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• It is being able to accept private money for a very important program.
• But also, it's for E-CAP, which is one of the very best programs.
• Early learning is oftentimes the biggest bang for our buck.
• This will help use some of that interest gained to help fund those programs with DRS.
• An act relating to the working connections child care program. 2025, Chapter 412, Section 13, are each

Bills: HB2720, HB2073, HB2487, SB5816, SB5919, SB5995, SB5831, SB6134, SB6136, SB6137, HB2689, SB5922, SB5944, SB5957, SB5988, SB5994, SB6011, SB6065, SB6103, SB6151, SB6244, SB5420, SB5868, SB6044, SB6132, SJM8002

Keywords: behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, insurance tax, state regulation, insurers, taxation, budget impact, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and heard a prayer from Tammy Stamphley, a Presbyterian minister and hospital chaplain. After approving the previous day’s minutes and receiving a Senate message, the chamber moved to second and third reading of several bills, with multiple measures advanced under suspended rules. The first major vote was on Engrossed Senate Bill 5872, which establishes a pre-K-related account to support up to 10,000 additional early learning slots for three- and four-year-olds. Supporters emphasized the Balmer Group’s private funding commitment and the value of early learning and family support; the bill passed 97-0. Substitute Senate Bill 5834, a Department of Retirement Systems request bill changing the fund source for legal, medical, administrative, and fraud-prevention expenses using interest earnings from pension funds, also passed 97-0. Substitute House Bill 2689, dealing with the Working Connections Child Care program, drew the most debate. Supporters said it aligned attendance policy with federal rules, adjusted reimbursement rates, and helped balance the budget while preserving child care resources. Opponents argued it cut support in rural and underserved counties, would worsen child care deserts, and placed budget savings on the child care industry; it passed 53-44. The House then passed Senate Bill 5922, allowing school districts to transfer vehicle depreciation funds with OSPI approval, by 59-38, and Senate Bill 6065, a narrower bill for districts under enhanced financial oversight such as Prescott, by 97-0. The session ended with announcements that both caucuses would meet later in the day.

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• It was a highly effective program.
• bill proposes to govern, the human-wildlife coexistence program and the California Wolf program.
• And we are talking about all three prongs of the program.
• And we are talking about all three prongs of the program.
• conducting a home-hardening pilot program only in six counties.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• programs, and I'm amazed at what is created off-site and then shipped in: entire roofing structures,
• programs, and I'm amazed at what is created off-site and then shipped in: entire roofing structures,
• programs, and I'm amazed at what is created off-site and then shipped in, entire roofing structures,
• All of this helps reduce the burden on taxpayer-funded social safety net programs.
• They work in the elements outside in the cold or in the hot sun and perform various tasks each day.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The hearing focused on several labor-related bills, especially proposals to give legislative employees the right to organize and collectively bargain, close a prevailing wage loophole for off-site prefabrication work, and strengthen enforcement against wage theft. Committee chairs opened the hearing by explaining the hybrid format and asking witnesses to keep testimony brief. Multiple legislators testified in support of the legislative staff union bill, saying staff deserve the same bargaining rights as other public employees and that unionization would improve pay, benefits, retention, and workplace dignity. Witnesses also discussed how the bill would likely be structured, with separate House and Senate bargaining arrangements or locals, and emphasized that it would only create the option to unionize, not require it. A second major topic was the prevailing wage bill addressing off-site fabrication and prefabrication in construction. Union leaders, contractors, and workers described how more work is being shifted from job sites into shops, especially in sheet metal, HVAC, electrical, and pipefitting work, and argued that the law should treat that work the same as on-site construction when it is part of a public project. They said the current loophole lets some contractors underbid by paying lower wages off-site, while responsible contractors already pay prevailing wages in their shops. Supporters argued the bill would protect workers, preserve apprenticeship and training standards, improve safety and quality, and make enforcement easier through certified payroll and clearer definitions. The committee also heard testimony on wage theft legislation. Representative Dan Donahue, the Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division, AFL-CIO representatives, and carpenters’ union witnesses described wage theft, misclassification, labor brokers, and tax fraud as widespread problems that hurt workers, honest contractors, and public revenues. They supported giving the Attorney General stronger enforcement tools, adding contractor accountability up the subcontracting chain, and protecting workers from retaliation and from delays that can cause claims to expire. A separate witness supported a bill to extend the statute of limitations for Wage Act cases while AG investigations are pending, and another supported changes to help hospital workers enforce timely payment rights. No votes were taken during the hearing; witnesses repeatedly asked for favorable reports on the bills.

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• It was a highly effective program.
• bill proposes to govern, the human-wildlife coexistence program and the California Wolf Program.
• And we are talking about all three prongs of the program.
• And we are talking about all three prongs of the program.
• Have no objection if the program applied to everywhere.

