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• welfare system in New Mexico without including the Medicaid program.
• We felt the system should be trauma responsive.
• And then we have the dispute resolution system.
• System, but what are we going to do to invest in families?
• He could easily have ended up in the system.

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• SB 500 seeks to decrease wait times for adopting children from the foster care system by establishing
• We need continuity in any place that we can get it right now in the system, and this bill offers that
• So it's a much-needed bill in our system currently. Thank you.
• It gets them out of the foster care system and gets them into a forever home where they're not going
• So it's a much needed bill in our system currently. Thank you.

Bills: SB500, SB1522, SB1137, SB1266

Keywords: SB 500, Texas adoption law, Family Code, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, child-placing agency, prospective adoptive parents, adoption records, confidential information, nondisclosure agreement, child history report, health history, social history, educational history, genetic history, termination of parental rights, permanency plan, single source continuum contractor, privacy, redaction

Summary: The Committee on Human Services met with a quorum and first voted out Senate Bill 1589, relating to contract requirements between a single-source continuum contractor and DFPS. The motion to report the bill favorably to the full House with a recommendation that it do pass and be printed prevailed on a 7-0 vote. The committee then heard Senate Bill 500, which would set deadlines for providing foster care adoption records, including health, social, educational, and genetic history reports, to speed adoptions. The bill’s author and witnesses from Addie’s Hope Social Services supported it, saying delays in redacted files can take months, slow permanency for children, and increase costs to the state. Members asked about redactions and sibling/family information, and witnesses explained the bill would mainly speed the preliminary file used to decide whether to proceed with placement. SB 500 was left pending. Members also heard Senate Bill 1266, which would require regular reevaluation of the Medicaid provider support team and add written notice of provider disenrollment at least 30 days in advance. There were no witnesses, no questions, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1522, concerning continuing care retirement communities, was then laid out and supported by LeadingAge Texas and counsel, who said it updates outdated definitions, clarifies licensing and disclosure rules, and strengthens consumer protections for seniors. It was also left pending. After a brief recess, the committee heard Senate Bill 1137, which would prohibit group home consultants from referring people to unlicensed or unpermitted group homes except in limited circumstances, require disclosure of complaints, and create a Class B misdemeanor for violations. Members discussed whether consultants are regulated and noted concerns about unlicensed referral practices. The bill was left pending, and the committee adjourned after completing its agenda.

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• . ...backup from a reuse system.
• So we've looked at expanding our reclaim system throughout the city.
• systems.
• That primary remedy is a saltwater intrusion barrier system.
• That primary remedy is a saltwater intrusion barrier system.

Summary: The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources met to hear a panel discussion on implementation of Senate Bill 64 (2021), which requires elimination of non-beneficial wastewater discharges to surface waters by 2032. Department of Environmental Protection staff reported that utility plans have been approved, about 570 million gallons per day are expected to be eliminated under the plans, and roughly 176 million gallons per day have already been eliminated. The department emphasized ongoing annual reporting, continued coordination with utilities, and the need for projects such as reuse, indirect potable reuse, wet-weather backup discharges, groundwater recharge, and other beneficial uses to meet the law’s 90% reuse requirement in applicable cases. Representatives from Flagler Beach, Atlantic Beach, JEA, and Hillsborough County described how the law affects different utilities. Smaller and coastal systems said they face major cost, space, salinity, and infrastructure constraints, with limited reuse opportunities and expensive alternatives such as deep well injection or regional transfer. Larger systems described substantial capital programs already underway, including public access reuse, indirect potable reuse, regional recharge projects, and saltwater intrusion barrier wells, with costs ranging from tens of millions to billions of dollars. Members and witnesses discussed the need for flexibility, regional solutions, and case-by-case permitting, and the Florida Rural Water Association asked the committee to consider hardship provisions and funding or exemption adjustments for smaller systems. The committee then took up SPB 7002, a proposed bill by the Environment and Natural Resources Committee relating to water management districts. Senator Broder explained that the bill would increase transparency, improve planning and budgeting oversight, create a gift ban, support local referendum authority for certain ad valorem funding, and provide record-level funding for Everglades restoration. After a question from Senator Smith about whether the ad valorem language was expansive or restrictive, Senator Broder said it would add a new funding tool for districts. The committee adopted a motion to submit SPB 7002 as a committee bill, and it was reported favorably by roll call vote. The meeting then adjourned.

