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• Any final comments, or did we move the A2 amendment? Any final comments about the A2 amendment?
• I do have an amendment.
• I do have an amendment.
• I do have an amendment.
• The amendment passes, thank you. Questions for the author of the amendment? The bill?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I support the A10 amendment and would ask for members' support. Good amendment. >> Okay.
• Motion carries and the A10 amendment is adopted. Number two, we've got the A11 amendment.
• support this amendment. Thank you, Mr. support this amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Chair.
• A10 amendment signify by saying I. A10 amendment signify by saying I. >> I. >> I.
• The bill is laid over as amended.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 3426, an LCCMR bill, and focused on amendments while noting that the bill would be laid over for further work. Members said they were still negotiating one additional section, including guardrails to work with the DNR, and that the bill would return the following week. The committee adopted the A10 amendment, which addressed the “critical and emerging issues” account and was described as adding guardrails so the account would be used for truly emerging issues rather than as a fallback funding pot. The A11 amendment was also adopted after discussion; it added funding for the community grants appropriation and required applicants to provide a surety bond, with supporters describing it as an accountability measure for the new program. Several members expressed support for the amendments and for continuing to refine the bill, while one member initially indicated the A11 was not yet supported before the committee clarified the position and proceeded. No final vote on the bill itself was taken; instead, the motion to lay over House File 3426, as amended, carried so the committee could continue work on the remaining section and bring the bill back later.

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• Um, so my second question... So my second question is, how do we deal?
• I am the second generation of voting rights.
• And with one desperate amendment submitted at the 11th hour of the legislative session, this amendment
• We urge this committee to reject the amendment, and we encourage the sponsors of this amendment to reach
• We urge this committee to reject the amendment, and we encourage the sponsors of this amendment to reach

Bills: AB49, AB169, AB188, AB284, AB296, AB306, AB356, AB366, AB467, AB499, AB515, AB540, AB542, AB595

Keywords: educational personnel, teacher licensing, reciprocal licensure, provisional teaching, school counselors, school nurses, school social workers, state education standards, health insurance, speech-language pathology, stuttering, rehabilitative services, habilitative services, coverage requirements, health plans, retired public employees, subsidy, Medicare, health reimbursement arrangement, Public Employees' Benefits Program

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• Senate Bill 593 with amendments.
• The clerk will read with amendments.
• I move to lay the amendments on the table. Thank you, Madam Majority Leader, seconded by Mr.
• Senate amendments are concurred herein.
• The chair passes, Senate amendments are concurred herein. Senate amendments are concurred in.

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• Representative Morikawa, Madam Speaker, I second the motion.
• ><00:12:26.040> Madam<00:12:26.320> speaker<00:12:26.600> I<00:12:26.720> second
• <00:12:27.000> the moric Kawa Madam speaker I second the moric Kawa Madam speaker I second
• <00:27:38.159> be that house bill number 92 as amended be that house bill number 92 as amended
• Representative Garcia, Madam Speaker, I second the motion. All those in favor say aye.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• And this is the second meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks,
• Any second? I guess a motion is sufficient, correct? Yes. I'll second it, and all in favor?
• Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or without recommendation?
• A bill moved and seconded by myself. Any negative votes or without rec?
• That bill moved and seconded. All in favor? And without rec or negative votes?

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks, and Recreation met on March 17, 2026, with a quorum present and several members participating, including Chair José Serrano, Ranking Member James Tedisco, Senator Pamela Helming, and later Senators Michelle Hinchey and April Baskin. The committee took up a six-bill agenda focused on parks, cultural institutions, and related public safety issues. The committee reported several bills: S.1057, requiring reporting on the alienation of useful parkland; S.1378A, providing financial assistance to museums, zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums, and other cultural institutions in low-income communities or serving students there; S.1380A, addressing cleaning of playground equipment after pesticide exposure; S.5400, creating an emergency-response exemption for law enforcement and fire department vessels; and S.6487C, authorizing the Council on the Arts to designate Little Gamut as a cultural district. Senator Helming recorded a “without recommendation” vote on some measures, but none were opposed. The final bill, S.9301, which would establish a new state park, was moved and seconded but was referred to the Civil Service Committee rather than reported from the committee. After completing the agenda, Chair Serrano adjourned the meeting.

