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MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Professional Registration and Licensing Feb 11th, 2026
Professional Registration and Licensing
Transcript Highlights:
- We seek to standardize the delivery of emergency medical care by ensuring that a physician is on duty
- The standardization is not quite as heavy.
- That is not an aspirational standard. It's a pretty basic one.
- Rural Missourians deserve that same standard of care.
- of care or to compromise on safety standards.
Summary:
The committee first completed action on House Bill 3009, adopting an amendment, rolling the bill into a House Committee Substitute, and then voting do pass on the substitute by a 20-0 roll call vote. The meeting then moved into public hearing on House Bill 1963, which would reduce from five years to three years the amount of licensed practice required before certain social workers may supervise others. Representative Tara Peters said the change would help address Missouri’s behavioral health workforce shortage, especially in rural areas, and testimony from the National Association of Social Workers and Burrell Behavioral Health supported the bill as a way to remove a bottleneck without changing education or supervision-hour requirements. There was no opposition testimony on HB 1963.
The committee then heard House Bill 2557, which would require a physician to be physically present in an emergency department during all hours of operation. Representative George Hruza argued the bill would improve patient safety and standardize emergency care, while noting possible telehealth accommodations for low-volume critical access hospitals. Supporters, including physicians and medical associations, said patients expect physician-led emergency care and that physician presence is the gold standard. Opponents, led by the Missouri Hospital Association and several rural hospital administrators, argued the mandate is not realistic given physician shortages, could force rural ER closures, and would reduce access to care; they emphasized that current hospital models rely on teams, telehealth, and transfer protocols. The bill drew extensive discussion but no vote was taken.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 311, which would modernize Missouri’s bail bond laws by creating a professional board and tightening training, oversight, and recovery procedures. Representative Brandon Phelps said the industry itself wants clearer standards and that he may revise the bill in committee substitute form to merge the new board with an existing board to reduce costs. A bail bond industry representative testified in support, saying the profession wants higher standards and accountability. The chair then adjourned the meeting after testimony concluded.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Jan 27th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Environment, Energy & Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- DAHP is required to develop minimum standards for preservation in consultation with federally recognized
- DAP is required to develop minimum standards for preservation in consultation with federally recognized
- Introducing additional review requirements without clear standards or funding risks slowing projects
- Introducing additional review requirements without clear standards or funding risks slowing projects
- Clear standards reduce uncertainty. Cultural review does not stop development.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Civil Rights & Judiciary Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Civil Rights & Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- Britschesee, I'm always a little concerned about shifting burdens of proof and shifting standards of
- And so the bill, as drafted, has this standard saying the unusual remedy of punitive damages is allowed
- So I hope that... ...from our standard textbook syllabus and actuarial exam coverage.
- Presumed liability is a standard, as we already heard, in other walks of life.
- We believe this bill... ...the standard, as we already heard, in other walks of life.
Bills:
HB2095
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (02/04/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:35:33.920><c> to</c> yearly change over from standard to yearly change over from standard to
- The standard time lobby in Washington. There's a national standard time lobby.
- </c> round standard time. round standard time.
- Act already allows standard time.
- time</c> permanent standard time is standard time permanent standard time is standard time has<00:52
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 14, February 25, 2026-PM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> they're up to standards in that area. they're up to standards in that area.
- </c><00:59:19.839><c> that</c> evolution of the federal standards that evolution of the federal standards
- There's federal standard engage them.
- </c> state standard for it. Thank you, Mr. state standard for it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
- So, that reference is there to give a standardized test, and that was the standardized test that's been
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:34:20.480><c> as</c> horizontal price fixing standards as horizontal price fixing standards as
- </c><00:34:48.159><c> has</c> standard standards that our union has standard standards that our union
- </c><01:20:42.719><c> As</c><01:20:42.960><c> a</c> home workforce standards board.
- As a home workforce standards board.
- labor standards for the nursing<01:20:49.520><c> home</c><01:20:49.920><c> industry.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Executive Departments and Administration (02/19/2025)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> process into compliance with a standard process into compliance with a standard death<00:18:37.320
- We follow a national standard.
- We follow the national standard. That's number one.
- We follow a national standard.
- </c><00:50:26.240><c> that's</c> we follow the National Standard that's we follow the National Standard
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- That stands completely on its own, so the educational neglect standard will remain exactly the same.
