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• is still held so that voters session is still held so that voters that<00:43:23.280> need<00:
• <00:49:16.960> in go in executive session all those in go in executive session all those in
• It has it; we are in executive session. Okay, no way to get that. Oh, look, you got it. You did it.
• <00:57:18.359> veterans<00:57:18.880> credit There's the regular veterans credit.
• Okay, do I have a motion to come out of executive session?

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• So, being in institutions on a regular basis, everything you said is accurate in terms of the impact
• our officers witness violence, trauma, suicide attempts, drug overdoses, and assaults often on a regular
• everything that happens over the next couple of months between budgets and then the end of the legislative session
• everything that happens over the next couple of months between budgets and then the end of the legislative session
• recommendations and file them in time for there to be a legislative response in the following legislative session

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The special commission on consolidation and cooperation among public safety agencies held a hearing focused on union and correctional staff testimony. Chair Dan Hunt and Senator Brownsberger opened by noting the commission’s extensive site visits and prior testimony, and they recognized Correctional Officers Week. Union representatives from KOUF, NCEU, AFSCME, and local county correctional unions described the daily realities of correctional work, emphasizing staff safety, staffing shortages, retention problems, mental health impacts, and the need to preserve local sheriff’s offices and collective bargaining agreements. Testimony centered on several recurring concerns: violence inside facilities, the spread of synthetic drugs such as K2, inmate suicides and suicide attempts, and the strain these issues place on officers, EMS, and local resources. Speakers also raised concerns about gender-identity housing policies, arguing they can create safety and workplace issues for staff, and urged more support for officer wellness, debriefing, and programs like OnSide Academy. Several witnesses argued that county facilities should remain locally controlled and that consolidation with the Department of Correction would weaken programming, staffing, and community-based reentry work. One witness described the Norwegian correctional model as a possible source of ideas for more rehabilitative approaches. Commission members responded with support for correctional staff and asked questions about K2 detection, paperless systems, EMS transports, and possible metrics to quantify incidents and facility needs. Members also discussed the importance of individualized assessments of each facility rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. The commission voted to seek an extension of its reporting deadline from September 30 to November 30, and agreed to continue site visits, including the upcoming Barnstable visit and a June 15 hearing. The meeting adjourned after the motion passed.

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• fund in HB2 that is contingent on House Bill 8, which is also on this committee's agenda yet this session
• And I hope that come next session that we have a stronger model in which we Can go ahead and implement
• We are seeing regularized intersections with the juvenile justice system for our young people in the
• close enough for them to continue to stay connected to them. and be able to speak with them on a regular
• I'm going to let the Division Director speak to that, but he did give me information before this session

Keywords: 996, all

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• That April 21st meeting was right at the end of session, and so it was kind of tricky timing.
• I have elevated this again internally here now that we are stepping out of legislative session and post-legislative
• session work and looking more at how we’re organizing going forward.
• Like, yeah, so, sorry, like access to regular outpatient behavioral health care services, that’s definitely
• Like, yeah, so, sorry, like access to regular outpatient behavior health care services, that's definitely

Summary: The committee met for its final session before submitting a report to the governor and legislature, with introductions from state officials, legislators, advocates, providers, and facilitators. Staff explained that the meeting would focus on finalizing the committee’s strategic priorities and recommendations for a five-year behavioral health plan centered on prevention, early intervention, and community-based services. Members reviewed the draft overarching priorities, including the need for a statewide behavioral health vision and an executive-level role to coordinate behavioral health across agencies, and discussed how those priorities should reflect people with lived experience, families, and community voice. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on the draft recommendations and how they should be organized and worded. Members raised concerns that the document was too aspirational and not specific enough, and several suggested moving more detailed actions under the broader priorities rather than leaving them in a separate section. There was also discussion about the use of the term “evidence-based,” with tribal representatives and others asking for language that also recognizes practice-based evidence, promising practices, cultural specificity, and flexibility in funding and implementation. Members also discussed clarifying “early intervention,” adding examples such as universal screening, outpatient access, primary care integration, and home visiting, and ensuring the plan reflects accountability and community feedback. Other edits included clarifying credentialing recommendations to distinguish between licensure and payer credentialing, adding mentorship as a workforce retention strategy, and broadening Medicaid-centric language to include carriers and insurers more generally. Staff noted the report would be revised and sent back out for review by May 22, with comments due by May 27, in order to meet the June 1 submission deadline. No public comment was offered, and the meeting ended with thanks to members and facilitators for their work.

