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AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- And please move my committee amendment. Mr. Chairman, I move that the amendment of the A.I.
- Chairman, again, I move that my floor amendment to the A.I. Committee amendment be adopted.
- Any comment on the amendment? This is just making some conforming changes. It's a good amendment.
- HB 2785 be do pass as amended.
- They prepared no amendments.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules Jan 20th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, and that's why I think the substantially conform language is important.
- It has to be something that caused it to substantially not conform, one.
- If the application A conforming application or B, submit a new LOI.
- It's completely dependent on what are the guidelines for substantially conform.
- Substantial conforms are in there.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota is a static date conformity state.
- </c><01:18:53.520><c> with</c> tax logs will be out of Conformity with tax logs will be out of Conformity
- </c> uh Minnesota is a static date Conformity uh Minnesota is a static date Conformity State<01:18:59.440
- I'll begin with how Minnesota conformed to the TCJA.
- , choose to fully conform to all enacted federal tax laws, or conform and decouple from provisions we
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House health committee OKs omnibus finance bill that complies with Medicaid changes Apr 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This is also part of federal conformity. conformity. conformity.
- </c> federal conformity. federal conformity.
- I appreciate the effort, but this amendment is not simple at all. It disregards federal conformity.
- </c> particular amendment. particular amendment.
- I'm not aware of any more amendments, so I renew the motion to adopt the DE1 amendment as amended.
Summary:
The committee took up House File 4466, the sub health supplemental budget bill, and moved it to the Ways and Means Committee after a walkthrough of the fiscal spreadsheet and the DE1 amendment. Nonpartisan staff explained that the bill produces general fund savings of about $2.4 million in FY27 for the 2026-27 biennium and about $97.7 million in the next biennium, with most savings tied to HR1-related Medical Assistance changes affecting adults without children. The Department of Health provisions were described as largely cost-neutral, with some increases for implementation, data, and IT work.
Staff then reviewed the DE1, which combines several bills into four articles. The bill includes health licensing board changes, Department of Health provisions such as all-payer claims database fees, newborn screening fee exceptions, loan forgiveness and scholarship program extensions, workforce shortage grant changes, and reciprocal licensure and mortuary science provisions. The federal conformity article makes changes related to MA work and community engagement requirements, six-month renewals, retroactive eligibility limits, contact information updates, cost sharing for MA expansion enrollees, and related provider tax and disability-notice provisions. Article 4 and Article 5 were described as forecast adjustments for DHS and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families.
Public testimony focused largely on the federal conformity and eligibility provisions. Legal aid testified that the work requirements and retroactive eligibility changes would be confusing, could expand requirements beyond intended groups, and would increase uncompensated care. The Minnesota Hospital Association said shortening retroactive eligibility would increase uncompensated care and strain hospital finances, and Unidos Minnesota criticized the immigrant eligibility changes as harmful to lawfully present immigrants and Native communities. Blood Cancer United supported the all-payer claims database provisions and urged attention to fertility coverage. Representative Elkins offered an amendment to add $55,000 for the Department of Health to include denied-claims data in the all-payer claims database; Department of Health staff said the idea was useful and provided a one-time setup cost, but the amendment was not acted on in the portion of the transcript provided.
MN
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-05-12 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Other amendments? On the desk, Mr. President. Read the first amendment.
- Read the first amendment. Amendment Barcode 446536 by Senator Brodeur.
- Read the first amendment. Amendment barcode 446536 by Senator Broder.
- As mentioned, this is the House conforming bill for DMS, and this amendment deletes everything and inserts
- As mentioned, this is the House conforming bill for DMS, and this amendment deletes everything and inserts
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee (9-9-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- reference for compliance with recent legislation. 704 KAR 4:010 is being amended to conform to current
- for physical education. 808 KAR 8:080 is being amended to conform to statutory changes and incorporate
- to conform to 8030 is being amended to conform to current<00:18:59.919><c> statutory</c><00:19:00.400
- </c> being amended to conform to current being amended to conform to current statutory<00:19:08.240><
- to conform to 8080 is being amended to conform to statutory<00:19:16.240><c> changes</c><00:19:16.720
Keywords:
:54 – Board of Pharmacy
2:00 – Board of Social Work
3:44 – Board of Licensure for Occupational Therapy
4:43 – Board of Registration for Professional Geologists
7:27 – Board of Imaging and Radiation Therapy
8:33 – Board of Emergency Medical Services
10:38 – Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources
17:37 – Transportation Cabinet
18:37 – Department of Education
25:00 – Department of Workplace Standards
27:06 – Cabinet for Health & Family Services, 958, all
Summary:
The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee met with a quorum, approved the minutes, and then reviewed a series of agency regulations, most of which had staff-suggested amendments. The Board of Pharmacy regulation on remote prescription processing was amended to make grammatical and KRS Chapter 13A compliance corrections, and the Board of Social Work regulation on continuing education, telehealth training, waivers, and related fees was deferred at the agency’s request. The Occupational Therapy Compact rule update and the Professional Geologists fee increase regulation both received staff amendments and were approved, with the geologists’ board explaining the increases were driven by rising oversight costs and declining revenue.
