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HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Tue Feb 24, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- and seller enter into a private contract and seller enter into a private contract with<00:53:25.520
- Once the contract is signed, owners have a right to that.
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for plural, the financials, contracts for plural, the financials, contracts - Once the contract is major projects.
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from outage, protecting utility workers from outage, protecting utility workers
Keywords:
natural hair braiding, registration, Barbering and Cosmetology Licensing Act, public health, sanitation, cumulative voting, associations, unit owners, board of directors, elections, Hawaii Revised Statutes, condominium, association meetings, electronic voting, proxy voting, mail voting, insurance, premium increase, policy cancellation, licensing
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on HB 1697, which would exempt natural hair braiders from licensing requirements under certain conditions. The DCCA Board of Barbering and Cosmetology said it recognizes braiding as within the scope of cosmetology practice but warned that a broad exemption could create consumer protection gaps, especially around sanitation training, tool use, and enforcement. Supporters from the Institute for Justice and the Grassroots Institute of Hawaii argued the current licensing regime is overly burdensome and unrelated to braiding, citing the 1,250-hour training requirement, high tuition costs, barriers for low-income entrepreneurs, and the fact that many other states already exempt braiders. Committee members asked whether a standalone sanitation course or similar training could address the board’s concerns, and the board said it would bring that idea back for discussion. The committee also noted 16 written testimonies in support and 2 in opposition.
The committee then took up HB 1678, relating to condominium and planned community association elections using cumulative voting. Supporters, including the Hawaii State Association of Parliamentarians, said the bill would clarify that cumulative voting applies to all candidates, including write-ins, and would help resolve confusion in association elections. One testifier urged the committee to remove proxy voting, calling it an abuse of power in some associations, while another asked whether cumulative voting and proxies could be manipulated to stack votes. In response, the parliamentarian explained that cumulative voting and proxy voting are different, that proxies simply allow someone to vote on another’s behalf, and that existing deadlines and counting procedures reduce opportunities for abuse. Testimony also emphasized that electronic or mail voting can be secure and efficient, and that the bill would make the process clearer and more democratic.
Finally, the committee heard testimony on HB 1679, which would clarify an association board’s authority over electronic meetings, electronic voting, voting without a meeting, and mail voting without a meeting. Supporters said the measure would clean up statutory language, make electronic voting optional, and fix problems created by a 2024 change that made written-consent timing rules difficult to use for association actions. They also said the bill would clarify that proxies are only used at meetings, not for actions taken without a meeting. One opponent argued the bill needs further amendment because electronic voting is not well defined and could be abused, and questioned the neutrality of parliamentarians testifying on condominium bills. No votes were taken on any of the measures during the portion of the meeting provided.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities
Transcript Highlights:
- and state workers.
- , a developmental services worker one, an average of $23.51 an hour, or 13 percent more.
- State-employed social workers are paid on average between 11% and 47% more.
- State-employed social workers are paid on average between 11% and 47% more.
- Our inability to recruit and retain workers can put lives and families at risk.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities held a hearing focused on accessibility-related legislation, with the chairs emphasizing ASL and CART accessibility and asking testifiers to speak slowly and clearly. The committee heard testimony first on H.223/S.130, a bill to establish a livable wage for community-based human service workers by reducing the pay gap with state employees. Providers’ Council, Communities for People, the Key Program, and BAMSI all supported the bill, describing persistent wage disparities, high vacancy and turnover rates, and the impact on continuity of care for children, youth, and families. Witnesses said the bill would help recruitment and retention and stabilize services across the Commonwealth.
The committee then heard extensive testimony on H.224/S.160, the ACE Act, which would create a dedicated funding source to improve accessibility in the creative economy. Arts organizations and advocates, including Community Access to the Arts, Abilities Dance Boston, Jacob’s Pillow, the Multicultural Arts Center, Northampton Community Music Center, Mass Creative, Open Door Arts, and Monkey House, described barriers such as inaccessible buildings, lack of ASL interpretation and captioning, inadequate lifts and backstage access, and the high cost of renovations. Testifiers said the bill would help smaller and historic institutions make physical and programmatic improvements and allow people with disabilities to participate as artists, workers, and audiences.