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• she's no longer here, but, uh, not a whole lot of horse people can afford to have that done on a regular
• Uh, we have gone through the last, uh, 4 sessions in a row, adding, uh, multiple layers into chapter
• This was a historic tax cut with no modern equivalent, and yet here we are this session.
• they were in 2023, and that says something because the legislature took such dramatic action last session
• And the other part of the income, I guess the regular income, what Can you divide the dollar?

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• out of executive session. out of executive session. >> So<00:09:51.760> moved.
• We are going to come back and do an executive session.
• We are now in executive session.
• I make a motion to come out of executive session. Second.
• Session 10. Thank you. Well, can't control that.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• able to show up for a delative session able to show up for a delative session or<00:47:03.720>
• from the deliberative session, so does this bill not disenfranchise the deliberative session?
• from the deliberative session so result from the deliberative session so does<00:58:04.880> this<
• had their vote at the deliver session had their vote at the deliver session deliver<00:59:19.599
• They have regular drug tests.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• TEAMWORK ON THIS COMMITTEE WE APPRECIATE IT AND LOOK FORWARD TO A LOT OF GOOD WORK AHEAD IN THIS SESSION
• THIS WILL BE THE SIMPLEST BILL YOU WILL HEAR ALL SESSION.
• NOT GUCCI OR VERSACE BUT YOU CAN SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON REGULAR EYEWEAR AS WELL BUT WHAT THIS DOES IS

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• Um, but that's where, you know, we're going to be taking our regular flights.
• you know, we're going to be<01:03:10.400> taking<01:03:10.559> our<01:03:10.720> regular
• be taking our regular flights. be taking our regular flights.
• and as heavy uh as the other uh regular and as heavy uh as the other uh regular aircraft.<01:33:
• So, uh I I told former session.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The task force approved the October 14, 2025 meeting minutes and then heard a presentation from Austin Kaylor of WSP on alternative aviation fuels. Kaylor described an ongoing feasibility study focused on Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and the other four commercial airports in Kentucky, with an eye toward both near-term use of alternative aviation fuel in existing supply chains and longer-term in-state production using local feedstocks. He said Kentucky’s current jet fuel use at the five airports is about 609 million gallons annually and could approach 1 billion gallons by 2050, and he outlined potential feedstocks such as soybeans, corn, and waste oils, along with existing logistics assets like river terminals, trucking, rail, and some pipelines. He also discussed federal and state policy support, including renewable fuel credits and the recent 45Z tax credit extension, and said the study suggests significant economic-development potential if Kentucky can leverage existing infrastructure and incentives. Members asked about the cost of sustainable aviation fuel, whether taxpayers would be subsidizing it, and whether food crops would be diverted from food use. Kaylor responded that the market is increasingly using second-generation and waste-based feedstocks, that federal incentives can cover much of the price differential, and that SAF is a direct substitute for conventional jet fuel with some efficiency benefits. He said demand comes from both U.S. and foreign carriers, including major U.S. airlines that have made emissions-reduction commitments. Members also raised the possibility of locating production in Appalachia to create jobs closer to feedstock sources; Kaylor said that approach has worked in other states and could fit Kentucky’s logistics network. The committee then heard from Leif Elder of the Utah Department of Transportation, who introduced himself and said he would discuss advanced air mobility legislation in Utah. The transcript cuts off before his substantive presentation, and no further votes or actions were recorded after the question-and-answer discussion on alternative aviation fuels.

