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• <00:34:03.120> Bureau<00:34:03.440> of and Human Services Bureau of and Human Services
• Yeah, because that seems kind of weird to me. service so they they they told me that service so they
• Do you see where it says Debt Service? So for the most part, debt service declines.
• We have to pay that service.
• to pay that service.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first heard from the Personnel Appeals Board, which explained that it became an independent state agency after Senate Bill 487 and was presenting its first standalone operating budget. The board described its quasi-judicial role in hearing appeals from classified state employees over disciplinary actions such as warnings, suspensions, and terminations, and said it handles about 25 to 35 cases a year, with some cases lasting longer because of their complexity. Members also outlined the need for a chair and vice chair who are attorneys, the board’s current staffing and space needs, and its plan to move away from reliance on Administrative Services for office support and website functions. The board requested about $353,500 for fiscal year 2026, including startup costs, routine operating expenses, and two new part-time positions: a program director and a paralegal. Members said the budget reflects the new independent status, includes funding for only four board members rather than the authorized five, and is designed to avoid full-time staffing costs and benefits. Legislators asked about the cost per case, the board’s relationship to DAS, whether appeals must go through the board before court, and how often cases are appealed further. The board said appeals must first go through it, that court appeals are infrequent but have increased recently, and that the board’s process is intended to resolve disputes more quickly and less expensively than court litigation. Committee members also asked about the board’s caseload, outcomes, and staffing. The board said that in the prior year there were 22 cases, with four decisions overturned in favor of employees, nine dismissals, and nine settlements, and that many disputes are resolved before reaching the board through a multi-step internal process. A member noted the governor and council had recently approved a new board member and were expected to approve a fifth soon. The discussion ended with questions about the board’s website and records access, which members said would need to be moved from Administrative Services as part of the agency’s transition. The committee then moved to the New Hampshire Council on Developmental Disabilities. The executive director explained that the council is 100 percent federally funded under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act and develops a five-year plan to address the needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She said the council works with state agencies and advocacy organizations on quality-of-life issues, accessibility, voter rights training, and plain-language or easy-to-read materials, and that 60 percent of its membership must be individuals with disabilities or family members/guardians. She also described the council’s funding structure, including reimbursement to the state for operating costs, and noted that it currently has three full-time and three part-time positions, with no new positions requested but one full-time position being eliminated and replaced after a pandemic-era staffing change did not work out as planned.

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• he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
• transition temporarily in an advisory role after Sean starts, and I am grateful for his continued service
• The Oregon State Hospital provides an expansive array of services to those suffering from acute mental
• I mean, is civil commitment the only pathway to those types of services?
• A civil commitment is not the only pathway through those services.

Keywords: 907, all

Summary: The joint Senate and House Behavioral Health committees held an informational meeting focused first on the Oregon State Hospital (OSH). OHA Director Sajal Hathi introduced the hospital’s incoming permanent superintendent, Sean Murphy, and praised interim superintendent Jim Deagle for stabilizing operations, restoring CMS compliance, and helping drive a culture change centered on safety, accountability, and transparency. Deagle and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Amit Bavon described OSH’s role as the state’s highest-level forensic psychiatric hospital, the patient populations it serves, its partnerships with courts, counties, jails, hospitals, and advocates, and recent leadership changes across the hospital. They also reported improved accreditation and regulatory status, including Joint Commission accreditation and CMS compliance, and said the hospital is now using daily safety huddles, incident review meetings, stronger escalation procedures, and revised seclusion/restraint practices to reduce risk and improve oversight. Members pressed hospital leaders on past seclusion practices, asking how prolonged seclusions could have occurred under federal standards. Leaders said they could not explain past decisions but emphasized that current leadership has changed processes, training, reporting, and oversight so that seclusion and restraint are reviewed in real time and cannot be normalized. Questions also covered staffing, falls, and future planning. OSH said it is generally staffed to budget, though it still has RN and mental health technician vacancies and is working on recruitment, training, and better staffing distribution. Hathi said the hospital is building a public dashboard with key performance and safety metrics, including workforce data, and described the long-term goal as a consistently safe, disciplined, high-functioning institution that responds quickly to mistakes and remains accountable to the public. The committee then shifted to an informational overview of civil commitment. Oregon Judicial Department representative Chanah Newell explained the civil commitment process, including who can initiate it, the role of community mental health providers and courts, the five-day timeline to hearing, and the standards for danger to self, danger to others, and inability to meet basic needs. She summarized changes made in House Bill 2005, including revised statutory language and new provisions allowing a second diversion period, but cautioned that the data are too early to show clear trends. Testimony from NAMI Oregon’s Chris Bonif and psychiatrist Dr. Stephanie Lopez argued that Oregon still relies too heavily on jails and state hospital commitments because the broader community system lacks enough treatment, housing, and less restrictive alternatives. They urged the legislature to focus on upstream services, supported housing, and possible outpatient commitment tools so people can receive treatment before reaching crisis. The meeting ended with acknowledgment that additional reports and follow-up discussions are expected, including on residential treatment capacity and related behavioral health system reforms.

