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• Standardizing intake.
• That's part of the intake standardized standardizing intake. So, so.
• SB 138 as a department to standardize all of this, and there has been some problems in being Standardize
• Because you haven't standardized intake yet. So now you're coming to us for—have you standardized?
• We standardized our data collection.

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• The first one is for structural engineering, adding time and funds. >> This was originally done in '21
• These are for architectural and engineering services on an as-funds-are-available basis.
• It’s engineering services related to the... It’s engineering services related to the Clotilda.
• It's adding to the contract maximum to our open-end agreement through DCM for architectural and engineering

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• Not like standard rounding, but like really round up.
• Not like standard rounding, but like really round up.
• > without<00:58:55.640> a<00:58:55.720> stable<00:58:56.200> federal standard
• without a stable federal standard without a stable federal partnership<00:58:57.120> and<00:58
• immune cells to fight cancer to engineer immune cells to fight cancer and<01:38:29.800> developing

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• c> quickly while maintaining strong quickly while maintaining strong scientific<04:15:04.320> standards
• scientific standards. scientific standards.
• <05:25:27.520> for<05:25:27.680> local treasure, but also an engine for local treasure
• , but also an engine for local jobs<05:25:28.560> in<05:25:28.640> the<05:25:28.800>
• At the same time, it preserves community input, environmental standards, and mandatory reporting every

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, March 16, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• I was employed by Eagle Lab actually before I graduated from engineering school.
• I was employed by Eagle Lab actually before I graduated from engineering school.
• I was employed by Eagle Lab actually before I graduated from engineering school.
• I was employed by Eagle Lab actually before I graduated from engineering school.
• I was employed by Eagle Lab actually before I graduated from engineering school.

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• But that gets us to the 100/20 standard.
• Of course, there's always the chance that there'll be a new standard tomorrow.
• So with that, they used current industry standards.
• And then again, that standardization of the third-party technologies.
• This is our compliance against the 88 standard, so we're getting really, really close there.

Summary: The committee received several informational reports from NDIT and DPI. Justin Data reviewed the quarterly major IT project portfolio, noting the portfolio was slightly under budget and behind schedule overall, with three red schedule items: Bed Management System and Vital Records were essentially complete and being closed out, and the Roadway Capital Planning Project was delayed by vendor bug fixes after testing. He also summarized recent project startups and closeouts, including the Victim Notification System, Medicaid data exchange, Highway Patrol’s motor carrier permit system, and several completed HHS and RIMS projects. Members asked for follow-up on ADA compliance work, the public-facing RIO website, and the state’s mainframe retirement timeline, and staff agreed to provide updates later. Craig Falkley reported on coordination of services with political subdivisions and higher education, including StageNet, cybersecurity, radio/911 services, and PeopleSoft coordination. He also explained distributed ledger technology as a tool for transparency and fraud prevention, but said it is not widely used in state government and suggested the report be modernized to focus more broadly on emerging technologies such as AI and cybersecurity. The committee generally agreed that the topic should be updated. Chris Gurgan presented the mandatory cybersecurity incident reporting program created by HB 1314, explaining how agencies and political subdivisions report incidents through NDIT’s website or service desk. He said 77 incidents had been reported since 2021, 47 met the statutory definition, and most were phishing-related; most reported incidents were resolved, with one recent ransomware matter still open. He also reviewed notable incidents since the last report, including the PowerSchool compromise, a SimpleHelp intrusion at a school district, a court intrusion, a WSUS vulnerability, a business email compromise, and a recent ransomware incident involving a non-state critical infrastructure entity. Members asked about recovery of stolen funds, early warning signs, smishing, training, MFA, conditional access, and cybersecurity maturity assessments; Gurgan said the state uses MFA and conditional access, provides awareness training to state employees, and would return with more information on maturity assessments. Tony Ambrose then updated the committee on the K-12 student information system bridge project. He said district implementation of Infinite Campus had begun statewide, but the data migration vendor originally selected was terminated for poor performance and replaced by Aurora Educational Technology, which had experience with similar statewide migrations. He also said DPI is migrating special education data from Tynet into Infinite Campus, and that some SLDS-based tools such as e-transcripts and Choice Ready may not function exactly as they do now at July 1, requiring interim or alternative solutions. Members raised concerns about summer school disruptions, the timing of the cutover, and whether the new system would support existing reporting and transcript functions; DPI said it was working on identity, authentication, data-sharing agreements, and post-go-live integrations, and would continue to refine the plan beyond June 30.

