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• And we know that some of these toxic gases may hinder oxygen distribution in human systems.
• And we know that some of these toxic gases may hinder oxygen distribution in human systems.
• So is that having a... in human systems. So is that having a developmental effect on children?
• So we've taken it beyond just the physics and connected it to a human health model.
• This is nothing but performative junk.

Summary: The joint Senate and Assembly Environmental Quality/Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials informational hearing focused on the Tijuana River Valley sewage crisis, with members from both parties emphasizing that the problem is long-running, cross-border, and severe enough to require federal, state, local, and binational action. Opening remarks described the crisis as an environmental and public health emergency affecting beaches, air and water quality, marine life, tourism, and residents’ quality of life in South Bay communities. Assembly Member Boerner and Senator Jones both stressed the need for continued funding and cooperation, while Senator Padilla said the issue is underappreciated because of where it occurs but has major public health, economic, and educational consequences. Congressman Mike Levin’s office reported more than $650 million in federal funding secured for infrastructure and cleanup, along with federal legislation and requests for CDC and EPA involvement. Supervisor Paloma Aguirre gave a detailed overview of county efforts and the scope of the crisis, citing decades of sewage flows from Tijuana, nearly four years of beach closures, and the county’s expanded water-quality monitoring. She said the county is pursuing warning signs, an air purifier distribution program, an epidemiological study, soil testing, an economic impact study, and a feasibility analysis to remove the “hot spot” near Saturn Boulevard, which she described as a key local source of airborne pollution. She also pointed to binational funding for treatment plant upgrades and said the county is seeking state support, including from Proposition 4 cross-border river funds, to expand relief and mitigation efforts. Scripps researchers Dr. Sarah Giddings and Dr. Kimberly Prather presented scientific findings on water and air transport. Giddings described a high-resolution forecast model that predicts wastewater movement and beach closure risk up to five days ahead, using real-time observations and showing about 72% accuracy against county measurements. Prather said the main exposure route is through air, not just water, and reported that turbulence at the river hot spot aerosolizes pollutants, with hydrogen sulfide and other gases spiking at night and dropping when river flow is diverted. She said the team has identified thousands of gases and linked measurements closely to odor complaints, while also noting that air purifiers can reduce indoor exposure but are not a permanent solution. Dr. Paula Stigler Granados added that community health surveys and CDC assessments show widespread symptoms, sleep disruption, anxiety, and daily life impacts, especially during nighttime odor events. She said her team has found more than 900 contaminants in river water and 106 chemicals uniquely associated with the Saturn Boulevard hot spot, with passive air sampling showing similar chemical fingerprints in nearby homes. The panel discussion ended with questions about standards and accountability, and witnesses and legislators agreed that the crisis requires updated air-quality standards, more health research, and continued coordination to reduce exposure and address the source of pollution.

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• I understand that this bill will help families and human beings in communities that need it during a
• Again, AB 5656. 549 mega sporting events and human trafficking.
• So we are in opposition to this bill because every year we see these debunked human trafficking tropes
• So we see now in the public sphere that human trafficking now means arresting people for prostitution
• From Homeland Security for, you know, human trafficking.

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• He's a human being that has an asset that he's developed and that he's going to hopefully be able to
• As his performance declines, his brand is still... Aaron Rodgers, for example, right?
• At Sacramento State, we know success is more than performance in the classroom or on the field.
• At Sacramento State, we know success is more than performance in the classroom or on the field.
• Strong financial education helps student athletes perform at their best, on the field, on the court,

