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• <00:13:11.639> Heritage the national her as a National Heritage the national her as a National
• That means investing in our national security and protecting the safety of our fellow Americans.
• Protection Agency relating to National Protection Agency relating to National emission<03:02:58.319
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• Our veterans served our nation.

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• My, Madam Chair, national tribal gaming nationally is $43.9 billion.
• Hermit's Peak fire, the largest fire in New Mexico history.
• Of course, there were other fires; it was the worst fire year we've ever had.
• If we protect the workers in schools, we are protecting the children in schools.
• The association, is that the New Mexico Acequia Association?

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• Supreme Court, those protections remain intact.
• and also the Palisades Fire.
• There may not be a fire every week, yet we are sure glad that they are ready to respond when a fire does
• I have asked the California Hospital Association to engage with me and the California Nurses Association
• I wholly thank the California Nurses Association and the California Hospital Association for getting

Summary: The Assembly Health Committee heard a long agenda of health bills focused on access to preventive care, behavioral health, hospital services, and patient safety. Early items included AB 554, which would expand and protect access to HIV prevention drugs like PrEP, including injectable forms and coverage protections; supporters said it would shore up access amid federal threats, while insurers opposed it as a costly benefit mandate. AB 577 would limit insurer and PBM practices that steer medications away from physician offices and require more transparency and patient consent; doctors and patient advocates supported it, while health plans and insurers warned it could raise drug costs and disrupt specialty pharmacy networks. AB 546 would require coverage for portable HEPA purifiers for vulnerable enrollees during declared emergencies, especially wildfire smoke events, with support from air quality and public health groups and opposition from insurers concerned about benefit expansion and cost. The committee also heard AB 224, which would codify California’s updated essential health benefits benchmark plan after a public review process, adding infertility treatment, hearing aids, and durable medical equipment if approved by CMS for the 2027 plan year. DMHC said the state had completed the review and needed legislation to meet federal timing, and the measure drew broad support. AB 1032 would require plans and insurers to reimburse up to 12 additional behavioral health visits for enrollees in wildfire-affected counties for a limited period after an emergency; supporters argued it would fill gaps in trauma care after disasters, while insurers said existing parity and continuity-of-care rules already address the issue and that the bill could create inequities. AB 849 would require trained chaperones for sensitive ultrasound exams and training on how to observe and intervene; it was backed by a survivor and patient advocates, with hospitals and health districts raising staffing concerns. Later, AB 1196 would direct the Department of Public Health to update outdated rules requiring three surgeons for certain heart surgeries using cardiopulmonary bypass; supporters said the rule no longer reflects modern practice and strains staffing, while cardiology representatives had no formal opposition but wanted to review amendments. AB 1113 would codify a right to wear a mask for health reasons in public spaces, with support from disability and public health groups. AB 1386 sought to add perinatal care to the list of basic hospital services, prompting testimony about maternity ward closures, workforce shortages, and rural access; the author said the bill would be amended further and that the committee would need to revisit timelines and implementation details. The committee also heard AB 1429, which would address Kaiser’s repeated mental health parity violations and improve access to behavioral health care, though the transcript cuts off before any action on that bill is shown. Several bills were moved with motions and seconds, but many were held for quorum; AB 1196, AB 1113, and AB 1386 were among the measures advanced to a roll call or held on call, and the committee repeatedly noted that final votes would occur when quorum was available.

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• Captain Garrett Thomas and his crew protected homes and historical sites and prevented the fire from
• I'm proud to say that Arizona Sheriff's Association President David Klaus and Arizona Association of
• , jobs, and businesses to protect our natural resources.
• Now, Arizona is a national leader in this sector.
• We can protect our communities from criminals and drugs.

