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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Taxes Committee hears bill to eliminate lowest income tax tier, HF812 3/5/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Are you going to cut nursing homes? Are you going to cut roads and bridges?
- Are you going to cut nursing homes? Are you going to cut roads and bridges?
- Are you going to cut nursing homes? Are you going to cut roads and bridges?
- Are you going to cut nursing homes? Are you going to cut roads and bridges?
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- for taking up the measure and said that, while they tried alternative ways of assuring coverage for nursing
- particularly<00:16:05.959>
um to Bill and cover particularly um to Bill and cover particularly um nursing - :07.600>
are <00:16:07.680>on <00:16:07.839>Medicaid <00:16:08.839>we nursing - parents who are on Medicaid we nursing parents who are on Medicaid we haven't<00:16:09.639>
successfully
Summary:
The Health and Human Services committee heard several resolutions focused on health care access, Medicaid services, and regulatory reform. SR 6 urged the Director of Health to create a working group on health insurance reform to reduce prior authorization delays; testimony was generally supportive, with DHS, SHIPA, the Hawaii Association of Health Plans, the Hawaii Primary Care Association, the Hawaii Medical Association, and HMSA all offering comments or support. SHIPA said House Bill 250 would provide a better mechanism for the same goal, but the committee still moved forward with the resolution.
SR 7 asked DHS Med-QUEST to cover behavioral health services for children in school-based settings, and SR 9 sought a program to incentivize community care foster family homes to accept people eligible under the Medicaid IDD waiver program. DHS supported the intent of both measures but raised concerns about regulatory limits. Testifiers on SR 9, including the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities and the Hawaii Disability Rights Center, argued the state should be more creative in expanding residential capacity, especially on the neighbor islands, while the chair questioned whether the barriers were state administrative rules or federal requirements.
The committee also heard SC 14/SR 10 on a sunrise analysis for lactation consultant licensure. Supporters said lactation services can improve health outcomes and save costs, and that Medicaid coverage remains limited. After discussion, the committee adopted the chair’s recommendations: SR 6 and SC 14/SR 10 were passed with technical, non-substantive amendments; SR 7 was deferred; and SR 9 was deferred for further work. The meeting then adjourned.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It's different with parents who are nursing. It's different in this situation.
- It's different in this nursing.
- You cannot bring them to the surgery room if you're a doctor or a nurse. There are so many careers.
- Or our hair stylist or the nurse at Regions.
- our the nurse at Regions. our the nurse at Regions.
Summary:
The Senate convened under call, established a quorum, and received routine executive communications and House messages, including the House’s passage of Senate File 3623 on school bus stopping requirements and transmittal of House Files 3241, 3731, 3741, and 3802. The chamber also adopted committee reports and gave second readings to several Senate files and House File 3379, while referring Senate File 4854 to the Capital Investments Committee and Senate Resolution 68 to Rules and Administration.
The main floor action involved a series of motions to re-refer bills to different committees. The Senate adopted motions to move Senate File 1671 from Judiciary and Public Safety to Housing and Homelessness Prevention, Senate File 2373 from Finance to Labor, Senate File 4452 from Capital Investment to Human Services, Senate File 4580 from Human Services to State and Local Government, Senate File 4589 from Judiciary and Public Safety to Higher Education, Senate File 4630 from Education Policy to Education Finance, and Senate File 4662 from Capital Investment to State and Local Government. The chamber also adopted a motion to give House File 3378 a second reading and place it on general orders after a roll call vote of 46-21.
The Senate then took up Senate Resolution 69, which would amend the temporary rules to allow certain accommodations for members who are new parents. Senators Murphy and Coleman spoke in support, arguing the rules should better reflect modern family life and make the chamber more welcoming to parents, especially mothers. Senator Nelson offered the A4 amendment to allow caucus leaders to permit a member’s child under age one on the floor, with the member responsible for supervision and the child exempt from Rule 17.6. Opponents, including Senator Boldon, argued the age limit was too restrictive and that parents should have more flexibility. After roll call, the Nelson A4 amendment failed 32-35, and the resolution remained pending with additional amendments possible.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We had nurses coming to the Capitol recently, and they all spoke about some of the challenges and the
- We had nurses coming to the Capitol recently, and they all spoke about some of the challenges and the
- I'm a surgeon, and, you know, we look at, say, the nursing workforce.
