Video & Transcript Research : 'remote workers'
Page 52 of 441
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- 00:04:52.440>
our <00:04:52.639>public <00:04:52.919>health <00:04:53.160>workers - <00:04:53.880>
we <00:04:54.039>now and our public health workers we now and our public - health workers we now have<00:04:54.479>
both <00:04:54.639>the <00:04:54.880>technology - critical access Hospital in a remote critical access Hospital in a remote area<00:21:56.320>
- examiners therapists social workers examiners therapists social workers doulas<00:31:26.760>
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 23rd, 2025
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- management system, or as you all might know it, Canvas, which is the online platform for coursework and remote
- I'm pretty remote, had trouble keeping their school buses.
- provide potentially some of those supports for secondary students that include counselors and social workers
- On line 65, the learning management system we're talking about for remote learning.
- the other category, both recommendations include funding for the agency to improve webcasting and remote
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Workers, regardless of where either the agency or the person is in the transition, those things will
- A couple key components of note here include increasing rates for experienced workers.
- A couple key components of note here include increasing rates for experienced workers.
- to connect with people that are looking for direct care workers, so that they could then employ them
- um so that they could then workers um so that they could then employ<00:29:22.279>
them <00:29
ND
Transcript Highlights:
- They conduct the monitoring and testing, installation of remote electronic monitoring equipment, enter
- Which is a bracelet that is used for remote monitoring and detects alcohol.
- Remote breath test is a device that is sent with the individual.
- So if the equipment was paid for by the state 100%, or if the share of the remote test and the SCRAM
- Once they’re on that for a little while, then we can get them on a SCRAM bracelet, a remote breath...
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 27, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- So, in addition to professional counselor or social worker or marriage therapist.
- So, in addition to professional counselor or social worker or marriage therapist.
- You know, we can do a lot of this remotely. I don't think this will be too complex for us.
- You know, we can do a lot of this<00:56:32.079>
remotely. - I don't think this will this remotely.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/19/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We do have the ability for our testifiers to appear remotely, and that will be handled with the help
- of county workers across the state<00:41:17.040>
are <00:41:17.160>doing. - I am not the only healthcare worker who has been intimidated by ICE.
- healthcare workers. healthcare workers.
- Healthcare workers are afraid to go to work. Our patients are afraid to get care.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
State Committee Meeting - 2026-04-09
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a member participating remotely in accordance with House Rules 10.05.
- Representative Katie Jones [member_20783] is participating remotely.
- We are entrepreneurs, educators, health care workers, students, artists, refugees, and the citizens of
- , educators, health care workers, educators, health care workers, students,<00:04:05.000>
artists - by preventing wage theft, worker by preventing wage theft, worker misclassification,<00:15:10.040
Keywords:
Central and Eastern European Affairs, ethnic council, advisory council, Minnesota state government, immigrant communities, refugees, humanitarian parolees, Ukraine, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic, Baltic states, Slovakia, Slovenia, Kosovo, Russia
Summary:
The committee first approved the April 7, 2026 minutes and then held an informal hearing on House File 4364, which would establish a Central and Eastern European Ethnic Council in Minnesota. Representative Jordan and testifiers Mykola Mager and Julia Miller described the large Central and Eastern European community in Minnesota, its contributions to the state, and the need for a formal advisory body to help address barriers to government services, support refugees, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and cultural understanding. Members expressed general support and noted the bill’s importance, but no formal action was taken on the bill during the hearing.
The committee then took up House File 4543, a bill to create a centralized payroll reporting portal for prevailing wage projects. Representative Frazier said the bill would reduce administrative burden on project owners, improve transparency and accountability, and help prevent wage theft, misclassification, tax fraud, and insurance fraud. Testifiers from county, city, and contractor groups largely supported the idea of streamlining reporting, but contractor representatives raised concerns about employee data privacy, public access to sensitive payroll information, duplication of existing systems, interoperability with contractor software, and the need for stakeholder engagement. Members echoed both support and caution, and the bill was laid over as amended rather than advanced.
Finally, the committee considered House File 4821, described by Chair Klevorn as addressing the “penny problem” and a related change to high-deductible insurance plans. The bill would authorize state agencies to round cash transactions because of the penny shortage and would change MMB’s obligation to offer certain high-deductible health plans from “must” to “may,” producing modest administrative savings. Members questioned the drafting of the rounding language and asked about cash transactions at state agencies and the handling of cannabis tax payments. The chair noted the bill had missed the deadline and would be caught by the chief clerk’s office; the discussion ended with the bill being laid over as amended.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 7/8/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Limits on remote support to no client.
