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• used by social media companies makes it more challenging, if not impossible, for law enforcement to retrieve
• coding or engineering, with a way for law enforcement, through a subpoena or a warrant, to be able to retrieve
• Through a subpoena or a warrant to be able to retrieve the information from them and the messages and

Summary: The Senate convened with opening prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions and introductions, including guests from Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Clay County, and a moment of silence for Pope Francis. The chamber then took up a motion to reconsider the prior day’s failed vote on CS for SB 1080 (local government land regulation), which was adopted without objection, and moved into the special order calendar. A series of bills were debated and mostly passed, often after substituting House companions. Measures approved included funding for expedited DNA testing grants, additional aggravating factors in capital cases, fertility preservation coverage for cancer patients, commuter rail indemnification, migrant vessel disposition, specialty license plates, an Alzheimer’s and dementia awareness campaign, relocation of the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to Florida Memorial University, charter school changes, sexual offender registration updates, utility worker assault/battery penalties, juvenile justice revisions, student mental health outcome reporting, foster home licensure transfers, water access facilities, Florida Virtual School changes, school readiness resources for children with disabilities, sexual images/child exploitation penalties, tampering with electronic monitoring devices, certified recovery residences, the FSU Election Law Center, the Office of Faith and Community, and bonuses for county tax collector/property appraiser employees. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including measures on social media use by minors, veterans’ nursing homes, Parkinson’s disease, mental health and substance use disorders, education, educator preparation, benefits for certain officers injured in the line of duty, school social workers, and brownfields. Debate centered on public safety, health care access, education, recovery housing, and government administration. Some of the most substantive discussion came on the Office of Faith and Community bill, where an amendment to bar political activity by office staff was offered and defeated after extended debate over election-related communications and the proper scope of existing ethics laws. The certified recovery residences bill also drew extensive support and testimony about addiction recovery and housing stability. Most bills passed on strong bipartisan votes, with a few receiving notable opposition, including the charter schools bill, the aggravating factors bill, and the Office of Faith and Community bill.

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• Um, and we are also uh repealing statutes related to the tobacco boards of trade and the egg marketing
• </c><00:05:08.000><c> uh</c> uh license renewal date of our eggs uh uh license renewal date of our eggs
• uh eggs<00:05:08.560><c> licenses</c><00:05:09.440><c> and</c><00:05:09.680><c> clarifying</c><00:05
• :10.240><c> that</c><00:05:10.560><c> small</c> eggs licenses and clarifying that small eggs licenses
• marketing board uh as these and the egg marketing board uh as these uh<00:05:25.600><c> institutions

Committee: House Agriculture

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• It imposes enhanced quality control requirements by mandating the products be retrieved, processed, stored

Bills: S0042 , S0196 , S0878 , S0902 , S0914 , S1092 , S1168 , S1340 , S1404 , S1414 , S1684 , S1686

Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services met to hear and vote on a series of health, human services, and education-related bills, along with a presentation of the committee’s proposed HHS budget. The budget was described as increasing by more than $2.1 billion over the current base, with major funding highlighted for Medicaid and KidCare, rural health, provider rate increases, child welfare, mental health and substance use, opioid treatment, Alzheimer’s initiatives, cancer research, ADAP, veterans’ services, and IT modernization. Public testimony on the budget focused heavily on AIDS Drug Assistance Program funding and concerns about Department of Health changes affecting access, premium assistance, notice, and continuity of care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Among the bills reported favorably were measures on podiatric medicine and tissue-based products (SB 1092), background screening and clearinghouse procedures (SB 1168), child protective investigations involving specific medical diagnoses and second opinions (SB 42), clinical laboratory personnel licensure standards (SB 878), uterine fibroid data tracking and research (SB 196), medical marijuana treatment center oversight and related health provisions (SB 902), dyslexia and dyscalculia screening and intervention in schools (SB 1340), memory care licensure for assisted living facilities (SB 1404), congenital CMV education materials (SB 1414), Parkinson’s disease registry and related public records exemption bills (SB 1684 and SB 1686), and occupational therapy dry needling licensure standards (SB 914). Several bills were amended before passage, including SB 1092, SB 42, SB 902, SB 1684, and SB 1404. Testimony generally came from professional associations, advocacy groups, and affected stakeholders, with support voiced for most measures. The committee adopted amendments on the floor, heard no opposition during debate on the bills described, and then voted to report each measure favorably. At the end of the meeting, senators requested to be recorded in the affirmative on selected bills, and the committee adjourned.

