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• Stephen Bauckham, CEO and founder of Family Online Safety Institute, this international non-profit is
• role as parents shifts from being helicopter parents to co-pilots, guiding them as they grow. as they build
• A strong federal framework would provide clarity while allowing states to build upon this.
• Those are certain internal policies.
• Senator, if I may, I think we should think about the international context which this is playing out

Keywords: child safety, Big Tech, CSAM, legislation, online exploitation, bipartisan, social media

Summary: The committee meeting focused on the pressing issues surrounding child safety online, with a particular emphasis on recent legislative efforts aimed at curbing child sexual exploitation and harmful content accessible through social media platforms. Senators engaged in a heated discussion regarding the implications of Big Tech's lobbying efforts against vital bills such as the Stop CSAM Act and the Kids Online Safety Act. Noteworthy testimonies highlighted real-life impacts of online dangers, including tragic cases of child exploitation and drug-related fatalities linked to social media interactions. The bipartisan nature of the committee's commitment to address these issues showcased a collective determination to make the digital environment safer for the younger generation.

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• This bill updates and modernizes Florida's probate code by clarifying when a curator may be appointed
• However, we are unable to point to a statute that stipulates we have the authority to enforce internal
• that we could potentially involve ourselves in a potential lawsuit if we try to enforce our own internal
• Yes, that we would have internal... ...aware of the expectations.
• Yes, that we would have internal policies in place.

Summary: The Judiciary Committee considered a long agenda of claims bills, housing and business measures, and court-administration legislation. It reported favorably several claims bills, including SB 20 for J.N., a minor, SB 14 for the estate of Pennial Janvier, SB 10 for Sidney Holmes, SB 8 for Marcus Button, SB 22 for Eric and Jennifer Miles, and SB 26 for Kristen and Leah McIntosh. Members also approved SB 520 on curators of estates, SB 386 on self-storage lien-sale notices, SB 362 on reusable tenant screening reports, SB 316 creating series LLCs in Florida, and SB 1650 and SB 1652 on vexatious litigants and related public-records issues. SB 248, expanding eligibility for private school and homeschool students to participate in FHSAA sports at public schools, also passed after amendment. Most of the claims bills were described as settled cases with amounts above sovereign-immunity limits, and several senators spoke in support of compensating victims of catastrophic injury or wrongful conviction. SB 10 drew comments about the 34 years Sidney Holmes spent incarcerated after a wrongful conviction, and SB 8 prompted discussion about the long delay in resolving Marcus Button’s injuries from a 2006 school-bus crash. SB 26 was presented as an uncontested claim arising from a DACS employee’s fatal crash that severely injured two teenage girls, and the committee adopted an amendment placing funds for the minor claimant into trust. The policy bills drew more substantive debate. SB 386 would let self-storage operators use websites instead of newspaper ads for lien-sale notices, with newspaper representatives opposing the change and storage-industry witnesses supporting modernization and lower costs. SB 362 would let renters reuse tenant screening reports for 30 days, with the sponsor saying it would reduce repeated application fees. SB 316 would authorize series LLCs while adding record-keeping protections, and SB 1650/1652 would broaden Florida’s vexatious-litigant rules and create a public-records exemption for certain stricken filings. SB 248 passed over concerns from private-school and public-education witnesses about instructional time, funding, and fairness in athletic participation. All measures were reported favorably, with recorded votes ranging from 7-2 on SB 248 to unanimous or near-unanimous support on the other bills.

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• committee approved a motion to give town officials 60 days to reach compliance as required under Arkansas Code
• assistance for the ACT, increasing student confidence regarding college attendance and graduation, building
• assistance for the ACT, increasing student confidence regarding college attendance and graduation, building
• Program expenditures included one international trip and several trips within the United States, as well

Keywords: 1204, all

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• He is our intern. He is from the University of Alabama.
• He is our intern. He is from the University of Alabama.
• He was a um internal medicine um physician trained at Emory and moved on to Duke. providers nurses all
• He was an internal medicine physician trained at Emory and moved on to Duke.
• > um<00:09:05.360> physician a um internal medicine um physician a um internal medicine

Bills: HB31, HB31

Keywords: absentee voting, disabled, blind, voter assistance, voting rights, SNAP, public assistance, nutritional standards, waiver, food regulation, 1136, house, all

