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• As of July 2026, it prohibits AFFF in use of non-emergency testing, training, or instruction.
• While we hope our emergencies never occur, ensuring staff are trained could save a student's life.
• While we hope our emergencies never occur, ensuring staff are trained could save a student's life.
• While we hope our emergencies never occur, ensuring staff are trained could save a student's life.
• That disclosure of a person's information is an allowed use under federal law.

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• I fully us respond to emergencies.
• operation in non-emergency allow for operation in non-emergency situations<01:47:47.040><c> under</c>
• These are absolutely emergency generators.
• Even as, uh, even in an emergency, I don't want them next to my house.
• Even as, uh, even in an emergency, I don't want them next to my house.

Committee: Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy

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• It has emergency room physicians, EMTs, or paramedics, and so on.
• </c> operational procedural conflicts emerged operational procedural conflicts emerged uh<01:37:19.560
• I just, full disclosure, so. Thank you very much, Ryan. Any other questions from the committee?
• </c><01:58:00.440><c> Thank</c><01:58:00.600><c> you</c> I just full disclosure, so.
• Thank you I just full disclosure, so.

Committee: House Transportation

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• For example, the bill would still require, for every single tool, disclosure of the specific actual model
• One is, just so we all understand, the bill does not require public disclosure of any of this information
• Anything outside of the scope of the initial disclosure would not be included in that inventory.
• So to that end, the disclosure process isn't necessarily a pain point.
• The disclosure process is not necessarily a pain point.

Summary: The committee heard several bills, with the main discussion focused on AB 1705, AB 1898, AB 2076, and AB 2564. AB 1705 would require pornographic websites and uploaders to certify consent and age before sexually explicit content is posted, including AI-generated nude images, and would allow civil actions by nonconsenting individuals or minors depicted in the material. Supporters, including child advocacy, women’s groups, district attorneys, and university women’s organizations, said it would help combat nonconsensual sexual imagery and revenge pornography; there was no opposition testimony, and the bill drew favorable comments from members. AB 1898 would require employers to give workers advance notice before using AI-powered tools to surveil or manage employees, including disclosure of the purpose, data collected, decisions affected, and general locations of use. Labor groups and privacy advocates supported the measure as a transparency and worker-protection bill, while business and industry groups opposed it, arguing the definitions were too broad, the notice requirements could expose proprietary or security-sensitive information, and the private right of action could lead to litigation and overbroad compliance burdens. Members raised cybersecurity and scope concerns, and the author said the bill had already been narrowed and would continue to be refined, but the committee ultimately took a roll call and advanced the bill on a vote, leaving it on call for absent members. AB 2076 would add nitrous oxide to the list of products subject to online age verification under the Parents’ Accountability and Child Protection Act and increase penalties for large sellers that fail to comply. The author and supporters, including a parent, a deputy district attorney, narcotics officers, Children Now, labor, and the Children’s Advocacy Institute, described rising youth access, health harms, and online sales loopholes. Some opposition groups said they appreciated the amendments but remained concerned about other provisions. Members questioned the bill’s gift-card restrictions and whether they would unnecessarily limit adult purchasing choices; the author and committee staff explained the restriction was aimed at anonymous purchases of the most dangerous items. The bill passed on a 7-0 vote and was left on call for absent members. AB 2564 would prohibit “surveillance pricing,” or using personal data to set individualized prices, while preserving certain transparent discounts and loyalty programs. The author and supporters from Consumer Reports, TechEquity, labor, and privacy groups argued the bill would prevent discriminatory pricing and protect consumers from opaque data-driven price manipulation. Retail, chamber, and industry opponents said the bill was too broad, could chill legitimate discounts and promotions, created compliance and litigation risks, and contained vague definitions. Members discussed the balance between consumer protection and business concerns, but the transcript cuts off before a final vote on AB 2564.

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• A visual or audible signal can be by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren.
• </c> signal can be by hand voice emergency signal can be by hand voice emergency light<00:34:42.119><
• Whether the officer operated their emergency lights or siren to determine whether the defendant is guilty
• </c><03:07:02.200><c> statement</c> file a financial disclosure statement file a financial disclosure

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• We are seeking review of an amended motor vehicle odometer disclosure rule.
• Act 926 of 2025 amended the law to allow for electronic disclosure of odometer readings, signatures,
• It allows for electronic signatures, electronic odometer disclosures, and electronic powers of attorney
• to allow emergency kits to be used in certain medical facilities.
• to allow emergency kits to be used in certain medical facilities.

