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Transcript Highlights:
- a licensed counselor's training that is not part of what a military chaplain is trained for?
- being a licensed counselor's training that is not part of what a military chaplain is trained for?
- From our perspective, the real skilled training starts when they hit our floors.
- It's going to be very detrimental to their training, the knowledge, and the skills to go out into the
- It's going to be very detrimental to their training, the knowledge, and the skills to go out into the
Committee:
House Business
Summary:
The House Business Committee first introduced and approved two RS requests. RS 33044, brought by Rep. Ehart, would examine changes affecting military chaplains so their counseling work could be considered toward licensing requirements; the committee introduced it without opposition. RS 33004, brought by Rep. Cornelis, would require businesses to allow restroom access to people with Crohn’s disease or similar medical conditions who present documentation; it was also introduced unanimously.
The committee then heard House Bill 513, which would reduce cosmetology training from 1,600 to 1,000 hours and apprenticeship hours from 3,200 to 2,000, with a proposed implementation date of January 1, 2027 in the related RS 33099. Supporters argued the bill would lower barriers to entry, reduce student debt, speed entry into the workforce, and still preserve safety through existing board standards and testing. Opponents, including cosmetology instructors, school owners, and industry representatives, argued the change would weaken training, shift costs to salons, and harm reciprocity for Idaho licensees moving to other states. After public testimony and committee discussion, HB 513 was held in committee, while RS 33099 was introduced and sent to the second reading calendar, with Reps. Birch and Cheatum recorded in opposition.
Finally, the committee considered House Bill 514, which would allow cosmetology students to take their licensing exam after completing 80% of the program rather than waiting until the end. The sponsor said this would get students into the workforce sooner and reduce delays caused by test scheduling and results. Testimony was generally supportive, with some comments that earlier testing could help students and employers, though one member noted the need to balance free-market goals with public safety and consumer protection. The committee voted to send HB 514 to the House floor with a due pass recommendation.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 3rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And build the graduate profile skills in all of our schools.
- Chair, any best practices training besides...
- I heard earlier that K-5 teachers should all be trained.
- And so we need to have more training for math teachers.
- and getting teachers trained up that way.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations Feb 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you for supporting skilled nursing in your proposal.
- Every skill is performed solo. Every result is earned.
- Every skill is performed solo. Every result is earned.
- Without this coverage, caregivers do not get trained.
- Without services for therapy, any gains and skills will be lost.
Summary:
The House Appropriations Committee held a public hearing on proposed substitute House Bill 2289, the House operating budget. Budget staff Mary Monroe gave a detailed overview of the proposal’s near general fund outlook, reserve levels, major revenue assumptions, and major spending and savings items. She highlighted assumed revenue from capital gains and a proposed “millionaires tax,” a transfer from the budget stabilization account, administrative reductions across agencies, and several major policy shifts, including changes affecting Working Connections Child Care, K-12 education, higher education, long-term care, behavioral health, wildfire response, and state employee compensation. Members then asked questions, including about the higher education building account/operating fee swap and its interaction with the capital budget and Climate Commitment Act funds. The committee also announced amendment deadlines for the budget process.
The bulk of the meeting was public testimony, with many speakers generally supporting or opposing specific parts of the budget. Supportive testimony praised funding for wildfire prevention, public health, reproductive health, civil legal aid, the Poison Center, some higher education institutions, and certain disability and child welfare services. Many speakers urged restoration or protection of funding for K-12 education, especially transition to kindergarten, local effort assistance, bus depreciation, and Running Start; others opposed cuts to child care, early learning, public defense, long-term care, adult day and home care services, occupational/physical/speech therapy for Medicaid patients, and community and technical colleges. Several local government, health, and nonprofit representatives also asked the committee to preserve public works, homelessness, energy assistance, environmental justice, and recovery/diversion programs, while some business and public safety groups sought continued funding for organized retail crime prevention and related initiatives.
No votes were taken during the hearing. The committee recessed briefly and later resumed with virtual testimony, where additional witnesses repeated concerns about education cuts, long-term care, health care access, disability services, dispute resolution, early childhood programs, and the need for ongoing or increased funding in those areas.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Jun 16th, 2026
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- under training obligations that they would have in their state.
- under training obligations that they would have in their state.
- under training obligations that they would have in their state.
- You talked about the training and or education. Can you just repeat that?
- And again, the skills—I talk to trades and, you know, the average age...
Committee:
House Military and Veterans Affairs
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- A skilled nursing facility in Centralia, Washington.