- know we look at say the nursing know we look at say the nursing workforce<00:39:36.160>
um <01:20:44.719>wanting mentioned earlier around nurses wanting mentioned earlier around nurses
Keywords:
HF1316, child support, new hire reporting, centralized work reporting system, independent contractors, payors, employers, payor of funds, withholding orders, income withholding, child support enforcement, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, gig economy, rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, 1099, W-9, W-4, newly hired workers, rehired employees
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/19/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They are the nursing assistants, nurses, culinary staff, environmental service workers, and senior leaders
- <01:25:54.639>
assistant language learning, nursing assistant language learning, nursing assistant - in some of those in-person nursing in some of those in-person nursing assistant<01:26:03.840>
- remiss if I didn't emphasize that that expectation to do more is coming at a time when Minnesota nursing
- homes and time when Minnesota nursing homes and disability<01:29:13.760>
providers <01:29:14.320
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The first round of changes on this slide are the changes to nursing facility payments.
- As you can nursing facility payments.
- of the nursing facility payment rates. of the nursing facility payment rates.
- the search charge um that nursing the search charge um that nursing facilities<00:43:23.119>
- Um, the next one is the Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board.
Bills:
HF3379
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/13/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a cardiac nurse in Luth, and I'm the president of the Minnesota Nurses Association.
- I represent one of the biggest nursing home companies in Minnesota.
- <00:57:31.920>
home <00:57:32.119>companies <00:57:32.440>in biggest nursing - home companies in biggest nursing home companies in Minnesota<00:57:33.440>
this <00:57:33.559 - She's a nurse practitioner now, with 13 employees. Does my boss get topped out?
Bills:
HF1976
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- in always does a pretty awful job of triaging people by insurance type because the docs care, the nurses
- in always does a pretty awful job of triaging people by insurance type because the docs care, the nurses
- in always does a pretty awful job of triaging people by insurance type because the docs care, the nurses
- in always does a pretty awful job of triaging people by insurance type because the docs care, the nurses
- type because the docs care the nurses type because the docs care the nurses care<00:21:33.600>
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (01/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- One in five of our nursing students already has a bachelor’s degree in some other field, but at some
- In some other field, but at some point in life, they realize that they were meant to become a nurse,
- Maine's ratio is 8 to 1 nursing, and that's expensive. I think New Hampshire is 10 to 1.
- Maine's ratio is 8 to 1 nursing, and that's expensive. I think New Hampshire is 10 to 1.
- That says something about the way the state's colleges and universities are preparing nurses, and it
Summary:
The meeting was the first session of a newly created House Education Funding Committee, which also handles career technical education and higher education legislation. The chair explained that the committee was split off from the larger education committee because of the high volume of bills in the prior biennium, and said its focus would be on education funding policy and related fiscal issues. He noted that the committee had already reviewed major topics with the Department of Education, including the foundation formula, building aid, career technical education, special education aid, catastrophic aid, and higher education funding, and that chancellors from the university and community college systems were scheduled to appear later that morning.
The bulk of the meeting was an orientation on committee procedures and decorum. The chair reviewed attendance and replacement rules, hearing procedures, time limits for testimony, and how the committee would handle crowded hearings, early bills, and fiscal notes. He emphasized that hearings are not debates, that sponsors and co-sponsors may present but should not use their position to dominate questioning, and that the chair controls whether additional technical questions are asked of witnesses. He also stressed neutrality, saying members should not display buttons or placards or engage in running debates with testifiers, and that the committee should treat all testimony respectfully regardless of party or viewpoint.
Additional housekeeping guidance covered security procedures, use of cell phones and computers during hearings, breaks and hydration in the dry hearing rooms, and courtesy toward the clerk and other staff. The chair also asked members to notify leadership in advance of absences and explained that some bills may require larger rooms or overflow arrangements. No votes were taken and no bills were acted on during this portion of the meeting.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I represent the Texas Nurses Association.