Committee: All ALC-ADMINISTRATIVE RULES

Summary: The Administrative Rules Subcommittee reviewed a long agenda of agency rules, with most items approved without objection after brief presentations and no public comment. Early items included Department of Energy and Environment rules on landfill post-closure trust fund spending thresholds and liquefied petroleum gas standards, DFA’s electronic odometer disclosure rule, and several Department of Health rules covering ionizing radiation, mobile home and RV parks, lead-based paint, counseling board revisions, hearing instrument dispensers, athletic training, dental examiners, nursing, pharmacy, medical board, speech-language pathology and audiology, radiologic technology, massage therapy, community health workers, doula certification, and cosmetology/body art. Most of these changes were described as updates to match recent acts, federal standards, compact participation, fee adjustments, or cleanup/clarification, and the committee repeatedly approved them without objection. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on the Arkansas State Board of Nursing’s broad set of rule changes implementing multiple 2025 acts. Those changes included creating a dialysis patient care technician registry, updating contact information requirements, expanding APRN authority to delegate certain tasks, clarifying death certificate and pronouncement authority, allowing substitution of therapeutically equivalent medications, permitting purchase of compounded products, and updating certified medication assistant rules and training standards. Members asked detailed questions about the meaning of therapeutically equivalent substitutions, delegation limits, compounded products, and how often medication lists would be updated; the board said it would review rules annually and use future rulemaking as needed. The committee also approved new nursing rules for declaratory orders and the new dialysis registry. The Department of Education’s rules drew the most discussion, especially the Arkansas Children’s Educational Freedom Account Program. The department said the revisions, based on Act 920 of 2025, were intended to add guardrails, clarify eligible expenses, and streamline approvals. Changes included defining core educational expenses, limiting sports-related spending, adding an intentional misuse standard, restricting certain technology purchases and requiring extra justification over $1,000, capping carryover funds at $8,500, and creating a reconsideration process for denied expenses. Members raised concerns about oversight, appeal timelines, sports equipment, provider credentialing, and whether the rules were too restrictive; department officials said the rules were meant to protect taxpayer funds while preserving flexibility, and they noted the program had received extensive public comment. The committee also approved Education rules for scholarships, residency classification, teacher programs, accelerated learning, and graduate medical education, as well as Labor and Licensing rules on wage and hour standards, boiler rules, motor vehicle commission requirements, professional wrestling regulation, appraiser qualifications, and military recruiting incentives.

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• months come, when the summer months come, and you see that kick-up of RSV, and they end up in the emergency
• do anything but what I can do as a professional, because some of the summer's going to be in the emergency
• long because they think it's just a regular cold and they get to me and I have to send them to the emergency
• disdain, and where school boards and superintendents have gone overboard, particularly with non-disclosure
• Substitute for Senate Bill 1260, a bill to be entitled an act relating to services during a state of emergency

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions, then devoted most of the first part of the meeting to a farewell-style recognition of Senator Joe Gruters. Senators from both parties offered extended remarks praising his loyalty, political instincts, family involvement, and work as a legislator and as incoming Republican National Committee chair. Gruters responded with remarks about his background, including overcoming a childhood speech impediment, his service in the Legislature, and major policy efforts he highlighted such as alimony reform and the undergrounding of utilities. A ceremonial gift was presented to him recognizing his work on a 2019 public-safety/immigration bill, and the Senate adopted a motion to spread his remarks upon the journal before recessing briefly. After the recess, the Senate returned to regular business. No committee reports, governor’s messages, House messages, or reconsideration matters were reported. The chamber then moved to third reading and temporarily postponed CS/CS/CS/SB 354, relating to blue ribbon projects. The next bill, CS/CS/SB 1758, relating to public assistance, was taken up, and Senator Gaetz explained that it contained five reforms to the public assistance system previously discussed by the Senate. Debate was about to continue when the transcript ended.

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• Federal law also applies to municipal bonds, primarily with respect to disclosure and tax exemptions.
• Important federal laws apply to disclosure.
• So, there are rules applying to disclosure.
• You may occasionally hear something called a Continuing Disclosure Undertaking, or CDU.
• We have disclosure counsel; again, that’s the person responsible for drafting the prospectus or OS.

