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• I'm calling this meeting of the House Finance and Policy Committee to order.
• These are supports that families need in order to maintain this economy, in order to maintain the neighborhoods
• order to maintain this economy, in order order to maintain this economy, in order to<00:31:23.840
• to maintain the neighborhoods, in order to maintain the neighborhoods, in order to<00:31:25.760>
• We need immediate policy action in order to avoid an eviction crisis in the coming months.

Bills: HF3403, HF3410, HF3424

Keywords: HF3403, emergency rental assistance, rental aid, homelessness prevention, housing crisis, imminent risk of homelessness, eviction prevention, county aid, Tribal governments, local government aids, general fund appropriation, Minnesota revenue commissioner, poverty level, low-income housing, housing stability, family homeless prevention and assistance, emergency housing assistance, eviction, rent, redemption

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• The order is adopted.
• The order is adopted.
• The order is adopted.
• The House will be in order.
• The order is adopted.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House convened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several Committee on Rules reports and related procedural orders. Members adopted a resolution recognizing the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The House also adopted multiple orders extending committee reporting deadlines, including for the Election Laws, Environment and Natural Resources, and Revenue committees, and concurred in Senate petitions after suspending Joint Rule 12 for several matters. The chamber then advanced a series of local and House bills. After suspending Rule 7A, the House ordered several bills to a third reading, including measures on electronic scanning of identifications, police age-limit waivers or civil service eligibility for named individuals in Boston and Haverhill, and a bill on the contracting of digital replicas. Later, the House passed to be engrossed bills including a Department of Conservation and Recreation Title IX compliance bill and additional police-related local bills, and passed to be enacted a land conveyance bill for Wellesley and other enacted measures such as Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, a Fall River police chief appointment bill, a Seekonk charter amendment, and a Billerica police age-limit bill. The House also adopted an order for a joint convention with the Senate to receive the Governor’s communication on January 22, 2026. At the end of the session, members adopted an order to meet again Thursday at 11 a.m. and a special adjournment in memory of Arthur H. Tobin, former Quincy legislator, mayor, and clerk magistrate. The House then adjourned to meet Thursday next at 11 a.m. in an informal session.

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• The Senate will come back to order. Messages from the House.
• We're that order Madam Majority Flley.
• <01:08:53.199> at since there was an executive order at since there was an executive order
• <01:18:05.840> full-time Four will be 9month temporary full-time Four will be 9month temporary
• We're at that order of business.

Keywords: 916, all

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• e e Order and ask everyone to please, uh, follow me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United
• <00:49:01.799> to control and a hysterectomy in order to control and a hysterectomy in order
• just to keep their jobs article in order just to keep their jobs article four<01:19:59.320> of
• It can be extended to allow health care providers to ignore do not resuscitation orders of patients.
• share with an AI um engine um in order share with an AI um engine um in order to<02:36:31.000>

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on House Bill 232, which would protect health care workers’ conscience rights in connection with certain procedures, especially abortion and sterilization, and also referenced contraception. The prime sponsor, Rep. Mark Pearson, said the bill is meant to prevent medical professionals from being forced to participate in procedures that violate their beliefs, while still prohibiting discrimination against patients based on protected characteristics. He said the measure was intended to help retain health care workers in New Hampshire and noted he had added an amendment to address concerns about people taking jobs only to later refuse duties, as well as emergency situations where a provider is the only one available. Committee members raised concerns about how broadly the bill and amendment were written. Questions focused on whether the protections could apply to non-physician staff such as schedulers, receptionists, or pharmacy employees; whether a provider could refuse to schedule, refer, or otherwise assist with services; and how “emergency” would be determined in practice. Several members also questioned whether the bill could affect access to contraception, including pharmacy sales and procedures such as tubal ligation, and whether the language was clear enough to prevent confusion or unintended refusals of care. Pearson said the bill was not intended to allow refusal of emergency care or general patient discrimination, and he acknowledged some language could be tweaked. Rep. Paige Boerman, a maternal-child health nurse, testified in opposition, saying she had seen pharmacists question prescriptions related to miscarriage care and that the bill could create barriers to contraception and other reproductive health services. She warned that the lack of a disclosure requirement and the broad definitions could create risks, especially in rural areas with limited providers. She also pointed to problems she said had occurred in other states, arguing the bill could lead to delayed care in emergencies. The hearing ended after questions and discussion; no vote or final action was taken in the portion provided.

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• Senate will come to order. The Secretary will call the roll.
• President and members, I move to suspend the Senate's regular order of business in order to take up and
• With that, I move to suspend the regular order of business.
• President and members, I move to suspend the Senate's regular order of business in order to take up and
• Move suspension of the regular order of business.

