Transcript Highlights:

• 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

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• Both states require being supervised until the age of 20, which this proposal does not consider.
• :11.159><c> states</c><00:04:11.560><c> require</c><00:04:12.040><c> being</c><00:04:12.319><c> supervised
• </c> 17 both states require being supervised 17 both states require being supervised until<00:04:13.560
• And I will, in the interest of time, ask while you walk, I'm intrigued by what being supervised means
• I'm intrigued by what being supervised means in Wayne, in Maine, and West Virginia.

Transcript Highlights:

• Another provision added on the Senate floor deals with supervision for social workers.
• pathologist to practice in the state of Missouri, they must complete their clinical fellowship under the supervision
• proposes a provision to that language, allowing clinical fellowships to be completed under the supervision
• It creates a barrier for professionals who have received high-quality supervision and training outside
• of Social Workers, Missouri Chapter, and Burrell Behavioral Health, supporting the social worker supervision

Committee: House Professional Registration and Licensing

Transcript Highlights:

• supervision is permitted by the guidelines adopted by the board.
• supervision is permitted by the guidelines adopted by the board.
• 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.

Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of introductions recognizing interns, staff, visitors, and a military veteran. After routine announcements, the chamber took up several House-returned bills and special-order measures, with most motions to concur or refuse to concur adopted without objection. Early actions included unanimous concurrence in House amendments to SB 118 on RV park special assessments and SB 572 on ethics rules for public officers and employees, both passing 38-0. The Senate then debated and passed CS/CS/HB 991 on election integrity by a 27-12 vote after extensive opposition focused on voter registration documentation, student IDs, provisional ballots, and potential disenfranchisement; the sponsor defended the bill as a citizenship-verification and election-security measure. The chamber also passed CS/CS/SB 182, an education package combining several related provisions, by 37-0, and later approved SB 474 on military affairs by 39-0 after a technical amendment restoring certain retirement eligibility positions. The Senate refused to concur in the House amendment to CS/CS/CS/SB 1014 on municipal utility service, and refused to concur in the House strike-all amendment to SB 598 after the House had added composting language to the cremation definition. Several other messages were temporarily postponed. On the special-order calendar, the Senate passed CS/CS/HB 425 on historic cemeteries by 39-0, allowing historic Black cemetery boards to sell surplus property not used for burial to fund maintenance. It also passed HB 929 on chickee regulation by 39-0, limiting local restrictions on chickee construction and setting spacing, fire-safety, and permitting rules. SB 1370 on habitual traffic offender designation was substituted with identical CS/HB 35 and passed 39-0, expanding habitual offender treatment to repeated driving without a valid license. The chamber then returned to CS/CS/CS/SB 902, the Department of Health package, which was substituted with CS/HB 733 and amended to retain the Senate’s medical marijuana location limits, adjust NICU nutrition language, modify the dental student loan repayment program, and require a pediatric trauma center designation for certain specialty children’s hospitals; it passed 37-0. The Senate also moved CS/CS/CS/HB 905 on foreign influence to the special-order calendar and began debate on a strike-all amendment defining foreign terrorist organizations and foreign countries of concern, restricting gifts and business ties, tightening sister-city affiliations, and adding ethics training and reporting requirements, but the transcript ends before final action on that bill.

Transcript Highlights:

• And then the oversight: every CERT team has a CERT commander that supervises their operations while on
• “Okay, we go to represent a call.” supervision and needs of transitional services.
• Page 402, Community Supervision Centers.
• This is the core for these community supervision centers, also called CSEs.”
• “This is a core for these community supervision centers, also called CSEs.

Committee: House Budget

Transcript Highlights:

• So things that will change, that will abate, are things like inflation, things like interest rates, things
• The other thing, so those are kind of the things that, again, are cyclical, will abate over time.
• c> term so things that will change that term so things that will change that will<03:26:01.319><c> Abate
• are</c><03:26:02.600><c> things</c><03:26:02.960><c> like</c><03:26:03.720><c> inflation</c> will Abate
• are things like inflation will Abate are things like inflation things<03:26:05.040><c> like</c><03:26

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.