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• implementing computer vision systems implementing computer vision systems that<00:03:33.560>
• we're flawed and then in the systems we're flawed and then in the systems that<00:36:40.599>
• <00:54:48.520> AI businesses and local school systems AI businesses and local school systems
• Many AI systems require nurses to spend more time on data entry, documentation, and system oversight.
• algorithmic Management Systems algorithmic Management Systems surveillance<01:08:45.279> and<

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• THE NEXT FIVE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, BECAME A SCHOOLTEACHER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
• WHAT THE SYSTEM DID FOR MY FAMILY I COULD NEVER PUT A VALUE ON.
• TO YOUR POINT UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY. >> I WANT TO SAY THAT FLORIDA SYSTEM HAS HANDLED ANTI-SEMITISM
• THIS ADDED 11.5 MILLION IN LOST REVENUE OVER THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.
• OR IS EVEN DESCRIBED AS STUDENTS THAT ARE CAUGHT IN A SYSTEM OF GENERATIONAL POVERTY.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• There is a trail summit celebrating the 10th anniversary and Florida Sun Trail system.
• or which relieve congestion on the state highway system.
• So this transportation system enables multiple use cases.
• And as the systems more scale love will see those networks build out a little bit more.
• There is third-party service approvals for utm systems that manage that drone traffic.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• The bill, as it was originally drafted, proposes a large systemic change to the health care system for
• forward with that, will provide the information that will allow us to design an actuarially sound system
• the administrators and boards to have the information that we all need to be able to design a good system
• forward with that, will provide the information that will allow us to design an actuarially sound system
• the administrators and boards to have the information that we all need to be able to design a good system

Keywords: 1183, house

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• that there is no system that there is no system present<00:37:21.079> um<00:37:21.640>
• For that system, we will need to do more investigation and identify whether that system will be able
• be like a pediatrician or um lab system be like a pediatrician or um lab system to<00:39:05.280>
• If you were a systems manager, you would look at this the way systems managers look at the concept of
• outside the system.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• <00:05:06.320> in support of all three Delivery Systems in support of all three Delivery Systems
• <01:06:08.760> in system in system in 2017<01:06:10.640> through 2017 through 2017 through
• My experience with the legal system left me feeling worse than before I turned to the system for help
• <02:04:28.880> uh response or the armor radio system uh response or the armor radio system
• somewhere in our system somewhere in our system that<02:11:21.960> you<02:11:22.119> would

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <00:04:10.879> or resource-based relative value system or resource-based relative value system
• <00:56:55.039> money overall health care System money overall health care System money focusing
• <01:10:04.320> right to tie to other than that system right to tie to other than that system
• now but just understand that that system now but just understand that that system is<01:10:06.840
• to be in school and our school systems to be in school and our school systems are<01:19:13.760><

Bills: HF1005

Keywords: health insurance, medical assistance, behavioral health, reimbursement rates, primary care services, physician fee schedule, managed care, residential services, 1183, house

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• It's called SBS, state-based systems, and in that system we can collect all the data and complaints.
• we can zigg or zag through the system. we can zigg or zag through the system.
• Uh, the SPS data system, 39 states out of the 50 use that system, and that system would be sufficient
• You've got five hospital systems.
• No recorded Systems created in 03.