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• We have roughly 250 delivery trucks that park in the building. The building is extremely hot.
• With all these trucks parking in the building after driving all day, the building gets very, very hot
• There's not enough ventilation in the building to deal with this.
• Inside that building, it's cold.
• You're no stranger to this building or this committee.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a lengthy hearing on June 18 focused on workers’ compensation, independent contractor and classification issues, workplace safety, warehouse worker protections, extreme temperature protections, retaliation against injured workers, and workplace bullying. Committee chairs outlined procedures for the hybrid hearing and noted that members would be leaving intermittently for floor votes. Testimony also touched on a bill to expand workers’ compensation disfigurement benefits by removing the current $15,000 cap and extending coverage beyond scars on the hands, neck, and face. A major theme was workplace safety in warehouses and in extreme heat or cold. Teamsters, warehouse workers, and labor advocates described high injury rates, strict quotas, lack of water, inadequate ventilation, frozen or missing safety equipment, and pressure to work through heat waves and snowstorms. Supporters urged favorable reports on bills protecting warehouse workers and requiring employers to adopt heat- and cold-safety plans, while the NFIB opposed the temperature bill as overly prescriptive and burdensome for small businesses. Sen. Edwards, Sen. Roche, Rep. O’Day, and others argued that the measures are needed to prevent heat illness, provide shade, water, rest breaks, training, and emergency plans, and to cover all workers regardless of immigration status. Another major subject was the “Act to Protect Injured Workers,” backed by labor groups, immigrant worker centers, legal services organizations, and individual workers. Witnesses said employers often retaliate after injuries by threatening deportation, lying about how injuries occurred, delaying care, or firing workers, and they supported stronger anti-retaliation enforcement, multilingual notices, and a rebuttable presumption of retaliation within 90 days of protected activity. The Mass AFL-CIO and immigrant advocacy groups supported the bill and opposed measures they said would weaken employee classification standards. Testimony also supported a funeral-benefits bill to raise workers’ compensation death-benefit reimbursement for burial and funeral costs, based on a family’s experience after a workplace fatality. The committee heard additional testimony on workplace bullying bills, with some witnesses urging a new legal duty for employers to prevent and respond to bullying, while others described the harms of toxic workplaces and the lack of effective remedies.

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• Additionally, agencies are able to bring in up to 5% of what is budgeted in House Bill 2 for its internal
• , but the rest of the language that you see would allow the Department of Health to increase its internal
• That was a plan, and that takes time to build out. In the meantime, CYFD had, I agree.
• And that takes time to build out.
• Line 32, to continue the capacity building for the Criminal Justice Medicaid Waiver Initiative.

Keywords: 996, all

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• Through lessons, networking programs, and character building, FFA is building outstanding youth for the
• He's very much thinking about staying here in New Mexico and helping to build the community.
• They continue to build, if you will, the small businesses, helping those individuals that are building
• She is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound with a degree in international business.
• Authority to enforce provisions of the Criminal Code, the Motor Vehicle Code, and the Boat Act.

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• Those would be two new codes in addition to the 46 tribal codes that we currently have.
• Again, we've got to build capacity.
• A tribal utilities code that mirrors what the state has in its code, but also has provisions that make
• We have new buildings, modern buildings.
• So we actually, through our building trades program, every year, the building trades program builds a

Summary: The Tribal and State Relations Committee met at Standing Rock with tribal council members, state legislators, and agency representatives to discuss state-tribal coordination and local priorities. Early discussion focused on process concerns, including the short agenda time and the need for better communication, more advance notice, and more relevant state department staff at future meetings. Tribal leaders asked for lists of state tribal liaisons and bills affecting tribes, and state members said they would follow up, share grant and deadline information, and plan another meeting in Bismarck with program experts and agency staff. A major portion of the meeting centered on health, child welfare, law enforcement, housing, infrastructure, and sovereignty issues. Tribal speakers said rural health transformation funding and other state programs often do not fit direct-service tribes or IHS-funded systems, and they raised concerns about Medicaid, ICWA, foster care delays, human service zones, housing shortages, and the placement of Native children off-reservation. They also discussed missing and murdered Indigenous people, search-and-rescue cooperation, cross-deputization, extradition and banishment ordinances, and the need for stronger law enforcement partnerships that respect tribal sovereignty. Other concerns included poor roads, water and sewer needs in Sioux County communities, census accuracy, and the impact of data centers and other development on water and health. Economic development and regulatory issues were also discussed. Standing Rock representatives raised concerns about charitable gaming and e-pull tabs, saying the machines function like Class III gaming and have harmed tribal revenue while spreading into local businesses. They also described problems with county-issued fireworks permits and state/county liquor licensing rules that they said undermine tribal authority within reservation boundaries. In response, legislators said the committee would continue to look at these issues, and one member suggested possible legislation such as limiting e-tabs near tribal lands. The committee also heard from Joseph McNeil of Sage Development Authority about a 235-megawatt wind project on tribal, allotted, and fee land; he said federal permitting delays have stalled the project and asked for state support to help move it forward. The meeting concluded with a presentation from Dave Archambo of Wojou, a nonprofit focused on land regeneration, buffalo, food sovereignty, cultural programming, and youth wellness. He described the organization’s work on buffalo processing, gardening, fishing, hunting, language, and arts programs, and framed it as a response to historical trauma and community healing. The committee then broke for lunch and planned to resume with the Wojou presentation after the recess.

