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Transcript Highlights:
- I have two programs that I'm going to be talking about today: the HOWL and the ATLAS transition programs
- In our program, because we are a comprehensive transition program, you have to have the diagnosis of
- HOWL is our comprehensive transition program. ATLAS is not a comprehensive transition program.
- ...come to our program.
- you first start the program.
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes from November 17 by motion and voice vote. It then heard a presentation from Arkansas State University on its inclusive postsecondary education programs, HOWL and ATLAS, led by Dr. Kristen Johnson and Shane Broadway. The programs serve students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, by providing on-campus living, academic support, life-skills training, financial literacy, internships, employment support, and community integration. Johnson explained that HOWL is a comprehensive transition program that does not lead to a degree but is eligible for financial aid, while ATLAS is degree-seeking and provides additional supports. She reported strong outcomes, including high goal attainment and a majority of graduates working full time, and emphasized that the programs are designed to help students build autonomous adult lives.
Members asked about recruitment, eligibility, costs, school outreach, business partnerships, and transition planning. Johnson said the programs have done extensive outreach through IEP meetings, transition symposia, email blasts, and school visits, but that awareness remains a challenge. She identified major roadblocks as business concerns about liability, fragmented collaboration, and difficulty navigating funding streams such as vocational rehabilitation and Medicaid. She also said more coordinated statewide communication and coalition-building are needed, and noted that ASU is helping launch a state alliance for similar programs, with new programs opening at ASU Mountain Home and the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff.
The committee then heard from the University of Central Arkansas about Project Ascend, a new low-sensory living-learning community for neurodiverse students in Hughes Hall. Dr. Debbie Daly and Jeremy Gillum described it as a voluntary, self-identified program focused on community building, belonging, and retention rather than remediation or degree planning. The program has hosted a few low-sensory social events and plans to expand outreach through campus tours, orientation, and targeted communications. Members asked about recruitment, participation, success measures, and how to avoid duplicating ASU’s efforts; UCA said it is still in its infancy and will measure success mainly through participation, retention, and student engagement. The meeting ended with general support from members, discussion of collaboration across institutions and agencies, and adjournment of the task force.
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Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Correctional Consolidation and Collaboration Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- These are great programs.
- So we have them programming at Persevere. These are great programs.
- I didn't even go into the sort of justice programming or victim impact programming.
- So, medication programming, we've talked about our medication program.
- So, medication programming, we've talked about our medication program.
Summary:
The commission met with a new member from Prisoners’ Legal Services and approved the July 11 minutes. The main presentation came from Department of Correction Commissioner Sean Jenkins and Deputy Commissioner Mitzie Peterson, who gave an overview of DOC facilities, population trends, and the department’s broad mission, including sentenced prisoners, pretrial detainees, civil commitments, Bridgewater State Hospital, and the Section 35 program. They noted the custody population has fallen from about 10,000 in 2016 to roughly 6,000–6,600, while the share serving first- or second-degree sentences has increased. They also reviewed the department’s facility footprint, including Souza-Baranowski, MCI Norfolk, MCI Framingham, Bridgewater, and the planned transfer of the Section 35 program to Health and Human Services by the end of 2026.
A large portion of the discussion focused on programming, education, health care, and reentry. DOC described tablet access for all incarcerated people, free phone calls, email, and more than 330,000 hours of educational, vocational, and reentry use. They highlighted partnerships with colleges and universities such as Tufts, Boston College, Emerson, and others, along with HiSET completion, vocational training, and programs like The Last Mile and Persevere. Health care spending was discussed in detail, including a total annual health-related contract cost of about $300 million, with separate contracts for prison health care, Bridgewater State Hospital, MassAQC, and MAT services. DOC said it has nearly eradicated Hep C and MRSA and now offers all three FDA-approved MAT medications, including long-acting injectables when clinically indicated.
Commissioners also asked about specialized programming, language and disability access on tablets, and how programming is distributed across facilities. DOC explained that nothing is mandatory, but program participation is encouraged and can affect parole consideration. Staff described assessments using COMPAS, criminal thinking interventions, trauma-related treatment, and specialized units for emerging adults, mental health, and substance use. The department said programming costs were about $101 million in fiscal year 2025, or roughly 12% of the operating budget, excluding health care. Members praised the elimination of restrictive housing and the rollout of body-worn cameras, while DOC said the cameras required new policy and union negotiations but are now used for training, accountability, and de-escalation. The meeting ended with a plan for DOC to return in September with more detailed information on SAUs, programming statistics, and facility structure, and the commission voted to adjourn.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 03/10/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- It supports statewide youth job skills and career development programs at the club sites.
- Our Money Matters and Career Launch programs are providing young people with the skills and training
- programming on job exploration skill programming on job exploration skill building<00:57:34.319>
- In those three years, I have learned new skill sets from the Workforce Development programs that the
- In those three years, I have learned new skill sets from the Workforce Development programs that the
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Jul 16th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- I think starting programs and ending programs over and over again is worse than never even having them
- Funeral program for someone who had passed away and became the local funeral program creator.
