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• Please call the next regulation: Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection
• Please call the next regulation: Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection
• Please call the next regulation: Public Protection Cabinet, Department of Insurance, 806 KAR 9:360.
• That's the consumer protection division, and I think we're trying to work through the process of how
• Division and I think consumer protection Division and I think we're<00:26:36.039> work<00:26:

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee met on February 10 with a quorum present, approved the minutes, and then reviewed a long agenda of agency regulations, most of which were accompanied by staff-suggested amendments for drafting conformity under KRS Chapter 13A. The Department of Financial Institutions’ 808 KAR 9:10, the Secretary of State’s 030 KAR 2:11, the Office of the Attorney General’s 04 KAR 5:10, the Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology’s emergency 201 KAR 17:120, the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources’ 301 KAR 2:41, the Department for Environmental Protection’s 401 KAR 47:110 and 48:320, the State Police regulations 502 KAR 1:012 and 1:121, the Department for Public Health’s 902 KAR 4:15, the Department for Medicaid Services’ 907 KAR 1:15, and the Department for Community Based Services’ 921 KAR 1:400 were all discussed and, where applicable, staff amendments were approved without objection. The Workplace Standards emergency regulation 803 KAR 2:320E was also presented without amendment, and the Department of Insurance’s 806 KAR 9:360 was taken up but ultimately deferred at the agency’s request. Several regulations drew brief substantive discussion. The Fish and Wildlife rule on foxhound training enclosures was explained as expanding both commercial and non-commercial provisions for training with dogs involving red fox and coyotes, with enclosure standards intended to protect wildlife inside and outside the facilities. The environmental protection rules were tied to House Bill 478 and addressed permit-by-rule timelines, reporting, and operating standards for certain construction and demolition debris landfills, including sites up to two acres; members asked whether these facilities were private or municipal, and staff said they were a mix, often tied to private demolition contractors or single projects. The State Police fee increase for hazardous materials endorsements was described as reflecting a federal TSA fee change, and the witness estimated the new fee at about $23. The most extended debate concerned the Board of Education’s 704 KAR 3:535 on full-time virtual and remote learning programs. The agency amendment would cap enrollment in such programs at 10% above a district’s prior-year in-person enrollment, while also clarifying accountability, staffing, and monitoring requirements. Education officials said the cap was intended to address concerns about district capacity and student performance, and they cited Cloverport as an example of a district with high virtual participation and participation-rate issues. Members expressed concern that the amendment was too open-ended for regulation and suggested the issue might be better addressed in statute; no motion was made to adopt the agency amendment, so the regulation was left to proceed to the committee of jurisdiction. The Department of Insurance also discussed implementation of Senate Bill 188, saying it had received more than 3,000 complaints since the law took effect and was still working through enforcement and complaint processing before asking to defer its PBM licensing regulation.

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• Kelsey: ...we've seen in states that do implement title protection an increase in wages and also more
• , and that doctors aren't treated as second-class citizens for minor oversights.
• It's market protection. It's not public protection. We know it.
• It's not public protection. We know it we've been seeing these bills for years.
• So this encompasses all classes, including last-line hospital-grade agents.

Bills: SB1021, SB1144, SB1164, SB1178, SB1181, SB1241, SB1247, SB1286, SB1415, SCR1011

Keywords: health profession, regulatory boards, criminal activity, notification, auditor general, investigations, veterinary technicians, certification, education alternative, Arizona Revised Statutes, veterinary education, ALTCS, providers, ownership change, healthcare, Arizona Long Term Care System, naturopathic physician, naturopathic medicine, naturopathic doctor, naturopathic physicians medical board

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• Members, this is a bill that’s a consumer protection bill designed to protect our citizens when they’
• I think we do what we can to protect the consumer.
• that money, and they're here to protect that money, and I'm here to protect my constituents.
• My intent is to protect the ratepayers.
• And this is a widespread issue that unfortunately primarily affects middle class and working class families

Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 267, which would change the membership rules for the Louisiana State Board of Home Inspectors by adjusting appointment qualifications, term limits, and nomination procedures. Vice Chair Thomas explained the bill was meant to address the lack of nominations from existing entities and to allow the governor more flexibility, especially in smaller districts. After adopting a technical amendment, the committee reported HB 267 favorably. The committee then considered House Bill 478 on utility overcharge reimbursements. The bill, as amended, requires utilities to clearly label reimbursements on customer bills and sets a deadline for issuing refunds. After discussion with the Public Service Commission and utility representatives, the committee changed the reimbursement timeline from 45 days to 90 days and clarified that the bill would not interfere with larger settlement or regulatory credits. HB 478 was then reported favorably as amended. The longest discussion centered on House Bill 924, a consumer protection measure aimed at contractors who solicit residential property owners after declared disasters. The author said the bill was intended to curb predatory storm-chasing and fraudulent insurance-related practices, while still allowing emergency mitigation work. The committee adopted technical amendments and then a conceptual amendment shortening the catastrophe response period from six months to 30 days. Testimony was split: the Insurance Commissioner and some roofing industry witnesses supported the bill as a way to deter fraud, while other contractors argued it would hurt small businesses, limit legitimate door-to-door work, and not solve enforcement problems. The bill remained under consideration after extensive testimony and public comment.

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• of middle-class jobs.
• of middle class jobs.
• Then we ought to do it in a way that maximally protects safety and jobs.
• Then we ought to do it in a way that maximally protects safety and jobs.
• of the jobs that he claims he wants to see protected.

Summary: The Assembly Transportation Committee heard an informational hearing on California’s newly finalized autonomous vehicle regulations, with DMV and CHP officials describing the updated framework and committee members pressing them on safety, enforcement, and first-responder impacts. DMV said the rules, effective April 28, 2026, expand reporting, create a phased permitting system from testing to deployment, add requirements for safety cases, remote operations, and first-responder coordination, and open a path for heavy-duty AV testing and deployment while still prohibiting oversized loads and hazardous materials. CHP said it worked with DMV on enforcement tools, first-responder interaction plans, and training local agencies on the new notice of noncompliance process. Members asked about crash data, immobilizations, freeway and construction-zone safety, weigh-station enforcement, and whether foreign licenses can qualify for remote assistants or drivers; DMV and CHP said the rules are intended to keep AVs accountable and that heavy-duty AVs will be held to the same roadway standards as human-driven commercial vehicles. A second panel focused on data collection and enforcement. Consumer attorneys argued the prior rules were too limited because DMV stopped collecting meaningful data once AVs moved from testing to deployment, making it difficult for the public and litigants to understand incidents; they supported the new regulations but urged that the collected information be made public. The industry association said California now has the nation’s most robust AV oversight, with monthly or quarterly reporting of collisions, system failures, immobilizations, harsh braking, vehicle miles traveled, and notices of noncompliance, plus broad DMV authority to restrict or suspend operations. In response to questions, the industry said it generally supports the new framework, believes the regulations are clear, and does not favor full federal preemption of state AV rules, though it wants federal standards for design, construction, and performance. A third panel addressed first-responder interaction and remote operations. The San Francisco Fire Department described repeated AV interference with emergency scenes and said AVs have generated hundreds of “sleeper calls,” where passengers fall asleep and trigger 911 responses; the department said these incidents consume significant staff time and it wants better protocols to reduce unnecessary dispatches. Waymo said it has trained thousands of public-safety personnel, maintains a 24/7 emergency line, uses geofencing/avoid-the-area messages, and can allow first responders to manually override or move vehicles when needed. Committee members asked about sleeper-call prevention, remote assistant licensing and drug testing, communication redundancies during outages, and how manual overrides work for vehicles without traditional controls; Waymo said it is collaborating with responders and that its vehicles are designed to reach a safe stop if connectivity is lost. The final panel began with testimony on heavy-duty autonomous vehicles. A transportation researcher said freight is essential to California’s economy and that heavy-duty AVs pose distinct safety risks because of their weight, stopping distance, and the potentially severe consequences of crashes or immobilizations on highways. He said the new regulations are important because they create a regulated pathway for heavy-duty AV deployment, require a safety case, set mileage thresholds, and add reporting categories that can serve as leading safety indicators. The hearing was still in progress when the transcript ended, with additional testimony expected from labor and industry witnesses on heavy-duty AV deployment.

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• I mean, it really comes into play because I remember when I had to do the Parents Forever class, that
• That meant that could mean the difference for some people between getting food or paying for this class
• If we are looking to have the Supreme Court together a class with this, if that's a second amendment
• If we do an amendment that asks the Supreme Court to establish a class or a program, would we be able
• We have rules on domestic violence protection order rules and things like that.

