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• Medical equipment and materials.
• Construction materials and labor costs continue to escalate.
• Um, and there first change, um, and this I learned something new today.
• Um, and there first change, um, and this I learned something new today.
• Um, and there first change, um, and this I learned something new today.

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• upon admission and educational materials upon admission and programs.<00:03:32.799> Um<00:03:
• Then you're not—we haven't learned. Well, we always had it.
• Then you're not—we haven't learned. Well, we always had it.
• Then you're not We haven't learned. Then you're not We haven't learned.
• >> Uh, Madame Chair, Senator Aki, I have learned a lot about the three-tier system this year.

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• We also welcome written material. If you run out of time, you can always submit written material.
• As I said, each month, it's about 1,500 families who learn...
• As I said, each month it's about 1,500 families who learn, only when they go to use the SNAP card, mind
• In 2024 alone, we supported over 22,000 callers, including nearly 8,000 who were able to learn about
• We have learned several lessons. There was overwhelming support from the participating agencies.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House Committee on Children and Families held a hybrid hearing on a broad set of anti-hunger, family support, and basic-needs bills. Early testimony focused on SNAP and DTA operations: Rep. DeRosa and others urged passage of H. 196/S. 167 to require DTA to identify staffing, technology, funding, and operational needs to improve timeliness and customer service, warning that unanswered calls, delayed recertifications, and federal changes could sharply raise state costs through higher SNAP administrative burdens and payment-error penalties. Speakers from Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and Project Bread said DTA is under-resourced, caseloads have grown, and families are being denied or delayed due to phone and paperwork barriers. Another major SNAP-related bill, H. 254/S. 147, would require the Commonwealth to replace stolen EBT/SNAP benefits; testimony described more than $13 million stolen from about 27,000 households since June 2022 and argued families should not bear losses from organized theft rings. The committee also heard strong support for H. 207/S. 117, which would restore state-funded nutrition assistance for legally present immigrants excluded from federal SNAP under recent federal changes. Advocates from Project Bread, the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, local immigrant services, and public health groups said the federal cuts would leave thousands of residents, including refugees, asylum seekers, trafficking survivors, and children, without food support, and argued Massachusetts has a history of filling this gap. Testimony also supported H. 222/S. 104 to make the Healthy Incentives Program permanent and year-round; supporters said HIP improves nutrition, boosts local farms and regional economies, and had already served more than 212,000 households in FY25. A related child-support bill, H. 201/S. 110, would increase the amount of child support passed through to TAFDC families and expand good-cause exemptions; witnesses said the change would put more money directly in families’ hands, reduce poverty, and better protect survivors of domestic violence and families with complicated co-parenting situations. A large portion of the hearing was devoted to deep-poverty and diaper-related legislation. Supporters of H. 214/S. 118 said cash assistance grants have lost value over time and should be raised annually until they reach half of the federal poverty level; advocates from Children’s HealthWatch, Hopewell, the Lift Our Kids Coalition, and parents described the links between deep poverty, poor child health, family stress, and child welfare involvement. They argued that higher grants would help families meet basic needs, reduce hospitalizations and neglect reports, and provide stability amid federal cuts. Finally, multiple witnesses backed diaper legislation, including H. 220/S. 151 and related bills, to create a diaper benefits pilot and/or diaper allowance commission. Testimony from the National Diaper Bank Network, MassCAP, Children’s HealthWatch, local diaper banks, and parents said diaper need is widespread, affects parental employment and mental health, and can cause health problems for infants; a federally funded pilot in Massachusetts was cited as showing improved employment, financial stability, reduced stress, and fewer diaper rashes. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing; the committee heard testimony and asked questions throughout.

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• 2026 is made up of talented young professionals from across Southwest Louisiana who are here today learning
• With profound sorrow, the Legislature of Louisiana has learned of the passing of John Norman Gillespie
• House Bill 427 by Representative Schlegel is an act to amend Title IX, relative to material harmful to
• And so instead of you being notified as a parent if some harmful material comes to your child, you then
• If you're never notified that your child has been exposed to harmful material, then you have to take

Keywords: 974, senate, all

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• This bill is a hard lesson learned from the 2016 flood that affected many and... ...lesson learned from
• This is just to encourage more materials to help protect them, give them easier access to it.
• Instead of having the department have to create the materials, they said that there are federal materials
• And one thing I've learned over the last decade or so is from some of you just individually how challenging
• We went and viewed some things to learn.