- welfare programs.
- Regarding our STEM CMA program is a year-long extensive program.
- in the program.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Program that can tell students, like, hey, college is affordable, and we have programs like the North
- That's the path we should be on: let the pilot program work. that has been successful there is a plan
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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/18/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- out by the newborn screening program. out by the newborn screening program.
- by program.
- Um do we have enough programs?
- <00:33:13.360>
If programs? If we do, are they full? If programs? - Directed payment programs are not new. Directed payment programs are not new.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities
Transcript Highlights:
- place-based program throughout the shelter system.
- and the home-based rehousing program.
- It wasn't just low functioning people on the GED program.
- Thank you. functioning people on the GED program.
- skills.
Summary:
The committee held a hybrid hearing on a range of bills affecting children, families, disability rights, homelessness, and social services. Early testimony focused on H.215, which would support children experiencing homelessness by speeding access to child care vouchers and early intervention screenings. Boston officials, Horizons for Homeless Children, Head Start, pediatric and early education advocates, and families described delays in child care and early intervention, the developmental risks of homelessness, and the need for automatic referrals and faster access to services. Testimony also supported H.216, which would improve emergency housing assistance by restoring presumptive eligibility, reducing documentation barriers, extending shelter stays from six to nine months, and creating an ombudsperson; providers and legal advocates said current rules leave families sleeping in cars or outside and create unnecessary administrative hurdles.
The committee also heard strong support for H.210, which would repeal the “Learn Fair” school attendance sanction that cuts cash assistance to families when children miss school. Advocates from legal aid, education, and anti-poverty organizations argued the policy is punitive, burdensome, and ineffective, disproportionately affecting low-income, disabled, and Hispanic/Latino families. Several speakers said chronic absenteeism should be addressed through supports such as family outreach, wraparound services, and school engagement rather than benefit cuts. Legislators and school officials from Salem also testified that their districts reduced absenteeism through supportive strategies, not sanctions.
Additional testimony addressed children’s vision bills H.202 and H.166, with optometrists and researchers urging better screening, data systems, and treatment access to close achievement gaps caused by untreated vision problems. Senator Lovely also presented S.2714, proposing a study of discrimination in public accommodations for people with service animals. Later, testimony on H.279 supported changing social work licensure rules to remove exam requirements that speakers said disproportionately exclude multilingual candidates and candidates of color. The hearing also included testimony on bills related to the Judge Rotenberg Center and electric shock devices, with disability rights advocates opposing continued use of the devices and urging the committee to reject licensing or authorization for them. No votes or committee actions were taken during the hearing.
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Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Mar 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- In developing the training program, a program allows the students to earn badges that designate that
- We have some programs, for example.
- But what we're what we're saying is this is only for public vpk programs.
- This will not affect our private vpk bird programs at all.
- My rule communities have outside of step Scott been scrapped programs.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- well as our Medicaid waiver programs.
- program for certain groups of low-income people.
- So we do have people on both that program as well as our programs.
- Program integrity for these programs is, uh, is a three-legged stool.
- In the program if the circumstances warrant.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Many of our programs support the needs of mothers, children, and families in Texas. programs like Medicaid
- On this slide, you will also see the Children's Health Insurance Program, that's a program for children
- So we do have people on both that program as well as our programs.
- We have the responsibility to protect the program, protect the integrity of the program, identify. those
- . program.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appr/Sub-General Government and Transportation Jan 13th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Transcript Highlights:
- I believe that technical skills, whatever your technical skill is, are required.
- Our job is to execute that program with excellence.
- But what's our path to get to zero? Do you have a path to do that?
- I briefly mentioned our first-time driver program.
- So, we want to launch a pay for performance program this year.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And we hope very soon to be in a stage C of that program. It's a very tough program.
- This includes canceled grants, decreases in program budgets, program suspensions, project delays, project
- programs.
- Leverage the great programs that we have and the ability to innovate with programs that may be needed
- in the nursing program.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- But I believe we were looking at maybe partnering with CNH because they have their skilled trades program
- But when you talk about getting jobs, these Creative Media skills cut across all paths.
- cut across all Creative Media skills cut across all paths<01:26:43.000>
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- , the more that we can help build skills, the more that we can help build skills, the<00:21:25.679
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Transcript Highlights:
- Now when we look at who's actually standing in the path of the frontier, it is no longer just manual
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of actually standing in the in the path of actually standing in the in the - path of the<00:18:38.320>
frontier <00:18:39.679>um <00:18:39.919>it <00:18:40.160 - They know the process really well, but they don't have the right level of skill set.
- they don't have the right level of skill they don't have the right level of skill set.<00:32:23.840
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Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 035 Feb 18th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And we want to get them on a path to restoration.
