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• The requirement would deepen existing inequities and access to teacher training programs.
• Focus on remote career training.
• Provide the training that you need in our school, and guess what?
• We'll make sure that they get the training that you need. Shared governance and accountability.
• Uh, it's a mixture of, um, Zoom trainings that they attend.

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• The home ownership education, counseling, and training, or HECAP, program supports much-needed financial
• The home ownership education, counseling, and training, or HECAP, program supports much-needed financial
• education, counseling, and training education, counseling, and training program.<00:21:19.039>
• <00:28:07.679> for<00:28:07.840> landlords, provide trainings for landlords, provide
• trainings for landlords, tenants,<00:28:09.120> and<00:28:09.279> the<00:28:09.520>

Keywords: 1183, house

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• We support the University of Miami's medical training and simulation laboratory to expand and enhance
• training of health care professionals.
• and professional development. ...also removing the teacher training and professional development in
• Why are we removing teacher training and professional development in your legislation?
• Thank you for... ...moving teacher training and professional development in your legislation.

Summary: The committee first heard CS for CS for SB 344, which would modernize the Telecommunications Access System Act of 1991 based on Public Service Commission recommendations. The bill drew no opposition and was reported favorably. Members then took up several Senator Burton measures: CS for SB 714 on non-opioid advanced directives, which was amended to create a Department of Health website access point for a voluntary form allowing patients to notify providers they do not want opioid medications; CS for SB 738 on child care and early learning providers, which streamlines and updates child care regulation and was supported by industry and business groups; CS for SB 756 on health insurance coverage for individuals with developmental disabilities, which removes the age-8 diagnosis limit and age cap for mandated autism-related coverage; and CS for CS for SB 1356, creating a Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases at FSU and a newborn genetic testing pilot, later amended to add FIU and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital to the board and remove specific appropriations. All of these bills were reported favorably. The committee also approved CS for CS for SB 1624 on higher education, a broad bill affecting tuition policies, workforce programs, institutional governance, and naming changes. The bill generated extended discussion over replacing references to “minority” with “underrepresented,” with the sponsor explaining the intent was to focus on low-income access and student support, while members raised concerns about impacts on majority-minority institutions and preeminence pathways. An amendment added guardrails for private religious postsecondary institutions by requiring public review of affidavits of compliance and giving the Commission for Independent Education enforcement authority. After debate, the bill was reported favorably. The committee then passed CS for SB 1626 on child welfare, which addresses military-family investigations, emergency shelter certification, children’s services council appointments, criminal-background exemptions, group-home rates, licensing extensions, small residential group homes, missing-children procedures, and psychotropic medication refills; it was amended to adjust council board composition and then reported favorably. Additional bills approved included SB 178, directing Florida A&M University to conduct an agronomic study on emerging crops for land taken out of production; SB 1162, expanding boating improvement funding for trailer parking and offering lease incentives for clean marine manufacturers; CS for CS for SB 958, creating a type 1 diabetes early detection information program for parents and schools; CS for CS for CS for SB 1070, requiring ECGs for student athletes with phased implementation and exemptions, after extensive testimony from parents and advocates about sudden cardiac arrest; CS for SB 774, requiring electronic transmission of certain court orders to sheriffs within six hours; SB 1516, creating an International Aerospace Innovation Fund administered by Space Florida; SB 994, revising driver education requirements and prompting a commitment to add distracted-driving instruction; and CS for CS for SB 1402, expanding eligibility for dropout retrieval programs. The committee also took up SB 810 on stormwater management systems, amending it to focus annual inspections on vulnerable MS4 infrastructure. That bill drew significant opposition from the Florida League of Cities, counties, and stormwater groups, who argued the mandate would duplicate existing permit requirements and impose major costs, but supporters said it was a basic flood-prevention measure. The transcript ends during debate on SB 810, before a final vote is shown.

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• And I imagine that with all of the training facilities we have around this state, all the focus we have
• I know we have a robust system throughout the state in training people who want to go into the trades
• , and train them through their last years of high school. high school and have opportunity abound, just
• The skilled labor that is employed in an ecosystem like this allows us to grab our youth, train them,
• President, the way that works is an individual as a business, they would have to go through training.

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• We created a network of trained, accredited service officers to represent Veterans in matters with the
• Training and all those skills that the United States invested in these service members are left behind
• So far, our academic partners Columbia University, the American Legion have trained more than 12,000
• Somebody who did a good job and was promoted to help train other crisis hotline employees.
• We think that cutbacks should be more precise and, quite frankly, maybe the train needs to slow down

Keywords: veteran services, homelessness, unemployment, VA funding, mental health, congressional oversight, testimonies, American Legion, Dole Act, suicide prevention

Summary: This meeting focused on veteran services, emphasizing the urgent need to address the alarming rate of unemployment and homelessness among veterans. Numerous testimonies were presented detailing the impact of mass furloughs and cutbacks at the VA on personnel, notably veterans who were serving as employees. Various representatives expressed deep concern over how these firings could drastically affect the quality of care available to those who have served the nation. There was a strong call for Congress to bolster funding for existing programs aimed at alleviating veteran homelessness and improving overall care quality, especially in mental health services.