The committee also reviewed emergency regulations from the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, the Board of Emergency Medical Services, the Transportation Cabinet, and the Department of Workplace Standards. The EMS package covered licensing classifications, compliance audits, ambulance service rules, and electronic forms; the Transportation Cabinet’s emergency rule established procedures for street-legal special purpose vehicles; and Workplace Standards’ emergency rules updated Kentucky requirements to align with federal standards and House Bill 398, including shortening the discrimination complaint filing deadline from 120 days to 30 days and adjusting appeal procedures. Staff amendments were approved where offered, and members asked several clarifying questions about the rationale and effect of the workplace and EMS changes.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources explained rules on aircraft and drone use in taking wildlife and on reciprocal hunting and fishing agreements with neighboring states. The agency said the drone restriction was intended to align with federal law and address hunter complaints, while the reciprocal agreement rule was a cleanup of older agreements that had lapsed or been overlooked; the committee deferred the wildlife regulation 301 KAR 2:031 at the agency’s request. The Department of Education also presented multiple KHSAA-related and standards updates, including academic eligibility, sports timing, health and physical education standards, and career studies/financial literacy standards; staff amendments were approved, and members questioned the athletic forms and the designation of KHSAA as the state’s athletic agent. Finally, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services presented emergency regulations to support a pediatric teaching hospital expansion and related certificate-of-need changes, which the agency said were aimed at improving pediatric and neonatal access to care; staff amendments were approved, and the committee concluded by setting its next meeting for October 13 at 1:00 p.m.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Judiciary Committee Meeting - 2026-04-14
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> need 65 in this in for this conformity. need 65 in this in for this conformity.
- </c> conformity. There's lots of challenges. conformity. There's lots of challenges.
- </c> And I believe there's an amendment. And I believe there's an amendment.
- amendment? amendment?
- </c> House File 4478 as amended? House File 4478 as amended?
Keywords:
foster care, ombudsperson, investigative powers, children's rights, complaint process, HF4428, Medical Assistance, Medicaid, community engagement, work requirement, work mandate, employment requirement, community service, 80 hours, half-time student, income threshold, federal minimum wage, eligibility verification, benefit suspension, benefit termination
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/15/26
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> as amended. as amended.
- . conformity. conformity.
- This is also part of federal conformity. conformity. conformity.
- Um, I appreciate the effort, but it's not a simple amendment. It disregards federal conformity.
- Um, I appreciate the effort, but it's not a simple amendment. It disregards federal conformity.
Keywords:
HF4401, Minnesota Medical Assistance, dental reimbursement, dental rates, critical access dental providers, Medicaid dental, MinnesotaCare, managed care plans, county-based purchasing plans, fee-for-service, oral health access, safety-net clinics, federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, Indian health services, state-operated dental clinics, low-income patients, children's dental care, provider reimbursement, dental access
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 01/27/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Westlin, I believe you might have an author's amendment, the A2 amendment.
- Senator Westlin, I believe you might have an author's amendment, the A2 amendment. Correct?
- I do have the A2 amendment.
- The amendment carries.
- </c><00:02:56.360><c> or</c><00:02:56.519><c> is</c> amendments uh on the A2 Amendment or is amendments
MS
Transcript Highlights:
- I do intend on having a floor amendment.
- </c> those in favor of the amendment say I. those in favor of the amendment say I.
- Smog to speak on the<00:18:18.160><c> amendment.</c> the amendment. the amendment.
- </c> move for adoption of the amendment. move for adoption of the amendment.
- </c> comments on the amendment? All right. comments on the amendment? All right.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on H.F. 4188 - Omnibus Commerce and Consumer Protection - Part 1 - 05/13/26
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Um section 50 makes a conforming Um section 50 makes a conforming conforming<00:04:11.160><c> change
- </c> amendment. Further discussion? amendment. Further discussion?
- </c> support of the Kegel amendment. support of the Kegel amendment.
- </c><00:10:46.600><c> All</c> amendment. Any further discussion? All amendment.
- Um, I think we have an amendment. I'm sorry. Amendment to that provision?