- We don't want to subject our children to the standard of serious harm.
- That standard of neglect has to be met, but to remember... ...for nearly all of my career.
- That standard of neglect has to be met, but to remember... ...that standard of neglect has to be met,
- are also completely separate from the criminal standards for child abuse.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Licensing & Administrative Procedures Mar 25th, 2025
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation will not lower accounting standards nor diminish the required accounting coursework.
- an important balance by evaluating substantial equivalence in training, testing, and disciplinary standards
- I mean, our standards could be much lower, and we would have to raise our standards to have that reciprocity
- Ensures regulatory clarity, aligning state law with federal standards, eliminates confusion and overlapping
- removes unnecessary burdens on healthcare providers while ensuring compliance with existing federal standards
MN
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (9-24-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- And we use that rope also to train with day-to-day and also teach technical rope rescue classes for Kentucky
- Fifteen sounds like a lot, but we teach a rescue class.
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the August minutes, and heard a brief announcement from Senator Richardson about the Missing in America Project interring unclaimed veterans’ remains at the Western Kentucky Veterans Cemetery in Hopkinsville. He read the names of several veterans being laid to rest with military honors, and the chair thanked the volunteers involved in the effort.
The main presentation was an update on Kentucky’s urban search and rescue program from the Department of Military Affairs and Kentucky Emergency Management. Officials said the program is being built around two regional task force hubs, a helicopter aquatic rescue team, an incident support team, and a rescue aid fund for local search and rescue units. They reported that the $8.3 million appropriated for the program in the 2025 budget was fully executed, that $482,670 of the rescue aid fund went to 29 local teams, and that $493,592 has already been allocated in the current year to 36 teams. They also described warehouse and equipment purchases, staffing with full-time and part-time personnel, and a new training site on state property for collapsed-structure and multi-agency exercises.
Officials said the program has already been used in recent disasters, including flood response and urban search and rescue operations in several parts of the state, and claimed the effort has impacted more than 1,500 citizens through rescues, evacuations, and related assistance. They said the helicopter aquatic rescue team is fully operational, the task force roster should be finalized by January, incident support should be online by April, and the full program should be deployable by June 30 or July 1, 2026. Members asked about statewide response times, K-9 search capabilities, and the long-term cost of the program, including concerns about reliance on federal matching funds. The presenters said K-9 assets will be part of the task force, that pre-positioning during forecasted storms can reduce response times significantly, and that they would provide more detailed budget information later.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (04/13/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> that you don't just use a standard that you don't just use a standard threeprong<02:12:39.520><c
- Standard exists to authorize these plug-in solar systems.
- >> standard one hour? So, it could be since >> standard one hour?
- </c><02:52:12.720><c> and</c> and 15-year terms are standard and and 15-year terms are standard and appropriate
- </c> can be volatile and the standards can be volatile and the standards change.<03:10:59.680><c> Um<
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- It does not dictate benefit design or medical necessity standards.
- This bill will allow some standardization.
- It standardizes the system a great deal.
- And this will help standardize that.
- They recognize that this standardization, ...standardization, transparency, and modernization will best
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Consumer and Public Affairs Feb 5th, 2026 at 02:49 pm
House Consumer & Public Affairs
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- There are no proposed standards or stipulations in this bill that set a minimum threshold of reaching
- All other standard requirements stay the same.
- Well, lawful and within the standard of practice. And so, you know, there’s nothing to stop it.
- I just don’t think that we need to eliminate the standard of care being... ...the standard of care being
- Why should there be a different standard of care in the Why should there be a different standard of care
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee took up two bills. SB 98, by Senator Harrell, would let self-storage facilities advertise lien sales either in a newspaper or on a qualifying website, while keeping other notice requirements in place and updating contact information provisions. Supporters, including the Florida Press Association and several newspaper/storage owners, argued print and digital newspaper notices already provide broad public notice and that the bill could reduce notice effectiveness; the sponsor said the bill is an optional modernization and does not affect government notices. After debate, the committee voted 8-1 to report SB 98 favorably.
