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• So a big part of that is just trying to have a budget that we can stay within. Okay.
• This is Amendment 1 to an existing contract, and this amends the scope and increases funds for this contract
• So this amendment is to comply with that legislation.
• I guess the first question will be, do we anticipate future budgets, federal budgets, having funding
• This is Amendment 2 to an existing contract.

Keywords: 1204, all

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• marketing and outreach budget.
• I vehemently oppose HB 517 and the amendment to repeal the marketing and outreach budget for New Hampshire
• So, you heard from other speakers today that as amended, it would repeal the marketing and outreach budget
• present to put the next state budget present to put the next state budget together.<00:20:30.480
• Uh, it's in the budget question.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Thank you for your amendment. Would you like to explain what your amendment does? Yes, Madam Chair.
• I would like to amend the amendment to include the full concept of it.
• All right, we're going to vote on this amendment. All in favor of the A2 amendment, say aye.
• All right, Senator Maye Quade's oral amendment passes and is approved. Now to the A2 amendment.
• amendment to online 1.4 of the amendment amendment to online 1.4 of the amendment uh<01:13:32.840

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Members have a copy of the DE2 in your amendment in your packets, which reflects the health budget agreement
• Line 1282 and 1284 are no-cost budget-related items tracked in the DE2 from the governor's budget request
• I'll start with Article 1 of the DE2 amendment.
• Developing a budget this season was not an easy task.
• On the budget, yes, he's nodding yes. Okay, okay.

Bills: HF2435

Keywords: healthcare, dementia services, public health funding, opioid prevention, women's health, community health boards, mental health

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• We do have an amendment, Madam Chair. Did you get a copy of the amendment?
• I want to move to the amendment for discussion. All righty, explain the amendment, Madam Chair.
• Would that be noted, Madam Chair, as an amendment? That would be a friendly amendment?
• Okay, seeing none, we have an amended bill. Okay, seeing none, we have an amended bill.
• amended...

Keywords: 996, all

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• Commissioner D... 2438D1 amendment. Thank you. We will now 2438D1 amendment. Thank you.
• . amendment. amendment.
• If I could amending We're amending that. If I could amending We're amending the<01:45:35.199> DE.
• . amendment. amendment.
• So, we need to vote on the DE amendment. DE1 amendment.

Bills: HF2438

Keywords: transportation finance, transportation policy, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Council, highway funding, trunk highway fund, county state-aid highway fund, municipal state-aid street fund, state aid roads, local roads, bridge funding, road construction, transit funding, passenger rail, freight rail, aviation, airport development, safe routes to school

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• There are no amendments. I move date. There are no amendments.
• fix to fix the amendment amendment to fix to fix the amendment we're<00:42:31.119> discussing.
• committee amendments. committee amendments.
• There were two amendments. The first amendment was technical.
• There were two amendments. The first amendment was technical.

Keywords: Senate streaming session for Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 960, senate, all

Summary: The Senate convened with an invocation, quorum call, and several introductions recognizing guests, including Reverend Jennifer Carsner and her daughter, President Kirk Schmoke, representatives from Maryland independent colleges and universities, students from Stevenson University, Howard and Anne Arundel counties, Washington College, a constituent, and the Greater Washington, D.C.-Maryland chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The chamber also adopted a resolution honoring Damatha Catholic High School for winning the 2025 WCAC football championship and another recognizing the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce on its 100th anniversary. Both resolutions were adopted unanimously after brief remarks and roll calls. The Senate then took up executive nominations, separating nominee 16 from the main report. The chamber voted 42 in favor on the remaining nominations and then 42 in favor on nominee 16, giving all nominees the Senate’s advice and consent. On third reading, the Senate passed several bills, including SB 46, SB 25, SB 58, SB 163, SB 170, SB 188, SB 247, SB 356, and SB 379, with recorded affirmative votes ranging from 36 to 42. These measures covered topics such as veterans cemeteries, tax credits and tax modifications, education funding, transportation revenue bonds, biotechnology incentives, a stillborn child tax credit, and recovery residence grant funding. The chamber also advanced numerous second-reading bills, generally adopting committee reports and amendments without objection. Among the measures discussed were collective bargaining for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission police officers; adoption of the 2022 Uniform Commercial Code amendments for controllable electronic records; cemetery sale and transfer oversight; an additional license for electronic smoking devices; collective bargaining for Baltimore County Public Library supervisory employees; payroll processor exemptions under the Money Transmission Act; scalp cooling coverage for chemotherapy patients; orthoses and prostheses coverage under health and Medicaid plans; an online database of elevator inspection certificates; service animal program disqualification standards; extension of the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists; disclosure of lapsed professional liability insurance for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and nurse midwives; and revisions to massage therapy licensure rules. Most reports were favorable, with several technical or substantive amendments adopted and bills ordered printed for third reading. A notable policy discussion occurred on SB 56, which would allow the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center to share individual-level student and workforce data with a third-party data center for multi-state reporting. The sponsor explained the bill as a way to compare Maryland outcomes with other states while using data-sharing agreements and oversight to protect privacy; a minority whip raised concerns about the type of third-party data center and whether the practice was new. The sponsor said the bill was intended to formalize and safeguard data sharing, and noted a technical amendment would be offered to correct the amendment language.

