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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, we created a survey that was sent out statewide to the Children's Justice Initiative teams across
  • the<00:09:39.800> state<00:09:40.720> to<00:09:41.080> all initiative teams
  • This bill eases permanency and prevents extra unnecessary placements for young people simply through
  • This<00:24:07.360> bill<00:24:07.720> eases<00:24:08.080> permanency<00:24:08.720
  • > and<00:24:08.880> prevents This bill eases permanency and prevents This bill eases permanency
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Child Committee Meeting - 2026-03-25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our team does not have any concerns with this amendment.
  • <00:32:52.840> Uh<00:32:53.240> our<00:32:53.400> team legislative director,
  • Uh our team legislative director, DCYF.
  • are on the same page whole team are on the same page regarding<00:36:12.960> the<00:36:13.120
  • post-permanency supports. post-permanency supports.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Commerce and Small Business Committee Mar 6th, 2025

Commerce and Small Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, there are team... amount of time.
  • Um, there are team concepts you might have heard of, the Something Real Estate team.
  • Uh, that is a technical term, and this gives you some rules about the team concept.
Bills: HB95, HB382
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Transcript Highlights:
  • That performance was driven by impressive team depth with all five scoring runners finishing in the top
  • talent but a cohesive, disciplined team effort that brought home the victory at the state meet.
  • Aidan Taylor, I would also like to recognize the Deer Creek girls cross-country team who are with us
  • to the House floor. from the Deer Creek cross-country team to the House floor.
  • We truly appreciate the opportunity to celebrate what this team has achieved.
Bills: HR1052, SB2184, SB171
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Championships, the boys and the softball team.
  • So the rest of the team is in the east gallery. They're all standing.
  • We've seen many sports teams, champion teams, champion cheerleaders. You name it.
  • average of team GPA of 3.54. demonstrating their commitment to academic excellence.
  • Here in front of us, we have some of the seniors and team captains.
Bills: HR1052, SB2184, SB171
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/03/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Bills: HB2148, HB2993
Summary: The Committee on Appropriations, Transportation and Technology heard a presentation on advanced air mobility, featuring video and remarks about new aircraft technologies, including drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing craft. The presentation emphasized potential uses such as medical delivery, rescue operations, passenger and cargo transport, quieter flight profiles, and the need for coordination among industry, government, NASA, the FAA, and other partners. Members also noted an upcoming display of a Pivotal aircraft on the Senate lawn. The committee then considered House Bill 2148, which would grant the legislature authority to appropriate non-constitutional federal monies and require the legislature to specify the purposes for which those funds are spent, with a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. Supporters described it as a transparency and separation-of-powers measure, while opponents argued it would interfere with existing federal funding structures and state programs. The bill received a do-pass recommendation on a 6-4 vote. House Bill 2993 was also heard. It would appropriate $6.4 million from the Consumer Protection/Consumer Fraud Revolving Fund to the Department of Public Safety for FY 2026 and exempt DPS from the statutory restriction on employing legal counsel without approval. Testimony from the Arizona State Troopers Association supported the funding as an emergency need to avoid cuts to recruit classes, overtime, and patrol car purchases, but several members objected to combining the appropriation with the outside-counsel policy change. The committee approved the bill on a 6-4 do-pass vote. The meeting concluded with announcements about upcoming committee events and adjournment.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Non-citizens eligibility conforming with HR1, limiting non-citizen eligibility for MA to lawful permanent
  • <00:37:11.359> lawful eligibility um for MA to lawful eligibility um for MA to lawful permanent
  • Um and then the permanent residents.
  • But we're limiting MA eligibility to lawful permanent residents. ...the review of the death master file
  • But we're limiting MA eligibility to lawful permanent residents.
Bills: HF3439, HF3763
Summary: The House Health Finance and Policy Committee met on March 4, 2026, approved the minutes from its February 25 and March 2 meetings, and then heard a presentation from Katherine Castanza of the National Conference of State Legislatures on Medicaid eligibility changes in the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR1/OB3). The presentation focused on provisions affecting Medicaid expansion adults ages 19 to 64, including new work and community engagement requirements, changes to retroactive eligibility, quarterly death master file checks, address verification requirements, six-month redeterminations for expansion enrollees, and new limits on some lawful permanent residents and other immigrant groups. Castanza also discussed state implementation issues, including the need for new data-sharing systems, system modernization, outreach, and options for helping people transition to other coverage if they lose eligibility. She said the work and community engagement rules take effect January 1, 2027, with states given flexibility on look-back periods, consecutive versus nonconsecutive months, and optional hardship exemptions, and noted that CMS guidance is not expected until June 2026. She also described federal support for implementation, including $200 million in grants and a 90% federal match for eligibility system work, while warning that the fast timeline could lead to coverage losses, churn, and challenges for special populations such as caregivers, people with behavioral health conditions, incarcerated individuals, and rural residents. She further explained that an erroneous payment provision could expose states to federal recoupment later if eligibility errors increase. During member questions, Representative Beerman asked about the overall size of the Medicaid cuts and the cumulative national impact; Castanza said estimates vary by state and cited KFF analysis suggesting states could lose 4% to 19% of federal Medicaid revenue, with a newer RAND analysis recently released. Beerman also asked about the history and effectiveness of state work requirements, but that discussion was not completed in the excerpt. Representative Elkins noted the presentation was not initially posted on the committee website, and the chair said it had since been posted.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Jan 12th, 2026

