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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Transportation - 03/23/26

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • heightens stuttering. heightens stuttering.
  • stutters dreads. stutters dreads.
  • Um, um, um, stuttering. Well, I'm a lifelong stutterer.
  • Stuttering is what we do when we're trying not to stutter, ironically.
  • and I stutter. and I stutter.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • It requires various forms of insurance to include treatment for stuttering for kids and preclude setting
  • annual visits to a speech-language pathologist or limiting the benefits based on the cause of the stuttering
  • Over in the Assembly, I had some pretty emotional testimony from folks who had suffered from stuttering
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • lifespan, from infants that are struggling with feeding and swallowing to school-age children who stutter
  • 05:01.000> who swallowing to school-age children who swallowing to school-age children who stutter
  • > school-age<00:05:02.640> children<00:05:03.040> who<00:05:03.240> have stutter
  • , school-age children who have stutter, school-age children who have language<00:05:03.960> learning
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 510, which passed with a favorable expression by unanimous roll call vote and then received consent without opposition. The bill’s specific subject was not discussed in the excerpt, but the chair congratulated the sponsor after the vote. House Bill 176, sponsored by Rep. Kim Moser with testimony from Corey Meadows of the Kentucky Medical Association, would create a framework for insurers to offer waiver programs that reduce prior authorization requirements for health care providers. The sponsor said the bill was intended to cut red tape and improve transparency, and noted that the language had been worked out with insurers. The committee voted unanimously to pass the bill with favorable expression and then approved consent. House Bill 266, sponsored by Rep. Peyton Griffee with testimony from Dr. Kelly Ellis of Eastern Kentucky University, would add audiology and speech-language pathology to the credentials eligible for the Kentucky Healthcare Workforce Investment Fund. Supporters said these professions are critical to care across the lifespan and that their education and licensure requirements fit the fund’s purpose of retaining health professionals in Kentucky. The bill passed unanimously with favorable expression and consent, with Sen. Nemes briefly explaining his support based on workforce development experience. House Bill 393, sponsored by Rep. Rebecca Raymer with testimony from McKenzie Wallace of the Alzheimer’s Association, made cleanup changes to the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Council, added a caregiver council slot, and required the council to develop and distribute an early detection and diagnosis toolkit for health care providers. The committee passed the bill unanimously with favorable expression and consent. Sen. Mills explained his yes vote in memory of his father, who had Alzheimer’s disease.
NY

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Insurance - 04/20/2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Insurance Law in relation to requiring health insurance to provide coverage for speech therapy for stuttering
  • Insurance Law in relation to requiring health insurance to provide coverage for speech therapy for stuttering
Keywords: 993, senate, all
Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Insurance met and considered a long agenda of bills focused on health coverage, insurance regulation, and related consumer protections. Measures discussed included coverage for infant formula, restrictions on step therapy for serious mental health conditions, physical and occupational therapy services, outpatient substance use disorder treatment without pre-authorization, mortgage guarantee insurance, patient navigation services, specialized dental benefit plan information, firefighter medical exams, the Strength and Homes Program, accident prevention course instruction, early egg and peanut allergy coverage, speech therapy for stuttering, dog-breed-related insurance restrictions, insurer advertising requirements, prescription drug substitution during shortages, and notice of long-term care rate increases. Members also discussed the rationale for some bills, including concerns about outdated advertising rules and the importance of allergy-related coverage for children. Most bills were moved favorably, with several reported to the floor and others referred onward to the Finance Committee, Substance Use Disorder Committee, or Transportation Committee. Notable referrals included the infant formula, patient navigation, allergy coverage, stuttering therapy, and drug shortage substitution bills to Finance; the substance use disorder bill to the Substance Use Disorder Committee; and the accident prevention course bill to Transportation. Bills on mental health step therapy, mortgage guarantee insurance, specialized dental plan information, firefighter exams, dog breed restrictions, and insurer advertising requirements were reported to the floor. The committee also took recorded votes, with some members noted as without recommendation or without recusal on certain bills, and Senator Helming recorded in the negative on the long-term care rate increase notice bill. Overall, the meeting concluded with all agenda items acted on and no bill defeated outright.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/12/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> Did I stutter? >> No. >> I stutter sometimes. >> What? What's...
  • ;> Yeah, I'm just >> Yeah, I'm just >> Did<01:00:05.280> I<01:00:05.440> stutter
  • >> Did I stutter? >> Did I stutter?
  • >> No, >> No, >> No, >> I<01:00:07.920> stutter<01:00:08.319> sometimes
  • >> I stutter sometimes. >> I stutter sometimes. >> What?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Transportation - 04/13/26

