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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (02/18/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- get Services as a ability to be able to get Services as a minor<02:05:49.960><c> um</c><02:05:50.199
- grant you access to the records.
- withhold access to records.
- I don't want my kid to have access to these materials?”
- I don't want my kid to have access to these materials?”
Summary:
The Children and Family Law Committee opened a hearing on House Bill 285, which would add language to the parental rights and responsibilities statute directing judges to consider known mental health or medical conditions that could affect parenting. Representative Ball, the bill’s sponsor, said the intent was not to require disclosure of private records, but to give judges a reminder to ask whether anything in a parent’s condition could interfere with parenting and to help ensure children’s safety and best interests, especially in high-conflict or pro se family court cases. He said the proposal was meant as a guardrail and not as a way to reduce parenting time or take children from parents.
Committee members questioned whether the existing best-interest factors already cover parenting ability, whether the new language could invite stigma or weaponization in custody disputes, and whether judges already have authority to ask these questions. Ball responded that judges often do not ask, that family court can be difficult for unrepresented parties, and that the language would simply make the issue explicit. He also said he would be open to amendments, including language that more directly instructs judges to ask the question. One member raised concerns about whether the bill should say judges “shall” ask rather than “may,” and Ball said he was willing to work with the committee on wording.
Sarah Horn, a NAMI New Hampshire board member and parent, testified in opposition. She described her own history with OCD, ADD, PTSD, hospitalization, and recovery, and said mental illness had not harmed her ability to parent; she warned the bill could increase stigma and discourage people from seeking treatment. In response, Ball said her testimony was part of why he had considered an amendment to include physical health as well, so the bill would not single out mental health. The hearing ended without a vote in the transcript provided.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 2nd, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Nevada Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The Director of the Department of Health and Human Services is to seek to establish certain rates of
- to health services.
- to adopt certain regulations for the Department of Health and Human Services.
- them and the decrease in access to care.
- legislative employees and recognizes their service to the 83rd Session of the Nevada Legislature.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 100 Apr 24th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> service that is central to scouting. service that is central to scouting.
- ensure that America's sportsmen and women have reasonable access to public lands to enjoy outdoor pursuits
- </c> that support well-being, improved access that support well-being, improved access to<00:53:35.000
- ,</c> to health care and prevention services, to health care and prevention services, and<00:53:36.520
- 00:53:38.280><c> foods</c> and access to affordable healthy foods and access to affordable healthy foods
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Jun 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- While the other is more students need access to high quality instruction materials.
- provide appropriate services to schools to achieve a sustained, intensive, and classroom focused approach
- not only be housed in a building where teachers have access to them.
- So they are providing direct services to students. I was curious about that, um.
- also have access to that and that's all because that's a difficult thing to ask our PED to do because
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Community Safety Feb 24th, 2026 at 04:00 pm
Community Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- , rather than by willfully or recklessly interfering with access to or from a place of worship or willfully
- to harassment and active blocking, trying to attend services.
- go to their place of worship and access it.
- to participate in their religious services, 100% support that, there are definitely concerns when it
- I will mention actually one issue that is not in this bill, and that is the access to records at the
Committee:
House Community Safety
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (04/14/2026)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Have we talked to DMV about access to their records and whether or not anything necessary for them to
- Have we talked to DMV about access to their records and whether or not anything necessary for them to
- Have we talked to DMV about access to their records and whether or not anything necessary for them to
- </c> language about access to the state voter language about access to the state voter registration<00
- You need to be making sure that you have access to the SPS. And there's a couple ways to do that.
Committee:
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- understand who we're trying to serve, and then help to design services in a way that really meets their
- I think it creates greater pathways to more equitable access for students, and I think, you know, in
- “Yeah, so we have a number of programs that seek to address overconsumption and also youth access to
- Yeah, so we have a number of programs that seek to address overconsumption and also youth access to minors
- We’re able to continue to Provide the services at the level that our stakeholders and communities expect
Committee:
Senate Rules
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Jan 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- develop creative solutions to help address food and pharmacy access in the community, support affected
- with the only real access to groceries and daily necessities for the neighborhood.
- This reduced access to food and groceries has widespread impacts on the community's well-being.
- to protect family members that rely on reasonable access to those critical grocery products and services
- maintaining reasonable access to those critical grocery services for our South End community members
Summary:
The Labor and Commerce Committee heard public testimony on several bills. Senate Bill 618, the Eric Schrauss Memorial Act, would remove the current time-and-exposure qualifiers for the workers’ compensation presumption that certain heart problems in firefighters and law enforcement officers are occupational diseases. The sponsor and family members of fallen firefighters testified in support, describing delayed claims and arguing the bill would spare grieving families from lengthy appeals. Opponents including counties, self-insurers, cities, and L&I’s research staff said the current qualifiers are based on science, warned the change would greatly expand claims and costs, and noted a 2023 advisory committee did not recommend the change. No vote was taken.
