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• In terms of compensation, we are asking for an increase equivalent to state agencies.
• However, not all of our local education agencies are seeing that, or not all of the local education agencies
• Support at the agency works with individuals regularly. Thank you, Mr.
• And I know that I've talked to lots of agencies and I've got.
• Cameras, access control systems, enhance entryways, and upgrade campus lighting.

Keywords: 996, all

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• park I always point it to them that if you see this sign that has the musical staff, has the park control
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Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And today... cross-departmental and multi-agency effort.
• Thank you. to have control over who manages their care.
• It's simply beyond their control. So, and we know evidence of this.
• One that is kind of a combination of family-directed and agency- or participant-directed, and agency
• Staffing, from a staffing agency perspective, is difficult.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Human Services held a hearing on developmental services, rehabilitation, and related supports, with no votes taken. The first major topic was the Master Plan for Developmental Services. Administration officials described a year-long, community-driven process that included a steering committee, work groups, and statewide engagement sessions, and said the final draft would be released that Friday with about 170 recommendations. The Department of Developmental Services said the plan would inform future work, but did not offer a detailed implementation roadmap. The LAO said the plan contains significant policy and budget implications, may require statutory changes, and needs further analysis to turn recommendations into actionable proposals. Advocates and regional center representatives urged the Legislature and administration to avoid letting the plan sit on a shelf, called for prioritization and ongoing stakeholder oversight, and emphasized the need to address equity, workforce, service coordination, and cross-system collaboration. The chair said he wanted to work with the LAO on trailer bill language and future reporting to create a clearer path forward. The second topic was the Office of Employment First and competitive integrated employment. Administration witnesses said California has ended subminimum wage under SB 639, but that moving people into competitive integrated employment remains a major priority. They described existing efforts such as DDS’s coordinated career pathways pilot, paid internships, job development services, benefits counseling, and DOR’s career counseling and referral services, along with pilot projects in San Diego and Orange County. The State Council on Developmental Disabilities and advocates argued that employment outcomes have remained stuck at roughly 15% and that a dedicated Employment First Office is needed to coordinate across agencies, align goals, and improve outcomes. The LAO recommended regular legislative oversight on people transitioning out of subminimum wage and asked for technical assistance on coordinated career pathways. The chair criticized the administration’s decision to effectively eliminate funding for the office, requested a detailed implementation timeline and quarterly transition reports, and said the committee would continue pressing for the office to be implemented. The final issue was respite services, utilization trends, and access. DDS reported that in-home respite use and spending have risen sharply over several years, with about 150,000 people using respite in 2023-24 and expenditures reaching about $1 billion. Officials said access depends on families knowing the service exists, service coordinators identifying need, and having enough providers, especially in rural and linguistically diverse communities. The San Diego Regional Center said utilization generally mirrors statewide trends, but access is stronger in some areas, such as Imperial County, where families often prefer family-directed or agency-supported models that allow them to hire trusted workers. Committee members emphasized the importance of respite for family health and caregiver well-being, asked whether service coordinators are asking practical questions about sleep and stress, and discussed the need for better identification of complex behavioral and medical needs. DDS said a standardized family support tool and updated IPP process are intended to improve consistency, transparency, and person-centered assessment for respite and related services.

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• Be switch that controls your microphone.
• <00:13:33.120> school school, and tribally controlled school school, and tribally controlled
• Best case to a community agency.
• Our agency enrolled. Be at school.
• <01:04:50.319> aren't Um so, let's say our agencies aren't Um so, let's say our agencies aren't

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• happens behind the scenes, agency to agency.
• has been the host agency for this agency has been the host agency for administering<02:16:11.760>
• we even have started this agency? we even have started this agency?
• When we DOGE an agency, we restructure an agency, we close an agency.
• outofc control deficit spending. outofc control deficit spending.

Keywords: 916, all

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• and reporting on the use of artificial intelligence systems by certain business entities and state agencies
• AB 1744 by Little relating to the personal liability of controlled persons and materialators of the Texas
• to increase the efficiency at the agencies or for the Committee on Delivery of government efficiency
• HB 2183 by Mesa relating to criminal penalties for the possession offenses under the Texas Controlled
• The Texas Education Agency will buy a public or private school for the Committee on Public Education.

