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• :14.920> guidance<00:48:15.480> through<00:48:15.680> the Pat's passion for teaching
• 00:48:48.280> Pat's<00:48:48.720> passion<00:48:49.000> for<00:48:49.200> teaching
• pandemic Pat's passion for teaching pandemic Pat's passion for teaching classes<00:48:50.000>
• as directed by the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration, be authorized by the House, effective

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present, then proceeded to elect a Speaker. Republicans nominated Lisa Demuth and Democrats nominated Melissa Hortman, with multiple members seconding each nomination and praising the candidates’ leadership, bipartisanship, and ability to guide a closely divided chamber. After roll call, Representative Demuth received 67 votes to Representative Hortman’s 65 and was declared duly elected Speaker of the Minnesota House for the 2025-2026 session. After taking the oath of office from Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, Speaker Demuth delivered remarks emphasizing gratitude, integrity, respect, accountability, and a commitment to real results, safer communities, strong schools, economic opportunity, and open collaboration with all members. She said her door would remain open to both parties and urged the House to focus on shared purpose and Minnesota’s future. The House then took up a resolution adopting temporary rules for the 94th session, based on the prior session’s rules and modified by the House organization agreement dated February 6, 2025. Members speaking in support said the agreement reflected bipartisan negotiation, preserved power sharing, protected committee and conference committee balance, and would help the House address issues such as affordable housing, health care, and child care. The temporary rules were adopted by a roll call vote of 130 ayes and 2 nays. Finally, the House began the election of the chief clerk. Representative Robbins nominated Patrick Duffy Murphy, highlighting his long service to the House, his role as parliamentary adviser, and his work supporting continuity and remote proceedings during the pandemic. The transcript cuts off during the nomination and does not include the final vote on chief clerk.

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• One is that we teach through losses. We learn a lot that way.
• new mechanism in our state to bring experienced industry professionals directly into classrooms to teach
• You couldn't afford to pay them to come and teach at the racer. Thank you. Chair, thanks the lady.
• Just making sure that the holder of a workforce teaching certificate shall not be personally liable for
• <00:38:59.720> With certified to teach career tech. With certified to teach career tech.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• And so that has a real effect on you in terms of your humanity, since you referenced it.
• These are the people that change and have huge effects on people's lives directly.
• These are the people that change and have huge effects on people's lives directly.
• I teach the law enforcement in our community. I teach around the state for fellow prosecutors.
• I teach at high schools in state government and student government classes.

Keywords: House Committee Room C, General Assembly Building, 976, house, all

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• they're apprised through that certification and preparation of what current law is, of how they can teach
• certification and reaching the full potential that they have in their heart and in their mind to go into teaching
• And many times in the past, they just haven't... ...to go into teaching.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Education K-16 met to consider House Bill 2, the major public education and school finance bill. The committee first reconsidered and withdrew the prior committee substitute, then took up a new substitute. Senator Creighton explained several changes, including a correction to the golden penny yield weight, an increase in the special education evaluation incentive cap from $45 million to $67 million, timing changes to avoid a funding gap for Bluebonnet curriculum training grants, narrowed language affecting educator preparation providers, added facility-usage reporting language, incorporation of bilingual allotment language from Senate Bill 2185, removal of the $20 million annual cap on JROTC funding, and a prevailing-clause provision to make HB 2 controlling over conflicting measures. Members generally praised the bill’s historic funding level but raised concerns about details and future floor debate. Senator Menendez said he appreciated the special education, safety, and teacher pay funding but was not ready to fully support the bill because of inflationary pressures, facilities funding, and district-specific impacts, and indicated he might vote present. Senator Parker strongly supported the bill, emphasizing historic funding, teacher pay, and the need to continue refining the package. Senator Witt also said he would vote present while seeking more refinement, especially on certification issues for public and charter schools. Senator Bettencourt highlighted the bill’s scale, including about $8 billion in new funding and $1.3 billion for special education, while Senator Hinojosa asked for more flexibility in the basic allotment and thanked the author for bilingual education and coastal-area provisions. The committee then adopted the new committee substitute and voted to report HB 2 favorably to the full Senate. The motion passed 9 ayes and 2 present not voting, with the bill reported as committee substitute do pass and be printed.