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• Seventy-five hours of training. When you go to an assisted living, you are trained.
• <01:10:42.719> When assistant. 75 hours of training.
• When assistant. 75 hours of training.
• I could hire anybody in that trained.
• It was all training<01:10:54.800> expectations,<01:10:55.600> return, training expectations

Keywords: 1183, house

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• trainings meet the definitions.<00:03:48.799> So<00:03:48.959> the<00:03:49.120> changes
• Today, most school systems across the country and in Minnesota train very differently.
• Since outstate and smaller districts follow their regional training partners, it is estimated that more
• ,<00:24:15.600> and<00:24:15.840> allows are already training, and allows are already
• training, and allows districts<00:24:16.559> to<00:24:16.720> implement<00:24:17.120><

Keywords: 1183, house

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• We need to hire a qualified, highly trained, and fully supported workforce.
• We have about a little over a million for our training academy.
• In the past, we used to offer training once a month for new staff.
• So we don't make the people immediately enter into our training academy.
• We could provide training, technology, maybe some shared resources.

Bills: SB48, SB64, SB100

Keywords: State Fairgrounds District, fairgrounds bonds, public financing, bond authorization, gross receipts tax, gaming tax, tax-backed bonds, infrastructure funding, Albuquerque fairgrounds, State Fair Tid, economic development, municipal bonds, revenue pledge, capital projects, New Mexico finance, special education, office of special education, deputy secretary, public education department, IEP

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• a contractor to administer this program, and these funds just enable the contractor to recruit and train
• it's about a lot more than that, because it takes us four to five years to fully kind of basically train
• That was kind of the point I was hoping we get to: these are very highly specialized, trained resources
• Next on page 130 is the Employment and Training Payments core.
• Next on page 130 is the Employment and Training Payments Corps.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Two years ago, we received the funding, and now we're training them back up.
• They take a lot of training.
• We had to do it some because they have to get this outside training to do it.
• Is it a specialty that people need to have training?
• It's not something you can just train on the job. The construction industry is 17.

Keywords: 996, all

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• We have to train the court staff around the state. We have to process a lot of payments for jurors.
• In order to meet that cost, we have a small request. request for $57,600 and then a training component
• Can they be trained in another area? Carl, if you could just respond to that. Mr.
• We also provide a lot of training, education, and technical assistance.
• We also provide quite a bit of risk management coverage training.

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• But the ripple effects that we're seeing, and in my training as a social worker, you are taught that
• We had 50% federal funding for CalFresh administrative costs in the training, in the streamlining, in
• Fifty percent of all physicians are trained in public hospitals.
• And workers need to be trained on the new policy and the new rule.
• So those are some of the automation components, but we also need training and staffing capacity because

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Accountability and Oversight held its fifth hearing of the year to examine the newly enacted federal H.R. 1 and its effects on California. Members and the chair described the law as a major threat to state health, food, education, and climate programs, and emphasized that California would not be able to fully backfill the federal cuts. Several members also highlighted the bill’s tax provisions, including temporary deductions for tips, overtime, seniors, and auto loan interest, while warning that the largest benefits flow to higher-income taxpayers and that major cuts to Medi-Cal, CalFresh, and clean-energy incentives are delayed or phased in over time. The Legislative Analyst’s Office and the Department of Finance presented detailed overviews of the bill’s likely impacts and implementation timelines. They identified the main affected areas as health care coverage and financing, food assistance, higher education, personal income taxes, and clean-energy/electric-vehicle credits. They explained that H.R. 1 limits provider taxes used to finance Medi-Cal, adds work and redetermination requirements, restricts CalFresh eligibility and increases state costs, changes student loan and Pell Grant rules, extends and modifies federal tax provisions, and phases out many clean-energy credits. Finance also noted major rescissions of Inflation Reduction Act funds, new border and immigration enforcement spending, and the possibility of PAYGO sequestration if Congress does not act to offset the deficit increase. During member questions, the committee focused on likely enrollment losses, administrative burdens, and fiscal exposure for the state and counties. Witnesses said many details still depend on federal guidance, but they estimated significant impacts on Medi-Cal, CalFresh, and graduate/professional student borrowing, and noted that California’s high CalFresh error rate could increase state costs. UC testified that the elimination of Graduate PLUS loans would affect thousands of professional students, especially in health, law, and other high-cost programs. Members asked for follow-up data on county, health, and tax impacts, and staff agreed to provide additional tables and estimates as implementation guidance becomes clearer. Public commenters from counties, early childhood advocates, health coalitions, disability rights groups, immigrant-rights organizations, and other stakeholders urged the Legislature to mitigate the law’s effects. They warned of higher county costs, reduced access to health care and food assistance, increased administrative burdens, and harm to children, immigrants, people with disabilities, and low-income families. Several urged new state revenue solutions and stronger protections for Medi-Cal, CalFresh, child care, and home- and community-based services. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational and ended with a commitment to continue monitoring federal guidance and to work on state responses in the budget process.

