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• It changes the eligibility for community supervision and parole for certain repeat intoxication offenders
• , mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication. manslaughter.
• Members, under current law, community supervision can be ordered for any defendant if a judge believes
• However, there are many circumstances in which we limit the use of community supervision.
• Denying community supervision for illegal immigrants emphasizes accountability, it emphasizes public

Bills: HB153 , HB1410 , HB1461 , HB1760 , HB1762 , HB3261 , HB3773 , HB153

Committee: House Corrections

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Summary: The meeting featured presentations from the Department of Administrative Services and the Treasury Department on state revenue reporting and unclaimed property. State Comptroller Dana Call explained DAS’s role in compiling statewide revenue reports, including the annual revenue plan set through the budget process and the monthly revenue focus reports that track cash receipts. She noted that unrestricted general fund revenue is about $2 billion annually, while miscellaneous other revenue is a much smaller and less predictable category, averaging roughly $30 million to $32 million a year. She also described two more material internal revenue lines: statewide indirect cost recoveries and post-retirement benefit recoveries, which are billed to agencies and often tied to federal reimbursement rules. Members asked about the interest line in the revenue charts and about how the figures were presented, and Call clarified that the totals were in millions and that the interest item would be explained by the Treasurer. She also explained that the indirect cost and post-retirement recoveries are internal cost allocations that flow back into the unrestricted revenue pool and are reflected in agency budgets as interagency costs. Treasurer Monica Meissner then outlined Treasury Department functions, including bank deposits, statewide disbursements, banking relationships, investments, debt management, compliance, the FONA College Savings Program, the ABLE Plan, scholarship programs, and the abandoned property program. In discussing unclaimed property, she said holders report property after a five-year dormancy period, the state uses automated systems and outreach to locate owners, and claim activity has increased. In fiscal year 2024, the state returned about $12.2 million to citizens through roughly 12,000 claims; over the last 10 years, about $72.6 million has been returned. She also said the state escheated $19.9 million to the general fund and $1.8 million to counties last year, and explained that securities-related proceeds are harder to estimate because they depend on market conditions. No votes or formal actions were taken.

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• clinical and non-clinical training, hands-on patient. supervised clinical and non-clinical training,
• While working under this temporary license, the graduate may practice only under the direct supervision
• And the supervising nurse must have been a registered nurse.
• Depending on their program, depending on the role, the supervising nurse must file a written protocol
• The Board of Nursing is directed to adopt rules that spell out how this supervision must work.

Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services met with a quorum present and took up several health-related bills. CS/SB 1110, covering Medicaid and insurance coverage for medically necessary orthotics and prosthetics, including activity-specific devices without lifetime or continuous-use caps, received emotional testimony from families and athletes describing high costs and the importance of access for children and adults with disabilities. Members voiced strong support, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee also heard SB 1574, which would add biliary atresia screening to the newborn screening program using the existing birth blood specimen. The sponsor and a parent testified that earlier detection could prevent severe liver damage, transplants, and deaths, and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 794, dealing with background screening for employees at residential facilities and day training programs for people with developmental disabilities and a review of waiver support coordination, was amended to align with the House companion and then reported favorably after testimony emphasizing the importance of strong support coordinators for APD waiver families. Members then considered SB 162, requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt policies for smoke evacuation systems during procedures that generate surgical smoke. Nurses and other supporters described surgical smoke as a serious occupational hazard, while the Florida Hospital Association said hospitals are already regulated in this area and the bill was somewhat prescriptive; an amendment was adopted and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 254, which tightens oversight of nursing education programs, adds preceptorship and provisional licensure pathways for graduates awaiting NCLEX results, and increases transparency and accountability for low-performing programs, drew support from nursing advocates and opposition from private nursing schools concerned about workforce impacts; after amendment, it was reported favorably. Finally, SB 688 to reestablish licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors in Florida was heard with testimony both supporting expanded health care choices and opposing the bill over safety and scope concerns, and it too was reported favorably. The committee then adjourned.

