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KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • >> Please call the next regulation. >> Board of Lenture for Occupational Therapy 2011 K28240.
  • This regulation has staff-suggested amendments. 2011 K28240 amends the occupational therapy compact to
  • <00:03:53.280> therapy<00:03:53.840> compact amends the occupational therapy compact
  • amends the occupational therapy compact to<00:03:54.560> add<00:03:54.879> four<00:03:
  • >> Lily Coiner, board counsel for the Kentucky Board of Occupational Therapy. >> Thank you. >> Jill Phelps
Summary: The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee met with a quorum, approved the minutes, and then reviewed a series of agency regulations, most of which had staff-suggested amendments. The Board of Pharmacy regulation on remote prescription processing was amended to make grammatical and KRS Chapter 13A compliance corrections, and the Board of Social Work regulation on continuing education, telehealth training, waivers, and related fees was deferred at the agency’s request. The Occupational Therapy Compact rule update and the Professional Geologists fee increase regulation both received staff amendments and were approved, with the geologists’ board explaining the increases were driven by rising oversight costs and declining revenue. The committee also reviewed emergency regulations from the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, the Board of Emergency Medical Services, the Transportation Cabinet, and the Department of Workplace Standards. The EMS package covered licensing classifications, compliance audits, ambulance service rules, and electronic forms; the Transportation Cabinet’s emergency rule established procedures for street-legal special purpose vehicles; and Workplace Standards’ emergency rules updated Kentucky requirements to align with federal standards and House Bill 398, including shortening the discrimination complaint filing deadline from 120 days to 30 days and adjusting appeal procedures. Staff amendments were approved where offered, and members asked several clarifying questions about the rationale and effect of the workplace and EMS changes. The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources explained rules on aircraft and drone use in taking wildlife and on reciprocal hunting and fishing agreements with neighboring states. The agency said the drone restriction was intended to align with federal law and address hunter complaints, while the reciprocal agreement rule was a cleanup of older agreements that had lapsed or been overlooked; the committee deferred the wildlife regulation 301 KAR 2:031 at the agency’s request. The Department of Education also presented multiple KHSAA-related and standards updates, including academic eligibility, sports timing, health and physical education standards, and career studies/financial literacy standards; staff amendments were approved, and members questioned the athletic forms and the designation of KHSAA as the state’s athletic agent. Finally, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services presented emergency regulations to support a pediatric teaching hospital expansion and related certificate-of-need changes, which the agency said were aimed at improving pediatric and neonatal access to care; staff amendments were approved, and the committee concluded by setting its next meeting for October 13 at 1:00 p.m.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Senate Floor Session Jan 23rd, 2026 at 08:30 am

North Dakota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's local control of school boards, how to deal with that.
  • A compact is an occupational licensing opportunity.
  • The nurses are licensed by the nursing board.
  • The PAs, the physician assistants, are licensed by the medical board.
  • therapy, physical therapy, psychological inter-jurisdictional compact, and social work.
Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, roll call, and a quorum present, then took up second reading and final passage of several House bills related to the Rural Health Transformation Program and other matters. House Bill 1621, requiring the presidential fitness test in school physical education with exceptions and a delayed effective date, passed 43-3. House Bill 1623, appropriating federal rural health transformation grant funds and creating a related loan program and reporting structure, passed 46-0 after extensive debate about using the federal money for community health, infrastructure, and sustainability. House Bill 1622, joining the physician assistant licensure compact, also passed unanimously 46-0. House Bill 1625, authorizing the Ray Richards Golf Course land sale to support a Grand Forks transportation project and golf course improvements, passed 46-0. House Bill 1626, clarifying that the primary residence credit is applied after the early payment discount so taxpayers receive the full $1,600 benefit, passed 40-6.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Senate Floor Session Jan 22nd, 2026 at 08:30 am

North Dakota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • of Occupational Therapy Practice; to amend and reenact Section 43-17-27.1 of the North Dakota Century
  • of Occupational Therapy Practice; to amend and reenact Section 43-17-27.1 of the North Dakota Century
  • board does.
  • And I think that I have great confidence in both the medical board and the pharmacy board in assuring
  • They have better management on their board. They've hired a new CEO.
Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present. It adopted the procedural employment committee report naming Senate staff for the special session. The chamber then took up several health-care and appropriations measures, first adopting amendments to Senate Bills 2401, 2402, and 2403 before moving them to final passage. Senate Bill 2401 passed 44-2 and requires physicians to complete at least one hour of continuing education in nutrition and metabolic health, part of a broader rural health care package. Senate Bill 2402 passed 46-0 after major amendments negotiated between the medical and pharmacy boards; as amended, it expands pharmacists’ prescriptive authority and therapeutic substitution in limited areas while excluding categories such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, chemotherapy agents, Schedule II drugs, biological products, and narrow therapeutic index drugs. Supporters said it would improve rural access and help secure rural health transformation funding, while questions focused on how pharmacist competence would be measured and enforced. Senate Bill 2403, also passed 46-0, creates a short-term medical facility emergency operating loan program through the Bank of North Dakota, reduced by amendment from $10 million to $5 million, to help a financially distressed rural hospital. Senators discussed the hospital’s mismanagement, the need for a bridge loan, and safeguards including a limited application window and expiration in 2027. Senate Bill 2404 passed 46-0 and provides supplemental appropriations to the Information Technology Department for ADA-related website accessibility compliance and to the Public Service Commission for additional legal costs in federal energy-rate litigation. The Senate then made announcements about a Highway Patrol safety presentation and filing deadlines, excused an absent member, and adjourned until the next morning.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Senate Floor Session Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:30 am

