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MN
Committee:
House Ways and Means
Keywords:
omnibus, state government, local government, elections, campaign finance, voter registration, absentee voting, election administration, electronic rosters, lobbying, lobbyist disclosure, state budget, appropriations, biennial budget, Minnesota Secretary of State, Minnesota Management and Budget, state personnel, civil service, affirmative action, disability employment
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 9th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- heard pretty vital to public safety and then all the ones that I've seen in the past are vital to local
- It actually gets at one of my great frustrations, which is that state and local governments are getting
- And so it's it's been very difficult to get information from our local bodies here, and then I know We
- I sought text messages between the city manager and a local hotelier.
- communities. local entity, governments.
Bills:
HB 111 , HB1545 , HB2145 , HB2467 , HB2520 , HB4136 , HB4181 , HB4214 , HB4218 , HB4219 , HB4359 , HB4437 , HB4822 , HB111
Committee:
House Delivery of Government Efficiency
Keywords:
Texas Public Information Act, open records, public records, government transparency, confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, governmental body, Chapter 552, public information law, nonprofit association, quasi-governmental entity, economic development, trade secrets, proprietary information, commercial financial information, Alamo restoration, local workforce board, TDCJ contract facility, civil commitment facility, water supply corporation
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 8th, 2025
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Transcript Highlights:
- This has led to confusion. amongst local local business owners as well as permitting officials with navigating
- I have vast experience from local law to federal law.
- . an election, so a local election in local communities to determine if they want to authorize sale of
- For local businesses to sell liquor on Sundays gives the power to the local businesses to meet consumer
- This bill is about a local option.
Bills:
HB679 , HB1764 , HB1788 , HB2186 , HB2204 , HB2418 , HB2885 , HB2983 , HB2996 , HB3250 , HB3352 , HB3756 , HB3816 , HB3913 , HB3928 , HB4077
Committee:
House Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Keywords:
environment, regulation, land use, public health, community development, alcohol, Sunday sales, local option election, Texas, business hours, alcohol sales, liquor, off-premise consumption, alcoholic beverages, CPA, Certified Public Accountant, licensing, accountancy, state regulation, continuing education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I am president of United Steelworkers Local 142B.
- AFSCME Local 34.
- AFSCME Local 34.
- AFSCME Local 34.
- </c> Steel Workers Local Steel Workers Local 6115<01:07:43.119><c> thank</c><01:07:43.279><c> you</c>
Keywords:
unemployment benefits, iron ore mining, economic support, workforce development, Minnesota, unemployment insurance, deferred resignation, employment, worker rights, benefits eligibility, Ellsworth Independent School District, ISD 514, school construction, school renovation, sales tax exemption, use tax refund, construction materials, HVAC replacement, boiler replacement, window replacement
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill does not take away any authority from local governments under Local Government Code chapters
- Chapter 212 has to do with local land use restrictions.
- First, it clarifies that all local governments must stop collecting local food and local alcohol fees
- The bill also clarifies that no local government can require a food manager to pay a local fee or get
- So on the local level, do you not have local filers?
Bills:
HB346 , HB1360 , HB1510 , HB1606 , HB1804 , HB1805 , HB2156 , HB2391 , HB2767 , HB3022 , HB3044 , HB3272 , HB3293 , HB3493 , HB3809 , HB3824 , HJR110 , HB2463
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
expedited service, business records, veteran-owned businesses, franchise tax, fee schedule, Texas Ethics Commission, election reporting, campaign finance, violation categorization, penalties, public disclosure, Texas Utilities Code, electric utility, retail electric provider, municipally owned utility, electric cooperative, vegetation management, tree trimming, line clearance, transmission line
TX
Bills:
HB346 , HB1360 , HB1510 , HB1606 , HB1804 , HB1805 , HB2156 , HB2391 , HB2767 , HB3022 , HB3044 , HB3272 , HB3293 , HB3493 , HB3809 , HB3824 , HJR110 , HB2463
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
expedited service, business records, veteran-owned businesses, franchise tax, fee schedule, Texas Ethics Commission, election reporting, campaign finance, violation categorization, penalties, public disclosure, Texas Utilities Code, electric utility, retail electric provider, municipally owned utility, electric cooperative, vegetation management, tree trimming, line clearance, transmission line
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Current law allows local authorities to regulate sound through permitting systems, fees, and local ordinances
- Local control in that fact pattern, would it?
