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CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee Apr 22nd, 2026

Labor, Public Employment and Retirement

Transcript Highlights:
  • compounds are cheaper than actually getting the brand product.
  • the, you know, fully, the end compound that you're getting.
  • For me, I started off even with the compound, spending almost $700 a month.
  • So I pay about $75 more per month to pay for the brand instead of doing the compound.
  • So I pay about $75 more per month to pay for the brand instead of doing the compound.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Health and Human Services - 01/28/25

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Presently, pharmacy surveyors handle both in-state pharmacy inspections and complaint investigations.
  • surveyors handle both instate Pharmacy surveyors handle both instate Pharmacy<00:38:05.040><c> inspections
  • </c><00:38:05.880><c> and</c><00:38:06.160><c> complaint</c> Pharmacy inspections and complaint Pharmacy
  • The PMP is a secure electronic database managed by the Board of Pharmacy, where pharmacies report their
  • The next proposal is related to the pharmacy carveout.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session: 2025 First Special Session - part 1 Jun 9th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Definitely, we would see more pharmacies and dentists.
  • We also saw, as Chair Bierman talked about, significant help with pharmacies.
  • They have an important job to do in that they manage a pharmacy benefit set.
  • PBMs manage tens of millions of pharmacy benefit patients, so they're bigger.
  • There are good things for EMS, hospitals, and pharmacies in this bill.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 20 (2-4-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • These distinctions matter because betrayal of trust compounds the harm and deepens the trauma.
  • These distinctions matter because betrayal of trust compounds the harm and deepens the trauma.
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Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, established a quorum, excused absent members, and suspended rules to allow bill co-sponsorships and vote modifications. The chamber approved the journal and received notice that the Senate had passed Senate Bills 48 and 102 and requested concurrence. The clerk then reported second-reading bills including measures on school bus safety, special license plates, healthcare workforce credentials, housing, veteran PTSD treatment, postsecondary education, the Kentucky Fire Commission, and local purchasing, along with committee reports advancing a wide range of bills on cultured meat, eviction/removal of unlawful occupants, involuntary commitment, grand jury service, CPA licensure, physical therapy, engineering scholarships, rabies vaccinations, the Controlled Substance Prescribing Council, robotics, reading and language arts instruction, and the education assessment/accountability system. The main floor action was House Bill 4, relating to grooming a minor. The sponsor described the bill as creating criminal penalties for grooming behavior, with enhanced penalties when the offender holds a position of authority. A floor amendment was adopted making technical wording changes and adding siblings and volunteers to the bill’s lawful-purpose exceptions. Members from both parties spoke in support, emphasizing child protection and the need for stronger legal tools, though one member said she wished the age threshold were higher. The House then passed House Bill 4 as amended by a vote of 98-0. After HB 4, the House moved through announcements and legislative citations. Members recognized the Corbin Middle School football team and the Lion County High School boys basketball team, and honored M. Samantha Shaver, DMD. Committee meeting notices were announced for several panels, including Economic Development, State Government, Natural Resources and Energy, Families and Children, and Health Services. The clerk also reported newly introduced bills and resolutions covering school foods, family care leave, correctional services, protective orders, data privacy, school funding for districts with high tax-exempt property, Medicaid coverage for adult day health and in-home attendant care, alternative diplomas, Kentucky Nurses Day, a sister-city partnership with Israel’s Shamron Regional Council, and DUI. The House then recessed briefly for committee meetings, received committee referral and rules reports, introduced floor amendments to HB 257 and HB 305, and adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 5, 2026.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 9th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are you concerned this can reduce access to pharmacies for certain individuals if there are pharmacies
  • The nearest big box pharmacy is located, I want to say, 2 to 3 miles away.
  • There is also a local pharmacy, a community pharmacy that does not have access to the same technology
  • I have been a patient that not all pharmacies carried.
  • If it is in my electronic prescription to one pharmacy, it's stuck there.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am

