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• At least you have somebody else in the home that would kind of keep track of where you are and also somebody
• else in the home that would kind<00:02:43.280><c> of</c><00:02:43.760><c> keep</c><00:02:44.000><c> track
• where</c><00:02:44.720><c> you</c><00:02:44.959><c> are</c><00:02:45.360><c> and</c> kind of keep track
• of where you are and kind of keep track of where you are and also<00:02:46.160><c> somebody</c><00:02

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• way to try to be more preventive, to get more people on interlock, especially when they've got long track
• interlock especially when they've got interlock especially when they've got long<00:03:01.360><c> track
• 02.640><c> um</c><00:03:02.720><c> like</c><00:03:02.959><c> this</c><00:03:03.200><c> person</c> long track
• records um like this person long track records um like this person did.<00:03:04.640><c> So</c><00:03

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• assistance from the Department of Human Services to make the housing support language match the tracking
• :02:09.679><c> language</c><00:02:10.160><c> match</c><00:02:10.560><c> the</c><00:02:10.800><c> tracking
• </c> support language match the tracking. support language match the tracking.

Bills: HF2434

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

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• MY KID DID NOT WANT TO DO TRACK UNTIL HIS TENTH GRADE YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN HE DECIDED TO DO TRACK
• TO MAKE SURE WE CAN TRACK THE MOVEMENT OF MONEY AND OTHER ASSETS BETWEEN THE SERIES.
• AND IF THEY FAIL TO KEEP THE RECORD REQUIREMENTS AND TO TRACK THE ASSETS OF THE LIABILITIES UNDER THE

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• I know we keep track of that because we want more presence.
• So our community does keep track of the time delay, um, and report back, you know, just so.
• They know, like, if you don't, if you don't keep track of it, then they don't know how often that occurs
• Uh, so it's a little bit faster track that would.

Bills: HB176 , HB180 , HB176 , HB180 , HB333 , HCR35

Committee: House S/C on State-Federal Relations

Keywords: tax, ad valorem, voter-approval, local government finance, property tax, repeal, tax rates, school finance, tax reduction, compressed tax rate, education, funding, HB 176, Texas border security, interstate compact, Government Code Chapter 794, Texas-Mexico border, border enforcement, immigration enforcement, ICE 287(g)

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• </c><02:29:52.640><c> because</c><02:29:53.439><c> when</c> get them back on track because when get them
• back on track because when we're<02:29:54.399><c> in</c><02:29:54.560><c> the</c><02:29:54.720><c> very
• and sometimes that's get back on track and sometimes that's all<02:30:06.399><c> it</c><02:30:06.520
• He said people lost track of where other people were, and the worker was crushed between the trailer
• </c><04:27:20.800><c> of</c> flagger um and people lost track of flagger um and people lost track of

Committee: House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

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• to help guide you with entering apprentice agreements, wages, and making sure that you're keeping track
• They're there to ensure that your program is running on track and is smooth.
• And then we do all that paperwork from registering programs to registering apprentices, keeping on track
• And then we do all that paperwork from registering programs to registering apprentices, keeping on track
• Let's not lose track that this whole program is about the apprentices. It's about the people.

Summary: The Workforce Support Subcommittee met to discuss how registered apprenticeships could help address workforce shortages in disability services, human services, and other high-need fields. Co-chairs and staff introduced the session as a practical overview of apprenticeship pathways, with a focus on how employers, intermediaries, and training providers can work together to build programs. The discussion emphasized that apprenticeships can be used not only in the trades, but also in health care, early childhood education, medical interpreting, and other occupations facing recruitment and retention problems. Amara Ramon of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards explained the structure of registered apprenticeships in Massachusetts, including employer-led on-the-job training, related technical instruction, wage progression, credentialing, and state support through templates, compliance oversight, and grants. Melissa Sebeli described her role as an intermediary at the MassHire Hampden County Workforce Board, saying intermediaries help employers design, register, and manage programs, recruit apprentices, and keep programs compliant. She said the model offers employers a pipeline of workers, retention benefits, tax credits, and flexibility to tailor training to local needs. Lisa Morris described a new apprenticeship for medical interpreters, built from an existing training program and employer demand for experience, with a pre-apprenticeship, 2,000 hours of work-based learning, and related technical instruction tied to certification requirements. Members and attendees asked about where apprentices come from, how employers recruit, how wages are set, and whether state agencies or workforce boards can serve as intermediaries. Speakers said recruitment can come from career centers, youth programs, incumbent workers, community colleges, job fairs, ESL centers, and community-based organizations. They also discussed accommodations and modified curricula for people with intellectual, developmental, and neurodiverse disabilities, citing Bridgewater State’s Excel program as an example. No votes were taken; the meeting concluded with encouragement for organizations to contact the presenters or Division of Apprenticeship Standards to explore apprenticeship options and with notice that materials and the recording would be posted online.

