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• The first and only bill on the agenda today is House File 7.
• Thank you for the opportunity to testify here on House File 7.
• provisions in House File 7 that are supported by our members.
• I appear today in support of House File 7 for two reasons.
• I'm here to speak against House File 7, particularly sections 7 and 12.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• And he Keith filed this lawsuit, got the company dissolved; that was in 2024.
• That's a total this lawsuit was filed.
• And he Keith filed this donations.
• Attorney General Ellison mentions filing Attorney General Ellison mentions filing a<01:06:00.440

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• <00:09:20.560> 4304 file 4304 file 4304 other<00:09:22.480> than<00:09:22.640> the
• Senate file um 344 Senate file um 344 3404<01:39:46.000> uh<01:39:46.239> be<01:39:47.040
• Johnson Stewart bill, Senate File 4361.
• opportunity to testify on Senate File opportunity to testify on Senate File 4361<01:44:10.560>
• <01:45:09.679> 43661 you move that the Senate file 43661 you move that the Senate file 43661

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <01:03:45.200> 8 testify in favor of house file 8 testify in favor of house file 8 streamlining
• House File 8 will not address all of our permitting challenges.
• House File 8 will not address all of our permitting challenges.
• House File 8 will not address all of our permitting challenges.
• <01:18:15.679> 8 our environment Healthy House file 8 our environment Healthy House file 8

Keywords: 1183, house

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• The first bill is House File 3469.
• Seeing no further discussion, House File 3526 is laid over as amended. Next up is House File 3375.
• <00:18:26.840> establishes Um this House File 3375 establishes Um this House File 3375 establishes
• c> 3375 Our supports also filed 3375 Our supports also filed 3375 as<00:22:07.120> amended,
• ARM urges you to support House File ARM urges you to support House File 3375.<00:23:44.320> I

Bills: HF3526, HF3375, HF3469

Keywords: home care, licensing, fines, advisory council, grant program, client safety, healthcare regulation, HF3375, Minnesota disability waiver, waiver rate system, human services, individualized home supports, individualized home supports with training, individualized home supports with family training, positive support services, employment support services, employment development services, employment exploration services, billing limits, service authorization year

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• Fresh Energy supports House File 2366.
• Fresh Energy supports House File 2366.
• Fresh Energy supports House File 2366.
• carrying house file carrying house file 771<01:11:53.920> that<01:11:54.080> would
• winters I'm here to support house file winters I'm here to support house file 771<01:20:48.679><

Keywords: 1183, house

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• So every members, uh, Senator Fateh, you get Senate File 813.
• <00:09:46.519> 94 week in relation to Senate file 94 week in relation to Senate file 94 Transportation
• Let's go to Senate File 814, housing support agreements.
• The Senate File 814 is really that housing supports agreements.
• <01:05:12.559> 814 no no no it's fine the Senate file 814 no no no it's fine the Senate file

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I move to have House File 3419 before the committee.
• House file 3419 elections in our state.
• That bill House File 3 into law.
• <00:21:08.400> a Minnesota Chamber of Commerce filed a Minnesota Chamber of Commerce filed
• <01:29:49.600> 34 I will move that House File 34 I will move that House File 34 be be be &

Keywords: 1183, house

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• This, and I said this is a loophole, and parents are going to file, and groups are going to file, and
• community members are going to file thousands of book objections.
• This bill was filed in response to the tragedy and other similar stories.
• INCLUDED IN THE PERSONNEL FILE OF SUCH OFFICER.
• All those investigations go into the personnel file.

Bills: HB 29, HB 125, HB 145, HB 171, HB 255, HB 50, HB 796, HB 363, HB 116, HB 491, HB 589, HB 1495, HB 368, HB 1285, HB 1905, HB 1360, HB 2002, HB 917, HB 2723, HB 2067, HB 1238, HB 2337, HB 745, HB 1188, HB 1606, HB 2003, HB 2147, HB 2391, HB 2355, HB 2546, HB 2495, HB 2818, HB 2249, HB 1749, HB 3109, HB 3228, HB 3240, HB 1507, HB 658, HB 1748, HB 1851, HB 1922, HB 2001, HB 2798, HB 107, HCR 29, SB 5, SB 262, HB 11, HJR 72, HB 106, HB 18, HB 48, HB 27, HB 37, HB 1481, HB 581, HB 1696, HB 2216, HB 1035, HB 1633, HB 742, HB 754, HB 1689, HB 1690, HB 2669, HB 391, HB 517, HB 1024, HB 1607, HB 252, HB 1716, HB 1562, HB 4116, HB 1866, HB 1741, HB 2103, HB 2637, HB 2884, HB 503, HB 1089, HB 2986, HB 972, HB 502, HB 29, HB 125, HB 145, HB 171, HB 255, HB 50, HB 796, HB 363, HB 116, HB 491, HB 589, HB 1495, HB 368, HB 1285, HB 1905, HB 1360, HB 2002, HB 917, HB 2723, HB 2067, HB 1238, HB 2337, HB 745, HB 1188, HB 1606, HB 2003, HB 2147, HB 2391, HB 2355, HB 2546, HB 2495, HB 2818, HB 2249, HB 1749, HB 3109, HB 3228, HB 3240, HB 1507, HB 658, HB 1748, HB 1851, HB 1922, HB 2001, HB 2798, HB 107, HCR 29

