Video & Transcript Research : 'program review'

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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 14th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

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  • That would modify the very program they're asking for way more money for. Mr.
  • And again, what makes this a necessity for voters to review this in August?
  • You've used the phrase 'manage the program,' and so my assumption is if you're going to manage this program
  • Senator, I'm not the one that would be running that program.
  • to school safety programs, can you tell us what the difference is?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Transportation Funding Apr 28th, 2025

S/C on Transportation Funding

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  • ensures toll revenue generated from segments five and six or first use to fund a veterans discount program
  • whole. back into their communities through vital transit service and infrastructure improvements. a program
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Transportation Funding Apr 28th, 2025

S/C on Transportation Funding

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  • Texas is one of the 10 states that participates in this program in which the state, on behalf of the
  • This makes reliever airports eligible for the grant program and renders the current statutory language
  • This would correct the use of appropriations to establish the revolving loan program.
  • This would... correct the use of appropriations to establish the revolving loan program.
  • There is a cap of $10 million on the revolving loan program.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

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  • Clair County Day program for just a second.
  • This is a bill first that y'all passed last year, but the day program is a program in my county that
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TX
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  • I couldn't launch into the compensation program, which provides financial assistance to individuals who
  • It would create a new nine-member investment review board composed of appointments by the government
  • The Comptroller, in consultation with the Parks and Wildlife, will regulate and verify the program to
  • I'm proud to tell you that we were the first. ...participate in a shell recycling program, and we did
  • There is a cost associated with implementing this program.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce May 20th, 2025

Business & Commerce

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  • As you know, DIR is currently undergoing sunset review.
  • We receive biennial performance reviews, and the command is subject to full sunset review in 2031, with
  • an early review trigger at the Sunset Commission if it smells smoke or has any concerns.
  • And again, it's the excellence of the school program and cyber.
  • Otherwise, the board remains on track for a full review in 2027.
Summary: The committee took up several pending business items and reported a series of House bills out of committee, including HB 2467, HB 2468, HB 2518, HB 4310, HB 4386, HB 4490, HB 5323, and HB 149. Most of these were advanced on committee substitute motions and sent to the local and uncontested calendar or reported favorably to the full Senate. HB 2467 drew one nay vote, while the others were approved without opposition. HB 4310 and HB 4386 were described as committee-substitute versions with changes narrowing disclosure requirements and preserving attorney-client privilege in certain circumstances. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 149, an AI governance bill. The substitute was explained as addressing biometric identifier capture and storage, exempting certain AI uses for security and fraud prevention, clarifying definitions, restricting AI systems that simulate explicit child sexual content, adjusting Attorney General investigative authority, refining sandbox program waivers, reducing Texas AI Council powers and membership, and adding DIR coordination provisions. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill favorably. The committee then heard extensive testimony on HB 1500, the DIR sunset bill. The author said the bill would continue DIR for 12 years, restructure its board, update advisory committees, require regular cybersecurity assessments and penetration testing for state agencies, improve IT procurement training, and transfer the e-grants program to the Comptroller. A Texas 2036 witness supported the bill as a way to strengthen governance, procurement, and cybersecurity. Members asked detailed questions about the bill’s structure and then left HB 1500 pending. The committee also heard a lengthy presentation on HB 150, which would create the Texas Cyber Command as a component of the University of Texas System, administratively attached to UTSA and located in San Antonio. The author argued the command would centralize cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and digital forensics, and would be able to support state and local entities, with optional services for local governments. Members raised concerns about university mission drift, governance, security, chain of command, procurement authority, gifts and donations, and civil liberties implications of proactive cyber monitoring. Witnesses from UTSA/NSCC and SecurityScorecard testified in support, emphasizing the security of the downtown San Antonio facility, the existing cyber ecosystem there, and the need for a dedicated cyber capability. The bill remained under discussion with no final committee action announced in the excerpt.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Corrections Apr 9th, 2025

