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KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture. (2-10-26)

Agriculture

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, I come from Fulton County, who will probably never have a primary care physician again, but Alli
  • never have a uh primary care physician never have a uh primary care physician again,<00:02:16.000
  • Uh, it's not a political statement.
  • <00:04:46.960> It's<00:04:47.120> about not a political statement.
  • It's about not a political statement.
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 155 by Senator Carpenter, which would give the commissioner of agriculture, in consultation with the state veterinarian, authority to declare and manage emergency situations affecting livestock, poultry, and other domesticated animals. The sponsor said the bill is intended to speed response to outbreaks, severe weather, and other urgent threats to animal welfare by reducing bureaucratic delays, while still working with the governor in major situations. Senator Webb praised the Department of Agriculture’s emergency response work, and the bill was advanced on a unanimous roll call vote. The committee then heard Senate Bill 45 from Senator Webb, a repeat bill aimed at protecting agritourism and working-animal activities from local ordinances that could be used to restrict events such as rodeos, carriage rides, dog agility, and similar operations. Webb and supporter Mindy Patterson of the Cavalry Group argued the bill is meant to prevent local governments from using ordinances to shut down legitimate animal-related businesses and to protect local economies and property rights, not to shield animal abuse. Webb said he was willing to work with local officials and legal counsel on wording. Opposition came from Lisa Krumman of the Kentucky Animal Care and Control Association and Campbell County animal services, who said the bill was not consulted on with animal control officers and could broadly exempt working-animal or agritourism activities from local animal welfare ordinances and inspections. She argued the language could create an “undue burden” challenge to county standards for food, water, space, medical care, and inspections, especially for commercial animal establishments such as breeding facilities and petting zoos. Committee members questioned both sides about the bill’s scope, and Webb said he believed existing public health, safety, zoning, and police-power language would preserve local authority, but no vote was taken on SB 45 in the portion provided.
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Senate in Session Apr 23rd, 2025

