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• Because we use these as part of our treatment regimen.
• Creams as part of your treatment regimen.
• program to fill the gap.
• that can be adapted for a state program.
• Drinking water treatment becomes more expensive.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• or the SNAP program.
• Now, these programs are grant-funded.
• the program so that it's not just...
• Vocational programs, treatment, and education programs have been shown to reduce risk. recidivism.
• Every day we're finding people who do not know of our program. program.

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• Sorry with residential treatment programs which offer intensive around the clock, mental health services
• And at the same time, the introduction of the qualified residential treatment program has expanded the
• And new placement models have emerged such as the behavioral qualified residential treatment program
• Initiative has been the development of the behavioral qualified residential treatment program to provide
• The Behaviour qualified residential treatment program was created to serve children with intensive behavioral

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• You know, the elderly parole program is a really good program. I'm very supportive.
• You know, the elderly parole program is a really good program.
• The Senate bill had to do with creating neighborhood pilot programs, whole neighborhood pilot programs
• He starts treatment.
• He starts treatment.

Summary: The Assembly convened, established a quorum, and opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance before moving through the daily file. Several measures were taken up and passed, including bills on county jail accountability (AB 2257), claims against public agencies (AB 2529), affordable housing management metrics (AB 2689), digital wellness instruction in schools (AB 2071), pedestrian and bicycle safety project streamlining (AB 1976), manufactured home transport permits (AB 2012), a Surplus Land Act amendment tied to an Inland Empire soccer project (AB 2139), a Monterey Bay stewardship authority (AB 1548), online electrician licensing (AB 1707), a Caltrans study of navigation apps’ traffic impacts (AB 2105), coastal resiliency permitting reforms (AB 2051), downtown housing streamlining and financing (AB 2074), Cal Fire compensation (AB 2129), emergency care authority for Del Puerto Health Care District (AB 2282), charter school facilities hardship relief (AB 2316), theft by a peace officer under color of authority as serious misconduct (AB 2337), an Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander-serving institution designation (AB 2374), energy and cannabis support bills (AB 2464, AB 2537), and a suicide prevention plan requirement for treatment facilities (AB 2562). Most of these measures passed with broad bipartisan margins, and several were described as support bills with no opposition. The floor also debated a major criminal justice measure, AB 2727, which would raise the threshold for elderly parole eligibility for people serving sentences for violent sex offenses and add screening safeguards. Supporters from both parties emphasized child protection, survivor trauma, and specific local cases involving offenders who had become eligible for release; the bill passed 66-0. Another significant debate centered on AB 1958, which would clarify procedures under the California Racial Justice Act by refining how disparity claims are established and rebutted; the author said he would take Senate amendments to address concerns from district attorneys. The Assembly also considered AB 2313, a gas-to-electric transition bill allowing customers with planned service line replacements to opt out of gas service and use funds to electrify their homes. Members raised concerns about cost shifts and equity, and the author responded that the bill includes no-cost-shift language, larger credits for disadvantaged communities, and would not proceed if the math does not work; it passed 41-21. The final major item was AB 1709, a high-profile social media safety bill creating a minimum age of 16 for accounts on platforms using addictive features and establishing an e-safety commission. The author and many supporters from both parties framed the bill as a response to youth mental health harms, addictive design, and the need for age-based safeguards, while some members raised concerns about impacts on LGBTQ youth and other isolated young people who rely on online spaces. Supporters said the bill targets addictive design rather than speech and is intended to preserve safe online connection while limiting harmful features. The measure drew extensive bipartisan support and was still under debate at the end of the transcript.

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• By doing that, we're putting all of our medical treatment functions within one program.
• And by doing that, we're putting all of our medical treatment functions within one program. we're putting
• all of our medical treatment functions within one program.
• We are proposing that we would be moving the AMP program, which is the program...
• program.

