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• On page 5, you will see lines 42, 43, and 44.
• The Executive is at $5 million, while the LFC is at $2.5 million.
• The Executive is at $5 million on that, while the LFC is also at $5 million, so it's pretty close.
• And that'll be business unit 361 starting in Volume 2.
• We looked at another statute, 6-5.

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• The entire process for one unit takes about a year and a half.
• In 2023 and 2024, we replaced 32 units.
• Now not only are we maintaining what we have, but we're replacing units as we go.
• Not only are we maintaining what we have, but we're replacing units as we go.
• which is also underway right now, a lot of the civil work being done on Terminal 5.

Summary: The Transportation Committee met to consider two bills and then held a lengthy discussion on Florida airport infrastructure. SB 246, presented by Senator Rodriguez on behalf of Senator Gruters, would authorize a UFC specialty license plate, with proceeds supporting the UFC Foundation’s charitable work. A UFC Foundation representative described community beneficiaries and said the plate would help raise funds for local charities. With no questions or debate, the committee voted SB 246 favorably. The committee also took up SPB 7012, a Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles public-records exemption bill that would remove the October 1, 2026 repeal date for certain active investigatory records. Senator Avila moved to submit it as a committee bill, there was no objection, and it was reported favorably as a committee bill. The remainder of the meeting focused on the Comprehensive Airport Infrastructure Program. FDOT Secretary Jared Perdue outlined Florida’s aviation system, the department’s airport funding programs, and the state’s role as a financial partner in safety, capacity, preservation, and economic development projects. He said Florida has 128 public-use airports, 21 commercial-service airports, and four large-hub airports, and noted that airport funding is largely supported by gas-tax-related revenues, with additional support from documentary stamp revenue and other fees. He also discussed the new airport infrastructure planning requirements created last session and said all required airports had submitted plans. Committee members asked about the loss of aviation fuel tax revenue, workforce development, project timelines, and how FDOT prioritizes funding, with Perdue emphasizing safety, preservation, capacity, economic return, and matching funds. A panel from Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Tampa international airports then described major capital programs, passenger growth, and funding needs. The airports highlighted terminal expansions, parking, baggage systems, airfield rehabilitation, people movers, and other modernization projects, along with the importance of maintaining aging facilities while accommodating growth. They said FDOT and FAA grants are helpful but increasingly insufficient for runway and taxiway costs, and several panelists said passenger facility charges and other revenue tools are important to future self-sufficiency. Members also asked about workforce shortages, small-business participation, landing-fee negotiations, and non-aeronautical revenue. The panel said workforce challenges are most acute in trades and maintenance, small-business programs are active at each airport, and landing fees are negotiated with airlines to keep airports competitive while funding needed improvements.

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• There's a late filed Amendment bar code 1, 4, 2, 4, 5, 0, by Senator Burton.
• 5, And I see that as fraudulent manipulation of the records.
• I coach business owners around the United States and Canada.
• Yes, 5 months later, I was right.
• There's 80 years of precedent on its use throughout the United States.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Taxing units are required to adopt tax rates annually.
• Next, we have tax levies by taxing unit type.
• main thing that grew is the special taxing units.
• It's we're using a greater than 5% margin?
• So we aim for that 5% when we can.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• The President of the United States, Donald J.
• So I appreciate the passion. ...to be Attorney General of the United States of America.
• 14-1-9 with amendments, 5-14 with amendments, 5-14 with amendments, 5-14 with amendments, 5-1-1-1-1-1
• Monday, May 5, floor session at 1 p.m.
• This House stands adjourned until Monday, May 5, at 1 p.m.

