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• DEVELOP DURING THE PREGNANCY.
• Black women are 60% more likely to develop preeclampsia than white women.
• BLACK WOMEN ARE 60% MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP PREECLAMPSIA THAN WHITE WOMEN.
• The exit strategy is a national solution, or one that you suggested possibly.
• He dedicated his life to workforce development and mentorship.

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate convened, approved the journal, and then moved through a large number of motions to discharge bills from committees and substitute identical Senate bills for third reading. The chamber also received and accepted a Finance Committee report on nominations for Kathleen Mosier as Commissioner of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Terrence O’Leary as Commissioner of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, and John Kagia as Executive Director of the Office of Cannabis Management. All three nominees were confirmed, with Mosier and O’Leary confirmed unanimously and Kagia confirmed 57-1, with Senator Walczyk voting no. The Senate adopted previously approved resolutions recognizing June 2026 as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month and mourning the death of Susan Irene Wright of Harlem. Senators Brisport and Bottcher spoke at length in support of Pride Month, emphasizing LGBTQ+ history, resilience, and ongoing threats to the trans community. On the Susan Wright resolution, Senators Cleare, Bailey, and Bottcher praised her community leadership, philanthropy, and family legacy, and Assembly Member Jordan Wright was recognized in the chamber. The body then considered and passed many bills on the calendar, including measures on insurance, environmental conservation, public health, education, business law, labor, social services, highway law, and local tax exemptions. Several bills drew brief explanations of vote, including a measure to end higher insurance premiums for widows, a bill to prohibit correctional facilities from denying visitation because of menstrual products or IUDs, and a Medicaid-related bill to expand access to blood pressure monitors for pregnant people. Most bills passed with broad support, though some had notable opposition from a small group of senators. Late in the session, the Senate took up a proposed constitutional amendment on redistricting. Senator Stewart-Cousins sponsored the measure, and Senator Walczyk questioned it extensively, arguing voters had previously approved an independent redistricting process and objecting to changes that would remove the Legislature’s two-thirds map-approval requirement and alter the commission’s role. The sponsor said the changes were needed in response to aggressive partisan redistricting in other states and would still require voter ratification in future sessions. The transcript ends during that debate, with no final vote on the amendment shown.

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• And that can be— that can go into your exit strategy.
• That can be financed into the exit strategy also.”
• is shrinking and everyday costs are climbing, we have a responsibility to pursue every available strategy
• We definitely support the establishment of this fund and its ability to create a strategy for more financial
• and cryptocurrency, I thought it appropriate to move the state in a direction where we could also develop

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• And we've really recommended a four-part strategy: attract more working age adults, optimize current
• Attract more working age strategy.
• <00:43:18.800> programs, workforce development programs, workforce development programs, investing
• <01:03:51.920> is experiencing economic development is experiencing economic development is
• Development districts bill, House Bill 7, in the 2025 session.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Major Tax Provisions in H.R. 1 (Public Law 119-21) 00:02:45 Kentucky’s Workforce 00:33:35, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the minutes and heard a brief member introduction before taking up an overview of major tax provisions in HR1, referred to by the presenters as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Representatives from the Kentucky Society of CPAs explained new federal deductions for tips, overtime, and car loan interest; a new tax-favored “Trump account” for children; expanded bonus depreciation and Section 179 expensing for businesses; changes to R&D expensing; and a new limit on wagering loss deductions. Members asked several clarifying questions about the duration of the provisions, W-2 and 1099 reporting changes, and how overtime deductions would work. The presenters emphasized that tips and overtime remain subject to payroll taxes and that many of the business provisions are permanent, while the individual deductions are temporary through 2028 or otherwise phased in over time. The discussion then shifted to individual and nonprofit provisions, including the increase in the state and local tax itemized deduction cap from $10,000 to $40,000 with income-based phaseouts, the temporary senior deduction, and a new deduction for car loan interest with income limits and vehicle qualifications. On charitable giving, the presenters described a permanent nonitemizer deduction, new floors for individual and corporate charitable deductions, and a new scholarship-granting organization credit that would allow donors to receive a dollar-for-dollar federal credit up to $1,700, beginning in 2027. Members focused heavily on the SGO provision, asking about state implementation, oversight, whether churches would qualify, and whether the credit could support both public and private education. The presenters said the state would need to establish the mechanism and that additional federal guidance is still pending. After the tax presentation, the committee heard from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce on workforce issues, with a focus on child care and housing as barriers to labor force participation. Chamber representatives said they were not proposing large new government programs, but rather targeted policy recommendations for the 2026 session. They described Kentucky’s long-term decline in workforce participation since 2000, attributing much of it to demographic change, an aging population, and fewer younger workers entering the labor force. The presentation continued into a broader discussion of workforce trends and the need for practical policy responses, but no votes or formal actions were taken on these informational items.

