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• , non-practitioners facilities, medical facilities.
• In that facility, in that case, if somebody comes into an ambulatory facility and the facility said,
• because it's a licensed facility.
• because it's a licensed facility.
• This applies to the facilities alone. This applies to the facilities alone. Any other questions?

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness, a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and a remembrance of former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. The chamber then moved to special order bills. CS/HB 687 on transportation offenses involving death was substituted for SB 138, amended to add warnings and penalties for refusal of breath or urine tests, and passed 37-0. CS/SB 306 on Medicaid providers, requiring broader after-hours access and network availability for Medicaid enrollees, also passed 37-0. The Senate then took up CS/CS/HB 913 on condominium associations, a major post-Surfside reform bill. Senator Bradley explained that the measure was intended to provide financial relief and flexibility while preserving safety and accountability. The bill was substituted for SB 1742, amended several times to limit milestone inspections and structural integrity reserve studies to buildings three habitable stories or more, and then passed 37-0 after extensive debate. Senators from both parties praised Bradley, Pizzo, Garcia, and staff for years of work on condo safety and affordability, with several members describing the bill as a balance between protecting residents and avoiding financial hardship. The final major item was CS/HB 1205, the bill on amendments to the state constitution and citizen petition drives. Sponsors Gates and Grohl argued the bill was needed to combat fraud, identity theft, and misuse in the petition process, citing a lengthy Office of Election Crimes and Security report. The House bill was substituted for SB 7016, and the chamber considered a long series of amendments and substitute amendments addressing petition circulator registration, volunteer participation, submission deadlines, invalid-signature thresholds, voter notification, and fiscal impact statements. Several amendments were adopted, while others were debated over whether they would protect access to the citizen initiative process or strengthen election integrity. The transcript ends during debate on the main substitute amendment, before final disposition on the bill is shown.

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• We're modernizing our truck station facilities.
• Uh the important work that maintenance.
• Um, we have a little station facilities.
• our local communities afford maintenance our local communities afford maintenance on<01:02:36.880
• So, thank you facilities.

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• no rate changes or anything like that, but it just protects the tenants and the renters of these facilities
• c> from<00:14:03.639> paying<00:14:03.920> a<00:14:04.120> personal uh facilities
• from paying a personal uh facilities from paying a personal property property property tax<00:14:06.920
• The other one is personal consumption—haircuts, funerals—and then automobile repair and maintenance.
• and if you look at these maintenance and if you look at these other<00:30:32.760> three<00:30

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• County facilities and maintained by County Associates.
• We are trying to pursue our first public rodeo facility.
• We are doing facility plans for each of our four regional treatment facilities, and each of these facility
• facilities and each Regional treatment facilities and each of<00:29:10.559> these<00:29:10.840
• > facility<00:29:11.399> plans<00:29:12.039> costs of these facility plans costs

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• , non-practitioners facilities, medical facilities.
• fields, and similar facilities.
• In that facility, in that case, if somebody comes into an ambulatory facility and the facility said,
• facility.
• A facility is a licensed facility that is owned by...

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness, and a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange. Senators also paid tribute to former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron with a moment of silence. The chamber then moved to special-order bills after routine announcements that no committee reports, governor’s messages, or House messages were on the desk. The first major bill, SB 138/HB 687 on transportation offenses involving death, increased penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide offenses and added warnings and misdemeanor penalties for refusing lawful breath or urine tests. After a brief amendment and questions about attorney rights and prior impairing-substance language, the bill passed 37-0. SB 306 on Medicaid providers followed, requiring broader provider access, including after-hours availability and more primary care access for Medicaid enrollees; it also passed 37-0. The chamber then took up the major condominium reform bill, SB 1742/HB 913, addressing post-Surfside safety, reserve funding, milestone inspections, budgeting, reserve flexibility, manager regulation, conflicts of interest, and condo sale rescission periods. Senators from both parties praised the sponsors for extensive stakeholder work and the bill passed 37-0 after multiple amendments. The final major item was SB 7016/HB 1205 on constitutional amendments and petition-gathering rules, with sponsors arguing the bill was needed to combat fraud in the 2024 petition process and opponents warning it would burden citizen initiatives. The Senate adopted the House bill and then considered numerous amendments on petition circulator rules, submission deadlines, invalid-signature thresholds, voter notification, and related enforcement provisions; several amendments were adopted, and the substitute was later withdrawn, leaving the chamber to continue on the underlying bill and remaining amendments.

