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• security or border laws that the nation has?
• security<00:57:59.240> or<00:57:59.440> border<00:57:59.800> laws<00:58:
• 00.400> that<00:58:00.560> the uh security or border laws that the uh security or border
• safety and security. safety and security.
• Security deposit withheld is two times the security deposit that's being withheld.

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• their discretion just to hand count when we've been so careful about everything else, about the security
• ><00:38:26.960> else<00:38:27.280> about<00:38:27.520> the<00:38:27.760> security
• about everything else about the security about everything else about the security and<00:38:28.480
• the committee was meandering into other topics and referenced an administration that had an open border
• <01:20:00.719> that four years had an open border that four years had an open border that

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• President, and we have them down in the River Valley in South Texas on border security.
• So in addition, I tried to put. protect our wildlife, also their support, and secure our border.

Bills: SJR1, SB9, SB40, SJR36, SJR1, SJR5, SB9, SB40

Keywords: bail denial, illegal aliens, felony offenses, constitutional amendment, law enforcement, bail reform, defendants, pretrial detention, public safety, criminal justice, charitable bail organizations, bail bonds, public funds, political subdivision, injunctive relief, taxpayer rights, bail, criminal justice reform, 1185, senate

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• people overturned our decision on border people overturned our decision on border tax<01:05:22.880
• And now employment security. Oh, labor first. Excuse me.
• And And And now<02:14:50.880> employment<02:14:51.880> security.
• And we will get employment security up here this time.
• <02:27:05.600> Deputy of Employment Security Deputy of Employment Security Deputy Commissioner

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• use it to fund public infrastructure use it to fund public infrastructure to<00:40:46.440> um
• Tom Wyatt. infrastructure for all of the state of infrastructure for all of the state of Minnesota.<01
• We have to have high-level infrastructure for radiology, a functioning blood bank.
• We have to have high-level<01:10:59.400> infrastructure high-level infrastructure high-level infrastructure
• And that responsibility doesn't stop at Minnesota's borders.

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• And we have major hospital systems right on the edge of all of those borders. Which we need.
• And we have major hospital systems right on the edge of all of those borders. Which we need.
• Lots of recommendations around that, and again, I think you have some of that infrastructure in place
• Lots of recommendations around that, and again, I think you have some of that infrastructure in place
• have<02:31:45.880> these These border states that have these These border states that

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• personnel, hardware, software, electronic security equipment, installation, maintenance, monitoring,
• and other reasonable fiscal and structural security measure improvements.
• Security measure improvements.
• This bill amends statutes related to state security and other related provisions.
• The bill appears to address state security, the withholding of records relating to critical infrastructure

Bills: LB764, LB815A, LB839, LB888, LB955, LB972A, LB1029, LB1087, LB1091, LB1126A, LB1181A, LB1237A, LB1261A, LB304A, LB762, LB889, LB929, LB966, LB1022, LB1187, LR508

Keywords: law enforcement, correctional services, Department of Correctional Services, corrections officers, state prison employees, peace officer, certification, police standards, training academy, Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Nebraska Police Standards Advisory Council, criminal justice, correctional staff, conditional officer, law enforcement authority, public safety, LB815A, LB815, appropriation, appropriations bill

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• The data center will pay for 80% of their infrastructure costs, which would be all 100% of their costs
• And that's the biggest cost because the infrastructure requirements for these facilities are significant
• And we just want to make sure that that infrastructure cost, we're talking in the billions, doesn't get
• It saves a lot of risk from ratepayers if private companies build their own infrastructure and take that
• House Bill 4105 clarifies the definition of who can be a security guard and who is not a security guard

Bills: HB2059, HB3920, HB2992, HB3267, HB4457, HB3800, HB3818, HB4425, HB4427, HB4430, HB4431, HB4333, HB4340, HB4343, HB4344, HB4363, HB4229, HB4230, HB4236, HB4246, HB1979, HB3431, HB3052, HB3047, HB3048, HB4092, HB4302, HB3261, HB3704, HB3312, HB3546, HB3849, HCR1021, HB4105, HB4159, HB4304, HB3835, HB3619, HB4490, HB3710, HB4201, HB3907, HB3748

Keywords: health care, medication, inmates, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, reimbursement, county jails, medical expenses, sales tax exemption, nonprofit organizations, procurement, transplant research, Oklahoma Tax Code, HB2992, Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026, Corporation Commission, Oklahoma utilities, ratepayer protection, data centers, artificial intelligence computing, AI data centers

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• <00:58:54.319> in can say we still have a security in can say we still have a security in
• We have a lot of infrastructure, water infrastructure, dams, diversion, irrigation, all kinds of water
• We have a lot of infrastructure, water infrastructure, dams, diversion, irrigation, all kinds of water
• disappears due to aging infrastructure. disappears due to aging infrastructure.
• But one of the 911 infrastructure.

