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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education May 13th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • been operating as if it wasn't required to approve the STC's acceptance or acquisition of land and facilities
  • the Coordinating Board's requirement to approve TSTC's acceptance or acquisition of any land. and facilities
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations Apr 3rd, 2025 at 08:30 am

Appropriations

Bills: SB2271, HB1216
Summary: The Appropriations Committee met with a quorum and took up three bills. House Bill 1216, dealing with prescription drug expense co-pay accumulators in health plans, was presented by Rep. Karen Carl’s, who explained it would prevent insurers from refusing to count third-party assistance toward deductibles for patients using high-cost, non-generic drugs. An amendment was offered to clarify effective dates, including a delayed January 1, 2026 start for PERS coverage. PERS testified that the amendment would align with its calendar-year benefit structure and likely reduce the fiscal note. The amendment was adopted 16-0, and the bill was set aside for further discussion later. House Bill 1199, creating a criminal justice data-sharing system and missing persons/missing Indigenous people task force, was introduced with a committee amendment changing the Attorney General reference to the Attorney General or designee. The committee noted the bill includes a $250,000 general fund appropriation for ongoing costs. The amendment passed 16-0, and the amended bill received a do pass recommendation by a 15-1 vote, with one no vote from Senator Magrum. House Bill 1531, appropriating $75,000 for an irrigation expansion study by the Agriculture Commissioner, was supported as a way to update older economic-impact studies on irrigation and assess opportunities for expansion. Members discussed its relationship to broader study pauses and the history of irrigation development in the state, including Garrison Diversion and remaining authorized acres. The bill passed 16-0. The committee then discussed scheduling for the coming week, noting a heavy bill load and plans for daily morning meetings before adjourning.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/10/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • The existing roadway is a high-speed rural roadway with limited trail facilities. city of Sock Rapids
  • with limited high-speed rural roadway with limited trail<00:02:24.640><c> uh</c><00:02:24.840><c> facilities
  • </c><00:48:41.520><c> which</c><00:48:41.680><c> have</c> major athletic facilities which have major
  • athletic facilities which have been<00:48:41.920><c> in</c><00:48:42.079><c> the</c><00:48:42.240><c>
  • </c><01:14:15.120><c> and</c> amazed to hear uh tour the facility and amazed to hear uh tour the facility
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26 - Part 2

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I'm thoroughly familiar with the business of getting medical records from medical facilities. minutes
  • </c> medical records from medical facilities. medical records from medical facilities.
  • They wanted $18,580 to get my client's records from one facility. He had seen 10 facilities.
  • </c><00:29:33.840><c> where</c><00:29:34.080><c> they</c> offsite in rented facilities where they offsite
  • in rented facilities where they have<00:29:34.559><c> to</c><00:29:34.720><c> maintain</c><00:29:35.120
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26 - Part 1

