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• we encourage you to participate in this process by submitting written testimony through the Texas House
• At the top of house within USDA, I think it would be very important for them.
• But if we stand alone, you know, a house divided sometimes can't survive or won't survive.
• If we stand alone, you know, a house divided sometimes can't survive or won't survive.
• I think there are appropriate cases for utilizing telemedicine.

Committee: House Agriculture & Livestock

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So would it be appropriate, and I guess we can take a motion then, would it be appropriate to add something
• A legislative report, so whenever, you know, from this session, whenever that's appropriate. Okay.
• Really, House Bill 940 was the big one this year.

Keywords: 965, house, all

Summary: The Louisiana Advanced Aviation and Drones Advisory Committee met and was told this would likely be its final meeting because the committee sunsets after the 2026 regular session unless legislation reconstitutes it. Members discussed the need to reduce the committee’s size and adjust quorum rules so it can function more reliably, and they later adopted a motion supporting reconstitution of LADAC with a smaller membership and new appointments effective July 1, 2027. The committee also approved the June 2025 minutes and added a legislative briefing item to the agenda. Under subcommittee and project updates, members heard about the new counter-drone effort tied to House Bill 940 and the “Let’s Go” initiative, which would create a joint task force of State Police, sheriffs, and municipal police chiefs to develop training standards and equipment standards for counter-UAS work. The committee also received a briefing on the state’s advanced air mobility work from newly named Advanced Aeronautics Director Josh Deplanis, including Louisiana’s selection for the FAA’s eVTOL/AAM Integration Pilot Program, branded “Lift Off Louisiana,” and the development of a statewide strategic plan covering airspace integration, vertiport infrastructure, charging networks, economic development, education, and community engagement. Deplanis and members emphasized that Louisiana is among a small number of national EIPP sites and that the state’s proposal is notable for also addressing international airspace and “high seas” operations beyond 12 miles offshore, which could help inform FAA and ICAO policy. Members praised the state’s leadership, the work of DOTD, OMC, GOSEP, State Police, and legislative partners, and noted the potential economic importance for oil and gas logistics and other advanced aviation uses. No public testimony was offered, and the meeting adjourned after the committee’s votes and updates.

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• . >> If it's appropriate, may I ask for a 5-minute caucus? >> Sure.
• Endnote 26 identifies Arizona House Bill 2974.
• Arizona House Bill 2974, and endnote 27 identifies it from the Minnesota House Bill HF 3219.
• That third bullet and the appropriate end note are to be included in the letter.
• So, um, with that, the Special Committee on COVID Response Efficacy for the House of Representatives

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Special Committee on COVID Response Efficacy met to review its mission, approve prior minutes at a future meeting, and discuss materials related to COVID-19 vaccination guidance. Members examined a pediatric vaccination handout from a private pediatric practice and compared it with New Hampshire DHHS and AAP/AAFP immunization guidance, focusing on how COVID-19 vaccine recommendations are presented for children and adults. Committee members also discussed the scope and accuracy of the committee’s endnotes and supporting documents. The main business was a draft letter urging the governor to direct state agencies to stop recommending COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Members revised the letter paragraph by paragraph, including changing wording about age ranges for children, clarifying references to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and adding discussion of vaccine safety concerns, alleged suppression of safety data, and federal investigations. They also debated whether to reference specific reporting systems such as VAERS and V-safe, and whether to include examples from other states, including Tennessee, Arizona, Minnesota, and Florida, as evidence of broader concern about mRNA vaccines. After the edits were completed, Representative Villio moved to accept the letter as amended, Representative Leroy seconded, and the committee approved it by voice vote 4-0. The chair said the revised letter would be finalized and distributed later in the week. The meeting then adjourned at approximately 11:57 a.m.

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• I support the bill and am happy to move it at the appropriate time. Thank you.
• The motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations. Calderon? Aye. Pappan? Aye.
• The motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations.
• The motion is due pass to the Committee on Appropriations.
• I thought we'd be farther along in the second house to really know where we were.

Committee: House Insurance

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• At the appropriate time, I would respectfully ask for an aye vote. Mr.
• The Housing Action Coalition is a statewide pro-housing nonprofit that advocates for more homes at all
• For aligning their infrastructure investment with their housing goals.
• , and the San Diego Housing Federation, in strong support.
• Saberman with the Housing Action Coalition, strong support.

