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• You could interfere with the ability to look at issuing a protective order based on continuous family

Bills: HB116

Committee: House S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Keywords: film industry, incentives, economic development, state funding, media production

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• We think the discussion at trial should be about the default, the non-payment issue, and the interference

Bills: HB32 , HB15 , HB171 , HB421 , HB581 , HB644 , HB745 , HB349 , HB917 , HB204 , HB923 , HB15 , HB171 , HB204

Committee: House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Keywords: eviction, landlord rights, tenant rights, justice court, property law, court procedures, chemical dependency, court-ordered treatment, mental health, health care, treatment facility, juvenile justice, criminal justice reform, deep fake, digital impersonation, age verification, private cause of action, explicit content, consumer protection, HB 581

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• the Division of Emergency Management will not publicly advertise or solicit donations that might interfere

Keywords: Meeting start 00:00:00 Roll Call 00:00:12 SB 28 Discussion 00:01:33 SB 28 Vote 00:04:05 SJR 26 Discussion 00:05:32 SJR 26 Vote 00:07:10 HB 741 Discussion 00:08:30 HB 741 Vote 00:14:00 HB 544 Discussion 00:15:40 HB 544 Vote 00:28:15 HB 775 Discussion 00:31:20 HB 775 Vote 00:56:00 HJR 33 Discussion 01:00:25 HJR 33 Vote 01:01:40, 958, all

Summary: The committee met on March 11, 2025, with a quorum present and first adopted a committee substitute for Senate Bill 28. The bill would create a framework for using $5 million previously set aside for agricultural economic development through the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, including loan and grant programs. Members asked about changes in the substitute, and the sponsor explained that it revised the board composition to include members with more experience in finance, lending, and economic development. SB 28 was approved 20-0 and reported favorably. The committee then approved Senate Joint Resolution 26, which directs the Department for Medicaid Services to provide the Legislative Research Commission a report on pharmacist pay parity and the cost of allowing independent pharmacists and pharmacies to be reimbursed by Medicaid for services within their scope of practice. The sponsor and Kentucky Pharmacists Association representative described it as a request for information rather than a policy change. The resolution passed 20-0 and was reported favorably. House Bill 741, relating to public water and wastewater systems, was next. The sponsor said the substitute incorporated Kentucky Infrastructure Authority recommendations, clarified best management practices, and allowed storm water inflow and groundwater infiltration reduction projects to be scored more fairly alongside water projects. Members discussed how the bill narrows eligibility to systems most in need and refines the scoring process for the program created last session. HB 741 passed 20-0, was reported favorably, and received a title amendment. The committee also considered House Bill 544, a branch budget bill amendment creating a new SAFE fund for the most recent Eastern Kentucky flood disaster, indexed to the relevant presidential disaster declaration. The bill would allow state money and other funds to support local governments, utilities, school districts, and other eligible recipients for recovery costs, planning, and short-term liquidity, with reimbursement provisions if FEMA or other sources later pay. Members discussed the amount of available funding, the use of prior SAFE fund balances, and the emergency clause. HB 544 passed 20-0, was reported favorably, and a title amendment was adopted. The committee then began House Bill 775, relating to development areas, and adopted PHS 2 and a committee amendment; the sponsor started explaining the bill’s provisions on development areas, tax increment financing, brewers’ electronic filing, distilled spirits property tax language, income tax reduction conditions, tourism development incentives, and other tax-related sections, but the transcript cuts off before final action on the bill.

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• Section 708-892 currently only creates those height and penalties if you just damage or attack or interfere

