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• Over $1 billion in nonprofit security grants and homeland security grants that keep our communities safe
• Under the secure a stronger economy.
• And chronic illness they're managing.
• And I also brought up Social Security And I also brought up Social Security when<02:28:21.200>
• We've indeed secured legislation.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Friday, September 19, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• , federal level for for safety, security, federal level for for safety, security, and<00:09:30.080
• The people sent us here to protect them, to ensure their security and safety.
• The people sent us here to protect them, to ensure their security and safety.
• And this principle is a national security imperative.
• Congress must stand national security.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• Lastly, the budget provides funding to improve campus security at postsecondary institutions.
• Within the Department of Management Services, there are $66 million for the Florida facilities pool to
• That's sort of a managed-care model.
• I want to shift gears over to the Medicaid managed care plans.
• on managed care has been re-procured three separate times, and none of the players have changed.

Keywords: 998, house, all

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• do offer some protection and the ability to hold employers accountable, we would much prefer that managers
• and respect in the workplace, yet under the current law there's no requirement for employees or managers
• Third: federal regulations on which Massachusetts overtime regulations rely are secure...
• Federal regulations on which Massachusetts overtime regulations rely are secure and unchangeable.
• They manage his life-threatening epilepsy and his very dangerous behaviors, but most of all they give

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hybrid public hearing with testimony on a wide range of labor, workforce, unemployment insurance, apprenticeship, disability services, farm labor, hospital staffing, and workplace harassment bills. Chairs Jake Oliveira and Paul McMurtry outlined hearing procedures, limited testimony to two minutes, and noted written testimony would be accepted after the hearing. Committee members and staff were introduced throughout the session as witnesses arrived in person or remotely. A major portion of the hearing focused on unemployment insurance legislation. Greater Boston Legal Services, the AFL-CIO, and Rep. Joan Meschino supported bills to adjust UI eligibility for workers with fluctuating schedules and to streamline waivers and write-offs for non-fault overpayments, arguing the current system unfairly denies benefits or burdens workers who were not at fault. They also backed bills calling for more oversight and resources for the Division of Unemployment Assistance, citing persistent delays in benefit payments. NFIB opposed the UI changes, warning that the trust fund is headed toward insolvency and arguing the bills would worsen the system’s finances. Rep. Meschino and committee members emphasized that the proposals were meant to protect good-faith claimants and did not apply to fraud. Another large set of bills addressed wages, workforce development, and working conditions. Testimony supported raising and modernizing direct care wages to address severe staffing shortages in human services and disability services, with advocates from the Massachusetts Developmental Disability Council, The Arc of Massachusetts, parents of adults with disabilities, and a direct care worker describing how low pay and turnover harm people needing support. The committee also heard support for apprenticeship-related bills from the AFL-CIO and the Carpenters, while Associated Builders and Contractors opposed mandatory apprenticeship ratios and urged changes to align them with licensing laws. Farm worker advocates supported a bill to raise farm labor standards, including minimum wage, paid breaks, and paid time off, while the Farm Bureau opposed parts of it beyond the minimum wage increase. The hearing also featured testimony on workplace harassment training, overtime protections, hospital mandatory overtime, suicide prevention signage on construction sites, and a proposal to update the Massachusetts Medical Society’s mission language from “citizens” to “people.” Labor groups, educators, and compliance trainers strongly supported mandatory annual sexual harassment training, saying it would improve workplace culture and reduce harm. SEIU 1199 supported extending the hospital nurse mandatory overtime ban to the broader hospital workforce. Witnesses on the suicide prevention bill described personal losses in construction and recovery work and urged posting 988 information on job sites. The committee took no votes during the hearing; witnesses repeatedly asked for favorable reports, and members asked follow-up questions on UI calculations, apprenticeship ratios, small-business impacts, and emergency exceptions for hospital staffing.

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• Another reminder, members, there are many bills on the Senate floor without floor managers.
• Please work with the Senate to identify your floor managers on your bills so that they can be taken up
• It helps the cities get the revenue in and manage the contentiousness between the neighbors and the renters
• She helped secure an extension for the Secure Rural Schools Program.
• Please work with the Senate to identify floor managers on your bills so they can be taken up as soon