Committee: House Local Government

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• The motion is do pass to Appropriations with recommendation to consent calendar.
• Motion is do pass to Appropriations with recommendation to consent.
• Motion is do pass as amended to Appropriations with recommendation to consent.
• Motion is do pass to Appropriations with a recommendation to consent calendar.
• Motion is do pass as amended to Appropriations with recommendation to consent calendar.

Committee: House Elections

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• requirements ensure that the state is securing the best services and benefits for people who have that appropriate
• The best services and benefits for people who have that appropriate expectation.
• The motion on the bill is due pass to the Appropriations Committee. Is there a motion on the bill?
• File item 1, SB 1223, Padilla, excuse me, the motion is due pass to Appropriations Committee.

Committee: House Agriculture

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The consent calendar motions are as follows: SB 945, do pass to Appropriations; SB 959, do pass to Appropriations
• ; SB 1017, do pass as amended to Appropriations.
• SB 959, do pass to Appropriations. SB 1017, do pass as amended to Appropriations. SB 1058, do pass.
• SB 1378, do pass as amended to Appropriations. SB 1381, do pass as amended to Appropriations.
• SB 1412, do pass as amended to Appropriations. And SB 1443, do pass to Appropriations.

Committee: House Education

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Additionally, five is to repair and replace some of the transitional housing.
• Out of our 12 appropriations, only three are generally funded.
• So, the capital appropriation for a 75/25 federal-state...
• appropriation request, since I've been here.
• They really wouldn't be appropriate to consider as capital requests.

Keywords: 928, house, all

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• </c> approximately with locally appropriated approximately with locally appropriated school<00:44:55.119
• </c><02:16:33.120><c> to</c> I don't know that it's appropriate to I don't know that it's appropriate
• </c> approved by the House and Senate. approved by the House and Senate.
• Yet, congressional appropriations for Yet, congressional appropriations for funding<04:20:07.040><c>
• ,</c> &gt;&gt; You know, if it flew through the house, &gt;&gt; You know, if it flew through the house

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The commission meeting focused on reviewing and correcting draft minutes and then working through a draft report on the cost of special education. Members made mostly clerical corrections, including clarifying references to Spalding, fixing acronyms such as LETRS, and cleaning up membership titles and appointee roles to match SB 57. The minutes were approved as amended, with some members abstaining because they were not present at the prior meeting. The chair also noted the commission’s deadline to complete findings and recommendations by July 1 and said the final report must be delivered to legislative leaders, the governor, the state librarian, and others. The main substantive discussion centered on the report’s findings about special education funding. Members agreed the report should emphasize that the commission was created to study the cost of special education and reduce reliance on local property taxes. One draft section described FY24 special education funding as coming from three primary state and federal sources totaling about $152 million, or roughly 15% of annual costs, with the remaining 85% paid by local school districts through property tax revenue, estimated at about $825 million. Members discussed adding historical or longitudinal data to show trends over time, and some suggested attaching charts or tables showing funding over the last 20 to 30 years. A second major topic was demographic data. The draft noted that statewide K-12 enrollment has declined since 2003 while the number and share of students with IEPs has increased. Members questioned whether the data compared like with like, especially given the growth of Education Freedom Accounts and charter school enrollment, and whether the figures included or excluded those students. Several members asked for clearer sourcing from the Department of Education and suggested keeping a list of unresolved questions, including the impact of the shift from ADMA to ADMR and the effect of the EFA program. The discussion ended with agreement to continue refining the report and to gather additional attachments and clarifications before finalizing recommendations.

Committee: House State and Local Government

Keywords: 939, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I vote when appropriate. Great, thank you. We have Senator Menjivar here. Welcome.
• While this bill is contingent on funding, this House saw an earlier bill by Assemblymember Soria that
• and and continue to meet with with all the interested parties and respect for gastron I vote when appropriate
• While this bill is contingent on funding, this House saw an earlier bill by Assembly of Soria that is
• But we also are open to it being housed wherever it’s most appropriate, based and potentially tiering

Committee: House Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• team is looking to place someone into permanent housing.
• I am the director of housing community services at Berkeley.
• I also am responsible for below market rate housing.
• Housing teams, unarmed with information that mental health teams have, have placed individuals into housing
• The motion is due pass to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Lee, aye.

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I mean, that's the best possible outcome, that the house has already met those standards.
• My neighbors and I just recently helped to close down a local drug house.
• Motions do pass to appropriations. Callra? Aye. Callra, aye. Mascito. Barakahan. Brian? Aye.
• Motions do pass to appropriations. Callra? Aye. Callra, aye. Mascito. Barakahan. Brian? Aye.
• Motions do pass to Appropriations. Kalra? Aye. Kalra, aye. Bauer-Kahan? Aye. Bauer-Kahan, aye.

