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• money to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Idaho Council on Domestic Violence and Victim Assistance
• This bill also establishes narrow exemptions from vendor-assisted sale requirements when activities occur
• The Senate will be at ease while we make that transition. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• It's to assist low-income families in Idaho who are working or participating in education or training
• Program to establish provisions regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program integrity measures

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• Shantima, Assistant Superintendent for the Office of Campus Operations and Support, testifying on behalf
• The we can have our retirees come back and assist us.
• </c><00:48:03.280><c> uh</c> the school had made the transition uh the school had made the transition
• </c><00:49:29.280><c> Uh</c><00:49:29.520><c> as</c> retirees come back and assist us.
• Uh as retirees come back and assist us.

Bills: SB3179 , SB2872 , SB2391 , SB3282 , SB2836 , SB2181

Committee: Senate Education

Summary: The joint committee first heard SB 3179, which would require the Department of Education and charter schools to report harassment incidents involving educational workers and adopt procedures for handling them. DOE supported the bill, while the Attorney General recommended clarifying amendments to limit the measure to harassment directed at workers because of their position, to limit DOE legal assistance to temporary restraining order actions, and to clarify whether the harassment must come from outside the school system. Members also discussed whether the bill should cover non-DOE individuals on campus, whether investigations could be handled in-house, and whether training should be embedded in existing workday or school-year training rather than added as a separate requirement. The committee later voted to pass the bill with amendments as SD1. The committee then took up SB 2872, which would require retired teachers or administrators rehired into shortage or hard-to-fill positions to be paid the entry-level salary for that position. DOE supported the bill, and the Attorney General requested clarifying language about its effective date and that it would not affect already matured rights and duties. The Employees’ Retirement System administration emphasized that the bill should retain a 12-month break in service to preserve the pension system’s tax-exempt status and noted the importance of consistent classification of eligible positions. Members expressed support for using retired educators to help fill staffing gaps, but no final action was taken in the portion provided. The committee also heard SB 2391, which would provide annual step increases for public school teachers under bargaining unit 5, subject to funding. The Attorney General said the bill could conflict with collective bargaining procedures and Chapter 89, while DOE said unit 5 includes more than teachers and asked that the benefit be considered for other bargaining units as well, with funding provided if enacted. HSTA strongly supported the measure, arguing that annual step movement is already recognized in the collective bargaining agreement as a recruiting and retention tool. Testimony totals were noted as 16 in support, two in opposition, and three comments. Finally, the committee heard SB 3282, which would establish a statewide framework for the federal workforce Pell Grant program to fund short-term workforce education and training. The Attorney General suggested clarifying that the matter is one of statewide concern because UH is involved. UH and the Chamber of Commerce supported the bill, and DLIR testified that it is coordinating with DOE, the Workforce Development Council, and national groups on implementation. Members questioned whether the Workforce Development Council or DLIR should handle rulemaking and administration, and DLIR said the council is advisory while the department has grant administration expertise. The committee then moved into decision-making after discussion of possible amendments and implementation concerns.

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• And whereas Clayton Rao and Leon Anderson provided critical assistance to first responders by accurately
• Leon Anderson provided critical assistance to first responders by accurately identifying and triaging
• Other states have been Dillon Rule from the beginning, and others have transitioned some of that.
• And does that screen out those most in need of assistance, or could it?
• I asked for specific assistance from that senator, met with that senator, and moved forward with that

Bills: SJR47 , SB1491 , SB1579 , SB1806 , SB1552 , SB483 , SB63 , SB137 , SB346 , SB514 , SB1344 , SB1360 , SB1380 , SB1437 , SB1189 , SB1217 , SB1221 , SB1262 , SB1272 , SB1325 , SB1339 , SB201

