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• present AB 1382, which would prohibit the sale of genetically modified animals where the genetic modification
• These genetic modifications run the risk of prioritizing aesthetics over the well-being of the animal

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• defines those eligible projects as those that are over 200 kV and are not upgrades, replacements, or modifications
• The larger number are assigned to incumbent utilities, the modification, because we do a lot of upgrades

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• of requests by entities for suspensions of CEQA and the Coastal Act, the total acreage of fuel modification
• of requests by entities for suspensions of CEQA and the Coastal Act, the total acreage of fuel modification

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Again, this is a bill that we passed last year and there was just some corrections or modifications that
• > if</c> Again, this is a bill that we passed last year and there was just some corrections or modifications

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• development of technology, which we all know is moving very quickly, it is clear that further modifications
• some feedback. when you read this bill is whether or not it really should be, we should have a modification

Bills: SB20, SB1621, SB412, SB441, SB442

Keywords: child protection, sexual offenses, visual material, artificial intelligence, criminal penalties, law enforcement, defense against prosecution, obscenity, judicial officer, deepfake, deep fake, synthetic media, AI-generated content, machine learning, nonconsensual pornography, revenge porn, sexually explicit media, intimate images, digital manipulation, visual depiction

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• and Nicole will dig into our projections, but I do want to call the committee's attention to the modifications
• So those are the most recent modifications we've had to the program. federal poverty guideline to 106%
• 00:18:22.400><c> the</c><00:18:22.640><c> most</c><00:18:22.799><c> recent</c><00:18:23.120><c> modifications
• </c> those are the most recent modifications those are the most recent modifications we've<00:18:24.160

Keywords: 1183, house

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• I see in A-2, there's a modification that allows the court to limit a defendant's discovery if the request
• The modification is to insert the language "relevant to". in determining the action.
• So when I read the modifications that are expressed in Representative Cook's bill, what I'm seeing is
• I'm mindful that I'm the Williamson County DA coming here to talk about a modification to the Michael
• So, I would be concerned about any modifications to the Michael Morton Act.

Bills: HB867, HB1347, HB1801, HB1820, HB2197, HB2617, HB3110, HB3166, HB3330, HB4237, HB4342, HB4629, HB4933, HJR148

Keywords: criminal case dismissal, attorney discretion, law enforcement misconduct, judicial approval, evidence, judicial consent, transparency, healthcare, Medicare, insurance, elderly, retired, benefits, access, cost, criminal justice, case dismissal, prosecutorial discretion, law enforcement oversight, criminal procedure

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• There are a couple things that were just modifications of information that's already collected.
• For the fleeing reports, the modifications could be done. It's a BCA form.
• the fleeing reports time um for the fleeing reports um<01:09:28.359><c> the</c><01:09:28.480><c> modifications
• > could</c><01:09:29.640><c> be</c><01:09:29.799><c> done</c><01:09:30.120><c> it's</c> um the modifications
• could be done it's um the modifications could be done it's a<01:09:30.719><c> BCA</c><01:09:31.440><

Keywords: 1183, house

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• </c><00:47:17.440><c> with</c> ICE has reactivated a contract with ICE has reactivated a contract with
• For a special session because we will have to make modifications at that point.
• So, encouraging the state to continue down that path instead of contracting out these folks for more
• So, encouraging the state to continue down that path instead of contracting out these folks for more
• </c><04:56:13.760><c> out</c> that path um instead of contracting out that path um instead of contracting

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• It clarifies that some requirements we're putting on contracts going forward only apply to contracts
• It updates some FDOC contracting provisions for a surety on takeover.
• that contract.
• that contract.
• that contract.