Joint Committee on Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • of this was driven home two weeks ago when I sent a prescription for a college student to a large pharmacy
  • Four days later, I received a message asking me to send it to a different large pharmacy chain because
  • the initial pharmacy was not in their network.
  • As pharmacy networks tighten, medication costs balloon, and pharmacy deserts expand, allowing Massachusetts
  • I'm sure you're all aware that pharmacies are closing throughout the state of the Commonwealth.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The committee held a public hearing with testimony on several health care bills, with most of the discussion focused on primary care access, community health center reimbursement, midwifery and birth centers, telehealth, hospital-at-home, direct primary care, and trans-inclusive health care access. Chair Feeney and Chair Murphy opened by noting the large number of signups and asking testifiers to keep remarks brief because of time constraints. Legislators and witnesses repeatedly emphasized that Massachusetts’ primary care system is under strain and that federal policy changes and reimbursement gaps are worsening financial pressure on providers. On community health centers, Representative Blay, Senator Lovely, Michael Curry, Bethany Keeley, Jag Deep Trevetti, Sean Cahill, and Christina Severin all supported H. 1096/S. 711, which would require commercial insurers to pay federally qualified health centers at least the MassHealth prospective payment system rate. They argued that commercial plans currently reimburse health centers below Medicaid rates, threatening sustainability, staffing, and access, especially as federal cuts and coverage losses could increase uncompensated care. Testifiers said the bill would stabilize health centers, protect primary care access, and not cost the state money. A second major topic was H. 1117/S. 784 on sustaining birth centers and the midwifery workforce. Senator Lovely, Senator Miranda, Emily Anesta, Rebecca Orden, Catherine Rushworth, Nishira Burrill, Joel Sutherland, Rachel Blessington, Joelle Ward, and others described the 2024 maternal health omnibus as an important first step, but said birth centers and midwives still face low reimbursement, workforce shortages, and financial instability. They urged reimbursement parity, a workforce development fund, and support for freestanding birth centers, citing improved outcomes, lower C-section rates, better patient experience, and racial equity in maternal health. Several speakers shared personal birth stories and said the bill would help preserve and expand birth options in communities like Roxbury, Worcester, and the North Shore. The committee also heard support for H. 1343 on direct primary care from Dr. Garofalo, Dr. Altman, Dr. Nair, Stephanie Cameron, Dr. Haley Moke-Blessed, and others, who said current insurance rules force patients to use a separate in-network primary care doctor for referrals and sometimes prevent physicians from dispensing medications. They argued the bill would reduce delays, administrative burden, and costs while improving continuity of care. In addition, Dr. Miklides and Sue Stempeck supported H. 1141 on hospital-at-home parity, saying the model has strong outcomes and should be reimbursed at the same rate as brick-and-mortar hospital care. Heather Myers and Katrina Cook testified on telehealth and digital health equity, urging broader coverage for asynchronous care, remote monitoring, interpreter services, and digital literacy supports. SEIU Local 509 supported H. 1188/S. 681 on trans-inclusive health care access, saying it would remove arbitrary insurance barriers to gender-affirming care. No votes or committee actions were taken during the hearing.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-12 (1:00PM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • the circumstances under which a pharmacist may supervise more than one pharmacy technician.
  • the circumstances under which a pharmacist may supervise more than one pharmacy technician.
  • We may clear that a pharmacist may not supervise more than one pharmacy technician unless additional
  • Adequate supervision of pharmacy technicians is essential.
  • Clear ratios, clear thresholds, and clear standards that tell pharmacists, pharmacies, regulators, and
Keywords: 998, house, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • The board of pharmacy has inspectors.
  • So they do inspections of pharmacies within the state of New Hampshire.
  • </c> board of pharmacy has inspectors. board of pharmacy has inspectors.
  • inspection audit that we the pharmacy inspection audit that we have<00:58:33.040><c> dating</c><00:58
  • I don't think<00:59:32.319><c> there's</c><00:59:32.640><c> a</c><00:59:32.880><c> pharmacy</c><00:59
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee opened by approving the September 5, 2025 minutes, with one member asking that future minutes use honorifics such as Mr. or Ms. The agenda was then adjusted so Police Standards and Training could present first. Director John Skipa reported on the 2019 performance audit, saying 12 of 16 findings were fully resolved and the remaining items were substantially or partially resolved. He highlighted work on a job task analysis to update curriculum and develop a more realistic physical aptitude test, including possible replacement of the long-used Cooper test and a shift away from mandatory baton training toward electronic weapons training. He said stakeholder work groups would meet in October and November, with a goal of completing the work by the first quarter of 2026. On the strategic planning and performance measurement finding, Skipa said the agency had relied on the 2019 audit and the LEAC report as guides while also implementing a digital records system. He acknowledged that a formal forward-looking strategic plan with the council had not yet been completed, but said he and the council chair wanted to do so, possibly through a retreat-style planning session. Members asked how many LEAC recommendations had been fully implemented; Skipa said he did not know the exact number but believed nearly all of the 22 items assigned to his agency were complete. On the administrative rules finding, he said a part-time former director had been brought back to help revise outdated rules, the council subcommittee had finished its work, and proposed changes would be sent to the full council, then to stakeholders and the public, with a public hearing expected and implementation targeted for 2026. For the Corrections Advisory Committee finding, Skipa said the committee had been reconvened in 2020 and 2021 but had limited usefulness because the statutorily named members were mostly high-level administrators rather than line supervisors or newer corrections staff. He said some positions later went unfilled because of budget and staffing issues, and the committee had not been called back, but he was open to either informal adjustments or possible legislative changes to make the committee more useful. Committee members suggested that the statute may need to be amended to allow more appropriate designees or supervisors to participate. After Police Standards and Training concluded, the committee moved on to the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification, where the executive director said he would focus on the partially resolved items in the dental examiner audit and the National Path audit, noting that many changes were tied to recent statutory revisions.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 29th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • For these individuals, home delivery eliminates the need for long-distance travel to pharmacies, saving
  • Our members who brought the problem to our attention are from closed-door pharmacies who focus on medication
  • physical and medical issues, and a lifeline for medically fragile individuals living in rural areas and pharmacy
  • deserts who must travel long distances to meet their pharmacy needs.
Keywords: 988, house, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Health Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • chemistry, toxicology, and the health risks of botanical products, including kratom and kratom-derived compounds
  • What is important to understand is that these two compounds, mitragynine and 7-OH, are not really equal
  • Second, one kratom-related compound, specifically 7-OH, behaves much more like traditional opioids than
  • largest concern right now is the spread and uncontrolled spread of products that concentrate this compound
  • So while we're discussing this compound today, we all In the future.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare May 13th, 2026

