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• The Walls administration commissioned it, used its findings to inform proposals to rein in fraud, and
• commissioned it, used its findings<00:07:58.319> to<00:07:58.560> inform<00:07:58.879> proposals
• c><00:07:59.280> to<00:07:59.520> reign<00:07:59.680> in findings to inform proposals
• to reign in findings to inform proposals to reign in fraud,<00:08:00.479> and<00:08:00.639>

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Uh, I think it's an important proposal relating to organ donation safety in the Commonwealth.
• Uh, I think it's an important proposal<00:02:06.560> relating<00:02:06.799> to<00:02:06.960
• > organ<00:02:07.200> donation proposal relating to organ donation proposal relating to

Keywords: This meeting failed to start and as part of it was not live streamed. This is the complete meeting pulled from backups. 00:00 - Call to Order/Roll Call 01:03 - Discussion of 26RS HB 510 05:32 - Roll Call Vote on 26RS HB 510 06:32 - Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The House Standing Committee on Health Services met with a quorum and took up one item: House Bill 510. The bill, presented by Representative Neas with testimony from Network for Hope CEO Barry Massa and Kentucky Right to Life executive director Adia Wishner, would create new statutory protocols for organ donation. Supporters said it clarifies medical and legal definitions, requires an immediate pause in organ recovery if anyone observes a concerning neurological change or indication of life, and mandates reassessment before proceeding, with the goal of protecting patients and rebuilding public trust in organ, tissue, and eye donation. Testimony emphasized that the bill is intended to ensure organ recovery only proceeds when death has been confirmed with certainty and that the safeguards largely reflect practices already used by Network for Hope. Supporters framed the measure as both protecting donor dignity and preserving confidence in the donation system. The committee chair said he supported the clarification and noted the importance of the issue. A motion and second were made, and the committee voted by roll call to advance HB 510. The bill received favorable expression and was reported as likely to pass on the House floor. The committee then announced its next meeting date and adjourned.

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• I think the representative has done an excellent job in giving you all an overview of this proposed amendment
• that many of you are familiar with, and how that would then translate to evaluating legislative proposals
• And so a lot Of this is really, as you all who've been here a few years know, there have been proposals
• And those proposals Haven't moved forward.

Keywords: 996, all

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• The bill proposes that in the case Of riot, things that would normally be misdemeanor charges will become
• The set of ideas here were suggested, actually modeled after what Florida proposed when the riots were
• That was one of the proposals I noticed it did.
• With your proposed bill, your language would increase it to 2 to 2 years.

Bills: HB3765, HB4324, HB3678, HB4170, HB3495, HB3040, HB3062, HB4140, HB4106, HB4109, HB4104, HB3581

Keywords: property rights, forfeiture, noncitizen, land ownership, felony, public safety, criminal procedure, sentence modification, resentencing, judicial review, postconviction relief, district attorney, prosecutor, victim rights, victim notification, Department of Corrections, inmate rehabilitation, sentencing reform, life without parole, nonviolent offense

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• And there is a proposal to push it to 2030, and we support that because there's a lot of work to do on
• And there is a proposal to push it to 2030.
• And the Senate proposed that last year. But it was still vetoed.
• And the Senate proposed that last year. But it was still vetoed.

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Social Services Committee met for its first meeting of the session, with Chair Senator Roxanne Persaud noting a quorum and reviewing the committee’s prior-year activity. She said the committee handled 87 referred bills in 2025, reported 31, passed 25 committee bills in the Senate, and saw five bills pass both houses, with two signed and three vetoed. She also highlighted stakeholder workshops and hearings on rental assistance, youth employment, and human trafficking in the transportation sector, and said the annual report would be posted soon. The committee then heard from Paul Brady of the New York Public Welfare Association and Dave Lucas of the New York State Association of Counties. They focused on federal and state budget pressures, including the HHS withholding letter, TANF, child care, Social Services Block Grant funding, and the implications of HR1 for SNAP and Medicaid work requirements. They warned about staffing shortages, county budget strain, and the need for more time, training, and technology to implement new requirements. Both also emphasized housing instability, supporting rental assistance and shelter-related programs, and Brady urged attention to shelter allowances and safety-net cost sharing. The committee reported several bills to Finance: S.180B to increase enhanced residential care eligibility amounts; S.182 to raise the federal poverty level threshold for a one-time income disregard after job entry; S.184 to establish a full-year youth and young adult employment immersion program, with members questioning how it would be funded; S.1465 to implement an electronic benefit transfer system, which members strongly supported as a fraud-prevention measure; S.3787 to eliminate rent for homeless shelters; and S.7730 to authorize reimbursement for shelters housing a single individual in a double-occupancy room. The committee also advanced S.8570, creating a Fiscal Cliff Task Force to study public assistance program funding shortfalls, despite discussion of prior gubernatorial vetoes of similar measures. All bills were reported, and the meeting adjourned.

