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NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Finance Division III (02/26/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • bureaus and program bureaus and program areas<00:10:35.519> in<00:10:35.720> addition<
  • <00:15:51.680> at is our community Navigator program at is our community Navigator program
  • <00:43:03.000> that's Community Navigator program that's Community Navigator program that's
  • We're sending staff out to visit these programs on a monthly basis to meet with kids in the program areas
  • We're sending staff out to visit these programs on a monthly basis to meet with kids in the program areas
Keywords: 1189, house, all
Summary: The Division 3 House Finance Committee opened a work session and announced scheduling updates, including a second Medicaid work session on March 5 at 9:00 a.m. and a reminder that recommendations or budget amendments must be moved to the full finance committee by the end of March. Members were told no motions, roll calls, or votes would be taken, and the chair also reviewed upcoming meeting dates and weather-related cancellation procedures. The day’s presentation was a budget work session on the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), with officials Marie Nunan and Nathan White introducing the agency’s budget materials and mission. DCYF’s presentation focused on its core mandates and recent operational changes. Officials described child protective services, juvenile justice services, and the Sununu Youth Services Center, then highlighted workforce improvements, including reduced vacancy rates for assessment caseworkers, juvenile justice officers, and youth counselors. They attributed the staffing gains to legislative pay raises, mass recruitment posting changes, a more stable and trauma-informed model at SYC, and broader flexibility after prior budget cuts and hiring freezes. Members asked about full-time versus part-time staffing, and DCYF said most positions discussed were full-time, with some harder-to-fill part-time youth counselor roles at SYC. The committee also discussed DCYF’s emphasis on serving families earlier through its Community Navigator hotline referrals and community-based voluntary services, which are intended to connect families to supports before abuse or neglect escalates. Officials said the Community Navigator program had received 807 referrals since August 2023. On juvenile justice, DCYF described its assessment and diversion process and said it had reduced juvenile probation involvement by 30% from 2019 to 2023; members were directed to slide 17 for 2024 data, and officials said the trend continued toward fewer in-home juvenile justice cases. The agency also reported progress in kinship care, saying initial out-of-home placements with kin now occur 74% of the time and that kinship placements are associated with more reunification. Officials said kinship caregivers are being licensed and paid similarly to foster parents, and that the legislature’s kinship law has helped. Finally, DCYF outlined transition-age youth supports, including the HOPE program, Youth Villages LifeSet, and housing vouchers. No votes or formal actions were taken.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 29th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • phases, on the Perkins program.
  • That typically is what we're funding is, you know, our robotics programs, our art programs, programs
  • You can name another program. I may be saying the wrong one. Give it the money for a program.
  • You can name another program. I may be saying the wrong one. Give it the money for a program.
  • Or we make it programming.
Keywords: 996, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Human Services - 03/16/26

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • a safe transitions program. a safe transitions program.
  • The number varies from day to day. safe transition program? How many safe transition program?
  • Department of Human Services programs. Department of Human Services programs.
  • under the programs you supervise? under the programs you supervise?
  • who rely upon these programs. who rely upon these programs.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

Senate Children and Family Law (03/19/2026)

