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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on Pension Policy Apr 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Select Committee on Pension Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We thank you for your service. So thank you very much.
- would not be receiving certain benefits from both the state plan and a federal plan for the same service
- For your legal services, the Attorney General's Office provides those, and we have a new assigned AAG
- comprehensive financial report, the GET report—that's Guaranteed Education Tuition—any long-term services
- So can staff expedite that for us? We have a Derek Vansport. Can staff expedite that for us?
Committee:
Joint Select Committee on Pension Policy
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Helpful if we know what kind of services those facilities offer and such.
- stepping into homeless services.
- In our program, we will have on Site clinical staff providing health services.
- We currently have shelters, and those shelters can't provide respite services.
- Medicaid does offer a limited service for skilled nursing as well as home health services, but even with
Committee:
House Public Health
Summary:
The meeting focused on hospital “avoidable days” and the difficulty of discharging medically stable patients who still need post-acute placement or social services. Presenters from Saint Anthony Hospital Midtown, the Oklahoma Hospital Association, City Care, and OU Health described common barriers including lack of skilled nursing, rehab, long-term care, behavioral health, and hospice placements; insurance prior authorization delays; Medicaid and Social Security eligibility delays; guardianship and Adult Protective Services bottlenecks; limited home health and private duty nursing; and the challenge of placing unhoused, uninsured, or medically complex patients. Several speakers emphasized that these delays reduce bed availability, increase emergency department boarding, contribute to staff burnout, and expose patients to hospital-acquired conditions and other harms.
The testimony included multiple examples of patients remaining in acute care for days, weeks, or even months after being medically ready for discharge, including patients awaiting guardianship, disability determinations, or placement in facilities willing to accept them. Speakers also highlighted special populations such as patients with behavioral health or substance use disorders, medically fragile children, patients with criminal histories, and unhoused individuals who need respite or hospice care. City Care described its planned 40-bed medical respite facility, set to open in 2027, as a way to provide clinical support and housing navigation for patients too sick to recover on the street or in shelters.
Witnesses recommended policy and system changes such as standardizing preauthorization protocols, expanding rural swing-bed and home-based services, increasing public guardianship resources, improving data collection on homelessness, expanding private duty nursing hours, and creating more placement options for complex patients. They also suggested better coordination between hospitals, DHS, APS, the Health Department, and post-acute facilities, including a database of facility services to improve discharge planning and keep patients closer to home. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the transcript, but the chair indicated the issue would require collaboration across multiple agencies and partners.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
SPEED Task Force (STF) - Wed May 27, 2026 @ 10:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We have HB 1721, which aligns with expedited housing permits.
- To identify what it is that we need to get expedited to build, you know?
- Sometimes they’re departments of transportation services. Once we accept a petition...
- But the core problem here, and this is all about problem solving, is how do we expedite the building
- As we're looking to expedite permitting and build housing more quickly, I would think that would be an
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Community Safety Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- . ...say, just letting you know, or turn the record from 33 up to 45 so we can get the testimony expedited
- By way of background, law enforcement agencies, state civil service positions, prosecuting attorneys,
- Well, again, we're going to be expediting here.
- In C-TAC, we contract for our police services and we work closely with our officers.
- In CTAC, we contract for our police services and we work closely with our officers.
Summary:
The House Community Safety Committee met on January 18, 2026, and heard staff briefings and public testimony on several familiar bills. Engrossed Senate Bill 5068 would broaden eligibility for law enforcement, civil service, prosecuting attorney, and Fish and Wildlife officer jobs to anyone legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law, replacing references to lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients. Supporters, including Sen. Lovick and King County, said it would expand the applicant pool and align state law with federal work authorization rules; opponents raised concerns about background checks, visa fraud, and whether the bill could allow people without U.S. citizenship to serve in sensitive public safety roles. The committee also heard testimony on Second Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5268, which would require community custody for unlawful possession of a firearm offenses; law enforcement and prosecutors supported it as an accountability measure, while the Sentencing Guidelines Commission urged more specificity and cautioned against over-supervision for lower-level cases.
The committee then heard Engrossed Senate Bill 5272, which expands school-related interference and intimidation offenses to include employees, contractors, students, and officials or volunteers involved in extracurricular athletic activities, increases penalties, and requires non-student offenders to be barred from the school or activity for 12 to 18 months. Sen. Lovick and several witnesses, including referee Bob West, supported the bill as a response to rising abuse of sports officials and school personnel. The committee also heard Engrossed Senate Bill 5286, which would codify and fund community policing partnerships at Western State Hospital in Lakewood and Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake, with annual reporting requirements; the mayors of Lakewood and Medical Lake testified in support, saying the programs had reduced calls and improved safety.
