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• "The next unit appears on page 146: Unit 507, Facility Usage."
• On page 31, AQD NSR modeling permitting support, Mr.
• specifically the school facilities bill. specifically the school facilities bill.
• That's the school facilities bill.
• One additional school facilities bill.

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• fast tracks affordable student and faculty housing by requiring coastal commission to issue final permit
• The permitting process, look forward to continuing to engage with my colleagues from both sides of the
• LA Unified last year decided to take the facilities, which by the way with declining enrollment, there
• are a lot of empty classrooms, a lot of empty facilities that LA Unified has.
• But they said, no, no, no, no more facilities for charter schools and their board voted to penalize,

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• C directed and permitted the law.
• <03:07:01.680> and Donald John Trump has permitted and Donald John Trump has permitted and
• currently face a complicated permitting currently face a complicated permitting process.<05:24:21.600
• Additionally, the prolonged permitting Additionally, the prolonged permitting process<05:24:29.680><
• With that, I yield back. expediting the permitting process to be expediting the permitting process to

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• You think page two It talks about improved access onto or off a military facility.
• When you talk about access onto or off a military facility, good question.
• facility.
• I miss the first in section one on the transitional living facility.
• Is this the $250,000 for a transitional living facility?

Bills: HB4030, HB4031, HB4032, HB4033, HB4034, HB4035, HB4036, HB4037, HB4038, HB4039, HB4040, HB4041, HB4042, HB4043, HB4044, HB4045, HB4046, HB4047, HB4048, HB4049, HB4050, HB4051, HB4052, HB4053, HB4054, HB4056, HB4057, HB4065, HB4067, HB4071, HB4072, SB1144, SB1145, SB1146, SB1147, SB1148, SB1149, SB1156, SB1157, SB1158, SB1159, SB1161, SB1162, SB1163, SB1164, SB1165, SB1166, SB1167, SB1174, SB1175, SB1176

Keywords: education funding, budget appropriations, public schools, teachers' retirement, early childhood education, aeronautics, infrastructure, funding, sustainability, Oklahoma, mining, operator fees, coal production, noncoal mining, department of mines, revenue, state budget, budgetary reform, financial legislation, fiscal accountability

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• Insured, and not a repair facility, which is not party to the contract.
• <00:52:33.680> they facility. They have great dogs. they facility.
• Lakewood's a 25-bed critical access facility.
• Um we're bed critical access facility.
• And you know what happens to these communities when these facilities close.

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• voted at relating to liquor sales on credit by the holder of a distiller's and rectifier. buyer's permit
• Relating to the powers that certain non-resident seller permit holders who also hold a winery The Chair
• previously voted out relating to the temporary sale of of alcoholic beverages at certain racing facilities

Bills: HB2450, SB378, SB764, SB917, SB1254, SB1255

Keywords: elevator inspection, building safety, construction standards, health and safety code, regulatory requirements, SB 378, Texas Occupations Code, barbering, cosmetology, barber, cosmetologist, licensing, professional licensing, unauthorized practice, medical procedures, skin incision, dermis, injections, devices, consumer safety

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• >> DAGS facilities. >> DAGS facilities.
• state facilities. state facilities.
• assets within within the facility. assets within within the facility.
• . facilities. facilities.
• , facility, facility, absolutely.<01:12:31.040> Absolutely.

