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• Resources Trust Fund. Resources Trust Fund.
• the Environment and Natural Resources the Environment and Natural Resources Trust<00:09:30.680><
• resources trust fund. resources trust fund.
• natural resources. natural resources.
• Resources are in support of the repeal. Resources are in support of the repeal.

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• trust in you, O Lord, as we thank you for all of our many blessings and pray that you continue to guide
• c><00:02:08.479> you<00:02:08.560> continue<00:02:09.000> to<00:02:09.080> guide
• <00:02:09.320> us pray that you continue to guide us pray that you continue to guide us daily

Keywords: MS House Floor - 27 February, 2026; 9:00 AM, 925, all

Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance led by Hudson Hollandsworth, a senior at Pisgah High School sponsored by Representative Shanks. After the roll call, the clerk confirmed a quorum was present, and the House dispensed with reading the journal. There were no reports from select committees, no resolutions or memorials, and no items taken up from the calendar. During introductions of guests, Representative Butler Washington introduced Dr. Fred Ken C. Jr. as the House doctor of the day. She noted that he is a Jackson native, a Provine High School graduate, an Alcorn State University graduate, a Navy veteran, an emergency medicine physician in Jackson, and a small business owner. The House welcomed him. No announcements were made by the clerk or members, and no legislation was debated or voted on beyond routine procedural motions. The House then adopted a motion to adjourn and stood adjourned until 4:00 p.m. on Monday.

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• That he was a tremendous advocate for this resource. And you all were as well.
• This provides great resources for the state, specifically because of your state military.
• Collectively, our team was able to provide public entities with state cyber resources.
• Civil resources must be exhausted.
• CIVIL RESOURCES MUST BE EXHAUSTED.

Keywords: 918, senate, all

Summary: The Minnesota Senate Subcommittee on Veterans heard a Department of Military Affairs presentation on bonding, tuition benefits, and cyber response. The department requested $3.5 million in design funding for a new hangar at the 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth, citing safety problems with the aging 1950s-era hangars and the need to improve the wing’s competitiveness for future federal military construction funding. It also sought $2.5 million for asset preservation at Army facilities statewide, emphasizing that state dollars are often matched by federal funds. A National Guard lieutenant also testified about the State Tuition Reimbursement Program, describing how it helped pay for her undergraduate and doctoral education and reduce student debt. The committee also received an update on Minnesota National Guard cyber operations, including the response to the July 2025 ransomware attack on the City of Saint Paul. Testimony described the cyber coordination cell’s role in planning, interagency coordination, and support during the incident, including helping re-image about 500 computers and assisting with network recovery. Members heard that the Guard’s cyber teams conduct extensive partner engagement and are prepared to support state and local entities when civil resources are exhausted and the incident exceeds local capacity. Three bills were then heard and advanced. Senate File 4075, as amended, would implement recommendations from the task force on Special Guerrilla Unit and regular forces veterans from the Secret War in Laos, including eligibility and benefit changes; the committee adopted an amendment and passed the bill to the full committee. Senate File 3956, as amended, would clarify that the Department of Veterans Affairs may partner with veteran-serving organizations using nonmonetary resources to address food insecurity, homelessness, and suicide prevention; it was also referred onward. Senate File 4056, as amended, would add veteran or military status as a protected class under the Minnesota Human Rights Act; testimony supported the change, including concerns about service members losing educational opportunities while on state active duty, and the bill was passed to the full committee.

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• Is this for maintenance or is this for additional resources?
• Is this for maintenance or is this for additional resources? Additional resources, I do believe.
• Could you delineate what those resources would be? That'd be a good. Find where that was.
• New judges require additional clerk staffing and resources.
• This request does not cover resources for any future new judges that may be approved.

Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice met to hear budget presentations from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), an FDLE update on the Uniform Arrest Affidavit and Florida Incident-Based Reporting System (FIBERS), the Department of Juvenile Justice on Florida Scholars Academy, and the Clerks of Court Operations Corporation. FDLE requested funding for a wide range of items, including a new Fort Myers regional operations center lease, technology upgrades for missing persons alerts and criminal justice data systems, replacement breath-test instruments, recurring support for critical public safety contracts, cybersecurity, a career offender registry unit, expanded wellness and peer support for law enforcement, cryptocurrency seizure efforts, vehicle replacement, forensic lab and digital forensics upgrades, a repaired Jacksonville firearm range, and additional resources for criminal alien detection, fentanyl enforcement, and other operational needs. Senators questioned FDLE about the reported 79% increase in officer misconduct cases, body cameras, masking by officers, public records request burdens, and the status of criminal alien detection funding. FDLE’s second presentation explained that FIBERS is Florida’s incident-based crime reporting system and that 61% of agencies, covering 74% of the population, have transitioned to it. The agency also described the Uniform Arrest Affidavit initiative, which standardizes arrest data for statewide sharing. Senators asked about NCIC/FCIC access, hate crime reporting requirements, and why more agencies have not adopted the UAA and FIBERS systems; FDLE said it is working with law enforcement associations and vendors to address technology and implementation barriers. The committee also heard from DJJ Secretary Matt Walsh, who praised FDLE’s wellness program and then reported on Florida Scholars Academy’s first year, including unified education across 39 residential facilities, security fixes after early website access issues, strong enrollment and graduation numbers, and extensive support for students with disabilities. Walsh said the program still faces staffing shortages and a wait list for residential beds, and estimated about 260 additional beds are needed. The final presentation came from Clerk of Court and Comptroller Stacey Butterfield, who said clerks are operating with outdated funding levels and requested $22 million to stabilize operations. She highlighted reimbursement shortfalls for injunctions for protection and other high-risk cases, rising postage and summons costs, and the need to fund clerk staffing for 37 new judges under the “fund the entire courtroom” concept. Senators asked about SB 532, a CPI-based court-fee bill, and about collections of court fines and fees. Butterfield said clerks work with defendants on payment plans and collections, but the system still faces a structural deficit. After the presentations and questions, the committee adjourned without taking any substantive votes or other action.