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• Trigger an election, retrieve our ballots from our campus mailbox, or, depending on the university or

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• If the employer follows the process, they retrieve their I-9 like they're already doing, they go through

Bills: HB3725 , HB3260 , HB3660 , HB3369 , HB3370

Committee: House Business

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 3725, as amended by a PCS, which would require employers statewide to use E-Verify or a federal equivalent when hiring new employees. The author argued the bill would help reduce illegal immigration, protect wages and jobs for lawful workers, and impose only minimal costs because E-Verify is free and quick to use. Members raised concerns about burdens on small businesses, farms, and ranches; state versus federal authority; enforcement by the Department of Labor; identity theft and false positives; possible litigation; and what would happen if the federal system went offline or changed. The author said the bill includes good-faith protections, a trigger repeal if the federal program expands, and that he would file additional language to address shutdown-related disruptions. No motion was made, and the bill remained in committee. The committee then heard and passed several other measures without opposition. House Bill 3260 would add the Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association as an approved provider for continuing education credits for funeral director license renewals, and it passed 9-0. House Bill 3660 would authorize natural organic reduction, described as transforming human remains into soil, and it also passed 9-0. House Bill 3369 would revise food truck fire code requirements by allowing portable fire extinguishers instead of an automatic suppression system and by allowing licensed plumbers, not just Oklahoma LP Gas, to inspect or install certain gas plumbing; members discussed possible conflicts with another LP gas fix and agreed to work together, and the bill passed 9-0. Finally, House Bill 3370 would extend the effective date of the food truck fire code to November 1, 2028, creating a sunset to allow more time for a broader solution. The author said he preferred another option but wanted this bill available if needed. After brief clarification, the committee passed HB 3370 9-0. The meeting ended with the chair noting there would be three meetings left in the session.

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• The Sergeant Benavides retrieved classified documents from the dead and wounded team members.

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• Well, I saw recently that eggs were as high as $8 a dozen in some locations.
• Again, eggs are $8-$10, you know it doesn't, and it's going to keep getting higher.
• we don't stop this overreach with the HOAs in the municipalities, where are we going to get... the eggs
• It's our own food, whether it be eggs or beef or anything else, if given the right and taken the power
• You know again and as I said earlier eggs, you know, they may may seem to be something that may not hit

Bills: HB2013 , HB4163 , HB4810

Committee: House Agriculture & Livestock

Keywords: property owners associations, chickens, urban farming, land use, homeowner rights, agriculture, municipal regulation, governmental requirements, farm management, inspections, border control, trade, state funding

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• This is basically to have all of the options available on the table so that we don't have all of our eggs
• This is basically to have all of the options available on the table so that we don't have all of our eggs
• This is basically to have all of the options available on the table so that we don't have all of our eggs
• This is basically to have all of the options available on the table so that we don't have all of our eggs
• /c><00:10:48.200><c> into</c><00:10:48.519><c> one</c><00:10:48.839><c> basket</c> Have all of our eggs

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• </c> Leverage The expertise of our egg Leverage The expertise of our egg retailers<00:05:47.080><c> using
• </c> thank you representative B so the egg thank you representative B so the egg water<00:19:52.320><
• </c> southeast Minnesota counties um the egg southeast Minnesota counties um the egg water<00:46:45.640
• </c><00:56:30.119><c> water</c> the factor Farms that are egg water the factor Farms that are egg water
• </c> want to add too that um the the egg want to add too that um the the egg credit<01:25:24.960><c>

Bills: HF363 , HF2155 , HF1524 , HF821 , HF1677 , HF1292

Committee: House Agriculture Finance and Policy

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• Egg policy should be egg policy.
• egg</c><00:32:46.080><c> policy.
• </c><00:32:46.640><c> So</c> Egg policy should be egg policy. So Egg policy should be egg policy.
• Uh, if eggs are moving from Honolulu to Maui, then the Maui farmers would start having eggs.
• Uh, if eggs are moving from Honolulu to Maui, then the Maui farmers would start having eggs.

