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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
PSM, PSM Public Hearings 02-03-2025
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs met on its 3:15 p.m. reconsideration and hearing agenda. The committee first reconsidered SB 1379 on emergency preparedness and voted to pass it with amendments. The amendments would require HEMA to submit a report to the Legislature on a community readiness centers plan, including public and private sites, funding sources, partnerships, stakeholder coordination, and projected annual funding, due 20 days before the 2026 Legislature convenes. The committee also made technical and fiscal-related changes, including blanking out certain amounts in the bill and committee report while retaining recommended amounts there, and changing the effective date language. The committee then voted unanimously to adopt the amended recommendation.
The committee heard SB 1364, which makes emergency appropriations for law enforcement personnel costs. The Department of Budget and Finance supported the bill but said the figures in oral testimony would be slightly higher than those in written testimony and that updated numbers would be emailed later in the week. Because the exact figures were not yet available, the chair deferred decision-making to February 7, 2025. The committee also heard SB 1451 on critical infrastructure, SB 1452 on the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, SB 1149 on hate crimes reporting, SB 1321 on the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, and SB 1341 on energy industry information reporting.
For SB 1451, testimony was split, with support from state law enforcement and opposition from the Public First Law Center, which argued the information was already protected under existing law; the committee later adopted a motion to pass the bill with amendments, including a narrower definition of critical infrastructure information and a revised effective date. SB 1452 received support from law enforcement and prosecutors, with a requested cleanup amendment to correct a federal drug-name spelling issue; decision-making was postponed to allow the department to provide language. SB 1149 drew substantial testimony both for and against; supporters emphasized better hate-crime data collection and transparency, while opponents raised concerns about definitions and free speech. The committee adopted amendments and passed the bill, with the chair summarizing the move from the older UCR system to NIBRS and noting a public dashboard expected by September 30, 2025. SB 1321 was passed with amendments shortening the oversight coordinator term from four years to three years, though one senator voted with reservations in favor of a longer term. SB 1341 was passed as is after brief support testimony, and the committee adjourned after completing the agenda.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations Mar 5th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Not one has anything to do with adoption or after-birth care.
- At a time when low-income Washingtonians are already struggling with cuts to child care and health care
- At a time when low-income Washingtonians are already struggling with cuts to child care and health care
- However, abortion is not health care, nor even contraception.
- Contractor-owned buses have a similar but separate depreciation system.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee held public hearings on several bills and took executive action on House Bill 2747. HB 2747 would change how Washington estimates future revenue in its four-year balanced budget outlooks by using the official revenue forecast instead of the current 4.5% growth assumption for the next two biennia. Staff described the bill as a technical change with indeterminate fiscal effects, and supporters said it would make budgeting more realistic and sustainable. The committee adopted a technical amendment and then reported the bill out of committee with a do pass recommendation by a vote of 26 ayes, 3 nays, and 2 excused.
The committee also heard Second Substitute Senate Bill 6182, which would create an abortion savings program funded by a new annual assessment on health carriers offering exchange plans. Staff said the bill would generate about $10 million in fiscal year 2027 and about $2.1 million annually thereafter, with most funds going to grants for abortion care providers and some administrative costs for the Office of the Insurance Commissioner and the Department of Health. Supporters said it would stabilize access to abortion care and help low-income patients, while opponents argued it would force taxpayers and insurers to subsidize abortion and raised concerns about oversight, morality, and premium impacts.
Substitute Senate Bill 6355, which would create a Washington Electric Transmission Authority to support new transmission projects and related tribal clean energy work, drew testimony from utilities, labor, clean energy advocates, counties, and landowners. Supporters said the state needs faster transmission buildout to improve reliability, support clean energy, and reduce congestion costs; opponents and county representatives raised concerns about eminent domain, loss of local tax revenue, board accountability, and the need for stronger landowner and county involvement. Staff estimated the bill would have a several-million-dollar general fund impact and noted possible indeterminate local revenue effects. The committee also received a briefing on engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6260, which would reduce funding or eligibility for several K-12 programs, including bus depreciation, Running Start, and transition to kindergarten; public testimony was overwhelmingly opposed, with school officials, educators, community college representatives, students, and rural districts warning of reduced opportunities and harm to small and low-income districts.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Judiciary (03/19/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- The commission was management system.
