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• Advances in technology, particularly in lighting and climate control, and increased domestic energy production
• Medical errors go up, diabetics lose glucose control, crime goes up.
• But do all you can to provide the kinds of traffic control devices that will increase motor shielding
• So, Congress has the control over setting measures. likes to make a joke, he's 6'6 in the morning and
• already have problems remembering which state is in which time zone as it is right now sometimes the border

Keywords: daylight saving time, Sunshine Protection Act, health impacts, clock change, legislative discussion

Summary: The committee meeting was dedicated to discussing significant legislative topics, focusing particularly on the implications of daylight saving time (DST). Senator Scott advocated for the Sunshine Protection Act, which aims to eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes and keep daylight saving time year-round. He emphasized the negative health impacts associated with DST, including increased risks of heart attacks and accidents immediately following the time changes. Various witnesses provided personal testimonies and expert opinions, highlighting the confusion and health disruptions caused by the current time change practices.

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• So districts, local control do varying ways, but it wouldn't change necessarily that broader number of
• So districts, local control do varying ways, but it wouldn't change necessarily that broader number of
• So districts, local control do varying ways, but it wouldn't change necessarily that broader number of
• So districts, local control do varying ways, but it wouldn't change necessarily that broader number of
• I will say that all of this comes down largely to local control and how a district decides: are they

Bills: HF3635, HF3638

Keywords: teacher mobility, interstate compact, licensure, military spouses, education, teacher regulation, teacher qualifications, state sovereignty, educator licensing, paraprofessional credentials, mental health, professional development, data sharing, 1183, house

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• Is that, should that be a security concern for the Capitol to be able, for the state to control it?
• Let's say, you know, Kansas comes back for that border war and they're coming for the Capitol.
• Is that going to be, well, we have to control it because that's our only way out?

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Entity under the constitution that controls the purse strings.
• And how can we tighten those controls?
• And we were right on the border of the cutoff or the not cutoff to have to automatically do this.

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• the Apollo moon landing for today's Artemis program, NASA's Johnson Space Center has been a mission control
• HB 3578 by McLaughlin relating to the authority of a county that borders the United Mexican states to
• Local control of employment matters of sheriff's department employees in certain counties or for the

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• Cross-border employment competition affects border communities, and it increases our challenges in retaining
• Cross-border employment competition affects border communities, and it increases our challenges in retaining
• Massachusetts and not just at the border Massachusetts and not just at the border but<00:57:35.240
• <00:58:12.720> communities<00:58:13.720> and<00:58:14.119> it affects border
• that have spaces right over the border that have spaces right over the border and<01:02:16.720><

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Some people in our state are in border areas, and there might be a closer, more convenient, better-suited
• option that is just across the border line.
• Those who may live in a small border town at the closest grocery store to them may be in across state
• Is there any opportunity for anyone to get like a waiver or if they're on the border state?
• Like you or the border of the state, is there any opportunity for them to have any type of exception

Bills: HB4422, HB4117, HB4300, HB4298, HB2984, HB3344

Keywords: immigration, public assistance, legal status, food assistance, state benefits, family resource center, community support, employment services, kinship families, social connections, child care, criminal history, background checks, child safety, licensing, Oklahoma laws, advisory committees, daycare, licensed child care facility, child care subsidy

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• cost of Atlases went up and as agents were giving those away. apply to them on both sides of the border
• guess, to Senator Kessel's point, if you're an agent and you're buying your insurance across the border
• So if you're living on the border, Senator Kessel, and the insurance agent, you know, says, do you want
• I guess, again, my question would be is I have been in that situation on both sides of the border and
• I, what I remember, I had to have, I have been in that situation on both sides of the border, and I,

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The conference committee on Senate Bill 2374 discussed proposed amendments to the insurance rebating provisions and a new study on towing and recovery issues. Deputy Insurance Commissioner John Arnold explained that, after working with industry representatives, the compromise was to remove the large commercial rebating exemption language and keep the rest of the bill intact, while also clarifying that federal crop insurance remains subject to the state’s rebating laws. Members asked several questions about how the large commercial risk definition would work, how the rules would apply to nonresident producers and border-area farm policies, and whether the changes would affect long-standing industry practices. The committee also considered Commissioner Godfrey’s request for a study on who pays to remove vehicles from the roadside when the owner has liability-only coverage, especially in cases involving totaled or abandoned vehicles. Arnold said the issue has been raised by Highway Patrol and towing interests and that the study language was intended to examine possible solutions for the next legislative session. Some members expressed concern about shifting costs to the insurance industry, but others supported the study as a way to gain clarity. The committee adopted the amendment package, including the towing study language, by a 6-0 roll call vote. It then passed Senate Bill 2374 as amended by another 6-0 vote. The committee noted that the bill would need floor carriers on both chambers, with Representative Johnson and Senator Klein indicating they would carry it.

