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• It expands the teacher incentive allotment to strengthen our educator workforce, ensuring more of our
• HB 2 doubles the college, career and military readiness outcomes bonus. for students receiving special
• It's already ready to have with the things that you need to program it.
• We put a lot of kids out into the workforce.
• I'm the Director of Education and Workforce Policy at Texas 2036.

Bills: HB2, HB2

Keywords: public education, teacher compensation, certification, funding, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace

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• There was a workforce shortage in Hawaii.
• There was a workforce shortage in Hawaii.
• There was a workforce shortage in Hawaii.
• There was a workforce shortage in Hawaii.
• There was a workforce shortage in Hawaii.

Keywords: House Agenda:, 910, house, all

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• Y'all ready? Let's do this. All right. Panel number two. Issue number two.
• And Department of DSS, you may begin when you are ready. Okay.
• You may begin when you're ready. Okay.
• You may begin when you're ready. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
• You may begin when you're ready. Sure.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• workforce participation among women. workforce participation among women.
• ,<00:09:44.000> and<00:09:44.240> we<00:09:44.480> stand<00:09:44.880> ready
• <00:09:45.120> to to this matter, and we stand ready to to this matter, and we stand ready
• <00:10:07.040> And well-being in the public workforce.
• And well-being in the public workforce.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee met with a quorum, approved the minutes, and then took up several administrative regulations. The first was an Office of the Attorney General regulation creating an online submission process for an annual certification report to replace prior quarterly notarized certification forms; there were no amendments or questions. The main discussion centered on Personnel Cabinet regulations 101 KAR 2:034, 2:102, 3:015, and 3:045, which include staff-suggested technical amendments and address state employee compensation and leave. The compensation provisions clarify salary and rehiring/demotion rules, increase critical position premiums from one to three, and update weekend premium and ACE award practices. The leave provisions would provide up to six weeks of paid leave per 10-year interval for birth, adoption, foster placement, or a serious health condition, and allow one paid adverse-weather day per year with supervisor approval. Staff explained that annual and sick leave already accrue and roll over, and that the new six-week benefit was intended as an additional enhancement tied to the 10-year and 20-year sick-leave milestones.

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• readiness opportunities.
• to high school... ...from school readiness to high school graduation to workforce credentials.
• Immigrants have been a big part of the workforce, the economy.
• Are you ready for the Colorado channel? You ready? One, two, three: “Happy birthday, Colorado!”
• Ready? Ready? Ready? Madam Speaker, I move the House adjourn. [cheering] at the hour of 7:17...

Keywords: 981, all

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• And I'm ready to take any questions that you have. Do you have anything to add?
• It needs to be actionable and ready for real-world implementation.
• All right, ready for me to jump in? Thank you.
• Rounds three was launch ready, four was children, and then five was crisis.
• When you're ready. Great. Marlene Press, Department of Health Care Services.

