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• of the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health and the current chair of our clinical interventions
• of the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health and the current chair of our clinical interventions

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Ellen Story Commission for Postpartum Depression held its spring meeting with a large turnout, beginning with roll call and a review of the agenda. Co-chairs Representative Brandy Fluker-Reid and Senator Liz Miranda highlighted progress from the recently enacted maternal health omnibus law and the Moms Matter Act, including creation of a midwifery board, expansion of out-of-hospital birth options, doula services, lactation support, MassHealth coverage changes, and a trust fund for community-based behavioral health and substance use grants. Members also discussed implementation of the new law, the commission’s annual report, and the need to continue supporting birth centers and perinatal mental health services. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on commission membership and vacancies. Commissioners discussed whether to remain on the body, the need to fill several open seats, and whether the commission’s statutory composition should be updated to better reflect current practice and expertise. Members suggested adding more clinicians working directly with perinatal families, infant mental health experts, and a representative from PSI of Massachusetts, while also noting the value of having regulators and professional society representatives at the table. Several participants said any changes to membership would likely require legislation, and the co-chairs said they would explore options and possibly circulate a flyer or other invitation process for nominations. The commission also discussed meeting structure and future planning. Members generally supported moving to quarterly virtual meetings, with a preference for a 4 p.m. start time, and some suggested one annual in-person gathering. The group agreed to postpone the usual May Advocacy Day because the Great Hall was unavailable and instead aim for a fall event, with volunteers stepping forward to help plan it. Commissioners raised top-of-mind issues including postpartum depression screening reimbursement, care for people after miscarriage or abortion, access for undocumented pregnant people, and the impact of federal cuts. The meeting ended with agreement to crowdsource legislative priorities for the next quarter, consider future presentations from outside organizations, and send updates between meetings, followed by a motion to adjourn that passed unanimously.

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• She's a board-certified surgeon and diagnostic interventional radiologist.
• 00.520> diagnostic board-certified surgeon, diagnostic board-certified surgeon, diagnostic interventional
• interventional radiologist. interventional radiologist.
• Uh, members, I'm going to read the recommendations on all the nominees and, without objection, we're

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee heard and considered a long list of Governor’s messages for appointments to state boards and commissions, including the Board of Dentistry, Barbering and Cosmetology, Speech Pathology and Audiology, Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board, Elevator Mechanics Licensing Board, Real Estate Commission, Board of Naturopathic Medicine, State Boxing Commission, Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects, Hawaii Medical Board, Board of Physical Therapy, Board of Pharmacy, and the Public Utilities Commission. Most nominees and supporting agencies testified in support, and many nominees simply stood on their written testimony. Several nominees also answered questions about their experience and the issues facing their boards, including dental insurance and Medicaid concerns, condo and real estate disputes, pharmacy regulation and telepharmacy, boxing and MMA rule updates, and medical board service in rural areas. The committee discussed some contested or notable nominations in more detail. Richard Emery’s nomination to the Real Estate Commission drew opposition testimony tied to a condo management dispute, and he responded by emphasizing the need for factual evidence, mediation and complaint data, and better consumer education. Trinette Kahui and Andrea Ushijima were also nominated to the Real Estate Commission, with broad support. For the Boxing Commission, Robin Jumawan described ongoing statutory updates, MMA-related work, and delegation of amateur boxing rules. For the Hawaii Medical Board, Elizabeth Ignacio was strongly endorsed by state and industry witnesses as highly qualified and familiar with rural health issues, while Rebecca Sawai also received support from the board and Kaiser Permanente. In the decision-making portion, the committee moved to advise and consent to nearly all nominees on the agenda. Senator McKelvey stated reservations about Richard Emery due to opposition and possible conflicts, and also about nominees who were not present at the hearing, specifically Corrine Muldrow Soto and Stacie Kealoha Inouye; Senator Lamasao also noted reservations on those absent nominees. The chair disclosed personal acquaintance with Dr. Sawai and Andrea Ushijima. The committee then voted to adopt the recommendations, with the noted reservations and one no vote on GM 697 reflected in the record, and later reconvened to take up Governor’s Message 514/515 for John Etemura as chairperson of the Public Utilities Commission, where additional support testimony was heard from the Governor’s office, DCCA, and former consumer advocacy staff.

