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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Healthcare

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  • that they need whether andor benefits that they need whether it's<00:15:15.760><c> benefits</c><00:15
  • So the required fields are date of death, manner of death, time of death, location of death, and then
  • Uh, call the roll. required fields is date of death, manner required fields is date of death, manner
  • ,</c><00:15:56.079><c> location</c><00:15:56.480><c> of</c> of death, time of death, location of of death
  • , time of death, location of death,<00:15:57.040><c> and</c><00:15:57.279><c> then</c><00:15:57.519><
Bills: SB63 , HB156 , HB289 , SB80 , SB84 , SB63 , HB156 , HB289 , SB80 , SB84
Committee: Senate Healthcare
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 05:50 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Not to love a bill to death, but I do love the..." "31st District Representative Penner.
  • Not to love a bill to death, but I do love this bill.
  • The title of the bill relates to securing timely notification and benefits for laid-off employees.
  • The title of the bill, relating to securing timely notification and benefits for laid-off employees,
  • and commuting, which really increases the vehicle miles traveled despite the theoretical freight benefits
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a bill that would bring us into the modern with all the new way of dating the time of death that
  • is much more accurate than how we have been using certain methods to date the time of fetal death.
  • Does that really benefit our state? I don’t think so. And it’s for that reason, Mr.
  • Madam Speaker, we're second in the nation for drug overdose deaths.
  • We're second in the nation for drug overdose deaths. This is really serious.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Not to love a bill to death, but I do love this bill, generally speaking.
  • The title of the bill relates to securing timely notification and benefits for laid-off employees, by
  • The title of the bill relates to securing timely notification and benefits for laid-off employees, by
  • and commuting, which really increases the vehicle miles traveled despite the theoretical freight benefits
Summary: The House received several messages from the Senate announcing passage of engrossed or substitute versions of House Bill 2294, House Bill 2472, Senate Bill 606, Senate Bill 6335, engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6266, and engrossed substitute House Bill 3. The chamber then moved through second and third reading on a series of measures, often suspending the rules to advance bills to final passage. A major floor debate centered on Senate Concurrent Resolution 8406, which would reestablish the Joint Select Committee on Civic Health and expand its membership. Amendment 2131, offered to keep the committee at its current size rather than expanding it, was rejected after debate over fiscal restraint, committee scope, and whether the body functioned like a “proxy legislature.” The resolution then passed 83-10. The House also passed engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6200 on portable cooling devices for renters and mobile home occupants, Senate Bill 6084 on clarifying the prohibition on voting in more than one election, second engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5105 on sexually explicit depictions involving minors, and Senate Bill 6046 authorizing the Civil Air Patrol to be used by the governor in emergencies; each drew debate over policy scope, enforcement, and state-federal authority, but all ultimately passed. The House next passed substitute Senate Bill 6054, limiting HOA and common-interest community restrictions that conflict with wildfire-hardening measures; substitute Senate Bill 6091, requiring greater transparency in real estate broker practices; Senate Bill 6291, giving more time to train and certify on-site wastewater inspectors; substitute Senate Bill 6081, creating a Public Records Act exemption for sex designation information to protect transgender people from doxxing and harassment; Senate Bill 5963, automatically enrolling certain vulnerable students in the Washington College Grant; and substitute Senate Bill 6226, addressing audiology scope-of-practice and telemedicine concerns. Most of these bills passed with broad bipartisan support, though some drew dissent over added regulation, privacy, or scope-of-practice issues. The final portion of the transcript focused on Senate Bill 6106, which the Speaker ruled had an out-of-scope amendment related to agricultural seasonal workers; the bill itself passed 75-18 after debate over layoff notices and tribal sovereignty. Substitute Senate Bill 6014, dealing with pregnancy accommodations and related public records issues, saw a failed amendment to replace gender-neutral language with “pregnant woman” and then passed 68-25. The House also debated Senate Bill 5820, with multiple amendments concerning freight rail, greenhouse gas calculations, county planning, property rights, and rail safety; the excerpt ends amid that amendment debate before final action on the bill is shown.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • Wages grew substantially, and there's evidence that US-born workers benefitted from a reduction in immigration
  • these old men I've known my whole life, no, this is this is what you have to do and here's how this benefits
  • The benefit of that, and an additional benefit beyond that Is reducing the illegal immigrant workforce
  • strengthening our local workforce here with Oklahomans getting Oklahoma jobs, to me, that is a huge net benefit
Bills: HB3725 , HB3260 , HB3660 , HB3369 , HB3370
Committee: House Business
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/11/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • funeral establishments or responsible persons that have taken possession of human remains to submit a death
  • Before the D&C, I asked my doctor, as with any death, could I have access to the remains of my baby and
  • Before the DNC, I asked my doctor, as with any death, could I have access to the remains of my baby and
  • This bill allows for the registration of a fetal death certificate and affirms parental rights over the
  • remains of an unborn child following miscarriage or fetal death.
Bills: HB2122 , HB2184 , HB2910
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Insurance May 13th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The state of Iowa conducted a pharmacy benefit manager.
  • The state of Iowa conducted a pharmacy benefit manager reverse auction 25.
  • I'm the Vice President of Pharmacy Benefit Administration, or PBA, Markets at Capital Rx.
  • What we see as the role of a PBM is really to be the PBA, a pharmacy benefit administrator on behalf
  • I am supporting HB 938 because Louisiana's patients need pharmacy benefit manager reform.