Summary: The Senate began with a quorum call, a ceremonial recognition of two Elgin High School students, Clayton Raoul and Leon Anderson, and bus driver Kevin McDonald for their heroic actions during a March 2 bus crash. A citation was read honoring their selfless efforts to evacuate injured students and assist first responders. The chamber also introduced several student pages and recognized visiting groups in the gallery, including Impact Oklahoma and the Ardmore Leadership Group. The Senate then considered several bills. Senate Bill 1491, requiring appointed presidential electors to take the same oath as other electors, advanced and passed. Senate Bill 1579, which requires assessors to mail taxpayers a statement of rights when property valuations increase, also advanced and passed unanimously. Senate Bill 1806, extending foster care eligibility to age 21 for those who opt in and meet program requirements, drew supportive debate about helping youth transition to adulthood; it advanced and passed as an emergency measure. A lengthy debate followed on Senate Bill 1552, which would allow certain large counties to pursue home rule charters through a voter-approved process. Supporters argued it would give populous counties more flexibility and local control, while opponents raised concerns about unequal treatment, population-based governance, rural representation, and possible constitutional issues. The bill advanced and then passed 26-18. Senate Bill 483, authorizing county-run relocation assistance programs funded by private donations for voluntarily relocating individuals, especially homeless persons, also prompted extensive questions about liability, trafficking concerns, accountability, and whether it could shift people between jurisdictions; it advanced and passed 39-6. Finally, Senate Bill 63, raising school board member stipends from $25 to $190 per meeting under permissive language, advanced over concerns about cost and then moved to final passage, with debate beginning at the end of the transcript.

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• HB 191 adds three disqualifications for individuals for re-employment assistance: failing to contact
• These people worked a job and they should be eligible for unemployment assistance.
• HB 191 deals specifically with the verification of reemployment assistance benefits eligibility, not
• the reemployment assistance program in general.
• We're not, it's called reemployment assistance for a reason.

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• assistance for veterans, children,<00:17:13.160><c> and</c><00:17:13.320><c> spouses.
• </c> The bill trans excuse me, transitions The bill trans excuse me, transitions educational<00:17:41.400
• , business technical assistance, financial education, advocacy, and policy.
• ,</c><01:07:53.160><c> business</c> Emergency rental assistance, business Emergency rental assistance
• , business technical<01:07:53.920><c> assistance,</c><01:07:54.480><c> financial</c> technical assistance

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• House bill is establishing a sick leave bank for Sonia Felix, an employee of the Department of Transitional
• Assistance of the Commonwealth.

Summary: The Senate briefly convened, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and then took up a House bill establishing a sick leave bank for Sonia Felix, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. On motion by Senator Fattman, the rules were suspended to allow immediate consideration, and the Senate ordered the bill to a third reading without objection. The chamber then considered and adopted an order setting the Senate’s next meeting for Thursday at 11:00 a.m. and directing the clerk to dispense with printing a calendar. After that order was approved, the Senate voted to adjourn.

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• House bill is establishing a sick leave bank for Sonia Felix, an employee of the Department of Transitional
• Assistance of the Commonwealth.

Summary: The Senate convened, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and then took up a House bill out of order. The measure, House No. 514, would establish a sick leave bank for Sonia Felix, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. Senator Fattman moved to suspend the rules so the bill could be considered immediately, and there was no objection. The Senate then ordered the bill to a third reading by voice vote. No debate or testimony was recorded in the transcript. The chamber also adopted an order to adjourn upon completion of business and to reconvene on Thursday at 11:00 a.m., with the clerk directed to dispense with printing a calendar. The Senate then adjourned.

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• So, I get a phone call from his mother and they're at Chick-fil-A, and she said, "I need some assistance
• We made some transitional personnel changes in that. So that's no longer an issue.
• We made some transitional transitional transitional uh<01:24:04.000><c> personnel</c><01:24:04.560><c
• So, where we've transitioned, we only have, uh, we have a captain and then we have a lieutenant.
• So, where we've transitioned duties.

Committee: Joint Judiciary

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• Neie's concerns about transition, but your agencies, I know there'll be new people here.
• Neie's uh concerns<00:38:04.640><c> about</c><00:38:05.040><c> transition,</c><00:38:06.000><c> but</
• c><00:38:06.320><c> your</c> concerns about transition, but your concerns about transition, but your
• Um, our economic assistance and security programs.
• </c><01:06:06.880><c> I</c> assistance and security programs. I assistance and security programs.

Committee: Joint Select Committee on Tribal Relations

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• It helps us preserve federally assisted rental housing.
• </c><00:04:38.639><c> that</c> Development rental assistance that Development rental assistance that
• </c><00:10:09.959><c> rental</c> preserve federally assisted rental preserve federally assisted rental
• We are assisting Face to Face with the financing of this project.
• We are assisting Face to Face with the financing of this project.