- So as far as local...
- Then the local ordinance would be null and void. Is that correct?
- You're trying to preempt local control.
Bills:
HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- TTP is a nonpartisan nonprofit coalition of local, state, and national stakeholders that design, market
- Our constituents should be able to, as long as their local pharmacy doesn't charge more money, be able
- From that pharmacy, and our insurers are supposed to be able to comply with that.
- Well, if you look at any willing pharmacy, we do what we want to do.
- Use any willing pharmacy.
Bills:
HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I am also a pharmacy technician here in Minnesota at Sodexo's Healthcare Systems. morning committee um
- </c> cannabinoids um I am also a pharmacy cannabinoids um I am also a pharmacy technician<00:53:55.839
- technician I legally um as a pharmacy technician I legally sell<00:54:02.119><c> drugs</c><00:54:02.400
- Minnesota should be able to provide patients with locally made and processed cannabinoid products that
- Representative Kaa Wun thanked Representative Stevenson for bringing the bill forward and said her local
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
Keywords:
medical cannabis, medical marijuana, cannabis, cannabinoids, hemp, marijuana registry, patient registry, visiting patient, Tribal cannabis, Tribal medical cannabis program, Tribal sovereignty, Office of Cannabis Management, designated caregiver, home cultivation, adult-use cannabis, cannabis flower, cannabis products, dispensary, cannabis retail endorsement, patient protections
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (04/29/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- 8 through 13, because I've been contacted by those who do the testing for our licensed advanced pharmacy
- letter that states that that includes what is in the scope of practice in the licensed advanced pharmacy
- 8 through 13, because I've been contacted by those who do the testing for our licensed advanced pharmacy
- letter that states that that includes what is in the scope of practice in the licensed advanced pharmacy
- So looking at this, the licensing advanced pharmacy technician exam is solely a jurisprudence exam.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Health Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- CPF and our local affiliates have been leading and evolving the local response framework to improve patient
- I've been fortunate enough to sit on the HHS CARE Act Advisory Group along with one of my local presidents
- Through the mail is using, I believe, a pharmacy company named GIF Health, and they are the ones who
- support. ...Local 3930 in strong support.
- This applies to any state and local facilities that fall under that definition, which is why they've
Summary:
The Assembly Health Committee heard several bills focused on mental health access, preventive care, health care costs, detention oversight, and daylight saving time. SB 989 would streamline Care Court referrals by allowing first responders to ask county behavioral health agencies to review and file petitions; supporters, especially firefighters and families, said the current process is too burdensome, while Disability Rights California and other opponents argued Care Court is coercive and unproven. SB 1089, as amended, would direct CalRx/HHS to help distribute GLP-1 medications more broadly and more affordably; the author described her own experience with the drugs, and the bill drew support from medical and life sciences groups with no opposition. SB 1309 would eliminate out-of-pocket costs for medically appropriate lung cancer screening follow-up care; cancer advocates and survivors strongly supported it, while health plans and insurers opposed it as costly and said the bigger problem is low initial screening rates. The committee also heard SB 1284, which would require DHCS to report large employers whose workers are enrolled in Medi-Cal and estimate taxpayer costs, framed by supporters as a transparency measure about corporate reliance on public coverage. SCR 7, urging permanent standard time for health reasons, passed with support from medical groups and no opposition. SB 995, the Masuma Khan Justice Act, would create statewide inspection and enforcement standards for large involuntary residential facilities, including private immigration detention centers and certain youth facilities; supporters cited unsafe and inhumane conditions, while county probation officials objected to duplicative oversight for secure youth treatment facilities. The committee took votes on each measure, and the bills and resolution advanced, with SB 1309 and SB 1284 moving on amended and the others also reported out; the consent calendar was approved as well.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- .. ...and probation officers in the adult and juvenile systems, $330 million for grants to support local
