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• and single-family development.
• million up front as equity to develop the development, and then that investor...
• And to rental housing development and preservation, explain the difference from development.
• I would also suggest Economic and Rural Development because they are inextricably linked.
• for new housing development.

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• We partnership with a rural location.
• know that physician shortage in rural know that physician shortage in rural areas<00:57:57.119><
• The rural veterary workforce measure.
• Rural economic strength of the state.
• solutions and the Minnesota rural solutions and the Minnesota rural veterary<01:06:04.079> loan

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• This funding will support low-barrier-to-entry workforce development jobs, and $16.4 million one-time
• So it's open space in urban areas that have high populations, as well as in more rural areas.
• ... ...tracking it and following as they've been developing their purchase agreement and recognizing
• I represent three of those rural communities.
• Northern California representing affordable developers across nine counties in the San Francisco Bay

Summary: The hearing focused on the governor’s May Revision proposals for transportation, natural resources, climate, and related programs, with the Department of Finance and the LAO presenting competing views on the state’s fiscal condition. Finance said the budget remains balanced over two years, with major climate-bond, water, parks, transportation, DMV, and agriculture proposals, while the LAO argued the state still has a structural deficit and should reject or defer many new discretionary spending items, preserve reserves, and be cautious about ongoing commitments. The LAO specifically questioned the timing and scale of new spending for programs such as Clean California, Healthy Rivers and Landscapes, and the Golden Gate Fields acquisition, and urged more clarity on future obligations and revenue scenarios, including for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. A major portion of the hearing was devoted to the Healthy Rivers and Landscapes proposal for Bay-Delta water quality implementation. Secretary Wade Crowfoot and Finance described it as an enforceable, science-based alternative to a more traditional regulatory approach, with the state’s $25 million request intended to support early implementation, monitoring, habitat restoration, and environmental flows. The LAO countered that the Water Board has not yet adopted the updated Bay-Delta plan, that the proposal may be premature, and that the Legislature should wait for more information on the state’s total funding commitment and the program’s long-term costs. Several members expressed support for the program as a way to reduce conflict and protect water reliability, while others echoed concerns about timing and fiscal exposure. The committee also examined the proposed $125 million Proposition 4 contribution toward acquiring the Golden Gate Fields property for a shoreline park and habitat project. State officials said the acquisition is a time-sensitive, once-in-a-generation opportunity, with an appraised value of $175 million and additional philanthropic and local funding expected to close the gap. Members questioned whether the project had gone through the usual competitive process, whether the site is the best use of scarce park bond dollars, and how public access, habitat, and disadvantaged-community priorities would be protected. The discussion ended without a vote, and the committee moved on to transportation items including Clean California litter abatement, the Games Route Network, homeless encampment coordinators, and DMV modernization and field office proposals, with LAO recommending rejection or delay on several of those requests as well.

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• This baby has a fully developed brain.
• We are currently in the process of developing curriculum.
• That will include costs associated with the rulemaking, the development and further development of the
• It really helps rural and metro communities alike.
• If somebody develops HIV, it's a human immunodeficiency virus.

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Summary: The committee heard House Bill 2433, which would require insurers offering Medicare supplement policies to people 65 and older to also offer them to Medicare beneficiaries under 65 with ALS or end-stage renal disease, with enrollment periods and premium protections tied to 65-year-old rates. Supporters, including dialysis and ALS advocates, said the bill would help a small population facing high out-of-pocket costs and could improve access to transplants and care; opponents argued it would shift costs onto older seniors and raise Medigap premiums. The committee recommended the bill do pass on a 12-0 vote. The committee also heard House Bill 2593, appropriating $1.5 million to the University of Arizona for the Arizona Perinatal Psychiatry Access Line. The sponsor and physicians testified that the line helps obstetric and pediatric providers quickly consult on perinatal depression, postpartum psychosis, suicidality, and other mental health crises, improving outcomes for mothers, children, and families and reducing costly emergency and crisis care. The bill received a do pass recommendation on a 10-1 vote. House Concurrent Resolution 2013, proclaiming June 2026 as Celebrate Life Month, drew emotional testimony from a young woman with spina bifida and another speaker supporting the sanctity of life. Some members objected that the state should focus on practical supports such as paid leave, child care, and health care access, while others supported the resolution as a statement of human dignity. The resolution passed the committee 7-5. The committee then approved House Bill 4010, creating a Board of Genetic Counselors and licensure standards, after testimony from genetic counselors and a patient advocate about the need for qualified counseling and better access; it passed 11-1. Later, the committee approved House Bill 2196, which would require pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse non-affiliated pharmacies at least their acquisition cost and pay a dispensing fee, and establish an appeals process. Independent pharmacists and their coalition said PBM practices are driving closures and unfairly favor affiliated pharmacies, while PBM and employer representatives warned of major cost increases and said the bill would interfere with private contracts; the bill passed 11-1. The committee also adopted a strike-everything amendment to House Bill 2182 requiring insurers and health plans to report claims denial and prior authorization data to DIFI, and then gave the amended bill a 12-0 do pass recommendation. Finally, the committee approved House Bill 2189, directing the Board of Nursing to update rules for licensed health aides and collect annual data, with the sponsor and board staff saying it would help implement routine ventilator care in the home; it passed 12-0. The committee then began hearing House Bill 2404, a strike-everything amendment on inter-facility transports for behavioral health patients, but the transcript cuts off before action on that bill.