Transcript Highlights:

• now, it's a requirement for all those individuals that are educated outside the U.S. to undergo supervised
• It's necessary for them to undergo that supervised practice.
• practice, which is hard to find somebody in that rural community to do supervised practice with.
• a supervised practice before they<00:13:54.720><c> can</c><00:13:54.880><c> start</c><00:13:55.040><
• But if you've been supervised practice.

Committee: House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations

Transcript Highlights:

• They have authorized supervised release.
• She does have established supervision and services.
• </c> non-monetary conditions and supervision. non-monetary conditions and supervision.
• </c><00:30:30.640><c> Uh</c><00:30:31.039><c> supervision</c> supervision and services.
• Uh supervision supervision and services.

Committee: House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:

• Another provision added on the Senate floor deals with supervision for social workers.
• pathologist to practice in the state of Missouri, they must complete their clinical fellowship under the supervision
• proposes a provision to that language, allowing clinical fellowships to be completed under the supervision
• It creates a barrier for professionals who have received high-quality supervision and training outside
• of Social Workers, Missouri Chapter, and Burrell Behavioral Health, supporting the social worker supervision

Committee: House Professional Registration and Licensing

Summary: The Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing met with a quorum and held a public hearing on Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 1083, which focused primarily on respiratory care licensure. The sponsor explained that the bill would require respiratory therapists in Missouri to hold an active RRT credential rather than a CRT, while preserving a grandfather clause for current CRT licensees, and would also add random audits at renewal to confirm credentials remain active. The bill was also described as carrying several other professional licensing provisions added on the Senate floor, including changes affecting interior designers, physician licensure background checks and disclosure requirements, social worker supervision standards, and speech-language pathologist clinical fellowship supervision rules. Testimony in support came from representatives of the Missouri Society for Respiratory Care, the Interior Designers Association, the Missouri Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Missouri chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and Burrell Behavioral Health, and FGA Action. The respiratory care witness said the bill would improve patient care and close a loophole in current law. Interior design supporters said they had negotiated changes with the board, while a committee member disputed that the board was fully in agreement. Speech-language and social work witnesses described their provisions as technical fixes that would help recruit and license more professionals, especially in rural areas. One witness also urged adding unrelated legislation as an amendment. After the hearing, the committee moved into executive session on Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 183 and adopted an amendment that addressed residential care and assisted living facility accreditation, a temporary licensure issue tied to work experience, a cleanup fix for osteopathic college language, and clarification that the speech-language pathologist provision applies to supervision from any state. The committee then rolled the amendment into the substitute and voted do pass House Committee Substitute for Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 1083 by a roll call vote of 21 yes and 1 no, with Representative Nolte voting no.

Transcript Highlights:

• and supervised housing in a supervision and supervised housing in a location<01:01:42.800><c> other<
• . supervision. supervision.
• </c><01:02:42.880><c> and</c> treatment including supervision and treatment including supervision and
• . supervision. supervision.
• </c> supervision of people who are released. supervision of people who are released.

Transcript Highlights:

• Then he was paroled about 10 years ago in 2016, and in 2020 was completely discharged from any supervision
• discharged and in 2020 was completely discharged from<00:05:18.560><c> any</c><00:05:19.039><c> supervision
• </c><00:05:20.639><c> He's</c> from any supervision or parole. He's from any supervision or parole.
• He was released to earned<00:10:00.160><c> release</c><00:10:00.480><c> supervision</c><00:10:00.959>
• <c> on</c><00:10:01.200><c> September</c> earned release supervision on September earned release supervision

Committee: Joint Judiciary, Division B

Transcript Highlights:

• 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.