Health & Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • Right now, long-term pharmacies are often treated differently from retail pharmacies on paper, but in
  • It simply gives a definition so that these pharmacies are properly recognized for the specialized work
  • Right now, long-term pharmacies are often treated differently from retail pharmacies on paper, but in
  • Under federal rules, pharmacies that serve nursing home and assisted living facilities, must deliver
  • properly recognized for the specialized work that they are The definition is right, so that these pharmacies
Keywords: 974, senate, all
Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Welfare met on May 13 with a quorum present and approved the prior meeting minutes. The committee first heard HB 971, which would equalize Medicaid reimbursement rates between independent clinics and hospital-owned rural health clinics; supporters said independent clinics are disadvantaged by a large payment disparity, and the bill was reported favorable without objection. The committee also recognized visiting Alpha Phi Alpha members and other guests during personal privilege remarks. Members then considered HB 414, which would bar hiring certain health care workers and direct support professionals with serious disqualifying convictions from other states and address background-check issues for therapeutic group homes. After adopting three amendment sets, the bill was reported as amended. HB 740, creating an independent review process for Medicaid behavioral health claim disputes in the coordinated system of care, was amended to clarify applicability and CSOC definitions and then reported as amended. HB 288, which would place the term “miscarriage” alongside “spontaneous abortion” in medical documentation, drew emotional testimony from affected parents and advocates; the committee reported it favorable. The committee also advanced several more bills: HB 405, updating the name of the national acupuncture certifying body, was reported favorable; HB 786, prohibiting extrapolation in certain managed-care claims recoupments, was reported favorable; HB 1095, allowing alternative backup power sources for nursing homes, was reported favorable; HB 403, raising the cottage food gross-sales cap, was amended from $50,000 to $150,000 and then reported favorable; HB 930, modernizing cosmetic-product regulation and creating a small-producer exemption, was reported favorable; HB 557, defining long-term pharmacies for policy purposes, was reported favorable; HB 779, on expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted diseases, was reported favorable; HB 915, setting utilization-management timelines and standards, was reported favorable; HB 546, expanding criteria for peace officers to take someone into protective custody during a mental health crisis, was reported favorable; HB 796, creating a chiropractic preceptorship program, was reported favorable; and HB 933, authorizing commemorative birth certificates, was reported favorable. The final major item was HB 1041, a “no-mandate” bill barring discrimination based on medical intervention status. The sponsor and Surgeon General said it was aimed at healthy, asymptomatic individuals and not at public health quarantine powers, but Senator Boudreaux objected to exemptions for schools and hospitals and offered an amendment to restore broader coverage. That amendment failed on a roll-call vote, and the bill remained under discussion as the transcript ended, with no final committee disposition shown in the excerpt.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/03/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference

Transcript Highlights:
  • flooding, damage property, or harm wildlife, and two, the proposed operation will use chemicals, compounds
  • statement that affirms its review of the applications and proposed use in quantity of the chemical compounds
  • the public comment, the bill outlines—finally, the bill grants ADEQ oversight over the chemicals, compounds
  • The bill requires ADEQ to develop a list of approved chemicals and compounds and the maximum quantity
Summary: The Natural Resources Committee approved the minutes from January 20 and January 27, 2026, and then heard several bills dealing with water policy, environmental regulation, wildlife management, and cosmetics testing. SB 1278 would ban intentional solar radiation management activities in Arizona and bar public entities and recipients of public funds from supporting such technologies; supporters argued it was needed to stop geoengineering, while opponents said it would block research and distract from real pollution problems. The committee voted 5-2 to give SB 1278 a do pass recommendation. The committee then considered SB 1279, which updates Arizona’s weather modification/cloud seeding permitting process by adding ADWR and ADEQ review, public notice and meetings, and a licensing database. A nine-page amendment shifted complaint enforcement to ADWR, added cease-and-desist and fine authority, and changed rulemaking timelines; the amendment was adopted, and the bill passed 5-2. Testimony was mixed: supporters emphasized transparency and safety, Salt River Project was neutral after stakeholder work, and ADEQ said it was neutral but warned it lacked standards, resources, and time to develop the required chemical limits and rules. SB 1005, which would prohibit the sale of cosmetics developed with animal testing beginning in 2027, received a do pass recommendation 4-2 after supporters cited cruelty concerns and the availability of non-animal testing methods. SB 1202, requiring ADWR to include outline data in five-year groundwater supply-and-demand assessments, also passed 4-2 despite agency concerns that the bill would require extensive hydrologic modeling, significant resources, and could produce misleading conclusions about available water. SB 1280, barring state transport or use of public resources to move Mexican gray wolf pups into Arizona, passed 4-2 after testimony split between conservation advocates, who said it would hinder recovery, and supporters concerned about livestock impacts; Game and Fish was neutral. Finally, SB 1287, with a conforming amendment, passed 5-1 to extend a groundwater-use provision for irrigation grandfathered rights from initial AMAs to subsequent AMAs, which ADWR said would reduce burden and create parity across management areas.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Apr 21st, 2025 at 12:30 pm