Summary: The subcommittee heard presentations from the Department of State Hospitals (DSH), the Commission for Behavioral Health, and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) on budget proposals and implementation updates. DSH outlined its proposed 2026-27 budget, including funding for patient operating expenses, IST solutions savings, conditional release program costs, LPS bed allocation changes, electrical infrastructure projects at Napa and Patton, SB 380 transitional housing feasibility work, and expanded dental services at Metropolitan and Patton. DSH also reported that it has met court-ordered IST treatment benchmarks in the Stiavedi v. Clinton case, with average time to initiate treatment down to about five days and pending placements reduced to roughly 250, while noting that Proposition 36 could increase referrals and SB 1323 may divert some individuals earlier into community-based treatment. Members asked about rising outside hospitalization costs, Medicare enrollment, the timing and structure of capital projects, and whether IST solution funds are being fully used; DSH said the savings reflect slower-than-expected ramp-up of community programs and that the Central California FACT replacement program is still on track for January 2027 activation. The Commission for Behavioral Health described its role under the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA), including data, evaluation, grantmaking, technical assistance, and transparency work. It highlighted the new statewide Innovation Partnership Fund, a five-year, $20 million-per-year program with small and large grant categories; the first RFA drew strong interest, with more than 400 questions and over 1,000 bidders’ conference participants. The Commission also discussed a proposed extension to spend down about $4.1 million remaining for the Alcove Youth Drop-in Center grants so sites can finish implementation and Stanford can complete the final evaluation. Members asked about grant duration, whether projects can be renewed, what qualifies as innovation, and whether the fund could support service delivery rather than awareness campaigns or training; the Commission said awards are expected to be three-year contracts and that proposals must be new or meaningfully expanded approaches that support BHSA priority populations. DHCS reviewed major behavioral health changes under CalAIM and BH Connect, including peer support, mobile crisis, contingency management, traditional health care practices for tribal members, updated specialty mental health access criteria, and new substance use treatment standards based on ASAM’s fourth edition. DHCS reported strong contingency management results, with more than 13,000 members served and 95% testing negative for stimulant use during treatment, and said 21 Indian health care providers have been approved to offer traditional health care practices. It also described BH Connect initiatives such as the $1.9 billion access reform and outcomes incentive program, workforce investments, evidence-based practice expansion, IMD participation by four counties, and transitional rent services. On BHSA implementation, DHCS said it is not tracking individual county contract cuts but is monitoring county plans and statewide outcomes, while stakeholders raised concerns about local prevention and service gaps. DHCS also outlined its H.R. 1 implementation strategy, including outreach, streamlined renewals, exemptions for disabled, substance use, and medically frail individuals, and proposed clinic navigator and outreach funding; it said it has not yet produced a focused estimate of H.R. 1 impacts on behavioral health populations. The discussion ended with DHCS noting that B-CHIP bond funding has supported 437 infrastructure projects, creating 546 new or expanded facilities and more than 9,500 residential beds across the state.

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• THESE CHANGES SUPPORT FLORIDA'S COMMITMENT TO ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND WORKFORCE READINESS.
• NURSING PROGRAM TO BE USED FOR HEALTHCARE RELATED INDUSTRY PROGRAMS DIRECTING FUNDS TO CRITICAL WORKFORCE
• ALSO STRENGTHENS THE EQUITY FOR RESEARCH REGARDING FLORIDA'S MARITIME INDUSTRY WORKFORCE.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• I'm ready, though, to answer any questions.
• gt; [laughter] >> [laughter] >> Complicated.<00:12:46.040> I'm<00:12:46.240> ready
• They've gained supervised agricultural experiences that will prepare them for the workforce.
• the workforce. the workforce.
• agricultural workforce faces significant shortages.<00:36:52.120> Expanding<00:36:52.760>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• will not have the healthcare workforce will not have the healthcare workforce we<01:01:14.000>
• <01:03:04.160> in train the future healthcare workforce in train the future healthcare workforce
• This is diversify the future workforce.
• ><01:03:49.000> without statewide workforce strategy and without statewide workforce strategy
• Urban teaching hospitals are the workforce engine for rural Minnesota.

Bills: HF4343

Keywords: sales tax, use tax, advertising tax, taxable services, digital advertising, online marketing, marketing services, search engine marketing, lead generation, internet advertising, ad agency, media buying, campaign planning, Minnesota tax law, service tax, broadening tax base, web advertising, promotional services, 1183, house

