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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 2nd, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman Bell, relating to the conducting of certain contested case hearings under the Texas Workers' Compensation
  • I'm here to help you today to index the benefits available in the Texas Unemployment Compensation Program
  • in part to the fact that this bill concentrates its time and effort on the regular unemployment compensation
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - Senate Public Safety

Public Safety

Summary: The Committee on Public Safety approved the minutes from March 18, 2026, then heard and voted on several bills. HB 4018, which clarifies that a county sheriff has exclusive authority to regulate posse and reserve organizations acting under the sheriff’s authority, passed on a 5-1 vote after supporters said it simply codifies existing authority and improves accountability; one member opposed it as giving too much unchecked power. HB 2417, allowing certain drivers to use a court-ordered speed-inhibiting device instead of a license suspension for specified offenses, passed 6-1, with supporters calling it an optional safety measure and opponents raising cost, privacy, and enforcement concerns. HB 2771, allowing ADCRR to require prisoners to pay reasonable rehabilitation-program costs as a condition of community supervision, passed 5-2, and HB 2772, creating a driver’s-license medical indicator for advance directives such as a DNR, passed unanimously after discussion about implementation, renewal, and cost to applicants. The committee also approved HCR 259, a resolution reaffirming support for county sheriffs and recognizing their constitutional role, on a 4-3 vote. HB 2418, which appropriates $600,000 to be distributed evenly among the five original major incident regional law enforcement task forces in Cochise, Coconino, Navajo, Pinal, and Yuma counties, passed unanimously; testimony said the bill codifies a distribution practice that has already been followed administratively. Finally, HB 2170, the Protection Procurement Act, which bars state contracts for certain Chinese government-controlled companies unless no reasonable alternative exists and imposes penalties for false certification, passed 4-3 after proponents argued it protects Arizona from security and supply-chain risks. The meeting ended with thanks to staff and pages and adjournment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • fully funded judiciary and providing a path for addressing the inflation that has left judicial compensation
  • Thank you, Senator Huffman. compensation that will help the value loss to inflation.
  • For this reason, we ask that the committee consider providing reasonable compensation for judges without
Bills: SB260, SB263, SB293, SJR18
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • entirety of the workers' compensation entirety of the workers' compensation practices<00:29:49.520
  • The speaker said this only applies to the payments of workers’ compensation, and that is how they ended
  • The speaker said workers’ compensation is always going to be a contentious fight.
  • <00:48:36.840> and<00:48:37.680> there's about workers' compensation and there's about
  • workers' compensation and there's some<00:48:37.920> back<00:48:38.160> and<00:48:38.280
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Transportation Finance and Policy