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • a graphic or written identifier of a speech condition or disorder, including but not limited to stuttering
  • disorder, including but not limited or disorder, including but not limited to<00:37:57.440> stuttering
  • when<00:37:58.080> requested<00:37:58.600> by<00:37:58.720> the to stuttering
  • , when requested by the to stuttering, when requested by the applicant. applicant. applicant.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm sorry, that eliminated visits for speech therapy for treatment of stuttering.
  • We couldn't just point to stuttering eliminating the visit limit for them.
  • of stuttering. of stuttering.
  • ><00:51:27.119> just<00:51:27.839> point<00:51:28.160> to<00:51:28.480> stuttering
  • We couldn't just point to stuttering We couldn't just point to stuttering eliminating<00:51:29.760
Summary: The Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance met for its first interim meeting, established a quorum, approved routine opening items, and welcomed a new committee assistant and a legislative intern. The committee first heard a Kentucky Bankers Association presentation from Tim Shank and John Cooper focused on the state’s housing shortage, which they described as affecting all 120 counties and especially low- and moderate-income and workforce housing. They urged support for a proposed $20 million banker-backed revolving fund, paired with tax credits, to finance new housing construction; they said the program would be flexible, could support alternatives such as manufactured housing, and would use below-market loans with tax credits vesting over five years only after units are completed. They also asked for extension of the historical tax credit carryforward from five to seven years and for continued support of new market tax credits, arguing that supply-chain delays make the longer period necessary for historic rehabilitation projects. The bankers also raised concerns about credit unions, arguing that because credit unions do not pay the same taxes as banks, they should not be allowed to acquire healthy state-chartered banks or hold state and local deposits. They cited the recent purchase of First State Bank of Middlesborough as an example, saying the transaction would reduce state, county, and city tax revenue and weaken local tax bases. In response to committee questions, the presenters said local regulations, zoning, parking, sidewalk, and utility easement issues can significantly delay housing projects, and they emphasized that state policy and infrastructure support are needed to help address affordability and development barriers. The committee then shifted to a Department of Insurance presentation by Commissioner Sharon Clark on how to read KRS 6.948 health mandate and federal cost defrayal impact statements. Clark explained that the mandate statements were created in 1998 so legislators would have actuarial estimates of how proposed health insurance mandates would affect administrative costs, premiums, and total costs, and she noted that later legislation added federal cost-defrayal analysis. She also reviewed the background of the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits framework and said the department’s statements are intended to help lawmakers make informed decisions on proposed health coverage mandates. No votes or formal actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means (03/23/2026)

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • You were just uh kind of stuttering a bit when you were talking about how the formula that you used to
  • You were just uh kind of stuttering a bit when you were talking about how the formula that you used to
  • You were just uh kind of stuttering a bit when you were talking about how the formula that you used to
  • You were just uh kind of stuttering a bit when you were talking about how the formula that you used to
  • a bit when you were talking stuttering a bit when you were talking about<00:27:35.760> how<00
Keywords: 1189, house, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

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

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • Specifically, I stutter and so I might, if speaking slow, need a little more than the two-minute limit
  • Specifically,<00:57:43.200> I<00:57:43.520> stutter<00:57:44.400> and<00:57:44.720
  • > so<00:57:45.920> I<00:57:46.559> might, Specifically, I stutter and so I might
  • , Specifically, I stutter and so I might, if<00:57:47.599> speaking<00:57:48.079> slow,
  • saw me walk in and see seat here, it's not like a movie where you can scan an X-ray and see that I stutter
Summary: The committee approved the minutes from February 24 and February 26. It then took up House File 3661, a bill originally authored by Representative Gomez and presented by Representative Feist, which would ban government use of facial recognition technology and be re-referred to the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee. The committee adopted the A1 amendment, described as a technical amendment based on House Research recommendations, before hearing testimony on the bill. Representative Feist said the bill is aimed at preventing serious privacy and civil-liberties harms, including secretive surveillance, racial and gender bias, and the lack of statewide rules governing government use of facial recognition. Supportive testimony came from Chad Marlo of the ACLU, who argued the issue is bipartisan, the technology has accuracy problems, and government use is expanding against vulnerable groups. Chris Wayland of Restore the Fourth Minnesota also supported a ban, emphasizing the inability to opt out of facial recognition and the lack of standards, disclosure, and community input. Rich Newmeister urged stronger transparency measures, including agency policies and public notice in buildings using the technology. Major Spencer Baky of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office opposed an outright ban, saying facial recognition is used only as an investigative lead, not for positive identification or real-time surveillance, and that results are corroborated before use. He said the office has used the tool in hundreds of investigations and supports a statutory framework with safeguards instead of a ban. In member discussion, Representative Hudson argued a blanket ban was too broad and suggested a more targeted evidentiary approach, while Representative Moller and Representative Kurr expressed concern about misuse and the federal government's use of the technology. Representative Durant asked whether there was a current Minnesota problem and whether stakeholders and law enforcement had been involved in drafting the bill. No final vote on the bill was taken in the portion provided, beyond adoption of the amendment and the committee’s continued consideration of HF 3661.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Transportation, Highways and Public Works Apr 21st, 2026