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 513 by Representative Young, which would regulate name, image, and likeness activity for intercollegiate and interscholastic athletes, especially high school athletes. Young said the bill reflects recommendations from a task force and sets guardrails such as parental consent and prohibited NIL categories. The committee adopted a technical amendment and then reported the bill favorably as amended. Members then heard several Senate bills from Senator Mizell and Senator Cloud. Senate Bill 233 would create a statewide data exchange compact to allow state agencies to share information more efficiently; it was reported favorably. Senate Bill 300 would make various changes to the Procurement Code, including auction techniques, sole sourcing for consulting services in limited cases, and procurement process clarifications; it was reported favorably. Senate Bill 303 would allow executive branch agencies to buy or share technology solutions with other states and use the federal GSA schedule, and it was reported favorably as amended. Senate Bill 411, removing a 20-year lease limitation for certain Orleans Parish state property, was also reported favorably. The committee spent substantial time on House Bill 660 and House Bill 719, both dealing with district attorney funding and staffing. HB 660 would raise the state warrant amount for assistant district attorney salaries from $50,000 to $60,000, with supporters arguing it is needed to recruit and retain prosecutors; an opposition witness argued the state should fund both prosecutors and public defenders more equitably. The committee adopted an amendment making the bill effective only upon appropriation and reported it favorably as amended. HB 719 would increase the number of assistant district attorney warrants statewide, with most of the new warrants directed to Baton Rouge, St. Tammany, and Caddo; it too was amended to be subject to appropriation and reported favorably as amended. House Bill 596, which would have created an inactive well-feet assessment credit for oil and gas operators, was voluntarily deferred after concerns that it could reduce funding for the oil field site restoration fund. Later, the committee reported favorably as amended House Bill 802, which redirects existing revenue to watershed and flood restoration work in the Amite River Basin, and House Bill 940, which creates a task force and rules framework for law enforcement responses to unlawful drone activity. It also reported favorably House Bill 76 on coverage for orally administered anti-cancer medications, House Bill 950 on consumer protection materials for seniors, and began discussion of House Bill 1028, which would require higher Medicaid reimbursement rates for non-emergency medical transportation providers.

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• The materials that we provided.
• We have partnered with hospitals and law enforcement, and we're Helping our local systems learn how to
• It takes practice and rigor and intention and a lot of learning along the way. To make it work.
• But what we know and what we have learned in being in service and from survivors directly is that...
• So much, Madam Chair, that I've learned through the eyes and ears of my daughter about what other girls

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• enhance our credit for prior learning enhance our credit for prior learning process<00:50:27.839
• <01:26:08.880> that and that I did qualify I learned that and that I did qualify I learned
• School is very much where I learned to speak English and learned the ABCs and numbers, and over time
• School is very much where I learned to speak English and learned the ABCs and numbers, and over time
• where to speak English and learned where learned<01:41:30.480> the<01:41:30.560> ABCs<

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• administered by the University of Central Florida, and $44.1 million for the Lastinger Center for Learning
• develop anti-Gympathes. something about an education program to develop anti-communism curriculum materials
• I promise I've actually learned something these past two sessions. You guys are great.
• used in public works contracts. ...paid by contractors on materials used in public works contracts rather
• than having to purchase those materials directly to receive an exemption from sales tax.

Summary: The Senate took up the conference report on House Bill 501E, the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026-27, with Chair Hooper and the appropriations chairs walking through the $114.5 billion budget. Major highlights included pay increases for state law enforcement, firefighters, park rangers, and correctional officers; funding for teacher salary increases and K-12 enrollment stabilization; workforce and university funding in higher education; major Medicaid, nursing home, waiver, and opioid-related investments in health and human services; corrections and prison-capacity funding; transportation, housing, and emergency management spending; and large environmental appropriations for Florida Forever, Everglades restoration, and water quality projects. Members then asked detailed questions about specific items. Senators pressed on the Hamilton Center at UF, the difference between assistant state attorney and public defender pay, declining student enrollment funding, private school scholarship vouchers, mental health funding in schools, the lack of preeminence funding, APD’s iBudget waiver wait list and provider rates, ADAP premium assistance and the return of Biktarvy to the formulary, prison staffing and air conditioning, Florida Forever land-buying versus easements, SNAP and Sun Bucks funding, Hope Florida, election audit funding, and the IDD managed care program. Chairs generally explained the negotiated compromises, noted where funding was flat or omitted, and in several cases said items would be revisited next year or depended on agency implementation. Several senators used debate to praise the budget while also criticizing major policy choices. Leader Berman argued the state should have expanded Medicaid, invested more in public schools instead of vouchers, and accepted federal summer EBT funds. Other senators highlighted local wins such as Biscayne Bay restoration, Tri-Rail, housing assistance, ADAP funding, and declining enrollment support. The transcript ends with debate remarks thanking Chair Hooper for his work on the budget; no final vote is shown in the excerpt.