Summary: The committee held an informational hearing on name, image, and likeness (NIL) and financial literacy for student athletes, with members framing California as a national leader on NIL but emphasizing the need for stronger protections and more consistent education. The chair and witnesses discussed how NIL opportunities now include both third-party endorsement deals and school revenue-sharing arrangements, and how the current landscape varies widely by institution, leaving athletes with a patchwork of rules and support. Several witnesses argued that student athletes, especially younger ones and those from low-income or first-generation backgrounds, are vulnerable to predatory contracts, tax problems, and pressure from family, agents, or lenders. The first panel featured Tyree Dillingham and Brandon Copeland, who called for standardized financial literacy, better guardrails against predatory NIL advances, and a player-led association or similar collective voice for athletes. They described examples of athletes not understanding paychecks, taxes, or contract terms, and warned that some schools and collectives blur the line between education and marketing. Copeland also argued that college athletics now functions like a professional business and that athletes need representation and a standard contract structure to protect them. The second panel focused on lived experience, including testimony from attorney Anthony Coronae and student athlete Mikey Williams. Coronae described reviewing a contract that he said functioned like a predatory loan disguised as marketing support, with the company taking exclusive rights to Williams’ NIL and requiring repayment far beyond the advance. Williams testified that he signed without a lawyer, later lost endorsements, scholarship, and housing stability, and only later learned the contract’s consequences. He said a required financial literacy course at Sacramento State helped him begin to understand budgeting, taxes, and contracts, and he urged the legislature to require legal review or stronger safeguards for athletes. The third panel, from San Diego State University, highlighted a more structured institutional model. Athletic director Brendan Hill described a mandatory four-year life-skills program that includes financial literacy, resume workshops, internships, and branding education, while student athlete Sloan Benchoff said the program helped her manage money and prepare for post-college life. Witnesses agreed that support is uneven across schools, that some agents and lenders are exploiting athletes, and that California should consider standardized financial education and agent regulation while also being careful not to create rules that unintentionally restrict athlete rights. No formal vote or bill action was taken at the hearing.

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• No, sorry. 99% of the kids cannot perform at grade level.
• All the rules that suppress performance come from Washington.
• I do think that we are trapping students often in low-performing schools, and that's why the President
• We should definitely pay them commensurate with the job performance that they are undertaking.
• Those show that our lowest performing students continue to fall furthest behind.

Keywords: educational reform, federal grants, bureaucracy, wealth disparity, public testimony

Summary: The committee meeting engaged in discussions focused primarily on educational reform, the influence of federal grants on local education systems, and the growing disparities in wealth and access to quality education. Members expressed concerns about the bureaucracy surrounding federal funding that hampers schools' ability to obtain necessary resources for improvement. Several members highlighted personal anecdotes from constituents, emphasizing the urgent need for reform to help students succeed in both K-12 and higher education environments. The meeting included public testimonies that provided insights into various community perspectives on these pressing issues.

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• Not only does she travel across the United States for her performances, but she also performed at the
• Not only does she travel across the United States for her performances, but she also performed at the
• He's a human and he cares.
• He's a human and he cares.
• Before he was He's a human and he cares.

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• Let's compare it to life at any other time in our lives. all of human history.
• We can put the judge on notice that his performance is unacceptable and if he can't turn it around the
• Court, on the petition of lawyers... to remove a district judge who, quote, negligently fails to perform

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• community's important and lasting contributions in every field, including business, medicine, law, humanities
• Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
• It's a moment of solidarity for all of us who believe in human dignity, civil rights, and the power of
• community, it's more important than ever that we recognize the right to exist freely and to share in humanity
• and still love each other unless our disagreement is rooted in my oppression and the denial of my humanity

Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, heard a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and approved the previous day’s journal. Procedural motions were adopted to allow certain members to speak on adjournment in memory and to host guests on the floor, and the chamber suspended Joint Rule 61 to allow the Appropriations Committee to meet and consider AB 1533. The majority leader also requested that SB 272 and HR 44 be removed from the consent calendar. The main floor action was the Assembly’s Pride Month observance, centered on HR 43, which recognizes June 2025 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month. Assembly Member Ward and members of several caucuses spoke in support, emphasizing LGBTQ+ history, civil rights, community contributions, and current political attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. Assembly Member DeMaio spoke in opposition, arguing the resolution was divisive and included controversial policy references. After debate, 49 coauthors were added and the resolution was adopted by voice vote. The chamber then held a Pride Month ceremony honoring 14 distinguished individuals for contributions to the LGBTQ+ community, followed by guest introductions recognizing APICA fellows, family members, educators, and community leaders. The Assembly later adopted the consent calendar, with SB 61, SB 66, SB 846, SB 229, and SCR 3 approved, and then heard adjournment-in-memory tributes for John E. Brison and former Assembly Member William T. Bagley. The House adjourned until Thursday, June 26, 2025, at 9 a.m.