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Summary: The Senate Committee on Government Operations held an informational briefing with the State Procurement Office on its small business procurement program. SPO staff described the program’s purpose as expanding access to state contracting for small businesses, including veteran-, Native Hawaiian-, and women-owned firms, and said they are seeking to make the current five-year initiative permanent before it ends in June 2027. They reported outreach efforts, a new website and newsletter, statewide surveys, draft administrative rules, and a 38% increase in small business registrations in the HANS database. They also explained that the program is intended to support outreach, education, certification, compliance, and a statewide database to connect agencies with qualified small businesses. Committee members focused heavily on whether the program is producing measurable contract awards, not just registrations. The chair and senators questioned the definition of “small business,” noting that SPO currently relies on SBA standards in HANS and is considering a Hawaii-specific definition based on employees, revenue, and Hawaii residency. Members raised concerns that the data showed only a small number of registered businesses receiving awards and that the database does not yet track awards well enough to evaluate performance. SPO responded that the database has had funding gaps, that the position was only filled in February 2025, and that the agency is still building the system and rules needed to track outcomes accurately. A major theme was how to make the program more effective for very small or “micro” businesses and how to reduce the complexity of state procurement. Members discussed the difference between set-asides and bid preferences, with SPO explaining that set-asides are generally tied to RFPs and preferences to IFBs. The committee suggested that future rules should make participation easier, provide more training and hand-holding, and possibly create pathways for micro businesses or groups of small businesses to bid together. No votes or formal actions were taken; the briefing ended with the committee asking SPO to provide more performance data and clearer information on outreach results and database contents.

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• There are some papers in Colorado that have closed their printing facilities and are coming to us, and
• Yeah, there's two facilities remaining, but we actually service every newspaper in New Mexico.
• There's an equally big facility announced in Lee County.
• This bill also outlines the importance of regulating water within the facilities, which is essential
• This bill also outlines the importance of regulating water within the facilities, which is essential

Bills: SB251, SB150, SB154, SB73, SB111, SB172, SB76, SB181, SB235

Keywords: horse racing, program training, program owning, state licensing, racehorses, regulation, local news, newspaper printing, journalism, media tax credit, print media, digital news, news publisher, newsprint, press operator, printing industry, local journalism, tax credit, income tax, corporate income tax

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• the state health insurance plan, and a total of $200 million in fiscal year 2027 to the School Facilities
• And we're also funding School Facilities Board at the $183 million amount, which is what the executive
• And just to that point, the school for the deaf and blind down in Tucson, they've closed that facility
• The Senate adopted a strike-everything amendment that creates an emergency measure that permits a person
• The Senate adopted a strike-everything amendment that creates an emergency measure that permits a person

Summary: House Republican caucus met on April 29 to review the FY 2027 budget package and several related “budget implementation” bills, with Chairman Livingston noting that HB 2415 was being held. Staff and members walked through HB 4138, the General Appropriations Act (“feed bill”), which appropriates about $17.96 billion from the general fund and includes one-time fund transfers, 5% lump-sum reductions for most agencies, funding for the state health insurance plan, school facilities, child care, correctional officer stipends, public safety, and other prior-year items. Members emphasized that the budget reflected House and Senate negotiations after the governor left budget talks, and Republican leaders framed it as a package that lowers taxes, shrinks government, and funds priorities such as K-12, child care, foster care, and public safety. The caucus then reviewed a series of mostly standard budget bills: HB 4139 on gaming/racing assessments; HB 4140 on federal monies, the budget stabilization fund, and ACE initiative savings reporting; HB 4141 on capital outlay, highway construction, airport funding, and rural transportation match funds; HB 4142 on commerce and lottery distributions; HB 4143 on corrections reporting; HB 4144 on environmental provisions and water-related fund uses; HB 4145 on state employee health insurance premiums and DES reforms; HB 4146 on higher education funding provisions; HB 4147 on SNAP administration and error-rate reduction; HB 4148 on K-12 inflation adjustments, school facilities, and ASDB property-sale oversight; HB 4150 on county expenditure flexibility and state office rent rates; HB 4151 on the Department of Revenue’s integrated tax system funding and related charges; HB 4152 on tax conformity, deductions, and repeal of several renewable-energy tax preferences and the Rio Nuevo diversion; and HB 4153 on transportation reporting. Discussion repeatedly centered on health plan solvency, SNAP/ACCESS eligibility and fraud controls, school funding, rural transportation, and tax conformity and relief. The caucus also took up several blue-sheet bills: HB 2035 on extended-family placement notifications in child welfare cases; HB 2170 restricting certain PRC-controlled companies from state IT contracts; HB 2249 expanding Parents’ Bill of Rights provisions; HB 2573 on DUI interlock/restricted-license rules and psychotherapy definitions; and HB 2873, which was amended to allow withdrawal of referendum petitions before ballot qualification. HB 2415 was held. The Speaker closed by praising the caucus for its budget work, saying the package delivers tax relief, protects vulnerable populations and public safety, and reflects months of Republican negotiations, and the meeting adjourned to the floor.

