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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HHS, HHS DEFER Public Hearings 01-29-2025
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The Committee on Health and Human Services began by explaining strict one-minute testimony limits, reliance on written testimony, and that it had quorum and would move directly to decision making on deferred measures. It first adopted the chair’s recommendation to pass SB 8 with amendments, creating a five-year trial period for a jury-duty exemption for actively practicing APRNs, delaying implementation to January 1, 2027, and adding a defective date. It then adopted amendments to SB 189 on breast cancer screening, replacing references to “woman” with “patient,” clarifying that supplemental imaging and mammograms must be medically necessary and ordered by the patient’s provider, deleting one subsection, and adding a defective date.
The committee then heard testimony on several bills. SB 46 on insurance/mental health coverage drew support from a member of the public and others, but later the chair said it would be deferred indefinitely pending a required sunrise analysis and a concurrent resolution. SB 642 on fertility preservation services received broad support from providers, advocacy groups, and an individual who described facing cancer treatment and high out-of-pocket costs; the chair later amended it to make coverage optional, limit it to those over 26, and add a defective date. SB 49 on terminal illness had limited testimony and was later passed with amendments incorporating agency and professional association changes plus a defective date.
The committee also heard strong support for SNAP-related bills. SB 53, expanding SNAP eligibility to 300% of poverty, drew testimony about the “benefits cliff,” but the chair later deferred it indefinitely, citing uncertainty about costs and system issues. SB 58 on public assistance had no testimony. SB 960 and SB 961, both SNAP-related, drew extensive support from nonprofits, health groups, and others; DHS said its modernization work would not be ready until fall 2026 and that current systems could not automatically extend certification periods. SB 963 on SNAP also received support, including testimony from a volunteer reentry advocate and a public health advocate, but the chair later said it would be deferred indefinitely because the committee could not determine the fiscal impact and wanted to wait until next year.
Finally, the committee heard SB 798 on child welfare and SB 974 on foster care. Testimony on SB 798 included support from child welfare and advocacy organizations, but also criticism from a witness who said the bill lacked voices of those harmed by the system and another who emphasized the need for independence, implementation, and accountability. The committee then recessed to regain quorum and later returned to decision making, where it deferred SB 46 indefinitely, passed SB 642 with amendments, passed SB 49 with amendments, and deferred SB 53 indefinitely. The transcript ends while the chair is continuing through the remaining measures.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
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- this because they were against nurse this because they were against nurse practitioners<01:21:35.440
- So, physician is a nurse practitioner.
- physician assistants and now nurse physician assistants and now nurse practitioners practitioners
Summary:
The House began with several announcements and recognitions, including a lengthy tribute to Representative Carolyn Brangan of Georgia on her retirement and years of service, followed by remarks from Brangan explaining that she is leaving to care for her husband during cancer treatment. Additional members offered brief reflections, including one on the end of the session and another welcoming students from Founders Memorial School to the gallery, and a member from Brattleboro highlighted a collaborative mural in the card room titled “These Green Hills, Vermont State Symbols and Personal Reflections.”
The body then took up its calendar. It adopted Joint House Resolution 12, authorizing limited remote voting in joint committees through the remainder of the calendar year, with an ADA-related accommodation for members physically present but unable to access a meeting room. The House also suspended rules to take up and concur in the Senate amendment to House Bill 935 on emergency management. The committee report described grant programs for emergency response and technical rescue, new definitions and shelter-planning language centered on “whole community,” a wildland fire response task force, and an emergency rulemaking provision requested by the Agency of Natural Resources; the committee approved the Senate proposal on an 8-3 straw poll, and the House concurred.
The House next adopted the conference committee report on House Bill 952, the capital construction and state bonding budget adjustment bill. The report explained changes made in conference, including shifting funds to cover a higher-than-expected bid for the St. Johnsbury facility, restoring some funding for maintenance at the women’s correctional facility in Chittenden County, and setting aside $750,000 toward planning for Wi-Fi installation in correctional facilities. It also noted a lease-related language change for a Vermont Huts project at Little River State Park, with notification to the institutions committee chairs. The House then took up Senate Bill 64 on optometrists’ scope of practice; the committee presentation supported allowing specially credentialed optometrists to perform certain minor surgical, laser, and injection procedures, citing improved access, safety, cost, and workforce development, and the bill was read for second reading with committee recommendations for concurrence.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session May 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Please recognize Senator Dossett to introduce the nurse of the day.
- Senator Dossett recognized and introduced the nurse of the day. Thank you, Madam Leader.
