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• If there are any maps and satellite images that are used in performing that analysis, all of that data
• And this becomes important because in reality, we evaluate such things as impossible time travel.
• Like, this is what we're seeing today at scale when different applications are being evaluated.

Committee: House Science & Technology

Keywords: 1182, all

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• The Committee on Director Nominations will thoroughly and objectively evaluate Katie Hobbs' nominees
• And I understand that sometimes that can be very, it can be difficult to evaluate objectively how you
• We know that when tourism performs well, Arizona's economy grows.

Committee: Senate Director Nominations

Keywords: 1182, all

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• We are not performing to the ridership projections.
• We need to evaluate the numbers. That is why this bill must pass today. Bill must pass today.
• Close to the ones that you find if you pull out a piece of paper and a pencil and evaluate the Met Council's

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• As a leading developer of technologies, the EERC has spent decades performing applied research in CCUS
• They include injection site evaluation, construction specifications, operational constraints, well testing
• certainly Nebraska, which has decided to pursue Class VI primacy, the state regulators ...able to evaluate

Committee: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

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• This bill creates a clear performance-based incentive to hopefully make that happen.
• In the evaluation of the Idaho Mental Health Courts, released in 2019, just 31% of the participants at
• In the evaluation of the Idaho Mental Health Courts, released in 2019, just 31% of the participants at
• They have to perform well in office just like we do.
• And with the suicide hotline, it's always kind of confusing, you know, how do you evaluate that?

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, approved the prior day’s journal, and then moved through routine orders including committee reports, gubernatorial appointments, messages from the governor, and messages from the House. Several bills were introduced and referred to committees, including appropriations measures for the Department of Health and Welfare, a firearms preemption bill, and House measures on taxation, Medicaid, dentistry, and the National Guard. The Senate also received and filed various enrolled bills and confirmations, and advanced multiple measures to later orders for consideration. The chamber then took up a long series of third-reading bills. Among the major policy items discussed were Senate Bill 1412, creating the Idaho Student Safety and Educator Disclosure Act; House Bill 789, approving the Coeur d’Alene Tribe water rights settlement; House Bill 570, expanding reckless driving provisions for school and construction zones; House Bill 654, expanding the definition of police dogs to include electronic storage detection dogs; House Bill 681, removing statutes of limitation for certain child sex offenses; House Bill 575, requiring the state controller to publish asset forfeiture information; House Bill 736, lowering the threshold for ballot name rotation; House Bill 793, redirecting beer tax revenue to replace lost Alcohol Beverage Control funding; House Bill 798 and 799, repealing outdated state treasurer and alcohol code provisions; House Bill 665, revising Appaloosa specialty plate funding; and House Bill 667, ending non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses in Idaho. The Senate also debated housing and tax measures, including House Bill 707 on land division for financing accessory dwelling units, House Bill 722 on utility property tax reporting, House Bill 792 on occasional sales and yard sales, and House Bill 800 on manufactured home siting. Other bills addressed education, insurance, and health care. House Bill 815 corrected a transportation support funding issue for a charter school; House Bill 849 revised the career ladder for CTE instructors and pupil services staff; House Bill 562 increased notice periods for insurance cancellations and nonrenewals; House Bill 825 changed funding for the Idaho Heritage Trust and specialty plates; House Bill 788 created a preceptor-based prior authorization exemption for Medicaid providers; House Bill 785 established a school discipline framework for inappropriate online behavior; and House Bill 846 clarified student enrollment counts. Debate on these measures focused on consumer protection, workforce shortages, school safety, housing supply, and administrative cleanup. Most bills passed on voice or roll-call votes, with the Senate approving many measures by wide margins, though House Bill 849 passed narrowly and House Bill 788 passed with a closer vote. Several bills were returned to the House after Senate passage, and titles were approved without correction.