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• . amendment. amendment.
• I have a second amendment to offer. This is also modeled after the OFP.
• Not a surprise that Senator Holmstrom's offering a second amendment. We're going to clip that.
• Not a surprise that Senator Holmstrom's offering a second amendment. We're going to clip that.
• This is the second committee this bill has come to, so we'll need to have the amendment explained.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We can take that amendment up. That is Amendment Barcode 264582. We can't take that amendment up.
• That's the amendment, sir. The question is on the amendment.
• And that is the amendment. Questions on the amendment?
• The amendment to the amendment is adopted.
• Additional debate on the delete-all amendment as amended.

Summary: The Appropriations Committee considered a large agenda of bills and reported several measures favorably. Early action included SB 6, a settled claim bill involving the Department of Children and Families and a trust for Leila Estrada and Sapphire Williams, and CS/CS/SB 1266, which creates a cybersecurity experiential learning and clearance-readiness program through the Department of Commerce and Cyber Florida. The committee also approved SB 532 on clerks of court funding, allowing clerks to retain all excess Article V revenue rather than returning half to the state and clarifying foreclosure sale procedures. In addition, the committee passed CS/CS/SB 1602 and CS/CS/SB 1604 to create and fund a pilot housing program for veterans through the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, and CS/SB 1110 to expand Medicaid and private insurance coverage for medically necessary orthotics and prosthetics, including testimony from affected families and advocates. The committee also adopted an amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/SB 1012 on inmate services, removing the bill’s medical-services compensation provisions while retaining changes to the inmate welfare trust fund and related facility uses. It also adopted a delete-all amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/CS/SB 1614, which was narrowed to remove a provision allowing local governments to use excess fees to construct new buildings. The committee spent substantial time on CS/SB 17, a Medicaid oversight and transparency bill. The sponsor said the measure would create a joint legislative Medicaid oversight committee, authorize the Legislature to retain its own actuary, modernize Medicaid statutes, strengthen managed-care performance standards, and increase accountability for pharmacy benefit managers and related entities. After amendment, the committee adopted changes removing several PBM-related provisions while retaining the broader oversight framework. Testimony from supporters emphasized transparency, fraud prevention, and cost control, while a PBM trade association asked to continue working on affiliate-manufacturer, network, and payment issues. The bill was reported favorably. The most extensive discussion centered on CS/SB 1758, which proposes major changes to Medicaid and SNAP. The sponsor described five reforms: stronger fraud and overpayment recovery authority, a Medicaid work requirement for certain able-bodied adults, expanded behavioral-health services through Medicaid waivers, pharmacy-program changes to obtain rebates and reduce institutional costs, and SNAP/EBT reforms including photo IDs and work requirements. The committee adopted two amendments: one adding a transitional “glide path” for people who gain employment but risk losing Medicaid, and another exempting hospice patients with six months or less to live. Supporters argued the bill would reduce fraud, improve accountability, and encourage work, while opponents warned it would increase administrative burdens, push eligible people off coverage, and conflict with federal law or guidance. The bill remained under debate with extensive public testimony from advocates, providers, and affected families, and the transcript ends before final disposition on the measure.

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• I’ve got a motion and a second. I need a voice vote on the title amendment. All in favor? Aye.
• The chair stated that Senate Bill 120 is amended by the substitute and that a motion and second were
• A title amendment was then moved, seconded, and approved by voice vote. that that creates uh boys lacrosse
• A title amendment was then moved, seconded, and approved by voice vote.
• A title amendment was then moved, seconded, and approved by voice vote.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Primary and Secondary Education Committee met and first considered Senate Concurrent Resolution 43, a proposal tied to the Southern Regional Education Board’s crisis recovery network. Senator West and Dr. Puit explained that, for an additional $10,000 in dues, Kentucky would help create a network of 40 trained counselors in each of the 16 Southern states to provide post-crisis stabilization and psychological first aid after events such as the Marshall County shooting. They emphasized that the effort would be complementary to local and state response, would run through the school district, would not replace therapeutic services, and would allow districts to coordinate parent notifications and other protocols as usual. Members asked about parent involvement and whether pastoral counselors could participate; the presenters said local districts would remain in charge and that pastors could be included if properly credentialed. The committee then voted, and SCR 43 passed with the expression of opinion that it should pass. The committee next took up Senate Bill 207, the School of Innovation Act, with a committee substitute. Senator West described the bill as creating an optional path for districts to contract with an outside education service provider for a three-year school-of-innovation model, aimed at turning around low-performing schools or supporting other schools that want to innovate. He said the model would preserve core district functions such as transportation, facilities, and SEEK funding, while allowing waivers from certain statutes and regulations inside the school building. The committee substitute also added a high-quality instructional materials component, creating a vendor-supported repository of vetted instructional materials that KDE would still control, with testing data used to evaluate whether the materials were improving outcomes. Members questioned how the proposal differed from existing district-of-innovation law and what safeguards would exist for students. Senator West said the bill would repeal the unused district-of-innovation framework and replace it with a clearer process and guardrails, including KDE oversight, attendance rules, and authority to shut down a school arrangement for financial malfeasance. He also said the model could work with local partners, including superintendents’ associations, and could be used by magnet or other schools, not only low-performing ones. The discussion also touched on whether the bill would allow more flexibility in choosing third-party providers and whether it could support longer-term recovery and even philanthropy in schools. The transcript ends during the discussion of SB 207, with no final vote shown in the excerpt.