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• Representative Spell moves to suspend the rules to pass to third reading. Without objection.
• Moose to suspend the rules to pass third reading. Is that objection?
• Representative Fuhrment, move to suspend the rules to pass third reading. That object.
• Representative Murray Moose to suspend the rules to pass third reading. Without objection.
• Representative Spell Moose to spend the rules past third reading. Without objection.

Bills: HR310, HR314, HR316, HR317, HR321, HR275, HR276, HR279, HR282, HR286, HR289, HR292, HR295, HR302, HR319, HCR112, HR307, SCR59, SCR61, SCR62, SCR68, SCR69, SCR70, SCR54, SCR55, SCR64, SCR75, HCR3, HCR49, HCR66, HCR67, HB1, HB2, HB42, HB45, HB66, HB71, HB79, HB126, HB133, HB145, HB159, HB167, HB213, HB218, HB222, HB289, HB291, HB312, HB313, HB316, HB324, HB352, HB383, HB398, HB403, HB429, HB457, HB459, HB511, HB549, HB571, HB579, HB591, HB608, HB616, HB624, HB766, HB769, HB783, HB799, HB804, HB864, HB874, HB909, HB951, HB971, HB983, HB1005, HB1017, HB1051, HB1056, HB1095, HB1126, HB1129, HB1186, HB1193, HB1223, HB1224, HB1230, HB1235, HB1249, HB723, HB36, HB140, HB181, HB198, HB205, HB211, HB226, HB259, HB271, HB302, HB335, HB342, HB487, HB513, HB623, HB682, HB730, HB740, HB761, HB775, HB797, HB812, HB816, HB940, HB968, HB979, HB1028, HB1029, HB1038, HB1049, HB1084, HB1161, HB1194, HB1199, HB1201, HB1203, HB1247, HB1256, SB25, SB132, SB155, SB157, SB202, SB228, SB237, SB250, SB405, SB406, SB414, SB433, SB480, SB513, SB149, HB359, SB29, SB43, SB78, HB210, HB258, HB468, HB784, HB134, HB1117, SB42, SB274, SB382, SB449, SB300, HR74, HB463, HB715, HB998, SB80, SB268, SB444, SB479, HB901, HR20, HCR65, HCR71, HCR98, HB284, HB306, HB341, HB366, HB393, HB458, HB577, HB603, HB605, HB614, HB625, HB646, HB733, HB752, HB773, HB798, HB911, HB955, HB996, HB1035, HB1069, HB1113, HB1140, HB1180, HB1191, HB1240, HB1255, SB82, SB89, SB97, SB123, HB74, HB119, HB368, HB414, HB552, HB732, HB776, HB848, HB870, HB953, HB956, HB1236, SB208, SB217, SB283, SB387, SB389, SB401, SB408, SB469

Keywords: oil and gas, orphan wells, inactive wells, shut-in wells, marginal wells, plugging and abandonment, well decommissioning, site remediation, site restoration, Oilfield Site Restoration, OSR program, financial security, bonding, taxpayer liability, public liability, offshore wells, onshore wells, coastal erosion, Department of Conservation and Energy, natural resources

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• As I read it, it's simply language in that respect.
• Instead, it says that testimony can be read into evidence.
• So, Alan, I didn't read it that way at all, and I may be misreading it.
• I was reading your bill and trying to understand.
• So, I think reading that literally, probably indicates no...

Bills: HB285, HB795, HB1795, HB1871, HB2407, HB2461, HB2695, HB3507, HB4911, HB200

Keywords: animal cruelty, nonlivestock, prosecution, veterinary defense, animal welfare, aggravated assault, penal code, public servant, deadly weapon, mass shooting, Penal Code, penalties, felony, Texas Penal Code, felony enhancement, first-degree felony, second-degree felony, violent crime, assault punishment, serious bodily injury