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• Captain Glover earned his engineering degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis
• He also got three master's degrees: a Master of Science in Flight Engineering, a Master of Science in
• Systems Engineering, and a Master of Military Operational Art and Science.
• As a husband, a father of four, a military officer, an engineer, an astronaut, and a public servant,
• As a husband, a father of four, a military officer, an engineer, an astronaut, and a public service,

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• It's just home team, guest team, standard like, you know, first down, second out, whatever quarter.
• It's a standard scoreboard for, like, say, youth or high school sports.
• And I certainly, you know, software engineers and lawyers are the same way.
• the software engineers and lawyers are the same<01:43:39.920> way.
• review it, um is like a standard review it, um is like a standard executive<04:53:30.080> order

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• similar neighborhood peers with similar demographics<00:39:09.200> and<00:39:09.400> standardized
• <00:39:10.240> testing demographics and standardized testing demographics and standardized
• Eighty-one percent of our student body scores either at or above average grade level on standardized
• <00:48:17.960> tests<00:48:18.800> including<00:48:19.240> the on standardized
• tests including the on standardized tests including the Stanford<00:48:19.960> Achievement<00

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Summary: The Education Finance Committee met on February 5, 2025, to hear testimony from representatives of Minnesota’s Catholic and other nonpublic schools, focused on state nonpublic pupil aid, transportation, counseling, nursing, and related support programs. Meg Forette of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis argued that Catholic schools serve more than 30,000 students across many districts, educate a diverse population, and achieve strong academic results while operating at far lower per-student costs than public schools. She urged lawmakers to reject proposed cuts to nonpublic funding, saying they would be inequitable and harmful to lower-income families, and also raised concerns about state teacher-licensing requirements conflicting with Catholic values. Trisha Menshu, principal of St. John Paul II Catholic School in Northeast Minneapolis, described a student body with high levels of poverty, learning needs, and academic gaps, and said state-funded nurse and guidance-counseling services are essential to keeping students safe, healthy, and on track for high school. She said the school absorbs many costs itself, including medical supplies and significant staff time, and credited the support programs with helping students make strong academic growth and graduate on time. In response to a senator’s question, she clarified that the school uses the nursing aid for limited nurse time and pays other medical-related costs from operating funds, with no billing back to public school districts. Committee members asked follow-up questions about the relationship between teacher licensing and Catholic values, and about how medical needs for nonpublic students are funded. Forette said the concern was not with welcoming all students but with how DEI-related trainings and language are presented in ways that conflict with Catholic teaching. The committee then moved on to the next testifier, Andrew Hiliker of Stella Maris Academy in Duluth, who began by describing his school’s growth and the state’s role in supporting all students, regardless of school choice.

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• Modern units are constructed according to a rigorous standardized national building code established
• This is, uh, a math that was engineered to try to achieve fairness in how we treat a manufactured home
• This is uh a math that was engineered<01:28:39.360> to<01:28:39.600> try<01:28:39.760><
• c> to<01:28:39.920> achieve<01:28:40.239> fairness<01:28:40.639> in engineered
• to try to achieve fairness in engineered to try to achieve fairness in how<01:28:40.960> we<01

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• Um, it follows an industry standard that is already utilized with the commercial sales of these products
• board members and community stakeholders such as real estate professionals, builders, architects, engineers
• 39.440> architects, professionals, builders, architects, professionals, builders, architects, engineers
• 41.440> others<01:35:41.760> to<01:35:41.920> keep<01:35:42.080> them engineers
• , and others to keep them engineers, and others to keep them informed<01:35:42.639> of<01:35:42.800

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• I'm an engineer.
• I'm an engineer.
• I'm an engineer.
• I have represented several transgender individuals, including a physician and an engineer.
• <03:02:14.200> transgender including an engineer transgender including an engineer transgender

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• Um, we've had some discussions on the public sector safety standards, but there's um four or five standards
• So, a lot of the software engineer.
• And then OSHA standards do still apply to remote work as well.
• They think the reasonable standard is the appropriate standard in this case.
• We do appropriate standard in this case.