The committee then heard SB 164, by Senator Grall, which expands Florida’s Wrongful Death Act to allow parents to recover civil damages for the death of an unborn child at any stage of development, with carve-outs for the mother and lawful medical care. The sponsor said the bill aligns civil law with Florida’s criminal protections for unborn children and gives families a remedy where current law may not. Opponents, including the ACLU of Florida, health care workers, and others, warned it could invite lawsuits against doctors, hospitals, friends, family members, and people involved in abortion access, and could worsen OB-GYN shortages and deter care. Supporters said it recognizes unborn life and should be treated consistently with existing wrongful death law. The committee approved SB 164 on a 4-3 vote and then adjourned.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/29/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:04:03.280><c> of</c> boards that enforce a standard of boards that enforce a standard of practice
- and provide a mechanism when standards and provide a mechanism when those<00:16:25.680><c> standards
- someone feels that those those standards someone feels that those standards<00:16:27.440><c> are</c>
- Um this is this is in my standard.
- </c><00:45:50.000><c> Um</c> standard to have moving forward. Um standard to have moving forward.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, I thought was a better standard. >> So unreasonably is a lower standard than reckless then. >> Right
- Uh, I thought was a better standard. standard. standard.
- , but it's an easier to lower standard, but it's an easier to define<00:15:01.440><c> standard</c><00
- </c><00:56:59.040><c> because</c> court even at a lower standard because court even at a lower standard
- </c> strict scrutiny standard in court Matsu. strict scrutiny standard in court Matsu. Correct.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
HHS, HHS DEFER Public Hearings 02-06-2026
Transcript Highlights:
- desired standard. >> Okay.
- I want to make sure because we follow federal standard, federal standard weakened.
- ,</c> because we follow federal standard, because we follow federal standard, federal<00:07:13.360><c
- . standard. standard.
- basic minimum quality standards. Um and basic minimum quality standards.
Summary:
The Committee on Health and Human Services heard several health-related measures. SB 3132 on syndromic surveillance drew support from the Department of Health, healthcare organizations, and others, with DOH explaining the bill would formalize a surveillance program that has helped with real-time flu tracking and response to events like the Maui fires. A member raised privacy concerns from opponents, and DOH responded that the data are deidentified and do not include Social Security numbers or dates of birth. No votes were taken on the bill in the portion provided.
SB 3134 on emergency medical systems of care received broad support from SHIPA, DOH, military and EMS representatives, and others, who said it would modernize the EMS system. SB 3136 on lead materials and water infrastructure was also supported by DOH and SHIPA; members asked whether the bill would allow Hawaii to keep stronger standards if federal drinking water rules were weakened, and DOH said the state would not have to follow weaker federal standards as long as Hawaii remained as stringent or more stringent. SB 3138 on independent audits of deposit beverage distribution drew support from DOH and several industry groups, but with amendments to reduce burdens on small businesses, raise the audit threshold, and modernize reporting; opponents also testified. DOH later clarified that the measure would affect a limited number of distributors and said it is working on an electronic submission system, though not yet for audit filings.
SB 3139 concerning SHIPA was supported by SHIPA and the Grassroots Institute of Hawaii, while HMSA suggested one provision should remain under the insurance commissioner’s purview. SHIPA said the bill is about collaboration and a broader health vision, not regulation, and members indicated they were comfortable with removing the disputed portion. SB 3207 on background checks drew support from healthcare providers but opposition from the Attorney General and DOH. Supporters argued the FBI fingerprinting requirement is costly, duplicative, and difficult to schedule, while opponents said the bill would improperly shift fingerprint collection authority to hospitals and other facilities and could conflict with federal law. The committee engaged in extended questioning about costs, federal requirements, and whether the mandate would be passed on to patients; no final action is reflected in the excerpt. The committee then began SB 2271 on hospital licensing, with support from SHIPA, the Developmental Disabilities council, healthcare groups, Kaiser Permanente, and DOH, and commenters said the bill would allow hospitals to demonstrate compliance through CMS-recognized accreditation, with a suggested wording change to “approved” accrediting organization.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/14/2026 - Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Joint Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- pass that standard... ...standard deduction that we may or may not pass, but I kind of expect we will
- pass that standard deduction.
- I think the standard deduction is something worth considering.
- Item one increases standard deductions—the governor asked for that.
- The standard deduction is claimed by roughly 90% of Arizona taxpayers.