Summary: The Assembly met with a quorum after a roll call and prayer, then moved through routine business and a lengthy floor debate centered on AB 379, a bill dealing with protections for minors and human trafficking victims. Assembly Member DeMaio first sought to bring the bill up without Public Safety Committee amendments, arguing the committee had gutted the bill and removed felony language for purchasing 16- and 17-year-olds for sex. The body instead adopted a substitute motion to take up Assembly Member Schultz’s floor amendments to AB 379, and the bill became the focus of intense debate over whether the amended language would still adequately protect minors or instead weaken penalties and create a lower standard for 16- and 17-year-olds. Supporters of the amendments, including Schultz, Petri-Norris, Mark Gonzalez, Krell, Wynn, and others, said the changes were intended to strengthen and clarify the law, protect trafficking survivors, and preserve prosecutorial effectiveness while avoiding misinformation about existing law. Opponents, including DeMaio, Gallagher, Dixon, Macedo, Castillo, and others, argued the amendments watered down the bill, failed to restore the original felony treatment for buyers of 16- and 17-year-olds, and amounted to political maneuvering rather than real protection. The chamber also briefly considered a motion to table the amendments, which failed, and an appeal of a ruling on decorum, which was rejected. After debate, the Assembly adopted Schultz’s amendments to AB 379 by a 55-21 vote and then rereferred the bill to the Appropriations Committee. The chamber also handled several procedural items, including re-referrals of other bills, consent calendar actions, and a series of unanimous consent votes on numerous bills and resolutions. The session ended with announcements of committee meetings and the next floor session, followed by adjournment until Monday, May 5 at 1 p.m.

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• <00:51:53.000> And<00:51:53.120> I<00:51:53.160> think 5 years ago, 5 years
• And I think 5 years ago, 5 years ago.
• Thinking Senatorial 5 means 5 minutes. Well, 5 minutes actually means about 3 hours, apparently.
• So, that was 5 years ago.
• So, that was 5 years ago.

Keywords: 981, all

Summary: The Senate met with a quorum, approved the journal, and then proceeded out of order to consider Senate Joint Resolution 20, recognizing April 9, 2026, as Home Education Day in Colorado. Senator Pelton spoke in strong support of home education, describing it as a parent-led choice that benefits students and families. The resolution was adopted on a 30-0 vote, and the current roll was added as co-sponsors. The chamber then took up the consent calendar and passed House Bill 1229, House Bill 1244, and Senate Bill 153. HB 1229, which concerns the human-animal bond as a social determinant of health, drew three no votes from Senators Pelton, Zamora Wilson, and Baeza; the other two measures passed unanimously. The Senate also laid over third reading of bills until Friday, April 10. In Committee of the Whole, senators considered Senate Bill 72, which increases criminal penalties for assaultive conduct involving a motor vehicle and adds causing death with a motor vehicle to criminally negligent homicide. The committee adopted the report and advanced the bill on second reading. Later, the chamber laid over Senate Bill 134 and House Bill 1084 until April 10, and then took up Senate Bill 140, which would exempt certain rare disease and plasma therapies from review by the Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board. Sponsors and supporters argued the bill protects access for patients with rare diseases and prevents harm to treatment development, while opponents said it would weaken the PDAB’s affordability work and was too broad. Senators Weisman and Gonzales spoke against the bill, with Weisman citing concerns about the federal definition used and Gonzales defending the PDAB’s role in lowering drug costs; the debate continued in the transcript without a final vote shown.

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• Um, the Secret Gorilla Units Task Force.
• competitive edge to keep our units competitive edge to keep our units filled<00:16:12.639> with
• Operating 16.5% or just over $5 million.
• way too much. 22 a day in the United way too much. 22 a day in the United States.<00:34:15.520><
• Um in the United States and their lives.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Excuse me, it was also raised from 4 cents to 5 cents in the House. deposit initiators to redemption
• . a.5%. a.5%.
• residence of four or fewer units shall be permitted on the same size lot as a single-family unit in
• residence of four or fewer units shall be permitted on the same size lot as a single-family unit in
• So the House will stand in recess until the fall of the gavel at 5:20. all along. all along.

