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• <02:18:40.920> that's guilty sometimes the sentence that's guilty sometimes the sentence that's
• If you can close in one sentence, and just close it. Okay, I’ll get my one sentence.
• time is up if you can close one sentence time is up if you can close one sentence and<04:05:54.920
• You can go one sentence.
• <05:16:08.320> your your time you can go one sentence your your time you can go one sentence

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 199, which would extend the statute of limitations for civil actions seeking damages from PFAS contamination from six years to 20 years. The prime sponsor and other supporters argued that PFAS contamination in southern New Hampshire has long-term and often delayed health and property impacts, making the current six-year period too short for victims to discover harm, connect it to exposure, and seek relief. Supporters described contamination in places such as Merrimack and surrounding communities, cited health concerns including cancer, developmental issues, and other illnesses, and said a longer period would better preserve legal rights while still requiring proof of causation. The Department of Environmental Services said it was not taking a position but acknowledged the contamination and ongoing work to address it. The Business and Industry Association opposed the bill, arguing that evidence becomes stale over time, memories and documents fade, and a longer window would make it harder to determine causation when other exposures or intervening factors may be involved. Committee members questioned both sides about causation, the difficulty of proving PFAS-related illness, and whether a 20-year period was necessary if a plaintiff already knows of the injury and its source. Supporters responded that PFAS effects can emerge slowly, that scientific understanding continues to develop, and that current knowledge is still incomplete. Opponents said the existing discovery rule already starts the clock when harm and causal connection are known, and that extending the period would reduce clarity and fairness in litigation. After testimony and questions, the chair closed the hearing on HB 199. The committee then opened House Bill 268 FN, which was described as a technical measure to confirm that the Board of Tax and Land Appeals may hold hearings in its Concord hearing rooms. The sponsor indicated the bill reflects current practice and does not require additional facilities. With only one witness listed and no apparent opposition, the discussion was brief and focused on why the authorization should be placed in statute rather than left to practice.

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• He's now serving a 17-year prison sentence as a result.
• Three of those members of that family served prison sentences as well, and that was prosecuted in San
• He's now serving a 17-year prison sentence as a result.
• We prosecuted this case in the Los Angeles County. prison sentence as a result.
• Because criminal records are a life sentence for survivors.

Summary: The Assembly Standing Committee on Public Safety held an informational hearing in Pomona on sex work-related crimes and efforts to combat human trafficking. The chair and Assembly Member Michelle Rodriguez framed the issue as a major public safety and victim-protection concern, referencing the repeal of the loitering law in SB 357 and the recent enactment of AB 379, which targets buyers of sex rather than sex workers. The hearing was organized into three panels: data and research, policing and anti-trafficking efforts, and courtroom/prosecution impacts. In the first panel, the California Department of Justice presented arrest and conviction data for the repealed loitering statute, noting overall declines from 2019 to 2022 but also explaining that the data did not distinguish clearly between people selling sex, people loitering to sell, and people purchasing sex. USC law professor Hannah Gary summarized a 2021 report finding that law enforcement stings and raids often lack transparency, disproportionately harm Black women, minors, LGBTQ+ people, and undocumented migrants, and rarely achieve the stated goals of protecting victims, prosecuting traffickers, or preventing trafficking. The ACLU of Southern California argued that criminalization of sex work is discriminatory and historically used to police women and people of color, and that laws aimed at buyers still harm sex workers and can increase immigration consequences. Committee members asked about data collection, racial disparities, and whether the new law could worsen profiling; the panelists urged public health approaches, better data, and more survivor services. The second panel featured the California DOJ human trafficking coordinator, Pomona Police Chief Mike Ellis, and survivor advocate Jess Torres of Rising Worldwide. DOJ described its regional trafficking teams, task forces, victim services, and prosecutions, emphasizing a victim-centered and trauma-informed approach. Chief Ellis said SB 357 limited police intervention and contributed to visible open-air prostitution near schools and other sensitive locations, citing complaints from residents and a reported drop in juvenile rescues in Pomona after the law changed; he supported AB 63-style enforcement with safeguards and service referrals. Torres, speaking as a survivor, argued that anti-trafficking policy must be survivor-led, that many youth in the sex trade are boys or LGBTQ youth, and that criminalization and street enforcement often worsen harm and displacement rather than solving the underlying problems. In the final panel, a Riverside County deputy district attorney said AB 63 could help law enforcement make earlier contact with potential victims and identify traffickers, while stressing the need for training, documentation, and oversight. A Los Angeles County public defender argued that prosecuting trafficked people reinforces traffickers’ control, creates lifelong barriers, and retraumatizes survivors, and pointed to diversion programs as a better model. The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking began its testimony by describing its survivor services and crisis response work. The hearing ended without any vote or formal action, but with committee members and witnesses continuing to debate the balance between enforcement, data collection, and survivor-centered services.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• thank you all right live let's move to HB 2749 Madam Chair members House Bill 2749 felony conviction sentence
• completion designation is also Members, House Bill 2749, felony conviction, sentence completion, designation
• Madam Chair, members, House Bill 2495, sentencing enhancements vulnerable adults, creates a three-year
• or five-year sentencing enhancement for certain felonies committed against vulnerable adults.
• I voted present in committee, but also, as a general matter, this is also a sentencing enhancement bill

