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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for that test. This is a test of the chairmanship, I guess. Yes. All right.
- In regards to the $3 million, last year we tested a Sprint Medic program for about the similar amount
- I thought if we're going to do a test, kind of follow the trend that we've done.
- I thought if we're going to do a test I thought if we're going to do a test kind<00:19:25.440>
- when we um The Centers for Disease when we um The Centers for Disease Control<00:59:39.799>
has - when we um The Centers for Disease when we um The Centers for Disease Control<00:59:39.799>
Keywords:
HF696, rural EMS, ambulance, emergency medical services, uncompensated care, payment pool, rural health, Office of Emergency Medical Services, public safety answering point, PSAP, nontransport, unpaid ambulance calls, EMS reimbursement, rural ambulance provider, general fund appropriation, Minnesota health finance, specialized life support, metropolitan counties, emergency response funding, HF1429
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, March 31, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The Black Angels who treated six T.B. patients and helped find the cure for this disease.
- She went to register to vote, and they gave her a literacy test.
- They gave them tests like citizen tests, voucher tests.
- AND THEY GAVE HER A LITERACY TEST. SHE HAD TO STATE THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION.
- THEY GAVE THEM TESTS LIKE CITIZEN TESTS. VOUCHER TESTS.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Oversight Committee (01/23/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
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they <00:52:14.720>have, have, what level of disease they have, have - their disease but but maintain<00:52:30.480>
gainful <00:52:31.119>employment. - diseases that may result in a suicide. diseases that may result in a suicide.
- But we have, for example, lead testing, making advances in lead testing in one- and two-year-olds.
- But we have, for example, lead testing, making advances in lead testing in one- and two-year-olds.
Summary:
The committee met on January 23, 2026, to approve prior minutes and receive an update from the Department of Health and Human Services. The main presentation focused on “Project Compass,” an internal cross-department effort to prepare for changes to Medicaid and SNAP eligibility. Department staff said the goal is to maintain continuous coverage for eligible people, align policy, operations, communications, legal, finance, and eligibility work, and use the new integrated New HEIGHTS system to streamline implementation. They emphasized outreach to beneficiaries, providers, managed care organizations, and other partners, and said temporary manual workarounds had already been used to stay in compliance with fast-moving SNAP changes.
Members questioned how the department would avoid repeating the costly outreach effort used in a prior Medicaid work-requirement rollout. Department officials said they are focusing on ex parte processes, sharing eligibility information across programs, and using community partners to reduce duplicate contacts and paperwork. They also said the department is monitoring the SNAP error rate closely, expects automation and a planned system contract amendment to help reduce it, and noted that current error rates are trending downward and remain below the national average. Questions were also raised about possible future SNAP restrictions on certain foods; the department said it can implement whatever the legislature directs, but that defining and administering such restrictions would be complex.
The commissioner and CFO then outlined the department’s budget reduction plan. They said the department has begun implementing required “back of the budget” reductions for fiscal year 2026, using contract savings and not cutting existing services where possible. Examples included dental and home-visitation contracts, where spending was adjusted based on utilization and projected need. Officials said they had already written down a little over $15 million in prior-year encumbrances, but that this one-time source will not be available next year, making fiscal year 2027 more difficult. They also explained the difference between legally required back-of-budget cuts and lapse, and said staffing remains a major challenge because vacancies have increased and customer-facing service levels are strained.
Dr. Jonathan Ballard then began an update on opioid overdose fatalities, presenting the latest medical examiner data and describing the long-term rise in deaths after fentanyl entered the illicit drug supply, with a peak in 2017 and a later increase in 2022. The transcript cuts off before his full presentation and any further committee action beyond discussion of the minutes and receipt of the department updates.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jan 21st, 2025
California Assembly Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This body should probably pass a resolution calling on the Trump administration to allow for DNA testing
- and says, when you get to Sacramento, if you could just do something in the space of sickle cell disease
- You see, Gil Smith's son died of sickle cell disease at 26. years of age.
- In 2019, we opened the first outpatient for sickle cell disease in the name of. Of Jeffrey Smith.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- the getting nerdy paper model and I scored significantly higher than my classmates on the dissection test
- And I'd say the vast majority did not perform as well when they were tested on it.
- Thank you. is frequently the testing ground for new education proposals, especially ones that deal with
- Victories in legislation and research have led the way for a greater look at the needs for this disease
- bill may seem more of a clerical change. small change, which it is, but for those affected by this disease
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Health Policy Mar 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- genetic predisposition for developing blood clots and pulmonary embolisms identifies those as chronic diseases
- All these tests are happening within 90 days after discharge 90 days.