The committee also heard Senate Bill 5379, which would extend interest arbitration rights to Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission law enforcement rangers. The sponsor and a park ranger testified that rangers are commissioned peace officers who cannot strike and are paid less than comparable law enforcement, leading to staffing shortages and turnover. The bill was presented as a fairness and retention measure. Testimony on Senate Bill 6147, concerning grocery store closures in food deserts, was split: supporters from Tacoma, labor, and local government said a six-month notice requirement would help communities respond to closures like the Fred Meyer shutdown in South Tacoma, while grocers and industry groups argued the bill was too prescriptive, would add legal risk, and would not solve underlying crime and business pressures.
Senate Bill 6106, requested by the Employment Security Department, would exempt tribes from the state WARN-style notice law and make employee names and addresses submitted in layoff notices confidential under the Public Records Act. ESD and business groups supported the bill as a clarification and privacy fix, and no opposition was heard. The committee then took testimony on Senate Bill 5927, which would cap future workers’ compensation COLAs at 3%; employers and self-insurers supported it as a way to address volatility and long-term liabilities, while labor, injured-worker advocates, and others opposed it as an across-the-board benefit cut that would erode wage replacement. L&I explained it has been studying possible COLA changes but did not bring forward its own proposal. Finally, Senate Bill 6287 on kratom would restrict adulterated or harmful kratom products, require labeling, set a 21+ sales age, and allow local regulation; supporters backed the age limit and bans on concentrated 7-OH, while some industry witnesses opposed the private right of action and local patchwork rules. The committee adjourned after public testimony; no final votes or executive action were taken in the transcript.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, when I think about the opportunities that we try to get into to be able to access some of our
- be able to access.
- to be able to access.
- complaints be referred on to legal services.
- be referred on to legal services.
Summary:
The Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee heard a long agenda of housing-related bills, beginning with AB 518 on low-impact camping areas. The author and supporters said the bill would streamline permitting for small rural camping operations on private land, expand outdoor access, and support rural economies, while opponents from campground associations and counties warned it could undermine existing regulation, create enforcement problems, and allow advertising of unpermitted sites. Members raised concerns about fire safety and local control, but the bill was ultimately passed as amended on an 8-0 vote.
The committee then approved AB 635, which would require HCD to refer up to 25 of the most serious mobile home residency law complaints to the Attorney General. Supporters said mobile home residents need stronger enforcement against egregious park-owner violations, while opponents argued the existing program is underused, costly, and should remain subject to a sunset. After discussion of the program’s surplus and enforcement role, the bill passed 9-1. AB 893, which expands ministerial approval for mixed-income housing near college campuses and broadens eligibility for affordable units to students, faculty, and staff, also drew strong support from student advocates and housing groups and respectful opposition from the League of California Cities over local control and height limits; it passed 10-0.
AB 925, the Mobile Home Emergency Safety Act, would require stronger emergency preparedness measures in mobile home parks, including accessible exits, working fire hydrants, and gas shutoff access, with a fee increase to fund enforcement. Supporters framed it as a life-safety measure in disaster-prone areas, while opponents argued the bill duplicates existing requirements and imposes an unnecessary fee increase. The committee voted 6-1 to send it to Appropriations, with the bill left on call. The consent calendar, including several other housing and local government bills, was approved 8-0. The committee also heard AB 712, which would increase penalties and attorney-fee protections for applicants enforcing state housing laws against public agencies; supporters said it would improve compliance, while special districts opposed the bill as overly broad and unclear. Members discussed indemnification and timing issues, and the bill was advanced with amendments to Judiciary.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- This is to ensure that people who seek services at these locations, which are often made to appear to
- The Sexual and Reproductive Health Services grants offer affordable access to family planning services
- </c> services that provide a Lifeline to services that provide a Lifeline to women<02:14:02.040><c> who
- c> I</c> connected me to real services that I connected me to real services that I needed<02:46:17.840
- /c><02:58:58.960><c> of</c> deserve access to a full range of deserve access to a full range of pregnancy
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- give service to Trade Point Atlantic.
- So, it's very accessible how we've drafted the bill to be able to access training.
- people who have access to it, but a different price for someone else.