Summary: The LEAP committee met on June 18, 2025, with introductions from members and staff, then received a clean audit report from the State Auditor covering 2020–2024. The audit reviewed accounts payable, general disbursements, theft-sensitive assets, and data backup/recovery, and found no findings. Staff also outlined the interim work plan, including a full rewrite of the capital budget application (Build Sum), updates to the transportation bond model and operating budget tools, website improvements, and continued research into secure, responsible AI use. Members asked about AI safeguards, keyword search improvements, and making the website more user-friendly, especially on mobile devices. The committee approved the July 8, 2024 minutes after a quorum was reached. It then considered and unanimously approved several budget format changes: the Department of Corrections moved chemical dependency and sex offender treatment into its health care program and renamed Program 700 from “Offender Change” to “Reentry Services”; the Department of Revenue moved the AMP program into its tax analysis and technology support program; and the Department of Transportation changed a toll program title and added new sub-programs for State Route 509 and State Route 167 toll operations to reflect new facilities and more accurate reporting. Kevin Feltis also provided staffing updates, noting the retirements of longtime LEAP staff, the hiring of three new associate consultants in October 2024, and an upcoming December 2025 retirement for Sherry Randage after decades of state service. The new staff members briefly introduced themselves and expressed enthusiasm for their work. The meeting ended with thanks to members and staff and adjournment after the committee completed its business.

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• This program wasn't developed in a vacuum.
• Seeking treatment for alcohol substance misuse.
• Seeking treatment for alcohol substance misuse.
• So it could be, for example, treatment, early treatment in a case of influenza.
• So we do at the department, and the programs, you know, redoubt.

Bills: SB57, SB405, HB62, HB193, HB203, HB222, HB246, HB420, HB475, HB486, HB574, HB584, HB815, HB949, HB1092, HB1214

Keywords: SB 57, Act 735, Act 463, nutrition, public health, food additives, artificial colors, banned chemicals, ingredient labeling, food labeling, FDA, food and beverage regulation, consumer disclosure, school nutrition, Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 40, Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 17, food manufacturers, food retailers, compliance, effective date delay

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• This program wasn't developed in a vacuum.
• Seeking treatment for alcohol substance misuse.
• Seeking treatment for alcohol or substance misuse.
• So it could be, for example, treatment, early treatment in a case of influenza.
• So we do at the department, and the programs, you know, redoubt.

Summary: The committee heard a personal privilege update on HB 1227, which Representative DeWitt said would return next week as a proposed HCR for a two-year study of the three-doctor panel after discussions with Dr. Nia Colotta. Better Louisiana also presented its new Leadership Louisiana Health Fellows Program, describing it as a data-driven leadership initiative focused on health care workforce, rural access, chronic disease, and other system issues; members discussed whether the program could also help generate policy research, including on managed care organizations. The committee then considered SB 427 on anatomical gifts. After adopting technical amendments, Senator Presley and Dr. Jeff White explained that the bill would strengthen organ donation law by creating a decision registry that records both yes and no choices, clarifying the legal effect of refusal, and codifying ethical principles such as the dead donor rule. Questions focused on organ viability, registry procedures, minors, and a Monroe case involving a disputed donor designation. Supporters included LOPA and the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the bill was reported favorably. HB 946, dealing with hospital price transparency and compliance with federal pricing rules, drew extensive testimony. Representative Landry and a witness from Patient Rights Advocate described it as a consumer transparency measure, but the Louisiana Hospital Association opposed the bill’s state-level enforcement and debt-collection provisions. Landry offered an amendment removing the debt-collection and affirmative-defense language, but after debate the substitute failed on a 5-6 vote and the bill was voluntarily deferred. The committee also reported favorably on SB 109, which revises membership qualifications for the Louisiana Emergency Medical Services Commission; SCR 20, urging federal flexibility on Medicaid redetermination for elderly and disabled beneficiaries; SB 216, allowing coroners to rely on licensed practical nurses for medical pronouncements of death; and SB 45, exempting certain gratuitous hospice houses from licensure, with testimony from hospice house operators and supporters. Finally, HCR 71 by Representative Chasson sought an LDH study of how Louisiana’s law and guidance on pregnancy-related emergency medications is working in hospitals, urgent care, and retail settings. Supporters said providers are hesitant to use medications such as misoprostol because of stigma and uncertainty, while opponents from Louisiana Right to Life argued the resolution was unnecessary and could create controversy. The discussion centered on whether the study should be narrowed or made more objective, but no final action on the resolution was reached in the portion provided.

