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• 176, addresses a current gap in how Florida's public colleges and universities communicate safety procedures
• Even when institutions already have relevant procedures, these procedures must be understandable and

Summary: The Senate Committee on Education Postsecondary met with a quorum present and considered several bills and one appointment. SB 720, by Senator Osgood, would allow formerly incarcerated Florida residents to retain their residency status for tuition purposes so they can qualify for in-state rates after release. Senator Osgood and supporter Eddie Fordham testified that the bill addresses documentation barriers faced by long-term incarcerated people and supports reentry and rehabilitation; several organizations waved in support. Senators Jones and Rodriguez spoke in favor, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee also heard SB 372, by Senator Trumbull, which would extend the state employee tuition waiver program to sheriff’s office employees on a space-available basis. The Florida Sheriffs Association supported the measure, and it was reported favorably. SB 176, by Senator Berman, would require public postsecondary institutions to provide clearer, publicly available procedures for reporting threats to physical safety and identifying responsible contacts and protective steps. Support came from several education and faculty groups, and the bill was reported favorably by unanimous roll call. Members then recommended confirmation of Douglas Broxton to the State University System Board of Governors. Finally, SB 816, by Senator Bradley, would establish the University of Florida Diabetes Institute in statute to advance diabetes research, education, prevention, and outreach. Senators emphasized the institute’s potential to improve outcomes and attract grant funding, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee then adjourned.

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• We gather to first adopt the committee rules of procedure, as well as subcommittee membership and jurisdiction
• With that, I move to approve en bloc by voice vote the committee's rules of procedure and the subcommittee
• Chairman, I don't know the actual procedures of the committee, not having been chair or ranking member

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• The infractions procedures in the bill closely mirror Chapter 291D, which handles traffic infractions
• What is the current procedure? I'm just curious.
• But that's helpful to know that you already have a standard procedure that you use.
• But that's helpful to know that you already have a standard procedure that you use.
• That is helpful to know that you already have a standard procedure that you use.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee met on March 13, 2025, and took up several firearms and fireworks measures. On SB 227, which would create an illegal fireworks enforcement division in the Department of Law Enforcement and appropriate funds, DLE supported the bill, saying fireworks enforcement has become a full-time job requiring dedicated staff rather than a collateral-duty task force. Members discussed whether the bill and the related task force bill were both needed; DLE said yes, explaining that the new division would provide full-time state employees while the task force funding covers interagency costs such as transportation, storage, overtime, and personnel. Testimony on SB 227 was reported as 12 in support and 6 in opposition. On SB 222, which would fund the illegal fireworks task force and extend its sunset to June 30, 2030, DLE and the Honolulu Police Department supported the measure, emphasizing continued enforcement pressure and interagency coordination. An opponent from the Libertarian Party of Hawaii argued the bill was a waste of time, criticized fireworks prohibition as cultural overreach, and performed a song in opposition. Representative Shimizu asked about results from the extra enforcement effort, and DLE said enforcement has driven up street prices and made investors think twice, which they described as a goal of pricing people out of the market. The chair reported 13 testimonies in support and 6 in opposition. The committee then heard SB 1324, a more comprehensive fireworks bill that would revise definitions and penalties, create first- and second-degree fireworks offenses, add infractions, and increase penalties for serious injury or death. DLE and the Attorney General strongly supported it, saying the bill would improve enforcement, address black-market activity, and help prosecutors when fireworks have already exploded and evidence is destroyed. The Public Defender opposed the bill, arguing existing laws already punish these offenses and that the real issue is enforcement; the office also raised constitutional concerns about the bill’s concurrent civil infraction and criminal trial process. Honolulu Police supported the bill, while the Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office said the alternative definitions would help in cases involving exploded versus seized fireworks. The chair noted 17 testimonies in support, 7 in opposition, and 3 comments, and members discussed whether the bill could be amended to address the public defender’s concerns. The committee also began hearing SB 308, which would expand the state’s magazine-capacity restrictions to firearms with detachable magazines over 30 rounds, with a grandfathering provision for certain magazines obtained before January 1, 2026. DLE supported the bill as a fair balance that would grandfather existing magazines while preventing new high-capacity acquisitions. Opposition testimony from Jerry Yuan of the Pool, Oil, Rifle, and Pistol Club argued the proposal was another shifting restriction and opposed magazine bans generally. The hearing continued with additional testimony not fully captured in the excerpt.