Summary: The Assembly convened with a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance, then moved through a largely procedural floor session. Members also heard guest introductions recognizing the 20th anniversary of UC Merced and visiting interns and local officials. The Speaker reminded members about floor managers for Senate bills and noted several items were passed and retained on file or deferred during the day’s business. On the Daily File, the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments to AB 385 on park property and AB 1119 on teacher credentialing, both by unanimous 57-0 votes. The house also passed SB 351, a health practices measure presented as strengthening enforcement of California’s corporate practice of medicine rules and protecting the doctor-patient relationship, by a 61-0 vote. SB 697, relating to water rights adjudication and allowing the State Water Board to use technology such as drones for investigations, passed 55-0. The Assembly then took up SB 346 on local government and short-term rentals. Supporters said it would help cities collect transient occupancy taxes, enforce local ordinances, and identify unpermitted rentals; Assembly Members Bauer-Kahan, Papin, and Dixon spoke in favor, with Dixon describing local regulatory challenges from her time in Newport Beach. The bill passed 50-0. The second-day consent calendar was then approved. The remainder of the session was devoted to adjournment in memory remarks honoring Miguel Antonio Cano, Officer of the California Highway Patrol; Vincent Dino, a longtime Palmdale water district and civic leader; Andrew Meredith, a labor and building trades leader and former Galt mayor; and Erica Hoffman, a California School Boards Association advocate for public education. The Assembly then adjourned until Tuesday, September 2 at 1 p.m.

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• Chairman, it has come up about school security funding for school security.
• Funds addressing personnel or other security measures to protect our students and staff. And Mr.
• Security, a lot of districts may have the funding base, be it in their SB 9 current funding that they
• However, in looking at that 50,000, it doesn't go far to pay for current costs within security, be it
• I have to manage my time. So, Mr. Chair, you're just driving the points that I'm making.

Keywords: 996, all

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• Uh, those public securities have turned out to be extremely expensive.
• And that's just if you do one tranche of them we have a bunch of worries about the public securities,
• It's a win-win, we think for Texas because it gives Texas a good secured investment that is backed by
• Through the sale of public securities in three levels, uh, is very costly.
• David Durden, general manager of Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.

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• Bennet Yap is the manager.
• Bennet Yap is the manager.
• Bennet Yap is the manager.
• Bennet Yap is the manager.
• Bennet Yap is the manager.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The Committee on Finance held an informational briefing with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations on its budget, staffing, and operations. The director reviewed department leadership and reported on recruitment and retention efforts, including a 14% vacancy rate, a 10.5% workforce increase from filling 189 positions, and the Hela Imua internship program, which has placed 516 interns since inception and led to 62 permanent hires. The department also described modernization efforts, including the UI Huakai project and the Disability Compensation Division’s electronic case management system, and said the unemployment compensation trust fund exceeded $71.5 million, triggering Schedule C for calendar year 2025. The department’s main budget requests included $2.9 million for fiscal year 2026 to support maintenance and operations of the electronic case management system, plus restoration of two enforcement specialist positions. Officials said those positions are needed to address a decline in investigators from 11 to six since 2009, improve compliance, and handle Hawaii Compliance Express certificate work. Additional requests included two human resources specialists to address recruitment backlogs, two labor enforcement specialists to reduce a backlog of Chapter 104 prevailing wage and wage cases, and two positions for the Office of Community Services to expand immigrant services and access centers. The department also discussed federal funding for unemployment insurance and workforce programs, including National Dislocated Worker Grants and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds, and said some funding is received in increments and may require extensions. Members asked about Kauai inspection coverage, federal funding uncertainty, the size of the special unemployment insurance fund, and whether the department could ramp up staffing during a future crisis. Officials said Kauai is currently served by inspectors from Honolulu and there are no plans to open a permanent island position because of staffing constraints. They said the department is meeting federal guidelines and is not in jeopardy, and that the special unemployment insurance fund has about $10 million, with current UI operations funded at a little over $15 million, meaning the fund may need to cover roughly $5 million if federal support declines. The director said the department would use the special fund to supplement shortfalls, but noted that federal funding cuts and the loss of ARPA support have already affected operations.

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• new language and it requires managed new language and it requires managed care<00:13:59.920>
• <00:14:11.440> care specified claims from managed care specified claims from managed care
• waiver case management. waiver case management.
• victims, which here are DHS, managed victims, which here are DHS, managed care<00:31:31.000>
• vendor to manage this statewide program. vendor to manage this statewide program.

Bills: HF4207, HF4338

Keywords: housing aid, local housing trust, funding projects, income provisions, technical changes, human services, medical assistance, Medicaid, provider enrollment, provider revalidation, fraud prevention, program integrity, background study, background check, fingerprinting, licensing, license revocation, payment withholding, payment suspension, prepayment review

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• have to manage those lands anymore.
• To actually outright own the land, even if there is some management required for that?
• Florida State University College of Business, Department of Risk Management.
• of Business, Department of Risk Management.
• government officials with emergency management roles.