- A history of no blood clots or or paper or tested positive for factor 5 Leiden.
- The composition would be experts in effect, infectious diseases, public health and livestock management
- and livestock study wastewater monitoring for virus detection, develop a cost-effective statewide testing
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/2/26
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They confronted infectious disease, childhood cancer, smoking, car crashes, and others.
- confronted infectious disease, They confronted infectious disease, childhood<00:01:53.280>
cancer - <00:12:56.480>
benefit safety to infectious diseases benefit safety to infectious diseases - There are tests and imaging services.
- , including over prescription of tests, including over prescription of tests, [clears throat]<01:
Keywords:
gun violence, public health, Department of Health, prevention, criminal justice, health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration
Summary:
The House Finance and Policy Committee met on March 2 with a quorum present and heard House File 3668, which would create a state Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The bill author argued the office would treat gun violence as a public health crisis, improve research and coordination, and help reduce deaths and trauma, especially among children. Several supporters testified, including representatives from the Minnesota Medical Association, Protect Minnesota, family medicine, public health, and obstetrics/gynecology, all emphasizing firearm injury and suicide as major public health problems and urging a coordinated, data-driven response. Multiple testifiers shared personal accounts of shootings and their effects on children and families, including the Annunciation shooting, and said the office could help align prevention efforts across health care, law enforcement, and community organizations.
Opposition came from the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, which argued the bill would create a permanent taxpayer-funded bureaucracy that could be used to shape firearm policy and restrict a constitutional right. The group said Minnesota should focus instead on enforcing existing laws, prosecuting violent offenders, and providing direct victim services. During committee discussion, Vice Chair Nadeau offered an A2 amendment to move the proposed office from the Department of Health to the Department of Public Safety, citing data-sharing, accountability, and examples from other cities and states; after discussion with the bill author, he withdrew the amendment. Chair Becker then noted existing state and local spending on violence prevention and public safety programs and raised concerns about duplication of effort.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 02/26/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- positive for hypath Avian that tested positive for hypath Avian Influenza<00:18:54.760>
the <00 - today we share my experience with you today we received<00:20:25.080>
our <00:20:25.280>test - results just a few received our test results just a few hours<00:20:27.760>
after <00:20:28.039 - It's a newer disease and lots of unknowns, so hard to navigate when you're emotional about having sick
- of the spread of some of these diseases of the spread of some of these diseases and<00:34:00.639
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 5, 2026 - 12:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- And next we have CS for HB 1445, Public Records for Parkinson's Disease Registry, by Representative Busatta
- bill creates a public record exemption for patient identifying information held in the Parkinson's disease
- Ranking Member Campbell: ...it exempts information in the Parkinson's disease registry, and I understand
- it, the information says it's collecting information containing nationally recognized Parkinson's disease
- It recognizes that, barriers to the ballot box didn't stop at literacy tests.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Apr 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- systems that tracked and responded not just to COVID-19, but to influenza, RSV, and other infectious diseases
- affecting real people and real people's jobs, such as laboratory staff, microbiologists, epidemiologists, disease
- That funding is provided for healthcare services such as birth control, cancer screening, and STI testing
- They were testing the system. They're learning.
- And so they've submitted test claims. They've been paid.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- metal and pesticide testing.
- Every product we carry is lab-tested, lab-tested packaging.
- Let's talk about some of this testing. The gas chromatography testing.
- Testing positive because their testing process is converting THC a molecules into to THC.
- We've got to fix the testing.
Keywords:
hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, state health, youth protection, licensing fees, criminal offenses, HB28, public testimony, committee decorum, bill substitute, legislative process
Summary:
The meeting featured significant discussions regarding HB28, where the chair outlined the plans to bring forward a substitute for the bill. The chair emphasized the importance of maintaining order and decorum during the proceedings. Members engaged in deliberations, and a number of public witnesses were invited to testify, thereby enriching the discussion around the bill. This interaction provided valuable insights into public sentiment regarding the issues at hand.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Public Health and Welfare - Room 216, 25 February, 2026; 3:00 PM
Public Health and Welfare
Transcript Highlights:
- that if their medics went through training, then that was good enough for them to be able to take a test
- to mix with the medications that they're having to give this person for these treatments and the diseases
- Mix with the medications that they're having to give this person for these treatments and the diseases
- <00:54:00.880>
to controlled science-driven pathway to controlled science-driven pathway to test - 54:02.559>
become <00:54:02.800>a <00:54:03.040>safe <00:54:03.440>FDA test
Summary:
The committee first handled House Bill 612, which had been laid on the table because of questions about section one. Senator Tate explained that section one would allow the state, counties, and municipalities to enter interlocal agreements to provide installation support services on military installations, mainly road and infrastructure work such as paving and dirt work, and that section two would add Coast Guard medics to an existing provision allowing trained military medics to sit for LPN certification. After questions about the breadth of “installation support services,” the committee adopted the motion for title sufficient, due pass, with opposition noted, and the bill was reported to the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. House Bill 942 was then passed over at Senator McMahon’s request until Tuesday.
