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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-23-2026 12:00pm

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Furthermore, our kupuna and neighbors with disabilities rely on Quest for their life-sustaining prescriptions
  • Furthermore, our kupuna and neighbors with disabilities rely on Quest for their life-sustaining prescriptions
  • Furthermore, our kupuna and neighbors with disabilities rely on Quest for their life-sustaining prescriptions
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • essentially aims to create a special motor vehicle license plate for individuals with invisible disabilities
  • An invisible disability has a range of things, but a very specific list.
  • 00:09:51.680> developmental spectrum, PTSD, developmental spectrum, PTSD, developmental disabilities
  • disabilities, down syndrome, epilepsy. disabilities, down syndrome, epilepsy.
  • Uh, line 60 describes it'll be a disabled veteran spouse.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • in this bill and I was trying to flip through the substitute that says if the handicapped or the disabled
  • in this bill and I was trying to flip through the substitute that says if the handicapped or the disabled
  • And I'm not sure we shouldn't also every two years or so make that proof of disability be resubmitted
  • if the handicapped or the disabled if the handicapped or the disabled person<00:18:41.840> dies
  • be resubmitted and signed off disability be resubmitted and signed off again.<00:18:54.559> I
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill amends NRS 427A to enable Aging and Disability Services to provide and coordinate services for
  • There was a law passed that gave a 5% preference for veterans with service-connected disabilities when
  • For veterans with service-connected disabilities when they are proposing on state government contracts
  • So that means that our veterans with service-connected disabilities don't necessarily get any advantage
  • because it's easier than going through a process of certifying as a service-connected, you know, disabled
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Morning Session Apr 10th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • , federal assistance, and applications for termination, new payment assistance, age, blindness, disability
  • for eliminating the application for termination, new payment assistance for age, blindness, and disability
  • ; union's pride for the maintenance of student schools; renaming the Division of Developmental Disabilities
  • family members and disabled persons.
  • family members and disabled persons.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Especially those with developmental disabilities.
  • Today is the fourth annual Developmental Disabilities Awareness Day here at the Capitol.
  • My friends Nancy Ward and Heather Pike got me involved in nonprofits with disabilities and many more.
  • Alzheimer's and dementia and other cognitive disabilities would exempt someone from this law.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • acting on behalf of the county recorder to facilitate voting for persons confined due to illness or disability
  • three-page amendment in your name, dated February 12th at 1:35 p.m., removes language defining disability
  • three-page amendment in your name, dated February 12th at 1:35 p.m., removes language defining disability
  • These are bipartisan, trained officials who assist the sick, disabled, and hospitalized voters who often
  • A life of disability, possibly certainly impaired cognitive abilities. I mean, destroying a life.
Summary: The committee approved the minutes and then took up a long agenda of election, criminal justice, corrections, and county-government bills. Early election measures included SB 1436, requiring ballot language for certain school override and bond elections to estimate the secondary property tax impact; SB 1568, requiring election systems’ internal clocks to stay within 60 seconds of official time and making violations a misdemeanor; SB 1569, limiting special election board members from collecting or processing voter registration while assisting confined voters; and SB 1746, requiring voting centers to supplement rather than replace precinct polling places, requiring public offices and schools to provide polling space, and closing schools on primary and general election days for in-service training. SB 1436 and SB 1568 were eventually given do-pass recommendations, SB 1569 also passed committee, and SB 1746 passed despite concerns raised about school safety and access. Some bills were held earlier in the meeting and voted on later after testimony concluded. The committee also heard SB 1295, which would allow the Department of Corrections to release certain seriously ill inmates to contracted medical institutions if they qualify for ALTCS, with an amendment replacing disability language with illness-based criteria; the sponsor described it as a cost-saving measure that could shift care costs to federal programs. SB 1067, the so-called Gila County blight bill, would let counties place abatement costs for rubbish, debris, and dilapidated buildings on property tax bills and liens; county officials testified that it would help recover cleanup costs for blighted properties and heirs’ property, and it passed unanimously. SB 1413 would remove the $100,000 cap on restitution for serious injury or death caused by moving violations and passed after the sponsor said the cap had already been found unconstitutional. SB 1476 would make child neglect a class six felony when a custodian exposes a newborn to dangerous or narcotic drugs or causes fetal alcohol syndrome; supporters framed it as accountability and child protection, while opponents warned it could deter treatment and worsen family separation. The bill passed on a split vote. Later, the committee considered several criminal-justice and public-safety bills. SB 1512 would expand the definition of vulnerable adult and broaden “position of trust and confidence” for theft cases involving seniors and other vulnerable adults; testimony highlighted scams and exploitation of grieving or isolated elders, and the bill passed. SB 1585 would regulate sex-offender-specific evaluations, treatment, and polygraph services through the Sex Offender Management Board, add a surcharge fund and assessment on sexual-offense convictions, and appropriate funds to DPS; supporters said it would create uniform standards, while opponents questioned the need for additional fees, and it passed. SB 1662 would require probation conditions to be the least restrictive necessary and tailored to a defendant’s risk and needs; supporters from the Justice Action Network and criminal-defense advocates said it would improve rehabilitation and public safety, and it passed. The committee also began SB 1664, which would change constable petition-signature requirements in Maricopa and Pima counties, but the transcript cuts off before the full discussion and vote on that bill.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 22nd, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • include other However, my question is related to whether you are going to include other intellectual disabilities
  • Representative Affirmant, so what the first amendment does is it removes disability insurance from the
  • the system, contributions, create a plan C as a sub-plan, provide relative to employer election, disability
  • We did change the name of the plan from Plan C to a death and disability plan.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 20th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The floor will increase the homestead exemption for those over the age of 65 and those that are disabled
  • SB4 also adjusts the property tax freeze for Texans who are over 65 or disabled to ensure these groups
  • The residents' homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled and the protection of school districts
  • a school district of the market value of the resident's homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled
  • ...school district of the market value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled