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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 47 May 20th, 2026
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The hope that another child might receive treatment and time.
- Additionally, the philosophy has been at a state level that if there is no viable treatment or therapy
- We're developing new treatments and new therapies monthly.
- This screening does not lead to any compelled treatment. Thank you.
- This bill does not mandate treatment. It mandates knowledge.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- On the flip side, Crystal City does have a treatment plant. ...but to my knowledge, based on their state
- It would require building a treatment plant and significant infrastructure to make that happen.
- Talk a little bit, just a little bit, about the skill in operating the level of water treatment that
- It’s probably the most complicated type of water treatment to run, and it requires the highest level
- They currently don’t have to do any treatment with their— they’re on deep rock wells that are pumped
Committee:
House Utilities
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Legislative Finance Sub Committee Sep 24th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- It re-administers Medicaid and is the primary funding source for children's behavioral health treatment
- So you've got to put yourself in the role of this parent that's trying to go to treatment.
- Somebody's not paying attention or mom's got a substance abuse treatment problem.
- So the court could order a wide variety of conditions, such as substance use treatment.
- started in place and effective treatment to ameliorate the parent's addiction.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session Apr 30th, 2026
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- whom was heard the House bill promoting rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment
- whom was referred the House bill promoting rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment
- whom was referred the House bill promoting rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment
- of the contrary the House bill promoting the rule of law oversight trust and equal constitutional treatment
- house number five House Bill 5316, promoting rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 05:02 pm
West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- under consideration engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 4965, relating to patient-centered treatment
- Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 4965, relating to patient-centered treatment flexibility
- under consideration engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 4965, relating to patient-centered treatment
- Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 4965, relating to patient-centered treatment flexibility
- Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 4965, relating to patient-centered treatment flexibility
Summary:
The Senate first took up Senate Bill 155 on adjunct teaching permits. After adopting a Senate amendment to the House amendment, the chamber concurred in the House amendment as amended and passed the bill 33-0, with one member absent and not voting. The amendment was described as creating an exception so a criminal history check would not be required every year, and the bill was presented as a tool to help county boards fill vacancies, especially in shortage areas.
The chamber then received a large number of committee reports and advanced several House bills on first reading. These included measures on creating the Team West Virginia Corporation, establishing the West Virginia Collaboratory, the Foster Youth Post-Secondary Transition Awareness Act, business-ready site programs, volunteer fire company allowances, extending qualified opportunity zones, natural resource police retirement, PEIA treatment flexibility, PANS/PANDAS, ALS care services, abuse prevention, the respiratory care interstate compact, peer support services, tax lien sales, the Neighborhood Investment Program, bonds for the Science and Culture Center, and a comprehensive energy development policy and plan. Several bills were reported as amended by committees, and one energy bill was referred to the Rules Committee.
Additional committee action included reports on a bill to repeal the school-transfer eligibility protection, a load forecast accountability bill, oil and gas well plugging provisions, a TANF drug-screening extension, and a bill authorizing the Supreme Court of Appeals to create child protection commissioners. Most of these were advanced on first reading after unanimous consent. The Senate then moved to adjourn until the next day, with announcements of upcoming committee meetings before the chamber adjourned.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- that my older brother, when he was five years old, unfortunately had to undergo stage four cancer treatment
- Our family lived in the same city as our treatment, so we lived with our grandparents.
- sorry to say that there are many families because there are many children that require extensive treatment
- ...of treatment. So is $2.5 enough to get started? I'm for more.
Committee:
Senate Finance and Tax
Summary:
The Committee on Finance and Tax met with a quorum present and took up one bill, Senate Bill 182, the Home Away from Home Tax Credit Program. Senator Kalata explained that the bill would create a tax credit to encourage business donations supporting charitable health and hospitality homes that house families of children receiving long-term medical treatment away from home. He described the program as a way to help families avoid sleeping in cars or hospital lobbies and said it was modeled after Florida’s Strong Families Tax Credit. Senator Gates asked who could contribute and how the credit would work; the sponsor said it would apply to corporate insurance premium tax contributions and would be capped at $2.5 million. Gates noted the need was significant and said he would support the bill, though he questioned whether the cap was enough to start. No one appeared in opposition and there was no debate.
