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• innovation, and banks are perfectly able to serve crypto customers as long as they understand and can manage
• Are they still audited?
• Could you outline the Federal Reserve's role in supporting and managing the Treasury's payment systems
• and quickly installed a key architect of Project 2025, Russ Vogt, as the head of the Office of Management
• In Minnesota, families and seniors are struggling to manage a nearly 40% increase in home insurance rates

Bills: SB257

Keywords: supply chain resilience, critical supply chains, critical goods, manufacturing, domestic manufacturing, reshoring, nearshoring, supply chain security, supply chain shock, supply chain disruption, critical infrastructure, emerging technologies, semiconductors, microelectronics, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, cybersecurity

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• This exempts underwriting managers from the reinsurance intermediary manager license requirements if
• those underwriting managers manage facultative risks for an insurer and the reinsurance business managed
• or self-managed.
• OR SELF MANAGED.
• communities—but it comes from one place: self-managed communities.

Summary: The committee first took up PCS for HB 1137, which would codify a long-standing DBPR rule allowing alcohol distributors to deduct excise tax for broken or spoiled products. The sponsor said the rule had been nullified for lack of statutory authority, and industry representatives waved in support. The bill passed unanimously and was reported favorably. Members then approved PCS for HB 797 on nonprofit corporations, described as a broad update to the nonprofit statute that tracks prior for-profit corporation changes and model act language. A technical amendment was adopted, and testimony from the Florida Nonprofit Alliance and a Bar business law section representative was supportive. The bill passed unanimously and was reported favorably. The committee also passed CS for HB 679 on trademark registration, which updates the state trademark system to align with federal classifications and create an online application; an amendment extending the implementation date was adopted before the bill passed. The committee next heard several bills related to licensing and regulation. CS for HB 1433 would create an optional high school financial literacy course focused on property and casualty insurance and allow graduates to satisfy pre-licensure requirements for an entry-level license; it passed with support from insurance and free-market groups. HB 929 clarified local permitting for tiki huts, including electrical and plumbing permits, decks, fasteners, and setbacks, and passed without opposition. HB 99 exempted certain underwriting managers handling limited reinsurance business from reinsurance intermediary manager licensing requirements and also passed. A major portion of the meeting focused on gambling enforcement in the strike-all for CS for CS HB 155, which would strengthen penalties for illegal gambling operations, expand oversight of the Florida Gaming Control Commission, clarify fantasy sports and internet sports wagering language, and allow destruction of seized slot machines. Supporters argued the bill would help shut down repeat illegal internet cafés and related criminal activity; one homeowner group opposed it. The committee adopted the strike-all and the bill passed, with several members speaking in favor and a few voting no. The committee also passed HB 1307 on unauthorized aliens after adopting a strike-all that clarified provisions affecting licensing, housing assistance, workers’ compensation, employment enforcement, and related financial services; the bill drew substantial opposition testimony about language barriers and immigrant families, but also support from proponents citing public safety and victim stories. Later, the committee approved DS for HB 387, which would restrict the use of ADS-B aviation data for automatic billing at airports while preserving landing fees and safety functions. It passed after supportive testimony from a private pilot. HB 865, as amended, would require professional management for community associations above a higher budget threshold, add timeshare-specific language, and impose additional licensing and insurance requirements for managers; supporters cited fraud and lack of enforcement in large associations, while one member opposed it as government overreach. The bill passed with one recorded no vote. Finally, the committee passed PCS for HB 885, a transportation facility designation bill naming several roads and bridges, and began debate on CS for HB 33, which would designate a portion of SR 895 near FIU as Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue and also codify a Donald Trump boulevard designation. That bill prompted sharp debate, with supporters praising Kirk’s influence and opponents objecting to honoring a non-Floridian and to his public statements; the transcript ends during that debate.

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• I want to welcome everybody to the Legislative Audit Education Institution Subcommittee.
• Today there are 57 education audit reports for the committee’s review.
• We will begin with the three audits which were referred to the prosecuting attorney and attorney general
• So since these were not a repeat finding or a deferred audit report, they were not required to be here
• And so we're on each audit now when we go out, we try to ask questions along these lines to see.

