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• SB 1279, weather modification license rules. SB 1280, public monies, Mexican wolf prohibition.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• Item 1, deletion of writer 13 reporting on weatherization effects adopted.
• Turning to page 54, under special provisions for this article, the one modification to the Health Professions

Bills: SB 1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards

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• For those who are familiar with Joint Base Lewis-McChord, it's on the north Lewis side on Mary Weather
• And these provide financial assistance to veterans with service-connected disabilities who need modifications
• There were over 250 veterans who received these home modifications.
• who help veterans, in some cases, make referrals to these veterans for these sales or the home modifications

Summary: The committee heard updates from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Navy Region Northwest, Fairchild Air Force Base, the Coast Guard, state licensing agencies, the Professional Educator Standards Board, the Washington National Guard, and a veterans behavioral health presenter. Across the military briefings, common themes were readiness, infrastructure, and quality-of-life issues for service members and families, especially child care, housing, food insecurity, medical and dental access, and military spouse employment. JBLM highlighted its role in Indo-Pacific readiness, ongoing PFAS cleanup, 212 new family housing units under construction, efforts to expand child care, and continued work to keep the Lewis Army Museum open. Navy Region Northwest discussed its major installations and economic impact, the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan, future carrier and submarine homeporting needs, and asked the legislature to continue support for licensure compacts, educational stability for military children, housing, and medical access. Fairchild emphasized its tanker and survival missions, child care shortages, food insecurity, aging housing, and concerns about wind turbine development near flight paths, while the Coast Guard focused on rebuilding Base Seattle for new icebreakers and on rural access to housing, medical care, and child care at dispersed stations like Neah Bay. Members repeatedly raised food insecurity and asked for follow-up on solutions. JBLM and Fairchild both described increased demand for food assistance during the shutdown, and committee members noted progress in getting mobile food vans onto JBLM. The presenters also praised state action on military spouse licensure and child care, including Senate Bill 5545 and related compact and portability efforts. The Department of Licensing reported about 9,000 self-identified military members or spouses licensed, with average time-to-license just under nine days, and said applications are prioritized when military status is self-identified. The Department of Health said its military-to-civilian crosswalk now covers more than 35 health professions, that temporary practice permits and expedited processing are in place, and that 1,300 credentials were issued to military spouses and domestic partners and 129 to military-trained health professionals in the last fiscal year, all within 30 days. The Professional Educator Standards Board explained that military spouses and service members can receive expedited teacher certification with reduced documentation, and that they are moved to the front of the review queue when they self-identify. Members asked about verification, and staff said the process relies on attestation with investigatory safeguards if needed. The Washington National Guard briefed on its dual state and federal mission, the impact of the recent shutdown on nearly 700 employees who worked without pay, and policy and budget requests including youth academy protections, alignment of the Washington Code of Military Justice with the UCMJ, making Civil Air Patrol a division of the Military Department, 911 funding, disaster assistance, and capital funding for headquarters and readiness facilities. The Guard also warned about drone threats and said it wants authority to identify, track, and monitor suspicious drones. A veterans behavioral health presenter, an Army combat veteran and clinical social worker, described high suicide risk, barriers to care, and the need for more culturally competent services, especially for women veterans and caregivers. He said Washington veterans’ suicide rate remains above the national average and emphasized that childcare, transportation, and provider shortages can prevent timely treatment. Members generally responded supportively throughout, asked for follow-up on food security and other issues, and encouraged agencies to bring forward legislative ideas for future sessions.

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• Our chairwoman won't be joining us this morning; she's feeling a little under the weather, and I'm hopeful
• We'll take a look at it with the modifications and take action on that later.
• So we won't be making a modification of the letter.
• And so since we don't need to make a modification to this letter, do I have a motion on the two documents

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• proposals, as mentioned, AB 122 and AB 125, were included in the Governor's budget, with that modification
• It's fundamental to helping to weather this H.R. 1...
• It's fundamental to helping to weather this H.R. 1... the contracting will create a domino on the opposite
• It's fundamental to helping to weather this HR1, Fundamental to helping to weather this H.R. 1 nightmare
• important thing of coming to the table on this question of 177 and help us to protect California as we weather

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• And so I believe a slight modification to those two line items to make clear that one is specific to
• Uh, it's certainly not the weather that, that attracts them, uh, as, as, as we know there are a lot of
• We have some of the worst weather in the country.