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• I really want to re-emphasize the importance of tracking performance of transit-oriented development.
• But from a building code standpoint, we really had to reestablish what the performance criteria is to
• I know that there's an interest in performance-based code, so that is something that I'm interested in
• So a quick example on the energy code, we do have pathways where we can use, again, performance-based
• We do have pathways where we can use, again, performance-based design.

Summary: The Senate Housing Committee heard a series of work-session presentations focused on transit-oriented development, commercial-to-residential redevelopment, building code implementation, housing market trends, and the Covenant Homeownership Program. The first presentation, from the Urban Institute, reviewed research on HB 1491 and TOD feasibility, arguing that Washington has made major progress but faces diverging conditions across transit areas. The presenter said rising construction costs, higher interest rates, and lower rents in some markets have made many projects less feasible, and recommended targeted infrastructure funding for lower-market communities, adjustments to MFTE and affordability requirements by local market conditions, more support for very low-income housing in high-market transit areas, minimum density standards near stations, expanded public land/joint development tools, and better tracking of TOD outcomes over time. Committee members asked about AMI calculations, immigration’s effect on construction labor, developer input, and whether a tracking mechanism had been removed from the bill. The Department of Commerce then outlined implementation of HB 1491 and demonstrated the new Washington Zoning Atlas, which is live and intended to help visualize zoning, overlays, and station-area conditions. Commerce said local governments will designate station areas, update zoning and MFTE policies, and handle anti-displacement measures, with Vancouver and Spokane first to implement and Puget Sound following later. Staff described a timeline for updated MFTE guidance, station-area implementation guidance, a TOD model ordinance, and later rulemaking on variances. The committee also heard from the Lieutenant Governor’s office on a report about converting commercial properties to housing, which found substantial potential for redevelopment on vacant or underused commercial land, especially near transit, but noted barriers such as ground-floor retail mandates, affordability requirements, infrastructure costs, private covenants, and slow implementation. The office urged by-right residential use on commercial land and faster rollout of new housing laws. The State Building Code Council updated the committee on its three-year code cycle and several legislatively directed actions, including minimum dwelling size, emergency shelters, and especially single-exit stairs and multiplex housing. Council staff said those code changes are nearing completion and will provide prescriptive solutions, while noting that elevator size and requirements were not changed and would require separate legislative direction if the committee wanted to revisit them. Members discussed the cost impacts of building and energy codes and the council said it is required to consider economic impacts and is increasingly looking at performance-based approaches. Later, the Washington Center for Real Estate Research presented its annual housing report, showing that higher mortgage rates have sharply reduced affordability, flattened house prices in many cities, and slowed single-family permitting and completions, while multifamily construction has recently cooled after a prior surge. Finally, the Washington State Housing Finance Commission reported strong first-year results for the Covenant Homeownership Program, which provides zero-interest down payment assistance to eligible first-time buyers with family ties to Washington before 1968; the program assisted 547 homebuyers in its first fiscal year, with more than $60 million loaned, and the agency said participation has continued to grow after income-limit changes enacted in 2025.

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• You can see that our funded ratio was performing better, and the legislature had increased benefits.
• The performance, the takeaway is that you've been doing really well in performance, and that's great.
• On slide 20, that gives us a little bit as far as our investment performance.
• I really just one of these Medicare-for-all people because I do believe health care is a human right.
• On page 20, again, there's a lot of information on investment performance.

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• Yes, there were some performance issues. I'd like a discount. I can investigate that.
• Yes, there were some performance issues. I'd like a discount. I can investigate that.
• But if they're going to charge us quarterly, when they don't perform, I'd like to see some of that money
• The way in which these drugs interact with the human body.
• I understand that the purchasing for the state performed by OA has an ongoing budget of $3.1 million

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• It's the same health care expansion that has improved the financial performance of hospitals and other
• I am a state policy advocate with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, also known as CHIRLA, and
• So that credentialing can be performed and claims can be adjudicated.
• I'm a state policy advocate with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, also known as CHIRLA.
• performance measures.

