Transcript Highlights:

• So they both have to want it and they both have to agree to it for it to happen.
• If to agree to it uh for it to happen.
• </c> understands it, then I don't think it understands it, then I don't think it would<00:13:44.160><
• <c> be</c> testimony today, it would be it would be testimony today, it would be it would be very<00:
• Uh I think it it serves an there.

Bills: HB0028 , HB0080

Committee: Senate Labor, Health & Social Services

Keywords: sexual exploitation, child protection, law amendment, explicit conduct, sex crimes, identification cards, nursing facilities, assisted living, renewal process, resident rights, 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• You know, um, we have to pay for it. It is what it is.
• Got it.
• Got it.
• Got it.
• it.

Bills: HB206

Committee: House Energy Resources

Keywords: HB206, school district bonds, bond election, voter approval, Education Code, Chapter 45, Section 45.003, Section 45.0034, Texas schools, school finance, local tax election, bond referendum, school construction, capital improvements, election frequency, five-year waiting period, district bonds, public school funding

Transcript Highlights:

• If it doesn't prevent it, it can at least make it more mild and so we try to get vaccine out as fast
• And is it you? So it sounds like you do not know where this originated. where it came from.
• Is it a hospital, is it a physician, is it a provider, or is it a non-profit?
• of it is civil and how much of it is criminal.
• I mean, it was a question. It was not meant to be a statement. I get it all the time.

Committee: House Public Health

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• If we're going to do it, and we have to do it because the kids need it, we have ways that we can do it
• <c> need</c><00:15:48.680><c> it,</c> have to do it because the kids need it, have to do it because the
• . it. it.
• c><00:28:58.160><c> on</c> So therefore, it was a cost it was a on So therefore, it was a cost it was
• . it. it.

Committee: House Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It is not about being anti-Greater Minnesota. And it is, please, it is not anti-family.
• Does it really solve it?
• Let's try it. Let's try it.
• You can't say it if you're not doing it.
• It's just: is it the funds running out or is it the... Out? Is it the repeal?

Transcript Highlights:

• on it.
• It does also open it up to.
• Do you want me to Google it and text it to you, or I don't have it with me.
• It divides, it scars. In too many cases it nearly kills, and in some it does.
• It was hormone blocking. I mean it was, it, it wasn't like you walked in and you got a new you.

Bills: HB 2646 , HB 3941 , HB 5153 , HB 5155 , HB 5394 , HB 1106 , HB 426 , HB 4529 , HB 3984 , HB 4273 , HB 1097 , HB 3940 , HB 1941 , HB 4377 , HB 3153

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: child care, task force, high-quality care, affordability, prekindergarten partnerships, foster care, transitional living, Medicaid reform, youth assistance, independent living, services for youth, employment training, educational support, mental health services, health care, public health, child health program, reimbursement, local health entities, maternal health

Transcript Highlights:

• I may not have done it for two years, but I can do it. I have done it, but I may not have done it.
• Let's call it what it is.
• Let's call it what it is.
• And it is real. It happens to a lot of people.
• It is a voluntary contract. It is negotiated and it is highly competitive.

Committee: House Health and Welfare

Summary: The committee first adopted the minutes from several prior 2025 meetings, then took up HB 574 by Rep. Spell, which updates the names of two organizations on the Mental Health Advocacy Service Board of Trustees. Rep. Spell explained it as a technical cleanup bill to correct the names of the Louisiana Mental Health Association and the Louisiana State Medical Society so the board’s membership records match current organization names. With no objections, HB 574 was reported favorably. The committee then heard HB 486, also by Rep. Spell, to join the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PsyPact) and allow Louisiana psychologists to provide telepsychology and temporary in-person services across state lines. Rep. Spell and PsyPact representatives said the compact would expand access to mental health care, especially in rural areas, while maintaining standards and disciplinary oversight. The committee adopted amendments on fees and the effective date, and HB 486 was reported favorably with amendments. HB 198 by Rep. Eccles proposed a Medicaid reimbursement methodology for ambulatory surgical centers, using a Medicare-based rate to improve access for Medicaid patients needing specialty procedures. Amendments were adopted to add ophthalmology-related services and to cap reimbursement at the lesser of the outpatient hospital rate or 100% of the Medicaid rate, along with a technical amendment to address the fiscal note. Supporters from GI and ASC groups said the bill would improve access and lower long-term costs, and the bill was reported favorably with amendments. The committee spent the most time on HB 182 by Rep. Travis Johnson, which would require hospitals to ensure access to sexual assault forensic exams and related training. Johnson, law enforcement witnesses, and the Attorney General’s office emphasized the need for timely evidence collection, especially in rural areas, and said the current system leaves victims traveling long distances or losing evidence. Hospital and coroner witnesses supported the goal but opposed the bill as written, arguing it could impose duties on hospitals without enough trained personnel, funding, or a workable statewide training and coordination system; they urged a statewide coordinator, mobile SANE units, and clearer implementation. The bill was not finally disposed of in the portion of the meeting provided, and members discussed continuing to work on amendments and timing before floor consideration.