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• WORKING GROUP WAS CONVENED PURSUANT TO THE 2025 SESSION LAW TO DEVELOP POLICIES AND PROCEDURES TO PREVENT
• an HIMP and includes how to do a cowardly search and identity verification and the communication procedures
• I'm assuming that there are currently Minnesota State institutions around that already have procedures
• I'M ASSUMING THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY MINNESOTA, STATE AND INSTITUTIONS AROUND HAVE ALREADY HAVE PROCEDURES
• group has implemented business process changes, technical safeguards, and identity verification procedures

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• rooms, and it requires all hospitals with emergency departments to have evidence-based policies and procedures
• for pediatric emergency care, including triage, measuring, and recording and procedures for pediatric
• It also requires emergency departments to conduct training on the policies and procedures, including
• the pediatric individual responsible for implementation and ensuring fidelity to the policies and procedures
• It establishes the process for petitioning for injunction to follow the same procedures that are already

Summary: The Committee on Fiscal Policy met and reported favorably a series of bills after hearing sponsor presentations, public testimony, and roll-call votes. Among the health and public safety measures, CS/SB 68 would require pediatric readiness standards in hospital emergency departments; CS/SB 340 would require nursing students to complete human trafficking identification training; CS/SB 32 and SB 210 would create a new injunction process and related public records provisions for victims of serious violence by a known person; and SB 418 would add autism-focused law enforcement training and a voluntary Blue Envelope Program for drivers with ASD. Each of these bills received supportive testimony and passed the committee. The committee also approved several child safety and community protection measures. CS/SB 606 would add drowning prevention and safe bathing education to postpartum materials, and SB 428 would expand the state swim lesson voucher program to older children, with strong support from advocates and families concerned about drowning risks, especially for children with autism. CS/SB 302 would streamline permitting and incentives for nature-based coastal resiliency projects, and SB 636 would create an alternative beach management pathway for coastal communities, though beach preservation advocates warned about perpetual easement language and funding concerns. SB 628, designating Warrior Sacrifice Way in Pensacola, also passed unanimously. In addition, the committee advanced CS/SB 1734 on juvenile justice, with a late-file amendment updating definitions for juvenile probation and detention officers and codifying detention cost-share language. It also reported favorably CS/SB 246, a specialty license plate bill that was amended to include the UFC plate and an additional first responders resiliency plate, and CS/SB 1028, which revises Citizens Property Insurance Corporation clearinghouse procedures and related insurance market rules. Several witnesses testified in support or with technical concerns on the insurance bill, and members discussed competitive safeguards, clearinghouse scope, and Citizens’ assessment risk. At the end of the meeting, members requested to be recorded on specific bills, and the committee adjourned.

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• government transparency, enacting the Transparency in Government Contracting Act, requiring certain procedures
• powers and duties, providing for education opportunity accounts, providing allowable uses, providing procedures
• joint resolution proposing an amendment to Article 1 of the Constitution of New Mexico to establish procedures
• New Mexico to establish procedures for the state to consent to the secession of three or more contiguous
• Pettigrew, Block, and Mason, a joint resolution proposing to amend Article 4, New Mexico to establish procedures

Bills: HM3, HM11, HM14, HM15, HM21

Keywords: nurses, health care workers, healthcare workers, frontline workers, hospital staff, clinicians, allied health professionals, support staff, public health, workforce shortage, nursing shortage, safe staffing, patient safety, rural health care, frontier communities, behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder, substance abuse, health care memorial

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• Imagine a scenario where a chiropractor is practicing outside of their scope and they're doing a procedure
• Um, patients who choose to have surgery in ASC arrive the day before their procedure.
• The day of their procedure, I apologize, have their surgery in a fully equipped operating room and recover
• All you are is a facility where healthcare providers, physicians, Perform whatever medical ma'am procedure
• when we're looking at patient care, do require us to look at these patients up to 30 days after any procedure

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• bill updates additional language and statute required by several state agencies and aligns our procedures
• The Secretary of State has a rigorous procedures to ensure non-citizens cannot vote or register to vote
• concerned about is a judge who might not have the full understanding of the situation. persons of the procedure
• in the building, just like every state trooper, and under Article 14.03 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
• Fire marshals are licensed peace officers that define what... ...Criminal Procedures Chapter 2 Article

Bills: HB5097, HB5513, SB523, SB857, SB964, SB1101, SB2143, SB2332, SB2383, HB 1108

Keywords: criminal history, background checks, government code, licensing, information access, rural law enforcement, child care grants, community support, law enforcement retention, advisory committee, SB 523, Texas driver’s license, alternative address, residential address, confidential address, address confidentiality, Department of Public Safety, DPS, Transportation Code, Section 521.1211