- President, today it is my honor to introduce to you Nurse Eric Reagan.
- Nurse Reagan hails from Fresno, California, and is a proud recent graduate of Rogers State University
- Please give Nurse Reagan a warm Senate welcome and privileges of the floor. Madam, thank you, Mr.
Bills:
SR44, HCR1027, SJR50, SJR52, SJR53, HB1185, HB1937, HB2035, HB2137, HB2166, HB3148, HB3323, HB3466, HB3498, HB3661, HB3678, HB3710, HB3977, HB3986, HB4104, HB4108, HB4142, HB4191, HB4274, HB4275, HB4322, HB4336, HB4484, HB3880, HB1687, HB3673, HB1170, HB2959, HB3718, HB3021, HB3443, HB3501, HB4143, HB4326, HB2992, HB3660, SB171, SB1325, SB1980, SB2045, HB4422, HB4423
Keywords:
Medicaid, federal funding, state law, healthcare, low-income adults, Oklahoma Constitution, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, OHCA, health care rules, administrative rules, major rule, Title 75, Title 317, Oklahoma Administrative Code, OAC 317:30, health policy, state health programs, provider regulations, benefits administration, rule approval
NE
Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Morning Session Apr 10th, 2026
Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- eliminate religion-related maternal and child health, public health work fund, eliminate obsolete nurse
- to provide the department form requiring managed care organization coordinator by certain skilled nursing
- to provide the department form requiring managed care organization coordinator, by certain skilled nursing
- to provide the department form requiring managed care organization coordinator, by certain skilled nursing
- to provide the department form requiring managed care organization coordinator, by certain skilled nursing
Bills:
LB764, LB815A, LB839, LB888, LB955, LB972A, LB1029, LB1087, LB1091, LB1126A, LB1181A, LB1237A, LB1261A, LB304A, LB762, LB889, LB929, LB966, LB1022, LB1187, LR508
Keywords:
law enforcement, correctional services, Department of Correctional Services, corrections officers, state prison employees, peace officer, certification, police standards, training academy, Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Nebraska Police Standards Advisory Council, criminal justice, correctional staff, conditional officer, law enforcement authority, public safety, LB815A, LB815, appropriation, appropriations bill
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/18/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I know we have a nurse on there, and I don't know if you know, I actually have a background in this area
- I did not take the state board, but did finish nursing school.
- I'm the nurse that will always fight for everyone to have the care that they deserve. ...to have the
- postpartum breast pain that they can't relieve anymore because they lost the ability to naturally nurse
- Madam Chair, Member, Senate Bill 1564 requires assisted living facilities and nursing care institutions
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
Summary:
The committee heard and acted on several health-related bills, with the longest discussion centered on SB 1214, the Arizona Stem Cell Therapy Act. The bill would regulate stem cell and birth tissue therapies, bar use of tissues derived from aborted fetuses or embryos, require informed consent and disclosure for non-FDA-approved therapies, and create civil and criminal penalties for violations. Supporters framed it as a patient-safety and bioscience-innovation measure, while opponents objected to the abortion-related language and felony penalties. The committee approved SB 1214 on a 4-3 vote.
The committee also advanced SB 1194, which would prohibit health professionals and institutions from denying care or reducing care quality based on vaccination status, and SB 1814, which creates a study committee on substance use disorder treatment standards and oversight. SB 1602, increasing monthly stipends for kinship foster care parents, and SB 1603, expanding child-only cash assistance eligibility for certain foster and relative placements, were both amended and passed unanimously. SB 1177, barring public funds from being used for gender transition procedures, and SB 1014, requiring insurance coverage for detransition care and related reporting, both drew strong support and opposition and were each approved on 4-3 votes.
Later, the committee unanimously passed SB 1628, requiring insurers and health plans to report claims-denial and prior-authorization data to DIFI for public reporting, and SB 1629, requiring AHCCCS managed care organizations to give advance notice and network-adequacy documentation before terminating high-volume providers without cause. Supporters of both bills emphasized transparency and patient access, while opponents argued the measures duplicated existing federal or state oversight. The committee then heard SB 1752, which would criminalize commercial harvesting or sale of mescaline while preserving a religious-use defense; the sponsor said it was intended to address improper sales of peyote-derived substances, but no final action on that bill was taken in the portion provided.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 12/17/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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services, receives payment for nursing services, receives payment for nursing - Uh they are are public health nurses. Uh they are clinically<00:21:31.200>
trained. - They have, again, the public health nursing. And so that is why this is our space.
