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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Mar 17th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So when we're trying to educate my caucus and my constituents on what's actually going on, we can't do
- The fee schedule represents the intersection of two separate systems: health care and education.
- The intersection of educational record privacy data and health privacy data is a complex one.
- The intersection of sort of educational record. That's right.
- Hi, Amanda Dickey with the Santa Clara County Office of Education.
Summary:
The committee heard a budget oversight hearing on the Department of Health Care Services, focusing first on the overall Medi-Cal budget and a March General Fund loan to cover a current-year shortfall. DHCS said the 2025-26 budget proposal totals $193.4 billion, with Medi-Cal projected at $188.1 billion total funds and $42.1 billion General Fund, driven by higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, managed care growth, and costs tied to eligibility expansions and the COVID-era redetermination unwinding. The department said the $3.44 billion loan was needed to manage cash flow and ensure timely payments to providers and plans, while the LAO noted Medi-Cal’s cash-basis budgeting creates volatility and that more detailed estimates would come with the May Revision. Members discussed federal Medicaid threats, the need for transparency on cost drivers, and the impact of pharmacy spending, long-term care, and immigration-related coverage expansions.
The second major topic was family health programs, including California Children’s Services, the continuous coverage unwinding, and opioid settlement fund spending. DHCS described CCS funding methodology changes, ongoing county stakeholder work, and a delayed rollout of CCS monitoring and oversight until July 1, 2025, while county representatives and advocates argued the program is underfunded and asked for more technical assistance and a delay in implementation. On the unwinding, the department explained that federal redetermination flexibilities helped maintain coverage after the pandemic, but the Governor’s budget proposes ending them at the end of June 2025; advocates urged making the flexibilities permanent to avoid coverage losses. For opioid settlement funds, DHCS and Finance said the budget increases funding for naloxone distribution while reducing other harm-reduction spending based on updated settlement revenues, prompting criticism from members and public commenters who argued the change would weaken effective harm-reduction programs.
The hearing also included an update on Proposition 35 implementation. DHCS said the voter-approved measure continuously appropriates MCO tax revenues beginning in 2025, with up to $4.6 billion annually available for specified Medi-Cal and provider investments in 2025 and 2026, but implementation depends on consultation with the required stakeholder advisory committee. The department and LAO noted uncertainty about future federal rules affecting the MCO tax after 2026. Public testimony largely supported maintaining Medi-Cal expansions, protecting immigrant coverage, preserving harm-reduction funding, and increasing support for community health workers, pediatric dental care, and CCS county administration. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-22 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Tue Mar 12, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- It educated me.
- It educated me.
- It educated me.
- It educated me.
- It educated me.
Committee:
House Agriculture & Food Systems
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 10, February 20, 2026-PM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- I. provide in education and providing us provide in education and providing us for<00:42:49.359><c> a
- </c> joint appropriations and the education joint appropriations and the education interim<01:04:06.960
- They're great students educators.
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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- Um, you know, I spoke with some university staff folks in higher education.
- Um, you know, I spoke with some university staff folks in higher education.
- We provide education to lawmakers and the public.
- </c> education to lawmakers and the public. education to lawmakers and the public.
Keywords:
HF1316, child support, new hire reporting, centralized work reporting system, independent contractors, payors, employers, payor of funds, withholding orders, income withholding, child support enforcement, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, gig economy, rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, 1099, W-9, W-4, newly hired workers, rehired employees
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 12 March, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- Significant changes have been made to this general education program, and such as follows: General education
- </c> So, that is the general education So, that is the general education budget. budget. budget.
- </c> the vocational technical education the vocational technical education section. section. section.
- We had $16,626 for the educable child fund.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> education funding system. education funding system.
- </c> to get on education funding. to get on education funding.
- Education funding or education policy, I'm not sure which.
- </c> to fund programs, fund education. to fund programs, fund education.
- bills, 1648 also falls into education bills, 1648 also falls into that<01:04:24.920><c> education</c
Committee:
House Ways and Means
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Joint Appropriations Jan 21st, 2026 at 12:30 pm
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- That's the increases for our educators and the system.
- This bill aligns with the state's responsibility under compulsory education.
- I think it's an education of the program failure.
- So I can agree with you that I think it's an education issue.
- It might be education, it might be technology, and that kind of thing.