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• We’re on the border of Tennessee, West Memphis, Marion. I want to be sure when I’m driving.
• revenue based upon the tourism, and we have a lot of visitors to Lake Enterprise because we’re on the border
• of Louisiana, southeast Arkansas, so we’re on the border.
• said members are trying to bring jobs and economic development to small towns and explained that infrastructure
• If we don't have infrastructure, how are we going to get business there?

Summary: The committee approved the prior minutes and then received a series of audit and compliance updates. Staff reported on delinquent private water and sewer reports, delinquent 2013-2023 water reports, and several municipal accounting code noncompliance cases. Denning and Gum Springs were recommended to be removed from the 60-day clock after staff visits showed improved records, while Fargo, Lead Hill, Almy, Jericho, Haynes, Biggers, Gilmore, and Holly Grove were discussed for repeat findings involving missing audits, poor bookkeeping, unpaid or misapplied street funds, deficit balances, and other accounting deficiencies. Several of these entities were given additional time or had reports filed without objection, while others were deferred for later review. Fargo’s mayor said the town had been understaffed and was working to improve its accounting systems; the committee voted to defer the matter to the August meeting. Lead Hill’s mayor described efforts to complete overdue water audits and improve office procedures, and the committee also postponed action for 60 days. Almy’s mayor and recorder-treasurer were present, and the committee placed the town on the 60-day clock for repeat accounting issues. Biggers and Gilmore both acknowledged long-running audit problems and said they were working with auditors and the IRS; their reports were filed. Holly Grove’s treasurer said she had only recently taken the position, and that report was filed as well. The committee spent considerable time on the street-fund misuse cases for Jericho and Haynes. Jericho was found to have exceeded the statutory threshold tied to fines and costs, with staff noting the town had since become current on its repayment plan; the committee deferred the report to September. Haynes was also behind on its repayment plan for street funds, with staff saying the town had recently made up the shortfall and was current as of the meeting, but the committee still deferred the report to September. Members and staff also discussed how the speed-trap law is applied, whether certain fines and costs count toward the threshold, and the role of the prosecuting attorney in deciding whether to take further action. The committee then reviewed a special report on the Pulaski County Regional Solid Waste Management District, which had six findings involving board approval of payroll and contracts, credit card documentation, vehicle and cell phone use, competitive bidding, electronic funds controls, and unusually high advertising spending. District Director Craig Douglas said the board had delegated some authority, that receipts were missing during a temporary staffing gap, and that advertising was needed to educate the public; he also defended the sale of trailers and other equipment as a way to exit the trailer business. Several members questioned the explanations and the low resale value of equipment, but the committee ultimately deferred the report to September. The meeting also included a recognition of accounting students interning with audit staff and a final set of actions on deferred water and sewer reports: 11 were filed, seven were deferred for lack of proper responses, and a private report on Shannon Hills Water, Sewer, and Fire Department was noted as involving misappropriation by an office manager and inadequate internal controls.

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• Security measures need to be much higher.
• We do the best we can to try and educate the organizations on their security measures, but again, it's
• Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, who you heard from, CPAT, Consumer Protection and Antitrust, Social Security
• That is our portal is still the southern border.
• We do still see some through the northern border, but not close to the amount of quantity we do through