- And so that is public health nursing.
- Um again nurses to monitor their health.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - Part 2 - 03/17/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- and doctors who report actually nurses and doctors who report this." this." this."
- In some situations, nurses can be a critical part of a Youth ACT team.
- and our registered nurse and our board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist.
- and our registered nurse and our board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist.
- and our registered nurse and our board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (03/12/2025)
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- I am also a maternal child health nurse for the last 15 years, and I am the nurse who was in the hospital
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the <01:29:34.639>hospital am the nurse who was in the hospital am the nurse - She responded that Daisy is a certified nurse midwife, has a doctorate in nursing, a master's in public
- health, and is a board-certified nurse practitioner.
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masters doctorate in nursing she has a masters doctorate in nursing she has a masters
Summary:
The House Committee on Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs heard testimony on House Bill 606, as amended, a bill aimed at preventing physicians from denying medically necessary sterilizing or fertility-affecting treatment based on a patient’s age, number of children, marital status, or a doctor’s speculation about future reproductive intentions. Representative Ellen Reed, the sponsor, described the bill as a response to her own long experience with PCOS, heavy bleeding, and repeated refusals by doctors to perform a hysterectomy despite her clear wishes. She said the amendment narrows the bill to medically necessary care, adds definitions for “medical condition” and “appropriate reproductive care,” and removes earlier provisions about voluntary sterilization referrals. She also said the bill does not target religious objections, and that doctors could still refuse for medical, payment, or existing religious reasons not addressed by the bill.
Committee members asked about religious freedom, informed consent versus waivers, and the scope of the new definitions. Reed responded that religion was not added to the list of prohibited reasons for denial, and that the amendment is intended to protect doctors when patients sign informed consent or waivers. She explained that “appropriate reproductive care” includes procedures such as hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, salpingectomy, and endometrial ablation, and that the bill now focuses on medically necessary treatment rather than elective sterilization. She said the change was intended to make the proposal narrower and more tailored after earlier concerns.
Several witnesses supported the bill with personal accounts of being denied hysterectomies or other procedures despite serious symptoms. Representative Lauren Selig described a decade-long effort to obtain a hysterectomy after years of cycle problems and migraines, saying doctors dismissed her concerns and treated her symptoms as normal. Jade Flad also testified in support, saying she had long been told to simply endure her cycle problems and noted that her husband was offered a vasectomy without similar barriers. The sponsor said online support was strong and that there was little or no written opposition testimony. No vote or final committee action was taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee Jun 24th, 2025
Aging and Long-Term Care
Transcript Highlights:
- funded, allow participants to live in residential care facilities for the elderly as an alternative to nursing
- Services and Support Advocacy with Justice in Aging and Executive Director, California Advocates for Nursing
- essential Medi-Cal covered services that keep them out of expensive hospitals, emergency rooms, and nursing
- state shall place SB 582 also seeks to remedy the shortcomings of evacuation planning for skilled nursing
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- all too small of a number of nursing all too small of a number of nursing assisted<01:21:01.320>
- See, here’s the federally qualified health center, which does the nursing as a licensed nurse who does
- See, here’s the federally qualified health center, which does the nursing as a licensed nurse who does
- See, here’s the federally qualified health center, which does the nursing as a licensed nurse who does
- Minnesota nursing homes and from Minnesota nursing homes and from providers<02:52:39.200>
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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- And I think that should and nurses.
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Home We do have Hillsboro County Nursing Home We do have Hillsboro County Nursing - So uh skilled nursing facility in Salem.
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that.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- So the only changes are that it clarifies the inclusion of nurses employed by charter schools, and it
- students, and we want to make sure that our salaries are competitive so we can attract and retain nurses
- requirement from just being level three and addresses the need to retain and recruit post-baccalaureate nurses
- This now allows for level twos to be able to mentor the new school nurses.
- This allows for level twos to be able to mentor the new school nurses. Thank you for that.
Keywords:
ecological monitoring, sustainability, tribal engagement, education, research funding, graduate scholarship, higher education funding, New Mexico, appropriation, financial aid, out-of-school programming, education funding, youth programs, affordability, nonprofit organizations, defibrillators, public schools, health and safety, emergency response, school elections
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 14th, 2026 at 02:15 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Our 300 category for contracts, a large part of that category is used for nurse case management.
- The WCA is required by statute to provide a system of nurse case management to coordinate healthcare
- If we appropriate less money in that category, we run the risk of not being able to provide nurse case
- The next question I have is on the sexual assault nurse examiner provider programs.
