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• SO WE HOPE NEXT YEAR WE WILL SEE STABILIZATION. >> Rep. McClure: ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS?

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• lensure and strengthens<01:22:16.639> the<01:22:16.880> long-term<01:22:17.280> stability
• <01:22:17.760> of strengthens the long-term stability of strengthens the long-term stability
• c><01:48:52.320> more And then lastly, it provides more And then lastly, it provides more stability
• <01:48:52.960> for<01:48:53.199> Minnesota<01:48:53.760> students, stability for
• Minnesota students, stability for Minnesota students, especially<01:48:54.639> in<01:48:54.880

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• that just presents a challenge, and this kind of a funding mechanism tied to property would help stabilize
• So we support that stabilize that.
• In aligning teacher permits with the duration of J-1 visas, House Bill 1840 supports workforce stability
• In aligning teacher permits with the duration of J-1 visas, House Bill 1840 supports workforce stability
• In aligning teacher permits with the duration of J-1 visas, House Bill 1840 supports workforce stability

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The joint Education and Higher Education committees met on February 10, 2026, first hearing HB 1676, which would create an AI and education task force, require documentation from AI vendors before procurement or use, and appropriate funds. The Department of Education, Public Charter School Commission, and University of Hawaii all supported the bill’s intent and described existing AI literacy efforts, teacher training, guidance for students and staff, and privacy/monitoring safeguards. DOE said it had already convened an AI task force, produced a report, trained over 10,000 educators, and embedded AI into computer science and broader curricular guidance. Members questioned DOE about student privacy, harmful content monitoring, personal devices, cell phone policy, teacher training, and whether AI literacy should extend beyond computer science into all subjects and across rural schools. After discussion, the chair announced HB 1676 would be deferred to Friday, February 13, and that a HD1 draft would be prepared. The chair said the committee would revisit the task force composition and procurement standards, with possible elimination of the procurement section, and circulate the revised draft before the next hearing. The committee then recessed and later reconvened for HB 1811, a student loan repayment program for educators. Testimony from the Department of Education, Public Charter School Commission, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, HSTA, and the Democratic Party of Hawaii Education Caucus was generally supportive, with HSTA and the Teacher Standards Board emphasizing teacher recruitment and retention, student loan burden, and the need to address the teacher shortage. In decision-making on HB 1811, the committees adopted the chair’s recommendation to pass the bill with amendments. The main amendment collapsed the repayment structure into a single disbursement of up to $25,000 after five years of service, with technical/non-substantive changes and a corrected effective date. Both the Education and Higher Education committees voted unanimously in favor. Later in the meeting, the Education Committee began hearing HB 1561 on student meals, which drew broad support from the Public Charter School Commission, Department of Health, HSTA, Hawaii Appleseed, Hawaii Children’s Action Network, and many individuals. Appleseed requested amendments to ensure charter schools are treated the same as other public schools if eligibility expands and to address reimbursement issues for schools already participating in the federal Community Eligibility Provision; members discussed those concerns but no action was taken in the portion of the transcript provided. The committee then moved on to HB 779, on expanding student meal coverage, where DOE supported the intent but said it could not support the bill in its current form because of fiscal constraints.

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• The use of expanded funds allows us to prioritize retention and stability of these essential positions
• us to prioritize retention and stability us to prioritize retention and stability of<01:26:52.960
• The number one predictor for academic success for our students is housing stability, but the number two
• The number one predictor for academic success for our students is housing stability, but the number two
• The number one predictor for academic success for our students is housing stability, but the number two

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Education Finance Committee met on January 28, 2025, to receive updates on chronic absenteeism work funded in the 2024 education finance bill. The chair introduced presentations from districts in the student attendance pilot program—Minneapolis, Columbia Heights, Chisago, and Rochester—and noted that the committee would also hear the student attendance and truancy legislative study group report and later a bill from Senator Weber. The chair also thanked educational assistants and paraprofessionals for their work in schools. Minneapolis Public Schools described common attendance challenges across pilot districts, including inconsistent attendance coding, weak family communication, difficulty identifying interventions, and uneven responses to absences. The district said pilot districts want statewide definitions for absences, tardies, and exempt codes, as well as better internal dashboards and clearer procedures. Minneapolis also highlighted strategies such as attendance teams at each school, quarterly postcards to families after five or more absences, Promise Fellows, home visits, multilingual communication through TalkingPoints, and a morning nurse line to help parents decide whether a child should stay home. The district said its main attendance goal is to raise consistent attendance from 68 percent to 80 percent by 2026. In response to committee questions, Minneapolis said its main post-COVID absenteeism reason has been illness or medical issues, followed by transportation problems, and that it does not penalize students for transportation-related absences. The district said it counts secondary absences when students miss more than three periods in a day, with truancy beginning after seven such absences, while elementary students are counted absent for the full day. Members also asked about whether reduced truancy referrals reflected more attendance or diversionary supports; the district said its approach is to focus on understanding root causes and providing support rather than quickly referring students to truancy processes. The district reported improved communication, greater parent awareness, and fewer truancy referrals so far, and said the attendance team model should be sustainable because it uses existing staff with clearer direction.