- people who have access to it, but a different price for someone else.
- </c><01:21:00.640><c> Trade</c> access to nonstop streaming. Trade access to nonstop streaming.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/6/26 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Your commitment to this institution, to public service, and to keeping people safe never wavered.
- to this institution to public service and to keeping people safe.
- service unit to update to help our security.
- service unit to update to help our security.
- But the record is not accessible to election judges or to the public.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (01/20/2026)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><04:50:04.798><c> it</c> allowing me to have access to divert it allowing me to have access to divert
- expand access to exploring ways to expand access to benefits<05:28:08.000><c> for</c><05:28:08.480><
- <c> to</c><05:30:46.080><c> a</c> to give individuals access to a to give individuals access to a different
- to have access to contractor is going to have access to this<05:32:53.680><c> particular</c><05:32:54.160
- > network for that person to access to get network for that person to access to get that<05:33:20.080
Summary:
The committee began with procedural announcements about report turnaround, amendment submission methods during split operations, a possible January 29 session, the governor’s State of the State on February 5, parking, cafeteria opening, and the plan to finish work by February 10. It then moved into executive session on HB 1123, which would require certain companies to post salary ranges on public job listings. Representative Granger moved ITL, arguing the bill would interfere with negotiations, especially for higher-level jobs, and raise compelled-speech concerns. Supporters, including Representatives Schultz, Sullivan, Cahill, Staub, and others, said salary ranges help applicants avoid wasted time and travel, improve transparency, and are already a common workplace disclosure. The committee voted 10-9 to ITL HB 1123.
The committee next took up HB 177, concerning a definition of remote work in labor law. Representative Murphy moved ITL, saying the bill could burden employers, create vague obligations, duplicate existing protections, and potentially require intrusive compliance measures. Representative Sullivan described a proposed amendment that would narrow the bill to a definition of remote work and remove broader requirements, but the committee ultimately voted 11-9 to ITL HB 177. Members also noted that the amendment had not been fully circulated in time and that the issue might merit further review.
Finally, the committee opened HB 1352, a workers’ compensation bill focused on repricing and payment practices. The sponsor withdrew an initial ITL motion and moved OTP after amendment review. Members discussed concerns raised at the hearing about delayed payments, third-party administrators, and the need for better accountability. Representative McKenzie’s amendment would define good faith, create a voluntary three-year dispute-resolution pilot, restore fines to prior levels, and add reporting/accountability requirements for carriers that miss the 30-day payment deadline. Several members supported the amendment as a way to help small businesses and providers, while others said repricing needed broader study through the workers’ compensation advisory council. The Department of Labor explained that the amendment would require carriers and related payers to report missed determinations to the department and would increase oversight of payment timeliness.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Apr 20th, 2026
Banking and Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- The loans are sold to and serviced on behalf of private institutions subject to specific contractual
- extend forbearance to borrowers is subject to those servicing agreements.
- servicer to offer borrowers the option to defer repayment amounts to the end of the loan term unless
- to that forbearance, The member is trying to accomplish here is ensuring that folks have access to that
- The policy result is straightforward: California consumers gain access to digital asset services from
Committee:
House Banking and Finance
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- access to public adjusters.
- 812, an act relative to motor vehicle service contracts.
- Consequently, your constituents don't have access to third-party vehicle service contracts to protect
- of Insurance Commissioners' Model Act for service contracts, applicable to service contracts on motor
- So what does a public adjuster do, and why do consumers need access to public adjusters?
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Financial Services heard testimony on a wide range of insurance-related bills. Topics included public adjusters (H. 1100/S. 785), electronic cancellation notices (H. 1123/S. 701), insurance rebates and loss-mitigation devices (H. 1233), flood hazard determinations (H. 1087 and related flood bills), organ donor insurance protections (H. 1248/S. 727), mental health parity in disability policies (S. 780), motor vehicle service contracts (H. 1139/S. 812), modernization of business-to-business insurance transactions (H. 1105), and a bill changing the GIC withdrawal notice deadline (H. 1150). Committee chairs set a three-minute testimony limit and heard from legislators, industry representatives, advocates, and affected consumers.
Testimony on public adjusters was sharply divided. Insurance agents and property-casualty industry representatives argued that bills barring insurers from prohibiting public adjusters would interfere with policy terms, while public adjusters and several consumers described cases where adjusters helped secure substantially higher settlements and said some surplus lines policies already contain anti-public-adjuster endorsements. On electronic notices, the insurance industry supported consumer opt-in email communications, while agents warned that email-only cancellation notices could cause consumers to miss cancellations. On rebates/loss mitigation, insurers supported allowing risk-mitigation devices outside the policy to encourage innovation, while agents opposed the bill as an improper inducement. Flood-related bills drew opposition from insurers who said flood determinations are complex and federally governed.