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• Thank you for being here, and you can proceed when you're ready. also set to offer some testimony and
• alongside Ai and addressing Workforce alongside Ai and addressing Workforce shortages<00:18:15.400
• Create a worker-centered workforce development and training system.
• Create a worker-centered workforce development and training system.
• Create a worker-centered workforce development and training system.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Senator Hinojosa, if you're ready, we'll recognize you on House Bill 4848. Thank you, Chairman.
• I'm always ready to help. Mr.
• Senator Middleton, if you're ready... We will recognize you on House Bill 824. Thank you, Mr.
• House Bill 824 seeks to strengthen civics readiness among Texas high school students.
• Are we ready? Senator West. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• Are these destroying our workforce like the President says?
• Are these destroying our workforce like the President says?
• Are these destroying our workforce like the President says?
• Are these destroying our workforce like the President says?
• READINESS OF OUR ARMED FORCES.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• Another measure they will look at is the associated measure of academic or workforce success.
• Secretary will call the roll when ready. Secretary will call the roll when ready.
• From March 2020 until April 2021, the Workforce Commission reported over $400 million in benefits on
• We can continue through the interim to monitor the data that the Workforce Commission has given us.
• They're ready to go to work using 21st-century forensic tools that can deliver justice faster.

Summary: The Senate opened with an invocation by Pastor Tedrick Woods, followed by routine chamber actions including excusing Senator Gutierrez and receiving House messages that the House had passed HB 21 and HB 49. Senators also recognized advocates visiting the gallery on focal segmental glomerulosclerosis awareness and introduced the Doctor of the Day. The chamber adopted several resolutions, including HCR 66, by voice vote. The Senate then took up and passed a series of measures, often by suspending the regular order and the constitutional three-day rule. Among the bills finally passed were HJR 2, which would prohibit state death taxes; HB 206, limiting counties from requiring cash bonds for pipeline construction; HB 517, barring property owners associations from fining homeowners for discolored vegetation during watering restrictions; HB 2756, requiring TDCJ correctional officers to receive de-escalation and behavioral health training; HB 451, expanding screening for commercial sexual exploitation risk among children in DFPS and TJJD custody; SB 705, cleaning up the air conditioning and refrigeration contractors advisory board; SB 2017, creating an offense for burnouts and wheelies; SB 1858, expanding body armor grant eligibility to ISDs; SB 1400, directing a study on transfer-student outcomes for community college funding; SB 2764, requiring notice to manufactured home buyers about converting homes to real property; SB 748, a licensing cleanup bill on laser hair removal; SB 2519, restricting certain ad valorem tax uses and bonds after amendment; SB 2878, the courts bill with amendments on Brazoria County courts and youth diversion provisions; SB 466, allowing families to request fetal death certificates at any gestational age; SB 1608, requiring timely physical exams for inpatient mental health admissions; SB 1730, limiting civil damages claims arising from certain uses of force or deadly force; SB 2417, clarifying Attorney General antitrust investigation work product and discovery rules; and SB 1946, creating a family violence, criminal homicide prevention task force. The Senate also passed HB 3204, renaming and updating the Polytechnic College at Sam Houston State University, and SB 1986, requiring opioid warning labels. Several bills drew brief debate or amendments. Senators discussed broader HOA reform while considering HB 517, and SB 2203 on TCEQ discovery procedures was amended to require party motions, set a 15-day expiration for certified issues, and limit hearing abatement. SB 2017 was amended to change the mens rea language from knowingly to intentional. SB 2519 was narrowed by amendment to a forward-looking policy statement separating maintenance-and-operation taxes from debt-service taxes. SB 2878 also received amendments to reduce the number of new Brazoria County courts and add youth diversion and crisis-response provisions. SB 466 prompted a floor debate over whether fetal death certificates are appropriate for pre-20-week losses, with supporters emphasizing family closure and opponents arguing the document has no estate-related purpose. SB 1730 also prompted questions about the relationship between criminal findings and civil liability in self-defense cases. The session concluded with additional House and Senate measures being signed in the presence of the Senate and continued consideration of SB 2177, a grant program to help local law enforcement solve violent and sexual offenses.