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• As you'll hear from our providers or other providers, uncompensated care affects the stability of our
• <00:39:28.200> of Uncompensated care, the stability of our system.
• The state was able to use federal money to do what we called emergency stabilization funding because
• ><01:20:36.199> emergency to do what we called emergency to do what we called emergency stabilization
• funding because of the stabilization funding because of the pandemic<01:20:39.920> because<01

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• You have moved the needle on poverty, stability, and justice.
• You have moved the needle on poverty, stability, and justice.
• You have moved the needle on poverty, stability, and justice.
• You have moved the needle on poverty, stability, and justice.
• You have moved the needle on poverty, stability, and justice.

Keywords: House streaming session for Saturday, April 11, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House convened with 122 members present, heard a prayer, and the Speaker urged members to remain respectful as difficult bills were expected later in the day. The chamber then moved through several ceremonial floor presentations honoring retiring members, including Delegate Barry S. Celebrity and Delegate Pam Queen, with resolutions read congratulating each on their years of service and lasting impact. The House also recognized an “interim birthday caucus” with a lighthearted resolution celebrating members born outside the session, followed by remarks and thanks from the Speaker and members. After the presentations, the House turned to business, including concurrence and nonconcurrence actions on Senate amendments. The chamber refused to concur in Senate amendments to House Bill 339 and House Bill 512, while House Bill 512 was then concurred in, read for final passage, and passed with 118 votes in favor and none opposed. The House also received messages indicating conference committees for several bills, including House Bills 107, 153, 769, 1063, and 1118. The House adopted favorable committee reports on a series of bills, sending many to third reading. These included measures on earned wage access, security guard certification renewal, county board and alcohol licensing matters, animal regulation, veteran status notation, procurement transparency, Public Information Act divorce records, election board qualifications, and a local sourcing database. During discussion of the local sourcing database bill, the minority whip asked whether business groups that had opposed the bill remained opposed after amendments; the floor leader explained the amended bill would require the Department of Commerce to create a searchable Maryland Local Sourcing Portal to connect businesses with local sources of tariff-impacted goods and services.

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• ,<02:19:50.479> public<02:19:50.800> services,<02:19:51.600> safety, stability,
• public services, safety, stability, public services, safety, infrastructure,<02:19:52.880> and
• They've opened access to the U.S. dollar for people who've never had that kind of financial stability
• They've opened access to the U.S. dollar for people who've never had that kind of financial stability
• They've opened access to the U.S. dollar for people who've never had that kind of financial stability

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• fixed pricing and don't push a lot of those risks onto customers, that's an opportunity to help stabilize
• <00:59:54.160> rates<00:59:54.480> in opportunity to help stabilize rates in opportunity
• to help stabilize rates in the<00:59:54.799> longer<00:59:55.119> term.
• we can get attractive pricing and the right types of contracts, provide a nice mechanism to help stabilize
• we can get attractive pricing and the right types of contracts, provide a nice mechanism to help stabilize

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee held an informational briefing on the Public Utilities Commission’s performance-based regulation (PBR) framework and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ whistleblower complaint process. Chair Jared Kohole opened the meeting, noted it was informational only with no public testimony, and explained that members would hear presentations and then have an opportunity for questions. The committee heard first from Ulupono Initiative, which provided background on why utilities are regulated, how Hawaii’s cost-of-service model and rate cases work, and why PBR was adopted to shift utility incentives away from a capital-investment bias and toward performance, efficiency, cost control, and policy goals such as renewable energy and reliability. Ulupono described Hawaii’s PBR structure as a five-year multi-year rate plan with annual revenue adjustments, a customer dividend, a Z factor for extraordinary exogenous events, and an exceptional project recovery mechanism for large projects. It also outlined performance incentive mechanisms tied to renewable portfolio standard progress, interconnection speed, reliability, and shared savings. The presentation said the current docket is evaluating a possible hybrid approach that would combine forward-looking forecasting with historical results, and Ulupono advocated for stronger incentives, arguing the current rewards are too small relative to utility revenues and should be more meaningful to better align utility behavior with legislative intent. The PUC then presented its own overview, emphasizing that the PBR docket is open and active and that the briefing was limited to the record to avoid ex parte concerns. The commission described the development of PBR in Hawaii through multiple phases beginning in 2018: an initial collaborative phase to set goals, a formal contested-case phase that produced the initial framework, later phases adding scorecards, reported metrics, and additional performance incentive mechanisms, and subsequent refinements including sunset of some mechanisms and adjustments after the August 2023 Maui wildfires. The PUC said the framework is intended to be customer-centric, administratively efficient, and protective of utility financial integrity, and that current work includes evaluating how to balance forward-looking and historical test-year approaches within the rebasing process. No votes or formal actions were taken at the briefing.