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• What we do is we track all of this and we put it into transparent buckets, anywhere from service categories
• So what I want to highlight is one of the things tasked to my team is to track what we call alternate
• just—I would venture a guess that the Center for Medicare Advocacy probably, I would imagine, they're tracking
• Oh... ...care advocacy, probably, I would imagine they're tracking that data as far as denials.
• Well, I don't know if they actually get the... because I was, I don't even know if they can track that

Summary: The Complex Care Committee meeting focused first on a new Diabetes Caucus launched at the Capitol. Rep. Johnson described the caucus as a forum to educate people about type 1 and type 2 diabetes, genetic risk, early testing, pregnancy-related diabetes, and ways Medicaid policy might improve prevention and lower long-term costs. Members agreed the caucus could intersect with care management, and Carolyn Grandell of CHNCT offered to share information about current diabetes-related care management services at a future meeting. The committee then heard a detailed presentation from Alex Rigger of the Office of Health Strategy, who is moving to the Office of Policy and Management. He reviewed Connecticut health care benchmark data, including total health care expenditures, medical spending, and market-by-market trends. He said 2023 to 2024 per-capita spending grew more than 8.5% statewide and 14% in Medicaid, with long-term care accounting for about 46% of Medicaid spending and retail pharmacy also identified as a major cost driver. Members asked about enrollment changes, dual-eligible populations, Medicare Savings Program members, 340B drug pricing, and value-based payment models. Rigger explained that his office tracks alternate payment models and quality benchmarks, but does not separately capture 340B data. Discussion then shifted to Medicare Advantage, dual eligibles, and hospital discharge planning. Members said they want better data on how many Medicaid members are in Medicare Advantage plans and whether those plans shift costs back to Medicaid or affect access to care, especially for complex-care patients. Staff noted DSS does have some Medicare Advantage indicators and that CMS is developing encounter-data rules for states. Kathy Holt and others raised concerns about denials, nursing home stays, and the need to compare Medicaid spending for dual eligibles in Medicare Advantage versus traditional Medicare. The meeting ended with plans for follow-up data sharing, including Alex Rigger’s slides, the diabetes caucus materials, and a future discussion with DSS and other agencies; no formal votes were taken.

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• Commission on Teacher Credentialing, just would add that we are very enthusiastic about this program and on track
• additional support there as you get ready to manage this new data system that’s going to be better tracking
• Tracking employees who commit misconduct, as well as those who leave in the middle of a pending investigation
• system, this teacher residency data will kind of allow us to better have numbers around being able to track
• We’ll see the numbers improve because there’ll be better data tracking?

Summary: The Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education heard the Governor’s proposals on dual enrollment, reading difficulty screeners, special education, school facilities, and Commission on Teacher Credentialing programs. For dual enrollment, the Department of Finance described a $100 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund proposal to expand the Dual Enrollment Opportunities Grant Program, add flexibility for regional occupational centers, support justice-involved youth, prioritize higher-need LEAs, and allow funds for teacher professional development, along with a reduction in required instructional minutes for some dual enrollment students. The LAO recommended rejecting the new funding, saying it did not address a clear implementation barrier, while CDE supported the proposal and suggested reserving $10 million for technical assistance. Members and public commenters largely supported the expansion, with some urging additional technical assistance and broader access, including adult dual enrollment. The committee then discussed the reading difficulty screener proposal, which includes $40 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund for implementation costs and statutory changes that would delay formal screening until the 91st day for kindergarten and the 46th day for grades 1-2. Finance said the timing was intended to reduce over-identification and align screening with sufficient exposure to instruction; the LAO recommended rejecting the funding and redirecting it to a discretionary block grant. CDE supported the investment but cautioned about the timing restrictions, and several members and public witnesses argued the proposed deadlines were too rigid and could delay early intervention, while others supported the structured timeline as a way to improve accuracy and reduce misidentification. On special education, Finance presented a proposal to increase the statewide base rate to $99 per ADA through a $509 million ongoing Proposition 98 General Fund augmentation, plus COLA and a negative growth adjustment. The LAO said the proposal should be adopted but estimated it could be achieved with less funding; CDE strongly supported the increase, citing rising enrollment and local cost pressures, and district and SELPA representatives described large local funding gaps and growing expenditures. The committee also reviewed school facilities funding under Proposition 2, with Finance and the Office of Public School Construction describing $1.5 billion in proposed bond spending, existing balances for new construction and modernization, and the use of bond authority for natural disaster recovery, including projects related to recent fires. For the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the committee heard about the Student Teacher Stipend Program, the Golden State Teacher Grant, state operations funding for misconduct investigations and SB 848 implementation, and a $250 million proposal to extend the Teacher Residency Grant Program; CTC supported the proposals and highlighted new data systems and technical assistance, while public testimony broadly backed the investments and urged continued or additional funding for teacher recruitment, literacy screening support, and special education.