The committee also heard testimony on H.4180, which would require DDS to consider neuropsychological evaluations when determining eligibility for intellectual disability services. Parents and advocates argued that IQ cutoffs alone can miss significant functional needs, especially for autistic adults and others with complex developmental profiles, and urged broader access to DDS supports. Additional testimony supported S.101 on closed captioning and telecommunications in public areas, and S.158 on requiring restaurants to have some chairs with arms to better accommodate physically disabled and older patrons. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chair adjourned after hearing from the scheduled witnesses and noting a few signups that were not present.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services Feb 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Our community members are farm workers, dairy workers, child caretakers, day laborers, and street vendors
- The findings were primarily focused on the eligibility worker rate.
- The raid targeted workers by focusing on exits off Route 99 where farm workers head to the fields, as
- Workers are being fired, including thousands of veterans without income.
- truck drivers, grocery store workers, and more.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Health Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Joint Committee on Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- This legislation would classify funeral directors as public health workers, enabling them to receive
- We estimate that around 1,900 individuals are currently classified as funeral workers.
- Some of them... their asthma illness should they contract varicella, measles, the flu, COVID.
- If I contract COVID, it will require me to pause my medical treatment.
- Ironically, she contracted whooping cough yet had the pertussis vaccine.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Health held a hearing on several vaccination-related bills, including proposals to eliminate non-medical or religious exemptions for school immunizations (notably H. 2554 and S. 1557), a bill to require or improve reporting and administration of immunization data and exemptions (described as the Community Immunity Act, S. 1618), and H. 2431, which would prohibit COVID-19, mRNA, or gene-altering vaccine requirements. The committee also heard testimony on H. 2463, which would classify funeral directors as public health workers for vaccine-priority purposes during emergencies. The chair reviewed testimony rules and repeatedly asked speakers to keep comments orderly and brief so the committee could hear as many people as possible. No votes were taken during the hearing.
Testimony on H. 2554 and S. 1557 was sharply divided. Pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, public health advocates, and groups such as the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Massachusetts Medical Society, March of Dimes, Massachusetts Families for Vaccines, and several parents supported eliminating religious exemptions, arguing that vaccination protects medically vulnerable children and adults, improves herd immunity, and helps prevent outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other diseases. They cited local school data showing pockets of lower coverage and incomplete reporting, and several speakers referenced outbreaks in other states and the need for stronger, more consistent reporting and exemption management. Opponents argued the bills would infringe on religious freedom and parental rights, force families to choose between faith and education, and unfairly target a small number of families; some also said Massachusetts already has high vaccination rates and that the real issue is incomplete data or the gap population rather than religious exemptions.
H. 2431 drew testimony from supporters who said COVID-era mandates caused job losses, privacy concerns, and harm, and that the bill would prevent future requirements for COVID, mRNA, or gene-altering vaccines in schools, workplaces, and public settings. Supporters described personal experiences with alleged vaccine injury or mandate-related hardship. H. 2463 was supported by the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association, which argued funeral directors work in infection-facing settings and should be eligible for vaccine priority during public health emergencies. The hearing featured extensive public testimony but no committee action beyond hearing the bills and taking questions from members.
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
WV Senate Finance Committee in Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 04:01 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- Those parents who drop off their kids beside me—nurses, teachers, construction workers, small business
- Those parents who drop off their kids beside me—nurses, teachers, construction workers, small business
- 429, that I introduced, scholarship dollars so that we can provide for early child care certified workers
- 429, that I introduced, scholarship dollars so that we can provide for early child care certified workers
- I think that our EMS workers are one of the most I think that our EMS workers are one of the most unfortunately
Summary:
The Senate Finance Committee met with a quorum present, approved the prior meeting minutes, and then considered a series of House bills and committee substitutes. House Bill 5438, dealing with changes to Step 7 of the school aid formula and allowable uses of certain education allocations, was amended to adopt the Education Committee’s changes and then reported to the full Senate. House Bill 4087 creating the West Virginia-Ireland Education Alliance was also reported, as was House Bill 4191, which expands child care tax credit eligibility for employer-sponsored facilities and changes subsidy payments from attendance-based to enrollment-based reimbursement; senators emphasized its workforce and economic development benefits. House Bill 5074, which reallocates medical cannabis fund balances and future revenues, was amended to increase the Child Protective Commission pilot funding from $3 million to $5 million and remove proposed ibogaine research funding for Marshall and WVU before being reported. House Bill 5353, regulating virtual currency kiosks and money transmission licensure, and House Bill 5527, creating licensure and oversight for wellness reimbursement program administrators, both received strike-and-insert amendments and were reported. House Bill 5687, which phases down the metallurgical coal severance tax and adds a temporary oil and gas tax reduction with county/municipal revenue adjustments, was amended and reported. House Bill 4418, creating an electronic system for municipal business and occupation tax filing and collection with a 1% administrative fee and a participation threshold, was also reported.
