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ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And I just wish we would have made these hard decisions last year and practiced a little more restraint
- Practically, the legislature affected a public policy some years ago that ensured that if there are positions
- So I'm very concerned that we've deviated from that past practice. Thank you. Thank you, Senator.
- and transfer of $3 million from the Opportunity Scholarships Fund to the General Fund as soon as practical
- and transfer of $3 million from the Opportunity Scholarships Fund to the General Fund as soon as practical
Summary:
The committee met in Joint Finance-Appropriations to review budget mechanics, the green sheet, and several budget-related bills and statewide decisions. Staff explained how the green sheet tracks FY 2027 impacts and reviewed bills including HB 503 (soil and water conservation consolidation savings), HB 556 (county jail per diem reimbursement increase), HB 559 (tax conformity with a large general fund impact), and HB 578. Members also discussed the 2026 Idaho Budget Rescissions Act, which would reduce FY 2026 appropriations under different scenarios, and the committee heard extensive debate over whether to use across-the-board reductions or more targeted cuts.
After debate, the committee first adopted the substitute rescission motion for FY 2026, which set a 1% additional reduction above the governor’s recommendation, then approved a related motion transferring $22,366,500 from the Public School Income Fund to the General Fund. The committee then moved to statewide decisions and considered ongoing base reductions for selected state agencies. Three motions were offered: the governor’s recommendation, an additional 1% reduction, and an additional 2% reduction. After debate, the original governor’s recommendation passed on a 13-7 vote, while the 1% and 2% alternatives failed.
The committee then turned to personnel benefit cost increases, including health insurance and other employer-paid benefits. Staff explained the different funding formulas and agency-specific fill-rate adjustments, and members raised concerns about the role of the Change in Employee Compensation process, salary savings, and whether the figures should be tied to future rather than current-year projections. Motions were offered for the DOGE working group recommendation and the governor’s FY 2027 recommendation for health insurance and variable rate changes, but the discussion was still ongoing when the transcript ended, with no final vote shown on those motions.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Jan 29th, 2026 at 08:32 am
House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- For 40 years, I was a trial lawyer practicing complex commercial litigation.
- Amendment since 1971, which H.J.R. 3 strips, interferes with it, undercuts it, and empties it of practical
- We the people need constitutional protections for environmentally irresponsible practices like this one
- We the people need constitutional protections for environmentally irresponsible practices exactly like
- Should there be, should this, always been the practice.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Jan 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- How would this, for example, if this was kind of in practice, how would that play to some of those people
- This bill provides a practical tool for prosecutors.
- It recognizes This bill provides a practical tool for prosecutors.
- This bill provides a practical tool for prosecutors. It recognizes.
- This bill provides a practical tool for prosecutors.
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes from January 19, 2026, and then introduced RS 32876 on human trafficking with an amendment. The bill would allow local law enforcement to submit human trafficking investigations to the Attorney General’s office, which could prosecute at its discretion. The sponsor said the measure is meant to help with complex interstate and intercounty cases and modeled it on the ICAC program; the motion to introduce the RS with the amendment carried.
The committee then heard House Bill 489, which would add a sentencing enhancement for crimes committed while wearing a mask or other face covering. The sponsor and supporters, including several law enforcement officers and private citizens, argued it would deter masked criminal conduct, protect victims, and help identify offenders. Opponents and some members raised concerns about vagueness, unintended consequences, unequal enforcement, impacts on protests, religious or medical coverings, and the lack of an explicit intent requirement. A motion to send the bill to amending order failed 6-9, and the committee then approved HB 489 for the floor with a due pass recommendation by an 8-7 vote.
After a short break, the committee took up House Bill 491, which would expand Idaho’s Good Samaritan framework to include mental health and suicidal crises and encourage bystanders to intervene without fear of liability. The sponsor described the bill as a response to Idaho’s high suicide rates and said it would support training and crisis response efforts; supporters from suicide prevention organizations and the public testified in favor. The committee then adopted a due pass recommendation for HB 491 by roll call vote.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- How would this, for example, if this was kind of in practice, how would that play to some of those people
- there and have it affected, I think it... ...in practice, how would that play to some of those people
- This bill provides a practical tool for prosecutors.
- This bill provides a practical tool for prosecutors. It recognizes.
