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KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations. (3-3-26)

Licensing & Occupations

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Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations met on March 3, 2026, with a quorum present and first took up Senate Bill 65, sponsored by Senator Steve West. The bill would nullify administrative regulations found deficient by the Administrative Regulations Review Subcommittee. West said the committee had found three deficient regulations this year, including one related to vaping rollout problems and one involving GLP-1 coverage expansion for Medicaid. Senator Berg raised concerns that striking the GLP-1 regulation could limit Kentucky’s ability to use these drugs for weight loss and other health benefits, but the sponsor and others said the action would only block the specific regulation and that doctors could still prescribe GLP-1s under existing Medicaid authority. The committee passed SB 65 with favorable expression, 8-2. The committee then considered Senate Bill 177, sponsored by Senator Rick Girdler, and first adopted a substitute. The bill concerns speech-language pathologist licensure. Testimony from Kate Wood Hall and Ann Blandford of the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association explained that the substitute would remove the mandatory post-professional graduate experience as a requirement for full licensure, while keeping an interim pathway and preserving an optional compact-related pathway. They said the change responds to updated graduate training standards and federal billing issues, including CMS guidance that had temporarily disrupted reimbursement and access, especially in rural areas. Members asked whether the change would weaken standards or affect compact participation; witnesses said it would not, and that the compact option remained available. The committee also noted that pages two and three of the substitute were missing and staff would restore them. Several senators spoke in favor while explaining reservations. Senator Berg supported the bill and shared a personal story about speech therapy in her family. Senator Douglas also voted aye but expressed concern about reducing requirements for trained professionals and about incentives in professional education. Senator Chambers Armstrong asked whether the opt-in structure would create barriers or affect compact participation, and witnesses said it would not increase costs and that other states, including Virginia and Oregon, were pursuing similar approaches. SB 177, as amended by the substitute, passed with favorable expression.
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Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

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Bills: HB245, SB16, SB59, SB62, SB79, SB88
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Summary: The meeting began with unanimous committee approval of amendment 2026-2021S to HB 2. Senator Lang explained the amendment corrected a drafting error so that $2.5 million in state funds, matched with federal money for a total of $5 million, could be spent during the biennium rather than lapse at the end of the fiscal year. The money is intended to stabilize Medicaid per diem rates for county nursing homes, and members agreed without objection to adopt the amendment and continue working from the bill as amended by the Senate. The committee then discussed HB 155 and a proposed amendment, 2026-201H, dealing with the business enterprise tax. The House side described the proposal as a compromise that would raise the filing threshold from $250,000 to $375,000 and create a trigger that would reduce the BET rate by 0.05% for each $100 million in combined business tax surplus, down to a floor of 0.25%. Senate members opposed lowering the rate at this time, arguing that tax relief should focus on the filing threshold, which they said would remove filing burdens for about 3,500 small businesses, and that rate cuts should be considered in a budget cycle rather than an off-year. Concerns were raised that one-time revenues, such as tax amnesty receipts or federal repatriation-related surpluses, could unintentionally trigger reductions. Representative Sweeney later offered a revised approach by moving the effective date of the trigger mechanism to January 1, 2028, and said he was also willing to carve out tax amnesty revenues or adjust the effective date to avoid using one-time funds. The Senate remained unwilling to agree to a rate reduction, though it expressed openness to raising the filing threshold further. The committee ultimately did not resolve the business tax issue and recessed to continue discussions at a later time. The final item discussed was HB 1102, concerning an increase in the research and development tax credit paired with changes to state park fees. House members supported the R&D credit increase but opposed tying it to higher park fees, citing concerns about tourism, especially at border parks, and noting that the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources had said it did not need the increase. Senate members defended the park fee changes as a fairness issue, arguing that New Hampshire residents should pay less than out-of-state visitors and that the department had not raised rates in many years. No vote was taken on this item during the discussion captured here.
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Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

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Keywords: HI House YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N7FrcNPBzc, 2026-07-02T01:22:43+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, House Agenda: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/hearingnotices/HEARING_HLT-HUS_02-10-23_.pdf Followed by ECD-HLT 9:05am Agenda: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/hearingnotices/HEARING_ECD-HLT_02-10-23_.pdf Then followed by HLT-ECD 9:10am Agenda: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/hearingnotices/HEARING_HLT-ECD_02-10-23_.pdf Then followed by HLT 10:00am Agenda: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/hearingnotices/HEARING_HLT_02-10-23_.pdf Then followed by HSG-HLT 11:15am Agenda: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/hearingnotices/HEARING_HSG-HLT_02-10-23_.pdf Then followed by HLT-HSG 11:20am Agenda: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/hearingnotices/HEARING_HLT-HSG_02-10-23_.pdf Then followed by HLT 11:30am Decision Making: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/hearingnotices/HEARING_HLT_02-10-23_2_.pdf Timestamps: 13:27 - Introduction to HLT/HUS 9:00AM 14:12 - HB897 18:19 - HB900 23:15 - HB1308 33:41 - HB1309 ------- 49:31 - Introduction to ECD/HLT 9:05AM 49:45 - HB1050 ------- 58:13 - Introduction to HLT/ECD 9:10AM 58:21 - HB662 ------- 1:14:04 - Reconvene on HLT/HUS 9:00AM 1:14:40 - HB1309 (cont'd) 1:16:56 - HB1488 1:21:07 - HB1491 ------- 1:40:10 - Introduction to HLT 10:00AM 1:40:24 - HB180 1:43:47 - HB440 1:47:59 - HB1396 1:50:32 - HB378 ------- 2:00:13 - Decision Making on ECD/HLT 9:05AM ------- 2:02:51 - Decision Making on HLT/ECD 9:10AM ------- 2:05:05 - Reconvene on HLT 10:00AM 2:05:14 - HB378 (cont'd) 2:26:29 - HB882 2:27:19 - HB1337 2:42:57 - HB1296 2:44:08 - HB322 2:46:08 - HB519 2:56:45 - HB617 ------- 2:58:37 - Introduction to HSG/HLT 11:15AM 2:58:51 - HB671 3:01:47 - HB1397 3:05:24 - Decision Making on HSG/HLT 11:15AM ------- 3:10:14 - Introduction to HLT/HSG 11:20AM Joint 3:10:21 - HB788 3:10:54 - Decision Making on HLT/HSG 11:20AM ------- 3:10:59 - Reconvene on HLT 10:00AM 3:11:04 - HB617 (cont'd) 3:13:37 - HB885 3:14:20 - HB884 3:15:20 - Decision Making HLT 10:00AM (deferred to 2/15/23) ------- 3:17:05 - Decision Making on HLT/HUS 9:00AM ------- 3:21:48 - HLT 11:30AM (Decision Making for HB278), 910, house, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47