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• facilities, but I guess I don't always consider them natural gas facilities.
• They're just facilities we've been using natural gas in, but we can modify them.
• facilities, but I guess I don't always consider them natural gas facilities.
• They're just facilities we've been using natural gas in. always consider them natural gas facilities.
• They're just facilities we've been using natural gas in, but we can modify them.

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy heard several bills focused on utility affordability, transparency, clean energy, and consumer access. SB 327 would bar investor-owned utilities from using ratepayer funds to oppose municipal utility formation and would clarify the Public Advocates Office’s authority to inspect utility books; supporters framed it as a ratepayer protection and accountability measure, while utilities and industry groups raised concerns about municipalization language and data-request procedures. After discussion about the scope of the bill and existing guardrails from prior legislation, the committee voted SB 327 out on a due pass as amended basis to Appropriations, with the roll left open and later updated to 12-2. SB 1350, a hydrogen bill, would allow renewable portfolio standard credit for power plants using green hydrogen in turbines. The author and supporters said it would help California meet clean energy goals, support the Lancaster hydrogen project, and create jobs, while opponents, especially environmental groups, warned about NOx emissions, the risk of paper transactions, and the need for stronger safeguards on feedstocks and delivery. Members discussed amendments already taken and the need for continued work on environmental protections; the committee passed the bill 14-0 to Natural Resources. SB 868 would create a framework for plug-in or balcony solar devices for renters and others without rooftop solar, with safety standards and a cap on system size. Supporters said it would lower bills and expand access to solar, while utilities and some others raised safety and backfeed concerns and asked for more review through existing interconnection processes. The author and witnesses said the devices are small, non-exporting, and covered by safety certifications; the committee approved the bill 17-0, later updated to 18-0, and sent it to Appropriations. SB 1233 would require additional disclosure about utility cash on hand, capital structure, and related information in existing reports to help inform rates and affordability. Utilities opposed the measure as duplicative of existing proceedings and potentially delay-inducing, while supporters said it would improve transparency for ratepayers. The committee passed SB 1233 10-3 to Appropriations. The committee also dispensed with the consent calendar, passing the remaining consent items, including SB 925, SB 667, SB 952, SB 742, SB 929, SB 943, and SB 1138, and noted that SB 905 had been pulled from the agenda.

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• Right now, there is an existing warehouse in the facility that's still currently privately owned.
• facility is there or not. facility is there or not.
• We have plenty of time if indeed an ICE facility goes there.
• And if indeed there facility goes there.
• One, it's speculative as to whether the detention facility would be built.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• , within the boundaries of that facility.
• And over time, we've had facilities that have gone under disrepair.
• Over time, we've had facilities that have gone under disrepair.
• And over time, we've had facilities that have gone under disrepair.
• Over time, we've had facilities that have gone under disrepair.

Bills: SB1082, SB1200, SB1335, SB1336, SB1559, SB1761, SB1762, SB1785, SCM1007

Keywords: petting zoos, animal encounters, public health, handwashing, supervision, sanitization, safety regulations, civil penalties, water supply, groundwater, Phoenix, certificates, long-term storage credits, water conservation, municipal provider, replenishment obligation, water banking, annual report, Arizona Water Banking Authority, water supply management

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• James Hardy Building Products decided to spend $400 million on a manufacturing facility.
• James Hardie Building Products decided to spend $400 million on a manufacturing facility near Crystal
• So you said just a minute ago that you've never said you won't supply service to the facility.
• We're looking at both water and wastewater needs for the plant, so we've developed a facility plan.
• We're going to have the highest cost of water of any facility when we build in Crystal City.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• We have a role in... ...exploring the applications of this new technology and in providing facilities
• Importantly, we're researching new methods and applications of techniques, and we're providing facilities
• They are in educational facilities to train these folks to be ready so that we can have Texans occupy
• With the advent of Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, all deer from breeder facilities are required to
• The Nueces River Authority has proposed to put a 100 million gallon per day facility in Harbor Island

