Video & Transcript Research : 'Senate Concurrent Resolution 22'

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KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Senator Rocky Adams. >> Senator Chambers Armstrong. >> Senator Wilson. >> Here. >> Representative
  • Boards and Commissions, Board of Physical Therapy, 201 KAR 22:010 and 22:070. 201 KAR 22:010 has staff-suggested
  • Thank you. >> Senator Adams, I might be able to add just for a second there.
  • Thank you. >> Senator Adams, I might be able to add just for a second there.
  • Thank you. >> Senator Adams, I might be able to add just for a second there.
Summary: The subcommittee met with a quorum present, approved the minutes without objection, and then reviewed a series of administrative regulations from multiple agencies. Most of the regulations received staff-suggested amendments and were approved without objection, including fish and wildlife rules on fishing limits and deer hunting on local government property, veterinary board changes to responsible party and veterinary manager requirements, election procedures for safe-at-home voters, attorney general regulatory relief rules, emergency gasoline tax pricing, public pensions updates, controller fraud-prevention policies, physical therapy licensure and English proficiency standards, school nutrition and fee-waiver rules, public health conference procedures, and Medicaid waiver regulations. Several agencies briefly identified themselves and answered procedural questions, but most items drew no substantive opposition. The Board of Veterinary Examiners regulation included an agency amendment that removed a proposed limit on the number of facilities a veterinary manager could oversee. The Department of Education regulations updated fee waiver and meal program procedures, while the Department of Public Health regulation clarified notification and conference-request procedures. The Department of Revenue and Kentucky Public Pensions Authority items were largely technical or conforming changes, including a special-needs trust definition added for consistency with Senate Bill 85. The most extensive discussion involved the Department for Medicaid Services’ 1915C child waiver regulations. Kentucky Protection and Advocacy testified in opposition to the waiver’s lack of participant-directed services, arguing that consumer-driven services such as respite and community living support are required and especially important in rural areas and for higher-acuity children. Cabinet representatives responded that the waiver is intended to provide wraparound services to keep children in homes and communities, that it has CMS approval, and that the program is limited to 100 slots with about 21 participants already enrolled. Members did not move a deficiency motion, and the chair indicated the regulations would continue through the process. The meeting adjourned after setting the next meeting for Tuesday, August 11 at 1:00 p.m.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 19th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We took this resolution as it came from the Senate.
  • This resolution in the Senate was in entitled the Jocelyn Nungeri Act.
  • There being 119 ayes, 22 nays, Senate Bill 1248 passes to the third reading.
  • There being 118 ayes and 22 nays, Senate Bill 2145 passes to the third reading.
  • I call up House Joint Resolution 1 with Senate amendments.