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• If the facility fails to follow all the requirements, facilities are barred from participating. in and
• State policies that pay the same for poorly staffed facilities. as well as staff facilities, encourage
• , and age facility takes more money.
• That cost report for facilities is actual cost.
• So, it's that facility cost.

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• ,<01:08:45.839> hospital<01:08:46.400> facility, to nursing facility, hospital facility
• , to nursing facility, hospital facility, or<01:08:47.319> ICF/IID or ICF/IID or ICF/IID facility
• care facilities. care facilities.
• a facility. a facility.
• >> Outside of a facility. >> Outside of the facility and yes, okay.

Keywords: 958, all

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• can choose those facilities as well.
• Which facilities, there are facilities that allow cameras, and this will make it easy for seniors to
• to choose those facilities without having, as Senator Dunn mentioned, calling different facilities or
• or a tribal facility.
• or a tribal facility Senate Bill 1776 adds urban Indian organizations to the list of facilities allowed

Bills: SB1014, SB1094, SB1146, SB1177, SB1192, SB1194, SB1214, SB1372, SB1390, SB1398, SB1399, SB1494, SB1557, SB1561, SB1564, SB1602, SB1603, SB1621, SB1628, SB1629, SB1713, SB1752, SB1776, SB1813, SB1814, SB1821

Keywords: gender transition, gender detransition, health insurance, medical procedures, insurance claims, official documents, Arizona law, gender reassignment, civil liability, minors, medical consent, detransition, dependent children, foster care, periodic review, court hearings, child welfare, public funds, prohibition, Arizona legislation

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• We certify nearly 270 assisted living facilities.
• Where do we need those facilities? Where do we need those services?
• Similarly, recognizing the important role that nursing facilities play in our health care continuum,
• new this year, we stood up a similar centralized dashboard for nursing facilities with key financial
• Harm events also happen in long-term care facilities, outpatient care, even home care.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee heard budget testimony from Department of Mental Health Commissioner Brooke Doyle, who said DMH serves about 29,000 people and is facing rising demand, higher operating costs, and uncertainty about federal funding. She explained that the FY26 budget prioritizes fully funding the state-operated inpatient system, which is at 100% occupancy and often serves people transferred from Bridgewater State Hospital, while making reductions in other areas to balance the budget. Those reductions include a 50% cut to case managers, a pause on closing the Pocasset unit pending a working group on Cape access, and changes to youth and contracted services such as right-sizing IRTP and CIRT, reducing Youth PACT from seven teams to three, scaling back flex and jail diversion grants as ARPA funds wind down, and preserving the behavioral health helpline and community-based crisis services. Members from Western Massachusetts and the Cape raised concerns about access, staffing, and the impact of cuts, and Doyle said the department would continue operating IRTP services, improve the referral process, and work with stakeholders on the Pocasset review and other access issues. The committee also discussed school-based mental health, 988, loan forgiveness for workforce recruitment, and the role of co-response programs for law enforcement. Secretary Robin Lipson then testified for the Executive Office of Aging and Independence, describing a proposed FY26 budget increase of about 21% to support councils on aging, home care, elder abuse investigations, caregiver support, care transitions, and nutrition programs. She said the agency is managing rising demand, especially from the growing 80-plus population, and noted uncertainty around federal Older Americans Act funding after the federal disbursement agency was disbanded. To control costs, the office will manage intake and caseload growth in a fully state-funded home care program, but current clients will not lose services. Lipson also highlighted a new $1 million line item for local mini-grants to support age-friendly initiatives. In questions, members focused on elder scams, and Lipson said scams are increasing and the agency is working with banks, district attorneys, and public awareness campaigns. The Health Policy Commission’s Executive Director David Seltz presented the agency’s FY26 request and said the biggest challenge is health care affordability, with family premiums near $29,000 annually and many residents delaying care because of cost. He emphasized that recent legislation significantly expands HPC’s role through a new Office of Pharmaceutical Policy and Analysis, which will examine the drug supply chain and pricing, and a new Office of Health Resource Planning, which will support statewide planning around closures and access gaps. The new law also creates task forces on maternal health access and primary care, and adds transparency and oversight for private equity in health care. Members asked about pharmaceutical costs, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, 340B, and maternal health closures; Seltz said the data show rapid growth in GLP-1 spending and that the new offices will help the state better understand cost drivers and access problems. The Center for Health Information and Analysis then began its testimony, describing its role as the state’s data hub for health care spending, utilization, quality, and affordability analysis.