- This bill provides a practical tool for prosecutors.
Committee:
House Judiciary, Rules and Administration
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Consumer Protection & Business Jan 20th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Consumer Protection & Business
Transcript Highlights:
- But at the end of the day, making sure that we're also following best practices in workplace law relative
- training program to reduce underage consumption of these products, encourage licensees to adopt best practices
- disposal, the coupons and things that get people started, and we urge you to please support this practical
- Instead, the practical effect will be to push out manufacturers that are currently complying, maintaining
- It prohibits the practice of selling vapor products below cost to avoid the impact of the higher tobacco
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Business
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee (10-14-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Provide training to districts on evidence-based inclusive practices, which are instructional strategies
- First, KDE should ensure that RTCs apply correct and uniform coding practices for both expenditures and
- they could have a separate grant, maybe set aside some of those funds to be spent on innovative practices
- </c><00:29:14.399><c> So</c> practices and and things like that.
- So practices and and things like that.
Keywords:
Call to Order and Roll Call: 00:22
Office of Education Accountability Report: Early Childhood Regional Training Centers (RTCs): 01:22
Approval of July 14, 2025 Minutes 31:21
Office of Education Accountability: 2025 Study Agenda 32:35
Adjournment: 39:12, 958, all
Summary:
The subcommittee heard an Office of Education Accountability report on Kentucky’s early childhood regional training centers (RTCs). OEA said the centers provide valuable training, consultation, technical assistance, and materials for preschool personnel, especially for children with disabilities and at-risk students, and that the services align with state and federal requirements. However, the report found uneven student and teacher populations across regions, wide variation in per-student funding, some staffing data inaccuracies, and several fiscal oversight concerns, including inconsistent indirect cost rates, a building rental charge that may have been duplicative, and host districts recording RTC expenditures in a way that could blur them with district finances. OEA also said some documentation of progress toward goals was incomplete and that the technology lending library appeared underused. The report recommended stronger KDE oversight, uniform coding and accounting practices, review of budgets and expenditures, and an evaluation of whether the current five-center model remains the most efficient structure; OEA also suggested the General Assembly may wish to revisit KRS 157.318. Members asked about KDE’s response, whether the centers are required by federal law, how the centers operate, and whether changing the model would affect federal funding. OEA said KDE had only discussed the findings informally and had not issued a formal response, the centers are required by state law but not federal law, and changing the model would not jeopardize IDEA preschool funds. The committee accepted the report by motion.
The subcommittee then approved the minutes from its July 14, 2025 meeting after initially delaying action because quorum was not yet present. After that, members turned to the Office of Education Accountability’s proposed 2026 study agenda. OEA said the three proposed topics are the annual district data profiles, facilities funding, and implementation of early literacy statutes. The district profiles would add an appendix showing the number and percentage of students moving to private school or homeschool by district and another appendix noting data-quality issues that affect comparability. OEA explained that district staffing data can undercount contract staff because those employees are not always entered into the system, and members expressed interest in tracking whether prior recommendations were implemented. One senator also raised a separate interest in reviewing whether KDE created and implemented regulations related to KFIX. The discussion remained informational, with no final vote on the study agenda shown in the transcript excerpt.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee Aug 1st, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- The current practice is annual, and the Secretary of HHS... to issue guidance within 180 days of enactment
- It is concerning, and we don't know how this is going to actually play out in practice. practice.
- This is a transit practice that was developed between educator programs, school districts, and charter
- Additionally, there was a federal program to direct a community of practice.
- student success outcomes, and we no longer have that partnership to pull together those communities of practice
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas Court of Criminal Appeals discovered, and yes, I put that in quotes, that this longstanding practice
- more times than that and the reason why Senate Bill 12 is so important is it ends the unethical practice
- They deserve to have their rights protected, and they shouldn't be subject to the unethical practice
- Here's our suggestion of best practices.
- think I know how that would vote would go if we put it to all the voters 7% of Texans support this practice
Keywords:
hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes, election law enforcement, criminal prosecution, Election Code, Government Code Chapter 402, local prosecutors, county attorney, district attorney, grand jury, probable cause reports, state election offenses, voter fraud, election integrity
NV
Transcript Highlights:
- proposed charter is to be located, application requirements for charters to demonstrate sound fiscal practice
- expands requirements regarding professional development for core competencies, school improvement practices
- alternative pathway for teachers to demonstrate subject matter competency outside of our currently used practice
- So as we get further removed from the state policy level and we go into what it looks like in practice
- 78.5, the Commission on School Funding, contracting with a third party pursuant to research best practices
Committee:
Assembly Education
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance Apr 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- If you ask me, I understand the practical nature of life.