- We're hearing about how long it takes to process the cases after they are filed, which is a long time
- </c><01:03:00.319><c> time</c> problems have gone on for a long time problems have gone on for a long
- I don't care who it's with.
- </c> just ask you, you know, I I I had a long just ask you, you know, I I I had a long discussion<01:
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee met to hear the Legislative Budget Assistant Office’s performance audit of the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights. Auditors said the commission was inefficient and ineffective in investigating discrimination complaints and closing cases in a timely manner during fiscal years 2020 through 2023. The report contained 25 observations; the commission fully concurred with 24 and concurred in part with one. Auditors highlighted major problems with case processing delays, inaccurate case data, lack of a case management system, weak strategic planning and risk assessment, outdated and disorganized policies, confidentiality issues, expired administrative rules, fee-setting practices, incomplete financial-interest filings, and failure to complete required reports and reconciliations. Two recommendations, involving complaint screening and conciliation, may require legislative action.
Several observations focused on the commission’s intake and investigation practices. Auditors said complaints may have been screened out before docketing, potentially preventing commissioner review required by statute, and that the investigation process lacked clear rules and guidance. They also found investigators were assigned non-investigative tasks, training was inadequate, interview requirements were unclear, supervisory duties were burdensome, and confidential information was not always protected by encrypted email. The audit recommended clearer administrative rules, better internal controls, more focused staffing, a supervisory investigator position, and improved training and documentation.
Commission representatives said they had already made progress on several items since the audit began, including posting overdue biennial reports and moving toward a case management system expected to go live in June. They said they were working with EEOC counterparts and legal counsel, but emphasized staffing shortages and high turnover, noting the commission currently had nine people working out of 15 authorized positions, with three investigator vacancies and a vacant paralegal position. Committee members thanked the auditors and commission staff, discussed the history of the audit request, and raised concerns about how long the recommended corrective actions might take. The committee took no vote or formal action during the hearing.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- system behind it.
- So as an Idaho resident and a recent business owner, I've consulted for several long-term care facilities
- Medical nutrition therapy is not optional care.
- Even when the care is delivered virtually, this fragments care, limits continuity, and makes it difficult
- I know it's been a long agenda.
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Human Resources
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- Missouri Stronger Homes Fund. ...into a newly created Missouri Stronger Homes Fund, ensuring a stable, long-term
- invest proactively in stronger roofs, safer structures, and more resilient neighborhoods, lowering long-term
- They're like, 'I don't care, I want somebody else to fight the fight.' Sure.
- I should say, defining the terms for reimbursement or repayment made.
- But again, we can't talk to members specifically about kind of their long-term strategies on that.
Committee:
House Insurance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to ensure the safety of the gas system today, regardless of how long we believe it will be in
- </c><00:08:54.720><c> we</c> system today, regardless of how long we system today, regardless of how
- At a time of rising gas bills, utility investments warrant heightened scrutiny with long-term system
- </c> issue we see here is rigid long-term issue we see here is rigid long-term contracts,<01:10:17.600
- Um, but we have seen in Minnesota some co-ops reject these long-term contracts.
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
Keywords:
utilities, rate cases, cost recovery, reporting requirements, gas infrastructure, 1183, house
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- system.
- Our dieticians do great work to fill that gap for our health care system in this state.
- , long time.
- We provide registered dietitian services in long-term care, senior living, and post-acute care, including
- In long-term care and post-acute care settings, nutrition is not optional.
Committee:
House Economic Development
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- We care about employees.
- It requires health care facilities to designate areas where patients are receiving treatment or care
- systems.
- ALPR data reveals where a patient traveled from, how long they spent at a health care facility, and where
- ALPR data reveals where a patient traveled from, how long they spent at a health care facility, and where
Committee:
Senate Law & Justice
Keywords:
Attorney General, civil investigative demand, CID, subpoena-like demand, investigative authority, consumer protection, civil enforcement, pre-suit investigation, document production, interrogatories, deposition, oral testimony, confidentiality, trade secrets, judicial review, enforcement action, Washington RCW, law enforcement powers, government transparency, due process
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't care if it's a hedge fund. I don't care of the form of ownership.
- system today.
- It replaces the term infant with the term participant. 37 yeas, 0 nays, Mr. President.
- It replaces the term infant with the term participant. That is the bill, Mr. President.
- designating a group as terrorists or assuming someone is materially supporting terrorism can have serious long-term
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (02/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> graduation rates better long-term graduation rates better long-term earning<04:58:10.120><c> earning
- It's not just long-term malnutrition. of the month when SNAP benefits run out of the month when SNAP
- </c> it's not just long-term it's not just long-term malnutrition malnutrition malnutrition um<05:21:
- To be a vehicle for some more integrated, long-term thinking about what our options are.
- He said the purpose of the committee is to think more long-term, conceptually, about what changes to
Summary:
The committee first heard HB 659, which would establish the New Hampshire College Graduate Retention Incentive Program. A Department of Revenue Administration analyst explained technical issues in the bill, focusing on whether the incentive is intended to operate as a rebate or a tax credit, how it would be administered, and how it would interact with the business enterprise tax and business profits tax. She said the bill’s language was unclear on the administering agency, effective tax years, caps, and carry-forward treatment, and noted that reducing BET can also reduce the BET credit against BPT, though not on a one-for-one basis. Committee members asked follow-up questions about the BET/BPT interaction, administrative costs, and whether the Department of Business and Economic Affairs would need additional staffing. Andrew Horn then testified in support, saying the bill is meant to address the large number of New Hampshire college graduates who leave the state after graduation by encouraging them to stay and by incentivizing businesses to hire them. The chair closed the hearing on HB 659 after no further public testimony.
The committee then took up HB 770, a bill to establish a program allowing New Hampshire high school students to earn tuition credits at state higher education institutions through community service. Representative Schultz described the bill as a “triple play” intended to increase volunteerism, expand service and internship opportunities for students, and make college more affordable. Ryan Casey, a junior at Bishop Brady High School, testified that the proposal would help students reduce future loan debt while benefiting communities and encouraging young people to attend college in New Hampshire. Committee members asked about eligibility, including why private and preparatory school students were excluded, whether public school students would qualify, whether mandatory service hours would count, and how the bill’s references to education and business eligibility should be read. Schultz said the exclusion of private and prep schools was intended because public school students are more clearly New Hampshire residents, and she noted that mandatory school service hours had been excluded in revisions. The Department of Education then testified that the program would require significant administration, estimating at least three full-time staff, software or tracking systems, and rulemaking to oversee volunteer sites, schools, student eligibility, and tuition credit distribution. No vote was taken in the excerpt, and the hearing remained in testimony phase.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They seem to ignore this in the school system. So I have some districts.
- Have to have a system where some school buildings have insurance coverage and some do not.
- care that they receive in their home environment.
- It's the only part of our education system that hasn't been brought into minutes.
- Relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public school finance system.
Bills:
HB178 , HB178 , HB1551 , HB1939 , HB2040 , HB2354 , HB2674 , HB3029 , HB3460 , HB3631 , HB3662 , HB5201 , HB5381
Committee:
House Public Education
Keywords:
efficiency audit, political subdivision, tax rate, fiscal management, government accountability, Texas education, public schools, curriculum, social studies, high school graduation requirements, State Board of Education, Education Code, ethnic studies, world history, world geography, U.S. history, government, economics, personal financial literacy, free enterprise
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We can't take care of people because of the outcomes of this.