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• You're providing this service to them, correct? You're providing this service to them, correct?
• There are 20 field service agents.
• In Emergency Services District No. 1, an Emergency Services District, Bastrop Travis County's Emergency
• Services District No. 1.
• Without their services, the district's emergency services personnel would be unnecessarily strained further

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Parents need to make sure that the services billed are the services provided.
• <00:31:12.880> the<00:31:13.039> services build are the services build are the services
• services, nutrition services, medication monitoring, and counseling.
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Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Service developers.
• Service developers.
• so we have Civil Service developers so we have Civil Service developers<00:21:26.919> um<00:21
• receive early intervention services receive early intervention services that's<00:28:01.039>
• Exemptions in state service.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• services. to rural community members.
• No one really does supervised release better than the federal government.
• But if we put services in current service deserts and we start intervening with these people before they
• We've also reached out to the private network of service providers through Diversion Hub.
• She knows that service desert is killing her population.

Keywords: 914, all

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• And so, we have just services bill.
• Then we have crime victim services Then we have crime victim services grants.<00:25:30.320> The
• from the driver and vehicle services from the driver and vehicle services operating<00:28:30.520
• postrelease services division uh postrelease services division uh operating<00:32:12.240> adjustment
• This is trunk highway debt service.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Under the current model, federal changes could immediately halt pharmacists-provided services for HIV
• Pharmacy services and access to them are under strain throughout the state.
• That would include, by the way, supervising... ...tasks of our pharmacist members.
• That would include, by the way, supervising more people.
• Thank you for your service.

Summary: The joint Assembly and Senate business committees held a sunset review hearing on the California State Board of Pharmacy, with board leadership describing the board’s consumer-protection role and its priorities around access, enforcement, and updating pharmacy law. The board emphasized a proposed shift toward a standard-of-care model for pharmacists, arguing it would reduce rigid protocol requirements and improve access to services such as HIV PrEP/PEP, contraception, and naloxone. Board representatives also discussed pharmacy deserts, possible fee waivers for pharmacies in underserved areas, concerns about payer practices contributing to closures, continuing education audits, and a request to restore more flexibility in licensure decisions and probationary monitoring for applicants with certain criminal histories. A major focus of the hearing was the board’s ongoing compounding regulations, especially the treatment of sterile versus nonsterile compounding and substances such as glutathione and methylcobalamin. The board said the proposal was not a ban on those substances and described the rulemaking as grounded in federal law, USP standards, and public comment, noting the process had gone through multiple modified texts and hearings. Testimony from stakeholders was sharply divided: pharmacists, veterinarians, firefighters, naturopathic doctors, and patient advocates warned the rules were restricting access to compounded medications and harming patients and first responders, while the California Medical Association, psychiatric physicians, and PhRMA raised concerns that the board’s proposals could expand pharmacist authority beyond training, affect physician practice, or create safety risks. Other public comments addressed pharmacy technician ratios, remote processing, flavoring medications, hospital-specific regulation, budget and enforcement transparency, and whether the board should add members with community compounding or pharmacy technician expertise. Committee members also asked about the board’s oversight priorities and the rationale for its standard-of-care proposal. Board staff explained that consumer protection includes education, licensing, policy, and enforcement, with the highest-priority enforcement cases being those posing imminent public harm. After public testimony concluded, the chairs thanked participants and adjourned the sunset review hearing, announcing an immediate transition to the joint informational hearing on the Department of Cannabis Control.

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• care practitioner to hospice services. care practitioner to hospice services.
• <01:15:32.080> So services that are available. So services that are available.
• providers and support services. providers and support services.
• health and human services uh department. health and human services uh department.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• He was sentenced to serve 2 years under the supervision of MDOC.
• He was released to earned release supervision on November 20, 2007, and discharged in 2008.

Keywords: Judiciary, Division B - Room 409, 1 April, 2026; 11:30 A.M., 925, all

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• , directly fulfilling Wyoming’s grant objective to improve health care services, particularly in the
• <00:16:42.480> by technician and could be supervised by technician and could be supervised
• It's, you know, I'd love to see us provide more services to our communities.
• <00:59:35.200> We're<00:59:35.440> all services to our communities.
• We're all services to our communities.

