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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm proud to stand before you and be able to carry a bill like this.
  • This basically extends the sunset on the ABLE accounts.
  • accounts.
  • The purple represents sales taxes, which accounts for 24% of our budget.
  • You'll probably see a drawdown of some of the savings accounts we talked about, the reserve fund.
Bills: HB188, HB52
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Children and Senior Advocacy

Transcript Highlights:
  • bill, which means that if someone is convicted of abusing an elder, it also restrains them from being able
  • bill, which means that if someone is convicted of abusing an elder, it also restrains them from being able
Bills: HB9, HB52, HB53, HB99, HB9, HB52, HB53, HB99
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • to be able to create... or to move transportation forward.
  • Act was intended to allow for these accounts… ...to allow these accounts to be set up.
  • our first account was a lady who had a service dog that was aging out.
  • But this allows them to establish a disabled account.
  • They would be us, and Senator STS may be able to better answer this because he... ...able to better answer
Bills: HB52, HB89, HB141, HB52, HB89, HB141
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances REVISED: HB3530 - Added Feb 11th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances

Transcript Highlights:
  • Basically, it requires the able commission to report annually their discipline actions.
  • House Members, House Bill 530 is simply a clarity bill that sets timelines for ABLE license disease to
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Children and Youth Health Committee Feb 27th, 2025