- In a system where if we're not working, we don't have worth.
- But it really creates a system.
- That said, they are a part and a function of our public safety system. Safety system.
- care programs.
Committee:
House Taxes
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Jun 18th, 2026
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- You all are concerned and care about that.
- It's not a system. That's the easiest way to think about it. It's a tool, not a system.
- And again, how do we get closer to one system?
- better, to actually have a workforce system, put that way?
- better, to actually have a workforce system, and put that way.
Summary:
The committee met to hear an update from consultants Mason Bishop and Cameron Christie on Arkansas’s “one door” or “no wrong door” workforce and social services modernization effort. The discussion focused on moving the state toward a work-first system that better connects job seekers, employers, education, and public assistance programs, with goals of increasing upward mobility, improving labor force attachment, reducing inefficiencies, and adapting to changes such as AI and other economic disruptions. The consultants argued that Arkansas’s current system is fragmented across multiple offices, portals, agencies, and funding streams, and that people often have to navigate separate doors for workforce services, TANF, SNAP, Medicaid, and related supports.
Bishop repeatedly pointed to Utah as the model, describing how that state integrated workforce and human services into a single department, used cost allocation to blend funding behind the scenes, and saw improved customer service and outcomes after reform. He said TANF should be treated as a workforce program, not just a benefits program, and suggested that Arkansas could use TANF and other tools to cross-train DHS staff, co-locate services, and create a more unified service delivery model. Members asked about federal flexibility, waivers, and whether the state could use one large waiver or a broader restructuring to simplify the system. Bishop explained that a federal pilot authority proposal failed in Congress, so the current approach relies on waivers, cost allocation plans, and possible state-level changes.
The committee also discussed the relationship between DHS and workforce offices, the role of local workforce boards, how disability and vocational rehabilitation cases would be handled, and how the governor’s Restore Hope/Hope Hub and faith- and community-based initiatives might fit into the broader plan. Bishop said Arkansas already has rehabilitation services within the workforce department and emphasized that case managers should focus on people rather than programs. No votes were taken. The chair said the committee would revisit case management at its August meeting and adjourned the meeting after thanking the consultants.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- all four agencies at a higher level: healthcare authority, early childhood development, aging, and long-term
- Aging and long-term services has a larger percentage increase, but the rest of the workforce solutions
- I'm not the expert on the Aging and Long-Term Services Department: You're going to have that secretary
- It's just somewhat concerning for me when I start looking at revenues over the mid to long term whether
- The challenge and the thing that I think Senator Munoz is also getting at the fact that mid to long term
Committee:
Senate Senate Finance
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Health and Human Services Feb 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Has to do with the foster care plus.
- requirement in terms of their compensation.
- Kids when they leave foster care.
- Now, in New Mexico IMPACT, which is our new system, we did build into the system for it to be itemized
- Do you know how long until you'll be implementing some changes?
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and first took up the committee substitute for HB 38, a complex insurance bill concerning coverage for prosthetics, orthotics, and complex rehab technology. The sponsor and expert witness explained that the substitute made technical clarifications across multiple sections of law, including explicit coverage language, restoration of services and supplies, and replacement timing rules to avoid overuse while preserving access when a patient’s medical needs change. They said the changes had been reviewed and supported by the Office of Superintendent of Insurance and insurers, and there was no opposition from the public.
Members asked about the need to return the bill to committee because of the number of statutory changes, and the sponsor said the Speaker wanted a clean committee substitute before floor action. The committee adopted the substitute and then approved a do pass recommendation on the committee substitute for HB 38, with no opposition.
