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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Apr 14th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Through the Center for Louisiana Studies, for example, we are protecting and promoting the heritage of
  • TOPS is a very important piece of the education and workforce puzzle here in the state, but there's yet
  • This would enable the state to answer a lot of important questions like: What are workforce participation
  • This study would assess whether TOPS funds are aligned with Louisiana's long-term workforce needs and
  • needs, to our student needs, we can better align all of the programs that we have to the workforce needs
Bills: HR17 , HB385 , HB406 , HB787 , HB1021 , HB1058 , HB1059
Committee: House Education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • the barriers to completion and allowing core curricula to be more responsive to the needs of the workforce
Bills: SB2847 , SB3039
Summary: The Senate Committee on Education K-16 heard two bills. SB 2847, by Senator Hagenbuch, would give Texas public four-year universities the same option community colleges already have to seek approval from the Higher Education Coordinating Board for core curricula of fewer than 42 semester credit hours. Hagenbuch said the bill is intended to add flexibility, support career-focused programs, and help students finish degrees faster. There was no public testimony, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard SB 3039, by Senator West, which addresses transferability and credit loss for students moving from community colleges to four-year institutions. West said the bill responds to ongoing problems with rejected transfer credits and seeks better data, study, and recommendations from the Coordinating Board. Deputy Commissioner Sarah Keaton testified that transfer remains a major policy issue, that reporting requirements from SB 25 have improved data collection, and that the main reasons credits do not transfer are grades and degree applicability. She also described the Texas Direct degree program and field-of-study curricula designed to transfer as blocks. Members discussed the cost of lost credits, the need for better communication to students, and concerns that some institutions still reject credits or require duplicate coursework. No public witnesses signed up on SB 3039, and it was left pending subject to the call of the chair. A quorum was later established, the agenda was completed, and the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 3rd, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It creates a workforce teaching certificate that would allow industry employees to get a certificate
  • </c><00:06:04.479><c> participation</c><00:06:05.199><c> rate</c><00:06:05.919><c> and</c> our workforce
  • </c><00:18:18.080><c> So,</c> inclusion of an evolving workforce.
  • So, inclusion of an evolving workforce.
  • And then show and satisfy to the Department of Workforce that you have met that goal.
Bills: HB517 , HB520 , HB233 , HB354 , HB517 , HB520 , HB233 , HB354
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 2nd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • by a protective order.
  • Well, I think we need to make this change to protect our kids.
  • I hear about protecting kids all the time.
  • Protecting children does not mean shielding them from reality.
  • the Committee on Trade, Workforce, and Economic Development.
Bills: HJR138 , HB42 , HB 104 , HB 129 , HB677 , HB426 , HB668 , HB1699 , HB2017 , HB2128 , HB2038 , HB3783 , HB3717 , HB2316 , HB3686 , HB2563 , HB3883 , HB4021 , HB2788 , HB2663 , HB3305 , HB3173 , HB3474 , HB 1105 , HB3531 , HB3490 , HB3597 , HB 1295 , HB3512 , HB3010 , HB3112 , HB4215 , HB3223 , HB3464 , HB3120 , HB4214 , HB4511 , HB3704 , HB4081 , HB4783 , HB4063 , HB2783 , HB4937 , HB5085 , HB2510 , HB3426 , HB4361 , HB 1169 , HB2516 , HB2347 , HB4034 , HB4700 , HB3560 , HB5150 , HB3860 , HB3146 , HB3924 , HCR98 , HCR92 , HB1520 , HB1545 , HB5265 , HB1887 , HB1914 , HB2402 , HB2306 , HB2350 , HB3000 , HB3237 , HB3326 , HB3211 , HB 1056 , HB2081 , HB2187 , HB3092 , HB3308 , HB3526 , HB3750 , HB4219 , HB4230 , HB4290 , HB5238 , HB4804 , HB4749 , HB245 , HB1465 , HB294 , HB793 , HB809 , HB3928 , HB334 , HB2037 , HB1973 , HB285 , HB4341 , HB 1043 , HB 1234 , HB 1193 , HB1729 , HB2498 , HB1314 , HB1353 , HB3960 , HB3923 , HB2221 , HB2517 , HB2518 , HB2213 , HB5092 , HB3748 , HB5246 , HB4344 , HB1482 , HB4044 , HB2702 , HB4264 , HB2807 , HB2898 , HB3181 , HB3250 , HB2091 , HB2115 , HB2542 , HB2768 , HB3349 , HB4406 , HB1593 , HB1899 , HB3133 , HB3133 , HB4960 , HB3214 , HB2145 , HB 1201 , HB5061 , SB29 , SB879 , SB65 , SB1745 , SB412 , SB412 , SB1746 , SB1238 , SB1341 , SB522 , SB1532 , SB1378 , SB1062 , SB2066 , SB1963 , SB2204 , SB1366 , SB2077 , SB1967 , SB1151 , HB1618 , HB2156 , HB2615 , HB2615 , HB2349 , HB1926 , HB569 , HB1762 , HB38 , HJR138 , HB42 , HB 104 , HB 104 , HB 129 , HB677 , HB426 , HB668 , HB1699 , HB2017 , HB2128 , HB2038 , HB3783 , HB3717 , HB2316 , HB3686 , HB2563 , HB3883 , HB4021 , HB2788 , HB2663 , HB2663 , HB3305 , HB3173 , HB3474 , HB 1105 , HB3531 , HB3531 , HB3490 , HB3490 , HB3597 , HB 1295 , HB3512 , HB3010 , HB3112 , HB4215 , HB3223 , HB3223 , HB3464 , HB3120 , HB4214 , HB4511 , HB3704 , HB4081 , HB4783 , HB4063 , HB2783 , HB4937 , HB5085 , HB2510 , HB3426 , HB4361 , HB 1169 , HB2516 , HB2347 , HB4034 , HB4700 , HB3560 , HB5150 , HB3860 , HB3146 , HB3924 , HCR98 , HCR92
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, offered an invocation, led the pledges, and approved a series of routine motions, including excusing absent members and granting permission for several committees to meet while the House was in session. Members also adopted several memorial and recognition resolutions, including H.R. 1023 honoring Christian Beerbill, H.R. 1033 recognizing International Bereaved Mother’s Day, and H.R. 877 recognizing Urban League Advocates Day. The House also recommitted SB 17 and HB 4211 to committee and postponed SCR 27 and HB 2145 for later consideration. The chamber then took up a long third-reading calendar of bills covering a wide range of topics, including Sunset review measures, health care workforce and pricing, child custody and family law, Medicaid, rural ambulance grants, energy reporting, public information requests, trail development, virtual meeting disruptions, occupational licensing, protective orders, county leave pools, animal cruelty, infrastructure, and higher education. Most bills were explained briefly by their authors and passed with broad support, though several drew notable opposition, including HB 5265, HB 2402, HB 3000, HB 3237, HB 3326, HB 1056, HB 281, HB 3308, HB 1043, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 294, HB 809, HB 334, HB 2037, HB 285, HB 1353, HB 3960, HB 4044, HB 4264, HB 2807, HB 3349, HB 4406, HB 1593, HB 1899, HB 1201, and others. Several bills prompted extended debate or amendments. HB 3237, extending public energy-use reporting for state and higher-education buildings, passed after questions about its public-sector-only scope and energy savings. HB 3326, addressing public service loan forgiveness credit for adjunct professors, initially failed on a 69-70 vote but later passed after verification and machine corrections. HB 3211, concerning optometrists in managed care plans, adopted a Buckley amendment before passing. HB 2213 on Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board composition adopted a Metcalf amendment requiring certain board members to be Texas residents. HB 412, dealing with harmful materials and sexual performance of a child, generated extensive questioning about its scope, existing legal standards, and effects on educators and medical professionals; the excerpt ends during that debate.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> agency workforce alignment task force. agency workforce alignment task force.
  • </c> workforce like I thought they would be. workforce like I thought they would be.
  • </c> working about the educational workforce working about the educational workforce ecosystem?
  • </c> workforce that Minnesota needs. workforce that Minnesota needs.
  • . workforce. workforce.
Bills: HF3650 , HF2238
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 15th, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is just to protect them. But that's not what this bill is about.
