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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 18th, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • With that understanding, that is prospective, number one, and number two, this is really just to take care
  • Bamberg, whoever, you're going to get to care of this on the Senate floor, if you would get with them
  • So this bill just requires us to take care of the tooth so we can take care of the other medically covered
  • Really, the doctors just want to be in network, get a fair price, and take care of patients.
  • Yeah, we're going to ask Senator Edmonds to take care of HB 821. Okay, Senator Edmonds.
Bills: HB12 , HB145 , HB222 , HB291 , HB430 , HB821 , HB874 , HB909 , HB951 , HB979 , HB1193
Committee: Senate Finance
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/16/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Would you care to move the your packets.
  • Chair Rarick, do you care to respond?
  • </c> Chair Rarick, do you care to respond? Chair Rarick, do you care to respond?
  • </c> Representative Coulter, would you care Representative Coulter, would you care to<00:34:47.040><c
  • </c> Uh, Representative Allen, would you care Uh, Representative Allen, would you care to<00:59:07.960
Bills: HF4252
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Oversight Feb 26th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Government Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Where are you getting that you have added adults to not being able to access gender-affirming care?
  • Who determines evidence-based care, politicians or physicians? Thank you for that question.
  • Is it your intention to also prohibit private insurers from paying for these kinds of medical care?
  • We need to stop calling this gender-affirming care. It's anything but that.
  • The responsibility of this body is to ensure that our taxpayer dollars are taken care of.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Oversight Feb 26th, 2026

Government Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • Can you list out what facilities, what health care facilities are providing gender-affirming care or
  • Who determines evidence-based care, politicians or physicians? Thank you for that question.
  • Can you talk to us how this law or this bill will impact that health care provider?
  • We need to stop calling this gender-affirming care. It's anything but that.
  • The responsibility of this body is to ensure that our taxpayer dollars are taken care of.
Summary: The committee opened with prayer and then took up several bills, beginning with HB 3057, a government efficiency cleanup measure that removes more than 50 obsolete statutory report requirements. A member raised a concern that the bill might inadvertently remove language related to a child abuse response team, and the sponsor said that would be corrected before floor consideration. HB 3057 was then approved 14-0 and sent to the floor. Members then debated HB 313, which prohibits state funds from being used for gender reassignment surgeries. The sponsor said the bill is intended to ensure taxpayer dollars are not used for such procedures, while opponents argued it goes beyond funding restrictions and could affect adults, referrals, private conversations, and medical judgment. Supporters framed it as protecting children and public funds. After debate, the bill passed 16-3. The committee also approved HB 4113, clarifying that people with felony convictions regain voting rights after completing incarceration, parole, supervision, and probation, and HB 3310, the Agency Accountability and Budget Transparency Act, both by 15-0 votes. The committee next considered HB 3314, a county-option marijuana public safety impact fee allowing a 15% tax on retail marijuana sales. Questions focused on the 5% petition threshold and who should initiate the tax request, and the sponsor said he was open to changes. The bill passed 12-3. Members then debated HB 3985, which would create a private cause of action against certain large municipalities, mainly in the two largest metro areas, for failing to enforce laws related to issues such as camping, loitering, and panhandling. Opponents said it intrudes on municipal home rule and could raise constitutional issues; supporters said it would encourage cities to enforce their own laws. It also passed 12-3. Finally, the committee approved HB 4486, authorizing a Gold Star Family Memorial Monument funded by the Woody Williams Foundation, after discussion about how it fits with existing veterans memorials at the Capitol. The bill passed 14-0. The chair announced the committee would meet again on Tuesday and then adjourned.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Finance Jan 30th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I see this is actually helping with our health care. The general fund.
  • So I see this is actually helping with our health care. Thank you so much.
  • I think we all care deeply about the mental and behavioral health of our young people.
  • by reducing the amount of funding the care fund receives from the vapor products tax.
  • But if we get some health care folks, we might have some.
Bills: HB2038 , HB2297 , HB2382 , HB2487 , HB2018
Committee: House Finance
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Jan 21st, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • killed in the course of employment may participate in the health insurance plans offered by the Health Care
  • So an individual that's eligible for Medicare and participates in these Health Care Authority plans is
  • So an individual that's eligible for Medicare and participates in these Health Care Authority plans is
  • Our organization is ECLIPSE and licensed child care in Yakima.
  • The problem isn't that students don't care; it's that there's no...
Bills: HB1607 , HB2159 , HB2441 , HB2521 , HB2531 , HB2543
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Governmental Oversight and Accountability Jan 20th, 2026