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• We submit monitoring guides to our partners before we even go out to monitor.
• We submit monitoring guides<01:04:16.480> to<01:04:16.720> our<01:04:17.039> partners
• to our partners before we even go guides to our partners before we even go out<01:04:18.559> to
• in our tax system to give to resources in our tax system to give to these<01:10:07.679> kind<
• So, when we start having any group that comes in front of us that is requesting some resources, we need

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Members, Senate File 21106 provides important energy resource information to the 800-plus communities
• This is a circular economy heating solution generated by a local resource.
• It will also help us in resource planning.
• It will also help us in resource<00:53:23.760> planning.
• On the other hand, resource planning.

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• So, providing those resources will give students more opportunities to be able to learn, to grow, and
• before a terrible event the resources before a terrible event happens.<00:51:32.800> Sometimes
• can put the resources around that student,<00:51:44.720> that<00:51:44.880> child,<00:
• :45.720> we<01:07:45.840> are So, despite those resources, we are So, despite those resources
• And I was sent the study guide. And the study guide includes the parallelogram question that Mr.

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• <00:41:22.240> So for for uh land resource permitting.
• So for for uh land resource permitting.
• And I think that would give the guide path on 707.
• <00:58:55.119> path<00:58:56.079> on the guide path on the guide path on 707.<00:58
• opinion, uh we did not get the resources opinion, uh we did not get the resources to<01:35:40.080

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• Ultimately, more wolves were not brought into Colorado because the Department of Natural Resources could
• The money that is still allocated to the Department of Natural Resources can still be used for conflict
• Department of Natural Resources Department of Natural Resources can<00:09:41.760> still<00
• Hunting guides have high success rates with clients.
• its current staffing and resources. its current staffing and resources.

Keywords: Continuation of today's legislative session, beginning at 7:45 pm., 981, all

Summary: The House took up House Bill 1410, the state’s long appropriations bill for the executive, legislative, and judicial branches and their agencies and institutions for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026. The committee first recessed and then adopted a motion to rise, report progress, and sit again later that day. The House also adopted a motion under House Rule 14 to limit debate on House Bill 1410 to one hour during special orders on April 10, 2026, by a vote of 40-20, with four excused and one absent. During consideration of House Bill 1410, members debated Amendment J82/54A, which would require funding for wolf reintroduction to come from gifts, grants, and donations rather than general fund dollars. Supporters argued the state should not use taxpayer money for additional wolf reintroduction, especially during a budget crisis, and said rural ranchers and livestock producers are bearing the costs and impacts of wolves. They emphasized depredation concerns, the strain on rural communities, and the view that the reintroduction effort has been costly and poorly managed. Opponents of the amendment said the funding line is part of broader wolf management, not just reintroduction, and argued the state has a legal obligation to carry out Proposition 114. They said gifts, grants, and donations are not a reliable funding source for that mandate and noted the program also supports conflict minimization efforts such as range riders. One speaker also defended the ecological role of wolves, citing their benefits to ecosystems, elk management, and biodiversity. The transcript does not show a final vote on the amendment before the excerpt ends.

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• The Committee on Natural Resources is called to order.
• Without objection, the Natural Resources Committee minutes of February 27th and March 3rd, 2026, stand
• ADEQ is concerned about the cost and time and resources for the mandated submission of an exceptional
• Requiring unnecessary filing wastes limited agency resources and duplicates an existing process.
• David Fernandez, Arizona Department of Water Resources.

Bills: HB2013, HB2026, HB2056, HB2098, HB2113, HB2156, HB2158, HCM2011, HCR2057

Keywords: air pollution, wildfires, environmental standards, public health, Arizona Revised Statutes, assured water supply, groundwater, commingling, commingled water, water supply, Arizona Department of Water Resources, ADWR, active management area, AMA, subdivision plat, development approval, water rights, municipal provider, private water company, certificate of assured water supply

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• In addition, the committee hopes to develop new partnerships to enhance resources.
• Additionally, matters regarding water or sewer service are under the Committee on Natural Resources.
• Additionally, matters regarding water or sewer service are under the Committee on Natural Resources.
• Resources.
• This relates to certain plans adopted or approved by boards for the Committee on Natural Resources.