The committee then voted on SB 182, and it was reported favorably. Afterward, the chair said the committee was taking a measured approach to reviewing bills with financial impacts, citing a tightening fiscal outlook and the need to consider budget effects before advancing additional proposals. With no further business, the committee moved to adjourn.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on Tribal Relations, January 27, 2026 - PM
Select Committee on Tribal Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><03:46:52.479><c> courts</c> appointed director for treatment courts appointed director for treatment
- Um you a lot of access to treatment.
- So within treatment courts of Fremont County, we have both an adult treatment court and a juvenile treatment
- </c> Treatment court and a juvenile treatment court.
- </c> statistically they can go to treatment statistically they can go to treatment eight<04:08:46.319
Committee:
Joint Select Committee on Tribal Relations
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/31/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- By combining judicial supervision with access to treatment services, mentorship from fellow veterans,
- For example, we know that there is currently an RFA for federal veterans treatment court funding.
- The other treatment courts in Maricopa County are a total of about 600 cases. I'm sorry, 600 cases.
- Okay, it helps with paying for treatment, drug testing, and that kind of stuff.
- We have disease-modifying treatments now.
Summary:
The committee heard House Bill 2615, as amended by a strike-everything amendment creating an Independent Oversight Committee on the Department of Child Safety with 15 members, authority to review DCS data and practices, request briefings and audits, conduct site visits, and receive confidential complaints, with a $2.2 million FY 2027 appropriation. The sponsor and several parents and foster/adoptive caregivers testified in support, describing child safety failures and arguing for independent accountability, while some members questioned whether the Ombudsman’s office was the right home for the committee and suggested other oversight structures. The amendment was adopted, but the bill itself failed on a 5-5 vote.
House Bill 2620, which would appropriate $300,000 annually from FY 2027 through FY 2031 to the Arizona Department of Veterans Services for grants to emergency shelters serving veterans, received strong support from the sponsor and shelter advocates who said the funding would help move homeless veterans toward stable housing and connect them with VA services. Members emphasized veterans’ service and the need for trauma-informed case management, and the bill passed with a 10-0 do-pass recommendation. House Bill 2321, requiring DCS to place and later remove a credit freeze for children in care to prevent identity theft, also passed unanimously after the sponsor and members discussed the administrative process and protections for foster youth.
The committee then considered House Bill 2601, directing ADOT to seek federal segmentation for the Interstate 11 project between Casa Grande and Wickenburg so environmental review could proceed separately from litigation affecting the southern portion. Supporters framed the bill as a bipartisan way to keep the project moving, while opponents from environmental groups and several members argued it would encourage sprawl, harm desert habitat, and add cost and delay; the bill passed 6-4. House Bill 2992, a pilot program for child sexual abuse and grooming awareness education in six public schools, drew testimony from a trafficking survivor and others who supported prevention efforts, but some members argued the topic should be handled through broader sex education or parent education; it passed 6-4. Later bills also advanced: HB 2156, appropriating $250,000 to the Livestock Compensation Fund, passed 7-3; HB 2165, exempting certain veterans and National Guard members from state park admission fees, passed 6-4 after amendment narrowing the exemption; HB 2960, creating a veterans specialty court grant program and related data-sharing requirements, passed 8-0; HB 2014, directing studies on gasoline blends and fuel feasibility amid EPA waiver concerns, passed 6-2; and HB 2957, preserving non-Real ID licenses and limiting biometric/data retention with a Kavanaugh amendment, passed 5-4-1.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- There's been this focus on job training, drug court, inpatient drug treatment, outpatient drug treatment
- ,</c><00:03:54.720><c> outpatient</c> uh inpatient drug treatment, outpatient uh inpatient drug treatment
- </c> a long-term treatment center. a long-term treatment center.
- </c><00:42:13.839><c> We</c> ride to treatment was 30 minutes. We ride to treatment was 30 minutes.
- It's a treatment I landed in warm.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:43 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Even with this mandatory treatment, some of my elders really do not want to take pills, really do not
- The Honorable Judge Robert Lata has hearings once a month for assisted outpatient treatment.
- She is being denied treatment on her own accord.
- No one will be unjustly committed to outpatient treatment.
- But this is dealing with mental health and assisted outpatient treatment options.
AK
Alaska 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Jun 12th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Alaska House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- What it does is it puts the gas treatment plant and the LNG facility under the municipal property tax
- Speaker, provides extensive benefits to the municipalities that host the gas treatment plant and the
- This is specifically for the gas treatment plant. This is not the pipeline.
- This is specifically for the gas treatment plant. This is not the pipeline.