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• permit through the New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions and are being supervised
• Department to transfer funds from the tuition reimbursement account to the proprietary vocational school supervision
• You know, where does the supervision account get its funds in the first place?
• You know, where does the supervision account get its funds in the first place?
• So it's being transferred to the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision, which is the entity of SED

Committee: Senate Higher Education

Summary: The New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education met on April 21, 2026, with a quorum present and considered nine bills. The committee advanced bills addressing licensing discrepancies for junior and assistant landscape architects (S.1834A), SUNY/CUNY research foundation financial reporting (S.6745), credits for volunteer firefighters and EMTs enrolled in SUNY or CUNY (S.7367), campus pool and health membership for disabled veterans (S.7784A), early licensure eligibility for dental residents in multi-year specialty programs (S.8401A), a 90-day grace period for certain social workers awaiting limited permits (S.9303), interior designer certification standards (S.9673), and a transfer of excess tuition reimbursement account funds to support proprietary vocational school oversight (S.9682). One bill, S.948 concerning occupational therapists, was held pending resolution with the State Education Department. Members asked questions on several measures, including whether firefighter/EMT credits were tied to service rather than coursework, how the dental residency bill would work in practice, and the funding source and purpose of the proprietary school supervision account transfer. Support was noted for the interior designer bill from ASID, CIDQ, and IIDA, while most other bills had no listed support or opposition memos. The committee explained that the fund transfer bill would move up to $500,000 from a tuition reimbursement account balance above $2.5 million to help the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision address oversight needs. All of the bills taken up and moved were reported out of committee, with some sent to the floor and others to the Finance Committee as indicated by the chair. Several were reported without recommendation from individual members. The meeting adjourned at 10:45 a.m.

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• Health Services, to allow the use of a particle accelerator to treat human diseases under general supervision
• The bill also requires the registrant, using general supervision for particle accelerator treatment,
• And it's going to be answering the direct versus general supervision issue. It's very specific.
• So it just further clarifies direct versus general supervision for radiation oncology.
• This further clarifies direct versus general supervision for radiation oncologists.

Committee: Senate Senate Health and Human Services COR

Summary: The Committee on Health and Human Services heard several bills and held HB 2307. HB 2049 would allow use of a particle accelerator to treat human diseases under general supervision in counties under 400,000 population and at critical access hospitals, with documentation, observation, and monitoring requirements. Testimony from rural hospital and radiation oncology representatives emphasized oncologist shortages, long travel distances for cancer patients, and the need to maintain safety while improving access; the bill received a due pass recommendation on a 7-0 vote. HB 2178 would require any chief medical officer for a state agency to hold an active medical license, and members described it as a common-sense licensing requirement. HB 2179 would separate air ambulances from ground ambulances in statute, define air ambulance-related terms, and update staffing and regulatory provisions to better match current practice; air medical representatives said it was a statutory cleanup measure, and both bills were passed out of committee unanimously, 7-0. HB 2322 would require audio or video recording of DCS interviews with children, with exceptions for equipment failure or unforeseeable lack of access, and would preserve admissibility of statements even if a recording was not made. Supporters, including a trafficking survivor, a health care worker, and a foster parent, argued recordings protect children, improve accuracy and accountability, and reduce disputes over what was said. The bill also includes a conditional enactment tied to future federal grant legislation; it received a 7-0 due pass recommendation. The committee also announced that minutes were not ready for approval and that HB 2307 would be held.

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• Finally, the bill requires a registrant using general supervision for particle accelerator treatment
• And it's going to be answering the direct versus general supervision issue. It's very specific.
• The high-dose radiation treatments are going to continue to always require direct supervision.
• So it just further clarifies direct versus general supervision for radiation oncology.
• This further clarifies direct versus general supervision for radiation oncologists.

