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• Originally, when the other body sent this to us, it had all forecast articles on K-12, human services
• This had been included in the services.
• Our schools, our human services, it.
• It will restore choice, allow access for those individuals that need services when they need the services
• services when they need the services. services when they need the services.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House first adopted a conference committee report on House File 3900, a constitutional amendment related to state government and school trust lands. Members from both parties praised the work on the bill and said the conference committee returned a clean version of the House-passed measure. The report was adopted without opposition, and the bill was repassed as amended by conference on a 134-0 roll call. The chamber then took up Senate File 4282, a forecast-adjustments bill covering K-12 education, human services, children and families, and transportation. Representative Youakim explained that the conference report restored all four forecast articles plus several no-cost education items, including school fund transfers, utility-payment authority, a paraprofessional licensing clarification, a grant extension, and school trust lands language. Representative Mueller moved to refuse adoption, arguing the report had become a catchall and omitted agreed-upon literacy language; that motion failed 62-72. The House then adopted the conference report, and the bill was repassed as amended by conference on a 94-37 vote. Next, the House concurred in Senate amendments to House File 4138, the social media bill aimed at restricting addictive social media harms for minors. The Senate had removed House “threat alert” language, and the author said that was the only substantive difference. Supporters said the bill would protect kids online and require parental permission for social media accounts for children 15 and under. The House concurred and repassed the bill as amended by the Senate on a 131-2 vote. The House then began consideration of Senate File 2373, a labor and industry bill exempting minor league baseball players from minimum wage and overtime requirements. Through a series of amendments, members added provisions on rural cancer research, disability services and employment access, unemployment insurance for certain laid-off Iron Range miners, and agricultural funding items such as depredation, local foods, down payment assistance, and meat processing grants. One proposed amendment to remove the double-fencing requirement for farmed cervidae was strongly opposed as a threat to deer health and was defeated 61-72. The transcript ends during debate on that amendment, before final disposition of the bill is shown.

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• I'm Xander Dawson from the Legislative Counsel Service.
• This is obviously very critical for rural access to psychiatric services.
• It could be within a clinic that offers telehealth services.
• How many are providing services?
• So we're still one of two essentially centers in the state who can perform these services. these services

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• Goods and services will decrease from 180 days to 90 days, reconstructive services will decrease from
• Assembly Bill 747 by Assemblymember Calra, an act related to service of process.
• AB 747 modernizes and standardizes service or process.
• diligence in attempting personal service, and clarifying the timing and method.
• Of challenging defective service, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Our multi-layered approach combines police officers, community service agents, security officers, trip
• collaborative effort between law enforcement, the county attorney, the city attorney, courts, and service
• detailed responses and collaboration to be visible on the system, to help people get connected to services
• there's continued um certainly um you there's continued um certainly um you know<00:23:52.320> trauma
• that continues to be felt know trauma that continues to be felt I'm<00:23:55.039> sure<00:23:

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• cities, By honorable service and humble spirits to bring prosperity to our cities and to our farms.
• We have children that have trauma around firearms.
• We have children that have trauma around firearms.
• We have children that have trauma around police officers.
• Getting ready to be retired is a state representative for many years of service. I am.

Keywords: 959, house, all

Summary: The House opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal for the prior day by a 123-0 roll call vote. Members then used points of personal privilege to recognize National Police Week and honor fallen law enforcement officers with a moment of silence, and several members gave farewell remarks for departing colleagues and interns. The chamber also introduced a number of special guests, including student groups, interns, a former representative, and the University of Missouri wheelchair basketball team. The House then took up Senate messages and committee reports before acting on House Committee Substitute for House Bills 1839, 2921, and 3015. The sponsor explained the Senate amendment was a technical correction to an online age-verification provision related to pornography; the House concurred 104-30 and then finally passed the package 112-25. The chamber also considered the conference committee report on House Bill 2596, which was described as a small-business health plan measure that modernizes pooled-plan language and adds a 12-month contraception coverage provision while removing a Senate-added blood pressure cuff requirement. After debate on the conference report and a severability clause, the House adopted the report 120-26 and then third-read and passed the bill 119-27. Finally, the House debated Senate Bill 905, which would create the Missouri Ranger training program allowing schools to optionally place specially trained personnel with narrow law-enforcement authority on campus. Debate focused heavily on school safety, local control, training standards, liability, funding, and whether the proposal would improve protection or instead increase the presence of guns in schools. Supporters argued it would give districts another optional safety tool, especially where school resource officers are unavailable, while opponents said schools need more mental health and educational resources rather than armed personnel and raised concerns about training, child development, and unintended harm. The House adopted an amendment clarifying the program after a 96-46 vote, but the transcript cuts off before final passage of the bill.