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• That program also demonstrates its effectiveness in reducing reincarceration.
• their programs uh to be effective their programs uh to be effective parents<00:57:24.880> for
• <00:57:43.559> in<00:57:43.760> reducing Effectiveness in reducing Effectiveness in reducing
• all that: ask yourself, am I efficient and am I effective?
• this room and uh but again Effectiveness this room and uh but again Effectiveness and<01:16:21.920

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• This decision reaffirms Section 2 as a powerful legal tool to evaluate the effects, not merely the intent
• House Bill 4 effectively dismantles that district.
• The outcome, the net effect, is intentional discrimination.
• A nationwide gerrymandering war is now in effect. Because of us, right?
• Advocate effectively for health care, infrastructure, housing, and every single basic need.

Bills: SB 2, SB 5, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB4, HB1, HB3, HB20, HB22, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, HB4, SB2, SB5

Keywords: disaster relief, flood preparedness, emergency funding, local government support, meteorological forecasting, school assessment, public education, accountability, transparency, education standards, STAAR, Texas Education Agency, TEA, public school accountability, school ratings, A-F ratings, assessment reform, student testing, benchmark tests, interim assessments

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• So legally instituting systems that actually result in a chilling effect for girls to play sports is
• This is just not doing it, and what an incredibly chilling effect this has on girls who don't know if
• So again, it's having the opposite effect.
• But sports can only teach those lessons if kids have a fair opportunity to compete. bill um thank you
• But sports can only teach those lessons if kids have a fair opportunity to compete.

Bills: HF1233

Keywords: women's athletics, gender, sports competition, Human Rights Act, biological sex, participation limits, 1183, house

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• <00:39:18.720> the Arab, where Kendall teaches the Arab, where Kendall teaches the children's
• This act shall become effective immediately.
• <01:39:48.080> teamwork, rebounding, effective teamwork, rebounding, effective teamwork, reflecting
• 2026, and section two of this act, which I just read, shall become effective immediately.
• <02:25:07.439> effective read shall become effectively effective read shall become effectively

Keywords: 920, all

Summary: The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a roll call establishing a quorum. Senators then adopted the prior day’s journal and excused absent members. A lengthy point of personal privilege followed, in which Senator Smith criticized the prior day’s handling of the special order calendar and argued that minority-party senators were denied the chance to speak, while Senator Coleman said Senate Bill 318 had been removed from the calendar and tied that to Child Abuse Prevention Month; she also noted Senate Bill 43, which would provide civil recourse for child sex assault survivors, had not advanced. The presiding officer also recognized guests in the gallery, including staff from the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. The Senate then received multiple committee reports, largely on a unanimous or near-unanimous basis. Finance and Taxation Education reported favorably on House Bills 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 565, 517, and 98, and Senate Bill 380, with some substitutes or amendments; Finance and Taxation General Fund reported Senate Bill 378 favorably; County and Municipal Government reported House Bills 568, 499, and 433; Education Policy reported House Bills 8 and 380; Banking and Insurance reported House Bill 545; Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development reported House Bill 586 with two nays; Healthcare reported House Bills 533 and 605; Tourism and Marketing reported House Bills 513 and 626 and Senate Bill 357; and local legislation committees reported several Mobile County and Madison County bills, including Senate Bill 379 relating to Madison County and various House bills, all advancing to the next legislative day. In motions and resolutions, the Senate agreed to allow committee reports to be received at any time during the day. Several resolutions were introduced and referred to the Rules Committee, including Senate Joint Resolution 100 honoring Presley Skelton, SJR 101 commending Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, SJR 102 establishing the Alabama Forest Products Retention and Pulp and Paper Mill Stability Study Commission, SJR 103 mourning Norman Wendell Arnold, and SJR 104 designating Alabama as the river state. The chamber also suspended the rules to take up Senate Joint Resolution 105, commending Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth for his service; the resolution included a lengthy recitation of his background and accomplishments and was read for immediate consideration with all senators added as sponsors.

