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• We provide planning support at the agency level and also enterprisewide issues in policy, administrative
• Um we provide planning<00:14:13.600> support<00:14:13.839> at<00:14:14.079> the<
• 00:14:14.160> agency<00:14:14.560> level<00:14:14.720> and planning support at the
• agency level and planning support at the agency level and also<00:14:15.839> sticky<00:14:16.320
• in support of Senate File 3887. in support of Senate File 3887.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Successful means that they completed the plan and got a job.
• That's also where this would be very supportive and helpful.
• That's that's hopefully the our plan.
• Thanks to your support, we've gone from a staff size of 1 to 5.
• They are solely there to support the court.

Keywords: 914, all

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• Managed care plans related to prepare an prepaid dental plan network adequacy basically 4, 4, families
• And I'm here to speak in support of House Bill 517.
• Mary Summers from Baycare Health System waives in support.
• waiving in support, members.
• Co Robbins healthcare facilities waiving in support.

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• that our local communities are supported that our local communities are supported and<00:14:04.480
• <00:27:59.360> the governor is has supported the governor is has supported the University's
• <00:28:17.279> for counseling support for counseling support for 37,6<00:28:19.480> in<
• <00:34:49.639> the University's request to support the University's request to support the
• That support those jets.

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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• And I ask them, well, what is the city plan? What is your county plan? What is your five-year plan?
• that plan? that plan?
• > plan next year same plan next year same plan next year same plan next year same plan you<02:
• What is your What is your county plan? What is your fiveyear<02:21:00.640> plan?
• counties now come up with a plan. counties now come up with a plan.

Keywords: 920, all

Summary: The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a roll call establishing a quorum. The chamber approved routine motions to excuse absent senators, dispense with the previous day’s journal, and allow introduction of bills and committee reports throughout the day. The Senate also received several House messages referring bills to committee, including local constitutional amendments for Limestone, Blount, and Mobile counties, a human cloning bill, a Fair Campaign Practices Act bill, a public education bill, a court fees bill, and a physician assistance bill. Committee reports were then taken up. The Finance and Taxation General Fund, Confirmations, State Governmental Affairs, County and Municipal Government, Education Policy, Banking and Insurance, Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development, Transportation and Energy, and Local Legislation committees all reported a number of bills favorably, many with amendments or substitutes. Several measures were advanced to the calendar for the next legislative day, and the Senate confirmed multiple appointments, including Eileen Meyer and Tiffany Martin to the Alabama Board of Midwifery, Jennifer Ag, Jerry Gross, and Edgar Hower II to the University of West Alabama Board of Trustees, Patricia Sims, Tony Cochran, and Sandy Stimson to the Alabama State Port Authority Board of Directors. The Senate then adopted a special order calendar under Senate Resolution 34, setting the order of business for the 10th legislative day. The main floor debate centered on House Bill 161, the App Store Accountability Act, which was described as a child-protection measure requiring parental permission, age verification by app stores, accurate app age ratings, and limits on minors entering contracts through app downloads. Senators speaking in support said the bill was needed to protect children from harmful online content and preserve parental control, and they discussed an amendment clarifying the meaning of “act” and preserving compliance with other state age-verification laws. The debate was ongoing in the portion provided, and no final vote on HB 161 appears in this excerpt.

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• Our UTP, our 10-year plan, stands at $104 billion. which is our plan of future projects that the department
• That's the plan. We have multiple plans, but that is a plan that seems very.
• No longer has funds to support the demand. to support the Texas Veterans Leadership Program.
• And then we execute on that personal plan.
• Support, wraparound support for 190 14 to 18 year olds and the thing I want to specifically mentioned

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• Second, it will assist with approved project planning and execution.
• I respectfully urge your support of this legislation. Thank you for your consideration.
• That asks for your support of Senate Bill 2452.
• It says the plan, uh, referring to a reappraisal plan, the plan may not include a standard where timeline
• The problem with this bill, it reduces the local fiscal planning.

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• Okay, so item K, we change protection plan to immediate safety plan.
• Immediate safety plan.
• Protection plan was an old term that DCFS used. Now we use immediate safety planning.
• So we've been sending support staff.
• And so we've been sending support staff.