- Yeah, because what happens is that what we're doing is instead of local property tax revenues paying
- Yeah, because what happens is that what we're doing is instead of local property tax revenues paying
- And so the local property tax revenues were disproportionately funding the maintenance and operations
- He emphasized that the process is locally driven and puts the issue back in the hands of school boards
Bills:
SB1637 , SB1 , HB300 , SB2601 , SB37 , HB2011 , HB3595 , HB3071 , SB12 , HB3372 , SB457 , HB2067 , SB2337 , SB447 , SB1506 , SB1566 , SB763 , HB3556 , SB13 , SB2018 , SB331 , SB379 , HB145 , SB441 , SB2878 , HB2885 , HB2017 , HB5246 , SB8 , SB2308 , SB1540 , HB 119 , SB1405 , SB3059 , SB15 , SB568
Keywords:
SB 1637, deadly conduct, Texas Penal Code, Section 22.05, firearm, gun, pointing a gun, recklessness presumption, peace officer, law enforcement, police, officer-involved shooting, use of force, justification, self-defense, defense of others, Chapter 9, criminal prosecution, Penal Code amendment, appropriations
Summary:
The House met in a late-session floor session that began with prayer, pledges, quorum, and a series of excused absences and Senate messages reporting action on numerous bills, conference committee appointments, and conference reports. Members also adopted a memorial resolution honoring Mark James Hanna, a Capitol lobbyist and advocate for nurses, and a congratulatory resolution for Rishi Tarumalasetti, an eighth-grade civics bee winner from Katy. The chamber also received and recorded a parliamentary colloquy about an unusual Senate request on SB 293, with the Chair stating the House could not recede from only part of its amendments and could not suspend the rules because the bill had not been returned from the Senate.
The bulk of the session was devoted to taking up conference committee reports and related procedural resolutions, especially the state budget. The House adopted a resolution allowing the SB 1 conferees to go outside the normal bounds, then adopted the SB 1 conference report on a 107-21 vote. Debate on the budget centered on public education funding, tax relief, health care, corrections pay, and judicial compensation, with supporters calling it a responsible compromise and opponents arguing it was overly expansive and insufficient on property tax relief. The House also adopted a technical correction resolution tying judicial pay increases in SB 1 to the House version of SB 293, and members discussed at length the relationship between judicial salaries and legislative pensions.
The chamber then adopted a long series of conference reports on measures covering topics such as school library review and book challenges (SB 13), SNAP restrictions on sweetened drinks and candy (SB 379), hospital price transparency (SB 331), nursing home accountability (SB 457), school district personnel compensation conflicts (HB 3372), property notice rules (HB 2011), research and development tax credits (SB 2018), and several other bills affecting elections, permits, education, and criminal justice. Most reports passed by wide margins, though some drew significant opposition, especially SB 13 and SB 379. The House also granted several Senate requests for conference committees and introduced additional resolutions to suspend conferee limits on various bills as the session moved toward adjournment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Bill 45 would give the Attorney General the ability to prosecute human trafficking cases and requires local
- So I am speaking on this because as a pediatrician, I know for a fact there are institutions locally
- They recently hired a consulting firm; the city of Tyler contracted with the local firm to review the
- And that's what the local citizens in Tyler have tried to do: get these books moved out of the kids'
- I would love for it to be handled at the local level.
Bills:
HB45 , HB45 , HB755 , HB 1232 , HB1555 , HB2460 , HB2702 , HB2973 , HB3120 , HB3225 , HB3314 , HB3356 , HB3371 , HB3634 , HB3638 , HB4247 , HB4283 , HB4290 , HB4302 , HB4503 , HB4511 , HB4565 , HB4581 , HB4627 , HB4632 , HB4660 , HB4668 , HB4960 , HB5042
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
flooding, disaster response, emergency preparedness, state guidance, public safety, housing, affordable housing, rent control, landlord-tenant laws, housing rights, lobbying, public entities, expenditures, government code, transparency, Texas Ethics Commission, government regulation, lobbying restrictions, government accountability, taxpayer money
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The principle of local control has really been under.
- government or local agencies.
- Entities that are in the process, locally, of enacting local ordinances and rules.
- That's what local government does.
- If you're going after the landlord, is that local? Doesn't a local district attorney do that now?
