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• Palliative care is a philosophy of care that focuses on comfort, quality of life, and family support.
• I’m humbled by the families that I serve and heartbroken by what they must navigate to provide care and
• In the pediatric intensive care unit, we provide highly complex care for families from all around the
• care, and the most effective and efficient care for struggling families with sick children.
• It'll create more access providers that provide that care and then can lead those families into hospice

Bills: SJR1 , SM2

Committee: Senate Senate Rules

Keywords: school elections, partisan elections, voting rights, constitutional amendment, New Mexico, elector registration, pediatric palliative care, pediatric hospice, Medicaid, state plan amendment, Health Care Authority, children with serious illness, life-limiting conditions, complex medical conditions, curative care, concurrent care, family-centered care, hospice services, managed care, pain management

Bills: SB43 , SB50 , SB145 , SM2

Committee: Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs

Keywords: parole, life imprisonment, rehabilitation, criminal justice, victim rights, law enforcement, training requirements, mental health, domestic abuse, child abuse, public safety, crisis intervention, auditing, financial reporting, state auditor, public agencies, capital outlay, compliance, federal audits, pediatric palliative care

Bills: SB43 , SB50 , SB145 , SM2

Committee: Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs

Keywords: parole, life imprisonment, rehabilitation, criminal justice, victim rights, law enforcement, training requirements, mental health, domestic abuse, child abuse, public safety, crisis intervention, auditing, financial reporting, state auditor, public agencies, capital outlay, compliance, federal audits, pediatric palliative care

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• B3 requires any health care provider or health care entity that receives abortion.
• Next is Senate Bill 6036, which has to do with adult family homes and foster care licensees.
• Senate Bill 6036 has to do with adult family homes and foster care licensees. These are my notes.
• personal care services.
• individual's care.

Bills: SB5977 , SB6184 , SB5681 , SB5917 , SB5942 , SB6024 , SB6036 , SB6080 , SB6085

Committee: Senate Human Services

Keywords: child safety, near fatalities, public reporting, child welfare, transparency, homeless youth, youth services, mental health, support programs, state law, employment services, community inclusion, age limitations, disability services, home and community living, abortion medications, reproductive health, mifepristone, misoprostol, abortion access

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• I'm a family doctor in Seattle who provides abortion care, prenatal care, and hospital-based labor and
• This medication allows for patient-centered care and allows individuals to have autonomy over their health
• Authorized expenditures from the account include extended family visit program expenses, family-centered
• When I took my cousins into my care, I was the most appropriate placement in my family for those young
• When I took my cousins into my care, I was the most appropriate placement in my family for those young

Bills: SB5917 , SB6080 , SB6085 , SB5940 , SB5945 , SB5957 , SB5966

Committee: Senate Human Services

Keywords: abortion medications, reproductive health, mifepristone, misoprostol, abortion access, medication abortion, early pregnancy loss, miscarriage management, Department of Corrections, Department of Health, health care providers, health care entities, Indian health care providers, pharmacy distribution, wholesale distribution, reproductive rights, women's health, emergency clause, immediate effect, public health

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• </c><00:36:30.880><c> workers</c><00:36:31.400><c> family</c> job Seekers direct care workers family
• I am a server and a cook at Serenity Care Center.
• It is a youth and family voice and choice-centered service designed to support families and establish
• </c> and Family voice and Choice centered and Family voice and Choice centered service<01:21:56.239><
• </c><01:25:31.400><c> deserve</c><01:25:32.400><c> so</c> families can access care they deserve so families

Bills: HF2367 , HF2319 , HF2523 , HF1742 , HF671 , HF2331 , HF2722 , HF2406 , HF1674

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: HF2367, Community First Services and Supports, CFSS, personal care assistance, PCA, consumer-directed community supports, CDCS, home and community-based services, HCBS, direct support professionals, direct care workers, caregivers, support workers, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa, collective bargaining agreement, retention stipend, health care cost stipend, training stipend, orientation program, retirement trust

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• </c> to kids and families. to kids and families.
• Families can't afford it. So, expensive. Families can't afford it.
• I mean, do we know who was notified and who didn't notify the child care center?
• </c><01:29:41.920><c> When</c><01:29:42.080><c> you</c> notify the child care center?
• When you notify the child care center?

