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• Here, it's very broad; you don't even have to show Harm in certain cases.
• You don't even have to be the individual who's harmed in the act. There's a very loose standard.
• If you buy something on Amazon and it causes injury or harm, from my perspective, that's a product's
• the chain of commerce, if you will, should have responsibility if, in fact, that product does some harm
• It'll incentivize the investigation and the prosecution equal to the harm.

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• only tweet about the past and harm only tweet about the past and harm American<00:56:47.920>
• Tell her you will not harm her.
• savings, the largest single reduction in mandatory spending in our country's history.
• savings, the largest single reduction in mandatory spending in our country's history.
• savings, the largest single reduction in mandatory spending in our country's history.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• budget reserves during periods of economic growth, that helps protect Californians from sudden reductions
• Those reserves help protect vital programs and services from even deeper reductions.
• There's harm that's going to be done to people in California.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Accountability and Oversight heard ACA 20, the Safe for California Futures Act, a constitutional amendment to strengthen the state’s Budget Stabilization Account (rainy day fund). The authors, Assembly Members Gabriel and Valencia, said the measure would raise the reserve cap from 10% to 20% of General Fund revenues, change how reserve deposits are treated under the Gann limit so deposits would not count against the spending cap until withdrawn, and update eligible debt repayments to include items such as budget loans, Proposition 98 settle-up obligations, and unemployment insurance debt. They emphasized that the proposal was intended to protect schools and core public services and to help California better withstand revenue volatility and future downturns. Committee discussion focused heavily on the technical effects of the measure, especially its interaction with Proposition 98 and the Gann limit. LAO and Department of Finance staff explained that Prop. 98 funding would not be changed directly, that the reserve deposits would be treated as exclusions from the appropriations limit, and that withdrawals would count when spent. Members asked about current reserve levels, mandatory deposits, and whether the measure would create more room for discretionary spending; supporters argued it would simply allow the state to save more in good years, while one member expressed concern that it could function as a slush fund and expand spending opportunities. Several members cited recent budget volatility, record revenues, and the need for stronger reserves, while others stressed that the measure should be understood as a future-oriented savings reform rather than a response to this year’s budget choices. Public testimony was uniformly supportive. California Forward, Elevate California, and the California Chamber of Commerce all backed the proposal, with the Chamber noting support for the policy and highlighting the importance of addressing unemployment insurance debt for small businesses. The chair concluded by thanking the authors, staff, and witnesses, and said ACA 20 was expected to move to the Assembly floor the next day.

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• They also eliminated the California waiver for emissions reductions and tax credits and funding for EV
• They also rescinded vital funds from the Inflation Reduction Act.
• Even though it emits significant carbon pollution and harmful particulate matter, even more than coal

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several procedural matters, including adopting a resolution recognizing the work of Ukraine Forward and suspending Joint Rule 12 for a number of petitions. The chamber also scheduled several bills for later consideration, including measures on unemployment insurance for fluctuating work schedules, the Medical Society mission statement, a youth training wage, bridge and intersection namings, handicapped parking fines, public-way safety, excavation restoration, motor vehicle safety, and a Newton police age requirement. Two engrossed local bills were passed to be enacted: one authorizing retired police officers as special police in Plainville and another allowing Orange to increase its Board of Selectmen membership. The main policy debate centered on House No. 5151, An Act relative to energy affordability, clean power, and economic competitiveness. Supporters described it as a broad affordability and clean-energy package that would cut costs for ratepayers, reform Mass Save, speed clean-energy procurement and interconnection, return a portion of alternative compliance payments to customers, and address biomass and other energy issues. Opponents argued the bill relied too heavily on long-term programs and new administrative structures while offering little immediate relief, and raised concerns about costs being shifted to consumers, impacts on natural gas, and the pace of implementation. Several amendments were debated and rejected, including proposals to shift public benefit charges away from peak hours, pause public benefit charges for a year, require greater utility disclosure before rate increases, and add a forest-clearing penalty for solar development. One amendment to the energy bill was adopted: a consolidated amendment that included budget-billing consumer protections for gas customers, requiring notice and conservation recommendations when usage rises significantly. The House also adopted an amendment to a separate conservation-restriction bill for Hanson, changing a figure in the underlying law, and passed that bill to be engrossed as amended. The energy bill’s consolidated amendment passed by roll call, while several other amendments failed by roll call votes. The House observed multiple moments of silence honoring Jaden Booker, Thomas Skip Karam, former Freetown Police Chief Carlton Abbott, and former Representative and Senator William Q. “Biff” McLean, Jr.