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• That's on top of the regular general sales tax of 6.5.
• :46.360> tax<00:03:46.640> of<00:03:46.840> 6.5<00:03:47.760> and the regular
• general sales tax of 6.5 and the regular general sales tax of 6.5 and so<00:03:48.720> technically
• market value tax and then regular market value tax and then commissioner<00:49:37.240> if<00:
• Senate File 46 is very similar to, um, coincidentally, Senate File 2346 in a previous session, and it

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The committee met to hear a presentation from the Commissioner of Revenue on Governor Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan’s tax proposal, with members told no public testimony would be taken because bill language was not yet available. The commissioner said the proposal would lower the statewide sales tax rate by 0.75 percentage points while expanding sales tax to selected professional services such as legal, brokerage, banking, and accounting, with several carve-outs. He emphasized that the plan would not add business-to-business sales taxes, arguing that taxing business inputs leads to tax pyramiding and higher hidden consumer costs. The commissioner said the rate cut would be the first sales tax rate cut in state history and estimated it at about $95 million annually, while the service expansions would raise about $203 million to $205 million annually, for a net increase of roughly $110 million per year. He said the proposal is part of the governor’s broader budget, which he described as addressing long-term structural deficits and funding other priorities such as an R&D credit, an expanded sustainable aviation fuel credit, fraud prevention, and service-member retention bonuses. He also said the carve-outs and exemptions would be reflected in the revenue estimate. Members questioned whether the proposal was truly a tax cut or instead a tax increase, and several asked for a revenue-neutral rate if all or more services were taxed. One member raised concerns about how pro bono legal work with a fee would be treated, and another asked about possible streamlining issues and whether fees are treated as taxes in statute. The commissioner said a fee would be taxable depending on the arrangement and that the department would review the language carefully once drafted. He also said the department would provide more detailed estimates later, including what the rate would be if the tax were made revenue neutral. No votes or formal actions were taken.

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• and Senate File 2978 in the current session.
• and Senate File 2978 in the current session.
• c> the<00:10:15.040> current<00:10:15.360> session.
• > current<00:10:54.079> session.
• in the current session. in the current session.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• owner must be applied to the regular owner must be applied to the regular assessment<00:24:19.679
• is coming before us so late in session is coming before us so late in session but<00:49:15.680><
• They deal with this on a regular basis. They've been educated in this.
• They deal with this on a regular basis. They've been educated in this.
• They deal with this on a regular basis. They've been educated in this.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Let's bring our work session to order. Representative Bergquist, chair of the committee.
• We do regular checks on them, but Clark County does not use electronic home monitoring.
• I know last session there was lots of conversations about EHM, and Spokane does have it.
• Because we asked last session not to do away with it, because there’s value.
• Because we asked last session not to do away with it, because there's value.

