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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Mar 17th, 2026

Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I said to her that we cardiac care."
  • </c><00:28:40.320><c> Hannes</c> care crisis that we have in EMS.
  • Hannes care crisis that we have in EMS.
  • So, therefore, we become the primary health care for those communities.
  • </c> take this step to enhance and improve take this step to enhance and improve and<00:38:31.920><c>
Bills: HB424 , SB63 , SB269 , HB424 , SB63 , SB269
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Agriculture and Forestry Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Agriculture and Forestry

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm with the Greater Birmingham Humane Society, and we run the largest animal care and control division
  • Black: I’m with the Greater Birmingham Humane Society, and we run and manage Jefferson County’s animal care
Bills: HB446 , HB446
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • that go into providing care.
  • Now, you could make the argument that care should not be required, but it is health care and it is care
  • ><c> it</c><00:36:06.560><c> is</c><00:36:06.880><c> care</c> but it is health care and it is care but
  • </c> denying care to people who needed it. denying care to people who needed it.
  • </c> they possibly can on care for people. they possibly can on care for people.
Bills: HF3388 , HF400
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

HSH Public Hearing - Thu Feb 12, 2026 @ 10:30 AM HST

Human Services & Homelessness

Transcript Highlights:
  • We think this is something that could improve access to care services, help families meet basic needs
  • </c> reduction in neonatal intensive care reduction in neonatal intensive care unit<00:18:46.880><c>
  • ,</c><00:18:59.760><c> help</c> improve access to care services, help improve access to care services
  • </c> critical stage of life can improve critical stage of life can improve long-term<00:29:56.399><c>
  • >> Um, so we provide a continuum of care for residential services.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1877, which would expand the membership of the Hawaii State LGBTQ+ Commission and add a youth seat. The commission’s vice chair supported the bill, saying the commission started with eight members, has growing interest, and would benefit from an odd-numbered board and youth representation. Members asked about quorum, and the commission said it has generally met monthly with only one quorum issue in the past 18–19 months and would work with legislative leaders to have appointments ready if the bill passes. Written testimony included support from Kokopac and one individual in opposition. The committee then took up HB 2006, which would create a cash assistance program for pregnant women and mothers of babies. The Department of Human Services explained current TANF rules, including eligibility requirements, child support cooperation, and work-program participation, and said the state has recently raised benefit levels to the maximum allowed, with a family of three or four receiving a little over $900 per month. Supporters from the Hawaii Public Health Institute, Hawaii Children’s Action Network Speaks, and others argued the bill could reduce child poverty and improve maternal and child health, citing evidence from Michigan’s Rx Kids program and the temporary federal child tax credit expansion. A mother and Oahu Youth Action Board member testified from personal experience about the need for direct support during pregnancy. The committee also noted support from several organizations and about 26 individuals. The committee next heard HB 2167, which would direct the Office of Youth Services to run a pilot program providing financial assistance to homeless youth. The Office of the Public Defender, youth advocates, and several organizations supported the measure, saying even small amounts of help can prevent homelessness and help youth transition safely to adulthood. The Office of Youth Services said it supports the intent of the bill but requested clarification, and committee members discussed whether the program should be run directly or through contracted community agencies, how to set performance metrics, and how to structure the RFP and contract process. The chair indicated the committee wanted to work with the vice chair and OYS offline to refine the bill before moving forward. The committee then began discussion of HB 2224, relating to Medicaid pharmacy benefit management, with testimony generally supporting giving DHS flexibility to negotiate with PBMs.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Early Learning & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • They were a result of a system that relied on confinement instead of care. ...incidents.
  • They were a result of a system that relied on confinement instead of care.
  • These approaches improve outcomes for youth while strengthening public safety.
  • System involvement without addressing the real causes of youth gun possession or improving equity.
  • We need to truly take care of our kids.
Bills: HB2389 , HB2456
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Jan 20th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • And if I love them, I care about them.
  • And if I love them, I care about them.
  • So health care sharing services provide coverage of health care costs to its most...
  • It was a health care ministry plan.
  • health care costs covered.
