Video & Transcript Research : 'interim committees'
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VT
Transcript Highlights:
- and committed the same to the committee and committed the same to the committee on<00:13:09.600>
- The committee heard testimony from the interim deputy commissioner of captive insurance, Department of
- The committee heard testimony from the interim deputy commissioner of captive insurance, Department of
- Stevens, will speak for that committee. Stevens, will speak for that committee.
- both out of committee and on the floor. both out of committee and on the floor.
Summary:
The House opened with devotional remarks from Representative Greer focused on perspective, kindness, and the idea that people “earn” respect and love through shared humanity. After that, the chamber suspended rules to introduce 17 House bills by number only, and adopted JRS 3 in concurrence, setting a joint assembly for Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. to receive the governor’s budget message. Several announcements followed, including birthday wishes, a note about the new federal whole milk for schools law, guest introductions, and caucus notices.
The House also approved committee transfers for H.393, an act relating to the prohibition of requiring face masks in schools, moving it from Education to Healthcare, and H.334, an act relating to limiting employer restrictions on individuals separating from employment, moving it from General and Housing to Commerce and Economic Development. The chamber then took up H.649 on captive insurance companies. The Commerce and Economic Development Committee explained that the bill, based on Department of Financial Regulation proposals, would prohibit risk retention groups from lending to or investing in members or affiliates, require annual and quarterly filings in NAIC form with a jurat page and actuarial certificate, and create new filing requirements for sponsored captive protected cells. The committee reported unanimous support, and the House amended the bill and ordered third reading.
The House next considered S.60, establishing a Farm Security Special Fund. The Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry Committee and Appropriations described the bill as a response to repeated weather-related losses affecting farms and forestry operations, including flooding, freezes, drought, and other extreme events. The House version adds forestry and changes assistance from grants to payments to make aid faster and less cumbersome. The program would be administered by the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, with a review board and payments of up to 50% of uncovered losses, capped at 5% of annual appropriations and $150,000 per application. The committee testimony emphasized the need for a permanent, predictable state relief mechanism, and the bill was advanced with strong support.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education (2-5-25) - part2
Transcript Highlights:
- I appreciate the opportunity to be involved over the interim, and I just want to thank Amanda, not just
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to <00:15:46.959>thank< - All of us on the committee agreed how important they are, but what it's done by mandating it, we can't
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agreed up all of us on the committee agreed up all of us on the committee agreed
Keywords:
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Summary:
The committee took up House Bill 48, which would reduce the state-required formal observation cycle for tenured teachers from once every three years to once every five years, while preserving local district authority to conduct more frequent observations if they choose. Supporters argued the change would cut paperwork and time burdens on experienced teachers and principals, while still allowing districts to monitor performance and place teachers on improvement plans when needed. Members also discussed the bill’s separate provisions on school improvement plans, with clarification that CSI/TSI low-performing schools would still be required to maintain comprehensive improvement plans and receive additional support from KDE, and that the bill was not changing the evaluation system for those schools.
A second major topic was professional development and teacher induction/mentoring requirements. The bill would consolidate state-mandated PD requirements into a rotational schedule for tenured teachers, and members noted that teachers are already subject to federal and local PD obligations that the legislature cannot change. Several speakers emphasized that the bill was intended to reduce state-level mandates, not eliminate useful supports for new teachers, and one member raised concern that mandatory induction/mentoring could limit districts’ ability to use Title II funds; the response was that the program remains valuable and should be revisited with dedicated funding rather than discarded. There was also a brief question about suicide prevention hotline and Safe Haven Baby Box posting language, which was explained as existing statute consolidated into one place.
The committee then voted on the bill and it passed, with members offering brief explanations of support and noting frustration with recurring annual training requirements such as bloodborne pathogens. After the vote, members thanked the bill sponsors and educators who helped shape the legislation, and the chair announced weekly office hours in Room 367. The meeting ended with congratulations to the new K-12 chair and adjournment.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Feb 3rd, 2026 at 10:04 am
Senate Indian, Rural & Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a great committee. This is an awesome committee.
- Ladies to this committee because it is so, madam chair, and four male committee members.
- during the interim.
- And she, of course, offered to do that during the last interim Indian Affairs Committee meeting here
- anything to the committee.
Bills:
SM14
Keywords:
forced sterilization, coerced sterilization, Indigenous women, Native American women, women of color, reproductive justice, reproductive sovereignty, truth and reconciliation commission, memorial, trauma-informed care, reparative justice, human rights, bodily autonomy, Indian Health Service, Indian affairs, Commission on the Status of Women, survivor testimony, reproductive health access, genocide, transitional justice
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- This committee may hear bills.
- Chair, members of the committee. I've been in this committee before.
- The bill did not come to this committee because it went to the Senate Finance Committee because it had
- So, you know, one thing I'm thinking is which interim committee could look at this?
