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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Jan 14th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • They're going to have a parent also that's there, or a guardian that's going to be there.
  • I mean, you might have some parents that didn't want to give their kids a dime.
  • And it basically looks up to the parents, and if the parents are deceased, it's going to flow down to
Bills: HB63 , HB19 , HB80 , HB41 , HB20 , HB60 , HB100 , HB71 , HB91 , HB93 , HB63 , HB19 , HB80 , HB41 , HB20 , HB60 , HB100 , HB71 , HB91 , HB93
Committee: Senate Judiciary
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I currently work as a parent aide for a third-party service provider to DCS.
  • is a protective parent.
  • During the call, I was identified for the first time as a protected parent.
  • This bill requires DCS to investigate abuse even when there is a protective parent.
  • We need to make the standard easy and not shame parents.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/19/2026 - Senate Government

Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • don't always get spent in a way that benefits the taxpayers who foot the local property tax bill, the parents
  • As they write, quote, it is the opposite result of what was expected when voters authorized Prop 301.
  • CAP supports all educational options in Arizona and the ability of parents to choose among them.
  • What we hear from parents is they want smaller class sizes. They want better funded teachers.
  • It is a common-sense measure that is in line with the majority of Arizona parents and Arizona families
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/25/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • I understand that you're a parent; I'm a parent too. But it's the unintended consequences.
  • You're a parent, I'm a parent too.
  • and what's fair to the parents.
  • to be fit parents who are willing and able to share the equal parenting time?
  • No offense to the parents.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/12/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • In short, this section protects due process, judicial authority, and most importantly, parental rights
  • , judicial authority, and most importantly,<00:23:21.679><c> parental</c><00:23:22.159><c> rights</c>
  • Because parenting consultants are not statutory roles, the qualifications vary and authorities vary.
  • affecting parenting rights without legislative authorization or inconsistent statewide standards.
  • </c><00:47:46.400><c> disagree</c> parenting the parents and they disagree parenting the parents and
Bills: HF3560 , HF3295 , HF2937 , HF3540
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • parenting time or legal decision-making if that parent has been awarded less than 35%. ...to award parenting
  • decision-making authority.
  • or a co-parent.
  • may have a majority of time, or that both parents are entitled to 50-50 co-parenting time.
  • Instead, we have parents who spend... ...and parenting time.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight REVISION 2: Delayed until 11:30 AM

Health and Human Services Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • my continued concern is the message we're sending out, and that even for those who are, you know, parents
  • That would be a great question for the author of that bill. I did not author that bill.
  • That would be a great question for the author of that bill. I did not author that bill.
  • We're not changing any procedures or any authority.
  • Do we know what the fiscal could possibly be to the health care authority?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/24/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> authority from the sheriff's office. authority from the sheriff's office.
  • </c> to the bill's authors. to the bill's authors.
  • schedule</c> parenting time, parenting time schedule parenting time, parenting time schedule or<01:42
  • </c> of parents to cooperate, etc. of parents to cooperate, etc.
  • </c> parents fully present in their lives. parents fully present in their lives.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 4th, 2026 at 09:26 am

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • For, like, the Department of Healthcare Authority, because of all the purchases and such that are made
  • And because they found out who the parenting students are, they were able to get family-friendly spaces
  • But I'm considering the student that only has a single parent because you become underneath the same
  • It makes it harder on the student and on the parent.
  • Yes, so any way we can support students, whether it's dual parents or single parents, any way we can
Bills: SB132 , SM16 , SM17 , SB132 , SM16 , SM17
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • parenting time.
  • parenting time. and both parents resulted.
  • Child, if both parents are fit, willing, and able to share equal parenting time and both parents reside
  • mental health of both parents, and whether a parent has interfered with the other's relationship with
  • time with both parents.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 9th, 2026 at 09:04 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 11 gave districts the authority to act.
  • . that teachers have to have, as well as the struggle with parents.
  • parents is championing something else.
  • parents is championing something else.
  • I was a former foster parent.
Bills: SB23 , SB73 , SB210 , SB234 , SB243 , SB244 , SM16 , SB23 , SB73 , SB210 , SB234 , SB243 , SB244 , SM16
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 9th, 2026 at 08:33 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • The PED suspended the financial authority under the statutory administrative authority for fiscal mismanagement
  • Persons in these positions of authority need to be held accountable.
  • So right now the PEC's authority is not for individual members, where their authority lies...
  • Authority is not for individual members; where their authority lies is in the renewal, revocation, or
  • , broad authority?
Bills: SB23 , SB73 , SB210 , SB234 , SB243 , SB244 , SM16
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And this you co-authoring this.
  • So, that would be my question to the amendment author. Thank you.
  • So, that would be my question to the amendment author. Thank you.
  • </c> the amendment author. Thank you. the amendment author. Thank you.
  • ><c> see</c><01:37:07.240><c> less</c> be better parents and that we see less be better parents and that
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:06 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So the athletics projects that are authorized are major projects.
  • The only thing it says is Secretary of Higher Education authorizes, but there's no mechanism...
  • I mean, I see the process through the K-12 system where we've got the New Mexico Facilities Authority
  • Chair, that UNM and Santa Fe Community College have already asked students if there are any parenting
  • We know parenting students are more likely to leave college before they receive a degree, and we must
Bills: SB234 , SB210 , SB243 , SB244 , SM16 , HB8 , SB234 , SB210 , SB243 , SB244 , SM16 , HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 11th, 2026 at 08:39 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • parents on the status of their students.
  • So we wanted to lighten that load for teachers and kind of an parents to inform them.
  • And the other part is the parental notification that I find extremely important.
  • As well as the parents, there are some very concerned parents.
  • I am showing support of this bill as a parent in New Mexico.
Bills: SB234 , SB210 , SB243 , SB244 , SM16 , HB8
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • To that point, you don't authorize a study and then explicitly say that.
  • Chair and members, Senate Bill 1330 grants a parent the right to request a jury trial to award parenting
  • time or legal decision-making if that parent has been awarded less than 35% parenting time or no legal
  • decision-making authority.
  • My name is Amanda Rios, and I am a parent and concerned citizen from Tucson, Arizona.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Apr 14th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Will there be questions of the author? What is the will of the committee?
  • Senator Brooks, you're recognized for a question to the author. Thank you.
  • The author waves. Clerk, will call the roll. Senator Boren.
  • Seeing no debate, as the author wishes to close. The author waives. Clerk, will call the roll.
  • Does the author wish to debate? The author waives. Clerk, coloro.
Committee: Senate Judiciary
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Jan 26th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Higher Education & Workforce Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • , which I will refer to as parenting students.
  • serving our families and our parents.
  • and serving our families and our parents.
  • It also is interesting that the way systems define parents is different.
  • Parents have been around forever.
Bills: SB6209 , SB6217 , SB6227 , SB6235