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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Informal House Session 77 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Wednesday, March 18, 2026, the time within which the Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- Wednesday, March 18, 2026, the time within which the Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- Wednesday, March 18, 2026, the time within which the Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Summary:
The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several Committee on Rules reports. It adopted a resolution congratulating Jeffrey P. Lynch on his retirement from the Medway Fire Department, and it also adopted two orders extending until March 18, 2026, the reporting deadline for the Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure on current House documents.
The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling reported a group of bills for House consideration, including measures on subprime loans, Registry of Motor Vehicles procedures for surviving spouses and next of kin, motor vehicle distributors, banning tinted license plate covers, councils on aging, and two sick leave banks. The House suspended Rule 7A, took the bills through second reading, and ordered them to a third reading.
The House then considered House No. 3952, authorizing Dartmouth Fire District Number One to appoint the position of treasurer, and passed the bill to be engrossed. Finally, the House adopted an order to adjourn until Thursday at 11:00 a.m., and then adjourned to meet then in informal session.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Clerk will unlock the board. Senators will proceed to vote.
- that apply for licensure with AHCA.
- Secretary will unlock the board. Senators will proceed to vote.
- Secretary will unlock the board. Senators will proceed to vote.
- Clerk will lock the board and announce the vote.
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognized several guests and groups in the gallery, including students, business groups, and university basketball coaches. The chamber then moved through a long special order calendar, taking up a series of bills on trust law, school district reporting, debt collection, service of process, lodging and food service establishments, lien waivers, public records protections for Crime Stoppers personnel, foreign ownership/health care licensure issues, diabetes management in schools, platting, fentanyl testing, third-party reservation platforms, electronic landlord-tenant notices, leaving the scene of a crash, background screening for athletic coaches, surrendered infants, and affordable housing. Several bills were temporarily postponed, and multiple House companion bills were substituted where the measures were identical or had only drafting differences.
Debate focused on a few measures. Senators questioned the trust code bill’s effect on out-of-state attorneys general; the school reporting bill was described as strengthening arrest and misconduct reporting for instructional personnel; and the service-of-process and lodging bills were presented as technical and consumer-protection fixes. The fentanyl testing bill drew emotional support from the sponsor and families affected by overdose deaths. The surrendered-infant bill prompted opposition over safety, anonymity, and the limited use of baby boxes, while supporters argued it could save lives. The affordable housing bill, updating the Live Local Act, was amended to adjust parking reductions and allow certain properties to use the administrative approval process, with additional limits and exclusions added.
Most measures passed overwhelmingly, including the trust code bill, school reporting, debt collection, service of process, lien waivers, public records, foreign-country business interest restrictions, diabetes management in schools, platting, fentanyl testing, third-party reservation platforms, electronic landlord-tenant notices, leaving-the-scene restitution, athletic coach background screening, surrendered infants, and affordable housing. The day’s most divided vote was on the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services bill, which drew extended debate over fluoride policy and other provisions; it passed 27-9. At the end of the session, the Senate agreed to immediately certify all bills passed that day to the House, recognized a Taiwan-related resolution for the journal, made additional announcements, and adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Administration Committee has received and reviewed the pending rule from the Sexual Offender Management Board
- Board, which the committee finds to not be consistent with legislative intent and recommends they be
- And what I do know from having sat on the sewer board in my local area is that I don't know how... ..
- .the sewer board in my local area is that I don't know how, if this is all about controlling rates, I
- Districts with boards are exempt with this legislation. About the DEQ...
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Something I’d like to go back to and just note again is that the difference in licensure here: you can
- Something I’d like to go back to and just note again is that the difference in licensure here: you can
- Something I’d like to go back to and just note again is that the difference in licensure here: you can
- Something I’d like to go back to and just note again is that the difference in licensure here: you can
- Something I’d like to go back to and just note again is that the difference in licensure here: you can
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-10 (11:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- He served on the Broward County School Board, and he's like a little brother to me.
- , their hospital districts, their library boards.
- This bill helps protect the integrity of licensure and helps to keep our streets safer.
- This clarifies that the board or commission can promote an elected member of that body.
- Even if another independently elected member sitting on the board is a relative.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for Army Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, the Pledge of Allegiance, and quorum and journal business before taking up the special order calendar. Several bills were explained and moved through amendment and final passage, including CS/SB 590 on the statute of limitations for mandatory reporters’ child-abuse reporting violations, which was clarified on the floor to apply prospectively only and passed 111-0. CS/SB 418 on law enforcement interactions with individuals with autism spectrum disorder was amended to align with the House version and passed 111-0. The chamber also recognized Spina Bifida Week and guests in the gallery before considering additional measures.