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• The proposed changes to HBO 4 affect the following congressional districts 26789, 1417, 1822, 29, 36,
• changes was to increase Republican political performance in existing Republican districts from the proposed
• CD 18 remains a majority-minority black CVAP from the proposed plan and compactness stays the same overall
• We heard and received information from folks in the West Texas to El Paso area because the proposal had

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• This committee heard the designation proposed in Senate Bill 3062 this past Wednesday.
• The chair lays out as a matter of pending business, HB 3646 by Senator Hughes and its proposed committee
• Hinojosa and his proposed committee substitute sent up in the previous hearing.
• The amendment I will propose will remove the contingency on Senate Bill 2949, the field crimes bill that

Bills: HB227

Keywords: HB227, kratom, Mitragyna speciosa, kratom products, kratom processor, kratom retailer, controlled substances, Texas Controlled Substances Act, Health and Safety Code, Penalty Group 1, tianeptine, 7-hydroxymitragynine, mitragynine, synthetic kratom, kratom alkaloids, adulterated products, product testing, lab testing, ISO 17025, labeling requirements

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• We would like to express our appreciation to Representative Keeler for carrying this proposal, as well
• 00:02:51.360> for<00:02:51.440> carrying<00:02:51.840> this<00:02:52.080> proposal
• <00:02:52.480> as Keeler for carrying this proposal as Keeler for carrying this proposal as

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: House File 1534, authored by Representative Keeler, was heard and amended with the A1 amendment, which was adopted without objection. The bill would move the Healthy Eating Here at Home/Market Bucks program from the Department of Humanities to the Department of Health and expand the nutrition incentive program from farmers markets to grocery stores, with the goal of helping SNAP recipients afford fresh fruits and vegetables year-round and leveraging federal matching funds. Representative Keeler said the proposal would better align food insecurity work with health outcomes and support both local consumers and local grocers. The Minnesota Grocers Association testified in support, describing the bill as an expansion of a successful program that would help low-income shoppers and provide added support to retailers, especially small businesses facing rising costs. A testifier, Tamara Walter, also supported the bill as a SNAP recipient and Market Bucks user, saying the program helps her family afford healthier food and that winter access to fresh produce is especially important because of diabetes and celiac disease in her household. There was no public testimony in opposition and no member discussion. The committee then laid the bill over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.

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• We don't know what loads are real that have been proposed and what their impact might be.
• might be, whether they have site control, whether they actually own or control the site they're proposing
• We don't know what loads are real that have been proposed and what their impact might be.
• Do they actually own or control the site they're proposing to build this project?

Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met to consider and vote on a committee substitute for Senate Bill 6, which Senator King said was intended to address rapidly growing electricity demand from large loads such as data centers while protecting reliability and keeping costs from shifting to homeowners and small businesses. He described the bill as a response to updated ERCOT and PUC forecasts showing much higher generation needs than previously expected. Senator King outlined several substantive changes in the substitute: replacing a minimum transmission charge with an upfront interconnection charge for new large loads; requiring the PUC to conduct a more detailed 4CP evaluation and adopt rules based on it; expanding load-forecasting data collection to smaller loads and standardizing criteria for interconnections; removing an exemption from ERCOT/PUC reliability review for certain net metering arrangements; making some PUC conditions temporary and limiting intervenors in those proceedings; and requiring utilities to work with large load customers on protocols and equipment for firm load shed participation. He also noted technical changes meant to close loopholes, including changing references from “duplicate” to “substantially similar” projects and from “affiliated” to “unaffiliated.” Senator Menendez asked for clarification on several provisions, including whether stranded infrastructure costs applied to generation or only transmission, how “single site” would be defined, how ERCOT-directed curtailment and notice would work, and what “load ramp milestones” meant. King responded that the bill was meant to cover both distribution and transmission-level loads, that the PUC would define certain terms through rulemaking, that large customers would work with utilities in advance on flexible load and backup generation arrangements, and that ramp milestones would help utilities plan for phased growth in demand. After questions concluded, Senator King moved adoption of the committee substitute and passage of SB 6 as substituted. The motion passed on a 7-0 vote, and the bill was reported favorably to the full Senate.

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• But let's talk about what's actually in the Republican proposal.
• and catastrophic proposal. Thank you. and catastrophic proposal.
• Proposals to and yes, climate science.
• Nuome introduced his budget proposal in Nuome introduced his budget proposal in Sacramento<00:29:38.240
• I introduced a proposing extinction."

