Video & Transcript Research : 'birth outcomes'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025 at 08:04 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, House Bill 4882 would require a birthing facility. to perform a congenital cytomegalovirus test
  • like in a doctor's office or at a hospital, collects your, you know, your name. name, your date of birth
  • PROs have been shown to strengthen recovery outcomes, lower relapse rates, and reduce reliance on costly
  • I mean, it's still going to be. be the same outcome.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Part of the bill is the requirement to report within ten days of the birth or of the outcome.
  • I was unable to find transfer and birth outcome rates.
  • I was reassured that those numbers weren't there because home births don't normally have bad outcomes
  • Without Malik's bill, home birth outcomes like Emory's will continue to go undocumented.
  • This would be data associated with out-of-hospital birth outcomes, meaning what is happening before and
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Apr 24th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • They also serve as patient advocates and unbiased resources to mothers navigating their birth.
  • Birth plans.
  • will improve the effectiveness of the review committee and contribute to better maternal health outcomes
  • In addition to my interviews with families and birthing people, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing
  • Oh, yeah, 24.2 deaths per 100,000 live births.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Education (6-2-26)

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:40:35.599> By outcomes, and workforce success. By outcomes, and workforce success.
  • transition to early literacy outcomes. transition to early literacy outcomes.
  • proficiency based on those outcomes. proficiency based on those outcomes.
  • <01:48:01.920> The and speaks to student outcomes. The and speaks to student outcomes.
  • Uh, it's a birth students identity.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 4th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • procedures to postpartum education that is already currently being provided to new parents by hospitals, birthing
  • centers, and at-home birth providers.
  • The bill also requires hospitals and birthing centers to maintain proof of compliance and make such records
  • Hospitals, birthing centers, and at-home providers are already required to provide postpartum education
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services heard public comment first on the AIDS Drug Assistance Program and the iBudget waiver. Testimony on the HIV program warned that proposed Department of Health changes could disrupt care for thousands of clients, create confusion, and force people off life-saving medications; a senator suggested affected clients explore medically needy and FQHC/340B options. Testimony on iBudget urged support for a roughly 7% rate adjustment for direct support professionals, citing rising costs and the need to sustain the developmental disabilities workforce. The committee then considered several bills. SB 428 expanded Florida’s swim lesson voucher program from children ages 0-4 to ages 1-7 and was reported favorably. SB 68 required hospitals with emergency departments to adopt pediatric emergency care policies, training, equipment standards, and readiness assessments; an amendment aligning reporting dates with the House was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably. SB 1718 lengthened the time an adult may stay in an out-of-home placement before being treated as a visitor, reduced background screening burdens for foster families, made the Step Into Success program permanent, and created a best-practices program; it was also reported favorably. The committee next approved SB 606, which adds drowning-prevention and safe-bathing education to postpartum materials and requires related compliance records, and SB 96, which expands the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program to veterans up to 400% of the federal poverty level; an amendment removed the bill’s specific $500,000 appropriation so funding can be handled in the budget process. SB 340 required nursing education to include a two-hour human trafficking course before licensure, and SB 1480 created a grandfathering process for certain area-of-critical-need health care providers if federal designations change, both of which were reported favorably. The committee adjourned after all bills passed their roll calls.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Jan 20th, 2026