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• This bill creates a clear performance-based incentive to hopefully make that happen.
• In the evaluation of the Idaho Mental Health Courts, released in 2019, just 31% of the participants at
• In the evaluation of the Idaho Mental Health Courts, released in 2019, just 31% of the participants at
• They have to perform well in office just like we do.
• And with the suicide hotline, it's always kind of confusing, you know, how do you evaluate that?

Keywords: 989, all

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• These funds exist because of disciplined contributions and responsible investment performance, not because
• It authorizes the authority to perform a number of activities with respect to developing transmission
• 1, 2027, and finally it establishes a tribal clean energy partnership work group to identify and evaluate
• The bill additionally clarifies that employers are not required to perform I-9 self-audits under Washington
• collected by the EMS information system is used by state, county, and regional leaders to monitor, evaluate

Bills: HB1069 , HB2091 , SB6355 , HB2104 , SB6003 , HB2441 , HB2124 , HB2610 , HB2338

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: collective bargaining, retirement benefits, employee rights, public sector, supplemental benefits, public employers, employee information, bargaining representatives, labor relations, union representation, electric transmission, energy policies, infrastructure, regulatory framework, transmission systems, aviation, wildland fires, funding, disaster relief, emergency response

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• Is it important to study and evaluate the health disparities?
• Important part for the success of this program is who's going to be evaluating those grants.
• If those grants are going to be evaluated by the same people who have been evaluating Alzheimer's research
• Ideally, integrate all of it, but in practice is... you have to have different experts evaluating, so
• over a decade and it works by directly strengthening and targeting. circuits within the brain that perform

Bills: HB5 , HJR3 , HB155 , HB513 , HB5 , HB155

Committee: House Public Health

Keywords: dementia, research, health care, Texas Institute, grants, medical breakthroughs, oversight, prevention, funding, healthcare, Texas, autopsy, confidentiality, public records, medical examiner, law enforcement, HB 513, surgical smoke, surgical plume, smoke evacuation

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• </c><00:35:43.359><c> We</c><00:35:43.599><c> all</c><00:35:43.880><c> realize</c> perform their duties
• We all realize perform their duties by.
• Currently, the director only had to submit the evaluation to the commissioner of health.
• So I guess first of all I would just say that the process for sort of being evaluated for a fraudulent
• </c><02:09:23.360><c> to</c> that might include program evaluation to that might include program evaluation

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Public Safety

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The risk assessment would evaluate a provider's organizational readiness, their financial stability,
• This proposal also funds a comprehensive evaluation of DHS structure and processes.
• Similarly, the performance-based incentive program, or PIP, was also established prior to VBR.
• </c> quality performance. quality performance.
• </c><01:16:27.680><c> whether</c> are in place to evaluate whether are in place to evaluate whether services

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Agriculture producers should have adequate time to evaluate alternative pest control strategies and adapt
• Agriculture producers should have adequate time to evaluate alternative pest control strategies and adapt
• pest control evaluate alternative pest control strategies<01:06:53.840><c> and</c><01:06:53.960><c>
• It ensures that when a local government, a local government, carefully evaluates an event or venue and
• </c><01:40:52.320><c> of</c> Brewers Guild, uh Peak Performances of Brewers Guild, uh Peak Performances

Keywords: 981, all

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• In the subsequent years, we see really good performance from that section.
• So this is not just a metric; it's really a mirror to hold for performance.
• So this is not just a metric; it's really a mirror to hold for performance.
• Um so by mirror to hold for performance.
• </c><01:34:01.040><c> of</c> each year or is this an evaluation of each year or is this an evaluation

Committee: House Transportation Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

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• </c> to a school program should be evaluated. to a school program should be evaluated.
• In fact, one of the most high-performing community colleges in the country.
• </c><02:35:15.359><c> in</c> critical of government performance in critical of government performance
• uh in the state of New York, performance uh in the state of New York, which<02:40:41.439><c> is</c><
• so well and it becomes the drug performs so well and it becomes unethical<02:50:38.080><c> to</c><02

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, December 4, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• And those are things that our team will be evaluating. Thank you.
• And that initial award will be to ultimately evaluate. ...in the private sector.
• And that initial award will be to ultimately evaluate kind of what the potential is there.
• And those are things that our team will be evaluating. Thank you.
• And those are things that our team will be evaluating. Thank you. And follow up to that.