Bills: HB4568, HB5458, HB4543, HB2703, HB3728, HCR113, HCR126

Keywords: film industry, incentives, grants, Texas, moving image, economic development, production companies, content standards, HB 5458, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, TPWD, chronic wasting disease, CWD, cervids, deer, elk, moose, wildlife management, game animals, disease management

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• Chair and Doctor, but you are also telling me that the The small, licensed child care facility could
• Or federally controlled health care facilities.
• Their vaccines from those health care facilities.
• And which health care facility falls under.
• In terms of reimbursement for those vaccines, do tribally controlled health care facilities have the

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• You didn't have the shower facilities to help your firefighters decontaminate.
• > help<00:26:15.520> your shower facilities to help your shower facilities to help your firefighters
• <00:47:01.800> opening because we have a new facility opening because we have a new facility
• They translate to facilities and facility upgrades to meet the educational needs of our students across
• :29.720> facility translate to facilities and facility translate to facilities and facility upgrades

Keywords: 1183, house

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• And then the big one is the Phase 2 RCRA Facility Investigation.
• Owning carbon capture facilities.
• that's A forever facility.
• How many facilities fall into that category? How many fall into it today?
• this is gonna apply to facilities that are permitted by the state.

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• In facility designated by the secretary.
• <00:32:31.279> However, forensic psychiatric facility.
• However, forensic psychiatric facility.
• And the these psychiatric facility.
• So, he was out recommitting facility.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee approved the minutes of its June 10, 2025 meeting and then heard testimony on House Bill 198, “Angela’s Law,” sponsored by Representative Samara Hein. The bill would add a new aggravating circumstance in death-penalty cases when an offender abuses the corpse of a kidnapping or murder victim by engaging in deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, or sexual contact. Representative Hein and the victim’s parents described the case that prompted the proposal, saying the current law did not allow the conduct to be treated as an aggravating factor because the sexual act occurred after death. They emphasized that the bill would not require a death sentence or life without parole, but would give judges and juries another sentencing factor to consider. Doug and Angela Kerr gave emotional testimony about their daughter’s murder and said the current sentencing options were inadequate given the facts of the case. Several members expressed sympathy and supported the bill’s purpose. Senator Wheeler said the measure would signal that the Commonwealth will not tolerate such conduct, and Representative Petrie said he supported the concept but urged careful drafting so the language would not be too narrow or unintentionally reach co-conspirators or others whose conduct differed from the principal offender. The committee then received an informational presentation on KRS Chapter 202C from Judge Lisa Payne Jones and Shauna Mitchell of the Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health. They explained that 202C was enacted in 2021 to address a gap in Kentucky’s civil commitment laws for defendants found incompetent to stand trial after serious offenses. The presentation outlined the process: a Commonwealth’s attorney must file a petition for qualifying offenses, an evidentiary hearing must be held quickly, and if the respondent is found by a preponderance of the evidence to have committed the offense, a commitment hearing follows with a higher burden of proof. They also described the 2024 amendment changing the commitment criteria from requiring all four factors to only one, and noted the statute’s review-hearing schedule and the availability of later review if circumstances change or new evidence emerges.

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• A commission that is paid to that facility on telephone usage or from canteen.
• It's just contained within each facility then that what is spent in each facility. That's the fund.
• agreement that is held with those facilities.
• that facility, they will pay more than the Medicaid rate as well.
• You only have the licensed nurse practitioner in the facility.

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• . different types of facilities.
• We have seen an increase in communities wanting to develop stations that include not just facilities
• Additionally, there are administrative facilities for housing records and conducting the business of
• We have one land grant that has a wastewater treatment facility.
• and facilities.