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• What's missing from current law is clear authority to relocate dredged material when it sits in a designated
• from federally authorized dredge material placement area.
• with the United States Army Corps of Engineers regulations related to the use and relocation of material
• Water Resource Development Act could face legal roadblocks just trying to move previously dredged material
• Material isn't just being dumped, it's being reused and beneficial use sites for wetlands restoration

Bills: HB 341, HB 791, HB 1564, HB 1695, HB 1722, HB 1729, HB 1772, HB 2003, HB 2954, HB 2989, HB 3084, HB 3134, HB 3135, HB 3309, HB 3611, HB 3679, HB 3727, HB 3832

Keywords: affordable housing, zoning, development, community support, local regulations, bicycle lanes, traffic collisions, Texas Department of Transportation, study, public safety, bicycles, electric bicycles, scooters, road safety, transportation study, HB 791, Central Catholic High School, San Antonio, specialty license plate, specialty plates

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• It moves with the officer, with all the good and bad substantiated material, wherever he goes, and is
• That file still exists, but it contains only unsubstantiated material.
• Senator Perry asked about the Michael Morton case and the general concept of Brady material and exculpatory
• Counsel said the standard in the language he provided would be relevant evidentiary material, meaning
• If somebody is injured in custody but survives, they may never have the ability to learn if this officer

Bills: SB7, SB14

Keywords: gender designation, civil penalties, private civil rights, multiple-occupancy spaces, Texas Women's Privacy Act, law enforcement, confidentiality, personnel files, employee records, misconduct

Summary: The Committee on State Affairs took up Senate Bill 14, which would create a confidential department file for law enforcement officers and jailers and limit public access to records involving unsubstantiated misconduct, while preserving access for hiring agencies, TCOLE, and certain criminal justice uses. TCOLE’s Gretchen Grigsby explained the current rollout of law enforcement recordkeeping reforms, including the distinction between the public personnel file and the confidential G-file, and answered questions about when TCOLE would request files during investigations. Senator Perry and other members focused on how the bill would interact with existing personnel-file rules, public transparency, and criminal discovery obligations. Public testimony was largely opposed. Critics argued the bill was drafted too broadly, could sweep in records beyond misconduct files, and would reduce transparency for the public, journalists, oversight bodies, and families seeking answers in cases such as Uvalde and jail deaths in Tarrant County. Several witnesses said the bill could allow small or single-officer agencies, including elected constables, to shield their own records, and some warned it could chill reporting and oversight. Supporters, including law enforcement representatives, said the bill would protect officers from false or unsubstantiated allegations, align agencies without civil-service protections with those that already have G-files, and preserve confidentiality for records that should not be public. Dallas County prosecutors and Harris County deputies supported the general policy but asked for clarifying amendments, especially to separate language they said could affect the Michael Morton Act and to preserve existing protections through in-camera review or protective orders. Committee members spent significant time questioning witnesses about how substantiated versus unsubstantiated allegations would be handled, whether body camera footage and case files would remain public, and how the bill would affect discovery in criminal cases. After hearing all registered witnesses, the chair closed public testimony. Senate Bill 14 was left pending, and the committee recessed.