- and the treatment and the programming and the treatment and the programming that<00:58:58.400>
- <00:59:45.280>
And them on a path to restoration. And them on a path to restoration.- , building skills, all of those<01:13:53.600>
things. - So 95% since the start of the program.
- <00:59:45.280>
Summary:
The House convened with a quorum, approved the journal from February 13, 2026, and heard several announcements and introductions, including recognition of student guests and notices about upcoming committee meetings. Members also shared informal remarks tied to Lunar New Year celebrations, a water policy breakfast, and other caucus or committee updates. The chamber then took up special orders for several bills, including House Bill 1013 and House Bill 1064.
House Bill 1013, concerning ratio utility billing systems used by landlords to allocate utility charges to tenants, was presented as a technical cleanup to last year’s House Bill 1090. Supporters said it was intended to clarify that such billing practices remain allowable and to align the statute with legislative intent. Amendment L002, offered to state that the bill created no private right of action and to limit litigation, was debated at length but defeated. Opponents argued it would restrict existing rights under consumer protection law, while supporters said it would reduce unnecessary lawsuits. The bill then passed the committee.
House Bill 1064, concerning modifications to the youthful offender system, was also heard. Supporters said the bill codifies existing Department of Corrections practices, updates language to promote effective communication, and reflects evidence-informed, trauma-informed rehabilitation aimed at reducing recidivism. Amendment L003, which adjusted language to be more inclusive of the YOS community, was adopted. Several members opposed the bill, arguing it codified practices already in place, lacked clarity on evaluators and costs, and did not sufficiently account for victims’ perspectives. Despite that opposition, the committee report was adopted and the bill advanced with the amendment.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Transcript Highlights:
- , but not everyone joins the department with their career path in mind.
- skills, and improved community engagement.
- Many local programs in Massachusetts still operate with no full-time staff.
- State programs are built on unstable federal grants.
- I'm past director of ethics programs and of palliative care programs at the Israel Deaconess Medical
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security held a public hearing on a wide range of bills affecting law enforcement, corrections, fire services, emergency management, telecommunicators, and sex offender policy. Testimony strongly focused on proposals to restore an education incentive for Massachusetts State Police troopers hired after the Quinn Bill was repealed, with State Police Association witnesses arguing the current system creates unfair pay disparities, hurts recruitment and retention, and leaves newer troopers earning less than some supervisors with the same or less education. They urged favorable reports on H. 2651, S. 1759, and S. 1783. A separate witness also supported H. 2627, a sheriff’s pay-parity bill, while suggesting amendments to avoid distinctions between correction officers and jail officers and warning that the proposal should not be viewed as a funding issue alone.
The committee also heard testimony on public safety and oversight bills. A rape survivor testified in support of S. 1663, arguing that municipal fire or police personnel convicted of sex offenses should not remain in positions of public trust. Senator Miranda testified in support of S. 1723, S. 1724, and S. 1727, which would create correctional officer training/accountability standards, a correctional inspector general, and privileged communication with legislators for incarcerated people; he said the bills respond to misconduct and lack of independent oversight in the Department of Correction. In contrast, the Fire Chiefs Association and Professional Fire Fighters opposed H. 2572/S. 1668/S. 1740 on emergency management, saying the bill was developed without enough collaboration, lacked local-control safeguards, and could undermine incident command and local decision-making during disasters.
Several panels supported other public safety measures. The Fire Chiefs Association and PFFM backed S. 1641 and S. 1744 to create a Massachusetts Public Safety Building Authority to help fund fire station and municipal public safety building projects, and supported S. 1647 to implement the Walsh-Kennedy Commission recommendations on hot works and welding safety, including tougher penalties and training requirements. Witnesses also supported H. 2664/S. 1736 to create a hoisting machinery regulations board, saying current licensing standards for heavy equipment are too minimal. Another panel backed H. 2663/S. 1761 to classify 911 telecommunicators as first responders, citing stress, burnout, and the expanding role of dispatchers. Finally, an attorney from CPCS testified in opposition to S. 1752, warning that expanded sex offender residency restrictions would likely increase homelessness, make supervision harder, and raise constitutional concerns based on prior court rulings.
MN
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NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Eighty-three percent say that these programs provide opportunities for youth to learn life Skills, and
- . 21st Century is the largest federal program...
- Program that funds after-school programs, and they have a lot of data on the outcomes that out-of-school
- My concern is that some programs might be designated...
- we fund out-of-school time programs through this bill.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Nov 18th, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- trade or a two-year program or a four-year program.
- This is one of those types of programs.
- So the approved supplier program, which is the program that I am privileged to steward.
- to also impact senior centers, senior nutrition programs, including Office of Indian Elder Affairs programs
- So the New Mexico Grown Program Again, I spoke to the fact that this is an incentive program.