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• But again, a court can inquire as to a person that they have sentenced to a secure facility.
• And then finally, just on facilities, I really appreciate the identification of the gaps and where it
• I can tell you that when a child is in. in a secure facility and turns 21, on his 21st birthday, he's
• What lockdown kind of facility can we have?" We don't have a group home here.
• Also, bringing forward proposals for treatment facilities: what is the cost? Where are they?

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• So they'd have to contract with a facility that has that service available.
• So when they're now sent... ...are reimbursed to the facility.
• Okay, so that's the side of things, what they're tasked with for all of our facilities.
• And if they leave the facility, there may or may not be somebody there to take that spot.
• So the public hearing would be held with the department and the facilities.

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee began with roll call and a brief update on remaining work, then took up Senate Bill 2213, the “science of math” bill. Members clarified that the appropriation for the program was not included in the DPI budget and would remain attached to the policy bill for now. The committee adopted the amendment and then gave the bill a do pass recommendation, 21-2. The committee next considered Senate Bills 2036 and 2037, both juvenile justice/Human Services bills involving mental health and criminal responsibility evaluations for minors. Testimony explained that the bills create new processes and require DHS to contract with specialized providers, with appropriations of $500,000 in 2036 and $300,000 in 2037. Members debated whether the funding should come from existing DHS resources or remain as separate appropriations, and whether the programs were one-time or ongoing. The committee adopted amendments on both bills and then recommended both do pass, with 2036 passing 14-6 and 2037 passing 17-4. The committee then heard Senate Bill 2021, the Information Technology Department budget. Representative Bosch outlined major themes in the budget, including migration from PeopleSoft and the mainframe, onboarding/off-boarding automation, double-counting of IT spending, and the transition of education technology from PowerSchool to Infinite Campus. Members also discussed a study amendment related to a statewide enterprise resource planning system, and added language on grant management and compliance management. The committee adopted the amendments and gave the budget a do pass recommendation, 20-0-3. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 2011, the Highway Patrol budget. Representative Pyle explained the House changes, including shifting some one-time costs to the motor carrier electronic permit fund, funding for body armor, breath tests, road course resurfacing, fleet costs, handgun replacement, and carryover authority for federal technology funds. The committee adopted the amendment and then passed the budget 21-0-2. The committee then began Senate Bill 2399, a Human Services bill on Medicaid reimbursement for psychiatric residential treatment facilities, but deferred action after testimony from a facility representative and committee discussion about therapeutic leave days, reimbursement rates, and whether a cap on reimbursable days should be set in statute or rule. The chair said the committee would seek more information from DHS and take the bill up the next day.

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• , or they are allowed 14 days if they are located more than 100 miles from the health care facility.
• Law enforcement has seven days to pick up or 14 days if the medical facility is further than 100 miles
• The software showed 173 kits in medical facilities past due for pickup from the medical facility.
• Our office is했던 putting on hsa a medical facility to report to us that a law enforcement agency refuses
• lives, including children who were recruited from. shelters, foster care, and even correctional facilities

Bills: SB251, SB608, SB487, SB535, SB761, SB955, SB957, SB958, SB988, SB990, SB1019, SB1021, SB1120

Keywords: criminal law, magistrates, Bell County, judicial authority, legal framework, evidence collection, sexual assault kits, reporting, law enforcement, transparency, confidentiality, victim protection, stalking, indecent assault, invasive visual recording, criminal justice, privacy rights, SB 535, Texas criminal procedure, rape shield

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• to conventional nuclear power facilities to conventional nuclear power facilities that<01:15:51.240
• <01:18:09.160> that's facility or a potential facility that's facility or a potential facility
• Sherburne will host a nuke facility. I hear it all the time from them.
• Sherburne will host a nuke facility. I hear it all the time from them.
• Sherburne will host a nuke facility. I hear it all the time from them.