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• So under this law, would it allow a nurse anesthesiologist to do interventional pain management like
• Please read barcode 646-1-25. You're recognized to explain that. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Summary: The Health and Human Services Committee heard a lengthy agenda of health care and public health bills. The first major item was HB 649, which would remove the paper supervision protocol for certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) and allow autonomous practice. The sponsor and supporters argued it would improve access, especially in rural areas, address workforce shortages, and reduce costs, while opponents from the medical community raised patient safety concerns and argued it would weaken physician oversight. After extensive testimony and debate, the committee reported the bill favorably by a vote of 18-7. The committee then unanimously advanced several other measures. HB 259, creating a special observance for fentanyl awareness and education, passed 23-0. HB 791, which codifies infant safety devices as an option for surrendering newborns and amends safe-haven law, passed as amended 25-0. HB 355, allowing schools to use FDA-approved emergency opioid antagonists rather than only naloxone, passed 26-0. HB 1119, requiring hospitals with emergency departments to adopt pediatric readiness policies, training, coordination, and assessment requirements, also passed 26-0 after two amendments. HB 431, changing the date for level-two background screening of athletic coaches to July 1, 2026, passed 26-0. Later, the committee approved CS for HB 907, the Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases or “Sunshine Genetics Act,” which would establish an opt-in newborn genome sequencing program at FSU and a statewide consortium for rare disease research; supporters emphasized earlier diagnosis and cost savings, and the bill passed 25-0. CS for HB 519, aligning state law with federal law on controlled substances for paramedics, passed 25-0. Finally, CS for HB 723, requiring the Department of Health to provide early-detection materials for type 1 diabetes to families of young schoolchildren, passed as amended 26-0. The meeting adjourned after all bills were reported favorably.

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• Or intervention services that are linked to probation for all of our kids.
• Chair, I just wanted to read.
• But I want to read the definition of a concentration camp. Mr.
• And as if they were reading it from a manual.
• I read the details in fine print to see how this would affect my two daughters.

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• Guerin moves to defer the reading and referral of bills until the end of today's business.
• The clerk will read the resolution.
• The clerk will read the resolution.
• The House stands adjourned pending the reading and referral of bills.
• The clerk will read the bills and resolutions.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• All points of order considered as read.
• I want to read a quote on this topic.
• I want to read a quote on this topic.
• I just let her start reading. Start reading the amendment.
• >> Without objection, the reading is >> Without objection, the reading is dispensed<04:24

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• So, the amendment, I'll just read through the page and line.
• I hear and read stories so often where I hear and read stories so often where Ramsey<01:30:12.000>
• some form of intervention and prevention is<01:32:58.680> that<01:32:58.840> the<01:32
• read studies after study, they will<01:33:04.920> tell<01:33:05.200> you<01:33:05.320>
• charges, felony charges, I'm reading charges, felony charges, I'm reading where<01:36:50.240>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• type of technology because the federal government is coming at identity-based student support interventions
• And so anything that we interventions.
• <02:16:13.440> So,<02:16:13.840> it's identity based interventions.
• So, it's identity based interventions.
• Uh, just as a quick announcement, because I read that it's yesterday—uh, tomorrow, or actually not tomorrow

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• report is read. report is read.
• Pass second read plus count for third reading and final passage.
• third reading final passage. third reading final passage.
• reading and read plus count for third reading and final<01:19:08.159> passage.
• second reading. second reading.

Keywords: 981, all

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• But the $15 is because $10 goes to FAMU for their research and development and 5, those reading of the
• I wanted to share the importance of this bill as an early prevention stage race in intervention.
• If you read something, just keep reading, find something you love eventually.

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• PROVIDE A SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS AND THE PRIMARY GOALS IS PREVENTION, INTERVENTION
• GO BACK AND READ THE PRESS ACCOUNTS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTING THERE WERE STUDENTS WHO WERE CONCERNED
• YOU CAN READ IN THE COMMISSION REPORT THAT THE BROWARD SCHOOL SYSTEM HAD PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST ROBUST
• YOU GO BACK YOU READ THE REPORT AT THE TIME HE ARRIVED ALL THE SHOOTING WAS OVER ON THE FIRST FLOOR AND

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• As you know and read Senate Bill 1065, it was designed to close loophole and allow license to carry permit
• In reading, the city of Dallas ran the state fair at fair part current state law. prohibits them from
• a legal safeguard to address non-enforcement enforcement of election laws by allowing limited intervention
• followers also follows into that social commitment. comparison, but a psychologist friend who I had read

