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• Again, that is up to those lengths of time.

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• And for the length of time that that happens.
• A couple of sessions ago with the Secretary, especially when we talked about COVID and providing those
• Of course again, or that you took the session.
• If there are opportunities, most companies will have training sessions again periodically throughout
• We're also going to be in our own transition with our governor here next session.

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• Length of stay in Santa Fe County, like other jails around the state, the average is about 2 days, about
• have some detail here about how that has been working and we provided you during the legislative session
• It has been true up to the last legislative session that you can bill for additional Medicaid funds if
• I'm just, I'm just used to writing these people's names down during session.
• This is my first time being back since the legislative session, and it's a treat to be here.

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• and Section 13862. 13862 and 6-3, as last amended by the Act of 2024-10, three of the 24 regular sessions
• , which was our last session of the code, to create the definition of machine gun and to provide for
• We discussed this at length, and it's my understanding—and certainly don't mind bringing Mr.
• This is a bill we had before you briefly last year at the end of the session, but... ...last year at
• the end of the session, but this bill would provide that a sex offender convicted of a sex crime with

Bills: HB43, SB81, SB178, SB138, SB89, SB183, HB27, HB188, HB199, HB190, SB117, HB43, HB27

Keywords: criminal procedure, split sentencing, probation, Class A felony, Class B felony, minimum confinement, speedy trial, visiting judge, court administration, violent crimes, Alabama Supreme Court, employment, criminal record, certificate of employability, occupational licensing, negligent hiring, rehabilitation, limited relief, tribal police, law enforcement

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• I don't because of the length of time.
• North Carolina just did it this session.
• So this just did it uh uh this session.
• It has to be arm's length.
• It has to be arms length. It has to it. It has to be arms length.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• In light of the length of your agenda and the completeness of your committee analysis, I'll leave it
• that the California Legislative Black Caucus has chosen as its priority bill for this legislative session
• Given the length of your committee hearing, I'll let our witnesses do the heavy lifting, but I will say
• Given the, in order, length of your committee hearing, I'll let our witnesses do the heavy lifting, but

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• So this is no one caught it for a length of time, which is how it got built up to $27,000.
• might have been two sessions ago.
• We could put it in an appropriation to go through fiscal session and it be awarded to them.
• appropriate money through, there's usually every fiscal session, regular session, there's a claims appropriation
• We need to fix that during the next legislative session.

Keywords: 1204, all

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• Yeah, the 78th session in 2003, that would be my second year in this building.
• Just as a bit of background, last session...
• Just as a bit of background, last session, which was my first session employed at DFPS, I was serving
• And thanks to funding that we received from the legislature last session, the 89th session, in December
• It feels a little bit like session is here already with interim charges, but we know session will be

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• So that was completely eliminated last session.
• Sixth special session of the year, we're brought up here.
• And I want to say thank you, Senator Avila, for talking to me yesterday at length.
• So, in my opinion, we passed, two sessions ago, Florida Statute 106.151...
• It's been litigated within the legislature two sessions ago, and this is a...

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Another harmful piece of legislation that we're putting forward this session.
• We have a bill that we passed in the 87th legislative session.
• Session after session, this legislature has passed legislation to create obstacles to abortion health
• I also know this is an amendment that I spoke about at great length the other day.
• I've come to learn in my last four sessions that I've served.

Bills: SB 8, HB7, HB15, HB 265, HCR 13, SB 8, HB 7, HB 15, HB 265, HCR 13

Keywords: sex designation, restroom access, civil penalties, private civil right of action, women's privacy, abortion, healthcare, jurisdiction, civil action, qui tam, prohibition, state law, youth camp, safety regulations, advisory committee, child welfare, health standards, summer camp, camp safety, child abuse reporting

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• > now<02:20:11.359> actually been discussed at length now actually been discussed at length
• That's what I tried to do all session in education committee.
• <02:44:44.560> in That's what I tried to do all session in That's what I tried to do all session
• of our work uh this legislative session of our work uh this legislative session possible.<03:11:
• . session. session.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I ask the clerk to read House Joint Resolution 37 at length. Clerk, read the resolution.
• Speaker, I move that the reading of the journal at length for the eighth legislative day be dispensed
• The House is now back in session. The chair recognizes a gentleman from me, Lee, Mr.
• Representative Rigsby said this was a bill passed last session.
• He said last session questions were asked about whether there was cloning in Alabama.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• That Senate Judiciary is now in session. The Honorable Senator Pearl is going to introduce S. SP58.
• or next legislative session.
• or next legislative session.
• or next legislative session.
• <01:11:42.320> and both Chambers favorably last session and both Chambers favorably last session

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• And given the durability and the length of service that geothermal wells offer, uh, there's substantial
• And given the durability and the length of service that geothermal wells offer, uh, there's substantial
• schools and given the durability and the schools and given the durability and the<01:38:26.599> length
• of<01:38:27.119> service<01:38:27.719> that<01:38:28.119> geothermal the length
• of service that geothermal the length of service that geothermal Wells<01:38:29.760> offer<01