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• a controlled drug with death resulting. a controlled drug with death resulting.
• town, control your county, and control your local budgets.
• c> your want to control your town, control your want to control your town, control your county,<01
• Now, we generally like local control. Now, we generally like local control.
• control impacts the lives of everyone. control impacts the lives of everyone.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• wire transfer fee and this whole idea came out of that trip that some of our colleagues went to the border
• of the country are going to drug cartels and they're tied to illegal alien activity crossing the border
• . ...the border.
• I know you stated earlier that the information and the data that you receive from going to the border
• I did not personally go to the border. Okay.

Bills: HB297

Keywords: cash transactions, money transmission, regulatory compliance, criminal penalties, Alabama Securities Commission, 1136, house, all

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• Attorney General from appointing or employing former United States Immigration and Customs Service or Border
• prior concurrence from earlier chairs, we're going to change it to anyone who's worked for ICE or Border
• States Immigration and Customs Service States Immigration and Customs Service or<00:09:46.760> Border
• or Border Patrol agents. or Border Patrol agents.
• anyone who's worked for ICE or Border anyone who's worked for ICE or Border Patrol<00:10:01.760>

Bills: SB2057

Keywords: immigration enforcement, sanctuary policy, detainer, ICE, federal immigration authorities, 8 U.S.C. 1357(g), 8 U.S.C. 1373, 8 U.S.C. 1644, deportation, undocumented immigrants, noncitizen, migrant rights, local police cooperation, law enforcement cooperation, hold request, judicial warrant, probable cause, civil immigration enforcement, county police, state police

Summary: The Judiciary Committee met on Thursday, March 5, for a series of decision-making agendas and considered a long list of Senate bills. Early measures included SB 2151, which clarifies state and local authority during emergencies and revises the definition of “emergency”; the committee agreed to restore the broader, long-used definition and add a sunset date, then passed the bill with amendments. SB 3055, concerning false impersonation of an employee organization representative, was amended to remove liquidated damages and passed. Several technical or conforming bills also advanced, including SB 3067, SB 3077, SB 3131, SB 3134, SB 3144, SB 3152, SB 3154, and SB 3249, with most passed with technical amendments or unamended; some members noted reservations on SB 3249. The committee also took up bills affecting public safety, health, and education. SB 3083 was amended to narrow notice requirements for protective orders involving military-affiliated individuals to a designated military security force, and SB 3118 on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children passed as is. SB 3134 modernized emergency medical services statutes, while another SB 3134 item addressed dangerous intoxication and civil protective custody. SB 3262, requiring the Hawaii State Teachers Board to submit nominees to the Board of Education, was amended to include a defective effective date. SB 3315, allowing a one-time medical cannabis purchase while registration is pending, was also amended to a delayed effective date and passed. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on law enforcement and immigration-related proposals. SB 3322, which restricts facial coverings by law enforcement, requires visible identification, and sets agency policies on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, was amended to remove an affirmative defense, make the penalty a misdemeanor, and incorporate exceptions for undercover work and related preparation; it passed with one no vote. SB 3251, barring certain former ICE and Border Patrol personnel from employment in specified state agencies, was narrowed to apply to those with more than 90 cumulative days of such work during a defined period and passed with reservations. SB 2057, a reconsideration measure limiting use of state personnel and funds to assist federal immigration agents beyond their authority, was further amended to clarify definitions, protect First Amendment activity, and preserve cooperation required by federal law; it then passed without objection. The committee adjourned after adopting each measure considered.