Summary: The committee began with a work session on juvenile rehabilitation institution capacity, services, and staffing. DCYF Assistant Secretary Jennifer Redmond described overcrowding at Green Hill School and Echo Glen, driven by longer adult-style sentences extending past age 25, limited community placements, and small facility sizes. She said Green Hill remains above safe operating capacity, but staffing, injuries, large-scale aggression, and use-of-force incidents have improved over the past year. She also discussed Harbor Heights, a new 46-bed flex facility that had opened with 22 youth and would expand once a medical trailer arrives, as well as community transition services, vocational programming, behavior management reforms, and a request for more resources for mental health-focused facilities and staffing. Members asked about success metrics, developmental disability screening and supports, college access at Echo Glen, Mission Creek planning, and gender-responsive programming; Redmond said JR uses assessments, family involvement, and specialized living units, and that some requested funding had already been secured for returning a girls’ program at Echo Glen. The committee then heard from Team Child and the Youth Action Coalition. Greta Schultz said youth perspectives should guide system reforms and identified key concerns: overuse of sentence extensions, underuse of community transition services, continued criminal referrals from Green Hill to Lewis County, limited family contact, inadequate mental health access, and unequal education opportunities, especially for young women at Echo Glen. Justella Gonzalez, a former system-involved youth, said her time in county and state facilities was harmful, with staff mistreatment, poor education, limited therapy access, and humiliating restraint practices; she also said girls at Echo Glen lacked the same college opportunities as boys at Green Hill. Committee members asked for follow-up on county versus state experiences and on telehealth mental health services. The next presentation covered county-level services for youth involved or at risk of involvement with the justice system, led by juvenile court administrators Christine Simon-Smeyer and Judge Rachel Anderson. They outlined the juvenile court continuum from prevention and truancy work through diversion, detention alternatives, community supervision, and disposition alternatives, emphasizing evidence-based, trauma-informed, and restorative practices. Clark County was used as an example of a court that partners closely with schools and community providers, uses risk assessments and wraparound behavioral health probation, and offers detention alternatives without electronic home monitoring. They said most courts do not use detention for status offenses, but instead use court involvement to connect youth to services. They also described funding, noting that courts rely on a mix of state block grant and local dollars, and that recent cuts to early intervention funding reduced programming and staff hours. Members asked about detention for truancy, developmental disability identification, restorative justice practices, and the juvenile block grant. Finally, DCYF Assistant Secretary Nicole Rose and Katie Warren of the Washington State Association of Head Start and ECAP discussed child care and early learning impacts from recent policy and budget changes. Rose said Fair Start for Kids investments had increased child care access, provider participation, and kindergarten readiness, with more than 60,000 children in Working Connections care and rising ECAP enrollment and provider capacity. She said recent reductions will raise most family copays in 2026, delay eligibility expansions, eliminate some expanded eligibility categories, reduce ECAP slots by about 3,000, delay entitlement timelines, and cut provider supports such as rate increases for centers, complex-needs grants, trauma-informed and dual-language incentives, and infant/early childhood mental health consultation. Warren emphasized ECAP’s role in family stability, workforce participation, and reducing poverty, and noted its two-generation approach to supporting both children and parents.

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• you. ...and we look forward to assisting the subcommittee with its work and priorities during this session
• As you see from our staff walking the halls throughout the session, NTTA is here to help in any way we
• I've been coming here to the Capitol every session since 2015. Oh, wait, before you go back.
• Is that the same one that was here last session? It was. It is. Okay, okay. Thank you.
• Our intention is to do this the regular way, despite the unknown total project cost.

Bills: HJR58, HJR63, HB263, HB542, HB905, HB 1288, HB1402, HB2003, HB2262, HB2323, HB2429, HB2876, HB3019, HB263

Keywords: healthcare, insurance, elderly, retirement, benefits, transit-oriented projects, constitutional amendment, state highway fund, funding allocation, voter approval, highway fund, funding, public transportation, transit projects, transportation, local transit, fund allocation, voting rights, election integrity, ballot access

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• Thank you for the opportunity to speak about TMB's budget priorities this session.
• session.
• You know, this is my first full session as chairman, and last session we were attached to TDLR, and I'd
• We anticipate next session, and this is going to be a major information resources project.
• I was overly optimistic last session; I thought we would be able to get going faster on it.

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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• direct<00:31:00.320> to<00:31:00.799> Consumer<00:31:01.799> so in this session
• uh direct to Consumer so in this session uh direct to Consumer so we<00:31:02.360> are<00:31:
• This is my eighth session talking about animal welfare now in front of this body, and this is the first
• But as we look at our data here in Hawaii, we are seeing more regular use from our high schoolers and
• <00:58:12.720> use Hawaii we are seeing more regular use Hawaii we are seeing more regular

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on January 29, 2025, and heard testimony on HB 108, which concerns intoxicating liquor and would expand direct-to-consumer shipping for beer and spirits. Supporters included representatives of Koloa Rum Company, Maui Brewing Company, and Ola Brew, who argued the bill would modernize alcohol laws, help small local producers compete, support jobs and local agriculture, and give consumers more access to Hawaii-made products. They also said Hawaii already has experience regulating direct wine shipments, with age verification and carrier-based delivery systems in place, and that direct shipping could help businesses reach visitors after they return home and diversify beyond tourism. Opposition came from the Hawaii Public Health Institute, whose representative said the bill could increase access for underage drinking, especially because liquor commissions do not currently conduct compliance checks on alcohol shipments and may lack capacity to do so. The group also raised tax-enforcement concerns, saying the existing three-tier system makes excise and sales tax collection easier, while direct shipping would require additional auditing. They urged the committee to oppose the bill or defer it until more research is done, and suggested a common carrier reporting requirement to help reconcile shipments. Committee members questioned both sides about whether current law already allows some alcohol shipments, whether a Kentucky distiller could ship directly to Hawaii, and how reciprocity with other states would work. Supporters said the bill is modeled on wine-shipping language and could be amended to clarify reciprocity, while opponents said the bill lacks a common carrier reporting requirement and would place a burden on county liquor commissions. No vote or final action on HB 108 was taken during the portion of the meeting provided.