Committee: Senate Government Organization

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:34:39.120><c> clinical</c> practices, and a supervised clinical practices, and a supervised clinical
• It clarifies and reorganizes the PTA supervision requirements.
• from on-site to direct supervision.
• Um, and I think that it looks like the, um, supervision has been changed to be direct supervision, which
• Um, and I think that it looks like the, um, supervision has been changed to be direct supervision, which

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:

• , whether or not licensed by the state, who was acting as an intern student participating under supervision
• As amended in the Senate, the bill reinserts direct supervision being required by a radiologist when
• Additionally, guidelines for general supervision have been added to allow for a radiologist assistant
• The Senate adopted a strike-everything amendment that creates a supervised work route for a veterinary
• work hours within six years and outlines requirements for the supervised work.

Summary: The caucus reviewed a long list of Senate and House bills, many of them on consent or with strike-everything amendments. Early items included SB 1457 on advanced air mobility for border security, SB 1519 raising the off-highway vehicle weight limit to 3,500 pounds, and HB 2383, which now cites the 2014 trampoline court safety law known as Ties Law. Members also discussed SB 1041 on electronic monitoring in health care facilities, with supporters emphasizing resident safety and accountability and opponents from assisted living facilities arguing it could function as a mandate. SB 1168 on dental school complaint jurisdiction, SB 1713 on pharmacist testing authority and HIV prevention, SB 1497 on school district self-insurance procurement, HB 2203 on reducing redundant education reporting, and several other measures were briefly described, with some members requesting bills be pulled from consent or noting support or opposition. The caucus also covered a series of strike-everything bills on housing, labor, licensing, and insurance. These included SB 1118 on historic neighborhood middle housing design standards, SB 1189 on late-payment protections in revitalization district construction contracts, SB 1274 creating a separate timeshare salesperson license, SB 1428 on workers’ compensation notice and recordkeeping, HB 2120 on property tax disability exemptions and widow eligibility, HB 2174 on insurance predictive modeling oversight, SB 1582 on HOA rules for pets and backyard chickens, SB 1503 expanding first responder death benefits to certain law enforcement pilots, and SB 1286 changing prescription lengths for virtual veterinary visits. Members raised questions about the scope and practical effects of several bills, and in some cases noted changes in support, such as unions backing SB 1189 and some members supporting SB 1582’s limits on HOA restrictions. On the second calendar, members reviewed HB 2176 on health facility complaint investigations, HB 2050 on radiologic technologist and assistant supervision rules, HB 2010 on digital goods seller refund requirements, HB 2875 on local regulation of unmanned aircraft and drone delivery near airports, HB 2428 on county emission reduction credit permits, and HB 2877, which was amended in the Senate to create a supervised work route for veterinary technician certification rather than the original timeshare licensing language. Several sponsors were said to intend to concur with Senate amendments, while HB 2010 was headed to conference because the sponsor intended to refuse the Senate’s five-year refund window amendment. The meeting ended after the chair announced the caucus was adjourned, with no formal votes taken in the transcript beyond references to prior floor and committee votes.

Transcript Highlights:

• These boards exist per the state constitution to quote supervise and manage the institutions, programs
• A board cannot supervise and manage an institution without authority over what it teaches and who it
• A board cannot supervise and manage an institution without authority over what it teaches and who it
• A board cannot supervise and manage an institution without authority over what it teaches and who it
• A board cannot supervise and manage an institution without authority over what it teaches and who it

Bills: HB818 , HB1063 , SB28 , SB64 , SB142 , SB234 , SB482

Committee: House Education

Keywords: higher education, accountability, curriculum review, faculty governance, disciplinary procedures, SB 28, Act 233, associate educator program, associate teachers, teacher certification, alternative teacher pathway, education workforce, teacher shortage, minimum age, age requirement, Louisiana schools, Title 17, R.S. 17:7.8, educator pipeline, teacher recruitment

Transcript Highlights:

• Supervised visitation was ordered to protect our daughter.
• But the court never defined what supervision actually meant.
• That is not supervision. That is unsupervised access under the illusion of safety.
• They are simply there to supervise a visit, not control anyone’s life.
• I respect... ...to ensure that supervised visitation actually means child safety.