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• response to rising burnout and workforce strain, to collaborate and advance research, leadership development
• , and shared solutions that strengthen resilience, improve workplace culture, Leadership development
• He has been honored by Tucson Mayor Regina Romero for his role in the development and training of the
• His work focuses on responsible and sustainable real estate development.
• We have put our faith in the development of new technologies for putting people to death and debated

Keywords: 1182, all

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• There's a lot to get developed as you can imagine.
• Witness: Yeah, in terms of data center development, yes.
• and how it's going and the development and growth.
• economic development as well.
• When developers and operators need large loads, who should bear that cost?

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• The Texas Water Development Board has actively, has actively addressed these needs, providing more than
• Additionally, permitting reform and design-built procurement strategies can reduce construction times
• Flood infrastructure, the plan that was implemented to the Texas Water Development Board, like planning
• Uh, criteria to help develop those grades.
• Uh, but also is that there's a lot more development going on downstream of dams.

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• thing is we would continue developing thing is we would continue developing zeroc<00:24:32.840><
• Technology support for developing Technology support for developing highest<00:25:26.440> quality
• Development Development Associates<00:50:03.799> as<00:50:03.960> you<00:50:04.079>
• I'd like to start with the development I'd like to start with the Workforce<00:51:55.160> Development
• <01:41:15.920> we Employment and economic development we Employment and economic development

Keywords: 1183, house

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• here in our state and that's development here in our state and that's what<00:04:56.039> this
• And Section 5 states that it is the goal of the Minnesota state of Minnesota to support the development
• Section 5 states that it is the goal of the Minnesota state of Minnesota to support the development and
• Section 5 states that it is the goal of the Minnesota state of Minnesota to support the development and
• Section 5 states that it is the goal of the Minnesota state of Minnesota to support the development and

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The House Energy Finance and Policy Committee met to approve the January 16 minutes and then heard House File 9, which was referred to the Committee on Taxes after the committee’s action. The bill was presented as an energy policy measure aimed at reliability and affordability. It would expand hydroelectric power’s eligibility under the state’s energy standard, delay certain carbon-free compliance requirements for utilities that do not meet a retail rate benchmark, prohibit local permits to demolish fossil fuel plants under certain conditions, state support for carbon capture and sequestration without creating a state funding obligation, end the nuclear moratorium, and expand the sales tax exemption for residential natural gas and electricity used as primary heat year-round starting after June 30, 2026. The committee also took up and adopted the A1 author’s amendment, which clarified that the carbon capture language does not obligate state spending. The bill’s sponsor argued that Minnesota’s current energy policy is driving up costs and threatening reliability, especially during extreme cold, and said the bill would create “off-ramps” from existing mandates to protect ratepayers and businesses. He cited reliability concerns, MISO/NERC risk assessments, rising utility rates, and the need for an all-of-the-above energy approach, including hydro and nuclear. He also said the bill would reduce taxes by broadening the sales tax exemption for residential heating. Testimony was mixed but generally focused on reliability, affordability, and the role of nuclear power. The Minnesota Rural Electric Association and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce supported the bill’s emphasis on keeping power reliable and affordable, with both saying Minnesota needs dispatchable, carbon-free resources and noting concerns about high electricity costs and future demand from data centers and AI. The Prairie Island Indian Community opposed lifting the nuclear moratorium without a viable waste solution, describing the long-term burden of spent nuclear fuel on its community and asking for more consultation. Xcel Energy said its nuclear plants have operated safely and reliably for decades, support low-cost and low-carbon power, and could be part of the state’s energy transition, but it emphasized the need for tribal participation and said decisions about retiring fossil plants should remain within the existing Public Utilities Commission resource planning process.