Summary: The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, doctor and guest introductions, and then took up Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, on mental health. Senator Bradley described the bill as a major criminal justice and behavioral health reform measure that would expand pretrial mental health diversion, strengthen treatment-based probation conditions, broaden grant uses for mental health and substance abuse programs, add Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, require certain DOC mental health evaluations, and create a Florida Behavioral Health Data Repository. Senators from both parties spoke in strong support, emphasizing treatment over incarceration, public safety, data collection, and the Murphy family’s role in advancing the bill. The Senate passed the bill 37-0 and then approved 37 co-sponsors. The chamber then received the Senate’s 2025-26 General Appropriations Bill, SB 2500, with Chair Hooper outlining a $117.4 billion budget that he said reduces spending, preserves reserves, and includes major investments in water quality, transportation, education infrastructure, and reporting requirements. Committee chairs summarized their portions: K-12 funding at $34.7 billion with increases for FEFP, scholarships, VPK, school hardening, and school safety; higher education at $11.5 billion with workforce, nursing, reading, autism, and student aid investments; health and human services with a $1.8 billion increase for Medicaid, mental health, opioid response, disability services, and veterans programs; criminal and civil justice at $7.6 billion for corrections, juvenile justice, law enforcement, courts, and judgeships; transportation/tourism/economic development at about $18 billion including roads, housing, Visit Florida, and cultural grants; and agriculture/environment/general government with major Everglades, water quality, citrus, food bank, and agency IT funding. Members then questioned several budget items, especially education funding formulas, the shift of scholarship dollars below the line, the impact on public school districts, AP/IB and other accelerated program funding, the APD wait list, opioid settlement spending, arts grants, and the My Safe Florida Home and condo pilot programs. Chairs generally said scholarship and accelerated-program dollars were being restructured for transparency and flexibility rather than cut, that school districts would still receive funding based on enrollment, and that APD and other human services issues would continue to be worked out in conference. The budget discussion concluded with remarks praising staff and noting a 4% across-the-board pay raise for state employees and targeted increases for law enforcement and firefighters, followed by a recognition for FAMU Day at the Capitol.

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• We want to make sure that HOAs are better managing the amount of money.
• And I think, in some of those cases, it's because there's less than optimal management or the management
• If a lot of these HOAs are paying a large amount of homeowner fees to a third-party management company
• The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, established a framework for long-term groundwater
• With me today to testify in support is Justin Mendez, the general manager for North Fork Kings GSA.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• We have a packed panel: Economic Pathways Through Forest Restoration and Water Management.
• We don't have time to go into detail, but we have to have water security in order to support any kind
• Some additional ongoing programs that contribute to water security include: Thank you so much.
• The finance authority manages and administers the drinking water State Revolving Fund.
• The utilities would own and manage the batteries. That's what would make sense to me.

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• Its members qualify for Social Security.
• Its members qualify for Social Security.
• Its members qualify for Social Security.
• Its members qualify for Social Security.
• Its members qualify for Social Security.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The committee first approved the prior day’s minutes, then heard Senate File 255, which would exempt American Legion and VFW buildings from property tax. The bill’s author and the American Legion Department of Minnesota testified that many posts are struggling financially, that the tax burden can threaten building ownership, and that the posts provide important community services such as charitable gambling support, youth sports, food insecurity assistance, suicide prevention training, and meeting space for veterans and local residents. Several members voiced support, and the bill was laid over for possible inclusion. The committee then took up Senate File 30, a proposal to allow Minnesota estate tax portability for married couples, so a deceased spouse’s unused $3 million exclusion could transfer to the surviving spouse, similar to federal law. The author said Minnesota is an outlier compared with other estate-tax states and that the bill would simplify planning and reduce tax burdens, especially for family farms and other illiquid assets. A CPA and a Minnesota Farm Bureau representative testified that the order of death should not determine tax liability and that portability would help keep family farms intact. The bill was laid over for possible inclusion. Next, the committee adopted an A1 amendment to Senate File 211 and heard the bill, which would create a Minnesota subtraction for Foreign Service pension income, treating it more like military pension income. The author said the change would cover a small number of retirees and would have a minimal fiscal impact, while the testifier described Foreign Service work and said the benefit would recognize their service. The bill, as amended, was laid over for possible inclusion. Finally, the committee heard Senate File 132, which would revise property tax language related to electric power systems by replacing references to attachments and impertinences with broader system-based language. The author said the bill would clarify tax treatment for power co-ops, restore the original intent of the law, and provide stability for Greater Minnesota, with an estimated property tax shift of a little over $700,000. Testimony was beginning when the transcript ended, and no vote on the bill was recorded in the excerpt.

