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• There is also a bipartisan federal effort to offer this training.
• , a program that trains local cosmetologists on how to identify signs of domestic violence.
• And when professionals are trained to respond, lives change.
• like an extensive kind of training.
• I'm an accounting professor and program chair.

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• So it's a program that's been established for a number of years.
• And then we also go out and we provide training to others.
• So that is part of our training and travel budget.
• And then on top of that, there is a program called IPAWS.
• So it's a very, very good program. So it's a very, very good program.

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Summary: The committee met to hear the Attorney General’s budget and related agency presentations. Legislative Council first reviewed the compliance with legislative intent report and the base budget worksheet, highlighting current and ongoing appropriations, FTE changes, one-time funding items, continuing appropriations, and major special and federal funds. Members asked about items such as the Missing Indigenous People Grant Fund, the Internet Crimes Investigation Fund, and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit grant funding, and staff explained the funding sources and status of those programs. Assistant Attorney General Clare Ness then outlined the Attorney General’s office structure, staffing, and budget pressures. She emphasized the office’s broad statutory duties, the value of its legal and investigative work for state and local governments, and concerns about attorney salary competitiveness, the new and vacant FTE pool, and the impact of the 3% operating budget reduction on BCI, IT, and the crime lab. Members also discussed AG opinions, boards and commissions training, and the office’s litigation and settlement recoveries. Ness and committee members raised the possibility of broader attorney salary benchmarking across state government. The crime lab director described severe space and infrastructure constraints, including overcrowding, shared workspaces, glycol leaks, air handling limits, and aging fire and burglar alarm systems. She said the 2024 study projected a much larger facility would be needed and that a new building on the current health department site would best address the lab’s needs. She also reported that backlogs have improved significantly in DNA, drug, fingerprint, and firearms work, though toxicology had a recent delay after an air compressor failure. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit director described the unit’s fraud, abuse, and neglect work, noted federal-state funding and recent federal scrutiny, and said the unit needs more staff. The gaming division reviewed charitable gaming growth, e-tabs, trust accounts, and compliance issues, while BCI covered its caseload, cybercrime and child sexual abuse material investigations, the missing indigenous person task force, and the use of lottery funds for drug task forces. No formal votes or budget actions were taken during the meeting.

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• The language allows the training board to waive some or all of the basic training requirements for some
• Could you specify which portions of basic training?
• maybe 30 minutes to an hour in firearms training.
• Is the training the same for those two? Same.
• The training is different.

Keywords: 964, all

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• On healthy rivers and landscape program, there's Healthy Rivers and Landscape Program, there's been a
• , cap-and-invest program has.
• The museum provides law enforcement training, teacher training, and a resource to all the schools.
• The museum provides law enforcement training, teachers training, teachers.
• The museum provides law enforcement training, teacher training, a resource to all the schools.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• On the train, you just pull the train off. That way, more trains can go, and this train unloads.
• On the train, you just pull the train off. That way, more trains can go, and this train unloads.
• And the train, a boxcar, so to speak, can be transferred from a train to a truck.
• A workforce training.
• Restoring Our Communities is a program that's directed at infill, and so that program purchases homes

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• We've developed a brand new canine training program to help detect screwworm injuries in cattle.
• The next training is a one-day training scheduled for December 15 in San Antonio, Texas.
• So in training the extension agents, what are y'all using to train them?
• So you train AgriLife Extension agents and you're training others.
• We do regular update trainings.