Summary: The committee heard a budget oversight hearing on the Department of Health Care Services, focusing first on the overall Medi-Cal budget and a March General Fund loan to cover a current-year shortfall. DHCS said the 2025-26 budget proposal totals $193.4 billion, with Medi-Cal projected at $188.1 billion total funds and $42.1 billion General Fund, driven by higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, managed care growth, and costs tied to eligibility expansions and the COVID-era redetermination unwinding. The department said the $3.44 billion loan was needed to manage cash flow and ensure timely payments to providers and plans, while the LAO noted Medi-Cal’s cash-basis budgeting creates volatility and that more detailed estimates would come with the May Revision. Members discussed federal Medicaid threats, the need for transparency on cost drivers, and the impact of pharmacy spending, long-term care, and immigration-related coverage expansions. The second major topic was family health programs, including California Children’s Services, the continuous coverage unwinding, and opioid settlement fund spending. DHCS described CCS funding methodology changes, ongoing county stakeholder work, and a delayed rollout of CCS monitoring and oversight until July 1, 2025, while county representatives and advocates argued the program is underfunded and asked for more technical assistance and a delay in implementation. On the unwinding, the department explained that federal redetermination flexibilities helped maintain coverage after the pandemic, but the Governor’s budget proposes ending them at the end of June 2025; advocates urged making the flexibilities permanent to avoid coverage losses. For opioid settlement funds, DHCS and Finance said the budget increases funding for naloxone distribution while reducing other harm-reduction spending based on updated settlement revenues, prompting criticism from members and public commenters who argued the change would weaken effective harm-reduction programs. The hearing also included an update on Proposition 35 implementation. DHCS said the voter-approved measure continuously appropriates MCO tax revenues beginning in 2025, with up to $4.6 billion annually available for specified Medi-Cal and provider investments in 2025 and 2026, but implementation depends on consultation with the required stakeholder advisory committee. The department and LAO noted uncertainty about future federal rules affecting the MCO tax after 2026. Public testimony largely supported maintaining Medi-Cal expansions, protecting immigrant coverage, preserving harm-reduction funding, and increasing support for community health workers, pediatric dental care, and CCS county administration. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.

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• And this reflects the addition of the human services finance bill that was heard.
• :02:20.000> the And this reflects the addition of the And this reflects the addition of the human
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• It robs the individual who's performing work.

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• Heat pumps are outselling gas furnaces, and awareness of the superior performance... ...and awareness
• of the superior performance and health benefits of induction cooking is growing.
• It's not funded annually to the point to perform all the work that could be done because we hash that
• It was human error. It wasn't the technology. And so how do we limit that human error?
• And then finally, and How to we limit that human error, and then finally, any kind of terrorist or the

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• The other thing is I will briefly reiterate that it's all nice and good to measure performance in education
• <00:43:48.560> in<00:43:49.160> education good to measure performance in education
• good to measure performance in education but<00:43:50.400> I<00:43:50.720> don't<00:43:
• Uh we're cutting health<00:44:47.359> and<00:44:47.520> human<00:44:47.839> services
• <00:44:48.800> We're health and human services. We're health and human services.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee held a work session on SB 145, which would require sexual assault evidence kits to be delivered to the state forensic lab within seven business days and analyzed more promptly. Pamela Kyle of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence said the bill was developed after survivor concerns and extensive discussions with the Departments of Safety and Justice. She explained that most agencies already deliver kits quickly, but some kits sit for months, and the bill is intended to add structure without penalties while preserving chain of custody. Members discussed the use of common carriers or courier services for transport, the need for clear rules, and whether carriers would know what they were transporting. Representative Papovich offered amendment 2025-2301H to remove the reimbursement program for police shipping costs, arguing it would add administrative overhead and was unnecessary. The amendment was adopted on a roll call vote, and the committee then voted OTPA on SB 145 as amended, with members voting yes on the roll call. The committee then opened a work session on SB 295, and the sponsor presented a replace-all amendment intended to simplify and clarify the Education Freedom Account bill without changing its purpose. The amendment would remove income-cap language, define priority enrollment groups, establish an enrollment cap for the EFA program, and create rolling enrollment rules. It would set a 10,000-student cap for the 2025-2026 school year, allow the cap to increase by 25% if enrollment exceeds 90% of the prior cap, and ensure current participants can remain enrolled. The amendment also provides that certain sections would later be repealed once the Department of Education certifies that applications have not exceeded the cap for two consecutive school years. The sponsor walked through the amendment section by section, explaining that the bill is structured in two phases: one while caps exist and another after they are no longer needed.

