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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- We're saying to providers that submitting a fax via email does not count as an electronic claim.
- If a provider submitted it via paper, then they had 45 days.
- Sometimes providers are slow at getting documents to the insurance carriers.
- Yes, I have worked very closely with the insurance companies and providers on this legislation.
- So if they need more information, once the providers provide the second set of information asked for,
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And then 67-210 dealt with construction of the North Idaho Veterans Home and provided state matching
- It's a process that when the insurer and the provider cannot agree on a reimbursement amount, one of
- The insurer submits what they believe reimbursement should be, the provider submits what they should
- Reynolds, so put the issue of the insurance company and this provider aside for just a minute.
- don't have to provide service; it's simply notice.
Summary:
The Senate Commerce Committee first approved the minutes from February 12, 2026, and then voted to send the gubernatorial reappointment of Trent Nate to the Idaho Health Insurance Exchange Board to the full Senate with a recommendation for confirmation. The committee then heard several code-cleanup bills from Senator Todd Lakey. Senate Bill 1274 would remove obsolete references in state law related to the transfer of county public defender employees, comp time, and an employee problem-solving procedure; Senate Bill 1275 would delete outdated provisions concerning veterans’ assets and the North Idaho Veterans Home; and Senate Bill 1273 would repeal several obsolete PERSI-related provisions tied to old retirement and contribution arrangements. Each of those bills drew no testimony or opposition and was sent to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation.
The committee spent most of the meeting on Senate Bill 1319, the Emergency Care Affordability Act, sponsored by Senator Burt. The bill would create a new chapter in Title 41 governing billing and reimbursement for out-of-network freestanding emergency rooms, requiring them to accept the local in-network allowed amount for emergency services from state-regulated health plans, disclose that they do not accept Medicare, Medicaid, or TRICARE, and allow self-funded plans to opt in. Supporters, including Blue Cross of Idaho and the Association of Health Plans, argued that freestanding ERs are exploiting the federal No Surprises Act and its independent dispute resolution process by sending nearly all claims to arbitration at inflated rates, which they said raises premiums for Idaho consumers and state employee health plans. They said the bill is intended to address a loophole and does not affect hospital ERs or other emergency billing disputes.
Committee members raised questions about EMTALA, federal preemption, whether the bill targets one business model, and whether patients are actually being balance-billed. Supporters said EMTALA still requires treatment, but the bill is aimed at billing practices and transparency, not access to emergency care. Some senators expressed concern about singling out one provider type and possible legal issues, while others said the bill was justified because insurers are required to cover emergency care and the current federal dispute process is driving up costs. After discussion, the committee approved Senate Bill 1319 on a 6-3 roll call vote and sent it to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 16, 2026 - 01:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- This opposed legislation provides our intent to address those issues by providing funding through cash
- To the proposed Fiscal 2026, 2027 House of Representatives General Appropriations Act, which provides
- Florida's clerks of court and comptrollers have 1,000 statutory responsibilities they provide to our
- They provide essential services such as enhancing safety and access to justice, including serving as
- Thank you for providing law enforcement perspective.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Just going through a couple of the sections, it provides definitions in 37-203, and then 37-204 notes
- And then 37-208 provides some basic record-keeping requirements.
- technical and financial assistance to Idaho's 50 conservation districts... ...which include providing
- The median value match allocation provided to districts in fiscal year 2025 was $13,834.
- Now let's turn to the profile of key services provided on the second page of our performance report.
Committee:
Senate Agricultural Affairs
Summary:
The Senate Agricultural Committee began with a visit from a BYU-Idaho agribusiness class, whose students and faculty were welcomed and briefly introduced themselves. The committee then took up a rule docket, 02-0601-2501, and approved it with an exception: section 112, new subsections 01 through 05, which incorporated documents by reference without a specific date. The committee adopted findings that this was inconsistent with the Idaho Administrative Procedures Act and directed the agency to return with a compliant rule in the future.
The committee next considered RS 33272, presented by Senator Tammy Nichols, which would create standards for kratom products. Nichols said the proposal was intended to preserve lawful access to natural leaf kratom while prohibiting adulterated, synthetic, or artificially enhanced products, requiring limited third-party testing, setting an age restriction, clarifying supply-chain responsibilities, and establishing penalties without creating new licensing or fees. The committee voted to send the RS to print. Senator Todd Lakey then presented RS 33226, the Idaho Direct to Consumer Act, which would reduce regulation on small-scale homemade food and non-alcoholic drink sales made directly from producer to consumer, preempt more restrictive local rules, and include labeling and record-keeping requirements, including for certain direct meat sales. The committee voted to send that RS to print as well.
