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• I think that it protects workers so that they can move about and pursue other career paths.
• By eliminating it, we are literally eliminating protections for the community.
• myth that once in the Community Protection Program you never get out of it.
• The problem is that the Community Protection Program is, yes, protection for the community, protection
• The bill helps protect tribal sacred sites from destruction and development.

Bills: HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5831 , SB6244 , SB6044 , SB5109 , SB5877 , SB6258

Keywords: behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, mortgage modification

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• By eliminating it, we are literally eliminating protections for the community.
• myth that once in the Community Protection Program that you never get out of it.
• The problem is, is the Community Protection Program is, yes, protection for the community, protection
• Also, the Community Protection Program is also protection for these offenders who also have disabilities
• The bill helps protect tribal sacred sites from destruction and development.

Bills: HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5831 , SB6244 , SB6044 , SB5109 , SB5877 , SB6258

Keywords: behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, mortgage modification

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, the flag was escorted by the Muckleshoot Veterans Color Guard, and the day opened with a prayer from Dennis Anderson Sr. The House approved the previous day’s minutes, welcomed representatives from the Urban Native Education Alliance, and then moved through caucuses and Senate messages before taking up a long series of third-reading votes on bills that had returned from the Senate. Several measures drew debate over Senate amendments. House Bill 1069, concerning bargaining over supplemental retirement benefits for certain public employees, passed 78-17 after supporters said it would help correctional workers and critics said the Senate changes weakened the bill. Second Substitute House Bill 1128, creating a child care workforce standards board, passed 68-27 amid arguments over child care shortages, wages, and affordability. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1155, banning non-compete agreements, passed 62-33; supporters framed it as pro-worker and pro-entrepreneurship, while opponents said contracts should be voluntary and important in business sales. The House also passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1187 on ambulance billing and collections (93-2), Substitute House Bill 1390 phasing out the Community Protection Program (51-44), Engrossed House Bill 1501 on housing-related local requirements (58-37), House Bill 291 on bargaining communication rights (92-3), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2110 on ambulance staffing/training (95-0), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2165 on impersonating peace officers (66-29), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2219 on child care regulations and opioid-related safety language (67-28), Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2266 on housing siting and local flexibility (56-39), Substitute House Bill 2350 on notice and accountability for developmental disability services (95-0), Substitute House Bill 2360 allowing schools to keep and administer albuterol with parental-notification changes (79-16), Second Substitute House Bill 2384 on financial transparency for continuing care retirement communities (78-17), Second Substitute House Bill 2429 on behavioral health planning and appropriations (95-0), Substitute House Bill 2496 protecting tribal sacred sites (71-24), and House Bill 2510, on which the House did not concur in Senate amendments. The chamber also granted conference requests on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bills 5998 and 605 and appointed conferees for each.

Bills: HB27 , HB290 , HB308 , HB311 , HB382 , HB417 , HB575 , HB755 , HB980

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: HB 290, Act 426, sunset law, Department of the Treasury, Louisiana Treasury, re-creation, reauthorization, statutory entities, termination date, sunset review, Title 49, fiscal administration, state finance, agency continuation, legislative authority, insurance premiums, Municipal Fire and Police, dedicated fund, assessments, Louisiana legislation

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• HB317 focuses on protecting minors with HB317 focuses on protecting minors with online app purchases
• This is about protecting our children.
• We do different things to protect our children, all to come up with one goal: to protect our children
• To protect your constituents and to protect the children of the state, that work must proceed within
• If I don't think that's the group we’re trying to protect; the ones we’re trying to protect are the ones

Bills: HB285 , HB317

Committee: House Children and Senior Advocacy

Keywords: HB285, TJ's Law, traffic infraction, traffic ticket, uniform traffic ticket and complaint, minor driver, juvenile driver, parent notification, guardian notification, emergency contact, law enforcement, citing agency, traffic citation, driver safety, youth safety, Alabama traffic law, Section 12-12-56, Children and Senior Advocacy, House Judiciary, reasonable effort

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• Members, this requirement may have at one point been aimed at consumer protection.
• We are opposed to this bill because it does not really, we think, give additional consumer protection
• At this bill, we don't think helps to protect consumers. There was the question. Thank you.
• What goes out to the consumer, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau nationally promulgated a standardized
• Again, members, HB3002 is a consumer protection bill.

