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AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-PEER Jun 16th, 2026

ALC-PEER

Transcript Highlights:
  • These adjustments support the department's organizational realignment, prevent shortfalls, and it closely
  • It is supported by the Attorney General Opioid Grant.
Committee: All ALC-PEER
Summary: The committee met to review a large slate of fiscal year 2026 and 2027 appropriation, transfer, and continuation requests across multiple sections. Early items included temporary appropriations for agencies such as Health, DHS, Education, Public Safety, State Police, Emergency Management, Aeronautics, Military, Economic Development, and Game and Fish, covering items like maternal health outreach, energy assistance repayments, Wynne High School tornado rebuilding, senior food services, cybersecurity, crime victim reparations, aviation grants, conservation incentives, and emergency tower maintenance. Members asked questions on several items, including DHS aging carry-forward funds and Treasury custodial banking fees tied to COVID-era balances; the committee also approved a disclosure by the chair on the Game and Fish-related item before voting to approve the section. The committee then approved continuation requests, CARES Act and ARPA reallocations, and federal grant appropriations. Notable discussion included the Boonville developmental disability project, ALIGN program reallocations at several universities, a small business technical assistance grant at UA Little Rock, and a Department of Public Safety highway safety grant, for which members requested more detail on operating expenses and professional fees. Additional approvals covered a transfer to the Merit Teacher Incentive program, restricted reserve fund transfers for military medical command and university projects, and a state central services deduction held at 2%. The Department of Commerce also received approval for a reallocation of positions and spending authority tied to its organizational realignment. Later sections included shared technology and higher education transfers, cash fund appropriations for school Medicaid reimbursements, corrections, youth mental health, narcotics detection canines, bike safety equipment, a state motor pool pilot, and law enforcement safety costs. The committee also reviewed budget classification transfers, including a Governor’s Office legal fee transfer related to a California lawsuit, and heard explanations about E-Rate reimbursements affecting the Office of State Technology. Members asked about VOCA funding levels for crime victim services and about the National Security Grant Program for nonprofits and faith-based organizations; officials said federal funding had declined from prior highs but appeared to have stabilized, and that the nonprofit security grant is an annual federal program. The meeting concluded with review of pay plan requests, DHS overtime funding for child protection caseloads, and a year-end adjustment request allowing DFA to make up to $1 million in transfers to close the books, after which the committee adjourned.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Mar 23rd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 26 by Senator McMath, opioid treatment programs, to repeal certain facility need review requirements
  • House Bill 124 by Representative Dickerson, Domestic Violence Prevention Commission, membership of the
Summary: The House convened with prayer, the pledge, leave granted for one member, and several ceremonial recognitions, including Women Shaping Industry Day, Louisiana Agriculture Week, and CODOFIL Day at the Capitol. The chamber also received Senate messages concurring in several House concurrent resolutions and adopting SCRs 14 and 15, which designated Flood Awareness Month and recognized the bond between Quebec and Louisiana. Numerous resolutions and bills were introduced and referred, including measures on retirement systems, juvenile justice districts, carbon sequestration in St. Helena Parish, tax administration, election procedures, education, criminal justice, and state property transfers. The House adopted several resolutions without objection, including commendations for Thrive Academy, Bishop Lonnie Welder, Pastor Aaron Holloway, World Down Syndrome Day, and others. Members also heard committee reports on a wide range of bills, with many reported favorably or with amendments. In morning hour, the House discharged and withdrew two bills from committee, and later returned some bills to the calendar with notice to call them on later dates. The chamber then took up a series of floor bills, passing HB 474 to create an income tax checkoff for the Grambling State University National Alumni Association, HB 487 on penalties for unsafe red-light passing maneuvers, HB 503 on utility terrain vehicles in Golden Meadow, HB 606 on personal delivery devices, HB 633 on estimated income tax filing timing, HB 707 on the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Commission Advisory Board, HB 970 on tacit dedication of public roadways, HB 728 on out-of-state tow truck requirements, HB 846 on license plate coverings, HB 852 on a domestic violence donation checkoff, HB 856 on DOTD indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity construction contracts, HB 221 naming the proposed Mississippi River bridge the President Donald J. Trump Expressway, HB 148 designating a highway memorial, and HB 331 creating a Louisiana GOP specialty plate. Most of these bills passed with little or no opposition, though HB 221 drew debate and passed 68-26. The House adjourned after announcing committee meetings for the following day.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Mar 23rd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 26, by Senator McMath, repeals certain facility need review requirements for opioid treatment
  • House Bill 124 by Representative Dickerson, Domestic Violence Prevention Commission, membership of the
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • THE EXEMPTION IS NECESSARY TO PREVENT THE RELEASE OF INFORMATION AND MAY SUBJECT INDIVIDUALS FOR FINANCIAL
  • IN 2022 FENTANYL WAS INVOLVED IN NEARLY 70 PERCENT OF OPIOID RELATED DEATHS IN THE STATE.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • Primarily fentanyl is the new cut water use and we're seeing on the silencing but also to other opioids
  • because of what to do criminal justice, we should be able to act quickly to make lawful arrest and to prevent
Keywords: 999, senate, all
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am