The committee then took up House Bill 1034, which would allow terminally ill hospital patients to use medical cannabis gummies. The sponsor said the bill is intended to help terminally ill patients who already qualify for medical cannabis but are denied access in hospitals, and that it prohibits smoking or inhalation. Members raised concerns about whether the bill was too broad, whether it would interfere with hospital and physician judgment, possible drug interactions, federal law issues, liability for hospitals and doctors, storage and disposal requirements, and whether hospitals would incur costs or be forced to handle cannabis on their premises. The sponsor responded that the patient’s use would be logged in the chart, that the caregiver is generally responsible for the lockbox and disposal, and that the bill includes language allowing a facility to opt out if compliance would jeopardize federal funding or licensing.
The bill’s author also described the measure as arising from a Coast Guard family’s experience in which a terminally ill patient was denied access to medical cannabis at one hospital but allowed at another, and said the goal is to prevent similar denials for terminally ill patients. He said he was not aware of other drugs treated this way in hospitals, but argued that terminally ill patients should have access to most anything they want. The discussion ended with Senator England asking whether changing the bill’s requirement that a facility “shall” allow medical cannabis to “may” allow it would better protect hospitals and preserve discretion, but no final action on House Bill 1034 was taken in the portion provided.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Business and Professions Committee Apr 8th, 2025
Business and Professions
Transcript Highlights:
- Selling tobacco products known to cause cancer, heart disease, and other serious illness directly contract
- I think that selling tobacco is the leading, or tobacco's the leading cause of preventable death, disease
- important knowledge from English to their chosen language, AB667 can help to create more equitable testing
- However, my classmates and I encountered many difficult. with the class materials and testing despite
- You're taking a test that needs to be translated.
NJ
New Jersey 2026-2027 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Jun 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I am a founding member of the Latino Action Network, and I am test...
- Assembly Bill 5062 requires health insurance to Medicaid coverage for testing and treatments to slow
- progression of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
- Step therapy does not work for Alzheimer's disease.
- What it does is it delays the progress of the actual disease.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/9/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- 100,000 motans with Alzheimer's disease 100,000 motans with Alzheimer's disease or<01:05:09.920>
- Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
- increase the rates of cognitive testing increase the rates of cognitive testing in<01:05:28.559>
- Chair Norah Shogmacher and testing.
- Thank you for your test and please introduce yourself for the record and proceed.
Bills:
HF2434
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- prior authorization for prescription drug benefits related to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
- prior authorization for prescription drug benefits related to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
- Senate Bill 2312 is about the geopolitical stress test.
- Senate Bill 2312 is about the geopolitical stress test.
- And so Senate Bill 2312, that this body passed by a wide margin, directs our state to do a stress test
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum present, heard an invocation, adopted the prior day’s journal, received House messages, and adopted several resolutions and recognitions, including Senate Resolution 496 honoring Leadership Garland and resolutions 503 and 504. The chamber also recognized guests, including a North Dakota senator and the Doctor of the Day, and received gubernatorial nominations for the Texas Economic Development Corporation Board and the Nueces River Authority Board.
The Senate then took up and passed a series of bills, often by suspending the regular order and the constitutional three-day rule. Measures approved included SB 614 on Texas Forensic Science Commission referrals to the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs; SB 250 on municipal annexation across railroad rights-of-way; SB 1660 on toxicological evidence retention and destruction procedures; SB 2586 requiring property owners associations to file governing documents with the Texas Real Estate Commission; SB 1588 increasing penalties for certain failures to report child sexual abuse; HB 912 on compensation for distributed renewable generation outside ERCOT; SB 1957 setting eligibility standards for civilian oversight boards; HB 2525 clarifying a charitable property tax exemption; SB 1525 limiting repeated prior authorization for neurodegenerative disease drugs; SB 865 requiring CPR/AED training and cardiac emergency response planning in schools; SB 1212 elevating human trafficking penalties; SB 2690 on solicitations for Secretary of State documents; SB 1802 on landlord repair duties for ramps, elevators, and handrails; SB 905 on licensing rules for speech-language pathologists and audiologists; SB 2929 allowing removal of disruptive spectators at school athletic events; SB 2675 creating a narrow McAllen-specific parkland conveyance exception; SB 872 increasing punishment for burglary of a vehicle involving firearm theft; and SB 1113 clarifying sales rules for certain converter-license holders.