Governmental Oversight and Accountability

Transcript Highlights:
  • our telecommunications staff following critical incidents and to identify and coordinate long-term care
  • Senate Bill 774 acknowledges that mental injuries sustained on the job deserve the same recognition and care
  • important you are to our communities and making sure that the folks who are calling 9-1-1 are taken care
  • important you are to our communities and making sure that the folks who are calling 9-1-1 are taken care
Bills: S0774 , S7028 , S7024 , S7026
Summary: The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability met and first heard Senate Bill 774, which would extend workers’ compensation medical benefits for employment-related mental or nervous injuries to 911 public safety telecommunicators, even without a physical injury. The sponsor and several dispatchers, a clinician, and communications directors testified in support, describing repeated exposure to traumatic calls, chronic understaffing, and the need for mental health treatment and retention support. Senator DiCeglie and Chair Mayfield praised dispatchers’ work, and the bill was reported favorably by committee vote, with Senator McClain later recorded as voting yes on the bill. The committee then took up SPB 7028, a retirement bill that sets Florida Retirement System employer contribution rates beginning July 1, 2026, leaves the 3% employee contribution unchanged, allows certain elected officers to receive a DROP payout under specified conditions, and provides a 1.5% alternative cost-of-living adjustment for eligible special risk retirees. Firefighters, police, sheriffs, and chiefs’ groups spoke in support, emphasizing recruitment and retention. The committee voted to submit the proposal as a committee bill and reported it favorably. Finally, the committee considered SPB 7024 and SPB 7026, both open-government-related bills. SPB 7024 would repeal the current public records and public meeting exemption for cybersecurity information and consolidate agency-specific cybersecurity exemptions into one agency-wide exemption. SPB 7026 would repeal the current public records exemption for trade secrets held by an agency and similarly consolidate specific trade secret exemptions into one agency-wide exemption. Neither bill drew testimony or debate, and both were submitted as committee bills and reported favorably. The meeting then adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 2nd, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you look at the three ways it can be used, it's for direct care.
  • So, I... to have their care, and they can't.
  • It gives not only jobs locally but also care locally.
  • Cyber threats are happening in all sectors: health care, finance, and industry.
  • He owns urgent cares across the whole state.
Bills: SB1 , HB176 , HB86 , SB1 , HB176 , HB86
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:02:53.760><c> about</c><00:02:54.120><c> providing</c> because you care about providing because
  • you care about providing services<00:02:55.280><c> for</c><00:02:56.040><c> those</c><00:02:56.239><
  • The level of care assessments, we're just kind of aligning timelines.
  • The level of care assessments, we're just kind of aligning timelines.
  • The level of care assessments, we're just kind of aligning timelines.
Bills: HF1 , HF98
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/17/26

Environment, Climate, and Legacy

Transcript Highlights:
  • physical taking of an uncompensated physical taking of private<00:47:46.319><c> land.
  • Now, the state Senate Commerce Committee last time I testified didn't care, and the three U.S.
  • Now, the state Senate Commerce Committee last time I testified didn't care, and the three U.S.
  • Now, the state Senate Commerce Committee last time I testified didn't care, and the three U.S.
  • </c><01:09:36.719><c> physical</c> concerns over uncompensated physical concerns over uncompensated physical
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 24