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• problematic is in the budgeting process. problematic is in the budgeting process.
• gonna amend it. What do you want? gonna amend it. What do you want?
• They’ll have a motion on the amendment to pass as amended.” “Second.”
• All to pass the amendment. it. Second. All to pass the amendment.
• Oh, to pass with amendment. Oh, to pass with amendment.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• The amendment is adopted.
• . amendment. amendment.
• the A1 amendment to the amendments. the A1 amendment to the amendments.
• All in favor of the A1 amendment to the amendment say I. I.
• The amendment is not adopted. Any other amendments for members?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• So our budget cost is $15 million with the state budget.
• > amendment<05:05:28.440> yeah on the amendment on the amendment yeah on the amendment
• The speaker then asks to offer an amendment to HB 163, Amendment 2025-086H. offering another amendment
• offer amendment to U HP 163 amendment offer amendment to U HP 163 amendment number<05:11:51.840>
• by Amendment 2025-086H.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The meeting featured presentations from the Department of Administrative Services and the Treasury Department on state revenue reporting and unclaimed property. State Comptroller Dana Call explained DAS’s role in compiling statewide revenue reports, including the annual revenue plan set through the budget process and the monthly revenue focus reports that track cash receipts. She noted that unrestricted general fund revenue is about $2 billion annually, while miscellaneous other revenue is a much smaller and less predictable category, averaging roughly $30 million to $32 million a year. She also described two more material internal revenue lines: statewide indirect cost recoveries and post-retirement benefit recoveries, which are billed to agencies and often tied to federal reimbursement rules. Members asked about the interest line in the revenue charts and about how the figures were presented, and Call clarified that the totals were in millions and that the interest item would be explained by the Treasurer. She also explained that the indirect cost and post-retirement recoveries are internal cost allocations that flow back into the unrestricted revenue pool and are reflected in agency budgets as interagency costs. Treasurer Monica Meissner then outlined Treasury Department functions, including bank deposits, statewide disbursements, banking relationships, investments, debt management, compliance, the FONA College Savings Program, the ABLE Plan, scholarship programs, and the abandoned property program. In discussing unclaimed property, she said holders report property after a five-year dormancy period, the state uses automated systems and outreach to locate owners, and claim activity has increased. In fiscal year 2024, the state returned about $12.2 million to citizens through roughly 12,000 claims; over the last 10 years, about $72.6 million has been returned. She also said the state escheated $19.9 million to the general fund and $1.8 million to counties last year, and explained that securities-related proceeds are harder to estimate because they depend on market conditions. No votes or formal actions were taken.

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• Seeing Representative Hansen has the A1 amendment.
• I would ask for your support of the A1 amendment. this amendment does is it provides money this amendment
• for your support of the A1 Amendment for your support of the A1 Amendment thank<00:03:00.599>
• <00:03:03.080> do any discussion on the amendment do any discussion on the amendment do members
• other thing about about your Amendment other thing about about your Amendment um<00:04:05.120>

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 1101, which would add $1.5 million to the agricultural emergency account beginning July 1, 2026. Chair Anderson explained that the account was created after the 2015 bird flu outbreak, has been funded in the past, and currently has about $1.2 million remaining. He said the bill would strengthen the state’s ability to respond to livestock disease emergencies and support the Board of Animal Health and Department of Health. Representative Hansen offered the A1 amendment to shift $1.5 million from an unused $4 million dairy line item into the emergency account, arguing the funds were sitting unused, a federal farm bill was uncertain, and the money could help with immediate food testing and emergency response. Chair Anderson opposed the amendment, saying the dairy funds had been set aside for that purpose, he expected federal action in the coming months, and he was unsure the emergency account statute allowed the money to be used for food testing. He recommended a no vote. A roll call was taken on the A1 amendment, and it failed by a vote of 6-7. After brief additional comment in support of the bill, House File 1101 was laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill.

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• current budget of 47.7 billion. current budget of 47.7 billion.
• NCI's budget by 33%. 37%. NCI's budget by 33%. 37%.
• . amendment. amendment.
• Speaker, rise to present amendment number eight. Amendment desk.
• clerk will designate the amendment. clerk will designate the amendment.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• amendment. All those in favor say I. I. amendment. All those in favor say I. I.
• operating budget.
• <00:28:13.360> This budget of 7.9 million per year. This budget of 7.9 million per year.
• Senator Jeang moves the A2 amendment. This is an author's amendment. All those in favor say aye.
• The amendment is adopted. All those opposed. The amendment is adopted. Uh, Senator Jang. Yep.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And um one is um our budget budget.
• We initially requested to amend RSA 96 that relates to the budget.
• We initially requested to amend RSA 96 that relates to the budget.
• We initially requested to amend RSA 96 that relates to the budget.
• [Laughter] Seriously, the House amended our budget.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Uh, Senator Ann Johnson Stewart moves the A1 amendment with an oral amendment to the amendment.
• <00:09:54.160> to<00:09:54.399> the amendment with an oral amendment to the amendment
• Chair, I'll move the A3 amendment. Then we can chat about the amendment.
• We have school budgets impacted, police budgets impacted.
• ><00:49:03.359> budgets school budgets impacted, police budgets school budgets impacted, police