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• that are designed specifically by grade level for students K through 12, and they are designed to teach
• so yes Senator Apprentice thank teach so yes Senator Apprentice thank you<01:32:53.840> thank
• They're going to use it when they go into the workforce, and we remove the opportunity to teach them
• The issue is not for the kids to sit there with the cell phones, but the teachers is trying to teach,
• <01:41:37.880> them we remove the opportunity to teach them we remove the opportunity to teach

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• You know, that's what they teach in economics courses, and it plays out in real life.
• <00:14:12.160> in<00:14:12.399> the know, that's what they teach in the know, that's
• what they teach in the economics<00:14:12.959> courses<00:14:13.279> and<00:14:13.600>
• I would not say that they're more effective, those alternate technologies that you described. Okay.
• wouldn't say that they're more effective wouldn't say that they're more effective those<00:26:32.720

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• because of the risk of birth defect. because of the risk of birth defect. effects.<00:03:23.040>
• Um, this arises from research effects.
• They're pretty effective. You can do this in Maine.
• I teach CPR, first aid, so I know about health and safety.
• I teach CPR first aid, so I background.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• , but also it's amendment to that effect, but also it's probably<00:27:37.600> more<00:27:37.960
• Uh, it's my understanding the effective date for that provision is in January, not June.
• <00:30:30.960> date it's my understanding the effective date it's my understanding the effective
• <01:31:37.600> of<01:31:37.720> video program to assess the effect of video program
• Now, we'll go to the A6. and the and the effective<01:33:48.240> um effective um effective um

Bills: HF4277, HF3819, HF3489, HF4408, HF3901, HF4316

Keywords: child care, child care center, day care, licensed child care, video security cameras, surveillance, security cameras, maltreatment, child abuse, child safety, public and shared areas, camera mandate, child care assistance program, CCAP, Great Start Compensation Support, early learning scholarships, licensed provider, Minnesota Statutes 142B.68, Harvey's Law, privacy

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• On page one, it changes it from an emergency bill and makes the effective date October 1.
• <00:42:02.560> Um<00:42:03.080> we<00:42:03.280> also effective date October
• Um we also effective date October 1.
• Um, we're essentially going to try and teach immigration law to people that are trying to save lives
• ,<02:23:51.960> and significant time training, teaching, and significant time training, teaching

Keywords: House streaming session for Friday, April 10, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House met with 122 members present, heard the journal read, and proceeded through a long series of Senate messages, concurrence motions, and third-reading votes on a wide range of bills. Early business included conference committee appointments on Senate Bill 159 (Emergency Medical Services Vehicles and Ambulances, Required Supplies), Senate Bill 514 (Third Degree Assault), and Senate Bill 866 (Chain Restaurants, disclosure of sodium and added sugars), along with several other bills where the House declined to recede from its amendments and named conferees. The chamber also adopted concurrence on House Bill 1181 (children in out-of-home placement) and House Bill 1219 (climate change/homeowners insurance study), and adopted a favorable committee report on House Bill 1602 (no-cost cancer screening for volunteer firefighters), which was amended to add sponsors, make technical changes, and include retired volunteer firefighters before being ordered printed for third reading. The House then took up a Rules Committee consent calendar and moved a batch of bills to the appropriate committees. On third reading, it passed House Bill 1028 (Caroline County Board of Education compensation increase) and House Bill 1599 (Choptank River Enhancement Program and Maryland Seafood Industry Financial Assistance Fund) by constitutional majorities. It also rejected Senate amendments on House Bill 107 (Intelligent Speed Assistance System Pilot Program), House Bill 153 (residential rental apartments air conditioning requirement), House Bill 1063 (hunting management), and House Bill 1067 (lead and lead-based ammunition phase out), appointing conference committees in each case. House Bill 717 (Baltimore City raffles for organizations affiliated with professional baseball and football teams) and House Bill 892 (cemeteries, actions for sale/transfer/alternate use) also had Senate amendments rejected. The chamber then passed a series of Senate bills on third reading, including Senate Bill 309 (precious metal bullion or coins sales tax exemption), 523 (vernal pools identification), 742 (Maryland Protecting People with Disabilities Act), 141 (election misinformation/disinformation and deep fakes), 298 (Maryland Capital Police statewide jurisdiction), 515 (Health Services Cost Review Commission rate setting), 638 (Maryland Heritage Areas funding and grants), 28 (state employee arbitration reform), 72 (Baltimore County off-premises alcohol sales), 361 (Baltimore City alcoholic beverages license extension), 414 (Anne Arundel County nonprofit swim club license), 601 (cybersecurity standards), 305 (incarcerated individual training and reentry grant fund extension), 331 (retired law enforcement handgun permit renewal), 516 (protective body armor requirements and reporting), 651 (transfer-on-death deed establishment), 865 (private passenger automobile insurance work group), 933 (temporary appointment to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities), 261 (money transmission act definition changes), and 823 (Parole Commission selection committee changes). Most passed with little or no debate; Senate Bill 523 drew opposition from a delegate who warned that identifying vernal pools could lead to future regulation and land-use restrictions, while Senate Bill 823 prompted questions about victims’ rights and whether state’s attorneys remained opposed, with the floor leader saying the bill added a victims’ rights advocate to the selection committee and that opposition had been limited to written testimony. Several members later changed votes on Senate Bill 638 and Senate Bill 865 before the House moved on.