Labor & Workplace Standards

Transcript Highlights:
  • , substance use disorder awareness and prevention, peer support, and connecting to resources.
  • Injuries and opioids have continued to take their toll.
  • The SHIP grants are going to look at different ways of prevention of PTSD.
  • And the ship grants is going to look at different ways of prevention of PTSD.
  • I don't know that we can ever prevent it, but when can we address it?
Bills: HB2405 , HB2406 , HB2471 , HB2478 , HB2492
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 21st, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • , substance use disorder awareness and prevention, peer support, and connecting to resources.
  • Injuries and opioids have continued to take their toll.
  • The SHIP grant is going to look at different ways of preventing PTSD.
  • And the ship grants is going to look at different ways of prevention of PTSD.
  • I don't know that we can ever prevent it, but when can we address it?
Summary: The committee held public hearings on several Labor and Workplace Standards bills. HB 2492 would require building and construction apprenticeship programs, beginning in 2027, to include two hours of behavioral health and wellness training covering topics such as suicide prevention, substance use disorder, recognizing distress, peer support, and connecting to resources. The prime sponsor and many labor, apprenticeship, and contractor witnesses supported the bill, describing high suicide and overdose rates in construction and sharing personal stories about losses and struggles in the trades. No vote was taken on the bill during the hearing. The committee then heard HB 2405, a Department of Labor and Industries request bill creating a pilot to allow earlier treatment for PTSD claims in workers’ compensation, including up to 11 treatment sessions before claim adjudication and limited follow-up treatment after closure. L&I and NFIB supported the measure as a way to speed treatment and reduce barriers, while one legal advocate supported it but raised technical concerns about pre-claim treatment and urged more focus on workplace prevention; another witness cautioned against emphasizing psychiatric drug treatment. The bill was heard only; no action was taken. HB 2406 would expand L&I’s ability to send notices electronically, with opt-in/opt-out provisions and some changes to timing rules for workers’ compensation and WISHA notices. L&I supported the bill as a modernization measure, while labor and workers’ advocates opposed changes affecting workers’ compensation notices, arguing that email should not become the default for vulnerable workers who may miss deadlines. HB 2478 would give L&I discretion, rather than a mandate, to investigate wage complaints and allow penalties when the department initiates an investigation; L&I supported it as a more efficient enforcement tool, and the committee discussed how complaints would still be handled and communicated. Finally, HB 2471 would create a state collective bargaining framework for private-sector workers if federal labor law or the NLRB no longer covers them. Supporters said it would preserve organizing and dispute-resolution rights if federal protections fail, while agricultural employers and NFIB opposed it, arguing it would inappropriately apply to agriculture and small businesses, could disrupt perishable harvests, and should rely on secret-ballot elections rather than card check. No votes were taken on any of the bills in the hearing.
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Agenda Jan 19th, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • There were 11 new substances proposed to be added to Schedule I and 2 opioids to Schedule II that hadn't
Keywords: 989, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Additionally, it adds three additional synthetic opioids from Senate Bill 679, by you.
Summary: The Senate Committee on State Affairs met with a quorum present and considered several pending measures. On Senate Bill 1868, Senator Perry explained a committee substitute that would keep kratom in its natural state legal while continuing to ban 7-OH and other synthetic derivatives, and would also add three synthetic opioids from another bill. The substitute was adopted, and SB 1868 was reported favorably to the full Senate and certified for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also adopted a committee substitute for Senate Joint Resolution 39, Senator Birdwell’s proposed constitutional amendment related to veto overrides after a regular session, and reported it favorably to the full Senate; members noted a floor amendment would also be offered later. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1184, relating to the age of wine authorized to be sold by a wine collection seller, and reported it favorably to the full Senate. After some procedural discussion and a revote to clarify members’ positions, SB 1184 was also certified for the local and uncontested calendar. Senate Bill 1194 was likewise certified for the local and uncontested calendar without objection, though the transcript does not include its substantive discussion. Senate Bill 1577, relating to the temporary sale of alcoholic beverages at certain racing facilities, was reported favorably to the full Senate and then certified for the local and uncontested calendar. Finally, Senate Concurrent Resolution 42, by Chairman Hughes, was reported favorably to the full Senate on an 8-1 vote. The committee then recessed until called back by the chair.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Jan 29th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Appropriations and Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • The department's core mission is to provide prevention treatment services to create a stable mental health
  • care, residential substance abuse treatment, and composite restoration, respiration restoration prevention
  • services, suicide prevention, mental health promotion, opioid overdose prevention, and screening, brief
  • vision is to provide services that promote productive lifestyles instead of a national standard for prevention
Keywords: 914, all
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Jan 14th, 2025