Bills: S0052 , S0502 , S0624 , S0758 , S0834 , S0840
Committee: Senate Judiciary
Summary: The committee considered several bills and reported each favorably. SB 624, by Senator Yarborough, would allow batterers intervention programs to offer optional supplemental faith-based activities, with no participant required to take part. Supporters said it would expand provider options and help address a shortage of certified programs; opponents raised concerns about mixing government-ordered programming with religion and about the state’s prior rule change. The bill passed 7-2. The committee also approved CS/SB 834, which repeals a 2022 restriction barring licensed insurance agents from partnering with health care sharing ministries to market or sell their programs. The sponsor and supporters argued the bill restores free speech, consumer choice, and access to faith-based alternatives, while opponents warned about consumer confusion, higher commissions, and weak protections because these ministries are not insurance. After extended debate, the measure passed 8-2. Other measures advanced unanimously or near-unanimously. CS/SB 502, as amended, would give Florida concurrent jurisdiction over certain juvenile offenses on military installations so juveniles can be handled in the state system; it passed 9-0. CS/SB 52 would exempt volunteer armed security for houses of worship from Class D or G licensing requirements, and supporters cited rising threats to churches and the need for organized volunteer security; it passed 9-0. SB 840, a cleanup bill to narrow and clarify last year’s emergency-related land-use restrictions after hurricanes, also passed 9-0, and CS/SB 758, which updates the membership of the Justice Administration Commission, passed 9-0 after an amendment restoring two public defenders to the commission.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Early Learning & Human Services Jan 13th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Early Learning & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Six months later, RCS, Residential Care Services, came out and not only did— RCS, Residential Care Services
  • So almost all supported living is 24/7 care. So there is— Services.
  • and communities needing care.
  • We need robust care in all settings, and it's my hope that we all want a robust continuum of care where
  • and communities needing care.
Bills: HB2185 , HB2200 , HB2230 , HB2319
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • behavioral health care to be integrated into primary care, and the care will be consistently covered
  • The collaborative care team is led by a primary care provider and includes a behavioral health care manager
  • care and the integrated into primary care and the care<01:07:14.960><c> will</c><01:07:15.200><c> be
  • into primary care behavioral health care into primary care because<01:10:22.880><c> we</c><01:10:23.120
  • treatment and care. Um, we got a nice treatment and care.
Summary: The Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance met for its first interim meeting, established a quorum, approved routine opening items, and welcomed a new committee assistant and a legislative intern. The committee first heard a Kentucky Bankers Association presentation from Tim Shank and John Cooper focused on the state’s housing shortage, which they described as affecting all 120 counties and especially low- and moderate-income and workforce housing. They urged support for a proposed $20 million banker-backed revolving fund, paired with tax credits, to finance new housing construction; they said the program would be flexible, could support alternatives such as manufactured housing, and would use below-market loans with tax credits vesting over five years only after units are completed. They also asked for extension of the historical tax credit carryforward from five to seven years and for continued support of new market tax credits, arguing that supply-chain delays make the longer period necessary for historic rehabilitation projects. The bankers also raised concerns about credit unions, arguing that because credit unions do not pay the same taxes as banks, they should not be allowed to acquire healthy state-chartered banks or hold state and local deposits. They cited the recent purchase of First State Bank of Middlesborough as an example, saying the transaction would reduce state, county, and city tax revenue and weaken local tax bases. In response to committee questions, the presenters said local regulations, zoning, parking, sidewalk, and utility easement issues can significantly delay housing projects, and they emphasized that state policy and infrastructure support are needed to help address affordability and development barriers. The committee then shifted to a Department of Insurance presentation by Commissioner Sharon Clark on how to read KRS 6.948 health mandate and federal cost defrayal impact statements. Clark explained that the mandate statements were created in 1998 so legislators would have actuarial estimates of how proposed health insurance mandates would affect administrative costs, premiums, and total costs, and she noted that later legislation added federal cost-defrayal analysis. She also reviewed the background of the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits framework and said the department’s statements are intended to help lawmakers make informed decisions on proposed health coverage mandates. No votes or formal actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Hied Committee Meeting - 2025-04-21

