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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Jan 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AGAIN TO PRESENT AND SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS AND REENTRY
- WE TRIED TO DO TO DETERMINE WHAT ARE THE HIGHEST JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN CERTAIN AREAS AND PREPPIES INMATES
- THE COMMISSION PROVIDES VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DECISION-MAKING
- FOR GIVING MORE KIDS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET THAT CITATION.
- GOING BACK TO RESEARCH WHAT WE KNOW IS YOU GIVE A YOUNG PERSON THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A CITATION BASED ON
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> passed during the Housing Opportunity passed during the Housing Opportunity grants<00:11:25.600>
- </c> Champions the Housing Opportunity Champions the Housing Opportunity program<00:11:51.800><c> there's
- Nick Norman, thank you once again for the opportunity to speak.
- </c><01:21:03.440><c> for</c> Works to expand the opportunity for Works to expand the opportunity for
- </c><05:04:19.600><c> to</c> y'all might have had the opportunity to y'all might have had the opportunity
Committee:
House Housing
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Farewells - 05/18/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> had that opportunity. had that opportunity.
- </c> for fairness and opportunity. for fairness and opportunity.
- </c> for giving me the opportunity. for giving me the opportunity.
- <c> beyond</c><01:57:49.600><c> these</c> Opportunities to take me beyond these Opportunities to take
- </c> the opportunity to continue to do it. the opportunity to continue to do it.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 29th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It does give us all the opportunity to sunset agencies essentially in real time.
- I understand that some people do not have the same opportunities as my children.
- tell me what you think Oklahoma Equal Opportunity means?
- We need to address that opportunity upfront and not outsource so that the opportunity goes away.
- I had an opportunity to meet, that gentleman.
Bills:
HB2268 , HB3000 , HB3043 , HB3066 , HB3078 , HB3143 , HB3144 , HB3244 , HB3298 , HB3320 , HB3467 , HB3321 , HB3329 , HB3431 , HB3464 , HB3499 , HB3500 , HB3586 , HB3590 , HB3650 , HB3671 , HB3695 , HB3700 , HB3701 , HB3764 , HB3767 , HB3834 , HB3931 , HB3934 , HB3940 , HB3944 , HB3979 , HB3985 , HB4113 , HB4294 , HB4302 , HB4317 , HB4324 , HB4359 , HB4426 , HB4427 , HB4430 , HB4431 , HB4434 , HJR1077 , SR42 , SR35 , HJR1023 , HB1225 , HB1374 , HB1381 , HB1590 , HB1675 , HB2153
Keywords:
HB2268, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, OHCA, appropriation, General Revenue Fund, PACE, Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, elderly care, aging Oklahomans, long-term care, Medicaid, health care funding, provider reimbursement, rate increase, low-income seniors, senior services, integrated care, emergency measure, cosmetology, barbering
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee Mar 24th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I really appreciate the opportunity to address the committee.
- So thank you again for the opportunity to address the committee.
- You have the opportunity, you already have the opportunities, and you're having this transparent process
- Chairman, again, for the opportunity. Thank you for coming.
- And so there's just a lot of opportunities for growth here.
Committee:
Joint Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Discussion of farm down payment assistance program modifications 2/23/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:07:30.479><c> to</c> a small farmer has the opportunity to a small farmer has the opportunity
- He said he wants to support opportunities for small farmers in greater Minnesota, but also smaller food
- And so it does take opportunity land.
- </c><00:43:35.680><c> So</c><00:43:36.160><c> I</c> opportunity to apply for it.
- So I opportunity to apply for it.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 3/10/25
Rules and Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.
- Chair, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.
- Chair, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.
- Chair, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.
- Chair, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.
Bills:
HF550
Committee:
House Rules and Legislative Administration
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Secondly, they provide an opportunity to check in.
- Secondly, they provide an opportunity to check in.
- Secondly, they provide an opportunity to check in.
- </c><01:53:22.560><c> bring</c> that was a wonderful opportunity bring that was a wonderful opportunity
- </c> thank you all again for the opportunity thank you all again for the opportunity to<01:56:09.920>
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present today.
- Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to share my thoughts.
- It provides that opportunity for both the district, the students, and the educators.
- It provides that opportunity for both the district, the students, and the educators.