Summary: The Senate met with a quorum, heard an invocation, dispensed with the previous journal, and received a House message. Members also recognized Dr. Namita Bardwaj as doctor of the day. The chamber then adopted Senate Resolution 554 honoring Christopher “Chris” Jake Stone of Santa Fe for his heroism during the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting, with several senators and the lieutenant governor offering remarks about his sacrifice and the ongoing impact on his family and community. The Senate also signed a number of bills and resolutions and adopted Senate Resolution 533 recognizing the Texas Legislative Internship Program class, with multiple senators highlighting individual interns and the program’s role in developing future public servants. The floor then took up and passed several bills, often by suspending the regular order and the three-day rule. These included HB 1639 on a study of cancer incidence among female firefighters; HB 102 granting early registration for students in military-related programs; HB 4325 increasing civil penalties for barratry; HB 5342 creating a 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline trust fund and related funding study; HB 3370 allowing late timberland appraisal applications after an owner’s death; HB 3376 requiring certain guardians to complete dementia/Alzheimer’s training; HB 132 extending confidentiality protections to information about hostile acts by foreign adversaries; and HB 1978, which sought to restrict ERCOT interconnections, but its motion to pass to engrossment failed on a 20-11 vote. Additional measures passed included HB 511 on unsolicited voter registration mailings, HB 2187 on nurse staffing, retaliation, and overtime protections, HB 2510 creating offenses for unlicensed assisted living operations, HB 694 on DFPS notification timelines, HB 1893 making license plates in law-enforcement video nonconfidential for public information requests, HB 2733 updating barratry and solicitation laws for digital communications, HB 4506 allowing opt-in electronic zoning notices, HB 3751 transferring a TxDOT property to DPS, HB 3033 creating a grant program for nonprofits supporting injured or killed DPS employees, HB 4273 on Medicaid fraud prevention and eligibility verification, HB 3211 on vision care benefits, HB 4529 exempting certain DoD-certified child care facilities from state licensure, HB 2522 easing fingerprinting requirements for certain vehicle dealers, HB 4219 tightening public information request response requirements, and HB 4783 requiring a report on opioid antagonist programs. The Senate also received a House message noting passage of SB 9, and a nominations committee report was announced for future consideration.

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• So ordered.
• So ordered.
• So ordered.
• So ordered.
• So ordered. The Senate will come to order. Mr.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• We know that there is also going to be a need to invest in temporary barriers while permanent barriers
• We know that there is also going to be a need to invest in temporary barriers while permanent barriers
• also like to see some better temporary also like to see some better temporary barriers<01:04:31.119
• <01:05:21.599> uh<01:05:21.920> barrier covers the temporary uh barrier covers the
• temporary uh barrier improvement.<01:05:23.520> Does<01:05:23.760> anybody<01:05:24.079

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And maybe it's only temporary.
• Do they just order it, right?
• They just order it, right? drug rehab." They just order it, right?
• You guys know change order. Everybody knows change order.
• change order You guys know change order. change order You guys know change order.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• And really what this resolution does is ask us to work with the department in order to come back before
• And we're happy to work with Representative Coates as well as the department in order to provide you
• we've been talking about precedents, this has already been done several times where there's been a temporary
• been talking about precedents this has already been done several times where where there's been a temporary

Keywords: 965, house, all

Summary: The committee took up a series of natural resources, wildlife, environmental, and infrastructure measures. HCR 79 by Chairman Butler, which memorializes Congress and the U.S. Forest Service to allow dog hunting in Kisatchie National Forest, drew testimony in support from hunters and a former NRCS official describing it as a rural Louisiana tradition, and opposition from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, which said it supported hunting with dogs generally but opposed the deer/hog hunting portions while favoring the recovery-of-wounded-deer component. The committee reported HCR 79 favorable. It also reported favorable on SB 419, allowing pre-charged pneumatic devices for deer during primitive firearms season, and on SCR 29, creating a study committee on Atchafalaya Basin water quality and sediment impacts, and SB 111, setting black bass and crappie bag and size limits in the basin, with Wildlife and Fisheries saying it would monitor the effects through sampling and creel data. Several resolutions and bills focused on environmental management and state property. SB 174 authorized transfer of certain state property in Caddo Parish from Louisiana Tech University to the Caddo Parish School Board and was reported favorable. SB 189, a preemptive ban on intentional release or dispersion of fuels or chemicals to affect temperatures, was also reported favorable after discussion of geoengineering-related additives. SB 99, which updates DEQ communications to allow optional electronic notices for permits and public notifications, was supported by DEQ and reported favorable. HCR 104, from Rep. Coates, asked the Department of Conservation and Energy and the Louisiana Geological Survey to study and recommend improvements to subsurface data collection and access; testimony described efforts to modernize core and well-log records and build a statewide 3D subsurface model, and the resolution was reported favorable. The committee also considered river, boating, and wildlife-related measures. SB 331 would temporarily remove portions of the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act for five years to allow work on the lower Pearl River, including dredging and channel realignment, while prohibiting commercial development and reservoir construction; environmental groups opposed it as a bad precedent and urged a shorter sunset, but the bill was reported favorable. HCR 54 urged a federal study of flooded corn and migratory waterfowl behavior and was reported favorable after support from the Flyway Federation and Louisiana Wildlife Federation. HCR 94 would require annual Wildlife and Fisheries reports on boating safety data, and HCR 87 expressed support for a U.S. senator’s correspondence on migratory flyways; both were reported favorable. SB 505, dealing with the Motor Fuels Underground Storage Tank Trust Dedicated Fund, was reported favorable after testimony that it would expand grant capacity, create a two-cycle application process, and address LLC-related issues. The committee also advanced several measures on public policy and cleanup issues. HCR 85 created a task force on illegal dumping; after amendments added Keep Louisiana Beautiful and the Louisiana Police Jury Association, members discussed statewide tire dumping problems, DEQ staffing, and cleanup funding, and the resolution was reported favorable as amended. HR 216, as substituted, was changed from a repudiation of the Louisiana Climate Action Plan to a resolution authorizing the committee to hold a hearing and receive input from agencies and stakeholders on the plan; after reconsideration and adoption of the substitute amendment, it was reported favorable. One item, SB 243, was voluntarily deferred.