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The caucus reviewed a long list of bills and resolutions, with staff giving brief descriptions and members flagging which items were on consent, had unanimous committee votes, or should be pulled for further discussion. Topics included education, health care, public safety, labor, water, taxation, housing, and elections. Several measures were noted as party-line or mixed votes, while many others were reported as unanimous and placed on third-read or consent calendars. Among the more discussed items were bills on school and labor policy, including a proposal to prohibit teacher strikes, a measure restricting school district bond actions, a bill requiring school safety protocols and assigning felony penalties for noncompliance, and a resolution limiting public money for labor organization activities. Members also raised concerns or requested further review on bills involving pharmacist testing authority, expired opioid antagonists, a county sheriff-related measure, a housing affordability district proposal, and a tobacco/vape regulation bill. Some measures were explicitly pulled from consent, including a Medicaid audit resolution, a budget-related pay-withholding resolution, and several education and public safety bills. The caucus also heard multiple health and human services measures, such as genetic counselor licensing, nursing board and pharmacy board continuations, foster care rights, psychiatry access funding, and free school meals. In addition, there were water and energy bills on Colorado River management, groundwater, transmission-line review, and renewable energy valuation, plus election and campaign-related proposals. The meeting ended with announcements, including an upcoming Colorado River breakfast briefing and an internal award recognizing Representative Brian Garcia, followed by adjournment.

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• So it ensures that you have four people, a minimum of four people.
• You have four people, a minimum of four people. In Texas, we have a multidisciplinary team.
• It's a minimum. Right. So you take big schools and small schools together.
• So, at minimum, we need data, but I know that those numbers had been kind of shockingly low.
• Things that were once considered bare minimum are now luxuries that we can no longer afford. As Dr.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• . >> I believe where it says in section two there, the last, um, sentence there in that paragraph, it
• there in that >> the last um sentence there in that paragraph, paragraph, paragraph, it<00:27:
• It could be as the minimum standards apply. It could be an educator-to-student ratio capacity.
• It could be as the minimum standards apply. It could be an educator-to-student ratio capacity.
• I mean, some of you know me from my days of the minimum school standards and the 306 rules.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• This bill provides a multiplier for the sentencing because most of the... a multiplier for the sentencing
• public safety bill as it is an animal protection bill, and that is the bill. a multiplier for the sentencing
• is protected, and those who commit capital crimes are severely punished through the alternative sentence
• clarify that for purposes of determining the level of tampering offense, the underlying charge or sentence

Summary: The committee met with a quorum and considered a large agenda of bills, mostly in the criminal justice, courts, civil procedure, and family/consumer protection areas. Early measures included CS/HB 1161 on removing altered sexual depictions posted without consent, HB 403 modernizing LLC law to allow protected series LLCs, CS/HB 97 on service of process in protection proceedings for vulnerable adults, and HB 813 as the state courts package addressing duty judges, arbitrator compensation, and notarization by judges. All of those bills were reported favorably, with HB 403 and HB 813 amended. The committee also heard and advanced CS/HB 947 on evidence of medical damages in personal injury and wrongful death cases, which drew substantial opposition from insurers, business groups, and defense-oriented witnesses, while the sponsor argued it would let juries hear all relevant evidence; it passed 19-3. Members also approved CS/CS/HB 615 allowing electronic delivery of landlord-tenant notices by email, after an amendment requiring opt-in language and written notice to update an email address; tenant advocates still raised concerns about eviction-related notices and receipt verification. HB 663 increased penalties for using tracking devices or apps to commit dangerous crimes and passed unanimously. CS/HB 385 made technical changes to the Florida Trust Code and passed unanimously after a conforming amendment. CS/HB 255, known as Dexter’s Law, increased penalties for aggravated animal cruelty and was supported by law enforcement and animal welfare groups; it passed unanimously. Later in the meeting, the committee approved HB 513 on electronic transmittal of court orders after the sponsor withdrew an amendment that would have changed the deadline from six hours to six business hours, following concerns that the delay could be too long for urgent orders. CS/HB 1099 gave law enforcement discretion in arrests involving individuals with significant medical conditions in facilities and passed unanimously. HB 653 added aggravating factors for capital felonies involving assassinations or attempted assassinations of heads of state; it drew opposition from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops and passed 20-2. CS/HB 59 expanded wrongful incarceration compensation by extending the filing deadline, removing the clean-hands bar, and allowing exonerees to choose between civil suit and the state claims process; it passed unanimously. PCS/HB 777 increased penalties for in-person luring or enticing of children and barred certain age-based defenses, passing unanimously. Finally, CS/HB 437 increased penalties for tampering with electronic monitoring devices; two amendments softened the bill by clarifying juvenile treatment and giving judges limited discretion to avoid automatic revocation of pretrial release, and the bill passed 21-1 before the meeting adjourned.

