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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, June 27, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- disabled, and several lost their lives in the days to follow. completely partisan basis.
- disfigured, and many of them permanently disfigured, and many of them permanently disabled, disabled
- Meaning they got rid of a lot of our savings and they made certain tax cuts more permanent.
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They <02:35:14.560>extended tax cuts more permanent. - They extended tax cuts more permanent.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 21st, 2026
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- It also has two lower tables which represent the Early Care and Education Trust Fund and the Permanent
- The LFC recommendation has another $5 million in early Pre-K expansion, and that's from the Permanent
- However, every year the department does get an increased distribution from the Land Grant Permanent Fund
- fund, just as the Land Grant Permanent Fund, they don't have a lot of wiggle room.
- And so I know that $200 million is coming from the Permanent School Fund.
Bills:
SB2
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- Together, we made universal free school meals permanent.
- Supporting all students by amplifying best practices for students with disabilities and multilingual
- Commonwealth Cares for Children, which is exciting and made permanent by the Legislature in partnership
- They just, not, they're just, not, Our students with disabilities, multilingual students, high poverty
- These amazing facilities provide residents who are blind or print disabled with books in audio, large
Summary:
The hearing was a Joint Committee on Ways and Means budget session held in Lawrence focused on the governor’s proposed FY27 education and local aid budget, with remarks from legislative co-chairs, local officials, and education agency leaders. Acting Mayor Giovanni Rodriguez and Superintendent Ralph Carrero emphasized Lawrence’s high-need student population, the importance of Chapter 70 and Student Opportunity Act funding, and the impact of state aid on schools serving many English learners and low-income families. Carrero highlighted Lawrence High School programs such as early college, dual degrees, career pathways, and early childhood classrooms embedded in the high school, while lawmakers introduced themselves and noted the importance of the hearing to their districts.
Acting Secretary of Education Amy Kershaw, Commissioner of Higher Education Noi Ortega, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Pedro Martinez, and Commissioner of Early Education and Care Amy Kershaw outlined the administration’s FY27 priorities. They described investments in literacy initiatives, universal school meals, student mental health, early college and career pathways, higher education affordability, community college and university student-success supports, preschool expansion, child care subsidies, and workforce supports for early educators. The commissioners also discussed federal funding threats, equity gaps, and the administration’s efforts to improve outcomes for Black and brown students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and low-income students.
Members questioned the panel about the local contribution formula study, the final year of Student Opportunity Act implementation, and the need to revisit Chapter 70 funding to better address rising costs such as special education, transportation, and health care. Officials said the local contribution study report is expected by the end of June, with a draft to be shared after data analysis and public comment. Commissioner Martinez said the Student Opportunity Act narrowed funding gaps but more work is needed, and he pointed to a proposed Accelerating Achievement Initiative to support the highest-need schools. Senator Oliveira also raised concerns about Chapter 70 disparities and asked about partnerships with libraries to support literacy, prompting discussion of broader early literacy collaboration.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
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health. - Chair members, the next article is Article 6, the Aging and Disability Services article, which begins
- is Article 6, the Aging and Disability is Article 6, the Aging and Disability Services<00:18:14.640
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disqualification, it's not a permanent disqualification, it's not a permanent
Keywords:
housing aid, local housing trust, funding projects, income provisions, technical changes, human services, medical assistance, Medicaid, provider enrollment, provider revalidation, fraud prevention, program integrity, background study, background check, fingerprinting, licensing, license revocation, payment withholding, payment suspension, prepayment review
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Health Jun 21st, 2026 at 09:00 am
Joint Committee on Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- disabled.
- on lived experience and disability expertise.
- This bill creates a more permanent, structured recourse for feedback from consumers and disability advocates
- I had experienced a lot of issues related to my disabilities.
- I had experienced a lot of issues related to my disabilities.
Summary:
The committee opened by explaining hearing procedures and time limits, then heard testimony on House 2499, a bill to create a public awareness campaign on menopause and related midlife health issues. Supporters, including a nurse, the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, and other advocates, said menopause is widely misunderstood by patients and providers, leading to delayed care, unnecessary suffering, workplace impacts, and inequities in women’s health. Several speakers shared personal experiences with symptoms being dismissed or misdiagnosed and urged the committee to advance the bill.
