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• <01:07:47.839> as the Bureau of Infectious Control as the Bureau of Infectious Control as
• Disease Control with the Department<02:04:45.119> of<02:04:45.280> Health<02:04:45.440
• We heard that safety control was, uh, not scientific, that there was no placebo control in safety research
• Well, number one, I am safety control.
• Um, and as for saying placebo<03:16:41.439> control, placebo control, placebo control, we're<03

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• To the United States Constitution and the California State Constitution to control the labor that they
• therefore has a right and responsibility to regulate the working condition of workers within its borders
• public employee relations board in the state of California because it is a fundamentally out of. control
• Amidst rollbacks of worker protections at the federal level and changing border policies, it is urgent
• Great Pest Control Research Program until 2035.

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• People on the Montana side of the border, people north up in Divide County, a whole new kind of an expansion
• People on the Montana side of the border, people north up in Divide County, a whole new kind of an expansion
• The other major maintenance needs include upgrading energy management controls, parking lot and street
• alternates that were presented during bidding from subcontractors, and this included ETS, using ETS controls

Summary: The Budget Section Leadership Division met with a quorum and approved the March 18 minutes before hearing a series of informational updates. The Petroleum Council reported that North Dakota oil production is expected to remain relatively flat at just under 1.2 million barrels per day, with activity shifting northward in the Bakken as technology improves and three- and four-mile laterals boost well performance. The presentation also discussed oil and gas prices, gas taxation, flaring concerns, the importance of pipelines and other linear infrastructure, and enhanced oil recovery pilot projects supported by state and federal funding. Members asked questions about gas production taxes, natural gas liquids, and the outlook for drilling rigs and future production. The Office of State Tax Commissioner then reviewed the federal “big beautiful bill” and its estimated effect on North Dakota individual and business income tax collections. Staff explained that most of the individual income tax impact comes from the permanent increase in the standard deduction, while temporary provisions such as senior deductions, tip and overtime exclusions, and auto loan interest deductions have smaller or limited-term effects. They also noted that business tax changes, especially depreciation and expensing provisions, create a larger near-term cash impact, and that some FY25 collections likely reflected one-time oil field transactions that may have inflated the baseline used in earlier estimates. OMB provided updates on major capital projects and facility funding. For Capitol grounds improvements, officials described plans for 18th-floor renovations, wayfinding upgrades, public seating, lighting, tree management, and possible restroom and lobby reconfiguration, while also noting the governor’s residence security project and the discovery of human remains on the Capitol grounds. OMB and its consultants also reported on the state facility maintenance fund, including window replacement, boiler work, roof and foundation repairs, and a new facility conditions assessment covering more state buildings. Updates were also given on the new state hospital in Jamestown, the Minot state office building, and the use of federal state fiscal recovery funds, including possible future reallocations to the Department of Corrections. Finally, Legislative Council staff summarized the interim compliance report on legislative intent and trust fund activity, highlighting the status of lines of credit, Bank of North Dakota profit transfers, the statewide litigation pool, the new Office of Guardianship and Conservatorship, corrections planning, HHS program updates, and a likely future general fund request for the unemployment insurance modernization project. No formal votes were taken beyond approval of the minutes; the meeting was primarily informational, with members asking clarifying questions throughout.

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• Currently, various statutes use the term border region or Texas-Mexico border region with inconsistent
• HB 1240 resolves this inconsistency by aligning all references to the Texas-Mexico border region with
• by leveraging federal funds along the Texas-Mexico border and up to 62 miles inland.
• This collaboration has led to the successful financing of numerous projects along the border.
• Leveraging more of our own capital allows us to support not only more border infrastructure, but also

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• , uh, both the the border, uh, both the the border, and<01:50:24.640> uh,<01:50:24.800>
• And uh circumstances out of our control.
• Minnesota's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Minnesota's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has<04:07:01.880>
• The Minnesota Medical Fraud Control Unit is the best in the country.
• <04:21:48.080> unit, that we have the best control unit, that we have the best control unit