The committee then took up House Bill 4245, the Revenue Rules Bundle, which bundles 26 legislative rules from the Department of Revenue and related agencies. The bundle included alcohol, banking, insurance, racing, and tax rules, with several sunset extensions and repeals of outdated rules; the committee adopted a strike-and-insert amendment affecting a lottery consumer protection rule and a pre-need cemetery company rule, then reported the bill. House Bill 5168, providing a $12 million lottery-funded stream for emergency medical services, was amended to clarify the uses of the funds, rename one fund, require a 30% county match for mental health treatment spending, and create two additional county-based EMS funds; senators described it as a needed permanent funding source for EMS, and it was reported. Throughout the meeting, members generally supported the measures, with some discussion on technical details, funding allocations, and the impact of the bills on local services and workforce needs. At the end of the meeting, the chair announced that Senate House Bills 4004, 4006, and 4009 would not be taken up that day, and the committee adjourned.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 9th, 2026 at 08:35 am
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- One in eight workers in New Mexico is an immigrant or a refugee, and they are an even larger share of
- the Office of New Americans, and as Representative Paragon said, we're there to be a resource for workers
- We're talking about H-2A visa workers picking chile, or we're talking about oil and gas workers, or we're
- That is of the utmost importance for the workers of New Mexico.
- It is very important for workers in New Mexico. Working people are working people. Thank you.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Rules Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I told her a story that I got my sister and my mother to both volunteer and work as poll workers, and
- I'm looking forward to young people getting involved and maybe coming back and being poll workers later
- for, or receive a share of the proceeds of May not direct the course of legal proceedings, contract
- of a litigation financing agreement be disclosed. may not direct the course of legal proceedings, contract
- And if I'm acting inappropriately, And if I'm acting inappropriately, if I'm engaging in contracts that
Summary:
The Committee on Rules met and first approved several open-government sunset repeal bills and related measures. SB 7024 and SB 7026, both sponsored by Senator Mayfield, were explained as consolidating and extending public records/public meetings exemptions for cybersecurity information and trade secrets held by agencies; both were reported favorably. SB 7020, sponsored by Senator Trumbull, reenacted an aquaculture records exemption for records held by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and was also reported favorably. Later, the committee approved SB 14 and SB 24, claims bills for relief involving Miami-Dade County, and SB 16, a claims bill for Heriberto Sanchez Mayan against the City of St. Petersburg; all were reported favorably without opposition. The committee also approved CS for SB 806, a consumer right-to-repair bill creating portable wireless device and agricultural equipment repair acts, despite opposition from several industry groups, and reported it favorably.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- By eliminating this blanket exemption for municipal lobbying contracts, HB 223 promotes much greater
- using the same lobby groups for 20 years and they also remarked that they spent about $250,000 on contract
- Do you have a particular restriction for election workers? We do. We do. So, I need to...
- I can pull up the information on being election workers. Let me see if I have that right.
- I just would be more concerned about the workers than the poll watchers because poll watchers are just
Bills:
HB223
Keywords:
municipal budget, county budget, local government finance, spending cap, expenditure limit, inflation plus population growth, taxpayer impact statement, budget transparency, property tax, fees, Legislative Budget Board, voter approval, disaster spending, fiscal restraint, Texas Local Government Code, city budget, county expenditures, 1185, senate, all
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Session Mar 12th, 2026 at 11:34 am
West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Bill 4602 relating to requiring the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot program to contract
- Bill 4602 relating to requiring the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot program to contract
- Bill 4602 relating to requiring the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot program to contract
- So I, of course, applaud the intention to try to protect our workers in construction zones and the many
- I really want these construction workers to be protected, but I feel like there should have been more
Summary:
The Senate met on March 11, 2026, with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, journal approval, and numerous guest and page introductions, including school groups, prayer caucus visitors, and advocates for Home Family Education Day and Women in Blue Day. The chamber then took up committee reports and a large number of House bills, most of them on third reading, along with several resolutions and referrals. Senate Resolution 62, designating March 12, 2026, as West Virginia Athletic Trainers Day, was adopted after remarks emphasizing the value of athletic trainers in preventing injuries and tragedies in school sports. Several other resolutions and concurrent resolutions were referred to the Committee on Rules or laid over under the rules.
