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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Jan 20th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Ways & Means

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  • Employee Benefit Board, or SEBB, programs during the second school year of employment.
  • For background, school employee health care is provided through the SEBB program and funded largely by
  • start of the next school year.
  • of Washington School Principals.
  • within each agency and sub-program within each program.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We're just asking for more data, for more information to be able to... ...to help us assist school districts
  • The Texas Education Agency has the authority to inspect non-public programs with which the school districts
  • And then our after-school program. Program, probably about 120 total. OK, very good.
  • In public school, right? So you're changing the way they can manage the program.
  • Either in a day program or residential because the school cannot provide the necessary services.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/25/26

Education Policy

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  • </c> schools or schools um expelling students schools or schools um expelling students based<00:09:48.080
  • These solutions live in the violence prevention programs that we provide mostly at no cost to schools
  • A well-rounded anonymous reporting program translates into lifesaving moments, and it also shifts school
  • I am a visiting assistant clinical professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
  • I am a visiting assistant clinical professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Bills: HF3409, HF3487, HF3401
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Education

Education

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  • to demonstrate that at least 70% of the students enrolled in the alternative education program or school
  • An alternative education program or alternative school may appeal the decision to the SBE and remain
  • Lastly, the amendment clarifies that an alternative education program or alternative school may deliver
  • Lastly, the amendment clarifies that an alternative education program or alternative school may deliver
  • This is not only true for charter schools; this is true for public school alternative school programs
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Veterans and Military Affairs REVISED Feb 12th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Veterans and Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • You are talking with an elementary school principal, and we're starting on time every time.
  • This bill establishes a program to provide any eligible person of veteran of the Oklahoma National Guard
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/18/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> schools. Whoops. schools. Whoops.
  • It's school schools don't deserve that.
  • This is my fifth year as a school social worker and 12th year working in children and youth programming
  • ><c> charter</c><01:00:26.880><c> schools</c> school district and charter schools school district and
  • </c> for schools. That's what schools want. for schools. That's what schools want.
Bills: HF3435, HF3409
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 13th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Early Learning & Human Services

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  • Good afternoon, Alrick Arthur, Committee Assistant.
  • We have a large number of young people, school surfing, shelter hopping, and still getting to school
  • Lake, Rainier School in Buckley, and Yakima Valley School in Selah.
  • Lake, Rainier School in Buckley and Yakima Valley School in SELA.
  • We wouldn't fund schools with public dollars. We wouldn't fund schools with public schools.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 15th, 2025

Public Education

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  • , private schools, and programs under the new ESA account program.
  • Our release time programs work with school administrators to find a time for students to attend that
  • Despite the many benefits of programs like LifeWise Academy, some school districts are hesitant. to permit
  • None of our programs are done within a home. Well, nearly all of the schools, I think, ended.
  • There are before and after school programs that are available.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government Apr 22nd, 2025

Local Government

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  • These two bills, especially SB 23, combined with the 6.8 pennies of school district tax rate compression
  • and focusing on helping people who really need the help and have been loyal to the state and the school
  • The freeze values simply put were the taxable value of the home times the tax rate at the time for school
  • What we've already done, we think, already got 45% of the seniors and disabled paying no school tax.
  • And 30 states have a program like that. Plus, I would add that not all seniors are low income.
Bills: SB23, SJR85
Summary: The Senate Committee on Local Government heard testimony on Senate Bill 23 and its companion constitutional amendment, Senate Joint Resolution 85, both by Senator Bettencourt. The bills would increase the additional homestead exemption for elderly and disabled homeowners from $10,000 to $60,000, which proponents said would significantly reduce property taxes and help seniors and disabled Texans age in place. Bettencourt and supporters described the measure as part of a broader property tax relief package, estimating combined savings of about $950 for over-65 and disabled homeowners when paired with other recent homestead exemption changes. Witnesses largely supported the proposal. Testimony in favor came from a lawyer, a private citizen, Texas Realtors, the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature, and the Texas Association of Builders, all emphasizing relief for fixed-income seniors, housing stability, and the ability to remain in their homes. Several witnesses noted rising property taxes, medical costs, and the challenges seniors face in moving or affording home modifications. One witness from Every Texan said a flat homestead exemption is the most equitable way to cut property taxes, but argued against additional tax cuts generally, favoring a circuit-breaker approach and warning that permanent tax cuts could reduce funding for schools and other needs. The committee also discussed data showing many over-65 homeowners already pay no school property taxes in some counties and that the proposed changes would increase that share. After closing public testimony, the committee voted on the measures. Senate Bill 23 was reported favorably to the full Senate by a 7-0 vote, and S.J.R. 85 was also reported favorably by a 7-0 vote. The transcript also shows Senate Bill 898 being laid out and passed unanimously earlier in the meeting, with a recommendation for the local and uncontested calendar.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education May 8th, 2025

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Also, if you require any assistance in registering or testifying, please contact Madison Cooper, the
  • This bill aims to expand financial assistance to public schools.
  • The bill also improves the reimbursement process for school districts.
  • So there are a couple of things here for students, teachers, and then school districts.
  • The third thing is that school districts that pay for the costs can be reimbursed by applying to the
Bills: HB 1061, HB2800
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Feb 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Housing