Summary: The Child Custody Review Task Force met to approve prior minutes and then worked through draft legislation related to a possible family court study committee. The group discussed the proposed 15-member committee’s makeup in detail, including whether to add parent representation, judges, family law section members, child support, clerks of court, domestic violence advocates, and other stakeholders. The task force ultimately agreed to keep the committee at 15 members, reduce the legislative membership from eight to six, add two judges from different districts, add two family law section members with rural and urban representation, include one parent subject to a custody order, and replace the mental health professional with a clerk of court representative appointed through the trial court administrator’s office. The draft was also revised to keep domestic violence advocacy representation and to clarify that the study could consider juvenile court issues as part of the family court umbrella. The committee voted to approve the revised draft and recommend it to Legislative Management, with one recorded “no” vote from Judge Hovey after the meeting resumed. The task force then turned to a second draft dealing with requiring participation in a family transition program, which was renamed in discussion to a parenting education course. Members debated whether the bill should simply refer to an existing program like Parents Forever or instead specify broader education about the court process, parental rights, co-parenting, and related issues. Some members supported the requirement as a way to reduce conflict and improve understanding of the system, while others raised concerns about vague language, cost to parents, lack of exemptions, and whether the bill was too open-ended or potentially duplicative of other legislation. The discussion became lengthy and unresolved, with the drafter noting that more specific direction would be needed to revise the bill. The transcript cuts off before a final vote or action on this second draft is shown.

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• withdrawals and re-enrollment for undocumented students who are detained, deported, or unable to attend classes
• so important, so timely, given what's going on with the federal administration and being able to protect
• would help to streamline claim resolution and reduce litigation costs while still ensuring privacy protections
• would help to streamline claim resolution and reduce litigation costs while still ensuring privacy protections

Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on July 16, 2025, with a quorum present and 51 bills on the agenda. The chair reviewed public testimony rules, noted Assemblymember Arambula was absent, and took up the consent calendar. Several bills were approved on consent in two motions: one group eligible for the Assembly floor consent calendar and another group approved do pass with amendments. The suspense calendar was then deemed approved, covering a long list of Senate bills that were not individually heard. Two bills were presented before the committee. Senator Sívants presented SB 307, which would require CSU and UC to adopt protections for undocumented students affected by immigration enforcement, including preserving nonresident tuition exemption status, providing access to financial and academic support, and creating policies for grade withdrawals and re-enrollment. The California Faculty Association supported the bill, and an Assemblymember spoke in favor, citing the need to protect undocumented students; the bill was sent out on a roll call. Senator Allen presented SB 413, which would allow limited access to juvenile court records in certain civil and government claims cases to speed resolution and reduce costs, while maintaining privacy safeguards. The County of Los Angeles sponsored the bill, and it also moved out on a roll call, with Assemblymember Dixon not voting. After those presentations, the committee opened the floor for public comment on bills not heard that day, but no additional testimony was offered. The meeting then adjourned.

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• Interest rates, along with other asset classes, dropped significantly.
• New Mexico PERA has many different contribution rates for smaller classes of workers. contribution rates
• for smaller classes of workers, but for the most part, they are contributing.
• That's a property that's constitutionally protected.
• What is not protected is any future increase, and that's where you have heard from our You know, our

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• they don’t take longer than the entire classroom period so that we’re not having large disruptions to class
• can be grouped together in small groups so that students are taking a test that only takes a single class
• grouped together, uh, in small groups so that students are 263 taking a test that only takes a single class
• I believe once the complaint is filed, it is in fact an audit working paper protected under state law
• I believe once the complaint is 502 filed, it is in fact an audit working paper protected, um, uh, under

Bills: HB8

Keywords: HB 8, Texas public school accountability, school accountability, public school transparency, STAAR, state assessments, instructionally supportive assessment program, Student Success Tool, Texas Education Agency, TEA, accountability ratings, A-F ratings, through-year assessment, benchmark testing, norm-referenced assessment, college career military readiness, CCMR, local accountability plan, school district performance, campus turnaround