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• the New Economy, and was appointed to the governor's Leadership Council, which was charged with evaluating
• Signature. 1572, Public Schools. 1618, Military Affairs Commission. 1635, On Awful Alert. 1645, Performance
• Amount. 1646, Absent State Elected. 1656, Family Courts. 1645, Performance Amount. 1646, Absent State
• So this has been substantially discussed and evaluated with the Arizona Department of Transportation
• our society. ...safer prisons, a more stable workforce, and recognition that correctional officers perform

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, guest introductions, and a memorial adoption of HCR 2064 honoring former legislator Barbara Leff, which was unanimously adopted and sent to the Senate. The chamber also recognized the Doctor of the Day, Dr. Eladio Pereira, and numerous student and constituent guests in the gallery. After routine desk business and bill referrals, the House moved into Committee of the Whole to consider a long calendar of measures. Several bills were amended and advanced with do pass recommendations. HB 2170 was narrowed to restrict state purchases of certain electronic and information technology from China/Chinese-controlled entities and to address third-party resellers. HB 2375 dealt with middle housing in historic districts, with amendments limiting demolition of historic structures unless necessary for health and safety and preserving local discretion. HB 2380 focused on school district transparency and meeting location rules, requiring governing board materials online and keeping meetings within district boundaries, with debate over local control and comparisons to legislative caucus retreats. HB 2617, HB 2621, and HB 2671 also moved forward after amendments; HB 2621’s discussion centered on certificates of educational convenience and ensuring special education access for children in unorganized territory and DCS placements. The committee also advanced HB 2720 on anti-human trafficking and prostitution-related reforms, including sealed records for sex trafficking survivors and an anti-human trafficking grant fund; HB 2772, allowing a DNR designation on driver’s licenses, prompted extended questions about emergency care and liability; HB 2784, dealing with school district excess cash refunds, was amended to phase in implementation; HB 2902, affirming support for the Electoral College, drew the most ideological debate, with supporters citing constitutional structure and opponents arguing for a national popular vote; and HB 2950, concerning a tourism/hospitality district, saw a failed attempt to make participation voluntary. The House also considered HB 4025, a study bill on the feasibility of building an oil refinery in Arizona, which sparked extensive debate over fuel prices, refinery capacity, environmental impacts, and whether a study was necessary, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that measure.

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• And good afternoon, Madam Chair, members of the committee, Josh Swatech, Policy and Performance Director
• Madam Chair, members of the committee, Josh Swatech, Policy and Performance Director at the Department
• Madam Chair, we do have a process that evaluates their education and their...
• We do have a process that evaluates their education and their licensure.
• But there is also a concern in the job and the duties that they perform.

Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 130, which would require heart calcium scans for people over 50, allow pharmacists to manage related screening and medication, and eliminate cost-sharing barriers for the testing and treatment. The sponsor argued the bill could prevent coronary artery disease deaths and reduce long-term health costs, while an industry lobbyist questioned whether it would actually save patients money and raised concerns about the substitute language. After questions about costs, rural access, pharmacist training, liability, and the effect of treatment, the committee adopted a due pass recommendation on the committee substitute by a 6-4 vote. The committee then considered House Bill 31, the EMS personnel licensure interstate compact. Supporters from the Chamber of Commerce, Think New Mexico, the Health Care Authority, and an autism advocacy group said the compact would help address EMS shortages, improve emergency response, and support rural health workforce needs. One opponent warned about out-of-state personnel practicing under unfamiliar standards and possible retention problems. The committee adopted an immunity-related amendment and then gave the bill a 9-0 do pass recommendation. House Bill 33, the psychology inter-jurisdictional compact, was also heard and amended with a similar immunity change. Supporters said it would expand telehealth and behavioral health access, while some members questioned data on workforce shortages, standards, and how the compact would affect New Mexico’s oversight. The committee approved the amended bill 8-0. House Bill 43, a cleanup bill for PERA disability and survivor pension provisions, was presented as a technical measure to clarify statutes, update the disability earnings cap to match Social Security, and reduce ambiguity without changing benefits or liabilities. Members asked about double-dipping, survivor provisions, and fiscal impact, and the bill received a 9-0 do pass recommendation. The committee also heard Senate Memorial 22, which asks the Legislative Finance Committee to study how CYFD-administered state and federal funds support domestic violence services. Sponsors and advocates said funding has been flat or reduced despite rising need, and that providers need clearer, more transparent data; committee members expressed concern that the state lacks a clear accounting of where the money goes. The memorial passed on a 9-0 vote.