Bills: HB2049 , HB2178 , HB2179 , HB2307 , HB2322

Committees: Senate Health and Human Services , Senate Senate Health and Human Services COR

Keywords: radiation therapy, particle accelerator, critical access hospitals, patient care, rural healthcare, HB2178, Arizona, state agencies, chief medical officer, medical license, physician license, osteopathic license, licensure requirement, Title 41, Title 32, Arizona Revised Statutes, A.R.S. 41-5902, public health administration, agency leadership, state government personnel

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• To provide the services under the general supervision of a licensee who regularly provides the services
• So, to provide services under the general supervision of a licensee who provides services.
• training program, it talks about how they have to do four hours of training and they have to be supervised
• You're just basically working underneath someone, not even with direct supervision.
• It's just general supervision. And so I would prefer not to add any other language.

Summary: The Committee on Government Organization met with a quorum present, approved the minutes, and then considered a series of House bills, most of them related to licensing, local government administration, and agency operations. House Bill 5063 would let county commissions appoint a county commissioner as a voting member of a convention and visitors bureau board, including for multi-county CVBs; it was reported to the full Senate. House Bill 5087 would join the interstate cosmetology licensure compact, allowing licensed cosmetologists to obtain multi-state practice privileges in compact states, and it was also reported. The committee then took up a strike-and-insert amendment for House Bill 4793, which combined provisions affecting barbering/cosmetology apprenticeships and lowered certain age and education requirements; after adopting a Jefferson amendment clarifying the salon training language, the bill was reported as amended. Members next approved a strike-and-insert for House Bill 5638, which clarifies the State Chief Information Security Officer’s duties, changes cyber risk review procedures, and updates references to the Office of Technology head as the chief information officer; it was reported as amended. House Bill 4483, dealing with the Board of Funeral Examiners, was amended to change the effective date for licensee-in-charge requirements and make technical corrections, then reported as amended. House Bill 5653, requested by the Department of Revenue, would expand confidentiality protections to cover audit manuals, guidelines, procedures, algorithms, and related materials to prevent taxpayers from gaming audit selection, and it was reported. House Bill 4452 repeals acreage limits on church property ownership, and House Bill 4801 expands permissible uses of hotel occupancy tax funds to include demolition of unsafe structures and planning or improvement of public property; both were reported. The committee also advanced House Bill 5622, which creates an expedited process for municipalities to conform local election terms and procedures to the state requirement that municipal elections be held with statewide primaries or general elections, and recognizes the Secretary of State as keeper of municipal charter rolls. House Bill 4546 would allow business entities to file reports biennially instead of annually, with higher biennial fees and updated enforcement provisions; its strike-and-insert amendment was adopted and the bill was reported as amended. House Bill 5613 would define and regulate telematics for state fleet vehicles, require reporting on unsafe driving and corrective actions, and include cost-benefit information in annual reports; it was reported. House Bill 5323 would let the Division of Natural Resources adjust license and stamp fees for inflation by removing a prior CPI-based restriction, and House Bill 4819 would revise criminal-record standards for certain non-Chapter 30 occupational licenses, shifting to a direct-relationship standard while preserving existing exclusions for violent sexual offenses; both were reported. The committee then adjourned after closing remarks from the chair and vice chair.

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• So that's a significant increase in our level of monitoring, supervision, surveillance of youth before
• It's not supervision, right? It's kind of keeping an eye out.
• Category B conditions are monitored or supervised really by a local probation officer.
• It's not supervision, right? It's kind of keeping an eye out.
• Category B conditions are monitored or supervised really by a local probation officer.

Committee: Senate Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice

Summary: The Senate Committee on Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice held an informational hearing focused on the 2025 Juvenile Justice Policy and Data Board annual report, with testimony from Child Advocate Marisol Garcia and Melissa Threadgill of the Office of the Child Advocate. The presenters described the office’s role in analyzing juvenile justice data and highlighted several trends: overall juvenile court volume has stabilized, but a growing share of youth are entering by arrest rather than summons; racial and ethnic disparities remain stark at the front door of the system; and more than two-thirds of cases are dismissed before disposition, raising questions about unnecessary court involvement. They also noted increased use of pretrial conditions of release, including more intensive monitoring, and a rise in weapons-related charges, especially firearm possession cases, while emphasizing the need for stronger community-based prevention and support services. Committee members asked about whether the weapons trend is unique to Massachusetts, the role of public safety in pretrial decisions, the impact of mental health and substance use needs, and whether current conditions of release amount to an unfunded mandate for families. Garcia and Threadgill said many pretrial conditions are tied more to court appearance and compliance than dangerousness, and that families often struggle to meet conditions without adequate services, transportation, or coordination. They also discussed barriers to data access, including confidentiality rules that prevent the office from obtaining raw court data needed for recidivism analysis, though they said county briefs and additional disparity reports will be released soon. The hearing ended with committee leaders expressing interest in continued collaboration and the committee voted to adjourn.