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• Um, you still can't make a social score if it would be used to make preferential treatment on a person
• Um, you still can't make a social score if it would be used to make preferential treatment on a person
• <00:38:15.119> anyway<00:38:15.839> on<00:38:16.079> a preferential treatment
• anyway on a preferential treatment anyway on a person. person. person.
• doesn't create preferential treatment doesn't create preferential treatment with<00:44:32.000>

Bills: HB0108, HB0039, HB0091, HB0070

Keywords: audit, transparency, government reporting, accountability, public access, firearm rights, restoration of rights, criminal justice, felony convictions, Wyoming law, artificial intelligence, social scoring, biometric data, privacy rights, government regulation, foreign censorship, digital innovation, constitutional rights, Wyoming GRANITE Act, extraterritorial laws

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• This is medication-assisted treatment and referrals to the MAT provider.
• program.
• Practitioners and providers to be able to conduct that program, so they do that.
• Medication-assisted treatment is one.
• The treatments are effective.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• doctor who has any knowledge of the disease to only 5% of rare diseases having any FDA-approved treatment
• but these disease modifying treatments but these disease modifying treatments come<00:04:53.320>
• State agencies typically have an average of four FTE to do the work, and there are some programs that
• State agencies typically have an average of four FTE to do the work, and there are some programs that
• that we initiated with that programs that we initiated with that amount<00:09:56.680> that<00

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee heard House File 1501, which would fund the Minnesota Rare Disease Advisory Council and make the current fiscal year 2025 budget its permanent base. Representative Murphy said the bill would provide about $342,000 in general fund money for the 2026-27 cycle and argued that the council helps shorten diagnosis times, support research, and keep Minnesota a leader in rare disease work. Erica Barnes, the council’s executive director, testified in support and explained that the council was established in 2022 to improve care for the estimated one in 10 Minnesotans living with a rare disease. She said the council needs the full $668,000 level it operated with this year to maintain its statutory duties, noting that the current ongoing base is about $326,000 and that the extra funding was previously one-time money. Barnes described the barriers faced by rare disease patients, including long diagnostic delays, limited provider knowledge, and the fact that only a small share of rare diseases have FDA-approved treatments. She said rare disease care is costly to the health system and that the council has used prior funding to convene the community more regularly and carry out its work. Representative Leing questioned why the budget should be doubled and asked what additional work the council would do with the higher amount; Barnes responded that without the larger ongoing appropriation the council would fall back to 1.8 FTE and would have to stop some programs. Representative Hingson Jger spoke in support, saying the council’s collaboration has been valuable for policy work in the genetic and rare disease space. In closing, Murphy emphasized Minnesota’s leadership in rare disease and shared a personal story about how diagnosis and treatment changed his family’s life. No public testimony was offered. The chair then laid House File 1501 over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill.

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• That is what we call 638 programs.
• She is being denied treatment on her own accord.
• No one will be unjustly committed to outpatient treatment.
• and restructure the existing broadband program.
• A low-income telecommunications assistance program and restructured the existing broadband program, making

Keywords: 996, all

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• discuss legislation which aims to require health insurance coverage for early-stage Alzheimer's treatments
• There are now two FDA-approved treatments designed to slow dementia progression for those in the early
• As Susan mentioned, there are two new life-changing treatments available that can slow the progression
• By mandating insurance coverage of new FDA-approved Alzheimer's treatments for Minnesotans on private
• So we took the plunge and agreed to start lmab treatments in November of '23.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We are required by ADEQ to test our effluent water at the wastewater treatment plant four times a week
• Romay, you have not seen the success or failure of this program?
• But the treatments DFFM has done, the removal and the herbicide treatments, have proved effective.
• But the treatments, DFFM has done the treatments.
• They have done the removal, the herbicide treatments, which have proved effective.

