a provider or one or two providers in a provider or one or two providers
Keywords: 1183, house
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Apr 15th, 2025

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • capacity and quality of the providers. ...also improve the provider capacity and quality of the providers
  • But that would help us with providers. But none of this works without the providers.
  • So this provides the opportunity.
  • to provide clinicals, not just to provide classroom time, but also to provide the advice and the support
  • of the institutions, not just to provide preceptors, not just to provide clinicals, not just to provide
Summary: The committee took up a series of health and human services bills, beginning with CS/SB 1602, which would require emergency departments to have evidence-based pediatric care protocols, training, appropriate child-sized equipment and medications, a designated care coordinator, and participation in a pediatric readiness assessment. It was reported favorably. CS/SB 1224 followed, aligning Florida law with federal requirements so paramedics may administer controlled substances in the field under physician or nurse practitioner protocols; it also passed favorably after supportive testimony from fire chiefs. The committee then adopted a strike-all for SB 890, the Emily Adkins Family Protection Act, which addresses venous thromboembolism by creating a statewide registry, requiring screening and training in hospitals and long-term care settings, and adding assisted living facility response requirements. Assisted living representatives objected to the ALF provisions as unrealistic and potentially harmful, while supporters argued the bill would save lives; the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 1182, requiring continuous glucose monitors to be covered as both durable medical equipment and a pharmacy benefit, also passed favorably with support from AARP. The committee next considered CS/SB 12, a claim bill for a child severely injured after a DCF home visit allegedly failed to meet standards, and it was reported favorably without opposition. CS/CS/SB 954, dealing with substance abuse treatment centers and recovery residences, drew substantial debate. The bill would limit local zoning restrictions on treatment facilities and allow larger recovery residences if staffing ratios are increased; a late-filed amendment reduced the maximum active patients from 500 to 300. Municipal and county representatives warned that the bill could override local reasonable-accommodation efforts and create institutional-scale facilities, while supporters said housing is essential to recovery and that clustering concerns are overstated. The committee ultimately reported the bill favorably. CS/SB 1050, expanding the developmental disabilities pilot program statewide and creating a statewide family care council, also passed after extensive testimony from families and advocates. Supporters emphasized the long waitlist and the need for more services, while some speakers opposed managed care and warned about provider shortages and loss of individualized supports. Later, CS/SB 614, requiring a public educational webpage about background screening clearinghouse and level two screening requirements, was reported favorably. CS/SB 1578, which would require coverage for mammograms and supplemental breast cancer screening in certain circumstances, was also reported favorably. CS/SB 1060 created a joint legislative oversight committee to review Medicaid operations and financing; members discussed the need for stronger oversight of large midyear spending adjustments, and the bill passed favorably. CS/SB 1240, a Department of Children and Families substance abuse and mental health bill, was amended to clarify Baker Act transfer timing and notification requirements after debate over whether facilities could hold patients too long; it was then reported favorably. Finally, Senator Harrell presented CS/SB 526, a major nursing education bill aimed at Florida’s low NCLEX passage rates. The bill would require nursing programs to use exit exams, remediation, reporting, and stricter oversight, and the strike-all would add graduate preceptorships for low-performing programs and temporary provisional licenses for graduates pending NCLEX passage. The transcript ended while that bill was still being explained, before final action was taken.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Transportation, Highways and Public Works Apr 7th, 2026

Transportation, Highways & Public Works

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so, you know, this state infrastructure bank would provide that.
  • We have cards present; will provide information if requested.
  • entity, and to provide for an annual basis for application submissions, to provide for definitions,
  • and to provide for related matters.
  • Providing improvements on waterways across our state.