- committee that will work on it. ...send this to an interim committee that will work on it, to everyone
Keywords:
SB40, Driver Privacy and Safety Act, automated license plate reader, ALPR, license plate reader, vehicle surveillance, privacy, data sharing, law enforcement data, immigration enforcement, reproductive health care, gender-affirming care, civil liberties, surveillance, public records, Inspection of Public Records Act, New Mexico State Police, Department of Public Safety, data sovereignty, vehicle tracking
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Nov 5th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And I know we have a lot of members who had other meetings and other committees; at least two other committees
- Madam Chair, Senator, Committee, and Madam Chair, I was chair of the rules committee.
- Madam Chair, members of the committee, currently, Monique Parks is the interim executive director.
- She served in the interim role. Monique has been serving in her interim role for about a year.
- Sorry, Madam Chair and members of the committee.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Mar 19th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- OK, Committee members. Representative Block.
- Thank you, Madam Chair and committee.
- Madam Chair, committee, thank you.
- , interim committees.
- Thank you. committee.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Health Service (3-31-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- another committee meeting.
- committee my apologies for having to committee my apologies for having to leave.
- there any questions from committee there any questions from committee members?
- changes during an interim? changes during an interim?
- sessions and committee hearings. sessions and committee hearings.
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum to consider the Senate Committee Substitute for House Bill 2, a major Medicaid bill. Members first adopted the substitute and then adopted Amendment 9770. The bill was described as a lengthy rewrite aimed at aligning Kentucky Medicaid policy with federal requirements under HR 1, while also preserving program integrity and addressing due process concerns. Senators and staff repeatedly emphasized that the measure was the product of extensive meetings with providers, associations, and work groups.
The sponsor’s section-by-section summary highlighted several key changes: delaying and reducing cost-sharing requirements; pushing eligibility redetermination deadlines to the federal date; restoring some flexibility for hardship waivers; allowing self-attestation as a last resort; modifying MCO audit provisions; clarifying non-emergency medical transport GPS costs; expanding waiver attestation authority to nurse practitioners and licensed psychologists; adding qualified aliens to waiver eligibility to comply with federal law; requiring Medicaid data sharing with the oversight board; limiting changes to Medicaid benefits without General Assembly authorization; narrowing the prescription drug exclusion to drugs prescribed primarily for weight loss; and delaying the dental ASO transition until 2029. The substitute also deleted a proposed auditor review requirement and retained an emergency clause.
Committee discussion focused heavily on the policy and fiscal implications of the cost-sharing and recertification provisions. Senators raised concerns about whether the co-pays would be effective or simply shift costs to providers, whether the recertification process would burden the Cabinet and cause eligible people to lose coverage, and how the bill would affect people transitioning from Medicaid into work. Supporters said the lower cost-sharing amounts were intended to encourage appropriate use of care, protect providers, and comply with federal law, and they noted that the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board would help shape future changes. A public witness, Maggie Chisholm, gave emotional testimony about her daughter’s experience with a Medicaid waiver and argued that policy delays and administrative disconnects can harm vulnerable families. No final vote on the bill itself was recorded in the excerpt, but the substitute and amendment were adopted and testimony continued.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 03/27/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- We've talked a lot of this committee We've talked a lot of this committee about<00:30:38.960>
- My name is members of the committee.
- committee and Senator Draheim.
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and the interest of the committee and the interest of the committee and Senator - I am interim is Will Delaney.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 13 Feb 23rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- second reading, assignment, reassignment of bills and resolutions, bills, resolutions, conference committee
- reports, and joint committee reports, and motions placing new business before the House.
- And we connected through Twitter, met at the Capitol during an interim, and...
- We connected through Twitter, met at the Capitol during an interim, and anyway, that's how it got started
- interested, please reach out to me, but I am going to be sending an invitation to those two particular committees
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Economic and Rural Development Dec 8th, 2025 at 09:32 am
Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And then, committee, please join me in thanking our ERDPC staff for holding us through the interim, the
- Thank you, committee.
- you, and thank you, committee.
- Good morning, Madam Chair, committee members.
- We've throughout the interim in various Committees received reports about water reuse, and how the studies
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Conference Committee on H.F. 2438 - Transportation Omnibus - 05/12/25
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
November 5, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- >> Chair Persons-Mulicka: COMMITTEE WILL COME TO ORDER.
- CHAIR. >> Chair Persons-Mulicka: A QUORUM BEING PRESENT I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYONE TO OUR SECOND INTERIM
- PRE-K-12, THIRD INTERIM BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING.
- AND FOR THOSE FAMILIES AND FOR THOSE SCHOOLS WHO ACCEPT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS WHO ARE LISTENING TO OUR COMMITTEE
- IT'S INTERESTING IN THIS COMMITTEE I BANG MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL AND I'M BEING BLUNT, I APOLOGIZE.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 12th, 2026 at 01:34 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman and committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to present updates to NMFA.
- I just like to get started off with just you know thanking the members of this committee.