Summary:
The joint House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees met to hear identical Arizona tax conformity bills, HB 2153 and SB 1106, which would conform state tax law to the federal Internal Revenue Code as of Jan. 1, 2026, with some provisions applied retroactively to tax year 2025. Staff explained that the bills exclude the federal senior deduction for those 65 and older, the higher state and local tax deduction, and the new car loan interest deduction, while including a $6,000 retirement-income deduction for taxpayers 60 and older, a $6,000 Roth IRA contribution deduction, a higher dependent tax credit, and a deduction for child and dependent care expenses above the federal credit. The JLBC fiscal note estimated a $441.3 million general fund revenue loss in FY 2026, and members discussed that this was roughly the same as full conformity because the bill’s adjustments offset some of the federal changes.
Bill sponsors and supporters argued the measure should be enacted early to give taxpayers and tax preparers certainty before filing season, noting that the Department of Revenue had already issued forms assuming conformity and that delay could force amended returns. They said the bill reflects a negotiated package that preserves most of the federal tax relief while tailoring it for Arizona, especially by lowering the senior deduction age to 60 and replacing the auto loan deduction with family-focused provisions such as the higher child credit and child care deduction. The Arizona Society of CPAs and the Arizona Free Enterprise Club supported the bills, emphasizing the need for early conformity and fewer filing complications.
Opponents, including Save Our Schools Arizona, the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, Opportunity Arizona, and several individuals, argued the package would reduce state revenue, worsen the structural deficit, and mainly benefit higher-income taxpayers and corporations. Some witnesses criticized the inclusion of federal school-choice-related provisions and warned about uncertainty around future federal guidance, while others said the bill should not move ahead before the budget process. Members also debated whether taxpayers would need to file amended returns if the state later diverged from the Department of Revenue forms, and whether the senior and child care provisions were targeted or equitable. The transcript ends during public testimony, with no final committee vote or action shown.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
PSM-HHS, PSM DEFER Public Hearings 02-07-2025
Public Safety and Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- We should have equal protection and standards.
- We should have equal protection and standards.
- We should have equal protection and standards.
- We should have equal protection and standards.
- </c> Rules of Evidence already has a standard Rules of Evidence already has a standard as<00:53:55.559
Summary:
On the deferred agenda, the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs took up SB 1364, which makes emergency appropriations for law enforcement personnel costs, and SB 1452, which relates to the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. The chair recommended both measures pass with amendments, including technical corrections and a committee-report effective date of July 1, 2077. For SB 1364, the amendments included specified general fund and transfer fund amounts for DAGS, the Judiciary, and the Department of Law. For SB 1452, the chair said the bill was being corrected to fix a drug-name error that had been replicated from a federal mistake. Both recommendations were adopted by vote, with Senator Dort excused.
The committee then discussed SB 1612, a joint measure on fitness to proceed that would require and appropriate funds for a five-year pilot program involving the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Health, with interim and final reports to the Legislature. Testimony was mixed: the Judiciary and Department of Health were supportive, while the Office of the Public Defender and the Disability Rights Center opposed it, arguing it conflicted with best practices and the Clark consent order, and that people found not fit to proceed must be sent to the state hospital. DCR said its main concern was that the bill would still require patients to be housed in its facilities, which it said are not rehabilitative and are already strained by staffing shortages and limited access. The bill’s author argued the proposal was meant to create joint custody and reduce the high cost of state-hospital placement, but the committee did not take final action in the portion provided.
In the joint hearing with Health and Human Services, the committees heard SB 1322, a broad rewrite of the state mental health code. The Attorney General supported the measure as a comprehensive cleanup and modernization effort, but many testifiers raised concerns. Queen’s Health System and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation supported the concept but warned about emergency-room impacts and asked for amendments; IHS supported the bill with a caveat about assisted community treatment procedures; and the Public Defender, Disability Rights Center, and others opposed parts of it, citing due process, privacy, HIPAA, counsel rights, liability immunity, and the reduction of an involuntary-treatment panel from three clinicians to one psychiatrist. The hearing also covered SB 951 on child protection, where the Department of Defense supported the bill and proposed technical amendments and MOUs with military components to clarify reporting and coordination procedures; DHS and the Attorney General said they were still working through possible changes. Finally, SB 228 on excited delirium was heard, with the Public Defender and Disability Rights Center supporting the bill and arguing the term has been misused and that better police de-escalation training is the real solution.