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• the Mary to welcome Child Development the Mary to welcome Child Development Center<00:10:12.760>
• Welcome Child Development Center.
• Welcome Child Development Center.
• Development Development Committee<01:46:50.280> um<01:46:50.840> before<01:46:51.119><

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• Stone out of water when we're trying to promote ourselves as a rural movie set.
• And not just this community, but many... rural communities.
• It doesn't matter if you want snow or not; we have a space for you here, rural or urban.
• That also has worked in my previous work as economic developer for Cibola County.
• ... those of us, you know, rural Bernalillo County, and I can probably get a $2 million project.

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• It's urban, semi-rural, and rural areas. I feel very honored to represent District 13.
• There's a lot of concern about rural health.
• You know, how are we going to handle serving rural wastewater systems if all the money is soaked up by
• And I certainly understand the needs of the rural communities.
• I just have one question, and that's there's a lot of talk about rural hospitals.

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• Senate Bill 286 by Senator Duplessis provides relative to the New Orleans Downtown Development District
• If you don't have it at age 60, you'll never develop the cells.
• Senate Bill 281 by Senator Barrow provides for changes to the Baker Economic Development District.
• the Baker Economic Development District.
• Paulette Bailey Wilson, with Baker Economic Development District, present, not wishing to speak.

Keywords: 965, house, all

Summary: The House Municipal, Parochial, and Cultural Affairs Committee heard and advanced a series of local and statewide measures. SB 430 would renew, every 12 years by voter approval, the Shreveport-Bossier hotel occupancy tax that supports tourism and sports-related entities; SB 286 updates the New Orleans Downtown Development District statute by clarifying its status as a political subdivision, streamlining tax collection, removing staggered board terms, and clarifying bond-election boundaries; SB 198 requires government projects in historic districts to follow local historic district guidelines for new construction; and SB 172 expands a planning-commission provision so smaller municipalities can waive certain subdivision formalities and costly studies in limited family land-split situations. Each of these bills was described as largely technical or permissive, with supporters emphasizing efficiency, local control, or reduced costs. The committee also advanced SB 439 to add pre-screening for esophageal/Barrett’s esophageal cancer for firefighters and fire service employees, with firefighters’ representatives explaining the test can detect pre-cancerous cells and prevent later, more serious cancer. SB 458 would allow a local tax for a proposed St. Tammany Parish Inspector General/ethics entity to be allocated and, if excess remains, transferred to the district attorney’s office; members discussed the parish-wide referendum process and the connection to state-required funding obligations. SB 447 changes Bossier City Police Department promotional seniority and civil service classification from competitive seniority to promotional seniority, and SB 281 expands the Baker Economic Development District boundary to include additional commercial areas near the airport and support blight removal and growth. Additional measures moved favorably included SB 385, which changes appointments to the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association board and allows City Park to opt out of certain state insurance coverage because it carries private insurance; HR 84, which urges Shreveport to create an interest-free loan program for TSA agents at the regional airport during federal shutdowns; and SB 417, which adds two members to the St. Mary Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 2A board. In each case, the committee heard brief testimony from sponsors and local officials or advocates, asked clarifying questions, and then approved the bills without objection. One member, Representative Murray, recused himself from the City Park bill because of his board membership. The committee then took a short recess, noting a few remaining bills would be deferred if sponsors did not appear.

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• on what is **75,000 acres** of land that is ready for development.
• I have a very rural district, and it's almost a bigger issue being so rural.
• We can never develop it as fast as our ideas and our needs.
• I'm from a very rural district. I represent 11 different counties.
• I feel like being rural, this is a constant conversation with districts.

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• Starts at development in January of each year and concludes in about October.
• We developed a port—we have to.
• The cities and private developers.
• So if I asked Met Council right now, what is the cost to develop a BRT?
• So if I asked Met Council right now, what is the cost to develop a BRT?

Bills: HF4807

Keywords: overweight vehicles, aggregate mining, local ordinance restrictions, legislative audit, transportation, resource inventory

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• areas and individuals that are rural areas and individuals that are home<00:12:29.320> bound<
• On the opioid side, we heard from hospice providers that, especially for patients in rural areas, it
• On the opioid side, we heard from hospice providers that, especially for patients in rural areas, it
• think we particularly in rural think we particularly in rural communities<00:28:46.320> I

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• We will do everything we can to support local economic development.
• I just feel it's going to really weaken these rural communities.
• And economic development and jobs don't justify enabling those abuses.
• My last question is about economic development.
• My last question is about economic development.

