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• the state grant program. uh we were not the state grant program. uh we were not able<00:06:34.080>
• of the victim services programs of the victim services programs throughout<01:33:48.400> this
• :12.719> will<01:54:13.040> be these funds and programs will be these funds and programs
• <02:07:05.920> uh implement evidence-based programs. uh implement evidence-based programs.
• . program. program.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House began with a resolution recognizing May 15, 2026, as Peace Officer Memorial Day and the week of May 10-16 as Police Week in Minnesota. Members read a series of “whereas” clauses honoring fallen peace officers, including three names added to the memorial this year, and thanking the thousands of officers serving across the state. The resolution was adopted without objection, and the chamber also received a Rules and Legislative Administration report placing several bills on the calendar for the day. The main floor action was on House File 4252, the higher education finance and policy conference committee report. Supporters said the bill includes funding for identification verification systems in the MNSCU system to combat enrollment fraud, money to cover a shortfall in Fostering Independence grants for foster youth, and a small appropriation for trees at Bemidji State University. Several members praised the public conference committee process and the bipartisan work behind the bill. Others criticized the bill for not addressing the larger state grant shortfall and raised concerns about how grant dollars are allocated. The House adopted the conference report and repassed the bill 101-33. The House then concurred in Senate amendments to House File 3825, a public safety vehicle bill that also carried a package of scope-of-practice and licensing changes. Members described provisions affecting acupuncture, athletic trainers, massage therapy, mortuary science, music therapy, social work title protection, pharmacist prescribing, physical therapy, and advanced practice nursing. Supporters argued the changes improve access, affordability, workforce flexibility, and patient care, while one member warned that some scope expansions were insufficiently scrutinized and could harm the health care system. After debate, the House agreed to the Senate amendments and moved the bill forward.

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• And um I think so this is very important, and I think so is the training, especially the training for
• It could be a supported employment program. It could be some other kind of program or activities.
• also receive services in day programs also receive services in day programs that<01:27:49.360>
• Doesn't seem to be an awful lot of training. There should be more training.
• Um, there is much less oversight of that program than there would be in the CASA program.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Supportive services can include things like case management, job training, vocational training, or referrals
• The program has been a housing. The program has been a resounding<00:03:45.440> success.
• ,<00:05:06.560> vocational<00:05:07.199> training,<00:05:08.240> or job training
• , vocational training, or job training, vocational training, or referrals<00:05:09.199> to<00:
• We're still trying to program set up.

Bills: HF2740, HF2901, HF4443, HF3943

Keywords: affordable housing, housing finance, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, MHFA, low-income housing tax credit, LIHTC, Section 42, compliance period, housing stability, rental housing, affordable rental housing, homelessness, housing insecurity, housing supply, preservation, recapitalization, distressed properties, regulatory relief, local affordable housing aid, Interagency Council to End Homelessness

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• It would deny them access to the very programs that reduce reoffending, like job training, educational
• their programs at the county levels.
• such as addiction treatment, job training, or mental health programs.
• Rough Rider Industries provides a job skills training program that has demonstrated positive.
• Rough Rider Industries provides a job skills training program that has demonstrated positive results

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present. Representative Hoverson offered remarks recognizing World Autism Day, and the House then handled conference committee motions on several bills, including House Bills 1460 and 1248 and Senate Bills 2262, 2070, 2294, and 2297, with the Speaker appointing members to each conference committee. The chamber also set aside Senate Bill 2200 for re-referral to Appropriations and moved to amendments on Senate Bill 2128, which was the main subject of the day. Senate Bill 2128, a major criminal justice and corrections bill, drew extensive debate over truth-in-sentencing, mandatory minimums, parole, transitional facilities, work release, electronic monitoring, and the fiscal impact of longer incarceration. Division A of the amendments removed mandatory minimums for resisting arrest and felony simple assault while keeping consecutive-sentence language; supporters said this preserved judicial discretion and reduced costs, while opponents argued it weakened public safety. Division A was adopted 70-23. Division B proposed broader changes to preserve transitional programming, add penalties for tampering with electronic monitoring and escape, limit some work-release restrictions, create a parole board study, and fund electronic monitoring with a $600,000 appropriation. Supporters framed it as a compromise that balanced rehabilitation and public safety; opponents said it undercut the bill’s intent and left dangerous offenders with too much access to transitional release. Division B failed on a 46-46 tie. The House then took up the bill itself, with the Judiciary Committee reporting a do-not-pass recommendation as amended, and debate continued over whether the amended bill should advance, with members split between concerns about victims and public safety versus rehabilitation, prison capacity, and recidivism.