- Thank you for supporting skilled nursing in your proposal.
- Every skill is performed solo. Every result is earned.
- Every skill is performed solo. Every result is earned.
- Without this coverage, caregivers do not get trained.
Bills:
HB2289
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
appropriations, budget, fiscal matters, state spending, general fund, supplemental budget, biennial budget, substitute bill, public defense, civil legal aid, courts, judicial branch, homelessness, supportive housing, affordable housing, behavioral health, juvenile rehabilitation, youth services, child welfare, foster care
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education (2-26-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- as they move forward that life skill as they move forward with<00:04:18.959><c> their</c><00:04:19.280
- </c> important I think it is a life skill important I think it is a life skill that<00:04:54.840><c>
- It's just that you don't have to train the entire school system.
- It's just that you don't have to train the entire school system.
- It's just that you don't have to train the entire school system.
Summary:
The committee heard House Bill 342, which would require all Kentucky students to complete a one-credit financial literacy course for graduation, with the credit able to count toward math, social studies, or an elective. Representative Meredith and student advocate Patrick Rovi argued the current financial literacy mandate is too weak without a credit requirement, citing low implementation across schools and the need for practical instruction in loans, credit, investing, and budgeting. Members generally supported the bill, while Representative Tipton raised concerns about adding credit requirements and limiting dual credit options, and Representative Willner questioned whether it would create an unfunded mandate. Supporters responded that the bill is designed to fit within existing graduation requirements and that free curriculum and professional development resources are available through groups like Next Generation Personal Finance. HB 342 passed the committee unanimously with an expression of opinion that it should pass.
The committee next considered House Bill 661, a technical cleanup bill related to the previously enacted nine-passenger van option for school transportation. Representative Emily Callaway said the measure only adjusts regulations needed for KDE to implement the earlier law effectively. The bill passed without opposition.
House Bill 208, sponsored by Representatives Josh Bray and James Tipton, would require school districts to adopt policies limiting cell phone use during the school day and, in the updated version, restrict social media access as well. Supporters said the bill is intended to improve student attention, reduce cyberbullying and mental health harms, and address concerns raised by school disruptions and social media use. Members asked about exemptions for students with medical needs, emergency access, and whether districts would need new software; sponsors said existing district technology and local discretion should handle those issues. The bill passed unanimously. The committee then began taking up House Bill 430, which would let certain small-transportation districts seek an exemption from the KDE requirement for four annual bus safety trainings, provided they adopt a local safety policy and submit it to KDE. A district superintendent testified that the current blanket requirement causes significant instructional disruption for districts with very limited daily transportation needs.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a special skill. This is skilled labor, just like many of our other types of skilled labor.
- This is a special skill. This is skilled labor, just like many of our other types of skilled labor.
- This is a special skill. This is skilled labor, just like many of our other types of skilled labor.
- This is a special skill. This is skilled labor, just like many of our other types of skilled labor.
- This is a special skill. This is skilled labor, just like many of our other types of skilled labor.
Bills:
HF1388
Committee:
House Education Finance
Keywords:
BARR Center, Building Assets, Reducing Risks, education finance, school funding, grant appropriation, evidence-based program, student achievement, social and emotional learning, school climate, teacher effectiveness, high school graduation, students in poverty, students of color, BIPOC, equity in education, Minnesota Department of Education, urban schools, suburban schools, rural schools, school coaching
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HED/EDN Joint Info Briefing - Wed Jan 29, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:24:54.600><c> haven't</c> uh you know I'm not my skills haven't uh you know I'm not my skills
- are in-person trainings.
- </c> happening so we do help our our training happening so we do help our our training includes<00:42
- </c><00:42:34.520><c> on</c><00:42:34.760><c> human</c> human the training on human human the training
- </c><00:49:15.680><c> to</c> being trained to you being trained to being trained to you being trained
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Jul 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a lot of similar skills... for semiconductors.
- These skill gaps contribute to...
- those sorts of places; and then construction skilled trades.
- Been highly successful, trained all over the state. It's been really great.
- So, this is really a benefit to both employers and foreign-trained individuals.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The Skills Development Fund is the state's premier job training program designed to help businesses partner
- with eligible training providers to equip new workers with in-demand skills or upgrade the skills of
- We would pay for the training for her to be gain her alternative teacher certification.
