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• And so we should think about standards. Other than move paper.
• And so we should think about standards.
• that it meets the standards of the city for eventual annexation.
• And review of development applications to the city to their standards.
• You know, similar things with sidewalks and street standards you heard about.

Keywords: 904, all

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• We have done stress testing on the operation already, and as of this first quarter we will be opening
• testing on the operation<00:57:34.000> already<00:57:35.000> and<00:57:35.440> as
• where you can get maybe closer standards where you can get maybe closer to<01:16:26.719> 15<01
• And we're talking about our kind of standard 20% fixed vacancy rate, and if there are ways to string
• <05:56:58.240> manager Cohen our measurement standards manager Cohen our measurement standards

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The House Finance Committee held an informational briefing with the University of Hawaiʻi, led by new President Wendy Hensel and Vice President for Budget and Finance Calbert Young. Hensel outlined the university system’s scope, student demographics, research activity, and campus missions, emphasizing four strategic priorities: serving Native Hawaiians and Hawaiʻi, student success, workforce development, and economic diversification through innovation and research. She highlighted the system’s enrollment, research funding, and the roles of Mānoa, Hilo, West Oʻahu, the community colleges, and specialized institutions such as JABSOM and the Cancer Center. Young then reviewed the budget request, focusing largely on making prior one-time appropriations permanent and supporting recurring needs. Items included funding for Mānoa athletics, the Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology, K-12 teacher education, Pamantasan Council support, Hilo programs, Windward’s mental health technician certificate, Maui’s practical nursing bridge program, and student support positions such as financial aid and admissions counselors. He also described workforce-related requests tied to nursing expansion at Mānoa and West Oʻahu, as well as facilities support at West Oʻahu. A major portion of the testimony addressed the university’s two Kakaʻako medical facilities. Young explained that declining tobacco settlement and cigarette tax revenues are no longer sufficient to cover debt service for JABSOM and the Cancer Center, so the governor’s budget includes general fund support to supplement those obligations. He also described a regents-approved request not included in the governor’s proposal: expanding the Hawaiʻi Promise financial aid program to the four-year campuses, estimated at about $11–12 million. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.

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• Is pharmacists to do strep testing now.
• So, are we going to be having pharmacy techs testing for strep?
• I mean, strep tasks and the actual test?
• <02:39:42.200> To living up to the standard she set.
• To living up to the standard she set.

Keywords: House streaming session for Monday, March 23, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House convened with 129 members present, read the prior journal, and then took up a series of third-reading bills. Early action included unanimous passage of HB 159 (mail theft), HB 412 (child support and driver’s license suspension), HB 912 (trap-neuter-return policies for community cats), HB 914 (Worcester County Board of License Commissioners membership), HB 558 (Prince George’s County wine festival licenses), HB 1400 (shellfish aquaculture penalties), and HB 1463 (Anne Arundel County Board of Education constituent services liaison). HB 582, dealing with Prince George’s County alcoholic beverages licenses and voter registration requirements, drew brief debate over whether it removed or retained a voter registration condition; it ultimately passed 119-12. HB 846, a property tax exemption for the Hagerstown multi-use sports and events facility, passed 126-7 after a system delay interrupted proceedings. Several bills prompted more substantive discussion. HB 1218, the Safe and Healthy Homes for All Act, drew opposing explanations over a proposed public registry of properties with housing violations; supporters said it would help identify serious housing problems and improve compliance, while opponents objected to publicly naming private properties based on administrative findings. It passed 99-36. HB 525, the Maryland Phone-Free Schools Act, passed 135-1 after questions about enforcement, with supporters comparing it to ordinary classroom discipline. HB 1483, allowing out-of-state clinical professional counseling and social work providers to use telehealth for continuity of care, passed 135-0 after clarification that it applies to people moving into Maryland and allows a six-month continuity period. HB 1504, the Pedestrian Safety Act, passed unanimously. Later, HB 664 (Cecil County alcoholic beverages license quota) passed 134-1, and HB 837 (cardiovascular pre-screening for student athletic activities) passed 133-2 after the sponsor explained that reporting requirements were removed for cost reasons and the bill now mainly requires screening questions. HB 925, regulating PFAS in sewage sludge applied to farmland, generated the most extended debate: one delegate argued the bill’s limits were too weak and lacked liability for industry actors, while supporters said it establishes the first limits, requires wastewater treatment plants to reduce PFAS, and leaves room for future tightening; it passed 130-7. HB 1370, authorizing a pilot stop-sign monitoring program in Rising Sun, passed 109-26. HB 649, expanding Maryland Commission on Civil Rights enforcement to higher education discrimination claims, passed 100-35 after supporters said current protections are stronger for K-12 than for colleges. The House also passed HB 512 on compensation for Anne Arundel County license commissioners and inspectors, and the session continued into HB 661 on commemorative months.