Summary: The committee first heard SB 1135, which would reestablish the California Wildlife Coexistence Program to promote nonlethal human-wildlife conflict reduction and support coexistence efforts for species such as wolves, bears, and mountain lions. Supporters, including wildlife groups and local government representatives, said the prior program was effective and that proactive tools like fladry, guardian animals, deterrents, reporting, and outreach reduce conflicts and costs. Ranching and agricultural groups were opposed unless amended, saying they supported the concept but wanted changes to the wolf-livestock compensation program, including clearer practicability standards, protection of compensation funds, and more flexibility on nonlethal requirements. The bill was moved to Appropriations on a 2-0 vote, with the measure left on call. The committee then took up SB 1085, which would preserve water supply assessments for large development projects even when those projects are exempt from CEQA, so local agencies still receive information about whether sufficient water exists for the project. The author and sponsor argued the bill would keep water planning and land use planning linked and prevent “paper water” problems, while the California Building Industry Association opposed it, warning it could add delay, uncertainty, and litigation risk for housing projects already subject to other water-supply safeguards. Members discussed how the bill would affect different local structures, especially cities that also operate their own water systems, and whether the assessment adds value in those cases. The bill passed 4-1 to Local Government and was left on call. SB 1270 was next, expanding the California wildfire mitigation home-hardening pilot beyond the original six counties to include four additional high-risk counties identified by Cal OES and Cal Fire, and directing future funding toward those areas. Supporters said the recent Los Angeles fires showed the need to broaden access to home-hardening assistance, while members discussed whether the program should remain geographically targeted or be made available statewide based on need. The bill was amended in committee and passed 5-0 to Emergency Management, left on call. Finally, the committee heard SB 895, a major proposal to place a $23 billion bond on the ballot to create a California Foundation for Science and Health Research and stabilize scientific research funding in the state. The author, UC, UAW, and many research, labor, health, and university groups supported the measure, arguing that federal cuts and instability threaten California’s research workforce, innovation, and economy. Some members raised concerns about the size of the bond and about political issues involving one sponsor, but the author said the foundation would operate under California law and the bill is intended to keep science funding open and collaborative. The bill was moved out of committee on a 5-0 vote and left on call.

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• However, I do know that recently I was doing a speech in Maryland, Rising Sun, Maryland, if people are
• familiar with where Rising Sun is at.
• Representative Lloyd said the resolution does not set up a program; it simply reaffirms the importance
• ,</c> cover everything under the sun, cover everything under the sun, including<04:53:16.240><c> for<
• Definition of universal health insurance or public programs, I would like to see that.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• </c> years after December 31st, 2025 and sun years after December 31st, 2025 and sun sets<00:16:23.680
• </c> program to be coordinated to counties. program to be coordinated to counties.
• </c> to the fair youth transit program to the fair youth transit program special<00:55:46.400><c> fund
• So, this is just a universal program.
• So we're involved with this program.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1694, which would create a sustainable aviation fuel tax credit, and HB 1695, which would expand the state’s renewable fuels production tax credit. For HB 1694, supporters from the airlines, renewable fuels industry, business groups, and some environmental and youth representatives said sustainable aviation fuel is a practical near-term way to cut emissions in aviation, a hard-to-decarbonize sector, and argued the credit would send a market signal, support local production, and help meet state climate goals. Opponents, including Energy Justice Network and a taxpayer-focused testifier, argued the bill could subsidize expensive fuels that may not be truly clean, could duplicate benefits available under other tax provisions, and should not support transpacific aviation or technologies they said are unproven or harmful. The Department of Taxation stood on written testimony, and the chair later asked that all verbal testimony on remaining bills be limited to one minute because of time constraints. HB 1695 drew similar support and opposition, but focused more broadly on renewable fuels for transportation, trucking, shipping, and other sectors. Supporters, including the Hawaii State Energy Office, airlines, PAR Hawaii, the Hawaii Renewable Fuels Coalition, Pacific Biodiesel, and the RNG Coalition, said the bill would help scale local fuel production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, support jobs and agriculture, and advance the state’s climate and energy goals. Several supporters emphasized that the credit would help build a local industry and that life-cycle accounting should be used to measure emissions benefits. Opponents repeated concerns that some biofuels and waste-based fuels may not be climate-beneficial, may rely on flawed modeling, and could create costly infrastructure that would need to be replaced later. No votes or final committee action were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.

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• And you can see here this program alone is create 5,000 jobs.
• And so now we're looking at moving that that continue that program.
• Our program are in Israeli innovation program, which is which is continuing some 13 cycle right now.
• >> No, their program is on their their commercial airliner that they're going to produce is a hybrid
• We also could open new programs, for example, letter welcome centers.

