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• evaluation of deeds grants management. evaluation of deeds grants management.
• evaluation manager, Mariam Nada. evaluation manager, Mariam Nada.
• Before I begin, I'd also evaluation.
• <00:57:48.799> for complete grant closeout evaluations for complete grant closeout evaluations
• is that we take to evaluate is that we take to evaluate um<01:09:17.279> any<01:09:17.759

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Um Navy will be required to put together a risk evaluation, environmental risk evaluation.
• industry standard that looks to evaluate industry standard that looks to evaluate whether<01:07:
• <01:09:35.040> that<01:09:35.199> risk<01:09:35.440> evaluation evaluation.
• Um in that risk evaluation evaluation.
• conducted the risk evaluation. conducted the risk evaluation.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The House Special Committee on Red Hill received an update from the Hawaii Department of Health and EPA Region 9 on regulatory oversight of the Red Hill facility, the Navy drinking water system, and ongoing environmental investigation and cleanup. The agencies reviewed the authorities governing the work, including DOH’s emergency orders, EPA’s 2023 administrative consent order, and the older 2015 agreement, and explained that the newer framework is being used for most current oversight because it includes closure, remediation, drinking water protections, and stronger community engagement requirements, even though some requirements overlap. EPA and DOH reported major milestones and current work. Defueling was completed in March 2024, with about 104 million gallons removed, and the agencies said this eliminated the risk of another catastrophic release. They described the current tank-closure phase, expected to finish in July 2029, along with site assessment, site investigation, remediation, and long-term monitoring that may continue through at least 2040. They also summarized drinking water actions: emergency response flushing and sampling after the 2021 spill, lifting of the public health advisory in 2022, completion of extended drinking water monitoring in 2025, and ongoing system improvements such as repairs, flushing plans, valve work, complaint-response protocols, and upgrades to storage tanks and pumps. Members asked several questions about monitoring results, the meaning of TPH, the status of the 2015 agreement, and the Navy’s groundwater model. EPA said its sampling and the Navy’s results were in alignment during extended monitoring, and that it plans to issue a summary report covering the full response period. On the groundwater model, EPA and DOH said they have not yet approved it for decision-making, are reviewing it iteratively with outside experts and University of Hawaii data, and may approve it for specific uses in the future. DOH said its latest comment letter states the model cannot yet be used for decision-making purposes, and noted that UH’s separate modeling work is contingent on funding and may not be completed until next spring. The agencies also said they continue community outreach through open houses, webinars, neighborhood boards, legislative hearings, and fuel tank advisory committee meetings.

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• collaborated on a more comprehensive evaluation.
• collaborated on a more comprehensive evaluation.
• collaborated on a more comprehensive evaluation.
• collaborated on a more comprehensive evaluation.
• So as Sonny mentioned, you've already had some evaluation about the cost of virtual education.

Keywords: 996, all

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• into a program evaluation.
• project, and MnDOT would be evaluating that project everywhere else in the state.
• That's the who's evaluating that: in cooperation with the project proposer.
• mindat would be evaluating that project mindat would be evaluating that project everywhere<00:25
• <00:26:20.600> I piece after you've done the evaluation I piece after you've done the evaluation

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Even though we did not evaluate the effectiveness of the training topics or whether the time allotted
• I mean, how were you evaluating the approach that they were taking, and who actually had established
• I think we still need some time to sort of evaluate how we move forward.
• I think we still need some time to sort of evaluate how we move forward.
• To examine these efforts, we evaluated the following questions.

Keywords: 904, all

Summary: The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee subcommittee held a hybrid hearing to receive three State Auditor’s Office performance audits. The first audit examined implementation of the Law Enforcement Training and Community Safety Act. Auditors said the Criminal Justice Training Commission had developed most required training, but six community/cultural topics were still unfinished, the patrol tactics curriculum was incomplete in one area, and the agency lacked a systematic project management approach. They reported that most officers had not completed the 40 required hours, with low participation in patrol tactics training, weak communication, limited data to track compliance, and ineffective incentives or consequences. Committee members questioned staffing, liability, and enforcement, and the Commission said it generally agreed with the findings and had begun implementing recommendations, including improving training development and communication. The second audit reviewed Washington’s digital equity planning. Auditors concluded the state lacked a comprehensive, unified digital equity strategy, a designated lead, and reliable funding. They said the existing PEAR/Impact Plan, BEAD five-year plan, and NTIA-approved digital equity plan each addressed parts of the issue but none provided a full statewide framework with clear authority across agencies. The Department of Commerce’s Broadband Office and the Office of Equity said they agreed with the findings and were open to working with the legislature and the Digital Equity Forum on a more structured approach. A public witness described local and regional digital equity planning efforts and emphasized the importance of coordination and community-based work. The third audit focused on Commerce’s management of the Digital Navigator Program. Auditors said Commerce did not consistently use a competitive process, did not adequately vet grantees and subgrantees, wrote contracts that lacked clear deliverables and monitoring requirements, failed to enforce reporting, and paid $10.7 million without sufficient documentation to verify reimbursement eligibility. They said agency staff had raised concerns that were ignored and that some payments and contract expansions occurred despite warnings. Commerce officials said new leadership had already begun major contract-management reforms, including centralized oversight, risk assessments, clearer documentation standards, and staff training, and they said they would pursue recapture where appropriate. Committee members expressed strong concern about accountability, and the hearing ended after public testimony and committee discussion.

