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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight REVISED: 11:15 a.m. - New Start Time

Health and Human Services Oversight

Summary: The Health and Human Services Oversight Committee opened with prayer and then heard a series of bills, most of them request bills from state agencies or related to veterans and military matters. House Bill 3043 would let the Oklahoma Dental Board Association hire temporary or PRN workers during peak periods; it passed 11-1. House Bill 3044 would continue an existing tax-return checkoff for donations and passed 12-0. House Bill 3078 would create an online donation option for the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs during license and tax transactions and passed 12-0. House Bill 3940 made a number of cleanup and policy changes to a prior Oklahoma National Guard measure, including retention, benefits, discipline, museum operations, and state active duty pay issues; it passed 11-0. House Bill 4117 would define family resource centers in statute and emphasize faith-based partnerships, workforce development, and braided funding; it passed 12-0. The committee also advanced House Bill 3428, which would require certain businesses to post information about veterans’ benefits in a conspicuous place to help more eligible veterans enroll in benefits; members discussed raising the employee threshold from 50 to 100, but no amendment was adopted during the meeting, and the bill passed 10-2. House Bill 4275 would allow counties and cities to employ case managers and peer support specialists while maintaining certification, to support sheriffs and first responders, and it passed 12-0. House Bill 3257 would treat 100% disabilities caused by VA medical malpractice as service-connected for state benefit purposes, aligning state law with federal treatment, and it passed 12-0. Two public health bills also advanced. House Bill 3901 would authorize psychological autopsies in suicide and overdose cases to better understand causes and improve prevention; members discussed whether the process should include notifying prescribing physicians when patients die from opioid overdoses, and the bill passed 12-0. House Bill 4298 would allow DHS child care rule changes to be distributed by mail and electronically, reflecting current practice, and it passed 12-0. The committee adjourned after reporting all measures do pass.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health May 19th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill does not alter existing laws regarding medical staff membership.
  • Those judgments are rightly left to the hospital and... ...independent medical staffs.
  • involved in the medical staff leadership would review that.
  • When a physician applies to a medical staff, he or she has to indicate, "This is what I do.
  • . staff and urge you to support the bill.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We hear regularly of our nursing homes who do not have enough staff.
  • We can get clarification from the nonpartisan staff, Ms. Pelli.
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  • </c> for tracking and valuing staff for tracking and valuing staff competencies<01:45:54.000><c> Regional
  • </c> requirements for positive support staff requirements for positive support staff and<01:46:29.719
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Criminal Justice Jan 20th, 2026

