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• You like knowing that we can track all this.
• The school system has to decide what fits within their schedule.
• But that school system would have to make that decision.
• I could just say that maybe that school system... could just say that maybe that school system decides
• Well, we have school systems... funds used.

Bills: SB211, HB96, SB215, SB257, SB13, SB13

Keywords: school safety, local law enforcement, superintendent, complaints, school bus regulations, National Signing Day, athletic scholarships, military enlistment, postsecondary education, apprenticeship programs, high school students, educational commitments, education intervention, State Superintendent, local boards, provisional release, subpoena authority, compliance, educational operation control, fundraising

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• And Madam Chair, I'd just like to add that the Office of Housing is willing to track the data and the
• the Hold Harmless is that with the five-year sunset, and what you just said, Madam Leader, we can track
• Our education system is ranked 50th in the country. Our malpractice system is very pro-attorney.
• Well, we probably are, or probably one of the few, because that is how our tax system works.
• The structure of our employer system is very heavily reliant upon the federal government—all these things

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• and a lot about what that system looks like.
• and it's become a really complex system and it's become a really complex system for<00:36:39.760
• I think you're on the right track by consolidating these things.
• experiences to improve the system experiences to improve the system without<01:37:10.199> yanking
• Then there was a way that they were keeping track of it.

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• There's a whole federal regulation system for that, um, and it's handled by different areas of law.
• There's a whole federal regulation system<00:06:51.919> for<00:06:52.160> that.
• 06:52.960> and<00:06:53.120> it's<00:06:53.280> and<00:06:53.440> it's system
• for that. um and it's and it's system for that. um and it's and it's handled<00:06:53.919> by
• hours, as you can probably track hours, as you can probably imagine,<00:13:50.959> would<00:13

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• We do still have some farmland up there that we manage and keep track of.
• <00:41:15.920> uh our environmental permitting system uh our environmental permitting system
• So this is part of a system.
• <00:59:30.799> including infrastructure systems including infrastructure systems including
• a low carbon intensity and is on track a low carbon intensity and is on track to<00:59:43.280>

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee held an introductory meeting that began with housekeeping, a correction to the committee rules (the room number should be G3, not G35), and member and staff introductions. Members described their districts, agricultural ties, and priorities for the session, including consumer food costs, urban agriculture, farm economics, livestock disease preparedness, and support for Minnesota’s agricultural sectors. No votes were taken during the introductory portion. The committee then turned to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Deputy Commissioner Andrea Veble of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture said the Walz administration strongly supports SAF because of its potential for agriculture, forestry, and clean energy, and reviewed Minnesota’s 2023 SAF tax credit and related sales tax exemption. She said the state has feedstocks and should continue investing so Minnesota can attract SAF production and support rural jobs. Jeff Davidman of Delta Airlines testified that aviation is difficult to decarbonize and that SAF is the airline industry’s main path to net zero by 2050; he cited current use of SAF, the need to scale production, and Minnesota’s role in supplying feedstocks and hosting future production. Peter Frost of Greater MSP described the Minnesota SAF Hub as a public-private partnership aimed at building the full SAF value chain in Minnesota. He emphasized that Greater MSP is coordinating investors and partners to grow the regional economy and said the SAF effort is intended to create jobs and economic development. Committee members did not ask questions during the portion captured, and no formal action or vote was recorded on the SAF presentations in this transcript excerpt.

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• portion of the retirement systems portion of the retirement systems contributions<00:13:59.600><
• I haven't been able to find out from the retirement system, from the workers' compensation system, or
• Nobody tracks this.
• I haven't been able to find out from the retirement system, from the workers' compensation system, or
• Nobody tracks this.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee opened a work session on 17 retained bills and moved through several measures, often with motions to ought to pass or inexpedient to legislate. House Bill 54, allowing alternative treatment centers to operate for profit, was supported as a way to improve efficiency and potentially lower costs for medical cannabis users, and it was recommended OTP by a 9-0 vote. House Bill 97, an appropriation for wastewater infrastructure, drew mixed views: supporters said the Senate’s reduced funding still met the bill’s intent, while opponents argued the funding was inadequate for critical infrastructure needs; the committee voted 5-4 to ITL. House Bill 111, extending the Right to Know Ombudsman and exempting certain assistance from unauthorized practice of law, was recommended ITL 9-0. House Bill 197, concerning state payment of a portion of local retirement contributions, was discussed as a recurring issue; members noted an amendment could fund it starting in fiscal 2027, but the committee ultimately voted 5-4 to recommend the bill itself rather than ITL. House Bill 215, requiring landfill permit applicants to submit a harms-and-benefits report, was amended to narrow its scope to future privately owned landfills only; the amendment and the bill as amended both passed 9-0. House Bill 216, on workers’ compensation credit toward retirement service, was ITL’d 9-0 after the sponsor said the proposal was too open-ended and could affect unknown numbers of people.