Committee: Senate Hawaiian Affairs

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committees first heard Senate Bill 151 relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and geothermal development on Hawaiian homelands. DHHL and Ulupono Initiative testified in strong support, saying the measure would help advance clean energy goals, create economic opportunities, and support DHHL’s mission. Fine Electric also supported the bill. Several members of the public testified in opposition, raising concerns about consultation with beneficiaries, water impacts, land issues, and the scale of the proposed spending. In response to questions, DHHL staff explained slimhole drilling, the permitting distinctions between water exploration and geothermal exploration, and said prior studies and geophysical testing had been done. The chair then recommended passage with amendments, including SMA technical amendments, a directive to establish a permitted interaction group to study geothermal options, removal of the appropriation language, and a new effective date. The committees adopted the recommendation and passed SB 151 with amendments, with one senator voting no and several excused. The joint committees then took up Senate Bill 371 on property damage to critical infrastructure facilities. The Department of the Attorney General supported the bill with amendments, recommending broader critical infrastructure language to cover systems such as transportation, gas, power, water, and oil, and suggesting additional changes to improve prosecution. Utility and other supporters also testified in favor. The chairs proposed adopting the AG’s amendments except one, and further expanding the bill to make manslaughter explicit when a death results from disruption of critical infrastructure, and to add water as a covered infrastructure category. The committees adopted the amended recommendation and passed SB 371 with amendments. Finally, the Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs committee heard Senate Bill 585 on special purpose revenue bonds for Bana Pacific. The Attorney General noted a possible issue with the company’s entity status and the bill title, but Bana Pacific stated it was in the process of converting from an LLC to a corporation and was satisfied with the title. The State Energy Office supported the concept, and Bana Pacific described the project as an integrated biogas and green hydrogen facility that would support energy security, create jobs, and reduce emissions. The committee then moved on to Senate Bill 964 on waste-to-energy, where the State Energy Office offered supportive comments but many testifiers opposed the measure, arguing incineration is costly, polluting, and inferior to recycling. Written testimony showed more opposition than support, and public testimony focused on environmental and cost concerns.

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• on Thursdays that was stated that they're going to keep our sessions on Thursdays, so that would interfere

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Public Works and Highways Committee held an orientation meeting focused on introducing members, outlining committee norms, and hearing an overview from the Department of Transportation. Chair David Mills emphasized the committee’s long-standing bipartisan working style, asked members to share contact information for short-notice scheduling, and noted that the committee would need to complete as much work as possible before the building is vacated later in the year. Members introduced themselves and described backgrounds in engineering, construction, planning, local government, military service, education, and business. Several members highlighted prior service on planning boards, school boards, zoning boards, or in transportation-related fields as relevant to the committee’s work. Members repeatedly described the committee as collegial and nonpartisan, with most bills going to the consent calendar. The chair also noted that the committee’s work centers on state infrastructure, including roads, bridges, highways, and buildings. Representative Cluder, the ranking member, and others echoed that the committee is effective because it talks issues through and resolves disagreements collaboratively. One member mentioned a recent trip that reinforced the importance of infrastructure resilience after storms and rebuilding efforts in other states. Department of Transportation officials, led by Assistant Commissioner and Chief Engineer David Rodrig, gave a detailed organizational and operational overview. They described DOT’s structure, mission of “transportation excellence,” and major responsibilities across highways, bridges, rail, transit, aeronautics, maintenance, and administration. Rodrig reported 1,651 permanent positions and 404 vacancies, 2,160 state bridges with 115 on the Red List, 4,600 centerline miles of roadway, 25 public airports, 11 transit systems, and 194 active state-owned rail lines. He also outlined FY 2024 spending, project development activity, highway maintenance operations, fleet and fuel systems, and the distinction between the highway fund and DOT’s budget, including the role of federal funds and the turnpike enterprise fund. No votes were taken and no bills were acted on during this orientation meeting.

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• As xylazine is a tranquilizer, it can interfere with or prevent attempts to restart an individual's heart
• 31:05.160><c> can</c> As xylazine is a tranquilizer, it can As xylazine is a tranquilizer, it can interfere
• 06.120><c> or</c><04:31:06.280><c> prevent</c><04:31:06.640><c> attempts</c><04:31:07.040><c> to</c> interfere
• with or prevent attempts to interfere with or prevent attempts to restart<04:31:08.080><c> an</c><04

Committee: House Environment and Agriculture

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• peaceful, nonviolent expression near religious institutions, including protest or vigils that do not interfere
• 36.560><c> not</c> including protest or vigils that do not including protest or vigils that do not interfere
• 37.520><c> ingress</c><02:46:38.240><c> or</c><02:46:38.560><c> egress</c><02:46:39.359><c> or</c> interfere
• with ingress or egress or interfere with ingress or egress or worship.<02:46:41.359><c> So</c><02:46

