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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans Jan 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to the meeting of the Technology, Economic Development and Veterans Committee.
  • And thank you for your service. Any questions for Nancy?
  • House Bill 2446 relates to developing the quantum technology industry.
  • Other states are moving aggressively to attract this emerging technology.
  • But I also know that, just like every other technology, it has... ...with quantum.
Bills: HB2357, HB2365, HB2446
Summary: The committee held public hearings on three bills. House Bill 2365, “Advancing Digital Opportunities for All,” would shift digital equity responsibilities more squarely to the State Broadband Office, rename the Digital Equity Opportunity Program as the Digital Opportunity Program, update the Digital Equity Forum’s duties, and require more regular reporting and coordination on the state digital equity plan. The prime sponsor said the bill is mainly a governance update to align state law with changing federal and state structures. Testimony from community organizations, PTA, and digital navigation providers strongly supported the bill, emphasizing the need for broadband access, devices, digital skills, and online safety, while Commerce testified to technical and fiscal concerns and said amendments were needed to address costs. House Bill 2446 would direct Commerce to develop a state quantum strategy by June 30 using non-state funding if possible, with the goal of identifying growth areas, workforce needs, partnerships, and economic impacts for the quantum industry. The sponsor and supporters from the technology industry, Microsoft, and the Technology Alliance argued that Washington has strong research assets but needs a coordinated strategy to compete with other states. Committee members raised concerns about regulatory capture, cybersecurity, and the need to keep the strategy broad enough to cover quantum communications, networking, and sensing; a friendly amendment was requested to reference “quantum technology” rather than just quantum computing. House Bill 2357 would create a state Civil Air Patrol within the Military Department, allowing the governor to activate it for cadet training, communications, disaster relief, cyber missions, and search and rescue. The Military Department, Civil Air Patrol leadership, and veterans’ representatives supported the bill, saying it would improve coordination and emergency response without changing federal authorities or creating a fiscal impact. The meeting ended with a work session on strengthening Washington’s visitor economy. State of Washington Tourism, the Washington Wine Commission, and industry advisory group members presented recommendations for a more sustainable tourism funding model, centered on an industry-supported assessment and a target annual program budget of about $25 million. They said Washington is underfunded compared with peer western states and could lose billions in visitor spending over the next decade without a stronger, more predictable funding structure. Committee members discussed the importance of statewide benefits, international visitation, and balancing support for urban and rural destinations, and the chair said tourism investment bills would be considered later in the session.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But what I’m insinuating is having all those different options and providing services to the community
  • </c> different options and providing services different options and providing services to<00:31:33.760
  • 170 years newer in technology but<01:08:52.719><c> the</c><01:08:52.960><c> people</c><01:08:53.120>
  • I think our larger companies can be good neighbors, and we work with them, and they perform a service
  • </c> with them and they perform a service with them and they perform a service that<01:17:53.440><c>
Bills: HF3718
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - House Science & Technology

Science & Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • I staffed them on Health and Human Services and Science and Technology, and this is my 10th session.
  • Health Union Services Committee.
  • And she defines technology first as a framework for systems change where technologies are considered
  • So assistive technology is a big part of that. It’s not entirely exclusive to assistive technology.
  • Considering that this is the technology committee and that we know what kind of technologies are being
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are re-engineering our business models to integrate shared services, ensuring we emerge as a leaner
  • And it will allow for maintaining service.
  • shared services, ensuring we emerge<00:27:03.120><c> as</c><00:27:03.280><c> a</c><00:27:03.320><c>
  • Our children's education and service.
  • society and on the technological society and on the precipice<00:48:31.320><c> of</c><00:48:31.440><
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

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

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am here with Department of Information Technology Cabinet Secretary Manny Barretas.
  • As we know, software and cloud services and things of that nature are dwindling.
  • These are all examples of us just really dwarfing how we have our information technology managed within
  • It's going to modernize secure services for agencies and citizens. reduce risk of failures and emergency
  • So – and then they also report back to the Department of Information Technology on a quarterly basis.
Bills: SB132, SM16, SM17
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 4th, 2026

