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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appr/Sub-Health and Human Services Jan 29th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Right, so we have the forensic stuff.
- and adding beds to that, can you give us an update on the construction and where we're at with the forensics
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 29th, 2025 at 11:30 am
Nevada Assembly Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 467, introduced by Assemblymembers Roth et al. and Senator Wynn, revises provisions relating to forensic
- 467, introduced by Assemblymembers Roth et al. and Senator Wynn, revises provisions relating to forensic
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Like if you were doing a forensic-type situation, you would need, of course, to have masks and facial
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We're also grateful that the bill includes funding to increase payment rates for forensic examiners.
- And then on line 38, there's a Senate-only provision: Senate File 2861, the forensic examiner rate increase
- Senate file<00:17:22.679><c> 2861,</c><00:17:23.679><c> forensic</c><00:17:24.160><c> rate</c><00:17:
- 24.720><c> or</c><00:17:24.880><c> forensic</c> file 2861, forensic rate or forensic file 2861, forensic
- rate or forensic examiner<00:17:25.839><c> rate</c><00:17:26.160><c> increase</c><00:17:26.559><c> that
Committee:
Senate Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 04/11/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- It's also a Senate File 2861 forensic examiner rate increase, a $29 hourly increase from 136 to $165
- It's also a Senate file 2861<00:08:30.400><c> forensic</c><00:08:30.879><c> examiner</c><00:08:31.440
- ><c> rate</c><00:08:31.759><c> increase,</c><00:08:32.640><c> a</c> 2861 forensic examiner rate increase
- , a 2861 forensic examiner rate increase, a $29<00:08:33.599><c> hourly</c><00:08:34.159><c> increase
- examiners. um it doesn't go our forensic examiners. um it doesn't go all<00:42:17.760><c> the</c><00
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/05/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- A specific example of missing infrastructure was the lack of forensic medical services available in our
- Last year, we took action by opening a forensic exam room in our Red Wing outreach office that provides
- Last year, a local police officer contacted us about a sexual assault survivor who needed a forensic
- /c><00:07:44.599><c> who</c><00:07:44.720><c> needed</c><00:07:45.000><c> a</c><00:07:45.120><c> forensic
- </c> assault Survivor who needed a forensic assault Survivor who needed a forensic exam<00:07:46.520>
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (02/07/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><01:30:10.040><c> estimate</c> Wrongfully convicted—um, experts estimate that there’s between 6%
- </c> County where trained forensic County where trained forensic interviewers<05:02:21.958><c> like</
- I think for us as a department, we're not the experts in how them as to how that might be the the them
- </c><05:20:46.958><c> in</c><05:20:47.120><c> how</c> The department, we're not the experts in how to
- One more point, Madam Chairman. attorneys hiring a an expert attorneys hiring a an expert psychiatrist
Committee:
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
NV
Transcript Highlights:
- the Governor's Office reaching out to law enforcement, district attorneys, victim advocates, and experts
- of possession of child pornography because they only had him in possession on one date with the forensic
- Why are you listening to people who aren't experts, who don't carry lived experiences and offer no data
Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
February 5, 2025 - 12:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- We were able to have a forensic multidisciplinary team that is also funded from that, but the managing
- There's a whole world out there, and I am not an expert in it yet because it's new to me, but there's
- a whole world out there that we can ...expert in it yet because it's new to me, but there's a whole
Summary:
The Health Care Budget Subcommittee held a panel discussion on Florida’s mental health and substance abuse system, with representatives from DCF, AHCA, two managing entities, and two providers describing how the state’s behavioral health network is funded and operated. Members focused on the implementation of prior legislative investments, especially the $50 million in recurring funding from Representative Maney’s bill and the earlier $126 million community behavioral health appropriation. Witnesses said the newer funds were used mainly for crisis beds, discharge planning, outpatient services, regional collaboratives, and a USF Marchman Act report, while the larger behavioral health appropriation supported CAT, FACT, FIT, forensic teams, residential and outpatient services, and crisis care, with most dollars going directly to services and only a small share to administration.
A major theme was access to crisis care and the role of mobile response teams, 988, and central receiving facilities in diverting people from Baker Act admissions and reducing readmissions. DCF and providers said mobile response teams have expanded, are being used to de-escalate crises and connect people to care, and have shown strong diversion results and reductions in Baker Acts in some regions. Members also asked about waitlists, children in crisis, and how to handle people without housing or support; providers said discharge planning is individualized but often constrained by homelessness, transportation, and a lack of safe placements, and several witnesses identified housing as one of the biggest barriers to recovery and stability.