The Idaho Department of Water Resources, speaking in its role with the Soil and Water Conservation Commission, gave an agency update on conservation district support, CREP, WACPA, and related programs. Officials reported on district funding distributions, landowner assistance, conservation acres served, and performance measures, and discussed budget requests including a proposed miscellaneous revenue fund and additional appropriations to address future CREP matching needs. In response to a question, the department said WACPA was not included in the governor’s budget. The Idaho Association of Soil Conservation Districts then presented on the value of locally led conservation districts, emphasizing volunteer governance, the return on state investment, education efforts, and local projects such as flood recovery and rangeland fire protection. Committee members asked about EPA coordination, and presenters said working through state agencies and local districts remained preferable and generally effective. The meeting concluded after the presentations and questions.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 27, 2026 - 03:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- We are providing language to define heated tobacco products and create another category of other tobacco
- I wanted to comment and provide some real world examples of how it looks.
- When you're talking about providing this tax relief to homeowners, renters get nothing.
- If you want to provide property tax relief, you can do it. The Florida Legislature can do it.
- You can't cut your budget and keep paying and providing the things you've always provided. Rep.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Health and Human Services Oct 1st, 2025
House Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- ... ...providers that rely on those commercial rate reimbursements.
- We, by law, then cannot provide the assistance above that federal level.
- This current program may not provide any kind of subsidies for me, correct?
- And it allows you to compare provider networks, for example. Thank you, Madam Chair.
- It sounds like you've now provided some leisure reading for me. Madam Chair, Mr.
Committee:
House House Health & Human Services
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Jul 7th, 2025
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- We're an association of more than 400 mission-driven business service providers and community lenders
- RBFC's regulatory attorney believes that this language would result in providers not being able to discuss
- Providing an APR disclosure for a loan is pretty simple, as the lender can plug in the info and quickly
- In compliance with federal law, that section requires the DFPI to provide notice to the CFPB.
- In an effort to compromise, we have proposed amendments that would provide new authority to the DFPI
Committee:
House Banking and Finance
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/18/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- had to provide as well.
- had to provide as well.
- had to provide as well.
- had to provide as well.
- had to provide as well.
Committee:
House Science, Technology and Energy
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (01/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:47:11.119><c> expertise</c> then in addition we provide expertise then in addition we provide
- </c> financially sound principles and provide financially sound principles and provide consumer<00:47
- </c> matter experts coming in and providing matter experts coming in and providing to<00:49:13.880><c
- </c> reimburse not out of network providers reimburse not out of network providers $200<01:09:21.520>
- </c> a similar intention which is to provide a similar intention which is to provide a<04:09:12.600><
Summary:
The meeting began with introductory remarks for new and returning members of the House Commerce Committee, led by Chairman John Hunt. Members briefly introduced themselves and their backgrounds, and several noted the committee’s bipartisan, collegial tone. Hunt explained the committee’s structure and traditions, including the division into three subcommittees: banking and business, consumer protection, and liquor commission matters, with insurance now handled as a single area. He also reviewed basic hearing procedures, including decorum, questions for information only, and the committee’s practice of moving bills through subcommittees before full committee executive sessions.
The committee then heard an overview from the New Hampshire Insurance Department, led by Commissioner DJ Bettencourt and staff. The department described its mission as promoting a safe and competitive insurance marketplace and emphasized consumer protection, market competition, and affordability. Officials outlined the department’s responsibilities, including licensing insurers, producers, adjusters, and TPAs; reviewing insurance forms; regulating companies and market conduct; overseeing financial solvency; and investigating insurance fraud. They also noted that the department is self-funded through assessments on insurers, collects premium taxes and fees for the state, and returned more than $2.7 million to companies in fiscal year 2024 due to underspending.
The presentation also covered the broader regulatory framework for insurance, including the role of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in promoting uniform standards across states and territories. Officials said New Hampshire licenses about 1,200 insurance companies and roughly 245,000 producers and adjusters, and that the department’s financial examinations are part of an accreditation system used nationwide. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the portion provided; the session was primarily organizational and informational, with the insurance department presentation beginning the committee’s substantive work for the term.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- We have workforce and provider...
- boards take gifts, provides the new language you see in lines four and five, provided that such gifts
- I've provided copies of it to you.