Summary: The House Committee on Public Education met to hear House Bill 8, which would replace STAAR with a new assessment and accountability system beginning in the 2027-28 school year. The chair described the bill as reducing testing time, limiting benchmark tests, adding beginning-, middle-, and end-of-year assessments, requiring faster score turnaround, involving Texas teachers in test development, and tightening accountability timelines and transparency rules. Members also discussed provisions on A-F ratings, cut scores, CCMR, local accountability plans, and TEA reporting requirements. Committee members and invited witnesses split sharply on the bill’s approach. Supporters, including the chair, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, and Ed Trust’s Nicholas Munyon Penny, argued the bill would reduce high-stakes pressure, provide quicker and more actionable data, limit over-testing, and better align assessments to Texas standards while preserving criterion-referenced accountability. They said the new system would help teachers and parents intervene sooner and would improve transparency, including parent access to student responses and automatic rescoring in some writing cases. Opponents, including Rep. Hinojosa and student witness Ella Moran, argued the bill still increases testing and replaces one high-stakes test with multiple TEA-created tests. Moran testified that STAAR creates anxiety, disrupts instruction, and does not reflect real learning, while Hinojosa said the House had previously passed a better bill based on a nationally norm-referenced model and criticized the new proposal as a concession to the Senate. Questions also focused on AI scoring of writing, rescoring rates, and whether the bill’s new accountability rules would be reliable and fair. The committee did not take a final vote during the portion provided, but the chair said a vote on HB 8 would be called after public testimony later in the day.

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• will the students still have to pass an algebra exam when they take these different applied algebra classes
• It is intended to protect good-actor coaches who are stepping up to support student athletes, not to
• certainly would want to be compensated more having earned a doctorate than someone that's teaching the class
• They’re constantly training for something in order to protect our residents and our interests.

Summary: The Senate Education Pre-K through 12 Committee met with a quorum and considered several education-related bills. SB 1036 on school counselors was amended with a technical clarification and reported favorably. SB 1136 on dental screenings for K-12 students was converted by delete-all amendment to place the screening definition in the School Health Services Act and align notice and parent-exemption procedures; it also passed favorably, with support noted from PTA and other witnesses. SB 920 on mathematics education was reported favorably after discussion of applied algebra courses tied to career pathways, while preserving Algebra I standards, the end-of-course exam, graduation requirements, and university admission eligibility. SB 1216 on public school personnel compensation, which would give districts more flexibility on pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and advanced degrees, also passed favorably with broad support from educators and former school board members. The committee then approved SPB 7022, which reenacts and extends a public records exemption for classroom examination and assessment instruments through 2031 and expands coverage to district school boards and public schools. SB 464 on observance of Veterans Day in K-12 schools was reported favorably after extensive debate about whether schools should be closed or could instead hold Veterans Day programs; supporters emphasized statewide consistency and honoring veterans, while some members raised scheduling and instructional-day concerns. SB 538 on physical education and extracurricular participation was amended to establish standardized eligibility rules for public, private, virtual, and home education students, limit duplicate participation across schools, require annual participation in the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, and leave coach compensation to district discretion; it was then reported favorably. SB 178 on athletics and public K-12 schools was amended to add a $15,000 annual cap on coach personal spending per team and was reported favorably after discussion about good-faith support for student-athletes, recruiting concerns, and the need for guardrails. A temporary postponement was announced for SB 430 on the oath of school personnel. At the end of the meeting, Senator Osgood recorded a favorable vote on SB 1036, and the committee adjourned without further business.

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• I have never seen the middle class enter the food bank system at a rate that they're entering it.
• And in the same bill. literally cut Medicaid and took away subsidies for actually working-class people
• Every time, the long-standing practice protects the authority of the legislature as the appropriation
• We are in a bucket of That is protected under the reconciliation bill to get it down over a couple of

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• ENHANCE PUBLIC SAFETY THROUGH HIGH QUALITY EFFECTIVE SERVICE FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES DELIVERED BY WORLD CLASS
• PUBLIC SAFETY, BUILDING A STRONGER SAFER FLORIDA BY GIVING WORLD CLASS HELP TO KIDS.
• COME TO TALLAHASSEE AS A DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF FDLE WERE THEY OVERSAW CAPITOL POLICE, GOVERNMENT PROTECTION
• THE SITE AND THE NEXT STEPS WOULD BE TO WORK WITH DMS AND ALSO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

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• you, then we want to make sure that anything that's under that reporting threshold is absolutely protected
• So this is where that protection would come in: if you file something under $250, then it's not subject
• otherwise provided, any person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a Class
• So wouldn't that be a Class A misdemeanor for the guy that didn't file or the person that didn't?