Bills: HF4308, HF4153, HF4703, HF4711

Keywords: HF4308, Monticello nuclear plant, Prairie Island, renewable development account, RDA, nuclear waste, spent fuel, dry cask storage, utility tax, commercial-industrial property tax, state general levy, property tax exemption, residential heating fuels, natural gas tax exemption, electricity sales tax exemption, year-round sales tax exemption, distributed solar energy standard, solar mandate, community solar, grid modernization

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• > facilities.
• So those two make in those facilities.
• So that money to pay those facilities.
• ,<01:32:23.760> three Last week within our facility, three Last week within our facility,
• Food for within their facilities?

Keywords: 1. Call to Order and Roll Call – 00:00:24 2. Discussion of The Center for Courageous Kids – 00:02:46 3. Discussion of Adult Protective Services and State Guardianship Programs – 00:25:22 4. Discussion of Annual Report of the External Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Panel – 01:00:34 5. Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations – 01:33:41 6. Adjournment – 01:42:07, 958, all

Summary: The committee’s first interim meeting opened with roll call and a reminder that Kentucky had 8,641 children in out-of-home care with active placements as of June 1, 2025. The first presentation was from the Center for Courageous Kids (CCK), a donor-funded camp in Scottsville that serves children with lifelong illnesses and disabilities at no charge. Representatives described the camp’s history, its year-round family retreats and summer sessions, its medical and accessibility supports, and its impact on campers’ confidence and independence. They said CCK has served more than 43,000 campers from 46 states and 13 countries, including 22,000 from Kentucky, and noted plans to reach all 120 Kentucky counties. CCK also outlined future capital needs: a new art barn and a medical lodge. The organization said the art barn project would cost $2.5 million, with a legislative request of $1.5 million, and the medical lodge would cost $2.875 million, with a legislative request of $1.75 million. Members responded very positively, with several praising the camp’s work and one member asking about operational challenges. CCK said its main challenges are awareness, staff and volunteer recruitment, and expanding medical and housing capacity; it also said it is accredited by the American Camp Association and receives health and safety visits and audits. The committee then moved to a presentation on adult protective services and state guardianship programs from Jessica Wayne and Cliff Bryant of DCBS. They explained the legal framework for guardianship, the difference between full and limited guardianship/conservatorship, emergency appointments, and the state’s role as a last-resort guardian when no family member or private entity is available. They reported 4,464 individuals under state guardianship as of June 1, with most cases involving dementia, developmental disability, intellectual disability, nursing home or long-term care placement, severe mental illness, or brain injury. They also said the division has 89 field workers across 14 regional offices, with an average caseload of 52 and a goal of reducing that into the mid-40s through additional hiring.

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• out and evaluating our facilities.
• The facilities department goes out and evaluates the facilities, but then they tell the supervisor, '
• So the facilities department goes out and evaluates the facilities, but then they tell the supervisor
• My program is an inpatient facility.
• As I mentioned before, we are a residential facility.