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• program, which includes the at-risk afterschool care program, afterschool snack program, the seamless
• School Lunch Program. In 2425, nearly 75 School Lunch Program.
• > the program, afterchool snack program, the program, afterchool snack program, the seamless<00
• because of the programs? because of the programs?
• Would that benefit the program? Um that? Would that benefit the program?

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The task force met with a quorum, approved the minutes from the August 20 meeting, and then heard testimony from Representative Steven Doan on House Bill 439, a school nutrition bill aimed at restricting certain ultra-processed foods in schools. Doan said the bill was inspired by his own health journey and his work in agriculture, and he described the measure as targeting specific chemical additives in foods served during the school day, not concession sales or after-hours activities. He said the bill would phase in later to give schools time to adjust and noted that the list of restricted additives was drawn from efforts in other states and advocacy groups. Members asked about the chemical abstract numbers, fiscal impact, summer meal programs, fundraisers, and whether the bill would affect parent-provided items; Doan said he had not done a fiscal note and explained that the bill was intended to apply only during instructional time on school property. Committee members generally reacted favorably, with some raising practical concerns about cost and implementation. One member asked about high fructose corn syrup, which Doan said was not included because it is too pervasive in the food system. Another member noted that schools already limit some homemade items and asked about the line between school-provided and parent-provided food. Doan also said the list was based in part on Turning Point USA materials and similar laws in other states, and he referenced federal efforts to define ultra-processed foods. The committee then heard from Kentucky Department of Education officials Matt Ross, Lauren Moore, and Katie Embry on school meals and nutrition programs. They outlined Kentucky’s school lunch, breakfast, summer meals, and other USDA child nutrition programs, including participation and reimbursement figures, and explained how community eligibility provision schools, meal patterns, offer-versus-serve, smart snacks, and local wellness policies work. They said USDA and FDA are currently seeking public input on a uniform definition of ultra-processed foods, that there are no current USDA requirements specifically on ultra-processed foods, and that schools already operate under federal and state rules governing competitive foods, including a state time restriction on smart snacks. They also discussed local purchasing, noting its benefits but also the procurement and staffing challenges schools face. No votes or final actions on the bill were taken in the portion provided.

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• Today, those programs are flourishing.
• <00:17:48.080> are women's court today those programs are women's court today those programs
• <00:19:20.440> for implemented a pilot program for implemented a pilot program for mediating
• they need we launched a pro bono program they need we launched a pro bono program for<00:23:31.960
• <00:48:14.160> that the eviction mediation program that the eviction mediation program that

Keywords: House Agenda:, 910, house, all

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• Expanding medication-assisted treatment programs in correctional facilities.
• , providing for a judicial district to establish a treatment court program, providing for a magistrate
• We have probably the most number of drafters and trained, well-trained drafters that we're going to have
• Programs, providing for the administration of the pilot project, assigning duties to the department,
• An act relating to aviation, creating the Unleaded Aviation Fuel Grant Program.

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• It's a great program.
• It's a great program.
• But DOCR does provide training.
• It's an intermediary pilot, I would say, program, or a program that we're really starting to enforce
• Well, the whole idea, as regarding even the name of the program, is a recruitment program.

Keywords: 908, all

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• You have $1 billion for an educational savings account program.
• This is money to cost, uh, cover the cost of teacher training, principal training, and the like for districts
• The kind of, uh, training that, uh, accompanies that.
• They're discontinuing their Spanish immersion program, which is an extremely popular program among the
• Uh, so that's the way the Foundation school program, uh, works.