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• , how do they track how many people call?
• So if they build a system, can they raise the price on the system?
• Yeah, I think you're tracking. Mr.
• What I ended up with is that if we introduce any type of ratio billing system, or any system based on
• Any type of ratio billing system or any other system they come up with will also defeat the initial purpose

Keywords: 1182, all

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• Our current billing systems are not able to adequately track both credits from a customer's own exports
• Our current billing systems are not able to adequately track both credits from a customer's own exports
• uh are not able to billing systems uh are not able to adequately<01:34:08.880> track<01:34:09.400
• <01:34:49.320> closely<01:34:49.800> tracking of the Billing System closely tracking
• of the Billing System closely tracking customer<01:34:50.719> load<01:34:51.040> and<01

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• system in Adams County along the I-line.
• Admittedly, Front Range Passenger Rail primarily uses existing track.
• Admittedly, Front Range Passenger Rail primarily uses existing track.
• Why do we want to upset a system which worked quite well for our state historically?"
• It's a great track for women, for minorities, for immigrants.

Keywords: 981, all

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• implementing computer vision systems implementing computer vision systems that<00:03:33.560>
• <00:15:35.319> towards headlines really tracking towards headlines really tracking towards
• we're flawed and then in the systems we're flawed and then in the systems that<00:36:40.599>
• institutions that are using AI to track institutions that are using AI to track the<00:58:45.920
• Many AI systems require nurses to spend more time on data entry, documentation, and system oversight.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• DCYF is on track to meet the two-year goals and has submitted a funding request for continued program
• Family connection and support system connection is such a critical piece of that.
• We have invested in an electronic case management system.
• The more youth that we can deflect from the system, get back on the right track, the healthier our community
• So we're really looking at where are the overlaps in the system? Where are the duplications?

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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• Small systems, such as residential systems, medium and large systems—we need all hands on deck.
• Medium systems, like community solar, and large-scale systems, whether they're solar or wind.
• systems.
• In the system means that we can't store water upstream either, so it makes the system really inefficient
• System whole.

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• <00:14:46.600> these miscellaneous other uh we track these miscellaneous other uh we track
• <00:22:45.240> our paying that service for tracking our paying that service for tracking our
• <00:56:43.400> is Hampshire um the accounting system is Hampshire um the accounting system
• They're tracked separately.
• <01:36:04.159> separately $124 they're tracked separately $124 they're tracked separately

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The meeting featured presentations from the Department of Administrative Services and the Treasury Department on state revenue reporting and unclaimed property. State Comptroller Dana Call explained DAS’s role in compiling statewide revenue reports, including the annual revenue plan set through the budget process and the monthly revenue focus reports that track cash receipts. She noted that unrestricted general fund revenue is about $2 billion annually, while miscellaneous other revenue is a much smaller and less predictable category, averaging roughly $30 million to $32 million a year. She also described two more material internal revenue lines: statewide indirect cost recoveries and post-retirement benefit recoveries, which are billed to agencies and often tied to federal reimbursement rules. Members asked about the interest line in the revenue charts and about how the figures were presented, and Call clarified that the totals were in millions and that the interest item would be explained by the Treasurer. She also explained that the indirect cost and post-retirement recoveries are internal cost allocations that flow back into the unrestricted revenue pool and are reflected in agency budgets as interagency costs. Treasurer Monica Meissner then outlined Treasury Department functions, including bank deposits, statewide disbursements, banking relationships, investments, debt management, compliance, the FONA College Savings Program, the ABLE Plan, scholarship programs, and the abandoned property program. In discussing unclaimed property, she said holders report property after a five-year dormancy period, the state uses automated systems and outreach to locate owners, and claim activity has increased. In fiscal year 2024, the state returned about $12.2 million to citizens through roughly 12,000 claims; over the last 10 years, about $72.6 million has been returned. She also said the state escheated $19.9 million to the general fund and $1.8 million to counties last year, and explained that securities-related proceeds are harder to estimate because they depend on market conditions. No votes or formal actions were taken.