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• And then, uh, another important role we play is permitting access to our roadways.
• programs included the registration of 26 million vehicles for use on Texas roadways, issuance of 737 permits
• So if I'm a dealer, am I going to have to have them stored there at the facility? Yes, sir.
• By the way, in our facility in Reeves County, we have to draw straws every morning to see who has to
• the remaining slides 11 through 16, this just talks about some of the capabilities, uh, at our facilities

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• Transportation disadvantage program that focuses on filling gaps while also providing trips the permit
• They do that with dials the centers and senior facilities and senior home.
• What back to you, Stephanie, to to your facility.
• Then this you have a couple of streets E 9 on like a close facility ready to testing.
• to 7 years from an open to serve a state which was 5/1/2014 FDOT was responsible for the design, permitting

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• SB 894 RESOURCE FAIRNESS AND CHOICE BY RECOGNIZING FAITH-BASED COUNSELING AS A PERMITTED COMPONENT OF
• THIS BILL WOULD ALLOW INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENT OF DISABILITIES TO STAY OUT OF NURSING HOME FACILITIES
• AND LIVE IN GROUP HOME FACILITIES HAVING A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR A DISEASE THAT CAN BE MANAGED
• THESE ARE NON-PROVIDERS SO IF THEY WERE IN THE LONG TERM CARE FACILITY THEN THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO BILL
• UNDER THIS SO THE FAMILY WOULD PICK UP ON THAT ONE VISIT THAT THEY COULD CONTINUE. >> GROUP HOME FACILITY

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• a process for claiming deductions for extraordinary losses, such a storm damage to distributors facility
• The person providing the armed services must hold a valid concealed weapons permit firearm pursue it
• the members of the congregation who wore retired law enforcement officers and their concealed carry permit
• we're gonna use a board of trustees to do all of that thing to do our signing and make sure they have permits

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• residents explaining what they can do after a storm in recovery, as well as outlining what their permitting
• with the Department of Elder Affairs and APD to ensure that persons living in independent living facilities
• It requires local governments to open a permitting office as soon as reasonably possible, where we can
• It prohibits building permit and inspection fees from being increased 180 days post-storm and it requires

Summary: The Transportation and Economic Development Budget Subcommittee met and first took up CS/HB 567, a broad transportation bill by Rep. McFarland. The bill, as explained, covered a range of transportation policy changes including higher speed limits, local regulation of e-bikes and e-scooters, parking accommodations for pregnant women, advance land acquisition for DOT projects, changes to FDOT contracting, elevation of roads in capacity projects, MPO quality metrics, and repeal of the Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council. Two amendments were adopted: one added a prohibition on driving too fast through flooded roads and creating excessive wake, and another updated language to allow for future technology in traffic management systems. The strike-all removed several items from the original bill, including utility-right-of-way language, private-public-use airport funding, and an electric vehicle tax redirect, and added MDX board changes. The bill then passed favorably on a recorded vote. The committee next considered CS/HB 1535, also by Rep. McFarland, a lengthy hurricane recovery and preparedness measure. It requires local governments to post storm-preparedness and recovery information online, expands special needs shelter information, mandates emergency management training, improves debris removal planning, and adds provisions for fiscally constrained counties. It also addresses shelter access, rebuilding rules, permitting timelines and fees after storms, homestead rebuilding limits, and election flexibility after disasters, including a process for supervisors of elections to request emergency changes through the Secretary of State. Members asked several questions about local rebuilding ordinances, election “super sites,” and the request/approval process. The bill drew support from several groups, including disability advocates, builders, waste and recycling interests, crane owners, and restaurant and lodging representatives, and it passed favorably. The committee then heard CS/HB 561 and CS/HB 563 from Rep. Cobb on manufacturing. HB 561 would elevate a chief manufacturing officer within the Department of Commerce, create a voluntary Florida manufacturing promotional campaign, and require biennial reporting on manufacturing efforts; an amendment removed the grant portion of the program, and the bill passed favorably with support from industry groups. HB 563 established an annual fee, capped at $100, for participants in the voluntary manufacturing promotional campaign and also passed favorably. Finally, Rep. Spencer presented HB 827, which directs a statewide study on the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on Florida’s workforce, to be updated every three years and developed with business, academic, and local input; it too passed favorably. The meeting then adjourned with notice that the subcommittee would meet again the following week.