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• Call the meeting of the PEER Review Subcommittee to order.
• This is very temporary appropriation request item B1.
• Chair, those are all the various temporary appropriation requests.
• described, and I'm glad to hear that, because they need to have a collaboration and a partnership in order
• Yes, sir, and I may, if I can, I'll go in reverse order, if that's okay.

Summary: The PEER Review Subcommittee met to consider a large agenda of appropriation, transfer, contract, and other review items. Members approved temporary appropriation requests in Sections B through F, including funding for prosecuting attorneys, education-related adjustments, school operating needs, labor licensing divisions, ARPA fund returns from Workforce Services, IIJA grants for state police CDL implementation and a forestry-related county grant, reserve fund transfers for teacher scholarships, school facilities, and economic development, and a Commerce reallocation tied to organizational realignment. Cash fund requests in Section G and budget classification transfers in Section H were also reviewed, along with pay plan requests in Section I, overtime requests in Section J, and multiple methods of finance in Section K. The committee also reviewed discretionary grants in Section L, including agriculture promotion board grants and DHS aging/adult behavioral health grants, plus RFQs, construction contracts, intergovernmental contracts, and out-of-state contracts in Sections M1 through M5. Several items drew questions from members. Workforce Services explained that $225,000 in TANF-related funds would be returned to the federal government because the two-year hold period for uncashed or moved checks had expired. Commerce officials described the $25 million site infrastructure grant program, saying it supports site development, due diligence, and infrastructure build-out at eligible sites of 30 acres or more, including rural communities, with grant agreements and matching requirements providing accountability. DHS and Education officials answered questions about the Care Solace mental health referral contract, saying it is a statewide concierge/referral service that helps schools connect students to Arkansas providers and follow up so students do not fall through the cracks; members asked for more information on provider selection, school-day scheduling, and Arkansas vendor participation. The committee held one item over: the DHS discretionary grant item for the RSVP retired senior volunteer program in L2, after concerns were raised about whether state general revenue was being used effectively and how much administrative overhead the providers retain. Members also questioned several contracts, including a DHS sole-source contract with EMSLink for document management software and a DHS bridge contract with Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care for Medicaid inspections of care reviews; in both cases, agency staff explained the need to avoid service disruption and said follow-up information would be provided. A Department of Corrections reentry center contract was discussed for its recidivism results, and ARDOT retirement-system investment contracts were briefly explained. The meeting ended after a lengthy discussion of the Medicaid Trust Fund balance, with DFA and DHS officials saying the state is expected to finish the fiscal year without exhausting the fund, that a restricted reserve of $100 million is available as a backstop, and that the larger question is what minimum balance should be maintained going forward.

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• The Committee on Natural Resources will come to order. The clerk will call the roll. Mr. Harris?
• have been upheld as legally valid by the highest courts in the land, both state and federal, for temporary
• You're going to have to make some hard choices and decisions in order to peel back that onion and get
• In order to get there, when I hear something...
• I think something on the order of 18 billion acre-feet of water in the ground.

