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NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Morning Session Apr 10th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

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  • The bill appropriates funds for the Service Program and includes permanent and temporary salaries for
  • The community college gap assistance program would provide aid to applicants up to the full amount of
  • Gross Legislative Bill 929 is a bill for an act relating to the Medical Assistance Program.
  • It also addresses services under the medical assistance program and related requirements.
  • the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and declare an emergency.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Feb 10th, 2026

Rules

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  • the loan repayment program.
  • their own families.
  • That's why I do support the Rural and Family Lands Program. I think it's the best. I'm pleased...
  • Family Lands Program. I think it's the best.
  • Our program is a lifeline.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills, beginning with CS for CS for SB 54, which requires district medical examiners to perform toxicology screenings for psychotropic drugs and intoxicating substances in autopsies of violent offenders and report findings to state agencies. It was reported favorably after brief discussion about how the data would be used. CS for SB 176 also passed, requiring public postsecondary institutions to make campus safety reporting and response procedures clearer and more accessible for students, faculty, and staff who receive threats. Both bills were approved without opposition in the meeting. The committee then took up the large Florida Farm Bill, CS for CS for CS for SB 290, which drew extensive testimony and multiple amendments. The bill includes changes to fair associations, a preemption on local restrictions affecting gas- and diesel-powered farm equipment, surplus of certain state-owned lands for agricultural use, a food animal veterinary loan repayment program, permanent authorization for Farmers Feeding Florida, expanded Florida Forest Service training, a ban on signal jamming devices, tougher CDL English-proficiency penalties, protections for food safety inspectors, biosolids provisions, and contractor payment enforcement. Amendments expanded veterinary loan eligibility to equine veterinarians, merged citrus research entities, made technical corrections, and revised contractor payment language; a late-filed amendment removed the bill’s disparagement clause after significant First Amendment concerns and public testimony. A separate amendment delayed biosolids compliance deadlines. The bill was reported favorably as amended. Also approved were CS for CS for SB 834, which repeals a restriction on health care sharing ministries partnering with licensed insurance agents, while adding a disclaimer requirement; SB 936, allowing temporary door locking devices at any height above the floor and directing the Building Commission to add standards to the code; and CS for SB 50, expanding veterans’ courts statewide. Later, CS for CS for SB 1004 advanced with a strike-all regulating dog and cat sales, requiring disclosure of medical records and financing terms, a three-day waiting period for financed purchases, and consumer protections against deceptive pet sales; an amendment removed an appropriation section. The committee also approved CS for CS for SB 178, which directs the FHSAA to adopt rules allowing coaches to provide limited good-faith support to student-athletes, and CS for CS for SB 198, regulating virtual currency kiosks with registration, warnings, transaction limits, receipts, and refund protections. Each of these bills was reported favorably by recorded vote.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PBS Public Hearing - Fri Feb 6, 2026 @ 8:30 AM HST

Public Safety

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  • Programs. Programs.
  • Families are families stay connected.
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  • the pilot program. the pilot program. >> Thank<02:53:09.040> you.
Bills: HB676
Summary: The committee heard three public safety bills. HB 2235 would appropriate $1.3 million for the Military Affairs and Community Relations Office to strengthen coordination on military and defense issues. Supporters, including the Hawaii National Guard and DBEDT’s military relations office, said the office helps Hawaiʻi understand federal contracting, USA Jobs, and military-related economic impacts. One member questioned why the state should fund a DoD-related office while Hawaiʻi remains under-reimbursed on impact aid; supporters responded that the office serves Hawaiʻi communities and helps prepare residents for federal jobs. The chair said she intended to recommend the bill pass with a HD1, a blank appropriation to be filled in the committee report, technical amendments, a defective effective date, and updated office title language. HB 2263 would expand Hawaiʻi family leave law to cover qualifying military exigencies. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, DBEDT’s military relations office, and the Hawaii National Guard supported the measure, saying military families often face short-notice deployments, relocations, briefings, and urgent family arrangements that require time away from work, and that aligning state law with federal standards would provide clarity and consistency. The chair said she would recommend passage with a HD1, a defective effective date, and technical amendments. HB 2291 would clarify that certain National Guard Youth and Educational Programs employees are excluded from collective bargaining, rename the program, and codify its Hawaiian name. The Hawaii National Guard said it was a housekeeping bill with no appropriation, but requested an amendment to align the bill with updated authorities and program references; the chair asked for proposed language before the later decision-making. She said she would recommend passage with a defective date and the requested amendment if provided, and then recessed the hearing until 11:30 a.m. for decision-making on all three bills.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Culture, Recreation & Tourism May 14th, 2025