The committee also examined provider sustainability, reimbursement, and funding gaps. Witnesses described delays caused by contract timing, cost allocation rules, and Medicaid reimbursement rates that do not always keep pace with labor and operating costs, especially for smaller providers and rural networks. DCF and AHCA said managing entities can provide advances, retroactive rate adjustments, and technical assistance, and that Medicaid managed care plans have network standards and complaint/dispute processes. Members raised concerns about a reported $7 million loss in federal non-sustainable funds, provider closures, and whether there is a formal ombudsman process for disputes; DCF said the federal reductions were known and tied to one-time funds, and that the department generally handles provider issues informally while working with managing entities to preserve continuity of care.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 11 March, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The members of the panel are experts in the field. They're doctors.
- The members of the panel are experts in the field. They're doctors.
- </c><00:42:56.480><c> in</c> The members of the panel are experts in The members of the panel are experts
- I would rather leave this up to the discretion of the experts.
- Now, that PEERS will be addressed, to my understanding, and I'm not the expert.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: Republican Members Propose New Legislation Addressing Fraud - 02/19/26
Transcript Highlights:
- inspector general that we will build in those types of disciplines and the technologies necessary for forensic
- </c><00:42:54.240><c> um</c> technologies necessary for for um technologies necessary for for um forensic
- 42:55.599><c> all</c><00:42:55.760><c> the</c><00:42:56.000><c> types</c><00:42:56.160><c> of</c> forensic
- auditing and all the types of forensic auditing and all the types of things<00:42:56.400><c> we</c><
Summary:
Senate Republican leaders held a press event to roll out a package of anti-fraud proposals focused on state welfare and human services programs. Mark Johnson opened by citing recent fraud scandals, including a shuttered housing program and reports of vulnerable adults being left without care while providers billed for full services, and said Republicans want top-down reform, stronger accountability, new technology, and tighter oversight of taxpayer dollars. Michael Kreun said Republicans support an independent Office of Inspector General and argued the Senate-passed bill should not be weakened in the House; he also said the Senate should restore its role in confirming agency commissioners, especially at DHS, which he described as central to the fraud problem.
Jordan Rasmusson outlined a plan to stop “blank checks” for DHS and DCYF services by requiring legislative audit review when a program exceeds budget by 5 percent and legislative approval for additional spending at 10 percent over budget. He also said DHS should adopt basic integrity tools such as electronic visit verification and client sign-off. Steve Drazkowski described two bills: a statewide “do-not-pay” list to block payments to ineligible people or entities, and an “I’m Not a Robot” proposal for Medicaid managed care that would require enrollee verification forms, with a 2 percent payment withhold used to encourage compliance and potentially fund county system upgrades. Mark Krueger said the state should improve technology and data use for eligibility determinations, citing other states’ rapid fraud-fighting systems, and proposed penalties for false reporting to the Legislative Auditor after a DHS audit found falsified site-visit records.
Steve Gruenhagen said his bill would require DHS and DCYF to resume annual fraud-prevention and oversight reports to the legislature, which he said had stopped after 2017 despite rising fraud cases. Michael Holmstrom proposed unannounced site visits for all DHS and DCYF providers before enrollment, reenrollment, and revalidation, funded through provider service fees, and cited a recent case involving a woman with autism who was billed for far more care than she received. In the Q&A, Kreun said House Democrats’ delete-everything amendment to the inspector general bill removed the law enforcement division and stripped the bill of its “teeth,” and he suggested the governor’s office may have been involved in efforts to replace the bill with a weaker coordination council model. No votes were taken in the press conference.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Finance Division II (05/23/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- maybe there's only one or two law enforcement officers that are able to bring the kits to the state forensic
- time at police stations. able to bring the kits to the state able to bring the kits to the state forensic
- :03:57.680><c> we</c><00:03:57.920><c> do</c><00:03:58.159><c> a</c><00:03:58.400><c> common</c> forensic
- Could we do a common forensic lab.