- boards take gifts, provides the new language you see in lines four and five, provided that such gifts
- boards take gifts, provides the new language you see in lines four and five, provided that such gifts
Committee:
Senate Education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 04/08/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Those that<00:00:58.480><c> are</c><00:00:58.640><c> providing</c> that are providing that are providing
- :26.560><c> to</c> merely provides the structure to merely provides the structure to establish<00:05:
- ><00:05:35.280><c> of</c> provides for an investment of provides for an investment of $350,000<00:05:
- , providing an ongoing the private sector, providing an ongoing defined<00:21:39.520><c> benefit</c><
- </c> Julie Syler and I would like to provide Julie Syler and I would like to provide testimony<01:04:
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (02/03/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Migrant is exactly what it looks like: it's funding that is provided to provide educational supports
- Migrant is exactly what it looks like: it's funding that is provided to provide educational supports
- </c> that's in federal law that provides that's in federal law that provides additional<01:12:48.719>
- c> supports</c> provided to provide educational supports provided to provide educational supports for
- </c> go uh too long this is just to provide go uh too long this is just to provide some<01:25:32.440>
Summary:
The Department of Education’s Bureau of School Finance provided an adequacy-funding training for Division II, led by Mark Mello. He walked the committee through the adequacy formula using Albany, Allenstown, and Alton as examples, explaining average daily membership, base adequacy aid, and differential aid for free/reduced-price meals, special education, and English language learners. He also noted a recent change requiring home-education differential aid and emphasized that these aid streams are generally unrestricted district funding rather than money tied to specific students or programs.
A major focus was the ongoing litigation over the adequacy base amount and the statewide education property tax, or SWEPT. Mello explained the historical basis of the current base amount, the 2008 legislative report that set the original methodology, and the later court ruling that the adequacy amount should be $7,356, which is now before the Supreme Court. He also described how SWEPT currently raises a fixed statewide amount of $363 million and how that revenue is used to offset the state’s adequacy obligation. For the example towns, Albany and Allenstown receive state adequacy grants because their SWEPT revenue is below their calculated adequacy cost, while Alton is an excess SWEPT community because its local SWEPT revenue exceeds the cost of adequate education.
The discussion then turned to the pending “excess SWEPT” issue in the Supreme Court and what would happen if excess collections had to be remitted to the state. Mello said the Department is preparing a hypothetical walkthrough and explained that, if the court upholds the Superior Court ruling, DRA would likely be directed to collect excess SWEPT. Members raised concerns about whether SWEPT must be used for educational purposes and about the cash-flow burden on towns if money had to move from municipalities to the state and then back to districts. Mello and members discussed possible administrative workarounds, such as credits against other state aid distributions, and noted that the committee would continue reviewing the mechanics if the court decision comes down during budget work.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee. (2-9-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> um if they could either provide um if they could either provide documentation<00:32:17.120><c> to
- Committee will stand at ease. have provided the um have provided the um to<00:44:36.240><c> know</c><
- .<00:56:28.000><c> 2011</c><00:56:28.559><c> KR16731</c> providers. 2011 KR16731 providers. 2011 KR16731
- </c> juristprudence exam for each provider juristprudence exam for each provider type<00:56:34.319><c
- </c> managers to be able to provide managers to be able to provide reasonable<01:13:33.199><c> oversight
Keywords:
0:00 – Meeting start/roll call
0:10 - Roll call/approval of minutes
1:43 - Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), Department for Medicaid Services
27:40 - Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
55:54 - Board of Veterinary Examiners
1:33:15 - Testimony in support of 804 KAR 13:010E, 020E, 030E and 040E.
1:49:04 - Education Professional Standards Board
1:49:58 - Attorney General, Office of Regulatory Relief
1:52:18 - Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA)
1:54:28 - Board of Nursing
1:56:44 - Board of Occupational Therapy
1:57:37 - Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy
1:58:58 - Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
1:59:50 - Economic Development Finance Authority
2:01:34 - Department of Corrections
2:02:37 - Department of Juvenile Justice
2:04:02 - Department for Employment Services, Unemployment Insurance
2:04:57 - Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), Department for Public Health, 958, all
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes and then took up Department for Medicaid Services regulations 907 KAR 23:010 and related rules. DMS explained that one regulation would establish a beneficiary advisory council and another would remove language barring coverage of GLP-1 drugs for obesity-related use. The department said coverage would still be limited by prior authorization and clinical criteria, with use tied to underlying chronic conditions such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease, and that the pharmacy and therapeutics committee would help set the detailed standards. Members discussed the potential health benefits, but several raised concerns about cost, timing, and whether the legislature and the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board should review the policy first. DMS said the drugs are already on the formulary, that current Medicaid users with diabetes are already covered, and that the fiscal impact was estimated using current utilization, rebates, and expected savings; the department also said it would only cover the drugs if subject to rebates. The committee then voted 5-1 to find 907 KAR 23:010 deficient.