- It's just not practical, and the question around.
- introduced boundaries training requirements for health care providers like physicians And advanced practice
- We strive to build best practices, practices informed by the law, the data, and feedback from our community
- there's so much more that goes on in building, for me at least, what appears to be and what will be in practice
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Also practicing attorneys in our private lives.
- A simple practicality of this bill will give 1.7 million Texas hunting license holders an option for
- So again, There's many practicalities of it, but the biggest part, it gives the further freedoms and
- Like I said, as somebody who's practiced criminal defense law for 20 years, I guarantee, and I've had
- This is not our usual practice at THA and we commit to making sure that doesn't happen again.
Bills:
HB259
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance Apr 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The proposed budget does not differentiate that, and so is this just because it's common practice, or
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, an Associate Degree to a Bachelor of Science, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice
- language in that it does not include a sunset date for the special fund account as has been historical practice
- most lawyers today do their legal research online, it was my experience that most lawyers use the practice
- And so, yeah, you know, the CEB practice guides, we have those.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So I have a practical question, and this has to do with the tabulations, not so much does it count against
- It's a practical question and it's not addressed here because right now in the law the undervote has
- with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and things that the children could play with and the children could practice
- We just would rather, just like we don't practice smoking at 9, we don't practice having a bank account
- to flow through, but I just want sanctity of the ballot and that this is a privilege and we don't practice
Committee:
House Elections
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine perspectives from the field, focusing on farmer and rancher views on the agricultural economy. Feb 26th, 2025 at 09:30 am
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The certainty of a fair playing field and transparent practices for all.
- By adopting regen ag practices, farmers and landowners can improve profitability, restore healthy soils
- Graders have been on the front lines of integrating many of these practices, but they're equally important
- There are also groups who help farmers implement conservation practices that we supported in a bipartisan
- It's almost about looking at how we broaden out conservation practices and the impact Let me go on to
Keywords:
agriculture, avian flu, bipartisan farm bill, economic challenges, poultry, dairy, specialty crops
Summary:
The committee meeting focused on crucial discussions surrounding the challenges faced by the agriculture sector, particularly concerning avian flu and its impact on poultry and dairy producers. Members provided insights into the economic struggles within the industry, emphasizing the need for a new bipartisan farm bill that addresses the diverse needs of specialty crop and livestock producers. Witnesses from various agricultural sectors spoke about their experiences, illustrating the high costs, regulatory burdens, and emerging diseases that threaten their operations. The meeting underscored a commitment to exploring solutions that will help maintain market stability and ensure food security.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- you have any an opportunity to review California's framework instructional materials development practices
- I would look to the research that's specifically on the kinds of instructional practices and teacher
- training practices that people call science of reading, and I'm not an expert in that literature, so
- into, you know, in the sense of, you know, I think a lot of this does, these best practices are already
- affordable ways to share those best practices than creating a new task force?
Committee:
House Education
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
January 15, 2025 - 09:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- We know a coach will inspire by saying, hey, I can feed you ice cream and cake every practice, but we
- We know a coach will inspire by saying, hey, I can feed you ice cream and cake every practice, but we
- I think the key for us would be consistency in practices, and so having something that we share that
- I think the key for us would be consistency in practices and so how key for us would be consistency in
- practices and so having something that we share that is consistent across elementary schools, consistent
Summary:
The Student Academic Success Subcommittee met to review Florida’s cell phone and social media literacy law, with Representative Brad Yeager describing the 2023 policy as aimed at removing classroom distractions and teaching students how to use social media responsibly. He said the law was intended to keep phones out of classrooms unless used for instruction, require social media literacy education, and limit access to certain sites on school Wi-Fi and government devices. Yeager said feedback since passage has been mixed: many teachers support it and some have adopted inexpensive shoe-organizer or pouch systems, but implementation varies by school and administrator enforcement. He said he is not currently pursuing a broader statewide mandate.