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• And what we we'd like to do is, instead of at the end of the sentence where it says, but not both, you
• when you have multiple. offenses that a person is convicted of, but it's all in one trial, those sentences
• So you can get a 10-year sentence. year, a five-year, and an eight-year sentence, but they all run at
• Y'all have allowed, in certain circumstances, judges that. discretion to stack one sentence on top of

Bills: SB20, SB1621, SB412, SB441, SB442

Keywords: child protection, sexual offenses, visual material, artificial intelligence, criminal penalties, law enforcement, defense against prosecution, obscenity, judicial officer, deepfake, deep fake, synthetic media, AI-generated content, machine learning, nonconsensual pornography, revenge porn, sexually explicit media, intimate images, digital manipulation, visual depiction

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• The assumptions for our fall estimate include admissions beginning in January 2025, that sentencing would
• However, those types, those crimes would typically carry relatively longer sentences, so we don't think
• it's likely that someone would be able, would have enough time to have committed their crime, been sentenced
• , serve that relatively long. prison sentence and be released to parole by the end of the budget year
• you get to the point where the person, we're now talking about that added piece on their prison sentence

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• If you want to say one last sentence, that would be great, and if you want us to have any additional
• information, because you did give us the bridge-in-the-gap info, but one last sentence would be great
• <00:07:59.199> that you want to say one last sentence that you want to say one last sentence
• is going to be that um the last sentence is going to be that um the stem<00:08:17.400> ecosystem<
• time unless there's one last sentence time unless there's one last sentence that<01:30:57.639>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• In lines 3 through 10, at the beginning of the first sentence, it's talking about local zoning ordinance
• through 10, at the beginning of<00:28:06.600> the<00:28:06.680> first<00:28:07.000> sentence
• ,<00:28:07.720> it's<00:28:07.880> talking of the first sentence, it's talking of the
• first sentence, it's talking about<00:28:08.920> uh uh<00:28:11.840> local<00:28:12.160

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The Conference Committee on House Bill 244 met to resolve remaining drafting issues in the bill updating and recodifying municipal enforcement of building and fire codes. The chair explained that the measure is largely a technical recodification, moving statutory references and correcting broken cross-references after review by the subcommittee, the Senate, AI-assisted checking, and the Building Code Review Board. Members emphasized that Amendment 2026-1923H contains no policy changes, only reference updates and language cleanup to ensure the bill points to the correct current RSA sections. The committee then discussed a few specific drafting questions, including a reference on page one and language on page two concerning the phrase “remove the prohibition on a building permit.” Some members questioned whether that wording should instead describe a variance or exception, but the chair and Representative Darji explained that the language is intended to allow an applicant to return to the zoning board to remove a prohibition attached to a specific building permit, not to broadly eliminate the underlying rule. The committee also noted a corrected reference to current statutory language because the underlying law had changed since the bill was introduced. After the explanation, the House receded from its position of non-concurrence and concurred with the Senate amendment as further amended by 2026-1923H. Members agreed to place the measure on the House consent calendar, and the committee adjourned.