Summary: The joint hearing focused on preparedness for the New World screwworm threat and brought together the House Committees on Culture, Recreation, and Tourism and Agriculture and Livestock. USDA officials, Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, and Texas Animal Health Commission leadership described the pest as a serious risk to livestock, wildlife, rural economies, and beef prices, and emphasized coordination among federal, state, industry, and Mexican partners. Witnesses repeatedly stressed that Texas is currently seeing no confirmed U.S. detections, but that recent confirmed cases in northern Mexico, including Nuevo León, remain a concern because of their proximity to the border. USDA testimony outlined current surveillance and response efforts, including more than 120 screw worm-specific traps along the Texas border and neighboring states, thousands of additional dual-purpose traps, wildlife inspections, weekly coordination with Mexico’s Senasica, and a new USDA New World Screwworm Directorate. Officials said the existing Panama sterile fly facility is maxed out at about 100 million flies per week, while a dispersal facility in Tampico is helping move flies farther north in Mexico. They also described plans for a retrofitted sterile fly facility in Metapa, Mexico, expected to come online in 2026, and a new domestic production facility at Moore Air Base, with phase one targeted for late 2026 or early 2027 and phase two adding substantially more capacity later. Members pressed USDA on timelines, production capacity, the reliability of Mexican reporting, the risk from wildlife, and whether modular or mobile facilities could be deployed faster. USDA said it is also exploring innovative technologies, including a genetically engineered sterile male fly, but that such tools still require EPA review and field validation. Commissioner Miller highlighted Texas biosecurity efforts, five permanent inspection stations, cooperation with FDA and EPA on treatments such as Exzolt, and other pest issues affecting Texas agriculture. He also noted research into fly bait and private-sector efforts to speed sterile fly production. Texas Animal Health Commission officials described extensive state preparedness work, including weekly coordination calls, field response trainings, outreach to producers and veterinarians, and a Texas Screwworm Response Team. They said Texas has trained more than 100 inspectors and other personnel, with additional trainings planned, and that the state is expanding its cattle fever tick rider program. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the hearing; the main action was the exchange of testimony and questions about readiness, surveillance, and facility timelines.

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• Positive Train Control is a safety overlay that can help the engineer manage their train.
• The forces in a train are tremendous, and placing a train in emergency, particularly when it won't actually
• When you place a train in an emergency, and the train is not in the right posture, it makes it prone
• They adjust the work program every year, and I don't...
• those programs?

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• Of course, we're going to do that by ending the train bond.
• Of course, we're going to do that by ending the train bond.
• So if you like a program or hate a program, it shouldn't matter. The program should still function.
• <00:08:17.280> it<00:08:17.400> shouldn't a program or hate a program it shouldn't
• a program or hate a program it shouldn't matter<00:08:18.680> the<00:08:18.879> program

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Amador's LEAP program professionals and specialists and train our networks on that.
• training... ...living with them, help train the family members, the LEAP training, and go side by side
• Schedule program.
• or a TK program, or where there is a preschool program on campus, we are supporting those programs as
• And these are not just programs. They are not social media programs.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• ABE programs may be approved for up to six years under this change.
• Current statute limits ABE program approval to only up to five years.
• available that require a six-year program term.
• Is a clarification around the READ Act training and professional development statutes.
• This can be for programs administered by the Ministry of Health.

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• As an initial basic peer support training and additional training at least quarterly.
• The program indicated the program costs are currently being covered, so there's no additional fiscal
• The purpose of the bill is to rename the batterer intervention program as an abuse intervention program
• The purpose of the bill is to rename the batterer intervention program as an abuse intervention program
• training is given.

Keywords: 994, senate, all

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• by an approved training program to provide or administer this, and to be able to do this without fear
• by an approved training program to provide or administer this, and to be able to do this without fear
• benefit from this program, we can look to the existing loan repayment program by the Massachusetts Department
• You know, less-trained surgical techs, which I am a surgical tech too, but they don't have that training
• You know, less-trained surgical techs, which I am a surgical tech too, but they don't have that training