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• 00:09:12.680><c> known</c> Educator Group Insurance Program, known Educator Group Insurance Program,
• employees group insurance program.
• </c><00:29:59.360><c> cost</c> pay off as the statewide program cost pay off as the statewide program
• </c> program just ended. program just ended.
• </c><01:17:05.560><c> and</c> with future amendments to program and with future amendments to program

Bills: HF3119

Keywords: teacher compensation, educational staff, unlicensed staff, minimum wage, inflation adjustment, education finance, 1183, house

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• So the ACT team program continues to work with him.
• The ACT program is an important one. It works.
• Again, this is an evidence-based program.
• That's the ACT program.
• It costs them 600 bucks to get trained.

Summary: The committee met briefly to discuss how to use available funding and to clarify priorities after a recent JFAC action removed funding from one program. Senator Kevin Cook was invited to outline several behavioral health and Medicaid-related options, emphasizing that he was not lobbying but providing cost and program information. The main programs discussed were assertive community treatment (ACT), adult peer support services, and Healthy Connections. Cook described ACT as an evidence-based team service for people with severe mental illness, peer support as a trained recovery-based support model, and Healthy Connections as a statutory program that had ended due to legislation rather than a department decision. Department of Health and Welfare Medicaid administrator Sasha O’Connell explained that ACT had been cut under the governor’s holdback direction and that the department had already pursued rate reductions and other cuts to meet budget targets. She said ACT and peer supports were not protected in statute, while some other services were, and that the department had limited options once it reached the point of service reductions. She also clarified federal match rates for ACT participants and said the program had been moved into the Magellan contract to leverage federal funding. Estimated costs to restore the programs were discussed, including about $1.3 million for ACT in fiscal year 2026 and $4.1 million in fiscal year 2027, $2 million and $6 million for peer support, and $1.5 million and $6.3 million for Healthy Connections. Several members expressed support for restoring ACT, citing its impact on law enforcement, hospitals, and vulnerable individuals, and noting reported deaths among former participants after the service ended. Others questioned how the program fit within the committee’s mission and whether it should be funded from the Millennium Fund or through a statutory change. No final vote was taken; the chair said the committee would consider the information, possibly meet again, and then decide on next steps.

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• It created the residency program where I trained. I'm not just any doctor.
• It created the residency program where I trained at. I'm not just any doctor.
• Programs like CalHome, the Joe Cerna Jr.
• Farm Worker Housing Grant Program, mortgage loan programs, the California Dream for All program, and
• Programs like Cal Home, the Joe Cerna Junior Farm Worker Housing Grant Program, Mortgage Loan Programs

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• As is the current threshold for inspections of the program.
• Caring for the safe was my safe Florida home program.
• We'll be able to get a substantial not for this program.
• The program definitely needs to be funded more.
• Just briefly, this program works.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Breenley with the Mesa Gateway Airport Authority, Linda Duarte, City of Phoenix, Jeff Hamilton with Sun
• ; HB 2472, water; HB 2473, water; HB 2480, waste program; HB 2485, plant resources; HB 2513, water; HB
• HB 2806, lawful present public program. HB 2807, terrorist designation.
• And every day, I see my dad's service program. And on the back, it's a picture of him.
• See my dad's service program, and on the back it's a picture of him, October 6th, 1972.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• </c><00:04:15.040><c> right</c> federal government has a program right federal government has a program
• </c> was us opting into the Trump RX program. was us opting into the Trump RX program.
• </c><00:15:26.320><c> that</c> now a master's degree program that now a master's degree program that
• </c> what these accredited programs require. what these accredited programs require.
• ,</c><00:21:12.320><c> our</c> therapists do a doctoral program, our therapists do a doctoral program

Keywords: 00:00 Call to Order 0:22 Roll Call 1:05 SB 65 Discussion 9:30 SB 65 Vote 11:55 SB 177 Discussion 26:34 SB 177 Vote 30:05 SB 245 Discussion 33:07 SB 245 Vote 33:48 Adjournment, 958, all

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• </c> legislator legislature created a program legislator legislature created a program allowing<00:10
• And it comes out to be about a million bucks, just over a million bucks annually, that the schools rely
• And it comes out to be about a million bucks, just over a million bucks annually, that the schools rely
• The Anyone Can Save a Life program, which was rolled out the year before Teddy collapsed, is a good program
• If the program is in place and there's accountability to have this program in place, that would be great

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• </c> and abuse in state government programs and abuse in state government programs while<00:06:37.039
• </c> list of programs list of programs um<00:47:57.760><c> there's</c><00:47:57.960><c> no</c><00:47:
• </c> need to have someone who's going to Buck need to have someone who's going to Buck the<00:57:53.680
• </c><01:05:33.880><c> um</c> government and government programs um government and government programs
• </c><01:13:13.480><c> if</c> occurring in all these programs if occurring in all these programs if someone

Keywords: 1183, house

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• I want to see the most bang for our buck, which in my mind is the efficiency of the program, the percentages
• I want to see the most bang for our buck, which in my mind is the efficiency of the program, the percentages
• ><c> the</c><00:19:49.799><c> program</c><00:19:50.480><c> the</c> efficiency of the program the efficiency
• </c> see that it's a uh 100% Federal program see that it's a uh 100% Federal program and<00:20:27.640
• Um, again, this is about a regional food bank grant program. Regional Food Bank grant program.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• This is a pilot program.
• It's a pilot program.
• It's a pilot program.
• With this program, and I'm not familiar...
• some even deny the programs.