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• Since then, they have four Since then, they have four manufacturing facilities across America that produce
• An outpatient procedure gone horribly wrong caused medical expenses of more than $10 million in a lifetime
• been hurt through no fault of their own, doing the thing that they want to, going to the medical facility
• House Bill 173 relates to state correctional facilities, visitation policies, annual report.
• down to just a half mile from the entrance to a mass transit or public transportation station or facility

Keywords: March 10, 2026 - Regular Session, 976, house, all

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• closed in North Conway, 45 bed facility closed in North Conway, 45 bed facility last<01:33:54.159
• facilities saw a cut over 30 facilities facilities saw a cut over 30 facilities saw<01:41:04.719
• > that<01:43:59.360> had facility that I referenced that had facility that I referenced
• Chairman, in facilities.
• It was really wonderful facilities.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Steber, is currently the outpatient pediatric psychologist for them.

Bills: SB683, SB1579, SB1389, SB1387, SB1390, SB1391, SB2063, SB1829, SB2060, SB1842, SB1398, SB1212, SB2158, SB102, SB1772, SB1958, SB2010, SB1595, SB1687, SB1684, SB2049, SB1966, SB1989, SB1191, SB1258, SB1920, SB1936, SB2143, SB2122, SB330, SB2071, SB2169, SB2069, SB2095, SB2157, SB1806, SB1430, SB206, SB1547, SB1849, SB1428, SB1653, SB1984, SB1644, SB1561, SB1813, SB1570, SB1796

Keywords: education, tax credit, student support, private school, Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit, financial assistance, homeschooling, qualified expenses, property tax, valuation increase, taxpayer rights, homestead, protest process, school choice, tuition assistance, income limits, parental choice, accreditation, sales tax, motor vehicles

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• The floor amendment clarifies that the covered entity does not include those long-term care facilities
• Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1610 addresses facility safety, security, and sex offender registration
• 2824 by Middleton, relating to the sale, lease, or use of an unused or underused school district facility
• power duration requirements and emergency contingency plans adopted by end-stage renal disease facilities
• Senate Bill 2969 by Parker, relating to the creation of the criminal offense of trespass in a facility

Bills: SJR12, SJR81, SCR39, SB22, SB32, SB241, SB393, SB414, SB458, SB464, SB568, SB583, SB609, SB660, SB693, SB731, SB732, SB746, SB783, SB785, SB897, SB993, SB996, SB1008, SB1029, SB1035, SB1036, SB1120, SB1122, SB1147, SB1163, SB1188, SB1197, SB1209, SB1227, SB1245, SB1267, SB1307, SB1321, SB1332, SB1386, SB1394, SB1396, SB1470, SB1494, SB1537, SB1596, SB1598, SB1610, SB1664, SB1814, SB1822, SB1841, SB1948, SB2065, SB2155, SB2406, SB2407

Keywords: parental rights, education, constitutional amendment, school choice, child education, tax exemption, ad valorem, tangible personal property, income production, border security, southern border, federal immigration policy, illegal immigration, cartels, transnational cartels, fentanyl, drug trafficking, human trafficking, Operation Lone Star, Texas border

Summary: The Senate opened with a quorum call, invocation, approval of routine motions, and the reading of gubernatorial nominations and several honorary resolutions. The chamber adopted resolutions recognizing Jack and Jill of America Day and DJ Daniel Day at the Capitol, with multiple senators offering remarks praising youth leadership, perseverance, and public service. The Senate also introduced the Doctor of the Day and then proceeded to a long series of floor actions on bills. A major focus was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 568, which overhauls special education funding and services in public schools by moving from a placement-based model to an intensity-based system tied to student needs and IEPs. Senators Bettencourt, Creighton, and Menendez emphasized transparency, parent input, evaluation funding, dyslexia services, and better alignment of funding with actual services; Senator Hinojosa shared a personal story about dyslexia and the importance of early intervention. The bill was advanced on second and third reading and finally passed 30-0. The Senate also passed SB 1396 to prohibit national sex education standards in public schools, SB 2065 on the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System, SB 1664 requiring clearer public disclosure of transmission and distribution utility rate changes, SB 1029 on advertising certain used motor vehicles, SB 1120 expanding rights for family violence victims, SB 1036 regulating residential solar retail transactions, SB 464 creating school-proximity restrictions and penalties for tobacco and vaping sales, SB 1035 giving farmers and ranchers equitable relief from certain local agricultural regulations, SB 1610 addressing civil commitment facility safety and prosecution issues, SB 1197 extending drone restrictions to spaceports, and SB 1386 changing legislative witness immunity from transactional to testimonial immunity. Another major bill was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1188, which updates electronic health record requirements. Senator Kolkhorst said the bill builds on Texas medical privacy law by requiring U.S.-based storage of EMR data, prohibiting recording of voter registration status and credit score information, requiring provider verification and disclosure for AI-assisted diagnosis or treatment recommendations, preserving parental access to minors’ records until age 18, and ensuring EMRs can capture metabolic health and biological sex information. A floor amendment clarified the bill’s scope and enforcement, and the bill passed 23-7. Several measures drew debate, especially SB 414 on bond ballot transparency, where Senators Eckhardt and Menendez questioned whether requiring estimated interest and total debt cost on ballots could be misleading or difficult to implement because interest rates and financing terms can change before issuance or over time. The transcript ends during that discussion, with no final action shown on SB 414.