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• He asked whether the child care center failed in any way as far as policy, training, supervision, or
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• The purpose is to assist center owners, supervision, and staff in understanding and implementing and
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Committee: Senate Families & Children

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• This requires a supervising physician to sign off on an attestation after four years.
• So four years of continued supervision, I think, is more than adequate.
• guardrails, the direct 100% supervision, the oversight, the probation period.
• guardrails, the direct 100% supervision, the oversight, the probation period.
• for me to assume that supervision could be remote?

Bills: HB2176 , HB2333 , HB2435 , HB2447 , HB2617 , HB2683 , HB2686 , HB2725 , HB2726 , HB2906 , HB2953 , HB2958

Committees: House Health & Human Services , House House Health & Human Services Committee of Reference

Keywords: health care, licensure, complaints, investigation, safety, patient care, regulatory compliance, prosthetics, orthotics, health insurance, Medicare, medical necessity, disability rights, coverage, reimbursement, internationally trained physicians, medical board, clinical training, provisional license, healthcare workforce

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• HB 5170 by Letterback, relating to community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses where
• HB 5170 by Letterback, relating to community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses where
• HB 5170 by Letterback, relating to community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses where
• HB 5170 by Letterback, relating to community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses where
• HB 5170 by Letterback, relating to community supervision and parole for certain felony offenses where

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• Sections one and two of this bill clarify that the supervision of an SLPA working in a school setting
• </c><00:03:25.799><c> of</c> slpas who work under the supervision of slpas who work under the supervision
• Sections one and two of this bill clarify that the supervision of an SLPA working in a school setting
• The assistant license is supervised by a speech language pathologist licensed under MDH.
• The assistant license is supervised by a speech language pathologist licensed under MDH.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

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• Because of the lack of supervision, some unforeseen accidents that happened because of no supervision
• And then you have— Still under supervision of— Not necessarily supervision.
• They do not have to supervise the nurse anesthetist that is providing the ability for them to have the
• Jim Wood allowed specified nurse practitioners to work without physician supervision.
• These programs require hundreds of hours of supervised hands-on training with qualified preceptors in

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• So this is what we know works both in juvenile and adult supervision.
• It was solely because I did not have enough staff to supervise the youth.
• supervision.
• Unfortunately, our supervision staff are often the victims...
• For instance, taking away community supervision or deferred adjudication.

Bills: HB31 , HB3360

Committee: House S/C on Juvenile Justice

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• And that's part of the piece regardless of what level of supervision you're on.
• Regardless of what level of supervision you're on, if you're on the highest level of supervision, there
• There's also mandated sex offender treatment that occurs while they're under parole supervision in the
• or indirectly supervised are now sitting across the table from me, engaging in legislation or how to
• One of the guys that was under his supervision who now sits across the table from him, and I can tell