Bills: HB2495 , HB2557 , HB2594 , HB2615 , HB2800 , HB2861 , HB2862 , HB2931 , HB2995 , HB4042 , HB4070 , HB4117 , HB4136

Committees: House Judiciary , House House Judiciary Committee of Reference

Keywords: vulnerable adults, sentencing, felonies, criminal justice, enhanced penalties, medical records, patient rights, healthcare access, privacy, healthcare providers, timeliness, address confidentiality, domestic violence, privacy protection, voter registration, court proceedings, parenting time, supervised visitation, family court, high-risk cases

Transcript Highlights:

• Under current law, courts may order supervised outpatient or community-based treatment for individuals
• Under current law, courts may order supervised outpatient or community-based treatment for individuals
• Local probation offices lack the authority to provide supervision.
• This tier of parole supervision is for the most heinous acts, such as murder, kidnapping, and indecency
• This tier of parole supervision is for the most heinous acts, such as murder, kidnapping, and indecency

Bills: HB47 , HB171 , HB285 , HB305 , HB449 , HB908 , HB 1024 , HB 1306 , HB1443 , HB1445 , HB1741 , HB1866 , HB1902 , HB2001 , HB2282 , HB2355 , HB2492 , HB2637 , HB2697 , HB3464 , HB4263 , HB4996 , HB5667 , HB47 , HB171 , HB285 , HB305

Committee: Senate Criminal Justice

Summary: The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice met with a quorum and heard a long agenda of bills on criminal justice, public safety, mental health, victims’ rights, and related administrative issues. Early bills included HB 47, the omnibus sexual assault survivors bill, which would expand post-assault care, require courts to consider delays for adult survivors, bar sex offenders from rideshare driving, allow lease termination regardless of where an assault occurred, and require more reporting from sexual assault response teams. Testimony was generally supportive, though one witness raised concern that the bill’s reporting requirements could jeopardize county grant funding. HB 171, the Annel Borrego Act, would set a minimum period for court-ordered chemical dependency treatment; NAMI Texas supported it. HB 908 would require missing children reports to be sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children within two hours, and HB 1443 would criminalize possession and promotion of childlike sex dolls; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. HB 567, changing juvenile board chair selection in Parker County, and HB 4263, a TJJD workforce retention bill, were also heard and left pending after brief discussion and adoption of committee substitutes where applicable. The committee also heard several bills focused on jail and prison safety, court process, and victim protection. HB 2282 would raise the arrest warrant fee from $50 to $75; constables supported it as a cost-recovery measure, while the Texas Fair Defense Project opposed it as a regressive fee that burdens low-income defendants. HB 3464 would increase penalties for correctional employees who bring drugs or alcohol into prisons, with support from Harris County jail officials and a formerly incarcerated advocate who described the dangers of contraband and retaliation. HB 285, “Poncho’s Law,” would add criminal negligence to non-livestock animal cruelty offenses; animal welfare advocates said it would close a loophole that lets pet service businesses avoid accountability, and the bill was left pending. HB 2355 would keep certain Crime Victims Compensation records confidential when held by the Attorney General, and HB 2637 would standardize jury exemption ages and clean up jury disqualification reporting; both were left pending after limited testimony. Mental health and competency-related bills received significant attention. HB 305 would require a pretrial hearing within 14 days after a defendant is restored to competency, aimed at reducing repeated decompensation and the forensic waitlist; NAMI Texas supported it. HB 1741 would tighten procedures for not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity outpatient commitments by requiring a stronger nexus to the receiving county and clearer supervision authority; law enforcement and mental health witnesses said it would improve public safety and treatment success. HB 2492 would make the four-hour family-violence post-bond cooling-off period mandatory rather than discretionary, and HB 1445 would allow a managed assigned counsel director to designate someone to approve certain payments for indigent defense attorneys; both were left pending. HB 1024 would require prompt execution of warrants for parole violators on superintensive supervision, and HB 1306 would extend first-responder-style benefits to death investigation professionals; neither drew opposition in the hearing. The committee also heard a series of public integrity and technology bills. HB 449 would expand the deepfake sexual content statute to include sexually explicit images, with Public Citizen supporting the change as necessary to address a rapidly growing problem. HB 1902 would create a new offense for “jugging,” or following bank or ATM customers to rob them; the Texas Bankers Association supported it. HB 2697 would require sureties to notify prosecutors before surrendering a felony defendant’s bond, and HB 2001 would sharply increase penalties for misuse of public information for financial gain and related coercion, with prosecutors and Texas Rangers describing bid-rigging and public corruption investigations as difficult to prove under current law because of short limitations periods and limited penalties. HB 1866 would grant Texas peace officer authority to National Park Service rangers within Texas park boundaries, and HB 4996 would increase penalties for fraudulent liens filed against public servants. Throughout the hearing, most bills were left pending after testimony, and several committee substitutes were adopted without objection.