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• Your bill defines flag as a piece of fabric or other material with the design symbolizing a cause.
• So would it include any non-fabric what other materials does it include?
• It's typically rectangular shape it can have other shapes and it is material, fabric, not paper. all
• reasonable fear of harm, creating an intimidating threatening or abusive educational environment, materially
• report under Senate Bill 1810 will require loss experience, expenses of operation, premiums and other material

Bills: SJR27, SJR39, SB22, SB33, SB34, SB37, SB209, SB310, SB326, SB505, SB605, SB618, SB732, SB762, SB769, SB783, SB819, SB825, SB870, SB964, SB1030, SB1080, SB1085, SB1099, SB1124, SB1208, SB1233, SB1314, SB1320, SB1333, SB1398, SB1405, SB1541, SB1567, SB1596, SB1598, SB1625, SB1646, SB1662, SB1750, SB1758, SB1791, SB1804, SB1810, SB1818, SB1838, SB1855, SB1869, SB1951, SB2024, SB2077, SB2078, SB2252, SB2253, SB2368, SB2411, SB2420, SB2425, SB2569

Keywords: judicial conduct, state commission, judicial misconduct, commission membership, constitutional amendment, veto override, legislature power, governor, Texas Constitution, Texas, moving image industry, incentive program, film production, grant funding, job creation, economic development, wildfire, wildfire mitigation, wildfire prevention, volunteer fire department

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• How do we make sure that this credit or grant is truly a material.
• overarching evaluation criteria for CalCompetes is ensuring that this credit or grant will truly be a material
• We know that costs, of course, are a driving factor, but where do your raw materials come from?
• your quantifiable evidence and your... qualitative data that shows why this credit will truly be a material
• And by having a rigorous evaluation, we can learn that.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Representative Hopper, you're going to learn some information that will soon affect your area and so
• I can't control the availability of building materials, and I can't control how the houses that are already
• Very large up to golf ball size hail by using a different type of building material.
• There's different, different, um, materials that are used to compile them, and they actually test these
• But my understanding is that they use a wide variety of materials, um, that are much more resistant to

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• <00:04:28.440> from prescriptive and what we've learned from prescriptive and what we've learned
• Visual relief can be as simple as a change in building materials to break up that facade.
• Visual relief can be as simple as a change in building materials to break up that facade.
• Visual relief can be as simple as a change in building materials to break up that facade.
• Visual relief can be as simple as a change in building materials to break up that facade.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• And most importantly, you've learned how to tackle whatever challenges come next.
• <01:02:00.960> experiences through hands-on learning experiences through hands-on learning
• And now we're learning that some margin.
• point this out because I I I'm learning point this out because I I I'm learning that<03:09:06.640
• know you will carry the lessons learned know you will carry the lessons learned during<07:37:49.520

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• When they imposed literacy tests, people learned and marched.
• The gentleman is attempting to amend previously amended material.
• He is amending previously amended material. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Further discussion.
• The gentleman is trying to amend previously amended material from the last amendment.
• I think it just reflects what other states around us have learned over the years.

Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal by roll call vote, 120-0. Members also suspended House Rule 98 to allow hats on the chamber floor, approving that motion 87-32. The chamber then recognized several special guests and personal introductions, including the Eugene High School basketball team, family members of members, and other visitors. One member delivered a lengthy personal privilege speech responding to a U.S. Supreme Court voting-rights decision and urging protection of democracy and voting access. In committee reports, the House received favorable reports on substitute House Bill 2426 and Senate Bills 866 and 863. The chamber then agreed to a conference on the property-tax omnibus package, Senate Bills 1066 and 1088. On third reading, House Bill 3329 passed 142-0, repealing expired tax credits, and House Bill 3405 passed 138-0, cleaning up SALT deduction language and clarifying it as a deduction rather than a credit. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2426, a parental-rights bill, was debated at length with opposition focused on its school reporting and financial-ledger provisions, but the motion to pass it failed 70-60. The House then took up Senate Bill 1233, a licensure bill dealing with CPA licensing and other professional licensing provisions. One amendment removing compacts and related language was adopted, a nursing-home physicals amendment was withdrawn, and the bill passed 129-6. Senate Bill 1408, originally a highway-speed bill, was heavily amended to remove some Department of Revenue and other provisions, while adding or revising items including vehicle inspections, motorcycle lighting, hands-free enforcement, driver education, and specialty plates for women’s professional sports; it passed 82-53. The final bill of the day, Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill 863, creating a five-member interscholastic athletic oversight commission for appeals from statewide activities associations, was introduced and debated, with questions raised about its relationship to MSHSAA.

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• But like, what have you learned from that process that you're hoping to carry into this session as you
• So, I think as we move together, with success of creation of our climate superfund, I think we'll learn
• So, I think as we move together, with success of creation of our climate superfund, I think we'll learn
• Um, it's something that we did learn from New York, who didn't have as clear of a process.
• Um, it's something that we did learn from New York, who didn't have as clear of a process.

