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• And at the end of February, we're at 1,124, so we're on track to exceed that number.
• So we have all that information that we do track.
• We track it by category, pre-enrollment category, and overall.
• But it enables us to monitor and track basically PMPMs at the rate group level.
• Do you track any of the tertiary insurance premiums that are coming back to the plans?

Summary: The Health Care Budget Subcommittee took up two bills and then continued oversight discussions with APD and AHCA. CS/HB 27, the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact, was presented as a way to let Florida social workers practice in other compact states and vice versa; AARP, the Florida Chamber, and NASW Florida supported it, and the bill passed favorably. HB 1127, a child welfare bill, would create a treatment foster care pilot for children with high behavioral needs, improve DCF data collection on commercially sexually exploited children, and expand recruitment for protective investigators and case managers; the bill also passed favorably after brief supportive testimony. The committee then questioned APD at length about the iBudget waiver waitlist, enrollment pace, spending projections, and provider capacity. APD said it had sent more than 1,100 interest letters in categories 3, 4, and 5, enrolled 1,124 people so far this year, and expects to spend about 96.4% of its waiver appropriation, leaving roughly $82 million unspent. Members pressed APD on why prior discussions suggested more reserve was needed, how long the SANS process takes, whether category 6 could be expanded, and whether the agency has enough waiver support coordinators and direct support providers. APD said it has about 1,061 waiver support coordinators statewide, adequate capacity for current enrollees, but would need further analysis if the legislature directed a much larger enrollment increase. Members also asked about outreach, annual maintenance of the waitlist, portability for military families, and whether communication efforts should be privatized. Finally, AHCA walked the committee through the 2023 Achieved Savings Rebate (ASR) report for Aetna and explained how the report is used for financial monitoring, rebate calculations, and transparency. AHCA said the ASR is separate from the medical loss ratio (MLR) calculation, though both are reviewed, and that Florida uses the ASR mechanism rather than an MLR remittance requirement to recover funds from plans. Members asked about related-party disclosures, CVS/Caremark relationships, expanded benefits, encounter data, network adequacy penalties, denials and appeals reporting, interest earned on capitation payments, and whether rate increases were reaching providers. AHCA and the outside auditors said they review the plans’ reported data, reconcile it to underlying records, and can assess liquidated damages for network adequacy violations; several members requested follow-up data on rebates, interest, provider capacity, and related-party reporting.

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• just a couple blocks up from um located just a couple blocks up from KPT<00:53:27.839> housing,
• So, this is kind of like a two-story strip mall that's located in what we call the Pro Ridge area.
• <01:25:42.080> in redevelopment projects located in redevelopment projects located in transit
• specific location. specific location.
• I know with a private well, if they're not tracking it or reporting it properly, you know, the totals

Bills: HB1721, HB1714, HB1718, HB1732, HB1740, HB1777, HB1842, HB1919, HB1701, HB1923, HB1741, HB1734, HB1739

Keywords: housing, expedited permits, insurance, indemnification, construction, affordable housing, executive compensation, Hawaii housing finance, legislative approval, low-income housing, moderate-income housing, mixed-use development, transit-oriented development, TOD, county powers, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, HHFDC, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, DHHL, affordable housing credits