Summary: The Legislative Audit Education Institution Subcommittee met to review 57 education audit reports, including 52 with no findings and five with findings. The committee adopted the previous meeting’s minutes and then heard staff summaries of the findings, which focused largely on school district spending and internal control issues. Two reports, Camden-Fairview and Forest City, involved district use of operating funds for staff end-of-year celebrations that staff said conflicted with the Arkansas Constitution and AG opinions. Camden-Fairview’s questioned costs totaled $10,668, including meals, door prizes, and facility rental, and Forest City’s totaled $33,436, including decorations, catering, entertainment, and rental fees. Members discussed whether district officials should attend to answer questions, and both reports were deferred to the June meeting with requests for district attendance. The committee also reviewed a referred finding at Nettleton School District involving a $1.9 million fraud scheme tied to emailed bank-account change requests; the district recovered $1.5 million from the bank and arranged for the vendor to reimburse the remaining $204,890 loss. Members questioned why the vendor would repay money it did not receive, and the report was also held over to the June meeting for further explanation. A separate referred case at Camden-Fairview noted unauthorized credit card charges of $2,140, with $262 remaining as a loss after bank reversals. Staff also presented non-referred findings at Cedar Ridge, including improper Title I payroll charges, salary overpayment and underpayment errors, and an unreconciled bank account variance, and at Green County Technical School District, where a $1,400 vendor check was fraudulently diverted but later recovered. Those reports were filed after no objections. During discussion, staff explained that Legislative Audit is trying to reduce recurring fraud and control problems by advising schools on verifying banking changes in person or through other direct contact, using bank controls such as positive pay, and monitoring accounts more frequently. Members encouraged schools to take audit training seriously and noted that clean reports should be recognized as a positive result. The remaining 52 reports with no findings were filed as reviewed, and the meeting adjourned with no new business.

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• Section 25 requires PELSB's final reading audit to include the rubric used to conduct the audit of teacher
• This funding, managed by our local school district, district go straight to the heart of what matters
• These funds are managed by a local school district and go directly to the Minnesota children we educate

Bills: HF1388

Keywords: BARR Center, Building Assets, Reducing Risks, education finance, school funding, grant appropriation, evidence-based program, student achievement, social and emotional learning, school climate, teacher effectiveness, high school graduation, students in poverty, students of color, BIPOC, equity in education, Minnesota Department of Education, urban schools, suburban schools, rural schools, school coaching

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• <00:03:49.519> plan we have a uh a a draft management plan we have a uh a a draft management
• Louis County will put those into their forest management system, and they'll manage them just like their
• <00:29:22.625> [snorts] management plan. [snorts] management plan.
• <00:35:36.560> the the white earth nation to manage the the white earth nation to manage the
• pointed out the DNR's the DNR um audit pointed out the DNR's the DNR um audit back<01:37:36.560>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Those audit trails help with the security as well because once the document is signed, the audit trail
• sign or an Adobe sign which has an audit sign or an Adobe sign which has an audit trail<00:31:23.520
• > trails<00:31:25.440> help trail which uh those audit trails help trail which uh those
• the document is signed it the audit the document is signed it the audit trail<00:31:31.360> will
• Um it also see that in the audit trail.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I want to welcome everybody to the Legislative Audit Education Institutions Subcommittee.
• Today there are 57 education audit reports for the committee's review.
• We will begin with the three audits which were referred to the prosecuting attorney and attorney general
• So since these were not a repeat finding or a deferred audit report, they were not required to be here
• And so we're on each audit now when we go out, we try to ask questions along these lines to see.

Keywords: 1204, all

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• I'm manager. Yes. And how much of the percentage of the whole money available was that?
• and the number you mentioned was 180,000 acre-feet saved. ...of the money for and the number the manager
• We then have forms of auditing capability when they submit their annual water reports to their municipalities
• I'm the deputy county manager of Heala County, and I thank this committee for the opportunity to at least
• This is one of the funds managed by WIFA that receives an appropriation from the U.S.