Bills: HCR97, HR168, SCR33, SB112, SB346, SB347, SB353, SB488, SB504, SB507, SB518

Keywords: hunting education, firearm safety, outdoor recreation, curriculum, youth education, conservation, collegiate athletics, funding, name image likeness, revenue sharing, NCAA compliance, student-athlete support, financial sustainability, work-based learning, task force, internships, apprenticeships, job shadowing, cooperative education, co-op

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• So would you believe that when we created this program last year, that the intent was so that members
• So this would be a totally separate program or funding. It would have no connection.
• So this would be a totally separate program or funding. It would have no connection.
• Clinical interns and accredited behavioral health graduate programs to build for Medicaid services they
• This has been a very popular program. There is no fiscal impact to the state.

Bills: HB2947, HB3257, HB3264, HB3834, HB3940, HB3944, HB3979, HB4003, HB4118, HB4326, HB4346, HB4421

Keywords: behavioral health, Medicaid expansion, clinical interns, mental health services, licensing requirements, veterans, disability benefits, federal law, Oklahoma Statutes, military service, criminal justice, minimum sentences, parole eligibility, violent crimes, Oklahoma statutes, HB3834, Oklahoma Breakthrough Therapy Act, ibogaine, ibogaine-based therapeutics, ibogaine analogs

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• This Will be programs that will be developed to put in place by the ODEQ.
• So who in the end would end up paying for All of this new program in 77 counties.
• The lead acid types are not a part of this program.
• Do you see this program being like the car battery program and that they will whenever they buy a new
• and We've put everything in place to end this program with this committee substitute.

Bills: HB3005, HB3007, HB3403, HB1907, HB3175, HB3986, HB3466, HB3411, HB4246

Keywords: climatology, emergency declaration, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, environment, weather data, public policy, state governance, natural resources, advisory councils, sunset law, water quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, radiation management, public health, biosolids, land application, environmental quality, agriculture, wastewater treatment

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• Does that Who are trying to be a part of this extensive program.
• So who in the end would end up paying for all of this new program?
• Do you see this program being like the car battery program?
• For one individual to administer this program.
• any type of rollback if the program is not completed?

Bills: HB3005, HB3007, HB3403, HB1907, HB3175, HB3986, HB3466, HB3411, HB4246

Keywords: climatology, emergency declaration, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, environment, weather data, public policy, state governance, natural resources, advisory councils, sunset law, water quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, radiation management, public health, biosolids, land application, environmental quality, agriculture, wastewater treatment

Summary: The committee took up several measures dealing with environmental regulation, waste management, and energy. Early on, it passed sunset-extension bills for the Oklahoma Climatological Survey and several environmental advisory councils. It then heard extensive debate on HB 1907, the Battery Stewardship Act, which would create a battery recycling system for small and medium batteries through DEQ. Supporters argued it would reduce landfill and garbage-truck fires, protect the environment, and create recycling value, while opponents raised concerns about added regulation, costs shifted to producers and retailers, and the creation of a new state FTE. Despite those objections, the bill passed 8-3. The committee also considered HB 3403, a pilot study on biosolids and sewage sludge applied to farmland. Members debated a committee substitute that shortened the study timeline from five years to three years and added a phased rollback of land application. Supporters said the study was needed because of unresolved questions about PFOS, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and other contaminants, while critics argued the timelines conflicted and the bill could be hard to implement. The committee substitute was adopted, an amendment to delete key rollback provisions failed, and the bill ultimately passed 8-2 after testimony from Oklahoma City utilities officials and multiple rounds of questions about testing, health risks, and disposal practices. The committee then passed HB 3175 to establish the Oklahoma Advanced Nuclear Energy Office, with members noting it would have minimal fiscal impact and could help Oklahoma build nuclear expertise and jobs. It also passed HB 3986, expanding a gross production tax exemption for wells completed with recycled water, and HB 3466, which removes the statutory requirement that the Corporation Commission maintain a petty cash fund. Finally, HB 3411, another biosolids-related bill to buy testing equipment and provide information to landowners, and HB 4246, a rural water transparency/lowest-bid bill, both passed unanimously or near-unanimously. The meeting ended with the chair thanking members and adjourning.