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• Chairman and members, Senate Bill 2589 relates to procedures for commissioners court to close, abandon
• But in terms of when you start getting into training, operating procedure policies, then that blurs the
• Where you have a problem with it is what it says about procedure or training or policy or program or
• If there were a qualification in this paragraph too, that qualified procedure, training, policy, program
• If there were a qualification in this paragraph too, that qualified procedure training policy, program

Summary: The Senate Committee on Transportation heard several bills, mostly local memorial highway designations and transportation-related regulatory measures. Senator Hinojosa presented SB 1351 to designate part of US 281 in Hidalgo County as the Jose Rodriguez Lua Memorial Highway in honor of a Border Patrol processing coordinator killed by a drunk driver; a family member testified emotionally in support, and the bill was left pending. The committee also heard and left pending SB 2245 on bonded titles for vehicles when a lienholder has gone out of business, SB 1568 on animal-friendly specialty license plates with a second “spay, neuter, adopt” plate, SB 2589 on handling closed county roads in Webb County, SB 1104 on allowing large retailers to use one fingerprinted employee of record across multiple Texas locations, SB 1423 naming the Bill Stout Parkway in Longview, and SB 1931 naming part of US 83 the Rodolfo Valdez Memorial Highway. Most of these bills drew supportive testimony or were presented as local measures with no opposition. The committee also took up broader policy bills. SB 215 would create a digital identification program for Texas driver’s licenses and certain other licenses, but the sponsor said he was mainly laying the bill out for discussion and study; testimony was limited and the bill was left pending. SB 2707 would clarify that government entities such as TxDOT and the military remain exempt from fees on oversized/overweight permit authority, though a county commissioner raised questions about road-use impacts and fee revenue. SB 2807 drew the most discussion: it would prevent a motor carrier’s use of safety technology, training, and related practices from being used as evidence that an independent contractor is actually an employee. Supporters said the bill would encourage adoption of safety tools like cameras and braking systems without increasing misclassification risk, while opponents from the trial lawyers’ side warned the wording could conflict with existing labor-code definitions and create litigation. The sponsor and committee members discussed possible clarifying floor amendments. After public testimony, the committee voted on the pending bills. All measures were reported favorably on 6-0 votes, with committee substitutes adopted where applicable. SB 1351, SB 1423, SB 1568, SB 1931, SB 2245, SB 2589, SB 2707, SB 2807, and SB 2841 were all sent to the full Senate, and several were recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee recessed subject to the call of the chair after completing the votes.

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• participated in the board's rulemaking process and invested heavily in training facilities and procedures
• AB 2141 follows that same principle by creating a pharmacy-specific procedure. committee in the future
• AB 2141 follows that same principle by creating a pharmacy-specific procedure.
• AB 2141 follows that same principle by creating a pharmacy-specific procedure tailored to the unique
• And when there are already preset agreements and prices for different procedures, being able to work

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• to attend training programs to earn certifications to take x-rays and to perform other adjunct procedures
• We work on preventive and periodontal procedures.
• Most procedures must be authorized by the consulting dentist, and patients are referred to the dentist
• Medical procedures, and I can see the benefit.
• They look through policies and procedures, infrastructure, and capacity, and really help the domestic

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• <00:08:28.319> that or or is it even in the procedure that or or is it even in the procedure
• Ballots are already counted accurately and in a timely manner under existing procedures.
• Why spend the time and money when we could do this procedure instead?
• <04:12:12.319> I<04:12:12.560> have could do this procedure instead?
• I have could do this procedure instead?

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• importantly, I'm sorry, I'm just going to try to address Representative Olsson's there Is there a procedure
• Or is there already a procedure involved to help address that? So that answers your question.
• So if you go ahead, Representative Oson, so How is the knowledge of that procedure conveyed to the accused

Bills: SB137, SB1216, SB1226, SB1238, SB1255, SB1256, SB1258, SB1325, SB1460, SB1543, SB1730, SB1733, SB1921

Keywords: electronic monitoring, Department of Corrections, criminal justice, rehabilitation, public safety, SB 1216, drug court, drug courts, Oklahoma drug court, eligibility, substance abuse treatment, addiction, diversion program, criminal justice reform, probation violation, revocation, intermediate revocation facility, plea agreement, speedy trial waiver, preliminary hearing waiver

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• We'll follow the rules and procedure, and this has never been an issue here, but conduct ourselves in
• We'll follow the rules and procedure, and this has never been an issue here, but conduct ourselves in
• We'll follow the rules and procedure, and this has never been an issue here, but conduct ourselves in

Bills: SB19, HB40, HB27, HB40, HB27, HB40, HB27

Keywords: contraceptive rights, healthcare access, civil action, Attorney General, contraception enforcement, prostate cancer, health insurance, screening, high risk, cost-sharing, African American men, savings accounts, catastrophe, emergency funds, financial security, state laws, criminal justice, parole, Board of Pardons and Paroles, risk assessment

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• He's telling me about the pitfalls, what you don't do, what the procedures were.
• Thirty-six years, institutional knowledge, parliamentary procedure.
• Procedurally, I just need to stop you quickly to make sure that we yielded for the right bill and to
• We will do one more bill and then have some procedural matters.
• We'll do one more bill and then have some procedural matters.