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• Performance.
• In order to meet performance, the MCOs have to be 1% above the national average, and we are tracking
• We want to compare against better-performing states, and our MCOs are on track to meet many of those
• Those can have discrete populations where we cover those, and they are subject to an evaluation.
• We are evaluating that to see if that also is a retention effort to keep our foster parents.

Keywords: 996, all

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• There has to be an evaluation of that individual's health, and then there is a decision made on what
• There has to be an evaluation of that individual's health, and then there is a decision made on what
• There has to be an evaluation clinician.
• The<01:10:40.960><c> model</c><01:10:41.199><c> performs</c><01:10:41.679><c> well</c><01:10:41.920><
• well at the lower end The model performs well at the lower end of<01:10:42.800><c> the</c><01:10:42.960

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board met on February 23, 2026, approved the January 12 minutes, and then focused primarily on Kentucky Medicaid’s coverage and potential expansion of GLP-1 drugs, especially for weight loss. Department for Medicaid Services Commissioner Lisa Lee explained that Medicaid currently does not cover drugs for weight loss, anorexia, or weight gain, but the department had filed a regulation to remove that blanket exclusion so GLP-1s could be covered when used for an underlying health condition. She said the administrative regulation review subcommittee found the regulation deficient, and the co-chairs wanted the board to discuss the policy and financing implications before any change. DMS also said it would be open to adding caveats to ensure coverage would not extend to cosmetic weight loss alone. The department provided several data points on current utilization and spending. In 2025, Kentucky Medicaid paid for appetite-stimulating drugs such as Megestrol, Dronabinol, and Marinol, but did not pay for weight-loss drugs. For GLP-1s, DMS said coverage began in 2025 and is limited to FDA-approved medical conditions, with prior authorization requiring a type 2 diabetes diagnosis code and A1C documentation. DMS reported $234.6 million in GLP-1 spending in 2025 before rebates, about 240,931 prescriptions, and said GLP-1s accounted for 7.3% of pharmacy spend in 2024 and 8.3% in 2025. It also said there were 24,844 expansion members and 13,638 non-expansion members using GLP-1s, with spending of about $156 million and $78.5 million respectively, and that 10 pediatric weight-loss prescriptions were covered under EPSDT. The department said outcome analyses, including whether GLP-1 use reduces insulin or other diabetes treatment, are underway and should be completed in a couple of months. Members asked about cost, rebates, and whether the state should wait for more outcomes data before expanding coverage. DMS said average reimbursement to pharmacies was $975 per prescription and the average dispensing fee was $109; it also said 2025 rebate invoices totaled $90.8 million, with $7.6 million collected so far. Several members expressed concern about the high cost and the need to evaluate whether the drugs improve health outcomes before expanding access, while others noted the potential benefits for obesity and diabetes treatment. Some members also discussed whether GLP-1s are effectively being used for weight loss in diabetic patients and whether broader data collection should be used to assess long-term value. After the Medicaid discussion, Eli Lilly executive Tracy Sims presented on obesity as a chronic disease and the economic burden it creates in Kentucky. She said Kentucky’s adult obesity rate is a little over 37%, that obesity is linked to about 200 diseases, and that untreated obesity costs the state billions in GDP and hundreds of millions in state budget impact. She highlighted recent federal access programs for GLP-1s, including a Medicaid-related program that she said could lower the state share of a Zepbound prescription to about $71 per month after federal matching. No votes were taken on the GLP-1 policy question during the meeting, and the main action was the receipt of testimony and discussion of the department’s proposed regulatory change.

