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TX
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  • Any questions of the author? Seeing none, we'll open for public testimony.
  • Members, any questions of the author? Seeing and hearing none, we'll open public testimony.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Public Safety and Homeland Security

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  • Why would we put that authority Why would we put that authority over this self-insured plan?
  • Um, I don't know where that authority Um, I don't know where that authority leads.
Bills: HB506, HB513, HB437
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/23/26

Elections Finance and Government Operations

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  • to be a port authority given authority to be a port authority in<00:02:35.200> 2021<00:02:36.560
  • >> to the author. >> to the author.
  • The amendment passes to the author. The amendment passes to the author.
  • Amendment passes to the author. Amendment passes to the author.
  • > Authority, Rapids Economic Development Authority, Rapids Economic Development Authority, the
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/10/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

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  • authority in section 1. 1. 1.
  • We have our own authority.
  • We have our own authority.
  • We have our own authority.
  • We have our own authority.
Summary: The committee approved the minutes from March 5 by voice vote and welcomed new member Representative Van Binsbergen. It then took up House File 2354, which Chair Liebling moved to re-refer to the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee. Representative Norris presented the bill as an updated version of the Medical Assistance Protection Act, aimed at strengthening the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, closing loopholes, equalizing fraud penalties, and increasing penalties for large-scale Medicaid fraud. Attorney General Ellison said the bill would add 18 specialized staff to the unit, moving it from 32 to 50 positions, and argued the federal-state matching structure makes the Attorney General’s office the proper home for the funding because the unit is dedicated to Medicaid fraud work. Nick Wonka, director of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, explained the bill’s provisions affecting committee jurisdiction: expanded subpoena authority to obtain financial account contents in provider-fraud investigations, conforming legal representation language to preserve the unit’s authority, venue changes to allow charging in counties where parts of the offense occurred, and a restitution change to let courts order restitution for related conduct in the same scheme. He said the subpoena change would speed investigations and align the Attorney General’s authority with other agencies, and that the restitution change would help recover more fraudulently obtained Medicaid funds. No public testimony was offered. Members questioned why the funding should go to the Attorney General’s office rather than the BCA, whether the new records authority was federally required, how the venue language would work across state lines, and whether the added FTEs indicated the fraud problem was larger than expected. Ellison and Wonka responded that the federal grant requires the work to stay within the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, that the unit’s investigators are specialized and work with, but separate from, law enforcement, and that the venue provision applies only within Minnesota while out-of-state matters would be referred to the appropriate authorities. The amendment that had been posted was withdrawn and not offered.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Jan 30th, 2026 at 03:13 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

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  • When you say different plan, there are, and we have authority as a state in the different plans, or A
  • the legislature, and this is a New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight-endorsed bill.
  • We have the New Mexico Health Care Authority that we work with on this program.
  • We have the New Mexico Health Care Authority that we work with on this program.
  • I'm the CEO of the New Mexico Finance Authority.
Bills: SB21, SB42, SB81, SB101, SB139
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Jan 30th, 2026 at 09:10 am

Senate Rules

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  • And that nominating commission was modeled after others and gave the governor the authority to make choices
  • for doing this, because I think what we've come up with is something that retains the executive's authority
  • Any time you're talking about the executive's authority to remove, it gets very challenging.
  • voted to support passage of a joint resolution to reestablish a State Board of Education with the authority
  • management oversight authority.
Bills: SB104, SJR3, SM3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Border Security May 15th, 2025