Keywords: water audit, water loss, water loss mitigation plan, municipally owned utility, municipal utility, water conservation, Texas Water Development Board, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water leakage, leak detection, billing data accuracy, utility validation, water audit validation, water scarcity, water management, infrastructure, public utility, conservation plan, administrative penalty

Summary: The Florida House of Representatives conducted legislative business including prayer, pledge, and voting on multiple bills. Key legislation included HB 1105 expanding Florida Bright Futures Scholarship eligibility, HB 443 on charter school regulations (passed 83-23), and HB 1539 on materials harmful to minors (passed 81-29) after extensive debate about book challenges in schools. Other bills addressed education funding, law enforcement benefits, parole guidelines, and various local issues. The Speaker announced budget negotiations with the Senate have stalled, with disagreements over spending levels and tax cuts. The House will not meet this weekend as originally planned. Session adjourned until tomorrow at 10 AM.

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• First bill is House File 3580.
• Representative Burkel moves House File Representative Burkel moves House File 3580<00:47:51.119>
• File 3580 is<00:59:56.640> amended.
• With that, House File 3580, as amended, is laid over. Last bill up is House File 3566.
• Member questions on House File 3566.

Bills: HF3580, HF3566

Keywords: agriculture, livestock, depredation, crop damage, wolf compensation, elk damage, state funding, agricultural protection, trespass, criminal penalties, farm equipment, agricultural land, 1183, house

Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from the previous meeting and then heard from Minnesota FFA officers, who described FFA as a student-led agricultural education organization focused on leadership, personal growth, and career success. The students explained the three-part model of agricultural education, the size and reach of FFA in Minnesota, and upcoming events at the Capitol, including an agricultural policy experience conference and FFA Day at the Capitol. Members asked about FFA’s role in encouraging the next generation of farmers, the organization’s broader focus beyond farming to include wildlife and other natural resources careers, and the mix of rural, metro, and urban chapters. The students emphasized that FFA and agricultural educators help students discover career paths and that urban chapters are active and thriving alongside rural ones. The committee then received a presentation from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture on the Agri program. The department described Agri as a legislature-created program that uses producer-payment funds to support roughly 15 grant and cost-share programs, including newer efforts such as Protect and Prepare. Testimony stressed transparency and fraud prevention: Agri is reimbursement-based, requires detailed documentation, conducts site visits on grants over $25,000, and has identified and stopped more than a dozen fraudulent applications in the past year. The department also noted a prior legislative auditor review of two larger Agri programs and said only about one-tenth of 1% of reviewed expenditures were recommended for recovery. The department highlighted the Make It Minnesota cost-share program, which helps Minnesota food and agriculture companies attend national trade shows such as Natural Products Expo West. Testifiers then described how Agri has supported their businesses: Mark Schiller of Lon Liquor in Northfield said the program helped his microdistillery expand into milling organic flour and adding food service, while Pete Gangler of Snowpack Foods in Caledonia said Agri grants supported food safety improvements, processing capacity, and a new freezer warehouse project. The department said additional grantees would testify as well, and members asked whether the department’s fraud-prevention practices could be shared with other state agencies; staff said they already are being shared through interagency best-practice efforts.

