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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 28th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- non-willful violations, and it adds a right to cure that allows owners and direct contractors to avoid liability
- , a staff. includes local and state government entities in the definition of owner, establishing liability
- Repobras, makes several changes to the bill, including specifying that owner and direct contractor liability
- a public entity could be identified as an owner and that wages could be recovered from them for liability
- public and private construction projects and, while it explicitly excludes government agencies from liability
Committee:
House Labor & Workplace Standards
Keywords:
transparency, industrial insurance, insurance rate increases, financial disclosure, regulatory oversight, unemployment, electronic notices, compensation, digital communication, order processing, workers' compensation, occupational disease, firefighters, fire investigators, law enforcement officers, first responders, heart disease, cardiac conditions, respiratory disease, cancer presumption
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 2191 deals with liability for unpaid worker wages in the construction industry.
- This liability does not apply to state, local, or tribal governments.
- A property owner or direct contractor cannot avoid liability by claiming that a worker is an independent
- So help me understand a little bit about where you see... ...potential liability.
- Not only will it increase liability, it allows upper-tier contractors to withhold payment for alleged
Committee:
House Labor & Workplace Standards
Keywords:
employee monitoring, workplace privacy, performance evaluations, notification, transparency, language access, collective bargaining, providers, healthcare, interpreters, social services, construction, wage theft, misclassification, independent contractor, employee classification, fringe benefits, prevailing wages, subcontractor liability, joint and several liability
AL
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- with remembering that cost is obviously a... ...remembering that cost is obviously a concern in healthcare
- We need to make sure that healthcare providers... Yeah, a little closer so everyone can hear you.
- This bill just wants to make sure that healthcare providers are not... ...that healthcare providers are
- not gagged in any way and can talk freely about the costs and alternatives regarding healthcare choices
- Quality and accessibility are the main drivers in healthcare with providers, and we want to make sure
Committee:
House Health
Keywords:
midwifery, licensed midwives, State Board of Midwifery, licensure fees, professional liability insurance, complaints investigation, emergency care plan, out-of-hospital care, HB491, public schools, K-12, school nutrition, school lunch, cafeteria, artificial dyes, food additives, food coloring, synthetic dyes, Red Dye No. 3, Red Dye No. 40
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Labor & Workplace Standards Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Workplace Standards
Bills:
HB2479 , HB2091 , HB2105 , HB2107 , HB2151 , HB2190 , HB2191 , HB2218 , HB2243 , HB2303 , HB2345
Committee:
House Labor & Workplace Standards
Keywords:
unpaid wages, wage theft, wage recovery, labor standards, Department of Labor and Industries, L&I, worker protection, low-wage workers, back pay, interest on wages, civil penalties, retaliation, immigration status coercion, gig workers, transportation network companies, rideshare drivers, app-based drivers, employment law, wage complaint, payroll enforcement
AZ
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- Yet under this bill, their daily religious practice becomes a sentencing liability. Time.
- director, or trustee of that nonprofit has been convicted of certain offenses, and expands civil liability
- or enhanced criminal liability, but is instead enforcement and targeted crime at its source so that
- Second, section two, extensive liability to anyone who facilitates trafficking, but never defines that
- This does not expand criminal liability.
Bills:
HB2495 , HB2557 , HB2594 , HB2615 , HB2800 , HB2861 , HB2862 , HB2931 , HB2995 , HB4042 , HB4070 , HB4117 , HB4136
Committees:
House Judiciary , House House Judiciary Committee of Reference
Keywords:
vulnerable adults, sentencing, felonies, criminal justice, enhanced penalties, medical records, patient rights, healthcare access, privacy, healthcare providers, timeliness, address confidentiality, domestic violence, privacy protection, voter registration, court proceedings, parenting time, supervised visitation, family court, high-risk cases
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Transportation and Energy Committee Feb 4th, 2026
Transportation and Energy
Committee:
Senate Transportation and Energy
Keywords:
appropriation, education funding, priority schools, Alabama education, State Department of Education, medical clinic board, clinic board, hospital bankruptcy, Chapter 11, bankruptcy, debt restructuring, municipal indebtedness, municipal bankruptcy, health care provider, acute care hospital, lease property, board immunity, director liability, civil liability, healthcare finance
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Committee:
House Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Keywords:
athlete agents, commission, state regulation, Alabama, higher education, athletics, membership diversity, school psychologist, school psychology, interstate compact, licensure compact, license reciprocity, portable license, equivalent license, professional licensing, psychology board, school mental health, student services, educational services, interstate practice
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- HB527 creates limits of liability to the person that operates... ...of liability to the person that operates
- It mirrors the equine, the horse world, which has had that bill for years, limiting that liability.