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• Teaching individuals and students in schools how to recognize cardiac arrest and immediately begin chest
• <00:05:18.240> Teaching<00:05:18.560> individuals<00:05:19.120> and hands-only
• Teaching individuals and hands-only CPR.
• Teaching individuals and students<00:05:19.480> in<00:05:19.600> schools<00:05:19.960><
• Going back to the fact that in junior guards, they teach you to be the first responders on land and sea

Bills: HCR92, HCR46, HCR172, HCR147, HCR112, HCR100, HR84, HR42, HR139, HR104, HR92

Keywords: automated external defibrillator, AED, cardiac arrest, state buildings, health education, public health, lifeguards, first responders, public safety, ocean safety, emergency response, Hawaii, workers' compensation, auditor, procurement audit, compliance, Department of Human Resources Development, transparency, accountability, medical care

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• They provide for an effective date of July 1, 2027, for security personnel provisions.
• Doesn't switch to tobacco, just stays on vape for 30 years, what that effect may be.
• Are we going to ensure that this training teaches our officers how to engage?
• Thus, the amendment talks about taking effect July 1, 2028.
• Therefore, after her bill takes effect, all those numbers are in place.

Bills: HB302, HB371, HB597, HB1097, HB1190, SB34, SB164, SB208, SB232, SB317, SB357, SB421, SB510

Keywords: legal representation, attorney general, elected officials, defense, legislative acts, judicial review, judiciary, election, judges, 19th Judicial District Court, East Baton Rouge, precincts, coroner, retention, body, mortuary, investigation, missing persons, Amber Alert, Endangered Missing Child Advisory

Summary: The committee met with a quorum and heard a series of Senate and House bills, mostly dealing with courts, veterans, public safety, and licensing. Early actions included favorable reports on SB 317, which adds the House and Senate Military and Veterans Affairs committee chairs to the Louisiana Military Advisory Council, and SB 357, which updates court administration and appellate e-case management provisions, cleans up outdated language, and revises reimbursement and security rules. SB 232, funding the judges’ supplemental compensation fund, was amended and reported favorably, and SB 421, modernizing electronic records terminology and safeguards, was also reported favorably. Several House bills were voluntarily deferred, including HB 1190, HB 1097, and later HB 374-1. The committee then took up SB 208 on veterans’ services, which was presented as a response to the earlier court ruling striking down Act 479. The bill seeks to regulate unaccredited “claim shark” businesses that charge veterans for disability-claim assistance, while exempting federally regulated accredited agents. Testimony from the Department of Veterans Affairs supported the bill as a way to protect veterans from predatory practices, while an opposing witness argued the issue is preempted by federal law and should be left to Congress or the pending Fifth Circuit appeal. Despite the objection, the bill was reported favorably. Members also advanced SB 510, which would restrict access to certain licensed establishments that sell hemp-based intoxicating products, especially bar-like venues where minors can currently enter; Alcohol and Tobacco Control explained the bill’s purpose and scope. HB 302, by Representative Chasson, was discussed as a measure to prohibit vape sales near schools, with testimony from public health and ATC witnesses noting the need to align the bill with existing licensing and local-ordinance authority; the committee moved it favorably after discussion. Finally, SB 34, creating “Brian’s Call” emergency alerts for missing children and adults with developmental disabilities, drew extensive emotional testimony from families and disability advocates and was reported favorably, as was SB 164, which adds public works employees to the definition of first responders. The committee adjourned after reporting HB 597, which restructures judicial compensation rules and eliminates the commission after a delayed effective date, and after deferring HB 374-1.