Corrections

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  • This bill would require TDCJ to adopt rules related to the program. to the leave pool.
  • I don't think the issue really is necessarily that people are being reviewed too frequently.
  • not technically getting it up to five years, but there's a lesser review or...
  • I want to start off by being clear that I do not challenge the right to parole review.
  • Notification of a review comes months before the review, forcing us to relive the trauma of Nancy's crime
OK
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  • Right and So, they launched this program. They've been doing it for 35 years.
  • The facility is pivotal to the future of our agronomy program.
  • Speaker, we have a lot of social welfare programs in the United States and just government programs in
  • Of course, the senior freeze is not a welfare program But it is a government incentive program, a government
  • program.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Feb 16th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

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  • Jewel Fleming, who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and is a professor of psychology and a program
  • Her leadership experience also includes directing the large-scale health and readiness programs for the
  • Evaluation Commission, if you recall, the Incentive Evaluation Commission is our watchdog group that reviews
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 9th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

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  • . $3 or more to a grant program benefiting non-profit organizations that support the DPS employees.
  • Just to be clear, all this bill does is authorize the creation of this grant program.
  • This includes programs related to identity management and digital identity credentials.
  • This grant program would be administered by the Governor's Public Safety Office.
  • During the 2022 annual program review conducted by the FM It was determined that allowing CDL holders
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/12/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation

Artificial Intelligence & Innovation

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  • In this bill, this is a pilot program.
  • See, this is a pilot program. This is not a Martinez bill.
  • When we talk about a pilot program, how much is it going to cost?
  • , the funding of the program, which we didn't go into detail on.
  • It can be a really slippery slope what we do ethically or otherwise with these programs.
Summary: The committee met in a special morning session and first heard HB 2371, a pilot proposal to allow consenting divorcing parties without minor children to use AI-assisted arbitration in simple divorce cases. Rep. Martinez described it as a voluntary, fairness-focused tool for people who cannot afford lawyers, with the judge retaining final authority. Members raised concerns about the bill’s binding-language, privacy, and the need for clearer guardrails on assets and support, but the sponsor said amendments were welcome. The committee voted 7-0 to give HB 2371 a do pass recommendation. The committee then took up HB 2311, which requires conversational AI systems to notify minors they are interacting with AI, restrict sexual content, prohibit deceptive human impersonation, and require self-harm response protocols. Google testified in support, saying its Gemini product already uses similar safeguards and that the bill would set an industry-wide floor; a speaker also noted similar measures are being considered in several other states. After adopting a committee amendment clarifying customer-service AI and limiting developer liability, the committee voted 7-0 to recommend HB 2311 do pass as amended. Next, the committee heard HB 2409, creating a voluntary statewide summer AI education program focused on digital hygiene, civic integrity, privacy, media literacy, critical thinking, and algorithmic bias. Supporters argued Arizona needs to prepare residents for AI-driven job disruption and help people use the technology to become more self-sufficient, while opponents objected to the program’s funding and potential unfunded mandate to the education department. The bill passed 4-3. HB 2410, which would treat communications with AI as privileged like communications with human professionals, also passed after testimony from the sponsor and a criminal defense advocate who argued the measure would protect sensitive legal and personal conversations; the vote was 6-0 with one member present. The committee then approved HB 4005, requiring school districts and charter schools to provide instruction on ethical, moral, and educational uses of AI, by a 4-2-1 vote after some members said schools lacked resources and should not be mandated to add curriculum without funding. Finally, the committee considered HB 2456 and HB 2457, both related to small modular nuclear reactors and utility siting/streamlining for energy development tied to large power users. Supporters framed them as necessary for future energy demand, data centers, and economic growth, while opponents raised concerns about local zoning authority and environmental oversight. Both bills were amended and advanced on 4-3 votes, and the meeting adjourned after the final roll calls.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 02-04-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

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TX
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  • That's why the Sunset Review recommended those changes.
  • presides over these hearings and upon the hearing's conclusion issues a proposal for decision that is reviewed
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Mar 13th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

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  • The county may then review the petition for creation and make a recommendation to TCEQ.
  • In those communities and that's a program that's been highly successful in Harris County to the tune
Bills: HB23, HB363, HB447, HB954, HB23