Bills: HB1602 , HB2246 , HB1707 , HB2216 , HB2594 , HB2595 , HB2155 , HB2113 , HB2207 , HB1832 , HB2015 , HB2152 , HB2548

Committees: House Agriculture & Food Systems , House Agriculture and Environment

Keywords: agriculture, grant specialist, financial support, farmers, Hawaii, federal grants, grant administration, revolving fund, department of agriculture and biosecurity, grant compliance, transportation, reimbursement, food security, local production, sustainability, agricultural loans, financing, Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, Hawaii agriculture, loan portfolio

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• THE BILL REQUIRES THE TRUTH IN LABELING FOR MEAT, MILK, POULTRY AND EGGS WHILE ALSO PROTECTING CONSUMERS
• THE BILL SENATOR SPECIFICALLY I UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE ASSAYING PLANT-BASED FOODS CAN BE LABELED AS EGGS
• ARE YOU ARE PROHIBITED FROM USING THE WORD A IN AN EGG SUBSTITUTE PRODUCT? SENATOR TRUENOW.
• EGGBEATERS AS FAR AS I KNOW ARE TRUE EGGS. THEY TAKE PARTS OF THE EGG AND MAKE THAT PRODUCT.
• BUT IT'S TRUTH IN ADVERTISING SO IF THERE ARE EGGS IN THE CONTAINER THEN IT IS EGGS.

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• the department of egg it really was<00:07:33.520><c> meant</c><00:07:33.840><c> to</c><00:07:34.560>
• We're not buying eggs anymore because of the egg price.
• </c> buying eggs anymore because of the egg buying eggs anymore because of the egg price<00:14:38.839
• I work as the assistant director of egg marketing and development at the Department of Agriculture.
• </c> I work as the assistant director of egg I work as the assistant director of egg marketing<01:45:

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development

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• Chair Davids, Chair Gomez, members of the committee: House File 363, also known as the Egg Water Quality
• </c> total investment on all uh egg total investment on all uh egg conservation<00:10:44.720><c> Services
• </c><00:14:13.440><c> water</c><00:14:13.680><c> qualication</c> Union has the egg water qualication
• </c> solution that uh the department of egg solution that uh the department of egg had<00:31:16.320><
• um and you know egg Homestead Special Egg<01:04:50.920><c> Homestead</c><01:04:51.400><c> plays</c><

Committee: House Taxes

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• You know, Minnesota is a very highly productive egg region.
• I am the assistant director of egg marketing and development of the department.
• We are taking our production, particular animal egg systems, offline.
• We are taking our production, particular animal egg systems, offline.
• We are taking our production, particular animal egg systems, offline.

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development

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• Just a reminder, the egg emergency account here is the latest balance that we have, and you can see we
• I have about the egg emergency account.
• Peterson, you talked about the egg emergency account.
• </c><01:25:12.159><c> water</c> funding from the Minnesota egg water funding from the Minnesota egg water
• </c> here to talk to us about meat poul egg here to talk to us about meat poul egg and<01:50:31.320><

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development

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• </c> and how they can benefit from the egg and how they can benefit from the egg homestead<01:02:49.480
• </c> and larger Farms who benefit from egg and larger Farms who benefit from egg Homestead<01:03:08.160
• </c> vegetables uh to uh claim this egg vegetables uh to uh claim this egg homestead<01:03:39.200><c>
• a lot more eggs to make $5,000 because the price of eggs are going down since Trump took office.
• because eggs are really expensive.

Committee: House Taxes

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• Over 11 million people in the United States right now are raising chickens due to the cost of eggs and
• he had chickens in his backyard and said that once the bill becomes law, he would help collect the eggs
• help<00:08:24.960><c> you</c><00:08:25.120><c> collect</c><00:08:25.360><c> the</c><00:08:25.520><c> eggs
• </c><00:08:26.639><c> With</c><00:08:26.800><c> that,</c> help you collect the eggs.
• With that, help you collect the eggs.