- <00:31:27.200>
with the counties and tribal workers with the counties and tribal workers with - I am incredibly our frontline workers.
- are threatening our frontline workers are threatening our frontline workers and<01:52:28.480>
and <01:52:51.599>we workers, the frontline workers, and we workers, the frontline workers
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
ACT 310, SLH 2025 Nonprofit Grants Program Info Briefing - Thu Oct 30, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- These staff are our patient navigators, our eligibility workers, our community health workers, the staff
- These staff are our patient navigators, our eligibility workers, our community health workers, the staff
- These staff are our patient navigators, our eligibility workers, our community health workers, the staff
- At the same time, many federal workers have gone weeks without pay.
- to many crisis calls from case workers to many crisis calls from case workers from<02:42:10.399>
Summary:
This joint informational briefing on Act 310 grants and aid focused on organizations describing how federal funding cuts, Medicaid/SNAP changes, and related policy shifts are affecting their services and budgets. Committee members explained there would be no Q&A, testimony would be limited to one minute, and in-person participants would be heard before Zoom callers. Members repeatedly asked testifiers to identify the amount of federal funding lost or at risk.
Testimony came from a wide range of nonprofits and community providers, including Aloha Care, Hawaii Bicycling League, Hawaii Literacy, Hawaii Youth Symphony, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the Tsunami Museum, The Kohala Center, West Hawaii Community Health Center, West Hawaii Region Hospital Foundation, Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, Dynamic Community Solutions, Feeding Hawaii Together, Girl Scouts of Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hawaiian Lending and Investments, Homana, Honolulu Theatre for the Youth, Kids Hurt Too Hawaii, and Kokua Kalihi Valley. Most described reduced or threatened federal support and requested state funding to maintain services such as health care access, food security, disaster preparedness, literacy and digital inclusion, youth mentoring, arts education, housing, and climate or agricultural resilience.
Several speakers emphasized direct impacts on vulnerable populations, including kūpuna, low-income families, immigrants, homeless youth, and people with disabilities. Requests ranged from relatively small planning or program grants to multi-million-dollar stabilization asks, with some organizations citing specific losses such as reduced Medicaid or USDA funding, canceled EPA or FEMA support, or expiring federal grants. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (03/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- At that time, the department was looking at ways to support families remotely.
- At that time, the department was looking at ways to support families remotely.
- At that time, the department was looking at ways to support families remotely.
- At that time, the department was looking at ways to support families remotely.
- restaurants think about hotel workers restaurants think about hotel workers think<06:04:25.478><
Summary:
The Finance Division 2 work session first took up HB 506, a bill dealing with the return of seized firearms. Members discussed how the measure would shift background-check processing for firearm returns through the Department of Safety, while the physical firearms would still remain with local police unless State Police had taken custody. The department said the bill would change which cases come to it, and members clarified that the bill concerns the background-check decision rather than possession of the firearms. The committee then voted OTP on HB 506 FN by a 7-0 roll call.
The committee next discussed HB 671, establishing a kindergarten literacy readiness program. Department of Education staff explained that the bill grew out of a COVID-era Waterford contract that provided home-based early literacy support for families using federal relief funds, at a cost of about $600,000 per year, but that the program ended when those funds expired. Members raised concerns that the bill’s $1 appropriation was not realistic, that the prior program lacked sufficient outcome data, and that the references to ESSA tier-one benchmarks were unclear. The department said it was conducting a broader literacy needs assessment and updating the state literacy plan, including data from the zero-to-five range, K-5, and dyslexia-related work.
Waterford representatives described the program as an early-literacy, pre-K readiness service for children ages zero to five, originally designed to work in homes with computers and internet provided where needed, and later expanded in some settings such as daycares and pre-K classrooms. They said the program used assessments at the beginning and end, had served hundreds of children, and was intended to support family engagement and kindergarten readiness. Despite that testimony, members remained concerned about funding and the lack of clear results, and one member moved to retain the bill for more information. The discussion ended with the bill retained rather than advanced.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations - Room 210; 20 January, 2026: 8:45 AM
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, thank you for this opportunity and appreciate the flexibility to do this remotely.