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It requires two-thirds of the Legislature and a statement of significant fiscal impact.
  • It requires two-thirds of the Legislature and a statement of significant fiscal impact.
  • It requires two-thirds of the legislature and a statement of significant. is going to be infirm.
  • It requires two-thirds of legislature and a statement of significant fiscal impact.
  • as a result of the shortage of hospice and palliative care physicians.
Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of introductions and moments of silence recognizing recent tragedies and public figures, including students affected by the FSU shooting, John Thrasher, Coach Amir Abdur-Rahim, and conservation and youth groups visiting the chamber. The body also adopted Senate Resolution 1878 honoring Coach Abdur-Rahim and Senate Resolution 1892 recognizing Florida Wildlife Corridor Week. The chamber then moved through a long special-order calendar, passing several bills with little or no opposition. Measures approved included child care and early learning provider regulation updates (SB 738, 37-0), false reporting/swatting penalties and cost recovery (SB 726, 38-0), health care billing and collection protections/medical debt (SB 656, 38-0), hazardous walking conditions for schoolchildren (SB 650, 38-0), young adult housing support for foster and homeless students (SB 584, 38-0), the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program disclosure bill (SB 508, 37-1), trust fund interest for court-approved purposes after a debated amendment (SB 498, 28-10), transportation and traffic-safety changes including school bus camera hearings and micromobility rules (SB 462, 37-0), public records exemptions for AHCA investigators and JQC/appellate court clerks (SB 342, 34-4; SB 302, 35-3; SB 300, 35-3), municipal water and sewer utility rate fairness for Miami Gardens/North Miami Beach (SB 202/HB 11, 36-2), motor vehicle offenses involving obscured plates and impersonation (SB 44/HB 253, 36-0), trespass at large-scale ticketed events and law-enforcement-controlled sites (SB 1828/HB 1447, 35-1), patient refund of overpayments (SB 1808, 37-0), stem cell therapy standards (SB 1768, 37-0), insulin administration by direct support professionals and relatives (SB 1736/HB 1567, 38-0), and pre-arranged transportation services/rideshare impersonation (SB 1696/HB 1525, 37-0). Several bills were temporarily postponed, including cardiac emergencies, chemicals and consumer products, motor vehicle manufacturers and franchise dealers, and education. Debate centered most heavily on the trust fund interest bill, with supporters arguing it would stabilize funding and better reflect market rates, and opponents warning it would sharply reduce legal aid funding and hurt access to justice. The transportation bill also drew extensive questions and amendments, including removal of a speed-limit increase, changes to school bus infraction hearing procedures, micromobility regulation, and flood-wake enforcement. The municipal water bill prompted constitutional and fairness concerns, while the public records bills were defended as necessary to protect investigators and court personnel from doxing and harassment. Most measures ultimately passed with strong bipartisan support, though the scholarship disclosure bill and trust fund interest bill drew the most visible dissent.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Committee, February 11, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • The physician case involved minors and adults. So grooming is out there.
  • The physician case involved minors and adults. So grooming is out there.
  • . physician. physician.
  • The physician case involved only minors.
  • Would you and I think Wissoff agreed with that statement?
Bills: HB0008, HB0009
OR
Transcript Highlights:
  • I 100% agree with you, Senator Gelser Blouin, and support you with that statement. Thank you.
  • And we've really put in charge the clinical leadership, emphasizing the role of physician leadership
  • It is on the clinical teams, nursing, physicians, nurse practitioners, to really assess clinically when
  • It is on the clinical teams, nursing, physicians, nurse practitioners, to really assess clinically when
  • I'm a psychiatric physician with additional training in forensic psychiatry as well as public policy.
Keywords: 907, all
Summary: The joint Senate and House Behavioral Health committees held an informational meeting focused first on the Oregon State Hospital (OSH). OHA Director Sajal Hathi introduced the hospital’s incoming permanent superintendent, Sean Murphy, and praised interim superintendent Jim Deagle for stabilizing operations, restoring CMS compliance, and helping drive a culture change centered on safety, accountability, and transparency. Deagle and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Amit Bavon described OSH’s role as the state’s highest-level forensic psychiatric hospital, the patient populations it serves, its partnerships with courts, counties, jails, hospitals, and advocates, and recent leadership changes across the hospital. They also reported improved accreditation and regulatory status, including Joint Commission accreditation and CMS compliance, and said the hospital is now using daily safety huddles, incident review meetings, stronger escalation procedures, and revised seclusion/restraint practices to reduce risk and improve oversight. Members pressed hospital leaders on past seclusion practices, asking how prolonged seclusions could have occurred under federal standards. Leaders said they could not explain past decisions but emphasized that current leadership has changed processes, training, reporting, and oversight so that seclusion and restraint are reviewed in real time and cannot be normalized. Questions also covered staffing, falls, and future planning. OSH said it is generally staffed to budget, though it still has RN and mental health technician vacancies and is working on recruitment, training, and better staffing distribution. Hathi said the hospital is building a public dashboard with key performance and safety metrics, including workforce data, and described the long-term goal as a consistently safe, disciplined, high-functioning institution that responds quickly to mistakes and remains accountable to the public. The committee then shifted to an informational overview of civil commitment. Oregon Judicial Department representative Chanah Newell explained the civil commitment process, including who can initiate it, the role of community mental health providers and courts, the five-day timeline to hearing, and the standards for danger to self, danger to others, and inability to meet basic needs. She summarized changes made in House Bill 2005, including revised statutory language and new provisions allowing a second diversion period, but cautioned that the data are too early to show clear trends. Testimony from NAMI Oregon’s Chris Bonif and psychiatrist Dr. Stephanie Lopez argued that Oregon still relies too heavily on jails and state hospital commitments because the broader community system lacks enough treatment, housing, and less restrictive alternatives. They urged the legislature to focus on upstream services, supported housing, and possible outpatient commitment tools so people can receive treatment before reaching crisis. The meeting ended with acknowledgment that additional reports and follow-up discussions are expected, including on residential treatment capacity and related behavioral health system reforms.
OR
Transcript Highlights:
  • I 100% agree with you, Senator Gelser Blouin, and support you with that statement. Thank you.
  • And we've really put in charge the clinical leadership, emphasizing the role of physician leadership
  • It is on the clinical teams, nursing, physicians, nurse practitioners, to really assess clinically when
  • a patient... ...physicians, nurse practitioners, to really assess clinically when a patient is deemed
  • I'm a psychiatric physician with additional training in forensic psychiatry as well as public policy.
Keywords: 907, all
Summary: The joint Senate and House Behavioral Health committee met for informational presentations on the Oregon State Hospital and civil commitment, followed by a planned tour of the hospital. Oregon Health Authority and Oregon State Hospital leaders reported that Sean Murphy will become the next permanent superintendent on July 13, with Sarah Castle to follow as permanent chief nursing officer on July 20. They described recent leadership turnover, a major organizational restructure, and efforts to build a culture of safety, transparency, and accountability. Officials said the hospital regained Joint Commission accreditation and CMS compliance, and they highlighted daily safety huddles, incident review processes, stronger escalation procedures, and improved management of seclusion and restraint. Committee members pressed hospital leaders on past prolonged seclusion practices, falls, staffing, and the need for better public reporting; OHA said it is building a public dashboard of key safety and workforce metrics. The committee then heard a civil commitment overview from the Oregon Judicial Department. The presenter explained that civil commitment is a separate legal process from criminal cases, usually beginning with a hospital hold, investigation, court review, appointed counsel, and a hearing within five days. She summarized changes made in House Bill 2005, including revised standards for danger to self, danger to others, and basic-needs commitments, plus a second 14-day diversion option. She cautioned that the new law has only been in effect since January and that it is too early to draw firm conclusions from the data, though there has been a recent uptick in commitments and a decrease in diversions. Testimony from NAMI Oregon and a forensic psychiatrist emphasized that Oregon still relies too heavily on jails and state hospitals because community services, housing, and outpatient supports are insufficient. They argued that the state needs more less-restrictive alternatives, including better use of assisted outpatient treatment or outpatient civil commitment, and more supported housing so people do not cycle between homelessness, incarceration, and hospitalization. A family member described a relative remaining psychotic in jail for more than 120 days before ending up back at the state hospital, urging faster intervention and better collaboration among courts, counties, hospitals, and state agencies. Committee members and witnesses also discussed workforce shortages, the expansion of secure residential treatment beds, and the need for broader system reforms beyond the hospital itself.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 15th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget your online. gentlemen, don't forget your online statement of economic
  • But then the final statement says that there are, in addition to those, other uses.
  • saying, my concern... ...only thing that I was saying, my concern was what exactly did that last statement
  • You want them to get a court order to ask that physician or... court order to ask that physician or somebody
  • You want them to go get a court order to order that hospital, that physician, that nurse.
Keywords: 1136, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (04/15/2026)

Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:24:09.360> of nobody's checking the bank statements of nobody's checking the bank statements
  • >> it has to start with a physician >> it has to start with a physician recommending
  • Chairman, that you plan to pull out any statement of intent.
  • I was very glad to statement of intent.
  • Uh in pull out any statement of intent.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary (02/09/2026)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is that a fair statement of the constitutional cases? >> It is.
  • of<01:31:37.520> the that a fair statement of the that a fair statement of the constitutional
  • <03:08:54.319> across Over 1500 doctors and physicians across Over 1500 doctors and physicians
  • I would mind providing her statement.
  • and physician assistant in the<03:46:36.160> state.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Health and Human Services (03/26/2025)

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a physician, and I also represent Bap District 6.
  • In addition to being a physician and a representative, I've been involved in pain care and addiction
  • by the prescriber includes a statement by the prescriber that<01:02:37.480> the<01:02:37.599>
  • or the pharmacy correct uh physician or the pharmacy correct uh basically<01:03:04.079> that<
  • I'm a rep and a physician, and um, thank you for your line of questioning because that just made my life
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • A school must submit a statement that its athletes are vulnerable.
  • A school must submit a statement that its athletes are vulnerable.
  • A school must submit a statement that its athletes are vulnerable.
  • Think about what message adults are sending to all of our kids with that statement.
  • In committee, we did hear from four physicians—long-practicing physicians, by the way—about the science
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 4/10/25