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• grant building permits within 60 days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer
• certified by application is stamped and certified by a<00:04:06.840> licensed<00:04:07.239> engineer
• <00:04:07.560> and<00:04:07.760> architect<00:04:08.159> and a licensed engineer
• and architect and a licensed engineer and architect and certain<00:04:08.840> other<00:04:09.200

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Summary: The Committee on Housing met on February 11, 2025, to hear Senate Bill 662 and Senate Bill 66. SB 662 would require HHFDC to transfer the public roads in the Villages of Kapolei to the City and County of Honolulu by January 1, 2026, and would authorize county police officers to enforce the statewide traffic code on all public streets and highways. Testimony on the measure was in support from H50, the City and County of Honolulu, and an individual testifier. HHFDC Executive Director D. Minomi said the agency had been negotiating with the city over a $60 million transfer of road and infrastructure maintenance responsibility, but no formal agreement had been drafted; negotiations were paused when related bills were introduced. He said that if the bills do not pass, HHFDC would continue negotiations because the amount is less than the estimated cost of rehabilitating the roads itself and would free up staff time. The committee recommended SB 662 be passed with amendments, including a deferred date and report language referencing the ongoing negotiations, and the recommendation was adopted with aye votes from the chair, vice chair, Senator Kino, and Senator Kuha. The committee then heard SB 66, which would require counties to issue building permits within 60 days when applications are stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other conditions are met. Testimony was mixed, with the Department of Planning and Permitting for the City and County of Honolulu in opposition, and several groups including the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, RMS Sales, Hawaii Realtors, NAHawaii Chapter, BIA Hawaii, and the Maui Chamber of Commerce in support; several individuals also testified both for and against. The State Historic Preservation Division testified with comments. In decision-making, the chair recommended SB 66 be passed with technical, non-substantive amendments and with additional amendments from the State Historic Preservation Division, including requiring a complete application and specifying qualified professionals under SHPD rules for architecture, archaeology, architectural history, and/or physical anthropology. The committee adopted the recommendation by a vote of the chair alone, with no objections noted. The hearing then adjourned.

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• four years ago when I looked up, and we had a majority of PRC faculty members in the electrical engineering
• So I'm worried about faculty members in the electrical engineering department at LSU.
• have the ability to start moving on their own so they can keep up their academic priorities, their standards

Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 399 by Senator Bass, which would create the Louisiana Higher Education Research Security Council to review and potentially block certain gifts, contracts, academic partnerships, and research partnerships involving foreign adversary sources. Bass said the bill is intended to protect university research, intellectual property, and students from foreign influence, and would also require public disclosure of certain foreign-linked arrangements and a plan to eliminate foreign-adversary-linked software. Supporters from State Armor argued Louisiana universities have been vulnerable to Chinese Communist Party influence and intellectual property theft. Representatives from Tulane University and Lenovo raised concerns that the bill could create duplicative review, delay research, raise costs, and sweep in legitimate private or multinational entities; a proposed amendment to exempt entities operating under a CFIUS national security agreement failed 4-8. After debate, the committee moved SB 399 favorably. The committee then considered Senate Bill 310 by Senator Cloud, presented by Representative Carlson, which would require public school and college health centers to display information about pregnancy resources available in Louisiana. Supporters from Louisiana Right to Life said the bill would help connect pregnant students with existing state and private assistance programs, while the ACLU submitted a red card in opposition without speaking. The bill was moved favorably without objection. The committee also advanced House Resolution 171 by Representative Turner, which calls for a study of the workforce-oriented TOPS Tech and M.J. Foster programs, with business and workforce groups supporting the study as a way to measure outcomes and return on investment; it was moved favorably. Next, the committee took up House Bill 1084 by Representative Turner, a tuition autonomy bill for public post-secondary institutions. An amendment was adopted to add a conceptual framework for tuition-setting considerations, but the bill would still remove the existing 10% over two years cap and allow institutions to set tuition more freely. Turner argued universities need more flexibility because state funding has declined and campuses face deferred maintenance and operating pressures. Several members, especially Representative Carlson, warned that higher tuition could reduce access and that the bill did not address broader structural problems in higher education. Despite those concerns, HB 1084 was moved favorably by an 8-3 vote. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 351 by Senator Jackson Andrews, which would let families apply for child care assistance through CCAP once pregnancy is known, rather than waiting until after birth, to help move them up the waiting list. An amendment was adopted to have BESE, rather than the department, handle rulemaking and to allow the House and Senate education committees to approve the implementation process. The bill was then discussed as a way to help parents return to work sooner, and the hearing continued with questions from members.