Summary:
The committee held a work session on SB 145, which would require sexual assault evidence kits to be delivered to the state forensic lab within seven business days and analyzed more promptly. Pamela Kyle of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence said the bill was developed after survivor concerns and extensive discussions with the Departments of Safety and Justice. She explained that most agencies already deliver kits quickly, but some kits sit for months, and the bill is intended to add structure without penalties while preserving chain of custody. Members discussed the use of common carriers or courier services for transport, the need for clear rules, and whether carriers would know what they were transporting. Representative Papovich offered amendment 2025-2301H to remove the reimbursement program for police shipping costs, arguing it would add administrative overhead and was unnecessary. The amendment was adopted on a roll call vote, and the committee then voted OTPA on SB 145 as amended, with members voting yes on the roll call.
The committee then opened a work session on SB 295, and the sponsor presented a replace-all amendment intended to simplify and clarify the Education Freedom Account bill without changing its purpose. The amendment would remove income-cap language, define priority enrollment groups, establish an enrollment cap for the EFA program, and create rolling enrollment rules. It would set a 10,000-student cap for the 2025-2026 school year, allow the cap to increase by 25% if enrollment exceeds 90% of the prior cap, and ensure current participants can remain enrolled. The amendment also provides that certain sections would later be repealed once the Department of Education certifies that applications have not exceeded the cap for two consecutive school years. The sponsor walked through the amendment section by section, explaining that the bill is structured in two phases: one while caps exist and another after they are no longer needed.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (03/19/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- and testified on the bill, who herself was a survivor of attempted murder and holds a doctorate in forensic
- um and holds a attempted murder um and holds a doctorate<00:57:27.319><c> in</c><00:57:27.440><c> forensic
- ><00:57:27.880><c> psychology</c><00:57:28.799><c> and</c><00:57:29.000><c> she</c> doctorate in forensic
- psychology and she doctorate in forensic psychology and she has<00:57:29.880><c> um</c><00:57:30.119
Committee:
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Health Services (3-6-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- More often what we go through as a provider is a full forensic review, and an audit is a collaborative
- More often what we go through as a provider is a full forensic review, and an audit is a collaborative
- I obviously am not the expert like you are, and so I don't think I can add anything to your testimony
- I obviously am not the expert like you are, and so I don't think I can add anything to your testimony
- like you are and so I don't think expert like you are and so I don't think I<01:30:27.080><c> can</c
Summary:
The House Standing Committee on Health Services met with a quorum and took up House Bill 785, as amended by a committee substitute that combined language from HB 785 and HB 787. The bill was described as addressing Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) audits, provider contract notice and amendment procedures, mental health parity compliance, and related transparency requirements. Supporters said the measure would tighten notice to providers, limit repeated contract amendments and rate reductions, require more standardized audit procedures, and add reporting on Medicaid claims, appeals, and grievances. It also includes a provision requiring coverage of at least two evaluation-and-management billable services per physician per recipient per date of service, and a section addressing narcotic/opioid treatment program licensing and reimbursement language.
Testimony in support came from Representative Kim Moore, John Inman of BrightView Health, Michelle Sandborne of the Children’s Alliance, and Kelly Cormic of RYSE. They argued that MCOs often use audits and recoupments in ways that are burdensome, opaque, and financially damaging to providers, especially smaller and rural ones. They cited examples of multiple audit requests in short timeframes, large record requests with short deadlines, delayed or absent feedback, and recoupments taken before appeals are resolved. They also said parity laws are not being consistently enforced and that the bill would give the Department of Insurance authority to suspend or revoke an MCO certificate of authority for willful or repeated parity violations. Committee members generally expressed support for provider protections and transparency, while asking for clarification on the narcotic treatment and E/M billing provisions.
Tom Stevens of the Kentucky Association of Health Plans testified in opposition, saying the bill is complex to implement and should be handled through the broader Medicaid oversight work of House Bill 9, the MOAB. He said the issues raised were better suited for that bipartisan stakeholder process and noted the committee substitute had not yet been fully reviewed by his group. After discussion, the committee adopted the committee substitute and then moved to a vote on the bill; the roll call began, with several members recorded as voting yes, but the transcript cuts off before the final vote result is shown.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 01/21/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- memorialize this week, along with the Governor, more, and that's Michael Seraca, M.D., and board-certified forensic
Summary:
The Senate met on January 20, 2026, approved the Journal, and adopted the resolution calendar. It then took up Senate Resolution 1324, sponsored by Senator Stec, which memorializes the Governor to proclaim January 25-31, 2026, as Medicolegal Death Investigation Professionals Week. Senator Stec described the work of medicolegal death investigators and recognized guests from several districts; the resolution was opened for co-sponsorship.