North Dakota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • true and correct listing of senators who are issued certificates of election by the State Canvassing Board
Summary: The Senate convened in special session with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and roll call establishing a quorum of 45 members present and two absent. The chamber received certification from the Secretary of State and the governor’s executive order calling the special session to address funding for the Rural Health Transformation Program and to act quickly to accept and appropriate federal funds. The main action was adoption of the procedural rules for the extraordinary session. Senator Klein explained the proposed rule changes, which were designed to speed up consideration of bills during the short session, including limits on bill introduction, same-day second reading and final passage, elimination of standing committees for the session, creation of a Joint Policy Committee and Joint Appropriations Committee, and authorization for remote testimony and limited remote participation. The procedural committee’s report on these rules was adopted without opposition. The Senate also adopted reports naming members to the Joint Policy Committee and Joint Appropriations Committee. Announcements noted that the Senate Employment Committee, Joint Policy Committee, and Joint Appropriations Committee would meet later that morning, that the Senate would not reconvene at 4 p.m., and that a Highway Patrol presentation on legislator safety would be held. The Senate then moved through the listed orders of business and recessed, planning to meet in joint session with the House before adjourning until Thursday, January 22, 2026.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Health Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill modernizes the Respiratory Therapy Act through criminal background checks, fingerprinting,
  • > through<00:07:02.560> criminal Respiratory Therapy Act through criminal Respiratory Therapy
  • board. >> Okay, sounds good.
  • <00:08:01.759> board.
  • including the respiratory therapy board. including the respiratory therapy board.
Bills: HB299, HB533, HB299, HB533
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Board staff, like Dr. ...
  • Sometimes it’s physical therapy, sometimes it’s occupational therapy, sometimes it’s nursing care.
  • “Continues the Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners for four years until July 1, 2030.
  • All right, this is the Occupational Therapy Board continuation.
  • And continuing on, 2729, Nursing Board.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/23/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • . therapy. therapy.
  • Second, it changes from having members added to the board of behavioral health and therapy to instead
  • Second, it changes from having members added to the board of behavioral health and therapy to instead
  • of therapy.
  • But it's therapy and it's of therapy.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm going to get reorganized and let's bring up the Board of Licensure for Occupational Therapy.
  • Board of Licensure for Occupational Therapy, 201 KAR 28:240 emergency.
  • Therapy. >> Jill Phelps, chair of the Board of Licensure for Occupational Therapy. >> Thank you so much
  • of lure for Phelps, chair of the board of lure for occupational<01:57:33.119> therapy.
  • occupational therapy. occupational therapy.
Summary: The committee first approved the minutes and then took up Department for Medicaid Services regulations 907 KAR 23:010 and related rules. DMS explained that one regulation would establish a beneficiary advisory council and another would remove language barring coverage of GLP-1 drugs for obesity-related use. The department said coverage would still be limited by prior authorization and clinical criteria, with use tied to underlying chronic conditions such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease, and that the pharmacy and therapeutics committee would help set the detailed standards. Members discussed the potential health benefits, but several raised concerns about cost, timing, and whether the legislature and the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board should review the policy first. DMS said the drugs are already on the formulary, that current Medicaid users with diabetes are already covered, and that the fiscal impact was estimated using current utilization, rebates, and expected savings; the department also said it would only cover the drugs if subject to rebates. The committee then voted 5-1 to find 907 KAR 23:010 deficient. The committee next considered several emergency regulations from the Public Protection Cabinet’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control implementing SB 100. The rules covered tobacco, nicotine, and vapor product licensing, including the application form, denial standards, and transitional licensing. ABC counsel said the department had received about 5,500 applications and issued nearly 5,000 licenses, with additional provisional licenses issued to avoid interruption in sales after the law’s effective date. He said some applications remained pending because inspections and photographs revealed possible unauthorized nicotine vapor products, and the department was seeking documentation before approval. A staff amendment was adopted without objection before the ABC presentation continued.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services REVISED Mar 2nd, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill Would require a brief board-approved mental health screener to be used in routine doctor visits
  • Counsel at the Department of Mental Health and one of the working attorneys on the Forensic Review Board
  • and will they maintain a violent temperament that gives the court the confidence to say the review board
  • However, 20 years of therapy Treatment and necessary service plans have allowed this person to go off
  • Senate Bill 1651 is an Oklahoma Medical Board request bill.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Administrative Rules Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Administrative Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3000 is an extension of the Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
  • House Bill 3001 is an extension to the Child Death Review Board.
  • The Board of Chiropractic Examiners and extension to 2031. Move for adoption. Any questions?
  • Board of Examiners of Optometry, this is an extension of their sunset. Move for adoption.
  • Board votes aye. Kidders votes aye. McCane votes aye. Timmons votes aye. Waldron votes aye.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/19/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Madam Chair, members, House Bill 2730 continues the Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners for
  • The next three bills are germane to board and board reforms. So, obviously.
  • The next three bills are germane to board and board reforms.
  • The Arizona Medical Board.
  • single board has backlogs.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Apr 29th, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Also give them back the control and take it out from under the Board of Nursing.
  • So I was going to see how they’re still underneath the nursing board.
  • But right now, I mean, this board is one of them that is difficult.
  • The board is one of them that has gone through a difficult transition.
  • This board has a lot of human trafficking issues, and so this is not a board for us to take lightly.
Bills: SB253, SB317
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Health Policy Feb 2nd, 2026