Bills:
HB45 , HB755 , HB 1232 , HB1555 , HB2460 , HB2702 , HB2973 , HB3120 , HB3225 , HB3314 , HB3356 , HB3371 , HB3634 , HB3638 , HB4247 , HB4283 , HB4290 , HB4302 , HB4503 , HB4511 , HB4565 , HB4581 , HB4627 , HB4632 , HB4660 , HB4668 , HB4960 , HB5042 , HB45
Committee:
House State Affairs
Keywords:
housing, affordable housing, rent control, landlord-tenant laws, housing rights, lobbying, public entities, expenditures, government code, transparency, Texas Ethics Commission, government regulation, lobbying restrictions, government accountability, taxpayer money, HB 1232, whistleblower, whistleblower protection, public employee, retaliation
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Public Health REVISION 2- HB1912 - Added - Part 2 Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It's not a shall by the pharmacy. It's a may, and we put language in there.
- They have about 30 pharmacies that are putting it on the counter.
- would like to take ivermectin over the counter can just go in the store and get it, or go to the pharmacy
- Basically, this is a bill that prohibits PBMs from owning and operating licensed retail pharmacies in
- They couldn't control the medicine getting to that cancer center pharmacy and limit that.
Summary:
The committee took up a series of health-related bills, beginning with House Bill 4124 by Rep. Fetgatter, which would make human ivermectin available over the counter on a permissive basis for pharmacies. The bill drew extended debate over whether the legislature should decide over-the-counter status, safety concerns, dosage, adverse effects, and federal law issues, but the author argued the bill would reduce political controversy and allow pharmacies to choose whether to stock it. HB 4124 passed 5-1.
Rep. Schreiber’s HB 4200, creating a public-private forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) team approach for people with severe mental illness involved in the criminal justice system, passed unanimously 6-0. Rep. Blancett’s HB 4410, which would tighten disclosures and consumer protections for referral agencies working with long-term care and assisted living placements, failed 3-4 after questions about whether the bill was still needed and how it would affect compensation and disclosures. Rep. Cantrell’s bill on assisted living facilities’ rights and responsibilities also failed, 2-3, after members questioned whether businesses need a statutory “bill of rights” and whether the material could simply be posted under existing law.
Rep. Pay’s HB 1912, the Corn Mossa Nutrition Enhancement Act, passed 3-2 after amendments and discussion about folic acid fortification, neural tube defects, and whether consumers should still have access to unfortified products. Rep. Stark’s HB 3930, requiring sellers of dog-related service-animal gear to notify purchasers that the animal is not a service animal, passed 5-1, and HB 3931, extending the time to amend death certificates, passed 6-0. Rep. Newton’s HB 4457, barring PBMs from owning and operating licensed retail pharmacies in Oklahoma with a transition for specialty settings, passed 6-0, and HB 4473, creating an advisory council to assist the Oklahoma Health Care Authority on dental care, passed 5-0. The meeting then adjourned.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 15th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health & Long-Term Care
Transcript Highlights:
- cost drivers are, and so we've identified for several years prescription drugs, that is, retail pharmacy
- Pharmacy drugs, hospital outpatient, professional, and non-claims are the top growth contributors year
- slowing spending growth as a broad category, and very initially at least thinking very much about pharmacy
- You know, we know that we see things like medications increase and pharmacy use increase and all of that
- I like your view of looking local at community-based.
Committee:
Senate Health & Long-Term Care
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- And then also, we've moved to local website authority with the statewide authority under Chapter 589.411
- for treatment for their sexual assault saves them a further trip down the road to have to visit a pharmacy
- victims are adolescents, many of whom do not have the resources to fill a prescription or get to a pharmacy
- And so it's hard for those victims that we know can't go fill the script, don't have a ride to the pharmacy
- survivors from additional burdensome and potentially retraumatizing trips to health care providers and pharmacies
Committee:
House Crime and Public Safety
Summary:
The committee first met in executive session and took up House Bill 3174 by Representative Justice. Members adopted two committee amendments: one removed the bill’s mapping provisions so that the vendor-list portion could move forward separately, and another required schools to have at least one master key box for emergency responders. The amendments were rolled into a committee substitute, which the committee then voted do pass on a 10-0 roll call. A second executive-session bill was postponed until the following week because of a family emergency involving Representative Williams.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 982, a cleanup and reorganization bill dealing with Missouri’s sex offender registry and related registration rules. Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman said the bill was intended to align the registry statutes with prior changes, clarify tiering and registration requirements, address offenders with ties to Missouri but living elsewhere, and improve information-sharing rules for law enforcement and victims, including notice when a registrant dies or moves. Testimony in support came from the Missouri Alliance for Family Restoration, which said the bill codifies case law and reduces administrative confusion for the Highway Patrol and registrants. No opposition was offered.