Bills: HB506 , HB590 , HB647 , HB685 , HB692 , HB839 , HB860 , HB873 , HB887 , HB965 , HB972 , HB982 , HB1072 , HB1157
Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 1157, which would create a Louisiana State Infrastructure Bank to provide a new funding mechanism for transportation projects, including roads, bridges, rail, ports, and airports. The chairman and DOTD Secretary Glenn LaDoux said the bank would help leverage state, federal, local, and private dollars, modelled in part on programs in Florida and other states, and would be used for gap funding and faster project delivery. Members asked extensive questions about board makeup, oversight, seed funding, application priorities, and how the program would differ from capital outlay and other existing funding tools. Support testimony came from Greater New Orleans, Inc. and other groups, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. The committee then approved several mostly technical or local bills, including HB 860 allowing fillable electronic public bid forms; HB 972 naming a portion of Highway 93 in Lafayette Parish the Desert Shield Desert Storm Memorial Highway; HB 965 naming a portion of Highway 163 for Sergeant William Billy Earl Collins Jr.; HB 692 allowing local governments to use group purchasing organizations, as amended; HB 685 allowing cooperative procurement for public motor vehicles and rolling stock under FAST Act procedures, which passed after a roll call vote with one no vote; HB 982 designating portions of highways in Morehouse Parish, as amended; HB 506 creating specialty license plates, as amended; HB 839 lowering the CMAR threshold for hospital service districts from $2 million to $1 million via substitute bill; HB 647 revising the waterway assistance program and application timelines via substitute bill; and HB 887 revising construction management-at-risk procedures, as amended. Most of these measures were reported favorably or favorably as amended, with little or no opposition. The committee also received an update on the Office of Louisiana Highway Construction from Representative Chesson, who said the office will assume control of about 4,000 miles of roadway and 2,000 bridges and has been moving projects quickly using internal procurement procedures. HB 1072, which reforms the office’s powers and emergency authority, was amended to narrow emergency provisions and clarify funding and reporting language, then reported favorably as amended. The final major item was HB 873, which would fund pursuit-intervention technology and training for law enforcement through a $2 fee on driver’s licenses; the bill was presented alongside emotional testimony from the widow and daughter of Sergeant Grant Candies and from a St. John the Baptist Parish captain, who argued the fee would help agencies buy safer equipment and obtain grant support. The transcript ends during questioning on HB 873, before any final committee action on that bill is shown.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 73 Mar 25th, 2026

Idaho House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • a licensure framework, to provide for transparency, to provide for clinical integrity, patient loyalty
  • , and auditability, to provide for a regulatory sandbox and ethical oversight, to provide for practice
  • authority and a liability waiver, to provide for enforcement, to provide for state funding, to provide
  • for insurance guidance, and to provide a rule of construction, providing severability, and declaring
  • for chapter applicability, providing severability, and declaring an emergency and providing an effective
Keywords: 989, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Human services panel hears HF729 2/26/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • What it does, it provides care for individuals in their homes.
  • It also provides savings to the state where the individuals who are providing that care for those who
  • </c> recover at home mhc's members provide recover at home mhc's members provide Hands-On<00:03:47.560
  • </c> state budget cannot afford to provide state budget cannot afford to provide that<00:04:21.600><c
  • </c><00:15:18.959><c> enough</c> just haven't been able to provide enough just haven't been able to provide
Keywords: 1183, house
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Commerce and Economic Development Feb 3rd, 2025

House Commerce & Economic Development Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • The amendment has some language, but basically if a provider asks for a tip, the provider shall do all
  • You provide your bank information.
  • As a direct-to-consumer provider...
  • We, as providers, are providing a service that New Mexicans and many others need.
  • The intention of this is to regulate providers that are providing this service that are not the employer
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Unfortunately, as she just stated many times, my care providers don't have gas to come over and provide
  • I'm an IHSS provider for 2015. Thank you. I'm in support.
  • I'm an IHSS provider, and I am in support of AB 283.
  • And 700,000 providers across our state who are relying on us to make sure we provide a foundation for
  • Madam Chair, permission to provide a prop. Yes.