Keywords: 926, house, all

Summary: The House took up several Senate proposals of amendment and, by voice vote, concurred in each. On House Bill 928, technical corrections to fish and wildlife statutes, the House suspended the rules, heard a section-by-section explanation of changes to hunting violation points, license expiration dates, license fees, and Champion Lands reporting, and then concurred after both the committee and Ways and Means reported favorable straw polls of 11-0. On House Bill 915, the extended producer responsibility program for beverage containers, the House also suspended the rules and heard a detailed summary of Senate changes affecting handling fees, redemption requirements, PRO administration, collection-site standards, reporting, and effective dates; Environment reported a favorable straw poll and Ways and Means noted a modest fiscal impact from higher liquor bottle handling fees, after which the House concurred. The House then took up Senate Bill 328 on housing and common interest communities. The General and Housing Committee explained the Senate’s further amendments, including changes to the treasurer’s housing credit facility, consultation requirements, VHIP funding provisions, municipal housing planning, duplex and accessory dwelling unit rules, temporary multi-unit provisions, downtown and village center benefits, and common-interest-community reporting on vegetable gardens. Appropriations and Environment both reported no additional fiscal concerns and favorable straw polls, and the House concurred in the Senate proposal of amendment. Finally, the House considered House Bill 542 on PCB testing in Vermont schools. The Senate strike-all amendment would extend the testing deadline to 2035, create a future special fund for testing and remediation, require PCB testing before major renovation projects using state construction dollars, and direct ANR to report on remaining costs and funding options. After questions about how the amendment would affect schools that had already tested or completed remediation, Education explained that existing remediation reimbursements would continue and that the amendment mainly delays the mandate and sets up a future funding mechanism. The House concurred, then recessed until 5:20 p.m. to prepare for additional Senate bills.

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• units, and emergency rooms.
• I am more... ...neonatal intensive care units.
• So we're going from 3 to 5? No, we're not going up at all. This is the 5...
• I mean, you're limiting it to 5.
• You're limiting it to 5... ...you're limiting it to 5 when 3 is the level of marijuana, correct?

Bills: HB441, HB445, HB477, HB441, HB445

Keywords: speech-language pathology, licensure, clinical supervision, educational qualifications, healthcare assistant, hemp-derived cannabinoids, CBD, THC, delta-8, delta-9, delta-10, consumable hemp products, psychoactive cannabinoids, cannabinoid regulation, hemp licensing, ABC Board, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, retail hemp sales, wholesale hemp distribution, hemp tax

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• recognizes the Honorable Aisha Davis of Dallas County to lead us in the pledges of allegiance to the United
• Please join me in our pledge to our United States flag. to the car. there. the One nation under God,
• remind everyone, uh, that the OMLD reception taking place in the Legislative Conference Center from 5
• Please join us for a reception at the Texas trial lawyers rooftop this evening from 5 to 7 and thank
• I'd like to recognize Roxanne Saldana Jones, who is president and CEO of United Way of Texas.

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• I'm going to ask us now to unite our hearts in prayer.
• It will be held at Char from 5:30<00:32:04.080> to<00:32:04.320> 7:30.
• <00:32:05.519> Thank<00:32:05.760> you, 5:30 to 7:30.
• 30 at the Weston Jackson. >> 5:30 at the Weston.
• Senate stand in recess till 5:00 p.m.

Keywords: MS Senate Floor - 21 January, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, received an invocation from Reverend Jerry Young of New Hope Baptist Church, and then took the pledge of allegiance led by Senator Mumford. The chamber quickly dispensed with the reading of the journal, committee reports, and bill and resolution titles, and there were no messages or petitions. Several guests were introduced, including the doctor of the day, a William Carey University student, a county sheriff, the senator’s wife, students and church members from New Hope Christian School and New Hope Baptist Church, physical therapists and assistants from the Mississippi chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association, and former Senator Chris Massie. The main floor action was on Senate Resolution No. 2, which commended and congratulated the 2025 Jackson Academy Raider football team and head coach David Dugen for winning the MHSAA 4A Division I state championship. The resolution was adopted by voice vote after the title was read, and floor privileges were granted to the team. Coach Dugen addressed the Senate, thanking Senator Chassaniol, the school, families, coaches, and supporters, and describing the championship as the result of discipline, teamwork, and player leadership. The team presented a gift to Senator Chassaniol, and senators offered congratulations. During announcements, senators noted several upcoming committee meetings and events, including White Coat Day at the Capitol, the Mississippi Ambulance Alliance reception, an Empower Mississippi summit, and multiple appropriations and committee hearings. Several senators also requested that the Senate adjourn in memory of individuals including John Guthrie, Colonel Jean Smith, Regina Roberts, and Brenda Le. Later, Senator Michelle and Senator Blackwell were added as co-authors to SR 2 without objection. The President announced that more than 500 bills had been assigned, that the Senate would not meet on Friday, and that the body would still meet Monday afternoon despite possible winter weather. The Senate then adopted a motion to stand in recess until 5:00 p.m., with the journal to reflect adjournment until 10:00 a.m. the next day.