Children and Family Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • enticing, removal, or otherwise causing a child to be, uh, removed in some manner from a parent or guardian
  • 00.800> this<00:09:01.040> is<00:09:01.200> what<00:09:01.519> has or guardian
  • Um and this is what has or guardian.
  • The cases that we screen in for our program are high-lethality cases.
  • I recently attended a program hosted by the New Hampshire Bar Association and Family Courts.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • Well, Maine and Mass have program.
  • So, >> Um, the no program under the Oh, wait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
  • <00:38:32.640> So part of their um wellness programs.
  • So part of their um wellness programs.
  • That it be a parent or guardian. Yeah. Okay.
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee first took up an insurance-related chronic pain bill and an amendment modeled on language from Massachusetts and Maine. The sponsor explained the amendment was developed after stakeholder meetings because the original bill would have created an unaffordable insurance mandate in New Hampshire. The amendment was intended to improve access to non-opioid therapies by limiting prior authorization and step-therapy barriers so they are not more restrictive than for other treatments, including opioid therapies. After questions, the committee took a straw vote and advanced the amendment. The next item was a department-sponsored bill involving the state’s all-payer claims database. Insurance Department officials explained that the bill would encourage self-funded employer plans to opt in voluntarily by giving them aggregated, deidentified claims information in return. They said self-funded plans cannot be required to report data because of federal law, but the bill would provide an incentive while protecting employee privacy. Members asked detailed questions about who would see the data, whether individual employees could be identified, and how privacy would be enforced; the department said access would be aggregated and deidentified, and employer privacy issues would be governed by ERISA and the U.S. Department of Labor. The committee also discussed a glucose-monitoring bill. Members debated whether the bill was aimed at type 1 diabetes coverage or broader access to continuous glucose monitors, and whether it would amount to an unnecessary insurance mandate that could raise premiums. Department testimony estimated the equipment cost and said the annual impact per member would be modest, but also noted that non-insulin therapies have not consistently shown clinically significant A1C reductions. The chair and some members emphasized that the bill should be considered on its own terms as a CGM coverage issue, not as a general diabetes mandate. The committee discussed the bill’s cost implications and asked the department for any prior cost analysis.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/18/25

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So for those concerned that schools would ignore programs or cut corners, the law also allows MDE to
  • provide guidance in these areas to assist schools in the development of their programs or curriculum.
  • We're the ones that can tailor all of the health education curricula and the programs that are going
  • We're the ones that can tailor all of the health education curricula and the programs that are going
  • I'm a fellow and Young Women's Initiative Program Manager at the Women's Foundation of Minnesota.
Keywords: 1183, house
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Judiciary. (2-18-26)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Jenna Cassidy, chief policy officer at the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs.
  • It adds it to class B felonies that there would be no mandatory re-entry supervision program for.
  • mandatory re-entry supervision program mandatory re-entry supervision program for. for. for.
  • programs to get folks that have issues. programs to get folks that have issues.
  • <00:53:28.319> alite required to have guardian alite required to have guardian alite appointments
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The House Judiciary Committee met to consider two major bills. First, House Bill 521, relating to stalking, was presented by Majority Leader Steven Rudy with testimony from the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs. Supporters said Kentucky’s stalking laws need updating to address modern electronic and technology-based stalking and to better protect victims of persistent, ongoing harassment. Members asked about fiscal impact and prison costs; Rudy said the bill was mainly a statutory update and should have no new prison impact. The committee then voted 17-0 to pass HB 521 with favorable expression. The committee next took up House Bill 422, known as Logan’s Law, which was presented by Rep. Dan Fister and Rep. T.J. Roberts with emotional testimony from George Typton, father of Logan Typton. The bill responds to the 2015 murder of Logan Typton and seeks to revise Kentucky’s insanity defense, limit mandatory re-entry supervision for certain violent offenses, require consecutive sentences for multiple victims, and change life-without-parole rules so juries can impose it more directly in intentional murder cases. Typton described the crime and argued the current system failed his family; several members expressed sympathy and support. After a committee substitute was adopted, Roberts explained that the substitute preserved an insanity defense modeled on Alaska’s rule, rather than abolishing it, and clarified that a defendant must be unable to appreciate the nature of their actions due to mental illness or intellectual disability. He also said the bill would ensure consistency in insanity verdicts across multiple counts and provide treatment options for those found guilty but mentally ill. Rep. Marzian raised concerns about mental health funding, prison costs, and corrections impacts, while Scott West of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers warned the bill could reduce plea bargaining flexibility and slow the courts if sentencing becomes more automatic. The bill remained under consideration after testimony, with no final vote shown in the transcript.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session - part 2 May 18th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • been seized, it is still there, and we have also fought for the funding for crime victims advocacy programs
  • The funding for the two supervisors for the guardian ad litems is in the bill as well.
  • The judicial branch is not a discretionary program like much of what we deal with here in this House
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) Mar 19th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • behind parents' backs. undermining the rights of moms and dads and grandmothers and grandfathers and guardians
  • And so in this case, just to be clear, we're talking about a program. drag queen story hour that the
  • This bill simply says that if a library brings that program for children They get no money from the taxpayers
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare May 6th, 2026

Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think this program will bring that alignment in a practical and informed way.
  • This program wasn't developed in a vacuum.
  • There's various programs. You can do it by hand and then scan them.
  • So we do at the department, and the programs, you know, redoubt.
  • So we do at the department, and the programs, you know, redact that out.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/11/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • Over the last 18 years, I have represented at least 23 domestic and sexual violence programs and had
  • Over the last 18 years, I have represented at least 23 domestic and sexual violence programs and had
  • Over the last 18 years, I have represented at least 23 domestic and sexual violence programs and had
  • I just want to make sure parent Guardian I just want to make sure that<00:37:29.640> we're<00
  • We do have a great advocacy programs in the state.
Bills: HF1917, HF1083, HF367
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy and Administration (02/11/2026)

Education Policy and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, these programs, the programs are embedded in some of our math programs.
  • Uh, these programs, the programs are embedded in some of our math programs.
  • Uh, these programs, the programs are embedded in some of our math programs.
  • Uh, these programs, the programs are embedded in some of our math programs.
  • > programs<04:53:41.440> are Uh these programs, the programs are Uh these programs, the programs
Keywords: 1189, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Apr 1st, 2025

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • , also known as the IDD pilot program, that was established in 2023.
  • You have to stay on the program, on the pilot, for one year.
  • So share of cost is actually not a full Medicaid program.
  • They have to go on a full Medicaid program, which is MWA or MTD. MTD.
  • I'm excited about the adult pathways program.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills related to children, families, elder affairs, mental health, disability services, and child care. SB 1050 on the Agency for Persons with Disabilities was amended and reported favorably after discussion of expanding the voluntary IDD managed care pilot statewide, improving transparency on the APD wait list, creating a statewide family care council, addressing transition services for youth leaving foster care, and seeking federal approval for an adult pathways waiver. Testimony from providers and a parent emphasized workforce capacity, county-level identification of clients, Medicaid delays, and the importance of keeping the pilot voluntary; the bill passed with support and some discussion about possible future clarifications on services and Medicaid eligibility. The committee also passed SB 1310, which directs OPPAGA to evaluate student mental health outcomes tied to school mental health assistance funding, and members discussed the need for better data, coordination with managing entities, and avoiding duplication of services. SB 976 on court-appointed social investigators was amended and approved, with the sponsor describing due process protections and fee-shifting provisions for parents challenging court-appointed psychologists. SB 886, creating a crisis care coordination team pilot in Volusia and Polk counties to reduce Baker Act recidivism and improve follow-up care, was reported favorably after the sponsor described its law enforcement and community provider partnerships and an independent evaluation requirement. Later, SB 614 on child care facility and program background screening requirements was amended and passed; the bill requires a public educational webpage explaining Level 2 screening, the clearinghouse, disqualifying offenses, exemptions, and related job listings and timelines. Finally, SB 276 on sheltering or aiding unmarried minors was approved; it increases the offense from a first-degree misdemeanor to a third-degree felony, creates a presumption regarding knowledge of the minor’s age, and adds a defense when the conduct was necessary to protect the minor from danger. All bills considered were reported favorably, and the committee adjourned at the end of the meeting.
AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