- Are 16 sexual assault programs, 14 sexual assault nurse examiners, and it really allows us to reach out
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- nurses.
- from being traveling nurses from being traveling nurses for<02:38:11.920>
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is um the problem with traveling nurses is um the problem with traveling nurses - that number for nurses that number for nurses works<02:38:58.160>
to <02:38:58.479>get - the same way that the traveling nurses the same way that the traveling nurses costs<02:39:36.319
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- nearly 10 years, as I've shared, I've worked alongside immigrant communities, health care workers, the nurses
- It was a brave nurse. What ultimately helped her was not the system.
- It was a brave nurse, a nurse who understood that health care workers have ethical obligations that do
- A nurse who understood that compassion, humanity, and patient advocacy still matter.
- workers across Massachusetts have told us is that many of them fear retaliation for doing what that nurse
Summary:
The Senate considered a comprehensive immigration-related bill, the Protect Act (House No. 5316), with extensive debate focused on limiting civil immigration enforcement in sensitive locations and protecting immigrants, victims, workers, and public institutions. Supporters argued the bill would reduce fear in schools, hospitals, courts, child care settings, and other community spaces, while preserving criminal law enforcement and public safety cooperation. Several senators also emphasized the economic and community contributions of immigrants, and some spoke from personal or district experience about fear, school enrollment declines, and impacts on health care and daily life.
A number of amendments were debated. Amendment 6, offered by Senator Kennedy, was adopted to extend protections to DDS facilities and disability-related care settings, with supporters stressing the importance of protecting immigrant caregivers and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Other adopted amendments included Amendment 7 on effective dates, Amendment 34 adding residential schools/programs as safe spaces, Amendment 10 on courthouse curtilage, Amendment 13 protecting health care workers from retaliation, Amendment 20 establishing an immigration commission with minority-party representation, and Amendment 69 as a corrective/technical amendment. Many other amendments, largely offered by Senator Tarr and others, were rejected, including proposals concerning 287G agreements, detainers, civil arrests, court authority, and legal defense funding; several amendments were also withdrawn.
The chamber took multiple roll-call votes on contested amendments. Amendment 59 on 287G funds was defeated 5-34, Amendment 63 on status information tied to criminal offenses was defeated 7-32, Amendment 67 on felony detainers was defeated 10-29, and Amendment 75 on state-funded legal defense programs was defeated 5-34. After amendments were completed, the Senate adopted the Ways and Means recommendation, ordered the bill to a third reading, and then passed it to be engrossed by a 37-3 vote. The Senate later rejected a House amendment, appointed a conference committee, and adjourned to meet again the following Monday at 11:00 a.m.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 49 - Morning Session Apr 29th, 2026
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- order of business will be followed today: prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, introduction of doctor and nurse
- Please recognize Representative Kelly to present the nurse of the day.
- Representative Kelly, you are recognized to present the nurse of the day. Thank you, Mr.
- His goal is to earn his doctorate in nurse anesthesia, and he is currently working on his master's in
- nursing education.
Bills:
HR1055, SB2170, SB1833, SB1198, HR1056, SB1730, SB563, SB1379, SB1645, SB2155, SB1280, SB1455, SB1456, SB1461, SB1457, SB1463, SB1465, SB1466, SB1344, SB1309, HR1054, SB2159, SB1948, HB1371, SB1365, SB1976, SB1975, SB2026, SB1565, SB1621, SB237, SB933, SB1427, SB1642, SB171, SB1873, SB2067, SB1623, SB1771, SB1805, SB1826, SB2072, SB444, SB2184, SB1966, SB1812, SB2117, SB2135, SB330, SB1239, SB1428, SB1531, SB1484, SB1405, SB3
Keywords:
Oklahoma Agriculture Day, agriculture, farmers, ranchers, agribusiness, food production, wheat, cattle, beef, dairy, soybeans, cotton, poultry, pork, rye, rural economy, urban-rural, trade, commodity production, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture
Summary:
The House met in session with a roll call establishing a quorum, followed by prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including the Doctor and Nurse of the Day and youth groups visiting the chamber. Special presentations honored the Oklahoma City Blazers under-10 ice hockey team for winning a Texas state championship and MacArthur High School JROTC cadets for repeated drill team success. The chamber also adopted House Resolution 1055 declaring April 29, 2026, as Oklahoma Agriculture Day, and House Resolution 1056 recognizing Denim Day during Sexual Assault Awareness Month; both were adopted without objection.