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• International standards.
• The Roosevelt test is once again before us, and Republicans are failing at that test.
• The Roosevelt test is once again before us, and Republicans are failing at that test.
• The Roosevelt test is once again before us, and Republicans are failing at that test.
• The Roosevelt test is once again before us, and Republicans are failing at that test.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• Neither statute listed here requires detectors or establishes minimum standards for spacing.
• <01:13:31.720> standards<01:13:32.240> for minimum minimum standard standards for minimum
• minimum standard standards for spacing.<01:13:33.520> Um<01:13:34.200> federal<01:13:34.560
• Industry standards are voluntary commitments to detector spacing.
• > voluntary Um industry standards are voluntary Um industry standards are voluntary commitments

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Scoring is based on well-defined standardized criteria to ensure fairness, consistency, and alignment
• <00:04:21.600> criteria<00:04:22.400> to<00:04:22.720> ensure standardized criteria
• to ensure standardized criteria to ensure fairness,<00:04:24.080> consistency,<00:04:25.520><
• The Kentucky Center requires electrical panel arc flash testing and panel replacements, including an
• It may also and regulatory standards.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:09 Approval of Minutes 00:01:10 Welcome New Members 00:01:26 Information Items 00:01:49 COT Special Report 00:02:38 Review of Executive Branch Agency Plans 00:07:41 A. Department of Military Affairs 00:08:07 B. Department of Veterans’ Affairs 00:20:34 C. Kentucky Infrastructure Authority 00:25:54 D. Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet 00:35:05 E. Transportation Cabinet 00:55:53, 958, all

Summary: The Capital Planning Advisory Board met with a quorum, approved the May 21 minutes, and welcomed a new executive branch member, Secretary Keith Jackson of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. The board also received two informational items: agency responses to prior questions and amendments made to capital plans after the last meeting. It then heard the Commonwealth Office of Technology’s report on executive branch IT capital project scoring, which reviewed 16 IT requests totaling about $330.5 million. COOT said projects were ranked through an independent panel using standardized criteria focused on feasibility, statewide alignment, readiness, impact, and risk; the CIO recommended moving an enterprise application and artificial intelligence inventory system from rank 11 to rank 4 because of its enterprise-wide impact and connection to Senate Bill 4. The Department of Military Affairs presented its capital plan, describing 43 million in projects for the current period and 13 projects totaling $65 million for 2026–2028, with most funding coming from federal sources and restricted agency funds and no general fund request in the latter period. Its projects included maintenance pool adjustments, a statewide Army master plan, the Somerset readiness center, Shelbyville and Ashland armories, a future home for the Kentucky Army National Guard band, and other facility upgrades. Members asked about the Somerset project’s cost growth and federal delay; the department said the project remains in conceptual design, is awaiting federal MILCON action, and would require a state match of about $9.8 million against $29.6 million federal funding if it is approved. Members also asked about staffing levels, and the department said state employee and Title 32 numbers have been relatively steady, while technician positions have declined. The Department of Veterans Affairs outlined seven projects for 2026–2028, led by a Radcliff Veterans Center HVAC replacement that needs an estimated additional $16 million to finish phase two after phase one was already funded. Other requests included a maintenance pool increase, renovations and exterior upgrades at Eastern and Western Kentucky veterans facilities, a cooling tower replacement at Thompson Hood, and parking lot and lighting improvements. The department said some projects were already in the six-year plan and that the Radcliff phase two could be bid in June 2026 if funded. Members confirmed that a columbarium wall project at Grayson is federally funded. The Kentucky Infrastructure Authority presented its six-year capital plan, citing more than $3 billion in loan commitments since 1988 and over $5 billion in supported infrastructure projects. KIA requested $298.439 million in the first biennium, including $27.742 million in state match for federal clean water and drinking water revolving funds, $25 million for its state Infrastructure Revolving Fund, $185.697 million in federal capitalization grants, and $30 million in leverage bond authorization for each year of the two federally assisted loan programs. Members asked about drinking-water quality, and KIA said that function is handled by the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Division of Water, not KIA. KIA also said its loan rates currently range from 0.5% to 2.25%, averaging just under 1%, and that its revolving loan programs have had no defaults. The Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet began its presentation at the end of the transcript, with staff identifying themselves, but no project details or board action from that presentation were included in the excerpt.