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• And to be at such an exciting, really incredible facility. We'll get started right away.
• And this building is more than just a facility.
• Forgive me, I forget the full name of the facility.
• Growing this facility makes all healthcare delivery systems stronger.
• So we really are at the place where that facility is not representative of contemporary educational facilities

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• A one-time outpatient procedure is significantly less expensive than long-term contraceptive methods.
• A one-time outpatient procedure is significantly less expensive than long-term contraceptive methods.
• A one-time outpatient<00:19:59.039> procedure<00:19:59.440> is<00:19:59.840> significantly
• outpatient procedure is significantly outpatient procedure is significantly less<00:20:00.880>

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• proposed advances would be for in-office procedures, not involving invasive surgery, operating rooms, outpatient
• involving invasive surgery operating involving invasive surgery operating rooms<00:37:13.599> Outpatient
• <00:37:14.119> Surgical<00:37:14.560> centers<00:37:15.040> or rooms Outpatient
• Surgical centers or rooms Outpatient Surgical centers or utilizing<00:37:15.880> general utilizing
• My outpatient surgeries are currently scheduled out two weeks from now in Fargo as well as two weeks

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• <00:51:59.160> beyond sometimes care goes beyond sometimes care goes beyond um um um outpatient
• Sometimes it leads to outpatient. Sometimes it leads to inpatient. inpatient. inpatient.
• computer, a phone, or a radio in a dispatch center, whether municipal, county, tribal, or state facilities
• . facilities. facilities.
• I'm the Parks, Recreation, and Public Facilities Director for the City of Casper.

Keywords: 916, all

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• think that the effort of connecting and coordinating between these different organizations and facilities
• So honestly, through schools and therapists, the connection, through rehab facilities, hospitals, and
• So honestly, through schools and therapists, the connection, through rehab facilities, hospitals, and
• therapist connection, I do believe that that is extremely. through rehab facilities, hospitals, and
• It mandates that these plans pay for certain outpatient behavioral health services provided to students

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• We also invested improvements across the state to our facilities all across the rural spectrum of health
• And frankly, our nursing facilities also needed an upgrade for the next two years.
• We've requested $25 million for the K Outpatient Center for a new urgent care facility, primary care
• restorative reforms to our justice system, which also meet our needs for new, more humane correctional facilities
• restorative reforms to our justice system, which also meet our needs for new, more humane correctional facilities

Keywords: House Agenda:, 910, house, all

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• <01:20:59.040> So inspections of those facilities. So inspections of those facilities.
• license which would be the facilities license which would be the those<01:26:30.719> facilities
• So, um, a facilities under 1512.
• in this type of facility?
• these this type of facility? these this type of facility?

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• For outpatient behavioral health facilities, New Hampshire has the fifth highest out-of-network utilization
• <01:30:38.320> For<01:30:38.560> outpatient<01:30:39.120> behavioral health
• For outpatient behavioral health care.
• For outpatient behavioral health<01:30:39.760> facilities,<01:30:40.320> New<01:30:40.480
• > Hampshire<01:30:40.880> has<01:30:41.120> the health facilities, New Hampshire

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• While the Harris County Sheriff's Office currently provides security at county health care facilities
• I believe that's facilities plus 200 feet.
• So I was placed in a psychiatric hospital for 10 days and spent many weeks in outpatient care, at which
• We expand... ...and at our wastewater treatment facility and our water production facility at no insignificant
• They do not provide services to those facilities. Those are instead provided by other people.