Members then considered a series of Senate bills. SB 2170 on child custody passed 77-0 and requires supervised visitation when a court finds child abuse or sexual exploitation. SB 1833 codifies a federal waiver barring SNAP purchases of candy and soft drinks and passed 62-17. SB 1198, requiring the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to file releases on county- and municipally-owned properties at the request of local officials, passed 79-0. SB 1730, which requires law enforcement sexual abuse reports to be forwarded to OSBI for investigative use, drew debate over victim protection versus due-process concerns and passed 52-29.
The House also passed SB 1379 creating a two-year grant pilot for services to labor and sex trafficking victims, including services regardless of immigration status, and approved the emergency. SB 1645 on Medicaid audit procedures, SB 2155 allowing the Route 66 Commission to use MOUs for administrative oversight, and several sunset-extension bills for boards and commissions also advanced, many with emergency clauses approved. SB 1461 extending the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority passed 67-20, but its emergency failed 55-20. Other measures passed included SB 1344 creating an insulin access and affordability program, SB 1309 increasing Roads Fund debt-service capacity, and multiple board-extension bills for construction, polygraph examiners, engineers and surveyors, and midwifery, most with emergency clauses adopted. The House then moved to announcements and recessed until 1:30 p.m.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 9th, 2026 at 08:35 am
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- the time, that's because they haven't been able to get an equivalency to say you have a degree in nursing
- an equivalency of a degree, where we can say we have someone who went to university, who studied nursing
- So identifying those people, helping identify whether the barrier is English training for nursing, we're
- So identifying those people, helping identify whether the barrier is English training for nursing, we're
- English training for nursing.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I did also interview one of the nurses from the infirmary. I did...
- What was significant about this interview is that this nurse also, like Richard Eastland, had a daughter
- Well, the same thing with this nurse.
- I want to get back to the nurses. And I want to make sure it's abundantly clear.
- I want to get back to the nurses and the able-bodied folks who didn't know, and had they known.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Nov 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Prior to becoming a nurse practitioner, I was a registered nurse for nearly eight years at a local children's
- I work closely with two other nurse practitioners on my team.
- I work closely with two other nurse practitioners on my team, my medical director, our case coordinators
- And then the next question that I have is how many child protective team physicians, nurse practitioners
- question that I'd asked you was about how many CPT physicians, nurse practitioners, PAs, RNs, right?
Summary:
The Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee held a panel discussion on Florida’s child protection teams (CPTs), child advocacy centers (CACs), and related state systems. Testimony came from the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, a local CAC director, the Florida Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, a CPT medical lead, and a Jacksonville sheriff’s sergeant. Witnesses described how DCF investigations, CPT medical and forensic services, CAC multidisciplinary coordination, and law enforcement work together to assess abuse allegations, provide interviews and exams, and connect children and families to services. Several speakers highlighted telemedicine, co-location, and Jacksonville’s specialized investigative model as examples of stronger coordination.
Committee members focused heavily on communication gaps, staffing shortages, and delays in forensic interviews and medical evaluations. Senators asked about implementation of Jordan’s Law, the timing of DCF and law enforcement notifications, whether law enforcement is always included in decisions about forensic interviews, and how quickly children are seen after a report. DCF and DOH representatives said referrals are generally made within 24 hours and that multidisciplinary staffings are used to share information, but law enforcement described cases where interviews were scheduled weeks out or reports arrived late, creating problems for probable cause and safety decisions. Members also raised concerns about turnover among CPIs and CPT staff, caseloads, and the need for more specialty providers.
CAC representatives said the model reduces trauma by bringing services together in one place, but noted uneven access across the state, especially in rural areas and in counties without CACs. They said sustainable funding and workforce development are needed to maintain and expand services, and one speaker noted that some CACs have closed due to funding challenges. DCF said there are about 1,500 CPIs statewide and an average active caseload of about 12 per investigator, while CPTs serve roughly 22,000 to 23,000 children annually. The committee did not take any formal vote or action, but members requested follow-up information on staffing numbers, communication practices, CAC locations, and recommendations for statutory or budget changes. The meeting ended with adjournment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 3880 by Howard relating to nursing rooms provided by public employers or for the.
- ordering a controlled substance of dangerous drugs or devised by an advancing practice registered nurse
- prescribing, ordering of a drug device at the physician's assistant advanced practice, registered nurse
- The licensure and contracting for delivery of medical assistance by nursing facilities over the Committee
- HB 3910 by Via Lobos relating to the presumption and eligibility of certain individuals for nursing care