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• Regards to um deferred maintenance at this point, we have a lot of deferred maintenance. Thank you.
• Uh, to really upgrade our facility and we're really excited about launching that new facility.
• We have the new meat facilities.
• So we've done it in the past, but the facilities there, the old meat science facility was so wore out
• that we've, you know, we're demolishing that and have the new facility.

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• We are very interested in seeing them develop medical facilities. Medical facilities.
• It's an old shopping center site that's vacant, as a health care facility.
• It's already an FTC; it's already got the intermodal UP facility there.
• We've got everybody on a maintenance scale.
• We've got everybody on a maintenance scale.

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• The first bill I ever did in the House was in this room, and it was this transportation facility designation
• This bill creates honorary designations for various transportation facilities across the state.
• This bill creates honorary designations for various transportation facilities across the state.
• ... ...number provided water service to City B, but those water facilities were actually in City B.
• The city of Bluntstown's largest electric customer is Calhoun Correctional Facility.

Summary: The Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee met with a quorum present and considered five bills. The first, PCS for HB 987, was an honorary transportation facility designation bill naming several roads and an overpass for fallen officers, a military service member, and first responders. An amendment added the Sheriff Gary S. Borders Memorial Highway designation in Lake County. Members offered supportive remarks, and the bill passed 17-0. The committee then heard HB 703, which would require authorities such as FDOT or local governments to pay the costs when they require telecom providers to relocate infrastructure from public rights-of-way. Support came from Charter Communications, Associated Industries of Florida, and Florida Internet and Television, with discussion focused on the communication services tax and the cost burden of relocations. The bill passed unanimously 18-0. HB 1523 followed, addressing municipal utilities serving customers outside their boundaries by requiring public meetings, annual reporting, limits on transfers to general revenue, and reduced or eliminated surcharges for outside-boundary customers. Municipal utility representatives opposed parts of the bill, citing rural impacts, debt obligations, and the need for a glide path, while supporters argued for transparency and fairness to ratepayers outside municipal boundaries. An amendment changed a reporting date to January 31, 2026, and the bill passed 14-4. HB 867 established a legal framework for commuter rail operations along Florida’s coastal corridor, including insurance and indemnification arrangements for Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties using the Florida East Coast Railway right-of-way. An amendment clarified that Florida East Coast Railway and Brightline are not state entities and do not have sovereign immunity unless expressly provided by law. The bill passed 18-0. Finally, HB 1137 clarified a prior energy preemption law by adding boards, agencies, commissions, and authorities of counties and municipal corporations to the entities covered, aimed at preventing discriminatory energy-source practices by an appointed board. Public testimony included support from the Florida Natural Gas Association and the Florida Home Builders Association and opposition from Florida Student Power. Members noted the bill was a cleanup measure, and it passed favorably.

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• ,<01:26:27.440> repair bill we have regular maintenance, repair bill we have regular maintenance
• , we state that these regular maintenance, we state that these regular maintenance, repair<01:26:
• <01:27:09.360> that be considered routine maintenance that be considered routine maintenance
• And so they have asked for a tax exemption to support their facility there.
• And it's a very facility there.

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• operation and equipment maintenance operation and equipment maintenance needs<00:04:21.239> along
• ,<00:36:34.400> paying<00:36:34.680> 97% facility, paying 97% facility, paying 97% of<00
• this indispensable facility. this indispensable facility.
• We don't have funding in the current CIP to build a new facility.
• Facility.