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• I know that we will be accountable to you if you are funding facilities, and we don't have the licensees
• The second request is for funding for three additional license and permit specialists.
• Our third request is for one licensed permit specialist to conduct the statutorily required permit background

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• > requests<01:47:57.280> for permits utilities to issue requests for permits utilities
• accommodations, advantages, facilities accommodations, advantages, facilities and<03:37:50.760><
• , up a democratic life, all facilities, up a democratic life, all facilities, all<03:38:12.800>
• That phrase, facilities were equal.
• And it would permit correctional facilities and mental health institutions to ignore gender identity

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• But these two types of permits are different in that the conditional use permits stay with the land if
• aggregates be studied. interim use permits now both types of interim use permits now both types of permits
• c> conditional use permits stay with the conditional use permits stay with the land<01:46:22.080>
• permits related to Aggregates<01:46:39.520> be The task force recommended that permit issuers
• <01:47:27.040> issuers force recommended that permit issuers force recommended that permit

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• It would revise the repayment rules and permit the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to use fund
• House Bill 4341 mandates that certain critical infrastructure facilities provide standardized, detailed
• HB4341 also includes a grant program to assist these facilities in meeting these requirements.
• This ensures that every community has the tools they need to protect these vital facilities.
• to which the bill applies is only required to comply if the facility receives a grant.

Bills: HB2564, HB2760, HB2765, HB2898, HB3260, HB3800, HB4341, HB4396, HB5195

Keywords: Defense Economic Adjustment, grant applications, economic assistance, local government, Evaluation panel, judicial review, Texas Workforce Commission, unemployment compensation, legal proceedings, labor law, rural development, infrastructure, Texas economic fund, private investment, job creation, meteorological evaluation towers, wind resources, aviation safety, regulations, construction notice

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• It would permit the TDA to use fund money for new loans and grants as long as the required minimum fund
• HP 4341 also includes a grant program to, to assist these facilities in meeting these requirements.
• This ensures that every community has the tools they need to protect these vital facilities.
• to which the bill applies is only required to comply if the facility receives a grant under the grant
• House Bill 2898 is about notifying the Air Force and other branches with the aviation training facilities

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• ADDITIONALLY THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION'S 2024 HEALTHCARE FACILITIES CODE REQUIRES THE
• FLORIDA NEEDS THIS LEGISLATION TO EXTEND THESE PROTECTIONS TO ALL PRE-EXISTING FACILITIES.
• THE FACILITIES THAT DO EVACUATE SMOKE WE ARE MOST GRATEFUL BUT WE NEED THE CONSISTENCY OF KNOWING ANYWHERE
• OR NOT THERE IS IN FACT SIGNIFICANT FISCAL IMPACT WHEN YOU EXAMINE POLICIES SUCH AS THIS IF YOU'LL PERMIT
• , FOR NURSING HOMES, ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES, FOR LABORATORIES, FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF HEALTH CARE

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