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  • Such regulations generally include things like location and height of construction.
  • Yeah, there are programs that fund scattered-site supportive housing.
  • Some are federally funded programs through Shelter Plus Care, but Plymouth, I believe, has some.
  • I'm in school for my bachelor's and apprentices... Today, that's not the case.
  • I'm in school for my bachelor's in applied behavioral science.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EEP Public Hearing - Thu Feb 19, 2026 @ 9:45 AM HST

Energy & Environmental Protection

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  • </c> Uh, the federal program has us at 13.3%. Uh, the federal program has us at 13.3%.
  • programs.
  • </c> year to actually implement the program. year to actually implement the program.
  • </c> would encourage you to take construction would encourage you to take construction and<00:37:54.840
  • So I'm just assist from the state.
Summary: The committee on Energy and Environmental Protection heard testimony on three measures related to cleaner fuels. On HB 1986, which would require the Department of Transportation to adopt rules for a clean fuel standard by January 1, 2028 and include reporting and public informational sessions, testimony was largely supportive from state commissions, fuel companies, airlines, and other industry and advocacy groups. Supporters said the bill would create a long-term framework for reducing emissions and developing cleaner fuels in Hawaii. Opposition came from Energy Justice Network, which argued that so-called clean fuels are not carbon-free, would be costly, and could delay a needed transition to electrification. The department later said it was monitoring the bill and was concerned about costs. No vote or final action was taken in the hearing. The committee then heard HB 1694, a sustainable aviation fuel tax credit bill that would provide a per-gallon credit for SAF, cap annual credits at $20 million, require reporting, and sunset in 2035. The Department of Taxation testified on administration, while the Department of Transportation said it supported the measure as a short-term strategy to jump-start SAF until the clean fuel standard ramps up. Airlines, fuel companies, the Hawaii Food Industry Association, the Hawaii Renewable Fuels Coalition, and others supported the bill, saying it would send a market signal, help close the cost gap with conventional jet fuel, and encourage local production and investment. Opponents, including Energy Justice Network, Life of the Land, and Ted Metros, argued the bill would be expensive, could lock in a transitional fuel system, and would not produce enough fuel to meet demand. Committee members asked about the likely impact and the share of total fuel demand the credit could support; DOT said the supported gallons would be only a very small percentage of annual demand and that the credit was intended to work alongside the future clean fuel standard. Finally, the committee took up HB 1695 HD1 on renewable fuel, which expands the renewable fuels production tax credit. Testimony was again mixed but generally supportive from the Department of Transportation, Department of Taxation, Island Energy Services, airlines, the Tax Foundation, Pana Pacific, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau. Supporters said the measure would encourage local feedstock production, create agricultural opportunities, and help attract investment in renewable fuels. Pana Pacific requested an amendment to explicitly include camelina in the definition of renewable feedstocks. Opponents, including Energy Justice Network and Life of the Land, repeated concerns about cost, imported feedstocks, and the risk of undermining full electrification goals. The hearing transcript does not show any vote or final committee action on HB 1694 or HB 1695 HD1.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Please welcome the D deinyrtian School Wildcats football team with head coach Joe Biddle and our assistant
  • with a diversion program.
  • embedded in the schools and...
  • Hearing that this is about schools that have law enforcement already embedded in the schools, and it
  • About 10 schools that have that.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Whereas the Westmore High School aviation program for Moore Public School District won the inaugural
  • aviation program on being named the inaugural high school aviation state champions.
  • According to the bill, it applies to public schools and charter schools.
  • In subsection A, you define library to include a school library media program, classroom library, or
  • the school.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 11th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • welcome the Destiny Christian School Wildcats football team with head coach Joe Biddle, and our assistant
  • Senate Bill 1480 creates a pilot program to encourage youth apprenticeship programming with our districts
  • in the schools.
  • Hearing that this is about schools that have law enforcement already embedded in the schools, and it
  • , transportation assistance... ...service and being accountable to those state granting programs, so
Summary: The Senate began with several ceremonial recognitions, including citations for the Destiny Christian School girls volleyball team and football team for state championships, and for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, in connection with Delta Day at the Capitol and Women’s History Month. Members and guests were welcomed to speak briefly before the chamber returned to its agenda. The chamber then considered a series of bills. SB 444, dealing with hospice handling and disposal of controlled dangerous substances left after a patient’s death, passed 39-0. SB 1327, restoring the Tourism and Recreation Commission’s authority and adding general commission-member requirements, passed 27-12. SB 1061, a mortgage broker fee cleanup bill, passed 38-0. SB 1425, repealing an obsolete health care workforce board, passed 40-0. SB 1455, extending the sunset for the Board of Governors of the Architects, Landscape Architects, and Licensed Interior Designers, passed 28-11 and then also passed the emergency with 38-1. SB 1458, an Attorney General-request bill to align grand jury witness confidentiality statutes, failed 24-14. The Senate also passed SB 1460, which increases penalties for repeat peeping Tom and clandestine recording offenses and makes second or subsequent offenses sex offenses, by a vote of 38-3. SB 1480, creating a youth apprenticeship pilot program, passed 42-0 and then passed the emergency. SB 1530, updating the Oklahoma Research Development Rebate Program and encouraging private partnerships with higher education, passed 36-4. SB 1543, allowing multiple DUI charges within one year to be prosecuted as a single felony case and making related cleanup changes, passed 37-6 after extended debate about diversion, due process, and testing issues. SB 1555, aligning the state definition of intellectual disability with federal standards, passed 42-0, with a later correction noting the final vote as 42-1. SB 1593, updating outdated OSU-Tulsa trustee language, passed 43-0 and then passed the emergency. SB 1730, requiring law enforcement to copy OSBI on sexual offense reports, passed 37-6. SB 1209, which would have excluded Sundays and federal holidays from the eviction filing-to-hearing timeline, failed on a 21-21 tie after debate over landlord rights, service timing, and court delays.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 10th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • you graduate from medical school, and let's say you're operating a residency program.
  • I'm not aware of any program or medical school that is all Anglo males.
  • And a program like Southern Cal Med School could be outstanding based on.
  • The program was seven years long after medical school, is that correct? Six years in my case.
  • access to out-of-school programs across the state.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Mar 24th, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