  • We need to strengthen the nursing workforce pipeline.
  • This is one way to help support the workforce.
  • Texas Healthcare Workforce Fund is designed to put that same vision and foresight into our workforce
  • universities focus on workforce.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • My concern has to do with the way that this is, for the provider, there's, it's sort of a protection
  • if it's falsifying intentionally the documents to deny people coverage, anything that we can do to protect
  • repeals sections of the Health Care Workers and Educators' Assistance Program and the Health Care Workforce
  • repeal sections of the Health Care Workers and Educators' Assistance Program and the Health Care Workforce
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 11th, 2026 at 11:17 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Could they get in trouble, and are there protections for these teachers? Mr.
  • My protection, I want my protection to go to the teachers first, and I want it all the way down to the
  • My protection, I want my protection to go to the teachers first, and I want it all the way down to the
  • Speaker and gentlelady, we have to start protecting our teachers. And, Mr.
  • to protect students.
Bills: HB111 , HB103 , HB60 , HB108 , HB120 , HB145 , HB154 , HB164 , HB291 , HJR6 , HR1 , HJM2 , HJM3 , HJM1 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM32 , HM13 , HM47 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB38 , HB47 , HB63 , HB64 , HB127 , HB165 , HB184 , HB200 , HM20 , HM51
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/24/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> protect offenders, not students. protect offenders, not students.
  • </c> student safety, expanding protections student safety, expanding protections for<00:21:35.360><c>
  • </c> workforce spaces and the money follows. workforce spaces and the money follows.
  • </c> going to enter the workforce right away. going to enter the workforce right away.
  • </c> in the military and the trade workforce. in the military and the trade workforce.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Education Finance - 03/24/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • local workforce to serve students<00:05:01.919><c> and</c><00:05:02.240><c> families.
  • >> Uh, Madam Chair, I just the only thing I would add is that, you know, as this is a workforce grant
  • >> Uh, Madam Chair, I just the only thing I would add is that, you know, as this is a workforce grant
  • grant um, like this requires workforce grant um, like this requires super<00:09:12.880><c> high</c><
  • while they were under the workforce while they were under direct<00:09:28.240><c> supervision</c><00
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • This also expands workforce access without lowering professional standards and maintains the interstate
  • doing is, and tell me if I'm wrong, but the way I look at this is we're just trying to plug some workforce
  • those of you that were with us, I believe, four years ago when we began this work on the Oklahoma Workforce
  • All who have roles in the economy and the workforce.
  • And so this bill is to help increase workforce in our grocery stores.
Committee: House Business
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We would talk on the floor all the time about workforce development.
  • This is Just another piece of workforce development when you let people come into our state and practice
  • people to come to Oklahoma as a Military spouse and work and live in Oklahoma and contribute to our workforce
Bills: SB540 , HB1085 , HB1484
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 5th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That protection will no longer exist. this. Are you speaking of the supermajority provision?
  • They no longer have the protection of that supermajority, isn't that correct?
  • They lost the protection of the supermajority, but the property owner retained their rights.
  • Everybody else... who doesn't own the property, they no longer have this protection.
  • They no longer have the protection in your bill of the supermajority rule.