Bills: HB2029, HB2030, HB2096

Keywords: water conservation, grants, infrastructure, environmental protection, sustainability, grant fund, Arizona water law, A.R.S. 49-1332, water efficiency, water reuse, education programs, public outreach, rainwater harvesting, gray water, graywater, drought-resistant landscaping, xeriscaping, turf removal, groundwater recharge, aquifer health

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• Senate offer has the following features, which represent changes from the way school choice is being managed
• requires the scholarship funding organizations to return funds as a result of Auditor General FTE audit

Summary: The conference committee met to discuss the Senate’s second budget offer and its first offer on SB 7030. The chair said the budget proviso and back-of-bill offers were continuing to close out remaining issues, and explained the Senate’s approach to the new academic accelerated option supplement in the FEFP as restoring about 80% of prior weighted FTE funding for acceleration options other than dual enrollment, citing existing statutory requirements and the different cost structure of dual enrollment. Senator Gates then presented the Senate’s modified SB 7030 offer, saying the bill was intended to address problems tracking roughly 23,000 students moving among public schools, private schools, and homeschooling, and to better ensure funding follows students correctly. He said the offer would preserve key parts of SB 7030 while making changes such as extending the fall application window, delaying some spring-term documentation, modifying background screening requirements, and allowing the commissioner to extend deadlines in extenuating circumstances. The offer also kept the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program as a separate FEFP categorical, expanded the Education Stabilization Fund, created fall and spring application windows, required enrollment cross-checks and student IDs, changed scholarship payments to monthly with front-loaded options, and required scholarship funding organizations to return funds tied to Auditor General FTE audit findings. A public commenter, a longtime teacher from Daytona Beach, urged that the financial literacy course be taught at a later grade level, such as 11th or 12th grade, and suggested a system of diverse guest speakers in classrooms to encourage more students from underrepresented groups to consider business ownership. No questions were raised from the committee after the Senate offer, and no vote was taken. The vice chair said the House would take the offer back for review, and the chair announced there would likely be one more meeting with a one-hour notice before the meeting adjourned by motion without objection.

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• Lisa Tanaka from South Coast Air Quality Management District in interim support. Thank you so much.
• Lisa Tanaka, South Coast Air Quality Management District.
• Lisa Tanaka, South Coast Air Quality Management District.
• How do you address that, sir, from the Air Quality Management District?
• They pose significant safety risks when improperly managed, including potential fires and explosions.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• for a budget for and manage? for a budget for and manage?
• documentation, proration under the cap, and audits.
• documentation, proration under the cap, and audits.
• So it resolves any audits.
• registers farms and manages farms? registers farms and manages farms?

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Ensuring youth receive supportive services and case management, also providing assurances to landlords
• Ensuring youth receive supportive services and case management, also providing assurances to landlords
• The bill empowers families and caregivers by giving them tools and legal authority to manage insulin
• The bill empowers families and caregivers by giving them tools and legal authority to manage insulin
• The department may also request to procure a program that would manage specific mapping technologies

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions recognizing guests, students, advocates, and a resolution honoring the late USF men’s basketball coach Amir Abdur-Rahim. Senators also observed moments of silence for victims of recent campus violence and for former FSU President John Thrasher. The chamber then moved to special order bills, with several members explaining measures and, in some cases, substituting House companions before final passage. Among the bills passed were measures updating child care and early learning provider regulation; strengthening penalties and cost recovery for false reporting and swatting; extending protections against extraordinary medical debt collection; expanding hazardous walking condition criteria for schoolchildren; creating young adult housing support for foster and homeless students; and requiring private schools participating in the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program to disclose which accommodations they will provide. The Senate also passed a bill adjusting interest rules for trust accounts funding legal aid, after extended debate over the impact on legal aid funding and banking practices, and a transportation package that was heavily amended to address issues such as school bus camera hearings, beach vehicle use for equipment removal, flooded-street wake restrictions, expectant mother parking permits, micromobility regulation, and traffic signal modernization. The chamber also approved public-records exemptions for Agency for Health Care Administration investigators, Judicial Qualifications Commission employees, and appellate court clerks; a municipal water and sewer rate bill affecting Miami-Dade residents near a plant; motor vehicle offenses involving impersonating law enforcement and obscured license plates; trespass penalties at law-enforcement-controlled locations and large ticketed venues; refund requirements for patient overpayments; stem cell therapy authorization with source and consent limits; and insulin administration authority for direct support professionals and relatives in group homes. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including cardiac emergencies, chemicals and consumer products, and motor vehicle manufacturer/franchise dealer legislation. Most measures passed with strong bipartisan support, though the trust fund interest bill drew notable opposition and passed 28-10, and the Family Empowerment Scholarship bill passed 37-1.