- HB 2545 creates a rural workforce training grant program and provide training, apprenticeships, and workforce
- Um, for finance, for skilled trade, skilled trade is we, it could be everything from truck driving to
Committee:
House S/C on Workforce
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Jun 10th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Existing law prescribes skilled and trained workforce standards on a variety of high-risk public...
- Existing law prescribes skilled and trained workforce standards on a variety of high-risk public and
- And jump on that now and bring the skilled and trained workforce, perhaps before the next tragedy.
- I'm not sure any of that does away with the need for a skilled and trained workforce or the prudence
- Safety standards at a higher level through apprenticeships, through the skilled and trained workforce
Summary:
The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee heard several bills focused on worker protections, AI in the workplace, bereavement leave, and construction labor standards. SB 909 by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas would increase public works contractor registration fees, raise prevailing wage and related penalties, and direct half of collected penalties back into the Public Works Enforcement Fund. Supporters said the bill would help combat wage theft and misclassification and strengthen enforcement; opponents argued the higher fees and penalties would burden contractors without fixing enforcement backlogs. The committee voted the bill out on a due pass motion to Appropriations.
The committee also approved SB 951 by Senator Reyes, which would require 60-day notice when 25 or more workers are displaced by technology and require reporting on AI-related job impacts. Supporters framed it as a response to rapid AI-driven layoffs and a way to gather real-time data; opponents raised concerns about small employers, proprietary information, and litigation. SB 947 by Senator McNerney, the “No Robo Bosses Act,” would require human review of automated discipline, termination, or deactivation decisions and restrict predictive behavior analysis. Supporters said it would prevent biased or mistaken automated decisions; opponents objected to the inclusion of independent contractors, private rights of action, and other provisions. Both bills were advanced to the Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection.
The committee also passed SB 1149 by Senator Durazo, which would expand bereavement leave to cover a “designated person,” including chosen family relationships. Supporters, including AARP and a witness who described losing a long-term partner, said the bill reflects modern family structures; there was no opposition. In addition, SB 1185 by Senator Cortese, applying skilled and trained workforce standards to pharmaceutical facility construction, was approved despite opposition from business and construction groups who said there was no demonstrated safety problem and that the mandate could raise costs and reduce competition. Several other bills on the consent calendar were also approved, and all measures were reported out of committee.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Jun 10th, 2026
Labor and Employment
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm very happy to be here to present SB 1185, which applies skilled and trained workforce standards to
- Existing law prescribes skilled and trained workforce standards on a variety of high-risk public...
- Existing law prescribes skilled and trained workforce standards on a variety of high-risk public and
- I'm not sure any of that does away with the need for a skilled and trained workforce or the prudence
- Safety standards at a higher level through apprenticeships, through the skilled and trained workforce
Committee:
House Labor and Employment
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education May 1st, 2025
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education
Transcript Highlights:
- the Texas Education Code, CTE programs are designed to equip students with academic and technical skills
- Programs like JROTC, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, and Leadership Officer Training Corps, LOTC
- , citizenship training, lots of different levels of teamwork, and so on and so forth in middle school
- Despite their structured, discipline, and leadership training pathways to military services, JROTC and
- and technology education, expanding students' access to rigorous skill-based training.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Sep 24th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- That is high wage and may require high skill.
- Students will learn those soft skills.
- the essential skills development, the durable skills, the communication, the collaboration, and how those
- Skills gap, we've heard that phrase.
- train them in that industry-specific.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Feb 19th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So, but it talks about training. Okay, okay. So, but it talks about training, correct?
- I'm looking at this as training, demonstration projects, training, acts appropriates $14 million to OSPI
- So nothing, no training now yet. I do not see any. Nothing, no training now yet.
- Let the trained staff handle that.
- Senator Harris asked about training, and there is training already available on the OSPI website—tons
Summary:
The committee opened by explaining that several bills had been removed from the agenda because the Senate must physically possess a bill before holding a public hearing. The chair said the missing bills would be rescheduled for Tuesday. The committee then waived the five-day notice rule for considering substitute House Bills 1705 and 32010, and proceeded to hear substitute House Bill 2219 and substitute House Bill 1795.
House Bill 2219, on child care operational efficiency, would allow longer mixed-age ratio periods in child care centers, waive repeat DCYF orientation requirements in certain cases when staff have recently completed the same training, and require licensing standards to include a zero-tolerance policy for imminent physical harm involving high-potency synthetic opioids and related drug residue or paraphernalia. The prime sponsor and supporters said the bill would help child care providers manage staffing shortages, take breaks, and reduce duplicative licensing burdens. Testimony was strongly supportive, with advocates and providers describing the bill as a low-cost way to improve retention and flexibility. Questions focused on how the fentanyl language would apply to prescribed medications.