TASK FORCE ON AUTISM Jun 4th, 2026

TASK FORCE ON AUTISM

Transcript Highlights:
  • Among our member providers, these are the programs that are available.
  • The first is early intervention day program, or EIDD.
  • The third program is supported employment.
  • So these are very important programs for a lot of people in Arkansas.
  • You hope to get into an ABA program.
Keywords: 1204, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session - part 2 Apr 25th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The one small thing outside of that perhaps was the guardian ad litem program.
  • A few years ago, that volunteer program was done away with.
  • There are over 170 kids waiting for guardians ad litem, and so they are reinstituting that program, and
  • There's also a program at Endova County Medical Center called the Next Step program, a violence intervention
  • Please talk to the advocacy programs and the direct service programs in your communities and find out
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • They're the guardians.
  • The report charge of this program.
  • with an iron fist. school's hockey program and hold this school's hockey program and hold this hostage
  • who run the hockey program in the school.<04:14:55.840> Right.
  • school choice program in New Hampshire. school choice program in New Hampshire.
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 102, which would make informational materials about type 1 diabetes available on the Department of Education website. Senator Ward said the bill is intended to help parents, teachers, and school staff recognize early symptoms such as thirst, frequent urination, fatigue, and weight loss so children can be referred for care before they develop diabetic ketoacidosis. He noted that a newer blood test can identify some children at risk earlier than in the past. Members asked how people would be directed to the website, and Ward said the information would be posted online and also distributed in handouts, with school personnel helping spread awareness. He emphasized the bill is informational only and not a diagnostic or treatment tool. Several supporters testified in favor, including representatives from the Dartmouth Diabetes Link and students with type 1 diabetes who described delayed diagnoses, emergency hospitalizations, and the difficulty of having symptoms misunderstood as stress, athletics, or normal teenage changes. They said the bill could help parents, teachers, and peers recognize warning signs earlier and reduce the risk of life-threatening ketoacidosis. One witness noted that New Hampshire ranks high in childhood type 1 diabetes, and another said even a single person seeing the information could make a difference. A retired diabetes educator and state representative also testified in support. The hearing on SB 102 was then closed. The committee then opened the hearing on Senate Bill 211, which would require school sports teams to be designated as male, female, or co-ed, bar biological males from female-designated teams and locker rooms, and create a cause of action for violations. Senator Avard said the bill responds to constituent concerns and is meant to protect fairness, safety, and privacy for biological females. In questioning, he said girls could still play on boys’ teams, but boys could not play on girls’ teams, and he said he would be open to changes. Opponents, including an attorney from LGBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, argued the bill is substantially the same as a law passed the previous year that was already challenged in federal court and found likely unconstitutional under equal protection and Title IX; they urged the committee to mark it inexpedient to legislate. The transcript cuts off before any committee vote or further action on SB 211.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Jun 1st, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is our second time having a fellow from the Powerhouse program. It's a great program.
  • Great program. They worked a great program. That girl is like a dentist. Thank you. Thank you.
  • We provided for a grant program. We also provided for a reimbursement program for each county.
  • That's not necessarily true because, as I understand it, under the ICE program, under the federal program
  • The program works. It works smoothly.