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• by the manufacturer and tested by the local regulatory agency, so that we can do this testing in-house
• the testing more frequently because it doesn't cost us hardly anything to do that test in-house once
• need to test more than four times per month, and so that would allow you to test more frequently.
• as often as they think we need to be testing anyway.
• in a laboratory versus being able to test on site... ...on site.

Bills: SB1137, SB1176, SB1287, SB1335, SB1336, SB1445, SB1677

Keywords: underground utilities, utility locating, dig safe, call before you dig, 811, excavation safety, damage prevention, one-call center, locate request, white lining, large project coordination, buried infrastructure, subsurface utilities, utility marking, locator wire, locator strip, interactive positive response system, landlord duties, apartment community, mobile home park

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• $300,000; Somali American Youth Enrichment Club, $600,000; Mad Dads of Minneapolis, $50,000; and a test
• $300,000; Somali American Youth Enrichment Club, $600,000; Mad Dads of Minneapolis, $50,000; and a test
• This is for that testing program. Is there discussion of the A26 amendment?
• This is for that testing program. This is for that testing program.
• that that is a separate issue standard that that is a separate issue um<00:51:17.680> and<00:

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• In any event, the standard training council has been at work.
• over the last five years, maybe even 10 years, and oftentimes we can almost just skip to the test and
• take it without any more... ...and oftentimes we can almost just skip to the test and take it without
• Academy training alone cannot keep pace with evolving law, medical standards, and best practices.
• It took me 12 years to grasp it, but we didn't have the Standards and Training Council back then.

Bills: SB30, SB43, SB50, SB136

Keywords: SB30, induced abortion, abortion reporting, vital statistics, public health reporting, medical records, health care providers, repeal, New Mexico, pregnancy termination, abortion data, state reporting requirements, confidentiality, reproductive health, parole, life imprisonment, rehabilitation, criminal justice, victim rights, law enforcement

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• you<00:02:20.400> to<00:02:20.879> keep<00:02:21.120> your<00:02:21.360> test
• <00:02:22.000> testimony we ask you to keep your test testimony we ask you to keep your test
• They work under a a test for flu.
• The model was first tested in Kentucky.
• Minnesota's network adequacy standards Minnesota's network adequacy standards with<01:37:29.199>

Keywords: 1183, house

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• I've listed out a few types of the varieties of testing that are underdone.

• > done<00:43:35.079> for each type of testing is really done for each type of testing is
• You know, program integrity, like testing, is not one thing, right?

• We take user testing really seriously.

• We take user testing really seriously.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• this there's a there's a time-t tested this there's a there's a time-t tested way<00:50:53.119><
• It's really important to set a standard for inclusive coordination to facilitate these offices and to
• ><01:32:17.520> um<01:32:17.600> to<01:32:17.760> do licensed after I pass my test
• um to do licensed after I pass my test um to do properties<01:32:18.320> management.
• <01:33:05.120> for really important to set a standard for really important to set a standard

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several shoreline easement resolutions and a water-supply study resolution. For the easement measures, the Department of Land and Natural Resources supported each item, and testimony also came from affected landowners and community members. Members asked about why some easements were granted gratis to public agencies, with DLNR explaining that those cases involved public infrastructure such as stormwater management and did not require bonds or rent. For private properties, DLNR described the standard process of monthly rent during the legislative approval gap, followed by a one-time appraised payment for a 25-year easement once the appraisal is completed. A substantial portion of the discussion focused on shoreline erosion and whether hardened shoreline structures or seawalls were contributing to beach loss. On one measure, DLNR explained that a large sandbag shoreline structure was tied to a nearby boat harbor that had altered sand movement over time, causing flanking erosion on adjacent unarmored property. On another, DLNR said a wall built under a valid 1960s permit was originally a boundary or landscaping wall, but now functions as a seawall as the shoreline has migrated landward. Members raised concerns about fairness, public beach access, and whether adjacent owners should share costs, and DLNR responded that shoreline matters are handled parcel by parcel under existing statute. The committee also heard support for a resolution creating a task force or study on desalination. DLNR’s Commission on Water Resource Management supported the intent but asked for more time to complete a comprehensive report, noting the work would require substantial staffing and coordination. The Board of Water Supply and CARES also testified in support, with CARES emphasizing future water-supply needs, cultural and historic preservation concerns, and the importance of coordinating with other agencies. DLNR said it would rely on existing studies and work with county agencies and the Department of Health. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.