- I'm also here on behalf of the Nursing Legislative Agenda Coalition, which is a coalition... ...a coalition
- made up of over 20 specialty nursing organizations, and we are all unanimously in support of this bill
Keywords:
Defense Economic Adjustment, grant applications, economic assistance, local government, Evaluation panel, judicial review, Texas Workforce Commission, unemployment compensation, legal proceedings, labor law, rural development, infrastructure, Texas economic fund, private investment, job creation, meteorological evaluation towers, wind resources, aviation safety, regulations, construction notice
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I represent the Texas Nurses Association.
- I'm also here on behalf of the Nursing Legislative Agenda Coalition, which is a coalition made up of
- over 20 specialty nursing organizations.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Feb 26th, 2025
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Those nurses at Camp Sheridan, right here in Montgomery, were providing critical care to troops stationed
- On the left here is nurse Raven Christopher from Mobile, who was deployed to Kosovo, and that's her uniform
- We've got members of the chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear unit at a nursing home in Mobile
Keywords:
veterans affairs, Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, State Board of Veterans Affairs, commissioner, Governor appointment, oversight board, veterans services, veterans benefits, state veterans homes, veterans cemeteries, Alabama Veterans Home Trust Fund, veteran service officers, district managers, assistant commissioners, county veterans offices, military veterans, disabled veterans, elderly veterans, veterans organizations, American Legion
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
How will federal law affect Medicaid in Minnesota? 2/24/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This does not apply to nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities for people with developmental
- This does not apply to nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities for people with developmental
- This does not apply to nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities for people with developmental
- homes along with a charges for nursing homes along with a corresponding<00:27:16.320>
rate <00 - payments for hospitals, nursing payments for hospitals, nursing facilities,<00:29:27.760>
and
Summary:
The Department of Human Services briefed the committee on how the federal HR1 law will affect Minnesota Medicaid and related programs. Budget Director Elise Bailey said the 900-page bill makes sweeping changes that will reduce coverage, increase administrative complexity for counties and tribal governments, raise uncompensated care for providers, and reduce federal funding. She reviewed current Medicaid spending and enrollment, emphasizing that the largest impacts will fall on the adult expansion group (adults ages 21-64 without children), which currently receives a 90% federal match.
Bailey walked through several major provisions: work and community engagement requirements for the adult expansion group beginning January 1, 2027; six-month renewals for that same group; shorter retroactive coverage periods; new cost-sharing requirements for expansion enrollees above 100% of poverty; narrower Medicaid eligibility for certain lawful noncitizens; limits on provider taxes and state-directed payments; a reduced federal match for emergency medical assistance; and tighter federal rules on payment error penalties. She said many provisions require state law changes and additional federal guidance, and she cited research from Georgia suggesting work requirements increased administrative burden and caused coverage losses without increasing employment.
The department estimated fiscal effects including reduced Medicaid spending in some areas but higher state costs in others, such as MinnesotaCare, emergency medical assistance, administrative systems, and provider uncompensated care. Bailey said the immigration-status changes would shift some people from Medical Assistance to MinnesotaCare, and that provider-tax and state-directed-payment changes could reduce future funding to hospitals and other providers. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the portion provided; the presentation was informational and the department indicated it would return with proposed state-law language as needed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Floor debate on automatically returning future budget surpluses to taxpayers 3/17/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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homes support for our nursing homes support for our nursing homes for<00:33 - It wouldn't let us invest in our nursing homes or in our infrastructure. account and the account that
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homes <01:03:19.160>in <01:03:19.279>our in our nursing homes - in our in our nursing homes in our infastructure infastructure infastructure so<01:03:22.119>
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home long-term care and nursing home long-term care and nursing home facilities
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Higher Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a registered nurse and currently work as a full-time school nurse at a charter school in Boston.
- In addition to working as a registered nurse, I also have my Master of Science in Nursing and maintain
- my board certification as a family nurse practitioner.