Committee: House New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

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• Commission, the FEC, and candidates for state office file with the State Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure
• of the legislative members, and then it would also require that the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure
• </c><00:25:16.520><c> event</c><00:25:16.720><c> of</c><00:25:16.799><c> an</c><00:25:16.919><c> emergency
• </c><00:25:17.399><c> or</c><00:25:17.559><c> some</c> in the event of an emergency or some in the event
• of an emergency or some sort<00:25:17.960><c> of</c><00:25:18.159><c> catastrophic</c><00:25:18.720>

Bills: HF1345 , HF71 , HF993 , HF1943

Committee: House Elections Finance and Government Operations

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• I'm pretty sure it was emerging issues. And I do not.
• That's just that disclosures will be noticed up.
• The bill that was heard through Emerging Issues had background checks, CPR training, an emergency action
• They didn't have an emergency action plan.
• Many times this is an emergency.

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• protect homeowners who reside in communities with homeowners associations by requiring additional disclosures
• In addition, the bill would not require an update to county emergency plans.
• In addition, the bill would not require an update to county emergency plans.

Committee: Senate Appropriations

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• It caps inmate health care compensation and emergency medical transportation at 110% of the Medicare
• Care compensation and emergency medical transportation at 110% of the Medicare allowable reimbursement
• Brackett and others, CS for HB 89, a bill to be entitled an act relating to veterinary prescription disclosure
• A bill to be entitled an act relating to veterinary prescription disclosure.
• A bill to be entitled an act relating to veterinary prescription disclosure.

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• Together, those facilities support emergency rescue, medical transport, law enforcement, fire response
• , emergency rescue, medical transport, law enforcement, fire response, agricultural operations, flight
• Together, those facilities support emergency rescue, medical transport, law enforcement, fire response
• , emergency rescue, medical transport, law enforcement, fire response, agricultural operations, flight
• property transaction, emphasizing that this document is not the correct process or place for this disclosure

Committee: House Revenue and Taxation

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• And I would just add, when we were working through this in 2021, there were emerging technologies that
• When we were working through this in 2021, there were emerging technologies that we tried to head off
• And I would just add, when we were working through this in 2021, there were emerging technologies that
• When we were working through this in 2021, there were emerging technologies that we tried to head off
• And so this really is to prevent the disclosure of information that would reveal weaknesses, including

Committee: House Transportation

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• are going to hear is Representative Hunschofsky's HB 1015, Real Property and Condominium Flood Disclosures
• House Bill 1015, Real Property and Condominium Flood Disclosures.
• This bill expands the flood disclosure bill that we passed last year for home sales, and it includes
• ...to prior to leasing out in a long-term lease in an apartment, have to give the similar flood disclosure
• And this just changes the word property to dwelling unit in the rental disclosure for Section 1, and

Summary: The committee first temporarily postponed HB 381, then heard and passed HB 1015 by Rep. Hunschofsky, which expands flood disclosure requirements to long-term rental tenants in addition to homebuyers and clarifies that renters’ insurance does not include flood coverage. An amendment changed rental disclosure language to “dwelling unit,” and the bill received support from the American Flood Coalition, Audubon Florida, and the Florida Association of Realtors. Rep. Robinson praised the bill’s added protections, and the measure passed favorably on a unanimous roll call. The committee then considered HB 247 by Rep. Connerly, an affordable housing bill requiring local governments to adopt ordinances allowing accessory dwelling units in single-family residential areas without added parking requirements, while limiting ADUs in planned unit developments and master-planned communities. Two amendments were adopted: one removed mezzanine financing language and another added certain newer manufactured homes to the ADU definition. Testimony was generally supportive, including from AARP, Florida Realtors, Americans for Prosperity, the Florida Chamber, and the Florida Manufactured Housing Association, but several members raised concerns about parking, infrastructure, historic neighborhoods, and short-term rentals. The bill passed favorably, though Ranking Member Cross voted no. Next, the committee took up HB 913 by Rep. Lopez, a broad condominium reform package addressing governance, financial transparency, reserves, insurance, voting, recalls, structural safety, and related issues. Three amendments were adopted: requiring seven years of posted meeting minutes online, allowing reserve contributions to be paused if a building is deemed uninhabitable, and clarifying that certain 2024 condo-law amendments do not apply retroactively to pending matters. Support came from AARP, the Florida Land Title Association, the Florida Bar’s Real Property section, Association Reserves, the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, Marriott, and others, while speakers urged continued work on reserve-account clarity and caution on hotel-condo provisions. Members praised Rep. Lopez’s work, and the bill passed unanimously. Finally, the committee heard HB 579 by Rep. Overdorf on development permits and orders, which would require clearer application requirements, hold local governments to existing review timeframes, provide fee refunds when deadlines are missed, and prevent local governments from arbitrarily limiting quasi-judicial hearings. Members asked about incomplete applications, substantive changes that restart timelines, and whether the bill should address additional land-use changes; the sponsor said he was open to continued discussion but believed the bill’s definitions were broad enough. Public testimony supported the bill, and after debate from Rep. Hunschofsky and Rep. Cross noting some remaining concerns, the bill passed favorably. The chair then reminded members to engage sponsors early on future bills and moved to rise from committee.