Bills: HF2148 , HF2693 , HF2542 , HF1141 , HF1770 , HF1489 , HF1709 , HF244 , HF1266 , HF807 , HF2619 , HF1340

Committee: House Capital Investment

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• This is the technical assistance that the San Diego County Office offers, but the fee schedule provides
• Transition-age youth.
• We have infants to older young people. to older young people, transition age youth.
• So that's why I'm, like, the secretary of my school's Peer Assistant Listeners, or PALS, program.
• So that's why I'm, like, the secretary of my school's Peer Assistant Listeners, or PALS, program.

Summary: The hearing focused on youth mental health and treatment access in California, with the chair opening by citing elevated distress, self-harm-related emergency visits, access barriers, and a statewide behavioral health workforce shortage. The chair and Assembly Member Lori Davies emphasized that historic state investments, including the California Youth Behavioral Health Initiative and school-based mental health funding, still face implementation and sustainability challenges, especially because many programs rely on one-time dollars. The committee framed the hearing as a way to hear from county systems, providers, schools, and students to inform future policy and budget action. Panel One described San Diego County’s behavioral health system, including Medi-Cal specialty care, payment reform, new crisis and residential facilities, workforce pipeline efforts, and the Behavioral Health Services Act transition. County and school representatives said CYBHI and the school-linked fee schedule could help make school-based services more sustainable, but they stressed that districts need technical assistance, clearer guidance, and time to build billing systems. San Marcos Unified and Poway Unified representatives said schools are now first responders for mental health, described rising acuity and the importance of counselors, peer programs, and on-campus therapy, and warned that insurance-data collection, reimbursement delays, and grant-dependent staffing threaten program stability. In the provider panel, a child psychiatrist described the emergency-room crisis model as inadequate because youth often leave with either a short inpatient stay or a discharge plan that lacks a warm handoff, outpatient follow-up, or school coordination. He urged more school wellness time, parent education, peer support, mobile crisis response, and intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization options. Rady Children’s Hospital described major growth in behavioral health services, including depression screening, urgent care, psych emergency services, primary care integration, and a new institute combining programs, while also highlighting low reimbursement rates, long payment delays, high denial rates, and administrative burden as major barriers to sustaining care and staffing.

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• I'd like to have him provide technical assistance.
• I do want to highlight that broadband affordability is and technical assistance.
• We were expecting that much earlier in 2025 until we had to navigate program changes with the transition

Committee: House House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

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• On May 18, 2023, the day my mother transitioned is the day my mom gave me to you.
• On May 18, 2023, the day my mother transition is the day my mom gave me to you.
• Before my mother transitioned, I asked her, what am I going to do when she left?
• So I see that this amendment is going to assist all around in that process. Questions?
• This is a bill related to assisted living facilities. That's the bill.

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• assistance?
• Technical assistance also involves assistance with evaluation activities and what the best practices
• And I think that's, you said that technical assistance also goes to the evaluations, right?
• The contract with WestEd had several different levels of technical assistance.
• Some part of the technical assistance. But do you believe that's been helpful?

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• And then we have the Minnesota Supplemental Aid program that assists older adults, general assistance
• And then a small amount of the health care access fund does fund medical assistance.
• And there we have the Minnesota Supplemental Aid program that assists older adults, general assistance
• And then us of small amount of the health care access fund does fund medical assistance.
• so they would have gotten a November notice for their PD pm transition.

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

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• They're supposed to have additional technical assistance.
• My branch is available to assist local law enforcement agencies to work with their plans.
• But awareness and greater assistance and getting out the training and technical assistance.
• But I think there is a partnership that the training and technical assistance.
• With that, is there any member from the public that the training and technical assistance.

Committee: House Emergency Management

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• The Chief Clerk's Office will be open to answer questions and provide assistance on Saturday from 10
• While serving, he assisted in disaster recovery relief. efforts in the aftermath of both Hurricane Beulah
• HB 4658, by Ward Johnson-Rayling, the assistance of the cooperation the campus police department. and
• HB 4662, by Haffner, ruling the financial assistance for real for cities, preferred the committee. and
• The establishment of a grant program to provide financial assistance to counties for transportation assistance

Bills: HB9 , HB22 , HB908 , HB1392

Keywords: property tax, ad valorem tax, tangible personal property, income-producing property, business personal property, tax exemption, local government finance, appraisal district, chief appraiser, rendition statement, property tax relief, small business, commercial property, leased property, related business entity, unified business enterprise, tax situs, Texas Tax Code, local taxing unit, constitutional amendment

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• and allow for more orderly transition and allow for public<00:43:50.319><c> education</c><00:43:51.359
• This is from its inception under the 2014 Farm Bill and to the state's transition to USDA oversight and
• In 2020, Act 14 ended the pilot program and also transitioned to USDA oversight.
• So this is the transition to USDA.
• So this is the transition to USDA. 2020. So this is the transition to USDA.