Keywords: 1064, all

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• are and what monies are what procedures are and what monies are you<00:29:32.240> going<00:29
• and our procedures looking at the<00:30:03.720> Commissioner<00:30:04.160> authority<00
• I did have a question on the MAXIS, but one last question regarding the fraud prevention procedures that
• <00:34:52.600> that<00:34:52.800> you're<00:34:52.879> proposing procedures that
• you're proposing procedures that you're proposing and<00:34:54.760> that<00:34:54.919> is<

Bills: HF4525, HF3002, HF3665, HF4420

Keywords: human services, background studies, NETStudy 2.0, licensing, license suspension, license revocation, provider enrollment, program integrity, fraud, medical assistance fraud, Medicaid, payment withholding, credible allegation of fraud, background check, disqualification, variance, set-aside, foster care, family foster setting, adult foster care

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• We have a board policy and procedure as it relates to withdrawing from classes that is uniform across
• I would say as policy and procedure, we look at that every five years.
• We have a board policy and procedure procedure procedure as<00:19:39.240> it<00:19:39.360>
• <00:19:48.960> look<00:19:49.800> you Um that policy and procedure look you Um that
• , we look at say as policy and procedure, we look at that<00:21:06.360> every<00:21:06.680>

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• c> that<00:40:30.800> are<00:40:30.920> already<00:40:31.680> existent procedures
• that are already existent procedures that are already existent third<00:40:33.000> I'd<00:40:
• > that a written policy containing that a written policy containing reasonable<00:41:32.359> procedures
• so I just would reasonable procedures so I just would ask<00:41:34.119> that<00:41:34.319>
• specific procedures for written statements<00:41:40.440> that<00:41:40.599> that<00:41

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 1325 and adopted the author’s A2 amendment before hearing testimony. Representative Schultz presented the bill as a set of bipartisan changes to make Minnesota’s earned sick and safe time law more workable for small businesses, public employers, and taxpayers, arguing the current law is an unfunded mandate that increases costs and property taxes. The bill’s supporters said it would add flexibility, including changes affecting coverage for certain workers, employer size thresholds, front-loading, weather-related exceptions, and a delay on penalties. Commissioner Nicole Blissenbach of the Department of Labor and Industry opposed the bill, saying it would exclude about 800,000 workers, or roughly 30% of the workforce, from earned sick and safe time protections and create confusion and enforcement problems. She also objected to the proposed penalty delay, saying the department already uses compliance assistance and needs penalty authority for serious violations. The Minnesota Chamber supported modifications to the mandate, saying businesses—especially small ones—have struggled with compliance and that the law has had unintended effects on PTO policies and leave use. The League of Minnesota Cities supported parts of the bill, especially changes affecting more generous city leave policies and weather-event exemptions, saying current language creates confusion and can interfere with emergency staffing. Opponents from Education Minnesota, SEIU Minnesota, TakeAction Minnesota, and a nurse from Unity Hospital argued the bill would strip protections from part-time workers, minors, and workers with family caregiving needs, and would weaken a law they said has helped workers avoid discipline or lost wages when sick. Supporters from counties and an HR consultant emphasized administrative burdens, emergency staffing needs during weather events, and the difficulty of applying ESS rules to existing leave policies. No final vote on the bill was taken in the portion of the meeting provided; the bill was laid over for further consideration.

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• They are also still required to complete an AUP, or agreed-upon procedure, which is an engagement where
• an accountant performs special procedures and documents findings.
• <00:02:13.360> which an AUP or an agreed upon procedure which an AUP or an agreed upon procedure
• <00:02:16.239> and performs special procedures and performs special procedures and documents
• They still have to have an AUP, which is agreed-upon procedures.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• able to use sort of the woke procedures able to use sort of the woke procedures that<00:55:25.119
• already being clearly defined procedures already being clearly defined procedures and<03:29:09.680
• This is not a minor procedural detail.
• and are procedurally and are procedurally complete<07:17:55.200> while<07:17:55.520> preserving
• some, the bill sets clearer procedural some, the bill sets clearer procedural boundaries,<07:18:

Keywords: 1189, house, all