Summary: The Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement met for its first hearing of the session, adopted committee rules, and heard several labor-related bills. The chair reviewed hearing procedures, including limits on testimony and expectations for orderly conduct. Members then took up measures affecting public employee bargaining, contracting, confidentiality, school employee benefits, pay stub information, and state correctional health staffing. AB 672 would require public employers to notify PERB when filing court actions involving statutes PERB administers and allow PERB to intervene; it drew support from SEIU, AFSCME, school employees, labor groups, and no opposition, and was passed out of committee. AB 283 would move IHSS bargaining from the county to the state level; providers and recipients testified about low wages, long delays in bargaining, and care access concerns, while counties and public authorities raised cost, scope, and implementation issues. The bill passed 7-0 after members discussed family care worker concerns and the author said he would continue working on the issue. AB 339 would require local governments to give unions 120 days’ notice before contracting out bargaining-unit work. Labor supporters said the bill would make existing meet-and-confer rights meaningful and protect jobs, while counties, cities, special districts, chambers of commerce, and staffing groups argued it would burden local agencies and interfere with existing MMBA procedures. The committee also heard AB 340, which would make communications between employees and union representatives confidential for PERB purposes; supporters said it codified existing case law, while school administrators, special districts, counties, and business groups warned it could hinder investigations. AB 378 would extend the classified school employees summer assistance program to JPA employees, and AB 374 would require more detailed pay stubs for classified school employees; both had labor support and some education-sector opposition over implementation and cost concerns, and both advanced. AB 393 would require cost analyses before contracting out physician work at CDCR and the Department of State Hospitals; supporters argued the state was overpaying contractors amid high vacancy rates, and the bill also advanced. At the end of the hearing, the committee recorded final votes showing AB 283, AB 340, AB 374, AB 378, AB 393, and AB 672 all passing out of committee, while AB 339 remained on hold with a 4-0 vote and some members not voting.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • That access, that coordination, may be limited or delayed in its ability to acquire and provide that
  • </c> Statewide Payroll Services to provide Statewide Payroll Services to provide additional<00:15:00.560
  • ><c> oversight</c><00:15:08.480><c> and</c> to provide additional oversight and to provide additional
  • This would provide an next bianium.
  • And 11A.07 provides the process for us to recover those costs.
Bills: HF2783
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

March 20, 2025 - 02:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • The PCS provides clarifications only; emails to be provided between 9 a.m. and 8 a.m.
  • Providers get paid. Real numbers are presented to the jury.
  • And it requires jurors to be provided with certain information with the phrase shall provide.
  • That's insurers coming down and saying the rates that they will pay to a provider, and the provider can
  • That's insurers coming down and saying the rates that they will pay to a provider, and the provider can
Summary: The subcommittee considered a long agenda of civil justice and claims measures. HB 1173, relating to the Florida Trust Code, was presented as a clarification of standing in trust litigation after recent case law; after questions about who may sue, an amendment was adopted clarifying that an expressly named charity retains standing, and the bill passed 14-2. HB 1437, on attorney’s fees in motor vehicle PIP disputes, drew testimony from insurers and reform groups opposing a return to fee-driven litigation and from medical groups supporting fee recovery for prevailing parties; it passed 17-0. CS/HB 147, addressing prohibited debt-collection communications during nighttime and early morning hours, was described as a clarification of an outdated statute in light of modern communications, with support from business groups and no opposition in the vote; it passed 18-0. The committee then heard several claims bills against the Department of Children and Families. HB 6511, for relief of L.P., described severe injuries to a child after DCF allegedly failed to act on warning signs; a technical amendment was adopted and the bill passed 18-0. HB 6515, for relief of Michael Barnett, involved DCF’s alleged failure to investigate domestic violence that preceded the killing of three children and injury of a fourth; members asked about the settlement amount and the case’s circumstances, and the bill also passed 18-0. HB 1517, expanding wrongful death law to allow parents of an unborn child to recover for the child’s death, generated the most extensive debate. The sponsor said it aligns civil law with existing criminal definitions and excludes claims against mothers and providers of lawful medical care, including IVF; opponents warned it could be used to target reproductive care, support networks, and domestic violence survivors, while supporters framed it as a justice measure for families. An amendment clarifying damages rules for minors and unborn children was adopted, and the bill passed 13-4. Finally, HB 947, on evidence of medical damages in personal injury and wrongful death cases, sought to allow broader evidence at trial and to change “shall” to “may”; supporters said it would improve fairness and transparency, while opponents argued it would weaken post-2023 tort reforms and reintroduce inflated medical damages. The amendment was adopted and the bill was then taken up with additional opposition testimony.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Feb 18th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • This provides a critical resource.