- </c><01:57:05.920><c> to</c> constituents of mind the opportunity to constituents of mind the opportunity
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HLT/CPC Joint Public Hearing - Mon Feb 10, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:18:42.400><c> to</c> thank you for this opportunity to thank you for this opportunity to testify
- First, thank you for the opportunity to testify today.
- </c><01:02:10.319><c> to</c> and we do have the opportunity to and we do have the opportunity to support
- Thank you for the opportunity.
- Thank you for the opportunity.
Summary:
The joint House Committee on Health and Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce heard two midwifery bills, with testimony focused primarily on HB 1194. Committee chairs opened the hearing with rules for Zoom testimony and noted the bills relate to midwives. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs said it supported the intent of HB 1194 and offered comments. Supporters of the bill, including the Midwives Alliance of Hawaii, argued that midwifery should remain subject to mandatory licensure to protect consumer safety, citing the state’s regulatory licensing standards and a 2025 state auditor sunset analysis. They said the bill would strengthen educational standards and public protection, and some offered clarifying amendments.
Opponents argued HB 1194 would restrict access to care and fail to protect traditional, cultural, and community-based birth practices. Testifiers from the Hawaii Home Birth Task Force, the Hawaii Home Birth Collective, the Libertarian Party of Hawaii, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Pacific Birth Collective, and Papa Ola Lōkahi said the bill would limit licensure pathways, reduce access in rural and underserved areas, and burden Native Hawaiian and traditional practitioners. Several speakers said the measure could worsen Hawaii’s maternal health shortages, especially on Maui, and urged lawmakers to defer HB 1194 or instead advance HB 1328, which they said better protects practitioner access and cultural practices.
The Hawaii affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives said it opposed HB 1194 because it did not align with national or state standards for certified midwives and could create conflicts with Medicaid reimbursement and prescriptive authority. The ACLU also opposed the measure, emphasizing reproductive rights, privacy, and the need to preserve apprenticeship pathways to licensure. No vote or final committee action was taken during the portion of the hearing reflected in the transcript.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- in our state from opportunities in our state from outofstate<00:21:21.919><c> private</c><00:21:22.240
- </c> families don't even have the opportunity families don't even have the opportunity to<00:21:51.440
- </c><02:00:20.480><c> today</c> And what we have the opportunity today And what we have the opportunity
- But I also want to take an opportunity to thank Louis Hunter, Andrew Ericson, the mighty Keley Spence
- It does allow for an opportunity for the public to understand, uh, projects as they come forward.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, first off, we have two new members. opportunity to observe and participate opportunity to observe
- </c><00:08:16.560><c> to</c> this committee for the opportunity to this committee for the opportunity
- </c> the the barriers and the opportunities the the barriers and the opportunities to<00:21:06.559><c
- </c><00:25:43.440><c> for</c> we see as some of the opportunities for we see as some of the opportunities
- </c><00:48:02.720><c> like</c> net opportunities for something like net opportunities for something like
Committee:
House Ways and Means
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Apr 29th, 2026
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I think one of the unique opportunities that this modernization bill offers is that at any point, opportunities
- tell me what you think Oklahoma Equal Opportunity means?
- And I don't want to see their opportunities dried up.
- We need to address that opportunity on the front end, not outsource so that that opportunity goes away
- I had an opportunity to meet that gentleman.
Bills:
HB2268 , HB3000 , HB3043 , HB3066 , HB3078 , HB3143 , HB3144 , HB3244 , HB3298 , HB3320 , HB3467 , HB3321 , HB3329 , HB3431 , HB3464 , HB3499 , HB3500 , HB3586 , HB3590 , HB3650 , HB3671 , HB3695 , HB3700 , HB3701 , HB3764 , HB3767 , HB3834 , HB3931 , HB3934 , HB3940 , HB3944 , HB3979 , HB3985 , HB4113 , HB4294 , HB4302 , HB4317 , HB4324 , HB4359 , HB4426 , HB4427 , HB4430 , HB4431 , HB4434 , HJR1077 , SR42 , SR35 , HJR1023 , HB1225 , HB1374 , HB1381 , HB1590 , HB1675 , HB2153
Keywords:
HB2268, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, OHCA, appropriation, General Revenue Fund, PACE, Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, elderly care, aging Oklahomans, long-term care, Medicaid, health care funding, provider reimbursement, rate increase, low-income seniors, senior services, integrated care, emergency measure, cosmetology, barbering
Summary:
The Senate began with a quorum call, gallery introductions, and extended farewell remarks from Senator Jett, who reflected on his six years in the Legislature, his focus on representing constituents, protecting families, and holding government accountable. Several senators responded with personal tributes, praising his conviction, faith, family involvement, and willingness to ask difficult questions. No votes were taken during the farewell portion.