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The child care grants on line six remain at the base amount of $13,000,000.
  • Line 187 is a new item for the UMN Centric Care Partnership, totaling $3 million.
  • And the health care access fund total is unchanged from its previous base amount.
  • We know that rural health care is essential.
  • care disparities.
Bills: HF2312
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/21/25

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The child care grants on line six grant.
  • </c> for the UN centric care partnership. for the UN centric care partnership.
  • ,</c><00:57:28.480><c> including</c> experience in foster care, including experience in foster care,
  • </c><00:59:04.000><c> make</c><00:59:04.240><c> other</c> care. and they can't make other care. and they
  • Welcome to the up, center care.
Bills: HF2312
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Agencies including MMB face rising costs each year due to increases in employer-paid health care contributions
  • This appropriation covers growing expenses for health care, compensation, utilities, and IT.
  • /c><00:21:53.120><c> process</c> technologies and other process technologies and other process improvements
  • create</c><00:21:55.280><c> efficiencies</c><00:21:56.000><c> and</c> Revenue continues to make improvements
  • Revenue continues to make improvements to create efficiencies and enhance the customer experience.
Bills: HF2783
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 2/12/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> but also help Educators healthc care but also help Educators healthc care providers<00:09:17.880
  • </c><00:53:58.200><c> I</c><00:53:58.359><c> hope</c> course of care care does that am I hope course
  • of care care does that am I hope I'm<00:53:59.280><c> I'm</c><00:53:59.599><c> trying</c><00:53:59.880
  • </c> seek for example gender affirming care seek for example gender affirming care correct<00:54:22.079
  • </c> possible case scenario and be careful possible case scenario and be careful even<01:04:36.880><c
Bills: HF22 , HF45
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 01:45 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so I just think we need to be very careful as we move forward.
  • And we've constantly improved how we provide support and services to those kids.
  • That seems, I want to be careful how I say this, Mr.
  • I mean, again, I'm trying to be very careful, Mr. President.
  • We take care of them. And off it goes.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . ...childhood of instability going home to home in foster care.
  • People take care of things that they own and they've worked on hard.
  • President, sharing is caring when it comes to shared leave.
  • This summer, some of us were at a national health care conference.
  • This summer, some of us were at a national health care conference.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Feb 17th, 2026