The committee also heard strong support for organ donor protections from a kidney transplant recipient and the American Kidney Fund, who said the bill would prevent insurance discrimination against living donors and could encourage more donations. On disability parity, a disability insurance specialist opposed S. 780, arguing that mental health limitations are a consumer choice that helps keep coverage affordable, while the bill’s sponsor said it would prevent unequal limits on behavioral health claims. The committee also heard support for H. 1139/S. 812 from the service contract industry, and support for H. 1105 from APCIA as a modernization measure for specialty commercial lines. No votes were taken; after testimony concluded, the chairs closed the hearing.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee Mar 24th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- on to the service organization has increased.
- bank access, access to PeopleSoft Finance, everything that we need to complete a bank reconciliation
- Shirley is to continue those services as we go.
- because we don't have access to family incomes.
- We just don't have access to information to know.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 3, 2026 - 08:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill requires FDLE to provide protective services to major party nominees for Governor and Lieutenant
- gain access to a safety deposit box.
- They also reduce China's ability to plan ahead and preposition across U.S. systems to have access that
- And it has to spread the code, access that device.
- Bruce Bartlett: Because it takes time to do the updates on some of the software to get access into the
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Should Minnesota mandate coverage for infertility treatment? 4/8/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- fertility</c><00:14:23.680><c> care</c> Right now, access to fertility care Right now, access to fertility
- ><c> um</c> to utilize surrogacy services, um to utilize surrogacy services, um foreign<00:25:42.160>
- </c> for an individual to um access IVF, to for an individual to um access IVF, to do<00:41:22.480><c
- to uh access those embryos insurance to uh access those embryos rather<00:41:35.960><c> than</c><00:
- </c><01:03:11.720><c> to</c> and age that we haven't had access to and age that we haven't had access
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Local Government (11-20-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- need to as the services they need to successfully<00:19:54.720><c> return</c><00:19:55.360><c> to</c
- /c><00:42:34.800><c> to</c><00:42:35.040><c> this</c> your time, your service to this your time, your
- You don't have access to the databases.
- </c> you are able to access the DHS database. you are able to access the DHS database.
- ><c> to</c><01:02:48.079><c> that</c><01:02:48.240><c> DHS</c> have and simply put access to that DHS
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the October 21 minutes, and then heard a KO presentation focused on county jail funding pressures. KO leaders and county judges said jail costs have become a statewide crisis, noting that county general fund contributions to jail budgets have risen sharply since 2019. They said the organization’s sole legislative priority this session is to “reshape the shared responsibility” for county jails through three main proposals: incentivizing regional jails, clarifying responsibility for pre-trial felony detainees, and changing the model for housing state inmates.
On regional jails, KO proposed one-time state construction help for new or expanded regional facilities, allowing former county jails to become 96-hour holdover facilities, changing regional jail authority boards so each participating county jailer can serve, increasing the closed-jail supplement, and offering a one-time payment to counties that close a jail and join a regional plan. On pre-trial felony detainees, Judge Mosley argued counties bear the full cost for people held before trial, sometimes for years, and said counties should be reimbursed for time served credit when those inmates are later sentenced. On state inmates, KO said the current per diem of $35.34 is below the average daily county jail cost of $63.44, and proposed a new contract model requiring the Department of Corrections to pay actual housing costs while counties provide agreed programming such as substance use treatment, cognitive behavioral programming, re-entry services, workforce training, and academic programming.
Members asked about the fiscal impact of the package, the feasibility of regional jail population thresholds, and whether the proposal could affect counties’ ability to house federal inmates. KO said regionalization should remain a local decision, that a bill draft and fiscal note were being developed, and that only certain jails are eligible to house federal inmates under existing agreements. Representative Maddox also asked about social media comments by Judge Mosley regarding homeschooling; Mosley said the remarks were unrelated to KO and apologized for any offense. Senator Mills asked what counties would do with savings from jail costs, and judges said the money would likely go to local services such as roads, ambulance service, senior programs, parks, economic development, infrastructure, broadband, and water projects.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- But to me, this is like purely a great service to the people of the state.
- I want to take you back to the core for Technical Services, pages 303 and 304.
- get an appointment to see a veteran service officer.
- best access to those new people coming in.
- There's more than that to call, but actually accessing the benefit and seeking services a very small
Committee:
House Budget