The Senate passed a wide range of bills addressing economic development, public safety, health, licensing, and state administration. Measures approved included bills on the West Virginia Collaboratory at Marshall University, the Business Ready Sites program, volunteer fire company spending authority, the Load Forecast Accountability Act, funeral service licensure, work zone fines, biennial business reporting, correctional officer retirement law, the Right to Try Act, quick claim deed tax exemptions, an ibogaine drug-development grant program, aggravated vehicular homicide sentencing, 529 savings plan definitions, opportunity zones, barber apprenticeship, municipal and county hotel occupancy fund uses, criminal-record licensing standards, intimate image disclosure remedies, executor training materials, contempt penalties, PEIA treatment flexibility, PANS/PANDAS information, the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact, capitation rate review expansions, convention and visitors bureau board membership, peer support services, cosmetology licensure compacts, natural resource police retirement, DNR fee indexing, ALS care services, the Neighborhood Investment Program, oil and gas well plugging and carbon capture-related provisions, DUI technical changes, abuse intervention program terminology, and a youth summer employment and career readiness program. Most bills passed overwhelmingly, with a few closer votes, including the Load Forecast Accountability Act and the DNR fee-indexing bill.
Several bills were amended on the floor, including title amendments and strike-and-insert changes. The Senate also debated the work zone penalty bill, with supporters citing worker safety and fatalities and opponents arguing the bill increased fines too much without requiring removal of outdated work-zone signs. On the energy-related load forecast bill, senators discussed the inclusion of provisions from Senate Bill 420 and concerns about coal plant utilization and utility impacts. After debate, the Senate adopted amendments and passed the bill. In most cases, after passage the Senate ordered the bills communicated to the House, and for a few measures it also adopted title amendments or made bills effective from passage or on a specified date.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm also a licensed social worker.
- We have contracts with Haven. I don't understand.
- of community partners with whom DFPS contracts.
- saying our contracts and our funds end at age 21.
- But that's where I was saying our contracts and our funding end at age 21.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration, June 24, 2026 - PM
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration
Transcript Highlights:
- Brown used the as a wage for food service workers, um, the custodians, right?
- Brown used the as a wage for food service workers, um, the custodians, right?
- My best guess is many of those food service workers are less than that.
- in the school... a food service worker in the school district?
- Our food service worker, we start them out at $16.50.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
November 19, 2025 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- OCCA SETS CONTRACT STANDARDS AND THEY MONITOR US REGULARLY AND WE CAN BE SUBJECT TO PENALTIES IF WE FAIL
- >> REQUIREMENTS ARE EMBEDDED IN OUR OVERALL CONTRACT TO BE A MANAGED CARE PLAN AND THAT INCLUDES THE
- REQUIREMENTS WE WERE DISCUSSING THE OTHER DAY ABOUT VALLEY-BASED CONTRACTING.
- AND THAT COULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO PRODUCTIVE VALLEY-BASED CONTRACTS. >> Chair Tomkow: FOLLOW-UP?
- IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING WE CARVED THAT OUT MID CONTRACT PREVIOUSLY.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Restrictions on this contract pharmacy use.
- from that contract pharmacy and from their in-house.
- us the data from the contract pharmacy.
- So we contract with pharmacies.
- Contract pharmacies is a new development since 2010.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- I hadn't verified that a lot of workers' comp insurers are doing this already. Okay.
- But I guess why wouldn’t you allow the parties to contract if the PBM wants to contract with the plan
- So I look at page four where it limits your members to negotiate a contract.
- So it depends on which contract. There's several contracts that are negotiated by the PBM.
- The dispensing fees are negotiated as a part of that pharmacy reimbursement contract.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Insurance met on May 6, 2026, and first reported HB 1241 favorably. That bill, by Chairman Furman, requires insurers to check with DCFS before paying certain insurance settlements to determine whether the recipient owes delinquent child support, and to withhold and remit arrears if found. DCFS explained that Louisiana already has intercepts and other collection tools, but no current mechanism for insurance settlements. Senators raised concerns about notice to obligors and about liability if insurers fail to withhold, but the bill was advanced without objection.