The chamber then considered House Bill 2268, a PACE appropriation to support comprehensive care for low-income seniors and expand services in rural Oklahoma. The bill was amended to restore the title, advanced, and passed 34-9, then passed as an emergency measure 36-7. House Bill 3000, a cosmetology and barbering measure, made multiple changes including board reorganization, adding a human trafficking specialist and massage therapist, shifting some licensing functions to Service Oklahoma, and eliminating the massage therapy advisory board. It drew significant debate over process and policy, especially from senators concerned about late changes, lack of board input, and the human trafficking rationale; it passed 25-19 and then as an emergency 33-11.
The Senate also passed House Bill 3043, allowing the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs to hire prorated seasonal staff for veterans homes, 37-6; House Bill 3066, creating a revolving fund for federal workforce training money for behavioral health recruitment and retention, 38-6 and as an emergency; and House Bill 3078, allowing donation options on state payment forms for the ODVA revolving fund, 45-0 and as an emergency. Additional measures passed included House Bill 3143, extending the moratorium on new medical marijuana business licenses to 2028, 39-7; House Bill 3144, capping medical marijuana commercial grower licenses at 2,550 after amendment, 34-12; House Bill 3244 on identity theft, 46-0; House Bill 3298 on child interview procedures in court cases, 46-0 and as an emergency; House Bill 3320, replacing the traditional sunset process with more immediate legislative review of agencies, 33-13 and as an emergency; House Bill 3321, requiring county data collection and reporting related to court costs and financial obligations, 45-0 and as an emergency; House Bill 3329, a trailer bill adding a repealer and a sunset for the Board of Psychological Examiners, 33-10 and as an emergency; House Bill 3431, expanding restrictions on foreign entities owning or leasing land and critical minerals, 43-0; House Bill 3464, setting safety and training requirements for certain projects involving fire code compliance and decommissioning, 43-0 and as an emergency; and House Bill 3499, expanding special judges’ authority over vehicle title orders, which was presented and advanced as the transcript ended.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/11/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- And also if there are people who are not supportive of the bill, them an opportunity to present their
- </c> What we're asking for is the opportunity What we're asking for is the opportunity to<00:26:39.600
- Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee for the opportunity to speak.
- you for the opportunity to share my<00:56:29.320><c> perspective.
- </c> >> Thank you for the opportunity. >> Thank you for the opportunity.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Common interest communities provisions modified 2/24/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, thank you, Chair Kaggel, for giving me the opportunity to speak today.
- Um, my name opportunity to speak today.
- My name is the opportunity to testify.
- Has anyone approached the opportunity.
- ><c> looking</c><00:52:48.559><c> at</c> opportunity of maybe looking at opportunity of maybe looking
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:42:25.040><c> for</c> opportunities for opportunities for creating<00:42:27.080><c> a</c><00:42:27.320
- It gives them the opportunity to make a hire quickly.
- </c> well and [music] so just any opportunity well and [music] so just any opportunity to<01:21:16.760
- </c> I may have lost the opportunity I may have lost the opportunity um<01:23:45.400><c> that</c><01:
- /c><01:26:31.800><c> here</c> there's a big opportunity here there's a big opportunity here to<01:26:
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (04/08/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- So they educational opportunity first.
- But I'll let opportunity for education.
- </c><00:56:10.720><c> As</c> opportunity to testify this morning.
- As opportunity to testify this morning.
- </c><01:11:28.719><c> to</c> some fat to trim some opportunities to some fat to trim some opportunities
Committee:
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Insurance Committee May 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I appreciate this opportunity to have this discussion here today and look forward to working with your
- This is a major opportunity for legislative action this year.
- And so I think you all have an opportunity to get us there.”
- Good luck, and thank you for the opportunity to make public comment. Welcome.