The committee then took testimony on a package of endometriosis bills, including House 2527 and Senate 1564, calling for a task force and broader awareness efforts. Patients, a physician, and advocates described long diagnostic delays, severe pain, infertility, medical gaslighting, and limited access to specialists and effective treatment. They argued for more research, provider education, and a coordinated state strategy, and several asked for favorable reports. The chair also noted the hearing was running behind and extended time to allow more testimony.
Later, the committee heard Senate 1579, which would eliminate parental consent and judicial bypass requirements for abortion access for minors under 16. Planned Parenthood representatives, physicians, legal advocates, and students argued the current law creates unnecessary delays and harms vulnerable youth, especially those in unsafe homes or foster care, while supporters said minors can already consent to other reproductive health care. A pro-life witness opposed the bill and emphasized parental involvement and support services. The committee also heard House 2403 and Senate 1560, which would create a Human Service Transportation Consumer Advisory Board; disability advocates and riders described past safety problems and current service gaps, and supported the board as a low-cost way to improve accountability, rider input, and reliability. No votes or final actions were taken in the excerpt.
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Higher Education - 04/21/2026
Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill authorizes certain SUNY and CUNY campuses to provide pool and health membership to disabled
- there is a problem, ongoing problems, them running short, is there a way we can address that on a permanent
Summary:
The New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education met on April 21, 2026, with a quorum present and considered nine bills. The committee advanced bills addressing licensing discrepancies for junior and assistant landscape architects (S.1834A), SUNY/CUNY research foundation financial reporting (S.6745), credits for volunteer firefighters and EMTs enrolled in SUNY or CUNY (S.7367), campus pool and health membership for disabled veterans (S.7784A), early licensure eligibility for dental residents in multi-year specialty programs (S.8401A), a 90-day grace period for certain social workers awaiting limited permits (S.9303), interior designer certification standards (S.9673), and a transfer of excess tuition reimbursement account funds to support proprietary vocational school oversight (S.9682). One bill, S.948 concerning occupational therapists, was held pending resolution with the State Education Department.
Members asked questions on several measures, including whether firefighter/EMT credits were tied to service rather than coursework, how the dental residency bill would work in practice, and the funding source and purpose of the proprietary school supervision account transfer. Support was noted for the interior designer bill from ASID, CIDQ, and IIDA, while most other bills had no listed support or opposition memos. The committee explained that the fund transfer bill would move up to $500,000 from a tuition reimbursement account balance above $2.5 million to help the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision address oversight needs.
All of the bills taken up and moved were reported out of committee, with some sent to the floor and others to the Finance Committee as indicated by the chair. Several were reported without recommendation from individual members. The meeting adjourned at 10:45 a.m.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 4/9/25
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
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- stay hotels, everywhere we can go to connect with our veterans to assist them in pursuing stable, permanent
- stay hotels, everywhere we can go to connect with our veterans to assist them in pursuing stable, permanent
- veterans to assist them in pursuing veterans to assist them in pursuing stable,<00:26:33.200>
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decent stable, permanent, decent stable, permanent, decent housing.<00:26: - I do not quite know for a fact, but I do believe I am the only combat-disabled veteran in this committee
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jun 27th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, and I'm joined at the table today by Jennifer Rodriguez, the director of the Developmental Disability
- Um, another really great success in, in New Mexico with the Developmental Disability Supports Division
- I am the legal director with Disability Rights New Mexico.
- We are a nonprofit legal rights agency that advocates for people with disabilities.
- Disability Rights New Mexico in 2022 sued the state corrections department um and and then.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security Feb 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- WE ARE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS.