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Summary: The transcript is the opening joint session of the Arizona Legislature’s 57th Second Regular Session, featuring remarks from House and Senate leaders and Governor Katie Hobbs. House and Senate leaders emphasized a conservative governing agenda focused on affordability, public safety, parental rights, accountability, school choice, election integrity, and water policy, while also highlighting plans for tax cuts and cooperation across chambers. Governor Hobbs centered her address on the “Arizona promise,” stressing affordability, security, and freedom. She highlighted prior actions on job growth, medical debt relief, housing, public safety, border security, water management, and economic development, and announced new proposals including a middle-class tax cut package, a capacity and efficiency initiative to save state funds, a new active management area for La Paz County, a Colorado River Protection Fund, elimination of the data center tax exemption, a housing acceleration fund, and an Arizona Affordability Fund funded in part by a short-term rental fee. She also called for more accountability in the ESA program and for renewing Prop. 123 to support public schools. The governor and legislative leaders also addressed political violence, honoring retiring Senator Lela Alston and recognizing public safety and firefighting personnel. No formal votes or legislative actions were taken in the session; it concluded with the joint session being dissolved after the governor’s remarks.

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• SB 1659, homeowners association rulemaking.
• SB 1806, homeowners associations declaration amendment.
• SB 1808, homeowners associations allied countries flags.
• SB 1809, National Guard education reimbursement.
• SB 1808, homeowners associations allied countries flags.

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• We also have a New Mexico Fire Viewer Map that was created during the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon fire,
• of those treated areas that were treated before the fire.
• Now the fire went through, and now we're getting...
• So, we provide training in how to do that type of restoration, whether it is pre-fire or post-fire.
• or post-fire.

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• of both fire mitigation.
• fire mitigation.
• And the real genesis of this is really around the issues of fire mitigation and fire recovery.
• Wildfire protection. And that went through.
• Is there a dollar figure amount that would be associated with that?

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• fires.
• I think one thing to keep in mind And so the state, so CAL FIRE is the main fire protection entity responsible
• So it wasn't intended to really pay for their full cost of fire protection in the SRA or anywhere close
• And so I wouldn't think of this fee as a fee that is the folks in SRA paying for their own fire protection
• We as a state have decided to And we have in statute, CAL FIRE has responsibility for protecting those

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• effective fire breaks within 30 feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities
• fire breaks within 30 feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities.
• Protection Forester.
• The State Fire Council does, and we'd like to see that rather in the fire code and not just actually
• Protection Forester.

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Summary: The committee first took up SB 534, a measure concerning development in Kakaʻako Makai involving the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The chairs explained that the hearing was decision-making only and no testimony would be accepted, though members could ask clarifying questions. The chair outlined amendments to clarify HCDA’s approval process, require an environmental impact statement before residential development proposals are submitted, require Department of Health documentation on hazardous substances, and specify that only OHA-owned parcels would be eligible for certain residential development with a 400-foot height limit and maximum floor area ratio of 10.0. The amendments also addressed affordability, owner-occupancy, association fees, and a special fund, while noting Attorney General concerns that the fee could be construed as a tax and suggesting further review by Judiciary and Ways and Means. Members discussed the affordability threshold, with one senator suggesting 160% AMI instead of 140% due to high housing costs and concern that essential workers could be priced out. Others raised concerns about Native Hawaiian affordability, the long-term effect of perpetuity restrictions, and whether the process would protect OHA’s interests. An HCDA representative said 140% AMI was used in existing reserve housing rules and that lower thresholds could make development economically infeasible. OHA and other supporters said the proposal was still early in planning and emphasized the need for public hearings, community input, and compliance with environmental and remediation standards. The committees voted to pass SB 534 with amendments: Water and Land approved it 4-1, and Hawaiian Affairs also adopted the chair’s recommendation, with one member excused and one voting no. The meeting then moved to SB 3, relating to water resource management. The bill would authorize the Commission on Water Resource Management to retain independent legal counsel, create an executive director position, allow challenges to emergency orders under certain conditions, establish fines for water use offenses, and revise emergency and shortage declaration procedures; Red Hill-related provisions were noted as removed from this version. Testimony was largely supportive, including from DLNR, the Board of Water Supply, OHA, and Sierra Club, with OHA stressing the measure’s importance to Native Hawaiian water rights and past litigation. A Department of Hawaiian Home Lands representative supported the bill with amendments and recommended explicit language directing the commission chair or designee to advocate for water rights and reservations for homelands. The chair indicated the committees would use the prior Senate-passed version as the basis for further action, and the discussion then moved on to SB 130, a search-and-rescue reimbursement bill.