Bills: HF2135 , HF776 , HF1581 , HF1158 , HF2226

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child welfare, fiscal analysis, third-party consultant, program evaluation, Minnesota, HF776, Minnesota Family Assets for Independence Initiative, family assets for independence, FAI, asset-building, matched savings, financial literacy, family savings, economic mobility, children youth and families, general fund appropriation, family support, low-income families, financial stability, budget bill

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• I've been a licensed family child care I've been a licensed family child care provider<01:25:06.520><
• ><c> in</c> licensed family child care providers in licensed family child care providers in the<01:25
• child care is actually decreasing for center.
• </c> limits for family child care and also limits for family child care and also making<01:47:40.520>
• </c> losing uh family child care providers. losing uh family child care providers.

Bills: HF4407 , HF4382

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child welfare, African American children, racial disproportionality, family preservation, reunification, foster care, kinship care, relative placement, noncustodial parent, guardian ad litem, ombudsperson, Department of Human Services, county social services, active efforts, reasonable efforts, child protection, placement, out-of-home placement, Northstar kinship assistance, data disaggregation

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• > but</c><00:07:22.360><c> also</c> family child care providers, but also family child care providers
• 39.200><c> call</c><00:10:39.440><c> for</c> center-based care, there's a call for center-based care,
• centers and licensed family child care, etc., etc., etc.
• And it from uh child care centers.
• </c><01:30:26.600><c> Uh</c> the family child care system. Uh the family child care system.

Bills: HF4382 , HF2929

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child care, day care, child care center, family child care, family day care, group family day care, licensed child care, licensing modernization, early childhood education, preschool, infant care, toddler care, school-age care, drop-in child care, night care, sick care, community-based child care, provider training, staff ratios, group size

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• need a child care center license, but require a certification.
• </c><00:28:01.039><c> care</c><00:28:01.799><c> centers.
• family to kinship care opening up their family to kinship care or<00:31:26.640><c> um</c><00:31:26.880
• I child care center in Duth, Minnesota.
• The National Family Child Care Association. It's family child care providers.

Bills: HF1918 , HF2305 , HF897 , HF2191 , HF2617 , HF2551 , HF2137

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: HF1918, Department of Children Youth and Families, DCYF, child welfare, foster care, out-of-home placement, permanency planning, relative search, noncustodial parent, kinship care, family preservation, African American Child and Family Well-Being, racial disproportionality, maltreatment reporting, educational neglect, truancy, school attendance, Great Start compensation, child care provider payments, TEACH early childhood program

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• Outstate family care providers fared worse since larger center-based facilities are less viable in less
• family new family care and incentivizes family new family care providers<00:05:28.759><c> it</c><00:05
• providers, and in particular family child care centers, this just does not, like I said, I liked it
• Many families, I know, use a center for their child care, and they also need to use a family provider
• She said many families use a center for child care and also need a family provider because centers are

Bills: HF656 , HF655 , HF633

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child care, childcare, day care, daycare, licensing, variance, licensed capacity, capacity limit, staff qualifications, staffing, child care center, family child care, provider flexibility, Minnesota career lattice, Department of Children Youth and Families, DCYF, licensing rules, enrollment, indoor space, professional development

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• at such a critical moment in time for health care.
• Through the Health Care Authority, Washington also has important tools to address health care cost affordability
• , and primary care.
• There is no medical crisis pregnancy center in Washington that provides abortion care, which undermines
• We're facing a health care access and affordability crisis alongside a primary care workforce shortage

Bills: SB5899 , SB6292 , SB6094 , SB6182 , SB5947 , SJR8206 , SB5933 , SB6138 , SB5823 , SB6210 , SB5921 , SB6226 , SB6159 , SB5924 , SGA9291 , SGA9307

Committee: Senate Health & Long-Term Care

Keywords: chiropractic, animal care, veterinary medicine, license endorsement, nonhuman animals, health care, financing, legislative committee, joint committee, policy management, pediatric care, transitional services, healthcare, licensing, children's health, abortion, reproductive health, pregnancy termination, clinic access, abortion access fund

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• EOCF serves 806 children and families in eCAP, licensed child care, Head Start, and Early Head Start,
• providers and family licensed family child care providers.
• of community-based organizations, school districts, child care providers, and licensed family child
• child care access, and limited extended family support.
• Military families often move every two to three years, requiring them to repeatedly rebuild child care

Bills: HB2099 , HB2317 , HB2318 , HB2350

Committee: House Early Learning & Human Services

Keywords: military families, early childhood education, access, assistance program, education equity, HB2317, early learning, child care licensing, day care, preschool, Head Start, DCYF, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Washington State, RCW 43.216, child care center, family home provider, family child care, outdoor nature-based child care, school-age child care

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• Child care centers with a site in Minnesota.
• Without support like this, more centers will close, more families will be left without care, and more
• Brenda is a family care child care provider in my district, and she, along with other family child care
• )(3) state association for family child care.
• access to family foster care.