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• And so, I believe a slight modification to those two line items to make clear that one is specific to
• It's certainly not the weather that attracts them.
• Texas is in the middle of the country, and we have some of the worst weather in the country.

Bills: HB854, HB 1052, HB1642, HB2076, HB3042, HB3695, HB3787, HB4062, HB4092, SB213, SB493, SB896, HB5519, HB4635

Keywords: insurance, replacement cost, homeowner's policy, renter's policy, condominium insurance, property damage, claims process, telemedicine, teledentistry, telehealth, health benefit plan, insurance coverage, out-of-state services, anxiety, pain management, contraceptive devices, women's health, medical procedures, healthcare, laboratory

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• to get the air support due to Unable to get the air support due to deteriorating<01:14:59.560> weather
• <01:15:00.000> conditions, deteriorating weather conditions, deteriorating weather conditions
• Weather occurs.
• <02:00:22.000> to<02:00:22.120> an of dollars for basic modifications to an of dollars
• for basic modifications to an existing<02:00:22.640> facility.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We also talk to them about weather conditions, forecasts, using that type of information to properly
• We also talk to them about weather conditions, forecasts, using that type of information to properly
• We also talk to them about weather conditions, forecasts, using that type of information to properly
• We also talk to them about weather conditions, forecasts, using that type of information to properly
• <00:35:57.440> with modifications with modifications with um<00:35:59.520> ethnicity<00

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint informational briefing focused on restricted use pesticides in Hawaiʻi, with Senate and House members opening the meeting and explaining that the session was intended to hear expert presentations and community concerns. Fern Holland outlined the background for the briefing, describing how restricted use pesticides differ from general-use products, why state-level regulation matters, and how community advocates have sought disclosure and protections for years. She summarized 2019 reporting data, saying a small number of users accounted for most reported use, with especially heavy application in North Central Oʻahu and on the west side of Kauaʻi. She highlighted concerns about applications near schools, homes, and coastlines, and identified 1,3-dichloropropene and metam sodium as among the heaviest-used fumigants. She also noted concerns about highly hazardous pesticides, some banned in other countries, and the lack of research on long-term combined exposure to multiple pesticides. Greg Takashima of the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture described the department’s pesticide program and regulatory authority under FIFRA and state law. He explained the distinction between general-use and restricted use pesticides, the certification requirements for applicators, and the department’s role in tracking RUPs from sale through use. He reviewed the branch’s functions in enforcement, education and certification, registration and technical review, and laboratory analysis, including inspections, complaint response, market surveillance, product registration, groundwater review, and outreach on drift reduction and integrated pest management. He also noted staffing and funding limitations, saying the branch lacks a toxicologist and long-term monitoring capacity, and compared Hawaiʻi’s resources to California’s much larger pesticide regulatory program. Takashima thanked the legislature for passing Act 231 the prior year and said the department supports the measure as it moves forward this session. Dr. Lee, speaking for the Hawaiʻi chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and as a former member of the Kauaʻi Joint Fact-Finding Task Force, said pediatric guidance has shifted from focusing on acute poisoning to recognizing chronic low-level pesticide exposure as a concern. He cited AAP publications linking pesticide exposure to cancer, brain tumors, leukemia, birth outcomes, neurobehavioral effects, and asthma, and said pediatricians are now encouraged to advise families on reducing exposure and to support right-to-know measures and buffer zones around schools and public gathering places. He also described the Kauaʻi task force’s work, saying it found the west side of the island to be an unhealthy community but could not prove causation because of missing drift, geospatial, and biomarker data. No votes were taken; the meeting was informational, questions were held until after presentations, and the department expressed support for Act 231.