Bills: HB0143, HB0129

Keywords: health care providers, free speech, discrimination, governmental agencies, civil remedies, physician access, internationally trained physicians, medical licensing, provisional license, healthcare workforce, 916, all

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• I've also seen the poor results of juvenile choices, a lack of parental supervision and late-night peer
• Thank you for your service.
• Rose, I show you, you're the director of public policy for Texas Network of Youth Services, and you're
• Uh, good morning, Lauren Rose, director of Public policy, Texas Network of Youth Services, uh, against
• And you're testifying on behalf of Grayson County Juvenile Services and yourself in support of House

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• . service. service.
• maintain services. maintain services.
• on the individual entity for services. on the individual entity for services.
• heard in Human Service Health and Human<02:46:47.920> Services.
• Human Services. It's the EVV language. Human Services. It's the EVV language.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• software per school for all the services software per school for all the services and<00:34:50.879
• It'll be a full-service District Court, so that instead of people receiving some limited services out
• So that includes community service, drug testing, presentence investigations, and supervision for both
• services.
• you support those services.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The Committee on Finance received an informational briefing from the Department of Law Enforcement on its priorities following the January 1 transfer of law enforcement assets into the department, including the sheriff’s division, narcotics enforcement, criminal investigations, homeland security, and the inspector general’s office. DLE said its goals are to improve public safety, accountability, communications, training, and standards. The department outlined planned initiatives such as stronger federal partnerships, narcotics and gun-violence enforcement, an agricultural crime unit, traffic and commercial vehicle enforcement, an explosive/fireworks enforcement section, gun buybacks, new police facilities in the airport area, Aahu, and the leeward side, a state training center, upgraded law-enforcement IT, and efforts to narrow salary gaps with county departments to improve recruitment. A major portion of the discussion focused on illegal fireworks enforcement after the recent explosion tragedy. DLE said its current task force is small and relies on ad hoc support from HPD, the Attorney General’s office, criminal investigations, and sheriffs, which is not sustainable. The department requested eight FTEs for the effort—one administrator, two clerical staff, and six investigators—plus funding for a laboratory, equipment, storage, disposal, vehicles, safety gear, and a criminalist. DLE said the explosive enforcement section would use an existing facility and that the initial lab startup cost is about $2 million. Members asked for follow-up materials, and DLE said it would send the explosive enforcement forms and additional details to the Finance and Judiciary chairs. Members also questioned staffing vacancies, interagency coordination, and whether new specialized units could be filled. DLE said it has about 119 vacancies and that recruitment is hindered by a roughly $28,000 starting pay gap with county police departments; academy classes are down to about 12 to 14 recruits. The department said it is streamlining hiring, using QR-code recruitment, and hopes specialized units will attract applicants. On coordination, DLE said it works closely with HPD and other agencies on operations such as fireworks enforcement and public events, and that DOCARE remains a case-by-case partner but is not currently moving into DLE. The committee also received updates on the Silver Alert program, which is nearing rollout with county MOUs and a coordinator expected later in the month, the special duty officer program, which is being moved to a web-based vendor-managed system at no cost to the department, and the SaferWatch school safety system, which is being deployed statewide with annual software costs of $3,500 per school in the first year and $2,500 thereafter. No votes or formal actions were taken.

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• Veronica Bedillo, representing Navy Region Southwest on behalf of the military services in California
• Also here for the following organizations: Jewish Long Beach, Jewish Family and Community Services East
• Services East Bay, Jewish Community Relations Council of Sacramento, Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles
• , Jewish Family Services of the Desert, Jewish Center for Justice, Jewish Coalition of Berkeley, Jewish
• I'm an attorney, and I am here to offer my services as a technical witness.

