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• We also support developing a framework for stabilizing the regulated affordable housing sector.
• <00:29:05.039> the<00:29:05.200> regulated<00:29:05.679> affordable stabilizing
• the regulated affordable stabilizing the regulated affordable housing<00:29:06.559> sector.
• I know firsthand the transformative power of stability.
• Thank you. the same stability and life they the same stability and life they deserve.<00:49:58.880>

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• <00:41:22.560> and<00:41:22.800> this put in to to try to stabilize and this put in
• <00:55:05.520> in need for our certainty and stability in need for our certainty and stability
• :55:10.480> for<00:55:10.720> the stability is certainly critical for the stability is
• The network as a economic stability.
• <01:48:05.199> and offer uh fosters price stability and offer uh fosters price stability and

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• <00:49:50.200> fund community housing stability fund community housing stability fund providing
• We all know that there's a direct correlation between housing stability and life's outcomes.
• correlation between housing stability correlation between housing stability and<00:56:35.319>
• like we believe that housing stability like we believe that housing stability is<00:57:25.839>
• <01:00:44.240> fund the Housing Community stability fund the Housing Community stability fund

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• and continuity of our state's stability and continuity of our state's cac's<00:18:44.400> thank
• The bill is absolutely critical to stabilizing the homelessness crisis in our state.
• The bill is absolutely critical to stabilizing the homelessness crisis in our state.
• I wanted to highlight the key relationship between housing stability and mental health as a critical
• prevention and housing stabilization prevention and housing stabilization program<01:04:49.520><

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• As a child grows, it becomes a quiet source of stability and hope, waiting for the right moment to unlock
• While increasing earned income is necessary to achieve financial stability, so is building a base of
• today because I had not only the advances of science on my side, but I had my family’s financial stability
• By passing this legislation, Massachusetts can provide stability and equality to its nonprofit partners
• By passing this legislation, Massachusetts can provide stability and equality to its nonprofit partners

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee first heard testimony on a proposed Massachusetts baby bonds program, including H. 3429, S. 2146, and the Treasurer’s related bill H. 48. Treasurer Goldberg and a broad coalition of advocates, researchers, health professionals, and people with lived experience said the program would create trust accounts for children born into low-income families or in DCF custody, with funds available at age 18 for education, homeownership, business startup, or other long-term asset-building uses. Supporters argued the program would help close the racial wealth gap, improve economic mobility, and not affect eligibility for financial aid or public benefits. Committee members asked about administration, investment returns, eligibility, and withdrawal rules; the Treasurer said the accounts would be held in trust and managed by her office with an advisory board, with funds accessible at 18 and usable through age 35 if the beneficiary remains a Massachusetts resident. No vote was taken during the testimony shown. The committee also heard testimony on legislation establishing Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day, including S. 2666 and H. 4625. Senator Ross, Representative Badger, physicians, survivors, and advocates described invasive lobular carcinoma as difficult to detect because it often grows in lines rather than forming a lump, can be missed on mammography, and is underfunded and underrepresented in research and clinical trials. Witnesses said the bill would codify an annual October 15 proclamation to raise awareness, improve diagnosis, and encourage more targeted research and treatment. Committee members asked why the disease is so hard to detect, and medical witnesses explained the imaging challenges and the lack of lobular-specific protocols. The witnesses urged favorable reports. The committee then took testimony on H. 4648, a bill concerning the purchase or lease of Fenn Farm in Stockbridge by the Stockbridge-Munsee community. Representative Davis, the Stockbridge Land Trust president, and the tribal president testified that the bill would remove a conservation restriction tied to a state MVP grant so the tribe could manage the land without a restriction that they said would conflict with tribal sovereignty and Indigenous stewardship practices. They said the parcel is a sacred site connected to Monument Mountain and that the restriction is unnecessary because the land is already surrounded by conserved property. The witnesses asked for favorable action on the bill. Finally, the committee heard testimony on H. 3416, a resolution urging Congress to create a national infrastructure bank. Representative Senna and several advocates argued that an off-budget infrastructure bank could finance major repairs and upgrades to roads, bridges, rail, water systems, broadband, and housing without adding to the state budget, while creating jobs and supporting economic growth. Witnesses cited historical precedents for national infrastructure banks and said Massachusetts could benefit substantially from such a program. The transcript shown does not include a committee vote or final action on the resolution.

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• day a child, family, or a senior loses their home, we need this bill to ensure that they get the stability
• We just eliminated housing stabilization services under the premise that there was fraud ridden throughout
• . workers, and communities lose stability.
• On the very same day that this body voted to remove the failed housing stabilization program from statute
• <00:22:56.440> program failed housing stabilization program failed housing stabilization program

Keywords: 1183, house

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• We will get her back, but we will go to House Bill 65 of Dow and Brown, CYFD Short Term Stabilization
• Madam Chair and members of the committee, today I have before you a short-term stabilization pilot...
• And stabilized.
• pilot that can improve placement stability and inform future efforts.
• Their trauma, longing For relationship and connection to those around them, desire for stability, and

Keywords: 996, all

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• goes and picks them up from the community, takes them to a behavioral health center for them to be stabilized
• Once they're stabilized, what's been happening is that they're recalling the officer to come pick them
• goes and picks them up from the community, takes them to a behavioral health center for them to be stabilized
• Once they're stabilized, what's been happening is that they're recalling the officer to come pick them
• job and, more importantly, be more humane in the transfer of the patient whenever they've been stabilized

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• Stabilization and 99% were not admitted to a state mental health treatment facility.
• experience reflects the kind of sustained community-based support that helps individuals regain stability
• The mother engaged in the recommended treatment and the children stabilize with the support of they're
• These results reflect significant progress towards family stability.
• So behind these numbers, again, there's some real families who rely on these programs to regain stability

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• A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
• A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
• A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
• A significant portion of that rating is because of the stability and the improving nature of our pension
• <00:20:57.000> and rating is because of the stability and rating is because of the stability

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• That makes it very difficult to stabilize and create a safe milieu.
• And we work to stabilize behavior and get that... when necessary.
• And we work to stabilize behavior and get them back to general population, if at all possible.
• We have what we call our crisis stabilization unit, our behavioral stabilization unit, which are two
• There is a demonstrable increase in their insight and their stability.

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• There's no need for an enrollment stabilization fund.
• , and why the budget should be seeking to offer stability.
• This proposed budget brings stability.
• And that stabilization money, the Senate has it there for a reason.
• We are repealing the Educational Enrollment Stabilization Program.

Bills: HJR 99, HB 1399, HB 1400, HB 1094, HB 365, HB 1109, HB 647, HCR 35, SB 14, HB 12, HB 1522, HB 422, HB 675, HB 204, HB 748, HB 912, HJR 99, HB 1399, HB 1400, HB 1094, HB 365, HB 1109, HB 647, HCR 35, HCR 123, HCR 124, HR 57, HR 87, HR 111, HR 228, HR 230, HR 322, HR 624, HR 625, HR 626, HR 627, HR 628, HR 630, HR 631, HR 634, HR 635, HR 636, HR 637, HR 638, HR 639, HR 640, HR 645, HR 646, HR 648, HR 649, HR 651, HR 652, HR 653, HR 654, HR 664, HR 665, HR 668, HR 675, HR 676, HR 678, HR 679, HR 680, HR 683, HR 686, HR 688, HR 689, HR 694, HR 695, HR 697, HR 698, HR 699, HR 472, HR 622, HR 632, HR 633, HR 643, HR 655, HR 657, HR 660, HR 661, HR 662, HR 663, HR 667, HR 670, HR 674, HR 681, HR 682, HR 696

Keywords: animal feed, tax exemption, ad valorem taxation, retail, constitutional amendment, retail sale, tangible personal property, Texas tax code, groundwater, water conservation, financial assistance, Texas Water Development Board, innovation fund, local conservation districts, transportation protection agreement, funeral services, insurance exemption, regulation, deceased transportation, HB 365

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• critical way providing that stability critical way providing that stability for<00:49:22.079>
• This has helped maintain stability and prevent corporate conversions of those units and is critical to
• This has helped maintain stability and prevent corporate conversions of those units and is critical to
• We're going to have affordable options, and we are going to return stability to our housing market and
• We're going to have affordable options, and we are going to return stability to our housing market and

Keywords: 1183, house

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• He has a job, but he still fights every day for his mental stability.
• Get them stabilized and engaged in services. We go to slide 38.
• So we get someone stabilized, we turn them loose,...
• Yes, we would have to do an evaluation, and if they need stabilization, we would have to stabilize them
• Exams and stabilization when necessary.

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• Today's hearing will consider ACA 20, a proposal to change the budget stabilization account, also known
• Strong reserve policies promote fiscal stability.
• Financial stability requires preparation.
• Account, and some other facets, those changes... ...the size of the Budget Stabilization Account and
• So the budget, I should say, required deposits into the Budget Stabilization Account would occur until

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• But there may be some ways that we can stabilize the system.
• What level of funding is required to, A, eliminate the wait list, B, stabilize providers, C, address
• What level of funding is required to, A, eliminate the wait list, B, stabilize providers, C, address
• stabilize.
• And would that be enough to stabilize providers and children and educators?