Several bills drew extended debate. SB 2487, dealing with crisis and mental health services for homelessness, was amended to make the county model permissive rather than mandatory and to remove state funding/assistance requirements before passing 28-3. SB 2138, barring higher education funds from contracting with firms that boycott fossil fuels through ESG policies, also passed after questions about fiscal effects and First Amendment concerns. SB 2615, restricting remote work at public institutions of higher education, advanced 22-9. The Senate also began consideration of SB 3016, which would expand enforcement tools against local governments that fail to comply with state law, but the transcript cuts off before action on that bill is completed.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- In recent years, we have been tested. In 2020 and 2021, we faced the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In recent years, we have been<00:26:40.320>
tested. - In 2020 and 2021, we faced been tested.
- Controls<00:29:59.200>
National <00:29:59.520>Institute <00:30:00.000>for Disease - Controls National Institute for Disease Controls National Institute for Occupational<00:30:00.880>
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Are there any communicable disease.
- 538, chronic disease epidemiology and surveillance. surveillance. surveillance.
- <01:00:30.760>
Are and chronic disease prevention. Are and chronic disease prevention. - page 219, unit 540, infectious disease page 219, unit 540, infectious disease epidemiology.<01:00
- Next unit appears on page 42, unit 303, Brucellosis Testing. Are there any amendments to unit 303?
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee - (5-13-25) (Part2)
Transcript Highlights:
- it directly relates and corresponds to increased Medicaid expenses around diet-sensitive chronic diseases
- I'm the chronic disease prevention branch manager in the Kentucky Department for Public Health.
- I'm the chronic disease prevention branch manager in the Kentucky Department for Public Health.
- I'm the chronic disease prevention branch manager in the Kentucky Department for Public Health.
- of those were colonoscopies, how many of those were Cologuard kits, different stool-based screening tests
Summary:
The committee first approved contracts 98, 99, and 100, then heard from the Kentucky Department of Tourism on a contract with the United Kingdom and other European markets. Tourism officials said the state has had similar international marketing contracts since 2013, that international visitors spend about six times more per day than domestic travelers, and that the work includes marketing, public relations, familiarization trips, and media outreach. After questions about costs and effectiveness, the contract was approved by roll call.
Members then reviewed Finance Cabinet facilities contracts 29 and 48 for engineering and architectural services tied to project design, including a specialized lab expansion project. The chair raised concerns that the fees seemed high for services that do not include construction, while the agency explained the work covers design for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and architectural planning, and that the lab project’s specialized pathogen-related work limits the pool of firms. The committee voted to approve the contracts.
The Attorney General’s office then presented an opioid abatement agreement. Senator Meredith asked how the commission coordinates with other state behavioral health efforts, and staff explained that the commission allocates settlement funds based on applications and includes related agency representation to help avoid duplication. The contract was approved. The committee also approved a behavioral health contract for 988 chat and text services, which will expand Kentucky-based crisis response coverage to 24/7 and move more of the state’s calls, chats, and texts from a national center to local specialists. A related amendment for the Voices of Hope overdose response contract was approved after staff said the increase simply extends services into the next fiscal year.
Finally, the committee approved a DCBS contract for the Building Bridges Initiative, which provides training and peer mentoring for residential child care providers, and then approved three contracts for the Council on Developmental Disabilities. Those contracts were explained as necessary because the council is the designated state agency for federal DD Act funding, and one questioned item involving an advocacy and sexuality initiative was described as part of the council’s five-year plan focused on self-advocacy, systems change, and capacity building. The committee also discussed a food insecurity survey contract with a Kentucky nonprofit, with staff saying the organization was chosen for its statewide network and ability to gather raw data, while members raised concerns about whether the study should distinguish between lack of food and poor diet. All of the reviewed contracts were approved by roll call.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services May 27th, 2026
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- So come in and we'll give her a strep test and a flu test.” We tested her for both of them.
- So we did another test, and she tested positive.
- They had tested her. She had tested positive for strep.
- That's a $4 test, not a $50 to $100 test.
- That's a $4 test, not a $50 to $100 test.