Bills: SB2156

Keywords: campaign finance, disclosure, political contributions, election transparency, North Dakota Century Code, 908, all

Summary: The subcommittee met to review HB 2156, which reorganizes North Dakota campaign finance disclosure law by repealing Chapter 16.1 and moving the provisions into a new Chapter 16.2 with mostly technical cross-reference updates. Legislative Council and the Secretary of State’s office walked through the bill section by section, explaining that most language is carried over from current law, with some cleanup to definitions, reporting requirements, public access rules, and filing procedures. The committee discussed how the new chapter would apply to candidates, candidate committees, political committees, political parties, ballot measure groups, and conduits. Several substantive issues were raised and adjusted during the discussion. Members questioned the open-records language for expenditures and contributions over $250, the use of “deposit” versus “receipt” as the reporting trigger, and whether the 48-hour supplemental reporting deadline should be changed to three calendar days; the group ultimately favored keeping 48 hours and using “deposit” consistently. They also clarified reporting dates, including changing one special-election deadline from 40 days to 39 days, and confirmed that balances of campaign funds would be reported but not made publicly available. The Secretary of State’s office also explained that the bill would make late fees public and that the chapter-wide penalty for willful violations remains a Class A misdemeanor. The main policy change debated at length was the late-filing fee schedule. Members expressed concern that the existing penalties were too low to deter intentional non-filers, and after discussion the committee agreed to increase the final late fee from $100 to $500 while keeping the new public posting of delinquent filers. The committee also reviewed an inflation-adjustment provision for reporting thresholds and the “ultimate true source of funds” language, which was described as existing law being carried into the new chapter. The meeting ended with the understanding that additional drafting changes would be made and that the bill would be ready for further committee action later in the week.

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• Uh, waiting until high school to address some of these advanced math classes, specifically algebra 1,
• they're at and that bored in the classes they're at and that is<00:25:30.240> probably<00:25:
• classes such as algebra?
• My goal is to protect and teacher.
• <01:56:42.080> of myself, I feel very protective of myself, I feel very protective of teachers

Keywords: 958, all

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• And working-class Wisconsinites that we already... In favor of this one.
• And working-class Wisconsinites that we all represent, all of us represent, are the people who have to
• It's a middle-class tax cut. It's for people.
• And as far as no tax on overtime, you know, we're talking about nurses, 911 operators, working-class
• They say that they support the working class, but they're going to vote against overtime tax cuts.

Keywords: 970, all

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• many of you know, the college experience and educational opportunities are much bigger than going to class
• It's if the average grade or the meeting grade of the class was maybe a 70 and someone Someone who's
• Next to it in parenthesis. say the average class grade was a B, well that tells you something very good
• In the classes, just because you can learn, I mean you can never not learn more about politics and the
• I'm also the son of two Texas Tech graduates, class of 1972.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• <00:37:06.320> their must have the ability to protect their must have the ability to protect
• So, and again, they're the Class II wells. They're not the Class VI. >> Mr.
• So, and again, they're the Class II wells. They're not the Class VI. >> And follow up to that, Mr.
• So, and again, they're the Class II wells. They're not the Class VI. >> And follow up to that, Mr.
• The Class VI. And follow up to that, Mr.

Bills: SJ0001, SF0017

Keywords: mineral leasing, federal lands, Wyoming, energy policy, local control, federalism, forestry management, good neighbor authority, state lands, employee funding, donations, revolving account, 916, all

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• we can protect this nation by halves. we can protect this nation by halves.
• <00:09:18.320> The and Americans are protected. The and Americans are protected.
• It protects our and resources we need.
• <00:22:00.240> American government is to protect American government is to protect American
• <00:22:48.240> our agencies tasked with protecting our agencies tasked with protecting our

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Friday, March 27, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• successful in their language arts class successful in their language arts class and<00:05:09.919
• That was a stressor that was put on to parents in wanting to protect their children.
• ,<00:18:38.840> but of monitoring and and protection, but of monitoring and and protection
• <01:13:15.680> the immediate funding cliffs and protect the immediate funding cliffs and protect
• > provide Extending this protection will provide Extending this protection will provide the<01

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Um, so there are 19 first-class cities. It would... There are 19 first-class cities.
• That can be a centralized class...
• Centralized class that we can get in front of people, so. >> Great. >> Mr.
• Chair, um, I think you would see opposition from the first-class cities.
• The two investigators teach that class at the academy as well.

Keywords: 916, all

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• and middle-class Arizonans.
• That would have... ...middle-class Arizonans.
• And that's fine because those tax cuts were intended to support working-class and middle-class Arizonans
• When I come down here, my responsibility is to my constituents and to working class Arizonans, and this
• Arizonans and the middle class.

Keywords: 1182, all