Bills: HB1974 , HB1853 , HB1973 , HB1574 , HB2619 , HB1966 , HB1643 , HB1671 , HB2558 , HB1854 , HB2173 , HB1575 , HB2229 , HB1535 , HB1978 , HB2508 , HB1549 , HB2187 , HB1550 , HB1977 , HB2314 , HB1871 , HB2319 , HB1591 , HB1858 , HB1898 , HB2372 , HB1765 , HB2012 , HB1706 , HB1962 , HB1963 , HB1975 , HB2009 , HB2083 , HB2224 , HB1877 , HB1959 , HB1626 , HB1665 , HB2488 , HB2456 , HB2548 , HB2207 , HB1832 , HB2079 , HB1985 , HB1618 , HB2486 , HB2242 , HB2045 , HB1703 , HB2236 , HB2480 , HB1976 , HB2287 , HB2288 , HB1777 , HB276 , HB1660 , HB1676 , HB1605 , HB1751 , HB1967 , HB2383 , HB2340 , HB1946 , HB2268 , HB1950 , HB2156 , HB2118 , HB1859 , HB1863 , HB1996 , HB2114 , HB2423 , HB2429 , HB2475 , HB2534 , HB2545 , HB1813 , HB1941 , HB2474 , HB2583 , HB1576 , HB1886 , HB1939 , HB2540 , HB2590 , HB2000 , HB2163 , HB2386 , HB1691 , HB1680 , HB2516 , HB1993 , HB2442 , HB1510 , HB1958 , HB1692

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• and Minnesota care medical assistance and Minnesota care medical<00:06:54.680><c> assistants</c><00:
• </c> spending this because medical assistance spending this because medical assistance is<00:08:05.599
• <00:09:40.600><c> for</c><00:09:40.880><c> over</c> assistance for over assistance for over 450,000<00
• </c> share of the child care assistance share of the child care assistance program<00:10:03.480><c> which
• </c><00:10:14.680><c> for</c> highlight is temporary assistance for highlight is temporary assistance

Committee: Senate Finance

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• I also volunteered hundreds of hours for Calvin's campaign and transition team.
• So the components that I want to acknowledge is a clear transition, making sure that there is a study
• So the components that I want to acknowledge is a clear transition, making sure that there is a study
• We are days out from this potential transition, with no plan.
• We are days out from this potential transition, with no plan.

Bills: SB256

Committee: House Judiciary

Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard Senate Bill 256, which would combine the Orleans Parish clerks of criminal district court and civil district court into one office, with the bill taking effect upon gubernatorial signature. Senator Jay Morris said the change would align Orleans with other parishes, improve efficiency, and eventually help consolidate funding and operations, noting that Orleans is the only parish with two clerks and that the criminal side lacks the civil-side revenue streams used elsewhere. Committee members questioned the timing because the election for the next term had already been held and certified, and repeatedly raised concerns that the bill would effectively eliminate an office after voters had already chosen Calvin Duncan as criminal clerk. Much of the discussion focused on whether the bill would be constitutional or fair if enacted before the new term began. Opponents argued it would disenfranchise voters, target Duncan personally, and set a dangerous precedent by abolishing an office after an election. Supporters and witnesses for Duncan said the bill was rushed, lacked a fiscal note, and would create confusion about staffing, records, training, and the transition between the two court systems. Several witnesses also argued that the criminal clerk’s office is essential to access to justice and that the data and efficiency rationale did not justify the timing or effect of the bill. Calvin Duncan testified that he ran to improve access to court records after his own wrongful conviction and incarceration, and said the bill sends the message that votes do not count. Other witnesses, including teachers, voters, attorneys, former officials, and advocacy representatives, echoed that the measure undermines democracy and appears aimed at preventing Duncan from taking office. Senator Morris denied personal targeting and said the bill was about abolishing an unnecessary office, but acknowledged litigation was likely. The committee also adopted a three-minute rule for testimony by a 10-3 vote, then began hearing public testimony, with the first witnesses overwhelmingly opposing the bill.