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • rather than restricting facilities.
  • rather than restricting facilities.
  • </c><00:14:09.760><c> rather</c> there are adequate facilities rather there are adequate facilities rather
  • than<00:14:10.480><c> restricting</c><00:14:11.120><c> facilities.
  • But we do than restricting facilities.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Apr 15th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • And diminishing the need for board meetings to be conducted outside of a CAC facility.
  • When creating new assisted living facilities or seeking to modify an existing structure.
  • The construction and request one final survey of their completed facility.
  • As you know, HHSC is charged with inspecting nursing facilities and other providers.
  • And so it really discourages facilities, our members to take the time to challenge one.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 15th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, what does it take to shut down a facility?
  • We wanted a more intimate setting than a large facility.
  • So, what does it take to shut down a facility?
  • and must comply with the regulations as an assisted living facility. ...living facility by going through
  • Medicaid does not cover these facilities.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 15th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • These facilities are regulated by both the federal government, CMS, and the state government.
  • Touchstone manages or operates 34 skilled nursing facilities, all in the state of Texas.
  • HHSC is charged with inspecting nursing facilities and other providers.
  • On this new journey of going here, that you're seeing you can help them and other facilities.
  • If MPRO has a finding and rules in favor of the facility, that's a state law claim that they have.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/26/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • nor would it apply to persons living in community reentry centers or certified behavioral health facilities
  • hearing in the House, and so we made some changes on the floor, which grandfathered in existing facilities
  • just ghosted us, but we were told that this is what was needed, that there were a lot of these facilities
  • If you're looking at barf homes, which is the way it's written, these are 90-day facilities, just like
  • If you're looking at barf homes, which is the way it's written, these are 90-day facilities, just like
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/04/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • You know, I've worked in almost every rural facility as an RN in the operating room in the state of Arizona
  • I think that I work in a level one trauma facility; you see a lot of things, but when you're in rural
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Feb 12th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • practice of depositing maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor-owned correctional facilities
  • health care services to inmates in a secure unit within the community health care provider's medical facility
  • ; two, within a correctional institution or facility; or three, by telehealth.
Bills: S0760, S1012, S1536, S1582, S1792
Summary: The Criminal and Civil Justice Committee met with a quorum present and began with a notice that the committee would not present its budget that day, explaining that the budget rollout would be coordinated with House partners and Senate notice requirements, with the next opportunity expected the following week. The committee then moved to legislation, starting with CS for SB 760 by Senator McLean, the Victim Safety and Pre-Trial Release Act, which would address willful violations of court-ordered no-contact conditions for defendants on pretrial release for serious violent crimes. The bill had support from the Florida Sheriffs Association, received no debate, and was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee next considered SB 1536 by Senator Pizzo on digital voyeurism, described as expanding the reasonable expectation of privacy to include a privately fenced yard. The transcript shows the chair moved on before questions or a vote were taken on that bill. The committee then took up CS for SB 102 by Senator Yarbrough on inmate services, first adopting a leave-filed amendment that revised provisions on inmate welfare trust funds, Medicaid supplemental reimbursement participation, emergency transport reimbursement, and negotiated rates for certain community health care providers, including telehealth and secure-unit care. Justin Senior of the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida testified in information, saying the amendment was a major positive move, and the amended bill was then reported favorably. At the end of the meeting, the chair noted that two agenda items were being temporarily postponed: CS for SB 1582 on statewide data sharing of secondhand dealer and pawnbroker transactions and SB 1792 on public records for pawnbroker transactions. No further business was raised, and the committee adjourned after a motion by Senator Simon.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • 58.799><c> that</c><00:01:59.040><c> have</c><00:01:59.200><c> underground</c><00:01:59.680><c> facilities
  • </c> owners that have underground facilities owners that have underground facilities in<00:02:00.399>
  • in your area will come and mark in that in your area will come and mark those<00:02:02.399><c> facilities
  • So over time uh you those facilities.
  • </c><00:05:18.560><c> placed</c> to protect any utility facilities placed to protect any utility facilities
Bills: SB95, HB322, SB95, HB322
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU-WLA, EDU Public Hearings 02-13-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • But, um, these facility use procedures, um, we have rules for it and you know how much they can charge
  • But, um, these facility use procedures, um, we have rules for it and you know how much they can charge
  • But, um, these facility use procedures, um, we have rules for it and you know how much they can charge
  • But um<00:16:30.399><c> these</c><00:16:30.880><c> facility</c><00:16:31.360><c> use</c><00:16:32.240
  • um um these facility use um procedures um we<00:16:33.759><c> have</c><00:16:33.839><c> rules</c><00
Bills: SB2613, SB2147
Summary: The committee heard SB 2613, a cleanup bill relating to public school land transfers under Act 307 (2022), which revises tax map key references and the conveyance process for properties transferred to the Department of Education. The Hawaii State Public Library System supported the measure, saying it would complete the long-unfinished separation of the library system from DOE property control and make future building projects more efficient and cost-effective. DOE also supported the bill and requested an amendment to remove TMK 43-62 parcel 10, the Wilcox Elementary School parcel, so that it could instead be transferred to the county for use with the adjacent park and tennis courts. Members focused heavily on why land transfers and construction approvals have been slow, especially the need for right-of-entry documents and an MOA for a library construction project. Library and DOE witnesses said the delays stemmed from site-control issues and confusion over property status, and that the bill would clarify which parcels are transferred by operation of law and remove the need for additional transactional documents in many cases. Several members questioned whether the bill actually changes authority or simply clarifies existing practice, and DOE said it wanted legislative clarity so the transfers are unmistakably effective on a date certain. The committee also discussed a separate section of the bill dealing with public use of school facilities after hours, including parking fees on property under DOE jurisdiction. DOE explained that any parking charges would apply only to property it controls, not county roads, and that fees are set through existing facility-use procedures. Members raised concerns about the pace of land transfers generally and urged DOE to move more expeditiously on pending parcels. The hearing then moved on to SB 2147, which would designate the first Friday in February as Love My Library Day; the library system testified in support as the committee began that measure.