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• We get this false sense of security when we check the registry, but it's missing these employees.
• , investigations, and physical security. professionals in the United States and globally hold all three
• . and worked at, and we were serving a search warrant in the HR department, and the HR department manager
• I'm a housing program manager.
• Thank you, Madam Vice Chair, for all of your help in managing the committee today.

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

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

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• <00:22:34.480> Today<00:22:35.120> she social security to get by.
• Today she social security to get by.
• Management District of Forest<02:13:50.560> County.
• <02:20:13.920> Again,<02:20:14.560> I security of our communities.
• Again, I security of our communities.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• our favorite guest in the Pennell homestead, an entrepreneur and inventor, someone who has been managing
• momentum going by uniting around three principles: reduce regulation, protect the vulnerable, and secure
• President Trump is championing a pathway to secure the American Dream for the next generation.
• We're securing it for the next generation.
• It's time to eliminate the OSSAA and secure our progress with open transfer.

Bills: HB3725, HB3260, HB3660, HB3369, HB3370, HB2937, HB3419, HB3264, HB3266, HB3267, HB3268, HB3310, HB4311, HB3841, HB3024, HB3075

Keywords: labor, e-verification, immigration, employers, employment eligibility, Department of Labor, penalties, funeral licensing, continuing education, Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association, professional development, licensing requirements, HB3660, natural organic reduction, human composting, soil reduction, green burial, funeral services, cremation, burial permit

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• With me today is Anneliese Steeber, who manages our pharmaceutical analysis and research work.
• Um, I work in the health economics program and lead the team that managed this report, the data collection
• um, and lead the team that, uh, managed um, and lead the team that, uh, managed this,<00:04:09.840
• Um operations and managing all of it.
• Without those dollars, the food security Without those dollars, the food security system<01:08:38.880

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The bill revises the Climate and Resiliency Security Fund in the Department of Agriculture, requiring
• They’ll do what they have to do to manage your day-to-day operations.
• Food security out of this system. And I'm very excited that this bill is addressing that.
• Thank you, Madam. ...needs to have a secure retirement.
• I am the state policy manager for the Computer and Communications Industry Association, or CCIA.

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• gun storage device such as a gun safe, lockbox, or other secure storage designed to be accessed only
• The goal is simple: to encourage firearm owners to take proactive steps in securing their firearms, helping
• Law enforcement, firearm instructors, and safety advocates all agree that secure storage is one of the
• It empowers firearm owners to take an extra step in security. their firearms, protecting their families
• A solid way for me to be able to verify that manager and represent that it's just a question that I ask

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• I'm the Chairman of the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security.
• You flow over, you drop. 35 is what we refer to as Seagull management.
• I'm here to do that. a fireman instructor and a cyber security specialist.
• If safe zones worked, your security guard shouldn't have firearms.
• No one would ever need any security.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The hearing focused heavily on firearms legislation, especially bills to repeal Chapter 135 of the Acts of 2024 (including H. 2618/S. 1671 and related repeal measures) and bills on firearm industry accountability (H. 2672/S. 1653). Supporters of repeal, including Senator Peter Durant, Rep. Ken Sweezey, gun owners, instructors, sportsmen, and women’s gun-rights advocates, argued that Chapter 135 overreaches, creates confusion in licensing and training requirements, burdens lawful gun owners, restricts pepper spray and semi-automatic firearms, and is being enforced in ways they said criminalize responsible conduct. Committee members defending the law said it was the product of years of work, public listening sessions, and multiple drafts, and argued that Massachusetts remains the safest state for gun violence and that implementation issues, such as live-fire training, had been delayed to allow time for regulations and infrastructure. Several witnesses also testified on H. 2672/S. 1653, which would create firearm industry standards of conduct and allow civil actions against manufacturers, distributors, and dealers that engage in unsafe or unlawful practices. Supporters from the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown, Brady, Giffords, and survivors described the bill as a way to hold the industry accountable, reduce the flow of crime guns, and give victims and the Attorney General a path to sue bad actors. They cited data on crime-gun traces, disproportionate impacts on communities of color, and examples from other states that have enacted similar laws. Opponents, including gun dealers and industry representatives, argued that existing law already punishes illegal sales, that most crime guns are stolen or diverted after lawful sale, and that the bill would improperly target manufacturers for the actions of others. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to remove the non-resident ban on semi-automatic firearms for hunting (H. 2710/S. 1676), with Backcountry Hunters and Anglers supporting the change as a way to restore access for returning residents, veterans, and hunting programs that had been displaced. Later testimony returned to repeal and related gun-law bills, with sportsmen’s groups arguing Chapter 135 was rushed, confusing, and harmful to youth hunting and lawful ownership. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing; it was a public testimony session with extensive questioning by committee members.