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• We need to try to support business development, but certainly we want to support business development
• Now, I want to be clear: there are some developers, third-party developers, that develop data centers
• and then Third-party developers that develop data centers and then host a tenant like a hyperscaler,
• So we have a lot of development going on, and I have concerns.
• We are an infrastructure developer exclusively in West Texas.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• firsthand how safety challenges and resources vary. dramatically, region by region, and I've worked to develop
• strategies tailored to each of those unique environments.
• student health plans and ensure they are backed by sound actuarial principles and risk mitigation strategies
• belief, my perspective is we're trying to address broadly these kind of scenarios. areas that can develop
• I'm here because we wanted to express. solutions to the bill and just to talk about some of the strategies

Bills: SB604, SB843, SB1636, SB2395, SB571, SB1224, SB1832, SB2392, SB747, SB2623, SB2624, SB2185

Keywords: bonds, education funding, Texas Permanent School Fund, financial transparency, speculative rating, school funding, deferred maintenance, tax revenue, education budget, school districts, education, finance, Texas Education Code, misconduct, child abuse, educators, investigation, criminal offense, education law, suspension

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• Bureau of Child Development. Bureau of Child Development.
• developing developing the<00:12:44.720> application<00:12:46.000> with<00:12:46.480>
• of the Child Care and Development Fund.
• They childare and development fund.
• funding the child care and development funding the child care and development fund. federal<01:18

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• facilities and our youth development facilities and our youth development centers<00:32:07.279><
• development centers. development centers.
• ><00:53:22.400> transmit strategies to model and transmit strategies to model and transmit effective
• juveniles. uh and their development juveniles. uh and their development alike. alike. alike.
• Uh, so in a youth development center.

Keywords: Meeting Start: 00:00:03 Roll Call: 00:00:09 Agency Updates: 00:01:44 Juvenile Justice Advisory Board Update: 00:03:36 Department of Juvenile Justice Update: 00:23:10, 958, all

Summary: The Juvenile Justice Oversight Council approved the minutes from its November 8, 2024 meeting and welcomed new member Representative Nick Wilson. The council also heard an update from the Administrative Office of the Courts on a school attendance awareness campaign aimed at reducing truancy referrals to court, and a member requested a future, more detailed presentation on truancy trends. The council then received an update from the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board from Dr. David Frink and Elsie Berger. They described the board’s membership, meeting schedule, public access, annual report and three-year plan, and its role in helping Kentucky remain compliant with federal juvenile justice requirements so the state can receive Title II funding. They said the board reviews grant applications for community-based services, substance use, and early intervention programs, with about $584,000 in federal funds this year and a little over $600,000 expected next year. Members asked about participation, board vacancies, and how to engage with the board, and the presenters emphasized the importance of statewide representation and community input. The Department of Juvenile Justice then provided a broader update through Commissioner Randy White and Deputy Secretary Mona Wamik. White said DJJ is under an ongoing U.S. Department of Justice investigation focused on conditions in detention facilities, including use of force, isolation, abuse, mental health care, and special education, and said the department has cooperated with repeated information requests and site visits. He also reviewed recent legislative and administrative changes, including 2023 Senate Bill 162, regional detention planning, facility segregation requirements, staffing and salary investments, improved staffing levels, reduced mental health vacancies, and training efforts related to security threat groups. He said DJJ has made progress but continues to work on staffing, safety, and facility improvements.

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• with, develop operational and tactical plans for law enforcement, coordinate support public and private
• We have shared our warrant list, which we developed on our own with our federal partners, ICE and HSI
• To assist, we developed a top 10 criminal illegal immigrant list to offer rewards for citizen tips.
• I'm the Deputy Attorney General for legal strategy at the Attorney General's office.
• Um, where do you see that kind of discussion and dialogue and strategy taking place?

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• So first on LCFF and special... and professional development discretionary block grant, subject matter
• We did consult with Fresno State University, who has developed a proof of concept of using artificial
• When I was laid off from my research position on conservation science curriculum development at UCLA
• I'm grateful for this. on behalf of the consortium for developing leadership and science.
• When I was laid off for my research position on conservation science curriculum development at UCLA in

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• The city is currently re-evaluating strategies for the site.
• The site remains a key development opportunity for Bloomington.
• The city is currently re-evaluating strategies for the site.
• The city is currently re-evaluating strategies for the site.
• The city is currently re-evaluating strategies for the site.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Strategies, here on behalf of the California Nurse Midwives Association, a proud co-sponsor and support
• These are developed children, and the methods are brutal.
• It's upstream youth leadership development.
• But young people whose brains are still developing are particularly vulnerable to long-term negative
• Pisa La Bravo with Crew Strategies on behalf of the City of San Jose, in support. Thank you.