Bills: HB24, HB27, HB24, HB27

Keywords: groundwater, conservation, water permits, sustainability, resource management, 997, house, all

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• don't receive that amount in HAP Resource which is to say that we're leveraging our HAP resource in order
• Is it the number of people we've gotten off the street into temporary housing?
• Is it the number of people that we've transitioned from temporary to permanent?
• In order to serve more people, last hit on this would be I could get you a better return if I knew that
• And so, in order to do that, in order for us to help you, help us, we really could use just more accessible

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• agency's exceptional item request for recruitment and retention and reduce the agency's FTE cap in order
• Those items in priority order include the following.
• who want to be certified, we have brought on additional staff including temporary staff to help work
• Um, in order to manage that influx of applications from businesses who want to be certified, we have
• brought on additional staff, including temporary staff, to help work through the backlog.

Bills: SB 1, SB1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, 1185, senate, all

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• So we have been called to order.
• Folks, our next order of business is to consider a motion to suspend the rules and take up the supplemental
• So is this temporary? You think you can cover that? Uh, not going to have to increase fees?

Summary: The committee met and first welcomed a visiting group from Arkansas State University’s Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences program. It then suspended the rules to take up a supplemental report, which was approved and noted as reviewed without objection. Members reviewed the Arkansas Fire Protection and Licensing Board’s occupational report. Counsel for the Department of Labor and Licensing said there had been no fee increases, and the report was accepted without objection. The committee then heard from the Arkansas Department of Health’s Radiation Control Section, which described its radiologic technologist licensing program, including full and limited-scope licensure, unchanged fees since 1999, and a recent operating deficit covered through cost allocation. Members asked about the deficit, possible future fee changes, and whether apprenticeship pathways might be added; the agency said it was not currently planning fee increases and would accommodate apprenticeship if such programs are created. That report also stood as reviewed. Finally, the Arkansas State Board of Physical Therapy presented its report, outlining its licensing and disciplinary role, current licensee counts, compact participation, and recent growth in licensees. The board highlighted lower fees, a $200,000 scholarship program for 10 recipients per year, and a large fund balance that is being reduced through fee cuts and scholarships. Members asked about the scholarship details and the effect on reserves. The report was accepted without objection, and the meeting concluded with no further business.

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• The governor has issued an executive order to integrate the Department of Commerce fraud Bureau agents
• <00:03:35.239> to<00:03:35.439> integrate<00:03:36.000> the executive order
• to integrate the executive order to integrate the Department<00:03:36.599> of<00:03:36.799>
• commissioner for the Minnesota temporary commissioner for the Minnesota Department<00:09:02.399>
• to ensure maximum People in order to ensure maximum effectiveness.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• ><00:09:04.880> to<00:09:05.040> stay<00:09:05.320> competitive agreements in order
• Recommended to pass and move to general orders. All those in favor say I. All opposed say no.
• be moved to general orders. be moved to general orders.
• All those in and move to general orders.
• <01:02:40.120> to the deception that happens in order to the deception that happens in order

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• presentation, the panelists will come up, and our normal format will be the panelists will decide what order
• that I would characterize it as somewhat unique is that it was used as a budget balancing tool in order
• So, if I'm understanding, in order to help prevent the motor vehicle account shortfalls for 2025-2026
• We were able to create a temporary solution, but it's not the long-term solution without this kind of
• In order to accelerate the recovery of some of these communities, we start with the parks.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Council to order, and we are going to begin with a prayer.
• 17th, the subcommittee received reports, reviewed requests, and approved the following variations: temporary
• Senator Irvin, you're recognized for a point of order. I'm trying to understand.
• Let me get my papers back in order, and we will get back on the agenda. We now will hear item 13.
• had a furlough in November, the federal shutdown of the DSB employees then, the same 56, and got temporary

Keywords: 1204, all

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• It strips DHS of the ability to grant temporary work requirement waivers at times when there are no jobs
• It strips DHS of the ability to grant temporary work requirement waivers at times when there are no jobs
• It strips DHS of the ability to grant temporary work requirement waivers at times when there are no jobs
• It strips DHS of the ability to grant temporary work requirement waivers at times when there are no jobs
• It strips DHS of the ability to grant temporary work requirement waivers at times when there are no jobs

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• The Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee is called to order.
• What's your point of order?
• Okay, just in case you don’t know, we will have order in the audience.”
• come up with purge orders quickly.
• We use order-to-show-cause hearings to bring defendants into court.

Bills: HB2109, HB2168, HB2198, HB2226, HB2415, HB2440, HB2665, HB2805, HB2811, HB2825, HB2857, HB2874, HB2966, HB4067, HB4117, HCR2001, HCR2016, HCR2051

Keywords: distracted driving, portable wireless communication devices, motorcycles, traffic safety, civil penalties, public nuisance, nuisance abatement, abatement action, injunction, superior court, attorney general, county attorney, city attorney, board of supervisors, obscenity, obscene materials, adult materials, pornography, schools, parks