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  • When a threat is made to a school, against a school, against the students or teachers, it's not just
  • It would be one school one day, and then, because of the attention it got, it would be another school
  • So it'll read in its entirety: Whoever commits the offense of terrorizing a school property, school-sponsored
  • Whoever commits the offense of terrorizing a school property, school-sponsored function, or firearm-free
  • They fund their programs through bingo.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And for those that don't know, the Safe at Home program is an unbelievably valuable program for people
  • is an unbelievably valuable program is an unbelievably valuable program<00:03:39.599><c> for</c><00:
  • </c><00:49:29.839><c> that's</c> current financial assistance that's current financial assistance that's
  • But for me as mayor, to explore program.
  • I was in high school at 40 years ago. I was in high school at the<01:32:33.679><c> time.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Feb 11th, 2026

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • During the 2019-2020 school year, local school health programs reported a total of 17,282 students with
  • of persons with epilepsy to align with the training done in public schools. ...program for the care
  • school.
  • Medicaid program.
  • Medicaid program.
Summary: The committee took up several health-related bills and confirmations. It first heard SB 1414 on congenital cytomegalovirus education, which would require the Department of Health to develop and distribute educational materials to expectant and new parents through maternity, prenatal, newborn, and OB-GYN settings; an amendment removed a section on required instruction for medical professionals, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. The committee then approved a block of appointees on tabs 2 through 7 and separately confirmed Chavon Harris as Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration after her testimony on Medicaid accountability, transparency, managed care oversight, rural health, behavioral health, and the state’s technology modernization efforts. Senators asked Harris about Hope Florida, Medicaid redeterminations, the CORE project, an anti-marijuana ad campaign at DCF, and compliance with a federal Medicaid-related court order; she said she would follow up on some issues. The confirmation was recommended favorably, with Senator Berman voting no. The committee next passed SB 186 on student health and safety, which expands epilepsy and seizure-disorder training requirements to more school personnel, including bus drivers and charter school staff, and requires seizure-first-aid posters and updated Department of Health education efforts. It also approved SB 902 on Department of Health issues after amendments narrowed the bill’s scope and added provisions on medical marijuana regulation, early childhood intervention, practitioner accountability, and autism workforce development; one speaker raised concerns about marijuana dispensary location restrictions and low-THC ratios. SB 196 creating a uterine fibroid research database was also reported favorably after an amendment protecting patient privacy; the bill drew emotional testimony from a patient describing severe symptoms and the need for more research. SB 688 on naturopathic medicine was approved after committee discussion about scope of practice, referral obligations, and whether naturopathic care should be adjunctive to conventional medicine; supporters described complementary care and access issues, while opponents worried about delayed treatment for serious disease. Later, the committee passed SB 1574, “Maddie’s Law,” to add biliary atresia screening to newborn screening using the same blood specimen already collected at birth and to launch an education campaign; parents of a child affected by the disease testified that earlier screening could have prevented severe harm. SB 878 on clinical laboratory personnel was reported favorably to address staffing shortages by allowing Florida to rely more directly on federal CLIA standards for qualified lab workers. SB 1092 on podiatric medicine was approved after an amendment narrowed it to cellular/tissue-based products and podiatrists’ use of certain therapies; the bill also addresses continuing education, informed consent, and advertising disclosures. SB 1032 on medical marijuana was amended and passed, aligning physician certification and card renewal timelines, setting 70-day and 35-day supply limits, and reducing the fee for honorably discharged veterans while preserving funding for FAMU; Senator Harrell opposed it, saying the longer timeframes were too much of an expansion. The committee also heard SB 1760 on Medicaid coverage transparency from Senator Brodeur, who said the bill focuses on accountability and fiscal responsibility, but the transcript cuts off before further discussion or action on that measure.