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• If you're using the term emergency, you want to stop the bleeding, do no harm.
• It's going to take roughly a 10 percent reduction in the herd per year if you're at about 20 or 30.
• Roughly a 10 percent reduction in the herd per year if you're at about 20 percent or 30 percent.

Keywords: 965, house, all

Summary: The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission/task force met on April 17, 2026, with a quorum present. Members adopted the agenda and prior minutes, then received an update on the chronic wasting disease (CWD) index case in Washington Parish. Staff explained that a hunter-submitted deer tested positive in January 2026, the case was confirmed by the National Veterinary Services Laboratory, and an emergency declaration was issued March 11 to extend the CWD control area into portions of Washington and surrounding parishes. The update also reviewed baiting restrictions in enhanced mitigation and buffer zones, the 180-day duration of the emergency declaration, and the department’s website tools for locating affected areas. The commission then agreed to table its own CWD task force recommendations while Senate Concurrent Resolution 24 was being considered during the legislative session. Senator Womack summarized SCR 24 as a “reset” of CWD policy. He said it would set a 1.5% apparent prevalence trigger, require at least 300 samples, shorten the management zone from 25 miles to 15 miles, and allow baiting/supplemental feeding from the opening of deer season through March 31 unless the trigger is met. He said the resolution would also help address feral hog issues and restore more normal hunting and economic conditions. Commission and staff members clarified that the resolution would not affect deer pens or livestock under the Department of Agriculture, and that if sampling goals are not met, feed bans would apply the following year. Several stakeholders testified on the economic and management impacts. Louisiana Farm Bureau representatives supported the effort to find a workable solution but asked for clarity on how the resolution would be implemented, especially whether emergency declarations would immediately impose new restrictions. They emphasized the need to avoid discouraging deer sampling and to consider impacts on feed suppliers, landowners, and hunting leases. A written statement from Vic Blanchard of the Louisiana Landowners Association opposed SCR 24 and HCR 4, arguing that easing restrictions would worsen CWD spread and undermine wildlife management. Other speakers said the resolution should preserve economic planning for feed businesses and allow the commission to continue monitoring disease prevalence. After public comment, the commission voted to table its recommendations and then adjourned without taking a vote on SCR 24 itself.

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• If you're using the term emergency, you want to stop the bleeding, do no harm.
• It's going to take roughly a 10 percent reduction in the herd per year if you're at about 20 or 30 percent
• It's going to take roughly a 10 percent reduction in the herd per year if you're at about 20 or 30 percent

Summary: The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission met on April 17, 2026, with a quorum present, adopted the agenda and prior minutes, and then focused primarily on chronic wasting disease (CWD) management in light of a new positive deer detection in Washington Parish. Staff explained that the March 11 declaration of emergency expanded the CWD control area into portions of Washington and surrounding parishes, including parts of Morehouse, Union, Lincoln, and Jackson, and that the emergency rule remains in effect for 180 days unless rescinded earlier. The commission also discussed the task force’s report and recommendations, but the chair indicated those recommendations would be tabled pending legislative action on Senate Concurrent Resolution 24 (SCR 24)."} 0}

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• It's very exciting and absolutely a reduction in health care, in addition.
• It's very exciting and absolutely a reduction in health care.
• Statins can cause real harm to your muscles. You lose control of your muscles.