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• Representative Robbins' House File 2371, describing circumstances in which sensitive exams may be performed
• Many graduates look at the states to practice based on the scope that can be performed at the highest
• Many graduates look at the states to practice based on the scope that can be performed at the highest
• And if he decides he can perform that surgery or that fix, I would allow him to do it.
• </c> to do that or she is going to perform to do that or she is going to perform that<00:24:16.960><c

Keywords: 1183, house

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• collection, payment, and managing agent of the Department of Budget and Finance in the service of performing
• :09:09.600><c> of</c> budget and Finance in the service of budget and Finance in the service of Performing
• <00:09:10.200><c> step-in</c> Performing step-in Performing step-in agreements<00:09:12.320><c> the</
• different Technologies uh to evaluate different Technologies uh to help<01:08:16.920><c> the</c><01:
• </c><01:58:30.679><c> and</c> change that to read um evaluate and change that to read um evaluate and

Committee: House Energy & Environmental Protection

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard several energy and environmental bills. On HB 974, which would authorize state step-in agreements for certain power purchase agreements and create a trust fund/reserve mechanism, the Attorney General’s office raised concern that the state should not incur liability beyond the trust fund. The Division of Consumer Advocacy said it had comments but did not take a position, while the Public Utilities Commission, Ameresco, Hawaiian Electric, and other industry groups supported the measure, saying it would help developers secure financing for renewable projects and improve reliability. Hawaiian Electric said the bill would not use state funds and that its proposed reserve account would be held in trust and returned to customers if unused. Committee members questioned whether the reserve would raise customer costs; Hawaiian Electric said the amount would be small and would be offset by avoiding higher financing costs, while Consumer Advocacy suggested the language should be strengthened to ensure unused funds are fully returned. The committee then heard HB 338, which would clarify that premium interest-rate adjustments for non-fossil fuel generation are just and reasonable and allow the PUC to include them in rates. DCCA and the State Energy Office supported the bill, and the PUC also supported it. Hawaiian Electric opposed unless amended, arguing the PUC already has discretion and warning the bill could weaken competitive procurement by encouraging higher bids tied to the utility’s credit rating. DCCA said the concern was that developers might not seek the best financing if premium rates are recoverable, but said Hawaiian Electric’s suggested amendment requiring clear and convincing evidence of unavoidable financing-cost increases would help. Members also asked about refinancing and whether developers could later lower debt costs after locking in a premium rate; DCCA said that ability exists and suggested a time limit or review mechanism. For HB 337, which would direct the PUC to establish standards requiring utilities to remove certain fossil-fuel costs from the rate base when adding renewable resources, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Hawaii Clean Power Alliance, and the State Energy Office supported the measure. Hawaiian Electric opposed it, saying it misunderstood utility cost recovery and could threaten grid reliability because fossil plants provide ancillary services such as voltage regulation and balancing, not just energy. Hawaiian Electric pointed to its integrated grid plan and recent fossil-unit retirements as evidence of ongoing transition, and asked the committee to defer the bill and leave oversight to the PUC. The committee also heard HB 879 on cesspool conversions, which would raise the maximum grant from $20,000 to $30,000 and add DOH positions; DHHL, DOH, environmental groups, Hawaii Realtors, and others supported it, while DOH discussed staffing needs and the practical effect of the higher grant cap. The committee also began HB 379 on requiring denitrification capacity for certain wastewater systems near shorelines or groundwater, with DLNR testifying in support.