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  • I think any study of the trooper compensation should also give us a detailed breakdown of overtime pay
  • /c><00:28:23.600> trooper think any study of the trooper think any study of the trooper compensation
  • 28:25.039> also<00:28:25.360> give<00:28:25.600> us<00:28:25.760> a compensation
  • should also give us a compensation should also give us a detailed<00:28:26.320> breakdown<00:
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Thu Feb 26, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Moving on to HB 1514 HD1, relating to workers' compensation.
  • relating to workers compensation relating to workers compensation prohibits<00:19:38.080> healthcare
  • drugs for workers compensation patients. drugs for workers compensation patients.
  • Moving on to HB 1515 HD1 relating to workers' compensation.
  • Moving on to HB 1514 HD1 relating to workers' compensation.
Summary: The committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on February 26, 2026, and heard several bills, mostly in the areas of workers’ compensation and consumer protection. HB 1946 HD1 on timeshare registration renewal drew support from DCCA’s timeshare program and major industry groups including Hilton Grand Vacations, the American Resort Development Association, and Marriott Vacations Worldwide, with no opposition noted. HB 1515 HD1, which would allow an attending physician to request a functional capacity examination without employer permission, was supported by DLIR and the Department of Human Resources Development and had no other in-person testimony; the bill was then moved on without questions. The committee spent substantial time on HB 1514 HD1, which would streamline workers’ compensation vocational rehabilitation by clarifying provider selection and requiring vocational plans within 90 days. DLIR supported the intent but asked for amendments, saying the 90-day deadline was too rigid given case-by-case complexity, limited staffing, and the need for coordination among injured workers, employers, and counselors; members discussed possible extensions and whether a 120-day timeline or other flexibility would be better. Testimony on the bill included one individual in support and seven in opposition. HB 1648 HD1, concerning workers’ compensation and physician dispensing of non-prescription drugs, drew support from DHRD and comments from DLIR and industry witnesses. DLIR said the bill should be narrowed so it does not restrict medically necessary over-the-counter medications or oral guidance from providers, while Aloha Billing Company and Solera Integrated Medical Solutions urged tighter limits on physician dispensing and raised concerns about pricing abuse through average wholesale price. Members discussed clarifying the bill’s language so it targets written prescriptions rather than oral advice. HB 1644 HD1, requiring a standardized disclosure form for residential solar contracts, received support from the Hawaii Solar Energy Association and Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative, while DCCA’s Office of Consumer Protection supported the consumer-protection goal but proposed stronger remedies, including a three-day cancellation right, voidability for missing disclosures, and possible lender liability; members questioned how those remedies should apply to lenders, and no vote was taken on the measures in the portion provided.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Civil Judiciary Feb 12th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Civil Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • provision: the measure allows a person prohibited from recording a meeting to bring civil suit for monetary
  • themselves, and requires that adults keep some records about the work that they do and set aside some compensation
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Feb 18th, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, SB 774, which most of you have seen, extends enhanced workers' compensation benefits to 9-1-
  • The bill extends enhanced workers' compensation benefits to 9-1-1 public safety telecommunicators for
Summary: The Fiscal Policy Committee met and first reported favorably SB 774, which extends enhanced workers’ compensation benefits to 9-1-1 public safety telecommunicators for mental or nervous injuries, after adopting a late-filed amendment declaring an important state interest. The committee also heard supportive testimony from a Palm Beach County dispatcher. SB 770, which updates the definition of forensic clients so certain individuals with intellectual disabilities or autism can be housed with other Chapter 916 residents in secure forensic settings, was reported favorably as well. Members then approved CS/SB 86, which declares unauthorized operation of a commercial vehicle by an unauthorized alien an imminent safety hazard and imposes driver, carrier, and enforcement consequences, despite questions about vehicle impoundment and cargo handling and one appearance in opposition. SB 1594, which protects veterans’ benefits received on behalf of foster youth from being used as reimbursement and instead sets them aside for education and transition services, was reported favorably after supportive testimony. The committee also approved CS/SB 760, creating a new offense for willful violations of no-contact pretrial release conditions in certain violent crime cases, though the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers raised concerns about expanded warrantless arrest authority in one section. The committee next reported favorably CS/SB 554, a complete rewrite of Chapter 617 governing nonprofit corporations, after a technical delete-all amendment. It also approved CS/SB 844, requiring continuing education on sickle cell disease care for certain health care professionals; the bill drew extensive supportive testimony from advocates and patients describing pain management gaps and health disparities. SB 1022, expanding Florida Children’s Initiatives by adding programs in Bay County and Broward County, and CS/SB 1246, broadening the Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund to include health science workforce programs and related uses, were both reported favorably. Finally, the committee approved CS/CS/SB 1230, which restricts the use, sale, and distribution of aqueous film-forming foam containing intentionally added PFAS and requires inventory and disposal reporting, after adopting amendments that removed airports from one provision. It also approved CS/CS/SB 128, directing DEP to erect markers for the Andrew Red Harris Spoil Island water body designation. Several senators requested to be recorded as voting in the affirmative on specific bills, and the committee adjourned without objection.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • over what duration the notice requirements and opt-out process will occur, and as well as how compensation
  • 45.040> how process will occur, and as well as how process will occur, and as well as how compensation
  • devices, you know, that are brought together and for being uh part of a network as a customer you get compensated
  • times more per megawatt hour than renewables um or more efficient gas plants. customer you get compensated
  • for the customer you get compensated for the value<00:50:56.640> that<00:50:56.960> your
Bills: HF2986, HF3555
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

State Committee Meeting - 2025-04-08

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • increases in employer-paid health care contributions, FICA, and Medicare, along with other salary and compensation-related
  • This appropriation covers growing expenses for health care, compensation, utilities, and IT.
Bills: HF2783
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • losses that are not getting compensated losses that are not getting compensated every<01:16:37.840
  • Compensation Program so the last bullet Compensation Program so the last bullet points<01:25:21.000><
  • points talk about expand Compensation points talk about expand Compensation Program<01:25:22.920>
  • as there is for elk. compensation for deer damage as well as compensation for deer damage as well as
  • heard will probably not be compensated heard will probably not be compensated until<01:30:08.719
Bills: HF601, HF271, HF1101, HF979
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 11th, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • new cost-of-living adjustment of approximately 4% effective July 1, 2026, based on the Judicial Compensation
  • This Senate Bill 25, what it does, is just the compensation for the registrars of voters.
  • So we're just trying to compensate them for things that we have asked them to accomplish for us on these
  • So we heard the Senate's concerns regarding the initial proposal and have developed an amended compensation
  • front end and dropping the current step 11 and 12 on the back end, which moves us to a 10-step compensation