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And over 80% of those deaths are preventable.
  • And over 80% of those deaths are preventable.
  • procedures, including obstetrical and family planning services, well-child visits that include preventive
  • EPSDT basically means any service that is medically necessary to correct, prevent, or ameliorate a defect
  • The DCF is the core program where we were working on the coordinated opioid response efforts, and part
Summary: The Senate Health Policy Committee met to discuss maternal and infant health, beginning with a presentation from New Jersey’s Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Authority (MiHA). Pamela Taylor described New Jersey’s statewide effort to reduce maternal mortality and racial disparities through the Nurture New Jersey campaign, a strategic plan with more than 80 recommendations, universal home visiting, Medicaid-covered doula care, hospital report cards, limits on non-medically indicated early elective C-sections, and a new maternal and infant health innovation center. Senators asked about doula certification, funding, home visiting, and how New Jersey coordinates across agencies; Taylor said the authority uses quarterly stakeholder meetings, annual summits, and a tracker for recommendations, and that community input helped shape its programs. Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Deputy Secretary Brian Meyer then outlined Florida Medicaid’s maternal coverage and managed care structure. He reviewed eligibility and services for pregnant women, labor and delivery, postpartum coverage, newborn coverage, and family planning, noting 12 months of postpartum coverage, expanded benefits in managed care plans, and new contracts launching February 1 with more maternal-health-focused benefits, quality measures, and a new quality withhold incentive structure. Senators questioned doula certification and duplication with Healthy Start, provider access and network adequacy, kick payments, quality reporting, and whether Florida should consider broader eligibility standards; Meyer said many details are still plan-driven, that quality metrics are public, and that the agency is working on maternal-health work groups and incentives. Department of Health Division Director Shea Holloway followed with an overview of Florida’s maternal and child health programs and data. She cited Florida CHARTS data showing pregnancy-related deaths, severe maternal morbidity, and infant mortality trends, and described the Title V block grant, the Maternal Mortality Review Committee, the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative, the electronic prenatal risk screen, Healthy Babies, BH Impact for perinatal mental health, Healthy Start, WIC, family planning, telehealth maternity care, and the Pregnancy Care Network. Senators asked about delays in mortality review reporting, preterm birth, substance use disorder in pregnancy, WIC participation, cesarean rates, and the impact of the abortion ban; Holloway said the department is continuing to monitor outcomes, expand screening and telehealth, and use data and hospital partnerships to improve care. The committee then adjourned without further business.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • abatement money as prevention.
  • abatement money as prevention.
  • We're going to open the hearing on SB 210 relative to bullying and cyberbullying prevention.
  • of bullying and have policies prevention of bullying and have policies in<01:22:40.880><c> relation<
  • And what we want to do in this statute and the amendments is to prevent that divisive instruction in
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee opened hearings on SB 69, including a germane amendment on school board votes to accept or reject gifts and donations, and a non-germane amendment creating a virtual early childhood readiness family engagement program for preschool children not yet in kindergarten. Prime sponsor Rep. Glenn Cordelli said the literacy program was modeled on earlier HB 671, would be funded through gifts and donations rather than state appropriations, and would include reporting requirements to the governor and legislature. Members questioned changes from the earlier bill, including the move away from center-based language, the lack of a dollar threshold for school board action on donations, anonymous gifts, and whether the amendment preserved enough evaluation data. Testimony on the donation provisions raised concerns about broad language, timing, and public-meeting requirements. Rep. Timothy Han and Becky Wilson of the New Hampshire School Boards Association both noted that school districts already have policies and asked how the bill would work for routine donations, anonymous gifts, and situations that might require non-public discussion under right-to-know law. Wilson cited examples such as field-trip scholarships, backpack drives, and sports uniforms, and said the association was not taking a position but wanted clearer guardrails. Rep. Han said school boards may need to discuss some gifts in non-public session and that the bill should better address those circumstances. On the early literacy amendment, Wilson and others questioned whether the program was sufficiently developed, whether it was appropriate to rely on a primarily online model for very young children, and how it would interact with special education services and IEPs. A representative from Waterford.org, Rob Riley, testified in support, saying the program would be supplementary, adaptive, and family-engagement based, and that Waterford could provide devices and internet access for families who need them. He said the program would work alongside school districts and IEP teams rather than replace existing services. No vote was taken during the hearing; the chair said the committee would later exec the bills and try to get reports in for the calendar.
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