Transportation, Highways & Public Works

Transcript Highlights:
  • permanent speech impediment, where she sometimes slurs her speech, she sometimes has a pretty bad stutter
  • She sometimes has a pretty bad stutter. She may confuse words.
Summary: The House Transportation Committee met on April 21 and considered a series of transportation, licensing, tolling, and public safety measures. It reported favorably House Bill 745, extending special permits for tandem loads hauling containers to and from port facilities; House Bill 1000, a DOTD cleanup bill that clarifies Highway Priority Program reporting and raises the letter-bid contract threshold from $1 million to $3 million; and House Bill 1050, which clarifies commercial driver’s license rules, including age and intrastate/interstate driving limits. The committee also approved House Bill 1172 naming a portion of U.S. Highway 165 in Oberlin the Coulin Brooks Manuel Memorial Highway, House Bill 1218 naming a portion of Louisiana Highway 1090 the Lewis Pat Miramon Memorial Highway, House Concurrent Resolution 32 urging backup motors for the St. Claude Avenue Bridge, and House Bill 1207 on public contracting standards and competition in public bidding. A major portion of the meeting focused on House Bill 896, which responds to tolling issues at the Belle Chasse bridge project. The bill would require toll signage, local toll customer service centers, dispute procedures, and limits on administrative fees, with amendments addressing effective dates, in-person assistance, appeal deadlines, law-enforcement exemptions, and limits on certain charges. The author and witnesses described high administrative fees, long travel distances to customer service locations, and problems with toll bills, while committee members noted the issue was complex and ongoing. The committee reported the bill favorably as amended. The committee also heard House Bill 1159, allowing Jefferson Parish municipalities to use automated speed enforcement devices again under local control. Supporters from Gretna, Westwego, Harahan, and Kenner said photo enforcement reduced crashes, improved safety, and helped limited police resources, while opponents were not emphasized in the transcript. After discussion about whether the measure should be voluntarily or involuntarily deferred, the committee ultimately deferred the bill. House Bill 493, which would prohibit expropriation by the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District in East Feliciana and St. Helena Parishes, drew extensive testimony about reservoir fears and local opposition; the committee voluntarily deferred it. House Bill 679, as substituted, created a driver’s license designation for people with brain injuries and required related law-enforcement training; witnesses described personal experiences with brain injury and the need for officers to recognize communication and behavioral effects, and the committee reported the substitute favorably. House Bill 1173, which waives late fees for certain reinstatement-relief payment plans for driver’s licenses, was also reported favorably, and House Bill 1024 creating a Louisiana Democratic Party prestige plate was approved as well.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on State and Local Government - 04/01/25