Bills: HF4841, HF4234, HF3697

Keywords: Hennepin County, sales tax, health care facilities, ballpark improvements, tax revenue, HF4234, Minnesota private activity bonds, tax-exempt bonds, bond cap, aggregate bond limitation, residential rental projects, multifamily housing, affordable housing finance, housing bonds, public finance, bond allocation, private activity bond cap, Minnesota Statutes 474A.02, tax committee, tax refund

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• I can tell you that I am got You know, if we don't have those drainage facilities incorporated at the
• There needs to be some routine maintenance done on these fences.
• about coming out and fixing problem areas if we report them, but there needs to be more routine maintenance
• The BLM and Solemn Water They have been addressing wind breaks, vegetative cover, maintenance, and operations
• to do this: people who travel this road often, please put up a sign and say there's no water, no facilities

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• enables CPR to efficiently, transparently, cost-effectively expedite smaller-scale construction, maintenance
• enables CPR to efficiently, transparently, cost-effectively expedite smaller-scale construction, maintenance
• continued to mature over the years, we now have a number of projects that are getting into a routine maintenance
• continued to mature over the years, we now have a number of projects that are getting into a routine maintenance
• services in lieu of possibly more expensive emergency room departments and psychiatric inpatient facilities

Bills: HB12, HB145, HB222, HB291, HB430, HB821, HB874, HB909, HB951, HB979, HB1193

Keywords: survivor benefits, law enforcement, reserve officer, auxiliary officer, public safety, firefighters, medical expenses, dental expenses, disability benefits, Medicaid, dental coverage, healthcare access, medical necessity, Louisiana Department of Health, health insurance, provider agreements, contracting actions, participating facilities, network status, survivors benefits

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• Pazina, makes an appropriation to the Other State Education Programs Account for the creation and maintenance
• Bill 182, introduced by Senator Wynn, revises provisions relating to the staffing of health care facilities
• Pazina, makes an appropriation to the Other State Education Programs Account for the creation and maintenance
• Pizzina, makes an appropriation to the other state education programs account for the creation and maintenance
• Pizzina makes an appropriation to the other state education programs account for the creation and maintenance

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• <00:31:29.440> organizations<00:31:30.240> that<00:31:30.559> provide maintenance
• organizations that provide maintenance organizations that provide coverage<00:31:31.200> for<
• <00:32:45.360> organization<00:32:45.919> and and health maintenance organization and
• and health maintenance organization and Medicaid<00:32:46.720> managed<00:32:47.200> care<
• 293, Senator Jackson, professional liability insurance coverage, nursing homes, assisted living facilities

Keywords: Senate streaming session for Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 960, senate, all

Summary: The Senate convened with an invocation, quorum call, and several introductions recognizing guests, including Reverend Jennifer Carsner and her daughter, President Kirk Schmoke, representatives from Maryland independent colleges and universities, students from Stevenson University, Howard and Anne Arundel counties, Washington College, a constituent, and the Greater Washington, D.C.-Maryland chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The chamber also adopted a resolution honoring Damatha Catholic High School for winning the 2025 WCAC football championship and another recognizing the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce on its 100th anniversary. Both resolutions were adopted unanimously after brief remarks and roll calls. The Senate then took up executive nominations, separating nominee 16 from the main report. The chamber voted 42 in favor on the remaining nominations and then 42 in favor on nominee 16, giving all nominees the Senate’s advice and consent. On third reading, the Senate passed several bills, including SB 46, SB 25, SB 58, SB 163, SB 170, SB 188, SB 247, SB 356, and SB 379, with recorded affirmative votes ranging from 36 to 42. These measures covered topics such as veterans cemeteries, tax credits and tax modifications, education funding, transportation revenue bonds, biotechnology incentives, a stillborn child tax credit, and recovery residence grant funding. The chamber also advanced numerous second-reading bills, generally adopting committee reports and amendments without objection. Among the measures discussed were collective bargaining for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission police officers; adoption of the 2022 Uniform Commercial Code amendments for controllable electronic records; cemetery sale and transfer oversight; an additional license for electronic smoking devices; collective bargaining for Baltimore County Public Library supervisory employees; payroll processor exemptions under the Money Transmission Act; scalp cooling coverage for chemotherapy patients; orthoses and prostheses coverage under health and Medicaid plans; an online database of elevator inspection certificates; service animal program disqualification standards; extension of the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists; disclosure of lapsed professional liability insurance for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and nurse midwives; and revisions to massage therapy licensure rules. Most reports were favorable, with several technical or substantive amendments adopted and bills ordered printed for third reading. A notable policy discussion occurred on SB 56, which would allow the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center to share individual-level student and workforce data with a third-party data center for multi-state reporting. The sponsor explained the bill as a way to compare Maryland outcomes with other states while using data-sharing agreements and oversight to protect privacy; a minority whip raised concerns about the type of third-party data center and whether the practice was new. The sponsor said the bill was intended to formalize and safeguard data sharing, and noted a technical amendment would be offered to correct the amendment language.