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• want to introduce Senator Pat Jehlen, no stranger to this committee, having chaired it for many sessions
• two parts, first starting at 10, going till noon, ...going till noon, ...and then going back into session
• But given that the House is in session today taking up some very important veto overrides, they have
• be taking legislators out of turn since this is a very busy day with many committee hearings and session
• We have never opposed, in the last few sessions, the minimum wage piece of this.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hybrid public hearing with testimony on a wide range of labor, workforce, unemployment insurance, apprenticeship, disability services, farm labor, hospital staffing, and workplace harassment bills. Chairs Jake Oliveira and Paul McMurtry outlined hearing procedures, limited testimony to two minutes, and noted written testimony would be accepted after the hearing. Committee members and staff were introduced throughout the session as witnesses arrived in person or remotely. A major portion of the hearing focused on unemployment insurance legislation. Greater Boston Legal Services, the AFL-CIO, and Rep. Joan Meschino supported bills to adjust UI eligibility for workers with fluctuating schedules and to streamline waivers and write-offs for non-fault overpayments, arguing the current system unfairly denies benefits or burdens workers who were not at fault. They also backed bills calling for more oversight and resources for the Division of Unemployment Assistance, citing persistent delays in benefit payments. NFIB opposed the UI changes, warning that the trust fund is headed toward insolvency and arguing the bills would worsen the system’s finances. Rep. Meschino and committee members emphasized that the proposals were meant to protect good-faith claimants and did not apply to fraud. Another large set of bills addressed wages, workforce development, and working conditions. Testimony supported raising and modernizing direct care wages to address severe staffing shortages in human services and disability services, with advocates from the Massachusetts Developmental Disability Council, The Arc of Massachusetts, parents of adults with disabilities, and a direct care worker describing how low pay and turnover harm people needing support. The committee also heard support for apprenticeship-related bills from the AFL-CIO and the Carpenters, while Associated Builders and Contractors opposed mandatory apprenticeship ratios and urged changes to align them with licensing laws. Farm worker advocates supported a bill to raise farm labor standards, including minimum wage, paid breaks, and paid time off, while the Farm Bureau opposed parts of it beyond the minimum wage increase. The hearing also featured testimony on workplace harassment training, overtime protections, hospital mandatory overtime, suicide prevention signage on construction sites, and a proposal to update the Massachusetts Medical Society’s mission language from “citizens” to “people.” Labor groups, educators, and compliance trainers strongly supported mandatory annual sexual harassment training, saying it would improve workplace culture and reduce harm. SEIU 1199 supported extending the hospital nurse mandatory overtime ban to the broader hospital workforce. Witnesses on the suicide prevention bill described personal losses in construction and recovery work and urged posting 988 information on job sites. The committee took no votes during the hearing; witnesses repeatedly asked for favorable reports, and members asked follow-up questions on UI calculations, apprenticeship ratios, small-business impacts, and emergency exceptions for hospital staffing.

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• So this is no one caught it for a length of time, which is how it got built up to $27,000.
• , it might have been two sessions ago.
• I know that this particular statute came up some during the last legislative session as a result of a
• There's usually every fiscal session, regular session, there's a claims appropriation bill that would
• We need to fix that during the next legislative session.

Summary: The committee first reviewed litigation reports from the Department of Labor and Licensing involving wage claims brought under the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act. Members questioned the department’s authority, jurisdiction, use of attorney fees and costs, and whether defendants had to be licensed. The department explained it has long enforced wage and overtime laws, that the claims were small-dollar cases handled by investigators and counsel, and that one case had been paid and dismissed while others were unresolved or had service issues. The committee voted to review or batch-file the labor cases after discussion. The University of Arkansas System then reported three pending lawsuits: an age- and race-discrimination claim by a tenured professor that was resolved early; an ADA/FMLA retaliation claim by a former employee that survived in part on a motion to dismiss and was moving into discovery; and a Section 1983 claim against a UAMS sergeant arising from a parking-ticket dispute, with the university explaining that only punitive damages could create personal exposure for the officer. The committee reviewed each report and voted to accept them. The Department of Finance and Administration presented a proposed tax settlement reducing a sales-and-use tax assessment from about $48,000 to $20,000 and waiving interest and penalties, which the committee approved for review. The Claims Commission then presented several claims: an unpaid salary differential for a Department of Health employee, reissued warrants, unpaid DHS bills, and multiple negotiated settlements involving ATRS, UAMS, Arkansas State Police, and ARDOT. Members approved or affirmed most of these items, including a $65,000 settlement in the Tetronics/ATRS matter, a $150,000 medical-negligence settlement, and several vehicle-accident settlements. The most extended debate involved a tax-delinquent property sale claim by Sharon Greer and relatives. The claimant argued they were not properly notified and sought the $4,200 excess from the 2009 sale. Land Commissioner counsel explained the excess had escheated to the county after the statutory claim period expired, while members debated sovereign immunity, standing, heirs, and whether the committee could or should award money anyway. The committee ultimately chose to hold the matter over for further review in a future joint session rather than decide it immediately. The committee also heard appeals from dismissed claims, including a UAMS medical-negligence claim, a land-sale notice claim, a pothole claim against ARDOT, and a judicial-immunity claim against the Court of Appeals; most dismissals were affirmed, and the Simpson matter was held over for additional review after the claimant testified.