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• Hospital Association, there's talks about when HR1 gets implemented, there's going to be a lot of emergency
• I think what they mentioned was about 40%, which is going to cause an impact on emergency departments
• Budget overview and budget change proposals for the Emergency Medical Services Authority.
• Gabrielle Santor with the Emergency Medical Services Authority.
• Emergency Medical Services budget overview and budget change proposals, name, organization, and position

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• But it also serves as, I think, a really important alternative route in an emergency situation.
• And so having an additional emergency access route is also really important for us, along with some emergency
• Substitute House Bill 2203 creates the offense of reckless interference with emergency operations.
• operations liable for the expenses of emergency response related to the incident.
• And it requires the offense to be reckless interference with active emergency operations.

Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee held a work session on two major corridor projects before moving to public hearing and executive session. In the Yakima area, WSDOT, Yakima County, and Ecology described the Interstate 82/east-west connector work as a coordinated effort to add capacity, improve interchanges, and address the Boise Cascade mill site contamination that sits in the project footprint. County and Ecology witnesses said the county is ready to remove wood waste and contaminated material, but the project is stalled pending a draft work plan and a de minimis consent decree; several senators pressed for faster action and clearer direction from Ecology. The committee then heard an update on the SR 3 Belfair freight corridor, where WSDOT said environmental review is complete and the next major step is an access hearing this summer, followed by right-of-way acquisition and construction likely in late 2027 or early 2028. Local and tribal partners emphasized the project’s importance for freight mobility, housing growth, emergency access, and regional economic development. The public hearing was on engrossed substitute House Bill 2711, a transportation resources bill that largely tracks provisions from prior legislation but also adds or changes several tax and account provisions. Staff explained that the bill clarifies fuel tax and peer-to-peer tax distributions, treats trade-in value differently for recreational vessel and luxury vehicle taxes, provides a six-month motor home exemption and penalty waiver for the luxury vehicle tax, allows lease payments to be made over time, exempts tribal members and nonresidents, creates a Preserve Washington account, changes some transfer timing, and repeals the luxury aircraft tax. Testimony was mixed: aviation groups supported repealing the luxury aircraft tax; trucking and some citizens opposed fuel tax and diesel tax increases; Sound Transit, transit advocates, labor, and ferry interests asked for amendments such as 75-year bonding authority, mobile driver’s licenses, ferry funding, and bike education funding. Alaska Airlines and Delta also supported adding mobile ID language. In executive session, the committee advanced several bills, including SHB 1823, SHB 2114, E2SHB 2251, SHB 2323, SHB 2410, EHB 2588, 2SHB 1923, and HB 2495, all with due pass recommendations after adopting amendments where applicable. The committee adopted a striking amendment to E2SHB 2251 adjusting Climate Commitment Act account distributions and a striking amendment to EHB 2588 limiting the ferry district changes to Whatcom County and removing the voter-approval tax provision. It also adopted an amendment to 2SHB 1923 that added further conditions for passenger-only ferry districts, including whale-protection and fare-related provisions. Senator King voted no on E2SHB 2251, objecting that the bill reduced the transportation share of Climate Commitment Act revenues. The chair announced one more executive action meeting would be held Wednesday morning, with amendment requests due the prior day.