Bills: SB511 , SB512 , HB591 , HB909 , HB938 , HB1154 , HB1187
Committee: Senate Insurance
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on County & Regional Government May 12th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is a much-needed measure to modernize our state's overburdened death investigation.
  • elected justices of the peace to conduct these investigations in cases of suspicious, unattended deaths
  • , meaning those without any witnesses, or unnatural deaths.
  • elected officials who often lack medical or forensic training to accurately determine the cause of death
  • Likewise, Dallas County's medical examiner's office handled over 15,500 reported deaths, conducted 4,209
Bills: SB1370
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Zero deaths.
  • Zero deaths. Zero deaths. Zero deaths with only three hospitalizations of three days or less.
  • you for benefiting me. >> Great.
  • you for benefiting me. >> Great.
  • Pharmacist, nobody can enter into an agreement where I benefit you for benefiting me. >> Great.
Bills: HB161 , HB146 , HB289 , HB290 , HB31 , HB146 , HB289 , HB290 , HB31
Committee: House Health
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Jan 28th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, the commercial aspects of that are untold benefits that's there.
  • are &gt;&gt; Uh the commercial aspects of that are untold<00:08:11.599><c> uh</c><00:08:11.840><c> benefits
  • </c><00:08:13.039><c> So</c><00:08:13.280><c> we</c> untold uh benefits that's there.
  • So we untold uh benefits that's there.
  • I mean, even Birmingham, we've had issues for years with personnel, but it does diminish the benefits
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 8th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • should not be on death row.
  • But why put a person to death?
  • or somebody's death.
  • that's attending the death.
  • Attending the death.
Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 2777 by Representative Rose, which would bar the death penalty for defendants who can prove by clear and convincing evidence that they had schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and active psychotic symptoms at the time of the offense. Rose said the bill would still hold defendants accountable through life without parole, would save money by avoiding lengthy capital litigation, and would address cases where severe mental illness was not adequately considered. Supporters from NAMI Texas, the Catholic bishops, and a forensic psychologist said the bill is narrowly tailored, consistent with neuroscience and moral principles, and would prevent executions of people whose psychosis substantially impaired reality testing. Committee members questioned how the bill interacts with existing competency and insanity law, whether the diagnosis is sufficiently defined, and whether the statute requires active psychosis at the time of the offense. An opponent argued the death penalty should remain available for juries to decide in all cases. The bill was left pending. The committee then heard House Bill 1221 by Representative Lozano, which would raise the cap on pretrial intervention program fees from $500 to $1,200. Lozano and a district attorney witness said the increase is needed because program costs have risen and the fees help make diversion programs self-sustaining, allowing first-time or low-level offenders to complete rehabilitation and potentially obtain expunction. Opponents from the Texas Fair Defense Project argued the higher fee could make diversion unaffordable for indigent defendants and undermine an important alternative to incarceration, especially where related supervision and monitoring costs already add up. Members discussed whether the fee applies only to PTI participants, how payment plans and waivers work, and whether ability to pay should be addressed more explicitly. The bill was left pending. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 1738 by Representative Jones, which would repeal Penal Code Section 21.06 and related Health and Safety Code references concerning homosexual conduct. Jones said the law is unconstitutional under Lawrence v. Texas, remains harmful on the books, and has led to confusion and unnecessary costs even though it is unenforceable. Supporters said the bill simply removes outdated language and protects civil liberties, while opponents from Texas Values argued the statute still serves as a statement that homosexual conduct is unacceptable and should remain as a warning, even if unenforceable. Members debated whether the law’s remaining language is merely symbolic or still harmful, and whether other criminal statutes already cover conduct such as prostitution, incest, and offenses involving minors. The bill was left pending after testimony.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Business and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • That subject is pharmacy benefit managers.
  • But does not include a flexible benefit plan provided pursuant to section 1342 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma
  • The measure does not mandate any new coverage that requires each health benefit...
  • Plan that already covers prosthetic benefits to fulfill their contracts with the patients in an equitable
  • Referential favorable treatment to bidders whose pharmacy benefit managers do not own health insurance
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Jan 12th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • regional council that covers my geographic area as an opportunity to save money by hiring outside death-certified
  • defense lawyers in... ...the regional council's office and those death-certified defense lawyers in
  • The reason that we came up with this idea is death penalty cases are the most expensive category of cases
  • So today, I have 10 death penalty attorneys who are first-chair certified.
  • And that doesn't account for the additional death penalty attorneys who would be trained by trying these
Bills: S0014 , S0016 , S0024 , S0208 , S0762
Committee: Senate Judiciary
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare May 19th, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • even those that don't result in death.
  • death for kids from 0 to 15.
  • months before a child could get those benefits.
  • Medicaid and SNAP benefits.
  • You come here legally, you get the benefit, right?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • When you're doing a coordination of benefits document for the Department of Insurance, coordinating benefits
  • They had around the same number of deaths.
  • In 2022, it was 55, it was 55 cases of death after.
  • It's why we call it the death penalty of civil cases.
  • It's why we call it the death penalty of civil cases.
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 01:45 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • that they're going to have an audit, a 9-9 audit by the federal government, they're already scared to death
  • be placed on final passage. for a payment of a lump sum retirement allowance in lieu of a monthly benefit
  • It allows a payout at a—if your monthly benefit on a pension is very low, like $250 a month, you can
  • If your monthly benefit on a pension is very low, like $250 a month, you can request a payment out on
  • The broader communities should have a long-lasting economic benefit from that build.