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Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on a wide range of bills focused on environmental health, disease prevention, and access to care. Major topics included restricting polystyrene use, creating a pancreatic cancer awareness and early-detection initiative, improving indoor air quality through a task force and new regulations, expanding access to epinephrine in public places, improving access to health care for people with long COVID, creating an OBGYN loan repayment program for underserved areas, expanding access to hygiene products, modernizing licensure for dietitians and nutritionists, updating school postural screening requirements, and restricting harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements. Several legislators also testified in support of their own bills, including measures on menstrual product access and ingredient disclosure, and surgical smoke protections. Testimony on the polystyrene bill emphasized local municipal bans and the need to reduce plastic pollution. Pancreatic cancer advocates and patients described the disease’s low survival rate, the difficulty of early diagnosis, and the need for an awareness campaign and implementation of commission recommendations. Indoor air quality supporters from environmental justice groups, public health organizations, and residents described asthma, mold, pollution, and the need for a task force with technical expertise; some witnesses urged adding remediation professionals to the task force. On epinephrine access, family members of a man who died after a bee sting and an allergy organization stressed that anaphylaxis can be sudden and fatal and that stock epinephrine in public venues could save lives. Long COVID advocates said the condition affects hundreds of thousands of residents and called for better surveillance and access to care, with a request to include MECFS in the bills’ scope. Other testimony focused on workforce and equity issues. Supporters of the OBGYN loan repayment bill said it would help address maternal health disparities and provider shortages, especially in rural and underserved communities. Hope and Comfort described widespread hygiene insecurity and a long waiting list for basic products, urging a task force to study statewide solutions. Dietitians and nutritionists supported modernization of licensure to clarify standards for medical nutrition therapy while allowing broader wellness counseling. School nurses backed reducing mandatory postural screenings, arguing the current law is not evidence-based, is not reimbursed by MassHealth, and takes time from other student health needs. On the supplement bill, the industry trade group opposed restrictions as overbroad and burdensome, while a public health expert cited research linking weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to serious harms and urged passage. The committee also heard support for menstrual product access and surgical smoke protections, with legislators and advocates describing those bills as longstanding priorities.

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• This bill does not add additional training hours.
• The bill requires employers to train...
• California's already mandated workplace harassment training.
• And not only do employers have to give the training to employees, but they need to get training on how
• harassment trainings that take place right now.

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• > one establishment date of the program by one establishment date of the program by one year<00
• <00:09:36.240> in these ideas for collection programs in these ideas for collection programs
• the challenges to the existing program the challenges to the existing program thank<00:31:25.559
• in Minnesota to fund the program.
• contract uh with the stewardship program contract uh with the stewardship program or<01:03:05.520

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• Counter Drug program, as well as our you challenge programs in support of our Florida citizens.
• center, which means a training flight which has the capability to train and house up to a brigade size
• to do the collective training at level in scale at a great cost and loss of training time because of
• It's a dual purpose facility, meaning will use it for training, supporting all that federal training
• We have some great programs like the G program that we're helped with. So those programs help us.

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• It also requires the pilot program to include training, resources, and instruction on exploitation, grooming
• Is it a mandatory program?
• Is it a mandatory program?
• Our students in satellite programs never step on a centralized program.
• , or I just say satellite programs, career technical education programs.

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• programs that actually work.
• , but often those programs were built without tribal input, resulting in barriers to access and programs
• He now wants to write the hate speech training.
• We also have workplace violence training.
• workplace violence training.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• program outcomes.
• Decisions about the social equity program moving forward.
• They provide training and guidance.
• Programs and services include Things like education, vocational training, substance abuse treatment,
• appropriate and equitable services and programs.

Summary: At the May 14, 2025 JLARC meeting, members approved the January 9 minutes and adopted the 2025–27 biennial work plan with a minor typo correction. Staff reviewed the new work plan studies, including a drug take-back program fee/expenditure review due in December 2025 and a state energy performance standard compliance review due in June 2027, and noted JLARC’s recent session activity, including several bills passed related to JLARC work and recommendations. The committee then heard a preliminary cannabis market study showing Washington businesses likely produced two to three times more cannabis than retailers sold in 2023. Staff and RAND said LCB’s data systems are incomplete and unreliable, limiting regulation, tax verification, and diversion tracking; they recommended that LCB submit a plan by year-end for collecting accurate data by the end of 2026. Members and LCB discussed the long timeline for a new traceability system, the causes of missing sales and weight data, overproduction, diversion, and the social equity program’s effect on producer licenses. JLARC also presented a preliminary hospital oversight report concluding that the Department of Health is late on many hospital inspections, does not verify third-party inspection standards, does not review adverse health event correction plans, and could make hospital data more accessible. The committee discussed fee funding, language access, and inspection timing, and DOH said it would work on a strategic plan and continue coordinating with JLARC. Members also heard a preliminary report on the public records survivor exemption, which found agencies are using it but need more guidance; JLARC recommended keeping the exemption and having the Attorney General provide additional training. Finally, the committee approved the DDA processes and staffing final report for distribution, which recommended performance metrics, stronger data quality controls, and workforce planning; DDA concurred. JLARC also introduced proposed study questions for a future DCYF juvenile rehabilitation review focused on safety, security, programs, staffing, education, and contraband, and the meeting adjourned after members asked about scope and facility conditions.