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• It has disclosures and provisions, prohibited practices, i.e., initial or non-refundable fees, interest
• RPCs provide support for emergency operations centers during activations for hurricanes and deployments
• RPCs work closely with first responders, state emergency management staff, and other partners in their
• All of us who live in Florida understand how important emergency management is when our first responders
• All of us who live in Florida understand how many important emergency management is when seen as our

Committee: Senate Commerce and Tourism

Summary: The Commerce and Tourism Committee heard and favorably reported several bills. SB 1672 removed duplicative state provisions related to labor pools; CS/SB 940 prohibited third-party sale of restaurant reservations without the restaurant’s consent; and CS/SB 1820 made changes to motor vehicle manufacturer and dealer franchise law, including disclosure of performance measures, anti-retaliation protections, and limits on franchise termination or nonrenewal. The committee also approved CS/SB 324, creating a revolving loan program to help small businesses affected by prolonged public works construction, and SB 936, which creates a recurring three-year study of the effects of AI, robotics, and automation on Florida’s workforce and economy. SB 1322, the Florida Rural Jobs Act, was amended and reported favorably to encourage private investment in rural small businesses through a state tax credit program. The committee also reported favorably on CS/SB 910, which regulates for-profit veterans’ benefit assistance services, and CS/SB 656, which extends protections from extraordinary collection actions to all bill-of-care payment actions by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The committee spent substantial time on CS/SB 1264, a broad Department of Commerce agency bill. The strike-all amendment added or revised provisions on Secure Florida, the RISE venture capital tax credit program, data center tax exemptions, business development classifications, military land transfers, and other economic development matters, while also repealing regional planning councils from statute. That repeal drew extensive opposition from local officials and regional council representatives, who argued the councils are important for emergency management, grant writing, planning, and support for small and rural communities. Supporters of the amendment said the councils could continue locally without state statutory involvement. After debate, the amendment was adopted and the bill was reported favorably, though Senators Davis and Smith voted no. The committee also considered CS/SB 1238, which would tighten reemployment assistance rules by disqualifying claimants who fail to meet job-search requirements or refuse work, and by adding verification and reporting requirements. Supporters framed it as adding guardrails and preventing fraud, while opponents argued Florida’s unemployment system is already difficult to access and that the bill would add unnecessary barriers and costs. Despite opposition from labor and advocacy groups, the bill was reported favorably, with Senators Smith and Arrington voting no. Finally, the committee unanimously recommended confirmation of Alexis Yarborough and John Gilbert to the Board of Supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.

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• FLORIDA DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. I HOPE EVERYONE KNOWS WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE.
• HE IS APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR DESANTIS BORDER DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MAY 2021.
• RESPONSE AND SERVED 23 YEARS AS A POLICE OFFICER IS AN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COORDINATOR.
• THROUGH THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY WITH A PERFORMANCE OF THREE YEARS AND 75 25.
• WE THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WILL CONTRACT DIRECTLY WITH VENDORS.

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• It has emergency room physicians, EMTs, or paramedics, and so on.
• It has emergency room that exists.
• </c> operational procedural conflicts emerged operational procedural conflicts emerged uh<01:37:19.560
• </c><01:58:00.440><c> Thank</c><01:58:00.600><c> you</c> I just full disclosure, so.
• Thank you I just full disclosure, so.

Committee: House Transportation

Summary: House Transportation opened public hearings on three Senate bills and discussed a fourth scheduling issue. On SB 499, which would change Traffic Safety Commission reporting requirements, the sponsor’s representative said the bill would require annual aggregated data on the causes of traffic collisions in New Hampshire and recommendations to address them. Members asked about the added Trauma Medical Review Committee seat, and a representative explained that it is a longstanding state board of emergency and trauma professionals; the bill had already been amended and passed unanimously earlier in the process. On SB 500, concerning restroom access for certain commercial motor vehicle operators, the sponsor and trucking-industry supporters said the measure arose from concerns raised by female truck drivers and was intended to require larger commercial facilities with available public or employee restrooms to allow truck drivers to use them when there are no public safety concerns. Supporters from the New Hampshire Motor Transport Association said driver shortages make it important to recruit and retain women, and that lack of bathroom access is a significant barrier. Committee members asked about the scope of the problem and whether the issue affected male and female drivers differently. The committee then heard SB 559, which would reduce the minimum allowable speed limit on locally controlled roads. Supporters, including bicyclists and the Bike-Walk Alliance, testified that lower speeds improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, citing personal crash experiences and national guidance supporting lower urban speed limits where warranted by traffic or engineering studies. They emphasized the bill would not mandate lower limits statewide but would give towns local discretion. Members questioned whether the group would support 15 mph limits and how congestion and travel-time concerns were weighed. A Department of Transportation official testified neutrally, saying the agency had no formal position but had concerns about public perception and possible spillover to unnumbered state roads. The chair also noted an earlier scheduling problem that prevented immediate executive action on a bill until later in the day.