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • and safe bathing practices to postpartum education currently provided to new parents by hospitals, birthing
  • centers, and home birth providers.
  • This amendment simply removes home birth providers from needing to maintain proof of compliance for ACA
  • While ACA is the regulatory agency for hospitals and birthing centers, they are not charged with regulating
  • entities or persons providing unregulated services during a home birth.
Bills: S0428, S0606, S0192, S0162, S0340
Summary: The Senate Health Policy Committee met with a quorum and took up several health-related bills, with a strong focus on drowning prevention and patient safety. SB 428 by Senator Yarborough would expand Florida’s swim lesson voucher program from children ages 0-4 to ages 1-7. Supporters, including a pediatric emergency physician and YMCA leadership, cited Florida’s high child drowning rates and argued that swim lessons reduce risk and should be available to more children. Senator Harrell noted the need to consider increasing the program’s funding as eligibility expands. The bill was reported favorably. The committee also heard SB 606 by Senator Smith, which adds drowning prevention and safe bathing education to postpartum materials provided by hospitals, birthing centers, and, after amendment, no longer home birth providers. A parent who lost a child to drowning testified in support, and senators emphasized the preventability of such deaths. The bill, as amended, was reported favorably as a committee substitute. SB 340 by Senator Harrell would require nursing students to complete a two-hour human trafficking course before licensure; after a strike-all amendment shifted the requirement from nursing programs to the students themselves, the bill received support from advocates and was reported favorably as a committee substitute. The committee also considered SB 162 by Senator Davis, which would require hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt policies for using smoke evacuation systems during procedures that generate surgical smoke. The sponsor said the equipment is relatively inexpensive and already common in many facilities, while opponents and some senators questioned the medical evidence, enforcement, and possible impacts on rural and smaller facilities. Despite those concerns, the bill was reported favorably, with some members voting no. SB 192, presented by Senator Trumbull on behalf of Senator Martin, would remove the $1,500 cap on advances chiropractic physicians may collect for examinations or treatment; the Florida Chiropractic Society supported the change as pro-small-business, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee also received an OPAGA presentation comparing Florida’s health care practitioner regulation system with other states, focusing on board autonomy, rulemaking oversight, board composition, appointments, term limits, and funding mechanisms.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Hied Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It recognizes that workforce development isn't just about access for students, but it's about outcomes
  • that we not only help students access education but also align those investments with workforce outcomes
  • This bill requires employment outcomes to be accessible via the degree web page on institutions' websites
  • Institutions are happy to be transparent about their outcomes, and as the U.S.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It recognizes that workforce development isn't just about access for students, but it's about outcomes
  • that we not only help students access education but also align those investments with workforce outcomes
  • Investments with workforce outcomes. Other states, as Brad Gruhat said, are doing this well.
  • Institutions are happy to be transparent about their outcomes, and as amended this bill does just that
  • House File 2649 requires employment outcomes to be accessible via the degree web page on institutions
HI
Summary: The committee heard testimony on SCR 21 SD1, which asks Hawaii Health Systems Corporation’s East Hawaii Regional Health Care System to study the feasibility of a rural health clinic or similar access point for the Volcano community. Testimony in strong support came from HHSC representatives, Volcano residents, the Volcano Health Collaborative, the Rotary Club of Volcano, and others, who said the area has a clear need and that local primary and urgent care would align with regional plans. HHSC said it had already looked at the area, found no suitable temporary buildings, and would need a longer-term, capital-intensive solution, but that the study could help accelerate next steps. The committee then took up SCR 50 SD1, proposing a Hawaii Health Plan Working Group to design a basic affordable health plan for residents. Dr. Jack Lewin of SHIPTA said the state faces a growing uninsured population and argued for a short-term, lower-cost plan focused on preventive and primary care, drawing on the old State Health Insurance Plan as a possible model. Members asked about whether that prior program still exists and whether the working group should include the Hawaii Medical Association and Hawaii Primary Care Association; Dr. Lewin said the statute still exists but is unfunded, and that the group should be inclusive. The Department of Labor and other organizations also provided comments. For SCR 75 SD1, which urges a coordinated interdepartmental effort to reduce fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Dr. Lewin and others said prevention, prenatal screening, and early intervention are needed because FASD is often hidden until later problems appear. Amanda from Hawaii FASD Action Group said current implementation under Act 192 is still largely a landscape analysis and that Hawaii lacks the infrastructure and specialists for a full system. Darlene Chance Govor urged adding the judiciary as a partner so juvenile justice and probation staff can be trained and referral pathways improved, while the Department of Health said it supports prevention but prefers a broader, systems-based approach focused on child needs and upstream care. The Disability Rights Center supported the resolution and asked for an earlier reporting date. The committee also heard SCR 149 SD1, which seeks an informal working group to address complex patients with multiple diagnoses involving substance use, mental health, or chronic physical illness. The Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition and Ke Nui Malo strongly supported the measure, saying current siloed systems leave people bouncing between medical, mental health, and substance use providers without coordinated care, often ending up in crisis, emergency rooms, or the justice system. They said integrated residential care and a coordinated working group could improve outcomes and align with federal funding opportunities. The transcript ended before any final vote or action on the measures was announced, and SCR 109 was noted as withdrawn from the agenda.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 24th, 2025

Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • So a passport or a birth certificate.
  • A birth certificate? And that, so that's it, right? Birth certificate, yes. Okay.
  • If it's a valid birth certificate?
  • So this bill doesn't care if the birth certificate is real or not, as long as I present a birth certificate
  • Does the date of birth on the voter registration application match the date of birth on the voter registration
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Feb 11th, 2025

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • We know that God created us as man or woman and that our sex is fixed and determined at birth.
  • DSD when they are born, if their sex cannot be determined at birth.
  • Well, at birth, they're just little bitty babies.
  • As one of the gentlemen said, you know, signed "female at birth." ...said, you know, signed "female at
  • birth" but is now a bearded man.
Bills: HB45, HB79, SB79
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Some states 100% do outcome-based funding.
  • Some states 100% do outcome-based funding.
  • Some states 100% do outcome-based funding.
  • Some states 100% do outcome-based funding.
  • Some states 100% do outcome-based funding.
Bills: SB344, SB344
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 27th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • As early as infancy, we can detect it at birth, and when we do, we give families a...
  • Even low-level protein restoration can lead to improved outcomes for patients.
  • Screenings, blood spots, like mentioned earlier, are already collected at birth.
  • We call them, in the medical world, very low birth weight babies.
  • This means worse health outcomes and higher costs.