The committee then heard House Memorial 59, which requests a study of fair compensation for foster parents, including consideration of a cost-of-living allowance, with findings due to the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee by November 30. CYFD testified that the study would likely use a contractor and that the department already has related recruitment, retention, and placement work underway. Members asked about foster parent numbers, foster care plus stipends, Social Security benefits for children in care, and clothing allowances; CYFD explained current payment structures, including a $50 monthly clothing amount built into the rate and separate vouchers in some cases. The committee heard supportive testimony from the New Mexico Child First Network and then voted do pass on HM 59 without opposition. The chair announced there would be no meeting the next day and adjourned the meeting.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Mar 4th, 2026
Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- So I'm not going to sit and speak on it too long. It's been a long day.
- I understand how our municipal court system works. I understand how St.
- Instead of caring about Missourians, it's become about money.
- Appreciate your time on a long evening.
- I’m going to see if I can just explain this bill in layman’s terms.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (02/05/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm saying they don't tell the whole truth because there's little to no discussion of the long-term negative
- What people hear about adoption usually revolves around what's going on in the foster care system.
- <01:42:22.000><c> system</c> care system care system there's<01:42:23.920><c> a</c><01:42:24.080><c>
- care system and adopt empty the foster care system and adopt all<01:42:47.840><c> of</c><01:42:48.080
- Um, my husband and I adopted our two boys from the foster care system.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on House Bill 662, which would require public schools to include discussion of abortion procedures and show specified videos in health education classes. The prime sponsor argued the bill would ensure students receive medically accurate, age-appropriate, and nonpolitical information about abortion, saying the topic is important for informed decision-making and should be taught consistently statewide. He said the videos were intended for grades 9-12, that parents could opt out, and that the requirement was meant to supplement, not sway, students’ views. He also acknowledged the bill could be seen as limiting local control over curriculum and said the intent was to prevent the topic from being missed due to scheduling disruptions.
Committee members questioned the sponsor about local control, the need for a video mandate, the source of his statistics, whether the bill could be biased or inflammatory, and whether the requirement should apply every year in high school. The sponsor said the videos were only a starting point, could be replaced by others, and were meant to be informational. He also said the bill was not intended to influence students’ decisions about abortion. Several supporters testified in favor, including representatives of New Hampshire Right to Life and others who said students should be told the “truth” about abortion and its consequences. They emphasized graphic or emotionally difficult aspects of abortion and argued that young people need this information to make informed choices.
Opponents and skeptical witnesses raised concerns about prescribing curriculum, eroding local control, and the appropriateness of the material for younger high school students. The New Hampshire School Administrators Association said the bill was overly prescriptive, that health education standards are already set by the State Board of Education, and that the topics in the bill are not part of the current standards. That witness recommended the committee consider retaining the bill for further work or making it less prescriptive. No vote or final committee action was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Finance and Tax Apr 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- IT HAS COME A LONG WAY FROM WHERE IT WAS ORIGINALLY.
- BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE LONG-TERM.
- HAVING A STUDY THAT WOULD LOOK AT THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON THE COST TO OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS HAVING A
- STUDY THAT WOULD LOOK AT THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON THE COST TO OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS DEFINITION OF SERVICES
- YOU READ MY MIND IN TERMS OF THANKING THE STUDENTS FOR BEING HERE.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:26:37.600><c> of</c> terms of you know guidance in terms of terms of you know guidance in terms
- It's a long g wide gamut. So college. It's a long g wide gamut.
- </c> in terms study it with the majority. in terms study it with the majority.
- I mean, the chair appears to have a system. >> A system.
- To make a long story short, this essentially is the legislature in this term trying to adjust a formula
Committee:
House Education Funding
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Other - PSCOC Apr 22nd, 2026
Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Force
Transcript Highlights:
- This is an additional construction funding request for the systems project.
- Four are teacher housing awards, and one is a systems-based award.
- As to why we phase the way we do in terms of sequencing.
- Then when we talk about the system-based projects.
- reduction. back in terms of the batch reduction.