Culture, Recreation & Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you require assistance in registering or testifying, please contact the committee staff.
  • Members, this referred Senate bill relates to establishing the historic Friedman Cemetery program, authorizing
  • It would be a statewide invitation... ...to log off and plug into real life, into parks, into family,
  • Independence Park, Harmony Park, and Freedom Dog Park.
  • Assistant principal for SB2801. Yes, sir, please proceed.
Bills: SB2801, SB2232, SCR18
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Edfin Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Education Finance

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  • We've had program cuts.
  • We've had the elimination of language programs.
  • Provide that for every single family.
  • Hennepin County's Be at School program conducts various outreach efforts towards the family.
  • findings when the program ends.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:04:00.480> and around to support their families and around to support their families and
  • family group conference facilitator. family group conference facilitator.
  • abstract policy question for our family. abstract policy question for our family.
  • family resources than his siblings. family resources than his siblings.
  • . independence. independence.
Bills: HF3174, HF3800
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Transcript Highlights:
  • What this is put in place so there's not a risk of a program...
  • consolidation as it relates to low-producing programs.
  • To decide whether or not a program could continue? Yeah.
  • can choose to suspend or delete that program.
  • , there's a shared program, whatever it may be.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, February 17, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

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  • program if one is ever developed. program if one is ever developed.
  • Upper Basin program.
  • temporary in nature.
  • temporary in nature.
  • obtain program information. obtain program information.
KY
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  • I'm her assistant. I'm her assistant.
  • I'm her assistant. [laughter] I'm her assistant.
  • cost of the program. cost of the program.
  • . program. program.
  • program like ATRIP. program like ATRIP.
Summary: The Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board met on July 30, 2025, approved the June 25 minutes, and received a presentation from Katherine Castanza of the National Conference of State Legislatures on Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1. The presentation outlined more than 20 Medicaid-related provisions, emphasizing that the largest federal savings come from work/community engagement requirements, changes to provider taxes, limits on state-directed payments, more frequent eligibility redeterminations for expansion populations, and related eligibility/enrollment changes. She said the fiscal effects are backloaded, with most reductions occurring in the later years of the 10-year window, and noted potential significant impacts on hospital payments and state financing. She also described new funding opportunities, including a $50 billion rural health transformation fund and a new home and community-based services waiver with associated grants. A substantial portion of the discussion focused on Kentucky’s pending community engagement 1115 waiver and how it would interact with the new federal requirements. Board members asked whether the waiver had been approved, what the cabinet’s contingency plan would be if CMS does not approve it, and what the timeline is for compliance. Cabinet representatives said the waiver has not yet been approved by CMS, remains under public comment, and that the state will wait for CMS guidance before moving forward; if needed, the state would amend the waiver or submit a new one. They said the work requirement must be in place by January 1, 2027, with a possible extension to 2028. Castanza also explained that expansion adults with incomes between 100% and 138% of the federal poverty level would face new cost-sharing requirements beginning October 1, 2028, and that eligibility redeterminations would move from annual to every six months starting January 1, 2027. She then walked through provider tax changes, including a moratorium on new provider taxes beginning October 1, 2026, and a phased reduction in the hold-harmless threshold for existing taxes beginning January 1, 2028, with exemptions for nursing facilities and ICF/IID providers. Board members questioned the timing and likely impact on Kentucky, and Castanza responded that the effect would depend on each tax’s current rate and would phase in over time.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Generally, the bill would transfer administration of the state's veterans mental health programs from
  • It would establish a Texas Veterans Commission grant program for community-based mental health services
  • Fuller can speak to the importance of this program.
  • crash course program in... ...and in peer support.
  • The VA spends $571 million on its veteran suicide program. Where does that money go?