Bills: SB434, SB844, SB898, SB1177, SB1214, SB1454, SB1920, SB1927, SB1935, SB1965, SB2010, SB2046, SB2068, SB2073, SB2183, SB2260, SB3034, SB907

Keywords: SB 434, Harris County Hospital District, hospital district police, peace officers, commissioned officers, law enforcement authority, Health and Safety Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, public safety, hospital security, county hospital district, local government, Texas criminal procedure, district police, armed security, SB 898, low income housing tax credits, LIHTC, affordable housing, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

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• Would interns for these other facilities?
• For example, in my primary site in Wentzville, Missouri, I do outpatient clinics, substance use disorder

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• they go to a hospital, but if they're able to take their medication, they will then qualify for outpatient
• statute is written right now, the department shall admit a defendant so adjudicated to the appropriate facility

Bills: S0132, S0418, S0442, S0646, S0748, S1326, S1332, S1660, S1734, S1742, S1750

Keywords: voting rights, felony conviction, database, Florida Commission on Offender Review, restoration of rights, autism spectrum disorder, law enforcement, communication, training, blue envelope, blue card, search warrant, remote appearance, drones, data privacy, drug paraphernalia, narcotic testing, fentanyl, controlled substances, civil forfeiture

Summary: The committee took up a series of criminal justice and public safety bills. SB 646, allowing the use of drug testing tools such as fentanyl test strips and reagent kits to detect dangerous adulterants, was presented as a harm-reduction measure and reported favorably after supportive testimony from advocates and criminal defense groups. SB 442, extending the return period for warrants involving digital evidence from 45 days to one year, also passed unanimously amid testimony from prosecutors and law enforcement about encryption, backlogs, and large volumes of child exploitation evidence. SB 418, creating autism-related law enforcement training and a Blue Envelope Program for traffic stops and other encounters, was reported favorably with support from police, disability advocates, and families. SB 132, creating a public database to help people determine eligibility for restoration of voting rights, and SB 748, requiring notice of voting-rights restoration information on sentencing score sheets, both passed with broad support from voting-rights and criminal defense advocates. The committee also approved SB 1734, recognizing juvenile probation and detention officers as officers under Florida law and extending related training and benefits, and SB 1660, designating June as Responsible Firearm Safety Awareness Month. SB 1742, which repealed the existing “unnatural and lascivious acts” statute and created a new offense for indecent exposure of sexual organs to a minor, was amended with a delete-all amendment and then reported favorably. SB 1750, a major overhaul of career offender registration requirements, was later reconsidered after a bill-number mix-up and then reported favorably as SB 1332, with FDLE and sheriff’s association support. The most contentious measure was SB 1326, which would eliminate the traditional insanity defense and replace it with a lack-of-culpable-mental-state defense, require malingering assessments in competency evaluations, and limit downward departures based on mental illness. Criminal defense attorneys and disability advocates argued it lacked a treatment component, raised scientific and cost concerns, and could worsen public safety by sending mentally ill defendants to prison without adequate care. Supporters, including the sponsor and the Attorney General’s office, argued it would close gaps and better protect the public. After extensive debate, the bill was reported favorably on a divided vote, with several members voting no. At the end of the meeting, members recorded additional votes on some bills, and Senator Pizzo moved for reconsideration of SB 1326 for a future meeting.

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• originally written and is primarily designed for hospitals, and ambulatory surgery centers are outpatient
• facilities with a much more narrow scope of services.
• dictating to private institutions whom they have to allow through their doors, businesses, education facilities
• dictating to private institutions whom they have to allow through their doors, businesses, education facilities

Summary: The committee heard several health-related bills. SB 1082 would let providers or insurers in state-regulated commercial plans opt into the federal independent dispute resolution process for emergency out-of-network claims, with a late-filed amendment clarifying access to the state program in certain circumstances. The bill sponsor and emergency physicians said the measure would reduce litigation and improve payment resolution; the committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1168 would centralize background screening work for the care provider clearinghouse at the Agency for Health Care Administration and update related screening rules, including sealed and expunged records for qualified entities. The sponsor said the change would speed turnaround and reduce duplication; an amendment was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 1156 would move ambulatory surgical center regulation out of Chapter 395 into a standalone section of law, and it was reported favorably without amendment. SB 1480, as amended by a strike-all, would grandfather certain temporary certificate holders practicing in areas of critical need if federal designations change, allowing them to continue seeing current patients and potentially new patients in their existing area subject to board oversight. The committee heard support from health system representatives and reported the bill favorably. The final and most debated measure, SB 1756 on medical freedom, would require vaccine education materials and alternative schedules, expand school immunization exemptions to conscience-based objections, clarify limits on emergency vaccination orders, and allow pharmacists to dispense ivermectin behind the counter with written information. The sponsor and supporters framed it as parental choice and access, while physicians, public health advocates, cancer advocates, and parents of immunocompromised children warned it would lower vaccination rates and increase disease risk. The committee adopted a liability-related amendment, rejected a substitute amendment that would have required consultation for exemptions, and continued hearing public testimony opposing the bill; the transcript ends before final action on SB 1756.