Transcript Highlights:

• What is it?
• without, okay, makes them do it; it does not allow it to be optional.
• Again, it makes them do it without any funding.
• As it came through Education, as it came from the House and came through the Education Committee, it
• As it came through Education, as it came from the House and came through the Education Committee, it

Keywords: 994, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Finance Committee met with a quorum present and first approved the minutes from the prior meeting. It then reconsidered Committee Substitute for House Bill 5212, noting that an Education Committee amendment had been inadvertently omitted the day before; the vice chairman withdrew the prior motion to report the bill, and the committee returned to the bill with the technical Education Committee amendments pending. The transcript then moved through a long agenda of bills and supplemental appropriations, with the committee generally hearing brief explanations from counsel, occasional member questions, and then voting to adopt amendments and report measures to the full Senate. Among the substantive policy bills, the committee advanced House Bill 4007 on the Industrial Access Road Fund, allowing an additional possible $3 million transfer in a fiscal year, expanding eligible uses, and increasing county/municipal spending limits; House Bill 4765, which raises salaries for state police, teachers, and school service personnel and, via a strike-and-insert amendment, creates a market pay enhancement tied to county and regional income data; House Bill 5162, recodifying tax lien sale procedures and clarifying ownership and government-property tax treatment; House Bill 5382, extending the Neighborhood Investment Tax Credit Program to July 1, 2031; House Bill 5685, authorizing up to $150 million in revenue bonds backed by excess lottery funds for State Culture Center improvements; House Joint Resolution 42, placing a constitutional amendment on the ballot to raise the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $40,000; House Bill 4010, creating an airport hangar grant program and fund; House Bill 4404, increasing from $500 to $5,000 the amount volunteer fire departments may spend on training and fire prevention materials; House Bill 4592, requiring standardized campus safety mapping data for higher education institutions; House Bill 4784, extending and making retroactive a qualified opportunity zone business tax modification; and House Bill 5088, increasing retirement benefits for Division of Natural Resources police officers, with a one-time $4.25 million cash injection. The committee also reported several supplemental appropriations and originating bills, including Senate Bill 842 for the Spay Neuter Assistance Fund, Senate Bill 846 for Culture and History capital repairs, Senate Bill 872 for Natural Resources capital repairs (reduced to $10 million in committee substitute), Senate Bill 876 for Department of Health facilities, Senate Originating Bills 1 through 5 covering Culture and History, road funds, corrections IT and services, tobacco education, and the Adjutant General’s armory board transfer, respectively. Most items were adopted by voice vote; House Bill 4765’s strike-and-insert amendment was adopted after a division vote of 10-6. The committee then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• faith on it.
• Okay, was it a gallon? Was it a gallon still? Do you remember who it was?
• It was, but it was long.
• It was, but it was long.
• Dan to look it over, Alex look it over, or our friends on the other side to look it over.

Bills: HB2424 , HB2608 , HB2775 , HB2805 , HB2908

Committee: House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Keywords: Arizona political parties, precinct committeeman, precinct committeemen, proxy voting, party bylaws, county committee, state committee, qualified elector, election administration, political party rules, precinct representation, adjoining precinct, county party meeting, proxy attestation, notary public, witnesses, transitional housing, military veterans, grant program, housing services

Transcript Highlights:

• :36.800><c> it</c><00:08:37.360><c> defaults</c> because it wasn't specified, it defaults because it
• </c><01:31:45.120><c> it</c> personally and professionally it it personally and professionally it it
• </c><02:23:50.479><c> like</c> were charging it it it smelled more like were charging it it it smelled
• </c> its place is it puts something it it its place is it puts something it it basically<02:30:55.359
• Yeah. amend<02:36:30.000><c> it.</c> amend it. amend it.

