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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations May 18th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Some of our parishes, whether they're sheriffs or local, maybe a larger police force or state police,
  • Several years ago, our church took up a big offering, and we provided these for our local sheriff's office
Bills: SB143 , SB367 , SB388 , SB398
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans Feb 18th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

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  • It provides preference in state and local civil service exams, and it provides license extensions from
  • It provides preference in state and local civil service exams, and it provides license extensions from
Bills: SB5420
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 2nd, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Ways & Means

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  • We think that hurts local jobs.
  • The other is the local sales and use tax for affordable and 0.1%.
  • They will continue creating jobs and anchoring their local economy for years to come.
  • Through CRP, local boards have engaged more than 9,600 businesses statewide.
  • Through CRP, local boards have engaged more than 9,600 businesses statewide.
Bills: SB6256 , SB6275 , SB5868 , SB5954
Committee: Senate Ways & Means
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Feb 2nd, 2026 at 02:11 pm

House Judiciary

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  • Officers, this is purely for our local officers. I'll defer.
  • Local law enforcement.
  • And I would just say I think every state agency, every local government is struggling.
  • . with the instruction to use it to help the local governments in my district.
  • You know, I'm a local government person. You guys know that.
Bills: HB9 , HB50
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-STATE INSURANCE PROGRAMS OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE Feb 18th, 2026

ALC-STATE INSURANCE PROGRAMS OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE

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  • Next item up is the January 2026 pharmacy formulary recommendations.
  • Next item up is the January 26th pharmacy formulary recommendations.
  • His question was whether affiliate pharmacies were being paid more than independent pharmacies within
  • being paid more than independent pharmacies.
  • are being affected differently than affiliated pharmacies.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Finance (04/21/2025)

Finance

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  • talk about our pharmacy and our pharmacy<00:34:18.720><c> uh</c><00:34:18.879><c> process</c><00:34:19.359
  • ><c> off</c> bad luck. pharmacy inflation took off bad luck. pharmacy inflation took off like<01:38:33.199
  • </c> combined experience medical and pharmacy combined experience medical and pharmacy and<02:02:50.560
  • </c> um processes at the local um processes at the local level.<02:20:12.319><c> We</c><02:20:12.720>
  • </c> region to be able to connect with local region to be able to connect with local resource<03:07:30.640
Committee: Senate Finance
KY
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  • We also partner with our MedImpact pharmacy benefit manager, um, because they look at pharmacy first
  • </c> with our with Med impact our Pharmacy with our with Med impact our Pharmacy benefit<00:30:16.840
  • > comes</c><00:30:20.960><c> to</c> Pharmacy first before Pharmacy comes to Pharmacy first before Pharmacy
  • </c> organizations so we have one uh Pharmacy organizations so we have one uh Pharmacy benefit<00:36:
  • </c> claims activity we also have a pharmacy claims activity we also have a pharmacy and<00:37:15.160
Summary: The subcommittee met to review the Department for Medicaid Services’ program integrity work. Commissioner Lisa Lee and Program Integrity Director Jennifer Dudinsky outlined Kentucky Medicaid’s structure, funding, enrollment, and spending, including FMAP rates, the size of the Medicaid and KCHIP populations, the number of providers, and 2024 expenditures. They also described the managed care and fee-for-service populations, noting that managed care serves most members while fee-for-service is concentrated in long-term care and waiver populations. Most of the discussion focused on fraud, waste, abuse prevention, and provider oversight. The department described its provider enrollment and certification checks, revalidation requirements, site reviews, fingerprinting for some high-risk providers, and termination grounds such as false application information, Medicare actions, unreported ownership changes, and abandonment of a provider number. Members asked about nonprofit ownership reporting, MCO fraud oversight, and how the department tracks unusual CPT code utilization, especially in behavioral health. The department said it uses data analytics, audits, policy review, and collaboration with behavioral health staff to monitor those trends. Dudinsky explained the division’s four branches: provider licensing and certification, audits and compliance, recovery, and third-party liability/estate recovery. She described prepayment and postpayment audits, referrals of credible fraud allegations to the Attorney General, monthly meetings with the AG’s office, and coordination with the Office of Inspector General, CMS, HHS OIG, MCOs, and other partners. She also explained payment suspensions, stand-downs during law enforcement investigations, and recovery efforts for overpayments, provider/member fraud, and third-party liability. The department said its recovery and avoidance efforts produced more than $251 million in savings so far in 2025. No votes or formal actions beyond approving the minutes were taken.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, pharmacy inspection. So we have three pharmacy inspectors.
  • ,</c><00:13:07.519><c> you'll</c> we are the board of pharmacy, you'll we are the board of pharmacy,
  • I will say the regulation of the pharmacy board is not necessarily connected to the pharmacy benefit
  • ><c> were</c><00:21:41.039><c> were</c> The pharmacy benefit managers were were The pharmacy benefit
  • ><c> the</c><00:22:00.320><c> pharmacy</c><00:22:00.720><c> benefit</c> connected to the pharmacy benefit
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from its October 3 meeting unanimously. It then reviewed follow-up status on prior performance audits, beginning with the Department of Corrections’ sex offender treatment program. DOC said all audit items from the 2016 review were resolved except one related to tracking benchmarks, progress, and recidivism. Officials explained that a new offender management system, Chorus, was recently implemented but has had rollout problems affecting operations, including restitution checks, and that they hope the system will be stable enough within about six months to begin tracking the needed metrics. Members asked about treatment inside prison and after release; DOC described in-prison treatment, parole aftercare, probation and parole oversight, administrative restrictions, and reassessment if conditions are not met. The committee next heard from OPLC on the Real Estate Commission audit. OPLC reported that all but one finding is substantially or fully resolved, with the remaining issue involving review of applicants’ adverse financial history and liabilities. The delay is tied to ongoing rulemaking, and OPLC said the commission is amending its criteria and integrating universal application procedures into board rules. The office estimated substantive completion by March 2027, with rule filing expected sooner. The committee then took up the Board of Pharmacy audit, where OPLC said most findings remain partially resolved because the board is in the middle of a major rule overhaul and a new licensing software project. Officials described a shift toward a compliance bureau and more routine, risk-informed inspections, rather than inspections driven only by complaints, and said updated manuals and forms will follow the new rules and technology. Finally, the Legislative Budget Assistant reported on ongoing audits. For special education, staff said they are writing the report, have 25 completed observations, and have expanded to 70 identified observations, with a full draft expected in the first quarter of 2026 and a final report by summer 2026. For education freedom accounts, 40 observations have been identified, 15 finalized, and a draft is expected by midspring with a fiscal committee presentation in summer. For the Doorway program, the audit plan was finalized with DHHS help, financial activity was isolated, fieldwork is expected to finish by Thanksgiving, and a draft report is planned for January or February 2026, with a final report by March or April 2026. The committee discussed scheduling its next meeting for February 6 at 10 a.m. and emphasized the value of follow-up on older audits; the meeting adjourned after members agreed the follow-up process should continue.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/12/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Transcript Highlights:
  • So nobody in the local jurisdiction can even afford that.
  • municipalities or local districts, counties should have some kind of say.
  • Yeah. ...local community, if they don't want it to develop, can always buy it.
  • I mean, if your local community, you should be able to buy it.
  • I think all the local people bowed out. And that's the struggle.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Feb 5th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Transportation