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• Uh, because of the track record and how vital these permanent supportive housing providers are all across
• Chair Howard, I guess I would say the agencies had a good track record of deploying the resources based
• 00:14:34.000><c> good</c> Cher Cosnik, the agencies had a good Cher Cosnik, the agencies had a good track
• :35.120><c> of</c><00:14:35.920><c> uh</c><00:14:36.720><c> deploying</c><00:14:37.120><c> the</c> track
• record of uh deploying the track record of uh deploying the resources<00:14:37.760><c> based</c><00:

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• So when it comes to law enforcement, nobody, and certainly not the Senate President, has a better track
• So when it comes to law enforcement, nobody, and certainly not the Senate President, has a better track
• this resolution, to the fact that the call is for her to resign, but let's keep this train on the tracks
• She has got a bad track record on winning lawsuits.
• Let's keep this train on the tracks.

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• I think it probably tracks what was done with the medical compact. I'm imagining.
• I would hope before we hear them on the floor, but we're fast-tracking them.
• It's basically we're trying to fast-track them.
• So after I thought about it a little bit, I thought this... ...track those.
• I was under the impression that the compacts that we just passed out of our committee are tracking the

Committee: House House Judiciary

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• the objectives that we have laid out in that plan, defining the metrics that we're going to use to track
• are especially designing what the program is and tailored to their unique community needs, and to track
• I know we've done some reports for some of our funding, federal funding as well, but we track those.
• I know we've done some reports for some of our funding, federal funding as well, but we track those.
• able to fund them and be able to let them design what's specifically there, and then being able to track

Committee: Senate Rules

Summary: The Senate Committee on Rules convened with quorum and first approved several governor’s appointments not required to appear, including Courtney Welsh to the California Housing Partnership Corporation Board, Janessa Goldbeck to the California Veterans Board, and Tom Huntington to the State Parks and Recreation Commission, each by 3-0 vote. The committee also approved reference of bills to committees, the 2026 committee chair and membership appointments, the 2026 session schedule, the 2026 Senate holiday schedule, and floor acknowledgments, all by 4-0 votes. The committee then heard confirmation testimony from Hernando Garzon, M.D., nominated as Chief Medical Officer of the Emergency Medical Services Authority. Senators asked about EMSA’s strategic plan, data integration, local flexibility in statewide standards, ambulance patient offload regulations, stakeholder engagement, disaster response, rural access, and alternatives to transporting 9-1-1 callers to emergency departments. Garzon emphasized data-driven decision-making, technical assistance to local EMS agencies, collaboration with hospitals and providers, and the use of community paramedicine, telehealth, and pre-positioned resources in disasters. Public commenters and members supported his confirmation, and the committee approved the appointment 4-0 for referral to the full Senate. The committee also heard from Stephanie Weldon, nominated as Deputy Director of the Office of Health Equity at the Department of Public Health. She described her tribal background, prior state, county, tribal, and nonprofit experience, and her focus on serving communities facing health disparities. Senators questioned her about how the office sets priorities, measures outcomes, balances equity work amid political opposition to DEI language, and tailors technical assistance to rural and tribal communities. Weldon pointed to work on tribal consultation, behavioral health, youth mental health, the California Reducing Disparities Project, gender-affirming care, reproductive health, housing and climate-related supports, and community advisory boards. Numerous public witnesses, including tribal and health equity advocates, spoke in strong support, and the committee approved her appointment 4-0 for the full Senate.

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• Is the state, if you're aware of, are they tracking—are we tracking job placements or certifications
• Is there any way for us to track that so that it can be part of the evaluation and recurring funding
• But it's not really part of anything the State Library tracks. ...part of anything the State Library
• tracks.

Committee: Joint Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• THAT IS THE REAL POINT OF THE COMPACT IS TRYING TO KEEP KIDS ON TRACK.
• THE UNIVERSITY'S BE PART OF THE DISTINCTION OF PURPLE STAR DISTINCTIONS MY QUESTION IS DO WE KEEP TRACK
• AND DOES THE DEPARTMENT TRACK THIS? >> Chair: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. >> THANK YOU FOR THIS QUESTION.
• FASFA AND YOU TAKE THOSE STEPS SO I'M WONDERING BEYOND THAT I WAS HOPING MAYBE THE DEPARTMENT WOULD TRACK
• TRANSITION VERY SMOOTH SO THAT THE EDUCATIONAL CONTINUITY CONTINUES FOR THE STUDENT SO THEY ARE ON TRACK

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• We will track them, but the impacts are decided by our policy partners.
• We'll help track those mission impacts and report them out, but they are decided upon by our policy partner
• Be tracking are loan payments, project milestones, success of the underlying loan, because that's what
• A person without a track record, what you described earlier. And so I know how tough that is.
• So we keep them on track.