Transcript Highlights:

• Section 10 looks at training money to ensure that at every stage of not only the criminal justice system
• I want you to look at Project Echo and reassign dollars because this is right up their alley on training
• We just don't have a strategy for how we get people trained and licensed so that they can get into the
• So, you'll see $150 million for the Executive Office Building, $36 million for the Fire Training Academy
• I think Adrian and the staff have been trained on how to look at your capital project.

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• bill that would have judicial training bill that would have judicial training so<01:06:11.160>
• Starts with basic training?
• Starts with basic training?
• is a break in basic training.
• I do trainings.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The House Children and Family Law Committee met on January 28, 2025, and first heard House Bill 322, which would give a parent paying child support the exclusive right to claim the child as a dependent on taxes. Representative Barton, the sponsor, argued that because child support is no longer tax-deductible, the paying parent should at least receive the child tax credit. Committee members and later testimony from New Hampshire Legal Assistance raised concerns that the bill would override court discretion, could disadvantage low-income custodial parents, and would not account for cases where child support payments are small or where parents share support unevenly. Several members noted that judges already allocate dependency claims in divorce orders and can modify those orders when circumstances change. After testimony, the committee moved to ITL (inexpedient to legislate) HB 322. The motion was seconded, discussion continued, and the roll call was unanimous in favor of ITL. The committee then placed the bill on consent and ended the executive session on HB 322. The committee next took up House Bill 325, which would eliminate term and reimbursement alimony in no-fault divorces. Representative Barton testified that alimony in those cases was akin to involuntary servitude and should not survive dissolution of the marriage contract. The hearing then moved into questions about whether alimony is meant to compensate a spouse for sacrifices made during the marriage, such as supporting a partner through school or staying home with children, and the sponsor maintained that post-divorce support should not continue as a marital obligation. The transcript cuts off before any vote or further action on HB 325 is shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• :40.359> the Incentivizing training is really the Incentivizing training is really the overall
• adult training opportunities. adult training opportunities.
• training opportunities. training opportunities.
• . training. training.
• advantage of training opportunities. advantage of training opportunities.

Keywords: 926, house, all

Summary: The House first suspended the rules briefly to make announcements, including welcoming former representative Doug Gage to the gallery. It then returned to House Bill 211 on data brokers and personal information, where the Appropriations Committee explained a $50,000 appropriation to the Secretary of State for a consultant-led study on an accessible deletion mechanism for consumers to delete personal data held by data brokers, with interim and final reports due in 2027 and 2028. The committee reported a 9-0-2 vote in favor, and the House agreed to the Commerce and Economic Development Committee’s amendment and ordered third reading. Floor debate on H. 211 focused heavily on the bill’s deletion and exemption framework. Supporters argued the bill is needed to give Vermonters meaningful control over their data and to prevent data brokers from commingling information for unrelated uses. Opponents warned the bill could conflict with existing federal frameworks such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, and could make credit, banking, insurance, fraud prevention, and identity verification harder. In response, the sponsor said the bill uses use-case-based exemptions rather than broad entity-level exemptions, noted testimony from banks, insurers, a data broker, a former data broker employee, and the Attorney General, and said no constitutional concerns were raised. The House ultimately adopted the amendment and advanced the bill. After H. 211, the House moved to House Bill 577, establishing the Vermont Prescription Drug Discount Card Program. Committee reports from Health Care, Ways and Means, and Appropriations were read into the record, and the Colchester member described the bill as a way to lower prescription drug costs by joining the multi-state Array Rx program. The bill would let any Vermont resident obtain a free discount card for FDA-approved prescription drugs, with claimed savings up to 80% on generics and 20% on brand-name drugs. The House then proceeded to second reading on H. 577.

Transcript Highlights:

• Current ICE recruits now receive 250 fewer hours of training and complete a 14-hour week program.
• Now, if these federal agents aren't properly trained, that's a different story, and that's on them.
• Now, if these federal agents aren't properly trained, that's a different story, and that's on them.
• Californians deserve the best qualified and trained peace officers.
• I come from... ...with job training and skills.