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• And Alina Dosamantes, program coordinator with the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance.
• Following completion of pilot training in June 1966, Bill Van Dyke progressed through the ranks as an
• He attended advanced gunnery training and instructor pilot training in the F-100 at Luke Air Force Base
• He fostered the newly established Arizona State Partnership program between the Arizona National Guard
• But my professional training was as a home economics teacher. And who thought?

Keywords: 1182, all

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• outside the Wittlacucci or Wakula training centers.
• On December 6, 2019, three American sailors engaged in a training program at Naval Air Station Pensacola
• We were training up to that.
• This bill does not create new funding programs.
• This bill does not create new funding programs.

Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and several introductions recognizing visitors, students, local officials, and professional groups in the gallery. The chamber then took up a report from the Ethics and Elections Committee confirming 42 executive appointments; the report was adopted by a vote of 36-0. The Senate also adopted a resolution honoring the Ripple Project for childhood cancer awareness and funding. The bulk of the meeting was spent on special-order bills, many of them open-government sunset review measures and policy bills. The Senate passed bills preserving or updating public records exemptions for aquaculture records, trade secrets, and cybersecurity information; a child-abuse reporting statute of limitations bill; a commercial driving schools bill; a human trafficking training requirement for nursing graduates; a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person and its companion public-records bill; a nature-based coastal resiliency bill with an amendment restricting dredge-and-fill in Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve; a chiropractic patient-funds bill; specialty license plate legislation; a one-time waiver for late financial disclosure fines; public school personnel compensation changes; the Florida Farm Bill with amendments protecting Everglades lands and technical corrections; homestead exemption clarification for long-term leaseholders; disability presumption clarifications for firefighters and law enforcement; reinsurance intermediary manager conformity changes; patriotic displays in public schools; ADS-B aviation fee restrictions; autism-related law enforcement training and a blue envelope program; public post-secondary safety policy requirements; and a bill allowing licensed agents to market health care sharing ministries. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary certificates for practice, and domestic animals. Members debated a number of measures, especially the health care sharing ministries bill, where opponents raised consumer-protection and commission concerns and supporters argued for free speech, religious liberty, and expanded consumer choice; it passed 32-5. Other debated bills included the autism law enforcement bill, the school athletics bill addressing coach support for student-athletes, and the Farm Bill, where senators discussed surplus land safeguards and biosolids timing. Most bills passed overwhelmingly, often 37-0 or 38-0, with a few closer votes such as the patriotic displays bill (36-2) and the health care sharing ministries bill (32-5).

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• of uh programs, socioeconomic of uh programs, socioeconomic backgrounds,<00:02:54.319> and
• You'll find programs for requirements.
• 08:40.000> provide<00:08:40.320> new programs for efficiency, provide new programs for
• These programs are focused on improving spaces for high-cost, high-need workforce-oriented programs.
• :58.480> 70%<00:14:59.199> of the university trains over 70% of the university trains over

Keywords: 1183, house

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• , apprenticeships, and CTE programs.
• ,<00:10:23.120> apprenticeships, support job training, apprenticeships, support job training
• marketing to manufacturing, CT programs marketing to manufacturing, CT programs work<00:10:40.800
• program. With that, I yield back. program. With that, I yield back.
• The pending expiration of programs.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• And update the training requirements again to align with those definitions.
• And at the middle of the page, five, in the existing language, you see it talks about training.
• The lack of training and support teachers receive from working with students with varying needs.
• . with their whole program.
• That would include an additional training requirement.

Keywords: 996, all

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• Training has been strengthened and changed.
• I'm wondering, just like for the leadership team, trainings, culture trainings, trauma-sensitivity trainings
• and executive training, and that is one of my expectations for the incoming superintendent, that not
• The vast majority of folks in the Oregon State Hospital are there through the aid and assist program,
• I'm a psychiatric physician with additional training in forensic psychiatry as well as public policy.