House Rules & Order Of Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am here with Department of Information Technology Cabinet Secretary Manny Budettas.
  • As we know, software and cloud services and things of that nature are dwarfing how we have our information
  • technology managed within state government and really our lives.
  • It's going to modernize secure services...
  • It's going to modernize secure services for agencies and citizens, reduce risk of failures and emergency
Bills: SB132, SM16, SM17
Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 132, a Department of Information Technology modernization measure sponsored by Senator Padilla. The bill would update state IT statutes to explicitly include software and cloud-based services alongside hardware and equipment, with the goal of improving planning, procurement, security, and efficiency. Secretary Manny Budettas said the change would help modernize secure services, reduce emergency fixes, and better align state purchasing with current software-as-a-service models. Members asked about centralized integration across branches of government, cybersecurity protections, the revolving fund, and agency billing; the bill was reported out with a do pass on the committee substitute. The committee then considered Senate Memorial 16, which asks Higher Education to convene a task force on parenting students in New Mexico’s higher education system. Senator Harmeo and witnesses described barriers such as child care, transportation, flexible scheduling, and financial hardship, and said the memorial would gather data and recommendations rather than create a new program. Members discussed how the survey would be administered, whether it would include full-time and part-time students, and how online or out-of-state students would be handled; the memorial was approved with a do pass. Finally, the committee heard Senate Memorial 17, sponsored by Senator Lopez, directing DPS and the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs to study the current state of sexual assault examination kits. Witnesses reviewed the 2016 task force that addressed a backlog of more than 5,000 untested kits and said a new backlog of 1,419 kits is now beyond the 180-day testing target. Members expressed strong concern about the delays, asked about lab capacity, possible use of private or additional labs, and the lack of penalties for missing the deadline. The memorial passed with a do pass, and the committee then recessed.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • House File 1166 establishes the Disability Services Technology and Advocacy Expansion Grant.
  • and remote support can play technology and remote support can play in<00:24:37.760><c> services</c><
  • </c> actually look at their technology actually look at their technology Services<00:36:47.720><c> because
  • c> become</c> Focus Services Will services will become Focus Services Will services will become increasingly
  • , cleaning services, home care, maybe some transportation services.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/24/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're lucky to have the services that we have, and in the event that services or oversight is cut even
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to provide breastfeeding and lactation care services, including
  • Assistive technology is one of our main priorities.
  • Technology first is to consider assistive technology and other technologies before other solutions when
  • So why technology first? Why not just be sure to think about technology?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • technology across the state.
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  • </c> their services. Representative Curran. their services. Representative Curran.
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MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Jan 15th, 2026

Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Transcript Highlights:
  • Families seeking ASD services are facing unprecedented delays.
  • Families seeking ASD services are facing unprecedented delays.
  • Community Autism Services? Thank you. Great.
  • We provide ABA services to children and families.
  • We provide ABA services to children and families.
Summary: The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing held a public hearing on several health care financing bills, with most testimony focused on autism/ABA services and kidney disease coverage. On House Bill 4623, Representative Lisa Field and providers from Community Autism Services and related groups urged the committee to recognize assistant-level ABA providers, including BCaBAs, in the MassHealth reimbursement structure to expand capacity, reduce wait lists, and improve access for children with autism. An actuary testified that moving from a two-tier to a three-tier ABA model could lower MassHealth costs, and providers said current reimbursement and new MassHealth requirements are contributing to long delays and workforce strain. On House Bill 4353 and Senate Bill 2587, testimony from ABA organizations supported a biannual Medicaid rate review process to better align reimbursement with service costs, workforce needs, accreditation requirements, and new administrative burdens, without mandating a specific rate increase.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee approves HF1346 2/26/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • House File 1346, so I will move House File 1346 before the committee to be re-referred to the Human Services
  • Apparently we’re having technology issues, so sorry.
  • These teachers, child care providers, health care workers, law enforcement, and social services professionals
  • These teachers, child care providers, health care workers, law enforcement, and social services professionals
  • on Human Services finance and policy<00:18:51.280><c> all</c><00:18:51.440><c> those</c><00:18:51.600
Bills: HF1346, HF1169, HF1276
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Apparently we're having technology issues. Oh, sorry.
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  • </c> the requirements of the technology the requirements of the technology updates<00:27:06.320><c> have
  • </c><00:31:51.399><c> for</c> Protection Case Management Services for Protection Case Management Services
  • I know they both need significant supports and services.
Bills: HF1346, HF1169, HF1276
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Health & Long-Term Care Jan 16th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Health & Long-Term Care