Bills: HJR99, HB1399, HB1400, HB 1094, HB365, HB 1109, HB647, HCR35, SB14, HB 12, HB1522, HB422, HB675, HB204, HB748, HB912, HJR99, HB1399, HB1400, HB 1094, HB365, HB 1109, HB647, HCR35, HCR123, HCR124, HR57, HR87, HR111, HR228, HR230, HR322, HR624, HR625, HR626, HR627, HR628, HR630, HR631, HR634, HR635, HR636, HR637, HR638, HR639, HR640, HR645, HR646, HR648, HR649, HR651, HR652, HR653, HR654, HR664, HR665, HR668, HR675, HR676, HR678, HR679, HR680, HR683, HR686, HR688, HR689, HR694, HR695, HR697, HR698, HR699, HR472, HR622, HR632, HR633, HR643, HR655, HR657, HR660, HR661, HR662, HR663, HR667, HR670, HR674, HR681, HR682, HR696

Keywords: animal feed, tax exemption, ad valorem taxation, retail, constitutional amendment, retail sale, tangible personal property, Texas tax code, groundwater, water conservation, financial assistance, Texas Water Development Board, innovation fund, local conservation districts, transportation protection agreement, funeral services, insurance exemption, regulation, deceased transportation, HB 365

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• We are actively engaged in finalizing the operating relationships where we're sharing resources.
• Additionally, there's been significant resources pulled into the study of the popular weight loss drugs
• resources that they need.
• But the other 50% result in us getting them resources outside of JD McCarty Center.
• So, we really depend on other states to help us and guide us in best practices.

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• IG findings are based on facts and applicable law and are guided by OIG standards.
• Is it a resource issue? Is it a time issue?
• And in my experience as a governor, you know, one of the hard things is finding actual staff and resources
• We need to maintain resources that are not used most of the time. How do you think about that?
• I think some good points have been raised that it's about empowering the agencies with dedicated resources

Keywords: artificial intelligence, waste reduction, fraud prevention, government efficiency, improper payments, data reliability, oversight

Summary: The meeting was chaired by Chairman Schweikert and involved a comprehensive discussion on how to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) for reducing waste, fraud, and improper payments within federal programs. Key witnesses, including Mr. Andrew Canarsa from the Council of the Inspectors General, provided insights on the potential of AI in enhancing government efficiency. The committee emphasized the importance of reliable data and thorough examination of AI application to avoid unintended consequences while addressing the estimated $162 billion in improper payments reported by the federal government. Concerns were raised regarding the recent firing of inspectors general and the impacts that could have on oversight and accountability processes.

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• The American Pronunciation Guide presents "How to Pronounce Two-Minute Warning."
• We can achieve this by sharing water supplies and other resources.
• And if they do need a gold-plated PER, we'll also have the resources to do that.
• However, we do have resources, and so we'll call on them and see if there are ways in which we can utilize
• may not work in the northwest and vice versa, but we should be able to recognize the people, the resources

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• And what I've seen over the years is just the benefit that these dollars, when guided by a mature adult
• , can help guide a young person to be a good consumer.
• by a a mature these dollars when guided by a a mature adult<00:07:35.600> can<00:07:35.800>
• > help<00:07:36.040> guide<00:07:36.280> a<00:07:36.360> young<00:07:36.600>
• person<00:07:36.880> to adult can help guide a young person to adult can help guide a

Keywords: 958, all

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• We try to use the resources we have as efficiently as possible.
• <00:35:34.119> for it would you be a good resource for it would you be a good resource for
• commonality so we try to share resources commonality so we try to share resources and<01:12:11.199
• She said they are an immediate resource for folks fleeing violence.
• She said they would be happy to speak more on it and be a resource.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• the temptation of power and corruption the temptation of power and corruption and<00:01:20.560> guide
• them in making decision that and guide them in making decision that honor<00:01:22.960> you.
• But as we waited, we searched to see if we could find unused resources.
• does it provide the necessary resources does it provide the necessary resources to<00:44:11.119>
• <01:17:16.640> so coming together to find resources so coming together to find resources so

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• She said one of the reasons they have the voter fund and have been pushing for more resources toward
• She said one of the reasons they have the voter fund and have been pushing for more resources toward
• She said one of the reasons they have the voter fund and have been pushing for more resources toward
• She said one of the reasons they have the voter fund and have been pushing for more resources toward
• She said one of the reasons they have the voter fund and have been pushing for more resources toward

Keywords: 1183, house

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• More flexible resources.
• If there's a delay in payment, that they have resources that they can go to to cover their gap while
• <01:04:33.440> that payment that they have resources that payment that they have resources
• We actually have a monitoring guide that we produce for each of our programs, and those are sent out
• that we produce for each of our guide that we produce for each of our programs<01:07:47.480> and<

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• they need to supports and resources they need to become<00:10:11.959> healthy<00:10:12.320>
• I took a risk not knowing what I was going to do, but I had half a plan and the resources.
• Steven Berwick from the DOE might be a good resource.
• Steven Berwick from the DOE might be a good resource.
• Steven Berwick from the DOE might be a good resource.

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