Summary: The committee heard House File 4295, described by the author as the “Chicken Shift Bill,” which would address an unintended consequence of state feedlot regulations affecting backyard chicken coops. The bill would allow counties to adopt ordinances exempting small chicken coops, up to 24 chickens, from feedlot designation, while leaving counties free to set a lower limit or decline to act. The author and Wright County Administrator Greg Kryser testified in support, saying the measure would give local governments flexibility and resolve confusion for county feedlot officers. Kryser also explained the issue using animal-unit calculations to show how chickens in a coop could be treated differently from chickens at pasture. Representative Coulter raised a question about how a county ordinance would interact with a city ordinance on backyard chickens, and the chair said he did not know the answer but would look into it. Representative Grieman expressed support and noted the bill’s relevance to backyard chicken owners. The chair said the bill would be referred to the Environment Committee and suggested the jurisdictional question be clarified before further hearing. The author closed by reiterating the purpose of the bill and the phrase “the chickens come home to roost.” The committee then voted unanimously in favor of re-referring House File 4295 to the Environment Committee, and the motion passed.

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• This bill also repeals the tobacco board of trade and egg marketing boards because they no longer meet
• :23:58.400><c> assess</c><00:23:58.880><c> fines,</c> court to assess fines, court to assess fines, egg
• 24:02.240><c> the</c><00:24:02.559><c> date</c><00:24:02.799><c> of</c><00:24:03.039><c> license</c> egg
• board of<00:24:27.200><c> trade</c><00:24:27.679><c> and</c><00:24:28.080><c> e</c><00:24:28.480><c> egg
• </c><00:24:29.039><c> marketing</c><00:24:29.679><c> boards</c> of trade and e egg marketing boards of

Summary: The House convened with prayer and the pledge, recorded 96 members present, excused absences, and approved the journal from January 27, 2026. The Senate clerk announced passage of Senate Bills 17 and 181 and requested concurrence. Committee reports advanced a number of bills on health insurance, judiciary, local government, and transportation topics, including measures on pharmacist reimbursements, hearing aid coverage, feeding and eating disorders, grooming a minor, local government liability, water fluoridation, cigar bars, chickens on residential property, highway pavement markings, motor vehicle titles, and pedestrian issues; all favorable reports were treated as first readings and placed on the calendar. The House then took up and passed House Bill 320 on human trafficking, with the sponsor explaining it would equalize penalties for promoting human trafficking with those for trafficking itself and increase the penalty when the victim is under 18. A member asked whether the bill included additional funding for cyber enforcement; the sponsor replied it was not an appropriation and would not require new funding, though prior budgets had increased support for anti-trafficking efforts. The House adopted a title amendment changing the bill’s title to combating human trafficking. The chamber also passed House Bill 366, which clarifies that materials portraying a sexual performance by a minor include computer-generated images and requires 85% service of the sentence before probation or parole; the sponsor said it was supported by law enforcement and prosecutors. House Bill 389 on reading and writing in schools also passed as amended by House Committee Substitute 1. The sponsor said it would require annual updates to the state dyslexia toolkit, expand professional development and coaching, require local school boards to develop processes for universal screening and diagnostic tools, and add dyslexia instruction to teacher preparation programs; the substitute added conformity with IDEA and revised the instructional language. Members spoke in support of early dyslexia detection and one member noted the bill updated prior legislation associated with former Rep. Bam Carney. House Bill 56, an omnibus Department of Agriculture bill, then passed; it addressed amusement ride inspections, grain warehousing penalties, egg handler licensing renewal timing, exemptions for small producers, and repealed obsolete tobacco and egg marketing board provisions. All three bills passed by roll call with 95 or 94 votes in favor and none opposed, and clinchers were applied. During announcements, members noted upcoming committee meetings and events, including a suits-and-sneakers day and cancer-related breakfast, caucus meetings, and committee meetings. New bills and resolutions were introduced, including measures on local occupational license fees, early learning and child care, tuition waivers, an adult workforce diploma pilot, motor vehicle usage tax, contract procurement, Fish and Wildlife Resources, adoption, veterans’ benefits, Cabinet for Health and Family Services operations, organ donation safety, hate crimes, prescription drugs, and resolutions on the Kentucky-Japan partnership and veterans’ benefits accreditation. The clerk also reported a petition of impeachment filed against Judge Julie Goodman. The House then referred a group of bills to committees, reported floor amendments for House Bills 321 and 416, and adjourned until 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 29, 2026.