Committee: House Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We're ahead of it, and we're trying to get ahead of it, but is it necessary right now? So, Mr.
• But it is very affirmative, and I think it clearly...
• But it tries to target it toward people who specifically need it.
• Has it been like a week? Has it been a month?
• When it comes to emergency rule-making, is it a set framework? Is it a week? Is it a month?

Transcript Highlights:

• It does not create opportunity. It does not increase access. It does not protect anyone.
• If you make a choice outside of it, then it may not.
• Is it burdensome for some people? Yeah, it can be.
• It could be a football, it could be a flagpole, it could be a math book, it could be anything for the
• The department said it would do everything it can because it understands the frustration.

Committee: All ALC-ADMINISTRATIVE RULES

Summary: The Administrative Rules Subcommittee met to review a long agenda of agency rule changes, beginning with housekeeping on the order of business and then taking up rules from multiple state agencies. Early items included Department of Energy and Environment rules on landfill post-closure trust fund spending thresholds and liquefied petroleum gas standards, DFA’s odometer disclosure rule allowing electronic signatures and disclosures, and several Department of Health rules covering ionizing radiation, mobile home and recreational parks, lead-based paint, counseling licensure, hearing instrument dispensers, athletic training, dental specialties and compacts, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistants, medical compacts, speech-language pathology and audiology, radiologic technology, massage therapy, community health workers, doula certification, and cosmetology/body art. Most of these were described as technical updates, conformity with recent acts, federal standards, or compact participation, and nearly all were approved without objection after brief questions and, in many cases, no public comment. The committee also reviewed Department of Labor and Licensing rules on minimum wage/independent contractor standards, boiler rules, motor vehicle commission requirements for ATV/LSV dealers, professional wrestling regulation, appraiser qualifications, and military recruiting and retention programs. Testimony generally emphasized that the rules implemented recent legislation, updated fees or licensing standards, or streamlined existing processes. Members asked a few questions about fee structures, the rationale for regulating professional wrestling, and how the National Guard’s public-private partnership and incentive programs would work; the department said the recruiting incentives would be funded from existing appropriations and were intended to improve retention and force strength. These rules were also approved without objection. The most extensive discussion came on the Department of Education’s Arkansas Children’s Educational Freedom Account Program rule. The department said the revisions, based on Act 920 of 2025, were intended to add guardrails, clarify allowable expenses, and speed approval of core educational purchases. Changes included defining core educational expenses, limiting certain sports-related spending, adding an intentional misuse standard, restricting phone purchases except for disability-related needs, setting a $1,000 threshold for additional review of technology purchases, capping carryover funds at $8,500, and creating a reconsideration process for denied expenses. Members raised concerns about safeguards, appeals, sports equipment, provider credentialing, rural vendor access, and whether the department would be flexible or overly restrictive. The department said it would review every request, provide written explanations for denials, allow appeals up to the State Board, and refer suspected fraud to prosecutors if necessary. After hearing from 13 members of the public, the committee continued to discuss the rule, but the transcript ends before any final vote on the EFA rule is shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• comes down to complicated issue when it comes down to it. it. it.
• </c><01:15:30.880><c> it</c><01:15:31.080><c> it</c> that history sounds right, but it it it that history
• It could be $299, it could be $25, it could be $10. It just seems confusing.
• It It is distributed. It's in amendment. It It is distributed.
• </c> So read it. Put it under your pillow. So read it. Put it under your pillow.

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• One, as you think about it, would it help if it says under Section 62-1C-4? Just think about it.
• I mean, if it was over a thousand, it would be a felony; it would be the grand larceny.
• So I got it. So right now it's just going to do it on 100% of it.
• it available should they desire it.
• Yeah, I love it. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I love it. Yeah, I love it.

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: 994, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The item has some security in it so he can look at it.
• They can bring it up and it will tell the codes on what was going on with it.
• You can get it wet. Yes, you can get it wet.
• I found it—I thought of it as a money grab, but I didn't have to charge it.
• But it also has an audible tone at the person wearing it. It beeps at them or something?