Summary: The Assembly met in session, established a quorum, approved dispensing with the previous day’s journal, and then took up a long third-reading file. Early procedural actions included moving AB 1589 to the inactive file and continuing reconsideration items. The chamber then considered a series of bills largely focused on immigration enforcement, detention, worker protections, child care, voting access, and related public services. Several immigration-related measures passed, including AB 2393 on damages for false imprisonment/arrest, AB 1994 on an immigrant victims’ rights and resources card, AB 1929 on health plan investment disclosures, AB 1633 imposing a tax on for-profit detention facilities, AB 1650 requiring decals on rental vehicles used for enforcement, AB 1655 protecting CalWORKs benefits when a child is detained, and AB 1896 disqualifying people who participated in immigration enforcement from certain public employment. AB 2230, which would bar immigration enforcement near polling places and child care facilities, also passed after extensive debate. Supporters framed these bills as accountability and protection for vulnerable communities; opponents argued they targeted federal law enforcement, were unnecessary, or raised constitutional concerns. AB 1851 on statewide school mental-health guidance also passed unanimously. After the midday recess, the Assembly returned and continued with more bills tied to immigration impacts and child welfare. AB 2379 passed with urgency, requiring child care providers to be informed of constitutional rights and trained on protections when confronted by immigration enforcement. AB 2460 passed to update school behavioral-health referral protocols for students affected by immigration enforcement trauma. AB 2495 passed to expand prohibitions on employer immigration-related threats, and AB 2662 was presented as a way for California to monitor and document federal enforcement actions and report on their community impacts. Throughout the day, the floor featured repeated exchanges over whether the bills addressed real problems or were political messaging, but the measures that came to a vote generally advanced with majority support.

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• It also requires the Department of Children, Youth and Families to update their training module for mandatory
• <00:03:34.280> module Families to update their training module Families to update their training
• Training mandates, immediate abuse.
• Training mandates, immediate response<00:15:50.480> investigations,<00:15:51.480> screening
• to fund a paraprofessional training to fund a paraprofessional<01:05:52.960> specialist.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <01:07:41.359> dual residency and fellowship trained dual residency and fellowship trained dual
• > Pharmacists complete doctoral training, Pharmacists complete doctoral training, residency<01:08:33.520
• 12.400> to<01:10:12.640> improve highly trained workforce to improve highly trained workforce
• Um, so I would say pharmacists are trained.
• The data doesn't lie. trained. Um, and we're very meticulous, trained.

Keywords: 1. Call to Order and Roll Call – 00:00:00 2. Approval of Minutes – 00:01:32 3. Getting to Know the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky – 00:02:26 4. Healthy Kids Clinic – 00:26:58 5. Pharmacy Payment Parity – 00:56:36 6. Ibogaine – 01:17:37 7. Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations – 01:53:05 8. Adjournment – 01:53:19, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the prior meeting minutes and recognized Eric Clark for his service, noting this may be his last meeting before he leaves state government. The main presentation was from Allison Adams, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, who described the organization’s history, nonpartisan mission, and focus on health equity, prevention, and upstream policy solutions. She said Kentucky’s poor rankings in chronic disease, preventable hospitalizations, and life expectancy show the need to shift resources toward prevention and community-driven strategies rather than relying mainly on treatment after people become sick. Adams emphasized leading health indicators, arguing that lawmakers should track actionable measures such as quit attempts and smoke-free policies instead of only lagging indicators like disease rates and mortality. In response to questions, she said accountability should be shared across communities and systems, with possible incentives and disincentives tied to outcomes, and she supported creating a public data utility or dashboard, ideally with university partners, to help legislators and communities monitor progress. She also cited examples of accountable health community models and said Kentucky could adapt similar approaches. The committee then heard from Meade County Schools Superintendent Mark Martin and district health coordinator Karen Kotche about the Healthy Kids Clinic partnership with Cumberland Health. They described a seven-year effort that led to full implementation in the district, which now has a nurse in every school and a nurse practitioner, allowing services such as sports physicals and other clinic functions to be provided on campus. They said the program has been a strong investment for students and the community and began explaining how the district built the partnership after earlier efforts and delays, including the pandemic.

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• , EMT training, but we really never didn't do any work around the paramedic level, the advanced life
• , EMT training, but we really never didn't do any work around the paramedic level, the advanced life
• , EMT training, but we really never didn't do any work around the paramedic level, the advanced life
• Um, and this is taking the next step in their training.
• Um, we see that because of training.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• they want they want to do more training. they want they want to do more training.
• mandate employees to take this training. mandate employees to take this training.
• ,<01:31:55.280> do have receive receive training, do have receive receive training, do receive
• <01:31:55.840> training.
• It's something that receive training.

Keywords: 1183, house