State and Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • I don't present in front of chambers often, so if I start stuttering, I apologize. Okay.
  • I don't present in front of chambers often, so if I start stuttering, I apologize. Okay.
  • c> I<00:44:33.200> start chambers often, so if I start chambers often, so if I start stuttering
  • <00:44:35.520> So<00:44:35.839> again, stuttering, I apologize. Okay.
  • So again, stuttering, I apologize. Okay.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Joint Policy Jan 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm just not stuttering here. Thank you, Chairwoman.
  • I'm just not stuttering here. Thank you, Chairwoman. I know your name.
  • I'm just not stuttering here. Thank you, Chairwoman. Thank you, Mr. Hardy.
Keywords: 908, all
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 2401, which would require physicians to complete continuing education on nutrition and metabolic health as part of the state’s rural health transformation effort. HHS supported the bill, saying it would help physicians better address chronic disease and preserve federal grant points tied to the state’s application. A member of the public also testified in favor, arguing that better nutrition education could improve diabetes outcomes and reduce costs. The committee then adopted an amendment to add the Board of Occupational Therapy Practice to the background-check statute so the occupational therapy compact could proceed, and it passed the bill as amended on a roll call vote. The committee next heard House Bill 1621, which would require the Presidential Fitness Physical Fitness Test in elementary, middle, and high school physical education courses. HHS said the bill was part of the rural health transformation application and could help preserve federal funding, but members raised many questions about the test’s criteria, adaptive options for students with disabilities, equipment needs, and whether the bill should apply to non-public schools. Senator Clemens offered an amendment to limit the requirement to public schools, but it failed. Senator Hogan then offered an amendment to clarify exemptions and allow DPI to align implementation with federal guidance; that amendment passed. A further amendment adding language allowing DPI to establish criteria for and exceptions to the test also passed. The committee then approved the bill as amended on a roll call vote. The committee also considered House Bill 1622, which joins North Dakota to the physician assistant licensure compact. HHS said the compact would improve access to care, especially in rural areas, support military families, and help preserve rural health transformation funding. Members noted the compact had been discussed in a prior session and that many earlier concerns had been resolved. After brief discussion about the compact process and its consistency with other interstate compacts, the committee voted to do pass the bill. Finally, the committee began Senate Bill 2402, which expands pharmacists’ prescriptive authority and therapeutic substitution powers. HHS and the Board of Pharmacy supported the bill as a way to improve access to care and maintain rural health transformation funding. Senator Roers introduced a detailed amendment negotiated with the Board of Medicine and Board of Pharmacy to narrow and clarify the bill, including notification requirements, limits on certain drug categories, and patient-protection language for therapeutic substitution. The Board of Pharmacy then testified in support of the broader bill and explained the CLIA-waived testing provisions and the repeal of the older, narrower pharmacist-testing language. The hearing and amendment discussion were still underway when the transcript ended.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, March 2, 2026

Labor, Health & Social Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate File 121 is sponsored by Senator Doc Stutter, who I do not see.
  • .<00:54:16.720> Uh,<00:54:16.960> Senator<00:54:17.359> Doc<00:54:17.599> Stutter
  • Uh, Senator Doc Stutter, if committee.
  • Uh, Senator Doc Stutter, if you<00:54:18.319> have<00:54:18.400> a<00:54:19.200> co-sponsor
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • lifespan, from infants that are struggling with feeding and swallowing to school-age children who stutter
Summary: The committee met with a quorum and heard four House bills, adjusting the order to accommodate members’ schedules. House Bill 510, on organ donation procedures, would require health care providers involved in organ procurement to pause the process if any signs of life are observed and restart the process if needed. The bill was presented as a consensus measure, received no opposition, and passed with favorable expression by unanimous vote and consent. House Bill 176 would create a framework for insurers to implement a waiver program reducing prior authorization requirements before care is provided. The sponsor said the language had been worked out with insurers to cut red tape and improve transparency. The committee approved the bill unanimously with favorable expression and then consent. House Bill 266 would add audiology and speech-language pathology to the Kentucky Healthcare Workforce Investment Fund eligibility list. Testimony emphasized that these professions are essential to patient care across the lifespan and meet the fund’s training and licensure standards. The bill passed unanimously with favorable expression and consent. House Bill 393 concerned Alzheimer’s-related statutory cleanup, adding a caregiver council seat and requiring the council to develop and distribute an early detection and diagnosis toolkit for health care providers. The bill was supported as a way to improve Alzheimer’s awareness and care, with one senator explaining a yes vote in memory of a parent who had Alzheimer’s. It also passed unanimously with favorable expression and consent. The chair announced the next committee meeting would be Wednesday, March 25 at 8:00 a.m.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Human Services - 03/27/26