Members then passed CS/CS/SB 1668 on the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (NICA), described as preserving the program’s actuarial soundness, by a 112-0 vote; CS/SB 1246 on the Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund, expanded to support broader health science education programs and non-health-care partner contributions, by 112-0; CS/CS/SB 1404 on memory care facility standards by 111-0; CS/CS/SB 1030 on recovery residences, including transfer-of-ownership and MAT-related provisions, by 168-0; CS/CS/SB 178 on athletics in public K-12 schools, allowing limited coach support for student welfare with parental consent and other guardrails, by 112-0; CS/CS/SB 422 on automatic dependent surveillance broadcasts, limiting use of ADS-B data for airport billing, by 108-2; and CS/CS/SB 598 on funeral, cemetery, and consumer services, modernizing licensure and exclusivity rules, by 111-0.
The House also took up CS/SB 1134 on official actions of local governments and DEI-related restrictions. The sponsor argued the bill would prohibit counties and municipalities from official DEI actions and related funding while preserving numerous exceptions for holidays, observances, public safety, and other activities. Members asked extensive questions about how the bill would affect local programs, events, and offices, and Representative Gant offered an amendment to narrow the bill’s DEI definition by removing two prongs; debate centered on vagueness, enforcement, and local-government impacts. The transcript cuts off during consideration of that amendment, so no final action on the bill is shown. The session also included lengthy farewell remarks from Representatives Eskamani and Overdorf, reflecting on their service, staff, constituents, and policy priorities.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 086 Apr 10th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> on the board itself. on the board itself.
- Let the board work.
- Let the board work.
- Let the board work.
- Let the board work.
Summary:
The Senate met with a quorum, approved the journal, and then proceeded out of order to consider Senate Joint Resolution 20, recognizing April 9, 2026, as Home Education Day in Colorado. Senator Pelton spoke in strong support of home education, describing it as a parent-led choice that benefits students and families. The resolution was adopted on a 30-0 vote, and the current roll was added as co-sponsors.
The chamber then took up the consent calendar and passed House Bill 1229, House Bill 1244, and Senate Bill 153. HB 1229, which concerns the human-animal bond as a social determinant of health, drew three no votes from Senators Pelton, Zamora Wilson, and Baeza; the other two measures passed unanimously. The Senate also laid over third reading of bills until Friday, April 10.
In Committee of the Whole, senators considered Senate Bill 72, which increases criminal penalties for assaultive conduct involving a motor vehicle and adds causing death with a motor vehicle to criminally negligent homicide. The committee adopted the report and advanced the bill on second reading. Later, the chamber laid over Senate Bill 134 and House Bill 1084 until April 10, and then took up Senate Bill 140, which would exempt certain rare disease and plasma therapies from review by the Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board. Sponsors and supporters argued the bill protects access for patients with rare diseases and prevents harm to treatment development, while opponents said it would weaken the PDAB’s affordability work and was too broad. Senators Weisman and Gonzales spoke against the bill, with Weisman citing concerns about the federal definition used and Gonzales defending the PDAB’s role in lowering drug costs; the debate continued in the transcript without a final vote shown.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- And ironically, just recently reached out to the Board of Accountancy to try to determine how I could
- have my experience verified for purposes of CPA licensure before I start the process, because you go
- I personally would like to see maybe something, say, the Board of Accountancy could potentially have
- The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of CPAs were hand
- And the Board of Accountancy has processes through which that can occur.
Committee:
House Business
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Lock the board and record to vote. Lock the board and record to vote. 36 yayes, zero nays, Mr.
- The board and senators will proceed to vote.
- Secretary will unlock the board. Senators will proceed to vote. Secretary will unlock the board.
- Secretary will unlock the board. Senators will proceed to vote. Secretary will unlock the board.
- But being a former school board member, I have to change my vote today because, as a school board member
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- And our board, Dr.
- Okay, the board is clear.
- The board is clear.
- And the board is clear.
- The board is clear.
Committee:
House Education
Summary:
The committee first heard HB 1079 by Rep. Boudreaux, which would allow charter schools to give enrollment preference to children who attended a licensed early learning center operated by the charter school or under an articulation agreement. An amendment expanded the preference to include children of active-duty military members, foster children, and children in court-ordered custody situations, and a second amendment clarified that the preference is permissive. Supporters said the bill would improve continuity from preschool to kindergarten and encourage more early learning centers. The committee adopted the amendments and reported HB 1079 as amended.