Summary: The House Housing Committee met on February 4 and heard testimony on several housing measures, beginning with HB1721, which clarifies insurance, indemnification, and certificate-of-occupancy requirements for expedited permits. Testimony on HB1721 was uniformly supportive from the American Council of Engineering Companies, the Grassroot Institute, and individual testifiers, who said the bill would fix insurance issues for design professionals and encourage more participation in the expedited-permit program. No opposition was heard and no questions were raised. The committee then heard HB1714, which would raise salary caps for the executive director and deputy executive director positions at the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and allow more autonomy in personnel matters, including employment contracts. HHFDC supported the bill, saying greater flexibility is needed to recruit and retain staff and that current pay ceilings are not the main issue because the agency lacks operating funds to reach them. The Department of Human Resources Development offered comments and raised concerns about autonomous personnel authority and employment contracts, saying state personnel matters are governed by existing statutes and collective bargaining rules; the Hawaii Public Housing Authority also offered comments, and one board member and one individual opposed the measure. Members questioned whether performance-based pay or existing incentive policies could address retention instead of statutory salary changes. The committee also heard HB1718, which would make permanent county authority to facilitate mixed-use developments and issue county bonds for low- and moderate-income housing projects. Support came from OPSD, HHFDC, the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Housing and Land Management, and Housing Hawaii’s Future, all emphasizing that permanent authority is needed to finance long-term mixed-use and transit-oriented projects. A member asked whether the sunset provision would make bonding impractical, and the city representative agreed that temporary authority would make financing difficult because development takes time. Later, the committee took up HB1732, establishing the Kamina Homes program to fund counties’ purchase of voluntary deed restrictions from eligible buyers. The Department of Taxation and several groups, including HHFDC, AARP Hawaii, the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Realtors, Holomua Collaborative, and others testified, with most supporting the bill as a way to help local families remain in Hawaii and age in place. Holomua said a recent survey found 75% of 3,200 working families were considering moving, and argued the bill could preserve housing for local residents. Members asked about the bill’s 8% cap on deed-restriction cost and why the program focuses on residency rather than resale restrictions; the bill’s proponents said the cap allows flexibility for county negotiations and that the measure is aimed at workforce preservation rather than land-trust-style appreciation limits. Finally, the committee heard HB1740, which would modify a prior HHFDC housing pathway by reducing the qualified-resident requirement from 100% to 80% and allowing more flexibility for long-term rental instead of owner occupancy. HHFDC and Holomua Collaborative supported the change, saying the earlier 100% requirement had produced no developments or applicants and that the revised standard would make projects more feasible while still preserving housing for local residents. The committee did not take final votes on these measures during the portion of the hearing provided.

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• So we do a lot of tracking internally at MAA.
• So we do a lot of tracking internally at MAA.
• and to expand in this another location and to expand in this physical<00:47:16.319> space<00:
• The Northwest Minnesota Foundation is located in the northwest corner of the state.
• West Central Initiative is, by name, located in the west-central portion of the state.

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• If I lose track of time, we'll make sure everyone has equal time.
• If I lose track of time, we'll make sure everyone has equal time.
• We're not specifying the front location or signage of the notice.
• So I just want to make sure we all were tracking what the bill before us does. Ms. Wilson.
• But— Media locations. That's something I think many of us have experienced.

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• We track that. the ones that homes.
• <00:32:25.360> where of our process is to track where of our process is to track where students
• So, it's actually ideal location. location. location.
• 18:06.719> children tracks public investments for children tracks public investments for children
• <01:21:19.040> is Um, one thing that we're all tracking is Um, one thing that we're all tracking

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• The public health sector, when it's supported and properly resourced, has a long proven track record
• Every time you drink water without fear of contamination or drive safely from one location to another
• local services, and tracks outcomes. local services, and tracks outcomes.
• They guide action, and they signal if we're on track to meet the expected goals.
• ." location." location."