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• SB 606, drug treatment facilities, two-year bill.
• SB 404, Caballero, metal shredding facilities, do pass with author amendments to, among other things,
• SB 582, Stern, care facilities licensing during disaster, do pass out on an A roll call.
• SB 364, Strickland, outdoor advertising display, do pass as amended to strike the customary maintenance
• SB 433, Wahab, residential care facilities for the elderly, held in committee.

Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee held its August 29, 2025 suspense hearing on Senate bills, with the chair emphasizing the state’s ongoing budget constraints and the need to make difficult choices among 261 bills on the suspense file. After establishing a quorum, the committee began taking action bill by bill, with many measures receiving do pass or do pass with amendments recommendations, while others were held in committee or designated as two-year bills. The chair noted the agenda was organized alphabetically by author and that results would be posted later on the committee website. The hearing covered a wide range of topics, including insurance and claims data, wildfire relief and prevention, water planning, energy and utility regulation, housing and land use, health care, labor and employment, criminal justice, education, environmental policy, and election-related measures. Several bills were amended before passage, often to narrow scope, remove sections, adjust definitions, delay implementation, or clarify funding and enforcement provisions. Some notable actions included moving bills on AI regulation, transit-oriented housing, paid family leave, wildfire mapping, chemical hair relaxers, and pharmacy benefit managers, while other bills on subjects such as controlled substances, high-speed rail, and certain education or housing proposals were held. The committee also took formal roll-call votes on selected bills, with some passing on A roll calls and others on B roll calls; a number of measures were advanced with Republicans not voting. One highlighted vote was SB 79 by Senator Wiener, which passed after amendments and a recorded roll call. At the end of the hearing, the committee reported that 190 bills were moved to the Assembly Floor, either as do pass or do pass with amendments, concluding the suspense hearing for the session.

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• Item two discusses DPS facilities.
• Funding for the Williamson County Training Academy facility represents the largest decrease at 381.5
• DPS is exceptional item requests for the construction of these facilities, 158 million and 231 million
• across the board, but we don't have the, we don't, we have the capacity, but we don't have the facilities
• Uh, the two big facility issues, uh, I think are very well with the El Paso, but, um, I'm more familiar

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• This funding was appropriated for cleanup activities at the Exide facility.
• As a brief explanation on the Exide facility, because I think it's been a while since we visited this
• , the state has provided approximately $573 million from the general fund to clean the Exide facility
• over 3,000 residential properties within 1.7 miles of the former Exide lead acid battery recycling facility
• This was a facility that was operating under various permits and polluted.

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• The continued funding for that facility.
• Some of our agencies include facilities.
• Facilities Commission, Texas Southern University, Health and Human Services.
• We don't have facilities, we don't need a lot of computer systems and things like that.
• Well, we have 30 other non- non-profits in our facility, which includes Central Health, which includes

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• or a federal facility; it also must be town-owned.
• - and city-owned facilities.
• or a federal facility; it also must be town-owned.
• work together with the facility work together with the facility is<00:43:25.440> the<00:43
• it's any town or city-owned facility it's any town or city-owned facility within<00:48:13.920>

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• the same as the detention facilities.
• from the state, and now every child falls under the detention facilities.
• Facilities.
• It just causes problems on common corporate services such as financial, legal, and maintenance.
• Financial, legal, and maintenance processes. With that, Mr.

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