The committee then took up HB 737 by Vice Chair Amedee, which would remove the state requirement that students show proof of meningococcal vaccination for school or post-secondary entry. The author argued the bill aligns state law with updated CDC guidance and preserves parental choice and physician consultation, while opponents, including pediatricians, public health advocates, and meningitis survivors, warned that removing the requirement would lower vaccination rates and increase the risk of severe illness or death. After extensive testimony and questions, the committee voted 4-8 against the motion to report the bill, so HB 737 failed.
Next, the committee considered HB 628 by Rep. Landry, as substituted, to allow school boards and the Department of Education to work with licensed early learning centers to operate micro centers at schools, including dual licensing at one location. Supporters said it would expand access for three-year-olds, improve school readiness, and help families and the workforce. The substitute was adopted, and the bill was reported by substitute without objection.
Finally, the committee heard HB 1008 by Rep. Owen, which would prohibit public post-secondary institutions from retaliating against faculty for disclosing certain violations or exercising academic freedom and free speech. The author and a professor witness said the bill would protect open inquiry and reduce self-censorship in higher education. The committee adopted two amendments to clarify academic freedom and tighten remedies; the transcript cuts off before any final vote on the bill.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- It allows the Board of Nursing to assist in recruitment and retention of nurses.
- It provides a choice for single or multi-state licensure.
- The bill waives the initial licensure fee for New Mexico school nursing graduates to stay in the state
- This bill was endorsed by the New Mexico Medical Society, the New Mexico Board of Nursing, and the New
- Mexico Board of Education, New Mexico Anesthesiologists, the New Mexico Nursing Association and the
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 18, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Board of Nursing has done.
- So now, can the board It was cancer.
- </c> know who's going to be on that board know who's going to be on that board next<00:19:41.840><c>
- </c> disciplined by the board of medicine. disciplined by the board of medicine.
- So, I would board of medicine.
Committee:
House Labor, Health & Social Services
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Retirement and Government Resources 2ND REVISED Apr 7th, 2026
Retirement and Government Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- legal fellow for the 1889 Institute, which had helped a number of us on things like occupational licensure
- legal fellow for the 1889 Institute, which had helped a number of us on things like occupational licensure
- So I think part of that is a broader policy conversation about the number of boards and agencies that
- So in the description, on page 1, line 16 and 17, in the description of agency, it says agency, board
- description of agency, this is agency board commission department or other state government entities.
Committee:
Senate Retirement and Government Resources
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Retirement and Government Resources met with a quorum and first took up two executive nominations for Ben Lepak, one to serve as Secretary of State and one to serve in the governor’s cabinet. Lepak described the Secretary of State office’s work on business filings, recordkeeping, and initiative petitions, and said the office’s career staff handled those duties well. Senators asked about fairness in the initiative petition process and administrative rules; Lepak emphasized transparency and ministerial, nonpolitical administration. Both nominations advanced on 8-0 votes.
The committee then considered several House bills tied largely to government transparency and purchasing oversight. House Bill 3415 would require state entities to report contracts and subcontractors, include performance metrics, publicly post contracts and assessments, and document consultant outcomes; it passed 8-0 despite concerns about a $2 million fiscal impact and added OMES workload. House Bill 3414 would require OMES to identify whether contracts are service-based and create a digital warehouse for intangible assets; it passed 6-0. House Bill 3310 would authorize OMES payment-procedure rules, require invoice legitimacy checks and a 60-day payment window, and create compliance reporting with possible budget recommendations for noncompliance; it passed 7-0 after questions about appeals and penalties. House Bill 3413, requiring agencies to include more detail on contractors and consultants in annual budget submissions, also passed 7-0.
The committee also approved House Bill 2206, which moves new school resource officers into a law-enforcement retirement system rather than teacher retirement, with testimony that it would help recruit officers and would apply only to new hires; it passed 6-0. House Bill 3265, which expands who can make PTSD disability determinations for first responders to include psychologists and certain licensed mental health professionals, passed 7-0 after discussion of psychiatrist shortages and concerns about diagnostic standards. House Bill 4486, authorizing a Gold Star monument at the Capitol funded by private donations, passed 7-0. Finally, House Bill 1219, barring state agencies and schools from using state funds or resources to promote LGBTQ or Pride Month events or fly the Pride flag, generated extensive debate over its impact on outreach, public health, education, and LGBTQ Oklahomans; it passed 5-2 and the committee adjourned with notice of a larger agenda the following week.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 12/17/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:10:13.920><c> So</c><00:10:14.480><c> again,</c> prevent uh food board illness.