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• section instructing the reviser to renumber a subdivision on public account and reporting charter management
• and charter management organization educational management organization agreements as a new statute.
• It strikes audit data from the list of types of data governed by those cross-referenced statutes.

Bills: HF1306

Keywords: education, school policy, teacher training, student health, emergency response

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• documents in the inspection improvement of related such document for the committee on land resource management
• Committee of Trade, Workforce, and Economic Development, HB 534 by Gerben-Hawkins, relating to an external audit
• adaptive model meta data and analytics software by the independent organization certified by the managed
• relating to the expedited Presidential Link for Licensing Behavioral Analysts Providing Services Under Managed

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Enforcement, Lori McDonald gained extensive experience in staff supervision, statewide training, auditing
• And whereas in her roles as program manager and program administrator at the Department of Human Services
• complex workflow... ...financial oversight, legislative tracking, budget development, managed complex
• And in these positions, she led the Department of Human Services legislative strategy, managed high-level
• services, actuarial advantage, PLC, Sedgwick's Claims, Management Services, Actuarial Advantage, and

Summary: The meeting began with a quorum call, prayer, and approval of the previous minutes. Members then adopted a resolution honoring Lori McDonald of the Department of Human Services for nearly 28 years of state service, with remarks praising her legislative work, constituent services, leadership, and emergency response roles. McDonald thanked the committee, and the Senate also presented her with a citation, flag, and commemorative coin. The committee received the May 2026 revenue report, which showed gross adjusted collections of $7.76 billion year-to-date, up 4.4% from the prior year, and a projected surplus of $585.8 million. The executive subcommittee report was adopted, covering emergency rules for DHS and the Department of Education, school district waiver requests, committee fund allocations, cancellation of the July ALC meeting, and authorization for subcommittees to meet in July on urgent matters. The administrative rules report was also adopted after members noted that most rules were approved, with a few pulled by agencies or held. Members then heard a lengthy exchange on the Arkansas Education Department’s ClassWallet contract and delays in expense review for education savings account payments. Department officials said they were meeting regularly with ClassWallet, enforcing contract standards, keeping some reviews in-house, and adding staff and technology improvements to speed processing while maintaining oversight. The committee also adopted reports from Game and Fish and State Police, Hospital/Medicaid/Developmental Disabilities, Lottery Oversight, Occupational Licensing Review, Peer Review, Review, State Insurance Programs Oversight, and Personnel, including a Department of Commerce reallocation tied to a broader shared-services realignment. Under review of communications, members filed several retirement system investment items as reviewed, approved rural community grant funding, gave favorable advice for state park additions, approved special maintenance funding for state parks, and filed Office of State Technology service-rate changes as reviewed. The meeting concluded with no new business and adjournment.

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• So on page five of the audit report.
• <00:36:36.800> Um of the audit report. Um of the audit report.
• certainly the no page seven of the audit certainly the no page seven of the audit for for for Senator
• So I do online have the audit report.
• audit report means when it says pending. audit report means when it says pending.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Treasury, Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration, and the U.S.
• TREASURY, OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, GENERAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATION, AND THE U.S.
• We feel continue to encourage the museum's management to engage with stakeholders to ensure that the
• We continue to encourage the museum's management to engage with stakeholders to ensure that the site
• We know that following wildlife management techniques to control and eradicate nutria is effective.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• 1038 is sponsored by the California School Employees Association, CSEA, and it expands the CalPERS audit
• This is significant because audit findings can result in members' monthly benefits being reduced or even
• It took the school district and CalPERS three years after the final audit report to fix the error.
• So this bill requires employees to forward the initial audit notification.
• in the final audit report to the relevant bargaining unit.