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• Even though House File 4880 proposes Even though House File 4880 proposes some<01:16:57.160>
• There are at least 10 concrete hyperscale data center proposals in Minnesota right now and more on the
• <01:29:01.560> in hyperscale data center proposals in hyperscale data center proposals in
• Pierson from Xcel about the Pine Island Google proposal.
• There's a lot to be um really proposal.

Bills: HF4560, HF4559, HF2317, HF3179, HF4880, HF2862, HF4374

Keywords: Public Utilities Commission, PUC, energy regulation, utility regulation, electric utility, public utility, rate case, multiyear rate plan, decoupling, rate decoupling, greenhouse gas, social cost of carbon, environmental cost, resource planning, certificate of need, distributed renewable energy, interconnection, budget billing, electronic filing, contested case

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• So, this proposal would move that to November 30th, 2026 so that we can report once we have the full
• :01.919> to<00:21:02.559> um<00:21:02.799> November proposal would move that to
• um November proposal would move that to um November 30th,<00:21:03.760> 2026<00:21:04.480>
• Members, House File 4379 is a proposal that seeks to strengthen our children's mental health service
• some more context for these proposals some more context for these proposals and<00:29:44.720>

Bills: HF4438, HF4467, HF4379, SF3402, HF4349, HF4064, HF84, HF85, HF3804

Keywords: healthcare, WIC, community health, licensing, speech-language pathology, audiology, contract term limits, healthcare services, provider enrollment, disenrollment, premium payments, medical assistance, substance use disorders, mental health, children's mental health, early childhood, early intervention, consultation grants, Head Start, child care

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• <00:30:45.039> the<00:30:45.279> committee<00:30:45.520> is the proposals the
• Is that a new proposal that MMB is suggesting? >> Chair Cosnik: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
• Is that a new proposal that MMB is suggesting? >> Deputy Commissioner: Uh, yes. If you're the Mr.
• While we understand that this proposal is highlighted to address just one aspect of the ongoing fraud
• While we understand that this proposal While we understand that this proposal um<01:24:13.280> is<

Bills: HF3676, HF3683, HF3395

Keywords: Safe at Home, address confidentiality, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, harassment, victim privacy, survivor protection, confidential address, protected address, secret address, identity protection, residential confidentiality, program participant, nondiscrimination, court disclosure, protective order, service of process, driver's license, state ID

Summary: The committee first approved minutes from February 19 and February 26, while skipping the February 24 minutes because of a drafting error that would be corrected later. It then took up House File 3676, a Safe at Home program bill described by Rep. Nash as arising from a constituent’s dangerous identity exposure and intended to tighten protections for participants, including allowing emancipated minors to enroll. Testimony from the Secretary of State’s office explained that the bill would clarify who may apply for a minor, require proof of guardianship, strengthen court findings before a participant’s physical address can be disclosed, increase penalties for harmful disclosure, prohibit discrimination based on participation, require state agencies to designate a Safe at Home contact person, allow use of the Safe at Home card as proof of residence for certain ID purposes, and require judge training. Members raised concerns about federal compatibility, constitutionality of court-related provisions, and the need for a fiscal note on the felony penalty. Several sections were noted as being removed or modified in a later engrossment, and the committee voted to re-refer HF 3676 to the Transportation Finance and Policy Committee. The committee then heard House File 3683, which would direct the state budget forecast to include the estimated cost of fraud. Rep. Nash argued that fraud is a significant but unquantified drain on state resources and said the bill would adapt existing forecast language used for inflation to track fraud costs. Minnesota Management and Budget Deputy Commissioner Anna Mingi testified that fraud is unacceptable and that the agency works to prevent and detect it, but said the twice-yearly forecast is not the right tool for this kind of retrospective analysis. She explained that if fraud is identified, the forecast would reflect reduced spending through program integrity actions rather than a separate fraud-cost line item. The bill was moved and referred to the general register after a roll call was requested.

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• , I um proposed that we strike<00:48:13.520> the<00:48:13.760> section<00:48:14.079>
• And I think this is contemplating that the proposal was to say you shouldn't have to pay less because
• Uh my my proposal was why why decision.
• I don't think that that's something I'd considered within this proposed language.
• I don't think that's something I'd considered within this proposed language.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• And the cooling units that are being proposed draw in seawater to cool the rectification.
• And the cooling units that are being proposed draw in seawater to cool the rectification.
• And the cooling units that are being proposed draw in seawater to cool the rectification.
• And the cooling units that are being proposed draw in seawater to cool the rectification.
• proposed development. proposed development.

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• a tax exemption for 1698 proposes a tax exemption for conservation<00:08:28.360> grazing<00:08
• We greatly appreciate this committee's past work on this proposal.
• We greatly appreciate this committee's past work on this proposal.
• I did just want to call that that's why this proposal has garnered bipartisan support in the past.
• I just want to call that that's why this proposal has garnered bipartisan support in the past.