2026 Legislative Session - Day Thirty Seven - Thursday, March 12

Missouri House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Pain management options without facing financial penalties or insurance hurdles that prioritize opioid
  • give families clear guidance during one of the most difficult moments they will ever face and help prevent
  • give families clear guidance during one of the most difficult moments they will ever face and help prevent
  • additional conflict when families should be allowed the time and space to begin healing. ...prevent
  • This is the bill that helps to prevent people from stealing someone's home.
Keywords: 959, house, all
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Labor & Commerce Jan 26th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Labor & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • The tax collections are deposited in the youth harmful substance prevention account, and appropriations
  • from the account may be used only to fund programs and activities that prevent and reduce youth access
  • We're grateful that the bill directs resources toward prevention, and we would also like to see some
  • I'm a board member with the Washington Association for Substance Misuse and Violence Prevention.
  • And I think this law that prevents people from interacting with a harmless plant creates a condition
Bills: SB6196 , SB6204 , SB6195 , SB5882 , SB6134
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, May 20, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • ><c> administrations</c><04:21:03.040><c> from</c> to prevent future administrations from to prevent
  • HR1900, the Bank Failure Prevention Act, HR1900, the Bank Failure Prevention Act, which<04:22:29.279>
  • mergers and prevented bank mergers that would have prevented bank failures.
  • </c> administration uh that uh prevented administration uh that uh prevented healthy<04:40:06.240><c>
  • We want to prevent bank failures.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/05/2026 - House Floor Session

