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• Services including the services provided under the Medicaid managed Care and Child Health plan programs
• Committee and Human Services.
• Issue 44,830 by FELA relating to the regulation of service contractors and service contract providers
• The 211 service provider for the Texas Information and Referral Network on Human Services, HB 4839 by
• the Committee and Human Services.

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• cleaners, and airport passenger service cleaners, and airport passenger service workers.<01:04:44.240
• These cuts will hit our services.
• <01:07:53.520> that myriad of other critical services that myriad of other critical services
• But let me be clear, early learning and child care is not a service. It is not a luxury.
• higher prices for goods and services. higher prices for goods and services.

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• . financial services.
• provided to service.
• Issue 4830 by Phelan related regulation of service contractors and service contract providers and administrators
• The 2-1-1 service provider. for the Texas Information and Referral Network for commenting on human services
• facilities or for the Committee on Human Services.

Bills: HB9, HB22, HB908, HB1392

Keywords: property tax, ad valorem tax, tangible personal property, income-producing property, business personal property, tax exemption, local government finance, appraisal district, chief appraiser, rendition statement, property tax relief, small business, commercial property, leased property, related business entity, unified business enterprise, tax situs, Texas Tax Code, local taxing unit, constitutional amendment

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• Beyond his service in office, James was a family man and a friend to many.
• That spirit of service has not only grown, but has continued.
• THAT SPIRIT OF SERVICE HAS NOT ONLY GROWN, BUT HAS CONTINUED.
• DOING SO WILL HELP REDUCE COMMUTING COSTS AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR IT. S.A.
• James Minn for 25 years of service.

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• >> The Health and Human Services Committee will come to order. Sabrina, please call the roll.
• or who has a service-related disability at the time of death.
• , consistency, accessibility of services, trait of high quality support, coordination, best practices
• It is the one service that we all must have for a waiver support for APD I Budget services.
• Enhancing support, coordination, quality capacity Inconsistency.

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• Hello, Lorraine Freas, Department of Health Care Services.
• to service alongside them.
• to service alongside them.
• service.
• Today, service members may be deployed overseas, activated, service members may be deployed overseas,

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• Martin Luther King's words, one of his famous speeches centered around service.
• And he looked at and redefined service and greatness through the lens of community.
• centered around service. centered around service.
• And he looked at and redefined service And he looked at and redefined service and<00:12:48.600><
• quality assurance date. quality assurance date.

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• Committee members, Senator Bettencourt, thank you for the invitation to testify and for your service
• Before assuming my current role, I spent 22 years in public service.
• I also want to thank each committee member here for your work and for your public service.
• This highlights the importance of language access in mental health services.
• For those of you that don't understand necessarily how it works in the fire service and the police service

Bills: SB1998, SB646, SB2786, SB2076, SB2615, SB1961, SB1418, SB2647, SB1322, SB2788

Keywords: pediatrics, medical education, subsidiary, preceptorship, medical training, student programs, mental health, loan repayment, education funding, mental health professionals, healthcare access, Texas Success Initiative, exemption, public officers, employees, higher education, Capitol view, Austin, urban planning, construction

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• ONE OF THE WAYS WE MEASURE QUALITY OF OUR PROGRAMS BECAUSE IS NOT JUST ABOUT ENROLLMENTS OR COMPLETIONS
• BUT WE WANT EQUALITY THROUGH THE CTE QUALITY AUDIT.
• OF EDUCATION AND QUALITY OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND THEY ARE COMING TO FLORIDA.
• AT ALL THE CREDENTIALS THAT WE HAVE AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT COMPARES THEM AGAINST THE FRAMEWORK OF QUALITY
• AND ANOTHER ONE IS MAYBE GOING TO ARMED SERVICES BUT THEN YOU HAVE THREE LEFT.

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• Calendar 138, Senate Print 1329, Senator Parker, an act to amend the Public Service Law. >> Lay aside
• Calendar 141, Senate Print 1847, Senator Comrie, an act to amend the Public Service Law. >> Bill will
• Calendar 195, Senate Print 1540, Senator Jackson, an act to amend the Civil Service Law. >> Read the
• Calendar 196, Senate Print 2264, Senator Cooney, an act to amend the Civil Service Law.
• A letter to industry, according To Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., they have approved beet