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• Um, for the general fund spending for DEED... present Senate File 1832 as amended. present Senate File
• In your included in Senate File 1832.
• We now Senator Champion moves to amend Senate File 1832 by adding the contents of Senate File 2373 as
• We now Senator Champion moves to amend Senate File 1832 by adding the contents of Senate File 2373 as
• We now Senator Champion moves to amend Senate File 1832 by adding the contents of Senate File 2373 as

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Members, next up, House File 623.
• It's an honor to be in front of you to present House File 623.
• Thank you to the members of the committee for hearing House File 647.
• Representative Jacob: House File 1249, please have a seat.
• <00:59:57.079> uh members for hearing our house file uh members for hearing our house file

Bills: HF647, HF2824, HF1249, HF623, HF820

Keywords: water appropriation, aquifer management, potable water, water conservation, environmental policy, fishing regulation, angling, sustainability, biodiversity, game fish, Carley State Park, Minnesota state parks, state lands, park boundary expansion, Wabasha County, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, public lands, land acquisition, park addition

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• We are also responsible for government filings.
• How do you get an EIN number back from me if I file for an LLC?
• We have in documents being received for a paper or fax filing.
• . simply because we are the filing cabinet for the state.
• I just checked with my office again because I haven't filed.

Bills: HB10, HB 12, HB675, HB10, HB12

Keywords: regulatory reform, government efficiency, administrative law, rulemaking, agency deference, judicial review, de novo review, Texas Government Code, Administrative Procedure Act, state agencies, plain language, regulatory burden, regulatory reduction, cost-benefit analysis, fiscal note, public benefits and costs, contested case, rule challenge, Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, advisory panel

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• Late-filed amendment barcode 8435850 by Senator Gruters.
• If you filed an amendment to the original bill, make sure you file it now to the amendment.
• You're not supposed to be able to file income taxes.
• You're not supposed to be able to file income taxes.
• Show that late-file amendment. Thank you. That late-file amendment introduced without objection.

Summary: The Senate opened with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the reading of an amended joint proclamation expanding the Legislature’s immigration agenda. The proclamation added items calling for financial penalties for government officials, enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed by illegal aliens, and programs and appropriations to support law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration law. The chamber then took up the special order calendar, beginning with Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 2B, the immigration bill. Most of the meeting was devoted to debate and questions on the strike-all amendment to SB 2B. Sponsor Senator Gruters described the bill as a broad immigration enforcement package aligned with President Trump’s agenda. He said it would require greater cooperation with federal immigration authorities, strengthen participation in the 287(g) program, create a chief immigration officer and council, authorize financial penalties for noncompliance, provide bonuses for officers assisting ICE, and direct information-sharing with federal agencies. He also said the bill would bar DHSMV from issuing licenses or ID cards to unauthorized aliens and would end in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students. Senators Polsky, Pizzo, Smith, Jones, Berman, Osgood, and others questioned the scope of the bill, whether it would affect schools, churches, cities, nonprofits, and green-card holders, and how the 287(g) provisions would work in practice. Gruters repeatedly said the operational focus was on jails and detention facilities, not street-level enforcement. A major point of controversy was the bill’s proposed mandatory death penalty for unauthorized aliens convicted of certain capital offenses. Senator Fine said the covered crimes were the most serious capital felonies, including murder, child sexual battery, destructive-device offenses causing death, and certain trafficking offenses, and argued the provision was intended to withstand constitutional challenge. Senator Pizzo raised Eighth Amendment concerns and questioned whether the bill could mandate death sentences. The tuition waiver provisions also drew extended debate: Fine said the state would save about $41 million by ending discounted tuition for undocumented students, while Democrats argued the savings would not return to general revenue and that the policy would harm students who are already enrolled. Fine and Gruters said green-card holders would not be affected and that the bill targeted only students in the country illegally. The discussion also covered appropriations and implementation. Senator Smith asked about the bill’s large funding levels, and Fine broke down the spending as including $375 million for the chief immigration officer, $100 million in grants to local law enforcement, $29 million for the new Office of State Immigration Enforcement, and $10 million for an unauthorized-alien transport program. Gruters said the funds would reimburse local governments and help address staffing shortages, while critics questioned the lack of benchmarks and the fiscal impact. No final vote or disposition on the bill appears in the transcript excerpt.

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• can be filed can be filed confidentially. confidentially. confidentially.
• >> Yeah, they do. >> Tax returns. >> In financial statements filed with the court. >> Filed with the
• >> Yeah, they do. >> Tax returns. >> In financial statements filed with the court. >> Filed with the
• >> Yeah, they do. >> Tax returns. >> In financial statements filed with the court. >> Filed with the
• >> Yeah, they do. >> Tax returns. >> In financial statements filed with the court. >> Filed with the

