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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/26/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Child care needs to be funded as the public good it provides, not thrown a small bone that disproportionately
  • ." care." care."
  • Additionally, this bill doesn't address child care providers or teachers at all.
  • </c> child care providers or teachers at all. child care providers or teachers at all.
  • spending account for dependent care.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Feb 3rd, 2026

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It removes statutory provisions that require family and large child care homes to provide parents with
  • It defines large family child care home, prohibits residential property insurance policies from providing
  • It removes statutory provisions that require family and large child care homes to provide parents with
  • It defines large family child care home, prohibits residential property insurance policies from providing
  • They operate by creating local service networks, bringing together education, health care, employment
Bills: S0996, S1022, S1462, S1690
Summary: The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs heard and advanced four bills. CS/SB 1690, on early childhood education, was amended with a delete-all amendment that required public posting of child care inspection reports and data on child deaths, injuries, and substantiated abuse; changed certain notice and insurance provisions for family and large family child care homes; created the Florida Endowment for Early Learning; and made related definitional changes. The amendment was adopted and the committee reported the bill favorably. SB 1022, on children’s initiatives, would add two new Florida Children’s Initiatives in Bay County and Pompano in Broward County; the sponsor described the program as a community-based service network model, and the bill was reported favorably without opposition. SB 996, on dependent children, would require DCF and community-based care lead agencies to coordinate and regularly meet with organizations focused on people with lived experience in the child welfare system, and to publish how suggestions are implemented. Several young adults with foster care experience testified in support, emphasizing the importance of youth voice, normalcy, and teaching financial responsibility through allowance. The bill was reported favorably after supportive debate. The committee also considered CS/SB 1462, on temporary cash assistance eligibility, after adopting an amendment that narrowed a SNAP eligibility carve-out to people who were victims of human trafficking at the time of a drug conviction. The sponsor said the bill was intended to remove barriers to reunification and redemption. After supportive testimony and no opposition, the committee reported the bill favorably. The meeting then adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 17th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So a provider provides the care, and on the back side of that, when they bill for their services, they're
  • And the providers providing the care don't have the benefit of being able to go back in time and determine
  • And so the care, if it's provided at an emergency level... ...because a layperson believes that it was
  • didn't have access to that information at the time they were providing the care.
  • We're a dialysis provider. We take care of a lot of dialysis patients in the state.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:48:23.119><c> provider</c> payments to a child care provider payments to a child care provider
  • child care provider.
  • child care provider.
  • child care provider.
  • We turned it the Great Start Child Care Tax Credit and dependent care credit because the dependent care
Bills: HF1, HF1384
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 9th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm Kurt Atzanona, a four-star provider at a Child Care Center in Allen, Texas.
  • We need to ensure that we provide the kind of child care that allows us to take care of these children
  • well as the Naval Air Station to provide infant care and non-traditional hour care for military servicemen
  • a million dollars to match. employer child care contributions in the county.
  • The Employers for Child Care Task Force consists of employers coming to the table, recognizing that there's
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 9th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • By requiring all licensed child care centers to provide monthly data regardless of participation in the
  • We're the only child care providers who do get state funding to support our families through child care
  • , for their child care needs.
  • Children are denied and they require accommodations because child care providers don't pay them. and
  • Having it as a grant model means that child care providers can continue to serve the amount of children
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Under current law, staff that work at licensed child care centers, family daycare providers, certified
  • licensed-exempt child care providers, including substitutes and unsupervised volunteers, must receive
  • Cindy Cunningham, family child care provider in St.
  • This proposal would only mandate this training for child care providers, but I'm just curious—you had
  • This proposal would only mandate this training for child care providers, but I'm just curious—you had
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

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  • Medicaid, and what it's going to do is say that if you are a parent that has employer-provided insurance
  • Compared to somewhere where you buy it at work or it's provided for you, right?
  • The non-custodial parent must provide that insurance per my order, and then if they don't do it, mom
  • And that's going to force dads to provide for their children if they're not. So, I don't know.
  • Be careful with you, which—thank you all. Be careful with you, which—thank you all.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I would also provide stronger enforcement. mechanisms.
  • The person receiving care has the right to make choices and decisions about their medical care.
  • Supported by the health plans, primary care consortium and Texas 24.
  • I am the Chief Operating Officer at Carter Blood Care.
  • I don't care how many percentage it is, it's humans.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 19th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • welfare arrangements, employers, and other entities that provide health care in Washington, including
  • I'm a provider of care of infantil.
  • I'm a child care provider.
  • I'm a child care provider.
  • This bill destabilizes not only providers, but the entire child care system and the families that depend
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • organizations, not just unions, but other provider organizations like the Long-Term Care Imperative
  • organizations, not just unions, but other provider organizations like the Long-Term Care Imperative
  • organizations, not just unions, but other provider organizations like the Long-Term Care Imperative
  • organizations, not just unions, but other provider organizations like the Long-Term Care Imperative
  • organizations, not just unions, but other provider organizations like the Long-Term Care Imperative
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