Bills: HF1367 , HF2732 , HF1897 , HF1424 , HF1383 , HF2728 , HF2863 , HF1685 , HF2929

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child maltreatment, child abuse, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, human trafficking, child protection, local welfare agency, county social services, Minnesota Department of Human Services, judicial review, district court appeal, venue, out-of-state abuse, cross-border investigation, Minnesota child welfare, family assessment, maltreatment determination

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• </c> care facilities in including my Center care facilities in including my Center along<00:21:47.080
• Without support like this, more centers will close, more families will be left without care, and more
• <00:32:01.200><c> care</c> she and I and other family child care she and I and other family child care
• Association for family child care State Association for family child care I<00:35:43.359><c> am</c><
• to family foster care.

Bills: HF1367 , HF2732 , HF1897 , HF1424 , HF1383 , HF2728 , HF2863 , HF1685 , HF2929

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child maltreatment, child abuse, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, human trafficking, child protection, local welfare agency, county social services, Minnesota Department of Human Services, judicial review, district court appeal, venue, out-of-state abuse, cross-border investigation, Minnesota child welfare, family assessment, maltreatment determination

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• </c><00:09:01.959><c> or</c><00:09:02.120><c> loved</c> care for their family members or loved care for
• Centers</c><00:41:04.920><c> family</c><00:41:05.280><c> childcare</c><00:41:05.640><c> centers</c>
• Care Centers family childcare centers Care Centers family childcare centers and<00:41:06.319><c> and<
• </c><01:36:52.320><c> Centers</c> representing licensed Child Care Centers representing licensed Child
• at helping families with child care expenses as only something we do for low-income families.

Bills: HF1 , HF1384

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: Office of Inspector General, inspector general, legislative audit, fraud prevention, waste and abuse, public funds, grant oversight, state grants, grant management, whistleblower protection, retaliation, subpoena power, data practices, government transparency, accountability, law enforcement referrals, sanctions, debarment, payment withholding, public assistance fraud

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• I guess I'll recognize Representative Kain to explain Senate Bill 1983 on foster care.
• direct and manage foster care where it's needed most.
• Long as we're on foster care, we Might as well go to Senate Bill 1796.
• It does that's part of what the definitions are there, whether it's informal care or respite care or
• Members, Senate Bill 1806 extends foster care through the age of 21.

Bills: SB1558 , SB1983 , SB1796 , SB1806 , SB1426 , SB633

Committee: House Children, Youth and Family Services

Keywords: child care, licensing, definitions, foster care, child welfare, SB1983, resource family partner, resource family partners, Department of Human Services, DHS, foster homes, foster children, placement data, data sharing, de-identified data, aggregated data, sibling groups, placement disruptions, foster parent recruitment, foster parent retention

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• family partners.
• But it'll be things like where are the shortages of foster care families?
• But it'll be things like where are the shortages of foster care families?
• But it'll be things like where are the shortages of foster care families?
• , respite care, or alternative caregiver.

Bills: SB1558 , SB1983 , SB1796 , SB1806 , SB1426 , SB633

Committee: House Children, Youth and Family Services

Keywords: child care, licensing, definitions, foster care, child welfare, SB1983, resource family partner, resource family partners, Department of Human Services, DHS, foster homes, foster children, placement data, data sharing, de-identified data, aggregated data, sibling groups, placement disruptions, foster parent recruitment, foster parent retention

Summary: The committee first announced that Senate Bills 1426 and 633 would not be heard and then took up several foster-care-related measures. Senate Bill 1983, presented by Representative Kane, would require the Department of Human Services to provide aggregated foster care data to private child-placing agencies under contract with DHS so they can better identify shortages, placement needs, and sibling separation issues. Members discussed how the information would be used and emphasized that no private information would be shared. The bill passed 6-0 and was sent to oversight. Majority Leader Lawson then presented Senate Bill 1796, which largely codifies existing foster care administrative rules and adds a 72-hour cap for informal care. Members asked about screening and background checks for temporary caregivers, and Lawson explained that caregivers must be screened and that DHS must verify placements are safe. The bill passed 6-0 and moved on. Lawson also presented Senate Bill 1806, extending foster care eligibility to age 21 for certain youth who are aging out or who achieved permanency after age 16, with education, training, or work requirements. Members discussed the need for post-21 services, possible future review of additional supports, and the bill’s potential to draw federal matching funds. It passed 6-0 and was reported out. Representative Geis presented Senate Bill 1558, which clarifies the definition of a child for licensing level E group homes so a youth can remain in a judge-ordered placement until age 19 to receive rehabilitation services. The committee had no questions or debate, and the bill passed unanimously 6-0. In closing, the chair thanked members for their attendance and work on children and family issues, noted the committee’s accomplishments during the year, and adjourned the meeting.