Bills: SB1786

Keywords: artificial intelligence, content verification, provenance data, transparency, digital content, 1182, all

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• It eliminates the long-standing right of families to file written protests against a harmful zoning change
• By the way, I've never heard that said before; that was actually a reduction of over 60 percent.
• Significant reduction in scope or scale of the purpose, and then there's a legal determination finding

Bills: SB3038, SB3045, SB3065, SB3069, SB3071, HB2025, HB2149, HB3370, HB4205, HB4506, HB5424, HB5652, HB24, HB3687, HB24

Keywords: Fort Bend County, Municipal Utility District, MUD, special district, Rosenberg, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, ad valorem tax, bond issuance, assessments, fees, taxes, eminent domain, road district, storm drainage, infrastructure financing, development agreement, municipal consent, temporary directors, public utility district

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• In the 20 years before I was sworn in as Attorney General in 2019, the office saw a reduction in budget
• Over the past six years, we've protected the state of Minnesota and its many residents from harm.
• I mean, people sometimes accept a job from us at a reduction of pay.

Bills: HF627, HF474, HF361, HF1837

Keywords: HF627, fiscal note, fiscal notes, Minnesota Legislature, state government, committee procedure, ranking minority member, minority party, standing committee, Ways and Means, Finance Committee, legislative process, budget analysis, fiscal impact, Minnesota Statutes 3.98, committee chair, legislative transparency, HF474, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry Mower Rice

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• Like many speakers today, I too am here to speak about House Bill 63 and the reduction in funding.
• The significant reduction forced ATC to cut the equivalent of three full-time positions, including special
• I'm here to express serious concern about the unintended consequences of HB 63, particularly the reduction
• . concern about the unintended consequences of HB 63, particularly the reduction.
• Abrupt funding reductions threaten the stability of successful schools like NMIS and undermine the years

Keywords: 996, all

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• have access to this critical information, which will help promote practices that can mitigate the harmful
• environmental<00:45:35.400> impacts<00:45:35.880> that<00:45:36.040> can harmful
• environmental impacts that can harmful environmental impacts that can result<00:45:36.440> from
• Representative Vang replied that Minnesota has nutrient reduction goals that have not yet been met and
• goals, and so far we nutrient reduction goals, and so far we have<01:06:05.840> not<01:06:06.000

Bills: HF4211, HF3426, HF4819, HF3466, HF3793, HF3339

Keywords: air pollution, lead emissions, continuous emissions monitoring system, CEMS, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, MPCA, environmental monitoring, emission compliance, air quality, public health, industrial pollution, permitted facility, residential exposure, toxic metals, emission limits, pollution control, stack monitoring, real-time emissions monitoring, natural resources, environment

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• and local partners set that all up and then they target the work to identify the most pollution reduction
• and local partners set that all up and then they target the work to identify the most pollution reduction
• If you get too many animals grazing in too small an area, it can be harmful, but if you do it right,
• <01:26:22.600> but<01:26:22.719> if small an area it can be harmful but if small an
• area it can be harmful but if you<01:26:22.880> do<01:26:23.000> it<01:26:23.119> right

Keywords: 1183, house

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• There's no new liability for harms. This is a transparency bill, not a liability bill.
• These guardrails protect consumers from harm by: one, clarifying the existing definition of likeness
• These guardrails protect consumers from harm by: one, clarifying the existing definition of likeness
• There's clearly evidence of consumer harm, as the Senator shared, and the bill does several things to
• AB 524 would mitigate some of these harms.