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, I took a little stutter step cuz I wasn't sure if you meant a new amendment being introduced today
  • Um, I took a little stutter step cuz I wasn't sure if you meant a new amendment being introduced today
  • Um, I took a little stutter step cuz I wasn't sure if you meant a new amendment being introduced today
  • <00:04:45.000> step<00:04:45.320> cuz<00:04:45.440> I I took a little stutter
  • step cuz I I took a little stutter step cuz I wasn't<00:04:45.840> sure<00:04:46.120> if
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Republican Media Availability following adjournment of 2025 session 5/19/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is really interesting as you watched the stutter-start, you know, the whole thing that kind of went
Keywords: 1183, house
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • I think in our meeting yesterday, uh, Chairman How, we talked about it as the stuttering language that
  • I think in our meeting yesterday, uh, Chairman How, we talked about it as the stuttering language that
  • <00:48:08.800> the How, we talked about it as the the How, we talked about it as the the stuttering
  • 48:10.319> you<00:48:10.480> all<00:48:10.640> put<00:48:10.800> in stuttering
  • language that you all put in stuttering language that you all put in last<00:48:11.200> session
Summary: The committee heard first from Kentucky Farm Bureau leaders, who outlined the organization’s current priorities and recent work on farmland transition. Eddie Melton said Farm Bureau is working through 983 county and advisory committee resolutions and highlighted support for the updated selling farmer tax credit, now law through House Bill 775, as well as Senate Bill 28’s agriculture economic development provisions. He said Farm Bureau’s likely priorities include maintaining the 50% share of the tobacco settlement fund for agriculture, protecting funding for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, preserving sales tax exemptions on farm inputs, keeping property taxes controlled, and exploring additional tools to keep farmland in active farmers’ hands, including possible loan or inheritance-tax changes. He also raised concerns about eminent domain transparency, nuisance deer permits, and access to agricultural inputs and crop protection products. Alita Bots described the farmland transition initiative in more detail, saying the revised state tax credit is generating strong interest and that a new federal tax provision now allows eligible land sales to actively engaged farmers to spread capital gains taxes over time. She said the initiative has reached 22 counties and more than 1,300 people this year through outreach and meetings, and that Farm Bureau is pairing policy work with resources to help farm families plan transitions and prepare wills and other estate documents. Drew Graham added that the effort is also meant to bridge the rural-urban divide and support rural communities, and Farm Bureau invited members to its annual meeting in early December. Members asked about rising insurance costs and deer damage. Farm Bureau representatives said severe convective storms, inflation, and higher repair and material costs have driven insurance rate increases, citing five major storm events since 2021 and a recent Owensboro hailstorm that caused about $350 million in losses; they said the company is moving toward percentage deductibles to help moderate increases. On deer, they said crop-loss totals are hard to quantify but acknowledged the problem and discussed possible coordination with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Hunters for the Hungry. Commissioner Jonathan Shell then began the Department of Agriculture presentation, reporting gains from the department’s school agriculture outreach program, including a 23% increase in county participation between March and September and improved teacher-reported student learning, before continuing into the department’s legislative priorities.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Commerce (05/13/2025)

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • Was that a stuttering senator or two senators? It was a stroke. Sorry.
  • <02:17:05.840> Was<02:17:06.240> that<02:17:06.399> a<02:17:06.559> stuttering
  • <02:17:07.200> senator<02:17:07.599> or put I'm Was that a stuttering senator or put
  • I'm Was that a stuttering senator or two<02:17:08.080> senators?
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/25/25

Environment, Climate, and Legacy

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, you know, I was really scared of just stuttering, making a fool of myself.
  • you know, I was really scared<00:48:38.720> of<00:48:38.880> just<00:48:39.040> stuttering
  • /c><00:48:39.440> making<00:48:39.599> a<00:48:39.680> fool scared of just stuttering
  • , making a fool scared of just stuttering, making a fool of<00:48:40.079> myself.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session May 23rd, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • California, and Assembly Concurrent Resolution 86 by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas relative to National Stuttering
Summary: The Assembly met on May 23, 2025, after a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance. Members also made several guest introductions and memorial recognitions, including tributes to labor leader Louisa Blue and a Memorial Day moment of silence. The body adopted a motion to suspend Assembly Rule 63 for certain Appropriations Committee bills, and later took up a second-day consent calendar and several resolutions. The chamber adopted ACR 68, declaring July 2025 as Parks Make Life Better Month, and ACR 83, proclaiming California Maritime Day; both received broad support. On the floor file, members passed a series of bills covering child passenger safety, student financial aid, downtown office-to-housing conversion districts, rental vehicle theft prevention, fire hazard zone reviews, medical data protections, UC admissions transparency, office-to-housing streamlining, inoperable RV removal, domestic violence and child welfare, insurance classification for social service workers, sustainable aviation fuel CEQA review, UC hiring background checks, accessory dwelling units, fish and wildlife exemptions for Sutter County infrastructure, speed limit assessments, geothermal permitting, special education transfers, recorder fee adjustments, and a BIT program exemption for farmers and ranchers. Most measures passed with little or no opposition. AB 435, which would have implemented a five-step test standard for child passenger safety laws, was later reconsidered and failed on a vote of 36-12 after the call was lifted. The Assembly also adopted the second-day consent calendar, including multiple bills and resolutions, and added co-authors to several resolutions. The session ended with adjournments in memory and an adjournment until Tuesday, May 27 at 1 p.m.