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• trial attorney, she handled criminal trials in circuit court along with pre-trial motion hearings, sentencing
• pre-trial circuit court along with pre-trial motion<00:10:46.160> hearings,<00:10:46.959> sentencing
• <00:10:47.440> hearings, motion hearings, sentencing hearings, motion hearings, sentencing

Bills: HB9, SB2069, SB2342, SB2861, SB3123, SB2623, SB585, SB2211, SB2446, SB2919, SB2125, SB2116, SB2999, SB2656, SB2001, SB3169

Keywords: HB9, Hawaii Purple Heart state, Purple Heart, Purple Heart recipients, veterans, military, armed forces, service members, combat wounded, war veterans, military honors, state designation, symbolic legislation, honorary designation, Chapter 5 HRS, Hawaii Revised Statutes, military appreciation, veteran recognition, SB2069, Hawaii housing

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• about it, speaking to different people, if you plan to kill someone and kill them, it is a life sentence
• kill someone and kill them, it is<00:45:54.800> a<00:45:55.040> life<00:45:55.359> sentence
• /c><00:45:55.839> murder<00:45:56.240> offense,<00:45:57.119> um, is a life sentence
• murder offense, um, is a life sentence murder offense, um, which<00:45:58.000> is<00:45:58.160

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• The bill formalizes an annual reporting requirement, enabling lawmakers to analyze trends in sentencing
• decisions about what programs to fund, what programs to not fund, what approaches to take, whether our sentences
• The bill formalizes an annual reporting requirement, enabling lawmakers to analyze trends in sentencing
• decisions about what programs to fund, what programs to not fund, what approaches to take, whether our sentences

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection met with a quorum and considered two bills. House Bill 131, sponsored by Rep. Michael Meredith, would give certain former second-class cities more flexibility to change firefighter schedules without a collective bargaining agreement, allowing alternative schedules such as 24-on/72-off and a 48-on/72-off pattern. Meredith said the measure was developed with the Kentucky League of Cities and Kentucky Professional Firefighters and was permissive rather than mandatory. Senators generally supported the bill, noting it would not affect departments that want to keep their current schedules. The committee then heard House Bill 136 from Rep. Jared Bowman, with testimony from Josh Crawford of the Georgia Center for Opportunity. The bill would require more comprehensive annual reporting from the Department of Corrections so lawmakers can better evaluate sentencing, parole, recidivism, rehabilitation, and re-entry outcomes. Supporters said Kentucky currently relies too much on anecdote and incomplete data, and that better information would help direct funding and policy decisions; Bowman also tied the bill to follow-up on last year’s criminal justice reforms. Some members praised the data-gathering effort and discussed possible future tweaks, while one senator criticized HB 5 and said the data should have been collected earlier. Both bills were advanced unanimously by the committee and sent to the Senate floor with favorable consideration. The chair also announced a reminder about the Kentucky National Guard briefing and aerial flight event RSVP deadline.

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• the last six years, as the president pro tem of the state senate, Dave led a caucus that raised the minimum
• She, like thousands of other immigrant students, left school to join the workforce, taking a minimum
• to terrorize children and then say that they are the ones fighting for children... ...in the same sentence

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• for cancer, we know how to treat, should For cancer, we know how to treat, should not be a death sentence
• At a minimum, let's address the root At a minimum, let's address the root causes, but thoughts and prayers

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• Find out what dollar amount do we, at the minimum, need to be able to keep this infrastructure going
• I would rather us be more robust than trying to do, for a lack of a better word, a bare minimum for these
• the state of California do for those descendants of slaves is to give them projects, long prison sentences

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I have one sentence left. Strengthen your partnerships with community-based organizations.
• Judgment, an unconscionable timeline that slashes the current minimum of, I believe, 6 days, which allows
• talk with United Ways and their partner agencies working in the housing housing stability space, at minimum

Bills: HB15, HB171, HB204

Keywords: flood risk, campground, safety regulations, civil penalty, guest safety, Harris County, flood control, governance, expansion, public health, local governance, environmental management

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• Can you read that sentence again?
• I don't know if you can find that, but I'd like to hear that sentence again and where did you get that
• /c><01:09:44.560> to<01:09:44.679> hear<01:09:44.920> that<01:09:45.080> sentence
• that but I'd like to hear that sentence that but I'd like to hear that sentence again<01:09:46.679
• So I can say in Shakopee Public Schools, at minimum, it's done once a year, and there's visibility and

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Your last sentence: the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce just recently released a new report that they did
• uh the Minnesota Chamber of sentence uh the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce<00:07:43.599> just<
• Any last sentence that you want us to hear?
• <00:10:30.360> that<00:10:30.519> you to Tom mton any last sentence that you to Tom
• mton any last sentence that you want<00:10:30.920> us<00:10:31.079> to<00:10:31.279>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all