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• she did it, but I did clearly delineate that she, in my opinion, and members should make their own judgment
• should make in my opinion and members should make their<01:55:57.199> own<01:55:57.440> judgment
• their own judgment their own judgment using<01:55:59.599> her<01:55:59.840> words<

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• suspensions; it's about moments when safety is on the line and trusting us as principals to use our judgment
• principals<02:20:13.960> to<02:20:14.080> use<02:20:14.280> our<02:20:14.400> judgment
• <02:20:15.120> to<02:20:15.240> act principals to use our judgment to act principals
• to use our judgment to act responsibly<02:20:16.320> and<02:20:16.560> to<02:20:16.680

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And there's no way for a code official to make that judgment easily by looking at an accredited stamp
• official to there's no way for a code official to make<02:54:23.520> that<02:54:23.680> judgment
• easily<02:54:25.359> by<02:54:25.600> looking<02:54:25.840> at make that judgment
• easily by looking at make that judgment easily by looking at an<02:54:26.240> accredited<02:54

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• There's a judgment out there that says you cannot compare those signatures until you have a way to correct
• There's a judgment<00:48:56.559> out<00:48:56.800> there<00:48:57.359> that judgment
• out there that judgment out there that says<00:48:59.359> you<00:48:59.680> cannot<00:

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• were to defer that, that would be a vehicle whose stopping distance would be, in most professional judgments
• 03:49.200> in<01:03:50.000> most<01:03:50.400> professional<01:03:50.880> judgments
• uh in most professional judgments uh in most professional judgments unsafe.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• We may not be giving every single child the exact same formal gifted evaluation.
• There's screening, which is different than an assessment or an evaluation tool.
• And that's different than qualifying. evaluation tool. And that's different than qualifying.
• It refers to that competent professional evaluation. Yes.
• And I evaluated her and she's got a 137 IQ.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• I'm a program evaluator with the Legislative Finance Committee.
• We are program evaluators from the Legislative Finance Committee, and we're here to present our evaluation
• Summary, which outlines the major findings of our evaluation.
• One thing we can all agree on is that program evaluation is important.
• However, this program evaluation may be too early to be accurate.

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• As I said, a couple of states have already put out evaluations.
• States are required to submit midpoint evaluations and then evaluations at the end of the waiver period
• And at a minimum, more evaluations are needed.
• So our evaluations looked mostly at the legal aspects of the IMD waivers.
• evaluations.

Keywords: 908, all

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• They will pay to do those evaluations, but then they won't recognize those evaluations.
• And then typically in IQ, obviously every evaluation is going to have some variation in what they offer
• Because there are, we see this frequently in clinic, a child has already been through an evaluation,
• That's the only thing I would say is, you know, there is protection for psychological evaluations and
• One is their social communication skills, which is the kind of thing that the ADOS-2 evaluates.

Summary: The Arkansas Legislative Autism Task Force approved the April 1, 2026 meeting minutes and discussed several vacant membership slots, including positions tied to the Arkansas Psychology Board, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, UAMS, and parent or guardian appointments. Members said they would try to fill the vacancies and, if not, include the issue in the legislative report and consider statutory changes in the next General Assembly. The task force then heard from the Developmental Disabilities Provider Association and Civitan Services about DDPA’s role in supporting 80 provider organizations serving more than 13,000 children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities across 75 counties. They described services such as early intervention day programs, adult day programs, supported employment, intermediate care facilities, work activities, and community/residential waiver services, and said autism falls within the populations they serve. They also shared survey information on services used by older adults with IDD and offered contact information for providers. Members also heard a proposal to amend Act 656 of 2021 to add licensed psychological practitioners as qualified providers for autism waiver-related evaluations. The presenter argued this would reduce wait times, avoid duplicate assessments, and help families access services sooner, while noting that Arkansas Medicaid already pays for some of these evaluations. Task force members and Dr. Scott discussed the roles of psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and the possibility of using training or board oversight to ensure evaluators are properly qualified, with some noting that speech pathologists’ inclusion has historical and clinical roots. The task force also said it still needs a future discussion on fraud, plans to invite the Attorney General’s office, and wants to identify priorities for the 2027 session before adjourning.