Summary: The committee met with a quorum and took up a long agenda of bills, many of them amended. Early action included PCS for CS for HB 639, which would expand an existing Fraternal Order of Police specialty license plate to all Floridians, tighten specialty plate rules for future applicants, require financial projections and reporting, and create several new specialty plates. After questions about Florida nexus requirements and a successful amendment adding a Florida Film Legacy plate, the bill was reported favorably 26-0. PCS for CS for HB 1169, limiting local governments’ use of excess building-code enforcement funds for construction of the code-enforcement building, also passed unanimously after testimony from the Florida Home Builders Association. The committee then approved HB 139, expanding whistleblower protections for state, local, and contract employees who file ethics complaints, with support from the Florida Commission on Ethics. PCS for HB 273, which would make special districts eligible for certain state and federal grants and direct pay options, passed 24-1 after testimony from both supporters and opponents. Members also approved CS for HB 1087, a public-records exemption for certain stablecoin issuer information, and CS for HB 1085, updating the local government cybersecurity grant program by moving it to Cyber Florida at USF, adding a sunset, and limiting consecutive awards. Several environmental and local-government transparency measures drew extended debate. CS for CS for HB 1417, a broad environmental bill, was amended to remove several provisions, retain others on the Environmental Regulation Commission, springs, solar facilities, Indian River Lagoon septic deadlines, and coastal resiliency partnerships, and then passed 24-0 amid mixed testimony from DEP, water management districts, and environmental advocates. CS for HB 1457, creating a framework for regional stormwater management systems and water quality enhancement areas, passed 24-0 after discussion of port impacts. CS for HB 1329, requiring local budgets to be posted earlier, retained longer, and made searchable, and adding a 10% budget-cutting exercise, passed 17-6 after strong opposition from local-government groups who argued it would be costly and duplicative. The committee also approved CS for HB 4091 creating a special district for stormwater and flood control in Sarasota and Manatee counties, and then took up CS for HB 995, a major overhaul of Public Employees Relations Commission and union-related procedures, including registration, dues disclosure, election rules, leave-time limits, and expedited bargaining over legislatively appropriated salary increases; that bill was still under questioning when the transcript ended.

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• did that the other day just to see what it looked like, and you know, you had to do some of the modification
• So, and it's all the... ...more concerning to me because they're contracted to administer health insurance
• So that's all of the employees of the state of Arizona; they're contracted to provide health insurance
• but... dollars that's billion with a B so and it's all the more concerning to me because they're contracted
• the state of Arizona so that's all of all of the employees of the state of Arizona that's they're contracted

Summary: The Committee on Director Nominations met with four members present and approved the prior minutes without objection. Chair Jay Kaufman outlined the committee’s role in reviewing executive nominations and explained the hearing process for three nominees: Mary Foote for the Office of Economic Opportunity, Debbie Johnston for the Department of Health Services, and Chuck Bassett. Foote did not appear for her hearing, and members discussed her absence and alleged omissions in her disclosure materials, including prior service with Planned Parenthood-related organizations. The committee then moved to reject her nomination, and the motion passed 3-2, recommending that the full Senate reject Mary Foote. Debbie Johnston, nominee to lead the Department of Health Services, appeared and gave an opening statement describing her Arizona background, prior Senate staff work, and more than 20 years with the Arizona Hospital and Health Care Association. She said her priorities at ADHS include rebuilding trust in public health licensing, improving stakeholder engagement, standardizing rulemaking communication, addressing alleged religious discrimination and retaliation concerns in licensing, and using technology and AI to improve efficiency. In questioning, senators pressed her on her management style, conflict-of-interest safeguards given her prior industry role, enforcement priorities, budget pressures, behavioral health and assisted living oversight, and the department’s response to COVID-19. Johnston said she would follow statutes, recuse herself from enforcement matters involving former contacts, and resign if directed to carry out an unlawful policy. She also said the department does not regulate therapy itself, only facilities, and that it would rely on legal counsel regarding the governor’s conversion-therapy executive order and related federal civil-rights allegations. Several senators focused on public health trust and the department’s pandemic response, with Johnston acknowledging concerns about closures, data collection, and communication during COVID-19 while saying she would review past after-action materials and be better prepared in the future. Public testimony from stakeholders in aging services and health care strongly supported her confirmation, praising her accessibility, responsiveness, and collaborative approach. After testimony, the vice chair moved to recommend Johnston’s confirmation to the full Senate. The roll call was underway when the transcript ended, with several members voting aye and one member expressing reservations about her not reviewing the pandemic after-action report before another crisis occurs.

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• did that the other day just to see what it looked like, and you know, you had to do some of the modification
• So, and it's all the more concerning to me because they're contracted to administer health insurance
• So that's all of the employees of the state of Arizona that they're contracted to provide health insurance
• all the dollars that's billion with a B so and it's all the more concerning to me because they're contracted
• the state of Arizona so that's all of all of the employees of the state of Arizona that's they're contracted

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• We do regular PBMs, but in the case with the IBAC, the PBMs have a direct contract with the entity.
• put out a bid for insurance coverage, usually third-party payment, and they also go out for the contract
• However, I'm asking for there to be some modifications in the bill's writing.
• Our union contract requires Bernalillo County to train all supervisors, all officers, in that so they
• But again, this is up to the employer or the union that negotiates the contract or the governing body

Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 20, a prior-authorization measure aimed at exempting certain medications and treatments for seriously mentally ill adults from repeat insurance prior authorization, while also extending prior authorization approvals to three years for chronic maintenance drugs. The sponsor described the bill as the latest in a series of bipartisan prior-authorization reforms and accepted an amendment from the Health Care Authority and the Office of the Superintendent of Insurance to apply the bill to adults only and to cover PBMs in the interagency purchasing collaborative. Supporters, including NAMI New Mexico and state health officials, argued the bill would reduce barriers to needed care, especially for mental health treatment. Opponents from health plans, PBMs, and insurers warned the bill was too broad, lacked clear definitions for serious mental illness and chronic conditions, created patient-safety concerns, and should have a shorter reauthorization period and later implementation date. After committee discussion, the sponsor agreed to work on a committee substitute, and the bill was rolled over for a later meeting. The committee then heard Senate Bill 53, the Chispa data privacy bill, which would impose broad limits on the collection, sale, and use of personal data, require opt-in consent for many uses, strengthen rights to access, correct, and delete data, and create enforcement mechanisms including a private right of action. Supporters from advocacy, women’s, behavioral health, reproductive health, and civil rights groups said the bill was needed to protect sensitive health and location data, prevent surveillance and criminalization, and give New Mexicans real control over their information. Business, technology, insurance, and hospital representatives opposed the bill, arguing it was more restrictive than other states’ privacy laws, would burden small businesses and health-related services, create compliance uncertainty, and risk limiting digital services and innovation. After extensive questioning about data breaches, opt-in consent, nonprofit exemptions, and the bill’s impact on businesses and health care access, a motion to table failed 5-4, and the committee then passed SB 53 on a 5-4 vote. The committee next heard Senate Bill 86, which updates the state’s harassment-by-telephone law to cover electronic communications such as social media, messaging apps, and email. The sponsor and a Las Cruces police chief said the change would modernize an outdated 1967 statute and help law enforcement address harassment and domestic violence through current technology. The bill drew support from the governor’s public safety advisor and the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, and members asked a few clarifying questions about the wording. The committee approved SB 86 unanimously, 9-0. Finally, the committee began hearing Senate Bill 96, on regulated childcare zoning requirements, using a committee substitute. The sponsor and the Early Childhood Education and Care Department said the bill would reduce confusing zoning and fire-code barriers to opening or expanding child care homes and centers, helping address a statewide shortage of child care slots and supporting working families. The discussion began with the committee substitute and an explanation that the measure is intended to streamline local requirements and expand child care supply.

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• Third, a modification to the background screening requirements.

Summary: The conference committee met to discuss the Senate’s second budget offer and its first offer on SB 7030. The chair said the budget proviso and back-of-bill offers were continuing to close out remaining issues, and explained the Senate’s approach to the new academic accelerated option supplement in the FEFP as restoring about 80% of prior weighted FTE funding for acceleration options other than dual enrollment, citing existing statutory requirements and the different cost structure of dual enrollment. Senator Gates then presented the Senate’s modified SB 7030 offer, saying the bill was intended to address problems tracking roughly 23,000 students moving among public schools, private schools, and homeschooling, and to better ensure funding follows students correctly. He said the offer would preserve key parts of SB 7030 while making changes such as extending the fall application window, delaying some spring-term documentation, modifying background screening requirements, and allowing the commissioner to extend deadlines in extenuating circumstances. The offer also kept the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program as a separate FEFP categorical, expanded the Education Stabilization Fund, created fall and spring application windows, required enrollment cross-checks and student IDs, changed scholarship payments to monthly with front-loaded options, and required scholarship funding organizations to return funds tied to Auditor General FTE audit findings. A public commenter, a longtime teacher from Daytona Beach, urged that the financial literacy course be taught at a later grade level, such as 11th or 12th grade, and suggested a system of diverse guest speakers in classrooms to encourage more students from underrepresented groups to consider business ownership. No questions were raised from the committee after the Senate offer, and no vote was taken. The vice chair said the House would take the offer back for review, and the chair announced there would likely be one more meeting with a one-hour notice before the meeting adjourned by motion without objection.

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• I appreciate the modification, the slight modifications that sponsors made, but I want to explain floor
• picking up prescriptions, which has been mentioned, opening bank accounts, cashing checks, signing contracts
• And so, I'll be voting with Senate Bill 154 because this is not about voter suppression. signing contracts
• , notorizing documents, signing contracts, notorizing documents, completing<00:50:56.240><c> I-9</c><

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• </c> two a more Contra two or more contracts two a more Contra two or more contracts at<00:37:33.040>
• </c> state law dictating how local contracts state law dictating how local contracts can<00:41:59.640
• Does one person decide the contract?
• Does one person decide the contract?
• Does the contract stay what...