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• And then fuel economy went into effect in a big way, CAFE standards, and people bought more efficient
• I'm a licensed practicing engineer. I'm a licensed practicing engineer here in Arizona.

Bills: HB2014, HB2031, HB2078, HB2102, HB2103, HB2117, HB2261, HB2262, HB2264, HB2278, HB2428, HB2494, HB2756, HB2758, HB2762, HB2782, HB2932, HB2933, HB2986

Keywords: air emissions, fuel blends, environmental quality, feasibility study, Arizona Department of Agriculture, water rights, groundwater, Willcox, active management area, certificate of grandfathered rights, Arizona legislature, aggregate mining, reclamation plans, environmental protection, public safety, land use, domestic water, improvement district, water delivery, water hauling

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• Can we ask maybe the L.A.O. and staff to look at some industry standards on that?
• We know that our California State University is the workhorse of educating our engineers, teachers, and
• Human resources and construction engineering, as well as looking at offering even non-credit programming

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• statute, their guidelines through 60G that basically enforces that we need to have certain security standards
• We really want to emphasize here that we are not changing or re-engineering the child support program
• Since we're not making changes or re-engineering the processes as part of this project, we'll have a

Summary: The subcommittee heard updates on several major technology modernization efforts, beginning with the Department of Financial Services’ Florida PALM project, which is replacing the state’s decades-old FLAIR accounting system. DFS described PALM as a statewide effort affecting all three branches of government, with cash management already live and the remaining financial management, payroll, and data warehouse components still in development. Officials said the project began in 2014, was restructured after a 2022 legislative pause, and is now being recommended for a go-live delay from January 2026 to July 2026. Members asked about governance, staffing, contract structure, cost growth, and maintenance costs; DFS said the contract is deliverable-based, the current amendment would add a net $2.2 million, and post-go-live maintenance is expected to be about $13 million annually under the current contract through July 2027. The Agency for Health Care Administration then updated the committee on the FX Medicaid enterprise modernization program. AHCA explained that federal CMS directed states to move from monolithic Medicaid systems to a modular approach, leading Florida to procure separate vendors for integration services, data warehouse, unified operations, provider services, and claims processing, with pharmacy benefits still to be procured. Officials said the project has spent about $334 million to date, with most costs federally matched, and requested $189.95 million for the upcoming year. They also highlighted a 2024 special assessment that produced 81 recommendations, most tied to staffing shortages, and said the Legislature added 47 FTEs, with 17 currently filled or being filled. Members asked about governance changes, production status, data access, and future technology maintenance; AHCA said some components are operational, the data warehouse is nearing certification, and the agency is working to keep the system adaptable and nonproprietary. The Department of Children and Families presented its Access modernization project, which is replacing a mainframe-based eligibility system used for SNAP, TANF, Medicaid assistance, and related programs. DCF said the six-year, $205 million project is in its third year and has already delivered a new customer portal with mobile access, multi-factor authentication, and fraud protections, while also building a worker portal, document management, community partner tools, and workload management functions. The agency said it is requesting $36.625 million for the next fiscal year, the same as last year, and emphasized that the project has remained on schedule and on budget by breaking work into smaller modules and using strong vendor and staff support. Members praised the project’s progress and asked about cybersecurity testing and the long delay before modernization began; DCF said security requirements were built in from the outset and that the remaining work will focus on moving staff off the legacy mainframe and modernizing notices and back-end processes.

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• Barely coded racist rhetoric is his standard practice.
• -Canadian trade partnership is the strongest economic growth engine in our part of the American continent
• -Canadian trade partnership is the strongest economic growth engine in our part of the American continent

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

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• It's an engine that kind of cleans up the data before it gets into STARS.
• And then finally, residencies are what we consider sort of the gold standard for teacher prep.
• They are recognized; they did a study, and they are a $20 million economic engine for the northern part