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• Um what we've been concerned about is that there's a double standard when it comes to creating evidence
• <00:07:08.080> when is that there's a double standard when is that there's a double standard
• stuff and like standard medical stuff and nonalopathic<00:07:16.240> therapies<00:07:16.800><
• know when to test yourself and this<00:54:10.319> helps<00:54:10.559> you.
• We don't know it till we've tested it.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first took up an insurance-related chronic pain bill and an amendment modeled on language from Massachusetts and Maine. The sponsor explained the amendment was developed after stakeholder meetings because the original bill would have created an unaffordable insurance mandate in New Hampshire. The amendment was intended to improve access to non-opioid therapies by limiting prior authorization and step-therapy barriers so they are not more restrictive than for other treatments, including opioid therapies. After questions, the committee took a straw vote and advanced the amendment. The next item was a department-sponsored bill involving the state’s all-payer claims database. Insurance Department officials explained that the bill would encourage self-funded employer plans to opt in voluntarily by giving them aggregated, deidentified claims information in return. They said self-funded plans cannot be required to report data because of federal law, but the bill would provide an incentive while protecting employee privacy. Members asked detailed questions about who would see the data, whether individual employees could be identified, and how privacy would be enforced; the department said access would be aggregated and deidentified, and employer privacy issues would be governed by ERISA and the U.S. Department of Labor. The committee also discussed a glucose-monitoring bill. Members debated whether the bill was aimed at type 1 diabetes coverage or broader access to continuous glucose monitors, and whether it would amount to an unnecessary insurance mandate that could raise premiums. Department testimony estimated the equipment cost and said the annual impact per member would be modest, but also noted that non-insulin therapies have not consistently shown clinically significant A1C reductions. The chair and some members emphasized that the bill should be considered on its own terms as a CGM coverage issue, not as a general diabetes mandate. The committee discussed the bill’s cost implications and asked the department for any prior cost analysis.

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• Newborn screening in Minnesota tests for over 60 conditions that, if left untreated, can cause illness
• Gene therapies as we trials uh testing Gene therapies as we believe<00:52:47.760> these<00:52
• then would go into the standard then would go into the standard processes<00:58:58.480> representative
• This change is not about lowering the standard of care nor changing any current scope of practice to
• <01:34:52.280> of<01:34:52.480> care<01:34:53.040> nor lowering the standard

Keywords: 1183, house

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• David, who goes on these test flights? Well, not me, Mr. Chair.
• gos on these test gos on these test flights<00:29:46.440> well<00:29:46.600> not<00
• They follow those standards really, really well.
• and guidelines about how level standards and guidelines about how to<00:58:36.440> manage<00:
• really really well the those standards really really well the demand<00:58:50.280> for<00:58:

Bills: HF1126, HF967, HF1066, HF1669, HF926

Keywords: property tax, Indian Tribe, tax exemption, Minnesota, public charity, property tax exemption, Minnesota statutes, unorganized territory, federally recognized, soil conservation, water conservation, local government aid, environmental funding, Minnesota legislation, tax credits, sustainable aviation fuel, environmental policy, corporate franchise, Minnesota taxation, tobacco

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• Etc uh to ensure that ratios asset test Etc uh to ensure that that<00:32:01.480> those<00:32:
• features of this process standardized features of this process established<00:37:47.760> by<00
• So here we get into the ratio sheet, the asset test, which I think is current assets minus inventories
• which I think ratio sheet the asset test which I think is<00:44:31.520> current<00:44:31.960>
• Commissioner, if I may, if the grant closeout evaluation is not meeting standards, do you still make

Keywords: 1183, house

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• National security experts caution such development and spills impede critical military training and testing
• Such development and spills impede critical military training and testing and compromise military readiness
• We, in fact, often set the standard.
• properties after disasters with plans to redevelop in ways that may limit coastal access, all without a standard
• disasters with the plans to redevelopment in the ways that may limit coastal access, all without a standard