Summary: The Assembly Health Committee heard a long agenda of health-related bills, with most items presented for later vote once quorum was reached. Early in the hearing, the committee adopted a consent calendar of multiple bills with motions for due pass to Appropriations, and it noted that AB 2029 had been pulled from the agenda. The committee also took up AB 1973, a bill by Aguiar-Curry to expand who may provide procedural abortion care. Supporters, including physicians and certified nurse midwives, argued the bill would align law with current training and improve access, while opponents said later-term abortion procedures require physician-level surgical training and raised safety concerns. The author emphasized hands-on training, consultation, and transfer protocols, and the bill was held pending quorum with a motion and second recorded. The committee then heard AB 1558 by Arambula, which would adopt the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act to speed the use of out-of-state licensed volunteers during declared disasters. Supporters from the Uniform Law Commission and the Red Cross said the bill would reduce delays and clarify legal authority for volunteer health workers; there was no opposition testimony. AB 2282 by Alanis, a temporary rural emergency stabilization center for Patterson while a permanent hospital is built, drew support from local emergency responders and a late opposition from the California chapter of ACEP. The chair praised the bill as a creative local solution and agreed to coauthor it; a motion and second were recorded, with the vote to occur later. Several public health access bills followed. AB 1843 by El-Hawari would limit prior authorization and align hepatitis C treatment coverage with medical guidelines; supporters said it would remove barriers to a curable disease, while health plans opposed it as a mandate, citing premium impacts and the recent SB 306 prior-authorization process. AB 2247 by El-Hawari would create the THRIVE program for mental health services for youth affected by gun violence; Youth Alive and other supporters described trauma-informed, community-based care, and the chair and another member asked to be added as coauthors. AB 2138 by Krell would expand access to certified peer support specialists in enhanced care management and remove automatic disqualifications based solely on criminal history; supporters said peers are essential to engagement and recovery, and the bill was held with a motion and second. Later, AB 1682 by Hart would require coverage of scalp cooling for chemotherapy patients, with emotional testimony from cancer survivors and clinicians; insurers opposed it as another mandate, but the author stressed the modest per-member cost and the bill was moved with a motion and second. AB 1879 by Dixon would standardize data reporting for alcohol and drug treatment facilities, including private providers, to improve statewide information on outcomes and access; the bill drew broad support from recovery organizations and the prior opposition was withdrawn after amendments. AB 1906 by Aguiar-Curry would require coverage of at-home cervical cancer screening kits without cost sharing; supporters cited improved access for rural and working Californians, insurers opposed it on affordability grounds, and the bill passed on a recorded roll call after quorum was established. Finally, AB 1556 by Haney would clarify and support drug-free recovery housing and return-to-use policies; supporters said it would expand sober housing options, while opponents warned it could allow evictions after relapse and conflict with Housing First principles. The hearing ended with the bill still under discussion and opposition-unless-amended concerns noted.

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• Another 100 million dollars for workforce development.
• And this will include the development and implementation of various programs and incentives to improve
• We want to develop that allocation funding formula with our universities.
• I live in Tampa, Florida, in the real estate development business all over the Southeast.
• I spent 9 years on the FSU Foundation chaired the Development Committee and chaired the endowment for

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• So HPIA developed two products.
• Therefore, the HPIA board, a year or so ago, had to re-evaluate their purchasing strategy.
• It's written in a programming language that barely anybody knows how to develop anymore.
• develop develop anymore<00:37:42.880> it's<00:37:43.079> old<00:37:43.480> and<
• It's a new, developing, emerging event.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• <00:01:23.000> on screening professional development on screening professional development
• <00:03:45.239> options have professional development options have professional development
• <00:34:45.879> are ongoing professional development are ongoing professional development are
• our teachers professional development our teachers professional development time<00:38:24.920>
• taught and so as those things develop taught and so as those things develop there<01:56:01.400><

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I think we've had many conversations, and we are very interested in supporting housing development.
• When a developer submits an application for funding, the developer strives to get as many points as possible
• adopts any of these local policies that have the net benefit of making it easier to develop housing
• Let me give an example: let's say a development is seeking to build affordable single-family homes in
• That is the first step forward on things that we need to get done because those are proven strategies