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• Monica Madrid on behalf of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, also known as CHIRLA, in strong
• Destin Goucher, Director of Human Resources at Castro Valley Unified School District, and Alidia Fisher
• Unified School District for 21 years, serving as a teacher, principal, and currently as Director of Human
• Monica Madrid, on behalf of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, also known as CHIRLA, and the
• and all the academic performance, but at the end of the day, certainly for those who are seniors in

Summary: The Assembly Education Committee heard several education bills, with AB 887 by Assemblymember Berman proposing that every school district and charter school adopt a plan so all high schools offer at least one computer science course by 2029-30. Supporters, including a teacher and student, argued California is falling behind other states and that computer science is essential for student opportunity and workforce readiness. ACSA opposed the bill, citing the shortage of qualified computer science teachers and administrative burden. The bill passed the committee on a 6-0 vote and was sent to Appropriations. The committee also heard AB 1390 by Assemblymember Solache, which would allow local and county school boards to raise trustee compensation above long-standing statutory minimums that have not changed in decades. Supporters said the current stipends are too low to make board service accessible to working families and younger community members. There was no opposition testimony, and the bill passed with five votes, with the roll left open for additional members. AB 865 by Assemblymember Gonzalez would create a $5 million, three-year grant program for dual-language immersion instructional materials, split between high-demand languages and other languages. Supporters said districts often lack standards-aligned materials in languages beyond Spanish, forcing teachers to create their own. The bill passed 7-0 to Appropriations. AB 857 by Assemblymember Gibson, requiring annual cultural competency training for K-12 staff, also passed 5-1 after supporters linked it to the state reparations task force report and argued it would improve trust and student outcomes. The committee additionally approved AB 677 by Assemblymember Bryan, which would make it easier for unhoused students to access school-based vision and dental screenings by allowing directory information to be used for that purpose with an opt-out process; it passed 8-0. AB 903 by Assemblymember Avila Farias, directing the Department of Education to develop best practices on education technology and digital equity, passed after amendments and with some opponents indicating they would remove opposition once the amendments were in print. Finally, AB 917 by Assemblymember Avila Farias, extending permanent-status protections to certain educators in small districts and county programs, drew significant opposition from small districts and regional occupational programs over flexibility and funding concerns; the bill still passed 5-2 with the roll held open for additional votes.

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• Harrison, I spent a great deal of time in the area of human resources, and I think it's absolutely imperative
• Physicians are human. Few physicians are exceptionally well-skilled, while a few are not.
• I think that's why the Michigan model is important, because it protects conversations, allows humanization
• I'm one of your Health and Human Services Analysts with the Legislative Finance Committee.
• And then CMS is determining requirements for that other half that's basically performance-based.

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• have a structure in your county, but look above you, and, and you're relying on these structures to perform
• Determined that if the soil and water conservation District is not able to perform, the liability transfers
• And 9 out of 10 wildfires in the state are caused by humans.
• So we see a population rise, we see more humans, we see more Texans on the landscape, we see more ignition
• If that happens, we could be staring down the next deadly human influenza pandemic. Uh, slide 3.

Bills: HB294

Keywords: energy efficiency, tax exemption, residential properties, sustainability, real estate

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• against the invasion, directing Secretary of Homeland Security to enter into 287(g) agreements to perform
• That speaks to and suggests obstructing the performance and enforcement of a particular duty for the
• What is built on the basis of force and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being
• Their disregard for human rights, due process.
• Caucus of the legislature and I am a human being and the father, an intelligent Irish-Scottish.

Keywords: 998, house, all

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• perform removal services for them. and perform removal services for them. and they<00:27:13.840> don't
• known to cause human health problems. known to cause human health problems.
• Uh the of Health and Human Services.
• It is humane.
• It is humane. It is not excessive. It is humane.

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• Aaron Zelhoffer, Humane World for Animals.
• And I'm currently the customer service supervisor at Tri County Humane Society.
• service supervisor at Tri County Humane service supervisor at Tri County Humane Society.<00:39:36.480
• I'm not on Health and Human Services for a reason. I'm >> Uh thank you.
• <02:05:41.599> I'm ...and Human Services for a reason.

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