Keywords: 1. Call to Order and Roll Call – 00:00:00 2. Approval of Minutes – 00:01:32 3. Getting to Know the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky – 00:02:26 4. Healthy Kids Clinic – 00:26:58 5. Pharmacy Payment Parity – 00:56:36 6. Ibogaine – 01:17:37 7. Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations – 01:53:05 8. Adjournment – 01:53:19, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the prior meeting minutes and recognized Eric Clark for his service, noting this may be his last meeting before he leaves state government. The main presentation was from Allison Adams, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, who described the organization’s history, nonpartisan mission, and focus on health equity, prevention, and upstream policy solutions. She said Kentucky’s poor rankings in chronic disease, preventable hospitalizations, and life expectancy show the need to shift resources toward prevention and community-driven strategies rather than relying mainly on treatment after people become sick. Adams emphasized leading health indicators, arguing that lawmakers should track actionable measures such as quit attempts and smoke-free policies instead of only lagging indicators like disease rates and mortality. In response to questions, she said accountability should be shared across communities and systems, with possible incentives and disincentives tied to outcomes, and she supported creating a public data utility or dashboard, ideally with university partners, to help legislators and communities monitor progress. She also cited examples of accountable health community models and said Kentucky could adapt similar approaches. The committee then heard from Meade County Schools Superintendent Mark Martin and district health coordinator Karen Kotche about the Healthy Kids Clinic partnership with Cumberland Health. They described a seven-year effort that led to full implementation in the district, which now has a nurse in every school and a nurse practitioner, allowing services such as sports physicals and other clinic functions to be provided on campus. They said the program has been a strong investment for students and the community and began explaining how the district built the partnership after earlier efforts and delays, including the pandemic.

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• whether or not that them back on track whether or not that they<00:15:52.759> make<00:15:53.040
• But I track youth gang development, you know, on a regular basis.
• get out and mobilize um but I track get out and mobilize um but I track youth<00:44:19.680> gang
• <00:55:57.160> next<00:55:57.319> to<00:55:57.440> the where they're located
• next to the where they're located next to the nuclear<00:55:57.920> reactor<00:55:58.280>

Bills: HF1354, HF1901, HF2124, HF2130, HF2260, HF2099, HF104, HF134, HF1769

Keywords: public safety, school safety, active shooter, active shooter drill, violence prevention, threat reporting, anonymous tip line, See It, Say It, Send It, Minnesota Fusion Center, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, BCA, officer-involved death, missing person, endangered missing person, criminal background check, national background check, FBI fingerprint check, adult entertainment license, massage license, correctional facilities

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• Head Start's track records and data going back decades show that children who have attended Head
• Head Start's track records Head Start's track records and<00:51:07.680> data<00:51:08.080>
• Our core locations are the Twin Cities and Cass County. And in 2017, we expanded to St.
• He qualified and made enormous gains to get him on track before getting to school.
• made enormous gains to get him on track made enormous gains to get him on track before<01:19:23.040

Bills: HF1660, HF1824, HF1926, HF1002, HF994, HF1915, HF1336

Keywords: children, youth programming, needs assessment, community engagement, state funding, education, funding, school districts, state budget, rural schools, food support, Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches, food shelves, grant funding, Minnesota FoodShare, early childhood, Head Start, education funding, developmental programs, literacy

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• Our database tracks every public mass shooting in the United States since 1966, every homicide in schools
• A ghost gun is a gun that exists without a serial number or any identifying marks to keep track and trace
• DO YOU HAVE A CONCERN GIVEN THE TRACK RECORD OF SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO IMPOSE Sen.
• Again, there is a track record of such provisions similar to this that do run outside the boundaries
• AGAIN THERE IS A TRACK RECORD OF SUCH PROVISIONS SIMILAR TO THIS I DO REGULAR OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES

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• Our office is tracking about 150 bills.
• c><00:58:54.319> our<00:58:54.480> office<00:58:54.680> is<00:58:54.799> tracking
• my apologies we our office is tracking my apologies we our office is tracking about<00:58:56.359
• harvest breeding populations or go into traps and take larvae that are really important for data tracking
• <01:37:00.760> and important for Data Tracking and important for Data Tracking and monitoring

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• <00:18:48.080> we production if we stay on the track we production if we stay on the track
• <00:19:30.000> Um<00:19:30.720> we're kind of on track to doing that.
• Um we're kind of on track to doing that.
• <00:27:01.760> that Dre and we've identified a location that Dre and we've identified a location
• Um this<00:32:25.679> area<00:32:26.080> is<00:32:26.320> located<00:32:26.720><

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• These guys have been tracking all over the state. They've been to a farm.
• looking at the intent of trying to address the special needs population, they're not all going to be located
• So is there not a faster track? ...about it. So is there not a faster track?