Keywords: 977, all

Summary: The committee met to receive a detailed financial operations presentation from the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency, with staff walking members through funding sources, budgeting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and grants management. Sabrina Walker explained VR’s blended funding structure, including federal grants, state appropriations, program income, and interagency contracts, and emphasized that state funds are essential to meeting the federal match and maintenance-of-effort requirements. Members asked repeatedly about transparency, audit controls, and the risk that state cuts could reduce federal drawdowns; staff responded that all reports reconcile back to the SCEIS accounting system, are subject to state audits and internal reviews, and that even modest state reductions could significantly reduce total available funding. The committee also discussed pre-employment transition services for students with disabilities, with staff confirming services are offered through school districts, charters, and private schools, and that contracts are monitored for performance and compliance. The presentation then shifted to budgeting and internal controls. Walker described a zero-based departmental budgeting process, monthly monitoring reports, contingency reserves for unexpected expenses, and a formal annual cycle that culminates in board approval. Members asked about facilities tracking, culture, and how the agency maintains accountability; staff said facilities staff inspect buildings and equipment, supervisors justify line-item requests, and the process has become smoother over time as departments learned the system. Cynthia Johnson followed with an accounts receivable overview, describing invoicing, receipting, aging, customer verification, year-end reporting, and the use of cross-training, shared email inboxes, and spreadsheets as checks and balances. She also explained work training center billing, interdepartmental transfers, and the revolving fund used to issue consumer checks more quickly than standard vendor payments. Olivia Perez presented accounts payable operations, including invoice processing through SCEIS and OnBase, the three-way match, travel reimbursements, revolving fund checks, State Treasury Office interactions, and handling of reversals, rejections, and levy notices. She reported that AP processed 67,723 SCEIS payments, 13,670 case management system invoices, 3,379 travel reimbursements, and 15,693 revolving fund checks in fiscal year 2025, with only 70 payment rejections. The final portion of the meeting covered Grants and Funds Management, where Walker explained federal reporting, drawdowns, payroll allocation, asset tracking, lease and IT contract reviews, cost allocation, and closing packages. She noted upcoming system changes such as S/4HANA, Workiva, and SC Pro, but said the agency is receiving training and feedback opportunities. No formal votes or legislative actions were taken during the presentation portion beyond approval of the prior minutes and a brief recess.

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• um is recyclable wind turbine facility um is recyclable right<00:24:53.120> uh<00:24:53.919><
• is sufficient capacity in the existing facilities that are doing this nearby enough.
• that are doing this um um facilities that are doing this um nearby<00:28:03.519> enough<00:28
• He said the onus is on facility owners, operators, and permittees to make sure they're covering their
• shape or form the onus is on Facility shape or form the onus is on Facility Owners<00:32:25.039>

Keywords: 1183, house

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• And I know that we have a lot of state facilities, so a lot of the lower-risk facilities, right, and
• And I know that we have a lot of state facilities, so a lot of the lower-risk facilities, right, and
• so now I'm on of these State facilities so now I'm on the<00:24:35.200> other<00:24:35.360>
• so a lot the lower risk right facilities so a lot the lower risk right and<00:24:43.480> not<
• Something is going on inside the correctional facility.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committees met on February 19, 2025, to hear advice-and-consent nominations, beginning with GM 645/GM 650 for Mike Lambert as Director of the Department of Law Enforcement. Testimony was overwhelmingly in support from state officials, community leaders, nonprofit representatives, and others, who praised Lambert’s collaboration with communities, communication skills, and practical approach to public safety. Several speakers highlighted his work on homelessness, game rooms, community policing, and his ability to work across public health and law enforcement lines. Lambert told the committee he has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including patrol, community policing, training, narcotics/vice, and work on fentanyl, internet crimes against children, and ghost guns, and said his priorities would include building community trust, improving training and discipline, and addressing fireworks and firearms enforcement. Senators asked about fireworks, federal collaboration, ports and airport screening, recruitment, pay parity, and whether the department should expand into a more formal state police force; Lambert said he would need time to learn the new port/shipping environment and would support a state police class and expanded enforcement capacity. The committee did not take a final vote in the portion of the transcript provided. The committee then heard GM 567 for Jean Dello Jr. as chairperson of the Hawaii Paroling Authority. Supporters, including Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice and Hawaii Paroling Authority staff, described him as honest, ethical, fair, and experienced in balancing public safety with rehabilitation and re-entry. Dello said he came out of retirement in 2021 to serve on the board, and that his background in federal probation and state corrections led him to favor evidence-based practices over simple compliance monitoring. He emphasized the need to weigh public safety with giving inmates a real opportunity to transition successfully back into the community. No final action or vote was announced in the excerpt provided.

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• Now, let's look at who's held on pre-trial in our facilities.
• Now, let's look at who's held on pre-trial in our facilities.
• In fiscal pre-trial in our facilities.
• HPD cell block or OOT trip or any kind of facility.
• The other is that each facility um time.

Keywords: 910, house, all