- So we're not just handing out a tax treatment for a project that doesn't get built.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- you to consider adding a project for the pregnant parenting and women's inpatient substance use treatment
- Too often, parents are forced to choose between seeking treatment and staying with their children.
- Our PPW programs provide inpatient SUD treatment as well as supportive housing.
- Our PPW programs provide inpatient SUD treatment as well as supportive housing.
- Our PPW programs provide inpatient SUD treatment as well as supportive housing.
Summary:
The committee first heard a briefing on the proposed Senate capital budget, Substitute Senate Bill 6003, which would spend about $723 million total using debt-limit bonds, Climate Commitment Act funds, and other cash resources. Staff described major investments in housing and homelessness, human services, local infrastructure, flood response, water conservation and clean energy, K-12 school modernization and seismic work, and higher education projects. Members then took public testimony from a wide range of advocates and project sponsors, most of whom urged the Senate to preserve or increase funding for specific projects in the final budget, including affordable housing, permanent supportive housing, child care facilities, food banks, behavioral health and substance use treatment centers, tribal courthouse relocation, school modernization, community colleges, university projects, floodplain restoration, community forests, and local civic or cultural facilities. Several witnesses also asked the Senate to match or approach House funding levels on items such as the Housing Trust Fund, permanent supportive housing, the Community Forest Program, Floodplains by Design, and CCA-supported clean energy and water projects. The chair noted that amendments to the capital budget were due the next day at noon.
The committee then received a briefing on Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2251, which would restructure Climate Commitment Act accounts by repealing three existing accounts and replacing them with two new accounts: a CCA operating account and a CCA capital account. Staff explained that the bill would preserve most existing uses while changing revenue distribution formulas, capping Ecology administrative costs, expanding allowable uses for EV-related costs, housing, and carbon capture/sequestration, and changing reporting and tribal consultation provisions. The bill also shifts some reporting from annual to biannual and modifies the thresholds for tribal-supported and overburdened-community investments. The fiscal note was described as relatively small, with the main impact being the revised revenue allocation structure.
Public testimony on the CCA bill was mixed. Supporters, including the League of Women Voters, said the restructuring better aligns spending with the intent of the CCA and could improve investments for tribes and overburdened communities. Critics, including the Washington Policy Center, argued the bill still lacks strong requirements to ensure CCA spending is effective and objected to reducing the frequency of the state’s climate-spending report. No votes were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Thu Jan 23, 2025, 10:00AM HST - State of Judiciary
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Girls Court and Women's Court are examples of treatment courts, a model that uses a team approach to
- We created Veterans Treatment Court that serves veterans who are having a hard time re-acclimating to
- Girls Court and Women's Court are examples of treatment courts, a model that uses a team approach to
- We created Veterans Treatment Court that serves veterans who are having a hard time re-acclimating to
- </c> environmental Court veterans treatment environmental Court veterans treatment Court<00:48:00.960
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Fortunately, there are millions of Floridians who receive cancer treatment successfully.
- Fortunately, there are millions of Floridians who receive cancer treatment successfully.
- And nobody told me not come to work during the time that I was receiving cancer treatment.
- Florida has kind of matched our temporary treatment.
- Florida has kind of matched with our temporary treatment.
Bills:
S0006 , S0026 , S0206 , S0532 , S0576 , S1012 , S1110 , S1178 , S1192 , S1758 , S1760 , S7046 , S7048
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee met and considered a large agenda of bills, reporting several measures favorably. Early action included SB 6, a settled claim bill involving the Department of Children and Families and the estate of Leila Estrada and Sapphire Williams, which was approved for $3.8 million. The committee also passed a cybersecurity internships bill creating a Department of Commerce program with Cyber Florida, and SB 532, which lets clerks of court retain the full amount of certain excess revenue and clarifies foreclosure-sale procedures. Veterans housing measures, CS for CS for SB 1602 and SB 1604, were approved to create a pilot program and a related trust fund for vacancy relief and risk mitigation for veteran housing. The committee also favorably reported SB 1110 on Medicaid and insurance coverage for orthotics and prosthetics, with emotional testimony from a student and family describing the high cost and importance of activity-specific prosthetics.
Members also approved CS for CS for SB 1012 after adopting an amendment that removed inmate emergency and specialty medical service compensation provisions while retaining changes to the contractor-operated institutions inmate welfare trust fund. Another bill, CS for CS for SB 1614, was narrowed by a delete-all amendment to focus on limiting the use of excess fees for new building construction by local governments. All of these measures were reported favorably after brief debate, with some support testimony submitted in writing or waived.