Bills: SB100

Keywords: burglary, aggravated burglary, dwelling, criminal law, property rights, 996, all

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• And many of them live in rural areas.
• Counties in the Brazos Valley, four out of the six are rural.
• So from your perspective, how would it affect those rural areas?
• Yeah, I mean in the rural areas...
• It is not in the rural areas. You see it in the rural areas. That would help.

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• And new development regulations.
• In fact, we were here to talk about the structure for developing or for regulating development in urban
• Some want to attract development. Some want to limit development.
• This works well short term because developers get to develop. Services are provided.
• Because developers get to develop, services are provided, water's installed, sewers installed, but counties

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• The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development and the Disability Services Division
• our rural program.
• <00:52:20.880> interests bring together diverse rural interests bring together diverse rural
• Minnesotans and improve rural access to higher-quality, lower-cost health care.
• I grew up on a rural hog farm in northern Minnesota.

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• In the rural counties, or 33 counties now that use county-based purchasing, we would continue to use
• <00:31:58.600> Hospital<00:31:59.000> in will shut down every rural Hospital in will
• shut down every rural Hospital in the<00:31:59.240> state<00:31:59.799> if<00:31:59.960
• especially in rural areas and the<01:14:28.280> significant<01:14:28.920> Workforce<01
• <01:29:44.159> stren professional development stren professional development stren strengthening

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• SB 15159 rural groundwater management work groups. Natural resources.
• SB 1560 CAP water supply development fund. Natural resources.
• SB 1560 CAP water supply development fund. Natural resources.
• SB 1560 CAP water supply development fund. Natural resources.
• SB 1534, rural hospital stability assessment distribution.

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• We also know the billions of dollars that we've made a conscious effort in expanding rural broadband
• across the state. rural broadband across the state.
• we don't have an opportunity of broadband grants that have been utilized to grow our network in the rural
• road programs, economic development road programs.
• Widening a road will create economic development and a lot of opportunities for that area, but it also

Bills: HB606, SB271

Keywords: HB606, Alabama, Department of Transportation, DOT, public highways, utility relocation, right-of-way, state right-of-way, road construction, bridge, tunnel, toll road, interstate highway, defense highway, utility facilities, broadband, telecommunications, cable, electricity, gas

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• and economic development, battle air pollution, and advance our climate goals.
• activity in both rural areas and coastal communities.
• activity in both rural areas and coastal communities.
• Short lines are vital to the state of California and our rural community and agricultural economy.
• And so if you're in a rural area and you have to drive, say, 50 miles to the smog check, that leaves,

Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee heard a series of bills focused on transportation planning, emissions, freight, and vehicle regulation. SB 1087 by Senator Cabaldon would modernize SB 375 regional climate and transportation planning by moving regional plan updates from every four years to every eight years, clarifying roles for CARB and the California Transportation Commission, and better aligning funding and guidelines. Supporters, including SCAG, MTC/ABAG, MPOs, local governments, and some environmental groups, said the bill would reduce duplicative planning costs and improve implementation. Opponents, including Coalition for Clean Air and the California Building Industry Association, warned it could weaken climate accountability, expand VMT-related burdens, and create housing and CEQA concerns. The bill passed 9-1 and was sent to Appropriations. The committee also heard SB 1315, which would require manufacturers to report software updates for semi-autonomous vehicle features to the Insurance Commissioner so the state can build data for future policy. There was no opposition testimony, and the bill passed 12-0. SB 1275 by Senator McNerney would replace the general fund portion of the state sales tax on motor vehicles with a one-time vehicle license fee so buyers could potentially claim a federal tax deduction; the LAO testified as a technical witness, and the bill passed 9-1. SB 1287 by Senator Hurtado would create a tax credit to spur private investment in short-line railroad infrastructure; supporters said it would improve safety, freight efficiency, and emissions, and it passed 12-0. The committee also approved SB 1423 by Senator Stern, which would streamline review for certain transit and rail projects that have already undergone extensive environmental review; it passed 8-1. SB 1064 by Senator Daly would reduce the frequency of clean truck checks for very low-mileage heavy-duty and off-road vehicles, and passed 12-0 after supporters said it would reduce unnecessary trips and costs while opponents awaited CARB analysis. SB 1375 by Senator Cortese would similarly reduce duplicative environmental review for qualifying major transit and rail projects, and passed 12-0. SB 1392, also by Senator Cortese, would expand the smog-check exemption for certain historic collector vehicles used mainly for shows, parades, and charitable events; classic car and lowrider advocates supported it, while air quality groups opposed it as increasing emissions. It passed 10-2. The committee also adopted the consent calendar, including SB 1213, by a 12-0 vote.

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• We've developed bridge courses.
• Since 2015, the Texas Water Development Board has invested over $10 million. to develop a flood gauge
• The staff developed the base level engineering.
• So this is not the Water Development Board.
• During that time, the first Texas regional flood plans were being developed by the Texas Water Development

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