  • by individual providers or by employees of licensed home care agencies, also known as agency providers
  • The state must provide parity between the agency providers and individual providers.
  • The state must provide parity between the agency providers and individual providers, meaning when the
  • rate for individual providers changes, the rate paid to home care agencies or agency providers must
Summary: The Appropriations Committee held a public hearing on several bills. Senate Bill 5109 would raise the mortgage lending fraud prosecution surcharge on recorded deeds of trust from $1 to $5 and remove the 2027 sunset on the surcharge and account. Committee staff said the change would generate additional revenue for county auditors and the Department of Financial Institutions to contract with prosecutors; King County and the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys testified in strong support, saying the current funding has eroded and the bill would better sustain mortgage fraud prosecutions. A question was raised about whether other budget funding could serve a similar purpose, but supporters said the dedicated surcharge/account structure was the best fit. No vote was taken. The committee also heard Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5500, which would require DCYF’s biennial child care report to include a current cost-of-quality study in addition to the market rate survey. Testifiers from Child Care Aware of Washington, child care providers, and the early education design team supported the bill, saying the market rate survey alone does not capture the true cost of providing quality care. Staff said the bill would have a small fiscal impact for DCYF. The committee then heard Substitute Senate Bill 5834 and Senate Bill 5835, both Department of Retirement Systems request bills: one would broaden use of pension fund interest earnings for fund-protection expenses beyond the 2025-27 biennium, and the other would raise the threshold for lump-sum payment of small monthly benefits from $50 to $250. Neither bill drew public testimony, and staff said the fiscal impacts were minimal. Later, the committee heard Engrossed Senate Bill 5872, which would create the Pre-K Promise Account for ECAP funding and allow gifts, grants, and donations to be used solely to expand the program. Supporters including rural health coalitions, the Balmer Group, and Snohomish County said the account would help expand access to early learning, especially in child care deserts; DCYF estimated staffing costs to administer the account. Substitute Senate Bill 6007 would direct WSIPP to study DCYF’s child welfare screening tools and their effects on outcomes, with a reported cost of about $234,000; there was no public testimony. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6019 would clarify home care agency rate-setting and require that no more than 20% of Medicaid home care rates go to administrative costs, with DSHS saying there would be no fiscal impact. Labor and caregiver witnesses supported it as a parity and accountability measure. Finally, Senate Bill 6065 would allow school districts in binding conditions or enhanced financial oversight to use transportation vehicle funds more flexibly, including temporary loans or permanent transfers with approval; a rural education representative supported the bill, and staff said OSPI would incur only modest administrative costs. The committee took no final action and adjourned after the hearings.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-06-16 (7:00PM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The amendment provides an appropriation of $500,000 of non-recurring general revenue funds to provide
  • It provides $246 million for nursing home rate increases. It provides...
  • , and provides $13.5 million to remove seniors from wait lists and provide in-home services, including
  • This budget provides...
  • We provided $10 million to the U.F.