House Bill 1795 would narrow and update state law on restraint and isolation in public schools and other public educational programs. The bill prohibits mechanical and chemical restraints and restraints that restrict breathing or blood flow, bars planned isolation in IEPs and 504 plans, limits planned restraint to cases with parent request and medical necessity, and prohibits new construction or remodeling of spaces intended primarily for student isolation. Supporters, including disability advocates, educators, school psychologists, principals, and state education groups, said the bill is a needed step toward reducing trauma and disproportionality and cited demonstration sites showing reductions in restraint and isolation. Some educators and paraeducators raised concerns about staffing, training, and what tools remain available in crisis situations, while others asked for future work on professional development and resources. No vote was taken on either bill during the hearing.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Licensing & Administrative Procedures Mar 25th, 2025
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Transcript Highlights:
- There is also a bipartisan federal effort to offer this training.
- dynamics, um, and some skills to respond.
- And when professionals are trained to respond, lives change.
- Like our successful human trafficking training, it provides stylists with recognition skills to spot
- like an extensive kind of training.
Committee:
House Licensing & Administrative Procedures
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (04/16/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> timely opportunity to modernize training timely opportunity to modernize training requirements,<
- I want you to know I got an A in communication and I got an A in in all required skills. skills that
- </c> one-on-one support with highly trained one-on-one support with highly trained um<02:32:21.120><c
- </c> we have lack of proficiency in any skill we have lack of proficiency in any skill skill<02:34:00.720
- </c> skills to get the guest what they want. skills to get the guest what they want.
Summary:
The committee opened a hearing on Senate Bill 185, which would add timelines to Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC) investigations. Senator Howard Pearl said the bill was prompted by concerns from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors about delays at the Real Estate Commission, and he explained that the proposal would require OPLC staff to make an initial determination within 30 days and, if misconduct is found, complete an investigation within 60 days. He said the goal is to improve transparency and give consumers and licensees more timely information, while preserving the board’s adjudicatory role. He also noted that the bill had been amended to delay implementation to give OPLC time to work through its backlog.
Committee members questioned how the bill would work when an investigation is incomplete and whether the board could send a case back to OPLC without a firm deadline. Pearl said the board would have discretion to continue the investigation or make a final determination, and that the bill was intended to streamline OPLC’s process rather than impose a hard cap on complex cases. OPLC Executive Director Deanna Durus and General Counsel Nicholas Fry then testified that the agency has already changed its procedures under prior legislation, including a facial review of complaints and monthly board review of dismissal memos. They said the bill would substantially alter the current structure, could conflict with existing limitation periods and board duties, and would be difficult to implement without additional staff and funding.
Durus said the agency’s backlog is large, that new complaints are being triaged and prioritized, and that some urgent matters are moved ahead based on risk and statutory deadlines. She said OPLC had completed a review of about 500 backlog cases that would now be dismissed under current screening standards, and that those cases are being turned into memos for board review. Board of Medicine public member Nina Gardner testified in favor of the bill but said the backlog is significant and that the agency needs more resources to make the process work effectively. She said the board is seeing progress, but not fast enough, and suggested the bill may not go far enough without additional staffing and funding. No vote was taken during the hearing.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> education, training, and testing have. education, training, and testing have.
- </c> current effective training framework. current effective training framework.
- </c> takes more skill, more education. takes more skill, more education.
- a two-year training?
- Despite this shortage, the state has a pool of highly skilled, internationally trained physicians who
Committee:
House Health Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/19/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- <c> yst</c> youth skills training program or yst youth skills training program or yst however<00:45:56.960
- </c><00:48:43.240><c> training</c> participating in youth skills training participating in youth skills
- So this is why I support the expansion of the youth skills training program in the construction trades
- So this is why I support the expansion of the youth skills training program in the construction trades
- the</c> skills training program in the skills training program in the construction<00:52:41.400><c> trades
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Elementary and Secondary Education Jan 14th, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Elementary and Secondary Education
Transcript Highlights:
- We do count some of those workplace skills.
- And then I would go through the training with them.
- I'm going to train them up.
- But they wouldn't have a BS area or on-the-job training. On the job, yes. Training.
- I think that's. or on the job training. On the job, training. Other questions?
Committee:
House Elementary and Secondary Education