- Never in my nursing and advanced practice nursing education did I learn about combating disease with
- And so do overworked nurses who are caring for them.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Higher Education held its first hearing and heard testimony on a wide range of bills, including hunger-free campuses, FAFSA completion, early college/college-in-high-school programs, banning legacy preferences, AP credit consistency, and tuition equity for the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. Committee leaders opened by outlining the hearing process and noting the three-minute testimony limit. Legislators and advocates generally framed the bills as equity and access measures aimed at improving college affordability, student success, and workforce development.
Representative Vargas testified for H. 1466 and H. 1467, arguing that hunger-free campus should be codified because many public college and community college students face food insecurity, and that FAFSA completion should be improved through individualized outreach and an opt-out or completion requirement. Senator Lovely, the Greater Boston Food Bank, and other advocates supported the hunger-free campus bill, citing data that 44% of public university and community college students experienced food insecurity in 2023 and that food insecurity harms graduation rates. Femi Stoltz and Shanti Lopez Toro backed the FAFSA bill, saying many students miss out on Pell grants and need direct support; they pointed to state examples such as Louisiana and to recent state action requiring FAFSA awareness. Committee members asked about the federal FAFSA rollout, regional equity in food access, and the need for long-term funding and data collection.
A large panel supported H. 1455 on college and high school/early college, including former Chair Roy, the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College, a student graduate, MBAE, and Tripp Jones. They described early college as a proven model that helps low-income and first-generation students, improves degree attainment, and supports workforce needs; witnesses said the goal is to scale from about 9,000 students and 55 partnerships toward 22,000 to 25,000 students by 2030, with possible future growth beyond that. Members raised questions about funding, public-private partnerships, parental involvement, faculty development, and whether the bill should include data review and more standardized policies across institutions. Representative Garcia also testified for H. 1432 on AP credit, saying students should receive consistent credit for AP scores of 3, 4, or 5. Senator Edwards and James Murphy testified for the legacy preference ban, arguing it is unfair and rooted in exclusionary history; they said some states have already banned legacy preferences in public and private institutions. Finally, UMass Dean Michael Fox, alumnus Dan Mayer, and student Jake Rasmussen supported S. 920 to include Stockbridge associate degree programs in MassEducate, saying tuition equity would help enrollment and support Massachusetts agriculture and green-industry jobs.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- substitute for Senate Bill 340, a bill to be entitled an act relating to human trafficking education for nurse
- And back in 2017, in order to address this problem so that our nurses, our doctors, and our whole health
- Unfortunately, it didn't include nurses who are currently in nursing school.
- Unfortunately, it didn't include nurses who are currently in nursing school.
- substitute for Senate Bill 340, a bill to be entitled an act relating to human trafficking education for nurse
Summary:
The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and several introductions recognizing visitors, students, local officials, and professional groups in the gallery. The chamber then took up a report from the Ethics and Elections Committee confirming 42 executive appointments; the report was adopted by a vote of 36-0. The Senate also adopted a resolution honoring the Ripple Project for childhood cancer awareness and funding.
The bulk of the meeting was spent on special-order bills, many of them open-government sunset review measures and policy bills. The Senate passed bills preserving or updating public records exemptions for aquaculture records, trade secrets, and cybersecurity information; a child-abuse reporting statute of limitations bill; a commercial driving schools bill; a human trafficking training requirement for nursing graduates; a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person and its companion public-records bill; a nature-based coastal resiliency bill with an amendment restricting dredge-and-fill in Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve; a chiropractic patient-funds bill; specialty license plate legislation; a one-time waiver for late financial disclosure fines; public school personnel compensation changes; the Florida Farm Bill with amendments protecting Everglades lands and technical corrections; homestead exemption clarification for long-term leaseholders; disability presumption clarifications for firefighters and law enforcement; reinsurance intermediary manager conformity changes; patriotic displays in public schools; ADS-B aviation fee restrictions; autism-related law enforcement training and a blue envelope program; public post-secondary safety policy requirements; and a bill allowing licensed agents to market health care sharing ministries. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary certificates for practice, and domestic animals.