Bills:
HB1623
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
Keywords:
HB 1623, North Dakota, rural health, rural health transformation program, medical facility infrastructure loan fund, medical facility infrastructure loan program, rural health loan program, Bank of North Dakota, Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, federal grant, health care infrastructure, rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, nonprofit health care providers, gap financing, loan fund, public health funding, healthcare financing, Medicaid
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 1624, the “Universal Lunch Bill,” from Rep. Mike Nathie. He argued the proposal should be placed in Century Code rather than the Constitution so future legislatures can adjust it if state finances tighten, and said the bill would start the program a year earlier with a $65 million appropriation for one school year. DPI testified that the estimate did not include nonpublic schools that do not participate, and members questioned the impact on Title I, free-and-reduced applications, private-school accountability, breakfast mandates for schools that do not currently serve breakfast, and whether the funding could come from the DPI budget or other sources. Supporters, including North Dakota United, the North Dakota Catholic Conference, a pediatrician, and the American Heart Association, said universal meals improve student health and learning, reduce family costs, and are better handled in statute than by constitutional amendment. No opposition testimony was offered, and the chair closed the hearing for later work-session action.
The committee then took up House Bill 1627, introduced by Rep. Tye Dressler, which would raise the income threshold for the state-funded school lunch program from 225% to 300% of poverty, with an estimated cost of about $7 million for 2026-27. Dressler said the bill is intended as a targeted, budget-friendly alternative to the ballot measure and emphasized that the state should maximize federal meal dollars while improving participation in the current program. Members questioned whether raising the threshold would actually increase utilization, whether a dollar amount would be clearer than a percentage, and how the change would affect federal reimbursements and application rates. DPI said it could quickly calculate additional percentage levels, and the chair closed the hearing, directing DPI to prepare more numbers for the work session.
Finally, the committee opened Senate Bill 2403, presented by Sen. Schiable, to create a short-term bridge-loan program for financially distressed hospitals, centered on Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin. The bill would authorize up to $5 million per loan, with a $10 million appropriation available on a first-come, first-served basis, and would run only through June 30, 2027. Schiable said the hospital’s debt and operating problems threaten local health care, ambulance service, and the community’s economy, and that the proposal was designed narrowly with Bank of North Dakota review to avoid creating a broad precedent. Committee members asked whether the appropriation could be reduced and whether the bank would still apply commercial feasibility and repayment standards; Schiable said yes, the bank would still evaluate the loan and could reject it if it was not sound.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee Jun 29th, 2026
Business, Professions and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- AB 2771 is the sunset vehicle for the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.
- Motion is due pass to the Senate Education Committee. Wahab? Aye. Choy? Aye. Arreguín? Aye.
- In addition to education and examination requirements, many licensees must pay...
- In addition to education and examination requirements, many licensees must pay recurring renewal fees
- In addition to education and examination requirements, many licensees must pay recurring renewal fees
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House OKs bill to strengthen disability protections in Minnesota Human Rights Act 5/12/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- institutions of Minnesota, educational institutions of Minnesota, with<00:16:07.080><c> the</c><00:16
- It's going to create a lot of potential problems in the area of education.
- A lot of potential problems in the area of education.
- </c> educational facility. Can you help me? educational facility. Can you help me?
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 49 (3-18-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Results like record investment in education with budget surpluses on a regular basis.
- Results like record investment in education with budget surpluses on a regular basis.
- In<00:34:23.800><c> the</c><00:34:23.879><c> Education</c><00:34:24.399><c> and</c><00:34:24.480><c>
- Labor</c><00:34:24.760><c> Cabinet</c> In the Education and Labor Cabinet In the Education and Labor
- </c><00:59:42.080><c> Committee</c> to the Education Committee to the Education Committee House<00:59
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Energy Resources S/C Underground Facility Safety Oct 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Education remains a cornerstone of our mission.
- And this is reflected in our mission to provide a communication network and an education program that
- We need to educate our excavators. We need to educate them on proper clearances.
- We need to educate them on potholing, we need to educate all those things, but in order for that to happen
- Morgan to be there, because I think it was hopefully a good educational opportunity for him.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Aug 13th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- allow Cerritos Community College District to enter into data-sharing agreements with local K-12 education
- H.R. 112 honors the legacy and recognizes that our young people deserve access to music education that
- When learning how to become an educator, I read about the thug life pedagogy, inspired by Tupac's body
- When learning how to become an educator, I read about the thug life pedagogy, inspired by Tupac's body
- Senate Bill 928 by Senator Sivantes and others in appellating the public post-secondary education.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- I came from the education space as a principal, and I can't tell you every year we were short-staffed
- wake of free community college through Mass Educate and Mass Reconnect.