- So again, prevent uh food board illness.
- </c><00:38:23.680><c> Um</c><00:38:24.000><c> so</c> the Minnesota board uh on aging.
- Um so the Minnesota board uh on aging.
- ,</c> I don't know if it's across the board, I don't know if it's across the board, but<01:15:56.800>
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Special Session E May 29th, 2026
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- board while y'all was creating it.
- Secretary will unlock the board and the senators proceed to vote.
- The first being the annual licensure renewal fee.
- It permits the State Board of Education and the Board of Governors to amend submitted lists of general
- The Secretary will unlock the board, and senators proceed to vote.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- of uh registered state through a board of uh registered state builders.<00:04:28.639><c> Uh</c><00:04
- I assume you expect to be regulated by the Office of Professional Licensure, which every trade that's
- You know, the theory of licensure is: I give you a license so I can take it away.
- It is self-monitored through a code of ethics and a board of ethics, but they have some teeth behind
- </c><00:23:02.880><c> of</c><00:23:03.039><c> ethics,</c> and a board of ethics, and a board of ethics
Committee:
House Housing
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Everything should be across the board. And then what do we?
- Let's make all your SNAP funding, everything should be across the board.
- Across the board with fires, Across the board with fires and floods, what COVID has done, how people
- Across the board with fires, and feel the pain.
- So Rita's team sits on our J-Tip board, helping advise us around that.
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool, pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Children's Code, early childhood education and care department, ECECD, child care facilities, licensed child care, registered child care, copayments, waitlist, subsidy, federal poverty level
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Oct 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We oversee educator licensure.
- Small school boards everywhere.
- Chair and Secretary, what authority do school boards have beyond that? Mr.
- As a 24-year-old school board member, I just wanted to, Madam Chair, Mr.
- So I've been on the school board for 24 years. I've been through three governors.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 21, 2026 - 10:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- THANK YOU ALL FOR ALLOWING ME TO PRESENT PCS FOR HB 303 TRAFFICKING EDUCATION FOR INITIAL NURSE LICENSURE
- LEGISLATURE REQUIRING NURSES TO TAKE A TWO HOUR HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION COURSE AS A REQUIREMENT FOR LICENSURE
- REQUIRE AN INDIVIDUAL TO COMPLETE THE TWO HOUR COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR INITIAL LICENSURE
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- These penalties include denial of future application for licensure and an administrative fee not to exceed
- The program will be funded through engineering licensure fees and fines, and that is the bill, Mr.
- They would have to file a complaint with the Engineering Board of Engineers, and then they would have
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government heard and reported favorably several bills. CS/SB 800 would increase penalties for repeated unlicensed engineering practice and create an engineering student loan assistance program funded by licensure fees and fines; Senator Sharif asked about restitution for victims, and the sponsor said the bill does not create a reimbursement mechanism. CS/SB 576 would create a local government cybersecurity protection program administered by Florida Digital Service, with state purchasing support, grant access, and data-sharing requirements; local government and cybersecurity groups waived in support. CS/SB 1078 would establish transition procedures between gubernatorial administrations, including liaisons, briefing books, office space, IT access, and access to agency records under a signed confidentiality agreement.
The committee also reported favorably CS/SB 314 on payment stablecoin issuers, CS/SB 530 updating lottery operations and security rules, CS/SB 1614 giving JAC/LAC-related audit findings more enforcement effect for local governments seeking state funds, SB 990 authorizing protective cell captive insurance companies, SB 1588 beginning implementation of the prior gold-and-silver legal tender law, CS/SB 1440 adding cybersecurity-related exemptions and reporting provisions for financial institutions, and CS/SB 1568 creating a stablecoin pilot program for DFS fee payments. Several bills had support testimony from state agencies and industry groups, and some included technical or guardrail amendments that were adopted without objection.
The committee also received a budget overview highlighting major funding items, including more than $350 million for Florida Forever, $738 million for Everglades restoration, more than $500 million for water quality projects outside the Everglades, $60 million for Farmers Feeding Florida, and more than $250 million for citrus recovery. Members asked questions about school lunch funding, state park improvements, land acquisition, water quality funding, gaming enforcement offices, and staffing for PERC. After the bills and budget discussion, members recorded a few affirmative votes on selected tabs, and the committee adjourned.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- recommendations that jeopardize the lives of New Mexicans; whereas the Western New Mexico University Board
- Senate Bill 9, introduced by Senator Tobias and others, is an act relating to licensure, enacting the
- Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.