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The meeting covered two committee of conference items. On HB 1260, the House and Senate debated a Senate amendment dealing with sealing certain divorce-related financial records. House members argued the amendment conflicted with the Keane Sentinel decision and would improperly flip the burden of proof on public access to court records, raising constitutional concerns under the state constitution’s open government and privacy provisions. Senate members responded that the privacy amendment and modern conditions support more protection for sensitive financial information, especially in limited uncontested divorces, but several members agreed the issue should be studied in a separate bill with a full hearing next year rather than resolved in conference. The committee ultimately voted unanimously to have the Senate recede and pass HB 1260 in the form originally passed by the House, preserving the underlying bill without the Senate amendment. The committee then took up HB 1574, which extends free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch programs and provides funding for SNAP administrative costs. The main dispute was the Senate’s addition of $4.4 million for SNAP administration. Senator Gray and DHHS officials said federal changes will shift more administrative costs to the state and that underfunding administration could raise the SNAP error rate, which could trigger future federal penalties and larger state costs; DHHS reported a current error rate of 7.57%, below the national average, and said a higher error rate could cost the state roughly $12 million in a partial fiscal year and nearly $16 million in a full year. Representative Papovich said he understood the department’s needs but was reluctant to support the bill as amended, noting the Senate language resembled a prior bill that had already failed in the House. The discussion ended with the committee still considering the Senate amendment, with members weighing the immediate appropriation against possible future costs.

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• File 99? Anyone online, Libby? File 99? Anyone online, Libby?
• >> but we This is for the Senate File 99.
• Senate File 54. Senate File 54. Senator Rafus.
• Uh Senate File 55 is our committee.
• All members were voting on Senate file All members were voting on Senate file 55<00:39:40.800>

Bills: HB0116, HB0056

Keywords: water rights, beneficial use, industrial production, hydrogen, applications, public welfare, carbon capture, energy standards, public utilities, environmental regulation, state law, 916, all

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• file an ERPO<00:42:13.280> on<00:42:13.520> their<00:42:13.680> behalf?
• behavioral health facilities could file behavioral health facilities could file based<00:51:20.160
• The latest data we have here, 692 have been filed between January 20th and December of 2024.
• Is any of that data in the report that they filed?
• Every single petition that was filed by a health care mental health professional granted.

Keywords: 981, all

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, approved the February 2, 2026 journal, and received committee reports. The Education Committee recommended Senate Bill 19 be amended and sent to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation, and also recommended confirmation of several appointments, including James JB Holston as Executive Director of the Department of Higher Education and two members of the Private Occupational School Board. The Judiciary Committee recommended Senate Bill 5 be amended and referred to Appropriations with a favorable recommendation. The chamber then moved out of order for resolutions and took up Senate Joint Resolution 7, recognizing February 2026 as Black History Month. The resolution was read at length and included extensive findings on Black history nationally and in Colorado, highlighting figures such as Barney Ford, Clara Brown, early Black legislators, and more recent Black civic and legislative leaders. Senator Exum said there were no additional comments and noted that remarks would be made later in the House. The resolution was adopted on a 33-0 vote, and the current roll call was added as co-sponsors. The Senate also considered Senate Bill 10 on the third-reading consent calendar, a bill clarifying definitions used in agricultural property taxation. It passed unanimously, 33-0. The body then took up Senate Bill 4, which would expand who may petition for an extreme risk protection order. Senator Sullivan and supporters framed it as a public safety measure, while Senator Minority Leader and Senator Zamora Wilson opposed it, arguing it could create administrative burdens, unintended consequences, constitutional concerns, and costs. The debate continued with extended opposition remarks, but the transcript ends before a final vote on SB 4 is shown.

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• The secretary will read the House file number. House File No. 1090.
• secretary will read the house file secretary will read the house file number.<00:10:11.920> House
• House file number 1090. The number. House file number 1090.
• <00:11:07.680> Senator to House File number 2442. Senator to House File number 2442.
• So, this is a bipartisan idea. file number 2442, the unofficial file number 2442, the unofficial engrossment

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And there was an injunction filed, I'm sorry, in the order, but there was an injunction filed.
• Well, we'll do that then. >> Since one has been filed, the Secretary of State, I'll file one against
• Alabama file the...
• >> Yes, a reapportionment attorney filed an AI filing in the Supreme Court.
• One after the lawsuit, filed a... One after the lawsuit, filed a lawsuit and got it in district.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• a bill for legislator and filed a bill for legislator protections,<00:09:05.960> that's<00:09
• And, um, I will say that the judge chastised me pretty well for filing the motion, um, denied it.
• the motion, um, pretty well for filing the motion, um, denied<00:15:41.680> it.
• <00:19:12.920> this may be greatly affected to file this may be greatly affected to file this
• <00:48:14.800> of<00:48:14.880> the<00:48:15.000> deed filing of the deed filing

Keywords: 958, all