Summary:
The committee took up H.F. 4188, the Commerce and Consumer Protection Policy Omnibus, and moved through a series of agreed-upon motions to adopt various House and Senate language articles and sections. The adopted provisions covered a wide range of topics, including residential mortgage loan servicing standards, student loan borrower protections, rental home marketplace guarantees, group coverage cancellation, limited lines travel insurance, insurance lead generators, collection agency and credit services organization definitions, proof of identification requirements, scrap metal copper licensing, technical changes to ASTM references and report filings, securities-related provisions, unclaimed property issues involving virtual currency and funeral prepayment funds, repeal of the prescription drug affordability advisory council, reinsurance program changes, and health insurance reporting and oversight provisions. Most motions were adopted without opposition after brief staff explanations and member encouragements to vote yes.
In the health-related sections, the committee adopted language requiring insurers and nonprofit health service plan corporations to notify the Commissioner of Commerce about significant enrollment increases, expanding access to all-payer claims data for oversight, and requiring the sharing of PBM annual transparency reports with the Commissioner of Health. The committee also adopted language on artificial intelligence in utilization review, initially defining AI and prohibiting exclusive reliance on AI for adverse coverage determinations. Representative Elkins then offered an amendment to remove the specific AI definition and replace it with broader language referring to automated processing, arguing that technology-neutral drafting is more durable and that a human must remain in the loop for coverage denials; the amendment was adopted.
After the agreed-upon items were completed, members indicated the chairs would huddle to work on the remaining issues and return after recess. The meeting then recessed to the call of the chair.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, there's one amendment to Senate Bill 1215 that I'd be happy to explain. Mr.
- If the legislature does not conform or conforms with additional changes, ADR must then supplement the
- Those would have been conformed to.
- have not been conformed to because they're below the line.
- DOR always does assume conformity, so it's a good thing to put it into law to say, let's conform.
Keywords:
income tax, conformity, Arizona Revised Statutes, taxpayer, federal regulations, firefighters, occupational disease, workers compensation, cancer presumption, police officers, hazardous duty, SB1270, Arizona retirement system, public safety personnel, defined contribution plan, correctional officers, corrections officers, retirement contributions, supplemental contributions, retention incentive
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 4138, as amended, referred to engrossing. Excuse me, there was no amendment.
- Tax conformity, and I usually am for tax conformity. I'm not going to lie.
- House Bill 4141, amending laws 2024, Chapter 211, Section 6.
- House Bill 4142, amending Section 5572, A.R.S., as amended by laws 2024, repealing Section 5572, relating
- House Bill 4152, amending Sections 22 and 24, relating to taxation.
Summary:
The House convened, approved the journal, and spent much of the opening portion recognizing guests and interns from both parties, along with former lawmakers and a newly seated member, Representative Sylvia Allen. The chamber then took up House Concurrent Resolution 2065 honoring the late Alfredo Gutierrez. Members from both parties gave extended remarks about his life as a civil rights advocate, student activist, legislator, and mentor, and the resolution was unanimously adopted and transmitted to the Senate. Family members of Gutierrez were recognized in the gallery during the memorial tribute.
The House then moved into Committee of the Whole on the first budget-related measures. On House Bill 4138, the “feed bill”/budget operations measure, Democrats argued the budget favored corporations and data centers over seniors, health care, housing, universities, and vulnerable families, while Republicans defended it as a continuation of prior policy and said it preserved tax conformity and modest agency cuts. After debate and questions, the committee recommended the bill do pass and the House adopted that report, sending HB 4138 to engrossing.
The chamber next considered House Bill 4139, the amusement/gaming-related budget bill. Members debated whether it was essentially unchanged from last year’s budget language, with Republicans saying it was a continuation bill and that gaming-related provisions would support rural economies and tourism, while Democrats questioned the broader budget context and its effects on working families. The committee recommended HB 4139 do pass, and the House adopted that recommendation. The House then began debate on House Bill 4140, the state budget implementation bill, focusing on the budget stabilization fund and a proposed government efficiency initiative; discussion was still underway at the end of the transcript.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House lawmakers OK bill to bring Minnesota into compliance with 'One Big Beautiful Bill' 5/7/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:14:16.240><c> clerk</c> amendment to the amendment, the clerk amendment to the amendment, the
- So, members, all this amendment to the amendment does is tie the same trigger to any HR conformity employees
- So, members, all this amendment to the amendment does is tie the same trigger to any HR conformity employees
- . conformity. conformity.
- amendment to the amendment.
AZ
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1835, an act amending section 5572, as amended by Laws 2024, chapter 210, repealing section 5572,
- By fully conforming, this budget bill, fully conforming to H.R. 1, instead of choosing those portions
- House Bill 4142, amending Section 5-572, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by Laws 2024, Chapter 210
- House Bill 4145, an act amending Title 36, Chapter 249, Article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by amending
- House Bill 4147, an act amending Title 46, Chapter 2, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by amending
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, and several guest recognitions, including a student honored for a national Mandarin speech contest, a Ms. Black Arizona candidate, and a Madison Elementary School reusable-tray pilot program. The body also recognized interns and approved the prior journal. The chamber then moved through Committee of the Whole calendars and adopted committee reports recommending passage of a series of budget-related bills.