Committee: House New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

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• But I appreciate the fact that everything is getting on track now.
• whatever is going on so that we can really work with that family to try to help get their kids back on track
• That's part of the metrics that we track. It's one thing to bring them back home.
• What is the method or the graph that you use to be able to track the improvement?
• The main method, the main tracking is that there's not a new re-entry into foster care, so there's not

Bills: SB596 , SB961 , SB1398 , SB1183 , SB1952

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, child protective services, foster care, child welfare, Family Code, conservatorship, managing conservator, parental child safety placement, authorization agreement, temporary authorization order, child abuse, child neglect, placement reporting, court-ordered removal, investigation, family preservation, transparency, public reporting, data reporting

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• transparency and accountability by requiring performance reporting from the Texas Water Development Board to track
• transparency and accountability by requiring performance reporting from the Texas Water Development Board to track
• progress on addressing water infrastructure Reporting from the Texas Water Development Board to track
• First, they will allow the legislature to track progress and achievement toward addressing our water
• But given that so much is at stake here, we must have performance measures that track our achievement

Bills: HB16 , HB1618 , HB2692 , HB2712 , HB2970 , HB3609 , HB3628 , HB16

Committee: House Natural Resources

Keywords: water infrastructure, Texas Water Development Board, financial assistance, water supply projects, rural municipalities, water access assessment, aquifer storage, Edwards Aquifer, water injection, environmental regulations, groundwater management, San Antonio River, pollution control, flood management, water quality, conservation district, bonds, utility rates, ratemaking, water services

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• allowed to submit the claims and don't have access to the system that the VSOs in the department do to track
• We've been tracking this problem for the last few years and trying to find out what can be done.
• Law enforcement at every level is tracking this. And this bill is a modest solution.
• I have the ability to message, monitor, and track a claim through the the whole process.
• Actually fill out a claim for you or can't submit and track your claim if they can call you back within

Committee: House Veterans and Military Affairs Division

Transcript Highlights:

• My kid didn't want to do track until his 10th grade year in high school.
• And then he decided to do track. And so kids changed their mind.
• It makes sure that we can track the movement of monies and other assets between series.
• have this record-keeping requirement, and if they fail to keep the record-keeping requirements and to track
• And if they fail to keep the record requirements, keeping requirements, and to track the assets and liability

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Summary: The Judiciary Committee considered a long agenda of claims bills, housing and business measures, and court-administration legislation. It reported favorably several claims bills, including SB 20 for J.N., a minor, SB 14 for the estate of Pennial Janvier, SB 10 for Sidney Holmes, SB 8 for Marcus Button, SB 22 for Eric and Jennifer Miles, and SB 26 for Kristen and Leah McIntosh. Members also approved SB 520 on curators of estates, SB 386 on self-storage lien-sale notices, SB 362 on reusable tenant screening reports, SB 316 creating series LLCs in Florida, and SB 1650 and SB 1652 on vexatious litigants and related public-records issues. SB 248, expanding eligibility for private school and homeschool students to participate in FHSAA sports at public schools, also passed after amendment. Most of the claims bills were described as settled cases with amounts above sovereign-immunity limits, and several senators spoke in support of compensating victims of catastrophic injury or wrongful conviction. SB 10 drew comments about the 34 years Sidney Holmes spent incarcerated after a wrongful conviction, and SB 8 prompted discussion about the long delay in resolving Marcus Button’s injuries from a 2006 school-bus crash. SB 26 was presented as an uncontested claim arising from a DACS employee’s fatal crash that severely injured two teenage girls, and the committee adopted an amendment placing funds for the minor claimant into trust. The policy bills drew more substantive debate. SB 386 would let self-storage operators use websites instead of newspaper ads for lien-sale notices, with newspaper representatives opposing the change and storage-industry witnesses supporting modernization and lower costs. SB 362 would let renters reuse tenant screening reports for 30 days, with the sponsor saying it would reduce repeated application fees. SB 316 would authorize series LLCs while adding record-keeping protections, and SB 1650/1652 would broaden Florida’s vexatious-litigant rules and create a public-records exemption for certain stricken filings. SB 248 passed over concerns from private-school and public-education witnesses about instructional time, funding, and fairness in athletic participation. All measures were reported favorably, with recorded votes ranging from 7-2 on SB 248 to unanimous or near-unanimous support on the other bills.