Bills: HJR34 , HB 113 , HB184 , HB198 , HB247 , HB367 , HB449 , HB1778 , HB514 , HB576 , HB632 , HB1395 , HB2225 , HB2582 , HB2494 , HB766 , HB2715 , HB2712 , HB3069 , HB3505 , HB 1269 , HB4224 , HB3609 , HB5032 , HB2240 , HB5180 , HB3348 , HB4668 , HB4909 , HB4665 , HB4895 , HB3395 , HB3157 , HB4762 , HB4395 , HB4325 , HB4952 , HB4386 , HB4273 , HB2760 , HB2697 , HB2820 , HB1828 , HB1768 , HB1579 , HB1773 , HB1871 , HB2035 , HB2448 , HB2492 , HB1411 , HB4753 , HB4666 , HB4529 , HB1499 , HB1610 , HB2028 , HB1506 , HB886 , HB3546 , HB796 , HB223 , HB1475 , HB3556 , HB4638 , HCR126 , HB38 , HB 104 , SB1008 , SB1106 , SB1172 , SB2629 , SB2964 , SB616 , HB2214 , SB552 , HB3181 , HB3628 , HB589 , HB3529 , HB3354 , HB333 , HB2914 , HB4130 , HB4131 , HB24 , HB 1160 , HB3962 , HB4115 , HB2295 , HB5398 , HB1407 , HB3800 , HB2613 , HJR138 , HB42 , HJR34 , HB 129 , HB677 , HB426 , HB668 , HB1699 , HB2017 , HB2128 , HB2038 , HB3783 , HB3717 , HB2316 , HB3686 , HB2563 , HB3883 , HB4021 , HB2788 , HB2663 , HB3305 , HB3173 , HB3474 , HB 1105 , HB3531 , HB3490 , HB3597 , HB 1295 , HB3512 , HB3010 , HB3112 , HB4215 , HB3223 , HB3464 , HB3120 , HB4214 , HB4511 , HB3704 , HB4081 , HB4783 , HB4063 , HB2783 , HB4937 , HB5085 , HB2510 , HB3426 , HB4361 , HB 1169 , HB2516 , HB2347 , HB4034 , HB4700 , HB3560 , HB5150 , HB3860 , HB3146 , HB3924 , HB 113 , HB184 , HB198 , HB247 , HB367 , HB449 , HB1778 , HB514 , HB576 , HB632 , HB1395 , HB2225 , HB2582 , HB2494 , HB766 , HB2715 , HB2712 , HB3069 , HB3505 , HB 1269 , HB4224 , HB3609 , HB5032 , HB2240 , HB5180 , HB3348 , HB4668 , HB4909 , HB4665 , HB4895 , HB3395 , HB3157 , HB4762 , HB4395 , HB4325 , HB4952 , HB4386 , HB4273 , HB2760 , HB2697 , HB2820 , HB1828 , HB1768 , HB1579 , HB1773 , HB1871 , HB2035 , HB2448 , HB2492 , HB1411 , HB4753 , HB4666 , HB4529 , HB1499 , HB1610 , HB2028 , HB1506 , HB886 , HB3546 , HB796 , HB223 , HB1475 , HB3556 , HB4638 , HCR98 , HCR92 , HCR126
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs May 13th, 2026

Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's an effort to amend the Protection of Eligible Adults from Financial Exploitation Act by adding to
  • holders, working with their families, other responsible parties, law enforcement, and whatnot to protect
  • Of course you're going to try to align workforce with the pellet employees, I guess.
  • HB 848 is about fairness in the marketplace and protecting Louisiana consumers.
  • So from a consumer protection standpoint, this is really important too.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Committee substitute adds liability protection for the commissioner. of the Department of State Health
  • If that was there, then they would not come out with it. vaccines to protect the population.
  • I do a lot of work in the interim with Child Protective Services.
  • By extending recovery support into everyday life, PROs build workforce capacity by training certified
  • For the workforce, to increase the workforce and for them to be knowledgeable about peer support services
Committee: House Public Health
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, HB 2806 is about protecting... Protecting Texans before the next preventable death.
  • I also need protection. My immune system, just like yours, needs protection.
  • That's right, to protect the people who can't be protected themselves.
  • Protect our rights, protect our choices, and protect safe, respectful out-of-hospital birth.
  • Protect Texans, protect your family. Vote no on House Bill 5274. Thank you.
Committee: House Public Health
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 17th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • in service for 30 years, established to link the community, state, and federal delegation on all protection
  • Economic development, workforce, tourism, we'll meet 15 minutes after the start of Judiciary.
  • committee will meet as soon as practicable after Judiciary starts and after economic development or Workforce
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 13th, 2026 at 09:19 am

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • That I made reference to and other types of investments that provide inflation protection.
  • This is about stewardship, transparency, and protecting essential services.
  • consumers and make sure that we continue to protect our environment and our planet.
  • And make sure that we continue to protect our environment and our planet.
  • We didn't protect the consumers in the process, and I don't think your memorial protects the consumers
Bills: SM20 , SM9 , SJR6 , HB124 , SM20 , SM9 , SJR6 , HB124