North Dakota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The pharmacy receives that payment, and then they bill the insurer for the remainder of what is due to
  • This bill is not about what the insurance company gets paid or the pharmacy gets paid.
  • This is about whether or not that coupon The pharmacy gets paid.
  • We talked about the pharmacy benefit manager bill. And we talked about 2160.
  • The pharmacy bill is a little bit of a mess in a grandfather clause. You can see that information.
Keywords: 908, all
Summary: The Senate reconvened and handled several House messages and conference committee appointments before taking up a series of bills. It appointed conference committees on Senate Bill 2265 and House Bills 1454, 1448, and 1524. The chamber also adopted a Senate amendment to House Bill 1216, delaying its effective date for the copay accumulator prescription drug bill to January 1, 2026, with later renewal timing for non-PERS plans. House Bill 1216 then came up for final passage. Senators debated whether allowing copay accumulator programs to count manufacturer coupons toward deductibles would help patients with expensive drugs or unfairly shift costs to insurers and other policyholders. Supporters said it would help people afford life-saving medications and that the coupon payments go to pharmacies, not insurers; opponents argued it could raise premiums and create perverse incentives for drug pricing. The bill passed 29-18. The Senate also concurred in House amendments to Senate Bill 2160, which changes health insurance benefits under the Uniform Group Insurance Program to move from a grandfathered to a non-grandfathered plan, with supporters emphasizing added benefits and flexibility and opponents warning of higher costs and irreversible changes. That bill passed concurrence 33-14 and final passage 39-8. The Senate next concurred in House amendments to Senate Bill 2339, the wildfire mitigation bill, which requires utility mitigation plans to be updated every two years, incorporate national electric standards, and creates a rebuttable presumption of reasonable care if the plan is followed. The bill then passed final passage 46-1. The chamber also adopted conference committee reports and passed House Bill 1460 on adult foster care and monitoring devices, House Bill 1440 on cigar lounge tobacco use, and Senate Bill 2374 on insurance-related provisions including property insurance arbitration, managed repair programs, and surplus lines issues; SB 2374 also added a study on towing and recovery coverage. The session ended with announcements of upcoming conference committee meetings and adjournment until April 22, 2025.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Tue Feb 11, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • However, due to the recent proliferation of the number of contract pharmacies that are actually being
  • Instead, hospitals and for-profit pharmacies have found out how to game the system by expanding into
  • and pharmacies to expand more by gaming the system.
  • He said some members have been asking contract pharmacy entities to upload claims into clearinghouses
  • </c><01:50:35.639><c> to</c> entities that use contract pharmacies to entities that use contract pharmacies
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The committees heard testimony on several transportation and consumer-related bills. HB 496, relating to mamaki tea labeling, drew support from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Weights and Measures, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau, which said the bill would help protect a culturally important crop and the Hawaii brand. Members questioned Agriculture about staffing and whether the bill was being used to reopen a package-labeling inspection branch; the department said it currently has no Oahu inspectors for that function but has a place for an additional inspector. No opposition was registered on the measure. HB 978, relating to electric utilities, and HB 1316, relating to DLNR/park reservations, were also heard. HB 1316 received support from State Parks, and members discussed where reservation fees would go and whether the statewide reservation system for three parks would cover its costs; the committee indicated a change would be made so fees go to the special fund. HB 914, relating to water carriers, drew support or comments from the PUC, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, Young Brothers, and the Hawaii Harbor Users Group. The main discussion focused on the proposed automatic rate-adjustment mechanism tied to the GDP price index, with members asking for alternative index ideas and questioning whether the PUC already had authority to adopt such a mechanism. Young Brothers said the measure would provide clarity and help recover inflationary costs, while the chair raised concerns about repeated rate increases and asked for further testimony on possible alternative indices. HB 1161, relating to transportation and road usage charges, received support from the Insurance Division, DOT, and the State Energy Office, with comments from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and the Hawaii Food Industry Association. Members asked whether counties need state authorization to adopt mileage-based charges and why the bill included funding for implementation; DOT said it is helping counties build the data collection and billing system and that Honolulu is handling much of the collection work. A question was also raised about whether plug-in hybrids would be covered, and DOT said vehicles under the federal electric-vehicle definition would be included. HB 1301, relating to transportation network companies, drew opposition from the Hawaii Association for Justice, Lyft, and Uber, all arguing that classifying TNCs as common carriers and changing liability rules would raise costs, reduce access, and disrupt the current statewide framework. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Labor and Industrial Apr 28th, 2026

Labor & Industrial

Transcript Highlights:
  • Pharmacy benefit managers conduct utilization review.
  • Pharmacy benefit managers conduct utilization review.
  • And the medical doctor agrees, and the doctor of pharmacy agrees, but the insurance, which is controlling
  • You're going to ask me a pharmacy question. I would defer to Rep. Chassion on that as a pharmacist.
  • it... ...with opioids or when pharmacies finally realized it, when prescriptions exceeded seven days
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII Feb 25th, 2025

Appropriations - S/C on Articles VI, VII, & VIII

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, we're moving on to the Board of Pharmacy.
  • On page one, recommendations fund the Board of Pharmacy at just over $29.6 million in all funds, which
  • My name is Danny Carroll. um, I'm the executive director of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
  • , 44,400 pharmacists and pharmacist interns, and 77,800 pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technician
  • Board of Pharmacy, uh, no one wanted to come testify. The Behavioral Health Executive Council.