Bills: SB1137, SB1176, SB1287, SB1335, SB1336, SB1445, SB1677

Keywords: underground utilities, utility locating, dig safe, call before you dig, 811, excavation safety, damage prevention, one-call center, locate request, white lining, large project coordination, buried infrastructure, subsurface utilities, utility marking, locator wire, locator strip, interactive positive response system, landlord duties, apartment community, mobile home park

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• This funding allowed us to offer critical programs, including our car seat program, which ensured every
• This funding allowed us to offer critical programs, including our car seat program, which ensured every
• continues in our life coaching program continues in our life coaching program baby<00:35:28.800>
• she told me several times that program she told me several times that our<00:35:45.800> programs<
• They went to the Jeremiah program from us. We were directly affiliated with many other programs.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• programs and the reintegration into the community programs.
• <00:43:48.240> and<00:43:48.480> the<00:43:48.640> treatment service programs
• and the treatment service programs and the treatment programs<00:43:49.359> and<00:43:49.599>
• recovery<00:43:50.079> programs<00:43:50.960> where programs and recovery programs
• treatment and mental health programs treatment and mental health programs within<00:51:17.520>

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• transmitted diseases, mental health services, substance abuse, treatment, et cetera.
• And you are putting them at risk to to not get any treatment because of it.
• So that treatment for sexually transmissible diseases, mental health services, substance abuse treatment
• That would effects that treatment.
• We also do testing and treatment for STIs.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• all treatment recommendations, which would then include sober living following treatment.
• following treatment.
• 50:59.599> up started a new Marine trades program up started a new Marine trades program up uh
• to see the pup graduate from the program to see the pup graduate from the program because<01:13:
• <01:15:59.560> and complicated here but the programming and complicated here but the programming

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• programs.
• This is an area of bipartisan policy concern given that opioid treatment programs are the only licensed
• programs.
• homes as well as opioid treatment homes as well as opioid treatment programs.<00:08:15.280> Most
• Most of the evidence to date programs.

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The committee took up two bills concerning health entity ownership and heard invited testimony before acting on them. Dr. Yasha Singh of Brown University testified about private equity in healthcare, describing how PE firms use debt-financed acquisitions, short investment horizons, and roll-up strategies that can avoid disclosure requirements. He said the lack of transparency makes it difficult to track ownership and outcomes, and cited research linking PE ownership to higher costs in outpatient care, more ancillary service use, workforce turnover, and worse outcomes in hospitals and nursing homes. He also noted Minnesota-specific concerns, including PE involvement in opioid treatment programs, and said the policy challenge is balancing needed capital investment with protections for patients and workers. Sam Brooks of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care testified in strong support of the legislation, focusing on nursing homes. He argued that private equity ownership is associated with worse resident outcomes, including higher mortality, more pressure ulcers, more hospitalizations, and more deficiencies, and said leverage buyouts divert money from staffing and care into debt service, management fees, and lease-back arrangements. Brooks said staffing levels and quality ratings decline under PE ownership and pointed to recent bankruptcies as examples of instability. He said the bills would add safeguards such as transparency, attorney general approval of acquisitions, and requirements that a large share of public funds go to direct resident care. The testimony framed the bills as responses to concerns about private equity ownership in healthcare and long-term care, especially the effects on quality, staffing, and financial stability. No vote or final committee action was described in the excerpt.

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• hours a month of work, 80 hours a month of community service, 80 hours a month involved in a work program
• I don't know how you're going to Hire people to run the program.
• and those who are survivors are often unable to work due to the impacts of their treatment.
• beyond the emergent treatment that they're required to give you.
• and our Medicaid audits. ...that makes changes to our SNAP program and our Medicaid audits.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Despite multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and treatment programs, his condition worsened.
• We have a T-Cup program. Just work with the T-Cup program.
• that program.
• , Most of these programs, like the T-CUP program, if I am enrolled in that program, according to the
• use program.

Bills: SB 3, HB28, SB3

Keywords: flash flood, flood warning, outdoor warning siren, emergency alert, disaster preparedness, flood mitigation, Hill Country floods, Texas Water Development Board, municipalities, counties, local government mandate, public safety, grant program, backup power, weather siren, emergency management, flood-prone area, warning system, hemp regulation, consumable products