Members debated a number of measures, especially the health care sharing ministries bill, where opponents raised consumer-protection and commission concerns and supporters argued for free speech, religious liberty, and expanded consumer choice; it passed 32-5. Other debated bills included the autism law enforcement bill, the school athletics bill addressing coach support for student-athletes, and the Farm Bill, where senators discussed surplus land safeguards and biosolids timing. Most bills passed overwhelmingly, often 37-0 or 38-0, with a few closer votes such as the patriotic displays bill (36-2) and the health care sharing ministries bill (32-5).
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They will be our nurses, our teachers, our essential workers.
- , that I am a registered nurse, that I have a license to practice.
- Our Texas alumni include nurses, teachers, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
- I now have a nursing degree. Thanks to my degree, I can afford to help my mom financially."
- This is a UTEP graduate with a bachelor's in nursing.
Keywords:
higher education, tuition rates, financial support, immigration status, Texas law, SB 1835, resident tuition, nonresident students, scholarship students, public higher education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Education Code Section 54.213, tuition waiver, in-state tuition, out-of-state students, higher education finance, enrollment cap, capacity limit, workforce development area, nonimmigrant visa
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- number of issues, mental health, but the bill also implements the elementary school counselors and nurse
- <00:08:49.519>
recommendations counselors and nurse recommendations counselors and nurse recommendations - So, we would immediately go to the evidence-based recommendation on nurses and counselors.
- As it’s drafted right now, it would delete counselors, nurses, mental health from the 2026 study.
- counselors nurses mental health from<01:29:47.120>
the <01:29:47.360>2026 <01:29:48.159
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (02/17/2026)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- , and nursing, basic training, and housebreaking,<01:02:51.280>
which <01:02:51.520>is < - Pregnant, nursing, and neonatal animals require even more intensive care.
- nursing dogs and cats was really common. nursing dogs and cats was really common.
- <01:14:25.679>
mothers monitoring, and pregnant nursing mothers monitoring, and pregnant nursing - Um, we may want to look nursing mothers.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Status of Persons with Disabilities Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Transcript Highlights:
- possible, but basically what MassHealth has always been able to do is, you know, we put a tax on nursing
- There's a nurse that comes in and does an assessment, and it's one of the ways that we're able to support
- enforcement that has real consequences to the folks that are working in our hospitals, working in our nursing
Summary:
The subcommittee opened with roll call and approved the November 2025 minutes. Commissioner Charlie Carr then introduced Leslie Darcy, chief of LTSS at MassHealth, who provided an update on the PCA working group and on federal and state budget pressures affecting MassHealth and long-term services and supports. Darcy said the PCA working group had completed its work and submitted recommendations, including reinstating the 66-hour overtime cap, strengthening program integrity, and ending paid paperwork time for EVV users; she said those changes were implemented on 11/26 and were expected to save $7.4 million. She also described additional consensus recommendations to lower the overtime cap from 66 to 60 hours, create a seven-hour weekly meal-prep support limit, and continue exploring benchmarks, though the group could not reach consensus on a benchmark standard.
Darcy warned that a federal bill enacted about six months earlier would significantly affect MassHealth, with an estimated $3.5 billion loss to the Commonwealth by 2028. She outlined upcoming changes including revised immigrant eligibility rules in October 2026, work requirements for certain non-disabled adults beginning in January 2027, six-month redeterminations for some adults, and shorter retroactive coverage periods. In response to questions, she said people with disabilities and Medicare beneficiaries would be exempt from the work and six-month redetermination requirements. She also explained that reduced federal ACA subsidies were being offset in Massachusetts by state spending, including $250 million in additional state support to keep premiums lower for middle-income families.
Members raised concerns about community hospitals, the health safety net, and the impact of federal funding changes on provider rates and uncompensated care. Darcy said restrictions on provider taxes would limit MassHealth’s ability to use those revenues to support rates, and she noted a current $300 million shortfall in the health safety net. She said FY27 would likely include a rate freeze, targeted reductions, one-time budget measures, and further work groups to examine programs such as adult foster care, which she said had grown 40% in two years. Carr emphasized that the situation was serious but potentially fluid, and the meeting ended with no further business; the subcommittee agreed to adjourn before the next meeting and noted an upcoming February presentation from the Department of Public Health.