Committee: Senate Rules

Summary: The Senate Committee on Rules first established quorum and took up several routine items, including two governor’s appointments to the Court Reporters Board, references of bills to committees, and floor acknowledgments. Heather Lynn Gonzalez’s appointment was approved 3-1, Allison Salton-Sall’s appointment was approved 4-0, and the other routine items were approved 4-0. The committee then heard testimony on two Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation appointments, Kathleen Ratliff and Joseph Tuggle, both associate directors in the Division of Adult Institutions. Senators focused heavily on the California model, staff safety, prison violence, sexual abuse prevention, retaliation concerns, and visitation. Ratliff and Tuggle said the California model is meant to balance rehabilitation with safety, that CDCR has improved communication and training, and that incidents such as the pepper-spray event at Central California Women’s Facility led to discipline, investigations, retraining, and policy review. They also described PREA reporting systems, anti-retaliation protections, statewide visiting meetings, and efforts to make visiting more family-centered and consistent. Public commenters largely supported both nominees, citing their work on rehabilitation, reentry, and sexual abuse response. The committee unanimously voted 4-0 to send both Ratliff and Tuggle to the Senate floor for confirmation. It then heard from Jason Johnson, nominated as CDCR Undersecretary of Operations. Senators questioned him about parole supervision, public safety, contraband, prison rape prevention, workplace culture, whistleblower retaliation, and repeated allegations in late-filed opposition letters. Johnson said parole risk is assessed through established scoring and supervision levels, that sex offenders are subject to GPS monitoring and treatment, and that operations use investigations, training, and collaboration with law enforcement to address contraband and misconduct. He emphasized rehabilitation, culture change, accountability, and his commitment to staff and public safety, while acknowledging criticism and the difficulty of leading a large institution. No vote on Johnson was taken in the portion provided.

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• supervision is permitted by the guidelines adopted by the board.
• This matters because supervision is a patient safety issue.
• This matters because supervision is a patient safety issue.
• Adequate supervision of pharmacy technicians is essential.
• Senators, at the end of the day, this is about making sure supervision is real and not theoretical.

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• And we also added some definitions regarding supervision and what direct versus indirect... ...hours
• What was the intent of changing the supervision?
• Was it to make it easier for the actual supervision to have?
• The changes for some of the supervision are now saying the SLP has to have eyes on the client at least
• The other supervision changes that were made were with some of the qualifying supervision hours.

Summary: The Administrative Rules Committee met on June 11 and first approved the March 12, 2026 minutes by voice vote. It then granted the Board of Medicine an extension of time to implement rules tied to recent legislation, including North Dakota’s participation in the physician assistant licensure compact and a new physician nutrition continuing education requirement. The Board said it was waiting on compact rules and fee information before finalizing its own changes. The committee heard a lengthy presentation from the Office of Management and Budget on broad personnel rule revisions, including salary administration, recruitment, leave, sick leave, funeral leave, service awards, appeals, and shared leave. OMB said the changes modernize HR language and implement recent legislation such as enhanced annual leave for hard-to-fill positions and new hire leave. Members questioned the hard-to-fill leave provisions, but OMB and counsel said those standards come from statute, not the rules. The committee also heard and accepted rule packages from the Lottery, the Board of Examiners for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, the State Electrical Board, the Industrial Commission, PERS, and Health and Human Services, with each agency describing mostly technical, clarifying, or statutory-conforming changes and noting the public notice and comment process. The most significant action came during the Gaming Commission rules presentation. After questioning whether the commission had authority to raise the poker tournament buy-in limit from $300 to $1,500, members moved to void Section 99-01.3-09-01 on the ground that the agency lacked statutory authority for that change. The motion passed on a roll call vote. The committee also discussed several gaming-related issues, including online raffles, kiosk use, advertising restrictions, and the broader policy question of whether charities should be allowed to own bars, but took no further formal action on those topics.

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• human beings who go through many years of education, thousands of hours of training, including supervised
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• Third, we encourage revisions to allow AI tools under professional supervision to support administrative
• </c> supervised use uses of technology. supervised use uses of technology.
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• Then... ...probation, supervising and so forth. Then we have the five-day reporting centers.
• an officer to supervised individuals.
• We supervise are actually on probation, with only 15-16% on parole and mandatory supervision, which is
• Also, regarding the mandatory supervision, we still do the electronic monitoring, and that's...
• It has worked really well in keeping track of people who are on mandatory supervision.

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• It allows dental hygienists to use lasers for teeth cleaning under the direct supervision of a dentist
• The physician can supervise authorizing dentist delegate. 3 additional tested.
• Again, we truly believe that physician, responsible physician supervision, it's a fundamental tenet of
• The master plumbers have to be on the job site supervising.
• You're giving everyone the ability to practice on supervised from cardiac nurse nurse is to every kind