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• MDLs give credential holders control over what information they release.
• Number 2, the guy that we arrested is the commissioner over the agency that we work for.
• If their license is still active, then the agency, if they became a law enforcement agency, could appoint
• I've talked to DPS, um, local agencies, I think some statewide agencies and got feedback.
• Uh, Working for an agency, working for our agency licensing credential, working for an agency as a reserve

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• If their license is still active, then the agency, if they became... agency could appoint them.
• I've talked to DPS, CLEAT, local agencies, I think some statewide agencies. and got feedback.
• Working for an agency? Working for our agency.
• Are they licensed and credentialed working for an agency as a reserve?
• We'd prefer them to be employees of our agency.

Bills: HB2034, HB2436, HB3010, HB3033, HB3138, HB3177, HB3426, HB3686, HB3858, HB4176, HB4257, HB4264, HB4804, HCR98

Keywords: groundwater, foreign ownership, national security, water permits, environmental health, deadly conduct, firearm, recklessness, peace officer, prosecution, Penal Code, Texas laws, disaster recovery, infrastructure, rural communities, grants, state funding, emergency management, HB 3033, Texas Department of Public Safety

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• , the AP agencies, regardless of whether or not administrative workload increases.
• We would expect in the short run time to ramp up program for agencies to ramp up.
• And so just educating them on these terms and then communicating with our control agency partners in
• agency partners in terms of, you know, some of the concerns that they have.
• And so just educating them on these terms and then communicating with our control agency partners in

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• And so that's a request from the agency. Thank you, Mr. President.
• comes off of the vessel. that was requested by the agency.
• And so that's a improviso as a request from the agency. Thank you, Mr. President.
• The agency may have to absorb that. That happens all over the place.
• Two of them are within our human control.

Summary: The Senate took up the conference report on House Bill 501E, the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026-27, with Chair Hooper and the appropriations chairs walking through the $114.5 billion budget. Major highlights included pay increases for state law enforcement, firefighters, park rangers, and correctional officers; funding for teacher salary increases and K-12 enrollment stabilization; workforce and university funding in higher education; major Medicaid, nursing home, waiver, and opioid-related investments in health and human services; corrections and prison-capacity funding; transportation, housing, and emergency management spending; and large environmental appropriations for Florida Forever, Everglades restoration, and water quality projects. Members then asked detailed questions about specific items. Senators pressed on the Hamilton Center at UF, the difference between assistant state attorney and public defender pay, declining student enrollment funding, private school scholarship vouchers, mental health funding in schools, the lack of preeminence funding, APD’s iBudget waiver wait list and provider rates, ADAP premium assistance and the return of Biktarvy to the formulary, prison staffing and air conditioning, Florida Forever land-buying versus easements, SNAP and Sun Bucks funding, Hope Florida, election audit funding, and the IDD managed care program. Chairs generally explained the negotiated compromises, noted where funding was flat or omitted, and in several cases said items would be revisited next year or depended on agency implementation. Several senators used debate to praise the budget while also criticizing major policy choices. Leader Berman argued the state should have expanded Medicaid, invested more in public schools instead of vouchers, and accepted federal summer EBT funds. Other senators highlighted local wins such as Biscayne Bay restoration, Tri-Rail, housing assistance, ADAP funding, and declining enrollment support. The transcript ends with debate remarks thanking Chair Hooper for his work on the budget; no final vote is shown in the excerpt.

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• But there's definitely not enough for this agency that has been struggling for so long.
• Um, there's the authority, as you know, within all agencies, including T. J. J. D.
• But pepper spray is not a defensive weapon, it's crowd control.
• And if we're creating the situation where we need crowd control, that's our fault too.
• What the agency does, I should acknowledge. We won't leave that perception out there.

Bills: HB31, HB3360

Keywords: juvenile justice, community supervision, felony offenses, treatment of children, juvenile facilities, chemical dispensing device, solitary confinement, rehabilitation, criminal proceedings, delinquency, 1184, house, all

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• They don't control the weather.
• There's so much you don't control; the margins are narrow.
• And NIFA and ERS agencies were moved to Kansas City.
• It's a tough business; so much you don't control.
• Any agency.