A major portion of the meeting focused on Substitute Senate Bill 5855, which would prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings while interacting with the public, with exceptions for undercover work, SWAT/protective gear, and other hazardous conditions. Supporters, including Sen. Valdez, the King County prosecutor, local officials, and several public commenters, argued the bill would improve transparency, accountability, and public trust, especially in response to masked federal immigration enforcement. Opponents warned about officer safety, doxing, weather and smoke conditions, and possible conflict with federal law; committee members and stakeholders discussed a possible amendment tied to Labor and Industries rules to address protective coverings in hazardous conditions. The chair said the committee would take executive action on SB 5272, SB 5286, and SB 5268 the next day, and the meeting adjourned after public testimony on SB 5855.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
House and Governmental Affairs May 12th, 2026
House and Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- provide basically an umbrella organization to facilitate exchanges on trade, academics, financial services
Bills:
HCR74 , HCR95 , HB705 , HB1048 , SCR23 , SCR31 , SCR38 , SB49 , SB233 , SB307 , SB326 , SB387 , SB401 , SB435 , SB495
Committee:
House House and Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
trade commission, international relations, Louisiana, United Kingdom, economic exchange, cultural exchange, infrastructure investment, sales tax, exemptions, credits, rebates, uniformity, legislative rules, fiscal report, contempt, legislature, disorderly conduct, bribery, arrest, legislative privilege
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- They end up rendering services and not getting paid. So we're just removing this antiquated policy.
- expect that we might see some reductions in ER visits and other use of higher-level, higher-cost services
- For the Department of Human Services, they collude with the state children's hospitals to kidnap children
Bills:
SJR50 , SJR51 , SJR52 , SJR53 , SJR54 , HJR1090 , HJR1091 , HJR1092 , HJR1093 , HJR1094 , HJR1095 , SJR49
Committee:
Senate Administrative Rules
Keywords:
Medicaid, federal funding, state law, healthcare, low-income adults, Oklahoma Constitution, healthcare regulations, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, permanent rules, joint resolution, OHCA, health care rules, administrative rules, major rule, Title 75, Title 317, Oklahoma Administrative Code, OAC 317:30, health policy, state health programs
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Administration of Criminal Justice Apr 23rd, 2026
Administration of Criminal Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- Sean Huttstream, Hospital Service District Coalition.
- And there's no way for these companies to be able to do their services.
- There's no way for these companies to be able to do their services.
- And there's no way for these companies to be able to do their services.
- There's not a way for collect their fee each month, without There's services.
Bills:
HB91 , HB123 , HB167 , HB255 , HB264 , HB321 , HB884 , HB955 , HB967 , HB968 , HB969 , HB978 , HB985 , HB994 , HB1005 , HB1104 , HB1107 , HB1109 , SCR3
Committee:
House Administration of Criminal Justice
Keywords:
criminal procedure, disclosure, criminal records, witness protection, trial rights, electronic monitoring, GPS ankle monitor, ankle bracelet, pretrial release, post-conviction supervision, bail monitoring, house arrest, corrections, criminal justice, law enforcement, prosecuting authority, court reporting, provider registration, LCLE, Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services 2ND REVISED Apr 8th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Welcome everyone to Senate Health and Human Services as we start hearing house bills again.
- House Bill 3904 simply changes prenatal delivery and postpartum services from being a global payment
- I'm just curious to get a better understanding by unbundling the payments for labor and delivery services
- to me in this bill is for rural Oklahoma, a lot of times you know you're a provider for prenatal services
- Well, a lot of times there's things like getting a blood test or some of those smaller services that
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
Keywords:
rural hospitals, small hospitals, grant program, healthcare funding, Oklahoma health department, cosmetology, barbering, massage therapy, State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, Service Oklahoma, license renewal, license reinstatement, licensing fees, sunset extension, board membership, human trafficking, victim services, beauty school, barber school, esthetics
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- They are called into service when we need the very best.
- It would be detrimental to the state and to the citizens to lose the services that they provide.
- This is a critical service that this unit serves because it is the best of the best, the elite.
- I think it is a very, very good service that they Provide to Oklahoma.
- It doesn't ask law enforcement to provide services.