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• services staff.
• services staff. to pay over time for social services staff.
• And we're purchasing their services? They are performing the services for the state.
• It's a new contract for a trauma medical consultant for the trauma system.
• Number eight, DFA Revenue Services with Veteran Cleaning Service for janitorial services in the Ragland

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• I'd like to call a meeting to order of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
• This change is crucial to addressing the workforce shortages and improving access to speech services
• This change is crucial to addressing the workforce shortages and improving access to speech services
• Good morning, Chair Wiklund and members of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
• <00:45:30.880> to within our child welfare services to within our child welfare services to

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Hawaii's health and human services. Hawaii's health and human services.
• services systems. services systems.
• while managing service volume. while managing service volume.
• What I learned, um, providing the service is that no matter what trauma my foster kids went through or
• So ordered. service. Although HA recognizes that service.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• The trauma can be enhanced when the kin caregiver cannot enroll the child in public school.
• placement may enroll a child in school using a letter from the Department of Family and Protective Services
• Senate Bill 226 requires the Department of Family and Protective Services to include in parent-child
• Ultimately, this bill seeks to lessen the trauma of temporary removal for children and provide kin and

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• Services. And we're going to also invite Ms. Rosenberger and Carrie Holler. I'm sorry.
• Hernando Garzan, the chief medical officer of the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is also
• But again, With their local police and emergency services.
• EMSA is one of 12 departments under the Health and Human Services Agency.
• So EMSA is one of 12 departments under the Health and Human Services Agency.

Summary: The committee held a hearing on active and mass shootings in California, focusing on prevention, response, training, communications, and gaps in preparedness across law enforcement, schools, campuses, fire, EMS, and state agencies. Opening remarks emphasized the frequency and impact of gun violence, the need for faster coordinated response, and the importance of learning from recent tragedies such as the Stockton-area mass shooting described by Sheriff Patrick Withrow. The first panel included representatives from police, sheriff, and campus public safety agencies, who discussed incident command, interoperable communications, next-generation 911, threat assessment, emergency notification systems, and the value of joint drills and cross-agency planning. Witnesses also highlighted differences in training and authority across jurisdictions, especially for private university public safety departments versus public campus police. Campus representatives said they rely heavily on municipal law enforcement for armed response, while also using run-hide-fight protocols, text alerts, surveillance, and threat assessment teams. Members raised concerns about standardized training, after-action reviews, mental health resources, school resource officers, and whether campus safety plans and drills are sufficiently consistent or workable. Sheriff Withrow argued that early intervention and accountability are being weakened by well-intentioned laws, while other witnesses stressed prevention through relationships, diversion, and coordinated support services. The second panel from Cal OES, the Department of Education, POST, and EMSA described statewide systems and standards. Cal OES outlined its Reduce the Risk initiative, gun violence restraining orders, mutual aid, unified command, after-action reporting, and nonprofit security grants. The Department of Education explained California’s statutory school safety framework, annual safety plans, regulated armed assailant drills, and local flexibility, while acknowledging compliance gaps and the need for more mental health support. POST described the new requirement for 16 hours of standardized active shooter training for recruits and ongoing local training options. EMSA explained its role in medical response and terrorism training standards. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.