Keywords: 918, senate, all

Summary: The Senate convened under a call, established a quorum, received the House message on Senate File 4807 concerning benefits for veterans of the secret war in Laos, and voted not to concur in the House amendments, appointing a three-member conference committee. The chamber also received a batch of House files, laid several of them on the table, and adopted committee reports and other routine motions. Senate Resolution 84 was referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration, and Senator Murphy designated special orders for immediate consideration. The main floor debate centered on Senate File 4059, the supplemental finance omnibus bill. Senators described the bill as a slim, supplemental budget focused on urgent affordability needs, including $52 million for state grants in higher education, $15 million for LIHEAP, school district compensatory revenue adjustments, support for public television stations facing federal cuts, Medicaid fraud enforcement, and consumer restitution for scam victims. The Jobs article was presented first, with roughly $4.9 million in Workforce Development Fund appropriations for workforce and job-training programs, including support for rural oncologist training, homelessness-related employment programs, youth training, local news talent development, transportation-related employment assistance, and manufacturing support. Several amendments were offered and debated. Senator Farnsworth offered the A14 amendment to extend unemployment benefits for laid-off Iron Range miners, but withdrew it after being told it would unbalance the bill and after receiving a commitment to continue working on the issue in conference committee. Senator Draheim offered the A18 amendment to redirect Cookie Cart funding to rural hospital maternity training grants; after debate, the Senate rejected the amendment by a roll call vote of 32 ayes and 34 nays. The discussion emphasized competing priorities between youth workforce programs and rural health care needs. The Senate then moved into Article 1 on K-12 education, where Senator Kunesh outlined provisions including anti-grooming language, a district health insurance reporting requirement, extension of a gender-neutral bathroom grant, compensatory hold-harmless aid, operating capital flexibility, literacy aid hold harmless language, and several cost-neutral district fund transfers. Senator Nelson offered the A29 amendment to require school sports teams and participants be designated by biological sex at birth; debate on that amendment began near the end of the transcript, but no final vote was shown before the excerpt ended.

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• Representative Joe Sweeney, who was uh unfortunately delayed, uh due to circumstances beyond his control
• <00:09:59.600> Uh, to circumstances beyond his control.
• Uh, to circumstances beyond his control.
• pushed into probably crossing the border pushed into probably crossing the border and<00:45:56.000
• and crossing the line not the border and crossing the line not the border crossing<00:45:58.160>

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• And it's just out of control. And every time we get to...
• This person, and it's just out of control.
• LeadingAge Texas cannot control how third parties identify communities, but clarity in the statute will
• There was an error regarding changing substances on a schedule of controlled substances.
• Eighty percent is controlled by three companies. Who in America thinks that's a good idea?

Bills: SB331, SB883, SB926, SB1137, SB1138, SB1144, SB1151, SB1236, SB1270, SB1522, SB1869, SB2207, SB2422

Keywords: healthcare, cost disclosure, transparency, administrative penalties, health facility compliance, COVID-19, off-label use, prescription drugs, patient access, medical standards, insurance, physician ranking, incentives, fiduciary duty, health plan issuers, SB 1137, group home, assisted living, residential care, board and care

Summary: The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 883, which would protect physicians’ ability to prescribe off-label medications and treatments, framed by the author as a “Right to Treat” measure tied to COVID-19 care. Supporters, including physicians and patient-choice advocates, said the bill would safeguard the doctor-patient relationship and prevent interference by boards, pharmacies, or hospitals. Several witnesses described using hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, budesonide, antibiotics, steroids, and monoclonal antibodies during the pandemic, and said they faced complaints, board scrutiny, or pharmacy refusals for those prescriptions. The bill was left pending after public testimony closed. The committee then took up Senate Bill 331, which would extend hospital price-transparency requirements to additional health care facilities such as freestanding ERs, urgent care and retail clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, outpatient clinics, and birthing centers. Proponents argued that broader disclosure of prices for shoppable services would help consumers compare costs and reduce surprise billing, while opponents from ambulatory surgery centers said the bill would impose costly compliance burdens on small providers and that insurers or the state already have much of the needed data. The bill was also left pending. Senate Bill 2422 would expunge Texas Medical Board records and impose reparations for disciplinary actions tied to COVID-era treatment decisions, including references to ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, budesonide, and masks. The author and supporters argued that doctors were unfairly targeted for trying to save patients and should be made whole; the Texas Medical Board representative said most pandemic complaints were dismissed, that actions generally involved broader issues such as privileges, documentation, or informed consent, and that no physician was disciplined solely for prescribing off-label COVID medications. The bill was left pending. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 2207, which would loosen Texas Medical Board rules on physicians advertising themselves as board certified, especially by reducing barriers tied to maintenance of certification requirements. Supporters said the current rule is overly restrictive, inconsistent, and costly, and that it drives physicians out of practice; they also said Texas is one of only a few states with such a rule. Witnesses described hospitals using the rule against physicians and said the change would improve transparency and competition. The bill remained pending after testimony.