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • information of current state attorney's office or office of statewide prosecution non-legal support staff
  • Non-legal support staff includes, for example, victim advocates.
  • Non-legal support staff includes, for example, victim advocates, witness coordinators, paralegals, and
  • other clerical and office staff.
  • The delete-all amendment, and I have to first thank your staff for their incredible support.
Summary: The committee took up a series of criminal justice and public safety bills. SB 1084, which exempts certain identifying and location information for non-legal support staff in state attorneys’ offices from public records requests, was supported by prosecuting attorneys and reported favorably. SB 212, as amended, created new restrictions related to sexual offenders and predators, including a 200-foot restricted presence provision near certain locations and updated notification/supervision requirements; it drew strong opposition from researchers, advocates, and affected families who argued it lacked evidence and would increase homelessness, but it was reported favorably. SB 682, addressing domestic violence, coercive control, strangulation, animal abuse, injunctions, and related training and enforcement issues, received emotional survivor testimony and support from animal welfare and law enforcement groups and was reported favorably. SB 656, creating and renaming FDLE Internet Crimes Against Children funding and grant programs, was amended and reported favorably and unanimously. The committee also considered SB 810 on sealing criminal history records, which would expand eligibility for some non-conviction records and one low-level misdemeanor conviction after waiting periods and judicial review; supporters said Florida is unusually restrictive, while one senator raised concerns about the scope, and the bill was reported favorably. SB 890, creating a standalone battery by strangulation offense applicable outside domestic relationships, was reported favorably after the sponsor said it would close a gap in current law. SB 892, revising habitual offender and violent career criminal sentencing procedures and notice requirements, was reported favorably, with defense lawyers supporting the clearer pretrial notice. SB 928, “Missy’s Law,” requiring immediate remand to custody after conviction of certain dangerous crimes, was amended to include computer pornography/child exploitation offenses and reported favorably after a family member of the namesake victim testified in support. Later, SB 1284 modernized arrest and search warrant statutes, expanding judicial summons options for some misdemeanors and broadening warrant/arrest authority in certain DUI, injunction, domestic violence, and misdemeanor force cases; defense lawyers supported the judicial-discretion portions but raised concerns about DUI/BUI arrests, and the bill was reported favorably. Finally, SB 812, a technical companion to SB 810 updating public records treatment for sealed criminal history records, was amended to clarify prosecutorial access for later cases and reported favorably. Several bills were supported by law enforcement, prosecutors, and advocacy groups, while others drew opposition from civil liberties, treatment, homelessness, and criminal defense advocates. The meeting adjourned after members recorded additional votes on selected tabs.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 23rd, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you require assistance in registering, please contact the committee staff.
  • Current law states that agencies with more than 100 employees must maintain a staff-to-manager ratio
  • law also states that state agencies shall develop procedures for use in achieving a management-to-staff
  • ratio of one manager for each 11 staff members.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/25/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you to our staff. I think our staff gets overlooked a lot.
  • Thank you to Republican staff.
  • Thank you to our staff. I and time. Thank you to our staff.
  • </c> think our staff gets overlooked a lot. think our staff gets overlooked a lot.
  • </c><00:24:58.960><c> working</c> like really intelligent staff working like really intelligent staff
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 28th, 2026 at 11:02 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've got wonderful educators, a wonderful staff.
  • He's held numerous hospital leadership roles, including president of the medical staff, and has been
  • We sat around the big round table, and obviously it was brought up as a concern by our medical staff
  • Obviously, it was brought up as a concern by our medical staff and hospital and so forth.
  • Representative Brown and Senator Figueroa, an act making an appropriation to the Attorney General to hire staff
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU Public Hearing 03-20-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c><00:47:00.160><c> staff</c><00:47:00.480><c> members</c> several additional staff staff members several
  • additional staff staff members to<00:47:00.880><c> be</c><00:47:00.960><c> able</c><00:47:01.119><c>
  • </c><00:47:59.920><c> Like</c> need more money and more staff. Like need more money and more staff.
  • </c><01:04:27.200><c> has</c> correctly, Senator, um your staff has correctly, Senator, um your staff
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Corrections Apr 16th, 2025

Corrections

Transcript Highlights:
  • you require assistance in registering or testifying, please get in touch with one of our committee staff
  • If we could staff that completely... And have complete focus on air conditioning.
  • We do exercise that with our own maintenance staff as well as our inmate labor forces because we have
  • You would agree it's also hard on the staff, correct, and it's hard to get... Yes, sir.
  • One of the reasons we're having to hire more security staff.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you need accommodations, please consult with the sergeant staff or the state trooper in the room.
  • </c><00:46:53.680><c> in</c> security needs for members and staff in security needs for members and staff
  • are safest members as well outside staff are safest members as well outside of<00:53:24.640><c> the<
  • And so I've heard of people coming here that work here on a regular basis, staff, government affairs
  • , staff, staff, government<01:06:29.760><c> affairs</c><01:06:30.160><c> people</c><01:06:30.880><c>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • With our DFPS workers, you know this, they're the ones that staff it.
  • Again, one of the things that I task... our staff to do, and I'm very grateful for everyone that works
  • This was a doctor who actually was on staff with a hospital.
  • Thank you for your time and attention today, as I stated to the staff. and to everyone is we may have