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• of the withdrawing town's voters support withdrawal, voters in other cooperative towns should not interfere
• in other cooperative towns<00:37:35.839><c> should</c><00:37:36.079><c> not</c><00:37:36.320><c> interfere
• </c><00:37:37.119><c> with</c><00:37:37.440><c> parental</c> towns should not interfere with parental
• towns should not interfere with parental rights<00:37:38.160><c> and</c><00:37:38.480><c> student</c

Committee: House Education Policy and Administration

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• ><c> with</c><05:16:47.280><c> the</c> And this one I just said that it is a problem because it interferes
• said that it is a problem<05:17:23.920><c> because</c><05:17:24.240><c> it</c><05:17:24.560><c> interferes
• </c><05:17:25.200><c> with</c><05:17:25.600><c> the</c> problem because it interferes with the problem
• because it interferes with the proper<05:17:26.400><c> assessing</c><05:17:27.040><c> procedures.

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• motion in that refusing, they could possibly be arrested for resisting arrest or some type of interference
• arrest or some arrested for resisting arrest or some type<03:57:50.560><c> of</c><03:57:50.800><c> interference
• </c><03:57:51.279><c> with</c><03:57:51.600><c> governmental</c> type of interference with governmental
• type of interference with governmental operations.<03:57:52.720><c> all</c><03:57:52.960><c> of</c><

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• So we’re not looking to interfere with that. Can you point me to where that is?
• So, we're not looking to interfere<00:54:08.480><c> with</c><00:54:08.720><c> that.
• </c> interfere with that. interfere with that.

Committee: Senate Executive Departments and Administration

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• His peers would be horrified that the government would in any way interfere with that activity.
• would</c><02:12:35.119><c> in</c><02:12:35.440><c> any</c><02:12:35.679><c> way</c><02:12:35.920><c> interfere
• </c> government would in any way interfere government would in any way interfere with<02:12:36.639><c

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And I just wanted to make sure that what is proposed here and what we did there don’t interfere with
• proposed here and what we did there um proposed here and what we did there um don't<00:09:30.000><c> interfere
• > with</c><00:09:30.800><c> or</c><00:09:31.120><c> conflict</c><00:09:31.600><c> with</c> don't interfere
• with or conflict with don't interfere with or conflict with each<00:09:32.120><c> other.

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Public Safety

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Committee: House Election Law

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• That means pain that interferes with your ability to function on a daily basis.
• 05:06:00.160><c> means</c><05:06:01.080><c> pain</c><05:06:01.638><c> that</c><05:06:01.798><c> interferes
• </c> pain that means pain that interferes pain that means pain that interferes with<05:06:02.480><c>

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first heard testimony on House Bill 167, which would add ski, snowboard, and boat wax containing PFAS to the state’s consumer-product restrictions. The sponsor argued the product is already banned in many places, has PFAS-free alternatives, and is used in ways that can directly contaminate water rather than landfills. She cited high PFAS levels in several New Hampshire lakes and said the bill was a simple extension of prior PFAS legislation. A witness also described a personal experience where a liquid ski wax disappeared from the market and later returned, likely because of PFAS concerns. The chair then closed the hearing on HB 167 without a vote. The committee then opened a hearing on House Bill 312, dealing with college athletes’ name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. Representative Moffett said the bill was modeled on New Jersey law and intended to let student-athletes earn compensation from NIL without losing institutional scholarships, while also requiring licensed representation and setting limits on certain endorsements. He described the measure as proactive because NIL rules are evolving and could create conflicts among schools and future lawsuits. Members questioned whether the bill should apply to two-year institutions, whether it should exclude firearms and weapons, and whether the scholarship protections would cover need-based or academic aid as well as athletic scholarships. Moffett said the scholarship language was intended to protect scholarships generally, but not need-based aid specifically, and he acknowledged discomfort with some of the endorsement restrictions. Public testimony on HB 312 was mixed. One supporter, a former Division III athlete and coach, backed the bill but urged removal of a section allowing institutions or athletic bodies to use an athlete’s NIL without compensation, arguing most New Hampshire athletes do not receive NIL money and should not have to work extra jobs to cover basic expenses. The chair also raised concerns about the bill’s contractual and identity-rights implications, referencing prior committee work on a J.D. Salinger-related identity case and noting the committee had previously declined to get involved in similar contractual disputes. No vote was taken during the hearing.