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• . and lift for your Medicaid agencies.
• agency can look<00:19:41.280> at.
• operations in the state Medicaid agency? operations in the state Medicaid agency?
• Um so Medicaid fraud control units.
• It is a controlled trial.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee met and approved the minutes from its August 27 meeting. It then received a presentation from Katherine Castanza of the National Conference of State Legislators on the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill, referred to as HR1. She explained that the bill is estimated by CBO to save the federal government $911 billion over 10 years, with more than 20 Medicaid-specific provisions, most of the savings concentrated in five policies and largely backloaded into 2030-2034. She emphasized that the bill’s effects will vary by state, but that expansion states and hospitals are expected to be most affected, in part because of changes to eligibility, provider taxes, and state-directed payments. Castanza highlighted several new funding and flexibility provisions, including a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund for 2026-2030 and a new home- and community-based services waiver option effective July 1, 2028, with $100 million in grants in fiscal year 2027. She also outlined major eligibility changes for Medicaid expansion adults: work or community engagement requirements effective January 1, 2027; twice-yearly redeterminations for the expansion population effective the same date; and new cost sharing for certain expansion adults effective October 1, 2028. She noted that Kentucky, as an expansion state, would be subject to these changes and that state agencies would face significant implementation demands, especially because federal guidance and timelines are tight. A substantial portion of the presentation focused on financing changes. Castanza described new limits on provider taxes, including a 0% safe harbor for new taxes and a phased reduction for existing taxes in expansion states beginning in 2028, while nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities are exempt from the reduction if already taxed. She also explained that state-directed payments will be capped and phased down over time, with existing arrangements grandfathered only briefly; she said Kentucky has 11 approved state-directed payments and could see significant fiscal effects. She added that the bill also bars Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood or similarly situated providers for one year, changes immigrant eligibility rules effective October 1, 2026, lowers the federal match for certain emergency services, and expands the scope of the federal erroneous payment recoupment provision effective October 1, 2029. Throughout, she stressed that federal savings may translate into state cost shifts and that implementation timing will be critical.

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• enforcement, but the bill does not provide any clear off-limit agencies.
• But the bill does not provide a clear list of inapplicable agencies.
• It is about specifically ICE and its accompanying agencies, or agencies that work in the deportation
• It is about specifically ICE and its accompanying agencies, or agencies that work in the deportation
• by advertisers and ad agencies, making this a distinct segment of our industry.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I hear all the time that agencies are understaffed.
• It will also receive any amount of agency reversions over $110 million.
• Again, we're not a general fund agency. We're entirely self-funded.
• All three agencies use their own money.
• There is no single point of control.

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• <00:51:55.720> or will or will not give to an agency or will or will not give to an agency
• <01:04:47.119> has which recommendations that agency has which recommendations that agency
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• recommendations are made and agencies recommendations are made and agencies and<01:06:43.200>

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The committee met briefly to approve the January 16 minutes, then heard a series of informational presentations from legislative joint offices and commissions that fall under its jurisdiction. Michelle Urick of the Legislative Coordinating Commission explained the LCC’s governance structure, including its leadership-based membership and role overseeing joint offices such as the Legislative Auditor, Legislative Budget Office, Legislative Reference Library, Revisor of Statutes, and the LCC staff office itself. Christian Larson of the Legislative Budget Office described the office’s nonpartisan fiscal note work, local impact notes, and support for the Tax Expenditure Review Commission, noting the volume of requests it handles and that the office currently has 18 budgeted FTE. He also explained the LBO Oversight Commission’s role in setting standards and appointing the director. Elizabeth Lincoln of the Legislative Reference Library outlined the library’s services, including answering thousands of reference questions, maintaining state policy and legislative collections, archiving state documents, supporting the legislative website and search tools, and preserving House and Senate audio, video, and committee minutes. She also noted the library’s staffing levels and its move to the Capitol. In response to a question, she said copies of the book Minnesota Standoff were in constant circulation, that the title is out of print, and that the library had digitized it for use by legislators and staff. Ryan Inman, the Revisor of Statutes, described the office’s drafting, legal review, publication, IT, and other services. He said every bill introduced is reviewed by a Revisor attorney, the office publishes Laws of Minnesota, Minnesota Statutes, and Minnesota Rules, and it maintains the legislative drafting system now being replaced. He also discussed rule drafting for agencies, legal counsel, the claims subcommittee, court opinions reports, and the annual technical Revisor bill. Members asked about bill volume, amendment drafting, and the history of administrative rules review; Inman said the office is handling over 2,500 active bill requests and that a prior commission on administrative rules existed in the past. No votes were taken beyond approving the minutes.

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• This bill will require each law enforcement agency and emergency medical service provider that responds
• There's 2,787 LE agencies. That was the big bill, and we took it out.
• Freeman Martin: As events dictate, in Uvalde there was the lack of command and control.
• Because sometimes you've just got so many agencies that can respond to so many things, command and control
• Let's allow our local law enforcement agencies to do the same. And with that. Answer any questions.