- flexibility<00:00:33.360>
to <00:00:33.600>do <00:00:33.680>this <00:00:33.920>remotely - <00:00:34.640>
Uh <00:00:34.960>we flexibility to do this remotely. - Uh we flexibility to do this remotely.
- ,<00:50:00.319>
contract um with contract workers, contract um with contract workers, contract
Summary:
The committee heard an update from the Mississippi State Port Authority at the Port of Gulfport on operations, finances, and recent developments. The port emphasized that it is an enterprise agency that does not seek state general fund support, and reported a regional economic impact of $3.8 billion, about $62 million in state and local taxes, and thousands of direct and indirect jobs. The witness highlighted growth in refrigerated cargo, especially efforts to bring more Mississippi poultry through Gulfport, along with continued container traffic and intermodal work.
Several major investments and new business lines were discussed. Ports America is required under its lease to invest $43 million, and the port recently received a fourth crane, a $20 million investment that allows two vessels to be worked simultaneously. The port also announced American Cruise Lines stops in Gulfport, which is expected to bring high-end cruise passengers spending time and money locally. Additional updates included growth in technology and blue economy activity at the Roger F. Wicker Center, NOAA’s autonomous vessel operations center, Oceanero’s workforce expansion, and military moves that generated about 70,000 man-hours of local labor.
Committee members asked about the FY27 budget, travel, and capital outlay requests. The port said the travel increase was for flexibility and that it spends conservatively, and explained that the larger capital figures reflect a strategic plan and potential private-sector and grant-funded projects rather than expected annual spending. The FY27 request was described as a slight decrease from the prior year, with the main salary increase tied to PERS and health insurance costs, and no special appropriations language was requested. Members also discussed the effort to regain chicken exports through Gulfport, including plans for a future freezer warehouse and the impact of the Kansas City Southern railroad merger, which the port said has had some hiccups but may help in the long run.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:34 am
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- So to attract people to become these roles, the social workers...
- These types of ancillary workers—peer support workers, community health workers, community health representatives—they
- Frontline workers than we did before the pandemic.
- what the error rate is by worker.
- I am a retired social Worker, and I live in Albuquerque.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 04/09/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Modernization of SSIS will allow case workers to focus their time on children and families rather than
- Modernization of SSIS will allow<01:06:03.440>
case <01:06:03.680>workers <01:06:04.000> - Um, first we'll go to several testifiers who are joining remotely by Zoom.
- <01:09:36.880>
Um who are joining by remotely by Zoom. - Um who are joining by remotely by Zoom.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Budget Section Human Resources Division Mar 18th, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- one-time funding was to allow us to purchase some software and some supplies to allow testing at remote
- So now we're hoping to have kind of remote testing sites, and that way it's a little bit more flexible
- And it doesn't make sense to have an OB doctor out in a remote area because the volume isn't there to
- No health care worker, no care. So we need well-trained health care professionals.
- So as you can see in this slide, in the top left, that is the construction workers pouring the con...
Summary:
The committee first approved the December 10 minutes and then received a DEQ base budget summary and agency overview. DEQ staff explained that the agency is largely federally and special funded, with major ongoing costs in salaries, operating expenses, grants, and continuing appropriations. Director Dave Glatt and accounting director Beth Jacobson highlighted core programs, the move to a new chemistry laboratory, the new state fuel inspection program, wastewater-related funding from HB 1577, and implementation of SB 2267 for on-site wastewater rules. They also noted the agency’s spending patterns, possible federal EPA cuts, and the likelihood of some fee adjustments or program changes if federal support declines.
Members asked about DEQ’s travel, field offices, future staffing, and how the agency would respond to reduced federal regulation. DEQ said most staff are based in Bismarck, with field offices in Fargo, Sawyer, and Gwinner, and that travel is driven by inspections and spill response. Glatt said the agency would continue to rely on science and law, and that any future federal retrenchment could mean more state responsibility but likely not a wholesale increase in FTEs. The committee also discussed a feedlot enforcement case in the Minot area, with DEQ explaining its role in ensuring compliance, permitting, and animal-waste management standards.