Summary: The committee heard several AI- and consumer-protection-related bills, with extensive testimony from authors, supporters, and industry opponents. SB 53 by Senator Wiener would create transparency requirements for large AI developers, including disclosure of safety and security protocols, reporting of critical safety incidents, whistleblower protections, and the CalCompute public cloud. Supporters said it is a narrower, transparency-based follow-up to last year’s vetoed AI safety bill, while opponents argued it still relies too much on company size, could expose trade secrets, and should be narrowed further. The committee approved SB 53 on a do-pass-as-amended vote to Appropriations, with the roll held open for absent members. SB 766 by Senator Allen would codify the FTC’s Cars Rule and create a three-day cooling-off period for certain used-car purchases, along with stronger disclosure rules on pricing, add-ons, and government affiliation claims. Supporters said it would save consumers money and time and help buyers avoid bad deals, while dealer and industry groups said amendments addressed many of their concerns. Several former opponents moved to neutral, and the committee passed SB 766 unanimously as amended to Appropriations. SB 7 by Senator McNerney would regulate automated decision-making systems in employment by requiring notice, human review for discipline and termination, and limits on predictive behavior analysis. Labor and consumer advocates supported the bill as a safeguard against biased or overly automated workplace decisions, while employer and industry groups raised concerns about scope, notice burdens, and the predictive-analysis ban. The committee passed SB 7 to Appropriations on a 4-2 vote, with the roll held open. SB 833, also by Senator McNerney, would require human oversight of AI used in critical infrastructure, along with training and system assessments; it drew limited opposition focused on scope, and the committee passed it as amended to Appropriations on a 5-0 vote, also holding the roll open. Later, the committee took up SB 11, which would address AI-generated voice, image, and video cloning and deepfakes by clarifying likeness protections, requiring consumer warnings, and addressing misuse and evidence tampering. Supporters framed it as a targeted response to nonconsensual deepfakes, while industry groups said recent amendments improved the bill but still had concerns about penalties and warning language. The committee also heard SB 720, the Safer Streets Act, which would let cities opt into a revised red-light camera system that shifts from driver to owner liability, removes facial identification, makes violations civil rather than criminal, and directs revenue toward transportation safety projects; the author presented the bill, but the transcript ends before any final action on SB 720.

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• We have seen tangible benefits in the form of a reduction in our tax rate of over 10 cents in the last
• suggest an amendment to have a specific punishment for signs that are booby-trapped with intent to harm
• If it breaks the contract, it has to allow them to be made as whole as possible to not be further harmed
• This technology has been effectively used in 30 other states, with some reporting as much as a 30% reduction
• I did not print the information, but I believe that they reported a reduction in work zone incidents

Bills: HB341, HB791, HB1564, HB1695, HB1722, HB1729, HB1772, HB2003, HB2954, HB2989, HB3084, HB3134, HB3135, HB3309, HB3611, HB3679, HB3727, HB3832

Keywords: affordable housing, zoning, development, community support, local regulations, bicycle lanes, traffic collisions, Texas Department of Transportation, study, public safety, bicycles, electric bicycles, scooters, road safety, transportation study, HB 791, Central Catholic High School, San Antonio, specialty license plate, specialty plates

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• cuts and restrictions to federal food assistance programs like SNAP and WIC will disproportionately harm
• Regardless, research finds that food insecurity experiences are harmful to health for people of all ages
• So reductions to federal funding for nutrition programs would likely make it difficult to continue reducing
• when you look at the three-year sort of moving average between 2011 to 2013 and 2021 to 2023, that reduction
• when you look at the three-year sort of moving average between 2011 to 2013 and 2021 to 2023, that reduction