Committee: House Corrections and Public Institutions

Summary: The committee first met in executive session and adopted a House Committee substitute combining House Bills 2592, 2834, and 2787 into one measure. The combined substitute was then voted do pass by a unanimous roll call, recorded as 15 ayes and 0 noes after a brief correction to the tally. The committee then heard House Bill 1786, which would raise the Highway Patrol’s spending threshold for purchasing vehicles, watercraft, aircraft, and related specialized equipment without returning to the legislature from $100,000 to $500,000. The sponsor and Highway Patrol witnesses said the current cap is outdated because boats, armored vehicles, bomb trucks, and aircraft equipment now cost far more than $100,000, while members asked about inflation, the revolving fund, and whether a lower increase might be more appropriate. No opposition testimony was offered. Next, House Bill 2885 was heard. It would redirect the first $1 million in annual boat registration fee revenue away from general revenue and into the Missouri Water Patrol Division. The sponsor and Highway Patrol said registration revenue has declined while operating costs have risen, and the division needs the money to support enforcement, search and rescue, dive operations, and boating safety programs. Members asked how much revenue is collected and whether the change would affect other programs; testimony indicated the bill would mainly earmark existing revenue rather than increase overall department funding. The committee also heard House Bill 2694, which would exempt four fee-supported funds from the end-of-biennium sweep to general revenue: the Highway Patrol Academy Fund, the State Forensic Laboratory Account, the Boiler and Pressure Vessels Safety Fund, and the Elevator Safety Fund. The sponsor and Department of Public Safety witnesses said the sweeps make long-term planning difficult and can disrupt training, lab support, and safety inspection operations, though members raised concerns about excess balances, guardrails, and whether fee reductions should be considered if reserves grow too large. Finally, House Bill 1712 was heard; it would make intentionally failing to charge an electronic monitoring device a crime, closing a loophole in existing tampering law. The sponsor, a sheriff, and other witnesses said the bill addresses deliberate attempts to evade monitoring, while members discussed battery warnings, rural access to electricity, and the costs and benefits of pretrial release. No votes were taken on the later bills before the committee adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> it doesn't it doesn't. it doesn't it doesn't.
• don't want to wear it, don't wear it. it. it.
• does not. >> It exempts it, takes it away from it.
• exempts it takes it takes away from &gt;&gt; It exempts it takes it takes away from it.<03:44:45.040
• </c> case, I hope it I hope it holds true. case, I hope it I hope it holds true.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It, It got tried in a very, very large county. We'll leave it at that.
• So it, it'd be, it won't handle, it won't change the process.
• Property during the divorce, and what this does is first, it gets rid of it, it sets it into a corner
• It took me a minute to figure it out.
• I know, it, it doesn't make sense. It took me a while to.

Bills: HB116

Committee: House S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Keywords: film industry, incentives, economic development, state funding, media production

Transcript Highlights:

• It is online. I know sometimes it will be redacted, but it is online.
• Okay, we hate it, we got to spend it, but we're going to spend it.
• So it decreased it? No, from 12 months to—say it took it from a year to 60 months.
• Who is it? Who is it?
• I redacted it, sir. You're on it. I redacted it, sir. You're on it.

Committee: House Government

Keywords: 1182, all

Transcript Highlights:

• YOU ARE RECOGNIZED >> WHAT ARE THE OTHER WAYS >> IT COULD BE SECURE EMAIL, IT COULD BE A CD, IT COULD
• IT MIGHT BE THE PORTAL, IT MIGHT NOT BE THE PORTAL.
• TAKE IT DOWN, TAKE IT DOWN. SENATOR JONES, TAKE IT DOWN.
• HAD TO VOTE NO ON IT LAST TIME AND IT WILL BE A DELIGHT TO VOTE YES ON IT TODAY.
• IT DIDN'T WORK THEN AND IT DOESN'T WORK NOW.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• If it was a problem, why wasn't it in a regular-file bill?
• It will, I would like it to be, yes.
• landowners liked it and the political class liked it, but what it ultimately came down to was that it
• liked it but what It political class liked it but what It ultimately<00:25:36.760><c> came</c><00:25
• </c><00:38:57.280><c> is</c> to know you know it is to know you know it is it<00:38:58.079><c> does</

Committee: Senate Energy and Natural Resources

Keywords: 1191, senate, all