Bills: HF1698, HF632, HF1352, HF2197, HF618, HF1248, HF1697

Keywords: property tax, exemption, leased land, public use, commercial property, HF632, Minnesota property tax, conservation easement, conservation restriction, assessed value, property valuation, tax assessment, real property, land conservation, farmland preservation, natural areas, riparian buffer, water quality, water quantity, county assessor

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• So I'm curious about how the proposed penalties here in your Senate File 2361 will interact with the
• So I'm curious about how the proposed<00:28:25.679> penalties<00:28:26.240> here<00:28:
• Chair and committee members, Senate File 2452 is proposing $450,000 in 2026 and $450,000 in 2027 from
• 2452 is proposing 2452 is proposing um um um 450,000<00:47:24.960> in<00:47:25.560> 2026
• Last year, there was a proposal to completely zero out federal youth workforce funds.

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• We are proposing the establishment of a reserve account.
• the IPS will be paid we are um proposing the IPS will be paid we are um proposing the<00:14:41.120
• Is that what you have proposed, or you're still working on it?
• <00:50:05.680> or ft is that what you have proposed or ft is that what you have proposed or
• <01:04:14.279> 10 amended uh they were to last proposed 10 amended uh they were to last proposed

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard several energy and environmental bills. On HB 974, which would authorize state step-in agreements for certain power purchase agreements and create a trust fund/reserve mechanism, the Attorney General’s office raised concern that the state should not incur liability beyond the trust fund. The Division of Consumer Advocacy said it had comments but did not take a position, while the Public Utilities Commission, Ameresco, Hawaiian Electric, and other industry groups supported the measure, saying it would help developers secure financing for renewable projects and improve reliability. Hawaiian Electric said the bill would not use state funds and that its proposed reserve account would be held in trust and returned to customers if unused. Committee members questioned whether the reserve would raise customer costs; Hawaiian Electric said the amount would be small and would be offset by avoiding higher financing costs, while Consumer Advocacy suggested the language should be strengthened to ensure unused funds are fully returned. The committee then heard HB 338, which would clarify that premium interest-rate adjustments for non-fossil fuel generation are just and reasonable and allow the PUC to include them in rates. DCCA and the State Energy Office supported the bill, and the PUC also supported it. Hawaiian Electric opposed unless amended, arguing the PUC already has discretion and warning the bill could weaken competitive procurement by encouraging higher bids tied to the utility’s credit rating. DCCA said the concern was that developers might not seek the best financing if premium rates are recoverable, but said Hawaiian Electric’s suggested amendment requiring clear and convincing evidence of unavoidable financing-cost increases would help. Members also asked about refinancing and whether developers could later lower debt costs after locking in a premium rate; DCCA said that ability exists and suggested a time limit or review mechanism. For HB 337, which would direct the PUC to establish standards requiring utilities to remove certain fossil-fuel costs from the rate base when adding renewable resources, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Hawaii Clean Power Alliance, and the State Energy Office supported the measure. Hawaiian Electric opposed it, saying it misunderstood utility cost recovery and could threaten grid reliability because fossil plants provide ancillary services such as voltage regulation and balancing, not just energy. Hawaiian Electric pointed to its integrated grid plan and recent fossil-unit retirements as evidence of ongoing transition, and asked the committee to defer the bill and leave oversight to the PUC. The committee also heard HB 879 on cesspool conversions, which would raise the maximum grant from $20,000 to $30,000 and add DOH positions; DHHL, DOH, environmental groups, Hawaii Realtors, and others supported it, while DOH discussed staffing needs and the practical effect of the higher grant cap. The committee also began HB 379 on requiring denitrification capacity for certain wastewater systems near shorelines or groundwater, with DLNR testifying in support.

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• But because this proposal creates labor camps that are expensive and dangerous.
• This proposes a significant change to the application process for school building aid.
• <03:43:54.640> a And we have a bill um proposing a And we have a bill um proposing a similar
• Speaker, and I would ask for a roll call. proposes the establishment of a proposes the establishment
• This proposed constitutional amendment This proposed constitutional amendment before<06:28:09.240>

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Five Kentucky coroners are making more than House Bill 138 proposed.
• . of your local government 138 proposed. of your local government members.<00:33:01.840> Five<
• In<00:42:45.200> this<00:42:45.440> proposed<00:42:45.839> bill,<00:42:46.160>
• In this proposed bill, it would strike that<00:42:47.119> monthly<00:42:47.520> minimum
• I think what we'll hear from the county judges is they see this proposal as not just a local control

Keywords: 958, all