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• to invite the governor to participate in our committee as much as we possibly can because she will control
• independent agency uh exercises functions independently of the department and without approval or control
• and, and failed to meet their responsibility and um protecting children in their um custody and Um, control
• But brought up the border issues, um, the jurisdictional issues that may be arising with the federal
• declaration on the southern border, so if we're gonna be in your hometown, that might be something interesting

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• federal rules that are maintained at the national level and that the state does not have the power to control
• federal rules that are maintained at the national level and that the state does not have the power to control
• small, underinvested, and socially disadvantaged producers and enterprises, including tribal and border
• small, underinvested, and socially disadvantaged producers and enterprises, including tribal and border-region
• these administrative burdens dictated from the federal government, or is this something the state can control

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

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• And on top of that, the Parkland situation was an abject failure of government, not gun control.
• Gun control doesn't solve anything.
• the Florida Sheriff's Association, the Florida Police Chiefs Association, and the Florida Animal Control
• The group went to the Mexican border, and the people coming across the border were leaving their dogs

Summary: The Criminal Justice Subcommittee heard a series of bills, beginning with HB 759, which would lower Florida’s minimum age to purchase or transfer firearms from 21 to 18. The bill drew strong opposition from gun-violence prevention groups, Parkland survivors and families, and several members who argued the current law was enacted after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting and should not be reversed. Supporters, including gun-rights advocates and some members, argued 18-year-olds are legal adults who serve in the military, vote, and should have full Second Amendment rights. After debate, the committee voted 13-5 to report HB 759 favorably. The committee then unanimously approved HB 431, extending Level 2 background screening requirements for youth athletic coaches through July 1, 2026, and HB 231, which keeps certain medical examiner information confidential, both with little opposition. It also approved HB 663, increasing penalties for unlawfully using tracking devices or apps in furtherance of dangerous crimes, after adopting a technical amendment, and HB 845, which clarifies the intake process for Veterans Treatment Court and removes Veterans Hall of Fame language from the bill. Each of those measures passed without recorded opposition. Members also approved PCS for HB 255, known as Dexter’s Law, which creates a sentencing multiplier for aggravated animal cruelty cases. The bill was presented as a response to a high-profile dog abuse case and was supported by animal welfare and law enforcement groups; members cited animal cruelty as a predictor of broader violence. The committee then approved HB 1021, allowing active law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons at sporting events, after debate over identification, venue procedures, and whether the bill should extend more broadly; it passed 16-1. Finally, HB 653, adding aggravating factors for capital felonies involving the assassination or attempted assassination of a head of state, was reported favorably after brief discussion about federal penalties and deterrence. The transcript ends as the committee begins hearing HB 6025, a repeal bill related to emergency restrictions on firearms during local states of emergency, but the discussion is cut off before action is taken.

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• families in New Hampshire, the border families in New Hampshire, the border states<02:14:24.719>
• 03:04:45.920> for<03:04:46.080> this controls the referral process for this controls the
• control in terms of care. control in terms of care. >> Thank<04:25:38.239> you.
• It improves diabetes control. It reduces sleep apnea.
• It improves diabetes<04:34:50.719> control.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• You mentioned the 40,000 worker deficit, people commuting over the border.
• , and they could easily go across the border to take a job.
• commuting over the border. Mhm. commuting over the border. Mhm.
• and they could easily go across border and they could easily go across the<04:58:55.680> border
• Uh, as a as the border to uh take a job.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• We need flood control, not bathroom control. When is enough enough?
• It's all about control, not protection.
• It's all about control, not protection.
• Controlling the bathroom won't help anyone.
• It's about controlling trans people.

Bills: SB7, SB14

Keywords: gender designation, civil penalties, private civil rights, multiple-occupancy spaces, Texas Women's Privacy Act, law enforcement, confidentiality, personnel files, employee records, misconduct

Summary: The Committee on State Affairs heard testimony on Senate Bill 7, the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, with the author and committee substitute explaining that the bill would require public facilities to designate multi-use private spaces by biological sex, restrict access to women’s restrooms, locker rooms, showers, sleeping quarters, shelters, and correctional facilities, and create civil penalties and enforcement mechanisms. Members asked about how the bill would apply to family violence shelters, children in mixed-family settings, venue layout, and venue for lawsuits; the author said the bill was similar to prior legislation but with stronger penalties and the 15th Court of Appeals as the exclusive intermediate appellate court for challenges, while clarifying that trial venue should generally be local except for state agencies. The committee also heard that the bill would be amended to better address local venue concerns and shelter-related issues. Invited testimony was largely in support of the bill from witnesses who described personal experiences in women’s sports, prisons, shelters, and public facilities, arguing that single-sex spaces are necessary for privacy and safety. Supporters included parents, former incarcerated women, a Republican county chair, a legal advocate, and a prison educator, who cited incidents involving transgender-identifying individuals in locker rooms, shelters, prisons, and restrooms, and said the bill would restore sex-based boundaries and protect vulnerable women and girls. One witness from Texas Values said the bill was needed despite the recently enacted Women’s Bill of Rights, and another ADF witness said the measure would protect privacy in schools and shelters. Opponents testified that the bill would harm transgender and intersex Texans, create harassment and “gender policing,” and expose cisgender women and children to invasive enforcement. Several witnesses argued there is no evidence that transgender women pose a restroom safety threat, while others said the bill would worsen mental health, employment, and school conditions for trans people and could conflict with prison standards and federal law. Family violence advocates urged changes to protect shelter operations and clarify that children can stay with parents, while other witnesses said the bill would create barriers for victims seeking help. The hearing featured extensive public testimony on both sides, but no final vote or committee action was taken in the portion provided.