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• the market to buy three things of fresh fruit and being able to add vegetables and maybe some fresh eggs
• the market to buy three things of fresh fruit and being able to add vegetables and maybe some fresh eggs
• But having this kind of infrastructure is the first step to being able to make fresh produce, fresh eggs
• I imagine if, for example, eggs, right? The prices went up so high.
• California milk, bread, tortillas, eggs, dairy, cheese, and jam.

Summary: The joint oversight hearing focused on food insecurity in California and how state and federal nutrition programs, agricultural production, and food distribution systems intersect. Assemblymembers emphasized that many Californians, including farmworkers, seniors, children, and communities of color, remain food insecure despite California’s agricultural abundance. Panelists and members discussed CalFresh, WIC, school meals, Sun Bucks, food banks, and the impact of federal policy changes, including possible nutrition cuts, tariffs, and immigration enforcement, on access to food and the agricultural workforce. Secretary Karen Ross described CDFA programs aimed at improving access to fresh food and supporting local agriculture, including the senior farmers’ market program, California Nutrition Incentive Program, Healthy Refrigeration Grant Program, Community Food Hubs, Farm to School, urban agriculture, and a proposed tribal food sovereignty program. She said these efforts help connect local producers to consumers, expand healthy food access, and build infrastructure such as refrigeration, mobile markets, and aggregation hubs. Department of Social Services Deputy Director Alexis Fernandez Garcia outlined CalFresh, CFAP, Sun Bucks, CACFP, emergency food programs, and tribal nutrition assistance, noting that CalFresh and related programs significantly reduce poverty and food insecurity, but participation gaps remain for non-English speakers, some Asian American communities, and undocumented households. PPIC researcher Tess Thorman presented data showing that 13% of California households experienced food insecurity in 2023, with higher rates among households with children and Latino, Black, and other households. She said nutrition programs reduce poverty and food hardship, but federal rules, income thresholds, immigration restrictions, and high living costs limit their reach. Members asked about simplifying applications, improving call center access, increasing outreach in multiple languages, and adjusting benefits for inflation. Officials said the state has used available federal options to streamline enrollment, improve customer service, and target outreach, but many core rules and benefit levels are set federally. The second panel shifted to food production and market access. A farmer, a UC food systems leader, and a produce distributor described efforts to connect small and medium farms with food banks, schools, universities, and Medi-Cal food-as-medicine programs. They highlighted programs such as Farms Together, the USDA Southwest Regional Food Business Center, Farm to School, food hubs, and climate-smart infrastructure grants as ways to create stable markets for local growers while improving food access. Speakers also raised concerns about land tenure, consolidation, regulatory burdens, labor constraints, and the loss of federal funding, and members discussed whether state investments and Prop. 4 funds could help sustain and expand these efforts.

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• My doctors retrieved four embryos, which are Homo sapiens, at the early stage of development under this
• The storage entity of my fertilized eggs, the measurement of the correct hormones in my blood to sustain

Bills: HJR 99 , HB 1399 , HB 1400 , HB 1094 , HB 365 , HB 1109 , HB 647 , HCR 35 , SB 14 , HB 12 , HB 1522 , HB 422 , HB 675 , HB 204 , HB 748 , HB 912 , HJR 99 , HB 1399 , HB 1400 , HB 1094 , HB 365 , HB 1109 , HB 647 , HCR 35 , HCR 123 , HCR 124 , HR 57 , HR 87 , HR 111 , HR 228 , HR 230 , HR 322 , HR 624 , HR 625 , HR 626 , HR 627 , HR 628 , HR 630 , HR 631 , HR 634 , HR 635 , HR 636 , HR 637 , HR 638 , HR 639 , HR 640 , HR 645 , HR 646 , HR 648 , HR 649 , HR 651 , HR 652 , HR 653 , HR 654 , HR 664 , HR 665 , HR 668 , HR 675 , HR 676 , HR 678 , HR 679 , HR 680 , HR 683 , HR 686 , HR 688 , HR 689 , HR 694 , HR 695 , HR 697 , HR 698 , HR 699 , HR 472 , HR 622 , HR 632 , HR 633 , HR 643 , HR 655 , HR 657 , HR 660 , HR 661 , HR 662 , HR 663 , HR 667 , HR 670 , HR 674 , HR 681 , HR 682 , HR 696