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• Are you ready? No, that's okay because Farrington's not here. Yeah, we have the best alma mater.
• teacher-requested classroom supplies for fiscal year 2025 and 2026, as well as 2027. are you are you ready
• 43.879> no<00:00:44.039> that's<00:00:44.280> okay<00:00:44.559> because ready
• no that's okay because ready no that's okay because farrington's<00:00:45.360> not<00:00:45.600
• <00:08:19.840> so<00:08:20.680> even don't have an educated Workforce so even don't

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• Are you ready for the question? All 685. Are you ready for the question?
• Are you ready for the question, 381. Are you ready for the question, Senator<01:44:34.800> Ganon?
• Are you ready for the question?
• Are you ready for the discussion? Are you ready for the question? question? question?
• Are you ready for the Are you ready for the question?

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• To ensure that everyone is ready to speak, we limit testimony to three minutes per individual.
• . course. ...job, and save the Commonwealth money and grow the workforce.
• It saves money, it better integrates people back into a free society, and it expands the workforce.
• For one, businesses can't afford to exclude great talent from the workforce.
• Okay, we get to go ready. The act to study the delivery of care.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a wide range of criminal justice, victim services, and records-sealing bills. Early testimony focused on H.1811, the Clean Slate automated record-sealing bill, with supporters arguing that automatic sealing after existing waiting periods would remove barriers to jobs, housing, and education without changing eligibility rules. Advocates from legal aid, business, and housing organizations said the current petition-based system is underused, burdensome, and costly, while opponents of expanding surveillance-related laws urged the committee to preserve privacy protections. The committee also heard testimony on H.1693, which would immediately seal records in cases ending without conviction and clarify the presumption of innocence, with speakers describing how dismissed cases still create lasting collateral consequences and prevent people from moving forward. No votes were taken during the hearing. Several bills centered on victim safety and domestic violence. Senator Michael Moore testified for S.1201, which would keep child-protective orders in effect even if the parent or guardian who filed them dies, and for S.1204, which would update the wiretap statute. Multiple survivors and advocates supported S.1215 and S.1222, arguing for a narrow wiretap defense for recordings made to document threats or abuse and for making GPS tampering a separate felony offense. Testifiers described situations in which GPS devices were cut off or disabled and said current law leaves victims at risk and gives abusers too much leeway. The committee also heard emotional testimony on H.1685/S.1238, a bill prompted by the suicide of Stavri Yanka in custody, with the sponsor, his mother, and the sheriff describing the need for better information-sharing so suicide-risk information follows a person into custody. Law enforcement and prosecutors supported several due-process and dangerousness-related bills. MassCOP, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, and the State Police Association backed H.1828/S.1039/S.1235, which would require de novo Superior Court review for POST Commission suspensions over two weeks or decertifications, arguing officers need a meaningful appeal beyond administrative review. The committee also heard support for H.1691, expanding the dangerousness statute to additional offenses; Bristol County District Attorney Quinn said the changes would let prosecutors seek detention in serious cases such as child rape and manslaughter when facts warrant it. In contrast, the Committee for Public Counsel Services opposed expanding dangerousness detention, warning that pretrial detention causes serious harms and disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic defendants. The hearing also included testimony on H.1654/S.1063 to enhance victims’ rights and H.1525, which would rename and expand community corrections into community justice programs, with supporters emphasizing reentry, reduced stigma, and broader service access.

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• The requested amount demonstrates the need based on an existing wait list of households ready to purchase
• The requested amount demonstrates the need based on an existing wait list of households ready to purchase
• Senator Abeler, as you are ready, you may begin. Well, thank you very much, Madam Chair.
• Senator Muhammad, when you are ready, you may begin.
• workforce um and housing solutions. workforce um and housing solutions.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Workforce in the field doing the work of Workforce in the field doing the work of con<00:46:23.640>
• <00:49:10.480> committee testified in house Workforce committee testified in house Workforce
• And that’s when we have to be ready to work together.
• And that’s when we have to be ready to work together.
• And that’s when we have to be ready to work together.