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• driving, whatever we train them in.
• So, um, right now we provide certain programming.
• conduct biannual program evaluations and recommend changes to programs when needed.
• And another critical issue the bill addresses is the MRIS program, especially around board training,
• MRIS training, and program guidance and reporting requirements.

Bills: HB153

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• , consider maybe sending a member of the program through the committee, through the program every year
• This program will build that alignment in a practical and informed way.
• This program wasn't developed in a vacuum.
• So I think it's a great program.
• So I think it's a great program.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Welfare met on May 6, 2026, with five members present and adopted the April 28 minutes. The committee first heard a presentation on the new Leadership Louisiana Health Fellows Program, a leadership and networking initiative focused on Louisiana health care challenges such as workforce shortages, rural access, chronic disease, and the economic impact of health care. Speakers described it as a cross-sector program intended to build informed leaders and support collaboration with health systems, insurers, providers, LDH, and the Louisiana Hospital Association. The committee then moved through a series of bills, generally adopting amendments and reporting measures favorably. SB 57, a nutrition/labeling bill, was amended to delay the effective date for the labeling provision until December 31, 2028, and was reported as amended. HB 62 increased membership of the Louisiana Women’s Policy and Research Commission and was reported as amended, and HB 193 adjusted membership rules for the Sickle Cell Commission foundations and was also reported as amended. HB 815 would allow financial institutions to receive death certificates to help close accounts and avoid problems with automatic payments and federal benefit clawbacks; it was reported favorably. SB 405, which had been heard earlier, was reworked to codify LDH’s new Ascend nursing home quality initiative, including short- and long-term quality oversight goals, stakeholder involvement, internal expertise, and reporting requirements; after reconsidering prior amendments, the committee adopted the new amendment and reported the bill as amended. The committee also advanced several health and human services bills. HB 222 would allow Medicaid dental coverage when needed to clear a patient for another covered medical procedure, and it was reported as amended after LDH said the cost could be absorbed. HB 420 expanded DCFS background-check requirements to cover staff with access to sensitive records, and HB 475 required verbal consent before AI is used to record or transcribe a medical visit; both were reported favorably. HB 246 updated membership of the Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board and the council for grandparents raising grandchildren, including replacing an inactive coalition seat with the state police, and was reported as amended. HB 486 joined Louisiana to the psychology interjurisdictional compact to expand access to psychologists through telepsychology and temporary practice across state lines, and HB 574 updated outdated board names in the Mental Health Advisory Services Board statute; both were reported favorably. Later, the committee heard HB 949, which would create a licensure framework for radiologist assistants to help address radiologist shortages and improve imaging access, especially in rural areas. Testimony emphasized that RAs work under radiologist supervision and would extend capacity without replacing physicians; the bill was reported favorably. HB 584 required foster children to be provided luggage or similar items instead of trash bags when moving placements, and also corrected language in the Foster Youth Bill of Rights from “privileges” back to “rights” while extending the bill’s applicability to children from birth to age 18; it was reported as amended. The committee also reported HB 1214, which restructures certain LDH state facilities into a more unified system, and HB 1092, a technical renaming/terminology cleanup bill, both favorably. Finally, HB 203 added members from Christus Health System and Xavier University’s College of Medicine to the uterine fibroids commission and was reported favorably before the committee adjourned.