- BRING THOSE FOLKS INTO THE STATE AS WE ENCOURAGED RETIRED AND RECENTLY SEPARATED TO MAKE FLORIDA PERMANENT
- COMMON BARRIERS FACED BY VETERANS INCLUDE HAVING A DISABILITY CARE ASSISTANCE, TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
- OFTEN THEY ARE DISABLED VETERANS AND UNDERSTAND UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF TRANSITIONING FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN
- BOARD REPORTS THROUGH THE GET THERE FASTER GRANTS PROGRAM 10 PERCENT WERE HOMELESS, 41 PERCENT WERE DISABLED
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas coast. investments from Steel Dynamics, a 1.9 billion dollar steel factory in Sinton with a permanent
- But more importantly, they've provided more than 10,000 hours peer-to-peer counseling for combat disabled
- Michael also volunteered as unit chaplain. for disabled American veterans leaving a legacy through her
- HB 2807 by Rose relating to the statewide intellectual and developmental disability coordinating council
- Disabilities at public and private institutions of higher education for the committee of higher education
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 7032, a bill to be entitled an act relating to Medicaid enrollment for permanently disabled
- year when their disabilities are certified to be permanent in nature and their conditions have not changed
- There are almost 21,000 individuals with disabilities on the APD wait list, the pre-enrollment list,
- The intellectual and developmental disability managed care pilot program, also known as the IDD pilot
- And then the Agency for Persons with Disabilities reverts that money back to us and says, oh, I'm sorry
Summary:
The Senate began with opening prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness, and a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. The chamber also observed a moment of silence for former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. After routine business, the Senate took up several special-order bills.
The first major bill, transportation offenses involving death, increased penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide offenses. An amendment added penalties for refusal to submit to breath or urine testing and required law enforcement to notify suspects of those penalties. The bill passed 37-0. The Senate then passed SB 306 on Medicaid providers, requiring broader after-hours and holiday access to care and setting network standards for Medicaid managed care plans, also by a 37-0 vote.
The chamber next considered a major condominium and cooperative associations bill responding to post-Surfside safety and financial concerns. Senators described the measure as balancing building safety with financial relief, extending reserve-study deadlines, allowing temporary reserve relief after inspections, tightening oversight of managers and inspectors, and adjusting voting, resale, and reserve rules. After extensive debate and praise from members for the bill’s sponsors and staff, the bill passed 37-0.
The longest discussion centered on a constitutional amendments/petition process bill aimed at curbing fraud in citizen initiative petitions. Sponsors argued that the 2024 petition process was plagued by fraud and identity theft and proposed tighter rules for circulators, faster submission deadlines, voter notification, penalties, and limits on petition handling. Senators offered and adopted multiple amendments, including changes to petition-circulator definitions, invalid-signature thresholds, and voter notification procedures. After a substitute amendment was withdrawn, the Senate continued debating the underlying amended bill, with members split between concerns about election integrity and worries that the bill would burden volunteers and make it harder for citizen initiatives to qualify.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- The value is in the potential for a permanent data sharing structure that we're looking at, that goes
- Mers B. is Executive Director for the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
- We have the HAAI State Council on Developmental Disabilities in support.
- Dan Shart is executive director for the Whitei State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
- for example um severe disability for example um severe disability<02:02:28.760>
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- so I have experience with disability so I have experience with disability services<00:04:11.400>
- with disabilities I support. with disabilities I support.
- . disabilities.
- other reductions to disability grants. other reductions to disability grants.
- people have disabilities, there's must. people have disabilities, there's must.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (02/03/2025)
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are children or people with disabilities are children or people with disabilities - , they can get granted Advantage, and as they're working their way through getting a more permanent disability
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I permanent disability so we've seen I permanent disability so we've seen - Does that hold true for the under-65 with disabilities too?
- It could be because of a physical disability; it could be a learning disability.
Summary:
The House Finance Division III held an informational hearing on Medicaid, Medicare, Choices for Independence, and related financing, while postponing nursing facility financing and the county cap discussion to a later date. DHHS officials Ann Landry, Jonathan Ballard, and Medicaid Director Henry Litman provided an overview of Medicaid’s role, noting it is a federal-state partnership with state-specific eligibility and benefits, and emphasizing that Medicaid is a major funding and programmatic support for other DHHS initiatives. They also distinguished Medicaid from Medicare and explained that Medicaid funding is not the same as grant funding, though some providers may also receive federal grants through other channels.
The presentation focused on New Hampshire’s relatively small Medicaid program and why it differs from national averages. Officials said about 184,000 residents are covered, roughly one in seven Granite Staters compared with one in five nationally, and attributed the difference largely to the state’s higher per-capita income and older population. They highlighted that about 65% of Medicaid-enrolled adults in New Hampshire are working, that only 22% of births are covered by Medicaid versus 42% nationally, and that the state’s uninsured rate is lower than the national rate. Members asked about covered services, income limits, federal matching rates, and the names of optional eligibility groups; staff explained that New Hampshire offers the optional groups discussed, with matching rates varying by category, including 90% for Granite Advantage and certain other groups, and 65% for children above the required level.