Summary: The Joint Committee on Aging, Children, and Youth first approved the February 11 minutes and then reviewed a DCFS policy manual update from Director Tiffany Wright. The rule changes were described as largely terminology and compliance updates to align with new laws, an executive order, and current practice, including moving internal procedures out of the public manual and into DCFS’s internal procedure manual. Members asked whether the changes altered practice or just wording, and Wright said they were mainly procedural and vernacular updates, such as changing terms like “protection plan” to “immediate safety plan” and “safety factor” to “safety threat.” The committee then reviewed and accepted the rule without objection. Wright also presented DCFS performance data for the third quarter of FY 2026, including hotline reports, investigations, foster care, in-home services, permanency, and adoption measures. She noted staffing shortages in some counties, lower timeliness in completing maltreatment reports, and efforts to support those areas with central office staff and daily calls. Members asked about neglect trends, sexual abuse/exploitation categories, behavioral issues, and workforce recruitment and retention. Wright said DCFS is expanding hiring support, outreach, retention efforts, trauma support through UAMS, and a new staff training model beginning July 1. She also presented the biannual overturned investigations report, which tracks hotline calls, true findings, appeals, and reversals by county, and answered questions about comparing it with prior years. Major Jeff Drew of the Crimes Against Children Division presented the 2025 annual report, saying the hotline received 67,987 calls and 37,986 were accepted for investigation, with 6,539 CACD investigations assigned and a 28% substantiation rate. He described hotline operator training, including a four-week program with policy review, scenarios, recorded calls, live call monitoring, and evidence-chain and decision-making instruction. He said the starting salary for hotline operators is $43,888 plus benefits and would check on comparisons with other states. Elizabeth Pooley of the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Arkansas reported that the state’s 29 CACs and 64 multidisciplinary teams served 13,568 children and families in 2025, up about 3,000 from the prior year, and hosted 259 trainings. Members asked about funding, and she said state funding is the same for each center at roughly $70,000 to $75,000, supplemented by federal and community support, with work underway on Arkansas-specific best practices. The meeting ended after a brief unrelated question about Meals on Wheels and a Project Zero adoption event announcement.

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• Okay, so item K, we change 'protection plan' to 'immediate safety plan.'
• 'Protection plan' was an old term that DCFS used. Now we use 'immediate safety planning.'
• And so we've been sending support staff.
• And so we've been sending support staff.
• And how do we continue to support this family?

Summary: The Joint Committee on Aging, Children and Youth approved the February 11 minutes and then reviewed a DCFS policy manual update from Director Tiffany Wright. Wright said the changes move internal procedures out of administrative rule into DCFS’s internal procedure manual under an executive order, while also updating terminology, conforming to enacted laws, revising foster family continuing education hours, and removing obsolete requirements. Members asked whether the changes would alter practice; Wright said they were mainly terminology and process-location changes, intended to make the department more efficient and flexible. The committee then accepted the rule review without objection. Wright next presented DCFS quarterly performance data for the third quarter of FY 2026. She reported 8,610 hotline reports accepted, 6,919 assigned to DCFS, 22% of investigations found true, neglect as the most common substantiated allegation, and continued staffing shortages in some counties affecting timeliness. She also reported 3,420 foster care cases, 1,788 in-home cases involving 4,568 children, 72% monthly home-visit compliance, 36% permanency within 12 months, 4.5% re-entry into foster care, and 156 children available for adoption. Members asked about neglect trends, sexual abuse/exploitation data, behavior-related removals, staffing recruitment and retention, training improvements, and whether ACE-style testing should be considered for children; Wright said DCFS is expanding recruitment, retention, and training efforts and was open to further discussion on education-related assessments. The committee also received DCFS’s biannual overturned investigations report, covering July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, which tracks hotline calls, accepted reports, true findings, appeals, and overturned findings by county. A member asked for comparison to the prior year’s report. Major Jeff Drew then presented the Crimes Against Children Division annual report, saying the hotline received 67,987 calls in 2025, 37,986 were accepted for investigation, and CACD handled 6,539 cases with a 28% substantiation rate. Members asked about hotline operator training, qualifications, salary, and whether Arkansas compares with other states; Drew said operators receive a four-week training that includes law, policy, scenarios, recorded calls, live-call monitoring, and evidence-chain/decision-making instruction. Finally, Elizabeth Pooley of the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Arkansas reported that the statewide network of 29 CACs and 64 multidisciplinary teams served 13,568 children and families in 2025, up about 3,000 from the prior year, and hosted 259 trainings for professionals. She said funding comes from a mix of state, federal, and community sources, with state funding set at roughly $70,000 to $75,000 per center and not based on caseload. Members asked about funding stability and standards of care; Pooley said CACs follow national standards and Arkansas is developing state best practices. The meeting adjourned after no further business.