Bills: HB1342 , HB2889 , HB3002 , HB3254 , HB4820 , HJR40 , HJR40

Committee: House Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Keywords: private activity bonds, housing, residential rental projects, low-income, affordable housing, bond measures, funding equality, political subdivisions, public communications, election fairness, debt collection, consumer rights, disclosures, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, settlement agreements, State Board of Education, group benefits program, health insurance, state employees, dependents eligibility

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• I'm also concerned about the impact on consumers.
• question we have is whether raising what carriers have to pay would cause premiums to increase for consumers
• You're saying maybe it would affect the consumers, but as far as the individuals seeking optometry care
• is this a consumer advocate that is Medicaid Medicare?
• , because they're not a patient when they consume their insurance; they're a consumer at that point,

Bills: HB3794 , HB3796 , HB3928 , HB2955 , HB4453 , HB4460

Committee: House Insurance

Keywords: licensure, criminal history, public safety, occupational certification, rehabilitation, state regulations, insurance, regulations, certification, long-term care, mergers, consumer protection, property safety, vision insurance, optometry, reimbursement, healthcare policy, ophthalmic materials, provider agreements, captive insurance

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• Little Green Bucket, a small business in Albuquerque, which also serves Santa Fe, and I am a consumer
• , steward our natural resources, and safeguard consumer interests.
• If it's a response to a consumer complaint, it might be a specific distribution center.
• And so I'm assuming that that cost can be absorbed by the consumer that comes in there.
• And so I'm assuming that cause can be absorbed by the consumer that comes in there.

Bills: SB47 , SB110 , SB122 , SB143 , SB168

Committee: Senate Senate Conservation

Keywords: food recovery, composting, waste management, solid waste surcharge, organic waste reduction, environment, grants, advisory group, bosque management, Rio Grande, environmental protection, water resources, fiscal appropriation, drinking water, well owners, water testing, water treatment, public health, agriculture, New Mexico Department of Agriculture

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• We just hope to gain your support here today to help us do a little bit of a better job protecting the
• Again, just as a reminder, this bill is what we're calling post-consumer recycled content 2.0, to add
• more products into our post-consumer recycled content laws that we passed in 2021. ...to include rigid
• Sadly, HB 2271 makes average consumer products more expensive.
• But merely banning 6 PPD without an alternative for safety, affordability, and protecting our environment

Bills: HB2436 , HB2322 , HB2343 , HB1420 , HB2426 , HB2271 , HB2215 , HB2421 , HB2301 , HB2296

Committee: House Environment & Energy

Keywords: oil tanker, tank vessel, restricted waters, Puget Sound, San Juan Islands, Rosario Strait, Admiralty Inlet, Discovery Island, New Dungeness, tug escort, pilotage, marine safety, spill prevention, oil transport, petroleum shipment, coast guard authorization, Board of Pilotage Commissioners, articulated tug barge, bunker vessel, refueling vessel

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• By way of context, last year, the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office brought
• an action Last year, the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office brought an action
• The intent of the bill is to make it easier to understand, but also to protect consumers.
• This is a consumer protection bill that is focused on ensuring the integrity of the probate system in
• protection theory.

Bills: HB2453 , HB2590 , HB2445 , HB2386 , HB2585

Committee: House Civil Rights & Judiciary

Keywords: psychiatric pharmacists, mental health, pharmacy regulations, healthcare, pharmacological treatments, limited equity cooperatives, common interest ownership, housing, exemption, community ownership, probate, estate administration, inheritance, heir finder, heir locator, beneficiary interest, transfer of inheritance rights, probate for profit, personal representative, executor

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• </c><02:46:44.720><c> consumers</c><02:46:45.279><c> from</c> massive job to protect consumers from massive
• American consumers need and deserve these common sense protections.
• <c> effective</c> to protect consumers are fully effective to protect consumers are fully effective and
• protection bills that these uh consumer protection bills that we're<03:11:21.359><c> considering</c>
• This is another very important bill as part of this consumer protection agenda today.