Transcript Highlights:

• Now, under the law, it is the Federal Reserve Bank that provides that same supervision for small banks
• There is no one, not the state attorney general or anyone else, who can provide that kind of supervision
• </c><00:03:40.319><c> to</c> does is it provides Bank supervision to does is it provides Bank supervision
• </c><00:03:50.080><c> for</c><00:03:50.920><c> small</c><00:03:51.360><c> Banks</c> same supervision
• for small Banks same supervision for small Banks Community<00:03:52.519><c> Banks</c><00:03:53.360><c

Transcript Highlights:

• Basically, I tend to whatever care and supervision needs they have.
• They might require some supervision to guide them in conversation.
• Service coordinators are responsible for supervising the safety of the individuals we serve.
• We are categorized as caretakers by DPPC and can be filed on if we fail to supervise the individuals
• I supervise DDS services by visiting individuals in their apartments and group homes.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Public Service

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several retirement and workforce-related bills. House Bill 2980 would place county correctional nurses and certain medical staff into Group 4 retirement. Representative Trino, Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, and nurse manager Leanne Cameron argued that correctional nurses work in dangerous, high-stress settings with frequent contact with incarcerated people, high rates of mental illness and substance use in the jail population, and significant workplace violence, and that the change would help recruitment and retention with limited statewide fiscal impact. The committee also heard Senate Bill 210, which would create a commission to study additional regular compensation and annual expenses for members of the General Court. Senator John Keenan said Massachusetts has high leadership stipends compared with other states and argued the current structure can affect independence and public trust. Representative O'Day testified on House Bill 2928 to extend Group 2 retirement to additional Department of Children and Families social workers, and SEIU 509 witnesses described frequent transport of children, crisis response, threats, assaults, and other high-risk duties that they said match Group 2 work. Additional testimony supported House Bill 2943 for DDS service coordinators and supervisors, with witnesses describing home visits in unsafe conditions, transport of vulnerable individuals, direct care during staffing crises, and exposure to violence. House Bill 2899 drew support from the Association of Social Work Boards for social work field placement grants, incentives for supervisors, and expanded retirement benefits for DCF social workers. The committee also heard Senate Bill 2613, a local retirement bill for Salem police officer Kathleen Roachville, who described a severe line-of-duty injury during an arrest involving a combative person in a mental health crisis. Finally, Susan Smith Campbell testified for reclassifying certain DYS administrative officers into Group 2 because of their direct involvement in restraints, assaults, and crisis management. After testimony concluded, the committee adjourned without taking any votes.

Transcript Highlights:

• Chair Sen in your bill that says schools, supervision hours there does identified, I guess, is. >> A
• Plus a reasonable time immediately before or after school when a student supervision is available.
• What do you mean in this bill by reasonable time when you do a school supervision hours?
• But prior to HB 1473, state law required supervision of students on campus from 30 minutes before 2.30
• of legal supervision 30 minutes before and after all.