Summary: The joint oversight hearing focused on food insecurity in California and how state and federal nutrition programs, agricultural production, and food distribution systems intersect. Assemblymembers emphasized that many Californians, including farmworkers, seniors, children, and communities of color, remain food insecure despite California’s agricultural abundance. Panelists and members discussed CalFresh, WIC, school meals, Sun Bucks, food banks, and the impact of federal policy changes, including possible nutrition cuts, tariffs, and immigration enforcement, on access to food and the agricultural workforce. Secretary Karen Ross described CDFA programs aimed at improving access to fresh food and supporting local agriculture, including the senior farmers’ market program, California Nutrition Incentive Program, Healthy Refrigeration Grant Program, Community Food Hubs, Farm to School, urban agriculture, and a proposed tribal food sovereignty program. She said these efforts help connect local producers to consumers, expand healthy food access, and build infrastructure such as refrigeration, mobile markets, and aggregation hubs. Department of Social Services Deputy Director Alexis Fernandez Garcia outlined CalFresh, CFAP, Sun Bucks, CACFP, emergency food programs, and tribal nutrition assistance, noting that CalFresh and related programs significantly reduce poverty and food insecurity, but participation gaps remain for non-English speakers, some Asian American communities, and undocumented households. PPIC researcher Tess Thorman presented data showing that 13% of California households experienced food insecurity in 2023, with higher rates among households with children and Latino, Black, and other households. She said nutrition programs reduce poverty and food hardship, but federal rules, income thresholds, immigration restrictions, and high living costs limit their reach. Members asked about simplifying applications, improving call center access, increasing outreach in multiple languages, and adjusting benefits for inflation. Officials said the state has used available federal options to streamline enrollment, improve customer service, and target outreach, but many core rules and benefit levels are set federally. The second panel shifted to food production and market access. A farmer, a UC food systems leader, and a produce distributor described efforts to connect small and medium farms with food banks, schools, universities, and Medi-Cal food-as-medicine programs. They highlighted programs such as Farms Together, the USDA Southwest Regional Food Business Center, Farm to School, food hubs, and climate-smart infrastructure grants as ways to create stable markets for local growers while improving food access. Speakers also raised concerns about land tenure, consolidation, regulatory burdens, labor constraints, and the loss of federal funding, and members discussed whether state investments and Prop. 4 funds could help sustain and expand these efforts.

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• wrecking ball of the Trump administration to the Department of Education will do nothing more than harm
• It provides a crucial step in spreading awareness of the dangers and harms of social media.
• And physical harm to its residents.
• And offer restitution when harm is found. This bill is about creating a.
• Access to acknowledge and repair harm that still lingers in many communities today.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• It also references emergency management agencies and the reduction of vulnerability to disaster effects
• tax levy is below the average property tax levy in the immediately preceding fiscal year, with a reduction
• And here we are being forced to look at more lids that will be more harmful to local control and local
• 1219 and LR 317CA because while it would limit increases in property taxes to 2% plus real growth, it harms

Bills: LB737, LB753, LB788, LB913, LB1055, LB1195, LB1216, LB1256, LB429, LB721, LB722, LB727, LB743, LB745, LB749, LB778, LB787, LB365A, LB823, LB900, LB903, LB940, LB954, LB1127, LB1127A, LB1205, LB1240, LR293, LR296, LR422, LR505, LR507

Keywords: LB737, Olmstead, developmental disabilities, disability services, community-based services, integrated settings, DHHS, Department of Health and Human Services, stakeholder advisory committee, independent consultant, public hearing, legislative oversight, disability rights, community integration, housing, employment, education, transportation, community supports, self-advocacy

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• There's a real reduction in capacity, and it erodes our provider's ability to provide services.
• And so the reduction in funding wouldn't be related to a fee-for-service model.
• strategies that research shows that research and community practices show are more efficient at reducing harm
• inherently criminal, but because exposure to violence and instability increases risk factors for harmful

Keywords: 996, all

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• mining in Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Namibia, all places around the world where extraction is a practice that harms
• communities with polluted air, depleted water supplies, higher utility costs, and long-term public health harms
• really hope the New Mexico way on data centers isn't unlimited pollution, unlimited air quality reductions
• really hope the New Mexico way on data centers isn't unlimited pollution, unlimited air quality reductions

Bills: SB78, SB235, SB22, SB310

Keywords: nuclear energy, renewable energy, sustainability, carbon emissions, energy regulation, microgrid, zero carbon resources, Public Regulation Commission, energy generation, electric utilities, motor vehicle manufacturers, licensing, dealers, franchise agreements, consumer protection, water supply, sewage improvements, environment, funding, Mora County

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• These include harmful stereotypes, unconscious bias, and a lack of female role models.
• HB 4519 by Ordaz relating the program established funded under the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan referred
• Morgan relating to the prosecution for the criminal offenses of sales or distribution or display of harmful
• A 4673 by Jones of Dallas relating to the effect of certain reductions in the health benefit plan and