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement heard three bills. SB 939 by Senator Laird, sponsored by CalPERS, would end new enrollment in the actuarial equivalent reduction option for service credit purchases starting in 2028 and require any unpaid balance at retirement to be paid within 90 days. The author said the change would reduce unintended consequences for members, employers, and CalPERS administration. There was no opposition, and the bill was approved on a unanimous vote and sent to Appropriations. SB 1038, also by Senator Laird and sponsored by CSEA, would expand CalPERS audit notification procedures so bargaining units receive notice when an employer is audited and receive relevant member information from final audit reports. Supporters said this would help unions protect members from benefit reductions or repayment demands caused by payroll or compensation errors, citing a Kern High School District audit example. Teamsters, the California Labor Federation, and AFSCME testified in support, with no opposition. The committee passed the bill unanimously and sent it to Appropriations. SB 1227 by Senator Drozdoff/Dorazo (as referenced in the transcript) would require the Department of Industrial Relations to work with unions on apprenticeship pathways into enforcement jobs, such as Cal/OSHA and Labor Commissioner classifications, to address staffing shortages and backlogs. The author and supporters from United Steelworkers, SEIU Local 1000, CSEA, the California Labor Federation, and others argued apprenticeship would create a pipeline of trained workers and improve labor law enforcement. The committee accepted amendments, voted the bill out on a unanimous vote, and re-referred it to the Committee on Labor and Employment.

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• And while not uh to manage funds.
• bill and uh send it to the management bill and uh send it to the management council<01:57:14.320
• I'd move to table this to the management I'd move to table this to the management council<01:57:
• itself, I think it should be managed itself, I think it should be managed well<02:31:08.960>
• So I management council policy covers.

Keywords: 916, all

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• We know that low-income households cannot afford a poorly managed transition if we... ...sound, it is
• We know that low-income households cannot afford a poorly managed transition if we misalign critical
• And, you know, the auditing... that's how the CPUC operates.
• This information is already available through audited financial statements and it's already produced
• They do not pay the same management salaries.

Summary: The committee heard several energy, water, and utility bills. SB 919 by Senator Grayson would extend the biomethane monetary incentive program through 2030 and authorize additional funding to support renewable natural gas projects by reducing interconnection costs. Supporters said high interconnection costs and the current tax treatment are major barriers to methane reduction projects; opponents, including TURN and environmental groups, raised ratepayer cost concerns and objected to rate-basing and additional public funding. The author said amended language would remove the rate-basing provisions and instead urge the CPUC to act quickly on its pending decision. SB 931 by Senator Laird would reauthorize the Community Impact Mitigation Program for the Diablo Canyon plant through 2030 to continue funding local emergency preparedness, fire protection, public safety, and school district costs. The County of San Luis Obispo and labor groups supported the bill, while TURN opposed it as a statewide ratepayer subsidy that could be funded from existing PG&E revenues instead of higher rates. Members discussed the bill in the context of the 2022 Diablo Canyon extension deal and the possibility of a future longer extension. SB 1215 by Senator Cortese would direct the CPUC to set deployment targets for EV charging in multifamily housing and evaluate progress, with amendments aimed at affordability and limiting system upgrade costs. Supporters said renters are largely locked out of home charging and that prior utility programs proved cost-effective; no opposition testified. SB 1359 by Senator Stern would require more deliberate CPUC review before major gas system investments, emphasizing electrification and non-pipeline alternatives. Gas utilities and several industry groups opposed it, arguing it could undermine the obligation to serve, create safety and reliability risks, and change the regulatory compact. The committee also heard SB 1125 by Senator Menjivar, presented by Senator Gonzalez, which would establish a statewide low-income water rate assistance program upon appropriation. Water agencies, environmental groups, and local governments supported the measure, while one member expressed concern that it lacked a funding source and could not overcome Proposition 218 limits; the bill was moved to Appropriations and the roll was left open. Finally, SB 1098 by Senator Perez would restrict the use of long-running memorandum and balancing accounts by investor-owned utilities, require exceptional circumstances for new accounts, and add sunset and cost-sharing requirements. Consumer advocates and large energy users supported tighter oversight, while the utilities and business groups opposed the bill as too rigid and potentially harmful to flexibility for wildfire, emergency, and safety-related costs.