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• GENERATORS FOR FIRE STATIONS FOR THIS AND PUMP STATIONS AND SO FORTH.
• IT HAS TO BE PART OF THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.
• SO, DOES YOUR CONSTITUENT HAVE A NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE POLICY?
• COMPLICATES IT IS HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION.
• WITH FIRE AND FLOOD.

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• Jessica Moran, on behalf of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners and the California Association
• We would work with that on the medical association.
• Supported, I'm sorry, supported fire.
• SB 694 is a consumer protection bill that enhances California law by protecting veterans from exploitation
• We need to protect veterans.

Summary: The committee heard several bills, with most drawing support after amendments or ongoing stakeholder negotiations. SB 29, by Senator Laird, would extend a sunset on the law allowing pain-and-suffering claims to survive a plaintiff’s death; supporters, including a family member describing a medical negligence case, labor groups, consumer advocates, and disability and elder organizations, argued it prevents defendants from running out the clock, while hospitals, medical groups, and business organizations warned of higher costs and added liability. After extensive debate about data collection, settlement reporting, and the impact on health care access, the bill passed to Appropriations on a divided vote. SB 294, by Senator Reyes and presented by Senator Laird, would require employers to notify a worker’s emergency contact if the worker is arrested or detained and would create a template to inform employees of state and federal labor rights. Labor and worker advocates said the bill would help workers understand and enforce their rights amid weakened federal enforcement; there was no opposition on file, and the bill passed unanimously to Appropriations. SB 697 would modernize water-rights adjudication by allowing the State Water Board to use technology instead of requiring in-person field investigations; with no opposition, it also passed unanimously. The committee also advanced SB 37 on attorney advertising, SB 645 on peremptory challenges in civil cases, SB 303 on bias-mitigation trainings in public workplaces, and SB 464 on expanding pay-data reporting for specified state workers. SB 37 drew support from consumer and legal groups but concerns from Walker Advertising about joint advertising; members said negotiations were ongoing, and the bill passed. SB 645 would extend anti-bias jury-selection rules to certain civil rights cases; criminal-defense and defense groups said they were close to agreement, and the bill passed. SB 303 and SB 464 were both amended to narrow scope and moved forward after several opponents shifted to neutral or removed opposition. The committee also approved a consent calendar of additional bills, all sent to Appropriations.

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• I'm chairman of the Houston Fire Department pension fund.
• So Houston Fire is pretty well funded.
• It's a pri it's an association there.
• Important historical protections from September 1991.
• Uh, it's a valuable resource and we need to protect it.

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• I serve as a Wildland Fire Protection Forester for the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division
• Walker I serve as a Wildland Fire Walker I serve as a Wildland Fire Protection<00:18:18.960>
• 50.200> to its Wildland fire agency in regards to its Wildland fire agency in regards to part<
• the state's fire code.
• fire code at this point?

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Summary: The committee met on March 19, 2025, and heard testimony on several measures before taking up decision-making. Senate Bill 1381, relating to the Hawaii National Guard, received support from the Department of Defense and other testifiers and was recommended to pass as is. Senate Bill 422, relating to education and high school diplomas for veterans, also drew support from the Department of Education, the Military Affairs Council, and the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and was recommended to pass as is. Senate Bill 414, relating to restoring access to disaster-affected areas in Lahaina, was discussed with testimony from HHFDC and others; members agreed to amend the bill to refer to the Department of Transportation as the acquiring agency, and the measure was recommended to pass with amendments. The committee then considered Senate Bill 223, relating to fire prevention. The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported the bill but recommended changes to make the wildland-urban interface code a matter for the State Fire Council/State Fire Marshal rather than statute, and noted it lacked authority to mandate fuel reduction work on lands outside its control. Members also discussed community fuel reduction funding, with DLNR indicating that $10 million would be an effective amount and describing current funding for equipment, outreach, and positions. The chair proposed amendments to make fuel reduction on non-set-aside lands permissive rather than mandatory, to allow the State Fire Council to amend the state fire code to include easement holders, and to note a defective date and the funding request in the committee report. The bill was recommended to pass with amendments, with one member voting with reservations. In a later decision-making session, the committee considered Senate Bill 1379, relating to emergency preparedness and Community Readiness Centers, and Senate Bill 371, relating to property damage of critical infrastructure facilities. For SB 1379, the chair proposed an HD1 incorporating the Hawaii Advisory Council on Emergency Management and county emergency management in site-selection criteria, adding geographic resilience considerations, changing the defective date, and noting $10.8 million for site design plus $1.2 million for contract support; the bill passed with amendments, with reservations from some members over county input and funding. For SB 371, the chair amended the bill to remove recklessly/negligently causing damage and require intentional conduct throughout, while leaving other issues for Judiciary review; the bill passed with amendments, with at least one member voting with reservations.