The committee then heard HB 870, which would require health insurers and PBMs to cover lower-cost generic or biosimilar drugs when available and to use utilization management no more restrictively on those drugs. Supporters said the bill would improve access and lower patient costs by using wholesale acquisition cost as the comparison point. Opponents, including Louisiana Blue and the AFL-CIO, argued that WAC ignores rebates and net cost, could force plans to cover higher-cost biosimilars first, and could increase premiums and disrupt ERISA and fully insured plan design. The committee adopted a technical amendment set and then a second amendment set that added notice and reporting requirements tied to net cost calculations, and HB 870 was reported favorably as amended.
Several other bills were moved with little or no opposition. HB 1176, concerning Medicare Advantage coverage for integrative cancer treatments such as cold cap therapy, cryotherapy, and acupuncture, was amended to change the effective date and then reported favorably. HB 1196, dealing with colorectal cancer screening follow-up colonoscopies, was also amended and reported favorably. HB 1162, a consumer protection bill requiring DOI to verify that a contractor named on a first-party property damage check is licensed in Louisiana, was amended and reported favorably. HB 826, which modernizes insurance referral rules to allow referrals by email or website address, was reported favorably. The committee also heard HB 1151 on insurer investment limits and solvency protections, and HB 1236 on pharmacy reimbursement and copay maximizer programs; both drew substantial testimony and concern, especially over retroactivity, PBM cost allocation, and whether copay maximizers shift costs to patients, but the transcript cuts off before final action on HB 1236.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 04/13/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- These agreements require workers who receive on-the-job training, and many times of dubious necessity
- Effectively trapping workers in jobs they don't want to be in. Some examples of trap agreements.
- My organization spent nearly five years studying the effects of stay-or-pay contracts on workers
- As the term suggests, stay-or-pay contracts are employment terms that force workers to pay their employer
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demanded contracts employers have demanded contracts employers have demanded departing
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs Feb 4th, 2025
House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Our guys heavily rely on H-2A workers, which is a Federal Migrant Worker Program, and that is a very
- And our H-2A workers make like $4. $4.50 more an hour than naturalized citizens, or a lot of us who worked
- It tends to pick up faster in the last half, because they still have to set up the contracts and other
- We have conversations where we tell them how to contract.
- We walk them through what an example contract would look like and what they should be doing for tier
AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Mar 11th, 2026
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
Transcript Highlights:
- What this does in our state, road construction workers, we all know that construction workers, we all
- Uh, road construction workers go to work every day and every night in the state of Alabama to maintain
- Road workers have been killed over the last several years and injured, and I have some statistics and
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are day, seven days a week when workers are day, seven days a week when workers - Come out and make the repair, then require to follow the contract. >> That is the position we take.
Keywords:
medical clinic board, clinic board, hospital bankruptcy, Chapter 11, bankruptcy, debt restructuring, municipal indebtedness, municipal bankruptcy, health care provider, acute care hospital, lease property, board immunity, director liability, civil liability, healthcare finance, insolvency, debt readjustment, federal bankruptcy law, Alabama Code 11-58-5.2, library materials
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
October 15, 2025 - 03:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- IF AN AGENCY HAS A CONTRACT FOR $40 A DAY, THE STATE GRANT PROGRAM CAN SUPPLEMENT THAT FOR A TOTAL OF
- THE EXECUTION PROCESS ONCE THE AWARD AGREEMENT ASSIGN THE CONTRACT IS POSTED TO THE FLORIDA COUNTABILITY
- CONTRACT TRACKING SYSTEM AGENCIES CAN START SUBMITTING REIMBURSEMENT CLAIMS WITH DOCUMENTATION TO THE
- OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE DETENTION FACILITY IN THE EVERGLADES THERE WAS AN UNDERSTANDING DETENTION WORKERS
- DOES ANY OF THE GRANT MONEY, DOES IT GO TO PAY THE WORKERS WHO MAY BE COMING FROM DIFFERENT AGENCIES
MN
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-15 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Employers with high-paid contract workers from using this tool, while also ignoring low-paid exempt
- has to specify that the the contract has to specify that the the contract with<01:35:43.520>
- <01:36:11.040>
again for the duration of the contract again for the duration of the contract - <01:39:42.360>
And <01:39:43.280>uh service contract. And uh service contract. - contracts in the state. contracts in the state.