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• We are here in the Minnesota Senate building at Room 1150, and a quorum is present.
• non-disclosure agreements secret code non-disclosure agreements secret code names<00:42:46.280><
• light indust Ral and the building light indust Ral and the building portion<01:03:57.720> of<
• <01:13:49.199> these doing the work to build these doing the work to build these facilities
• <01:26:43.119> Conference a national or International Conference a national or International

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Our jobs and duties are outlined in Chapter 418 of the Texas Government Code, the Disaster Act of 1918
• Local Government Code identifies mayors and county judges as local emergency management directors.
• He also serves on a prestigious and important international mission.
• We've moved our focus to Del Rio and Eagle Pass and we hit that area very hard with TMD building the
• aliens when they've served their after they've served their sentences in TDCJ, and the refusal to build

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• The bill builds on what we know, that transparency and accountability and chemical use are essential
• AB 405 builds on existing industry standards rather than creating new ones from scratch.
• They follow international rules?
• So, there's a well thought out process that's already laid down in code for developing that.
• Chairman and members, Eloy Garcia for the International Bottled Water Association also in opposition.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• The legislation also builds upon on the existing<00:32:10.680> licensing<00:32:11.280> and
• Our internal data, encompassing tens of thousands of records and interactions over several years with
• <00:59:11.440> Our<00:59:11.600> internal the business entirely.
• Our internal the business entirely.
• wallets, often across international wallets, often across international borders<01:05:05.560>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• utilities we do have a design build utilities we do have a design build contract<00:26:55.080>
• we will continue to work on our build we will continue to work on our build out<00:29:30.320>
• us to utilize um like you said QR codes us to utilize um like you said QR codes or<02:20:47.840>
• clock in which the authority would build clock in which the authority would build capacity<02:41
• necessary support we have to um build necessary support we have to um build and<02:45:00.800>

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• The amendment is coded A2.
• The amendment is coded<00:25:06.120> A2. coded A2. coded A2.
• The amendment is coded A5.
• The amendment is coded A1.
• The amendment is coded A2.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• SB 1638, conformity, Internal Revenue Code deductions, Finance.
• SB 1530, assured water supply building permits. SB 1531, special plate distracted driving.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• AND SO ON BEHALF OF SENATOR JONES WHO IS NOT ABLE TO BE HERE TODAY SENATOR BRODEUR WILL EXPLAIN THE BUILD
• THERE IS ONE AMENDMENT BAR CODE 890218 BY SENATOR JONES.
• SERVICES THAT PROVIDE THE NEEDS FOR STATE PURCHASING TO STATE CUSTOMERS AND ENSURES CUSTOMERS GET BOTH INTERNAL

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• It is my great pleasure this morning to welcome the students from Hope International University in the
• Hope International University is a private Christian university founded in 1928.
• Hope International University is a private Christian university founded in 1928.
• Welcome, Hope International University. Welcome to the California Assembly.
• Oh, no, they have phony rail in the Central Valley so they can continue to build federal grants, which

Summary: The Assembly met after a quorum call and prayer, then handled a series of procedural motions, guest introductions, and floor actions. Members welcomed student groups from Hope International University and Vacaville High School, and later recognized several guests connected to public safety dispatch. The chamber also adopted multiple re-referrals and procedural requests, including moving bills between committees and taking up AB 100 on concurrence from the Senate. A major portion of the session was devoted to ACR 34, designating April 14 as Sylvia Mendez Day. Assembly Member Ta and several colleagues spoke in support of honoring Sylvia Mendez and the Mendez v. Westminster case as a landmark in civil rights and school desegregation. The resolution drew extended partisan debate over the framing of the measure and broader issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but it ultimately passed on a roll call vote, with the resolution adopted. The Assembly also recognized Dolores Huerta on her 95th birthday through guest introductions and celebratory remarks, then moved through several bills and resolutions. AB 471 on air district board compensation, AB 677 on pupil records and access to screenings for housing-insecure students, ACR 31 designating California Public Safety Telecommunications Week, and AB 1150 on airport customer facility charges all passed. HR 30 recognizing Khmer New Year also was adopted with broad support. The most contentious policy action was AB 100, the early action budget bill. Supporters said it provided funding for wildfire prevention, hospital payments, Medi-Cal, and recovery in Los Angeles fire areas, while opponents criticized the bill for health care spending and high-speed rail. After a failed attempt by Assembly Member DeMaio to amend the bill and an unsuccessful appeal of the chair, the Assembly concurred in the Senate amendments and sent AB 100 to the Governor. The day ended with consent calendar approvals and adjournments in memory for several community members, including Larkin Carol Wells, Carmen O. Perez, and Oscar B. Ramos.