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• We are living in a time of weather extremes.
• The bill, one, specifies that modifications must be evaluated using the review standards that were used
• Two, subsequent modifications are also reviewed using the same methodology.
• Two, subsequent modifications are also reviewed using the same methodology as any prior modifications
• Christopher Sanchez, with the Mesa de Weather Group on behalf of the Central American Resource Center

Keywords: 988, house, all

Summary: The committee heard a long series of bills, beginning with AB 2026 on groundwater recharge. The author and supporters said the bill would streamline permitting, codify existing CEQA exemptions for recharge diversions, and help California capture flood flows for storage in aquifers. Water agencies and local districts supported the measure, while environmental groups and some irrigation districts opposed it or sought amendments, warning about CEQA, streambed, Delta, and tribal-resource concerns. The bill was held open pending a quorum. Members then heard AB 1577 on data center energy accountability, which would require monthly reporting of energy use and related information to the Energy Commission and local agencies. The author and the Little Hoover Commission argued the bill would improve transparency, help protect ratepayers, and support grid planning. Data center industry and business groups opposed it as duplicative, burdensome, and uniquely targeted, while several environmental and local-government groups supported or supported if amended. The bill was left with a due-pass recommendation once a quorum was present. The committee also took up AB 2245 on producer responsibility for vehicle lubricant products and containers, AB 2170 on CEQA language-access and environmental protections in overburdened communities, AB 2059 on rural transportation/VMT analysis, AB 1808 on Western Joshua tree permitting and fee relief, AB 2182 on industrial energy efficiency program changes, AB 2231 on streamlining two hospital projects, and AB 2433 on density bonus housing incentives. Each bill drew a mix of support from sponsors, local agencies, labor, housing, or environmental justice groups and opposition or concerns from business, local government, or conservation organizations. Several measures were amended in committee, and multiple bills were reported out on due-pass or due-pass-as-amended votes, with some roll calls left open for absent members.

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• example: renewable energy acceleration, building decarbonization, school resilience, and extreme weather
• essential infrastructure, making it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to withstand extreme weather
• It could also be used for school resilience to extreme weather and cooling projects.
• They can now just take a little bit of that to work with us to help us weather the climate crisis.
• They can now just take a little bit of that to work with us to help us weather the climate crisis.

Summary: The committee hearing centered first on AB 1243, the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025, which would direct CalEPA to identify major fossil fuel companies, study California’s climate damages, and assess fees on the largest polluters to fund resilience, recovery, and related projects. The author and supporters argued the bill would make polluters help pay for climate harms, protect taxpayers, create jobs in construction and clean energy, and dedicate at least 40% of funds to disadvantaged communities. Support testimony came from environmental justice groups, labor, youth advocates, health organizations, and many individual witnesses, while opponents from the building trades, chambers of commerce, petroleum, and business groups warned it would raise fuel and consumer costs, threaten refinery jobs, and create legal and economic uncertainty. Committee members debated the bill’s impact on affordability, jobs, refinery closures, and whether cap-and-trade already addresses climate funding needs. The committee ultimately voted to give AB 1243 a due pass recommendation to the Judiciary Committee, with the roll left open. After AB 1243, the committee moved to another bill on wildfire mitigation and related resilience work. The author said the measure addresses a long-running wildfire problem and accepted committee amendments, describing the bill as a response to increasingly severe wildfire seasons and the need to help communities stay safe and rebuild after disasters. The transcript cuts off as that presentation begins, so no final action on the second bill is shown in the excerpt.

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• licensure mandatory reporting on um and licensure mandatory reporting on um and licensure modification
• changes when there are modification changes when there are reports<00:21:23.560> of reports of
• Noting that we were describing snow totals, so when we came in 9.8 inches of snow at my official weather
• <01:15:17.480> station<01:15:17.880> in snow at my official weather station in snow
• at my official weather station in Northeast<01:15:18.400> Minneapolis,<01:15:19.000> so

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Are those impacted by the weather? I'm sorry, is the service impacted by the weather? Yes, it is.
• The federal government has recently signaled a potential modifications to the Broadband equity Access
• Low population density coupled with varied terrain and extreme weather can make building infrastructure
• If you ask any utility when extreme weather hits, the poles that fail often break at the point of the

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• Recommendations include the modification of the Forest Services Rider 8 to, to allow the agency to carry
• tornadoes, floods, icing, and what have you, pulling people off roads and things of that nature in severe weather
• Chairman, if we have them, we can put them there looking at preparedness levels, weather forecasts and
• construct new realistic training environments which will allow responders to train regardless of weather
• I know we can't predict every, you know, crazy weather situation, but let me know how we can be available

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• Recommendations include the modification of the Forest Service's Writer 8. to allow the agency to carry
• floods, icing, and what have you, pulling people off of roads and things. of that nature in severe weather
• If we have them, we can put them there looking at preparedness levels. weather forecasts and predictions
• and construct new realistic training environments which will allow responders train regardless of weather
• I know we can't predict every crazy weather situation, but let me know. how we can be available in a