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• Third, natural systems.
• We're not on track.
• So when you're making systemic change, the system fights back, whether it knows it or not.
• so when you're anytime you're on track so when you're anytime you're making<01:42:04.000> systemic
• > Fights making systemic change the system Fights making systemic change the system Fights Back<01

Keywords: 1183, house

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• accident and we kind of have the system accident and we kind of have the system we<00:32:23.040>
• in the system. in the system.
• If we're tracking uncompensated care through our medical system, and then we know how many people have
• If we're tracking uncompensated care through our medical system, and then we know how many people have
• If we're tracking uncompensated care through our medical system, and then we know how many people have

Keywords: 916, all

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• <00:38:37.440> to education, and constant tracking to education, and constant tracking to
• He checked both seizure monitoring systems. There were no alerts.
• He checked both seizure monitoring systems. There were no alerts.
• Their monitoring system alerts them after 15 seconds of movement of a seizure. 10 seconds and he was
• Their monitoring system alerts them after 15 seconds of movement of a seizure. 10 seconds and he was

Keywords: 981, all

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• Every dollar is tracked. I was a CFO in the Army, responsible for $26.3 billion.
• We have hired staff able to provide one-on-one support to our clients and track outcomes.
• We are here today because we must find a way to deal with systemic trauma.
• I trust the system; it's working for me.
• But what about those Black veterans whose shoulders I stood on who don't trust the system and it's not

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• through the Integrated Claims Management System that I believe we'll be talking about today.
• It's one of the most abused systems. You know, they kind of overlap.
• The people that are egregious that are hurt the most wind up in the system.
• And we do track it in our system, so we can do that analysis and follow up with you about that.
• And yet, EDD moves forward with implementing these systems on the UI program.

Summary: The subcommittee heard a series of budget and trailer bill presentations focused on labor and public employment programs. The first item covered EDD Next modernization, where EDD described progress on customer service improvements, fraud prevention, language access, and the Integrated Claims Management System. The LAO urged stronger legislative oversight as the project enters its most difficult phase, and members questioned the revised schedule, total cost, change orders, stress testing, SB 1090 implementation, and how race and ethnicity data will be protected. EDD said the overall project cost remains about $1.2 billion, that the work is being phased with disability insurance and paid family leave first, and that fraud has been greatly reduced since pandemic-era programs ended. Members also asked for follow-up information on SB 590 outreach and equity impacts. The committee then reviewed the California Workforce Development Board’s request to reduce staffing as one-time grant workloads wind down, along with trailer bill language to streamline reporting requirements. The board and Department of Finance said the staffing reductions reflect the end of surge funding and that the proposal would consolidate roughly 10 to 12 reports into one annual report, with additional reporting only if new funds are appropriated for certain programs. Senator Durazo questioned the policy direction of reducing workforce staffing, while the administration said the positions were tied to temporary grant programs and that current staffing is sufficient for ongoing duties. Members also asked about the board’s role in AI-related workforce planning and the rationale for using state funds for the High Road Construction Careers Program. A major portion of the hearing focused on the Subsequent Injury Benefits Trust Fund reforms and related staffing request at DIR. The administration and LAO described rapid growth in applications, backlog, and liabilities, saying the program’s eligibility has expanded beyond its original intent and that liabilities could reach about $30 billion by 2030 without reform. The trailer bill would tighten eligibility, apply the changes to open cases, and use the QME process and contemporaneous evidence to document preexisting disabilities. Members raised concerns about fairness to pending claimants, evaluator capacity, and the relationship to other SIBTF legislation, while the LAO said the proposal largely aligns with its prior recommendations. DIR also presented a request to eliminate vacant positions under a statewide vacancy sweep, which drew criticism from members who argued the cuts could weaken enforcement and backlog reduction efforts; the committee asked DIR to return with more detail on impacts and on its use of temporary-help authority. The final items addressed a request for additional Cal/OSHA investigative staff and a trailer bill to make permanent the revised Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board petition timeline. DIR said the BOI staffing would help investigate fatalities and serious injuries more quickly, while members emphasized the importance of family contact and timely investigations. For the WCAB item, the chair explained that the 2024 change to Labor Code section 5909, which starts the 60-day decision clock when a case is transmitted rather than when a petition is filed, has reduced pending cases and should be made permanent; the remaining backlog was reported at 460 cases, down from 637 before the change.

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• bonding bills will need to be tracked bonding bills will need to be tracked against<00:09:15.360
• We track and construction division.
• General funds will be used to relocate the cellular distributed antenna system, the DAS system.
• system.
• system.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• system, are already being used by thousands of facilities worldwide.
• I think most of the brands that we work with are already tracking these items.
• to the new standard, or just 9% of California's systems.
• Our water systems are investing.
• There are different exposure tracks and digestion is the one they recently did.

Keywords: 988, house, all