A substantial portion of the hearing covered eligibility rules and recent policy changes. Officials reviewed the history of Medicaid, including HCBS waivers, the CFI program, Katie Beckett, the Olmstead decision, the ACA, and the end of continuous enrollment after the public health emergency. They also discussed the 2023 legislative expansion of postpartum coverage from 60 days to 12 months and child eligibility changes. In response to questions, DHHS said it is tracking utilization and costs for the postpartum expansion and reported that many maternal deaths occur after the prior 60-day coverage period, often involving substance use disorder or suicide; they said the longer coverage is intended to improve access to treatment and prevention. The committee also walked through household-income examples, clarified that Medicaid eligibility is based on household income and categorical rules, and confirmed that Granite Advantage ends at 138% of the federal poverty level unless another categorical basis applies. No votes were taken, and the hearing remained informational.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- He is a member of the Legislative Council, the Joint Transportation Committee, the Permanent Joint Legislative
- These accounts are designed to achieve a better life experience for individuals with disabilities.
- An ABLE account is a savings account or investment option for people with disabilities who qualify under
- The money in an ABLE account may be used to pay for qualified disability expenses.
- So when I go to the left under adoptions for permanent custody, that's for a child who is going through
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Children and Family Law (01/21/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- and well-being of safety permanency and well-being of child<00:38:51.720>
victims <00:38:52.720 - A big one that comes out, though, is any amounts getting paid for VA benefits or VA disability.
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so for VA uh benefits or VA disability so for VA uh benefits or VA disability - <03:39:05.279>
and someone's got a 25% VA disability and someone's got a 25% VA disability - <03:47:21.199>
pay they they they took the disability pay they they they took the disability
Summary:
The meeting began with committee process reminders from the chair, including rules for questioning witnesses, time limits for testimony, and how motions and committee reports are handled. The chair also discussed the committee’s history, emphasized a cooperative approach with agencies and the Judiciary, and noted that a special committee on the Family Division of Circuit Court had previously done useful work; he said a new subcommittee could be appointed later to continue looking at judicial-system issues. He also mentioned that the Speaker’s office was expected to name members to the DHHS oversight committee by Friday at 1.
The substantive presentation was from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Bureau of Child Support Services. Attorney John Williams introduced the bureau team, and Bureau Chief Lisa Dekowski described the program’s mission: encouraging responsible parenting, family self-sufficiency, and child well-being by locating parents, establishing paternity, setting or modifying support orders, and enforcing court-ordered child and medical support. She said the bureau operates statewide under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, works with courts, employers, and other partners, and serves both in-state and out-of-state cases, with some international and tribal coordination. She also cited program scale, saying the bureau dispersed about $76 million to families in New Hampshire in fiscal year 2023 and that most collections go directly to families.
Members asked about enforcement tools, especially passport denial. In response to a question about a case involving a very small shortfall, the bureau said the federal passport-denial threshold is $2,500 in arrears, not a few cents, and that denial remains in place until the balance is resolved or an arrangement is made with the agency, with hardship factors potentially considered. The bureau also explained that either parent can apply for services when a child support order exists and that the bureau can help initiate income withholding orders. No votes or formal actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee, May 4, 2026 - PM
Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- The other thing is that if you are, you know, become permanently totally disabled when you’re 22 years
- And so you have to pay permanent total disability for 60 years.
- if you are, you know, become permanently if you are, you know, become permanently totally<03:31:
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total you have to pay permanent total you have to pay permanent total disability - >
or long-term disability um or long-term disability um or it's<03:32:41.600>not <03:32
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (01/23/2025)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
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- and total disability,” and somehow that language got dropped.
- It uses the language “permanent and total disability,” and somehow that language got dropped.
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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, July 14, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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a < - Instead, CISRIC must become a permanent fixture at the FCC.
- So, HR permanent fixture at the FCC.
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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee May 14th, 2025
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- committee omnibus bill includes several relevant policies. programs are administered by the CPUC benefit disabled
- Each year California permanently houses roughly 5,000 people with various state-funded programs like
- deciding Plyler our highest court rejected a state government's bald-faced efforts to create a permanently