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• Normally, we don't want to interfere with businesses and how they operate, so we're asking a business
• 09.280><c> to</c> of absence um normally we don't want to of absence um normally we don't want to interfere
• 10.120><c> businesses</c><05:26:10.600><c> and</c><05:26:10.878><c> how</c><05:26:11.240><c> they</c> interfere
• with businesses and how they interfere with businesses and how they um<05:26:12.360><c> operate</c><

Committee: House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• to New Hampshire, how does the state come up with statewide strategies when a lot of other stuff interferes
• to New Hampshire, how does the state come up with statewide strategies when a lot of other stuff interferes
• lot of with Statewide strategies when a lot of other<02:10:03.639><c> stuff</c><02:10:04.079><c> interferes
• </c><02:10:04.840><c> that</c><02:10:05.679><c> makes</c><02:10:05.880><c> it</c> other stuff interferes
• that makes it other stuff interferes that makes it more<02:10:06.520><c> difficult</c><02:10:06.679>

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The meeting was a Ways and Means briefing opened by the vice chair, who introduced Jason Wong of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston to discuss the national and regional economy. Wong focused on inflation, asking why it had fallen from about 9% in 2022 to the 2%–3% range, and what that meant for monetary policy and the risk of an economic downturn. He said the Fed’s target is 2%, noted that recent PCE inflation was about 2.4% and core PCE about 2.7%, and described the ongoing debate over whether interest rates should stay tight or be lowered further to protect the labor market. Wong explained that the improvement in inflation has been driven largely by goods prices, especially durable goods such as cars, appliances, and furniture, as well as non-durable goods like food. He said supply-chain disruptions during the pandemic caused major price spikes in 2022, but those pressures have eased and many goods prices are now at or below the Fed’s target. He also referenced the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index, saying it showed extreme pandemic-era disruptions that have since receded. The main remaining inflation problem, he said, is in services, especially housing. Wong broke services into rent of shelter and all other services, explaining that shelter is a large share of household budgets and that housing inflation has a lag because rent measures often reflect older lease terms rather than current market rents. He said monthly Zillow data suggest market rents have cooled and may eventually feed through to official inflation measures. Members asked several questions about the chart’s time scale, the treatment of real estate, property taxes, and utilities, and Wong clarified that housing costs are counted in services and that the slides would be shared digitally. No votes or formal actions were taken.

Bills: HR11 , HB1872 , HB2171 , HB2161 , HB2416 , HB2518 , HB2617 , HB2159 , HB2606 , HB2362 , HB2385 , HB2476 , HB1923 , HB2444 , HB1608 , HB1967 , HB1968 , HB2502 , HB1782 , HB2357 , HB2445 , HB1870 , HB1838 , HB2137 , HB2208 , HB2458 , HB1972 , HB2007 , HB2160 , HB2343 , HB2315 , HB2505 , HB1857 , HB469 , HB1452 , HB814 , HB1621 , HB1880 , HB1831 , HB1572 , HB2119 , HB2139 , HB2459 , HB2194 , HB2561 , HB2017 , HB1931 , HB1700 , HB1719 , HB1726 , HB1737 , HB1742 , HB2049 , HB2383 , HB2116 , HB2446 , HB2249 , HB2255 , HB2320 , HB2360 , HB2581 , HB2443 , HB1531 , HB2622 , HB9 , HB2290 , HB2291 , HB2235 , HB2263 , HB2498 , HB1579 , HB1728 , HB1900

Keywords: 808 Elite, youth football, American Youth Football National Championships, AYF, Hawaii football, youth athletics, sports recognition, commendation, House resolution, student-athletes, sportsmanship, teamwork, state pride, Hawaii youth sports, national championship, early learning, apprenticeship, child care, education funding, workforce development

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• we needed a new fourth branch of government called Elon Musk to do that, completely lawless and reckless
• Under his leadership, the CFPB went on full steam ahead with their reckless rulemakings.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• person that has a Hike Safe card, even though the law allows me to do that if they are ridiculously reckless
• person that has a Hike Safe card, even though the law allows me to do that if they are ridiculously reckless
• person that has a Hike Safe card, even though the law allows me to do that if they are ridiculously reckless

Committee: House Fish and Game and Marine Resources

Keywords: 1189, house, all