The most extensive discussion centered on CS for CS for SB 17, a major Medicaid and public assistance overhaul. The bill would create a Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight, allow the Legislature to retain its own actuary, tighten Medicaid program oversight, update encounter-data reporting, set performance standards for managed care plans, revise pharmacy benefit manager rules, and require DCF to implement SNAP fraud-reduction and payment-accuracy reforms, including photo IDs on EBT cards and updated work requirements. It also would direct agencies to seek federal waivers for Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults and expanded behavioral health services. After lengthy questioning and testimony, the committee adopted amendments adding a transitional medical benefits glide path for people who gain employment and later lose Medicaid eligibility, and exempting hospice patients with six months or less to live. Supporters argued the bill would improve accountability, reduce fraud, and save money, while opponents warned it would create administrative burdens, increase paperwork, and cause eligible people to lose coverage or food assistance. The committee ultimately reported the bill favorably as amended.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Local Government (6-24-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- The treatment plant aged over the years.
- </c> or build a new water treatment plant. or build a new water treatment plant.
- plant but the have a water treatment plant but the water<00:45:13.680><c> treatment</c><00:45:14.000
- The water treatment plant was just one piece of this.
- The water treatment plant the task is.
Summary:
The committee first heard an update from representatives of the Kentucky County Clerk’s Association on the transition to electronic recording and land records modernization. They reviewed the 2021 task force work, the legislation and budget funding that followed, and the requirements for county clerks to provide online search portals and complete 30-year property record searches, with a 60-year standard expected next summer. Speakers said most counties are still working through scanning and verification, with only a small number fully complete, and emphasized that verification of records is the main bottleneck because it requires staff time and careful matching of indexes to deeds. They also noted limited vendor availability, differences among counties in what records are already digitized, and that the association and land title attorneys are now working more closely on future “continuous improvement” legislation.
The clerks also raised related issues, including concerns about deed fraud as more records become searchable online. They said some counties already offer notification services that alert property owners when a document is recorded, which can help owners respond quickly to suspicious filings. They also discussed the filing document storage fee and KDLA digitization grants, saying the funding structure has generally worked but that two grant cycles have been missed. Another topic was whether, once records are fully digitized and searchable, some permanent records should remain publicly accessible or be moved to a safer archive. In response to committee questions, the witnesses said the remaining delays are less about money than staffing shortages and the need for more manpower to complete verification, and they said they would follow up on the balance in the KDLA fund and other details.
The committee then received a presentation from an Area Development District representative, who described the districts as regional, nonpartisan service organizations that help cities and counties pool resources, provide technical assistance, and leverage public and private partnerships. He highlighted examples of regional cooperation, including veterans-directed care and other shared programs, and argued that the districts create efficiencies and economies of scale for local governments and the state. No votes or formal actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- On the back end, there are chart review and meeting requirements to discuss the patient's treatment.
- You can do medical diagnosis treatment, and you're wanting prescriptive independence.
- as ordered by a healthcare practitioner legally authorized to prescribe the medicine or treatment.
- That is what a medical doctor does, and that's diagnosis and treatment.
- I think the answer is yes; it involves diagnosis and treatment. That's what they're going for.
Committee:
Senate State Affairs
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Fiscal Policy Apr 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So the bill also changes the rules around involuntary mental health treatment in prison.
- How do you define an emergency that justifies forced treatment? Thank you.
- facility and a court order for the treatment as specified in section 945.44.
- And we want to make sure that we get that treatment in as early as possible.
- Let's make sure we identify this so that they get their treatment.
Summary:
The committee met and first reported favorably CS for SB 1782, which creates a new offense for dangerous excessive speeding, with support noted from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida PBA. It also reported favorably CS for SB 306, which addresses Medicaid managed care provider network access by requiring after-hours and holiday appointment availability and a minimum level of primary care participation. CS for SB 716, imposing mandatory minimum sentences for certain sexual offenses committed by registered sex offenders or predators, and CS for SB 1084, expanding protections against non-consensual dissemination of intimate images and digitally forged intimate images, were also approved.