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• We work together with the NAIC, which is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
• I mentioned those a minute ago. ...with Commissioner Lara through the National Association of Insurance
• Terry McHale, from Aaron Reed and Associates, representing USA Insurance and Cal Fire Local 2881, in
• So with me today, I have Kelly Jensen from the Motor Vehicle Protection Products Association and Kenton
• Kelly Jensen, representing the Motor Vehicle Protection Products Association.

Summary: The Assembly Insurance Committee met to consider several bills focused on California’s insurance market, wildfire resilience, and consumer protections. AB 888, the California Safe Homes Act, was heard first. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Alabama Insurance Commissioner Mark Fowler testified in support, describing state grant programs that help homeowners harden roofs and create defensible space, with the goal of reducing losses and improving insurance affordability and availability. Supporters from the insurance industry, local government, and the Rebuild Paradise Foundation also backed the bill, and committee members emphasized the need for more incentives for mitigation. The bill passed the committee on a do pass motion and was sent to Appropriations. AB 290, by Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan, would require the FAIR Plan to offer automatic payments and address non-renewal grace-period issues. The author described her own experience being forced onto the FAIR Plan and facing a large premium increase, while Consumer Federation of California called the bill common-sense consumer protection. The FAIR Plan opposed unless amended, saying it was already handling major wildfire claims and other operational demands and requested more time and changes to the non-renewal grace-period language. Members across the committee supported the bill as a needed modernization measure, and it passed as amended to Appropriations. AB 1339, by Assemblymember Gonzalez, would direct the Department of Insurance to study insurance availability and pricing for affordable housing providers and report policy recommendations. Supporters from affordable housing organizations said rising premiums were forcing providers to cut services, defer maintenance, and use reserves, threatening housing stability for low-income residents. The bill passed as amended to Appropriations. AB 646, by Assemblymember Wallace, also passed to Appropriations; it concerns disclosure related to motor vehicle protection products and catalytic converter theft deterrence, with support from auto dealers and industry groups. The committee also approved AB 1531 on consent. Members later added on to the record in support of the bills, and the hearing concluded without recorded opposition votes on the measures that advanced.

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• on the Sheriff's Association of Texas, I'm speaking on the Sheriff's Association of Texas.
• What are you looking to protect?
• So now there's no protection.
• You could fire from the police officer could return fire. That's what I mean. Through the shield.
• Chiefs Association.

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• And when he did not want to do that, he was fired.
• The nation is changing.
• It protects harm.
• You will get fired. Let's love one another.
• It does not protect democracy. It restricts it.

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• The national average is 68%, so we're still a little behind.
• Protecting immigration legal services is our top priority.
• First, on behalf of the California Association of Diaper Banks.
• Director's Association. Thank you for the invitation.
• And the Camp Fire.

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• As well as embarrassment associated with eating school meals.
• She has questions for fire-impacted. Thank you.
• So every fire would get that then, not just one?
• I'm a second year student at California Indian Nations College and I plan to graduate with two associates
• The Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services Association, the Association of MESA

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• The National District Attorneys Association and the American Bar Association both do tie the elected
• As of today, Wyoming has had four emergency fire suppression account fires... ...for an estimated cost
• We're going to detect fires early, respond aggressively, keep fires small, and reduce the likelihood
• with property... ...organizations associated with property protection and wildfire mitigation for insurance
• The Gannett Peak Wildland Fire Module in Lander and the Pronghorn Wildland Fire Module in Douglas have

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• those who needed protection the most.
• relief to fires, in addition to other fires that have already been exempt.
• So in 2018, there were the Camp Woolsey and Hill fires and the Carr fire. Okay, yes.
• August, the Dixie, the Lightning, the Complex, and the Creek Fire.
• Cal Fire uses for those extraordinary catastrophic wildfires.

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