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Summary: The Senate opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and an invocation by Imam Tahir Kukaj of the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, who offered remarks about gratitude, diversity, and support for Kosovo’s independence. The Journal was approved, and the chamber then took up several previously adopted resolutions, including Resolution 1516 commemorating the 18th anniversary of Kosovo’s independence and Resolution 1317 honoring the Stillwater Girls Varsity Soccer Team and Head Coach Christine Ihnatolya for winning the NYSPHSAA Class C state championship. Both resolutions were adopted, and the sponsors were authorized to seek additional co-sponsors. The Senate then moved through the calendar and passed a series of bills, including measures on environmental conservation, education, public health, civil service, penal law, public service, labor, and a retroactive real property tax exemption for the Silver Lake Foundation. Most bills passed with broad support, though several drew recorded no votes from a small group of senators. Senator Fahy explained her vote on a bill renaming an OASAS scholarship in honor of Father Peter Young, emphasizing his work on addiction, incarceration, and homelessness. Two items drew extended debate. On Calendar 141, Senator Walczyk appealed the chair’s ruling that an amendment to a public service bill was nongermane; the Senate voted 21 to overrule the chair, so the ruling stood, and the bill then passed 52-6. On Calendar 213, Senators Kavanagh and Borrello debated a food-safety bill concerning disclosure of certain food ingredients and chemicals; supporters said it would improve transparency and protect children’s health, while opponents argued federal action was already underway and a national standard would be preferable. After the bill was restored to the non-controversial calendar, it passed 56-2. The Senate then adjourned until Monday, February 9 at 3:00 p.m., with intervening days as legislative days.

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• Chair Tomkow: The Health and Human Services Committee will come to order.
• or who has a service related disability at the time of death.
• , consistency, accessibility of services, traits of high quality support coordination, best practices
• It is the one service that we all must have for waiver support for APD iBudget services.
• I mean, enhancing support coordination quality, capacity and consistency.

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• The demand for health care services continues to go up, driven in large part by demographic shifts.
• But, you know, we did a lot of rigorous quality assurance testing as we were deploying ambient scribe
• My training is as a lawyer and a health services researcher.
• And as a lawyer, you would advise your client as well, right, to put this into your terms of service
• “The hospital has gotten wind of a cool new gadget and would like to try it in a quality improvement

Summary: The joint informational hearing of the Assembly Health and Privacy Committees focused on generative AI in health care, with opening remarks emphasizing both its potential to improve care and its risks around privacy, bias, liability, workforce impacts, and unequal access. Chair Bauer-Kahan and Chair Bonta framed the discussion around how California can encourage beneficial innovation while protecting patients, especially given the sensitivity of health data and the possibility that AI could worsen existing disparities if not carefully governed. The first panel featured representatives from Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, Penguin AI, and Google, who described current uses of AI such as ambient clinical scribes, nursing documentation tools, imaging triage, maternal-fetal risk prediction, and administrative automation. Speakers said these tools can reduce clinician burden, improve patient experience, speed treatment, and in some cases improve outcomes, including a reported mortality benefit from a Kaiser predictive model and faster thrombectomy times at Cedars-Sinai. Members raised concerns about accuracy with accents and multilingual visits, whether predictive tools could reinforce bias or lead to more interventions such as C-sections, and how to ensure a human remains in the loop for important decisions. The second panel, including representatives from the California Health Care Foundation, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, focused on policy and governance challenges. Testimony highlighted examples of AI supporting homelessness outreach and community health work, but also warned that biased algorithms can encode inequities, especially when trained on data that reflect under-treatment of Black, rural, or low-income patients. Witnesses urged clearer standards for trustworthy AI, stronger monitoring and governance structures, better data access for accountability, and attention to the safety net’s limited resources. Several speakers argued that states should require health systems to have AI governance processes, clarify liability between developers and deployers, and regulate downstream uses of AI while preserving access to data for lifesaving research and oversight.

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• However, support divisions within the department, such as human services, legal, and fiscal services,
• The 12% is for quality.
• of Social Services.
• services.
• services with the USCIS office and removal services with immigration courts.

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• and there is no gap in the delivery of services.
• We hired a contracting service.
• It is a tribute to the service of our military personnel.
• This is set by the military services.
• and continue their service in this critical role.

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• Quality regulations, including the Oil and Gas Act's venting and flaring standards.
• You would have to make a separate service agreement with the state land office.
• There's a notice requirement that includes surface lessees and service owners.
• Lessees would not be able to make an agreement to be a service owner.
• Have drinking quality water in the Farmington area at 3,000 feet.

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• I'm the Commissioner of Administrative Services.
• Services. Um, and I think the question Services.
• That's the Department of Health and Human Services, and Earth is recognized for a question, and these
• Good morning, Nathan White, chief financial officer with the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Item number 25114, Department of Health and Human Services. Any questions on the item?