Summary: The committee heard several bills focused on domestic violence protections, pay equity enforcement, Jewish demographic data collection, court transparency, auto glass insurance practices, pet policy disclosure for renters, and civil rights accountability for federal officers. SB 99 would require courts and law enforcement to better recognize military protective orders in domestic violence cases; supporters from the Department of Defense and military organizations said it would close jurisdictional gaps for military families, and the bill passed to Public Safety. SB 1237 would increase penalties for repeat noncompliance with California pay data reporting laws; supporters said stronger enforcement is needed to address persistent wage gaps, and the bill passed to Appropriations. SB 1387 would allow Jewish identity to be reported as an ethnic category in state demographic data; supporters said better data would improve policy and anti-discrimination efforts, while opponents argued the bill was unnecessary or divisive, and it passed to Privacy. SB 932 would require assignees filing civil actions to identify the original party in the case caption; supporters framed it as a transparency measure, and it passed to Judiciary/Appropriations on call. The committee also took up SB 98, which would regulate auto glass insurance claims by restricting assignment of benefits, requiring clearer estimates and invoices, and limiting inducements to consumers. The sponsor and NICB said the bill would curb fraud and unsafe repairs, while independent glass shops and industry groups argued it could reduce consumer choice and favor insurer-aligned networks; the bill passed to Appropriations. SB 1296 would require landlords to disclose pet policies before collecting application fees and provide refunds if nondisclosure materially affected an applicant’s decision; supporters said it would save renters time and money, while rental housing representatives objected to a provision limiting eviction based solely on failure to sign a pet addendum. The bill passed to Appropriations. Finally, SB 747, the No Kings Act, would create a California cause of action allowing people to sue federal officers for constitutional violations using standards similar to Section 1983. Senator Wiener and a witness who said he was unlawfully detained by Border Patrol argued the bill is needed because federal officers currently lack comparable accountability after the Supreme Court narrowed Bivens remedies. Law enforcement groups opposed the bill, warning that the qualified immunity language is unclear, could create a separate California standard, and might expose officers and governments to retroactive litigation; members discussed possible amendments on qualified immunity and retroactivity, and the bill was moved forward with an urgency amendment while negotiations continued.

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• Veronica Bedillo, representing Navy Region Southwest on behalf of the military services in California
• Bay, Jewish Community Relations Council of Sacramento, Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles, Jewish
• Services of the Silicon Valley, Jewish Federation of the Bay Area, Jewish Democratic Club, Coalition
• Services of the Silicon Valley, Jewish Federation of the Bay Area, Jewish Democratic Club, Coalition
• I'm an attorney, and I am here to offer my services as a technical witness.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• ,<00:09:59.400> Department Department of Human Services, Department Department of Human Services
• health services. health services.
• services we cannot get paid for.
• clients without services or provide services<01:48:09.480> we<01:48:09.600> cannot<01:
• . services. services.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Additionally, we've adjusted guidelines for children's services councils, allowing the governor greater
• I am the deputy director of Children's Legal Services at the Department of Children and Families.
• We then have the obligation to secure either legal services through paid or volunteer services to pursue
• And we actually seek the court order releasing the child from the court's supervision and jurisdiction
• My name is Caitlin Clibbin, and I am the director of community and health care services at Disability

Summary: The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs met with a quorum and considered five bills. SB 1174, by Senator Jones, would simplify the process for transferring a family foster home license when a foster parent moves within Florida. A friendly amendment clarified that the transfer applies to the same licensed person, not a different individual, and directs DCF to prioritize amended licenses. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 558, by Chair Grall, created a framework for voluntary post-adoption contact agreements between adoptive and biological parents, including contact with siblings, with court filing and enforcement procedures. A strike-all amendment changed the child’s party status age from 14 to 12, required court filing in the adoption case, set a preponderance standard, and moved the effective date to January 1, 2026. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 1626, also by Chair Grall, was substantially revised by a strike-all addressing unaccompanied alien children reporting and custody procedures, military family child protective investigations, domestic violence shelter certification, children’s services councils, criminal-background exemptions, group home rates, subcontractor indemnification, child care licensing extensions, small residential group home fire suppression rules, and missing-child jurisdiction issues. After testimony both supporting and opposing parts of the bill, the committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 738, by Senator Burton, updated child care and early learning licensing rules, including expedited licensing for compliant providers, faster background screening and provisional licensure, online training/testing, exemptions for certain military and employer-provided child care, and removal of a residential insurance provision from the bill. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 304, by Senator Sharief, known as Patterson’s Law, addressed child abuse investigations involving rare genetic or metabolic conditions that can mimic abuse. The strike-all required more detailed medical analysis in reports, allowed second opinions, and set procedures for experienced physician review and judicial resolution. After extensive testimony from affected families, advocates, and DCF, the committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. At the end, Senators Harrell and Rouson asked to be recorded as voting favorably on additional bills, and the committee adjourned.

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• and quality of services.
• and quality of services.
• and quality of services.
• and quality of services.
• have the integrative services on site. have the integrative services on site.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• consideration during the 57th Legislature's second session, submission of a bill bearing Legislative Council Service
• Constitution, I am authorizing for your consideration during the second session of the Legislative Council Service
• consideration during the 57th Legislature, Second Session, submission of a bill bearing Legislative Council Service
• Training Corps within the Department of Health, establishing a stipend program for preceptors who supervise
• Concluding the provision of loans made pursuant to the Allied Health Student Loan for Service Act.