- And while the legislature debates, our members, the people who keep public higher education running,
- People who keep public higher education running are left in limbo.
- These unnecessary delays send a harmful message that the people who educate and support thousands of
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Public Service
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony on a wide range of retirement, municipal workforce, and public employee labor bills. Early testimony focused on H. 2749, a Plymouth home rule petition to classify Plymouth harbormaster employees as Group 4 for retirement purposes. Supporters, including local officials and retirement board representatives, argued the employees perform law-enforcement and rescue duties comparable to police and fire personnel, that the change would be fair, and that it would have little or no fiscal impact on the town. A separate harbormaster-related bill, H. 2743, was also introduced later in the hearing.
The committee also heard testimony on provisions of the Municipal Empowerment Act (H. 56), including a temporary critical-shortage exemption allowing retired state or municipal employees to return to work in hard-to-fill positions, and a renewed OPEB commission to study retiree health care costs. Administration and municipal officials said the measures were needed to address staffing shortages and rising benefit liabilities, while emphasizing the shortage exemption would be time-limited and require proof of recruitment efforts. Related retirement bills drew support and caution: advocates for higher COLA bases and enhanced COLA benefits urged relief for retirees, but some asked the committee to wait for recommendations from the special COLA commission before acting.
A major portion of the hearing concerned labor rights at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Committee for Public Counsel Services. Union representatives and employees backed bills to extend just-cause protections, promotional rights, and collective bargaining rights to MWRA and CPCS workers, arguing they currently lack protections available to most other public employees. Testimony described unfair discipline, delayed promotions, and high turnover, and committee members indicated prior favorable action on similar MWRA bills and expressed support for addressing CPCS labor rights. The committee also heard from representatives of the Massachusetts Municipal Association and public higher education employees in support of H. 2820, which would require timely funding of ratified state employee contracts, with witnesses describing long delays in receiving negotiated raises and back pay. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chair repeatedly invited written testimony and closed each panel after questions.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- There was an amendment on this bill, presented and adopted in the House Committee on Education.
- I think it's another thing that we need to do for our educators.
- So I think for those men educators, this would be extremely helpful.
- One educator says she gave birth to premature twins and had to return to work before her babies were
- So I think for those men educators, this would be extremely helpful.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Summary:
The House Appropriations Committee met on May 26, 2026, and first took up Senate Bill 433, which would provide Medicaid coverage for certain weight-loss medications. After adopting a House amendment adding customary subject-to-appropriation language, the committee heard from LDH Secretary Bruce Greenstein, who said the state currently spends about $240 million a year on GLP-1 drugs for Medicaid patients with obesity and certain other conditions, and that the bill would let the department expand coverage gradually while controlling costs and negotiating better pricing. Members spoke in strong support, and SB 433 was reported favorable as amended.
The committee then considered Senate Bill 157, which creates paid parental leave for eligible public K-12 educators and staff. An amendment was adopted to adjust fund language and make the bill proper for Appropriations. Senator Jenkins and supporters, including the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, described the bill as providing six weeks of paid leave for birth, adoption, fostering, and related family-building events, while members discussed whether medical leave should also be included and confirmed the leave applies to fathers as well. The bill drew broad support and was reported favorable as amended.
Senate Bill 250, requiring the Office of Group Benefits to offer a comprehensive weight management plan with employees paying the full premium and medication costs, was briefly discussed and reported favorable without objection. The committee then spent considerable time on Senate Bill 237, a child welfare measure from Senator Barrow that would expand notification, access, and investigative procedures for the Child Ombudsman and DCFS, including child-on-child sexual abuse cases and multidisciplinary fatality reviews. Members and agency officials debated the fiscal note, with estimates ranging from about $525,000 to $3.2 million and disagreement over whether some costs were already covered or could be absorbed; after a roll call, the bill passed 10-9 and was reported favorable as amended.
Finally, the committee began Senate Bill 155, which requires insurance coverage for medically necessary dental care tied to cancer treatment. Senator Talbot and medical and cancer advocacy witnesses said the bill would remove a barrier to timely chemotherapy or radiation and could prevent more expensive complications later. Members expressed support and discussed a relatively small fiscal note, but the transcript cuts off before final action on the bill.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House and Governmental Affairs Apr 14th, 2026
House and Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- And I'll be really clear about this: most of higher education is not funded by tax dollars.