Border Security

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  • Senator Hinojosa of Hidalgo, urges Congress to enhance coordination among federal, state, and local authorities
  • Members, questions of the author. All right.
  • Does anybody wish to ask questions of the author? All right, we'll move to public testimony.
  • can improve our border security measures and enhance coordination and address... ...and authorities
  • HB 160 seeks to codify this authority and enable Texas to coordinate directly with Mexican officials.
Bills: HCR98, HB180
Summary: The Senate Committee on Border Security met with a quorum present and first took up HCR 98, a resolution urging Congress to improve coordination among federal, state, and local authorities on counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) technology for border security. The author and sponsor described increasing drone activity along the border, saying unauthorized drones are used to track agents, identify weaknesses, and smuggle contraband, and argued for clearer procedures to detect, identify, and neutralize such aircraft. There was no public testimony, and the committee voted 4-0 to report HCR 98 favorably to the full Senate; the resolution was also ordered for local and uncontested calendar placement without objection. The committee then heard HB 180, sponsored by Chairman Birdwell, which would authorize the governor to coordinate directly with Mexican officials and individual Mexican states on border security agreements and appoint representatives to implement them. Birdwell said the bill would codify prior border-security cooperation efforts, improve responses to cross-border challenges such as drug and human trafficking, and include a finding that entrants from foreign countries must use a legal port of entry. No questions were asked, and there was no invited or public testimony. After the hearing, the committee left HB 180 pending. The meeting concluded with no further business and the committee standing in recess subject to the call of the chair.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs (Part I) Feb 27th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • And the Utah legislature actually used the authority to challenge a Biden executive order that would
  • Reserve those for the author as well. Thank you, Senator Middleton.
  • Uh, is there any questions for Senator Middleton on behalf of the author? Very well.
  • not give explicit authority to defend a district attorney for the enforcement of a state statute.
  • And, and members, any, any other questions for Senator Betancourt on behalf of the author?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 2/12/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

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  • This overstep of authority is typically coming from a non-related adult in a place of authority.
  • This overstep of authority is typically coming from a non-related adult in a place of authority.
  • This overstep of authority is typically coming from a non-related adult in a place of authority.
  • and this does not authorize and this does not authorize any<00:47:57.760> of<00:47:58.000
  • Um, I can't see the author of the bill.
Bills: HF22, HF45
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC Public Hearing - Thu Apr 9, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

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  • First up is Hawaii Community Development Authority in support. rules to implement an initial sales rules
  • the sale of a residential uh authorizing the sale of a residential condominium<00:11:59.240> unit
  • Craig Nakamura, Executive Director of Hawaii Community Development Authority.
  • Uh, the authority to another entity as opposed to actually putting some more guidelines within the bill
  • The HD1 authorizes them for pet Hawaii.
Summary: The committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on April 9, 2026, and heard testimony on several measures. SB 3302 SD1 HD1, dealing with homemade food products, would require the Department of Health to adopt rules for farm kitchens producing homemade food products that are no more stringent than rules for home kitchens. The Department of Health said it supported the bill with technical amendments, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii also supported it. No opposition was heard. A lengthy discussion focused on SB 2061 SD2 HD1, which concerns a 99-year leasehold residential condominium project and HCDA’s rules for sales, income restrictions, and buyback pricing. HCDA supported the bill and said the House draft clarified unclear provisions and would help move the project to pre-sales. Testimony and committee questions centered on whether the project should remain owner-occupied in perpetuity or allow investor purchases after an initial sales period. HCDA explained that the bill was revised to make the project feasible in the market, that 60% of units would be income-restricted for buyers at or below 140% of area median income, and that the remaining units could be sold without owner-occupancy restrictions. Some members and testifiers expressed concern that the bill had shifted away from the original owner-occupancy vision and could become an investment property model, while others argued the changes were necessary for the project to pencil out and compete with fee-simple developments. No vote was taken during the discussion shown. The committee also heard SB 2050 SD1 HD1, which would allow chiropractic students in accredited programs to engage in clinical practice beginning July 1, 2028. The Hawaii Board of Chiropractic and the Hawaii State Chiropractic Association supported the measure, and one testifier described personal experience with student chiropractic care in California. Members questioned why the board requested delaying implementation until 2030, and the board said it needed more time to develop rules because it meets only a few times a year and rulemaking is lengthy. Finally, SB 2102 SD2 HD1, on industrial hemp in commercial feed, was introduced; the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity offered comments, the Department of Health raised concerns about regulating pet food and possible jurisdictional conflict, and a farmer testifying in support suggested narrowing the bill to federally approved livestock feed rather than pet food.