The Department of Health and Human Services then presented on FTE block grant reporting, TANF balances, child care transfers, and the Rural Health Transformation Program. Donna Ockland explained that no line-item transfers had occurred yet for the new rural health work, but about 33 positions were planned and some current staff time could be reimbursed through approved cost allocation. HHS also reviewed TANF’s frozen eligibility and block grant structure, the transfer of up to 30% of TANF funds to child care, and recent program changes that increased benefits and raised the income limit. Staff said the department is using TANF more strategically to support child care and other allowable uses, while still carrying over unused funds as many states do.
Finally, Pat and HHS staff gave an update on the Rural Health Transformation Program, saying the first funding opportunity was being posted and that the state is on track to obligate the federal funds within the required timeline. They described priorities such as workforce retention, preceptor development, technical assistance for critical access hospitals, community wellness projects, and ambulance upgrades. Members asked about rural versus urban eligibility, immigrant recruitment, evaluation of year-two funding, and how the program would address varied local workforce needs. The meeting then shifted to an Office of Management and Budget update on the new State Hospital project, where Lindsay Ashley reported continued construction progress, updated cost information, and selected alternates, with photos and details showing work underway in multiple building sections.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We represent more than 10,000 school workers, including paraprofessionals, food service workers, custodians
including <01:15:06.239>parah 10,000 school workers, including parah 10,000 school workers- , educators, food service workers, educators, food service workers, custodians,<01:15:09.280>
- And as a social worker, I lunch daily.
- come onto premises. um after a worker come onto premises. um after a worker was<01:57:54.719>
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It houses over 50 staff from maintenance workers, mechanics, engineers, and administration.
- Um, quickly, you're replacing meters with new remote meters. Are they e-meters?
- Um, Madam Chair, I do have a remote person coming on, but I want to bring this the way this can tie into
- Um, Madam Chair, I do have a remote person coming on, but I want to bring this the way this can tie into
- rescue operations within our and remote rescue operations within our vast<01:26:14.719>
and <01
Bills:
HF604, HF1972, HF578, HF1951, HF629, HF864, HF874, HF1155, HF884, HF2365, HF643, HF234, HF2655, HF2637, HF2535, HF2530, HF2344, HF584, HF524
Keywords:
airport funding, bonds, transportation, capital investment, Karlstad, community center, Breckenridge, state bonds, economic development, HF578, Faribault, River Bend Nature Center, bonding bill, bond proceeds fund, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, DNR grant, nature center, visitor center, environmental education, multicultural center
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 02/12/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- So we have been pulling in input from judges, NAMI, public defenders, case workers from across the state
- uh uh Nami public defenders case workers uh uh Nami public defenders case workers from<00:32:14.519
- <00:35:12.520>
or either in person or with a remote or either in person or with a remote or - We are anticipating some remote testimony.
- anticipating some remote anticipating some remote testimony<00:37:40.640>
and <00:37:41.119
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 01/22/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- a new district court hearing framework that will determine how our courts use both in-person and remote
- <00:15:18.360>
and <00:15:18.600>hybrid through the use of remote and hybrid through - the use of remote and hybrid hearings<00:15:20.639>
we've <00:15:21.440>temporarily <00 - how our courts use both iners and remote how our courts use both iners and remote hearings<00:16
- and trying to bring parody um workers and trying to bring parody um keep<01:37:08.880>
up <01:
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 4/13/26
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Elimination of remote services for some settings, and enhancements to Mn Choices for providers to sign
- Elimination of remote services for some settings, and enhancements to Mn Choices for providers to sign
- Elimination of remote services for some settings, and enhancements to Mn Choices for providers to sign
- Elimination<00:08:07.520>
of <00:08:07.680>remote <00:08:08.200>services <00:08:08.880 - >
for <00:08:09.000>some Elimination of remote services for some Elimination of remote
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- across the state 2 or $25 workers across the state 2 or $25 billion<00:59:46.720>
gross <00:59 - Thank you for the opportunity to testify remotely, Mr.
- Thank you for the opportunity to testify remotely, Mr. Chair.
- To close, thank you for the opportunity to testify remotely today.
- <01:15:03.880>
today opportunity to testify remotely today opportunity to testify remotely
Keywords:
property tax, Indian Tribe, tax exemption, Minnesota, public charity, property tax exemption, Minnesota statutes, unorganized territory, federally recognized, soil conservation, water conservation, local government aid, environmental funding, Minnesota legislation, tax credits, sustainable aviation fuel, environmental policy, corporate franchise, Minnesota taxation, tobacco