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• also removes the requirement for a high school diploma, GED, or passage of the ability-to-benefit test
• , this is where this bill is coming from, from the way they explain that you do not have to take a test
• Current code provides that no provision of the code can be construed to require the disclosure of standards
• used for the selection of returns for examination or data used or to be used for determining such standards
• all of these, with the exception of the polygraph examiner, is that instead of the rational nexus standard

Keywords: 994, senate, all

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• So every student that participates in an EFA program is required to submit a norm-referenced test, a
• standardized test.
• And so every year, for you to renew your application, you have to submit a standardized, nationally recognized
• test where we can monitor performance in reading and in math.
• students, teachers, and it can't be so that all of them that are failing, not meeting performance standards

Summary: The Arkansas Legislative Council meeting began with approval of the December 2025 minutes and a presentation from the Bureau of Legislative Research on the December revenue report. Dr. Carlos Silva said gross collections were about $4.02 billion, up slightly from the prior year, and net available for distribution was also above last year but down modestly from the previous month because of higher-than-expected corporate income tax refunds. Members asked about corporate tax trends, tariffs, and inflation, and Silva said it was too early to call the corporate decline a trend and that tariff effects would likely show up mainly in sales tax collections. The council then adopted several subcommittee reports, including the Executive Committee Subcommittee, Administrative Rules, Hospital/Medicaid/Developmental Disabilities, Occupational Licensing Review, PEER, Review, State Insurance Program Oversight, and Personnel. The PEER report drew the most debate because of a Department of Agriculture grant tied to Perry County and Central Arkansas Water; members discussed whether removing the Perry County portion would affect the grant’s competitiveness, and the report was ultimately adopted with the item included. The Review Subcommittee also heard questions about a BDO contract for the rural health transformation program, with DFA explaining that the contractor would manage the program while state agencies would make funding decisions consistent with the state’s application. A major portion of the meeting focused on the Education Freedom Account appropriation tied to LEARNS. Senators and representatives debated whether the program helps families or diverts money from public schools, with supporters arguing it funds students and choice and opponents arguing it is costly, vulnerable to fraud, and harms public school funding. Department of Education officials said roughly 28,000 private school students and 17,500 homeschool students were participating, that EFA students must submit standardized tests annually, and that the requested $32 million was to cover existing participants. After multiple substitute motions and extended debate, the body rejected a motion to strip out the $32 million and then adopted the report and related motions. The meeting ended after routine approvals of additional agency items and adjournment.

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• We want everybody to test it and to confirm for themselves whether or not the data is accurate.
• <00:38:36.240> want<00:38:36.560> everybody<00:38:37.040> to<00:38:37.359> test
• What's the standard of care? What's the practice of care and the exercise of professional judgment?
• What's the standard of care? well. What's the standard of care?
• proposed standards of care. proposed standards of care.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee met to review its mission and to discuss recent work on a letter sent to the governor and legislative leaders regarding COVID vaccine safety and related scientific references. Members said the letter, which included 31 cited sources, had been delivered to the governor’s office, the Speaker’s office, and the Senate President’s office, and a press release had been issued. Several members defended the letter’s sourcing and urged the public to read the materials and evaluate the evidence themselves, while also acknowledging questions about the trustworthiness of some cited articles. A major portion of the meeting focused on a research assistant’s effort to use AI tools to help reconstruct and verify the committee’s 2024 COVID report with citations. She reported mixed results from Copilot and Gemini, noting that the tools often produced broad or incomplete outputs and that she would need to break the report into smaller sections and ask for more specific source types. Members advised using more precise prompts and emphasized that any AI output would still need human verification. The committee said it hoped to produce a revised, fully footnoted 2024 report by early September. The chair then outlined the committee’s fall agenda, saying it would examine long COVID treatment, the patient bill of rights as it relates to COVID vaccinations and death reporting, standards of care and professional judgment by New Hampshire health care providers, and oversight of federal COVID-related funding such as CARES Act education relief dollars. He also referenced a recent fraud case involving misuse of COVID funds and suggested the committee may ask the DOJ for information. The committee will not meet in July or August and plans to resume in September and October, with a final report targeted for the end of October. The chair also introduced a recent DNI/Tulsi Gabbard press release about U.S.-funded biolabs overseas, which members discussed as a possible transparency issue relevant to future pandemic policy.