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Summary: Rep. Athena Hollins and Sen. Ann Johnson Stewart introduced Minnesota’s proposed climate superfund bill, describing it as a way to make major historical greenhouse gas polluters help pay for climate adaptation and infrastructure repair. They said the bill would target large fossil fuel corporations with significant emissions and use the revenue for projects such as stormwater upgrades, bridge and roof protection, erosion control, drinking water protection, cooling cities, and other resilience work. Both lawmakers framed the proposal as a matter of accountability and fairness, arguing that Minnesotans should not keep paying for damage caused by companies that profited from fossil fuel pollution. Several supporters testified in favor of the bill, including St. Paul City Council Vice President Nyang Kheimey, former legislator and medical student Hunter Cantrell, Unidos Minnesota volunteer Bonnie Becol, and 100% Minnesota’s Aurora Vautrin. They emphasized local climate impacts such as flooding, wildfire smoke, extreme heat, emerald ash borer damage, asthma, and infrastructure failures, and said the costs are increasingly falling on taxpayers, local governments, and vulnerable communities. Kheimey highlighted municipal needs and St. Paul’s own climate investments, while Cantrell focused on environmental racism and health harms, and Becol and Vautrin stressed species loss, community recovery costs, and the burden on residents. In the question-and-answer portion, Hollins and Johnson Stewart explained that the bill would apply to fossil fuel corporations with at least 1 billion metric tons of carbon emissions and a nexus to Minnesota, not local utilities. They said the State Auditor’s office would determine the assessments owed by companies, while the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency would hold the fund and administer grants. They also said they were looking to models in Vermont and New York and hoped the proposal could attract bipartisan support because it is tied to affordability and shifting costs away from taxpayers and onto polluters. No vote or formal committee action was taken in the transcript, and the event ended with the sponsors opening the bill to questions.

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• I'm still learning. mandates and money actually doesn't get back to them what guarantees do we provide
• Still learning those rules. Any other questions from members on the committee? Mr. Gonzales.
• Now we're asking them to accelerate, have those meetings, present the materials to the legislature by
• We also just learned that a California teenager, Benjamin Guerrero Cruz. who was grabbed by masked agents
• maintaining the state's commitment that educational institutions are safe places where students can learn

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Moreover, we are developing our collateral material in a bilingual format.
• I'm starting to learn a little bit about that by reading some of our past state plans that have been
• But I'm starting to learn about that and thinking through those strategies and how we'll approach that
• So the day before the conference starts, I'm going to go to UMKC Dental School to do a lunch and learn
• I think, Madam Chair, with the more that we learn about the nuances of recruiting people to come and

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• Materials are going to cost more, labor is going to cost more, everything is going to cost more.
• To maintain these newer building materials cost money.
• Workers do not have time to learn English because they work so many hours.
• These workers cannot even take night classes to learn English.
• even take night classes to learn even take night classes to learn English.<02:55:40.920> Cannot

Keywords: 981, all

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, approved the journal, and then spent much of the early portion of the meeting on recognitions and announcements. Members welcomed the Sikh community of Colorado for Baisakhi and Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month, noted a langar lunch at the Capitol, and announced a governor’s proclamation later in the day. Other tributes highlighted Jackie Robinson Day, Golf Day at the Capitol, an upcoming Colorado Religious Freedom Day event, and an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority legislative day and youth leadership program. After announcements, the chamber moved to business and adopted a motion making Senate Bill 109, Senate Bill 104, House Bill 1245, and Senate Bill 121 special orders for April 15. The House then began consideration of Senate Bill 109, concerning building code standards for accessible housing supported by public money. The committee report was adopted, and debate focused on an amendment offered by Representative Soper to exempt counties that have not adopted international building codes. Supporters argued the amendment would protect rural counties, preserve local control, and avoid higher housing costs and budget strain; opponents said it would undermine uniformity. Several members spoke in favor, and the amendment was still under discussion when the transcript ended. Committee announcements also noted that Judiciary would hear Senate Bill 1283 and Senate Bill 85, Education would hear Senate Bill 153, and Health and Human Services would hear Senate Bill 60, House Bill 1347, and House Bill 1314 for action only. The House also heard that House Bill 1250 would be pushed to the following week.