Bills: SB1065, SB2117, SB2217, SB2363, SB2533, SB2742, SB2743, SB2881, SB2964, SB3013, SB3014

Keywords: SB 1065, handgun carry, license holder, concealed carry, open carry, government contracts, governmental entity, property lease, state agencies, local government, higher education, university, Texas Government Code, Penal Code 30.06, Penal Code 30.07, Penal Code 46.03, Second Amendment, gun rights, firearms, civil penalty

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• She opened the invoice, read back my plate number, and told me and confirmed that I had registered in
• Um, as I read this bill, my understanding is that it establishes the work group and the Veterans Land
• That's my understanding by the way I read it. OK. Members, any questions for Representative Dale?
• I am the deputy Associate commissioner of Substance Use Intervention Treatment and Texas Targeted opioid

Bills: HCR7

Keywords: memorial, tribute, military service, community contribution, Texas legislature

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• We talked about the need for those early interventions as well. Senator Seabrooker?
• early interventions as well. early interventions as well. Senator<00:10:44.520> Seabrooker?
• And if it does not read that way, we may need to amend it as it goes through the process because the
• <01:47:07.960> this<01:47:08.160> correctly if I'm reading this correctly if I'm reading
• Um, I could read it if that's the preference.

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• 07:52.400> as concurrent resolution be considered as concurrent resolution be considered as read
• , and that the previous question be read, and that the previous question be considered<02:07:54.880><
• We should target federal investments and interventions toward the most important at-risk minerals and
• agencies I have read agencies I have read on<03:59:18.480> which<03:59:18.680> we've
• to fund the agencies, I will not read to fund the agencies, I will not read them<04:06:56.400>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• She would take Trent to the park, take him for walks, read to him, teach him new games, and play with
• She would take Trent to the park, take him for walks, read to him, teach him new games, and play with
• She would take Trent to the park, take him for walks, read to him, teach him new games, and play with
• She would take Trent to the park, take him for walks, read to him, teach him new games, and play with
• She would take Trent to the park, take him for walks, read to him, teach him new games, and play with

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It's not unless you read the CRA from law enforcement or you read the information that the state attorney
• Thank you for reading over to tab 3 Senator Gaetz and we'll have southerly next.
• But the premise of the question that you asked is why we do read eliminating those lines.
• Yeah, I don't think that that's what the sus I don't read the same way that you read.
• I appreciate you read the first time. >> Thank you, chair. Thank you. Vice chair senators.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Research from the Yale School of Medicine found that midwives reduce unnecessary intervention during
• But as we read more and more, it became clear that ChatGPT played a major role in Adam getting to the
• And the fact that you are taking such a multi-pronged approach to dealing with this problem, when we read
• about, before we had the opportunity to get to know the Rain family, but read about Adam's case last
• And I suppose I should read the notes that my staff wrote for me.

Summary: The Assembly Business and Professions Committee heard several Senate bills, with most of the discussion focused on worker training, public safety, and consumer protection. SB 1203 by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas would expand training and de-escalation requirements for private security officers. Supporters, including security workers and labor groups, said the bill would better prepare officers who often respond first to mental health crises and violent incidents. Opponents, including security industry representatives and business groups, argued it would impose major costs, create training bottlenecks, and could reduce licensed security coverage. The committee ultimately voted the bill out on a due pass recommendation to Labor and Employment, with some members noting future amendments to address training capacity and employer-provided training. The committee also approved SB 936 by Senator Blakespear, which would restrict retail sales of nitrous oxide canisters larger than 8 grams while preserving legitimate medical, dental, culinary, and automotive uses. Support came from county officials, public health groups, waste management organizations, law enforcement, and local governments, who described rising misuse, impaired driving, and recycling hazards. No opposition testimony was presented, and the bill passed to Public Safety. SB 1271 by Senator Reyes, aimed at strengthening California’s midwifery training pipeline by requiring data collection on licensed midwife preceptor capacity, also passed unanimously to Health. Supporters said the bill would help address shortages in rural birth care and improve access to training for aspiring midwives. SB 903 by Senator Padilla, which would place guardrails on the use of AI in mental health and psychotherapy settings and prohibit AI from being marketed as a therapist, drew emotional testimony from a mother whose son died by suicide after extensive chatbot interactions. Health and behavioral health groups supported the measure, while several industry and health organizations were opposed unless amended; the committee nevertheless sent it to Privacy and Consumer Protection on a unanimous vote. The committee also approved SB 1165 on consent and then adjourned.