- But it also does require specific signage as... ...and does require them to have liability insurance
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Keywords:
preliminary hearing, criminal procedure, Aniah's Law, pretrial detention, defendant rights, property rights, law enforcement, removal procedures, unauthorized occupancy, trespassing, liability, off-roading, parks, participant safety, risk management, DNA, genetic testing, privacy, consent, criminal penalties
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Health & Long-Term Care
Transcript Highlights:
- collects an annual premium tax of 2% on the premium for certain carrier lines, and the Washington Healthcare
- Marissa Ingalls testifying opposed to SB 5169 on behalf of the Association of Washington Healthcare Plans
- Ingalls, testifying opposed on SB 5845 as introduced on behalf of the Association of Washington Healthcare
- today, Marissa Ingalls testifying opposed on SB 6071 on behalf of the Association of Washington Healthcare
- today, Marissa Ingalls testifying opposed on SB 6071 on behalf of the Association of Washington Healthcare
Bills:
SB5845 , SB5916 , SB6102 , SB6071 , SB6103 , SB6159 , SB5877 , SB5967 , SB5904 , SB5915 , SB6025
Committee:
Senate Health & Long-Term Care
Keywords:
health insurance, health carrier, insurance carrier, prompt pay, timely payment, claims processing, clean claim, remittance advice, provider reimbursement, hospital billing, medical billing, prior authorization, claims denial, interest on late claims, administrative penalty, Washington insurance commissioner, RCW 48, public employees benefits board, school employees benefits board, Medicaid managed care
AZ
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- Additionally, current statute subjects persons who engage in or participate in human trafficking to civil liability
- to the person's trafficked, and House Bill 4070 extends that civil liability to persons who facilitate
- And one of the reasons for that is if there's not liability, their in-house counsel is probably going
Bills:
HB2028 , HB2047 , HB2136 , HB2244 , HB2364 , HB2406 , HB2415 , HB2557 , HB2573 , HB2589 , HB2720 , HB2749 , HB2825 , HB2861 , HB2862 , HB2870 , HB2970 , HB4070 , HB4117 , HCR2004 , HCR2051
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Elections
Keywords:
community restitution, homelessness, indigence, court assessments, monetary obligations, forcible entry, detainer, writ of restitution, criminal trespass, judgment enforcement, civil terrorism, disorderly conduct, vandalism, political activism, public order, subversion, government security, evictions, judgment satisfaction, tenant rights
AL
Committee:
House Health
Keywords:
lead ban, plumbing codes, lead-free, public health, environmental management, respiratory therapy, interstate compact, licensing, military service members, healthcare access, regulation, postpartum depression, postnatal care, maternal mental health, perinatal depression, postpartum screening, new mother, birth mother, newborn discharge, hospital discharge materials
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Health Care & Wellness
Transcript Highlights:
- Third, the bill before you modifies and expands some disciplinary and liability protections provided
- Third, the bill before you modifies and expands some disciplinary and liability protections provided
- Additionally, providers of community-based care and in-home care, ...from liability.
- We're also concerned about a confusing liability framework.
- We're also concerned about a confusing liability framework.
Committee:
House Health Care & Wellness
Keywords:
healthcare, transparency, patient communication, credentials, professional standards, medical loss ratio, insurance, health plans, cost management, nursing delegation, registered nurse, RN, home care aide, nursing assistant, certified nursing assistant, CNA, medical assistant, home health, hospice, community-based care
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/21/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- often than not is misplaced, and it ignores the greatest contribution of radiation exposure to healthcare
- primary x-ray beam actually produces the image. 97% is simply reflected into the room, and we as healthcare
- But that is the reality for healthcare workers who work in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
Bills:
SB1001 , SB1011 , SB1016 , SB1052 , SB1072 , SB1100 , SB1112 , SB1113 , SB1116 , SB1118 , SB1120 , SB1121 , SB1122 , SB1123 , SB1124 , SB1125
Keywords:
appropriation, economic security, blind individuals, older adults, state funding, medical examiners, sudden infant death, autopsy protocols, forensic pathology, public health, religious exemption, employment practices, COVID-19 vaccination, accommodation, discrimination, assisted living, health care, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, physician orders, informed consent
WA
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- And the last part that was briefed about law enforcement liability, I have got some correspondence on
- It flips the default liability rule for when an animal needs to be rescued.