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• burden for households at or below 150% of statewide median household income resulting from the tax modifications
• Next is Substitute Senate Bill 5981, which prohibits drug manufacturers from limiting the use of contract
• the evidence back, and it requires the state toxicology laboratory to release evidence only if a contract
• Youth, and Families to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and requires OSPI to contract
• Youth, and Families to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and requires OSPI to contract

Bills: SB6147, SB6082, SB5862, SB5882, SB6323, SB6346, SB6162, SB6256, SB6220, SB5650, SB6343, SB6113, SB6211, SB6114, SB5898, SB6347, SB6244, SB5868, SB5762, SB5988, SB6194, SB6246, SB6223, SB6052, SB5828, SB5954, SB5963, SB5909, SGA9306

Keywords: grocery establishments, closure notice, consumer rights, local businesses, student financial aid, financial aid fraud, higher education, college enrollment fraud, fictitious students, ghost students, enrollment fraud, aid integrity, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, AI fraud, fraud prevention, Washington State, legislative audit, JLARC, full-time equivalent

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• So far, it looks like about $4 million of that has been either expended or put under contract, and there's
• Do we have like this big mega contract with a third-party IT company, and then we pay them a monthly
• And then line 107, can you tell me what weather modification is? Mr.
• These contracts seem incredibly expensive to me. Mr.
• Contract attorneys at the Public Defender Department.

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• Are we also contracting with third parties to evaluate programs in addition to having these institutes
• There could be a modification of that so that it is much easier to see that accounting. Great.
• So it could be a part-time one, part-time two... ...a full-time contract.
• In these new rule changes, it goes to full-time contracts only.
• If what I'm hearing from pre-K contractors is true, they're going to get a full-time childcare contract

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• Effective January 1, 2026, the bill requires Medi-Cal members to obtain a drug removed from the contracted
• application-for-certification permitting programs, an expansion of the Energy Commission's ability to contract
• , but primarily there's two contracts that provide virtual...
• There are primarily two contracts that provide virtual behavioral health services and coaching for children
• After four years without a contract, including two years with no pay increases in 2022 and 2023, state

Summary: The Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing on the final three-party budget agreement and related trailer bills, with the Department of Finance outlining the major budget bill and omnibus measures. Finance described a package built around balancing the state budget amid economic uncertainty, preserving core health and safety-net programs, and making significant ongoing reductions in some state programs. The budget bill included major items such as shifting $1 billion from the General Fund to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for Cal Fire, funding universal transitional kindergarten, deferring some UC and CSU funding, supporting foster care and homelessness programs, providing Proposition 36 implementation funding, and achieving Medi-Cal savings through changes to benefits and eligibility. The committee also heard that votes on the budget bills were expected later in the week and the following Monday. Finance then walked through the trailer bills, including health, human services, early learning, education, resources, energy, transportation, labor, housing, tax, public safety, courts, general government, cannabis, and energy-related measures. Notable provisions included a Medi-Cal enrollment freeze for certain adults, new premiums and benefit changes for some immigrants, child care COLA changes, education funding for literacy, teacher support, universal meals, and community college student support, as well as resource and climate measures affecting Cal Fire staffing and energy permitting. The housing trailer bill drew the most discussion, with provisions on CEQA streamlining, a vehicle miles traveled mitigation banking program, a renters’ credit trigger, and a six-year moratorium on new residential building standards. Members also discussed a film tax credit expansion, cannabis enforcement funding, a tribal police pilot program, and changes to tax policy, including military retirement income exclusions and wildfire settlement payment exclusions. Committee members largely praised the staff and the budget process, but several raised concerns and asked detailed questions, especially about the housing trailer bill’s new wage standards, tribal consultation provisions, and possible effects on prevailing wage protections. Finance explained that the housing language was intended to set wage floors for market-rate projects receiving CEQA streamlining, with different county-based tiers and a notwithstanding clause preserving existing prevailing wage laws. Members also questioned the size and timing of funding for the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, Clean Cars for All, Proposition 36, and the film tax credit expansion. Other members highlighted support for public safety, veterans’ tax relief, child care providers, housing production, and higher education, while some expressed concern that the budget’s policy changes were being negotiated too quickly or without enough stakeholder input.