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• rules for the purpose of allowing members to co-sponsor bills and resolutions or to submit vote modifications
• Emergency situations include the outbreak of communicable diseases, severe weather events that endanger
• In the past 2 years, at least two major winter weather events have placed livestock in serious danger
• In the past 2 years, at least two major winter weather events have placed livestock in serious danger
• Roll call is open for your vote. winter weather events have placed winter weather events have placed

Keywords: 958, all

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• We will indicated with no modifications.
• In the short the weather contracts.
• Uh but long-term weather contract hits.
• other people who depend on the weather other people who depend on the weather itself<00:33:35.480
• Uh so that was weather-related risks.

Keywords: 918, senate, all

Summary: The Senate was called to order, a quorum was established, and remote voting was authorized for several members. The body adopted committee reports except those related to Senate Concurrent Resolution 6, gave Senate File 4067 a second reading, and referred newly introduced bills as listed on the agenda. It also adopted a motion to strike and re-refer House File 3379 to the Committee on Finance, and then moved into special orders and floor debate. The main floor action was on House File 2358, a public safety bill providing enhanced criminal penalties for certain coercion offenses. Senator Lang described it as creating a Minnesota crime targeting sexual extortion of children, including online extortion. Senator Maye Quade supported the bill and spoke about the tragic constituent story behind it. The Senate took a roll call and passed the bill 67-0, with its title agreed to. The Senate then began debate on Senate File 4511, which would clarify Minnesota gambling law to prohibit prediction-market style betting disguised as futures contracts. Senator Marty argued the bill was needed to stop companies such as Kalshi and Polymarket from using futures-contract language to evade state gambling restrictions and to protect existing regulated gambling businesses. Senator Johnson initially offered the A10 amendment to delay action until federal jurisdiction issues are resolved, but withdrew it after debate. He then offered the A8 amendment to preserve longer-term weather-related hedging contracts, which Senator Marty supported as a distinction from short-term, manipulable bets; the A8 amendment was adopted. Debate continued with questions about the bill’s scope, including whether it would reach election-related or financial contracts.

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• And last, on Item 35, we're relieved to see the proposed modifications to delay implementation until
• funding plan inclusion for CSD to administer the farmworker housing component of the low-income weatherization

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• come to Senate Bill 253 relating to electric utilities, pilot program for energy assistance, weatherization
• The governor's recommendation is simply making a technical modification to the three-year requirement

Keywords: April 22, 2026 - Reconvened Session Part 2, 976, house, all

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• As we went over previously, we're in good shape to weather most things that are going to be thrown at
• This amendment makes modifications to projects in our work program to position them for competitive procurement

Summary: The Legislative Budget Commission met with a quorum present to hear the constitutionally required Long-Range Financial Outlook and consider a series of budget amendments. Amy Baker of the Office of Economic and Demographic Research presented the outlook, describing Florida’s continued population growth, strong wage growth, an aging population, housing-market softening, and low consumer sentiment. She said the general revenue forecast was largely unchanged from March, but the state’s funds available had improved because of legislative actions in 2025 that increased the balance forward. She also noted strong reserves, a projected current-year Medicaid deficit of about $125 million, and a three-year outlook that remains positive in the first year but turns negative in years two and three. She highlighted the risk of co-occurring catastrophic events, using a normalized Great Miami Hurricane scenario to illustrate potential state losses. The outlook was adopted after brief comments from House and Senate members emphasizing fiscal restraint and efficiency. The commission then approved multiple budget amendments, mostly without objection. The Agency for Health Care Administration received amendments to realign funding for Florida KidCare based on estimating conference results, to provide $85 million in budget authority for disproportionate share hospital payments, and to adjust Medicaid and long-term care appropriations, including placing surplus funds into reserve. The Department of Health received $6.3 million in additional authority for newborn screening. The Department of Corrections and the Department of Management Services each received $2.2 million in Private Inmate Welfare Trust Fund authority for repair invoices and pending projects. The Department of State was authorized to release $2.5 million in nonrecurring general revenue for cultural and museum grants and America 250 commemorative grants. The Department of Transportation received approval for a project roll-forward and for work program changes, including advancing I-95 widening in Duval County and the I-4 corridor in Polk and Osceola counties. The meeting ended with a motion to adjourn.