Transcript Highlights:
  • These technologies are advancing at a pace that frequently outstrips our ability to fully These technologies
  • By way of brief background, under the Health Technology Assessment Program, the Health Technology Clinical
  • The current process is flawed by which the health technology assessment program reviews new technologies
  • The current process is flawed by which the health technology assessment program reviews new technologies
  • long-term care services.
Summary: The Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee held public hearings on several bills. SB 5904 would clarify that only human beings may use nursing titles, including in the context of AI or chatbots; the sponsor and nursing witnesses said it would protect transparency, patient safety, and the nursing profession, and testimony was overwhelmingly supportive. SB 5915 would change the Health Technology Assessment Program’s review criteria and timelines, giving priority to technologies already recommended by Medicare or national guidelines; supporters, including educators and patients with rare or serious conditions, said the current process is too rigid and can block access to needed treatments. SB 6025 would update the definition of fetal death to use the best clinically accurate gestational age rather than last menstrual period; the sponsor and clinicians said this would align the law with medical practice and reduce emotional and financial burdens on grieving families, though the hearing drew substantial opposition sign-ins. SB 5933 would require the Department of Health to share EMS overdose data in near real time with ODMAP, with privacy protections and limits on law-enforcement use; public health, local government, recovery, and youth witnesses said it would improve overdose response and save lives, while the Poison Center asked for amendments to include its data and avoid conflating overdoses with poisonings. SB 5990 would allow APRNs or physician assistants to serve as local health officers in counties under 100,000 population; the sponsor said rural counties need more flexibility, while local public health groups supported broader access but raised concerns about qualifications, and naturopathic physicians argued they should also be included. SB 5981 would prohibit drug manufacturers from limiting 340B drug access through contract pharmacies or requiring extra data as a condition of sale; safety-net hospitals, health centers, rural providers, and patients said it protects access and funds care, while manufacturers, employer groups, and some industry representatives argued the program lacks transparency, can raise costs, and should be narrowed. No final votes were taken in the excerpt, and the committee closed each hearing after testimony, with sign-in counts noted for several bills.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, February 11, 2026

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and digital innovation technology.
  • ,</c><01:08:38.000><c> and</c> blockchain, financial technology, and blockchain, financial technology
  • And it's digital innovation technology.
  • </c> so this is just an additional service so this is just an additional service that<01:09:14.159><c
  • And then we should be those services.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee, February 11, 2026

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • Shortfalls in 911 services.
  • So I don't know services to the PAPs.
  • Uh, the technology is in fact changing.
  • Uh the technology is in answered at. Uh the technology is in fact<01:37:15.040><c> changing.
  • </c><01:37:57.600><c> respond</c> able to have emergency services respond able to have emergency services
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Juvenile Justice Mar 26th, 2025

S/C on Juvenile Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • My name is Greg Sumter, Director of Grayson County Juvenile Services.
  • Please understand the importance of quality of service and rehabilitation to our communities.
  • Of Youth Services and that you're testifying for HB 2234? That's correct. Correct. You may proceed.
  • My name is Lauren Rose, with the Texas Network of Youth Services, a statewide network of youth services
  • I work at LifeWorks as a case manager for transitional living. ...and in diversion services.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Juvenile Justice Mar 26th, 2025

S/C on Juvenile Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you for your service. You brought up an interesting scenario that you described at the end.
  • Just to show you, you're the Director of Public Policy for Texas Network of Youth Services and you're
  • Good morning, Lauren Rose, Director of Public Policy, Texas Network of Youth Services.
  • Houston County Juvenile Services and yourself in support of House Bill 2147. Yes, sir.
  • I appreciate your service.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 6th, 2026 at 05:01 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am here with Department of Information Technology Cabinet Secretary Mani, but at us, and we are here
  • We are seeking simply to add the word software to the information, excuse me, the information technology
  • It also allows for better planning by departments, by the Department of Information Technology.
  • , you know, we're decentralized, and there are various agencies that go out and buy products and services
Bills: SB193, SB132, SB35, SB145
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 6th, 2026 at 09:18 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're really looking at how rural providers can share services potentially.
  • In addition, for tax and tax and rev, there's $1 million for information technology...
  • If hospice services would be paid for through Medicaid, yes. Okay.
  • homes that are on the DD waiver to get those in-home services as well.
  • homes that are on the DD waiver to get those in-home services as well.
Bills: SB193, SB132, SB35, SB145