Bills:
HB1002 , HB1250 , HB2710 , HB3008 , HB3045 , HB3086 , HB3595 , HB3678 , HB3695 , HB3831 , HB4107 , HB4408
Committee:
Senate Public Safety
Keywords:
stalking, victim notification, law enforcement, harassment, penalties, criminal justice, protection orders, local law enforcement, Public Safety Technology Revolving Fund, grants, state funding, law enforcement technology, Oklahoma Emergency Communications Act, emergency communications, public safety radio, statewide radio systems, land mobile radio, interoperability, Project 25, P25
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Criminal Judiciary REVISION 2: SB1379 - Removed Mar 31st, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Criminal Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- I think that's gonna all depend on the specific vendors who are doing the service, and that's what we've
Bills:
SB137 , SB1216 , SB1226 , SB1238 , SB1255 , SB1256 , SB1258 , SB1325 , SB1460 , SB1543 , SB1730 , SB1733 , SB1921
Committee:
House Criminal Judiciary
Keywords:
electronic monitoring, Department of Corrections, criminal justice, rehabilitation, public safety, SB 1216, drug court, drug courts, Oklahoma drug court, eligibility, substance abuse treatment, addiction, diversion program, criminal justice reform, probation violation, revocation, intermediate revocation facility, plea agreement, speedy trial waiver, preliminary hearing waiver
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 11th, 2026
Ways and Means General Fund
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
Keywords:
campus chaplain, chaplain, school chaplain, volunteer chaplain, public schools, public K-12 education, public charter schools, local control, teacher support, student support services, religious volunteer, faith-based support, church-state separation, background check, sex offender registry, school volunteer, education policy, district attorney, compensation, constitutional amendment
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Children, Youth and Family Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Is the Department of Human Services anywhere in between that, or is that... ...in a setting where they're
- its role as the state's lead entity, clarifying it applies to 211 call centers to provide hotline services
- To provide hotline services such as help with food, housing, clothing, transportation, and medical needs
- the things that you need to be sure and ask and have plans for, and one of those being emergency services
- me because I live in an area where the population densities, and we would struggle with a lot of services
Bills:
HB3131 , HB3380 , HB3502 , HB3552 , HB3849 , HB3886 , HB3907 , HB4201 , HB4302 , HB3448 , HB3409 , HB4095 , HB3637
Committee:
House Children, Youth and Family Services
Keywords:
homelessness, shelter standards, safety, accountability, state funding, local governance, regulation, Oklahoma Homeless Shelter Safety and Accountability Act, foster care, child welfare, Department of Human Services, educational opportunities, employment support, technology in child welfare, faith-based organizations, self-sufficiency, financial literacy, HB3502, Oklahoma, children's code
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Feb 18th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It does not because I talked to the CEO Service Oklahoma ahead of this meeting to make sure about that
Bills:
HCR1006 , SB1226 , SB1239 , SB1309 , SB2132 , SB1189 , SB1344 , SB1295 , SB1355 , SB1998 , SB1330 , SB1297 , SB1338 , SB1546 , SB1378 , SB1859 , SB1333 , SB1341 , SB1377 , SB1990
Keywords:
campaign finance, election spending, political spending, money in politics, constitutional amendment, Citizens United, free speech, ballot measures, elections, corruption, dark money, outside spending, foreign influence, special interests, corporations, unions, federalism, self-government, political equality, term limits
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- The toll that kind of service can take on a family is not surprising to me at all if it became a recruitment
Bills:
SB843 , SB1733 , SB1476 , SB1237 , SB1410 , SB1894 , SB1272 , SB1204 , SB1721 , SB1725 , SB1735 , SB1337 , SB1339 , SB1461 , SB1975
Committee:
Senate Education
Keywords:
school boards, educational governance, conflict of interest, employee relations, Oklahoma statutes, child abuse, reporting requirements, sexual misconduct, law enforcement, school personnel, confidentiality, student safety, land office, land exchange, investment, education funding, real estate management, Teachers' Bill of Rights, education, teachers' rights
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/17/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- it, and then eventually use long-term storage credits, and then pump groundwater in the company's service
- it, and then eventually use long-term storage credits, and then pump groundwater in the company's service
- For instance, federal lands: if it's on BLM or Forest Service and we're not able to have the capability
- Does the bill contemplate any limit on the number of devices per service, or what limit?