Committee: House Judiciary

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Acted to remove disability income from government housing eligibility calculations.
• CalVet achieves this success by keeping loans in-house and servicing them directly.
• And if not, we're hoping that the housing bond can be a backstop.
• , base housing to a home loan program.
• And we need to put pressure on appropriations. So I would be honored to co-author.

Committee: House Military and Veterans Affairs

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Item number three: SB 1041 by Nilo, with a motion of due pass to Appropriations.
• And at the appropriate time, we will be able to consider it.
• And at the appropriate time, we will be able to consider it.
• So only if, even with us passing this bill, it would still have to be appropriated in order for them
• And so, of course, once we would appropriate the funds, we would certainly want them to do it, right?

Committee: House Health

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I also have a bill in this space that's moving over to your house right now that specifically deals with
• I don't know that I think that's an appropriate place for chatbots to be providing psychotherapy to the
• But I do think that, you know, the guardrails you're setting out here of sort of what is the appropriate
• It is about protecting appropriate scope, but ultimately it's about consumer and patient protection,
• work you've done to make sure that companion chatbots and other AI technologies are safely and appropriately

Committee: House Business and Professions

Keywords: 988, house, all

Committee: House Water, Parks, and Wildlife

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Do pass to the Appropriations Committee. SB 930 by Senator Reyes. Do pass to Education.
• SB 719 is do pass as amended to the Appropriations Committee.
• SB 719 is do pass as amended to the Appropriations Committee. I'm sorry about that.
• I recognize we're in the second house. You're in this committee. I don't remember.
• The motion was do pass to the Appropriations Committee. Irwin? Aye. McKinnor? Aye. Patterson?

Committee: House Privacy and Consumer Protection

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Is it appropriate to ask that? >> Well, it's referencing the administrative costs?
• And so, if this committee wanted to further investigate whether that spectrum is appropriate or whether
• We review it to make sure it's the appropriate individual, that they're licensed, right?
• I'm [clears throat] just wondering if I know that some other committees, House committees, do post that
• I'm still transplanting a tree from one side of my house to the other side that I did yesterday, my back

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Education Freedom Account Oversight Committee met on March 27 and approved the agenda, adding a request for clarification on how the Children’s Scholarship Fund separates applications for the EFA program and the education tax credit program. The committee also approved minutes from December 30, 2025, and March 27, 2026, with a request that the March minutes include a link to the live stream. Members discussed the status of pending Legislative Budget Assistant audit reports on EFA and special education, noting the reports were still not released and would likely come later in the summer after review by the Department of Education and the Children’s Scholarship Fund. A major topic was the EFA program’s administrative fee, which statute allows up to 10% of deposits. Children’s Scholarship Fund representatives said current administrative costs were under 8%, that staffing had been reduced through the ScholarVia platform, and that any unused amount is reconciled and returned to students at year’s end. Members asked for historical administrative-cost data and a written explanation of how the withholding and reconciliation process works. The committee also reviewed the distinction between the EFA and education tax credit funding streams and was told the two programs use separate applications and separate funds, though both use the same platform. The committee spent substantial time on assessment and accountability. Department of Education staff explained that EFA students may satisfy annual assessment requirements through a portfolio, a norm-referenced test, or the statewide assessment; only about 10 EFA students took the statewide assessment, while most used portfolios or standardized tests such as the California Achievement Test and NWEA. Staff described how statewide assessment data are kept separate by student identifier and can be aggregated for EFA reporting, and members asked for breakdowns by grade, test type, and school district. The department also discussed linking assessments through Lexiles and Quantiles and said it could provide a list of commonly used formative assessments in New Hampshire districts. The committee additionally discussed a possible PSAT addition to the state contract and the costs of the statewide assessment program. Another major issue was special education eligibility and services within the EFA program. Members questioned the rule allowing a medical certification of disability from a licensed professional anywhere in the United States as an alternative to an IEP-based determination. Department staff said the current system allows either pathway, that about 1,000 EFA students are identified as special education students, and that the program does not track growth or service alignment on an individual basis. Members expressed concern that the medical-certification route may be too broad and asked for data on the disability categories used. The committee also discussed career and technical education access for EFA students, noting that Senate Bill 491 would provide guidance and that House Bill 1817 would address access and funding issues, but that current law still allows EFA funds to be used to pay CTE costs. The meeting ended with a request for future agenda items and a decision to leave the next meeting date open until fall, pending further information from the LBA audit process.