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• There are some other programs that we don't control directly, like CAETFA, sales and use tax credits
• try to help with, you know, for organizations that need grant funding—that's not something that we control
• fewer resources... ...like our North State, which is the eastern half of the state up to the Oregon border
• You've seen all these stories about how you can't get a U-Haul because everybody's fleeing toward the border

Keywords: 988, house, all

Summary: The hearing focused primarily on the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) budget proposals and related implementation issues. Director D.D. Myers described the California Jobs First economic blueprint, regional planning efforts across 13 regions, and the state’s strategy to focus on sectors such as ag tech, space, life sciences, semiconductors, and emerging technologies. She also discussed the California brand campaign, foreign direct investment, export promotion, the film and television tax credit, and the California Civic Media Fund. Members raised concerns about journalism support, arts funding, AI’s impact on jobs, tariffs, manufacturing, and whether state incentives could be tied to job losses or automation. Myers emphasized that Go-Biz incentives are tied to job creation and accountability, and that the administration is working across agencies on AI workforce training and economic development alignment. The committee then heard trailer bill language for Jobs First. Go-Biz requested a reappropriation and extension of encumbrance deadlines for remaining administrative funds, along with statutory codification of the Office of Regional Economic Development Initiatives. Testimony highlighted the need to continue supporting regional partners, technical assistance, capital stacks, and permit streamlining. Public testimony from the Small Business Development Centers supported the proposal and noted the program’s role in helping small businesses access capital, create businesses, and support jobs. Members also reviewed Go-Biz’s request for additional staffing for the California Film Commission and for innovation and emerging technologies. The Film Commission request would fund three permanent positions to handle the expanded tax credit program; staff reported a sharp increase in applications and production activity, including more filming outside the Los Angeles 30-mile zone. The emerging technologies request would fund an assistant deputy director and a graduate student position to support sectors like quantum and fusion, with testimony explaining the state’s separate quantum and fusion investments, workforce needs, and efforts to build state capacity around these technologies. No votes were taken in the portion of the hearing provided, and the committee moved on to public comment and then to other agenda items.

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• We have HB 47, Mosquito Control Local Delegation bill. Rep.
• treating the property abutting an urban service area as if it is within the area, it collapses any border
• standards in place and requires a study on urban development boundaries and different ways counties can control
• We want to examine what other local governments are doing to plan and control growth.

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• The control on that is that we underfund, so they do not have the ability to go beyond what we would
• Line 9 is tobacco prevention control grants of $6,000 to public health units for the programs that they
• And then tobacco prevention control cessation grants, youth vaping prevention grants, those are all in
• And this allows that if somebody lives across the border but works in, well, if they live in Moorhead

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 1012, the Department of Health and Human Services budget. Senator Dever walked through the amended budget, highlighting a roughly $5.85 billion all-funds total, major one-time items for IT, child care, housing, behavioral health, juvenile justice, rural EMS, and supportive housing, along with funding for Medicaid expansion, CCBHCs, opioid settlement uses, and several studies and reporting requirements. Members discussed the provider inflation increase, with Senator Mathern urging a 2%/2% rate instead of 2%/1.5%, but the committee adopted the subcommittee amendment and then passed the amended bill 15-0 with a do-pass recommendation. Senator Dever was named as carrier. The committee then considered House Bill 1540, a school choice/education savings account-style bill. Senator Shibley explained the subcommittee amendments, including clarifying the Bank of North Dakota as administrator, adding a means test at 400% of the federal poverty guideline, and adjusting the fiscal note to about $21.7 million for the second year. In debate, members raised concerns about the bank being assigned duties outside its normal role, the lack of DPI involvement, and whether the means test should be tiered rather than a hard cutoff. The committee rejected a do-not-pass motion 5-10-1, then approved a do-pass motion on the amended bill 9-6-1, with Senator Wobama noted as the likely carrier. The meeting ended with the chair announcing the committee would adjourn and reconvene the next morning.