Keywords: Government Structure - Room 409, 12 January, 2026; 2:00 P.M., 925, all

Summary: The committee held its first meeting under its new Government Structure Committee name and began by electing Senator Chris Johnson as secretary. The chair explained the committee’s purpose as improving efficiency, effectiveness, and stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and said members had asked statewide officials and agencies for ideas on streamlining government and reducing costs. Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gibson testified at length about ways his agency has found efficiencies, especially after the COVID-era consolidation of three agencies into one. He said state procurement and construction rules can add major time and cost to projects, citing a proposed $300,000 building that grew to about $1 million through the state process. He recommended raising repair and quote thresholds, streamlining construction procedures, reconsidering restrictions on payments between state agencies, and allowing more flexibility for agencies to help one another when authorized. Members questioned Gibson about the repair caps, the construction cost increase, Ticketmaster and other technology/vendor arrangements, and whether agencies should have more decentralized control over contracts. The chair and several senators agreed the committee should examine red tape, vendor relationships, and procurement rules, and Gibson said he would provide more information and work with the committee. No formal legislation was acted on in the portion provided. The transcript then shifted to testimony from the Insurance Commissioner, who said his department is heavily affected by IT and board structure issues and oversees 17 boards. He urged consolidation of some boards, criticized the effects of SB 2362 on special-fund agencies, and said the State Fire Academy and other operations have been constrained by general-fund treatment and limited authority. He also discussed insurance-rate pressures, including projected premium increases, wind pool rate concerns on the Gulf Coast, and the need for mitigation to stabilize costs.

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• As mentioned previously, the proposal aims to better integrate within the larger statewide system of
• California Multi-Tiered System of Support funding. Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
• On community schools, we encourage a system of investment to support existing sites and expand access
• More than 30 local and sustain the California multi-tiered system of support.
• and equity guardrails, which focus the improvement system on student subgroup performance.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• Navigate the system.
• A system that could save taxpayer money is a bad system.
• The League of Women Voters supports election systems.
• So to switch to a ranked-choice system would do it.
• It's tied to the same system on a daily basis.

Bills: HB376, HB817, HB 1297, HB1478, HB1661, HB1783

Keywords: HB 817, Texas Election Code, majority vote, majority threshold, ranked-choice voting, preferential voting, instant runoff voting, vote reassignment, ballot ranking, election administration, public office election, Election Code Section 2.0215, runoff elections, plurality vs majority, voting systems, education reform, budget allocation, teacher retention, student performance, accountability measures

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• But the thing is, we have a very complicated system about how we pay for the needs of people.
• Well, if you have a system that's got that many workarounds, let's fix the system.
• I mean, that's just the government system, and give and take, and there's an administration.
• <00:03:51.319> of really with there's there's a system of really with there's there's a system
• 04:41.440> so workarounds let's fix the system and so workarounds let's fix the system and so

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And that's doing our work through the educational system, whether that's with the university system,
• with K-12 schools, or the Florida college system.
• We work across the state university system.
• We work across the state university system.
• Can you tell us about the existing system? When was it built?

Summary: The subcommittee held its first meeting to examine Florida’s information technology governance, budgeting, cybersecurity, data management, and telecommunications operations. Chair Schneider and other members framed the panel as a new joint policy-and-budget forum focused on reducing jargon, improving accountability, and asking whether technology investments are feasible, aligned with state goals, cost-controlled, and secure. State Affairs Chairman Will Robinson and members emphasized that the committee should avoid buying “shiny new objects” without clear business cases and should focus on long-term value, cybersecurity, and operational efficiency. Florida Digital Service and Department of Management Services leaders provided an overview of the state IT enterprise. Secretary Pedro Allende described DMS as the state’s business, workforce, and technology service provider, while State CIO Warren Spanholz outlined Florida Digital Service’s four core areas: cybersecurity, project success, data interoperability, and enterprise architecture. Chief Data Officer Ed Ryan said the state data catalog is about 400,000 elements and roughly half of agencies are participating, and he described efforts to identify authoritative data sources and improve interoperability. Chief Information Security Officer Jeremy Rogers discussed the state cybersecurity operations center, enterprise risk management, incident response exercises, and a recurring $35 million cybersecurity resiliency budget. Chief Technology Officer Leo Schoonover described oversight of major IT projects over $10 million, updated project management standards, and a shift toward smaller phased implementations and more flexible methodologies to reduce delays and overruns. Other presenters covered telecommunications, data center operations, and cybersecurity workforce development. Director Denise Atkins said the Division of Telecommunications manages Suncom and MyFloridaNet, with nearly $336.9 million appropriated for fiscal year 2024-25, and is procuring the next network contract while emphasizing security controls and vendor flexibility. Tim Brown said the Northwest Regional Data Center operates on a chargeback basis, serves state and local customers, and returned surpluses to customers in recent years. Cyber Florida Director Ernie Ferraroso described training, workforce pipelines, K-12 outreach, a cyber range, and research programs aimed at building Florida’s cyber workforce and improving public-sector readiness. Members asked about budget setting, project delays, change orders, cybersecurity reporting, data catalog participation, interoperability, and expanding cybersecurity operations centers. Officials said chargeback rates are based on actual direct and indirect costs, project delays often stem from unclear scope and insufficient upfront planning, and cybersecurity success is measured by mean time to detect, respond, and recover. They also said the state is moving toward more modular project delivery, broader agency participation in shared cybersecurity services, and expanded CSOC locations within existing staff and budget where feasible.