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• I'm with the Iron Workers 625 Stabilization Fund.
• I'm with the Iron Workers 625 Stabilization Fund. I'm here for actually two groups.
• The stabilization fund strongly supports this bill.
• with the Iron Workers 625 stabilization with the Iron Workers 625 stabilization fund.<01:18:17.920
• Uh, stabilization fund strongly groups.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard several housing, landlord-tenant, and condominium-related measures. Senate Bill 62, relating to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, would allow HPHA-owned parcels and related areas such as parking lots to be closed to the public with posted signage; HPHA strongly supported the bill, saying it would help reduce loitering, drinking, and other problems, and no further testimony was offered. Senate Bill 822, relating to the landlord tenant code, would create a three-year working group in the Department of the Attorney General to study and improve the residential landlord-tenant code. The Judiciary supported the measure but said the scope should be narrowed; the Attorney General opposed leading the group and suggested another agency should do so; Hawaii Realtors and the Hawaii Worker Center supported the concept and suggested moving the chairmanship to the Judiciary and including Legal Aid participation. The Judiciary said it could chair the group if the bill were narrowed to matters within the court’s purview. Senate Bill 38, relating to housing, would limit counties from imposing stricter conditions, AMI requirements, or fee-waiver reductions on certain affordable housing proposals if those changes would increase project costs. HHFDC supported the bill, saying county changes after state approval create uncertainty for developers, while the Hawaii State Association of Counties opposed it as an intrusion on local authority and a restriction on county safety and infrastructure conditions. Members asked about whether existing county review periods were sufficient, and the county association said the main concern was the bill’s language limiting counties from making cost-increasing conditions. Senate Bill 146, relating to condominiums, would revise alternative dispute resolution procedures for condo disputes, including evaluative mediation and binding arbitration. The Hawaii Real Estate Commission said it took no position overall but supported a $150 mediation fee and asked for a similar arbitration fee; Community Associations Institute supported the bill with suggested amendments; however, most testimony was strongly opposed by condominium owners and advocates, who said the bill had been changed to the detriment of owners and would increase costs and reduce protections. The committee noted 44 testimonies on the bill, with 2 in support, 37 in opposition, and 2 with comments. Senate Bill 253, relating to condominium reserves, would require a detailed budget summary to stand on its own, remove a good-faith defense for certain noncompliant budgets, and clarify standing and the association’s burden regarding substantial compliance. Hawaii Realtors and Community Associations Institute supported the measure as improving transparency and giving owners and buyers a clearer picture of association finances. Greg Msakian also supported it, arguing it would help owners and describing problems he experienced with budget committee exclusion and budget noncompliance in his own association. The discussion ended while testimony on the bill was still underway, with additional witnesses expected.

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• We all need to work closely together to ensure that we provide stability in our budgets.
• I would ask now if you don't mind to turn to the next page, which is titled Economic Stabilization Fund
• Senator Hinojosa: This brings us to the discussion of the Economic Stabilization Fund Long-Term Forecast
• On your estimate on PAGE, it's the Economic Stabilization Fund, Senator Shortner – what do we want to
• The generosity of the 88th Legislature allowed us to stabilize the three most important factors in our

Bills: SB 1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• We also codified the repeal of the housing stabilization services program, and that was following the
• <02:50:18.840> services of the housing stabilization services of the housing stabilization
• You're okay with housing stabilization services going on even when the governor's saying he can't protect
• You're okay with housing stabilization services going on even when the governor's saying he can't protect
• You're okay with housing stabilization services going on even when the governor's saying he can't protect