Children and Youth Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • I did set up accounts for them, and not once did it ask me for an ID to prove... not once did it ask
  • me for an ID to prove the account I set up with them because the parent is involved in identifying the
  • a parent gets their teen a smartphone or device, the parent can go into their own Apple or Google account
  • They should be able to make that choice, not the state. Last, I think Mr.
  • They should be able to say yes or no. But that was then; my kids are older now.
Bills: SB186, SB187
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 15th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Will the members and our guests in the galleries please rise as you're able for the invocation?
  • And hopefully, on a national landscape, we'll be able to have some legislation soon that'll then allow
  • I am very honored today to be able to present to you the Miss Oklahoma Teen for 2025-2026, Tether Meeks
  • We're not going to be able to save everybody, but what we can do is we can be common sense and pass bills
  • So the amount of credit that you're able to, or well, the amount of deduction of charitable deduction
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Minerals, Business & Economic Development, February 11, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • >> [Clears throat] >> Here we go. >> Mayor, you should be able to testify. >> My apologies.
  • Mayor, you should be able to testify. Mayor, you should be able to testify.
  • But I just want to make that and therefore I'm not going to be able to support the bill.
  • <00:46:15.280> to therefore I'm not going to be able to therefore I'm not going to be able
  • still be able to recover those costs? still be able to recover those costs?
Bills: SJ0001, SF0017
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 13, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • ours, and we're working with an agency that would completely digitalize our permitting and all our account
  • ours, and we're working with an agency that would completely digitalize our permitting and all our account
  • ours, and we're working with an agency that would completely digitalize our permitting and all our account
  • permitting and all our account retention permitting and all our account retention so<00:02:24.879>
  • It all works out, and if they want to do what they want to do, they'll be able to. >> Well, that's your
Bills: SF0020, SF0021, SF0022
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because not all 22 tribes have been able to attend your stakeholder meetings, and so... ...been able
  • And I'm very excited to be able to move this forward and will continue to seek feedback.
  • And I don't know if Damien can answer it, but you may be able to.
  • The bill creates accountability to ensure only real services are actually delivered.
  • Any DES providers should be able to appeal or cure any causes that may have them not be able to be credentialed
Summary: The committee first approved the February 4 minutes and then heard Senate Bill 1086, which would require AHCCCS contractors to reimburse non-contracting providers for certain laboratory services when a member was referred by a contracting provider, and would bar prior authorization for diagnostic services and retaliation tied to such referrals. AHCCCS testified neutral but warned the prior-authorization ban could increase utilization and create fiscal and federal compliance concerns. The committee adopted the Warner amendment limiting non-contracting reimbursement to no more than contracting-provider rates, then passed SB 1086 as amended on a 4-2 vote. The committee next took up Senate Bill 1611, an emergency measure to require AHCCCS to contract with an administrative services organization for program integrity and case management functions for the American Indian Health Plan, while keeping AHCCCS ultimately responsible. The chair’s amendment expanded the ASO’s duties to include provider support, quality improvement, and data analytics, removed AHCCCS claims payment authority, added more tribal observers, and exempted IHS and tribal facilities. Testimony strongly supported reforming the system after fraud and overcorrection harmed Native members and providers, but AHCCCS raised concerns about the fast timeline, possible duplication of fraud-fighting functions, and the need for 45 days of tribal consultation. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1611 as amended on a 5-2 vote. Senate Bill 1630 would create a Medicaid-funded home and community-based services program for adults with serious mental illness, capped initially at 250 members under the Angius amendment, with semiannual reporting and a process for future expansion only if costs are reduced or neutral. Supporters said the bill would help the sickest SMI patients avoid repeated hospitalizations, jail, and homelessness, and could save the state general fund by shifting costs to federal Medicaid funding; AHCCCS was neutral and said it was finalizing the fiscal estimate. The committee adopted the amendment and passed SB 1630 unanimously. The committee also passed SB 1193, protecting emergency medical care technician personal information from disclosure; SB 1318, repealing an outdated state dense-breast notification requirement to align with FDA language; and SB 1345, restricting anonymous complaints against health care institutions, though AHCCCS warned that federal law may still require investigation of complaints from any source and that the bill could reduce reporting and invite litigation.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/02/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Those are the classifications that so far it's been able to support.
  • I apologize I wasn't able to write something formal.
  • I wasn't able to write something formal.
  • I took out money and I was able to provide.
  • Deadlines without accountability don't really protect children.
Summary: The Committee on Health and Human Services opened with remarks about shortening meeting times and then heard a JLBC presentation on the effects of H.R. 1 on SNAP. JLBC staff explained that H.R. 1 expands SNAP work requirements, raises the state share of SNAP administrative costs from 50% to 75% beginning in FY 2027, and could require Arizona to pay a share of benefits if its SNAP error rate exceeds 6%. JLBC estimated the administrative cost increase at about $33 million in FY 2027 and $44 million in FY 2028, and said a 2024 error rate of 8.8% could trigger about $139 million in state benefit costs under the new federal formula. The committee then considered HB 2797, which requires DES to regularly review data from other agencies to verify SNAP eligibility, post fraud and noncompliance data, and address out-of-state EBT purchases. Supporters said it would improve program integrity and help Arizona avoid federal cost-sharing penalties; the bill passed 7-5. The committee next heard HB 2180, which appropriates $2.5 million in FY 2027 to the University of Arizona for AZ REACH, a statewide hospital transfer coordination service. Supporters from rural hospitals and the health system described it as a useful, voluntary service that speeds transfers and reduces burden on physicians, while one health system representative asked for better operational coordination. The bill passed 11-1. HB 2184, as amended, would extend fetal death certificate filing requirements to fetal deaths at or before 20 weeks if requested by the mother and require notice of the option to transfer remains to a funeral home before an abortion. Supporters, including a mortuary owner and parents who had experienced miscarriages, said it would give grieving families dignity and closure; opponents raised concerns about reproductive rights and language in the bill. The committee adopted the Bliss amendment and passed the bill 7-4-1. HB 2188, as amended, created a Language Acquisition Grant Program for services to deaf or hard-of-hearing infants and toddlers. Supporters said it would streamline funding and preserve family choice among spoken language, ASL, or both, while an opponent argued the bill should more explicitly ensure equal access to ASL and Deaf Culture services; the bill passed 12-0. The committee also considered three more H.R. 1-related SNAP bills. HB 2442 would require able-bodied adults under 60 receiving SNAP to participate in an employment and training program unless exempt; supporters said it would connect recipients to work and training, and it passed 7-5. HB 2448 would bar DES from seeking work-requirement waivers or discretionary exemptions unless authorized by law; supporters said it would prevent broad waivers and improve employment outcomes, and it also passed 7-5. Finally, HB 2206 would require DES to reduce the SNAP payment error rate to 3% by 2030, submit annual progress reports, and face corrective action if targets are missed. Supporters said it would save taxpayer money and improve accountability, while opponents argued the target was too aggressive without more staff or funding and could strain DES; the bill was still under discussion at the end of the transcript.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And that's one of the areas that is able to make a Minnesota-made fertilizer.
  • U.S. potash comes primarily from Canada, accounting for more than 80% of total imports since 2020.
  • to take and make process would' be able to take and make the<00:18:22.799> St<00:18:23.240>
  • to make a a Minnesota areas that is able to make a a Minnesota made<00:18:33.080> fertilizer<
  • However, without the changes proposed here, they would not be able to use this program.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 27, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • So being able to get a while now.
  • <00:37:21.200> Um being able to select a few. Um being able to select a few.
  • as the 100% and a liquidity account as the 2% instead of it being one account.
  • account up to the 2% of notional value. account up to the 2% of notional value.
  • contributions into any of the accounts. contributions into any of the accounts.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 27, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Other states offer this service, and we need to be able to do it.
  • Other states offer this service, and we need to be able to do it.
  • Thank you. be able to do it and right now be able to do it and right now statutoily<00:04:41.280>
  • I think that's what you're going to... we would be able to do that.
  • But because of the able to do that.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 18, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • There's an administrative account.
  • <00:02:28.560> prior<00:02:28.959> to liquidity account prior to liquidity account
  • That's a called the trust account.
  • I'm a certified public accountant, a chartered global management accountant, and I serve as both the
  • It's creating quite a bit of accounting issue for the SBIs to account for this.