- Thank you. ...willing to make changes to the liability language of this bill. Thank you.
- We don't think the simple status of the car should create liability for our officers.
- Additionally, setting clear liability and penalties for business entities that knowingly engage in or
Committee:
Senate Law & Justice
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/18/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- of the committee, for the record, Damien Johnson is here on behalf of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare
- Madam Chair, Member, Senate Bill 1094 establishes civil liability for a physician...
- Madam Chair, Member, Senate Bill 1094 establishes civil liability for a physician who provides irreversible
- The bill provides that parental consent is not a defense to liability and requires a person who prevails
- So this civil liability doubles down on a pre-existing double standard when it comes to health care for
Bills:
SB1014 , SB1094 , SB1146 , SB1177 , SB1192 , SB1194 , SB1214 , SB1372 , SB1390 , SB1398 , SB1399 , SB1494 , SB1557 , SB1561 , SB1564 , SB1602 , SB1603 , SB1621 , SB1628 , SB1629 , SB1713 , SB1752 , SB1776 , SB1813 , SB1814 , SB1821
Keywords:
gender transition, gender detransition, health insurance, medical procedures, insurance claims, official documents, Arizona law, gender reassignment, civil liability, minors, medical consent, detransition, dependent children, foster care, periodic review, court hearings, child welfare, public funds, prohibition, Arizona legislation
AL
Committee:
House Health
Keywords:
business regulation, nonprofit entities, electronic filing, merger agreements, limited liability companies, partnerships, property transfer, termination fees, SB84, agricultural nonprofit, farm bureau, nonprofit agricultural organization, health benefits, member benefits, family coverage, health insurance exemption, insurance regulation, Title 27, Alabama insurance code, risk transfer
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Jan 30th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health Care & Wellness
Transcript Highlights:
- registered nurse and speaking today on behalf of Med Atlas, which is a joint venture with Atlas Healthcare
- This amendment removes provisions granting immunity from liability for any action performed by a nurse
Committee:
House Health Care & Wellness
Keywords:
healthcare, patients, cardiovascular procedures, outpatient services, surgical facilities, HB2613, compounded medications, compounded drugs, pharmacy compounding, bulk drug substances, active pharmaceutical ingredients, API, drug safety, patient safety, pharmacy license, Washington pharmacy law, RCW 18.64, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, FDA, pharmaceutical compounding
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/19/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Shamp amendment dated February 11th, 2026, at 12:50 p.m. specifies that the bill does not limit any liability
- ensure that I was really concerned that citizens may think that they're covered for any kind of liability
- ensure that I was really concerned that citizens may think that they're covered for any kind of liability
- Having no further business before the committee, we are... duty that is prescribed when we as healthcare
Bills:
HB2408 , HB2434 , HB2725 , HB2728 , HB2729 , HB2730 , HB2731 , HB2732 , HB2733 , SB1192 , SB1398 , SB1399 , SB1494 , SB1557 , SB1813 , SB1821
Keywords:
nursing board, regulatory actions, disciplinary actions, expungement, healthcare professionalism, controlled substances, prescription monitoring, opioid crisis, healthcare regulations, patient safety, prescription drugs, opioids, healthcare, pain management, utilization controls, AHCCCS, Department of Economic Security, social services, welfare programs, vocational rehabilitation
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Baldwin County Legislation Committee Jan 20th, 2026
Baldwin County Legislation
Committee:
House Baldwin County Legislation
AL
Committee:
Senate Healthcare
Keywords:
healthcare, advanced practice nursing, nurse collaboration, medical board, nursing board, committee structure, midwifery, licensed midwives, State Board of Midwifery, licensure fees, professional liability insurance, complaints investigation, emergency care plan, out-of-hospital care, hemp, hemp beverages, psychoactive cannabinoids, psychoactive hemp products, delta-8 THC, delta-9 THC