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • At a time when local families are overburdened by Hawaii's taxes and rising costs, we should be careful
  • </c><00:11:22.800><c> we</c><00:11:23.040><c> should</c><00:11:23.200><c> be</c><00:11:23.360><c> careful
  • </c> rising costs, we should be careful rising costs, we should be careful stewards<00:11:24.160><c>
  • And if we want to talk about responsible spending, caring for keiki is probably the most responsible
  • </c><00:13:46.240><c> for</c> about responsible spending, caring for about responsible spending, caring
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Mar 2nd, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Since 2021, uncompensated care for hospitals for state programs has risen by over 16%.
  • Unreimbursed care due to bad debt has increased by 61%.
  • Unreimbursed care due to bad debt has increased by 61%, and the amount hospitals provide in charity care
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from February 9, 2026 by voice vote. It then took up House Bill 591, which Senator Harris described as housekeeping legislation to repeal an obsolete Idaho Code provision related to the county medical indigent program. He explained that the underlying program was repealed in 2022, the remaining language is no longer needed, and the bill carries no fiscal impact with an effective date of July 1, 2026. In response to a question from Senator Wintrow, Harris said the indigent fund was repealed because of Medicaid expansion. Tony Lawson of the Idaho Hospital Association testified in support of the bill. He said the language is obsolete and should be removed, and he reviewed the history of the county indigent and state catastrophic funds, noting earlier changes in 2021 and 2022. Lawson said the policy shift was tied to Medicaid expansion, which was expected to move many patients into coverage, and he cited increases in hospital uncompensated care, bad debt, and charity care since then. Senator Shippey moved to send House Bill 591 to the Senate Floor with a due pass recommendation, seconded by Senator Wintrow. The committee approved the motion by voice vote. The chair then announced there would be no meeting the next day, a meeting on Wednesday, and reminded members to submit written testimony to the page.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 16th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • But when it comes to health care, when you are talking to, When it comes to health care, when you are
  • and care among other things.
  • care in the state.
  • Our care management program staff coordinate services.
  • care.
Summary: The Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee held a hearing on several bills. SB 5904 would prohibit non-human entities from using nursing titles; the sponsor and nursing groups said it is meant to increase transparency around AI and ensure patients know when they are interacting with a real nurse. SB 5915 would change Health Technology Assessment Program review criteria and timelines, with supporters arguing it would better account for Medicare coverage and national guidelines, especially for rare and life-threatening conditions. SB 6025 would update the definition of fetal death to allow gestational age to be determined by the best clinically accurate method rather than last menstrual period, and medical professionals and the sponsor said this would reduce emotional, financial, and legal burdens on grieving families. SB 5933 would require near real-time sharing of overdose data into ODMAP; public health, local government, and recovery advocates said it would improve overdose response, while one witness asked that poison center data be included and clarified separately. SB 5990 would allow APRNs and physician assistants to serve as local health officers in counties under 100,000 population; rural county officials supported the added flexibility, while public health groups and naturopathic physicians raised concerns about qualifications and asked that naturopathic doctors be included as well. SB 5981 would restrict drug manufacturers from limiting 340B drug access through contract pharmacies or requiring data as a condition of discounts; safety-net hospitals, community health centers, pharmacies, and patients said it protects access and reinvestment in care, while manufacturers, employer groups, and industry representatives argued it increases costs, lacks transparency, and may not ensure savings reach patients. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the transcript; each bill was heard and testimony was closed. Sign-in counts were reported for several bills, including strong pro support for SB 5904, SB 5915, SB 5933, and SB 5981, and mixed or substantial opposition on SB 6025 and SB 5990.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 25th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • about and I care about as well.