- Most of higher education is funded by tuition.
- From the other side of the table, you get a real education in open meeting law.
- I've been trying to follow and get an education through the context clues.
- So a lottery, you go An education through the context clues.
Committee:
House House and Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
juror confidentiality, public records, criminal procedure, privacy, court disclosure, intercollegiate athletics, confidentiality, revenue sharing, student athletes, official journal, public notices, government transparency, local government, municipal website, school board notices, parish council, police jury, special districts, levee district, drainage district
MS
Transcript Highlights:
- But we also need a lot of education of our members both on the Senate side and the House side to understand
- But we also need a lot of education of our members both on the Senate side and the House side to understand
- But we also need a lot of education of our members both on the Senate side and the House side to understand
- But we also need a lot of education of our members both on the Senate side and the House side to understand
- </c><00:27:55.679><c> of</c> But we also need a lot of education of But we also need a lot of education
Committee:
Joint Technology
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations. (3-17-26)
Licensing & Occupations
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, this just improves um transparency and allows individuals to find out before they invest in education
- </c> find out before they invest in education find out before they invest in education whether<00:03:
- Don't get in their continuing education.
- </c><00:19:46.720><c> It</c> engaged um in social work education.
- It engaged um in social work education.
Committee:
Senate Licensing & Occupations
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Session Mar 14th, 2026 at 05:55 pm
West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- As someone with a long career in the legal profession, I'm sure he found that experience educational.
- So I want to thank you for advancing the cause of higher education and health care in West Virginia.
- And I have appreciated spending time in our education suite together for four years.
- Last year when I first came to the Senate, I was on the Education Committee.
- Committee and talk about the staff and the Education Committee and the Finance Committee, you realize
Summary:
The Senate first handled several House amendments to Senate bills and passed them, including SB 194 updating the definition of disabled veteran taxpayer, SB 499 requiring toxicology tests in auto accidents, SB 672 on Real Estate Commission licensing discipline, SB 724 on home confinement officers and the EMS retirement system, SB 897 on alcohol and drug counselor licensure, and SB 982 creating the Neighborhood Access Road Program. In each case, the chamber agreed to the House changes and then passed the bill, with some measures also given effective dates, including SB 724 effective July 1, 2026 and SB 648 effective from passage. The Senate also concurred in amendments to SB 197, doubling penalties for sex crimes against minors, and SB 648, which removed restrictions on foreign entities in the Strategic and Critical Resources Act.
The chamber then took up a series of additional bills and conference actions. It appointed a conference committee on HB 4588 after refusing to recede from its amendment. The Senate passed HB 4009, the Portable Benefit Account Act, after adopting a Banking and Insurance committee strike-and-insert amendment that moved the program to the Division of Labor, expanded portable benefit definitions, and made technical changes. Later, the Senate also passed SB 182 on annexation by minor boundary adjustment after amending the House changes to allow one annexation per year instead of one every two years, and it passed HB 5101 increasing strangulation penalties, HB 4364 on juvenile offender bail and counsel language, HB 4412 on age verification for certain websites, HB 5564 on deputy sheriff vacation carryover, HB 4138 on sex offender registration fees, HB 4951 after receding from its earlier amendment on continuing education, SB 4 after receding from its amendment, SB 389 after refusing to concur in a House amendment that would have stripped the bill, SB 927 on beekeeping and municipal regulation, and HB 5214 on drug testing for parents before reunification.
A major portion of the meeting was devoted to Senate Resolution 67 honoring Senator Michael Andrew Woelfel and Senate Resolution 68 honoring Senator Charles Houston Clements. Numerous senators gave extended remarks praising Woelfel’s legal skill, candor, mentorship, and service, and Clements’s long service, institutional knowledge, steadiness, and friendship. Both resolutions were adopted by roll call votes, with SR 67 passing 34-0 and SR 68 passing 33-1. After the resolutions, the Senate recessed briefly to present the outgoing senators with resolutions and flags flown over the Capitol.
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Session Mar 14th, 2026 at 05:55 pm
West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- As someone with a long career in the legal profession, I'm sure he found that experience educational.
- So I want to thank you for advancing the cause of higher education and health care in West Virginia.
- And I have appreciated spending time in our education suite together for four years.
- I appreciated spending time in our education suite together for four years.
- DOs to complete continuing education. The message will be received. Senator from Lewis.