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  • In addition to the very localized use by our law enforcement, the State Traffic Safety Commission is
  • I could spend all day going through all the myriad of features that we have, but this is a localized
  • So again, the locals can decide.
  • This particular local TBD fee is not a fee that is weight-based, per se.
  • This particular local TBD fee is not a fee that is weight-based, per se.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 29th, 2026 at 11:09 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have also local That we have to offer. We have the Otero County Fair.
  • We have also local flavors of delicious pecans. We also have a distillery up in Tularosa.
  • House Bill 215, relating to motor vehicles, authorizing local and county elected authorities to allow
  • school board's ability to establish enrollment preferences, requiring local school boards to determine
  • House Memorial 22, introduced by Representatives Borrego and Sanchez, a memorial requesting that local
Bills: HM3 , HM11 , HM14 , HM15 , HM21
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 30th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • PDs or our local sheriff's offices.
  • It's not local.
  • I advertise a local bill. This basically involves local bills. This basically involves local bills.
  • We advertise a local bill.
  • Usually, local bill advertisements come from some resolution by one of our local entities.
Bills: HB202 , HB42 , HB146 , HB492 , HB285 , HB7 , HB454 , HB42 , HB7
Committee: Senate Judiciary
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 9th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • heard pretty vital to public safety and then all the ones that I've seen in the past are vital to local
  • It actually gets at one of my great frustrations, which is that state and local governments are getting
  • And so it's it's been very difficult to get information from our local bodies here, and then I know We
  • I sought text messages between the city manager and a local hotelier.
  • communities. local entity, governments.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 8th, 2025

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Transcript Highlights:
  • This has led to confusion. amongst local local business owners as well as permitting officials with navigating
  • I have vast experience from local law to federal law.
  • . an election, so a local election in local communities to determine if they want to authorize sale of
  • For local businesses to sell liquor on Sundays gives the power to the local businesses to meet consumer
  • This bill is about a local option.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025

State Affairs

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  • This bill does not take away any authority from local governments under Local Government Code chapters
  • Chapter 212 has to do with local land use restrictions.
  • First, it clarifies that all local governments must stop collecting local food and local alcohol fees
  • The bill also clarifies that no local government can require a food manager to pay a local fee or get
  • So on the local level, do you not have local filers?
Committee: House State Affairs
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Current law allows local authorities to regulate sound through permitting systems, fees, and local ordinances
  • Local control in that fact pattern, would it?
  • So as far as local...
  • Then the local ordinance would be null and void. Is that correct?
  • You're trying to preempt local control.
Committee: House State Affairs
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Mar 26th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • TTP is a nonpartisan nonprofit coalition of local, state, and national stakeholders that design, market
  • Our constituents should be able to, as long as their local pharmacy doesn't charge more money, be able
  • From that pharmacy, and our insurers are supposed to be able to comply with that.
  • Well, if you look at any willing pharmacy, we do what we want to do.
  • Use any willing pharmacy.
Committee: House State Affairs