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• It will come out of the driver and vehicle services operating account.
• It will come out of the driver and vehicle services operating account.
• It will come out of the driver and vehicle services operating account.
• It will come out of the driver and vehicle services operating account.
• It will come out of the driver and vehicle services operating account.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Instead, it limits the bar to just Department of Community Based Services employees.
• . services. services.
• or school-based mental health services or school-based mental health services provider<00:16:58.480
• Health Services Committee members, we will not be meeting tomorrow morning.
• like the snowcovered are out of service like the snowcovered solar<00:46:50.079> panels<00:46

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Kentucky Senate convened with an invocation marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, followed by the pledge, roll call, and a quorum declaration. The chamber approved the prior journal, received new bill and resolution introductions, and heard a House message that House Bill 312 had passed the House and was sent over for concurrence. The Senate also recessed briefly for committee meetings, then received committee reports referring several bills and resolutions to standing committees and placing Senate Joint Resolution 23 on the regular orders for January 28, 2026. The main floor action was on Senate Bill 17, relating to the Kentucky Court-appointed Special Advocate Network. The Senate adopted a committee substitute that updated CASA statutes, including reducing the minimum board size from 15 to 12, narrowing a volunteer/employment restriction to Department of Community Based Services employees, removing outdated references to the National CASA Association while retaining compliance with national standards through the Kentucky CASA Network, and updating the state association’s name. The bill passed 33-0, and a title amendment was adopted without objection. The Senate also considered Senate Bill 181, an emergency bill relating to schools and traceable communications. The chamber adopted a committee substitute and two floor amendments: one requiring parent notification after investigations involving alleged unauthorized electronic communication by a student, and another adding limited exemptions for communications involving school resource officers and directors of pupil personnel when certain school officials are included. Supporters said the changes were intended to refine implementation while preserving the bill’s original student-protection purpose. The bill then passed unanimously, 33-0. In addition, the Senate adopted Senate Resolution 36 recognizing January 25-31, 2026 as Physician Anesthesiologist Week, with remarks highlighting the specialty’s contributions to anesthesia, airway management, patient safety, ICU care, pain management, and major surgeries. The Senate also heard announcements thanking road crews, first responders, and utility workers for winter storm response, and members made several co-sponsorship requests and announcements, including notice of Kentucky Audiologist Association advocacy day and a committee cancellation.

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• Up first, we have the Department of Human Services.
• He said protective service workers like child welfare services or social services workers who go check
• believe that um Protective Service believe that um Protective Service workers<01:44:39.679> like
• > or workers like child welfare services or workers like child welfare services or um<01:44:42.760
• We are a direct legal services organization that provides free legal services, similar to a legal aid

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs met on February 19, 2025, and first heard House Bill 150, which would prohibit lending a firearm to someone who does not have a firearm permit or a registered firearm. The Department of Law Enforcement and the Honolulu Police Department supported the bill, though HPD said enforcing any time limit on a loaned firearm would be difficult. Several members of the public opposed the measure, arguing it would interfere with lawful lending for hunting, competitions, training, military-related use, and family situations, and could create unintended criminal liability. One supporter said the bill would strengthen gun safety and encourage more responsible ownership. No vote was taken during the testimony portion described. The committee then heard House Bill 186, which would make harassment by stalking a class C felony. The Office of the Public Defender requested deferral, arguing the bill would remove a misdemeanor option that can help deter escalation and could be unnecessarily severe and burdensome. Honolulu Police Department supported the bill, saying stalking can be a precursor to more serious violence. The Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney raised concerns about how the new felony would fit within the existing grading scheme, noting that aggravated harassment by stalking and first-degree terroristic threatening are already class C felonies. April Bautista testified in strong support, describing her own experience with domestic violence and stalking and urging passage of the bill. Committee members discussed whether other penalty structures might be possible, but no final action was taken in the portion provided. The committee also heard House Bill 991, which would delete the term “agent of the contractor” from criminal history record check provisions to comply with FBI requirements. The Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center supported the bill with comments, explaining that the FBI had found the term too broad for fingerprint-based background checks tied to access to federal tax information. In addition, House Bill 995 was introduced, changing deadlines for annual firearms carry reporting; the Department of the Attorney General supported it, saying the revised deadlines would allow a more complete report, and HPD was also heard on the measure. The transcript ends before any votes or final committee actions on these bills.

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• closing additional services.
• closing additional services.
• c> and<00:29:41.399> are Services are specialty services and are Services are specialty services
• Physician services is a category under federal law of services that they cover.
• human services.