Health Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I’m board certified in one category.
  • Florida's current occupational therapy statute does not explicitly authorize licensed occupational therapists
  • therapy practice.
  • The change allows occupational therapists to receive dry needling supervision from an occupational therapist
  • Anita Berry, Florida Occupational Therapy Association, waived in support.
Summary: The committee first considered SB 268, a public records exemption for emergency physicians. Senator Rodriguez’s strike-all amendment narrowed and clarified the exemption, and testimony from an emergency physician described threats, harassment, and safety concerns tied to mandatory reporting and patient encounters. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute. Members then heard SB 514, creating the Dula Support for Healthy Births Pilot Program in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties for pregnant and postpartum women affected by substance use disorder. Senator Osgood explained the pilot would provide non-medical doula support and data collection, and an amendment changed the funding source to specific appropriations in the General Appropriations Act. Supporters said doula care can improve maternal and infant outcomes and complement medical providers. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute. The committee also approved SB 36 on use of professional nursing titles after extensive debate over whether nurses with doctoral degrees should be allowed to use “doctor” in clinical settings, with concerns raised about patient confusion and the need for clearer identification. The bill was amended to align with the House version and then reported favorably as a committee substitute. The committee next approved SB 864, a public records exemption for uterine fibroid research data, after a technical amendment setting a July 1, 2026 effective date; Senator Sharif said the exemption is needed so the Department of Health can collect sensitive data for the related research bill. SB 844, requiring continuing education on sickle cell disease care management for certain licensed physicians and nurses, was also reported favorably after emotional testimony from patients and advocates describing delayed care and bias. Later, the committee approved SB 1404 on memory care, after a strike-all amendment creating a new memory care specialty license for assisted living facilities that advertise or provide specialized memory care services, while allowing optional supportive services without the new license. Supporters from the senior living industry backed the clarification. The committee then passed SB 914, which clarifies that licensed occupational therapists may perform dry needling, after an amendment adjusting supervision and continuing education language. Finally, the committee took up SB 1758, a broad Medicaid and SNAP reform bill that would strengthen fraud enforcement, impose Medicaid work requirements for certain able-bodied adults, expand behavioral health services, modernize drug purchasing and prior authorization, and require SNAP fraud-reduction measures. Several amendments were adopted, and members questioned the work requirement, implementation costs, EBT card photo identification, and due process concerns; debate continued as the transcript ended.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 5th, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • But just some of the boards that you'll see today are the Alabama Board of Athletic Trainers.
  • You're up presenting House Bill 117 of the Alabama Board of Examiners in Marriage and Family Therapy.
  • Okay, uh, it's the State Board... Okay, uh, it’s the State Board of Chiropractor Examiners.
  • Therapy.
  • The Board of Optometry contacted me, and the board... ...The Board of Optometry contacted me, and the
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • A photo with their application, which particular board unless po on page nine.
  • some amendments there, and it goes to the Board of Psychology.
  • The staff forgot to change it to the Board of Psychology, so it actually goes to the Board of Psychology
  • and not the Osteopathic Board.
  • We would put the Board Certified Assistant Behavioral Analyst and wehaus under the Board of Psychology
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Healthcare

Transcript Highlights:
  • would be up to the physicians to prescribe whatever they think is necessary for that woman, be it therapy
  • This bill is brought on behalf of the state board of chiropractic examiners.
  • This bill also modernizes state law to reflect changes to national board policy that occurred over 28
  • Um, and again, they relate mostly to labeling, testing of the product, and also to give the board greater
  • And, you know, I hate to call the police in, but the ABC board will be the only people that have the
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/19/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • faith to an injured person without compensation from licensure requirements under the Arizona Medical Board
  • I am a board-certified reproductive health and family-building nurse, and I'm also a board-certified
  • Okay, keep on board.
  • much to the system, once able to be placed in ASH and get put on the prescribed and get through the therapy