Superintendent Dr. Maria Vazquez and Timber Creek High School Principal Mr. Wasco described Orange County’s approach as bell-to-bell phone restrictions, while Pasco County’s Dr. Zetchy described a similar policy with some flexibility during lunch or passing periods at the high school level. Both districts said the policy was implemented with parent communication, town halls, surveys, and transition periods, and that concerns about emergencies were addressed by allowing phones to be returned at the end of the day and by establishing procedures for parent contact. They reported few theft problems and said discipline issues related to phones have generally been manageable, though some teachers still struggle with enforcement or with students trying to evade the rules.
A major portion of the discussion focused on social media literacy instruction. Orange County said it uses counselor-led programs, Canvas courses, resiliency days, and curriculum materials to teach students about cyberbullying, human trafficking, privacy, and the permanence of online posts, with progress tracked through the learning platform. Pasco said it has some resiliency modules but lacks a fully built-out, pre-made social media curriculum and would welcome more guidance from DOE, especially for high school classrooms where instructional time is limited. Members also asked about student anxiety, 504/IEP accommodations, caregiver students, and parent education; the districts said exceptions are handled through school committees and that parent academies and district resources are being used to help families set boundaries and understand the risks and benefits of phones and social media. No votes were taken.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee Jul 15th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And so one of the things that it does is it created, Incorporating standards and best practices.
- So I think a way that this might apply practically is if one of these automated decision-making models
- Three areas we're looking for with the vendor side of things with their AI practice.
- Technically, they do; in practice, they've never exercised it.
- Technically, they do, in practice, they've never exercised it.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 559 is a modest, practical step. It does not impose a statewide mandate.
- </c><00:51:26.520><c> It</c> SB 559 is a modest, practical step.
- It SB 559 is a modest, practical step.
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Committee:
House Transportation
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Higher Education Institutions Committee Apr 9th, 2026 at 08:30 am
Higher Education Institutions Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We've been talking to every industry out here that we know of that uses engineers in their practice.
- The BSN completion program, for those already practicing nurses, can be completed in a year, and it's
- Is it a normal practice, I guess, of campuses to dip below...
- Zimmerman, that is a common practice. Chair Sickler and Ms.
- Zimmerman, that is a common practice among the NDUS institutions, paying a stipend.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Higher Education Institutions Committee Apr 9th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We've been talking to every industry out here that we know of that uses engineers in their practice.
- And their accounting practices.
- Is it a normal practice, I guess, of campuses to dip below...
- Zimmerman, that is a common practice among the NDUS institutions, paying a stipend.
- Zimmerman, that is a common practice among the NDUS institutions, paying a stipend.
Summary:
The committee met on the Minot State campus for a presentation from President Shirley and several university leaders on enrollment, academics, workforce initiatives, and partnerships. Shirley reviewed the university’s financial audits, noting mostly clean results with only minor technical findings in recent years, and highlighted Minot State’s major programs, specialized accreditations, and ties to Minot Air Force Base and NCAA Division II athletics. Members asked about education workforce shortages, athletic tuition waivers, dual credit incentives, and the university’s in-state tuition policy for all students. Shirley also discussed the university’s recruitment efforts, including the Hometown Pride and Academic Excellence scholarships, campus visit growth, and the Emerging Scholars dual-credit reimbursement program.
A major focus was workforce development and new academic offerings supported by legislative Workforce Education Innovation Funds. Shirley described the new Innovation Engineering program, which was developed with industry input to train broadly skilled engineers for western North Dakota, and said it had already drawn more applicants than expected. Dr. Crystal St. Peter presented a new master’s program in counseling that integrates mental health and addiction counseling to address statewide provider shortages, with a hybrid format to reach rural students. Members asked about licensure requirements, internship hours, and job placement for graduates. Shirley also outlined a new nursing simulation center and health sciences space in downtown Minot, made possible by state support and the purchase of the former Trinity Health Center West building.
The committee also heard about Minot State’s efforts to build pipelines into education and special education, including the Aspire program for rural high school students and an online paraprofessional-to-special-education degree pathway. Shirley said these programs, along with new articulation agreements and a large Bush Foundation grant, are intended to address teacher shortages and keep students in North Dakota. No formal committee votes or actions were taken during the presentation; the session consisted of informational updates and member questions.