The committee next considered several emergency regulations from the Public Protection Cabinet’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control implementing SB 100. The rules covered tobacco, nicotine, and vapor product licensing, including the application form, denial standards, and transitional licensing. ABC counsel said the department had received about 5,500 applications and issued nearly 5,000 licenses, with additional provisional licenses issued to avoid interruption in sales after the law’s effective date. He said some applications remained pending because inspections and photographs revealed possible unauthorized nicotine vapor products, and the department was seeking documentation before approval. A staff amendment was adopted without objection before the ABC presentation continued.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And if you don't already, we'll provide you with that Revenue estimate.
- and if um we'll provide you um with<00:11:11.360><c> that</c><00:11:12.000><c> that</c><00:11:12.160
- oversight from Minnesota's I provided oversight from Minnesota's Career<00:18:37.760><c> and</c><00:
- you some context is just really provide you some context in<00:19:32.120><c> what</c><00:19:32.799><
- </c> intends to achieve which is to provide intends to achieve which is to provide relief<00:37:01.880
Committee:
Senate Taxes
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/26
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- House File 3753 provides a solution.
- When educators provide that support.
- </c> also provide good delivery of service. also provide good delivery of service.
- </c> However, I'm here today to provide However, I'm here today to provide testimony<01:41:12.280><c>
- </c> the details that are actually provided the details that are actually provided by<01:50:43.280><c
Committee:
House Public Safety Finance and Policy
Keywords:
school safety, threat assessment, pilot project, education, real-time monitoring, public safety, HF4299, school safety specialists, Minnesota School Safety Center, appropriation, general fund, fiscal year 2026, school security, school violence prevention, student safety, Department of Public Safety, school resource support, education funding, peace officer, training reimbursement
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- I believe provide the original objective<00:54:40.880><c> of</c><00:54:41.119><c> providing</c><00:54
- </c><00:58:08.760><c> and</c> managers homeless service providers and managers homeless service providers
- I provided to Senator Murphy and that I provided to Senator Murphy and that reflects<01:07:49.480><c>
- </c><01:49:35.040><c> that</c> the market control for um providing that the market control for um providing
- </c><02:15:38.840><c> an</c> resident-owned communities provide an resident-owned communities provide
Committee:
Senate Commerce
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:11:12.000><c> older</c> volunteers provide rides for older volunteers provide rides for older
- </c><00:14:44.880><c> more</c> programs so that they can provide more programs so that they can provide
- They provide backpacks food pantries.
- </c><00:19:13.760><c> is</c> services that they can provide is services that they can provide is endless
- So, it's a dual who's providing them.
Committee:
Senate Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/26/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- They also provide it is very cold out.
- By also providing source heat pumps.
- </c> us in so many ways including providing us in so many ways including providing the<00:47:00.480><
- Two, the program provides a law.
- It provides<01:03:25.119><c> over</c><01:03:25.359><c> a</c> provides over a provides over a 300%<01:
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/12/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We provide the research analysis to support their work in evaluating those tax expenditures and provide
- </c><00:04:04.280><c> the</c> districts and we provide the districts and we provide the professional<
- </c><00:04:19.239><c> the</c> expenditures and provide the expenditures and provide the administrative
- We provide the research analysis to support their work in evaluating those tax expenditures and provide
- </c><00:14:45.240><c> that</c> will provide that will provide that information<00:14:47.880><c> so</c
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education. (3-18-26)
Primary and Secondary Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, basically, the House sub provides that a district may choose to provide education services to an
- a district may uh sub provides that a district may choose<00:15:34.480><c> to</c><00:15:34.600><c> provide
- Uh they would be provided occurred on. Uh they would be provided no<00:15:56.120><c> transportation.
- 00:17:41.880><c> then</c> providing wrap-around services, then providing wrap-around services, then they
- </c> do have some districts that provide do have some districts that provide mental<00:17:45.880><c>
Committee:
House Primary and Secondary Education