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• When our systems are stronger, our classrooms are stronger.
• We have, through the APS school system, the public school system, and the charter system, experienced
• However, their needs were not properly met through the educational system.
• Chair and Representative Roybal Caballero, having a statewide system in part...
• This memorial does not change accountability systems. It does not change funding.

Bills: HB30, HB120, HJR1, SB210, SB306

Keywords: teacher residency, Teacher Residency Act, public schools, teacher preparation, educator pipeline, teacher recruitment, teacher retention, student teachers, apprenticeship, co-teaching, mentor teachers, residency stipend, teacher salary, level one teacher, charter schools, school districts, New Mexico education, teacher workforce, principal stipend, cohort model

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• We won't be able to function, and the court system will grind to a halt.
• Projects throughout the state include roofing repairs, mechanical systems, plumbing systems, interior
• Projects include roofing repairs, mechanical systems, plumbing systems, interior improvements, and site
• Projects include roofing repairs, mechanical systems, plumbing systems, interior improvements, and site
• JJ is the system that maintains all the information on the youth.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• The system implemented MFA most recently.
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a phone system provided by Zoom.
• On the topic of a tiered system or other classification system for the DLAs. other kind of classification
• system for the DLAs.
• For a tiered system or other type of classification system that delineates between levels based on the

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• system. Thanks. system. Thanks.
• date in our system. date in our system.
• We have a learning management system and we have much of our training in the learning management system
• <01:13:19.840> is access to our case management system is access to our case management system
• One of the case management system.

Bills: HF2825

Keywords: expungement, criminal justice, background check, security industry, private detective, 1183, house

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• Moving on to HB 734, relating to wastewater systems.
• What was the reasoning for limiting households on a septic system?
• more dwellings per system, you're getting more toward a centralized treatment system.
• That's why we don't push individual wastewater systems.
• And so a big part is really... pluging the system so how again we're pluging the system so how again

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint hearing covered several bills focused on environmental protection and wastewater management. HB 26 HD 2, relating to environmental protection, drew support from the Department of Health, Reworld, and Energy Justice Network. Supporters said it would preserve existing standards for waste-to-energy facilities, including H-Power, even if federal EPA rules are weakened, while Energy Justice Network urged the state to go further and require stronger pollution controls on older burners at the plant. HB 734 and HB 735, both relating to wastewater systems, received broad support from state agencies, county representatives, realtors, environmental groups, and others. Testimony emphasized reducing the cost of cesspool upgrades, updating rules, and improving coordination between the Department of Health, counties, and the University of Hawaiʻi. Members raised concerns about whether some areas, such as Ewa, should be treated differently if they are not near aquifers or the ocean, but the department said the existing prioritization process already considered statewide conditions and that cesspools generally still affect water resources. On HB 735, the committee discussed the current bedroom-based limits for individual wastewater systems and whether the bill would allow more flexibility for housing configurations, with the department explaining the limits are tied to density and system capacity. HB 879, relating to cesspool conversions, was also supported by the Department of Health, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and several advocacy groups. Testimony said the bill would help low- and moderate-income homeowners in priority areas by increasing grant assistance for cesspool upgrades, but the Department of Health noted it would need three full-time positions to administer the program. Members asked for clarification on the grant amount and staffing costs, and the department indicated the grant cap should remain at $20,000 unless changed. HB 918, relating to labeling of non-flushable wipes, drew support from wastewater and industry groups, including the Association of Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, which said similar laws have passed in other states and that the bill reflects cooperation between manufacturers and wastewater officials. The Department of Health and county officials supported the concept but said enforcement and outreach would require additional staff, and senators questioned whether the state could effectively enforce the labeling requirement without a national standard.