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Have we heard anything in these times of changing federal dollars about the stability or lack thereof
• We have not heard anything about the stability of it.
• So if you want stability, you push it lower and lower.
• <04:26:10.080> the<04:26:10.640> the stabilize the the stabilize the the the<04:26:12.399
• stability, you push it lower and lower. stability, you push it lower and lower.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first took up SB 209, which would require schools seeking building aid for construction or reconstruction projects to use an owner’s project manager. The chair explained an amendment that would remove the bill’s requirement that the manager be engaged before application and instead revert to current law, while updating the project threshold from the older $1 million figure to a more current amount and clarifying that the manager’s role is to protect the project owner’s interests. Members asked about the cost of hiring a project manager over several years before a project is funded, the 1.5% fee in rule, and whether the rules already define the manager’s duties. The chair said the amendment addressed those concerns by leaving the timing to current law and relying on existing administrative rules for qualifications and responsibilities. The committee then voted 18-0 to adopt the amendment and 18-0 to recommend SB 209 OTPA, placing it on the consent calendar. The committee then moved to SB 99, which concerns allowing students enrolled in career and technical education programs at receiving comprehensive high schools to take additional academic courses there. The chair said the bill was intended to make it easier for students to access CTE without being blocked by scheduling conflicts in their sending schools, and to clarify how agreements between sending and receiving districts would work. He described concerns about the bill’s cost formula, transportation, part-time versus full-time status, and whether the proposal could unintentionally create open-enrollment or athletic-transfer issues. He said the amendment would mirror existing treatment for homeschool and charter school students, use a familiar funding model, and limit participation to students already enrolled in one or more CTE classes at the receiving school. The chair also emphasized that comprehensive high schools already have a statutory definition and that the bill would help more students participate in CTE, which he said currently reaches only a relatively small share of students statewide. He noted that transportation would be covered only when a CTE bus is available, otherwise students would be responsible for arranging travel as under current practice. After brief discussion, the committee voted 18-0 to adopt the amendment and 18-0 to recommend SB 99 OTPA, also placing it on the consent calendar.

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• 12:05, and I'd like to call the Subcommittee on the Federal Impacts on Minnesotans and Economic Stability
• <00:42:54.960> during safety net, but a stabilizer during safety net, but a stabilizer during
• SNAP is one of the tools we have to push people to prosperity, away from stability, into mobility and
• stability into mobility and prosperity. stability into mobility and prosperity.
• And as people start to lose stability in one thing, it can just spiral and create huge crisis for us.

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• We put our surplus money into our permanent funds to stabilize our revenues and into our future.

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• Stabilizing funding for women's health programs and providing additional support for maternal health

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• can't control their reproductive autonomy, and therefore their futures, their livelihoods, and the stability

Keywords: Texas, healthcare, reproductive health, Care No Matter What Act, Planned Parenthood, maternal mortality, teen pregnancy, funding cuts, community health

Summary: The meeting addressed critical health care concerns in Texas, highlighting the consequences of funding cuts on access to reproductive health services. Key speakers emphasized the urgent need for the Care No Matter What Act, which aims to restore funding to healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood. They underscored the alarming statistics of maternal mortality and the rising rates of teen pregnancies, particularly in Black and Latina communities. Testimonies shared during the meeting illustrated the real-life impacts of healthcare access issues on individuals and families across the state, illustrating the necessity for legislative action to ensure comprehensive reproductive health services.

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• can't control their reproductive autonomy and therefore their futures, their livelihoods, and the stability

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• <02:51:43.640> of impacts their housing stability of impacts their housing stability of course
• I oversee, for the two counties, the state housing stabilization homeless prevention fund.
• Outreach and housing stability Outreach and housing stability department<03:02:20.479> for
• <03:02:27.720> homeless<03:02:28.279> prevention<03:02:29.000> fund stabilization
• homeless prevention fund stabilization homeless prevention fund um<03:02:31.600> and<03:02:32.279

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Are there concerns that the situation in Bangladesh could escalate, impacting regional stability and
• Are there concerns that the situation in Bangladesh could escalate, impacting regional stability and
• and US interest Regional stability and US interest particularly<03:54:52.800> in<03:54:52.920
• Many in the interim government saw that the large rallies by Hindus were a threat to the stability of
• Other things, but we have very good stability with other religious groups.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• for the increased prosperity of the Congolese people and to strengthen the national security and stability
• > across<04:44:51.760> the<04:44:52.000> DRC<04:44:53.040> to peace and stability
• across the DRC to peace and stability across the DRC to accelerate<04:44:53.760> and<04:44:54.000
• of the DRC for the benefit of stability of the DRC for the benefit of its<04:45:04.480> people.
• ,<04:45:29.920> and prospects for peace, stability, and prospects for peace, stability, and

Keywords: 1189, house, all