Summary: The Early Childhood Committee met for an update from the Office of Early Childhood within the Department of Education. Members heard that the office’s goals under the LEARNS Act are to improve kindergarten readiness, support families, ensure quality providers, and expand affordable, accessible child care. Staff reviewed the local lead system, licensing, quality efforts such as CLASS and QRIS, and the two main funding streams: School Readiness Assistance (SRA), a federal CCDF-funded voucher program serving about 14,600 children with a wait list of a little over 3,000, and Arkansas Better Chance (ABC), a state-funded program serving about 21,000 children with authority recently increased to 24,000 slots. A major topic was the difference between market rate surveys and cost analysis studies. Officials said the department is procuring both through an RFP, hoping to begin by August and have results by late in the year. Members pressed for current reimbursement levels, the gap between ABC and SRA funding, and whether ABC funding should be increased to better match costs. Staff explained that SRA rates are set at 75% of the market rate, while ABC per-child funding is much lower, and that ABC slots are limited by the overall allocation. They also explained that some ABC slots were increased by moving children from a discontinued federal pre-K arrangement into ABC to preserve continuity of care. Committee members raised concerns about rural access, infant and toddler shortages, provider stability, workforce pay, and communication with families and providers. Officials said local leads are now helping identify underserved areas, that no county with absolutely no care is known, and that the department is trying to get a truer statewide count of children and providers. They also described efforts to improve communication through monthly provider calls, website postings, and direct case contacts with families. Members discussed possible funding increases, including ideas to reduce the SRA wait list and raise ABC funding, but no formal vote or action was taken beyond approving prior meeting minutes and receiving the update.

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• We can make sure and take every step to stabilize Minnesota's economy, to make sure that we're keeping
• have jobs, which matters for them, for communities across the state, and for the well-being and stability
• can make sure and take every<00:03:45.040> step<00:03:45.200> to<00:03:45.519> stabilize
• <00:03:46.239> Minnesota's every step to stabilize Minnesota's every step to stabilize Minnesota's
• That's why we stability of our economy.

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• stability to the units that they own. stability to the units that they own.
• <01:31:18.880> equally stability equally stability equally is<01:31:21.040> equally<01:
• It undermines housing stability that supports the workforce and economy.
• It undermines housing stability that supports the workforce and economy.
• 58:42.319> and We need stability, predictability, and We need stability, predictability, and incentives

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• So you could stabilize the fund and bring those future premium increases down.
• So, while you all have been increasing compensation and stabilizing NIMSA's fund balance, NISA has been
• That bill did a lot of different things, but its two main goals were to 1, stabilize the state employee
• And you all have done that by stabilizing NMSA's fund balance and bringing down those future premium
• You know, as one of the, the chairs of the new federal funding, you know, stabilization.

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• In partnership with the legislature, we have stabilized the child care sector, launched free community
• It stabilizes for FY26. Yes, Chair. It's good to know. Mr. Chairman, if I could just, you also...
• through our work with the Transportation Finance Task Force, and one that was meant to not only stabilize
• I think looking at it next year and the year forward to see if we are right, that it ends up stabilizing
• And so that is why we must act urgently to stabilize the MBTA's operating budget now.

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Summary: The hearing focused on House Bill 55, the governor’s FY25 supplemental budget proposal to spend about $1.3 billion in surplus Fair Share revenue. House and Senate chairs framed the bill as a one-time opportunity to invest fairly in education and transportation, while also noting the need to protect the state’s long-term fiscal balance. Administration officials said the proposal should be considered alongside the FY26 budget and related bills, since the governor’s broader Fair Share plan aims for roughly an even split between education and transportation over time. Secretary of Administration and Finance Matthew Gorzkowicz, Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt, and Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler outlined the administration’s priorities. Transportation funding would go mainly to the MBTA and related reserves, including money for the Federal Transit Administration reserve, MBTA stabilization reserve, low-income fares, winter resilience, RTA workforce support, MassDOT workforce and project delivery, and micro-transit grants. Education funding would support universal preschool expansion, early education and care capacity, early literacy tutoring, adult basic education and ESOL, early college and career technical education, MyCAP expansion, and special education circuit breaker funding. The administration emphasized that many of these investments are one-time or multi-year measures designed to address current needs without creating unsustainable recurring costs. Committee members raised concerns about regional equity, especially the large share of transportation money going to the MBTA versus regional transit authorities and rural areas. Several members asked for more detail on how the proposal would benefit Western Massachusetts and other non-MBTA regions, and whether micro-transit and Chapter 90-related investments would be sufficient. Education questions focused on special education reimbursement shortfalls, federal funding cuts to school districts, and how CTE and vocational investments would align students with workforce needs. The administration said it would provide additional data on MBTA versus RTA investment and explained that the special education circuit breaker and transportation reimbursement changes were intended to improve predictability and relief for districts. After the administration panel, Jessica Tang of AFT Massachusetts testified in support of using Fair Share funds to protect public education amid federal uncertainty and cuts. She argued that schools are facing a fiscal cliff, that vulnerable students would be hit hardest by funding losses, and that the Fair Share revenue should be used to preserve services and support students’ needs.