Bills: HF1704

Keywords: Minnesota agriculture budget, Department of Agriculture appropriation, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, farm bill, rural development, agricultural grants, soil health, livestock compensation, crop damage, meat inspection, poultry inspection, county agricultural inspectors, biofertilizer, nitrogen management, commercial nitrogen fertilizer, water quality, farm down payment assistance, beginning farmers

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• Senators, are you ready to take the oath of office? Then raise your right hand.
• Governor Abbott, I'm honored to tell you that the Senate is organized, as always, and we are ready to
• We're ready to go to work. You give us the direction, we're ready to go.
• We're ready to go. And I will also... Those emergency orders. We're ready to go.
• Brandon, are you ready? And I think they'd love to hear that story of the Bible, too.

Bills: SCR7

Keywords: legislature, adjournment, permissions, Texas Constitution, session, legislative authority

Summary: The Texas Senate convened for the opening of the 89th Legislature with an invocation, roll call, and certification of the newly elected senators. Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock administered the oath of office to the senators-elect, and Governor Greg Abbott and First Lady Cecilia Abbott addressed the chamber, emphasizing priorities such as foster care, the budget, border security, school choice, and maintaining Texas’s economic growth and constitutional principles. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick also welcomed members and guests, noted the Senate’s bipartisan culture, and highlighted the chamber’s organization for the session. The Senate then held its organizational election for President Pro Tempore. Senator Tan Parker nominated Senator Brandon Creighton, and Senator Paul Bettencourt seconded the nomination, both praising Creighton’s background, legislative record, and leadership. The chamber voted by standing vote to elect Creighton, who was then escorted to the front and sworn in as President Pro Tempore by State Minister Scott Wall. Creighton delivered remarks about his family, his time as a Senate messenger, and his priorities for the session, including education, border issues, energy, and Texas sovereignty. After the leadership election, the Senate adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 7, granting permission for either house to adjourn for more than three days during the specified January period. The resolution passed by a recorded vote of 31 ayes and no nays. The Senate then adopted a motion by Senator Zaffirini to recess until 11 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15, after a caucus at 10 a.m. in the Betty King Room.

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• Career readiness is everything we do at the youth farm, from being on time, following work rules, getting
• Hello again, and I will be talking about workforce development, as I already said, about career readiness
• Hello again, and I will be talking about workforce development, as I already said, about the career readiness

Bills: S0534, S7020

Keywords: food insecurity, hunger, college students, nutrition assistance, pilot program, open government, sunset review, aquaculture, public records, exemption

Summary: The committee met, called the roll, and opened with the Pledge of Allegiance. It first considered the appointment of Melanie Ressler to the Florida Citrus Commission. No appearance forms were requested, and the committee voted unanimously to recommend her confirmation favorably. The committee then took up SPB 7020, which reenacts a public records exemption for certain aquaculture production records held by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Senator Trunow explained that the exemption protects shellfish and submerged land lease records, supports compliance with federal partners and statutory requirements, and helps protect marketplace competition. A representative from the Department appeared in support, and the bill was moved as a committee bill and reported favorably. Next, the committee heard SB 534, Senator Bernard’s hunger-free campus pilot program bill. He described a pilot within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to identify campuses with high numbers of Pell-eligible students, develop a survey with the Hunger Task Force, designate staff to help students enroll in SNAP, expand campus food access, and require reporting on outcomes and future funding. The bill had one appearance form in support and was reported favorably without debate. The committee also received a presentation from the St. Pete Youth Farm, led by Carla Bristol and youth ambassadors. They described the farm as a youth-led community project on city-owned land that addresses food insecurity while providing leadership, financial literacy, career readiness, mental wellness programming, composting, aquaponics, and community events. Senators praised the program, asked about possible expansion into a culinary kitchen and partnerships with schools, and the presenters said they hope to expand youth opportunities, food preparation training, and related programming. The meeting concluded with adjournment.