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• The key is it's a really good system for evaluating what is from wolves and what is from other causes
• One of the main things we really need to shore up is our ability to evaluate the claims.
• <01:19:17.080> the shore up is our ability to evaluate the shore up is our ability to evaluate
• one-off uh claim uh claim evaluations one-off uh claim uh claim evaluations I<01:19:56.320> mentioned
• And we have this issue of are we going to continue to evaluate the claims in the field?

Bills: HF601, HF271, HF1101, HF979

Keywords: agriculture, depredation compensation, livestock, crop damage, elk, wolves, wildlife management, skills path program, career and technical education, CTE, dual credit, postsecondary options enrollment, apprenticeship, apprenticeship readiness, dual training, work-based learning, career pathways, skilled trades, workforce development, high school to career

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• was the manager for this evaluation.
• I'm with the Office of the Legislative Auditor, and I was the manager for this evaluation.
• throughout the course of our evaluation throughout the course of our evaluation both<00:20:17.919
• Shouldn't we kind of know and evaluate the effects of the cost of these projects?
• We did try and, as we always do in our evaluation, really cast a broad net.

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The House Capital Investment Committee met on January 23 and approved the minutes from the previous meeting. The main presentation was from the Office of the Legislative Auditor on its evaluation of Minnesota’s Sustainable Building guidelines, also referred to as B3. The auditors said the guidelines apply to certain new buildings and major renovations funded with general obligation bonds and are intended to improve energy efficiency, occupant health, and environmental quality. They described the program as involving the Departments of Administration and Commerce, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Sustainable Building Research, and project teams, but found widespread confusion over who is responsible for administering and enforcing the program. The auditors reported that oversight and accountability are limited, compliance is not clearly tracked, and there is no agency assigned to ensure projects follow the guidelines or to require compliance data. They said many projects in a review of 2020 bonding projects had not begun tracking compliance, and that up-to-date data were often missing. They also found the law’s stated program objectives are outdated because the referenced energy-code provision was repealed in 2009, and that measurable goals have not been established for most of the guideline categories. The office recommended that the legislature designate a responsible agency, clarify duties in statute, require compliance monitoring and data collection, update the program’s stated goals, and direct systematic evaluation of cost and sustainability outcomes. Members asked about consequences for noncompliance, funding, and whether cost impacts should be studied first. The auditor said the requirements are legal obligations, but no real enforcement consequences have been used so far, and any consequences discussed have been mostly theoretical. She said the Departments of Administration and Commerce were receiving about $1 million combined to support the contract with the Center for Sustainable Building Research, while other state agencies were not receiving dedicated funding for oversight. In response to questions about costs, she said the overall effect of the guidelines on project costs and sustainability is still unknown, but that the legislature could direct an analysis of cost impacts before taking further action.

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• visits, three specific kinds of evaluations.
• <01:47:09.800> visits talking about the care evaluation visits talking about the care evaluation
• visits three specific kinds evaluation visits three specific kinds of<01:48:17.119> evaluations
• these specific kinds of of evaluations these specific kinds of evaluations<01:48:19.920> are<
• <01:51:21.560> reimbursements separate care evaluation reimbursements separate care evaluation

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The committee heard a presentation from DHS on its early intensive developmental and behavioral intervention (EIDBI) study and related licensing proposal. Christy Grom explained that EIDBI is a Medical Assistance state plan service for children and young adults under 21 with autism or related conditions, and that DHS’s multi-phase evaluation included standards review, community engagement, and a comparison with other states. She said the service is important but that DHS identified gaps in oversight, including stretched clinical supervision, providers affiliated with many centers, out-of-state providers, and rapid growth in enrollment that has outpaced current monitoring capacity. DHS’s main recommendation was to create a provisional license for EIDBI in Chapter 245A as an immediate step, with later work toward full licensing standards. The proposal would let DHS identify controlling individuals, disqualify ineligible people, investigate maltreatment, suspend or revoke licenses, require background studies and qualifications before service delivery, move EIDBI providers into a higher-risk category for revalidation, and make DHS the lead investigative agency for maltreatment. DHS also recommended statutory standards for supervision, caseloads, training, and documentation, while emphasizing the need to balance oversight with continued access to services. Grom said the provisional licensure proposal is part of the governor’s budget and that DHS hopes to begin implementation in 2025, with a possible full license start date in 2028. Testifiers then spoke in support of EIDBI while urging the committee to preserve access and include more community input. Ana Hagi Muhammad, a parent of three autistic children and a Somali community advocate, said EIDBI has been beneficial for her family and that community organizations serving Somali families have not been sufficiently engaged in DHS’s process. Ana Muhammad, a Black mother of a young autistic child, said ABA has helped her son with communication, self-regulation, and independence, and asked that discussions reflect the diversity of family experiences. Committee members asked testifiers to keep remarks brief and to identify which modality they use, and the chair indicated the committee would continue hearing from additional testifiers before further discussion.