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • a parent is requesting a medical examination, child protective investigators and child protection teams
  • ... ...structural correction in how DCF and child protection teams operate, especially in medical-based
  • The initial medical report from the Florida Child Protective Team listed these very complex conditions
  • A collaborative medical team was assembled to take care of her.
  • Without ours, we would have lost custody of our son permanently.
Bills: S0042, S0578, S0624, S7018
Summary: The committee met with a quorum and first heard SB 624, which would codify DCF’s current practice of allowing batterers intervention programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities so long as participation is voluntary. The bill drew support from faith-based and family organizations, which argued it would restore access to effective rehabilitation options and remove discriminatory barriers. SB 624 was reported favorably after a roll call vote. The committee then heard SB 42, which would require child protective investigators and child protection teams to rely on qualified medical professionals when a child has a documented pre-existing diagnosis or when a parent requests an exam, and would require clearer notice to parents and custodians at the start of an investigation. Testimony overwhelmingly came from parents, advocates, and disability rights representatives describing cases in which medically complex children were allegedly misdiagnosed as abuse victims and families were separated unnecessarily. Members expressed sympathy and support, and SB 42 was reported favorably. Next, the committee considered CS/SB 578, creating an Alzheimer’s disease awareness initiative within the Department of Elder Affairs to promote early detection, brain health education, research updates, and clinical trial awareness, with outreach focused on older adults and at-risk populations. An amendment was adopted to place the campaign within the Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative. A caregiver testified about the need for public education and early diagnosis, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee also took up SPB 7018, a committee bill on child welfare that would extend the definition of “visitor” for foster homes to reduce repeated background checks, make the Step Into Success foster youth workforce pilot permanent and statewide, and create a program through the Florida Institute for Child Welfare to catalog best practices among community-based care lead agencies. The bill was approved as a committee bill and reported favorably. Finally, the Department of Children and Families presented its 2025-26 final funding methodology and rates report for community-based care. Members questioned the proposed tiered model, including insurance costs, risk corridors, prevention funding, performance measures, and regional funding disparities. No vote was taken on the presentation, but members discussed the possible need for follow-up legislation and additional stakeholder input.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Commerce and Small Business Committee Apr 23rd, 2025

Commerce and Small Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • I got my team out. I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting to order.
  • Also, we made it clear that if you operate as a team, that we're not going...
  • Operate as a team that we're not going to require a regulatory fee or a license fee to do that.
  • They just have to maintain who's operating as a team. Um, and then we addressed one of the fine...
Bills: SB186, SB212, HB566, SB186, SB212
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Public Safety Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • The only question is whether or not you have that person counted at their permanent place of residence
  • my head around why this would be a what would be the issue with counting their residency of their permanent
  • within the department of corrections to make sure that we are counting those people at their last permanent
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 18th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • legal custodian requests a medical examination, child protective investigators and child protection teams
  • Child protective investigators and child protection teams rely on qualified medical professionals with
  • It clarifies that after a child protection team conducts an initial examination... ...wrongfully accused
  • It clarifies that after a child protection team conducts an initial examination, a parent may seek a
  • Child protection team, DCF steps in, and children are immediately removed.
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services met to hear and vote on a series of health, human services, and education-related bills, along with a presentation of the committee’s proposed HHS budget. The budget was described as increasing by more than $2.1 billion over the current base, with major funding highlighted for Medicaid and KidCare, rural health, provider rate increases, child welfare, mental health and substance use, opioid treatment, Alzheimer’s initiatives, cancer research, ADAP, veterans’ services, and IT modernization. Public testimony on the budget focused heavily on AIDS Drug Assistance Program funding and concerns about Department of Health changes affecting access, premium assistance, notice, and continuity of care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Among the bills reported favorably were measures on podiatric medicine and tissue-based products (SB 1092), background screening and clearinghouse procedures (SB 1168), child protective investigations involving specific medical diagnoses and second opinions (SB 42), clinical laboratory personnel licensure standards (SB 878), uterine fibroid data tracking and research (SB 196), medical marijuana treatment center oversight and related health provisions (SB 902), dyslexia and dyscalculia screening and intervention in schools (SB 1340), memory care licensure for assisted living facilities (SB 1404), congenital CMV education materials (SB 1414), Parkinson’s disease registry and related public records exemption bills (SB 1684 and SB 1686), and occupational therapy dry needling licensure standards (SB 914). Several bills were amended before passage, including SB 1092, SB 42, SB 902, SB 1684, and SB 1404. Testimony generally came from professional associations, advocacy groups, and affected stakeholders, with support voiced for most measures. The committee adopted amendments on the floor, heard no opposition during debate on the bills described, and then voted to report each measure favorably. At the end of the meeting, senators requested to be recorded in the affirmative on selected bills, and the committee adjourned.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 2nd, 2026 at 03:25 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Another $2.8 million is for on-call emergency teams.
  • And to the team, I'm so thankful that you opened up your presentation.
  • I took over this job in September, and I also have a very strong leadership team with Ms.
  • And so with that, do you have a mobile crisis unit yet for teams? So mobile...
  • The one permanent interest write down will get you about 3,300 loans there.
Bills: SB48, SB64, SB100
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Jan 28th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Yet historically, special education has lacked the permanent cabinet-level structure that it needs.
  • Yet historically, special education has lacked the permanent cabinet level structure that it needs.
  • It standardizes the format so the school teams can focus on instruction and providing the service. ..
  • It standardizes the format so the school teams can focus on instruction and providing the service.
  • It standardizes the format so the school teams can focus on instruction and providing the service.
Bills: SB64, SB19, SB44, SB83
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: HB3637 - Added Feb 18th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Children, Youth and Family Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • primary goals should be, when possible, to get people transitioned out of these shelters and into a permanent
  • including authorized bed or unit capacity, average occupancy rates, and then it goes on to exits to permanent
  • We want to get them into permanent housing where possible.
  • not hearing 3637, but be aware that we're going to start a deep dive into the OCCY multidisciplinary teams