Bills: SB146 , HR973 , HR859 , HR906 , HB2449 , HB2399 , HR866 , HB2482 , HB2444 , HB2458 , HB1721 , HB2480 , HB1479 , HB1442 , HR1402 , HR617 , HR452

Keywords: nonconsensual, visual depictions, digital forgery, intimate content, online platforms, privacy, protection, harm prevention, John F. Kennedy Center, Donald J. Trump, Federal arts funding, memorial designation, cultural institutions, Congressional authority, public arts programs, Hampden-Sydney College, anniversary, higher education, civic responsibility, liberal arts

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• I'm the manager of the Consumer Protection Division at the Attorney General's Office.
• The Attorney General's Office administers the consumer protection restitution account.
• , consumers with an outsized amount of loss threaten to exhaust the fund to the detriment of other consumers
• consumers.
• consumers.

Bills: HF4881 , HF4867 , HF4422 , HF4223

Committee: House Commerce Finance and Policy

Keywords: healthcare, insurance, regulation, financial institutions, prescription drug affordability, consumer protection, restitution account, financial compensation, attorney general, distributions, property insurance, homeowners insurance, fire and allied lines, hail insurance, appraisal clause, loss adjustment, alternative dispute resolution, insurance claims, claim valuation, actual cash value

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• consumers and public health, and protect Washington's waters.
• We believe this bill would eliminate consumer protections the legislature adopted just last year to reduce
• We now have a more practical law that still protects consumers from lead in cookware. Dr.
• SB 5975 weakens those protections.
• We don't think it provides consumers access to safe cookware.

Bills: SB5965 , SB6030 , SB5975 , SB5941

Committee: Senate Environment, Energy & Technology

Keywords: environment, retail bags, sustainability, pollution, customer impact, plastic bags, retail, waste reduction, cookware safety, lead regulation, consumer protection, interstate trade, health standards, SB 5941, Washington State Energy Code, State Building Code Council, renewable energy, solar panels, school district exemption, public school construction

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• </c><02:38:33.439><c> or</c> either be passed on to consumers or either be passed on to consumers or
• </c> this resolution is about protecting this resolution is about protecting American<02:44:48.680><c
• I urge my colleagues to support its final passage to protect consumer choice, reduce costs, and eliminate
• I urge my colleagues to support its final passage to protect consumer choice, reduce costs, and eliminate
• </c> lifetimes or lower costs while consumers lifetimes or lower costs while consumers struggle<03:15

Bills: HR189 , HJR42 , HJR61 , HR191

Keywords: censure, Congress, interruption, decorum, Representative Al Green, energy conservation, appliance standards, Department of Energy, consumer products, commercial equipment, regulation disapproval, HJR61, H.J.Res. 61, Public Law 119-14, Congressional Review Act, CRA, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, air pollution, hazardous air pollutants

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• This bill, in its essence, is specifically targeted to be limited to consumer protections for children
• , vulnerable adults, and consumers.
• This bill also creates due consumer protections.
• The bill gives the Department of Legal Affairs enforcement authority for violations of consumer protections
• We support protecting children.

Bills: S2500 , S2502 , S2504 , S7028 , S2506 , S2508 , S2510 , S2512 , S2514 , S2516 , S2518 , S0482 , S0678 , S0984 , S1016 , S1074 , S1706 , S7030

Committee: Senate Appropriations

Keywords: budget, appropriation, education funding, healthcare, environmental protection, infrastructure, local government, Appropriations Act, funding, education, rural development, economic assistance, collective bargaining, state employees, labor relations, impasse resolution, negotiations, retirement, elected officials, Deferred Retirement Option Program

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• The bill allows consumer lender licensees to collect finance charges on guaranteed asset protection waivers
• and how effectively consumer protections apply.
• The foundation of the consumer protections were enacted in 2012.
• The intent of the underlying statute and changes today are to provide consumer protections following
• a storm where there is... ...are to provide consumer protections following a storm where there has been

Bills: SB1165 , SB1206 , SB1212 , SB1291 , SB1347 , SB1516 , SB1554 , SB1649 , SB1689 , SB1812

Committees: Senate Finance , Senate Senate Finance Committee of Reference

Keywords: breast cancer, screening services, health insurance, cost sharing, preventive care, storm damage, catastrophic storm, hail damage, wind damage, roof repair, roof replacement, post-storm repairs, insurance claim, property and casualty insurance, adjuster, public adjuster, contractor licensing, homeowner protections, deductible waiver, insurance fraud prevention