The Senate then considered a series of bills on the calendar, including measures amending the Insurance, Labor, Workers’ Compensation, Public Health, State Finance, State Technology, Environmental Conservation, Criminal Procedure, Executive, and Veteran Services laws. Most bills passed with broad support, though several drew negative votes from individual senators or small groups, including Calendar 34 (Insurance Law), Calendar 47 (Environmental Conservation Law), Calendar 61 (Public Health Law), and Calendar 74 (Veteran Services Law). Senator Murray briefly explained his support for Calendar 62, a Criminal Procedure Law bill, suggesting additional confirmation for victim notifications if email notice is expanded.
The Senate also discharged Assembly Bill 9436 from Rules and substituted identical Senate Bill 8773. After completing the calendar, the Majority Conference committee assignments were filed in the Journal. The Senate then adjourned until Monday, January 26, 2026, at 3:00 p.m., with intervening days designated as legislative days.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The command's Digital Forensic Laboratory will embed liaison agents from the Department of Public Safety
Committee:
Senate Business & Commerce
Summary:
The Senate Business and Commerce Committee met with a quorum and considered several House bills. House Bill 111 was taken up as a committee substitute; members briefly discussed what entities the bill would apply to, and the committee substitute was adopted and reported favorably to the full Senate by a 6-5 vote. House Bill 150, relating to the Texas Cyber Command, received extensive explanation of a revised committee substitute that made the command a standalone state agency, allowed flexible state partnerships, preserved vendor neutrality, added emergency purchasing guardrails and reporting, protected existing confidentiality laws, limited monitoring to contracted entities, and clarified coordination with law enforcement rather than direct prosecution. The substitute was adopted and HB 150 was reported favorably 11-0.
The committee also reported House Bill 2517 favorably without debate, 10 ayes and 1 present not voting. House Bill 2963 was considered with a committee substitute that added a definition of “power sports vehicle” and exempted those items from the right-to-repair bill; the substitute was adopted and the bill was reported favorably, with a recommendation for the local and uncontested calendar. House Bill 3520 was reported favorably by a 7-4 vote, and House Bill 5435 was reported favorably 11-0 and also recommended for the local and uncontested calendar.
After completing the votes, the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- I've also worked with Angelo from the Department of Forensics, and he has helped me with some of the
Committee:
House Health
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 9 February, 2026; 2:00 PM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- , and other places where we are often paying more money for contract work with engineers and with experts
- , and other places where we are often paying more money for contract work with engineers and with experts
- That's where all the experts are coming from.
- </c><01:48:52.800><c> That's</c><01:48:53.040><c> where</c> experts are coming from.
- That's where experts are coming from.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, ma'am, would you consider, I'm not trying to be a smart aleck, would you consider yourself an expert
- And time and time again, we have heard from experts in the field.
- And time and time again, we have heard from experts in the field.
- So we need to start listening to the experts and start doing what we know is going to work, which is
- Questions for the subject matter expert? Okay, none. Are there any other testifiers? No? Thank you.
Bills:
SB1003 , SB1006 , SB1029 , SB1037 , SB1038 , SB1039 , SB1040 , SB1053 , SB1057 , SB1060 , SB1061 , SB1068 , SB1069
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Elections
Keywords:
election, canvass, certification, ballot tabulation, write-in candidates, registration, voting procedures, campaign finance, contribution limits, reporting requirements, political action committees, elections, campaign contributions, candidate committees, posthumous provisions, termination process, Arizona Revised Statutes, voting systems, vote tabulation, election security
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- suggest that this would be a question for the agency who does the review and their here as witnesses, expert
- They're telling you to, and it appears... years that they're experts on it.
- And for somebody who doesn't have that background, it makes them seem like they don't. like they're experts
- Today, you will hear directly from people who have faced this challenge first-hand. as well as experts
- our in maximum security campus and then we actually have a much smaller campus it's our adolescent forensic
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
healthcare, maternal health, reporting requirements, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, health provider immunity, workplace violence, nurses, grant program, healthcare facilities, safety measures, safety, nursing, grants, healthcare safety, verbal abuse, physical abuse, nurse empowerment, occupational therapy, licensure, interstate practice