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• legalized gambling and then this effect legalized gambling and then this effect is<00:40:31.720>
• Yeah, so these are again average effects for the population.
• Yeah, so these are again average effects for the population.
• Yeah, so these are again average effects for the population.
• to get kind of a causal treatment effect to get kind of a causal treatment effect um<00:54:28.839

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• ,<00:17:10.480> Bernard scholarship, and his teaching, Bernard scholarship, and his teaching
• of, "Let me something to the effect of, "Let me teach<00:40:58.480> you<00:40:58.720> how<
• The straight of hormuse is effectively The straight of hormuse is effectively closed.<04:28:58.319
• Signed, 5B of rule 10 effective today.
• Signed sincerely, Mike effective today.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• My expertise, research, and teaching focuses on the Second Amendment and the law of firearms.
• once been a parent of school-aged children, have made me unable to understand why we must continue to teach
• Research shows that secure storage is one of the most effective ways to reduce the firearms that are
• <00:23:36.080> of<00:23:36.080> the<00:23:36.240> most<00:23:36.400> effective
• storage is one of the most effective storage is one of the most effective ways<00:23:37.039>

Keywords: 1183, house

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• and relocates the council to Florida Memorial University, which would allow the council to be more effective
• in-depth research, evaluate data-driven policies, and implement community-driven solutions more effectively
• If someone has a concern about a law that we put into effect, they can go to the courts and attempt to
• together in this space, from the opioid problems to the fentanyl problems to the behavioral health teaching
• tell you that from a standpoint of if you're trying to sue a bad officer for something they did,... effect

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including guests from Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Clay County, and a moment of silence for Pope Francis. Members then moved to the special order calendar after adopting a motion to reconsider the earlier failed vote on CS/SB 1080, which was temporarily postponed. The chamber also temporarily postponed several bills during the day, including measures on social media use by minors, veterans’ nursing homes, Parkinson’s disease, mental health and substance use disorders, education, educator preparation, benefits for certain officers injured in the line of duty, Brownfields, and school social workers. The Senate passed a series of bills with little or no opposition, often substituting House companions for Senate bills. These included expedited DNA testing grants for law enforcement; additional aggravating factors in capital felony sentencing; fertility preservation coverage for cancer patients; commuter rail indemnification; disposition of migrant vessels; specialty license plates; an Alzheimer’s and dementia awareness campaign; relocation of the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to Florida Memorial University; charter school changes; registration rules for sexual predators and offenders; assault and battery penalties for utility workers; juvenile justice revisions; reporting of student mental health outcomes; foster home licensure transfers; water access facilities and boating-related funding; Florida Virtual School changes; school readiness program improvements; protections against lewd sexual images of children; age-related criminal offense provisions; tampering with electronic monitoring devices; certified recovery residences; and codification of the FSU Election Law Center. Most of these bills passed overwhelmingly, though the charter school bill and the aggravating factors bill drew more divided votes. One of the most debated measures was SB 820, codifying the Office of Faith and Community. Senator Polsky offered an amendment to bar political activity by office employees while on duty and using government resources, citing alleged election-related emails and concerns about mixing government and religious influence. Supporters argued the amendment was needed as a guardrail; opponents said existing law already covered the conduct and that the amendment could be confusing or overly broad. The amendment failed 13-23, and the underlying bill passed 27-9 after extended debate about faith, politics, and the office’s role. Another notable debate involved SB 954 on certified recovery residences, where senators emphasized the need for stable housing in addiction recovery and the bill passed unanimously after supportive remarks from members who had personal experience with recovery. The Senate also passed SB 674 on bonuses for county tax collector and property appraiser employees after questions about safeguards and the purpose of the bonuses.

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• of Medicine–Phoenix and serves as clinical faculty at the Phoenix VA, where he treats patients and teaches
• This bill will harm Arizona because water fluoridation is a safe and cost-effective solution that protects
• Thank you. ...and cost-effective solution that protects the health of individuals and the entire community
• weight of scientific, peer-reviewed evidence shows that fluoridating water, yes, it's safe and it's effective

Keywords: 1182, all