The committee also heard House Bill 3414, which would create a state offense modeled on a federal online-fraud law to help law enforcement pursue internet-based fraud, including schemes involving credit cards, account numbers, telecommunication identifiers, and similar access devices. The sponsor and a law-enforcement witness said the bill would give investigators another tool against increasingly common fraud, including elder fraud and VoIP-based schemes; a Maverick convenience stores representative also supported it as a response to changing technology. No opposition was presented.
Finally, the committee heard House Bills 2628 and 3460, the CARE Act, which would require hospitals and health facilities treating sexual-assault survivors to inform patients about emergency contraception, provide it if requested, test and treat for sexually transmitted infections, and seek reimbursement through the Department of Public Safety. Sponsor Jacqueline Zimmerman said the bill is meant to reduce trauma and prevent pregnancies resulting from rape, and witnesses from sexual-assault nursing, reproductive-health, anti-poverty, medical, and nursing organizations supported it as a way to standardize care, especially in rural areas. Several members raised questions about whether the bill would require abortion-inducing drugs, whether hospitals could opt out on conscientious grounds, and how reimbursement would work; the sponsor said she intended to add language excluding abortion-inducing medications and that the current DPS forensic-exam payment structure would not change. No votes were taken on the later bills in the portion of the transcript provided.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- And then also, we've moved to local website authority with the statewide authority under Chapter 589.411
- for treatment for their sexual assault saves them a further trip down the road to have to visit a pharmacy
- lot of those don't have the resources to either fill the prescription or even just make it to the pharmacy
- And so it's hard for those victims that we know can't go fill the script, don't have a ride to the pharmacy
- survivors from additional burdensome and potentially re-traumatizing trips to health care providers and pharmacies
Committee:
House Crime and Public Safety
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
JT Business, Financial Services & Trade w/State Government & Tribal Relations Aug 11th, 2025 at 02:00 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- ... ...due to bad federal, state, and local policies followed by corruption.
- . families, homes, and culture due to bad federal, state, and local policies followed by corruption.
- In our outreach, we have found good partnerships from local schools to world events.
- Puyallup Tribal Health Authority offers medical, dental, pharmacy, and behavioral health services.
- Pialab Tribal Health Authority offers medical dental pharmacy and behavioral health services.
Summary:
The joint Senate Business, Financial Services and Trade Committee and House State Government and Tribal Relations Committee held a public hearing on a restated amendment to the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ gaming compact. Washington State Gambling Commission staff explained the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act framework, the compact amendment process, and the role of the commission and ex officio legislators. They said the Puyallup compact, originally signed in 1996, has been amended several times and is now being fully restated to align with current gaming operations and regulations.
Puyallup Tribal representatives described how gaming revenue has supported tribal government, cultural preservation, housing, education, elder services, health care, youth programs, environmental protection, and charitable giving. They emphasized the tribe’s economic development efforts, including businesses, construction, manufacturing, a port partnership, and responsible gaming programs at Emerald Queen Casinos. The tribe and commission also highlighted commitments to self-exclusion, signage, training, emergency access, and community services, while noting that the compact removes some old contribution provisions but does not change the tribe’s voluntary charitable work.
Commission staff summarized key compact changes, including authorization for electronic table games, extension of credit, removal of per-facility limits, higher wager limits, a stepped increase in player terminal allocations, and new licensing/eligibility/registration and definition appendices. Members asked about how compact negotiations work and what determines the state’s interests; staff said negotiations are guided by the governor’s office, commissioners, and ex officio feedback. No public testimony was offered, and no vote was taken at the hearing. The commission will take public comment and vote at its Thursday meeting on whether to forward the compact to the governor or return it for further negotiation.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- CPF and our local affiliates have been leading and evolving the local response framework to improve patient
- community, I've been fortunate enough to sit on the HHS CARE Act Advisory Group along with one of my local
- Through the mail is using a, I believe, pharmacy company named GIF Health, and they are the ones who
- Tasia Stevens, on behalf of UDW, ASME Local 3930, in strong support.
- This applies to any state and local facilities that fall under that definition, which is why they've
Committee:
House Health