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• /c> stipen from the state. 5 to$10 an acre stipen from the state. 5 to$10 an acre for<00:10:07.839>
• And we did compromise with Chair Jang on the special guerrilla unit units by not changing the definition
• /c><00:47:13.520> uh special guerilla unit units uh by not uh special guerilla unit units uh by
• <00:54:47.760> in were in the secret guerrilla units in were in the secret guerrilla units
• , $250,000 for the Special Gorilla Units, $250,000 for the Special Gorilla Units, Veterans,<01:21

Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444

Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant

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• It's... a combination of Swarmlar 5 and dichlorophos.
• I am referring to slide 5 here.
• prepared in case it does come into the United States.
• Of that 5 million, a little over a million of them are under high fence.
• So it's going to be an investment for the United States.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Connie Jones is testifying for United Veteran Benefits Agency in support.
• Connie Jones is testifying for United Veteran Benefits Agency in support.
• <00:03:58.079> Connie<00:03:58.519> Jones<00:03:59.920> for<00:04:00.239> United
• <00:04:00.599> veteran LLC Connie Jones for United veteran LLC Connie Jones for United veteran
• /c><00:13:30.600> years<00:13:30.920> additional May and then up to 5 years additional

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs met on January 29, 2025, and first took up deferred SB 259 on record keeping. The chair said Honu Police Department had submitted support, and the committee recommended passage with amendments, including a technical change to the effective date on page 4, line 6 to July 1, 2077. Vice Chair Elefante voted yes; Senators Fevella and Rhoads were excused; the recommendation was adopted. The committee then heard SB 603 and SB 608, both relating to veterans benefits consulting and compensation. The Attorney General’s office recommended amendments to address First Amendment, Contracts Clause, and savings-clause issues, and testimony was mixed, with several supporters from veterans-related organizations and several opponents, including some testifiers from the public and industry groups. The committee later adopted chair recommendations to pass both bills with amendments, including preambles about protecting veteran consumers from misleading or unfair practices, savings clauses, and effective-date changes to July 1, 2077. SB 601, relating to law enforcement search notices and securing entrances, drew support from the Office of the Public Defender and a private citizen who described the bill as a response to warrantless searches and a transparency measure; there was also opposition from Maui County police and one other testifier. The committee then moved to SB 871 on arson, where the Department of the Attorney General raised drafting and constitutional concerns and the Public Defender opposed the measure as vague, overbroad, and creating problematic sentencing provisions, while HPD supported it as a public-safety tool. The chair ultimately recommended SB 871 pass with amendments softening mandatory language, adding parole language, and changing the effective date to July 1, 2077; the recommendation was adopted. The final measures were SB 1130, exempting certain construction rebuilding materials from general excise tax in federally declared disaster areas, and SB 104, restricting solitary confinement in correctional facilities. The Department of Taxation requested third-party certification and a later effective date, and the committee adopted amendments reflecting those requests and moving the effective date to January 1, 2026. On SB 104, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation opposed the bill, citing staff assaults and existing policy updates, while the Oversight Commission, Public Defender, and multiple advocates supported it as a safeguard with oversight and due process protections. The committee passed SB 104 with amendments, including adopting the commission’s definition language, changing terminology to “restrictive housing,” and setting the effective date to July 1, 2077.

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• Democrats are united.
• The Clerk: Senate Joint Resolution, providing for the disapproval of Title 8, Chapter 5 of the United
• Disapproval of Title 8, Chapter 5 of the United States Code, of the rules presented by the Environmental
• THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER $5 TRILLION.
• IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• Uh, there's a cancellation of $5 million in fiscal year 2025 for the 2024 chapter 127 Cedar Riverside
• million in fiscal year cancellation of 5 million in fiscal year 2025<00:20:19.360> 5<00:20:19.919
• <00:23:42.000> Pillsbury<00:23:42.640> United million one time.
• Pillsbury United million one time.
• <00:26:13.840> of<00:26:14.080> Central Hoya Hour United Way of Central Hoya Hour United

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• This bill affects only unplatted lots over 5 acres.
• So we're seeing in an AB unit, this is pre-HOME, pre 3 units per lot.
• Now that ADU is going to be the smaller of the two units. That's called our B unit.
• The A unit, which is larger, would often sit there for a long time. And then eventually gets sold.
• Single-family zoning in the United States has become a one-size-fits-all mandate.