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• I mean, it sounds like you're asking to change the tax code.
• I mean, do you know how many millions of pages the tax code is already?
• know it includes any International know it includes any International including<01:37:40.719>
• This building is the poster child for that.
• That's a good answer. same all the internal controls are the same all the internal controls are the same

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee held a public hearing on HB 135, introduced by Representative Michael Harrington. He said the bill would codify a portion of the New Hampshire Constitution to bar New Hampshire businesses from being required to collect sales or use taxes for other states unless Congress mandates it, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision created an onerous compliance burden for businesses. He described the patchwork of state and local sales tax rules, thresholds, and product exemptions as extremely complex and said the bill was intended to push the issue back toward Congress and the courts. Members questioned whether the bill’s reference to a “foreign government” would apply to other U.S. states, whether the proposal would conflict with the Supremacy Clause, and whether it would create standing for businesses to challenge Wayfair. Harrington responded that “foreign government” meant any government other than New Hampshire, that he believed the state could challenge the decision in court by passing a law contrary to Wayfair, and that businesses were already being harmed by compliance costs. Some members raised concerns about whether the bill was an unfunded mandate or simply a private compliance burden, and Harrington argued that the state itself would not be collecting the taxes, but businesses would still face recordkeeping and administrative costs. Sam Garland of the Department of Justice then testified. He said the department was not taking a formal position on the bill, but offered technical comments. Garland acknowledged that Wayfair created significant compliance burdens and noted that states have become somewhat more uniform, with all states now having a $100,000 economic nexus threshold, though not all use the 200-transaction threshold and local tax variation remains substantial. He said the department’s concerns were legal, describing the issue as uncharted constitutional territory involving both vertical and horizontal federalism. No vote or final action was taken during the hearing.

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• > full<00:36:32.720> I The terminal building was full I The terminal building was full
• um to build another wide-body aircraft um to build another wide-body aircraft hangar<00:46:38.320>
• And as you can see, the building will be finished very soon.
• And we already have the building leased out.
• And we already have the building leased out.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The task force was called to order with a quorum present, and Commissioner Mark Carter of the Kentucky Department of Aviation gave the first presentation. He outlined the state’s airport system, noting 58 public-use airports, the department’s small staff, and its funding structure through a jet fuel tax that generates about $23 million annually, leaving roughly $15 million for airport investment after required deductions. Carter highlighted recent projects at airports including Bardstown, Madisonville, Central Kentucky Regional, Paducah, Sparta, Danville, and Henderson, and said the department has also expanded data collection on airport activity, hangars, schools, and training programs. He emphasized that the department recently completed the first statewide economic impact study of general aviation airports and is developing a five-year airport needs plan. Carter said several things are working well, including stronger communication with airports, the public, the legislature, and especially the FAA’s Memphis district office, which now involves the state more in project selection. He said the department is reasonably staffed overall, but identified workforce development and advanced air mobility as major gaps. In response to questions from Senator Nunn and Representative York, he said he did not have specific workforce shortage numbers on hand, but cited Boeing reports showing large national and global shortages of pilots and mechanics, and explained that instructor shortages and low wages limit training capacity. He also said air traffic control is an FAA function, though EKU has shown interest in developing a training program. Carter identified several needs for improvement: more workforce investment, more aviation education in high schools, more scholarships for pilot and mechanic training, more attention to advanced air mobility, and more frequent, institutionalized data collection. He also pointed to major pending capital needs at airports such as Elizabethtown, Owensboro, Harlan, Leitchfield-Grayson County, and Whitesburg-Letcher County, all of which would require FAA and state support. He urged airports to do a better job marketing their economic value and said the state should continue updating aviation studies so lawmakers have current information for policy decisions. The task force then heard from Lexington Blue Grass Airport Director Eric Frankl, who welcomed the new CVG director and thanked the legislature for creating the task force and supporting aviation infrastructure. Frankl said Blue Grass Airport has rebounded from the pandemic and now exceeds pre-pandemic passenger levels, while serving a mix of private aviation, pilot training, corporate aviation, and commercial airline activity. He described ongoing terminal-area planning, parking technology upgrades, and a major parking lot expansion expected to finish by early spring 2026, and said the airport is planning for future technologies such as vertiports and electric aerial vehicles. Frankl estimated that a broader terminal modernization program will cost roughly $500 million to $700 million over the next 5 to 10 years and said the airport needs continued state support to close funding gaps and remain competitive with other states investing in aviation.

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• I will tell you, when you look at 3116, um, the way it is currently in the penal code, it is absolutely
• of public indecency with a child, that person cannot be charged with a higher penalty because the code
• Texas law already bars convicted felons from possessing body armor, and this bill builds upon that by
• Committee man and chair, um, This is the House Bill 1509 and involves the um The, the, the penal code
• We learned this because we build cases with local, state, and federal. Agencies.