The committee then approved CS for CS for SB 1604, a corrections package that would require prepayment of court costs for certain inmate lawsuits, shorten the limitations period for confinement-condition claims, allow consecutive sentencing in some cases, and revise mental health treatment procedures in correctional settings. Members discussed constitutional concerns and access-to-courts issues, but the bill was reported favorably. CS for CS for SB 1804, which creates a capital offense for trafficking a child 12 or younger or a mentally incapacitated person for sexual exploitation, drew extensive debate and opposition from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Floridaans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; despite objections about constitutionality and ethics, it was reported favorably.
The committee also approved CS for SB 1838, expanding protections for court officials against tampering, harassment, and retaliation, and CS for CS for SB 890, the Emily Adkins Family Protection Act, which creates a statewide VTE registry and requires blood clot screening and training in hospitals and care facilities. Members and public witnesses spoke in strong support of the blood clot bill, including family members and survivors. Finally, the committee reported favorably CS for SB 1252, directing FDLE to study a statewide pawn data database, CS for SB 468, increasing penalties for fleeing or eluding law enforcement and allowing vehicle impoundment, CS for SB 490, expanding off-duty concealed carry eligibility for correctional officers and correctional probation officers, and CS for SB 572, the Pam Rock Act on dangerous dogs, which was amended to refine enclosure, confiscation, euthanasia, and insurance requirements.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- . ...as opposed to beginning to give me treatment.
- of gender dysphoria, particularly among... ...relative to the treatment of gender dysphoria, particularly
- So, number one, there's a difference in treatment.
- they are among the same universe of disagreements that we have, particularly with regard to the treatment
- We have a difference in philosophic approach to the treatment of gender dysphoria, particularly with
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Ways and Means Committee considers agriculture finance bill, HF2446 4/21/25
Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- If they do a bad job of funding wastewater treatment plants, let's hold them accountable.
- If they do a bad job of funding wastewater treatment plants, let's hold them accountable.
- If they do a bad job of funding wastewater treatment plants, let's hold them accountable.
- If they do a bad job of funding wastewater treatment plants, let's hold them accountable.
- 22.160><c> plants,</c> funding wastewater treatment plants, funding wastewater treatment plants, let's
Committee:
House Ways and Means
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Jan 15th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
Transcript Highlights:
- Substance abuse treatment needs, we're always trying to increase that to meet the need there.
- So while in custody, they may have attended drug treatment or had a prior drug offense.
- Those programs are independently procured and contracted for specific treatment services.
- This particular tool helps to inform service delivery while at the residential treatment program.
- This particular tool helps to inform service delivery while at the residential treatment program.
Summary:
The committee met to hear an overview of the Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice budget area and then received performance-measure presentations from the Department of Corrections, the Commission on Offender Review, and the Department of Juvenile Justice. Staff reviewed the roughly $7.4 billion criminal justice and judiciary budget, noting major funding areas such as corrections, law enforcement, victim services, courts, and due process, along with recent investments in prison health care, security equipment, fentanyl enforcement, court staffing, and juvenile justice salaries and education programs.
Secretary Dixon of the Department of Corrections described staffing and population pressures, including growth in inmate population, overtime-driven deficits, and the opening of additional housing units. He emphasized the department’s use of performance measures and highlighted reforms such as incentivized prisons, administrative management units, reentry planning, faith-based programs, and expanded education and vocational training. Members asked about teacher hiring, public defender pay parity, fentanyl funding, staffing capacity, and the role of the National Guard; Dixon said teacher vacancies had improved, public defenders had received comparable pay increases, fentanyl funding would be addressed further by FDLE, and the Guard had helped stabilize staffing.
The Commission on Offender Review reported on parole, conditional release, addiction recovery supervision, and revocations, saying its recidivism/success rates had improved over a three-year measurement period. Senator Rouson pressed the commission on clemency and pardons, saying that work was omitted from the presentation and asking for backlog and case data; the commission said it did not have those figures on hand and would follow up. The committee also discussed a conditional medical release pilot study, and members questioned the report’s conclusion that no suitable elderly inmate population could be identified, asking what criteria were used and whether stakeholders were consulted.
Secretary Hall of the Department of Juvenile Justice outlined the agency’s prevention-to-residential continuum and its emphasis on education, data-driven decision-making, and evidence-based programming. He said salary increases had reduced vacancies, juvenile arrests and residential commitments had fallen sharply over time, and tools such as civil citations, risk assessments, and quality-improvement reviews were being used to guide placements and services. Hall also described the department’s use of dashboards, monthly data check-ins, and the dispositional matrix to improve outcomes and reduce recidivism.