- And thank you for the opportunity to make public comment. Thank you. Welcome.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Insurance held an information hearing on the impacts of climate change and catastrophic wildfire on California’s insurance market, with opening remarks focused on the state’s affordability, availability, and stability problems. Chair and members discussed the role of SB 254’s report, the Sustainable Insurance Strategy, the growth of the FAIR Plan, and the need to better align insurance regulation, mitigation, and land-use decisions. The Vice Chair noted the importance of hearing from industry as well as consumer and academic experts, and Senator Becker said the report would inform further committee work.
Amy Bach of United Policyholders described how climate-driven wildfire and flood risk, combined with inflation, insurtech, and risk modeling, have reduced competition and pushed more homeowners into the FAIR Plan and non-admitted surplus lines coverage. She said availability is improving somewhat, but affordability will depend on mitigation, insurer competition, and fair rate regulation. In response to questions, she emphasized underinsurance as a long-running problem, supported stronger insurer responsibility for replacement-cost estimates, and suggested a public reinsurance backstop and more mitigation funding rather than removing wildfire coverage from basic policies.
Nancy Watkins of Milliman and Michael Wara of Stanford argued that the market problem is fundamentally that expected claims and expenses now exceed premiums because too many homes are burning. They said California needs both risk reduction and actuarially sound pricing, along with a state mitigation framework that targets the highest-risk communities and prioritizes home hardening, defensible space, and community-scale mitigation over broad acreage-based spending. They also discussed the role of non-admitted carriers as a gap-filler, the need for better data on reconstruction costs and mitigation effectiveness, and the importance of sustained funding rather than one-time grants.
A later panel with Frank Freebalt of Cal Poly and Michael Golnar of UC Berkeley focused on modeling and mitigation science. They said wildfire policy should treat the issue as a structure-ignition and urban conflagration problem, not just a wildland fire problem, and stressed integrated land-use, utility, and community mitigation. Members asked about zoning, building codes, utility hardening, and who should pay for mitigation; witnesses said older, denser neighborhoods are the highest priority, that utilities must improve operational safety measures, and that targeted mitigation in the highest-risk areas offers the best return. No votes or formal actions were taken at the hearing.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health and Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Health and Human Services Apr 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for the opportunity to present today.
- I'm grateful for this opportunity to share our story.
- I think there's also opportunity to be more, to enforce more.
- I think there's also opportunity to be more, to enforce more.
- Well, I appreciate the opportunity to have the conversation.
Summary:
The joint hearing focused on access to gender-affirming care in California, with members of the Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees hearing first from the Department of Justice, Department of Managed Health Care, and Department of Health Care Services. State officials described California’s legal protections against discrimination, privacy protections, shield laws, and Medi-Cal and commercial plan coverage requirements for medically necessary gender-affirming care. They also outlined ongoing litigation and advocacy against federal actions and proposed rules that could restrict care, including challenges to executive orders, HHS declarations, and federal reimbursement rules, as well as a temporary restraining order protecting care at Rady Children’s Hospital.
Committee members pressed the agencies on why some hospitals that had stopped providing care had not been sued, how the state measures network adequacy and equitable access, whether the $15 million previously allocated for gender-affirming care had been used, and what additional statutory changes might be needed. DMHC and DHCS said they regulate health plans rather than providers directly, rely on complaints and independent medical review to address denials or delays, and do not track utilization or have a specific provider category for gender-affirming care. DOJ said it is focused on the federal government as the source of pressure on hospitals and providers, while members discussed possible shield-law expansions and, if federal rules are finalized, the possibility of state-only funding to preserve access.
The second panel featured a physician, clinic leaders, parents, and a transgender teen describing how families navigate care and the effects of hospital closures and insurance barriers. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy gave a history of transgender health care, described puberty blockers and hormones as established treatments, and said minors need parental consent for medical interventions. J.M. Jaffe of Lyon Martin Community Health Services said community clinics are absorbing patients after hospital programs closed and asked for $26 million in state funding to expand capacity. Parents and youth testified about delays, out-of-network referrals, lost coverage, and the emotional strain of uncertainty, while also urging the Legislature to stabilize access and protect continuity of care.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Education Policy Committee Mar 11th, 2026
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I ask opportunity to gather here today.
- Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak today.
- Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak today.
- Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak today.
- I appreciate the opportunity to be here.
Committee:
House Education Policy