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• by the independent evaluator, other than just what the medical professionals stated.
• And Magali, who pays for that independent medical evaluator to come in?
• It just says it allows the guardian to request the patient be evaluated by an independent evaluator.
• It just says it allows the guardian to request the patient be evaluated by an independent evaluator.
• agency under a petition for court-ordered evaluation or treatment.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The committee heard a long series of Senate bills, mostly on third-read consent, covering education, public safety, health, courts, labor, and water. Several bills were briefly explained and then pulled from consent for further discussion, including measures on public records review standards (SB 1078), sexually explicit materials in schools/libraries (SB 1435 and SB 1567), burial costs in death cases (SB 1135), military flags in HOAs/COAs (SB 1184), court-ordered treatment guardianship (SB 1243), standardized state hiring (SB 1665), released-time religious instruction (SB 1741), firearm safety instruction in schools (SB 1424), student participation in extracurriculars after certain convictions (SB 1475), Celebrate Freedom Week (SB 1572), federal scholarship-granting organizations/vouchers (SB 1142), immigration-related arrest notifications (SB 1055), defamation standards (SB 1099), peace officer certification for military police veterans (SB 1107), mandatory reporting of child abuse/neglect directly to DCS (SB 1127), attorney licensing and discipline issues (SB 1148 and SB 1039), concealed weapons on college campuses (SB 1068), and firearm muffling devices/silencers (SB 1069). Members also raised constitutional, policy, and school-safety concerns on several of these bills, while supporters emphasized alternative pathways for students, veterans, and workers, and tighter reporting or licensing rules. Other bills were described without extended debate, including claims against the state for unpaid contracted services (SB 1097), workers’ compensation death benefits for surviving spouses who remarry (SB 1136), burial expense increases (SB 1135), state agency web pages for internal guidance (SB 1586), court-ordered treatment procedures and service of process in mental health cases (SB 1113), medical examiner authorization (SB 1123), tribal MOUs with DCS (SB 1125), controlled-substance scheduling conformity with federal classifications (SB 1188), EMT personal information protections (SB 1193), mammography notice updates (SB 1318), assisted-living referral disclosures (SB 1477), accommodation school GED instruction for 11th graders and students over 16 (SB 1166), credit enhancement board continuation (SB 1422), school district and charter school obligations related to religious release time (SB 1741), school firearm safety instruction (SB 1424), and school civics/freedom-week instruction (SB 1572). The committee also heard bills on CPA certification pathways (SB 1181), insurance adjuster licensing (SB 1415), county voter-registration rules online (SB 1040), campaign address privacy (SB 1259), federal land acquisition notification (SB 1281), water supply/demand assessments (SB 1202), environmental compatibility for power plants and small modular reactors (SB 1418), and groundwater recovery rules (SB 1785). The meeting ended with announcements and a brief recognition of Rep. Stephanie Hamilton with an “Affordability Award.” No final votes are shown in the transcript excerpt; instead, many bills were either left on consent, pulled for later discussion, or flagged for closed caucus. The chair then asked guests to leave so members could hold a closed caucus.

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• We'll now move to item number 4 and recognize LOFT for their presentation on the report for the evaluation
• This evaluation resulted in three key findings.
• Collectively, Locke evaluated 6 buildings totaling 3.5 million square feet of office space.
• This limitation impedes accurate evaluation of daily attendance.
• That prohibits evaluators' ability to measure the application of those rules. Mr.

Keywords: 914, all

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• This type of welfare proceeding should not differentiate the type of evaluations they receive.
• The issue had been that there were evaluations being completed by professionals that did not have the
• The issue had been that there were evaluations being completed by professionals that did not have the
• The issue had been that there were evaluations being completed by professionals that did not have the
• ation being completed by were evalu ation being completed by professionals<00:39:01.440> that

Keywords: 1191, senate, all