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• as amended shall be considered as read. as amended shall be considered as read.
• House Budget Committee. House Budget Committee.
• what is Trump increasing the budget for? what is Trump increasing the budget for?
• Budgets are a reflection of our values. Budgets are a reflection of our values.
• opportunity to weigh in on this budget. opportunity to weigh in on this budget.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• “Speak to the amendment. Speak to the amendment. To the amendment.
• I declare the amendment to the amendment adopted. Are there further amendments to the amendment?
• The clerk has an amendment to the amendment. The clerk has an amendment to the amendment.
• An amendment to the amendment.
• The amendment to the amendment is germane. To the amendment. To the amendment.

Keywords: 994, senate, all

Summary: The Senate considered and passed a series of House bills on third reading, with several title amendments and a few effective-date motions adopted. Early in the session, members passed HB 4452 removing acreage limits on land owned by church or religious trustees, HB 4577 creating reciprocal driver’s license recognition agreements with Ireland and Japan, HB 4588 authorizing West Virginia participation in a federal tax credit scholarship program, and HB 4592 requiring higher education institutions to create coordinated campus safety maps. HB 4602 was amended to align with a prior Senate child welfare pilot program, and members discussed its projected cost and implementation timeline before passing it. HB 4603 created a pre-adjudicatory alternative disposition process in abuse and neglect cases, and HB 4606 narrowed bail rules by requiring consideration of residency and community ties while prohibiting personal recognizance bonds for violent felony offenses after an adopted amendment. The Senate also passed HB 4710 changing the party-registration deadline for candidates from 60 to 180 days before an election, with debate over its impact on independents, and made it effective January 1, 2027. HB 4712, known as Bailey’s Law, increased penalties for DUI causing death and related conduct, with emotional testimony from members about the victim and similar tragedies. HB 4765 established a pay raise for teachers, school personnel, and state police and added a market-pay enhancement system based on county cost-of-living differences; an amendment to the amendment capped county differentials and guaranteed at least a 1% increase in every county. HB 4865 created an optional program for high school and homeschool students to serve as election official trainees, and HB 4869 established narrow guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare supplement policies. Later bills included HB 4995, which strengthened video/audio recording rules in special education classrooms and was passed, then reconsidered and passed again; HB 4996 creating a new crime for making threats of violence against schools or children; HB 5048 guaranteeing virtual instruction for foster children in temporary placement; HB 5065 adding recordkeeping and geolocation requirements for hotel marketplace facilitators to ensure proper hotel tax remittance; and HB 5074 reallocating medical cannabis fund revenues to child protection, homeless services, research, law enforcement, and other purposes. The Senate also passed HB 5101, the Joanna Phillips Domestic Violence Prevention Act, which increased penalties for domestic violence offenses and adjusted bail provisions, after amending it to conform with the earlier bail bill. Additional measures passed included HB 5166 requiring notice before political committees are fined for filing violations and allowing limited extensions, HB 5168 directing $12 million in lottery funds to EMS first responders and county EMS support, HB 5182 authorizing certain state treasurer security personnel to carry concealed firearms, HB 5212 streamlining higher-education financial aid rules, HB 5214 allowing court-ordered drug testing of parents before reunification in abuse and neglect cases, HB 5353 regulating virtual currency kiosks with licensing, disclosures, and transaction limits, and HB 5366 exempting J-LAP records from FOIA to protect confidentiality for lawyers and judges seeking assistance. Most bills passed with strong bipartisan support, though HB 5074 and HB 5353 drew some dissenting votes.

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• The amendment is adopted.
• All those in favor of the amendment say yea opposed nay show. The amendment is adopted.
• All in favor of the amendment say yay. And those days show the amendment is adopted.
• this amendment.
• The amendment all in favor of this amendment. Please say yay opposed nay. The amendment is adopted.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• I move the A1 amendment to the DE2 amendment. to the DE amendment.
• A2 amendment to the DE2 amendment say I. A2 amendment to the DE2 amendment say I.
• Uh, just to repeat that this is a budget-neutral amendment.
• Please explain your amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is also budget neutral.
• amendment to the DE2 amendment say I. I. amendment to the DE2 amendment say I. I.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• . amendment. amendment.
• Chairman, we can uh adopt the amendment. amendment. amendment.
• So, yeah, Senator the amendment.
• So, do we already have a second on the amendment? >> We already have a second on the amendment.
• So, do we already have a second on the amendment? >> We already have a second on the amendment.

Bills: SB298, SB91

Keywords: Florence, Lauderdale County, municipal boundaries, corporate limits, land annexation, military installations, tall structures, local government, construction approval, wind energy facilities, aeronautics, Department of Defense, 923, senate, all