Arizona House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 2992, pilot program, sexual abuse prevention — Education and Appropriations.
  • This bill does not prevent a librarian from being a member of a library association.
  • She secured $1.1 billion in opioid settlements from Teva, Allergan, CVS, Walgreens, and Purdue Pharma
Keywords: 1182, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Housing Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Rising housing instability, a mental health crisis, a deadly and rapidly evolving opioid epidemic, and
  • their manufactured home parks as cooperatives, they gain long-term control over their communities, preventing
  • Investing in these programs now prevents future crises, saving taxpayer money by reducing the need for
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Jan 14th, 2025

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • presumption against liability for negligent security for multifamily property owners that take certain preventative
  • always see that, because when you put the TV on, the numbers of individuals using meth and dying of opioids
  • that a public records exemption enacted by the Legislature is the only tool that would effectively prevent
Committee: Senate Judiciary
Summary: The Judiciary Committee met with a quorum present and heard several Office of the State Courts Administrator presentations. Judge Mark Mahan discussed the impact of 2023’s HB 837 litigation reforms on court operations, explaining that the law’s changes to comparative negligence, filing deadlines, collateral source evidence, premises liability, bad faith claims, attorney’s fees, and offer-of-judgment rules triggered a major March 2023 civil filing surge. He described how filings tripled statewide, with especially large increases in auto negligence and premises liability cases, and outlined how circuits responded through active case management, added resources, and workflow changes. Members asked whether the bill’s immediate effective date contributed to the surge and whether clearance rates would normalize over time; Judge Mahan said the court system viewed its response as a success and expected rates to settle as the backlog is worked through. The committee then received a presentation on problem-solving courts from Jennifer Grandal and Judge Nina Richardson. Grandal reviewed Florida’s drug courts, mental health courts, veterans courts, dependency and early childhood courts, noting statewide best-practice standards, annual reporting requirements, funding sources, and data collection systems. Judge Richardson gave a local perspective on treatment courts, emphasizing that they address underlying mental health and substance use issues, rely on judicial supervision and sanctions as well as incentives, and help participants achieve recovery and avoid reoffending. She said the programs are accountable, transparent, and effective, and thanked the Legislature for continued support. Finally, Judge Rachel Nordby and Eric McClure outlined the judicial branch’s legislative agenda. Nordby summarized the Supreme Court workgroup’s recommendations to expand Florida’s vexatious litigant law, including broader coverage, fewer qualifying adverse cases, a longer lookback period, and a public records exemption for stricken defamatory or sham material. McClure then highlighted additional agenda items: modernizing the duty-judge statute, expanding senior management retirement eligibility, authorizing additional judgeships based on workload studies, removing the statutory cap on court-ordered nonbinding arbitration compensation, protecting appellate clerks’ personal information, allowing alternative authentication for certain judicial notarizations, and creating a hearsay exception for guardian ad litem reports and testimony. No votes were taken, and the committee adjourned after member introductions and staff introductions.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/18/25

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><01:20:37.159><c> character</c> violence prevention character violence prevention character development
  • And then there are other ones that could be included, like child sexual abuse prevention, violence prevention
  • <01:54:28.560><c> violence</c><01:54:29.040><c> prevention</c><01:54:30.000><c> character</c> prevention
  • violence prevention character prevention violence prevention character development<01:54:30.920><c>
  • </c><01:54:38.880><c> um</c> be standards this isn't preventing um be standards this isn't preventing
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/20/25

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm just kind of curious what you're doing to help prevent this. Mr.
  • I'm just kind of curious what you're doing to help prevent this. Mr.
  • </c><00:26:35.200><c> Elnas,</c> help prevent this. Mr. Elnas, help prevent this. Mr.
  • What prevents a Minnesota team, and since we have Mr.
  • What What prevents us from something?
Bills: HF1392 , HF2233 , HF695 , HF2228 , HF1289