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• </c> health care costs and health care health care costs and health care services services services &
• And at the center of this base care is our caregivers, and they do incredibly meaningful and compassionate
• And at the center of this base care is our caregivers, and they do incredibly meaningful and compassionate
• </c> long-term care type facility. long-term care type facility.
• </c> connect to families as appropriate. connect to families as appropriate.

Bills: SB2479 , SB2557 , SB2861 , SB3204 , SB3324 , SB3325

Committee: House Human Services & Homelessness

Keywords: criminal procedure, family violence, dating violence, child abuse, evidence admissibility, reduced sentencing, homelessness, reporting requirements, statewide office, housing solutions, kauhale projects, public oversight, SB2861, Hawaii, Office of Wellness and Resilience, OWR, Department of Human Services, DHS, Kakou Pilot Program, Kakou

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures related to criminal procedure, homelessness, family resilience, Medicaid-funded services, and school Medicaid reimbursement. On SB 2479 SD2, the Judiciary testified in neutral opposition with concerns that the bill could require imprisonment even for probation-eligible defendants, expand sentence reconsideration in ways that could undermine finality for victims, conflict with existing sentencing statutes, and require additional judicial resources. The Office of the Public Defender supported the bill’s intent but asked for language changes so people serving sentences could raise the new evidence in Rule 40 petitions and so probation would remain available in appropriate felony cases. Written testimony also included opposition from several county prosecutors and police, and support from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The chair later deferred SB 2479 SD2, citing unintended consequences and problems with the bill. For SB 2557 SD1, which would require annual reporting by the State Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions, the office said it supported the intent but noted it already produces annual and quarterly reports, that some requested data is already available, and that staffing and cost constraints could make the new reporting burdensome. The State Council on Mental Health supported the measure and suggested narrowing the reporting language to data on individuals with serious mental illness or co-occurring behavioral health conditions, to the extent practicable and in collaboration with relevant agencies. A committee member asked about the availability of point-in-time count data, and the office explained that some figures may not be available every year and may need to be generated through HMIS. Dr. Jack Lewin testified in support, saying the data would be useful for understanding health care costs. The committee passed SB 2557 SD1 with amendments, including a deferral of the effective date. The committee also heard SB 2861 SD2 and SB 3204 SD1, both family resilience pilot program measures. For SB 2861 SD2, the Office of Wellness and Resilience and DHS supported the bill but requested amendments to clarify that the office’s role is planning and advisory, that DHS is a key partner, and that federal compliance safeguards are included. The chair raised concerns about overlap with DHS’s existing Ka Ohana program and asked for language to avoid redundancy while allowing the bill to cover other at-risk children; decision-making was deferred to the next hearing. For SB 3204 SD1, which would create a peer-navigator-based family resilience pilot, the Office of Wellness and Resilience and DHS supported the measure, with the office requesting a two-year pilot period, and both agencies and several advocacy groups submitted support. The committee discussed funding, the proposed five peer navigators, and whether the pilot should be limited to one or two geographic areas; no final action was taken in the portion provided. The committee also heard and supported SB 3324 SD1 on Medicaid home and community-based services, with the Department of Health emphasizing caregiver shortages and the cost-effectiveness of community care, and SB 3325 SD1 HD1 on public school Medicaid reimbursement, where DOE and the Attorney General requested clarifying amendments to reporting language and position titles.

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• Many of those survivors report that the trauma impacted their ability to work, care for their families
• Many of those survivors report that the trauma impacted their ability to work, care for their families
• I'm so sorry what your family suffered.
• The system of today is failing families.
• The children's behavioral health system of care, which spans education, disability, health care, child

Bills: SB5979 , SB6308 , SB6319

Committee: Senate Human Services

Keywords: opioids, substance abuse, dependent children, child welfare, caregiver substance use, court orders, shelter care, judicial discretion, family law, early childhood, family services, diversion programs, court-ordered assessments, 904, all