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• Attorney General Ellison's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit already has done great work catching people who
• This unit, with an annual budget of about $5 million, has won over $53 million in civil penalties and
• It's in my unit, I can't sleep, I have a respiratory issue, and it's causing me problems.
• Okay, passed 5 miles a minute.
• But I will, as he said, limit my testimony to Section 5.

Bills: HF2354, HF1672, HF2389, HF2870, HF2743, HF1918, HF2551, HF1671

Keywords: medical assistance, fraud prevention, subpoena authority, criminal penalties, consumer protection, medical cannabis, medical marijuana, cannabis, cannabinoids, hemp, marijuana registry, patient registry, visiting patient, Tribal cannabis, Tribal medical cannabis program, Tribal sovereignty, Office of Cannabis Management, designated caregiver, home cultivation, adult-use cannabis

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• or housing units available.
• Because that's basically a unit.
• units.
• And then we're able to have an overlapping spacing unit over the top of those two units in order to protect
• You could have a one-mile unit and a two-mile unit, and then you can make it a three-mile unit.

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee met as the Regulatory Division of the budget section and received updates on several Industrial Commission-related agencies and programs. Legislative Council first reviewed base budget materials, then the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency reported on its current appropriation and staffing, noting that its new FTEs were being filled gradually and that it remained largely funded through special and federal funds. Agency leaders described homeownership lending, loan servicing, and housing incentive fund activity, including below-market mortgage rates, down payment assistance, and a growing servicing portfolio that has increased workload but not yet required additional FTEs. Housing Finance also detailed use of the Housing Incentive Fund and homeless grant dollars. Officials said the multifamily HIF round drew more than $73 million in requests and awarded $25 million, while the single-family program supported rural development and community land trusts. Homeless grant funding was split between emergency shelter, prevention, and rapid rehousing, with performance-based scoring used to renew or reallocate awards. Members discussed housing affordability, aging households, rental assistance, and the need to coordinate housing and site-preparation messaging with Commerce. The agency asked that HIF, single-family, and homeless funding be maintained or increased in the next session. The Department of Mineral Resources then presented its budget and operations update. Staff said the agency was on track financially, had filled most of its new reclamation FTEs, and was not expecting major litigation costs beyond normal late-biennium invoices. The director reviewed agency initiatives including Project North Star IT modernization, organizational restructuring, succession planning, rulemaking, and implementation of the development incentive well tax program and critical minerals rules. He also discussed oil and gas activity, explaining that longer laterals, especially three- and four-mile wells and the first five-mile spacing case, are helping keep production relatively flat even as rig counts ease. Members asked about gas capture, hedging, break-even prices, and the effects of Iran and Venezuela on oil markets. The committee also heard about enhanced oil recovery grants and the Pipeline Authority. The EOR program’s $25 million appropriation was fully allocated to six projects, with total awards reaching about $45.1 million when other fund balances were included, subject to a possible 5% reduction if federal DOE money does not materialize. Officials said the projects are public, reimbursement-based, and will produce results over the next several years. Finally, the Pipeline Authority outlined natural gas transmission projects, including the imminent Bakken Express line and the proposed Bakken East project, which WBI was selected to advance after an Industrial Commission RFI process. The project is moving through open season, survey permission, and regulatory work, with in-service dates projected for 2029 and 2030.

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• We shouldn't have that money trying to influence a local unit of government or any other unit of government
• We shouldn't have that money trying to influence a local unit of government or any other unit of government
• We shouldn't have that money trying to influence a local unit of government or any other unit of government
• We shouldn't have that money trying to influence a local unit of government or any other unit of government
• We shouldn't have that money trying to influence a local unit of government or any other unit of government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all