  • I think Endocrinologist One wouldn't care.
  • I want you to feel comfortable because I care about your mental health; I care about your physical...
  • They need caring parents.
  • . else's care.
Bills: HB 118 , HB 388 , HB 114 , HB 205 , HB 2789 , HB 2791 , HB 499 , HB 2960 , HB 3163 , HB 3135 , HB 2427 , HB 1618 , HB 1672 , HB 1722 , HB 1338 , HB 787 , HB 2618 , HB 879 , HB 1126 , HB 4134 , HB 3513 , HB 718 , HB 1536 , HB 1445 , HB 1640 , HB 1893 , HB 1734 , HB 3229 , HB 3306 , HB 1276 , HB 3272 , HB 3276 , HB 3516 , HB 4145 , HB 1585 , HB 4810 , HB 2989 , HB 2558 , HB 3014 , HB 2742 , HB 1695 , HB 29 , HB 125 , HB 145 , HB 171 , HB 255 , HB 50 , HB 363 , HB 116 , HB 491 , HB 1495 , HB 368 , HB 1285 , HB 1905 , HB 2002 , HB 917 , HB 2723 , HB 2067 , HB 1238 , HB 745 , HB 1188 , HB 1606 , HB 2003 , HB 2147 , HB 2355 , HB 2546 , HB 2495 , HB 2818 , HB 2249 , HB 3228 , HB 3240 , HB 1507 , HB 658 , HB 1748 , HB 1851 , HB 1922 , HB 2798 , HB 107 , HB 1587 , HB 3684 , HB 118 , HB 388 , HB 114 , HB 205 , HB 2789 , HB 2791 , HB 499 , HB 2960 , HB 3163 , HB 3135 , HB 2427 , HB 1618 , HB 1672 , HB 1722 , HB 1338 , HB 787 , HB 2618 , HB 879 , HB 1126 , HB 4134 , HB 3513 , HB 718 , HB 1536 , HB 1445 , HB 1640 , HB 1893 , HB 1734 , HB 3229 , HB 3306 , HB 1276 , HB 3272 , HB 3276 , HB 3516 , HB 4145 , HB 1585 , HB 4810 , HB 2989 , HB 2558 , HB 3014 , HB 2742 , HB 1695 , HB 609 , HB 630 , HB 420 , HB 767 , HB 1708 , HB 1404 , HB 2457 , HB 140 , HB 227 , HB 913 , HB 2198 , HB 2763 , HB 1261 , HB 1135 , HB 1318 , HB 2358 , HB 2765 , HB 2735 , HB 3307 , HB 1242 , HB 2842 , HB 333 , HB 201 , HB 694 , HB 2415 , HB 155 , HB 272 , HB 405 , HB 519 , HB 1136 , HB 1275 , HB 1437 , HB 1532 , HB 1675 , HB 1868 , HB 1888 , HB 1990 , HB 2286 , HB 2523 , HB 3129 , HB 3251 , HB 3354 , HB 3479 , HB 3803 , HB 3804 , HB 3805 , HB 3806 , HB 3887 , HB 4163 , HB 4238 , HB 1240 , HB 1842 , HB 2029 , HB 2622 , HB 3255 , HB 654 , HB 4643 , HB 4945 , HB 3611 , HB 3724 , HB 3623 , HB 3810 , HB 4127 , HCR 78 , HCR 12 , SB 767
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 25th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I do not care. He was accosted outside. the chamber one day by an upset voter.
Bills: HB 118 , HB388 , HB 114 , HB205 , HB2789 , HB2791 , HB499 , HB2960 , HB3163 , HB3135 , HB2427 , HB1618 , HB1672 , HB1722 , HB1338 , HB787 , HB2618 , HB879 , HB 1126 , HB4134 , HB3513 , HB718 , HB1536 , HB1445 , HB1640 , HB1893 , HB1734 , HB3229 , HB3306 , HB 1276 , HB3272 , HB3276 , HB3516 , HB4145 , HB1585 , HB4810 , HB2989 , HB2558 , HB3014 , HB2742 , HB1695 , HB29 , HB 125 , HB145 , HB171 , HB255 , HB50 , HB363 , HB 116 , HB491 , HB1495 , HB368 , HB 1285 , HB1905 , HB2002 , HB917 , HB2723 , HB2067 , HB 1238 , HB745 , HB 1188 , HB1606 , HB2003 , HB2147 , HB2355 , HB2546 , HB2495 , HB2818 , HB2249 , HB3228 , HB3240 , HB1507 , HB658 , HB1748 , HB1851 , HB1922 , HB2798 , HB 107 , HB1587 , HB3684 , HB 118 , HB388 , HB 114 , HB205 , HB2789 , HB2791 , HB499 , HB2960 , HB3163 , HB3135 , HB2427 , HB1618 , HB1672 , HB1722 , HB1338 , HB787 , HB2618 , HB879 , HB 1126 , HB4134 , HB3513 , HB718 , HB1536 , HB1445 , HB1640 , HB1893 , HB1734 , HB3229 , HB3306 , HB 1276 , HB3272 , HB3276 , HB3516 , HB4145 , HB1585 , HB4810 , HB2989 , HB2558 , HB3014 , HB2742 , HB1695 , HB609 , HB630 , HB420 , HB767 , HB1708 , HB1404 , HB2457 , HB140 , HB227 , HB913 , HB2198 , HB2763 , HB 1261 , HB 1135 , HB1318 , HB2358 , HB2765 , HB2735 , HB3307 , HB 1242 , HB2842 , HB333 , HB201 , HB694 , HB2415 , HB155 , HB272 , HB405 , HB519 , HB 1136 , HB 1275 , HB1437 , HB1532 , HB1675 , HB1868 , HB1888 , HB1990 , HB2286 , HB2523 , HB3129 , HB3251 , HB3354 , HB3479 , HB3803 , HB3804 , HB3805 , HB3806 , HB3887 , HB4163 , HB4238 , HB 1240 , HB1842 , HB2029 , HB2622 , HB3255 , HB654 , HB4643 , HB4945 , HB3611 , HB3724 , HB3623 , HB3810 , HB4127 , HCR78 , HCR12 , SB767
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Mar 2nd, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • Since 2021, uncompensated care for hospitals for state programs has risen by over 16%.
  • Unreimbursed care due to bad debt has increased by 61%.
  • Unreimbursed care due to bad debt has increased by 61%, and the amount hospitals provide in charity care
Keywords: 989, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

04/28/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Increasing access to preventative care and primary health care is the right choice to make us and our
  • Increasing access to preventative care and primary health care is the right choice to make us and our
  • As I said, we have a duty to care.
  • They don't care if they have $700 million. They don't care if they have $600 million.
  • can't afford child care.