Bills: HB 33, HB 45, HB 48, HB 1261, HB 1465, HB 1778, HB 2596, HB 5238, SB 2969

Keywords: HB 48, oilfield theft, organized theft, petroleum products, oil and gas equipment, DPS, Department of Public Safety, Texas, Railroad Commission, criminal justice, energy resources, theft prevention, organized crime, border region, El Paso, law enforcement task force, asset recovery, pipeline theft, drilling equipment, equipment theft

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• Many of you guys know he's been an air traffic controller with the FAA.
• So this will kind of right the ship, put everybody back to where they should have their own control,
• They should have their own control, a master 101 planning and those are the 3 parts the bill, Mister
• , the military, state agencies, businesses, and the private sector.
• , the military, state agencies, businesses and the 350 private sector.

Summary: The Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee met to consider several bills, beginning with HB 335 by Representative Kendall, which sought to recognize space as a fifth mode of transportation, give voting rights to ex officio Space Florida board members, and reduce what the sponsor described as unnecessary state oversight of spaceport operations. The bill was presented as a response to feedback from NASA, Space Force, and other federal partners about clarifying the state’s role at federally owned facilities like Kennedy Space Center. Members raised questions about terminology, authority over federal property, and the role of Space Florida; the sponsor said an amendment would remove the voting-rights provision and instead require spaceports to provide an annual list of shovel-ready projects. The amendment was adopted, and HB 335 passed favorably. The committee then unanimously passed HB 885, which designates a road in Baker County near the courthouse in honor of former Representative and Judge John Cruz, and HB 403, which names a portion of the road leading into NAS Pensacola as Warriors Way to honor the sailors killed in the 2019 Pensacola attack and the broader naval community there. Both bills drew brief supportive remarks and no opposition. The committee also considered HB 25, a bridge designation for Coach Wilks, a longtime local basketball coach, and adopted a Senate amendment adding the Dickey Betts Memorial Highway designation on U.S. 41 in Sarasota County. HB 25, as amended, passed unanimously. The meeting concluded with adjournment after all measures on the agenda were reported favorably.

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• So we are the agency is invested in housing.
• So we are the agency is invested in housing.
• This is the testimony of the agency, Senator. You need to say “we” or “the agency,” not “I.”
• OHA would control 100% of that revenue.
• to try to get some additional housing and perhaps some additional rent controls or housing controls

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint hearing of the Water and Land, Hawaiian Affairs, and Housing committees on January 29, 2025 focused on SB 534, with the chairs outlining hearing procedures, public testimony limits, and plans to allow extended presentations from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) before moving to other testifiers. The hearing was presented as a public, transparent discussion of OHA’s plans for Kakaʻako Makai, with committee members noting that decision-making would follow if time permitted. OHA testified in strong support of SB 534. The chair of OHA’s Board of Trustees said the bill was a novel proposal for the legislature and emphasized that OHA was bringing together a broad coalition of partners and stakeholders, including representatives from construction, hospitality, education, law enforcement, civil service, and schools, as well as longtime community advocates who have opposed development in Kakaʻako Makai. OHA’s presentation reviewed the history of the area, the creation and role of HCDA, prior master plans, the 2012 land conveyance to OHA, and the argument that OHA has not been able to realize the full economic value of the lands because desired entitlements were not secured. OHA linked the bill to its constitutional mission to improve conditions for Native Hawaiians and argued that the state’s housing crisis makes additional development, including residential use, especially important. A major theme of the testimony was housing. OHA argued that Hawaiʻi faces severe affordability pressures, out-migration, and workforce shortages, and said that residential development in Kakaʻako Makai would help address those needs while also supporting the value of the trust lands. The presentation described HCDA’s authority over zoning and development in Kakaʻako, the existing reserved housing requirements, and the need for a master plan that could move forward if SB 534 becomes law. No votes or final committee action were taken in the portion of the hearing provided; the discussion remained in the presentation and testimony phase.

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• Direct and immediate control over the hiring, termination, discipline, and direction of the franchisee's
• So, you know, they're exercising control over some of the essential terms of employment. Okay.
• You know, they're exercising control over some of the essential terms of employment. Okay.
• two testing agencies.
• So any other kind of compact might harm that. ...to testing agencies.

Keywords: 959, house, all