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill delivers meaningful solutions to improve water quality statewide.
  • Jude, which is providing care for children that cannot, under bills like this, provide appropriate care
  • Again, it's related to health care.
  • patients don’t lose their health care providers, and the physicians and other health care practitioners
  • can continue to provide care.
Committee: Senate Rules
Summary: The Committee on Rules met with a quorum and considered a long agenda of bills, many of them retained from the prior week. The most debated measure was CS for SB 706, which would preempt naming of major commercial service airports to the state and designate Palm Beach International Airport as the Donald J. Trump International Airport, subject to FAA approval and a trademark agreement. Amendments were offered and rejected, including proposals to prevent private financial benefit from the naming. Several senators spoke in opposition, citing concerns about naming an airport after a sitting president, lack of local input, and the trademark/licensing arrangement; supporters argued there was no cost to the airport and that the bill simply set a state naming policy. The committee reported the bill favorably after a roll call vote. The committee also reported favorably CS for SB 546 on conservation land notice requirements, CS for CS for SB 1014 on municipal utility service to properties outside city limits, CS for SB 1500 on uncontested probate proceedings, SB 962 on excluding farms from certain zoning definitions, and CS for SB 820 on problem-solving court reporting requirements. The committee then approved several bills from Senator DiCeglie and Senator Arrington. SB 840, addressing land-use regulations for local governments affected by natural disasters, was supported by local-government and environmental advocates who said it would restore local control after SB 180’s hurricane-related restrictions; the sponsor said it was intended to correct unintended consequences of last year’s law. CS for SB 856, requiring online listing platforms to show estimated ad valorem taxes on residential listings, was amended to exclude social media platforms and broaden liability protections; the sponsor and a county property appraiser described it as a consumer-transparency measure. CS for SB 110, clarifying homestead exemption treatment for long-term leases that end at death, was also reported favorably. The committee took up a controversial strike-all amendment to SB 212, which focused on public swimming pools and added residency and related restrictions for certain sex offenders and offenders on community control or probation. The amendment drew strong opposition from advocates and affected families, who argued it would worsen homelessness, impose broad geographic restrictions, and lack evidence of improving child safety; supporters said it was a targeted public-safety measure. Despite the objections, the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also approved SB 684 on electronic signatures for total-loss vehicle and vessel titles, SB 394 on reinsurance intermediary managers, SB 434 on property tax assessment treatment for wind-hardening improvements, CS for CS for SBs 658 and 608 on water-safety requirements for rental properties with pools or nearby water, SB 748 on adding voting-rights restoration information to sentencing score sheets, and CS for SB 824 requiring school districts to inventory unimproved real property. The meeting ended while the committee was beginning SB 848 on stormwater treatment, with an amendment being introduced as the transcript cut off.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 25th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • and providers providing certain health care services for the Committee on Insurance.
  • In the U.S., we spend $4.5 trillion annually on health care, with 90% of that spent on preventive care
  • We'll improve the food supply. We'll do the things that are necessary.
  • If you care about the value of what your kids are learning, thank you. Ms.
  • Okay, so the effort to make folks improve their diets, you think would be improved, would be a... assisted
Bills: SB835 , SB3070 , SB22 , SJR59 , SB926 , SB1494 , SB251 , SB456 , SB500 , SB1307 , SB2615 , SB2995 , SB2321 , SB973 , SB974 , SB865 , SB506 , SB781 , SB1522 , SB1558 , SB510 , SB667 , SB763 , SB2073 , SB1858 , SB1660 , SB505 , SB2900 , SB1433 , SB1540 , SB1964 , SB1300 , SB1644 , SB2217 , SB2373 , SB2431 , SB1758 , SB2480 , SB3039 , SB3047 , SB3073 , SB2920 , SB2781 , SB826 , SB766 , SB2460 , SB527 , SB1946 , SB2885 , SB1243 , SB2610 , SB2595 , SB857 , SB37 , SB8 , SB10 , SB227 , SB261 , SB12 , SB15 , SJR27 , SB552 , SB835 , SB3070 , SB22 , SJR59 , SB25 , SB57 , SB127 , SB293 , SB441 , SB3059 , SB512 , SB241 , SB1718 , SB140 , SB2055 , SB2075 , SB2018 , SB1534 , SB1567 , SB785 , SB1233 , SB1580 , SB1663 , SB413 , SB447 , SB519 , SB467 , SB1579 , SB1191 , SB1021 , SB1838 , SB2807 , SB2835 , SB546 , SB2121 , SB2167 , SB2035 , SB2024 , SB1032 , SB1049 , SB1266 , SB1400 , SB1302 , SB401 , SB1596 , SB1281 , SB1242 , SB1343 , SB310 , SB1346 , SB2753 , SB2703 , SB2221 , SB1719 , SB2177 , SB800 , SB790 , SB748 , SB571 , SB1957 , SB1923 , SB1896 , SB1760 , SB1335 , SB2368 , SB2477 , SB2587 , SB2972 , SB2986 , SB2965 , SB1563 , SB1467 , SB1164 , SB1137 , SB614 , SB705 , SB961 , SB918 , SB955 , SB869 , SB850 , SB863 , SB1610 , SB1055 , SB2206 , SB457 , SB2337 , SB1362 , SB926 , SB1494 , SB251 , SB456 , SB500 , SB1307 , SB2615 , SB2995 , SB2321 , SB973 , SB974 , SB865 , SB506 , SB781 , SB1522 , SB1558 , SB510 , SB667 , SB763 , SB2073 , SB1858 , SB1660 , SB505 , SB2900 , SB1433 , SB1540 , SB1964 , SB1300 , SB1644 , SB2217 , SB2373 , SB2431 , SB1758 , SB2480 , SB3039 , SB3047 , SB3073 , SB2920 , SB2781 , SB826 , SB766 , SB2460 , SB527 , SB1946 , SB2885 , SB1243 , SB2610 , SB2595 , SB857 , SCR9 , HB5560 , HB762 , HB 107 , HB 114 , HB300 , HB138 , HB4386 , HB2495 , HB581 , HB3348 , HB5323