Keywords: 907, all

Summary: The joint Senate and House Behavioral Health committees held an informational meeting focused first on the Oregon State Hospital (OSH). OHA Director Sajal Hathi introduced the hospital’s incoming permanent superintendent, Sean Murphy, and praised interim superintendent Jim Deagle for stabilizing operations, restoring CMS compliance, and helping drive a culture change centered on safety, accountability, and transparency. Deagle and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Amit Bavon described OSH’s role as the state’s highest-level forensic psychiatric hospital, the patient populations it serves, its partnerships with courts, counties, jails, hospitals, and advocates, and recent leadership changes across the hospital. They also reported improved accreditation and regulatory status, including Joint Commission accreditation and CMS compliance, and said the hospital is now using daily safety huddles, incident review meetings, stronger escalation procedures, and revised seclusion/restraint practices to reduce risk and improve oversight. Members pressed hospital leaders on past seclusion practices, asking how prolonged seclusions could have occurred under federal standards. Leaders said they could not explain past decisions but emphasized that current leadership has changed processes, training, reporting, and oversight so that seclusion and restraint are reviewed in real time and cannot be normalized. Questions also covered staffing, falls, and future planning. OSH said it is generally staffed to budget, though it still has RN and mental health technician vacancies and is working on recruitment, training, and better staffing distribution. Hathi said the hospital is building a public dashboard with key performance and safety metrics, including workforce data, and described the long-term goal as a consistently safe, disciplined, high-functioning institution that responds quickly to mistakes and remains accountable to the public. The committee then shifted to an informational overview of civil commitment. Oregon Judicial Department representative Chanah Newell explained the civil commitment process, including who can initiate it, the role of community mental health providers and courts, the five-day timeline to hearing, and the standards for danger to self, danger to others, and inability to meet basic needs. She summarized changes made in House Bill 2005, including revised statutory language and new provisions allowing a second diversion period, but cautioned that the data are too early to show clear trends. Testimony from NAMI Oregon’s Chris Bonif and psychiatrist Dr. Stephanie Lopez argued that Oregon still relies too heavily on jails and state hospital commitments because the broader community system lacks enough treatment, housing, and less restrictive alternatives. They urged the legislature to focus on upstream services, supported housing, and possible outpatient commitment tools so people can receive treatment before reaching crisis. The meeting ended with acknowledgment that additional reports and follow-up discussions are expected, including on residential treatment capacity and related behavioral health system reforms.

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• So, Christina mentioned the SAVE program, and we do rely on the state for the SAVE program.
• But in the midst of the timing and the training, the Secretary of State training that we go to is late
• But ongoing trainings and possibly in the evening, because a lot of the trainings are during the day.
• Trainings and possibly in the evening, because a lot of the trainings are during the day and people are
• They created a pilot program, and that pilot program grew to ERAF and it expanded to Galveston.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• <00:16:08.720> Services, Employment and Training Services, Employment and Training Services
• <00:16:11.279> that otherwise known as Vets, a program that otherwise known as Vets, a program
• , and critical education programs, and critical education programs, enhancing<02:45:57.520> the
• standards, they should force, training standards, they should be<03:30:10.239> trained<03:30:
• the most effective anti-hunger programs the most effective anti-hunger programs we<05:01:33.440>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• And we're designing our training around the type of training that's required of law enforcement.
• trained to use those tools and...
• in our training curriculum.
• And actually, the training, the eight hours of training is required by statute.
• You got a security guard that has 24 hours of training, okay? 24 hours of training, okay?

Keywords: 974, senate, all

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• Program.
• to make Pell Grant funds available to eligible students in short-term workforce training programs in
• and Education Program, the California Fire and Arson Training Program, the Training Act, and the generation
• Workforce training programs or employment opportunity that would help our working families who may fall
• , the SEED program.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• <00:22:37.120> like community. from standout programs like community. from standout programs
• the organization reform police training the organization reform police training standards<01:53:
• Peace Officers Standard and Training. Peace Officers Standard and Training.
• Through every training station.
• Advantage program. Advantage program.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, April 23, 2026, 1012, house, all