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is more of a statement, but thank you for bringing it. Representative Van Binsbergen.
  • This is more of a statement, but thank you for bringing it.
  • This is more of a statement, but thank you for bringing it.
  • This is more of a statement, but thank you for bringing it.
  • :27:22.480> groups, purchase debt from physician groups, purchase debt from physician groups,
Bills: HF1646, HF2443
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am

Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • say we support our working class and our staff, but no action has been taken to prove that these statements
  • I'm sorry, joining us remotely from the Mass Association of Physician Assistants. How's it going?
  • largest employers in Massachusetts, yet tens of thousands of nurses, PAs, techs, support staff, and physicians
  • Bassett, Rebecca Bassett, a physician assistant from the Massachusetts Association of Physician Assistants
  • The Massachusetts Association of Physician Assistants... Dr. Patel? Patel?
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The hearing focused on several labor-related bills, especially proposals to give legislative employees the right to organize and collectively bargain, close a prevailing wage loophole for off-site prefabrication work, and strengthen enforcement against wage theft. Committee chairs opened the hearing by explaining the hybrid format and asking witnesses to keep testimony brief. Multiple legislators testified in support of the legislative staff union bill, saying staff deserve the same bargaining rights as other public employees and that unionization would improve pay, benefits, retention, and workplace dignity. Witnesses also discussed how the bill would likely be structured, with separate House and Senate bargaining arrangements or locals, and emphasized that it would only create the option to unionize, not require it. A second major topic was the prevailing wage bill addressing off-site fabrication and prefabrication in construction. Union leaders, contractors, and workers described how more work is being shifted from job sites into shops, especially in sheet metal, HVAC, electrical, and pipefitting work, and argued that the law should treat that work the same as on-site construction when it is part of a public project. They said the current loophole lets some contractors underbid by paying lower wages off-site, while responsible contractors already pay prevailing wages in their shops. Supporters argued the bill would protect workers, preserve apprenticeship and training standards, improve safety and quality, and make enforcement easier through certified payroll and clearer definitions. The committee also heard testimony on wage theft legislation. Representative Dan Donahue, the Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division, AFL-CIO representatives, and carpenters’ union witnesses described wage theft, misclassification, labor brokers, and tax fraud as widespread problems that hurt workers, honest contractors, and public revenues. They supported giving the Attorney General stronger enforcement tools, adding contractor accountability up the subcontracting chain, and protecting workers from retaliation and from delays that can cause claims to expire. A separate witness supported a bill to extend the statute of limitations for Wage Act cases while AG investigations are pending, and another supported changes to help hospital workers enforce timely payment rights. No votes were taken during the hearing; witnesses repeatedly asked for favorable reports on the bills.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations - S/C on Article II Feb 25th, 2025

Appropriations - S/C on Article II

Transcript Highlights:
  • One of our big pushes is just for people to talk to their physician.
  • Talk to your physician.
  • Briefly and finally about tuberculosis, um, cause I think as a fellow physician of all the disease, as
  • Slide 2 provides our mission statement. If you'll move on to slide 3.
  • On page 2 of the package that we gave you, you see our mission statement and our division.
Keywords: 1184, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Feb 24th, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • His arguments included statements demeaning to women who look like me, women who look like some who appear
  • These statements are inexcusable.
  • I just heard from a colleague the statement of the conversation of disagreement.
  • Senator Calatayud: The bill revises its reporting language, specifically to physicians and advanced practice
  • Senator Calatayud: The disease states of the individuals that are reported by physicians and advanced
Keywords: 999, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Vets Committee Meeting - 2025-03-19

Veterans and Military Affairs Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • promising a certain rating, stating they can speed up a claim, and sending veterans to a private physician
  • How can somebody come out and make that statement and feel comfortable with themselves when, at the end
  • This is a VFW statement not only from our department.
  • And if I make that statement, if I hand them that disclosure...
  • When they asked and GPT created generated position assistance letters, this physician assistant never
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (03/25/2026)

Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:08:27.680> that physician-based group that writes that physician-based group that writes
  • Surgeons are predominant in trauma care and emergency medicine physicians.
  • So this emergency medicine physicians.
  • That's where the physicians are written.
  • things with the primary care physicians things with the primary care physicians because<01:34:45.440
Keywords: 1189, house, all
OR
Transcript Highlights:
  • Looking at the physician professional expense, is some of that hospital as well?
  • Some hospitals do own physician groups, and so there is some connection there.
  • Another thing that tends to come up a lot is physician-administered drugs tend to be under physician
  • Of any rate changes where feasible to CCOs and also working on improving formatting cost impact statements
  • whomever, were delegated this authority, they would probably start having to put fiscal impact statements
Keywords: 907, all
Summary: The committee held an informational hearing focused first on Oregon Medicaid coordinated care organization (CCO) finances and rate setting. Oregon Health Authority staff explained how 2025 CCO financial results will inform 2027 capitation rates, including reserve requirements, subcapitation arrangements, and major cost drivers such as behavioral health, pharmacy, rural hospital costs, and dental directed payments. They said the Legislature’s added 2025 funding materially improved CCO margins and that, without it, the program would have been negative overall. Members asked about retained earnings, subcapitation, behavioral health utilization, ABA therapy, and whether outcomes are being evaluated; OHA said rate setting is actuarial and that CCOs, OHA, and other partners all play roles in monitoring efficacy and access. OHA also reviewed House Bill 4039 changes intended to increase transparency and give CCOs earlier access to rate information and reconciliation exhibits. CCO representatives then testified that the system is under significant financial pressure and that behavioral health state-directed payments, benefit changes, and federal uncertainty from H.R. 1 are reducing flexibility. CareOregon said it has lost more than $500 million over the last couple of years and is now making provider terminations and other network changes to align spending with available funding, while emphasizing that CCOs must make hard decisions about which services and providers can be sustained. Eastern Oregon CCO said rural and frontier factors, cost-based hospitals, air ambulance needs, and statewide efficiency adjustments are not fully reflected in rates, and that dental funding is especially strained. Trillium similarly warned that state-directed payments and benefit expansion pressures are constraining the global budget model and that H.R. 1 could worsen acuity and volatility. Members pressed the witnesses on who is responsible for evaluating treatment effectiveness, especially for ABA and psychotherapy, and on how utilization limits and reimbursement changes are being used to control costs. The committee then shifted to an overview of the Affordable Care Act and Oregon’s commercial insurance market. Department of Consumer and Business Services staff explained actuarial value, metal tiers, premium tax credits, medical loss ratio rules, and the main drivers of premium rates: cost trend, utilization trend, and administrative costs. They said mandates have likely added only a limited amount to premiums over the past decade, though the exact effect is difficult to isolate, and they gave examples of how high-cost, low-volume services versus broad, high-utilization services can affect rates differently. Staff also noted that Providence Health Plan and PacificSource Health Plans are withdrawing from the individual market, though consumers should still have at least three insurer options in every county and may have four in many counties. The division said it is in the middle of reviewing proposed 2027 rates and will continue its public rate review process, including hearings and written comment.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Election Laws Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Election Laws