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• amendment? amendment?
• amendment? amendment?
• . amendment. amendment.
• amendment to the amendment? amendment to the amendment?
• The motion prevails, and the A27 is adopted. >> Senator Abeler, for your second amendment. >> Mr.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The House does not have the Second Harvest Heartland grant, but keeps the Second Harvest milk distribution
• <00:40:18.160> the Section seven on page R10 amends the Section seven on page R10 amends the
• It amends the sections two and three.
• Section 26 amends the loan restructuring program. Section 27 amends the seller sponsored program.
• And section 29 amends the program.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The Agriculture Conference Committee met for an initial organizational and comparison session on House File 2446, the agriculture broadband and rural development bill. Members introduced themselves, noted that no conference target had yet been set, and agreed to begin with a side-by-side review of House and Senate positions. No oral testimony was taken; instead, the chair listed written testimony submitted by a wide range of agricultural, environmental, local government, food bank, and industry groups. Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through the major funding differences. Both bills included some shared items such as operating adjustments, wolf and elk damage compensation, and certain technical changes, but they differed on several major appropriations. The House generally proposed larger increases for meat inspection, local food purchasing, and the Board of Animal Health, and added items such as county inspector grants, biofertilizer innovation, a biosolids/PFAS-related study, a soil health study, broadband installation study funding, an Agri Works program, an Agri Support program, a milk grant program, and several House-only transfers and grants. The Senate included items such as a climate coordinator position, biofuel-related reductions and policy changes, livestock processing funding, farm-to-school and urban agriculture changes, MARL funding, cottage foods licensing updates, and several Senate-only pass-through grants and transfers. Staff also noted differences in the agriculture emergency account transfer approach and in how the two bodies handled the Second Harvest Heartland and related food distribution provisions. House Research then reviewed the policy language differences in the bill. The House language included provisions allowing more flexible use of grant administration funds, unpaid prior-year claims, county inspector grants, and updates tied to its own policy article, while the Senate language included the climate coordinator, PFAS-related commercialization language, cooperative development grant permissive language, and other Senate policy changes. The committee did not take any votes or final actions at this meeting; the session was informational and focused on identifying differences for later negotiation.

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• So we do have an amendment to Senate Bill 75, moved for discussion purposes.
• Chair, and thank you, Senator, for moving that amendment.
• So, we are discussing the amendment.
• Amendment 230251.1 for adoption. Second. We have a motion and a second.
• Senator, you have an amended bill now, and so now we are on Bill 75 as amended. Thank you, Mr.

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• Florida is the First Amendment here for my First Amendment right.
• The First Amendment is the most important amendment, the right to freedom of speech and to be able to
• The First Amendment protects that.
• So we would not amend a policy here.
• Let's do With a 30-second pause.

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• Chairman, that is the amendment. Mr. Chairman, that is the amendment. Thank you.
• No, we're in debate on the amendment. Members, any debate on the amendment?
• We're now back on the bill as amended, which is the amendment, and any questions.
• That is the amendment. Any questions on the amendment, members?
• Any appearance cards on the amendment, members? Any debate on the amendment, members?