Summary: The House convened on the final day of session, observed a moment of silence for the Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and for Representative Rosenwald’s father, then swore in and seated new members Boyles and Hodgers. The Speaker also outlined the chamber’s end-of-session priorities, including action on the budget and related conforming bills. The House then took up H.J.R. 5019, a constitutional amendment to expand Florida’s budget stabilization fund by raising the cap, requiring annual transfers, and allowing withdrawals for critical state needs. After sponsor explanations and questions about what would qualify as a critical need and how the fund might respond to possible federal funding cuts, the House adopted an amendment that added more flexibility for suspending transfers and withdrawals. The joint resolution then passed on final passage. Members next considered HB 7031, the tax package conference report. The bill repeals the business rent tax and aviation fuel tax, delays the natural gas fuel tax, creates or extends several sales tax exemptions and holidays, and makes changes affecting property taxes, local taxes, pari-mutuel taxes, and revenue distributions. Debate focused heavily on the new permanent exemption for ammunition and hunting-related items, the elimination of recurring housing trust fund and transit-related distributions, and the shift of some funding from recurring to nonrecurring status. Supporters argued the package provides tax relief and preserves annual budget flexibility, while opponents criticized the ammunition exemption and the reductions in recurring housing and transit support. The conference report was adopted and the bill passed. The House then passed HB 5017, which creates a debt reduction program funded by a recurring transfer from general revenue to retire state bonds early, and HB 5015, the state group insurance conforming bill, which directs DMS to develop a formulary management plan and codifies the administrative health insurance assessment. Finally, the chamber began explanation and questions on the General Appropriations Act conference report for fiscal year 2025-26, described as a $115.1 billion budget that is down from the current year and includes more than $12 billion in reserves. Subcommittee chairs summarized major budget areas, including K-12 education, health care, transportation and economic development, agriculture and natural resources, higher education, state administration, justice, and information technology, highlighting funding for school choice, Medicaid, housing, transportation infrastructure, Everglades restoration, workforce programs, cybersecurity, and technology modernization.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 51 Mar 3rd, 2026

Idaho House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • 5707 Ido code to provide a correct code to provide a code to provide correct code.
  • Idaho Code to provide correct code references, amending Section 39-8421, Idaho Code, to provide a correct
  • an emergency and providing an effective date.
  • Those are vital emergency services provided by firefighters.
  • All of that is provided for free to the school district.
Keywords: 989, all
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 33 Feb 13th, 2026

Idaho House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • second order of business, per Barbara Chaplain, Tom Doherty, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance provided
  • for us today by Gabrielle Hill of the Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy. ...provided for us today by Gabrielle
  • provider, an ESP, that receives funds, provides a written disclosure of what those funds were used for
  • and of the services that they provided.
  • a written disclosure of what those funds were used for, and of the services that they provided.
Keywords: 989, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> health care providers. health care providers.
  • me could have denied to provide treated me could have denied to provide that<01:20:24.120><c> care,<
  • This bill is called the providers.
  • :29:11.040><c> provide</c><01:29:11.880><c> ethical,</c> biases to provide ethical, biases to provide
  • </c> provide certain types of birth control. provide certain types of birth control.
Summary: The Health Services Committee met with a quorum and took up House Bill 414 with a committee substitute. The bill, described by sponsors and supporters as a continuation of prior maternal-health legislation, was framed as a clarification of medical standards and an effort to improve care for women and families facing complicated pregnancies. Representative Tate, Representative Nemes, Adair Wushar of Kentucky Right to Life, and Dr. Jeff Goldberg of ACOG Kentucky all testified in support, saying the substitute was developed collaboratively to reduce confusion in the law and help physicians provide evidence-based care without fear of criminal penalties. Supporters said the committee substitute was intended to define what is not an abortion under Kentucky law and to spell out medical treatments for conditions such as miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, sepsis, hemorrhage, preeclampsia, premature rupture of membranes, and fetal demise. Dr. Goldberg said current statutes contain significant ambiguity and have created unintended barriers to treating pregnancy complications, including emergency situations, and he gave examples of patients who were delayed or harmed because physicians were uncertain about what the law allowed. Representative Nemes said the measure was the result of unusual cooperation among groups that do not usually agree and described it as a first step toward fixing a discrete problem. Representative Wilner raised concerns that the language could effectively require a patient to be in severe distress before treatment is clearly permitted and that it was too prescriptive about how physicians should manage miscarriages. In response, Dr. Goldberg and the sponsors said the substitute was not perfect, was meant as a short-term solution, and was designed to give doctors more confidence in providing routine, medically necessary care for pregnancy complications. The transcript indicates the committee substitute was adopted, but no final vote on the bill itself is shown in the excerpt.