- affiliate of the public service corporation, The public service corporation, or parent company, a holding
Bills:
HB2099 , HB2263 , HB2264 , HB2330 , HB2341 , HB2492 , HB2757 , HB2782 , HB2843 , HB2889 , HB2912 , HB2915 , HB2918 , HB4025 , HB4100 , HCR2020 , HCR2057
Committees:
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water , House House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee of Reference
Keywords:
water storage, long-term storage credits, groundwater management, drought contingency, Arizona water regulations, Colorado River, replenishment, groundwater savings facility, groundwater storage, underground water storage, active management area, irrigation non-expansion area, Arizona water law, water rights, water replenishment, recharge, water conservation district, multi-county water conservation district, CAP water, Central Arizona Project
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 11th, 2026
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- And in subsection B, the law enforcement agency responsible for service of the warrant shall provide
- law enforcement agency<00:06:10.720><c> responsible</c><00:06:11.600><c> for</c><00:06:11.840><c> service
- This bill is a ... service retirement allowance and service retirement allowance and disability<00:19
- </c> limitation on amount of service limitation on amount of service retirement<00:19:32.480><c> allowance
- , then they get separate years of service, then they get to<00:30:12.880><c> have</c><00:30:13.039><c
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
Keywords:
impoundment, driver licenses, vehicle redemption, local identification cards, law enforcement, HB285, TJ's Law, traffic infraction, traffic ticket, uniform traffic ticket and complaint, minor driver, juvenile driver, parent notification, guardian notification, emergency contact, citing agency, traffic citation, driver safety, youth safety, Alabama traffic law
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 10th, 2026 at 04:43 pm
Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- People on Medicaid don't pay for the service, correct? Madam Chair, sponsor.
- Madam Chair, Senator, is your question that people on Medicaid don't pay for any of their services?
- People on Medicaid don't pay for the service, correct? Madam Chair, sponsor.
- Madam Chair, Senator, is your question that people on Medicaid don't pay for any of their services?
- I'm talking about all of the services.
Committee:
Senate Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Keywords:
prior authorization, pharmacy benefits manager, PBM, health insurer, prescription drugs, step therapy, formulary, auto-adjudication, electronic portal, appeals, medical necessity, serious mental illness, mental health, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, substance use disorder, addiction treatment, cancer, autoimmune disorder
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/10/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- all the money, I think it was 23, 24... they swept the pump tax, the taxes placed on farmers in the service
- ... ...taxes placed on farmers in the service territory using the water, and so they're taxing themselves
- When that happens, we can imagine at least six providers that have CAGRD member service areas in the
- When that happens, we can imagine at least six providers that have CAGRD member service areas in the
- Phoenix AMA, alone. six providers that have CAGRD member service areas in the Phoenix AMA along, the
Bills:
HB2026 , HB2027 , HB2028 , HB2031 , HB2078 , HB2094 , HB2095 , HB2101 , HB2102 , HB2103 , HB2260 , HB2278 , HB2827 , HB2932 , HB2933 , HB2934 , HB2986 , HCM2009 , HCR2038
Committees:
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water , House House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee of Reference
Keywords:
assured water supply, groundwater, commingling, commingled water, water supply, Arizona Department of Water Resources, ADWR, active management area, AMA, subdivision plat, development approval, water rights, municipal provider, private water company, certificate of assured water supply, written commitment of water service, groundwater savings credits, gray water reuse, replenishment district, Central Arizona Project
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections Feb 3rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm
State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections
Transcript Highlights:
- to WOTEC for purposes of providing information technology related to digital experience platform services
- to WOTEC for purposes of providing information technology related to digital experience platform services
- 17 members appointed by the governor, including representatives from veterans' homes and veterans' service
- governor is required to appoint six, rather than ten, members from nationally recognized veterans service
- These positions come from the 10 existing veterans service organizations positions, keeping the total
Bills:
SB6084 , SB6044 , SB5950 , SB6046 , SB5763 , SB6215 , SB6160 , SB6123 , SB6049 , SB6164 , SB6313 , SB5784 , SB5046 , SB5489
Keywords:
elections, double voting, voting twice, multiple voting, same-day election, primary election, general election, special election, cross-state voting, ballot fraud, election fraud, voter misconduct, RCW 29A.84.660, State v. Padilla, civil infraction, class C felony, Secretary of State, Washington elections, election law, voter eligibility
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- And what this does is it creates basically a service contract if you have an online platform to rent
- would do in this space but does in the case of other things like, I don't know, like warranties or service
- would do in this space but does in the case of other things like, I don't know, like warranties or service
- would do in this space but does in the case of other things like, I don't know, like warranties or service
- would do in this space but does in the case of other things like, I don't know, like warranties or service
Committee:
House Insurance
Keywords:
HB300, Choctaw County, probate court, probate judge, recording fee, filing fee, deed tax, mortgage tax, deeds, mortgages, property records, recordation, county local act, local legislation, technology upgrades, digitalization of records, recordkeeping, county treasury, special fund, court administration