Summary: The committee met to review the Attorney General’s budget and related agency operations, beginning with Legislative Council staff walking members through compliance reports and a blue-sheet base budget document. Staff highlighted current-biennium items such as FTE changes, one-time appropriations, litigation funding, opioid settlement receipts, continuing appropriations, and major special and federal funds. Members asked for clarification on items including the Missing Indigenous People Grant Fund, the Internet Crimes Investigation Fund, and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit grant funding. Assistant Attorney General Clare Ness then gave an overview of the office’s structure, staffing, and budget pressures. She emphasized the office’s broad statutory duties, the value of its legal services to state and local government, and concerns about attorney pay lagging behind other agencies. Members discussed whether attorney compensation should be benchmarked more consistently across state government and whether some legal work could be consolidated within the AG’s office. Ness also addressed questions about AG opinion turnaround times, boards-and-commissions training, the new-and-vacant FTE pool, operating expense cuts, office leases, and the state’s criminal justice information systems. The crime lab presentation drew significant attention. Director Jennifer Penner described severe space, safety, and infrastructure problems at the current lab, including cramped work areas, glycol leaks, outdated fire and burglar alarms, air-handling limits, and equipment failures that have delayed toxicology work. She said the 2024 study projected a much larger facility would be needed and that the preferred location would be near the current health department site, but in a new building. Members asked about possible evidence risks, backlog status, and whether the proposed building would solve the current problems; Penner said it would and noted backlogs have improved overall, though some delays remain. The committee also heard from the new Medicaid Fraud Control Unit director, who described the unit’s civil and criminal work, federal-state funding split, and examples of fraud such as billing for services not provided or upcoding. The gaming division reported continued growth in charitable gaming and e-tabs, with members expressing concern about large trust-account balances, site competition, and possible misuse of proceeds. Finally, BCI outlined its caseload, cybercrime work, missing Indigenous persons task force, and the surge in CSAM cyber tips; members asked about AI-generated CSAM, and the AG’s office noted that last session’s law increased penalties and expressly allowed AI-generated CSAM to be prosecuted like other CSAM. No formal votes or actions were taken beyond approval of the minutes.

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• Or Alaska or Guam, then Cal State Northridge is required to secure authorization from North Carolina,
• you're Cal State Northridge, it's hundreds and hundreds of authorizations that you would have to secure
• SAR provides a framework to extend this excellence beyond our state borders... ...extend this excellence
• beyond our state borders, enhance diversity in our classrooms, and build inclusive, high-quality digital
• so we're still working on what that might look like in a case-by-case basis, or would it be cross-border

Summary: The committee heard several higher education bills. It first approved the consent calendar, which included SB 67 and SB 619. The main discussion centered on SB 437, which would direct the CSU system to develop a fair, evidence-based process for verifying whether someone is a descendant of a person enslaved in the United States, as part of the state’s reparations work. Supporters said the bill fills a gap left by the Reparations Task Force and would create a transparent, credible lineage-verification process; opponents argued genealogy methods already exist, the bill would waste money and delay action, and some raised constitutional concerns. The committee took a vote on SB 437, but the roll was left open after the initial tally showed three ayes and three noes. The committee then heard SB 790, which would allow California to join the interstate reciprocity agreement for online postsecondary education. The author and supporters said the bill would improve consumer protections for California students taking out-of-state online courses and help California institutions compete more effectively by reducing the burden of seeking separate state approvals. Opponents, including University of Phoenix and other groups, argued the bill conflicted with the existing reciprocity framework, could exclude some institutions, and might not actually secure California’s entry into the agreement. The committee voted 3-1 to pass SB 790 as amended to the Business and Professions Committee, with the roll left open. The committee also heard SB 391, which would authorize the Community College Chancellor’s Office to charge fees for research partners seeking access to data. Supporters said the office is absorbing significant unfunded workload from data requests and that fees would help recover costs; opponents, including the California Teachers Association community college association, warned the fees could create barriers for faculty and smaller researchers. Members discussed possible exemptions and implementation details. The committee voted 5-1 to pass SB 391 as amended to the Appropriations Committee, with the roll left open. Finally, the committee heard SB 685, a pilot program to provide cost-of-attendance assistance at four CSU campuses for students who experienced homelessness in high school. Supporters said it would help students cover housing, food, and transportation costs and reduce dropout risk; members asked about eligibility and implementation, and the author explained the bill would use McKinney-Vento homelessness designations and target students at risk of “summer melt” and college homelessness.

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• , operate and maintain the stormwater and flood control facilities as well as other community infrastructure
• is a bit of confusion as to who gets a Form I-94 and whether you get one when you travel by land border

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• So it's a way to securely authenticate the voter. Securely authenticate the voter.
• Securely authenticate the voter.
• At any cost, if it's a secure system, is that what you're saying? It's a secure system.
• It's like we have very secure data. It's 99.97. It's like we have very secure data.
• What security assumptions were relied upon?

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• And with the courts, there would be nowhere to hold an individual in a secure custody setting.
• Acts as a constable during directions and aids of the courthouse for security purposes.
• We have multi-level security in the facility.
• At that point, they're identified, and they're placed on an SRG status, a security risk group.
• Hopefully, most of them don’t have access to their Social Security number.