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• <00:46:47.480> of our best years ever in a sessions of our best years ever in a sessions of
• Those kinds of things, you'll see some of these in the next session or two.
• Those kinds of things, you'll see some of these in the next session or two.
• Those kinds of things, you'll see some of these in the next session or two.
• Those kinds of things, you'll see some of these in the next session or two.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• the entire housing continuum, this effort means little if we don't continue to invest in HIBs every session
• <00:04:51.680> uh<00:04:51.840> amongst in 2023 legislative session uh amongst in 2023
• legislative session uh amongst the<00:04:52.280> various<00:04:52.560> tools<00:04:52.960
• made in this program in past sessions made in this program in past sessions but<00:36:15.640>
• Equity portion and moves to regular Equity portion and moves to regular speculative<00:40:37.440

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We're going to begin this work session of Division 3, House Finance Committee, and we'll open that work
• session at this point.
• First of all, the Medicaid work session part two has been scheduled, as you recall.
• believe in in Prior legislative session believe in in Prior legislative session a<01:49:07.239><
• In a prior legislative session, a trust fund was established.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The Division 3 House Finance Committee opened a work session and announced scheduling updates, including a second Medicaid work session on March 5 at 9:00 a.m. and a reminder that recommendations or budget amendments must be moved to the full finance committee by the end of March. Members were told no motions, roll calls, or votes would be taken, and the chair also reviewed upcoming meeting dates and weather-related cancellation procedures. The day’s presentation was a budget work session on the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), with officials Marie Nunan and Nathan White introducing the agency’s budget materials and mission. DCYF’s presentation focused on its core mandates and recent operational changes. Officials described child protective services, juvenile justice services, and the Sununu Youth Services Center, then highlighted workforce improvements, including reduced vacancy rates for assessment caseworkers, juvenile justice officers, and youth counselors. They attributed the staffing gains to legislative pay raises, mass recruitment posting changes, a more stable and trauma-informed model at SYC, and broader flexibility after prior budget cuts and hiring freezes. Members asked about full-time versus part-time staffing, and DCYF said most positions discussed were full-time, with some harder-to-fill part-time youth counselor roles at SYC. The committee also discussed DCYF’s emphasis on serving families earlier through its Community Navigator hotline referrals and community-based voluntary services, which are intended to connect families to supports before abuse or neglect escalates. Officials said the Community Navigator program had received 807 referrals since August 2023. On juvenile justice, DCYF described its assessment and diversion process and said it had reduced juvenile probation involvement by 30% from 2019 to 2023; members were directed to slide 17 for 2024 data, and officials said the trend continued toward fewer in-home juvenile justice cases. The agency also reported progress in kinship care, saying initial out-of-home placements with kin now occur 74% of the time and that kinship placements are associated with more reunification. Officials said kinship caregivers are being licensed and paid similarly to foster parents, and that the legislature’s kinship law has helped. Finally, DCYF outlined transition-age youth supports, including the HOPE program, Youth Villages LifeSet, and housing vouchers. No votes or formal actions were taken.

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• Crime victim services really is in a crisis, and we heard about that earlier this session as we had our
• If the fee is increased to the regular $125 marriage fee, there would be a lot of money to decide how
• If the fee is increased to the regular $125 marriage fee, there would be a lot of money to decide how
• If the fee is increased to the regular $125 marriage fee, there would be a lot of money to decide how
• about um in the last legislative session about um in the last legislative session the<00:37:06.720

Keywords: 1187, senate, all