Bills: HCR158, HCR159, HCR160, HCR161, HCR162, HCR163, HCR164, HR174, HR427, HR790, HR810, HR857, HR866, HR882, HR883, HR962, HR966, HR1001, HR1045, HR1085, HR1097, HR1127, HR1138, HR1141, HR1150, HR1152, HR1292, HR1296, HR1304, HR1305, HR1306, HR1308, HR1309, HR1310, HR1311, HR1312, HR1313, HR1315, HR1317, HR1318, HR1320, HR1321, HR1322, HR1323, HR1324, HR1325, HR1327, HR1328, HR1329, HR1330, HR1331, HR1332, HR1333, HR1334, HR1335, HR1338, HR1340, HR1341, HR1342, HR1343, HR1344, HR1345, HR1346, HR1347, HR1348, HR1349, HR1352, HR1353, HR1354, HR1355, HR1358, HR1359, HR1360, HR1361, HR1362, HR1363, HR1364, HR1365, HR1366, HR1368, HR1369, HR1370, HR1380, HR1383, HR1384, HR1385, HR1386, HR1387, HR1388, HR1389, HR1390, HR1392, HR1393, HR1396, HR1397, HR1398, HR1399, HR1400, HR1402, HR1403, HR1404, HR1405, HR1406, HR1407, HR1408, HR1409, HR1410, HR1411, HR1412, HR1413, HR1414, HR1415, HR1417, HR1418, HR1419, HR1420, HR1421, HR1422, HR1424, HR1425, HR1426, HR1427, HR1428, HR1429, HR1430, HR1431, HR1432, HR1433, HR1434, HR1435, HR1436, HR1437, HR1438, HR1440, HR1441, HR1442, HR1443, HR1444, HR1445, HR1447, HR1448, HR1449, HR1450, HR1452, HR1453, HR1454, HR1455, HR1456, HR1458, HR1459, HR1460, HR1461, HR1462, HR1463, HR1464, HR1465, HR1466, HR1467, HR1469, HR1470, HR1471, HR1472, HR1473, HR1475, HR1477, HCR132, HCR154, HR17, HR49, HR170, HR275, HR355, HR356, HR364, HR369, HR672, HR690, HR755, HR756, HR759, HR762, HR763, HR781, HR785, HR848, HR1240, HR1265, HR1303, HR1307, HR1314, HR1316, HR1319, HR1326, HR1336, HR1337, HR1350, HR1351, HR1367, HR1371, HR1372, HR1373, HR1374, HR1375, HR1376, HR1377, HR1378, HR1379, HR1382, HR1391, HR1395, HR1451, HR1457, HR1468, HR1474, HR1476, SB1637, SB2878, HB2885, HB2017, HB5246, SB8, SB2308, SB1405, HB 119, SB3059, SB15, SB568, SB2900, HB3642, HB3909, SB268, HB493, SB2217, HB2516, SB650, HB2963, SB1610, HB705, SB2972, SB1540, HB40, SB2753, SB1660, SB2024, HB1545, HB46
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Education (05/06/2025)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • , the EFA program or the voucher program.
  • , the EFA program or the voucher program.
  • , the EFA program or the voucher program.
  • , the EFA program or the voucher program.
  • That's a somewhat different thing. ...program or the voucher program.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • It also includes $38 million to address caseload growth in the guardian assistance program, extended
  • foster care, and maintenance adoption subsidy assistance program.
  • $15 million in additional funding for community care for the elderly and home care for the elderly programs
  • Senator, this bill has a Sunshine Genetics Pilot Program.
  • Is the pilot program being implemented with the universities, the colleges, ...being implemented with
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services first heard and adopted the proposed fiscal year 2025-26 budget for the committee, which was presented as a $1.8 billion increase over the current base budget. The budget emphasized Medicaid and KidCare funding, IT modernization, workforce reductions tied to unfilled or augmented positions, provider rate increases, mental health and substance use funding, opioid treatment, elder care, veterans’ services, cancer research, and school nurse staffing. The committee approved technical adjustments and then adopted the budget proposal for submission to the full Senate Appropriations Committee. The committee then considered several bills, most of which were reported favorably. SB 152 on surgical smoke required hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt smoke evacuation policies; it drew strong support from nurses and other health care workers describing workplace and patient safety risks. CS/SB 958 on early detection of type 1 diabetes required the Department of Health to develop informational materials for schools and, by amendment, early learning coalitions. CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing homes required consumer satisfaction surveys, patient safety culture surveys, reporting to the health information exchange, financial reporting penalties, and Medicaid quality incentive reporting; an amendment exempted state-operated homes, including veterans’ facilities, and directed a study of quality incentive systems. CS/SB 738 updated and streamlined child care regulation, and CS/SB 1356 created the Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases at Florida State University and a related pediatric rare disease screening pilot. The committee also passed SB 1370, which reorganized ambulatory surgical centers into their own statutory framework, with testimony emphasizing their lower costs compared with hospitals. Finally, the committee considered CS/CS/SB 1626 on child welfare and related issues. After adopting multiple amendments that removed references to unaccompanied alien children and special immigrant visas, changed language on child abuse definitions, and required DCF to set room-and-board rates by methodology rather than fee schedule, the bill was explained as strengthening child welfare protections, codifying military-family coordination, improving domestic violence shelter certification, adjusting children’s services council appointments, clarifying missing-child procedures, and updating licensing and compliance provisions. The bill drew both support and opposition, particularly over missing-child jurisdiction and immigration-related concerns, and was ultimately reported favorably. A final motion to record a vote on SB 958 was also adopted.