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Summary: The Fiscal Committee met on May 16, 2025, and first adopted a rules-and-procedures change extending online audit approval timelines for American Rescue Plan items through December 2026 and bipartisan infrastructure law items through June 30, 2027. The committee then approved the April 18 minutes and adopted the consent calendar with several items removed for separate discussion, including items from Tabs 4, 6, and 7. On Tab 4 item 2511, members questioned why the state was paying utility costs for the Laconia property while it is being sold. Commissioner Charlie Arlinghaus explained the budget line covered utilities generally, not just heat, that some buildings still require minimal heating, and that the main increase was tied to the Winnipesaukee River Basin Project wastewater charges. He said the charges had risen sharply, the property sale would eventually trigger a utility true-up at closing, and he would provide additional analysis. The committee then adopted the item. On Tab 4 item 25115, the Department of Justice said funding for a temporary fourth pathologist was removed from the 2026-2027 budget because it was no longer needed, and the committee adopted the item. On Tab 6 item 25126, Department of Health and Human Services officials explained the Medicaid managed care “withhold” as a performance incentive: about 2% of capitation payments are held back, then redistributed based on quality and operational metrics, with unearned amounts staying with the state until the end of the program and subject to actuarial requirements. They said the approach has improved performance and helped with Medicaid unwinding outreach, reducing enrollment by about 11,000 people in the past year. The committee adopted the item. On Tab 7 item 25139, the Department of Energy said it no longer needed an additional position because existing staff could handle the work, and the item was adopted. The committee also adopted regular-calendar items 25114 and 25131, noted that one regular-calendar item had been withdrawn, set the next meeting for June 20 at 11:00 a.m. in Room 100 of the State House, and adjourned after a motion and second.

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• to your question about the debt service to your question about the debt service for<00:26:37.480
• 29 um the total amount of Debt Service 29 um the total amount of Debt Service would<00:26:51.000
• <00:27:11.200> the struggling to see how we service the struggling to see how we service the
• confirm what would be the debt service confirm what would be the debt service maybe<00:29:46.000
• Roughly $30 million of debt service. Thank you, Chair.

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• Thank you for mentioning the pre-licensure services. Yeah, I think that’s great.
• Now, the pre-licensing services—does that include navigating local regulations?
• So, it has to pay them to do not be able to create new services of infantile, of high-quality, to care
• Bus shelters are public service and should be permitted in the public right-of-way.
• Bus shelters are public service and should be permitted in the public right-of-way.

Summary: The committee held a work session on form-based codes, child care facility siting, and street standards/frontage improvements. On form-based codes, Commerce’s Dave Anderson explained that these codes emphasize building form, orientation, and the public realm more than traditional use and density tables, and that they are typically applied in specific districts rather than citywide or statewide. Lacey’s Vanessa Dolby described the city’s Woodland District code, developed through community charrettes, fiscal and market analysis, and subdistrict-specific standards to create a walkable downtown. She said the approach has helped produce a more desirable built environment and more flexibility in permitted uses, but also noted it can be less user-friendly for applicants and still requires some use restrictions; both presenters said a hybrid approach is often best. The committee then heard from DCYF and multiple providers about barriers to opening child care facilities. DCYF officials said Washington has more than 6,500 licensed providers and that a new pre-licensing support team is helping applicants navigate licensing, but local zoning, building, fire, parking, utility, and occupancy requirements still create delays and confusion. Testifiers described long permitting timelines, inconsistent local interpretations, costly upgrades, and utility hookup delays; one Yakima provider said county requirements, a floodplain-related elevation certificate, and a private well issue stopped her in-home child care proposal, while others described traffic impact fees, parking mandates, and zoning barriers that made projects infeasible. Enterprise Community Partners highlighted examples of successful local reforms, including fee waivers, expedited permitting, and zoning changes in several cities, and DCYF said it is working toward a 2026 action plan and a resource guide for providers. In the final section, planners and developers discussed how street standards and frontage improvement requirements can undermine infill and middle housing. Poulsbo’s planning manager said current standards were designed for greenfield subdivisions and often force costly curb, gutter, sidewalk, stormwater, and utility upgrades on small infill sites, sometimes adding tens of thousands of dollars and causing projects to be abandoned. A Seattle-based developer made similar points about small middle-housing projects being burdened by frontage work, curb ramps, buried standards, and EV-ready parking requirements that can trigger expensive undergrounding. Committee members asked about possible state-level changes, including whether child care should be treated as an essential public facility and whether parking requirements had already been reduced; one senator noted that minimum parking requirements for child care facilities were eliminated in prior legislation, with implementation phased in over the next few years.

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• In terms of a Addiction services and substance abuse services are a priority for me.
• What reforms do you recommend, again, that would improve services, I suppose?
• Ten have had to cut available services.
• Common services are being cut in rural hospitals, including maternity services.
• And President Trump wants Americans to have high-quality insurance.

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• more intensive outpatient services or step-down services.
• Services (DFPS) is also working, in limited circumstances, to provide these services.
• Is it tied to the service?
• So we're going to defer them on services and the quality and what they are.
• or quality controls.

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