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• The plan we have that's up on our website is the 14th in the series of annual investment plans.
• Very few funds in the country draw up a plan like this.
• But the stats really support 45 to 55.
• The plan was created in 1983. That's what governs this plan.
• It's called a deferred retirement in all our plans.

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• That includes support, for example, we're adding some support for CARA Navigators.
• We are participating in every regional plan meeting.
• And, of course, to increase our prevention for family supports.
• An employee retention plan is being finalized by Ms.
• And our plan is to do four additional ones in FY26.

Keywords: 996, all

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• I stand in support of Senator Friendly's amendment. I could swear I just heard you say support.
• You were in support? I am in support. Very good.
• You were in support? I am in support. Very good. All right.
• It isn't just supporting law enforcement. That's hardly it.
• It excludes that from the comprehensive plan.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• It is a high deductible plan.
• There are caps on how much it'll give, and that is supported by taxes dedicated to that plan.
• Dakota, the other person plan.
• plan.
• Are you planning to give us...

Keywords: 908, all

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• I do plan on supporting this.
• I am going to support this.
• How many in the audience are in support of this bill? We've got four in support.
• Anyone else in support? Anyone else in support?
• So I stand in support of this bill... Acequia. So I stand in support of this bill.

Bills: SB154, SB187, SB193, SM3

Keywords: insurance, wildfire, flood damage, natural disasters, property coverage, water projects, appropriation, New Mexico, finance authority, infrastructure, New Mexico Finance Authority, funding, SB193, acequia, community ditch, irrigation works construction fund, water infrastructure, ditch infrastructure, irrigation, New Mexico water law

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• And so, you know, we support this bill because we want people to be educated.
• I'm here to support House Bill 4071.
• Yes, and we've received a lot of support letters and a lot of support from not only from industry partners
• This is a critical issue, and we look to you for your support.
• plans for your fallback plans, for your fallback plans.

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• And a good example of... heavily supported by general fund at heavily supported by general fund at DNR
• grant management support.
• /c><00:17:55.919> support.
• river, and aquifer data, supporting river, and aquifer data, supporting forest<00:24:17.880>
• that have not started any planning yet. that have not started any planning yet.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Please support SB1.
• We support over 400.
• One option forward could be to support the development of a comprehensive plan that makes long-term investments
• support.
• We also want to support a couple of exceptional items: the Children's Mental Health strategic plan and

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• I'd urge my fellow members to support it.
• I hope that members will support the floor amendment and support the underlying bill.
• Support this measure.
• What if you introduce the plan, the very plan that this bill calls for, and the other members won't vote
• We have the support of the medical community, and we have the support of ADOT, and also as conjecture

Keywords: 1182, all

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• Okay, I would support yours.
• I um I would support yours. I was Okay. I um I would support yours.
• I will support re-refer. Okay. And good. I will support re-refer. Okay.
• full support of this project? Any idea? full support of this project? Any idea?
• motion Um I'll support I'll support the motion Um I'll support I'll support the motion for<00:43

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• For homeowners insurance, it's called the Missouri Fair Plan.
• For homeowners insurance, it's called the Missouri Fair Plan.
• This appropriation supports our federal grant for...
• They also support the Independent MLK Commission.
• spending in agreement with our department's cost allocation plan.

Keywords: 959, house, all