Bills: S0828, S1274, S1310, S1378, S1562

Keywords: sovereign immunity, public transit, contractors, liability, state agents, transportation, traffic signal modernization, seaports, commercial space launch, micromobility, automated license plate recognition, railroad crossing safety, railroad crossings, grade crossing, public railroad-highway grade crossing, rail safety, crossing technology, advanced detection systems, monitoring systems, sensors

Summary: The Transportation Committee took up several measures and adopted amendments on multiple bills. SB 1274, as amended, removed a number of provisions from the original bill and added items including local authority to lower residential street speed limits, clarification on obscured license plates, FDOT funding for certain rural airport aviation projects, limits on yellow-light timing changes tied to red-light cameras, changes to private use of license plate readers, and other transportation-related revisions. After brief questions and supportive testimony, the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also approved SB 1310, which was converted into a study bill directing FDOT to study advanced detection and monitoring systems at public railroad crossings and report findings and policy options to the governor and legislature. Railroad industry testimony supported the study but raised concerns about interoperability with train safety systems and suggested the study consider additional safety tools such as red-light cameras and wayside horns. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 828, as amended, would extend sovereign immunity protections to private contractors providing public transit services on behalf of governments, with supporters saying it would reduce costs and provide certainty for transit providers, while opponents warned it was an overbroad expansion of sovereign immunity and could conflict with railroad employee protections under federal law. The committee reported that bill favorably as well. The committee then passed SB 1378, which strengthens traffic enforcement by clarifying when vehicles may be treated as abandoned, adding penalties for unlawfully attached plates or stickers, and allowing forfeiture of vehicles used to flee law enforcement even without an immediate arrest. It also approved SB 1562, which aims to prevent manufacturers from concentrating sales of certain vehicle brands through a single dealer group and instead promote competition among independent dealers. In addition, the committee unanimously confirmed a slate of appointees, and members later recorded additional affirmative votes on several bills before adjourning.

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• One second. This has been moved and seconded to go into the executive session.
• amendment and also the part of the original bill that remains even after the amendment.
• I'll second. It has been moved and seconded to pass on Senate Bill 60.
• I'll second that. Thank you. All those in favor of the amendment signify by saying aye. Aye.
• Any other further discussion or amendment on the bill?

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• seconds remaining. seconds remaining.
• This is a technical amendment to make a correction to the effective date due to a second reading amendment
• Sheel, please open the machine. date um due to a second reading date um due to a second reading amendment
• . amendment. amendment.
• that for a single second. that for a single second.

Keywords: 981, all

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• Second. All right, I have a motion and a second.
• Um do I have a motion and a second on the bill as amended by PSS2?
• Second. All right, I >> Motion on the bill. Second.
• Okay, we have a motion and a second on House Bill 459 as amended by PSS1.
• Um, we do have a title amendment on this. Do I have a motion to accept the title amendment? Second.

Keywords: The livestream event for this meeting cut off shortly after the meeting began. This is the complete copy pulled from back ups., 958, all

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• Amendment 1 is technical.
• Why don't you touch on the bill for two seconds while we pass these amendments out?
• Why don't you touch on the bill for two seconds while we pass these amendments out?
• What this amendment says is... seconds while we pass these amendments out.
• Amendment 3 would take out... Amendments 1 and 2 are technical.

Bills: HR9, HB709, HB1011, HB1057, HB1186, HB1245, HB1247, SB49, SB425, SB479

Keywords: human rights, individual liberties, Magna Carta, constitutionalism, free speech, Uniform Construction Code, building code, construction code, inspector licensing, building inspectors, plans examiners, public inspector, private inspector, private inspector company, building official, code enforcement, Louisiana Uniform Construction Code Commission, state fire marshal, International Building Code, International Residential Code

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• Is there a second? Awesome, Assemblymember Soria [ID: member_1562] would like to second it. Great.
• It's been moved and seconded. Thank you.
• Second, the bill adds clarity for unclaimed digital property.
• We haven't opposed unless amended position on the bill.
• It's been moved and seconded. Mr. Chair, would you like to close?

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I believe there's an amendment on the bill.
• Clerk, I move to amend Senate Bill 133, page 2, Section 1, line 7. Amendment submitted by Grego.
• Speaker, this amendment simply is... ...recognized to explain the amendment. Mr.
• The member yields to questions on the bill as amended.
• Representative Fetgatter, you're recognized for a question on the bill as amended. ...as amended.

Keywords: 914, all