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• Second, an administration session where the psilocybin would actually be ingested.
• So we will hold to a strict 2 minutes length.
• I very much hope that this bill passes the session. Thank you. Thank you.
• So I was literally in Oregon last Monday, a week ago, and went through the therapy session.
• The experience in the sessions is incredible. It cost me $4,000.

Bills: HF3454, HF3917, HF2906, HF3832, HF3769

Keywords: social work, licensure, employment titles, health occupations, professional standards, medication repository, drug donation, healthcare, Minnesota Statutes, pharmacy, public health, controlled substances, psilocybin, psilocin, psychedelic, psychedelic medicine, hallucinogen, mushrooms, magic mushrooms, therapeutic use

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• <00:04:52.199> of house adjourned from the session of house adjourned from the session of
• voters well at the deliver the session voters well at the deliver the session someone<06:28:04.600
• <06:32:39.320> is will of the deliberative session is will of the deliberative session is
• <06:37:38.478> and undermine the deliberative session and undermine the deliberative session
• confuse the voters at the second session confuse the voters at the second session seeing<06:37:42.878

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• I move that the Senate adjourn from the late session. The motion to adjourn passes.
• We are now in the early session, and the Senate will be attentive to our chaplain, the Reverend Mark
• Additionally, the average length of time someone is enrolled in New Hampshire's Medicaid expansion is
• I move that the Senate adjourn from the early session, that the business of the late session be in order
• We are now in the late session. Are there any announcements to come before the Senate?

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Do we need a tax package every session?
• preceding session.
• preceding session.
• In the 1991 special session, one of the major issues of the first special session was the raising of
• However, few sessions were as thoroughly dominated by money as the 2024 legislative session was.

Summary: The committee’s final day focused first on a historical overview of New Mexico tax packages by Pam Stokes of Legislative Council Services. She described how tax packages have alternated over the decades between tax relief, revenue raising, and tax reform, with examples ranging from the creation of the gross receipts tax in 1966 to major packages in 1981, 1986, 1991, 1994, 2005, 2019, 2022, 2024, and the vetoed 2025 package. Members discussed how tax policy often tracks revenue conditions, how packages can combine increases and decreases, and how local government gross receipts taxes and hold-harmless distributions have affected communities differently. Several members reflected on past packages, especially the 2004 food tax repeal and the 2013 film tax and manufacturing changes, and noted that tax policy can have major economic and political effects even when it is not “sexy” legislation. The committee then heard a proposal to expand the health care practitioner gross receipts tax deduction to include co-insurance, and to extend the sunset date. Sponsor Senator Figueroa said the bill was intended to help recruit and retain medical providers and build on prior deductions for co-pays and deductibles. Testimony explained that co-insurance is the patient’s share after the deductible, that providers currently absorb the gross receipts tax on those payments, and that the proposal would cost about $30 million to the state plus about $20 million to municipalities and counties, with the exact fiscal impact likely to be updated. Members raised concerns about the effect on local governments, whether insurers could be required to reimburse providers, whether the bill would actually attract doctors, and whether better evaluation measures and sunsets should be added. The sponsor said the bill was part of a broader set of efforts to address provider shortages and that the discussion would continue. Representative McQueen then presented a bill to update the Land Conservation Incentives Act. He and conservation partners said the program has protected more than 500,000 acres but has not kept pace with rising land values, especially for irrigated agricultural land in the Middle Rio Grande. The proposal would increase the percentage of conservation value eligible for the credit, raise the per-transaction cap from $250,000 to $2 million, and make the credit refundable rather than only transferable. Testimony emphasized that the program is voluntary, keeps land in private ownership and production, and helps land-rich, cash-poor landowners preserve farmland and water rights. Members asked about average credit amounts, how easements work, whether landowners could effectively buy land and then use the credit, and whether there should be inflation indexing or a statewide cap. The discussion also touched on water rights, fencing, and the role of conservation easements in protecting agricultural land and compact water deliveries. Finally, Senator Sharer previewed his 2% tax proposal with a historical presentation on New Mexico tax law, using props to illustrate the evolution from early territorial tax codes to the modern tax system. He argued that the state’s current tax structure is overly complex and that recent federal changes have disrupted the personal income tax base. The committee did not take any votes on the day’s presentations; the meeting was primarily informational, with members offering feedback and raising policy concerns for future sessions.