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Summary: The commission met to continue its review of the county sheriffs’ role in corrections, reentry, and public safety. After approving the prior meeting minutes, the sheriffs completed a lengthy presentation describing how their offices provide regional jail services, women’s programming, mental health and substance use treatment, reentry support, community partnerships, and auxiliary public safety functions such as BCI work, TRIAD, Meals on Wheels, and event support. They emphasized that services are tailored to local needs, that women’s facilities are designed to keep mothers close to family and support reunification, and that programming, housing, and job placement are central to reducing recidivism. They also discussed challenges including K2/synthetic drugs in facilities, gang classification and separation, and the difficulty justice-involved people face obtaining IDs and birth certificates, especially for people from Puerto Rico. Commission members generally praised the sheriffs’ work and asked for more detail on how regional women’s facilities operate, how community-provider cuts might affect reentry services, how no-cost phone/tablet communication is balanced against programming time, and what the most essential programs are if funding is reduced. The sheriffs said programming must come first, identified mental health, substance use treatment, domestic violence programming, and housing/job placement as critical, and explained that community organizations and the Registry of Motor Vehicles are key partners in reentry. They also described their approach to gang management through classification, separation, and information sharing, and noted that the Registry has become more flexible but Real ID requirements have made documentation barriers more significant. The commission chair stressed that the purpose of the study is collaboration and improving system performance, not an adversarial effort against the sheriffs or a decarceration debate. Members noted that future meetings would hear from probation in June and the Department of Correction in July, and that the commission would continue gathering information before deciding on next steps. The meeting ended with a motion to adjourn, which passed unanimously.

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• We have a great deal of security in our program.
• They're buildings with solid walls and good security.
• They're buildings with solid walls and good security.
• They're buildings with solid walls and good security.
• would lose in cross-border sales.

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• Beyond Missouri, as the witness before him said, this is a matter of national security.
• He said she has been pulled into meetings with the White House and the Department of Homeland Security
• And even beyond the borders of the state of Missouri, as you heard from the witness before me, this is
• a matter of national security.
• how the work that she is doing is bolstering national security, making sure that we're moving into the

Keywords: 959, house, all

Summary: The committee first called the roll, established a quorum, and then heard Senate Bill 1553 from Senator Curtis Gregory. The bill is aimed at national defense and reshoring critical supply chains to the United States, including pharmaceuticals and critical minerals/materials used in defense and manufacturing. Gregory said the Senate had added clarifying language tying eligible materials to federal critical-material and FDA lists. Supporters testified that the bill could help Missouri compete in sectors now dominated by foreign producers, especially China and India, and could strengthen national security by encouraging domestic production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and critical minerals. Witnesses from Jost Chemical, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, the API Innovation Center, Doe Run, and Associated Industries of Missouri emphasized the difficulty of competing with subsidized foreign supply chains, the importance of transferable tax credits, and Missouri’s existing industrial base. Several witnesses noted that grants would be harder to administer and that federal support or price stability may still be needed for large-scale projects like mines. No one testified in opposition or for informational purposes. The committee then moved into executive session and voted unanimously to pass Senate Bill 1553, with nine ayes and zero nays.

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• <00:08:04.400> company<00:08:05.360> focused<00:08:05.759> on infrastructure company
• focused on infrastructure company focused on producing<00:08:06.479> ammonia<00:08:06.960>
• <00:09:34.080> cost and electrical infrastructure cost and electrical infrastructure cost
• These systems create local infrastructure and support rural communities.
• With this project, we will extend that same infrastructure to ammonia.

Bills: HF2103, HF4508

Keywords: energy, renewable energy, ammonia, hydrogen, certificate tracking, funding, environment, elk, cervidae, cervid importation, chronic wasting disease, CWD, animal health, livestock, wildlife disease, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, state veterinarian, zoo, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, AZA

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• stewardship district in unincorporated Marion County allowing for long term financing and maintaining infrastructure
• So they can levy any type of assessments for infrastructure, for water quality, for environmental, there's
• treating the property abutting an urban service area as if it is within the area, it collapses any border
• install, operate and maintain stormwater and floodwater facilities as well as other community infrastructure

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• maintain community infrastructure maintain community infrastructure necessary<00:15:43.640> to
• significant amount of infrastructure significant amount of infrastructure needs<00:21:28.640>
• . infrastructure. infrastructure.
• them, basic water infrastructure them, basic water infrastructure available<00:32:06.880> to<
• critical railway infrastructure. critical railway infrastructure.

Keywords: 1183, house