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

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> including language that, um, provides including language that, um, provides some<00:20:47.679><c
  • </c> help our elderly child care. help our elderly child care.
  • , facilities that are of a certain level for child care, in order to boost employment or participation
  • But it also really focuses more on building child care facilities as the different employers to be able
  • facilities as uh the building child care facilities as uh the different<00:39:45.520><c> employers</
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Mar 19th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So first, small businesses want to provide health care and health care coverage for their employees.
  • And it's a really dire prognosis for the small group insurance market as it employer-provided health
  • the potential benefit is to providing those coverage to the health care.
  • So one of the most pressing challenges employers face today. is the rising cost of providing health insurance
  • Seventy-six percent of Texans have said that they would support small employers being able to provide
Bills: HB138, HB335, HB388, HB138
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Mar 19th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, and administrative cost apply both to the plans and to the physician. and health care providers.
  • Again, I think that this could provide a lot of good transparency on what man. could cost for employers
  • providers.
  • We have Texans who, for example, are covered by Medicaid and Medicare. care so this will just provide
  • This also is a case when maybe you have coverage under your employer and under your spouse's employer
Bills: HB138, HB335, HB388, HB138
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 30th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • we can provide.
  • House Bill 3695 aims to lower constituent health care costs by properly aligning primary care. ...dollar
  • Without unnecessarily spending time and money to get a referral from a primary care provider, physical
  • at this, the primary care copay goes up.
  • We try to keep primary care copays really low because we want no barriers to primary care, so you'll
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 30th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • of providers to determine eligibility to deliver healthcare services in the insurer's network.
  • I'll just tell you, to kind of skip forward, that other providers get approved a little bit faster.
  • The applicant provider must be licensed and in good standing, and must submit all.
  • the payments for in-network. ...and out-of-network benefits if the provider is ultimately denied.
  • , or delay treatment until another provider can treat them, or find another provider altogether.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

ECD Public Hearing - Wed Feb 18, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST

Economic Development & Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • :36.080><c> care</c><00:29:36.320><c> across</c> caregivers providing unpaid care across caregivers providing
  • household and dependent caregiver care service tax credit.
  • It was created decades ago to help people with child care and dependent care expenses, but it kind of
  • It was created decades ago to help people with child care and dependent care expenses, but it kind of
  • > excise</c> uh dependent care credit, food excise uh dependent care credit, food excise credit,<00:47
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures, beginning with HB 2410 relating to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Testifiers from HTDC and the Hawaii Food Industry Association stood on written testimony, and members discussed the funding request, which was described as $1 million each for three programs, for a total of $3 million. The measure appeared to have broad support, with no opposition noted. The committee then took up HB 2235 HD1 on the military and community relations office, where Lori Moore of MACC asked for additional funding to support local businesses and education-to-career initiatives statewide. Members asked about the amount, and the request was identified as $1.3 million total. HB 904 on space operations followed, with three supporters and one opponent, though no substantive testimony was captured beyond the vote counts. HB 2201 on state enterprise zones drew testimony from Georgia Skinner of DBEDT’s Creative Industries division, who said the measure would build on a well-run enterprise zone program and help make Hawaii’s film industry more competitive. Tom Yamashita of the Tax Foundation also provided comments. The committee then considered HB 2349 relating to DCCA and DBEDT coordination; DCCA explained it already provides links and information to DBEDT programs, while DBEDT argued that direct data sharing would allow more proactive outreach. Members raised privacy and cost concerns, and DBEDT said it would consider opt-in collection and acknowledged system changes and possible funding needs. The committee also heard two tax credit bills. HB 1972 HD1, on a caregiver tax credit, received strong support from AARP, the Hawaii Public Health Institute, the Hawaii Children’s Action Network, and others, who described caregivers as an “invisible workforce” and argued the credit would help families keep loved ones at home and reduce financial strain. The Tax Foundation suggested a grant or subsidy program might be more efficient than a tax credit and raised concerns about debarment provisions. HB 20007 HD1, on the household and dependent care services tax credit, also drew strong support from public health and family advocacy groups, who said Hawaii families face some of the nation’s highest child care costs and that the bill would better reflect current expenses; the Tax Foundation again raised technical concerns about complexity and debarment. Members asked about fiscal impacts, and testimony indicated the current credit costs about $6 million, with the bill expected to increase that amount. The committee then moved on to HB 2385 HD1 on housing, where the Deputy Attorney General began presenting written comments on whether the bill limits county authority.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/02/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • AZ REACH makes a fundamental difference to the health care we can provide to our rural Arizona.
  • I can stop providing care for the emergency patients, turn that burden over to my colleagues, and delay
  • Hospitals and health care providers across Arizona are facing persistently high rates of claims and prior
  • For prior authorization denials, this lack of clarity delays medically necessary care while providers
  • And then I’m—” “And then, when a child is in extended foster care, we do provide them with their credit
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • specialized care.
  • Additionally, our students provide care to approximately 16,000 patients at our partnering 24 outreach
  • Additionally, our students provide care to approximately 16,000 patients at our partnering 24 outreach
  • Additionally, our students provide care to approximately 16,000 patients at our partnering 24 outreach
  • Additionally, our students provide care to approximately 16,000 patients at our partnering 24 outreach
Bills: HF4266