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• Sexual trauma can last a lifetime, impacting entire families and futures.
• Sexual trauma<00:07:40.479> can<00:07:40.720> last<00:07:41.120> a<00:07:41.360>
• lifetime,<00:07:42.319> impacting trauma can last a lifetime, impacting trauma can last

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Department of Health and Human Services Department of Health and Human Services goes<00:07:33.120
• Cook's passion and service within Mr.
• that they need to recover from trauma that they need to recover from trauma and<03:06:26.240>
• ,<03:06:45.279> criminal allow this cycle of trauma, criminal allow this cycle of trauma,
• Service.

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• They recognize that someone else is servicing the portfolio.
• So they're working off that with their servicing center.
• It's interesting; in trauma, what happened is they all turned into... to takeout places, and trauma,
• We provide four main services as an association.
• One is you sell a product or service, and... People pay you for that.

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• That could be better spent on community-responsive services, behavioral health services, peer support
• , and proven community-based services like full-service partnerships with fidelity to ACT. ...that also
• What we would like to see is support services, consistency in enforcement, trauma-informed approaches
• We're talking about the services only, only the services that are not happening right now in our juvenile
• We yearn to be of service.

Summary: The committee heard several public safety measures, with extensive testimony on firearms regulation, disability and sexual assault, mental health diversion, emergency response, and law enforcement masking. SB 704 by Senator Arreguín would require firearm barrels to be purchased through licensed dealers with a background check, as a response to the rise in ghost guns and 3D-printed firearms; supporters said barrels are a key component of untraceable guns, while opponents argued the bill burdens lawful gun owners and does little to stop criminals. SB 258 by Senator Wahab would eliminate the remaining spousal rape exception for victims unable to consent because of disability; supporters called it a needed closure of an archaic loophole, while disability-rights advocates opposed it unless amended, warning it could worsen misunderstandings about capacity to consent and harm disabled people’s autonomy. After debate, SB 258 passed the committee on a due-pass motion to Appropriations, with several members voting aye and the bill held on call. Senator Umberg presented SB 398, which closes a loophole in the law prohibiting paying or offering money or other value to induce someone to vote or register to vote; there was little opposition, and the bill passed on a due-pass motion to Appropriations and was held on call. He also presented SB 27, a CARE Court cleanup measure that would allow certain misdemeanor defendants found incompetent to stand trial to be routed into CARE Court and would expand eligibility to some people with mood disorders with psychotic features. Supporters said it would improve access to treatment and reduce unnecessary incarceration, while county behavioral health directors and disability advocates warned it could blur the line between voluntary civil treatment and coercive criminal proceedings and expand CARE Court beyond its intended scope. SB 27 passed on a due-pass motion as amended to Appropriations. The committee also heard SB 36 from Senator Umberg, a price-gouging measure tied to wildfire-related emergency conditions that also expands search-warrant authority for certain misdemeanor investigations. Public defenders opposed the search-warrant expansion as unnecessary, while a late supporter from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office spoke in favor; the bill was moved on a due-pass motion as amended to Appropriations and held on call. SB 571 by Senator Arreguín would increase penalties for impersonating emergency personnel and related conduct during disasters; supporters cited post-fire looting and impersonation, while opponents argued longer sentences do not deter crime and that existing law is sufficient. The bill passed on a due-pass motion as amended to Appropriations and was held on call. Finally, Senator Wiener presented SB 627, which would prohibit law enforcement from wearing extreme masks except in limited circumstances, aimed largely at masked federal immigration enforcement operations. Supporters said masked, unidentified officers create fear and undermine trust, while law enforcement groups argued the bill wrongly sweeps in local officers, is too broad, and should instead target federal agents or impersonators. Testimony was still underway when the transcript ended, and no final committee action on SB 627 is shown here.

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• , referred to Health and Human Services.
• Assembly Bill 514, by the Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services, makes revisions relating to
• mental health care, referred to Health and Human Services.
• relating to emergency medical services.
• Assembly Bill 102 provides provisions relating to emergency medical services. Any further remarks?

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• Then a conservator was appointed: East Valley Fiduciary Services, in December.
• So do you happen to know, is there a change in the level of service that would justify that?
• So, no, there's absolutely no difference in the service other than Sam's not comfortable.
• They were found unsubstantiated by Adult Protective Services.
• Adult Protective Services determined that I was working in my father's best interests.

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