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• By way of background, consumer debt includes medical debt, and medical debt is a debt owed by a consumer
• Based on a judgment for consumer debt.
• And consumer judgments in Washington can exist for up to 20 years.
• Seems to me like that goes against the heart of HIPAA protections.
• Secondly, with firearms, in the context of a domestic violence protection order or an extreme risk protection

Bills: SB5962 , SB6105 , SB6203 , SB6296

Committee: Senate Law & Justice

Keywords: spring blade knives, knife legislation, weapon regulation, public safety, law enforcement, medical debt, garnishment, wage garnishment, earnings exemption, exempt wages, debt collection, consumer debt, student loan debt, private student loans, disposable earnings, minimum wage, writ of garnishment, exemption claim, judgment debtor, creditor

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• So we're taking another shot at making sure consumers aren't being taken advantage of by anti-competitive
• The patients and consumers who can't afford to keep paying the bills. sky-high prices for their prescription
• For too long, consumers have been a threat.
• I do think strong and effective patent protection incentivizes innovation and supercharges our place
• Increasing options for consumers and lowering prices.

Bills: SB1040 , SB1041 , SB1095 , SB1096 , SB1097 , SB527

Committee: Senate Senate Judiciary

Keywords: drug competition, product hopping, generic drugs, biosimilars, federal regulations, FTC Act, Federal Trade Commission, sham petitions, competition, public health, unfair competition, healthcare, pharmaceutical, antitrust law, pay-for-delay, reverse payment settlement, interchangeable biologics, brand-name pharmaceuticals, patent settlement, antitrust

Summary: The meeting focused on addressing the high cost of prescription drugs and the abusive practices that contribute to elevated prices affecting American families. Several bills were presented, including proposals to end pay-for-delay deals and to enhance transparency in the operations of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). The discussion was notable for its emphasis on consumer protection and ensuring that cheaper generic drugs reach the market more effectively. Members expressed frustration over past attempts to pass similar legislation stalling in the Senate, leading to renewed efforts to push these bills forward.

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• plants from the coconut state to protect plants from the coconut beetle. beetle. beetle.
• protection.
• </c> critical to both industry and consumer critical to both industry and consumer protection.<00:55:
• Um I think we would stand in protection.
• </c> support the intent of protecting support the intent of protecting livestock<00:57:23.040><c> from

Bills: HB1602 , HB2246 , HB1707 , HB2216 , HB2594 , HB2595 , HB2155 , HB2113 , HB2207 , HB1832 , HB2015 , HB2152 , HB2548

Committees: House Agriculture & Food Systems , House Agriculture and Environment

Keywords: agriculture, grant specialist, financial support, farmers, Hawaii, federal grants, grant administration, revolving fund, department of agriculture and biosecurity, grant compliance, transportation, reimbursement, food security, local production, sustainability, agricultural loans, financing, Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, Hawaii agriculture, loan portfolio

Bills: HB586 , SB107 , HB619 , HB586 , SB107 , HB619

Committee: House Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Keywords: HB586, Cullman, Cullman County, City of Cullman, annexation, municipal boundaries, corporate limits, local legislation, boundary adjustment, city limits, municipal expansion, zoning, municipal services, property tax, land use, metes and bounds, Alabama Highway 157, Judge of Probate, SSUT, simplified sellers use tax

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• Members, Senate Bill 2102 increases transparency and improves disclosures for consumers.
• License, and so things like line sanitation, protection of water safety, and water quality are part of
• What we would call consumer protections.
• Senate Bill 592 creates a market-based solution to help protect our wholesalers.
• Consumers are misled by some websites that imply they are owning the tickets.

Bills: SB1241 , SB1242 , SB1442 , SB1592 , SB1623 , SB1625 , SB1913 , SB1940 , SB1949 , SB2102 , SB592 , SB992

Committee: Senate Business and Insurance

Keywords: ticket sales, resale, consumer protection, fraud, bots, transparency, refunds, event tickets, medical marijuana, cannabis, marijuana license, commercial grower, grow operation, bond requirement, land reclamation fee, revolving fund, environmental remediation, redevelopment, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, OMMA