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• I can't think of any other Entity or location where we would be perfectly fine with zero health and public
• motocross parks and places like that from liability from people who participate on their motocross tracks
• , dirt bike Tracks side by side tracks moved to adopt the other question.

Bills: HB4420, HB3974, HB3016, HB3062, HB3021, HB3145, HB4128, HB3131, HB3015, HB3472, HB3453, HB1638, HB4126, HB2696, HB2710, HB3552, HB3031, HB3544, HB3521, HB4490, HB4488, HB1746, HJR1069, HB4428, HB4429, HB1170, HB3538, HB4124, HB3904, HB4106, HB2999, HB3982, HJR1077, HB3464, HB2588, HB3462, HB4440, HB3674, HB3345, HJR1067, HB4326, HB4331, HB4337, HB4338, HB4359, HB4392, HB3557, HJR1076, HB4003, HB3495, HB3497, HB3501, HB3505, HB3749, HB3011, HB4336, HB4346, HJR1087, HB3240, HB3647, HB3796, HB3969, HB3972, HB3983, HB3984, HB3989, HB3383, HB3130, HB4358, HB3327, HJR1055, HB3386, HJR1089, HB3087, HB2970, HB3314, HB4129, HB4199

Keywords: reading, intervention, literacy, education, third grade retention, teacher training, funding, Strong Readers Act, tort claims, inmate housing, government immunity, public trust, private prison, emergency legislation, vision screening, binocular vision, kindergarten, elementary education, health, firearm rights

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• Well, then we're not on track to get that.
• Well, then we're not on track to get the full $240 million on the time frame we wanted.
• We would continue to advocate for more than that so that we can stay on track to get to that $240 million
• But where's that located at in the budget? Do you know?

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• We are beginning the major fish hatchery renovation at the Manningish Hatchery, which is located near
• So we're on track for our goal at the end of the year of being at 7%.
• You know, we're that's one thing that we look at and narrow in really closely to track on data analytics
• four or five years, and we can provide, be glad to provide the complete assessment from what we had tracked

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• There would be 23 miles of track and 27 stations.
• The number of stations decreased, and the number of miles of track increased. rail went from 27 miles
• law enforcement officers, and then another solution was to have a PID that took over the top four locations
• But that paid for nine miles of track.

Bills: SB3038, SB3045, SB3065, SB3069, SB3071, HB2025, HB2149, HB3370, HB4205, HB4506, HB5424, HB5652, HB24, HB3687, HB24

Keywords: Fort Bend County, Municipal Utility District, MUD, special district, Rosenberg, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, ad valorem tax, bond issuance, assessments, fees, taxes, eminent domain, road district, storm drainage, infrastructure financing, development agreement, municipal consent, temporary directors, public utility district

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• These accountability measures are very important and that they'll allow the legislature and voters to track
• So how should the state be or charging the board with tracking this estimate for this project, and we
• So where's the city's responsibility and where, how do we track, whether a city is or isn't addressing
• those canals, they have almost all everything's buried under underground, and they run it to their locations

Bills: SB 7

Keywords: water infrastructure, financial assistance, Texas Water Development Board, water supply, environmental sustainability

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• And finally, the bill would require the CFO's office to track incidents of suicide among firefighters
• to our family, and we realized the problems we were having with lead and other things were being tracked
• to our family, and we realized the problems we were having with lead and other things were being tracked
• If I'm going to lay and co-locate utilities and doing improvements on a development, you know, I'm on

Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government heard and advanced a large slate of bills, beginning with SB 978, which directs DEP to report on large sewage disposal facilities, rank them for wastewater treatment upgrades, and provide progress reports; it was reported favorably without public opposition. The committee also adopted an amendment and favorably reported SB 1388, which restricts vessel safety inspections without probable cause, creates a five-year safety decal, addresses spring protection zones, and bars FWC fishing licenses for commercial vessels owned by alien powers. Members raised some questions about spring protections and boating access, and one public witness urged further review of the spring-zone language. The committee then favorably reported SB 880, designating the American flamingo as state bird and the Florida scrub jay as state songbird, after testimony supporting both birds as symbols of Florida’s identity and conservation values. Several other measures were heard and passed. SB 830, dealing with lost or abandoned migrant vessels and aligning with House language, was amended and reported favorably. SB 1326, which requires local plans to maintain hurricane evacuation clearance times and allocates building permits in Monroe County and nearby municipalities, was amended to spread allocations over at least 10 years and then passed. SB 490, expanding off-duty concealed carry eligibility to correctional officers and correctional probation officers and exempting certain public safety personnel from the waiting period for rifles and shotguns, was reported favorably after support from the Florida PBA. SB 26, an uncontested claim bill for injuries from a 2022 crash, also passed, with one member suggesting future consideration of health insurance coverage for victims in similar cases. The committee additionally approved SB 98 on securities regulation and fingerprinting requirements, SB 1212 on firefighter health and safety, SB 196 on labeling food and cosmetics that contain vaccine materials or certain chemicals, SB 1300 restricting oil and gas drilling structures in sensitive areas, SB 1612 on financial institution assessment and stock offering timelines, and SB 492 on mitigation banking and wetland conservation easements. SB 1212 drew strong support from firefighters, while SB 492 drew both support and opposition from environmental and development interests, with concerns raised about wetland function, credit release timing, and conservation easement releases. Finally, the committee unanimously recommended confirmation of 12 appointees to water management district governing boards and adjourned after members recorded individual votes on selected bills.

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• epidemic, this bill creates an opportunity to ensure uniform data collection to better be able to track
• It clarifies how to track in-school and out-of-school suspensions, and it requires the State Board of
• It also requires schools to designate locations within the school building where students can use their
• He was running a track race. He might have been nine or 10 years old.

Summary: The Education and Employment Committee met with a quorum and took up seven bills, all of which were reported favorably. First, HB 1367 on school attendance was presented as a response to rising chronic absenteeism; it would standardize attendance definitions and reporting statewide, and it passed 18-0 after supportive testimony from education and business groups. HB 949 would prohibit student use of wireless devices during the school day, while allowing district policies for designated use areas and existing medical/disability exceptions; members discussed classroom disruption, bullying, public safety, and accommodations, and the bill passed favorably. The committee also approved PCS for CS for HB 1135, requiring ECGs for student athletes in grades 9-12, with exemptions for religious objections and provisions on cost, liability, and medical clearance; the bill drew extensive emotional testimony from parents and advocates who described children lost to sudden cardiac arrest and was reported favorably after unanimous support. Members then approved CS for CS for HB 597 on diabetes management in schools, which would allow schools to keep glucagon pens and authorize trained personnel to administer them in emergencies; an amendment clarified charter schools are included as public schools. HB 1309 on reading interventions and instruction would expand reading support and training for grades 4-12 and require district reading plans to include evidence-based interventions; it also passed without opposition. CS for HB 981 on athlete representation and compensation would cap certain NIL agent fees, allow some high school athletes to earn NIL compensation, and create a framework for registered advisors; members raised concerns about predatory practices and coach involvement, but the bill passed favorably after amendment. Finally, HB 1111 would eliminate the certificate of completion option for students who do not meet graduation requirements, with the sponsor arguing it would better motivate students to earn a standard diploma and improve postsecondary and workforce opportunities. Members discussed the need for stronger supports to help students meet graduation standards, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee adjourned after completing all agenda items.

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• So for folks that want to tune in and track that, I'd encourage you.
• So for folks that want to tune in and track that, I'd encourage you.
• So for folks that want to tune in and track that, I'd encourage you.
• From 2018 to 2023, Minnesota-based companies invested in 355 projects located outside of the state.

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