Transcript Highlights:
  • But that says, we say in the Legislature, a statement designed in a question, or hidden in a question
  • Can I respond to your statement-question?
  • Even established physicians change positions between institutions.
  • I'm the Director of Primary Care and a family medicine physician in Lynn Community Health Center.
  • I'm the Director of Primary Care and a Family Medicine Physician in Linn Community Health Center.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Election Laws held a hearing on a wide range of voting-access and election-administration bills. The largest portion of testimony focused on same-day voter registration (H. 834/S. 505), with support from Rep. Gentile, Boston and Chelsea officials, civic groups, and election administrators from Maine and Vermont. Supporters argued that same-day registration would help eligible voters who move frequently, miss deadlines, or face administrative errors, and would reduce rejected provisional ballots. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Vermont elections director Sean Sheehan testified that same-day registration has worked in their states without major administrative problems and has helped increase turnout. A Boston-based panel also described high rejection rates for provisional ballots and the burden of registration cutoffs on renters, students, immigrants, and low-income voters. A second major topic was restoration of voting rights for incarcerated people, including S. 524 and related House bills. The committee heard extensive virtual testimony from incarcerated individuals at MCI Norfolk and MCI Shirley, who said voting should be restored as part of rehabilitation, civic engagement, and reintegration. They described disenfranchisement as dehumanizing and argued that voting would help maintain family and community ties, reduce recidivism, and give incarcerated people a voice on laws affecting prisons and reentry. Rep. Erica Uyterhoeven also testified in support, saying the bill would restore municipal voting rights for incarcerated residents and align with broader efforts to expand political participation. The committee also heard testimony on bills affecting election administration and access, including a proposal to reduce or eliminate mandated early in-person voting in primaries and shorten the general-election early voting period, with supporters from the town clerks’ community arguing that low usage, staffing burdens, and costs justify the change. Opponents warned that reducing in-person early voting could hurt voters who do not use mail ballots and could disproportionately affect communities of color. Other bills discussed included decoupling the municipal census from voter registration, requiring periodic accessibility inspections of polling places, and a Somerville home-rule petition on non-citizen municipal voting and another on lowering the voting age in municipal elections. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Appropriations Committee May 13th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Testimony on any such bill will be limited to a statement of name, organization, if any, and position
  • Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants, also known as advanced practice
  • Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants, also known as advanced practice
  • appropriately trained APCs can provide this care with the same safety, quality, and patient satisfaction as physicians
Keywords: 988, house, all
Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on May 13, 2026, with a large agenda of 196 bills. After establishing quorum, the committee first approved two consent calendars covering numerous bills, then heard a series of author presentations and public testimony. Most measures discussed were housing, public safety, health care, and local government bills, with many authors and sponsors emphasizing that the proposals had minor, absorbable, or no state costs. Among the bills heard were AB 2641 on a sales tax exemption for pawnbroker redemptions; AB 2525 to create a narrow Surplus Lands Act exemption for Mission Bay Park in San Diego; AB 1732 and AB 2433 on student housing and the density bonus law; AB 2055 updating boating safety and enforcement laws; AB 1579 expanding children’s crisis residential options; AB 2139 for an Inland Empire sports-related Surplus Lands Act exemption; AB 2041 on EMS reporting compliance; AB 1973 expanding advanced practice clinicians’ authority for reproductive care; AB 1929 requiring health plan investment disclosures; AB 2700 on utility rates and wildfire victim compensation; AB 1809 removing the sunset on school job order contracting; SB 73 strengthening election security; AB 2418 streamlining commercial building permits; AB 1970 limiting step therapy for serious mental illness and substance use treatment; AB 2361 on peer-to-peer vehicle-sharing liability; AB 1976 streamlining bike and pedestrian project approvals; AB 2110 authorizing local tax increment financing for workforce housing; and AB 2146 easing documentation for supportive housing placements. Testimony was largely in support, often from sponsoring organizations, local governments, housing advocates, health groups, law enforcement, and wildfire survivors. AB 2700 drew especially extensive public support from Camp Fire and Tubbs Fire survivors and local officials, who urged stronger compensation for wildfire victims and relief from utility costs. AB 2034 and AB 1790 were mentioned during public comment as bills with opposition from industry groups, while AB 1903 and SB 417 also drew comment. Several bills were amended or noted as being subject to future amendments, including AB 1732, AB 2041, and AB 2418. The committee took action on the bills as they were heard, generally voting them out on due pass motions, many by roll call and several with members not voting on particular measures. The suspense calendar was then read and deemed approved, and the hearing concluded after public comment on bills not heard that day.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • He's a family physician trained at Saint Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City.
  • He is currently a managing partner of Metro Physicians, a wide-ranging Hospital team in Oklahoma.
  • opioid stewardship and safety in the hospital and mentored hospitals and opioid stewardship group Of physician
  • We give them symbolism, a government-written statement saying, as an Oklahoma taxpayer, you have rights