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• 2 Senate committee on border security will now come to order. Mr. Clark please call the roll.
• Texas, of course, is a border state, as face many... challenges with this crisis that we've seen at our
• southern border related to illegal immigration, including law enforcement costs, health care services
• And dealing with not only border security, but dealing with immigration in general.
• That's a cross. the state up and down you know the border not just the border all over Texas so everyone's

Bills: SB825

Keywords: illegal immigration, economic impact, environmental impact, financial impact, annual study, Texas, government report, 1185, senate, all

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• Let me see, Water Quality Control. I'm almost there, one moment. I believe, Mr.
• That's actually really important for the Water Quality Control Commission to know.
• I'm not in control. They ask, Mr. Speaker, and I give as much as I can where I can.
• Any control over, Mr.
• We can control what we're doing here.

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• Senate Committee on Border Security will now come to order. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.
• structures and real property, and adding continuous smuggling of persons to the list of recognized border
• will also make the bill a legislative council draft and require law enforcement to provide requested border
• Many properties along the southern border are managed by lessees.
• Is there any other business come before the Senate Committee on Border Security?

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• Um, so the only thing that we've kind of run into is our towns that are on the borders of the state because
• It has to be USDA inspected to cross the border. Mhm.
• I do have a reasoning for that, I think, is because, of course, the portion control is, you know, for
• Chairman, sorry for my ignorance here, but did you say that the National School Lunch Program doesn't control
• or— >> Yeah, there's a lot of requirements that they like, sugar content, all kinds of stuff they control

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• Many of them arrived last summer through parole at the border from Haiti.
• Many of them arrived last summer through parole at the border from Haiti.
• Other clients have been the subject of intense coercive control and emotional and verbal abuse and are
• ever that we invest in our cash assistance programs, which at the state level we have independent control
• When families are facing threats to their... ...state level, we have independent control over.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House Committee on Children and Families held a hybrid hearing on a broad set of anti-hunger, family support, and basic-needs bills. Early testimony focused on SNAP and DTA operations: Rep. DeRosa and others urged passage of H. 196/S. 167 to require DTA to identify staffing, technology, funding, and operational needs to improve timeliness and customer service, warning that unanswered calls, delayed recertifications, and federal changes could sharply raise state costs through higher SNAP administrative burdens and payment-error penalties. Speakers from Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and Project Bread said DTA is under-resourced, caseloads have grown, and families are being denied or delayed due to phone and paperwork barriers. Another major SNAP-related bill, H. 254/S. 147, would require the Commonwealth to replace stolen EBT/SNAP benefits; testimony described more than $13 million stolen from about 27,000 households since June 2022 and argued families should not bear losses from organized theft rings. The committee also heard strong support for H. 207/S. 117, which would restore state-funded nutrition assistance for legally present immigrants excluded from federal SNAP under recent federal changes. Advocates from Project Bread, the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, local immigrant services, and public health groups said the federal cuts would leave thousands of residents, including refugees, asylum seekers, trafficking survivors, and children, without food support, and argued Massachusetts has a history of filling this gap. Testimony also supported H. 222/S. 104 to make the Healthy Incentives Program permanent and year-round; supporters said HIP improves nutrition, boosts local farms and regional economies, and had already served more than 212,000 households in FY25. A related child-support bill, H. 201/S. 110, would increase the amount of child support passed through to TAFDC families and expand good-cause exemptions; witnesses said the change would put more money directly in families’ hands, reduce poverty, and better protect survivors of domestic violence and families with complicated co-parenting situations. A large portion of the hearing was devoted to deep-poverty and diaper-related legislation. Supporters of H. 214/S. 118 said cash assistance grants have lost value over time and should be raised annually until they reach half of the federal poverty level; advocates from Children’s HealthWatch, Hopewell, the Lift Our Kids Coalition, and parents described the links between deep poverty, poor child health, family stress, and child welfare involvement. They argued that higher grants would help families meet basic needs, reduce hospitalizations and neglect reports, and provide stability amid federal cuts. Finally, multiple witnesses backed diaper legislation, including H. 220/S. 151 and related bills, to create a diaper benefits pilot and/or diaper allowance commission. Testimony from the National Diaper Bank Network, MassCAP, Children’s HealthWatch, local diaper banks, and parents said diaper need is widespread, affects parental employment and mental health, and can cause health problems for infants; a federally funded pilot in Massachusetts was cited as showing improved employment, financial stability, reduced stress, and fewer diaper rashes. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing; the committee heard testimony and asked questions throughout.