- Chairman, and committee members.
- I know these are big discussions we've had in that committee as well.
- We've heard LESC, PED, and LSC sort of all through the interim.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Public Works and Highways (02/24/2026)
Public Works and Highways
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of them got interim studied since the last time I looked. There is a capital budget bill.
- Some of them got interim studied since the last time I looked.
- If the committee wants to split it into two mornings, I have no problem with that.
- <00:15:59.680>
If always left that up to the committee. - If always left that up to the committee.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Dec 10th, 2025 at 08:35 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, and honorable members of the committee.
- Chairman, members of the committee. And I apologize for my voice.
- And you know, Representative Sonniata, chair of our interim science and tech committee, I think said
- Thank you, committee members. Okay, members, we're going to go ahead.
- Chair, and esteemed members of the Legislative Finance Committee.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Legislative Finance Sub Committee Nov 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, members of the committee, thank you for inviting us here this afternoon.
- The committee has certainly heard about this case for a very long time.
- Thank you for having us, Chair and members of the committee.
- Members of the committee, my name is Greg Davi, and I'm a farmer.
- And again, I think particularly in August, but all through the interim.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy May 7th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- But anyway, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee is a review...
- The committee reviewed those, didn't concur with a number of those cuts.
- Thank you, Chair Reyes, senators on the committee. It's an honor to join you this morning.
- Questions from committee?
- In the interim, the state policy really ran through this Delta levee investment strategy.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you, committee. Uh Chairman. Thank you, committee.
- Chairman, I'm tempted to ask the committee to table this and let us do it as an interim topic."
- that out, see what the committee thinks. that out, see what the committee thinks.
- I would have liked to have been able to look at all the interim committee information that they had two
- Good morning, committee.
Keywords:
veterans, property tax exemption, disabled, service-connected disability, Wyoming, governmental claims, liability limits, inflation adjustment, public safety, local government insurance, HB0127, recreation mill levy, recreational facilities, public recreation, mill levy, property tax, local tax, county commissioners, school district levy, voter approval
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Thank you, committee members.
- Thank you, committee. Senator Ye, you're recognized to explain the revisions of Senate Bill 1330.
- This bill is partially the result of an interim study we did, looking into the pardon and parole this
- past interim.
- I apologize that I did not ask this question in the policy committee.
Bills:
SB1189, SB1295, SB1297, SB1330, SB1333, SB1338, SB1341, SB1344, SB1355, SB1377, SB1378, SB1546, SB1859, SB1946, SB1990, SB1998
Keywords:
school security, funding, public schools, security enhancements, resource officers, domestic violence, fatality review, revolving fund, database, public safety, Oklahoma, census accuracy, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, federal census, grassroots outreach, marketing campaign, water infrastructure, Oklahoma Water Resources Board, grants, environmental compliance
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice and Judiciary (11-5-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, welcome to the sixth and final meeting of the Interim Joint Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice
- pleasure for us to be here today and we want to thank Representative Deetsz and everybody on the committee
- Um thank you all so much for the hard work that you all put in during the interim.
- I know um all put in during the interim.
- Um so I think toes during the interim.
Summary:
The subcommittee heard presentations from the Legal Aid Network of Kentucky, including Legal Aid of the Bluegrass, Kentucky Legal Aid, AppalRed Legal Aid, and the Legal Aid Society in Louisville. The presenters explained that the four nonprofit programs provide civil legal services in all 120 counties, focusing on low-income clients and matters such as domestic violence, family law, housing, expungement, public benefits, and veterans’ issues. They emphasized that they do not handle criminal defense cases and described statewide efforts such as the kyjustice.org website and Project Renew, which helps people in recovery with legal issues that affect stability, employment, housing, and family reunification.
Each organization highlighted regional service challenges and examples of casework. Legal Aid of the Bluegrass described its 33-county service area, its mobile “justice bus,” and expungement work for people in recovery. Kentucky Legal Aid focused on disaster response after the December 2021 tornadoes, including insurance disputes and contractor fraud, and said it has continued to handle repeated FEMA-declared disasters. AppalRed described serving 37 rural counties with limited attorneys, the shortage of lawyers in “rural legal deserts,” and its disaster-response work after flooding and tornadoes, including FEMA appeals clinics and volunteer attorney support. The Legal Aid Society described its Louisville-area veteran services, including Social Security and VA disability cases, veterans treatment court referrals, and homeless outreach.
Committee members praised the organizations’ work and noted the importance of their services. In response to questions about funding, the presenters said their support comes from a mix of Legal Services Corporation funds, state appropriations, federal grants such as VOCA, VAWA, and HUD, United Way, and foundation funding. They stressed that many grants are restricted, while state funding is more flexible and useful for emergencies and day-to-day operations. The presenters said current funding does not fully meet demand and requested an increase in the General Assembly’s appropriation from $500,000 per year to $1 million per year, or $2 million over the biennium.