The main legislative business centered on the 2026-27 budget package and related omnibus measures, including appropriations, budget implementation, capital outlay, commerce, criminal justice, environment, health care, higher education, human services, K-12 education, state property, revenue/taxation, and transportation bills. Most of these measures were advanced with do-pass recommendations, with repeated debate focused on the tax omnibus and the overall budget’s policy choices. Supporters argued the package provided affordability, tax relief, conformity with federal tax changes, reduced government spending, and reforms to entitlement and other programs; opponents argued it favored corporations and wealthy taxpayers, cut health care, food assistance, housing, tourism, wildfire response, and education, and would forfeit federal matching funds.
Several members specifically criticized the failure to close the data center tax exemption and to raise sports betting taxes, while supporters defended those provisions as pro-business and pro-growth. There was also discussion of fund sweeps, including university research funds, housing trust funds, and other agency balances, with opponents saying the sweeps targeted encumbered or already-committed money. After debate, the Senate adopted Committee of the Whole reports and advanced the bills, and later took up House bills introduced and placed on third reading, with members explaining their votes on HB 4138, the General Appropriations Act, largely along party lines.
At the end of the session, the Senate processed messages from the House requesting the return of SB 1160 and SB 1786 for reconsideration, and the Senate requested the House return HB 2415 for reconsideration. The chamber also introduced and placed several House budget bills on third reading, including HB 4138 through HB 4153, continuing the budget process.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- It's not conformity. It should require a separate vote.
- In all those years, I've never filed an amended tax return.
- In all those years, I've never filed an amended tax return.
- What this bill does is conform...
- The governor has proposed half conformity. DOR has a form that shows full conformity.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- as amended, and SB 1630 do pass as amended.
- as amended, and SB 1630 do pass as amended.
- Hernandez amendment to the floor amendment to the Appropriations Committee amendment be adopted.
- amendment.
- amendment.
Summary:
The House convened, opened with prayer and the Pledge, approved the journal, and welcomed several guests in the gallery, including a high school student and an advocate connected to the domestic violence bill HB 2995. The chamber then moved through multiple Committee of the Whole calendars, first advancing HB 4155, HB 4156, and HB 4157, then HB 4164, HB 4165, and HB 4166, all with do-pass recommendations and no substantive amendments on those calendars. Later, the House also considered SB 1326, a victims’ rights measure, adopted a floor amendment, and reported it out as amended. The House corrected an earlier clerical error regarding HB 4155-4157 being referred to engrossing rather than third reading.
The House then took up a long series of final passage votes on Senate bills. SB 2174, SB 2611, SB 1011, SB 1012, SB 1016, SB 1018, SB 1038, SB 1039, SB 1040, SB 1053, SB 1055, SB 1057, SB 1060, SB 1061, SB 1068, SB 1069, SB 1075, SB 1100, SB 1113 on reconsideration, SB 1160, and SB 1170 all passed. SB 2873, SB 1004, SB 1009, SB 1042, SB 1043, SB 1049, SB 1093, and SB 1143 failed. SB 2995, the emergency family-law/domestic-violence bill known as the Alec and Lydia Act, passed with the required two-thirds vote after extensive debate; supporters said it would better protect children and clarify judicial standards, while opponents argued its definitions were overly broad and could harm families. SB 1018 on foreign laws also drew extended debate over Sharia law, with supporters framing it as a defense of American values and opponents calling it unnecessary and discriminatory.
Several votes included explanations focused on policy concerns. SB 1004 on sex-offender registration and monitoring drew debate over whether electronic monitoring is effective. SB 1040 on voter registration transparency prompted arguments over public access to voter rolls versus privacy and security. SB 1118 on municipal zoning and historical homes was debated as a property-rights and local-control issue, with supporters saying it could help preserve affordable housing and opponents warning it would override local decisions. The House also adopted motions to reconsider prior actions on SB 1043 and SB 1100, and it requested the Senate return SB 1552 for reconsideration. The session ended with the House still processing additional Committee of the Whole business, including HB 4158, HB 4159, HB 4160, HB 4161, HB 4162, and HB 4163, with HB 4162 and HB 4163 receiving floor amendments and do-pass recommendations.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> details the federal conformity details the federal conformity provisions<00:02:39.560><c> and</c
- Madam Chair, members, um, Article 1 of the delete everything amendment is the federal conformity article
- the um conformity and non-conformity items that are contained in the federal conformity article.
- </c> amendment is the federal conformity amendment is the federal conformity article<00:04:24.760><c>
- </c> in the federal conformity article. in the federal conformity article.