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• I know that one of your counties is on the Kansas border, right?
• That's correct, Grant County is on the Kansas border.
• So that went into carry over some technology upgrades and assets access controls that we had some issue
• I will highlight the campus-wide access controls that is one of the ones.
• Oh the access controls. We just had a vendor that didn't come through.

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• that Texas policymakers are informed with proper data and recommendations on whether expanding cross-border
• Thank God that the firemen were able to get there. get it shut down before it got out of control and
• miles of transmission lines and over 1 million miles of distribution lines, most all of which are controlled
• Texas and where their equipment and their forecasters overlap you have gaps along along some of those borders
• about the lack of airplanes and everything else but not One thing caused that fire to get as out of control

Bills: HB 13, HB143, HB144, HB145, HB366, HB470, HB805, HB912, HB13, HB143, HB144, HB145

Keywords: emergency communication, infrastructure, first responders, grant program, interoperability, Texas Interoperability Council, local governments, HB 143, Texas Railroad Commission, Public Utility Commission of Texas, Natural Resources Code, oil and gas, well site, surface facility, electrical power line, National Electrical Code, NEC, electrical safety, utility disconnect, service disconnection

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• It reflects direct control of breathing, consciousness, and survival itself.
• And then I see water control structures, including floodgates.
• excavators, frack units, you have things getting stolen, and the next thing you know it's across the border

Keywords: 974, senate, all

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• you can help come up with some language to help me be able to specify how the funds have to be Controlled
• The or or what be controlled by the county. But yet, how's it worded? Where's it at?
• We will also be aligning the TIF and the ED borders with currently legally defined parcel lines for clarity

Bills: SB1519, SB1775, SB1900, SB1948, SB2080

Keywords: municipal zoning, home-based businesses, no-impact businesses, local government, regulation, short-term rentals, municipal ordinance, municipal court, court of record, court not of record, city penalties, fine limits, penalty cap, ordinance enforcement, state statute, traffic offenses, speeding, parking, DUI, DWI

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• The bill limits its application to only counties with a... than 500,000 that border the Gulf of Mexico
• As these birds, as well as bats, serve vital roles as pollinators and in pest control.
• Members, this is the bill we heard previously by Representative Zwiener relating to the control by lethal

Bills: HB3129, HB3251, HB3556, HB3724, HB3887

Keywords: construction, wildlife impact, height restrictions, national wildlife refuge, environmental regulations, HB 3887, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Parks and Wildlife Code, performance bond, payment bond, contractor bonding, public works, construction contracts, public building, procurement, bid security, subcontractors, suppliers, contractor payment protection, project completion

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• WE HAVE SOME AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL WITH SENATORS COMING AND GOING.
• THEY DON'T HAVE A CHANCE TO GET PUBLIC COMMENT BECAUSE THE STATE NOW CONTROLS IT.
• MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT ABOUT THE SIZE, THE SPOKE, THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT OF MAJOR UTILITY FACILITIES JUST BORDERING

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• RESERVE REQUIREMENTS A VARIETY OF OFFICE DO YOU USE CONDITIONAL OVERSIGHT OVER CCRC AND EXISTING CONTROLS
• VILLAGE LOCATED IN JACKSONVILLE, A CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMITTEE AND ALSO A COMMUNITY THAT BORDERS
• IT IS CONTROLLING PUBLIC RECORDS.

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• This bill does not replace local control.
• We believe we achieved it. ...remain under local control.
• And so are we overriding that local control voice by implementing the state law?
• And so are we overriding that local control voice by implementing the state law?
• certain issues if we think about land use control.

Keywords: 988, house, all